> One other thing, 100 years ago, America was practically 3rd world in terms of labor conditions. There were labor riots, slave labor conditions, factories that burned down with the workers inside (fire escapes doors locked to prevent the workers from sneaking off), etc. etc.
Don't worry, your corporations are doing everything within their power to bring back that golden age.
> The only DVI-out DVD players on the market at the moment are the V Inc. Bravo D1, the Samsung 931, and the Momitsu DV-880. If you will not be using the DVI-out on these players, all of them are said to give relatively subpar quality via all the analog outputs.
So, as a follower of the HT scene, could you please tell us whether there are DVD players in existance that a) Play everything (like Apex) b) Can be made region and Macrovision free without hardware modifications (like Apex) c) Have reasonably high quality (unlike Apex) d) Support progressive-scan and clean PAL <-->NTSC convertion (unlike most Apexes) e) Are reasonably priced in North America (I don't expect Apex prices but maybe something like US$200-300)
The same site has an even better link. Use it to make them know exactly what you feel about their "campaign".
I suggest that you be very polite, just ask them some questions. Yes, you are not accusing them of anything, in fact, you'll be happy to support their cause if they just explain certain issues that you find confusing...
Like, for example, wouldn't they agree that taking say, 5-10%, of the $30,000,000 that a single actor might get paid fro a single movie and distributing it among the poor, starving stage workers will help them much more than spending large amounts of money on dishonest advertisements?
Oh, and by the way, when a movie makes some X millions of dollars, how much of it is distributed among the workers and how much is kept by the middlemen (the studios)?
And one last thing, could they you how much the top 50 movies gross in 2002/2003 and what was the average stage worker salary at the time? And would they be so kind as to compare those figures to a time before the wide spread of DVD recorders and high-speed internet (say, 10 years ago?) - adjusted for the usual economy-strength indicators - just to show you what was the effect of piracy on the figures above?
Thank you in advance, best regards, merry christmas, yadda yadda,
Be creative!
Then, if you do get an answer, rip it apart, exposing all its flaws and fallacies (in an extremely polite matter, of course) and ask them for better ones, because it seems to you that they are the real "pirates" in this saga.
> In my area (Toronto), DSL is much faster than cable. I get 3.5Mbs/800Kbs for about CAD$50. Cable isn't an option as it is only offered one company (Rogers), and it's a horrible one at that.
Care to name the provider? Does not sound like Bell as the best that they offer is 3M/640K for about $70.
In my case, there is no competition. It is either Rogers or dialup.
Two years ago, I contemplated switching to DSL. Guess what, it is not available in my area. Today I checked again, still unavailable (and we're talking about Richmond Hill, not some rural area).
The good part is that I finally reached a representative and she told me that "according to the system, it should be in 2003". Let's hope her info is accurate, I like choices.
> Freedom should go both ways. By using Freenet, I'm actually giving up the freedom to only trade the information I want to trade from my computer.
No, you're not. You may argue that you are giving up some of your property rights but, IMO, you are making a donation.
In effect, you are donating a portion of your bandwidth, disk space and CPU time to the Freenet network. After the "donation", they are no longer "yours" and, as such, you should not care how they are used.
> The US has been convicting on the theory of "if it's in your browser cache, you're guilty" for a few years now. This is all despite people protesting that they may have come across images accidently.
> Terrorism, n. The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.
E.g., the invation and occupation of Iraq by US forces.
unlawful - check (according to the international law) use or threatened use of force or violence - check (both) by a person or an organized group - check (US military) against people or property - check (mostly people but some property git damaged in the process) intimidating or coercing societies or governments - check (forced regime change) for ideological or political reasons - big check
> I work in IT at a large Canadian call center and all of our clients are US companies, calling US residents. I suppose when one of the clients is a major telecom, that cuts down the long distance bill a little, though. I've worked at a few similiar places in Canada and its the same deal everywhere.
So, as an insider, can you tell me what can a Canadian do to limit the number of telemarketing calls? AFAIK, there is no such "registry" in Canada and the autofiltering by caller-ID schemes will not benefit me much as I get a lot of calls from abroad.
