And if he had done so he would have found out that the code that the patent was based on was checked in to the Tandberg repository more than half a year before the code in x264 was checked in.
Quite interesting, and I assume you're from Tandberg to know this, but a couple of questions: Given that Tandberg can manipulate the repository in-house, how can you really prove the date? Second, since the patent was filed after the open source commit, isn't the patent busted?
You know that feeling you get when everybody is raving about something and you just don't get it? To each their own, but I just want to lend support to those that don't want to buy in to the hype. Yes, I've seen the YouTube videos, no I'm not going to play it. It looks totally boring, and I have no interest in playing with legos.
Too funny. You don't think government should be involved in things like health care or unemployment benefits, yet you think they should force companies to pay for broadband out in the boonies?
No, you didn't "take the hit" (post currently modded at +5). You're a mod whore making such statements and bashing Bill Gates. If you have something to say, just say it.
The biggest resistance to the "DRM free" approach comes from the fear of piracy. I don't think this is a particularly rational response to the problem on the part of the devs, as only a single game copy needs to be cracked and torrented to make the DRM irrelevant
The reason for DRM is to reduce "casual copying", the kind that occurs when one friend copies the game for another. If you have to circumvent the DRM and download from a torrent site it's clearer that your circumventing copyright. They're not trying to put up an impenetrable wall -- just a fence that you have to walk over.
But why the enforcement of staying with current contracts? It stinks of the lobbying parent describes.
Not only does it stink, it's a rotten fish in plain sight. Quoting directly from the statement released by Hatch:
"My purpose in calling this meeting was to explain in no uncertain terms the Utah congressional delegation's interest in ensuring that Utah's solid rocket motor industry is protected."
"I will continue with other delegation members to ensure the agency abides by the law and protects this industry that is so vitally important to our national security and northern Utah's economy."
"delegation members say the Utah experts they consulted say the legislation's requirements for the heavy-lift rocket can only be realistically met by using solid rocket motors"
As much ever, as it was overrated during the Great Depression, which did see the bank runs, but only 3% of deposits were actually GONE, the rest were eaten by the gov't inflation.
Use whatever stats you want, your statement "central planning is the reason that there are crashes" is ridiculous. Was the tulip crash because of central planning? Was the trigger for the Great Depression, the stock market crash, because of central planning? Was the most recent mortgage bubble caused by central planning?
It is the fiat that has no value at all, not even as toilet paper when there is no food.
What's the value of gold? It's shiny and used as jewelry, along with some minor industrial uses. The reason it has value is a shared delusion to place more value into it than the item actually has, usually in government coin form. True, you can't just print it up like fiat money, but gold is still mostly worthless for everyday practical use.
The bank notes that are backed by gold, are nothing more than that gold, just easier to carry.
This history of banks is to lend other people's gold by printing notes. Once the notes take over as a valid proxy for "gold", the notes themselves eventually replace money. It has happened again and again. I don't know why you moving back to gold would be any different this time.
People who do not want to consume, what are they, paintings?
They produce and consume based on future expectations -- if people are worried about the economy, the will save more and consume less. When people consume less, people produce less, which causes a further decline in the economy.
So what you basically want to say is that it is OK to break international law?
I'm not passing judgment. I'm describing the way the world works.
And this is not a "border change", this is making of a country that never existed in history.
That happens all the time too. That's the history of the world.
I really didn't expect from you guys to feed me some copypasta from Fox News.
What did I copy and paste from Fox News? The only thing I copied was a link to Wikipedia containing a factual list of countries that recognize Kosovo, including the United States and most of the European Union. Yes, plenty of countries don't recognize Kosovo. That's why it's a disputed territory, and certainly not the only one in the world.
"the declaration of independence of the 17th of February 2008 did not violate general international law because international law contains no 'prohibition on declarations of independence'."
forget about central planning - central planning is the reason that there are crashes
Yeah, because the madness of crowds or bank crashes in the past never occurred when there was no central banking. Oh wait, yes they did.
Real money exists today, just hold that. Real money - gold/silver/some other commodity.
There's nothing "real" about using those items as money. A piece of gold has little use when there's a shortage of food, for example. Furthermore, people will store their gold in the bank and get bank notes in return, which people will then use as money, and the cycle starts all over again.
Consuming is easy, it's trivial, it's a consequence of production, not the other way around.
And yet people might not produce because people don't want to consume, and people might not want to consume because people aren't producing, and... The economy is one giant feedback loop with many players.
Country borders change all the time. International law is routinely broken. Territories are often under dispute. For Kosovo, lots of countries recognize it as an independent country.
prepaid credit cards as they generally have no address or zipcode tied to them and will not pass card authorization methods. at least as far as I know.
