No, it didn't. It happened in the US. That is where the webserver is, that is where the data is stored.
Twitter does not have a EU subsidiary. Twitter does not have offices in the EU. Twitter is not a registered company in the EU. How is twitter supposed to be bound by EU law again? Sorry, but the EU can go cry themselves to sleep, or build a big internet wall of EU like China if they don't like it.
One flaw in your argument. They do not operate world wide. They have no subsidiaries in any country other than the US. They do not have any offices in any country other than the US. They do not have any employees in any other country than the US.
You are wrong. Twitter did not come to the EU. A EU citizen willingly and knowingly accessed a US server.
A US company that is online has no legal obligation to insure that EU citizens comply with EU law, nor is the company governed by EU law. If you do not want your citizens accessing servers in the US for fear that a US court may, at it's discretion, legally request a US company comply with US laws then feel free to censor your own citizens by turning off your internet, create your own EU-safe internet, or just deal with it.
Well except that twitter does not have any offices in the EU at all, nor do they have any place of business in the EU. They do not have any subsidiaries in the EU. Twitter is not a multinational company. They are a US company with all offices in the US. If the giant cable connecting twitter to the EU is cut, Europe can not access twitter.
So yeah, EU law is absolutely irrelevant. This just goes to show how big the European ego has gotten.
You may not have liked VC-1, but many people did. Now that both h.264 and VC-1 are in even footing when producing bluray content, MANY blurays are encoded using VC-1 because they CHOOSE to use that codec because it fills their need better. That is a far cry from what you are claiming, but this is slashdot, and Microsoft bashing is the "in" thing to do here.
Google is currenlty capped at $6 million for license fees. If chrome takes off, and everyone man, woman, child, and device on the planet is using Chrome, Google will still pay $6 million. I sincerely doubt it's a negotiation tactic, but you never know with greedy businessmen. I wouldn't put it past google to totally screw the consumers, and the web to get themselves an extra 0.1% extra profit as seems the case.
Because if you download the video, and put it on your iPod/cell phone, if it was h.264 it would just play, and play by being decoded in hardware which uses very little power. On the other hand, if it was WebM, currently it would not play AT ALL. Apple (or your cell phone provider) COULD make a WebM codec for the device, but then it would not be decoded in hardware, but using software instead. *IF* the devices CPU was fast enough (and I'm not saying it is, and in many cases it likely is not), then it would take an enormous amount of power in comparision, and drain the devices battery in a matter of an hour or two.
Therefore, H.264 = green. Google supporting WebM will likely cost you more in your electricity bill in a few days than the added $.10 they would require to put it in Chrome (*IF* they weren't already capped by the license, essentially making it FREE for them to put into their browser).
1. Fail. There is a maximum license cap, and google has already exceeded that cap with youtube alone. The additional cost for Chrome is $0.00. 2. Fail. H.264 has open source codecs as well. See: x264. 3. Fail. I will not be replacing my video cards, my bluray player, my cell phone, and my entire bluray library in the next 12 months, so the codec will not "be gone" in the next year. Perhaps in 7 years, but definately not before then.
WebM is based on technology that predates H.264 by years (VP3.2 was the first open version, on which VP8/WebM are based, from 2001, versus 2003 for H.264). This is not "new" in any sense of the word I am familiar with.
Except you SHOULD know that h.264 decoding is done in hardware, while there currently isn't any cell phone able to decode WebM in hardware that I am aware of (I'm sure someone will point out one somewhere that noone has ever heard of) and that includes Google's own Nexus phone that WAS JUST RELEASED THIS MONTH. Decoding video in software (vs using the dedicated hardware to do it) will cause your portable device to eat through it's battery in a matter of a few hours if that. Sorry, but I like my cell phone/tablet/music device to sort of last me 10-12 hours on a single charge.
Google has already paid for their license, so every additional program (Chrome) for them is free. (Free) * (all 1,000 users of chrome) = (Still Free).
