Well they should call it fan fiction then instead of dumping all these crazy japanese names on people who have no clue what they are talking about cause they dont read this trash.
While they may rule in California that they can sue them, does not California's jurisdiction stop at the California border? Say they ignore the suit, the judge rules against them, and just don't pay up. What does California do then? The worst they could ever do it seems to me is prevent them from ever visiting California for fear of being arrested... not too much to worry about if you ask me. Its not like a ruling by a California court would allow then to expropriate funds from a foreign bank.
After reading through the summary, 3 comments, and the article I barely surmised that the story has some kind of vague reference to Anime and/or comic books, other than that I am totally lost. There is a reason for the fucking topics like Anime, it is so that people like me who have them disabled don't have to be subjected to this bullshit. Please, don't post articles on here under "law" that only have to do with anime.
The project mentioned in the topic is only for DBS satelite users. For everyone else, check out MythTV. This project is so impressive I cannot even explain all its features here. Just go look at it yourself. It is amazing, does almost everything TiVo does (including interactive electronic program guide), plus is a MAME front end, CD player, image browser, and more. Make sure to check out the screenshots!
Haven't you ever watched Law and Order? They do this sort of bullshit all the time, tricking people into using a comb and giving it back and other stuff just to get a DNA sample. Weather or not it is ethical is another matter, but as long as you willfully gave up the property, it is no longer yours to control.
Er, you only have to make the changes known if you modify the contract after it was signed before. And it only goes one way.. they have to inform you of the changes, you don't have to inform them, because the contract only says things *you* have to comply with. If the contract also says things *they* have to comply with (we will do this and that), then they have to also sign it. this is rarely thr case in an IP agreement.
Ever better. take it home to review it, scan it, modify any language you dont like, and print it off and sign it, return it. They'll never check it over.
A DVD quality SVCD runs at arounf 3000 kbps (around 3 Mbps), and a simmilar quality DivX around 1500 kbps (1.5 Mbps). So I don't know what you are doing at your place, but a 11 Mbps conneciton should handle them just fine. In face, my 10 Mbps nic can play a SVCD over the LAN perfectly.
Not really. Bell Canada (AKA BCE) owns the majority stake in every local telco in Canada *except* Telus. Thus they own pretty much everything east of Alberta.
Er, this would be SO INCREDIBLY insecure it is not funny. All the machines connected to the WAP would be on the same ethernet segment, thus making a man in the middle attack a joke. All you'd have ot do is run Ettercap on the connection (SSL or not, it makes no difference), and boom, you have his CC info. Using IPSEC would alleviate this problem, but that would be a more complex requirement to add onto your customers.
Sphere was based off of a Michael Chrighton book, and was HORRIBLY adapted ot the big screen. It was a very good book when I first read it, and years later when I heard about the screen adaptation I was thrilled... until I saw it. It isn't even true to the book at all. Huge plot elements are left out, I feel sorry for anyone who saw it without first reading the book. And in fact, I wish I had never seen it, since it now tarnishes my whole memory of the proper story.
Seirously though, the invisibility cloak in the movie is based off of the REAL life research being done into this area by the US army. See here for the slashdot piece on it from a few months ago. While the capabilities of the cloak in the movie are of course exaggerated (hello, it is a BOND film), the explanation they give for how it works in the movie is basiclly line for line what the real life model does.
Why the hell couldn't you type notes? Even a very crappy touch typist (like 50-60 WPM) can type much faster than you can write or print. Typing for an hour is also alot easier on your hand than writing with a pen for an hour.
There is no formulaic bad guy vs. good guy, with predictable special effects climax every episode. It is serial - every episode builds on previous episodes to develop the characters, instead of waiting a few seasons to give each character a defining moment.
Sound familliar to another genre perhaps? You don't have to go back 40 years to see this style. As I said above, Firefly is nothing more than a crappy space soap opera. That is why it is being canned. Sci-Fi fans like me don't want to watch Days of Our Lives on a "space boat". We want interesting, believable stories with a scientificlly plausable background at least (not some faster than light boat that uses a gear powered engine). The show was horrible. It is over with. Move on.
