as far as I understand it from what I reads on the register the other day (although I can't find the article now) it does seem that you'll be able to copy files without the need for software, much as you can with pretty much every mp3 player on the market, which is my prefered choice for doing these things...
If you really want a manager for something like this though I bet there will be one which works with linux created (if it doesn't come with it). Gnomad 2 might even work with it
couldn't you just take the thing out or un-plug it? then it'd look like you never drove over the speed limit : )
More seriously this relies on the people who are driving (you can do it from 16, right?) being rational and sensible. If they were rational and sensible they wouldn't do it because it would make them look bad to their parents, but they wouldn't do that anyway because they wouldn't want to break the law and risk their lives. If the people weren't rational and sensible they would drive like an idiot anyway and not thing of the consequences (something I think is far more likely).
Further I'm not even convinced that speeding is that dangerous, drink/drug driving is far more likely to result in a fatal accident - and I have met people who do just that for fun. It's idiocy but these are just the people who you'd need to deal with...
whilst this is no doubt a bit of a "d'oh" moment for MS I doubt it will be a serious problem for anyone. * For this to have any affect on you you need to have SP1 but have the latest update of security for IE 6, surely if anyone updated regularly and applied security updates they'd be using SP2 anyway...
*If I'm wrong correct me, not being a windows user it's hard to remember what service pack is current
I'm glad to see that Brait Training got some praise, and it almost reads like the catergory that it won in was created for it, where they "celebrated the willingness to aim higher and try something new." Brain training certainly was that and is a "game" which I really enjoy.
I've been impressed with the DS' willingness to try new things. I hope the rest of the industry picks up on the idea of just giving something new a try. I can't really speak for the rest of the games on that awards list because I've not played them, although from the adverts I've seen for "guitar Hero" I was also very impressed.
whilst I was a first year at uni all my lecturers put together power points and they were available online, it was brialliant compared to what we got last year; word documents. Word makes presentations to a standard so low you'd be shocked and bored more than you ever thought possible.
Compaired to Word, power point is a feast for the eyes!
whilst this could be innocent I'm not entirely sure that we can trust that, especially with data which should be kept so private. The thing here is that they didn't say that this wasn't happening; a simple press release or comment to Gamers' could have stopped all of this. They didn't do that... why not? Isn't it better to be overly careful with very important information?
I don't know how that safeway card works (I'm assuming that they are the super-market you are refering to...) but if it is like the tesco club cards then they are taking your data, which is tied to your name and address, but only about things which directly concern them (ie. items they have sold to you and not credit card info) AND they actually pay you for it.
Tesco gives you 1p in the £1 of all you spend with them for the data which they are taking. Some people would think that this isn't worth it, so you can just not have one and still use their products and buy from them.
It seems with EA you have to do this or not use a product which you have paid for, which is a bit bad
This is actually a very good idea, although I think you meant it as a joke... he could just legally download and pay for 5 mp3's on each laptop. The RIAA has established through the courts that 1 "stolen" (if they use the word stolen maybe it should count when they actually are, too, not just IP infringement (which so obviously isn't theft)) mp3 is worth about 100,000 USD, so then it would theft of over 500,000 USD and surely enough to get some serious responses
I know a lot of the other comments about this are just saying that our system probably won't be around or that of course it won't be a moon because it's not in orbit, but what I think is more interesting is about the definition of a planet which they seem intent on creating...
Pluto may oir may not be a planet, but who cares? Don't change the definition because it doesn't change anything and it alters what we have traditionally though of it as and causes confusion with no real benifit. As to the three new planets which might come about because of this I think we should treat them with scepticism, I'm not completely against change if there will be an imporvement to understanding but I feel these things are not really in the spirit of being "planets" (I know that sounds crazy but you probably know what I mean...)
I am shocked that people still care about "rights" (sic) abuses on analogue material, the only reason you would be doing this is because you had bought a copy a long while ago and now want to be able to enjoy that copy on a system you have. Do they even make VHS? new piracy would be stupid from this angle. Besides cracking it in digital format is far easier...
