Politicians have no such delusions. They just want to look like they're doing something. The extra noise also provides a sort of camoflage for the rest of the crappy laws they sponsor or support on behalf of their financial supporters (special interests, corporate america).
Native Americans (so many times it's too hard to itemize)
These all were commercial motivated to some degree or another.
Russia is way too big and has too many things that go boom to risk a war with and the copyright thing is probably too minor, but if this were a smaller nation with few friends who knows. Of course it would be over terrorism or for "liberation".
The major record labels are representations of capitalism at it's worse. Their demise might actually bring about a more efficient industry that meets the needs of consumers and artists better.
AllOfMP3 is what these companies deserve after their manipulation of copyright laws and buying congress for the DMCA.
They never gave a damn about it in the first place. Everyone hates these companies because of their consistant screw the consumer attitude. They have no effective competition so they do not need to please consumers (except really large ones who do have the capability to go elsewhere).
Unfortunatley, this market is really not one that works well without regulation. In the current environment, they are practically allowed to do whatever they want.
Not true, if you flip a coin 3 times are you 3 times as likely to get a tail. i.e. do you have a 150% chance of getting at least one tail? no you have 1 - 0.5^3 = 1 - 0.125 = 87.5% chance. There is 12.5% chance that you would get no tails. With drive failure it works the same way, you have a chance at no failures and also a chance of multiple failures.
7 times as many failures (over a large number of samples) is not the same as 7 times the chance to have a failure.
You didn't neccessarily break in. You could have been in the location for a legitimate reason and happen to come by the document by accident, say in the garbage. Perhaps you were a contract janitor.
Furthermore, you would know if you had signed a non-disclosure agreement and so would they. You'd be nuts to published information in such a circumstance.
indeed, i bought a laptop which came with another card which i never could get to work. i ordered an intel mini pc (2915?? i think) and it worked out of the box with SUSE 10.1 (rc123 - haven't tried the release yet). This is with an amd 64 bit laptop with which i could get nothing else to work.
the time i've spent screwing around with other wireless hardware makes the $30 (including shipping) a bargain
this works on firefox in windows, don't know about linux.
dumping everything on the bloody desktop is totally annoying. you can drag to a directory but this assumes that it is visible on the desktop which is rare since browsers etc. are usually maximized or nearly so. right-click, save (image) as is by far the fastest way to get the thing where you want it.
After WW II Japan's government was for a long time controlled by the US. They were not allowed to build a large military or develop nuclear weapons. The Japanese did not really have much say in this. Even today, the US has substantial influence and the current governmental structures would take a monumental effort to change. It had nothing to do with the "nuclear umbrella". To some degree it was the same for West Germany. Neither the British nor French felt safe under the American Umbrella and so developed their own nuclear weapons.
Dammit!, you're absolutley right. These commie weasels should stop their whimpering. As any red-blooded American knows, corporations know what's best and if left too much free time these marxist programmers might try writing some of that damned open source software which is a plot to undermine the stability of Corporate America and western democracy.
And unions! Just think how much stronger and more free America and the world would be if those good for nothing unions stayed out the good old U.S. of A! So many trillions down the toilet. Without their interference, the average american family would have at least four cars and a tv in every room.
If these tofu eaters think they can get away with that in my country, they're going to get a real rude awakening.
unless it is doubled as a tv, I don't see any advantage for 16:9.In fact, most of the time I need more vertcal space than horizontal. I think that in order to provide this, you would just be giving up vertical pixels, not gaining horizontal. Space on the (real) desktop is usually a horizontal issue.
The problem here is not google but the US government for giving patents on things that should be considered as public domain. This is especially poignant when the research for some new drug used native knowledge in its discovery in the first place. THIS IS PRIOR ART!
This is all part of modern day imperialism. Google may actually help in countering this as the information may be considered as prior art (although i wouldn't get your hopes up), especially if (non-interested) researchers document the possible application of something prior to the patent application. Especially if the native knowledge is also disclosed.
The other problem here is that the US gets involved in the IP issues against third world countries and often forces them to accept the patents as valid. The US government should allow other nations decide what their local view of these things are and whether these patents are valid. (Actually the US government has no business putting its nose in their business anyway.) The US pay for verdict court system should not be enforcable worldwide.
Certainly you should weigh the risks with any patch but since an "official" patch would come from the originators of the flaw (and numerous others) why should it be considered any better than an "unofficial" patch? At least these patches can be scrutinized by the outside world for problems. A MS patch will be forever hidden.
