Also, this patent is only for transferring one's files/settings from one computer to a new computer. Before you all go moaning and groaning, RTFP. This thing is written very specifically. So specifically, I don't see how it could possibly affect any other service currently in place that I am aware of.
Ever heard of bookmarks.com? I don't know about you, but I consider bookmarks "software settings".
There have been sites like bookmarks.com around for at least 8 years if not more.
Your view of what socialism/communism even means is fundamentally flawed and tainted by capitalism. Communism/socialism doesn't purport to "confescate someones income to benefit someone else", it purports that there is no need for people to have an "income" at all. The idea is not that the janitor is stealing part of the teachers income, it is that the teacher has no right to earn more than the janitor in the first place. And if all earn equally, then where's the need for a currency? Under a true communist world there would be no currency at all. Each person on earth would have equal access to resources.
The concept is that human culture, as a whole, has evolved enough that we can work towards a common good without feeling the need for personal gain.
Whether or not you think that this is an idealistic view of humanity that could never work (it has yet to be shown either way, since a true communist society has never been fully implemented, and probably never would, since unless it was implemented globally it's pretty much doomed to fail), it can truthfully be said that communism at it's heart is a much more moral economic system than capitalism, even if human beings aren't moral enogh to see it through.
I was talking about a corporation! Big difference, or at least I think so.
ROTFL, if you think there's really any kind of a line between corperations and the government nowadays, you are either living in a fantasy land, or have been asleep for the past 50 years.
In a country where laws can be bought and sold, and rich CEOs can commit fellonys and get off scott free, the govenment *IS* a corperation.
The reason it's a problem is because this, combined with cheap DNA checking nowadays, makes EVERYONE's genetic profile available to someone with a few grand to blow.
No one can avoid shedding DNA, it is everywhere. It shouldn't be covered under the "willfully discarded" umbrella, but since it is, all bets are off.
Where does it end? Should I just give them a hair sample now or wait until my implant is required?
Neither. Under US law the cops don't need a warrant for anything you willfully disregard, and that extends to bodily waste. All they need to do is follow you around for a few days till they see one of yours fall, everyone loses hair constantly 24x7. Either that or they can just go through your trash and find a comb / hairbrush / kleenex, also without a warrant
Seriously, your paranioa is way too little, way too late. It's even against the law in most states now for an adult to walk around without carrying ID. So unless you're a homeless hobo, you're being tracked. Everywhere.
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As for all the toolset garbage, its all moot. There are so many tools available for encoding and decoding on Windows, that work with *any* codec, including DivX, that it' snot worth googling them up. In fact, I would bet money apples to oranges that the *only* reason that the Windows MEdia Encoder won't let you encode *to* DivX is that internally it only loads the WMV codecs, not because it is designed around it, so that MS can push WMV on people.
I love Apple hardware and products. ANd believe me I am dying to get a new Powerbook or G5. But no matter what Mac product I get, I am going to end up installing Linux PPC on it.
The reason? Aqua. I *hate* the look of Aqua, and Apple decided "hey everyone will *LOVE* this so why have themeing?". Newsflash, everyone doesn't want bubbly garbage all over their screen.
If I coudl switch OSX themes I would be able to use it. Although I also hate the OSX dock... but I could work around that probably by using some 3rd party task manager.
From what I have seen, WMV9 is a decent codec, but it is far from "innovative". It' sjust another hash of MPEG4, and has huge attributes in common with DivX 4/5, XViD, and other MPEG4 codecs.
1. Get 500 TB raid array
2. Mount at/data
3. cat/dev/urandom >/dev/data/file.dat
4. Wait a while
Does this count as "creating" 500 TB of data? I don't think so. Simmilrarly much of these comments about Kazaa and P2P are stupid... just because theres 500 TB of data on Kazaa doesn't mean theres 500 UNIQUE TB.. probably over 90% of it is duplicates of other data, after all that's how P2p functions.
As soon as word gets out to the general public that "The Commies in China are going to have a moon base by 2012", you'll see the Americans seeing red, and the current President at the time will ensure that NASA kicks into gear again. The administration will hopefully stop spending the billions upon billions it spends on destruction and death to finance something for the greater good..... even if the motive is just a big pissing contest like it was in the 60s.
If you looked at the code, and re-wrote it yourself, it wouldn't be a GPL violation.
The only way it would be a violation is if you could prove it was a derrivative work, and for that there'd have to be at least some line of code the same... having *functionally equivalent* lines of code != derrivitive work. If that was the case then Encyclopedias would have ben sueing eachother since the beginning of time for publishing "functionally equivalent" information.
