they're all so one sided i'm surprised anyone with more than a single brain cell can still hold that they're valid and legal, not to mention moral and ethical.
if they don't want to have any liability, don't sell your damn software.
all merchants, over the world, are held responsible to some degree for their products. no, not complete resposbility but way more than the zero percent that the software industry is.
they shift the burden onto end users... but i say stop selling it if you're so worried. the world will do without your code.
considering that 99.9% of all software give you NOTHING in return for "accepting" the "contract"...
it's all one sided. when you pay your money and buy err PROPOGANDA MODE ON "license" software, your "agreeing" to the "license" only buys you the ability to use it.
so what are users really getting?
what other contracts do you know of that are so completely one-sided?
even RIAA/music label contracts aren't nearly as bad. at least the musicians get money and fame in return.
software "licenses" at most give you the ability to use it.... and why do you need a "license" for that... that's what you paid money for.
the software industry can go to hell if they think anyone with half a brain expects to believe their ridiculous PROPOGANDA.
how about people who write FOSS and therefore give away their code not be liable but people who sell err excuse me, PROPOGANDA MODE ON, "LICENSE" software have to assume liability.
no other industry on the face of this earth (except politicians) can sell you stuff and not be liable for it causing harm.
if you are a merchant, you are liable. if you stand on a street corner (or virtual corner) and give it away then your liability is orders of magnitude less (read: zero).
the cpu alone isn't the only factor in determining the "specs".
the graphics solution in the 360 is far superior to the rsx (g70 derived core).
the companies involved are both shitheads but the hardware overall is approx. equal in terms of processing throughput.
4x antialiasing will come standard and will be "free" on the 360. and given sony's bad rep with regards to AA, this is yet another hit. sure the rsx can do AA but it'll divert significant resources to add AA to an already complex game. that's what 256 GB/s of bandwidth on the eDRAM buys you...
the 360 also has 3 cpus, each with 1 vector unit.
overall, i prefer the 360 hardware because the gfx core far more than makes up for the anemic paper specs of the 360's cpus. it's a truly next-gen part with a unified shader approach (the new r520 from ATI is still not DX 10 ready, and neither is the g70...).
the cpu won't be doing gfx work, that's why each console now comes with a discrete gfx processor. so the cell will do supplementary work, not gfx directly.
but it's all a moot point. because when you purchase any console, you are merely being given a "license" to use a crippled product. and if you cannot access your own property fully, all these DRM consoles aren't worth a damn.
that and the fact by the time ps3 comes out, PC graphics processing will already eclipse it. and so far you can own your own property (pc's), but not for much longer...
seeing as how most of africa's problems are caused by white people and is still going on to this day, then yes it is your problem. those corrupt dictators didn't come out of nowhere... they were brought and set up by "imperial" powers... just a few months ago, they were caught initiating a coup in Congo. in sudan, where the mainstream presstitutes keep their attention focused, blame the muslim sudanese for the massacres and genocide... but they don't ask where all those weapons came from... or which country(ies) provided training and "agents" to instigate violence.
same shit, new century. until you destroy the source of the infection, they will always have problems building a good propserous society.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
not just a member of the RIAA (record label), they're also a proud member of the MPAA. also manufacturer of the crippled cell DRM-encumbered processor. and yeah MS and Nintendo are right up there with em in regards to the last point (crippled "consoles").
you cannot snoop on a trusted system and on a non-"trusted" system the device wouldn't work at all, thus there's no reason to snoop as there would be nothing to see.
the reason a "trusted" system is "trusted" is because everything you can do is regulated by someone other than the real owner of the machine. and if your "trust" capable system is running in "legacy" mode, then any data/code that requires a "trusted" stream will fail to run/execute.
unless you have an extremely sophisticated hardware analysis lab somewhere on a volcanic island your chances of cracking the "protection" from the hardware level is nearly nil. you'll have to use another attack vector, usually the weakest links in the component chain of your system. and i use the word "your" loosely... modern companies are holding your property hostage err their property... err it's confusing....
every time a company holds your property hostage, god kills a lobbyist/shill.
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ALL "EULAs" are like that.
they're all so one sided i'm surprised anyone with more than a single brain cell can still hold that they're valid and legal, not to mention moral and ethical.
if they don't want to have any liability, don't sell your damn software.
all merchants, over the world, are held responsible to some degree for their products. no, not complete resposbility but way more than the zero percent that the software industry is.
they shift the burden onto end users... but i say stop selling it if you're so worried. the world will do without your code.
considering that 99.9% of all software give you NOTHING in return for "accepting" the "contract"...
it's all one sided. when you pay your money and buy err PROPOGANDA MODE ON "license" software, your "agreeing" to the "license" only buys you the ability to use it.
so what are users really getting?
what other contracts do you know of that are so completely one-sided?
even RIAA/music label contracts aren't nearly as bad. at least the musicians get money and fame in return.
software "licenses" at most give you the ability to use it.... and why do you need a "license" for that... that's what you paid money for.
the software industry can go to hell if they think anyone with half a brain expects to believe their ridiculous PROPOGANDA.
how about people who write FOSS and therefore give away their code not be liable but people who sell err excuse me, PROPOGANDA MODE ON, "LICENSE" software have to assume liability.
no other industry on the face of this earth (except politicians) can sell you stuff and not be liable for it causing harm.
if you are a merchant, you are liable. if you stand on a street corner (or virtual corner) and give it away then your liability is orders of magnitude less (read: zero).
the software industry's propoganda works very well as you can see.
