Yes, but the internet is a network that is used to illegally distribute copyrighted materials, it just has a much larger portion of legal material than most p2p networks. Kazaa and the others work through the internet, anyway.
"Isn't 99 cents too much to pay for music that appeals to just a few people?"
Doesn't the less popular artist need more per song to make it worthwhile?
The industry is once again tryig to fit the existig models into the digital world. On the interet you can sell pretty much infinite copies of one song.
Of course, tiered pricing could balance the difference between popular and not-so-popular artists. If popular artists were more expensive and less popular artists cheaper, people would buy more of the less popular ones. In the end, people would probably buy less because of the more difficult pricing.
The news companies probably have their own money at stake.
Here in Finland when a controversial copyright law was passed the mainstream media labelled opposing the law a "rebellion of nerds", nerds who want to steal music for free, even if the most controversial parts didn't have anything to do with pirating music.
Problem is that if you select the "valuable" patents and let the others pass easily, you issue less of the intelligent patents (which have been inspected more closely and have larger rejection rate) and more of the stupid patents. In the end, the stupid patents are the ones you sue people with.
If someone sued them for the MediaMax too, they wouldn't even have the EULA defense as it installs (and in some cases, runs) kernel-level drivers even if the user declines the EULA.
that much was clear to me and my answer doesn't change: I don't download anything from any networks that are used to illegally distributed copyrighted materials, so it doesn't matter to me.
So, you don't use or download anything from the Internet?
"However, the curious won't be able to see for themselves the details of SCO's claims: The full list of alleged abuses were filed in a separate document under court seal."
I don't think you can really even call that "releasing". They're probably^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H too afraid that the claims would be disproved right away if the public saw them.
"HDR allows you to make the objects brighter by allowing them to use the full brightness capabilities of the monitor."
Pretty bad lie. By using a #ffffff color you already "use the full brightness capabilities of the monitor", unless you count turning up the brightness setting in yout monitor. As it has already been said, it lets the objects be brighter in the internal calculations, not on the monitor.
I do know that. I also know that Windows XP and earlier create the main user with administrator rights by default (which is also why many programs need administator rights to work at all, as they haven't been developed with restricted accounds in mind) and before patched it can let viruses in without the user doing anything. Blaster/lovsan anyone?
Rootkits don't just get into a computer magically, they have to exploit a vulnerability in the OS or trick the user. *nix based systems don't let user stupidity do much harm to the computer itself as the user has restricted access to the filesystem.
On Windows, I've seen viruses getting full admin privileges and install a rootkit even if it's caught by a user with a restricted user account. That's why I'd like Vista to be more secure than WinXP. Call me a troll, I'm just talking about my own experiences.
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I'm just nitpicking. :P
"Isn't 99 cents too much to pay for music that appeals to just a few people?" Doesn't the less popular artist need more per song to make it worthwhile?
The industry is once again tryig to fit the existig models into the digital world. On the interet you can sell pretty much infinite copies of one song.
Of course, tiered pricing could balance the difference between popular and not-so-popular artists. If popular artists were more expensive and less popular artists cheaper, people would buy more of the less popular ones. In the end, people would probably buy less because of the more difficult pricing.
Hmm... wonder why you can find both SACD and DVD-A downloads in 10 seconds if they don't exist.
Here in Finland when a controversial copyright law was passed the mainstream media labelled opposing the law a "rebellion of nerds", nerds who want to steal music for free, even if the most controversial parts didn't have anything to do with pirating music.
Problem is that if you select the "valuable" patents and let the others pass easily, you issue less of the intelligent patents (which have been inspected more closely and have larger rejection rate) and more of the stupid patents. In the end, the stupid patents are the ones you sue people with.
If someone sued them for the MediaMax too, they wouldn't even have the EULA defense as it installs (and in some cases, runs) kernel-level drivers even if the user declines the EULA.
So, you don't use or download anything from the Internet?
Umm... I don't think that all Linux servers that suddenly disappeared could be replaced before anyone notices.
I'd say the technical part should be patentable, the mathematical software part not.
Then perhaps the company could've proved her wrong, not sued her.
Actually, it's LGPL but static linking is still forbidden iirc.
Well, not very useful at the moment as pretty much nothing has changed yet since Breezy.
Perhaps we're not the best ones to tell him how "Linux" should be pronounced. ;)
But it sure can handle high temperatures.
Am I the only one who thinks this sounds quite funny?
The astronauts can plug their webcam in and chat while spacewalking.
Well, there are some tests with A LOT of graphics card, like this (a year old one, don't know about newer tests): http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/over2k4/index. html
When I last heard they had 3D acceleration for R1xx and R2xx Radeons (from Radeon 7500 up to Radeon 9250).
It seems to be the nature's law that if you're really a genius in some aspect, you must suck at something else.
I don't think you can really even call that "releasing". They're probably^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H too afraid that the claims would be disproved right away if the public saw them.
"HDR allows you to make the objects brighter by allowing them to use the full brightness capabilities of the monitor."
Pretty bad lie. By using a #ffffff color you already "use the full brightness capabilities of the monitor", unless you count turning up the brightness setting in yout monitor. As it has already been said, it lets the objects be brighter in the internal calculations, not on the monitor.
Which one do you think Google will choose?
Rootkits don't just get into a computer magically, they have to exploit a vulnerability in the OS or trick the user. *nix based systems don't let user stupidity do much harm to the computer itself as the user has restricted access to the filesystem.
On Windows, I've seen viruses getting full admin privileges and install a rootkit even if it's caught by a user with a restricted user account. That's why I'd like Vista to be more secure than WinXP. Call me a troll, I'm just talking about my own experiences.
They sell cocaine openly on the web?