At around the same time, however, the operating system was ridiculed by one of Microsoft's key developers for containing 63,000 known defects and bugs. The first service pack was released less than six months later. The latest service pack apparently has about 675 bug fixes.
Actually, that would be 63K entries in their bug-tracking DB. Those contain a lot of erroneous entries (Problem Between Chair and Keyboard), feature requests, entries regarding test code and false positives generated by their source analysis tools.
Ever sit around and come up with jokes to tell your friends? Or have a friend that did that in your group of friends?
Ever retell that joke, or hear it told again?
Thats illegal. For the same reason not getting permission to retell a story is illegal. and the same reason sharing songs is illegal.
Maybe we should start suing people for retelling jokes and continue doing it until "society" understands what that the current "Intllectual Property" laws are broken.
Good old shock treatment.
I can just see it: 1. Tell somebody an original joke 2. When they retell it, sue them for "distributing", "public performance" or whatever. 3. well, you should know by now...
1) Be realistic. $6 per day is a 1789 figure. Adjusted for inflation we get $120/day.
2) Be generous. Let's assume those representative work 365 days/year. That gives us $43,800/year.
3) Be critical. For comparison, a programmer with zero experience who "Relies on instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the job. Works under immediate supervision. Primary job functions do not typically require exercising independent judgment" gets a base salary around $46K.
You do not want the job to be so unattractive to people with half a brain that nobody would want it.
> Then the rest of the year, Congressmen can hold jobs where they produce something other than red tape.
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> Don't fuck with loud sounds. It's just not worth it.
I have to disagree.
Fucking with loud sounds is so much better than doing it silently.
> One other thing, 100 years ago, America was practically 3rd world in terms of labor conditions. There were labor riots, slave labor conditions, factories that burned down with the workers inside (fire escapes doors locked to prevent the workers from sneaking off), etc. etc.
Don't worry, your corporations are doing everything within their power to bring back that golden age.
> If they reduce their reliance on foreign IP (or non-free foreign IP) [...]
"Intellectual Property" is a contradiction in terms.
the intellect deals with ideas and ideas cannot be anyone's property.
Unless you meant this IP.
... Iraq will get Running Water over IP, Food over IP, Medicine over IP and the killer application - Electricity over IP.
Stay tuned...
> The only DVI-out DVD players on the market at the moment are the V Inc. Bravo D1, the Samsung 931, and the Momitsu DV-880. If you will not be using the DVI-out on these players, all of them are said to give relatively subpar quality via all the analog outputs.
So, as a follower of the HT scene, could you please tell us whether there are DVD players in existance that
a) Play everything (like Apex)
b) Can be made region and Macrovision free without hardware modifications (like Apex)
c) Have reasonably high quality (unlike Apex)
d) Support progressive-scan and clean PAL <-->NTSC convertion (unlike most Apexes)
e) Are reasonably priced in North America (I don't expect Apex prices but maybe something like US$200-300)
Any suggestions?
Speaking of anonymity.
Is it possible to make a PayPal payment without the recipient getting the payer's info?
The same site has an even better link.
Use it to make them know exactly what you feel about their "campaign".
I suggest that you be very polite, just ask them some questions.
Yes, you are not accusing them of anything, in fact, you'll be happy to support their cause if they just explain certain issues that you find confusing...
Like, for example, wouldn't they agree that taking say, 5-10%, of the $30,000,000 that a single actor might get paid fro a single movie and distributing it among the poor, starving stage workers will help them much more than spending large amounts of money on dishonest advertisements?
Oh, and by the way, when a movie makes some X millions of dollars, how much of it is distributed among the workers and how much is kept by the middlemen (the studios)?
And one last thing, could they you how much the top 50 movies gross in 2002/2003 and what was the average stage worker salary at the time? And would they be so kind as to compare those figures to a time before the wide spread of DVD recorders and high-speed internet (say, 10 years ago?) - adjusted for the usual economy-strength indicators - just to show you what was the effect of piracy on the figures above?