/. and other online venues.
people so thoroughly believe that it's a contract/agreement that they will defend it with their lives.
education is the only way to counter this.
tell a friend and pass it on.
or tell millions of friends on
i'm aware of that but even a video card from 3 generations ago could handle it quite well.
and a 6600gt is overkill for that.
i wouldn't say it's a waste of time though.
the pure video on it might be quite helpful in a HT setup.
yes the race to 1984.
the only downside is, is that the US and UK passed 1984 about 50 years ago.
to assume we're approaching it is to assume that MS will one day soon use their monopoly power to do illegal things.
i used to have a v3 as well.
.35 micron.
it overheated all the time when playing games causing me to have to reset.
and it got dangerously hot even in 2d.
it was never designed to run only with a heatsink. it was a huge chip made at
some new video features require a good gfx processor.
it also depends on the capabilities the owner wants.
but your above example is a bare minimum that should work well with most non-picky HT owners.
the sky must be falling.
new games using more than 256MB's of ram? say it aint so.
short-sighted users are never wrong!!
all ffdshow algorithms are cpu-only.
so i'm wondering what you're really referring to.
show me some links please.
the specs aren't better than the 360.
the cpu alone isn't the only factor in determining the "specs".
the graphics solution in the 360 is far superior to the rsx (g70 derived core).
the companies involved are both shitheads but the hardware overall is approx. equal in terms of processing throughput.
4x antialiasing will come standard and will be "free" on the 360. and given sony's bad rep with regards to AA, this is yet another hit. sure the rsx can do AA but it'll divert significant resources to add AA to an already complex game. that's what 256 GB/s of bandwidth on the eDRAM buys you...
the 360 also has 3 cpus, each with 1 vector unit.
overall, i prefer the 360 hardware because the gfx core far more than makes up for the anemic paper specs of the 360's cpus. it's a truly next-gen part with a unified shader approach (the new r520 from ATI is still not DX 10 ready, and neither is the g70...).
the cpu won't be doing gfx work, that's why each console now comes with a discrete gfx processor. so the cell will do supplementary work, not gfx directly.
but it's all a moot point. because when you purchase any console, you are merely being given a "license" to use a crippled product. and if you cannot access your own property fully, all these DRM consoles aren't worth a damn.
that and the fact by the time ps3 comes out, PC graphics processing will already eclipse it. and so far you can own your own property (pc's), but not for much longer...
seeing as how most of africa's problems are caused by white people and is still going on to this day, then yes it is your problem. those corrupt dictators didn't come out of nowhere... they were brought and set up by "imperial" powers... just a few months ago, they were caught initiating a coup in Congo. in sudan, where the mainstream presstitutes keep their attention focused, blame the muslim sudanese for the massacres and genocide... but they don't ask where all those weapons came from... or which country(ies) provided training and "agents" to instigate violence.
same shit, new century. until you destroy the source of the infection, they will always have problems building a good propserous society.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
-Martin Luther King
no but i can say SHILL.
actually no.
nominating Bolton to the UN fits in with those doing the nominating.
it would be like Bill nominating Balmer to be the CEO... oh wait...
i would except i firmly believe that copyright durations are too low.
i want 1 millennium + life of the author + life of the author's children.
otherwise i will keep the knowledge and ideas i've accumulated from the public domain, to myself.
you can't do anything with your purchased product that they don't allow you to.
that's if you believe their propoganda and utter bullshit lies.
thankfully, to keep costs low, the secret police are also the "bad people".
always helping to keep the taxpayers' burden small.
it's the new standard if you sit idly by and do nothing about it.
first, you educate people about the evils of selling merchandise and then treating it like a rental. (aka DRM / Insidious Computing).
second....
"SIGNED" applications on your phone?!
what the hell are people smoking?
asking someone else for permission to Execute Arbitrary Code on your PROPERTY!!!
if the phone isn't a rental, then it belongs wholly to you. as in your property and i'll be damned if they can get away with this for much longer.
congratulations, your phone no longer works.
if it were only as easy as pulling the chip out, we'd have no reason to be concerned about our future dystopian overlords.
not just a member of the RIAA (record label), they're also a proud member of the MPAA. also manufacturer of the crippled cell DRM-encumbered processor. and yeah MS and Nintendo are right up there with em in regards to the last point (crippled "consoles").
funny how you're just about the only other person who understands what the S in SD means.
and i reiterate, education is the key.
your eyes and ears are analog...
gives new meaning to "butt plug"...
cameras everywhere and the one that was looking out over the subway, happened to "fail" at just the right time.
what's the reason they gave when spending your tax dollars/pounds to put up all those cameras?
yes i thought so.
MI5/6. gotta love their sweet little hearts. making the world a better place.
you missed the point.
you cannot snoop on a trusted system and on a non-"trusted" system the device wouldn't work at all, thus there's no reason to snoop as there would be nothing to see.
the reason a "trusted" system is "trusted" is because everything you can do is regulated by someone other than the real owner of the machine. and if your "trust" capable system is running in "legacy" mode, then any data/code that requires a "trusted" stream will fail to run/execute.
unless you have an extremely sophisticated hardware analysis lab somewhere on a volcanic island your chances of cracking the "protection" from the hardware level is nearly nil. you'll have to use another attack vector, usually the weakest links in the component chain of your system. and i use the word "your" loosely... modern companies are holding your property hostage err their property... err it's confusing....
every time a company holds your property hostage, god kills a lobbyist/shill.