And a drive like this is gonna need some of its own cooling. No big whup - we did it with video cards in the last few years - but as soon as we start exceeing the current form factor, this'll need to be factored in.
That's exactly what will happen. From a Wired article: "But if a company refuses to cooperate, BSA can and will ask a federal judge to grant a court order allowing BSA investigators to visit the accused company unannounced and accompanied by local law enforcement officials such as U.S Marshals."
Scary as hell. What would be really interesting is someone like OSDN refusing entry, then being searched. Would make a hell of a headline and could be just the sort of thing to make ordinary users realize the clout MS carries through its BSA organization.
Labelling something 'Opinion' doesn't relieve the author or responsibility to do research. It's not nit-picking to say that the author jumped to a very pro-American conclusion. He made it sound as though the US took wicked British censorship laws and fashioned them into powerful tools for democracy.
Look, the US deserves plenty of credit for establishing a country based on powerful ideals. But it didn't invent every idea or tool of democracy - the Rest of the World has thought some of this stuff through too.
Someone needs to clue MS in that the GPL isn't an airborne virus.
I'd suggest that Microsoft does, in fact, fully understand the GPL - it's not like they've ever been short of lawyers.
I think what's really happening here is spin. A coordinated attack on the GPL (for whatever reason you might speculate) using every means of communication they have. Looks like their latest 'innovation' is the use of the EULA as a spin-delivery device. Which makes sense, really, considering its apparent credibility. It is, after all, legalese. Anything a customer sees there is given instant legal credibility in his/her mind.
Well, wait - you two are talking about different things. MaxwellStreet, you're concerned as a website maintainer that IE will start to insert links that you don't want. And you want MS to use an 'opt-in' strategy. In other words, IE reads your page and renders it without smarttags UNLESS you give it permission to insert them.
Asills's post stated that the browser would ship with smarttag rendering off by default. What that means to you is that, as a website maintainer, you have to accept that anyone who enables smarttags before visting your site is going to see them unless you specifically opt OUT.
Uh... Zorkon... read it again. Geekboy was mocking an earlier post ("What are they gonna do up there?") by turning it around ("What are they gonna do down there?").
It made sense. And there's nothing more irritating that an uppity Canadian intent on showing up an American. Gawd. And yeah, I'm Canadian...
Hope InterlockingP is also happy when the Canadian Government decides that "256Kb/sec is plenty fast enough", or that the children should be protected by mandatory access filters.
Just for the record - content filters haven't gotten any traction with Canadian politicians (*knocking on my wooden desk). I've been really happy to see the more hysterical aspects of the various internet debates quite muted up here.
This really wasn't a conspiricy -- it's more an outgrowth of the totally retarded File Extension == File Type idea that Windows is based on. Decent metadata display could easily solve this.
*Standing on my chair, applauding*
Thank you! I still find it incomprehensible that an OS as advanced as WinNT or 2K should depend on such a Win3.1-era approach to file types. The Mac has had proper metadata since I was a boy. Just blows my mind that MS hasn't grown up to this.
Seems like a continuation of the disturbing trend in which legislators can make lots of impressive noise about insignificant issues and pass unconstitutional laws knowing full well that it'll be knocked out by the first judge it faces.
It's cheap, irresponsible politics and gets more dangerous with every far-right just Dubya appoints to the Supreme Court.
"And I am particularly concerned about the safety of our children on the Internet, where they're subjected to child pornography and solicitation in a massive way."
This is so stupid it practically drools. First of all, the guy is talking about protecting children from pornography, not protecting children from *appearing* in pornography. But I guess pressing that old child-porn button never hurts, does it?
Second, the child-porn boogeyman is just that - an ill-defined spectre used to scare a gullible, uninformed populace. There's never been evidence of child-porn existing on any 'massive' scale, and it seems to me that our various police organizations have been looking for it pretty hard.
God, Bob Goodlatte is going to out-right-wing-wacko Ashcroft himself if he's not careful...
What I find *really* interesting is the growing fear of that legal backlash. This Tivo hack doesn't necessarily permit anyting beyond fair use/time shifting/space shifting (IANAL, but come on!), but people are screaming for this hack to be smothered lest the Tivo itself be taken away from us.
In other words - there's unprecedented power in the hands of the individual these days, and the 'content' industries don't like it. The power they have flexed is so intimidating that we're now acting to prevent the release of a new capability that would be in the hands of the individual Tivo owner. A chilling effect, no?
Soon, the MPAA, RIAA, etc. won't need to pay lawyers or defend their abuses of copyright in court. We'll be so afraid of having our rights trampled that we'll trample them ourselves.
"What Jaime's basically declaring is war on the limited-information culture that surrounds marketing and popularity."
Very nicely put. Society finally has sufficiently powerful communication tools in the hands of ordinary people that we can bypass Powerful Corporations.