Thank you in advance, best regards, merry christmas, yadda yadda,
Be creative!
Then, if you do get an answer, rip it apart, exposing all its flaws and fallacies (in an extremely polite matter, of course) and ask them for better ones, because it seems to you that they are the real "pirates" in this saga.
> In my area (Toronto), DSL is much faster than cable. I get 3.5Mbs/800Kbs for about CAD$50. Cable isn't an option as it is only offered one company (Rogers), and it's a horrible one at that.
Care to name the provider? Does not sound like Bell as the best that they offer is 3M/640K for about $70.
In my case, there is no competition. It is either Rogers or dialup.
Two years ago, I contemplated switching to DSL. Guess what, it is not available in my area.
Today I checked again, still unavailable (and we're talking about Richmond Hill, not some rural area).
The good part is that I finally reached a representative and she told me that "according to the system, it should be in 2003". Let's hope her info is accurate, I like choices.
I firmly believe that the moderation boxes should not appear it you are filtering at above zero.
Either that, or moderating anything which is already above 1 should cost 2 points.
> Freedom should go both ways. By using Freenet, I'm actually giving up the freedom to only trade the information I want to trade from my computer.
No, you're not. You may argue that you are giving up some of your property rights but, IMO, you are making a donation.
In effect, you are donating a portion of your bandwidth, disk space and CPU time to the Freenet network. After the "donation", they are no longer "yours" and, as such, you should not care how they are used.
> The US has been convicting on the theory of "if it's in your browser cache, you're guilty" for a few years now. This is all despite people protesting that they may have come across images accidently.
Source? Links? Proof?
> Call up your local post office and tell them you want to refuse all fourth class mail.
Is there something similar in Canada?
> Use GCC
The point is to have the feature in standard C++, not to use a proprietary extension to the language.
You might as well have suggested to use CLOS or OCAML.
> Let's hear your suggestions on which stuff should be removed.
1. export
2. exception specifications
Closures.
> Most people, most women even, are against abortions being legal -- and yet it is legal.
Most Turks are against Armenians being legal. Your point?
> Terrorism, n. The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.
E.g., the invation and occupation of Iraq by US forces.
unlawful - check (according to the international law)
use or threatened use of force or violence - check (both)
by a person or an organized group - check (US military)
against people or property - check (mostly people but some property git damaged in the process)
intimidating or coercing societies or governments - check (forced regime change)
for ideological or political reasons - big check
Thank you for clearing this up.
> I work in IT at a large Canadian call center and all of our clients are US companies, calling US residents. I suppose when one of the clients is a major telecom, that cuts down the long distance bill a little, though. I've worked at a few similiar places in Canada and its the same deal everywhere.
So, as an insider, can you tell me what can a Canadian do to limit the number of telemarketing calls?
AFAIK, there is no such "registry" in Canada and the autofiltering by caller-ID schemes will not benefit me much as I get a lot of calls from abroad.
99% of "the public" will blindly trust a man in a uniform with an authoritative tone of voice.
> Scientific arguments don't go through a peer to peer review [...]
Peer to peer review?
Is that a peer review conducted over a P2P network?
> There are two reasons why the public will reject this
Since when does "the public" have a say?
See, for example here and here.
Good old shock treatment.
I can just see it:
1. Tell somebody an original joke
2. When they retell it, sue them for "distributing", "public performance" or whatever.
3. well, you should know by now...
> Sure, I'll pay their salary. Six dollars per day, and not a penny more.
1) Be realistic.
$6 per day is a 1789 figure. Adjusted for inflation we get $120/day.
2) Be generous.
Let's assume those representative work 365 days/year. That gives us $43,800/year.
3) Be critical.
For comparison, a programmer with zero experience who "Relies on instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the job. Works under immediate supervision. Primary job functions do not typically require exercising independent judgment" gets a base salary around $46K.
You do not want the job to be so unattractive to people with half a brain that nobody would want it.
> Then the rest of the year, Congressmen can hold jobs where they produce something other than red tape.
Can you say "conflicts of interests"?