It is assuredly vomit inducing that the government thinks it can get away with a law like this; forced onto citizens who were, the previous day, quite unaware of the need for such a law.
I read the article, yet, as is almost always the case, it is unclear why the bill sponsors have committed their names to it. Clearly there is only one benefactor: recording industry groups obsessed with piracy. The radio stations do not benefit, the listeners do not benefit. However they [the lobby] are probably well aware that Internet Radio area is, most likely, not a common place for piracy.
This leaves us the option that they are trying to push this through as an attempt to soften the ground for a larger blitz on personal freedoms on commercial products of a digital nature.
But can anyone say for sure why these alleged representatives of the people have deemed it necessary to impose a law that most people will not need, understand and be worse off for in the long run? I can think only that, someplace, there is a trail of money, or of gratuity, or of favours and deals or offers that are the real reason that any member of the nation might even acknowledge the phantom problem of audio piracy.
You are right, but i would hope that the point of FOSSing this game would be to push a large userbase of non windows users into mainstream gaming. Our options at present suck. Creating games that have polish is a tedious, boring and annoying task; which might explain why it is so hard to do in a non commercial setting.
They replaced religion with a choice of control systems that made use of fear and a religious style of personality cult. They learned a lot from religion.
People become atheists generally through an intellectual choice. Religious people are so because that is the way their personal influences have made them. They therefore inherit the prejudices that go along with that. They are therefore unlikely to objectively consider many other real life issues outside the context of their religious prejudice. Ergo, an atheist will not refer to religious preconception upon appraisal of any options presented in a given situation. A vote for an atheist is therefore a vote for someone who can make a choice and justify it rationally. For example, Tony Blair and G. W. Bush both justified the Iraq invasion by deferring to the judgment they shall receive from their god.
OpenOffice is basically run by Sun. Who MS wont annoy. They even pay the SCO losers royalties. Mono, a clean room implementation of an ECMA standard is run by Novell, who are their best friends in the world. As long as the VBA code and samba run off clean room implementations, there is no legal threat. The kernel has a history which anyone in the world can view. If there was any illegal code there we would know about it already. The very nature of opensource removes the very issue of the vulnerability that you are talking about.
I understand your caution, but MS have no one to sue. The most likely affront will come from a stealing of code by some opensource project none of us even know exists yet. This will be jumped upon by the critics as a typical event. Ironically I'd bet there are many more commercial businesses stealing GPL'd code.
I used to work for a very large company once. We were testing a cross-platform platform on many many different operating system configurations. Thusly, in order to get a reasonable performance measure between releases it was requisite to reinstall the operating system regularly. This is especially a problem with windows due to the relationship windows seems to have with standard use and degrading performance.
Of course doing a reinstall with windows would have maxed out the MSDN licenses in a month. So a better way was a utility to, basically, use `dd` to backup and compress the windows partition and then roll it back whenever required. No hardware change would generally have taken place and was very effective for other OSs too.
What worries me thought is that this, a mon avis, perfectly reasonable use of something that you have paid for, would be considered illegal by the sons of whores who make it.
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well actually when i posted the comment there were only 6 or so comments to the article....
ping. no. the software source that has been modified sould be made publicly available.
But seriously... i'm sure most people can lve with dropped quality (~4gb per movie).
>If you buy 100 HD DVDs you will have spent upwards of $2000. If you buy 100 HD DVDs you will have been deemed crazy and incarcerated.
Also: surely 19GB, currently, is far too big to be handy for most people.
I read the article, yet, as is almost always the case, it is unclear why the bill sponsors have committed their names to it. Clearly there is only one benefactor: recording industry groups obsessed with piracy. The radio stations do not benefit, the listeners do not benefit. However they [the lobby] are probably well aware that Internet Radio area is, most likely, not a common place for piracy.
This leaves us the option that they are trying to push this through as an attempt to soften the ground for a larger blitz on personal freedoms on commercial products of a digital nature.
But can anyone say for sure why these alleged representatives of the people have deemed it necessary to impose a law that most people will not need, understand and be worse off for in the long run? I can think only that, someplace, there is a trail of money, or of gratuity, or of favours and deals or offers that are the real reason that any member of the nation might even acknowledge the phantom problem of audio piracy.
...work for both PC and Mac. Do you mean "work for both Microsoft Windows and Mac"? A PC refers to generic hardware.Well until recently it was the best way to view sites that made use of that pesky flash 9 nonsense.
Step 1 is redundant. Kinda like you
Yea the png transparency thing is kinda important when testing IE7.... VMware or similar is prob the best way to go.
You are right, but i would hope that the point of FOSSing this game would be to push a large userbase of non windows users into mainstream gaming. Our options at present suck. Creating games that have polish is a tedious, boring and annoying task; which might explain why it is so hard to do in a non commercial setting.
... and it's limited to running on Microsoft platforms
What if he wanted google adwords to point to his site? Would such a problem as this be overlooked?
"Wikiality" so to speak :p
Charles Babbage just got pwned
Yea, i was all ready to be outraged, then i read the article and its just so insane that it can't be true. Perhaps the article could be tagged better?
They replaced religion with a choice of control systems that made use of fear and a religious style of personality cult. They learned a lot from religion.
Well, we may hate the technology, we may hate his business legacy, but that does not make him a bad person. Business is business.
If he were to become a political figure, it would be in his best interests to cut direct ties with MS and be seen to have a distance from it.
Though i don't think he will become a political figure.
Can the last one out of the free world please turn off the lights?
Wrong:
People become atheists generally through an intellectual choice. Religious people are so because that is the way their personal influences have made them. They therefore inherit the prejudices that go along with that. They are therefore unlikely to objectively consider many other real life issues outside the context of their religious prejudice. Ergo, an atheist will not refer to religious preconception upon appraisal of any options presented in a given situation. A vote for an atheist is therefore a vote for someone who can make a choice and justify it rationally. For example, Tony Blair and G. W. Bush both justified the Iraq invasion by deferring to the judgment they shall receive from their god.
OpenOffice is basically run by Sun. Who MS wont annoy. They even pay the SCO losers royalties. Mono, a clean room implementation of an ECMA standard is run by Novell, who are their best friends in the world. As long as the VBA code and samba run off clean room implementations, there is no legal threat. The kernel has a history which anyone in the world can view. If there was any illegal code there we would know about it already. The very nature of opensource removes the very issue of the vulnerability that you are talking about.
I understand your caution, but MS have no one to sue. The most likely affront will come from a stealing of code by some opensource project none of us even know exists yet. This will be jumped upon by the critics as a typical event. Ironically I'd bet there are many more commercial businesses stealing GPL'd code.
Yea same here. Switched about 6 months ago. Debian/Ubuntu. worth it for apt alone.
its "RAMgate" :o
Of course doing a reinstall with windows would have maxed out the MSDN licenses in a month. So a better way was a utility to, basically, use `dd` to backup and compress the windows partition and then roll it back whenever required. No hardware change would generally have taken place and was very effective for other OSs too.
What worries me thought is that this, a mon avis, perfectly reasonable use of something that you have paid for, would be considered illegal by the sons of whores who make it.
That was my birthday... the 25th. Perhaps the delay was just a present for me :)