Google is essentially saying so that they can save themselves the $.10 license fee, that I should have to replace my video cards ($550 + $220), my bluray player ($200), and my cellphone ($500 - including early termination fee). Sorry, but I think I know what side of the fence I'm sitting on. Greedy bastards.
Ok, yes it did contain a gag order until the names were released, but that is routine. I was referring to the more restrictive gags that don't allow them to talk about it at all for 7 years or until the case is settled.
As for guatanamo bay, is that the new excuse? When, if ever in your mind NOT be an excuse for denying extradition, or are you saying noone, ever should be extradited to the US, so it is ok to break international law, and attack the US and the rest of the world should protect you? I find it silly that is even getting mentioned. There was a very small problem there that affected a smalk handful of prisioners and it has been fixed. No, the US isn't perfect, but when a problem is found there are measures in place to fix them, and that is exactly what happened. To try and turn it around as an excuse to break laws and prevent the legal course of justice is perverse.
You do realize that is normal for building a case, is requesting information right? They are building a case against Manning, for leaking classified documents which is very likely a treasonable offense.
There is nothing covert about it. The requests to companies (like Twitter) did not include any kind of gag order. You act as if there is some evil doing going on in the background that's all hush hush. How would YOU, if you were a lawyer ago about trying to build a case against Manning, and doing a thorough investigation to prove your case? Based on your comment, I expect you'd walk up to the judge and say "he did it", and follow up with "because I said so", and rest your case. PLEASE, save your fear mongering for the tabloids where the IQ is lower.
Let me guess? OCZ SSD? Sorry, but OCZ SSD's have a bug that causes problems with AHCI. Faulty hardware, please contact OCZ for possible remedies.
If all Win7 is steam for you, then you don't need to do folder searching. If you want searching turn on the indexer, or don't. Or drop to the command line like in linux
It will DEFINATELY become abused because then either everyone needs to start paying, or the service will get so bad that it will become unusable. For example netflix which has PLENTY of outgoing bandwidth, and I which have nearly 10 times the bandwidth to receive a movie can't watch it because it gets bottlenecked by the connection between my ISP and netflix. My ISP won't upgrade their connection, and instead starts to suggest that netflix buy a caching server on their network to fix it for a (small?) fee. Netflix then either needs to raise their prices to everyone to pass on the additional cost, or directly charge those on my ISP the additional cost. Rinse repeat for every semi-bandwidth hungry website on the planet, and now the ISP is getting paid by everyone AND me. Try starting up a website then, when in order for your "customers" to actually get to your website and have a decent experience you now need to negotiate with every ISP on the planet to pay them an added "speed" fee, or have them host a caching server on their network.
Nice trolling. Most people don't try and download all of sourceforge and install all of it it.
The audio API isn't crippled. In fact most people I know of that run Windows 7 love the new audio features of it. Having an individual volume for each application is really nice. Not having to rely on terrible sound drivers written by some kid straight out of college and having it bluescreen your entire machine is really nice as well.
As for what else, have you even looked at the task manger? How about the resource monitor? It's nice being able to see quickly which application is hitting the hard disk, or which app just flooded my router with 200 connection attempts overloading it's routing tables and forcing me to reboot it. Or skype starts to break up and your lagging in your online game, a quick check in resource monitor will tell you if your ISP is dropping TCP packets. Let's add in I/O with priority that lets the application I'm working in responding well even though indexing, defragging, and virus checking may be running at the same time.
How about faster boot times? My own personal boot time went from 5 minutes 40 seconds to under 20 seconds. Shutdown is yet even faster.
And yes, let's talk about VS2010. Now install tortoiseSVN. Go ahead, checkout a large project from SVN, and then launch VS2010 to start working in it. Oh, you have to wait 5 minutes because SVN is updating the cache in the background, now only if you had priority on your I/O like Windows 7, you'd be coding already.
