They can make an adapter cartridge that you put the DVD into before placing it in the player. Remember the CD recorder drives that had these cartridges once?
3. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the levy shall be (a) 60c for each audio cassette of 40 minutes or more in length; (b) 59c for each CD-R, CD-RW or each unit of any other type of recordable or rewritable compact disc of 100 megabytes or more of storage capacity; (c) $1.23 for each CD-R Audio, CD-RW Audio or MiniDisc; (d) 0.8c for each megabyte of memory in each removable electronic memory card, each removable flash memory storage medium of any type, or each removable micro-hard drive; (e) $2.27 for each DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM or each unit of any other type of recordable or rewritable DVD; (f) 2.1c for each megabyte of memory in each non-removable electronic memory card or each non-removable flash memory storage medium of any type incorporated into each MP3 player or into each similar device with internal electronic or flash memory that is intended for use primarily to record and play music; (g) $21 for each gigabyte of memory in each non-removable hard drive incorporated into each MP3 player or into each similar device with an internal hard drive that is intended for use primarily to record and play music.
3. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the levy shall be (a) 29 for each audio cassette of 40 minutes or more in length; (b) 21 for each CD-R or CD-RW; (c) 77 for each CD-R Audio, CD-RW Audio or MiniDisc.
The Canada Copyright board has held back for quite a while on releasing a decision. Presently we are still being charged the 2002 level levies, which are only on CD-R's and cassettes. The proposed 2003-2004 levies, which have been held up thanks to legal wrangling from retailers, are as follows:
3. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the levy shall be (a) 60 for each audio cassette of 40 minutes or more in length; (b) 59 for each CD-R, CD-RW or each unit of any other type of recordable or rewritable compact disc of 100 megabytes or more of storage capacity; (c) $1.23 for each CD-R Audio, CD-RW Audio or MiniDisc; (d) 0.8 for each megabyte of memory in each removable electronic memory card, each removable flash memory storage medium of any type, or each removable micro-hard drive; (e) $2.27 for each DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM or each unit of any other type of recordable or rewritable DVD; (f) 2.1 for each megabyte of memory in each non-removable electronic memory card or each non-removable flash memory storage medium of any type incorporated into each MP3 player or into each similar device with internal electronic or flash memory that is intended for use primarily to record and play music; (g) $21 for each gigabyte of memory in each non-removable hard drive incorporated into each MP3 player or into each similar device with an internal hard drive that is intended for use primarily to record and play music.
We already pay $0.25 per cd-r, "they" want to increase it to around $0.59. As an example, that would increase the take by the music industry of a 30 pack of cd-r's to $17.70, from $7.50, an increase of $10.20. I for one find it offensive that the recording industry is charging me for the right to back up my own, non-musical data, and I doubt that any of the levies collected are rightfully distributed to pornstars that most/. readers have stored in the way of movies on cd-r's. Large per GB levies have also been proposed for portable players, and if I recall correctly, if implemented, the levy on an iPod would be around $200.
There has been a lot of opposition to the proposed $0.59 levy lately, spearheaded by large retailers, so the music industry has turned elsewhere, and that is to ISP's.
He's getting numerous counts of kiddie porn charges. They seized 10 computers of his, and they say there are thousands of images and movies of kids, down to babies, so you bet they're going to throw the book at him as soon as they have analyzed the stuff. They already have one posession of kiddie porn charge, and with the theft of communications I assume they are using it to hold him without bail until they can add more on.
Who said anything about race? I'd just like to see companies keeping jobs in the Western hemisphere, as opposed to the recent trends we've seen lately.
I for one am happy to see AMD expanding in a first world country, and employing first world workers, against the trend of sending everything overseas, or of shipping in cut-rate employees from the third world.
This could be automated with a system similar to the Google toolbar's autofill -- automatically fill in bogus info on the spammer's webpage (with a verified non-valid credit card even) and send it to them.
The Half-Life master support wasn't using the latest protocol, so needed an upgrade. Now you can get the full 2100+ server list from the master. BTW, there are more HL servers than Q3A servers.
Back then, the guy who writes qstat (a command-line server query program) posted on his site about this issue, and how it was fixed. I sent it to Gamespy, and they never got around to fixing it. I was one of the suckers who paid for Gamespy 3D back when it was new.
They snake their way into many games, example, Battlefield 1942, which has the slowest in-game server browser possible, no doubt because it's "based on Gamespy technology".
