Something a little more scary is the immunity Berlusconi gave himself to prevent any convictions of his crimes... but that was ruled unconstitutional: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8295716.stm
maybe it's the other way around... You only have to buy a sucky game *once* based on a raving review to *never* trust those reviews again. While your friends can comment properly on the game without some obscure metric like '8/10 overall'.
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As a web developer I hate to see a new IE despite the possibility of improvements... It will just mean more different incompatible IE versions to test and maintain code for us (IE6 will still have a marketshare when IE10 comes uit... although they will probably rebrand it to InternetX).
Good thing there are JavaScript libraries like jQuery that fill some of the gaping holes in IE standards support and make it usable like a normal browser... the funny part is that when the IE javascript engine is finally on par with modern engines like V8 the real life speed will still be slower since IE is wasting a lot of time working around incompatibilities (which of course requires extra JavaScript calls to make it work)...
Ah yes, based on the novel of the late Robert A. Heinlein (great olde SciFi). Just like another one of his novels 'Red Planet' which became: 'Harold and Kumar go to Mars: The Red Hair Planet', where Harold and Kumar go to Mars to harvest the red hairs of the famous (80's) Red Hair Skunk Cannabis.
I can see potential problems if this type of solution ever becomes common though I suppose you could argue that you shouldn't need anti virus protection if you have this hypervisor.
Hah! Well I see a potential problem there.:)
But others (the bad kind) probably see only the potential...
You do realize that I can get all the same shit for free for Windows with Services for Unix, right? It's not bundled so that you're not forced to receive it if you don't want it, but it's a free download.
You are not even forced to download it if you need it. I once ordered the DVD with Windows Services for Unix from Microsoft, and got it by international priority mail for free.:) That is the way I like my software from Microsoft... free for me and very costly for them. Too bad it's mostly the other way around...
Is that even true for non-movie-industry content? It would seem very strange to disallow recording the public television BBC for instance since the programming is payed for by taxpayer money.
Recording transmitted content has been a much used fair use right since the invention of the tape deck... And since then the industry has complained about, and tried to take away that right by imposing limits on each new technology that does basically the same.
It's basically a fancy VCR! There is nothing wrong or illegal with it... what is worrying though is that geeks are actually scared of exercising their rights, and are scared of legal repercussions by companies that are taking away your rights.
Why is it that when it comes to media people are scared to stand up for their rights, but when someone tries to 'limit free speech' all hell breaks loose... It's both a right, as is the right to be safe from unwarranted legal action that will bankrupt you whether you're right legally and/or morally.
"I hope you were doing well... now please sit down and take your prescribed medicine to read the rest of this multi-page letter explaining our intentions to bankrupt you for downloading some MP3 files."
In reality these people are also just guys with jobs, making the same mistakes as most guys with jobs at big companies: They are pushed to produce short term income increase. You can't blame them for doing what the company and the shareholders require of them, but you can blame the top-dogs like this man for failing to see the unethical course they are steering, and even the shareholders could blame them for undermining their good chances of long term profit! I would love to see some shareholders try this out in court, but sadly it is more likely they are their own largest shareholders so they don't answer to anyone anymore...
And didn't YouTube already prove this wrong? Music with video (or video with music) can't be seen as one new work unrelated to the audio copyright, otherwise they could have never removed copyrighted music used in the many many YouTube movies.
Before taking more agressive action, I wanted to reach out to you because it struck me as odd that you would be running a site without licenses. [...] What's going on?
This quote is from the personal email by the RIAA vice president, read more here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/22140609/Bluebeat-TRO-Opposition-Ex-A
Read to the bottom of the conversation to find the nice way of kindly informing about the infringement without first sending the lawyer-hordes.
I would love to see him take such an open and inquiring attitude towards other pirates (a.k.a. normal consumers) and just listen to the community before unleashing his well known more agressive action.
And even if he let's his lawyers send the pages of ALL CAPS LEGALESE, it would be nice to include the "I hope you are doing well" from the top.:)
The idea is to promote good bands that would have been popular except for the fact that they are not already popular and hence might go unnoticed.