Let's add in support for TRIM for real laptops and performance desktops with SSDs, or add support for 2TB+ drives with a single partition. Can't boot your UEFI machine with XP? Tsk, tsk.
Seriously, I don't know what you are drinking, but you are the first person that I've heard that didn't like Win7 a *LOT* more than XP once they used it. I'm seriously doubting that you actually have used it.
Well, those numbers show at least 73% of all US homes are covered by at least 2 broadband options, not including cellular, broadband over power lines, and/or broadband from satellites.
"most of us do not have multiple options" is thoroughly debunked. Sorry you live in a shit hole, and you didn't check your internet connectivity options before you moved there. Sucks to be you. Move somewhere else.
You obviously aren't a developer or you'd know better. The difference between an onscreen keyboard, and a dedicated keyboard changes the amount of screen space you have to work with.
Of course, you can (always?) force the onscreen keyboard on the screen even for those devices that have a dedicated keyboard, which will likely annoy those who have that. Or you can code for the possibility that the keyboard overlay on screen may or may not be present, which depletes the amount of screen space you can count on significantly. Now instead of just having to deal with two different resolutions with two different aspect ratios (portrait/landscape), now you've got to code for a varying number of screen resolutions doubled (because the keyboard overlay may or may not be on screen), with a varying number of aspect ratios.
How you feel this is the same between a mouse and a trackpad is beyond ridiculous. Neither affect the screen, and typically trackpads can be forced into a mode that emulates a mouse so the software isn't even aware that it is a trackpad at all (or the OS abstracts it away).
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this transaction happened in the EU
No, it didn't. It happened in the US. That is where the webserver is, that is where the data is stored.
Twitter does not have a EU subsidiary. Twitter does not have offices in the EU. Twitter is not a registered company in the EU. How is twitter supposed to be bound by EU law again? Sorry, but the EU can go cry themselves to sleep, or build a big internet wall of EU like China if they don't like it.
One flaw in your argument. They do not operate world wide. They have no subsidiaries in any country other than the US. They do not have any offices in any country other than the US. They do not have any employees in any other country than the US.
The EU can go put their head in the sand.
You are wrong. Twitter did not come to the EU. A EU citizen willingly and knowingly accessed a US server.
A US company that is online has no legal obligation to insure that EU citizens comply with EU law, nor is the company governed by EU law. If you do not want your citizens accessing servers in the US for fear that a US court may, at it's discretion, legally request a US company comply with US laws then feel free to censor your own citizens by turning off your internet, create your own EU-safe internet, or just deal with it.
Well except that twitter does not have any offices in the EU at all, nor do they have any place of business in the EU. They do not have any subsidiaries in the EU. Twitter is not a multinational company. They are a US company with all offices in the US. If the giant cable connecting twitter to the EU is cut, Europe can not access twitter.
So yeah, EU law is absolutely irrelevant. This just goes to show how big the European ego has gotten.
You may not have liked VC-1, but many people did. Now that both h.264 and VC-1 are in even footing when producing bluray content, MANY blurays are encoded using VC-1 because they CHOOSE to use that codec because it fills their need better. That is a far cry from what you are claiming, but this is slashdot, and Microsoft bashing is the "in" thing to do here.
Google is currenlty capped at $6 million for license fees. If chrome takes off, and everyone man, woman, child, and device on the planet is using Chrome, Google will still pay $6 million. I sincerely doubt it's a negotiation tactic, but you never know with greedy businessmen. I wouldn't put it past google to totally screw the consumers, and the web to get themselves an extra 0.1% extra profit as seems the case.
Because if you download the video, and put it on your iPod/cell phone, if it was h.264 it would just play, and play by being decoded in hardware which uses very little power. On the other hand, if it was WebM, currently it would not play AT ALL. Apple (or your cell phone provider) COULD make a WebM codec for the device, but then it would not be decoded in hardware, but using software instead. *IF* the devices CPU was fast enough (and I'm not saying it is, and in many cases it likely is not), then it would take an enormous amount of power in comparision, and drain the devices battery in a matter of an hour or two.
