Still, you should fight the fights you can win. If you're not careful, you start loosing ground that you take for granted and even if they do win the media war, there's no guarantee that it will make up for lost PS3 revenue. Then of course they could loose both fights and be completely screwed.
Posting random assertions with no supporting details on issues that aren't widely known is pretty weak, even on/. The parent seems like flamebate until you read your post.
I'm no expert, but it seems like the disk head would have to seek a lot further to move between free sectors since there aren't lots of big chunks of free space lying around.
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You might even question if EA cares about making anything other than 'dross' games. People seem happy to continually buy their products, regardless of the quality. If they don't have a compelling financial reason to change their ways, then they won't. You can't really count on consumers to make a difference because enough of them probably don't care or even notice the difference.
Apperently it was somewhat common for the first couple of generations of combo drive writers to stop working with either CDs or DVDs after a while. I had forgotten that this was for writers though, so I guess the point is moot.
Unfortunately, these kind of drives will be a lot more expensive to produce since they will have to support both laser wavelengths. I also wonder how error prone they'll be as there were some reliability problems with CD/DVD combo drives. In the long run though, you will probably right and this will work out.
On your second point, I wouldn't want to deal with customer confusion over the multiple similar movie formats either. Consumers are a lot more tech-savvy but with all the different disk-based movie formats, there are bound to be a lot of mistaken purchases.
It's just a guess, but I'd say that dropping the few hundred down on a 360 in December probably contributed too. Last year they -could- have spent all of that money on games, especially if there were good releases(I can't remember).
If this type of technology gets blocked, then I hope that the same happens for DRM technology (unlikely) because it seems to me that they both do the same thing. In any case, I'm not sure how a gov't can mandate a type of information restriction (e.g. DRM) and make another practically identical restriction illegal. Even if you restrict access of the technology somehow, I'm sure that someone could find a way to slide their own material in anyway.
I certainly wouldn't recommend making people do the install themselves. I'm just suggesting the the pre-built binaries that are on the live cd, plus a few other key applications would consititute a bloat-free os.
Otherwise, for what the $100 laptop will get used for, probably 80% of the tools and apps can be removed. I'm sure that something like gentoo or one of the other distros with a live cd + X.org, would work just fine.
What is preventing him from renaming his NTP server? If DLink is the major abuser, then see how they like querying an ip that doesn't exist? After all, wouldn't everyone else not be affected since the NTP pool can re-route the traffic to the new server?
Any killer HD-DVD movie release available right now?
That's my first question. I'd go as far as to ask if ANY content will be available for the release (beyond maybe a handful of titles). Have any of the studios even made announcements about when content will be made available?
I haven't had that happen to me yet(with Gmail anyway), but false positives are something we may have to accept in the age of spam filtering. I hate having to go through every single email that gets filtered in to my Junk folder, but I do it anyway just in case. Unless someone can come up with a fool proof method of detection, but I know that I have trouble myself since the emergence of the 'spam faked from people you know' phenomenon.
Hotmail has gotten a lot better in the last couple years, I still only use it for a spam catcher for sign ups and stuff. I still get a few spam emails a day(5-6), but more than half of them get filtered into my Junk folder. I know where you're coming from though, I used to get 20-30 spams a day and I wasn't too impressed with having to sort through my junk to find the real email that had gotten filtered out. But anyway, Gmail still way better as far as I'm concerned.
Don't worry, I don't think we're missing much. When I did get through to the site it was pretty mangled looking in FF. The author might consider spending some time reflecting on the article.
It's not that hard if you just want a player. Just recompile the latest xmms source or install the rpm. I guess if you want mp3 support in other apps, then that would be a big pain.
By interoperable they mean that Windows software will be able to make use of Unix software without having to give anything back in return. Otherwise known as a 'One way street'.
All that being said, leaving these people to their own devices probably would have been just as bad. People will always find an audience for their crack-pot views, even though these people will get more publicity, they will also get exposed for what they are. I much prefer that to letting them develop a large underground following that's unknown to the general public.
I don't think that common carrier status would apply here because the people fined were hosting the content rather than allowing it to pass through their network.
Anyway people have to realize that there are limits to freedom of speech and there is a good reason for that. As another poster pointed out, you won't get fined for having a racist conversation in public, but I bet that you would attract the attention of law enforcement pretty quickly if you did so with large groups of people. If you want to take these types of stances on race, religion, etc then so be it, but I wouldn't want to live in a society where people could freely try to convert others to their hateful views.
If your generator is that small, I don't see why there would be a problem. We don't have a hotspot per se, but it doesn't matter because Look Communications already has 3Mbit wireless internet services for a lot of southern ontario, including my parent's farm out in the middle of nowhere.
I can see the practice of being legally obligated to store old emails beyond financial industries. I'm no lawyer, but it seems to me that it wouldn't be legal (or ethical?) for a public company to get rid of old email. It is also handy to have old email around to cover your ass on old communication because you will always have a record of past descisions. Getting blamed for doing something questionable? Just point to the old email that states that your boss instructed you to do it over your objections, etc.
If you were to implement some sort of ftp server they can exchange large files on (and promote it), that would most likely take care of the biggest files. Also, a lot of people don't even realize how big a file is. They don't know that sending 10 raw pictures is 100 megs easily, they just think (oh, I'm just sending a few pics from over the weekend). If you were to set some reasonable limits on attachment sizes (say 10mb) you'd get some whiners at first, but in the long run it'd go away. The problem isn't so much how many emails people get, it's the damn attachments!