How long will it take until 'they' (MAFIAA) game this system by producing tracks that the trick the AI into 'liking' the new artists they are plugging and recommending it to all users?
This will add a whole new depth of meaning to artificially popular music (like the 'top' often already is). After a while all the top items will sound exactly the same (just like the top google results sometimes were until google corrected the pagerank algorithm). Since this is probably much more complex than pagerank the resitance of the AI against these kind of tricks will probably be lagging years behind and the recommendations will always suck...
[quote]Although it has been plagued on the administrative side of things[/quote]
SORBS administrators (or other participants) plagued anyone who is just kindly informing about their list.
In my experience they are uncoöperative, arrogant and some are even sadist BOFH kind of people why get their biggest kick out of tormenting people with problems.
When my host in the US was added together with a huge IP range as 'spam friendly subnet' I informed what I should do, and if the listing was legitimate if should move away to show my anti-spam support. They just enjoyed ridiculing and outright insulting the people who come for help...
At one point they even blocked my university mail servers in Amsterdam for some random reason (relay maybe), but that only lasted for a few days because of pressure I guess...
I long theorized that the crappy SORBS listings were intentional and these administrators just love to add random ranges of IPs to the list to laugh their ass off when they mess around with the hordes of mailserver admins that come looking for help.
It's like two hours that Gmail wasn't available. Get over it!!!
It's not like it's gonna cost you that much money because the e-mail isn't available for such a short time... If it's *that* mission critical it's your fault for not providing a more reliable alternative to Gmail. And no, just getting an Exchange server is not more reliable... just the Windows updates that actually install without problems will probably total up in more 'downtime' per year.
Most people just forget that e-mail still performs superbly compared to snail-mail, but just like snail-mail some messages can take a little longer. An e-mail is never guaranteed to be delivered in a few seconds. Some take minutes, some hours and i've even seen a couple delayed by a day. Not having the mail delivered for 2 hours hardly counts as a significant delay.
Bitching about it doesn't really help now does it? Taking an extra long lunch might help though...:-)
Have you learned nothing at your work? The FBI was 'on the case' since 2007, probably outsourced the real work to some poor suckers in IT and just sat on their asses for two years. Until Mueller gave them an angry call why he was still being phished while they were 'fixing the problem'. From that moment they had to produce results fast to please the boss... they probably just arrested the first guys on the watch list compiled in 2007.
The 360 can play most movies natively! Depending on the encoding even HD movies, i've viewed 720P and 1080I blueray rips over my LAN. The 360-pro can do analog full HD with a component cable.
You only need Windows Media Player 11 (or 10 maybe, not sure) and share your movie folder or harddisk to the 360.
The 360 will ask for a media update for MPG4/XVID and download it from Xbox Live the first time you play a movie.
And if you insist on some hacking consider this: I added some mediaserver capability to my DD-WRT access point, my USB2 harddisk could be accessed from my 360 over LAN without having the PC running (and the PC used it as a NAS to store the movies). I will not recommend this because it was a lot of effort for a setup that tended to make the AP unstable after streaming or copying too much data. Go with WMP11 or any other media server on a PC instead, there also was some expirimental stuff out there that can provide some streaming video and youtube channels to the xbox.
Check out TVersity for a cool example of a fairly universal media server: http://tversity.com/
Oh don't worry, Intel is always on top of the latest "scientific-standards"... From their website:
The library of Congress contains over 10 terabytes of
information (a 1 with 13 zeroes after it). If you used Light
Peak technology operating at 10 billion bits per second it
would take you only 17 minutes to transfer the complete
library of Congress.
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There is no other word for the rule of Berlusconi than a smoothly veiled dictatorship...
An example of the abuse of his media empire: http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/11/10/italy-the-latest-fashion-%E2%80%93-blue-socks-against-berlusconi/
It sounds stupid, and it really is... but this is the only country in Europe where politicians can get away with smear campaigns, and only because this politician owns or influences most media in the country.
Something a little more scary is the immunity Berlusconi gave himself to prevent any convictions of his crimes... but that was ruled unconstitutional: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8295716.stm
maybe it's the other way around... You only have to buy a sucky game *once* based on a raving review to *never* trust those reviews again. While your friends can comment properly on the game without some obscure metric like '8/10 overall'.