"Gamespy technology" is just basically the original Quakeworld master server/client browser software, extrapolated to many games. It's been a long time, I don't recall if id came up with it or if Critical Mass did, but there was a program called Quakespy that people used to find quakeworld servers.
One thing amusing about their "technology" is the inability to adapt--for example, with the Gamespy browser, you can't get a full server list from Valve's Half-life 2 master servers--instead, you must use the "gamespy half-life 2 master" which has obtained the server list itself. Several years back, someone figured out that this was because the Valve server was sending back more UDP packets in response than you would expect to a server list query, and gamespy's stuff was just using the same number as was used in quakeworld, which was hard-coded. However, due to the occasional dropped packet, the "gamespy master" server would get the full list eventually. Never fixed, probably because the original people who wrote the code are long fired.
"blacklisting" in this article refers to completely block an ip address. This is not a "bad idea", but complete nonsense. First time I've heard of something like that. This is not to be mistaken for using an open relay blacklist or similar, which only blocks mail from a certain address. I bet those "network administrators" clicked on some fancy "block site" button, not knowing what they were doing...
There was a hubabaloo on slashdot a couple years back when Paul Vixie's company, Abovenet, blocked all traffic (not just smtp) to peacefire.org.
The POS systems used by McDonald's (PAR II/III and Panasonic Compris) are incapable of doing what you describe unless you print the same code on every receipt, without some major reprogramming. I would suspect they'd more likely have a card they'd give you with your order, or it would be printed on a cup or on a french fry box.
I wonder how many McDonald's employees are going to steal a bunch of these to build up their collection.
Despite IE being the default browser, you can still launch Mozilla or Netscape to access the www and they STILL WORK. Now if Microsoft had decided instead to not only make IE the default, but had changed the network settings in Netscape/Mozilla to go through "proxy at 0.0.0.0", would that be right? That is what apple has done with iTunes. I have no problem with iTunes automatically launching, but you ought to be able to launch MusicMatch manually and access the iPod if you want. Is there not some way to "lock" the device so they don't both access it at once?
"Why would you want to use Musicmatch when you have iTunes" "Musicmatch is a piece of crap, iTunes is much better" "There's nothing wrong with this, Musicmatch was a temporary solution until iTunes came out"
The thing is, you ought to have the choice of using whatever program you want. Internet Explorer doesn't diddle the network settings of Mozilla or Netscape when it installs so that they will no longer be able to communicate with the www.
Haven't you ever read the "About Internet Explorer" box?
Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic(TM); was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
There could be 10 lines in that whole file designed to prevent pages being archived, and the rest are garbage thrown in for confusion/as bad-robot honeypots.
There hasn't been a real declared war since WWII. You can't "declare war on terrorists" and be done with it either, wars are supposed to be declared on countries when you go to fight them. It was what an honorable nation would do before hostilities.
In my city, Calgary, AB, the local fire department and paramedics have these, and some police cars as well. It might be mostly infared, but at night and on cloudy days you can see the strobe flashing (dimly).
So, in all these "maximum speed tests", what is being used, 32 bit reals or 64 bit reals? The difference is that in solving large non-linear systems, the higher precision numbers result in a faster solution, but operations involving doubles will resulting a lower gflops measurement with benchmarks (although a solution may in fact take 10x less iterations).
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That's why it has a small front wheel that touchs down at low speed.
They can make an adapter cartridge that you put the DVD into before placing it in the player. Remember the CD recorder drives that had these cartridges once?
Proposed tariffs (currently held up):
Present tarrifs (held over from 2001):
1 canadian dollar = 0.76 US dollars, so no smart comments on how were are only paying pennies in US dollars, please.
We already pay $0.25 per cd-r, "they" want to increase it to around $0.59. As an example, that would increase the take by the music industry of a 30 pack of cd-r's to $17.70, from $7.50, an increase of $10.20. I for one find it offensive that the recording industry is charging me for the right to back up my own, non-musical data, and I doubt that any of the levies collected are rightfully distributed to pornstars that most /. readers have stored in the way of movies on cd-r's. Large per GB levies have also been proposed for portable players, and if I recall correctly, if implemented, the levy on an iPod would be around $200.
There has been a lot of opposition to the proposed $0.59 levy lately, spearheaded by large retailers, so the music industry has turned elsewhere, and that is to ISP's.
He's getting numerous counts of kiddie porn charges. They seized 10 computers of his, and they say there are thousands of images and movies of kids, down to babies, so you bet they're going to throw the book at him as soon as they have analyzed the stuff. They already have one posession of kiddie porn charge, and with the theft of communications I assume they are using it to hold him without bail until they can add more on.