Farscape is decent. I am not much of a fan or StarGate, but at least it is watchable and is sci-fi (unlike Firefly, which as I said is unwatchable and is a Soap Opera). Of course I used to like TNG and DS9.. I also like Enterprise (I am quite a trekkie).
If this is an "excellent" sc-fi show nowadays, then I fear the entire genre has gone to hell and back. This show was pure crap. It was probably the most boring show on TV, next to Dr. Phil or some other BS. I had the displeasure of watching it twice, decide dot put it on my blacklist after that. Who likes this stuff? It didn't even seem like sci-fi at all, more like a soap-opera in a giant tin can. Oh sorry, its in "a boat". My mistake. (Somehow, calling the ship a "boat" is supposed to make it hip and cool or soemthing)
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Heres an idea... don't touch your monitor??? Why would you be doing this anyways, unless its a touchscreen?
When I try this it tells me that internet explorer cannot be installed on this version of windows
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MS Office and IE both run fine in Wine. IE of course only runs if you have an existing Windows install. And all the games I care about (like Warcraft III and Max Payne:P) work fine in WineX
Once again, another overreacting FUD piece on Slashdot. If you read the article you will see that all they are doing is raising the price of their ALREADY pay per use "Yahoo Mail Plus" service, or whatever the name, from 19.95 to 29.95. They are also adding some new features to it like the ability to send email for different domains. They are not "taking away" anything from the standard Yahoo mail service, even though the article tries to paint it that way, by saying that "customers are restricted to 4MB in their inbox", etc. There has always been that restriction on inbox size, and nearly ever WebMail provider has a simmilar restriction. If they didn't then they'd all just become free warez repositories!
Slashdot Mirror
See MythTV.
Well they should call it fan fiction then instead of dumping all these crazy japanese names on people who have no clue what they are talking about cause they dont read this trash.
While they may rule in California that they can sue them, does not California's jurisdiction stop at the California border? Say they ignore the suit, the judge rules against them, and just don't pay up. What does California do then? The worst they could ever do it seems to me is prevent them from ever visiting California for fear of being arrested... not too much to worry about if you ask me. Its not like a ruling by a California court would allow then to expropriate funds from a foreign bank.
After reading through the summary, 3 comments, and the article I barely surmised that the story has some kind of vague reference to Anime and/or comic books, other than that I am totally lost. There is a reason for the fucking topics like Anime, it is so that people like me who have them disabled don't have to be subjected to this bullshit. Please, don't post articles on here under "law" that only have to do with anime.
Ever heard of the LiRC project? Myth fully supports all liRC remotes.
The project mentioned in the topic is only for DBS satelite users. For everyone else, check out MythTV. This project is so impressive I cannot even explain all its features here. Just go look at it yourself. It is amazing, does almost everything TiVo does (including interactive electronic program guide), plus is a MAME front end, CD player, image browser, and more. Make sure to check out the screenshots!
Haven't you ever watched Law and Order? They do this sort of bullshit all the time, tricking people into using a comb and giving it back and other stuff just to get a DNA sample. Weather or not it is ethical is another matter, but as long as you willfully gave up the property, it is no longer yours to control.
Er, you only have to make the changes known if you modify the contract after it was signed before. And it only goes one way.. they have to inform you of the changes, you don't have to inform them, because the contract only says things *you* have to comply with. If the contract also says things *they* have to comply with (we will do this and that), then they have to also sign it. this is rarely thr case in an IP agreement.
Ever better. take it home to review it, scan it, modify any language you dont like, and print it off and sign it, return it. They'll never check it over.
A DVD quality SVCD runs at arounf 3000 kbps (around 3 Mbps), and a simmilar quality DivX around 1500 kbps (1.5 Mbps). So I don't know what you are doing at your place, but a 11 Mbps conneciton should handle them just fine. In face, my 10 Mbps nic can play a SVCD over the LAN perfectly.