The perils of closed source!
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what bit rates are offered in ogg format?
can you download it in two different formats?
Politicians have no such delusions. They just want to look like they're doing something. The extra noise also provides a sort of camoflage for the rest of the crappy laws they sponsor or support on behalf of their financial supporters (special interests, corporate america).
- Hawaii
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Dominican Republic
- Iraq
- Spain for Cuba, Puerto Rico, Phillipines
- Cuba
- Native Americans (so many times it's too hard to itemize)
These all were commercial motivated to some degree or another.Russia is way too big and has too many things that go boom to risk a war with and the copyright thing is probably too minor, but if this were a smaller nation with few friends who knows. Of course it would be over terrorism or for "liberation".
The major record labels are representations of capitalism at it's worse. Their demise might actually bring about a more efficient industry that meets the needs of consumers and artists better.
AllOfMP3 is what these companies deserve after their manipulation of copyright laws and buying congress for the DMCA.
It's worse than you think, the comments refer back to Slashdot!
If not what's the difference than outright pirating it?
Unfortunatley, this market is really not one that works well without regulation. In the current environment, they are practically allowed to do whatever they want.
is that compounded daily?
7 times as many failures (over a large number of samples) is not the same as 7 times the chance to have a failure.
Maybe you should consider correcting the errors instead being smug.
Furthermore, you would know if you had signed a non-disclosure agreement and so would they. You'd be nuts to published information in such a circumstance.
a beowulf cluster of these
indeed, i bought a laptop which came with another card which i never could get to work. i ordered an intel mini pc (2915?? i think) and it worked out of the box with SUSE 10.1 (rc123 - haven't tried the release yet). This is with an amd 64 bit laptop with which i could get nothing else to work. the time i've spent screwing around with other wireless hardware makes the $30 (including shipping) a bargain
Unless your spoon is a spork!
this works on firefox in windows, don't know about linux. dumping everything on the bloody desktop is totally annoying. you can drag to a directory but this assumes that it is visible on the desktop which is rare since browsers etc. are usually maximized or nearly so. right-click, save (image) as is by far the fastest way to get the thing where you want it.
After WW II Japan's government was for a long time controlled by the US. They were not allowed to build a large military or develop nuclear weapons. The Japanese did not really have much say in this. Even today, the US has substantial influence and the current governmental structures would take a monumental effort to change. It had nothing to do with the "nuclear umbrella". To some degree it was the same for West Germany. Neither the British nor French felt safe under the American Umbrella and so developed their own nuclear weapons.
Dammit!, you're absolutley right. These commie weasels should stop their whimpering. As any red-blooded American knows, corporations know what's best and if left too much free time these marxist programmers might try writing some of that damned open source software which is a plot to undermine the stability of Corporate America and western democracy. And unions! Just think how much stronger and more free America and the world would be if those good for nothing unions stayed out the good old U.S. of A! So many trillions down the toilet. Without their interference, the average american family would have at least four cars and a tv in every room. If these tofu eaters think they can get away with that in my country, they're going to get a real rude awakening.
unless it is doubled as a tv, I don't see any advantage for 16:9.In fact, most of the time I need more vertcal space than horizontal. I think that in order to provide this, you would just be giving up vertical pixels, not gaining horizontal. Space on the (real) desktop is usually a horizontal issue.
lawyers always round up to the nearest 100
except for the fact that the bloody pubs are already closed
The problem here is not google but the US government for giving patents on things that should be considered as public domain. This is especially poignant when the research for some new drug used native knowledge in its discovery in the first place. THIS IS PRIOR ART!
This is all part of modern day imperialism. Google may actually help in countering this as the information may be considered as prior art (although i wouldn't get your hopes up), especially if (non-interested) researchers document the possible application of something prior to the patent application. Especially if the native knowledge is also disclosed.
The other problem here is that the US gets involved in the IP issues against third world countries and often forces them to accept the patents as valid. The US government should allow other nations decide what their local view of these things are and whether these patents are valid. (Actually the US government has no business putting its nose in their business anyway.) The US pay for verdict court system should not be enforcable worldwide.
Certainly you should weigh the risks with any patch but since an "official" patch would come from the originators of the flaw (and numerous others) why should it be considered any better than an "unofficial" patch? At least these patches can be scrutinized by the outside world for problems. A MS patch will be forever hidden. The perils of closed source!