They are just trying to screw you over again and again and again. Fortunately I don't live in a country with the DMCA or equivalent, but I sympathise, I hate getting screwed over by companies and the government when their working against the people.
you pretty much summed up my feelings on this topic, thanks. I'd mod you up but alas, no mod points. It is the iPod's fault.
My mp3 player actually works better on Linux than on windows - maybe people should just buy different ones... and I also feel a little like we should just stop worrying about the fact that not a lot of people use linux. I say good. Let windows keep getting all the viruses and the crap DRM and adware (I know linux is technically stronger as well as implemented better but I do think popularity does play a part). If someone comes up to me and says "my system is knacked because of malware/drm etc... I've lost everything" they'll get handed a whole pile of smug.
according to this site; http://www.laptop.org/index.en_US.html you won't be able to buy one, although I had previously heard that you could buy them for $300 as a way of donating 2 to children in the 2nd/3rd world
"Also, it doesn't really matter if Line 6's products came first: they clearly didn't do anything to defend the mark in the context of the iPod mark, period, so the point is moot."
it is an interesting point though, Line 6 didn't defend, so couldn't it be claimed that the "POD" is already in the public domain? in which case what are Apple defending? or does trademark law work in such a way that they can effectively steal one by defending it when another company doesn't?
The lawyers of Apple are quite happy to harp on about "not letting names fall into public domain" and "brand recognition" but when I suggested that it might be nice for Apple to be a little less threatening to companies who have little to do with their field, such as that only an idiot in a hurry could mix them up, they looked at me like I was no better than Howard Scott Warshaw. The Swines!
"It's unfortunate that even if people do want to have a religious or spiritual belief, they can't reconcile it with fairly firmly established scientific truth"
You make an interesting point but maybe it is proving the counter point. If you asked me; is the following statement true 'humans developed... from earlier species of animals.'? I would say "I don't know, but probably", would this put me down as an evolution denier? I think it is certainly the most plausable answer but I'm not going to say that it is FACT because it isn't, you even mention that when you use "fairly"...
I would need to get a better break down of how responses were classified (but the article is subscription). But this could just be people who are not arrogant enough to think they have all the answers
"Maybe it's the history of the British fight against the IRA, but it seems to me that the British people have been a little more tolerant of state intrusion than Americans"
I often see this as being more of a legacy from the dynastic absolute monarchy and Hobbes.
I myself do have sympathies with Hobbes' line of arguement and if the government could definitively say that I will not be unlawfully killed then I should be willing to give up liberties (as long as others are so to). I think a lot of the problem with the Government now if that they expect us to give up liberties when we have good reason to fear that others aren't doing and all the time thinking that the sovereigns ability to hold us in a state of awe has been limited...
I might be a bit more of an evangelist than most but I don't think good ever comes out of restricting anyones right to free software. What if I started an open source company and put a licence which said "no blacks can use this"... surely that would be wrong? Its the same thing. It is never good.
"In fact, I really don't think anyone would want to do that"
I would love something like this. I only use windows for one thing and I don't have the monitor on for it*, so they can have thousands of ads all over and flashing things etc and I'm still happy; I wouldn't have thought I was the only one. It would be good to have as well if you were mostly OSS but wanted to have windows just for the odd application - if you ran it full screen you'd hardly ever see the ads.
I'm not sure the extent to which I have sympathy with the guy taking a picture in the street, you could say that the police have a right to privacy and that especially if they are arresting a drug dealer then they might fear that some future reprisal could come about against them because of the picture. I would think this should really depend on how the interaction between the guy and the police went. In this case the police sould have just asked him to delete it and then sent him on his way - I don't like the way they seem to threaten him - so long as it didn't appear that the police were doing anything illegal (if they were he should have the right to keep it as evidence against the police).
The other case is far more black and white for me, the police were breaking the law, they had no reasonable expectation of privacy (because they were on private property where it clearly stated that audio and video recording was taking place) and arresting the guy is completely wrong. It is situations like this that make people not trust the police and it is one which the police have caused themselves.