You most certainly do *not* have to recompile your kernel to use QT in mplayer. Just build it, download the codecs .zip, and go
BTW, for debian users, here are the lines to install mplayer (WITH qt6 support):
echo "deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get install mplayer-686 mencoder-686 qt6codecs w32codecs
Not really. Bell Canada (AKA BCE) owns the majority stake in every local telco in Canada *except* Telus. Thus they own pretty much everything east of Alberta.
Er, this would be SO INCREDIBLY insecure it is not funny. All the machines connected to the WAP would be on the same ethernet segment, thus making a man in the middle attack a joke. All you'd have ot do is run Ettercap on the connection (SSL or not, it makes no difference), and boom, you have his CC info. Using IPSEC would alleviate this problem, but that would be a more complex requirement to add onto your customers.
How much do you pay for socks?
What is the best way to get Ketchup out of the bottle?
Sphere was based off of a Michael Chrighton book, and was HORRIBLY adapted ot the big screen. It was a very good book when I first read it, and years later when I heard about the screen adaptation I was thrilled... until I saw it. It isn't even true to the book at all. Huge plot elements are left out, I feel sorry for anyone who saw it without first reading the book. And in fact, I wish I had never seen it, since it now tarnishes my whole memory of the proper story.
... Ok, that got your attention :)
Seirously though, the invisibility cloak in the movie is based off of the REAL life research being done into this area by the US army. See here for the slashdot piece on it from a few months ago. While the capabilities of the cloak in the movie are of course exaggerated (hello, it is a BOND film), the explanation they give for how it works in the movie is basiclly line for line what the real life model does.
Why the hell couldn't you type notes? Even a very crappy touch typist (like 50-60 WPM) can type much faster than you can write or print. Typing for an hour is also alot easier on your hand than writing with a pen for an hour.
There is no formulaic bad guy vs. good guy, with predictable special effects climax every episode. It is serial - every episode builds on previous episodes to develop the characters, instead of waiting a few seasons to give each character a defining moment.
Sound familliar to another genre perhaps? You don't have to go back 40 years to see this style. As I said above, Firefly is nothing more than a crappy space soap opera. That is why it is being canned. Sci-Fi fans like me don't want to watch Days of Our Lives on a "space boat". We want interesting, believable stories with a scientificlly plausable background at least (not some faster than light boat that uses a gear powered engine). The show was horrible. It is over with. Move on.
Farscape is decent. I am not much of a fan or StarGate, but at least it is watchable and is sci-fi (unlike Firefly, which as I said is unwatchable and is a Soap Opera). Of course I used to like TNG and DS9.. I also like Enterprise (I am quite a trekkie).
If this is an "excellent" sc-fi show nowadays, then I fear the entire genre has gone to hell and back. This show was pure crap. It was probably the most boring show on TV, next to Dr. Phil or some other BS. I had the displeasure of watching it twice, decide dot put it on my blacklist after that. Who likes this stuff? It didn't even seem like sci-fi at all, more like a soap-opera in a giant tin can. Oh sorry, its in "a boat". My mistake. (Somehow, calling the ship a "boat" is supposed to make it hip and cool or soemthing)
Heres an idea... don't touch your monitor??? Why would you be doing this anyways, unless its a touchscreen?
When I try this it tells me that internet explorer cannot be installed on this version of windows
MS Office and IE both run fine in Wine. IE of course only runs if you have an existing Windows install. And all the games I care about (like Warcraft III and Max Payne :P) work fine in WineX
Once again, another overreacting FUD piece on Slashdot. If you read the article you will see that all they are doing is raising the price of their ALREADY pay per use "Yahoo Mail Plus" service, or whatever the name, from 19.95 to 29.95. They are also adding some new features to it like the ability to send email for different domains. They are not "taking away" anything from the standard Yahoo mail service, even though the article tries to paint it that way, by saying that "customers are restricted to 4MB in their inbox", etc. There has always been that restriction on inbox size, and nearly ever WebMail provider has a simmilar restriction. If they didn't then they'd all just become free warez repositories!
Sharp Announces "Banryu" Home Security Robot.....
"From the Sanyo web site....."
If it is Sanyo, what's with the Sharp in the title?