One of my sister-in-laws apparently repeatedly lost data while writing university assignments by kicking the plug to her desktop out of its socket. It was never really clear to me why she didn't avoid (much) of that problem by using frequent automatic backup, but she didn't.
No joke! I have had this happen to me COUNTLESS times at a previous job due to poor placement of the power outlet. And auto-save may save your ass when working in Word or Open Office, I don't know of too many programming editors that auto-save changes, namely because you wouldn't *want* that most of the time ( unless the vi swap file counts, but I wouldn't depend on that! )
Anyone listning who designs cubicles.. PLEASE PLACE THE OUTLETS OFF TO THE SIDE OF THE CUBE INSTEAD OF UNDER THE WORK AREA!
Really it is such a retarded location for the outlet, just begging to be knocked by your foot, yet I still see the cords there all the time. Thankfully, not at my desk anymore!
This proposal is the EXACT SAME as the previous proposal from about 5 years ago. The actual levies are set by a copyright board that is NOT under control by the Heritige Minister, who is the one proposing these extravagant amounts. The board has a history of assigning much lower levies. Example, 5 years ago the proposal was for 1 dollar a CD, the board enacted it to be 2 cents or something, which the CD companies effectively absorbed.
The board has sole discretionary power to decide what the levies are, even assuming the law is passed. And no one knows what they will set until then, but you can bet that the Industry Minister and others (eg, IBM, et al) will be lobbying heavily to have it set very low, or even zero, as they had previous set.
In short, theres no way in hell that you are going to see any 100 dollar levies on hard drives. If you lived in Canada you'd realize that.
The levies are set by this board of people and ar enot per MB. And if you would just compare Canadian HD prices to US ones you would see that they are not only comparable when you take into account the exchange, but because of the US dollar you can often geta better deal buying from a Canadian suppler.
So stop spouting bullshit when you have no clue what you are talking about.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE put the Goto line # menu entyr / shortcut into the Firebird View Source applet!!! Not having a GoTo line, or even marke dline numbers, makes htis browser absolutely useless to me as a web developer.
Seamonkey had these features eons ago, and I can't see how they would be difficult to implement.
Let them just insert the name of their God in the "under God" space.
So you can keep saying under God... or... you could say "under Allah", "under Buddah", "under Lucifer"
Yeah.. I am sure THAT would go over great. But when you think about it, if they can keep in "under God", then you should be able to replace God with whatever you believe in personally, or else the state is *blatendly promoting* Christianity.
Personally I would say "under Taco"*, but then I am not American:P
IMO any service that is vital to a community, and which pretty much every person either does have or should have affordable acces to, should be a monopoly, because it has been proven over and over that only government controlled monopolys can do this type of service effectively. Think exlectricity, water, sewage, power, local telephone service.
With utilities such as these, the cost of maintaing the public distribution system to the degree of reliability necessary for all to have equal access to the service, makes turning a profit impossible, and privitization of these things only drives prices to the consumer up, not down. You only have to look at *anywhere* that power distribution has been privatized to see this. The prices always go up.
Note I am not talking about long distance service, but local service. I am really surprised if you have more than one local carrier available, even in the US. If that is the case, that carrier must rent the poles / lines from the old monopoly carrier, since i seriously doubt you have 2x the poles everywhere. And if that is the case, then it is highly probably the first company has to lease them out at a loss, since if they did it at a fair cost then the second company would indoubtably have to charge more than the first company, and thus fail quickly.
So either you have a government regulated monopoly on the local phone service, or a government mandated situation where one company is at a disadvantage t the others because they need ot maintain the distribution network at a loss. This situation can only go for so long before that company starts to go under, and then you have *real* problems.
QT and QT/E are BOTH under the REAL GPL. YOu can make a GPL app and sell it all you fscking want. They are just also under the QPL which means that, if you *WANT* to make a closed source app and sell it then you have to PAY TrollTech.
Basically Open Sourc e== Free, Closed SOurce == Pay.
This MiniGUI is *ONLY* GPL so you can't make a closed source app with it *AT ALL*.
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Also, this patent is only for transferring one's files/settings from one computer to a new computer. Before you all go moaning and groaning, RTFP. This thing is written very specifically. So specifically, I don't see how it could possibly affect any other service currently in place that I am aware of.
Ever heard of bookmarks.com? I don't know about you, but I consider bookmarks "software settings".
There have been sites like bookmarks.com around for at least 8 years if not more.
Your view of what socialism/communism even means is fundamentally flawed and tainted by capitalism. Communism/socialism doesn't purport to "confescate someones income to benefit someone else", it purports that there is no need for people to have an "income" at all. The idea is not that the janitor is stealing part of the teachers income, it is that the teacher has no right to earn more than the janitor in the first place. And if all earn equally, then where's the need for a currency? Under a true communist world there would be no currency at all. Each person on earth would have equal access to resources.