I have used Naturally Speaking, it can take a bit of time to train it, but if only you use it then you can eventually get it to the point where you can talk at a normal speed (although it has to be clear) and it will get to approaching 90% accuracy, sometimes I had it higher. The point was that it couldn't be used as an alternative to typing for extended periods though because you had to check everything it wrote.
One thing it did do which was good though is tried to understand sections of speech, rather than just each word, which did improve accuracy. Words often follow patters and there are few words that make sense after a word, so it was often right with "over there".
SR tech will eventually be as good as on star trek as long as people work on it. I would give it 20 years if it is seen as something which could make a lot of money, 40 if you have to wait for interested people to do it for free on their own time
I think that the American people like to think that one day there could be a revolution or that one day they will get back perfect liberty, but it just won't happen. If you fear the government then you do it with good reason, and you know that if you tried to overturn it or have a coup it'd be your bollocks on the BBQ. In a situation like America and the fact that a revolution would be seen by some as a public good (in which case they can not act but still get the benifit anyway) or a possitive harm (in which case they might fight against it) - a revolution can't happen.
I'll take my chances having a Queen over a political head of state.
well in the thread was a link to an interesting article by RMS, in which he was making suggestions that this type of thing would be common with "[un-]trusted computing", but it is also interesting to note that the site he got directed to was go.microsoft so they obviously had something to do with it. Whilst there is no definate proof I feel confident that Vista was pretty much at the centre of it, why would it only happen the one time he used Vista? why never with any others? why MS's site? how did they know the file name/size? (I'll accept that it *might* be possible for the ISP to know that but I doubt they'd log it or care)...
It all seems a little like Vista was at the heart of this, if only it was open source, then people would be able to say definitavely either way, but until then I still think that it was Vista, and I think Occam might agree
In the UK we have had a lot of companies who outsourced their customer care to India, but because of this there has been a real backlash against companies who have done so at the expense of British workers. Now you often see in adverts people advertising that they have UK call centers only. I wonder if it is maybe becoming unworkable for both sides in these deals.
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as far as I understand it from what I reads on the register the other day (although I can't find the article now) it does seem that you'll be able to copy files without the need for software, much as you can with pretty much every mp3 player on the market, which is my prefered choice for doing these things...
If you really want a manager for something like this though I bet there will be one which works with linux created (if it doesn't come with it). Gnomad 2 might even work with it
couldn't you just take the thing out or un-plug it? then it'd look like you never drove over the speed limit : )
More seriously this relies on the people who are driving (you can do it from 16, right?) being rational and sensible. If they were rational and sensible they wouldn't do it because it would make them look bad to their parents, but they wouldn't do that anyway because they wouldn't want to break the law and risk their lives. If the people weren't rational and sensible they would drive like an idiot anyway and not thing of the consequences (something I think is far more likely).
Further I'm not even convinced that speeding is that dangerous, drink/drug driving is far more likely to result in a fatal accident - and I have met people who do just that for fun. It's idiocy but these are just the people who you'd need to deal with...
whilst this is no doubt a bit of a "d'oh" moment for MS I doubt it will be a serious problem for anyone. * For this to have any affect on you you need to have SP1 but have the latest update of security for IE 6, surely if anyone updated regularly and applied security updates they'd be using SP2 anyway...
*If I'm wrong correct me, not being a windows user it's hard to remember what service pack is current
Whilst BILL O'Reilly may or may not be a vagina (I have no feelings either way), I would say that TIM isn't.
...Still, the article was funny, if not miss-placed
For more info see; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Reilly_Media
I'm glad to see that Brait Training got some praise, and it almost reads like the catergory that it won in was created for it, where they "celebrated the willingness to aim higher and try something new." Brain training certainly was that and is a "game" which I really enjoy.
I've been impressed with the DS' willingness to try new things. I hope the rest of the industry picks up on the idea of just giving something new a try. I can't really speak for the rest of the games on that awards list because I've not played them, although from the adverts I've seen for "guitar Hero" I was also very impressed.
whilst I was a first year at uni all my lecturers put together power points and they were available online, it was brialliant compared to what we got last year; word documents. Word makes presentations to a standard so low you'd be shocked and bored more than you ever thought possible.