However, the U.S. Constitution wouldn't exist if the Declaration of Independence hadn't been successful. That document does mention God, and even more frightening, it mentions a "Creator" quite explicitly.
And yet, when drafting the Constitution, they very intentionally left God out of it, and explicitly kept government out of religion. Ron Paul is full of shit when he says the Constitution is replete with references to God.
It optionally does. As it so happens, I use Slashdot without it and use the "classic" setting to keep it usable, as the redesign with JavaScript broke functionality.
Am I writing a comment to this post? Am I blind?
Could you tell me what screen reader you use? I'm curious how it handles dynamic information, or if it perhaps just ignores it. Anyways, Slashdot is just one site.
I'm not entirely sure where you're getting the information that states that you have to have the Blind and Sighted versions of a site.
At the very least then, you have to test with a screen reader, and make sure everything is accessible. It's not trivial.
It takes significantly longer to maintain two versions of a web site, one that has to work properly for blind people versus one that only has to work for sighted. If you use any JavaScript, for example, you have to make sure it works without it. You have to make sure a blind person can actually use every feature of your site. Just putting alt-tags everywhere doesn't cut it.
I'm... having a little trouble with your rather terse cost/benefit analysis, although I admit a certain bias here.
A little bias? You made up a best-case scenario where a business spent $6,000 and employed 10 people. In reality, the vast majority of businesses and the American people are going to lose money by requiring every business to cater to a very small portion of the population.
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And if he had done so he would have found out that the code that the patent was based on was checked in to the Tandberg repository more than half a year before the code in x264 was checked in.
Quite interesting, and I assume you're from Tandberg to know this, but a couple of questions: Given that Tandberg can manipulate the repository in-house, how can you really prove the date? Second, since the patent was filed after the open source commit, isn't the patent busted?
GTA had huge 3D levels back in 2003?
Actually, it was 2001.
The mind wanders..
I'll say.
Kind of virtual lego with some friends.
You know that feeling you get when everybody is raving about something and you just don't get it? To each their own, but I just want to lend support to those that don't want to buy in to the hype. Yes, I've seen the YouTube videos, no I'm not going to play it. It looks totally boring, and I have no interest in playing with legos.
Too funny. You don't think government should be involved in things like health care or unemployment benefits, yet you think they should force companies to pay for broadband out in the boonies?
What has destroyed his career is suing Seagate.
With $2 million or even $1 million after lawyer fees and whatever, he now has a new career in investing or doing his own startup.
OK. I'll speak the truth and take the hit.
No, you didn't "take the hit" (post currently modded at +5). You're a mod whore making such statements and bashing Bill Gates. If you have something to say, just say it.
Just a question? Is it not the responsibility of Congressmen to represent their constituents?
Within reason. They are also supposed to do what's right for the country. Pork that ends up harming the rest of the nation is unethical politics.
I've certainly seen single case examples (Cory Doctorow and his one book
Correction: All of Cory Doctorow's books are available free online. You can also buy them print.
The biggest resistance to the "DRM free" approach comes from the fear of piracy. I don't think this is a particularly rational response to the problem on the part of the devs, as only a single game copy needs to be cracked and torrented to make the DRM irrelevant
The reason for DRM is to reduce "casual copying", the kind that occurs when one friend copies the game for another. If you have to circumvent the DRM and download from a torrent site it's clearer that your circumventing copyright. They're not trying to put up an impenetrable wall -- just a fence that you have to walk over.
But why the enforcement of staying with current contracts? It stinks of the lobbying parent describes.
Not only does it stink, it's a rotten fish in plain sight. Quoting directly from the statement released by Hatch:
"My purpose in calling this meeting was to explain in no uncertain terms the Utah congressional delegation's interest in ensuring that Utah's solid rocket motor industry is protected."
"I will continue with other delegation members to ensure the agency abides by the law and protects this industry that is so vitally important to our national security and northern Utah's economy."
"delegation members say the Utah experts they consulted say the legislation's requirements for the heavy-lift rocket can only be realistically met by using solid rocket motors"
As much ever, as it was overrated during the Great Depression, which did see the bank runs, but only 3% of deposits were actually GONE, the rest were eaten by the gov't inflation.
Use whatever stats you want, your statement "central planning is the reason that there are crashes" is ridiculous. Was the tulip crash because of central planning? Was the trigger for the Great Depression, the stock market crash, because of central planning? Was the most recent mortgage bubble caused by central planning?
It is the fiat that has no value at all, not even as toilet paper when there is no food.