Your comment has been identified by the "Opera Browser for the Glorious Republic of China" as unconformist unwanted behaviour.
You have been added to our Glorious Black Book, please report yourself to the nearest town-hall for severe punishment or lose your chance for Chinese citizenship for your entire lifetime.
* laugh about it now, you capitalist, until all the world will be the Glorious World of China, you'd wish you could become a citizen then.
As a web developer I hate to see a new IE despite the possibility of improvements... It will just mean more different incompatible IE versions to test and maintain code for us (IE6 will still have a marketshare when IE10 comes uit... although they will probably rebrand it to InternetX).
Good thing there are JavaScript libraries like jQuery that fill some of the gaping holes in IE standards support and make it usable like a normal browser... the funny part is that when the IE javascript engine is finally on par with modern engines like V8 the real life speed will still be slower since IE is wasting a lot of time working around incompatibilities (which of course requires extra JavaScript calls to make it work)...
Ah yes, based on the novel of the late Robert A. Heinlein (great olde SciFi).
Just like another one of his novels 'Red Planet' which became: 'Harold and Kumar go to Mars: The Red Hair Planet', where Harold and Kumar go to Mars to harvest the red hairs of the famous (80's) Red Hair Skunk Cannabis.
I'd watch that shit!
I can see potential problems if this type of solution ever becomes common though I suppose you could argue that you shouldn't need anti virus protection if you have this hypervisor.
Hah! Well I see a potential problem there. :)
But others (the bad kind) probably see only the potential...
You do realize that I can get all the same shit for free for Windows with Services for Unix, right? It's not bundled so that you're not forced to receive it if you don't want it, but it's a free download.
You are not even forced to download it if you need it. I once ordered the DVD with Windows Services for Unix from Microsoft, and got it by international priority mail for free. :)
That is the way I like my software from Microsoft... free for me and very costly for them. Too bad it's mostly the other way around...
Is that even true for non-movie-industry content? It would seem very strange to disallow recording the public television BBC for instance since the programming is payed for by taxpayer money.
And ironically this new "limited" account would have a standard cost clause mentioning "Aleph-1".
Recording transmitted content has been a much used fair use right since the invention of the tape deck... And since then the industry has complained about, and tried to take away that right by imposing limits on each new technology that does basically the same.
It's basically a fancy VCR! There is nothing wrong or illegal with it... what is worrying though is that geeks are actually scared of exercising their rights, and are scared of legal repercussions by companies that are taking away your rights.
Why is it that when it comes to media people are scared to stand up for their rights, but when someone tries to 'limit free speech' all hell breaks loose... It's both a right, as is the right to be safe from unwarranted legal action that will bankrupt you whether you're right legally and/or morally.
"I hope you were doing well... now please sit down and take your prescribed medicine to read the rest of this multi-page letter explaining our intentions to bankrupt you for downloading some MP3 files."
In reality these people are also just guys with jobs, making the same mistakes as most guys with jobs at big companies: They are pushed to produce short term income increase. You can't blame them for doing what the company and the shareholders require of them, but you can blame the top-dogs like this man for failing to see the unethical course they are steering, and even the shareholders could blame them for undermining their good chances of long term profit! I would love to see some shareholders try this out in court, but sadly it is more likely they are their own largest shareholders so they don't answer to anyone anymore...
For failure to know a cool 4 letter word with an X in it you are required to hand in your geek license.
Seriously though, in The Netherlands this is standard highschool biology...
And didn't YouTube already prove this wrong? Music with video (or video with music) can't be seen as one new work unrelated to the audio copyright, otherwise they could have never removed copyrighted music used in the many many YouTube movies.
Before taking more agressive action, I wanted to reach out to you because it struck me as odd that you would be running a site without licenses. [...] What's going on?
This quote is from the personal email by the RIAA vice president, read more here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/22140609/Bluebeat-TRO-Opposition-Ex-A
:)
Read to the bottom of the conversation to find the nice way of kindly informing about the infringement without first sending the lawyer-hordes.