Therefore, H.264 = green. Google supporting WebM will likely cost you more in your electricity bill in a few days than the added $.10 they would require to put it in Chrome (*IF* they weren't already capped by the license, essentially making it FREE for them to put into their browser).
Yes, Microsoft is providing a plug-in for firefox so firefox can watch H.264 videos as well.
1. Fail. There is a maximum license cap, and google has already exceeded that cap with youtube alone. The additional cost for Chrome is $0.00.
2. Fail. H.264 has open source codecs as well. See: x264.
3. Fail. I will not be replacing my video cards, my bluray player, my cell phone, and my entire bluray library in the next 12 months, so the codec will not "be gone" in the next year. Perhaps in 7 years, but definately not before then.
WebM is based on technology that predates H.264 by years (VP3.2 was the first open version, on which VP8/WebM are based, from 2001, versus 2003 for H.264). This is not "new" in any sense of the word I am familiar with.
And it sucked even worse back then.
Except you SHOULD know that h.264 decoding is done in hardware, while there currently isn't any cell phone able to decode WebM in hardware that I am aware of (I'm sure someone will point out one somewhere that noone has ever heard of) and that includes Google's own Nexus phone that WAS JUST RELEASED THIS MONTH. Decoding video in software (vs using the dedicated hardware to do it) will cause your portable device to eat through it's battery in a matter of a few hours if that. Sorry, but I like my cell phone/tablet/music device to sort of last me 10-12 hours on a single charge.
Google has already paid for their license, so every additional program (Chrome) for them is free. (Free) * (all 1,000 users of chrome) = (Still Free).
Google is essentially saying so that they can save themselves the $.10 license fee, that I should have to replace my video cards ($550 + $220), my bluray player ($200), and my cellphone ($500 - including early termination fee). Sorry, but I think I know what side of the fence I'm sitting on. Greedy bastards.
Ok, yes it did contain a gag order until the names were released, but that is routine. I was referring to the more restrictive gags that don't allow them to talk about it at all for 7 years or until the case is settled.
As for guatanamo bay, is that the new excuse? When, if ever in your mind NOT be an excuse for denying extradition, or are you saying noone, ever should be extradited to the US, so it is ok to break international law, and attack the US and the rest of the world should protect you? I find it silly that is even getting mentioned. There was a very small problem there that affected a smalk handful of prisioners and it has been fixed. No, the US isn't perfect, but when a problem is found there are measures in place to fix them, and that is exactly what happened. To try and turn it around as an excuse to break laws and prevent the legal course of justice is perverse.
You do realize that is normal for building a case, is requesting information right? They are building a case against Manning, for leaking classified documents which is very likely a treasonable offense.
There is nothing covert about it. The requests to companies (like Twitter) did not include any kind of gag order. You act as if there is some evil doing going on in the background that's all hush hush. How would YOU, if you were a lawyer ago about trying to build a case against Manning, and doing a thorough investigation to prove your case? Based on your comment, I expect you'd walk up to the judge and say "he did it", and follow up with "because I said so", and rest your case. PLEASE, save your fear mongering for the tabloids where the IQ is lower.
You forgot option #4, which is what we currently have.
Caching for it is allowed, and the ISP is responsible for the implementation, and is free of charge as an added benefit they can market.
I believe the key word there is "you". You don't need to search, the computer does need to search however.
Let me guess? OCZ SSD? Sorry, but OCZ SSD's have a bug that causes problems with AHCI. Faulty hardware, please contact OCZ for possible remedies.
If all Win7 is steam for you, then you don't need to do folder searching. If you want searching turn on the indexer, or don't. Or drop to the command line like in linux
That is very short sighted.