The concept is that human culture, as a whole, has evolved enough that we can work towards a common good without feeling the need for personal gain.
Whether or not you think that this is an idealistic view of humanity that could never work (it has yet to be shown either way, since a true communist society has never been fully implemented, and probably never would, since unless it was implemented globally it's pretty much doomed to fail), it can truthfully be said that communism at it's heart is a much more moral economic system than capitalism, even if human beings aren't moral enogh to see it through.
I was talking about a corporation! Big difference, or at least I think so.
ROTFL, if you think there's really any kind of a line between corperations and the government nowadays, you are either living in a fantasy land, or have been asleep for the past 50 years.
In a country where laws can be bought and sold, and rich CEOs can commit fellonys and get off scott free, the govenment *IS* a corperation.
The reason it's a problem is because this, combined with cheap DNA checking nowadays, makes EVERYONE's genetic profile available to someone with a few grand to blow.
No one can avoid shedding DNA, it is everywhere. It shouldn't be covered under the "willfully discarded" umbrella, but since it is, all bets are off.
Where does it end? Should I just give them a hair sample now or wait until my implant is required?
Neither. Under US law the cops don't need a warrant for anything you willfully disregard, and that extends to bodily waste. All they need to do is follow you around for a few days till they see one of yours fall, everyone loses hair constantly 24x7. Either that or they can just go through your trash and find a comb / hairbrush / kleenex, also without a warrant
Seriously, your paranioa is way too little, way too late. It's even against the law in most states now for an adult to walk around without carrying ID. So unless you're a homeless hobo, you're being tracked. Everywhere. .
Windows XP comes with a personal version of Media Encoder, yes.
Unless we plan to invade and liberate them then there's nothing we can do about it.
ROTFL that' d be a laugh and a half. The US vs. CHina in a Real War(tm).
The US would lose so many lives and get so thrashed that China would probably end up taking over portions of US territory in the end.
As for all the toolset garbage, its all moot. There are so many tools available for encoding and decoding on Windows, that work with *any* codec, including DivX, that it' snot worth googling them up. In fact, I would bet money apples to oranges that the *only* reason that the Windows MEdia Encoder won't let you encode *to* DivX is that internally it only loads the WMV codecs, not because it is designed around it, so that MS can push WMV on people.
I love Apple hardware and products. ANd believe me I am dying to get a new Powerbook or G5. But no matter what Mac product I get, I am going to end up installing Linux PPC on it.
The reason? Aqua. I *hate* the look of Aqua, and Apple decided "hey everyone will *LOVE* this so why have themeing?". Newsflash, everyone doesn't want bubbly garbage all over their screen.
If I coudl switch OSX themes I would be able to use it. Although I also hate the OSX dock... but I could work around that probably by using some 3rd party task manager.
Care to back that up?
From what I have seen, WMV9 is a decent codec, but it is far from "innovative". It' sjust another hash of MPEG4, and has huge attributes in common with DivX 4/5, XViD, and other MPEG4 codecs.
1. Get 500 TB raid array 2. Mount at /data
3. cat /dev/urandom > /dev/data/file.dat
4. Wait a while
Does this count as "creating" 500 TB of data? I don't think so. Simmilrarly much of these comments about Kazaa and P2P are stupid... just because theres 500 TB of data on Kazaa doesn't mean theres 500 UNIQUE TB.. probably over 90% of it is duplicates of other data, after all that's how P2p functions.
As soon as word gets out to the general public that "The Commies in China are going to have a moon base by 2012", you'll see the Americans seeing red, and the current President at the time will ensure that NASA kicks into gear again. The administration will hopefully stop spending the billions upon billions it spends on destruction and death to finance something for the greater good..... even if the motive is just a big pissing contest like it was in the 60s.
If you looked at the code, and re-wrote it yourself, it wouldn't be a GPL violation.
The only way it would be a violation is if you could prove it was a derrivative work, and for that there'd have to be at least some line of code the same... having *functionally equivalent* lines of code != derrivitive work. If that was the case then Encyclopedias would have ben sueing eachother since the beginning of time for publishing "functionally equivalent" information.
What good is a service like iTunes to you if you can't download the songs at a reaonable rate?
Canada has over twice the broadband penetration as the US, and has had for quite some time.
http://www.point-topic.com/content/DSLAnalysis/Bro adband penetration.htm
Note this is 5 broadband lines *per 100 population* difference, not just *per computer*, so it is an even higher disparity then you may first think.