Who said anything about race? I'd just like to see companies keeping jobs in the Western hemisphere, as opposed to the recent trends we've seen lately.
I for one am happy to see AMD expanding in a first world country, and employing first world workers, against the trend of sending everything overseas, or of shipping in cut-rate employees from the third world.
This could be automated with a system similar to the Google toolbar's autofill -- automatically fill in bogus info on the spammer's webpage (with a verified non-valid credit card even) and send it to them.
people can't just point at something, and say, "Mine! Want to buy?" It's like the people who have sold the brooklyn bridge to tourists.
The qstat program has, in it's changelog:
Back then, the guy who writes qstat (a command-line server query program) posted on his site about this issue, and how it was fixed. I sent it to Gamespy, and they never got around to fixing it. I was one of the suckers who paid for Gamespy 3D back when it was new.
They snake their way into many games, example, Battlefield 1942, which has the slowest in-game server browser possible, no doubt because it's "based on Gamespy technology".
"Gamespy technology" is just basically the original Quakeworld master server/client browser software, extrapolated to many games. It's been a long time, I don't recall if id came up with it or if Critical Mass did, but there was a program called Quakespy that people used to find quakeworld servers.
One thing amusing about their "technology" is the inability to adapt--for example, with the Gamespy browser, you can't get a full server list from Valve's Half-life 2 master servers--instead, you must use the "gamespy half-life 2 master" which has obtained the server list itself. Several years back, someone figured out that this was because the Valve server was sending back more UDP packets in response than you would expect to a server list query, and gamespy's stuff was just using the same number as was used in quakeworld, which was hard-coded. However, due to the occasional dropped packet, the "gamespy master" server would get the full list eventually. Never fixed, probably because the original people who wrote the code are long fired.
"blacklisting" in this article refers to completely block an ip address. This is not a "bad idea", but complete nonsense. First time I've heard of something like that. This is not to be mistaken for using an open relay blacklist or similar, which only blocks mail from a certain address. I bet those "network administrators" clicked on some fancy "block site" button, not knowing what they were doing...
There was a hubabaloo on slashdot a couple years back when Paul Vixie's company, Abovenet, blocked all traffic (not just smtp) to peacefire.org.
Even my ATI TV Wonder has a plug for cable TV on the back--the original poster is saying they want the same capabilities, for HDTV by cable.
The POS systems used by McDonald's (PAR II/III and Panasonic Compris) are incapable of doing what you describe unless you print the same code on every receipt, without some major reprogramming. I would suspect they'd more likely have a card they'd give you with your order, or it would be printed on a cup or on a french fry box.
I wonder how many McDonald's employees are going to steal a bunch of these to build up their collection.
Or, you could cut the cable...
Despite IE being the default browser, you can still launch Mozilla or Netscape to access the www and they STILL WORK. Now if Microsoft had decided instead to not only make IE the default, but had changed the network settings in Netscape/Mozilla to go through "proxy at 0.0.0.0", would that be right? That is what apple has done with iTunes. I have no problem with iTunes automatically launching, but you ought to be able to launch MusicMatch manually and access the iPod if you want. Is there not some way to "lock" the device so they don't both access it at once?
"Why would you want to use Musicmatch when you have iTunes"
"Musicmatch is a piece of crap, iTunes is much better"
"There's nothing wrong with this, Musicmatch was a temporary solution until iTunes came out"
The thing is, you ought to have the choice of using whatever program you want. Internet Explorer doesn't diddle the network settings of Mozilla or Netscape when it installs so that they will no longer be able to communicate with the www.
Haven't you ever read the "About Internet Explorer" box?
Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic(TM); was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
I believe it makes it an illegal war.
There could be 10 lines in that whole file designed to prevent pages being archived, and the rest are garbage thrown in for confusion/as bad-robot honeypots.
There hasn't been a real declared war since WWII. You can't "declare war on terrorists" and be done with it either, wars are supposed to be declared on countries when you go to fight them. It was what an honorable nation would do before hostilities.
In my city, Calgary, AB, the local fire department and paramedics have these, and some police cars as well. It might be mostly infared, but at night and on cloudy days you can see the strobe flashing (dimly).
So, in all these "maximum speed tests", what is being used, 32 bit reals or 64 bit reals? The difference is that in solving large non-linear systems, the higher precision numbers result in a faster solution, but operations involving doubles will resulting a lower gflops measurement with benchmarks (although a solution may in fact take 10x less iterations).