Compaired to Word, power point is a feast for the eyes!
whilst this could be innocent I'm not entirely sure that we can trust that, especially with data which should be kept so private. The thing here is that they didn't say that this wasn't happening; a simple press release or comment to Gamers' could have stopped all of this. They didn't do that... why not? Isn't it better to be overly careful with very important information?
I don't know how that safeway card works (I'm assuming that they are the super-market you are refering to...) but if it is like the tesco club cards then they are taking your data, which is tied to your name and address, but only about things which directly concern them (ie. items they have sold to you and not credit card info) AND they actually pay you for it.
Tesco gives you 1p in the £1 of all you spend with them for the data which they are taking. Some people would think that this isn't worth it, so you can just not have one and still use their products and buy from them.
It seems with EA you have to do this or not use a product which you have paid for, which is a bit bad
This is actually a very good idea, although I think you meant it as a joke... he could just legally download and pay for 5 mp3's on each laptop. The RIAA has established through the courts that 1 "stolen" (if they use the word stolen maybe it should count when they actually are, too, not just IP infringement (which so obviously isn't theft)) mp3 is worth about 100,000 USD, so then it would theft of over 500,000 USD and surely enough to get some serious responses
I know a lot of the other comments about this are just saying that our system probably won't be around or that of course it won't be a moon because it's not in orbit, but what I think is more interesting is about the definition of a planet which they seem intent on creating...
Pluto may oir may not be a planet, but who cares? Don't change the definition because it doesn't change anything and it alters what we have traditionally though of it as and causes confusion with no real benifit. As to the three new planets which might come about because of this I think we should treat them with scepticism, I'm not completely against change if there will be an imporvement to understanding but I feel these things are not really in the spirit of being "planets" (I know that sounds crazy but you probably know what I mean...)
I am shocked that people still care about "rights" (sic) abuses on analogue material, the only reason you would be doing this is because you had bought a copy a long while ago and now want to be able to enjoy that copy on a system you have. Do they even make VHS? new piracy would be stupid from this angle. Besides cracking it in digital format is far easier...
They are just trying to screw you over again and again and again. Fortunately I don't live in a country with the DMCA or equivalent, but I sympathise, I hate getting screwed over by companies and the government when their working against the people.
you pretty much summed up my feelings on this topic, thanks. I'd mod you up but alas, no mod points. It is the iPod's fault.
My mp3 player actually works better on Linux than on windows - maybe people should just buy different ones... and I also feel a little like we should just stop worrying about the fact that not a lot of people use linux. I say good. Let windows keep getting all the viruses and the crap DRM and adware (I know linux is technically stronger as well as implemented better but I do think popularity does play a part). If someone comes up to me and says "my system is knacked because of malware/drm etc... I've lost everything" they'll get handed a whole pile of smug.
according to this site; http://www.laptop.org/index.en_US.html you won't be able to buy one, although I had previously heard that you could buy them for $300 as a way of donating 2 to children in the 2nd/3rd world
"Also, it doesn't really matter if Line 6's products came first: they clearly didn't do anything to defend the mark in the context of the iPod mark, period, so the point is moot."
it is an interesting point though, Line 6 didn't defend, so couldn't it be claimed that the "POD" is already in the public domain? in which case what are Apple defending? or does trademark law work in such a way that they can effectively steal one by defending it when another company doesn't?
The lawyers of Apple are quite happy to harp on about "not letting names fall into public domain" and "brand recognition" but when I suggested that it might be nice for Apple to be a little less threatening to companies who have little to do with their field, such as that only an idiot in a hurry could mix them up, they looked at me like I was no better than Howard Scott Warshaw. The Swines!
"It's unfortunate that even if people do want to have a religious or spiritual belief, they can't reconcile it with fairly firmly established scientific truth"
... from earlier species of animals.'? I would say "I don't know, but probably", would this put me down as an evolution denier? I think it is certainly the most plausable answer but I'm not going to say that it is FACT because it isn't, you even mention that when you use "fairly"...