It will DEFINATELY become abused because then either everyone needs to start paying, or the service will get so bad that it will become unusable. For example netflix which has PLENTY of outgoing bandwidth, and I which have nearly 10 times the bandwidth to receive a movie can't watch it because it gets bottlenecked by the connection between my ISP and netflix. My ISP won't upgrade their connection, and instead starts to suggest that netflix buy a caching server on their network to fix it for a (small?) fee. Netflix then either needs to raise their prices to everyone to pass on the additional cost, or directly charge those on my ISP the additional cost. Rinse repeat for every semi-bandwidth hungry website on the planet, and now the ISP is getting paid by everyone AND me. Try starting up a website then, when in order for your "customers" to actually get to your website and have a decent experience you now need to negotiate with every ISP on the planet to pay them an added "speed" fee, or have them host a caching server on their network.
No, having non paying client become less neutral is what we are all fighting about.
*THIS* allows paying clients/customers to become even MORE neutral, while leaving the unpaying client(s) completely the same neutral.
Nice trolling. Most people don't try and download all of sourceforge and install all of it it.
The audio API isn't crippled. In fact most people I know of that run Windows 7 love the new audio features of it. Having an individual volume for each application is really nice. Not having to rely on terrible sound drivers written by some kid straight out of college and having it bluescreen your entire machine is really nice as well.
As for what else, have you even looked at the task manger? How about the resource monitor? It's nice being able to see quickly which application is hitting the hard disk, or which app just flooded my router with 200 connection attempts overloading it's routing tables and forcing me to reboot it. Or skype starts to break up and your lagging in your online game, a quick check in resource monitor will tell you if your ISP is dropping TCP packets. Let's add in I/O with priority that lets the application I'm working in responding well even though indexing, defragging, and virus checking may be running at the same time.
How about faster boot times? My own personal boot time went from 5 minutes 40 seconds to under 20 seconds. Shutdown is yet even faster.
And yes, let's talk about VS2010. Now install tortoiseSVN. Go ahead, checkout a large project from SVN, and then launch VS2010 to start working in it. Oh, you have to wait 5 minutes because SVN is updating the cache in the background, now only if you had priority on your I/O like Windows 7, you'd be coding already.
Let's add in support for TRIM for real laptops and performance desktops with SSDs, or add support for 2TB+ drives with a single partition. Can't boot your UEFI machine with XP? Tsk, tsk.
Seriously, I don't know what you are drinking, but you are the first person that I've heard that didn't like Win7 a *LOT* more than XP once they used it. I'm seriously doubting that you actually have used it.
You were clear. Perhaps you didn't understand that I don't give a crap about YOU.
Well, those numbers show at least 73% of all US homes are covered by at least 2 broadband options, not including cellular, broadband over power lines, and/or broadband from satellites.
"most of us do not have multiple options" is thoroughly debunked. Sorry you live in a shit hole, and you didn't check your internet connectivity options before you moved there. Sucks to be you. Move somewhere else.
I see you could not find one either. Considerung that currently I have at least 4 broadband choices, I find it hard to believe most don't have two.
since most of us do not have multiple options for broadband
Citation needed.
You obviously aren't a developer or you'd know better. The difference between an onscreen keyboard, and a dedicated keyboard changes the amount of screen space you have to work with.
Of course, you can (always?) force the onscreen keyboard on the screen even for those devices that have a dedicated keyboard, which will likely annoy those who have that. Or you can code for the possibility that the keyboard overlay on screen may or may not be present, which depletes the amount of screen space you can count on significantly. Now instead of just having to deal with two different resolutions with two different aspect ratios (portrait/landscape), now you've got to code for a varying number of screen resolutions doubled (because the keyboard overlay may or may not be on screen), with a varying number of aspect ratios.
How you feel this is the same between a mouse and a trackpad is beyond ridiculous. Neither affect the screen, and typically trackpads can be forced into a mode that emulates a mouse so the software isn't even aware that it is a trackpad at all (or the OS abstracts it away).
Cool. Sell the 256MB of expensive DDR1 ram you have, and use it to buy a new netbook.