You are on to something here, but I think it might be a little more realistic in most cases to have shared drives set up for this. It might take a bit of disapline for people to figure out how to edit files concurrently, but this would make it pretty simple to share docs rather than emailing them around to 10 people.
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Still, you should fight the fights you can win. If you're not careful, you start loosing ground that you take for granted and even if they do win the media war, there's no guarantee that it will make up for lost PS3 revenue. Then of course they could loose both fights and be completely screwed.
Posting random assertions with no supporting details on issues that aren't widely known is pretty weak, even on /. The parent seems like flamebate until you read your post.
I'm no expert, but it seems like the disk head would have to seek a lot further to move between free sectors since there aren't lots of big chunks of free space lying around.
You might even question if EA cares about making anything other than 'dross' games. People seem happy to continually buy their products, regardless of the quality. If they don't have a compelling financial reason to change their ways, then they won't. You can't really count on consumers to make a difference because enough of them probably don't care or even notice the difference.
Apperently it was somewhat common for the first couple of generations of combo drive writers to stop working with either CDs or DVDs after a while. I had forgotten that this was for writers though, so I guess the point is moot.
Unfortunately, these kind of drives will be a lot more expensive to produce since they will have to support both laser wavelengths. I also wonder how error prone they'll be as there were some reliability problems with CD/DVD combo drives. In the long run though, you will probably right and this will work out.
On your second point, I wouldn't want to deal with customer confusion over the multiple similar movie formats either. Consumers are a lot more tech-savvy but with all the different disk-based movie formats, there are bound to be a lot of mistaken purchases.
It's just a guess, but I'd say that dropping the few hundred down on a 360 in December probably contributed too. Last year they -could- have spent all of that money on games, especially if there were good releases(I can't remember).
If this type of technology gets blocked, then I hope that the same happens for DRM technology (unlikely) because it seems to me that they both do the same thing. In any case, I'm not sure how a gov't can mandate a type of information restriction (e.g. DRM) and make another practically identical restriction illegal. Even if you restrict access of the technology somehow, I'm sure that someone could find a way to slide their own material in anyway.
I certainly wouldn't recommend making people do the install themselves. I'm just suggesting the the pre-built binaries that are on the live cd, plus a few other key applications would consititute a bloat-free os.
Otherwise, for what the $100 laptop will get used for, probably 80% of the tools and apps can be removed. I'm sure that something like gentoo or one of the other distros with a live cd + X.org, would work just fine.
What is preventing him from renaming his NTP server? If DLink is the major abuser, then see how they like querying an ip that doesn't exist? After all, wouldn't everyone else not be affected since the NTP pool can re-route the traffic to the new server?
I beleive that in a previous /. article, MS was quoted as saying that an HD-DVD drive would be made available later as an add-on for the 360.
I haven't had that happen to me yet(with Gmail anyway), but false positives are something we may have to accept in the age of spam filtering. I hate having to go through every single email that gets filtered in to my Junk folder, but I do it anyway just in case. Unless someone can come up with a fool proof method of detection, but I know that I have trouble myself since the emergence of the 'spam faked from people you know' phenomenon.
Hotmail has gotten a lot better in the last couple years, I still only use it for a spam catcher for sign ups and stuff. I still get a few spam emails a day(5-6), but more than half of them get filtered into my Junk folder. I know where you're coming from though, I used to get 20-30 spams a day and I wasn't too impressed with having to sort through my junk to find the real email that had gotten filtered out. But anyway, Gmail still way better as far as I'm concerned.
Don't worry, I don't think we're missing much. When I did get through to the site it was pretty mangled looking in FF. The author might consider spending some time reflecting on the article.
I'm not sure if this is still the case, but SELinux and the nVidia graphics drivers do not seem to get along either. I had this problem in FC4.
It's not that hard if you just want a player. Just recompile the latest xmms source or install the rpm. I guess if you want mp3 support in other apps, then that would be a big pain.
By interoperable they mean that Windows software will be able to make use of Unix software without having to give anything back in return. Otherwise known as a 'One way street'.
All that being said, leaving these people to their own devices probably would have been just as bad. People will always find an audience for their crack-pot views, even though these people will get more publicity, they will also get exposed for what they are. I much prefer that to letting them develop a large underground following that's unknown to the general public.
Anyway people have to realize that there are limits to freedom of speech and there is a good reason for that. As another poster pointed out, you won't get fined for having a racist conversation in public, but I bet that you would attract the attention of law enforcement pretty quickly if you did so with large groups of people. If you want to take these types of stances on race, religion, etc then so be it, but I wouldn't want to live in a society where people could freely try to convert others to their hateful views.
If your generator is that small, I don't see why there would be a problem. We don't have a hotspot per se, but it doesn't matter because Look Communications already has 3Mbit wireless internet services for a lot of southern ontario, including my parent's farm out in the middle of nowhere.
I can see the practice of being legally obligated to store old emails beyond financial industries. I'm no lawyer, but it seems to me that it wouldn't be legal (or ethical?) for a public company to get rid of old email. It is also handy to have old email around to cover your ass on old communication because you will always have a record of past descisions. Getting blamed for doing something questionable? Just point to the old email that states that your boss instructed you to do it over your objections, etc.