I envision perhaps something a little looser than what is proposed here. I bet Everything could be extended in this direction.
And heck - the Marketroids will have access to the same data as all the individual users. And they'll run circles trying to react to the new flow of recommendations. Let 'em. If they come up with something good (a better Green Day than Green Day?), we'll take it. Otherwise, we can ignore 'em. We don't need 'em anymore.
In the article, a professor at U of T sums up the problem with this quote: "The commodity is overpriced, the product is really inconsistent in terms of quality. It's no wonder that people are looking for alternatives."
A couple of paragraphs later, the recording industry boasts that the industry has "the ideas and the energy" to overcome this challenge. His most prominent ideas? "He wants better marketing of national sales charts, perhaps even something on television. He foresees better CD package design so kids will want to own the album."
Hop on the cluetrain, my friend. These two-bit marketing ideas don't address the real problems, articulated above.
Until the industry addresses its shortfalls in quality and pricing (which are, IMHO, inherent in its prized distribution model), people are not going to be motivated to buy music, right or wrong.
It's a far cry from the Napster case - going after individuals. Even more interesting, it's not going through the courts, so you wind up with a huge industry consortium seeming to conspire with huge broadband suppliers against a few people without due process.
I doubt those people will earn any sympathy in the community, but it'll still be a tough PR battle for the MPAA.
The next step down the ladder is the pursuit of individual music traders. I don't know if that will *ever* fly.
How about the rumours of data corruption with the Promise Ultra-66 controllers? Anybody know if this has been nailed down? The notes on the Wolverine beta sounded like Redhat didn't have a good understanding of what - if any - problem existed.
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And a drive like this is gonna need some of its own cooling. No big whup - we did it with video cards in the last few years - but as soon as we start exceeing the current form factor, this'll need to be factored in.
That's exactly what will happen. From a Wired article: "But if a company refuses to cooperate, BSA can and will ask a federal judge to grant a court order allowing BSA investigators to visit the accused company unannounced and accompanied by local law enforcement officials such as U.S Marshals."
Scary as hell. What would be really interesting is someone like OSDN refusing entry, then being searched. Would make a hell of a headline and could be just the sort of thing to make ordinary users realize the clout MS carries through its BSA organization.
Labelling something 'Opinion' doesn't relieve the author or responsibility to do research. It's not nit-picking to say that the author jumped to a very pro-American conclusion. He made it sound as though the US took wicked British censorship laws and fashioned them into powerful tools for democracy.
Look, the US deserves plenty of credit for establishing a country based on powerful ideals. But it didn't invent every idea or tool of democracy - the Rest of the World has thought some of this stuff through too.
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Somebody *please* mod this troll down.
Whether you read the EULA or not, it can affect you.Probably better to go in with your eyes open...
Someone needs to clue MS in that the GPL isn't an airborne virus.
I'd suggest that Microsoft does, in fact, fully understand the GPL - it's not like they've ever been short of lawyers.
I think what's really happening here is spin. A coordinated attack on the GPL (for whatever reason you might speculate) using every means of communication they have. Looks like their latest 'innovation' is the use of the EULA as a spin-delivery device. Which makes sense, really, considering its apparent credibility. It is, after all, legalese. Anything a customer sees there is given instant legal credibility in his/her mind.
Well, wait - you two are talking about different things. MaxwellStreet, you're concerned as a website maintainer that IE will start to insert links that you don't want. And you want MS to use an 'opt-in' strategy. In other words, IE reads your page and renders it without smarttags UNLESS you give it permission to insert them.
Asills's post stated that the browser would ship with smarttag rendering off by default. What that means to you is that, as a website maintainer, you have to accept that anyone who enables smarttags before visting your site is going to see them unless you specifically opt OUT.
Don't stand corrected - two different issues.
Uh... Zorkon... read it again. Geekboy was mocking an earlier post ("What are they gonna do up there?") by turning it around ("What are they gonna do down there?").
It made sense. And there's nothing more irritating that an uppity Canadian intent on showing up an American. Gawd. And yeah, I'm Canadian...
Just for the record - content filters haven't gotten any traction with Canadian politicians (*knocking on my wooden desk). I've been really happy to see the more hysterical aspects of the various internet debates quite muted up here.
*Standing on my chair, applauding*
Thank you! I still find it incomprehensible that an OS as advanced as WinNT or 2K should depend on such a Win3.1-era approach to file types. The Mac has had proper metadata since I was a boy. Just blows my mind that MS hasn't grown up to this.
Stereotypes are an ingriddible part of America's culture.
(I think they have a subliminable effect on us Canucks)
;)
Seems like a continuation of the disturbing trend in which legislators can make lots of impressive noise about insignificant issues and pass unconstitutional laws knowing full well that it'll be knocked out by the first judge it faces.