You make an interesting point but maybe it is proving the counter point. If you asked me; is the following statement true 'humans developed
I would need to get a better break down of how responses were classified (but the article is subscription). But this could just be people who are not arrogant enough to think they have all the answers
"Maybe it's the history of the British fight against the IRA, but it seems to me that the British people have been a little more tolerant of state intrusion than Americans"
I often see this as being more of a legacy from the dynastic absolute monarchy and Hobbes.
I myself do have sympathies with Hobbes' line of arguement and if the government could definitively say that I will not be unlawfully killed then I should be willing to give up liberties (as long as others are so to). I think a lot of the problem with the Government now if that they expect us to give up liberties when we have good reason to fear that others aren't doing and all the time thinking that the sovereigns ability to hold us in a state of awe has been limited...
wow, another Private Eye reader.
That's about all I had to say...
"Seriously, good for them"
I might be a bit more of an evangelist than most but I don't think good ever comes out of restricting anyones right to free software. What if I started an open source company and put a licence which said "no blacks can use this"... surely that would be wrong? Its the same thing. It is never good.
"In fact, I really don't think anyone would want to do that"
I would love something like this. I only use windows for one thing and I don't have the monitor on for it*, so they can have thousands of ads all over and flashing things etc and I'm still happy; I wouldn't have thought I was the only one. It would be good to have as well if you were mostly OSS but wanted to have windows just for the odd application - if you ran it full screen you'd hardly ever see the ads.
*It's my DS wifi connector - XP only.
I'm not sure the extent to which I have sympathy with the guy taking a picture in the street, you could say that the police have a right to privacy and that especially if they are arresting a drug dealer then they might fear that some future reprisal could come about against them because of the picture. I would think this should really depend on how the interaction between the guy and the police went. In this case the police sould have just asked him to delete it and then sent him on his way - I don't like the way they seem to threaten him - so long as it didn't appear that the police were doing anything illegal (if they were he should have the right to keep it as evidence against the police).
The other case is far more black and white for me, the police were breaking the law, they had no reasonable expectation of privacy (because they were on private property where it clearly stated that audio and video recording was taking place) and arresting the guy is completely wrong. It is situations like this that make people not trust the police and it is one which the police have caused themselves.
I have used Naturally Speaking, it can take a bit of time to train it, but if only you use it then you can eventually get it to the point where you can talk at a normal speed (although it has to be clear) and it will get to approaching 90% accuracy, sometimes I had it higher. The point was that it couldn't be used as an alternative to typing for extended periods though because you had to check everything it wrote.
One thing it did do which was good though is tried to understand sections of speech, rather than just each word, which did improve accuracy. Words often follow patters and there are few words that make sense after a word, so it was often right with "over there".
SR tech will eventually be as good as on star trek as long as people work on it. I would give it 20 years if it is seen as something which could make a lot of money, 40 if you have to wait for interested people to do it for free on their own time
I think that the American people like to think that one day there could be a revolution or that one day they will get back perfect liberty, but it just won't happen. If you fear the government then you do it with good reason, and you know that if you tried to overturn it or have a coup it'd be your bollocks on the BBQ. In a situation like America and the fact that a revolution would be seen by some as a public good (in which case they can not act but still get the benifit anyway) or a possitive harm (in which case they might fight against it) - a revolution can't happen.
I'll take my chances having a Queen over a political head of state.
well in the thread was a link to an interesting article by RMS, in which he was making suggestions that this type of thing would be common with "[un-]trusted computing", but it is also interesting to note that the site he got directed to was go.microsoft so they obviously had something to do with it. Whilst there is no definate proof I feel confident that Vista was pretty much at the centre of it, why would it only happen the one time he used Vista? why never with any others? why MS's site? how did they know the file name/size? (I'll accept that it *might* be possible for the ISP to know that but I doubt they'd log it or care)...
It all seems a little like Vista was at the heart of this, if only it was open source, then people would be able to say definitavely either way, but until then I still think that it was Vista, and I think Occam might agree
In the UK we have had a lot of companies who outsourced their customer care to India, but because of this there has been a real backlash against companies who have done so at the expense of British workers. Now you often see in adverts people advertising that they have UK call centers only. I wonder if it is maybe becoming unworkable for both sides in these deals.