One of my sister-in-laws apparently repeatedly lost data while writing university assignments by kicking the plug to her desktop out of its socket. It was never really clear to me why she didn't avoid (much) of that problem by using frequent automatic backup, but she didn't.
No joke! I have had this happen to me COUNTLESS times at a previous job due to poor placement of the power outlet. And auto-save may save your ass when working in Word or Open Office, I don't know of too many programming editors that auto-save changes, namely because you wouldn't *want* that most of the time ( unless the vi swap file counts, but I wouldn't depend on that! )
Anyone listning who designs cubicles.. PLEASE PLACE THE OUTLETS OFF TO THE SIDE OF THE CUBE INSTEAD OF UNDER THE WORK AREA!
Really it is such a retarded location for the outlet, just begging to be knocked by your foot, yet I still see the cords there all the time. Thankfully, not at my desk anymore!
Total baloney. MS has not kickbanned anything, they just switched over to MSNp9, which any respectable client has been using forever.
Shameless plug, KDE/QT lovers should try out Kopete, a great alternative to GAIM.
This proposal is the EXACT SAME as the previous proposal from about 5 years ago. The actual levies are set by a copyright board that is NOT under control by the Heritige Minister, who is the one proposing these extravagant amounts. The board has a history of assigning much lower levies. Example, 5 years ago the proposal was for 1 dollar a CD, the board enacted it to be 2 cents or something, which the CD companies effectively absorbed.
The board has sole discretionary power to decide what the levies are, even assuming the law is passed. And no one knows what they will set until then, but you can bet that the Industry Minister and others (eg, IBM, et al) will be lobbying heavily to have it set very low, or even zero, as they had previous set.
In short, theres no way in hell that you are going to see any 100 dollar levies on hard drives. If you lived in Canada you'd realize that.
under Your Mom would be a good one.
Just use mencoder to bypass the so-called DRM and re-encode it as MP3
The levies are set by this board of people and ar enot per MB. And if you would just compare Canadian HD prices to US ones you would see that they are not only comparable when you take into account the exchange, but because of the US dollar you can often geta better deal buying from a Canadian suppler.
So stop spouting bullshit when you have no clue what you are talking about.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE put the Goto line # menu entyr / shortcut into the Firebird View Source applet!!! Not having a GoTo line, or even marke dline numbers, makes htis browser absolutely useless to me as a web developer.
Seamonkey had these features eons ago, and I can't see how they would be difficult to implement.
Let them just insert the name of their God in the "under God" space.
:P
:P
So you can keep saying under God... or... you could say "under Allah", "under Buddah", "under Lucifer"
Yeah.. I am sure THAT would go over great. But when you think about it, if they can keep in "under God", then you should be able to replace God with whatever you believe in personally, or else the state is *blatendly promoting* Christianity.
Personally I would say "under Taco"*, but then I am not American
* J/K
IMO any service that is vital to a community, and which pretty much every person either does have or should have affordable acces to, should be a monopoly, because it has been proven over and over that only government controlled monopolys can do this type of service effectively. Think exlectricity, water, sewage, power, local telephone service. With utilities such as these, the cost of maintaing the public distribution system to the degree of reliability necessary for all to have equal access to the service, makes turning a profit impossible, and privitization of these things only drives prices to the consumer up, not down. You only have to look at *anywhere* that power distribution has been privatized to see this. The prices always go up. Note I am not talking about long distance service, but local service. I am really surprised if you have more than one local carrier available, even in the US. If that is the case, that carrier must rent the poles / lines from the old monopoly carrier, since i seriously doubt you have 2x the poles everywhere. And if that is the case, then it is highly probably the first company has to lease them out at a loss, since if they did it at a fair cost then the second company would indoubtably have to charge more than the first company, and thus fail quickly. So either you have a government regulated monopoly on the local phone service, or a government mandated situation where one company is at a disadvantage t the others because they need ot maintain the distribution network at a loss. This situation can only go for so long before that company starts to go under, and then you have *real* problems.
QT and QT/E are BOTH under the REAL GPL. YOu can make a GPL app and sell it all you fscking want. They are just also under the QPL which means that, if you *WANT* to make a closed source app and sell it then you have to PAY TrollTech.
Basically Open Sourc e== Free, Closed SOurce == Pay.
This MiniGUI is *ONLY* GPL so you can't make a closed source app with it *AT ALL*.
Now stop spouting your BS.
Yeah, no director could ever have enough money or backing to form his own studio.
*Goes back to watching Minotiry Report and Gladiator DVDs produced by Dreamworks, started and owned majorly by Steven Spielberg