It's cheap, irresponsible politics and gets more dangerous with every far-right just Dubya appoints to the Supreme Court.
"And I am particularly concerned about the safety of our children on the Internet, where they're subjected to child pornography and solicitation in a massive way."
This is so stupid it practically drools. First of all, the guy is talking about protecting children from pornography, not protecting children from *appearing* in pornography. But I guess pressing that old child-porn button never hurts, does it?
Second, the child-porn boogeyman is just that - an ill-defined spectre used to scare a gullible, uninformed populace. There's never been evidence of child-porn existing on any 'massive' scale, and it seems to me that our various police organizations have been looking for it pretty hard.
God, Bob Goodlatte is going to out-right-wing-wacko Ashcroft himself if he's not careful...
What I find *really* interesting is the growing fear of that legal backlash. This Tivo hack doesn't necessarily permit anyting beyond fair use/time shifting/space shifting (IANAL, but come on!), but people are screaming for this hack to be smothered lest the Tivo itself be taken away from us.
In other words - there's unprecedented power in the hands of the individual these days, and the 'content' industries don't like it. The power they have flexed is so intimidating that we're now acting to prevent the release of a new capability that would be in the hands of the individual Tivo owner. A chilling effect, no?
Soon, the MPAA, RIAA, etc. won't need to pay lawyers or defend their abuses of copyright in court. We'll be so afraid of having our rights trampled that we'll trample them ourselves.
"What Jaime's basically declaring is war on the limited-information culture that surrounds marketing and popularity."
Very nicely put. Society finally has sufficiently powerful communication tools in the hands of ordinary people that we can bypass Powerful Corporations.
I envision perhaps something a little looser than what is proposed here. I bet Everything could be extended in this direction.
And heck - the Marketroids will have access to the same data as all the individual users. And they'll run circles trying to react to the new flow of recommendations. Let 'em. If they come up with something good (a better Green Day than Green Day?), we'll take it. Otherwise, we can ignore 'em. We don't need 'em anymore.
...and how did that pre-written statement get modded up through the ceiling? Moderators: Think before you click!
In the article, a professor at U of T sums up the problem with this quote: "The commodity is overpriced, the product is really inconsistent in terms of quality. It's no wonder that people are looking for alternatives."
A couple of paragraphs later, the recording industry boasts that the industry has "the ideas and the energy" to overcome this challenge. His most prominent ideas? "He wants better marketing of national sales charts, perhaps even something on television. He foresees better CD package design so kids will want to own the album."
Hop on the cluetrain, my friend. These two-bit marketing ideas don't address the real problems, articulated above.
Until the industry addresses its shortfalls in quality and pricing (which are, IMHO, inherent in its prized distribution model), people are not going to be motivated to buy music, right or wrong.
heh... yeah, too bad us wackos own everything.
Hahahahahahaha!
(*hanging my head. I'm so terribly, terribly sorry. It's a recycled Tim Allen joke and I deserve your incisive Maritime scorn).
-Tim Doran
Toronto
Yeah, well, when a big asteroid is headed this way, we'll just send out a shipload of oil drillers.
That'll make plenty of sense then, my friend. Bruce Willis kicks ass. *snicker
Yeah, and we know how the P4 manages such impressive heat characteristics.
Here's a great article by Fast Company about the decidedly unglamorous world of programming for space flight purposes: They Write the Right Stuff
It kinda answers the question "what could software look like if somebody tried to do *everything* right?"
The Rogers network (ie. Rogers@Home) was partially disrupted a few weeks ago by 'copper thieves' near St. Catharines, Ontario a few weeks back.
Is the outage you were thinking of?
Kinda makes you wonder why a lot of data traffic would be going over copper. I thought copper was mostly restriced to the last mile these days.
Or is there so much copper out there that it won't be phased out for years? Anyone?
It's a far cry from the Napster case - going after individuals. Even more interesting, it's not going through the courts, so you wind up with a huge industry consortium seeming to conspire with huge broadband suppliers against a few people without due process.
I doubt those people will earn any sympathy in the community, but it'll still be a tough PR battle for the MPAA.
The next step down the ladder is the pursuit of individual music traders. I don't know if that will *ever* fly.
How about the rumours of data corruption with the Promise Ultra-66 controllers? Anybody know if this has been nailed down? The notes on the Wolverine beta sounded like Redhat didn't have a good understanding of what - if any - problem existed.
Heck, after the Avro Arrow program was cancelled in the late 50's, *legions* of Canadian aerospace engineers joined NASA.
;) But look it up - it's a fascinating story.
What was the Avro Arrow? If you have to ask, you're just not Canadian
By the way, a relative of mine lives next to the former chief test pilot of the Arrow. He's quite a guy.