What's the value of gold? It's shiny and used as jewelry, along with some minor industrial uses. The reason it has value is a shared delusion to place more value into it than the item actually has, usually in government coin form. True, you can't just print it up like fiat money, but gold is still mostly worthless for everyday practical use.
The bank notes that are backed by gold, are nothing more than that gold, just easier to carry.
This history of banks is to lend other people's gold by printing notes. Once the notes take over as a valid proxy for "gold", the notes themselves eventually replace money. It has happened again and again. I don't know why you moving back to gold would be any different this time.
People who do not want to consume, what are they, paintings?
They produce and consume based on future expectations -- if people are worried about the economy, the will save more and consume less. When people consume less, people produce less, which causes a further decline in the economy.
So what you basically want to say is that it is OK to break international law?
I'm not passing judgment. I'm describing the way the world works.
And this is not a "border change", this is making of a country that never existed in history.
That happens all the time too. That's the history of the world.
I really didn't expect from you guys to feed me some copypasta from Fox News.
What did I copy and paste from Fox News? The only thing I copied was a link to Wikipedia containing a factual list of countries that recognize Kosovo, including the United States and most of the European Union. Yes, plenty of countries don't recognize Kosovo. That's why it's a disputed territory, and certainly not the only one in the world.
Here's another Wikipedia link: International Court of Justice advisory opinion on Kosovo's declaration of independence
"the declaration of independence of the 17th of February 2008 did not violate general international law because international law contains no 'prohibition on declarations of independence'."
forget about central planning - central planning is the reason that there are crashes
Yeah, because the madness of crowds or bank crashes in the past never occurred when there was no central banking. Oh wait, yes they did.
Real money exists today, just hold that. Real money - gold/silver/some other commodity.
There's nothing "real" about using those items as money. A piece of gold has little use when there's a shortage of food, for example. Furthermore, people will store their gold in the bank and get bank notes in return, which people will then use as money, and the cycle starts all over again.
Consuming is easy, it's trivial, it's a consequence of production, not the other way around.
And yet people might not produce because people don't want to consume, and people might not want to consume because people aren't producing, and... The economy is one giant feedback loop with many players.
Country borders change all the time. International law is routinely broken. Territories are often under dispute. For Kosovo, lots of countries recognize it as an independent country.
prepaid credit cards as they generally have no address or zipcode tied to them and will not pass card authorization methods. at least as far as I know.
You're wrong.
However, the U.S. Constitution wouldn't exist if the Declaration of Independence hadn't been successful. That document does mention God, and even more frightening, it mentions a "Creator" quite explicitly.
And yet, when drafting the Constitution, they very intentionally left God out of it, and explicitly kept government out of religion. Ron Paul is full of shit when he says the Constitution is replete with references to God.
Disclaimer: I am a physicist.
Your use of "disclaimer" here is incorrect. You are actually claiming authority in the matter.
You speak of Everquest in past tense. It's still ongoing, isn't it?
This isn't a timed test (unless we destroy our planet via wars, pollution, diseases, oppression or a combination thereof).
Don't forget alien invasion.
Sigh, even if I'm modded down to oblivion
Please stop with the mod-whoring.
Actually, that wasn't a made-up scenario.
Fair enough, but it's still a best-case scenario.
Does Slashdot use JavaScript?
It optionally does. As it so happens, I use Slashdot without it and use the "classic" setting to keep it usable, as the redesign with JavaScript broke functionality.
Am I writing a comment to this post? Am I blind?
Could you tell me what screen reader you use? I'm curious how it handles dynamic information, or if it perhaps just ignores it. Anyways, Slashdot is just one site.
I'm not entirely sure where you're getting the information that states that you have to have the Blind and Sighted versions of a site.
At the very least then, you have to test with a screen reader, and make sure everything is accessible. It's not trivial.
It takes three extra seconds at design time [..]
It takes significantly longer to maintain two versions of a web site, one that has to work properly for blind people versus one that only has to work for sighted. If you use any JavaScript, for example, you have to make sure it works without it. You have to make sure a blind person can actually use every feature of your site. Just putting alt-tags everywhere doesn't cut it.
I'm ... having a little trouble with your rather terse cost/benefit analysis, although I admit a certain bias here.
A little bias? You made up a best-case scenario where a business spent $6,000 and employed 10 people. In reality, the vast majority of businesses and the American people are going to lose money by requiring every business to cater to a very small portion of the population.
Can you think of another minority to which a broad array of what you'd call non-essential services are denied?
Can you think of another minority that forces every business in existence to go through extra expense to cater to them?
People want to get away from the petty bickering of multiple organisations that are willing to stall development to fulfill their own agendas.
No, people want to get away from Oracle because they're a bunch of greedy, corporate assholes. Just like Microsoft.