I would love to see him take such an open and inquiring attitude towards other pirates (a.k.a. normal consumers) and just listen to the community before unleashing his well known more agressive action.
And even if he let's his lawyers send the pages of ALL CAPS LEGALESE, it would be nice to include the "I hope you are doing well" from the top.
The idea is to promote good bands that would have been popular except for the fact that they are not already popular and hence might go unnoticed.
How long will it take until 'they' (MAFIAA) game this system by producing tracks that the trick the AI into 'liking' the new artists they are plugging and recommending it to all users?
This will add a whole new depth of meaning to artificially popular music (like the 'top' often already is). After a while all the top items will sound exactly the same (just like the top google results sometimes were until google corrected the pagerank algorithm). Since this is probably much more complex than pagerank the resitance of the AI against these kind of tricks will probably be lagging years behind and the recommendations will always suck...
+1 Footshot
Don't worry, like Ridley Scott said: "In space no one can hear you fart".
[quote]Although it has been plagued on the administrative side of things[/quote] SORBS administrators (or other participants) plagued anyone who is just kindly informing about their list. In my experience they are uncoöperative, arrogant and some are even sadist BOFH kind of people why get their biggest kick out of tormenting people with problems. When my host in the US was added together with a huge IP range as 'spam friendly subnet' I informed what I should do, and if the listing was legitimate if should move away to show my anti-spam support. They just enjoyed ridiculing and outright insulting the people who come for help... At one point they even blocked my university mail servers in Amsterdam for some random reason (relay maybe), but that only lasted for a few days because of pressure I guess...
I long theorized that the crappy SORBS listings were intentional and these administrators just love to add random ranges of IPs to the list to laugh their ass off when they mess around with the hordes of mailserver admins that come looking for help.
It's like two hours that Gmail wasn't available. Get over it!!!
:-)
It's not like it's gonna cost you that much money because the e-mail isn't available for such a short time... If it's *that* mission critical it's your fault for not providing a more reliable alternative to Gmail. And no, just getting an Exchange server is not more reliable... just the Windows updates that actually install without problems will probably total up in more 'downtime' per year.
Most people just forget that e-mail still performs superbly compared to snail-mail, but just like snail-mail some messages can take a little longer. An e-mail is never guaranteed to be delivered in a few seconds. Some take minutes, some hours and i've even seen a couple delayed by a day. Not having the mail delivered for 2 hours hardly counts as a significant delay.
Bitching about it doesn't really help now does it? Taking an extra long lunch might help though...
Didn't Paris Hilton already find a backup solution for this?
Have you learned nothing at your work? The FBI was 'on the case' since 2007, probably outsourced the real work to some poor suckers in IT and just sat on their asses for two years. Until Mueller gave them an angry call why he was still being phished while they were 'fixing the problem'. From that moment they had to produce results fast to please the boss... they probably just arrested the first guys on the watch list compiled in 2007.
The 360 can play most movies natively! Depending on the encoding even HD movies, i've viewed 720P and 1080I blueray rips over my LAN. The 360-pro can do analog full HD with a component cable. You only need Windows Media Player 11 (or 10 maybe, not sure) and share your movie folder or harddisk to the 360. The 360 will ask for a media update for MPG4/XVID and download it from Xbox Live the first time you play a movie.
And if you insist on some hacking consider this: I added some mediaserver capability to my DD-WRT access point, my USB2 harddisk could be accessed from my 360 over LAN without having the PC running (and the PC used it as a NAS to store the movies). I will not recommend this because it was a lot of effort for a setup that tended to make the AP unstable after streaming or copying too much data. Go with WMP11 or any other media server on a PC instead, there also was some expirimental stuff out there that can provide some streaming video and youtube channels to the xbox.
Check out TVersity for a cool example of a fairly universal media server: http://tversity.com/
Hahaha... you're right. They must have used a float to calculate this... damn those Intel rounding errors!
Intel, try googling before you run: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=10+terabytes+%2F+10000000000+bps
Source: http://techresearch.intel.com/articles/None/1813.htm - interesting facts