They would enforce it by requiring all playback software...
This only comes in to play for commercial products since the commerical products buy a license and then are held to the contract. I personally have never used a commercial playback app. I use VLC for most everything. VLC cannot be touched (currently) because they are not based in the U.S.A. wich allows crappy software patents.
The so-called "music blank CD's", which are the only sort your audio component CD recorder would ever accept
Again, I have never purchased a "music blank CD" here in the U.S.A. and I have never had one problem burning my own audio CD that plays just fine in all of my players. Future players may not want to play my personally burned audio CD. That is fine since most new and future players support MP3/AAC discs. I will just burn a CD-R with a bunch of MP3 files on it.
This whole silly thing is not about changing laws, it is about changing contracts that non-commercial companies/software/products will not have to comply with since they never signed a contract. So, there will always be millions of users that can bypass anything these contract changes are supposed to enforce at the contract level only.
Seriously? There will always be tools to rip a DVD, even if you just read the raw image from the disk with dd or something. As far as requiring the DVD in the drive, that is just silly. There are plenty of programs to mount an ISO image on Mac, Linux and Windows. On WinXP I use Daemon Tools, Mac and Linux have built-in support for mounting images.
This seems bound to fail to be enforced at all, so why go through the trouble?
I have always wondered what does having the brackets around something indicate? What does brackets around the W in "'[W]hen we do consider technology..." indicate?
Thank you my grammar Nazi friends!
Not special, but they do stand out. When Google started, they were "different". Young, full of ideas and most importantly, they attracted tech geeks because of their "do no evil" motto. A lot of people thought, hey a big company that won't just be another money grubbing corporation with no ethics!
Now, we see how Google has become what they appeared to be against, another big money grubby corp with no ethics. If Google really held to the motto of "do no evil", they wouldn't be censoring in China. If Google's founders held to the motto of "do no evil", the two founders wouldn't be flying around in a big multi-million dollar jet wasting tons of fuel (when they can fly on a commercial jet with more people on it) and polluting while on the other hand telling their employees to drive hybrids. I guess it is a case of "do as I say, not as I do"? I use to be a fanboi of Google in the early days. Now I don't care for them much as a company.
If a congress person is honest, your donation shouldn't influence his position, only the strength of your argument.
Huh? Why should someones argument be strengthened by how much money they have/bribe the politicians with? The strength of the argument should be based on the points of the argument. For example:
person #1: I think we should reduce copyright terms because blah..blah..blah.
Person #2: I think we should extend copyright terms because blah..blah..blah. Oh, and here is a nice fat check.
Is there such a thing as a long term "representative" that doesn't except bribes? Don't they all? There is no way that our "representatives" are not overly influenced by bribes. Just look at how extreme copyright laws are, or how messed up patent laws are. These two examples are because our so-called "representatives" have take millions in bribes from big corps while those who want a fair copyright system and better patent laws don't have the same cash to bribe as the big corps.
It is my opinion that corps. should not be allowed to give bribes or influence law at all. Corporations are fictitious entities, they are not people/citizens. Each member of a corporation has the ability to try to influence law, at the same level as any other citizen. However, when we let these big corps. with big bank accounts bribe our politicians it creates an unfair advantage that the average citizen just cannot compete against. Hence Americas progress toward a corportism.
You Apple's BootCamp which sets up a dual-boot for you. It is very easy to do. This lets you run a "real" version of XP/Vista and all the needed drivers come with BootCamp. BootCamp is a free download.
You some virtualization software such as Parallels or VMWare (which I think is beta for OS X).
I personally setup both. I dual-boot if I want to play a game that only runs on WinXP. For my VS.Net dev environment with SQL Server 2000, Crystal Reports, SourceOffsite and a bunch of other tools, I use Parallels. Parallels is probably 90%+ the native speed, so my WinXP VM is very snappy. Parallels also has some nice integration features like clipboard works between VM and OS X and bunch of others. Go read the site. Oh, and Parallels 3.0 just came out with 3D support and says you can now play games in the VM! I have the previous version without this feature, that is why I still dual-boot for some games. However, I plan to try 3.0 and see if the game speeds are good.
My Intel Macbook is a late 2006 model and it is the Core Duo, not the Core 2 Duo. My iMac IS a Core 2 Duo and there is a nice speed difference between the two procs. If you get a new MacBook, you will get the faster Core 2 Duo now. If you are not getting an iMac and want to use your MacBook for dev stuff, I would recommend putting 2 GB of ram in, 1 GB for you XP VM and 1 GB for OS X while you are running the VM. This lets you do all the stuff you want in OS X while you are compiling and stuff in your VM. Don't buy the memory from Apple, way over priced. Get it from newegg.com, much cheaper. One other thing you can do for the MacBook (or any laptop for dev work) is to purchase a 7,200 RPM laptop hard drive, again, not from Apple. Big difference.
The only problem with the MacBook is the graphics card is an Intel card. It is plenty good enough for your typical laptop and for any dev work. However, if you want to play some games, especially in WinXP, you will have a hard time since most games need a better video card. For a few hundred more you can get the MacBook Pro which has a good ATI or NVidia card in it. I have found it is worth spending a little extra on a Mac. The hardware is very good and looks great and OS X is a joy to use. I haven't enjoyed using a computer this much in years. I am glad I took the OS X plunge 6 months ago.
Oh yeah, VNC works great on OS X and there are two good Remote Desktop clients, one from MS and my favorite, TSclientX. TSclientX requires you to install Apple's XServer which is very easy and comes on your setup DVD's.
I used Aero. It is ok, but not very efficient. Apple does much cooler things, that don't annoy or get in the way, look much better and are far more efficient. Take a look at just a few of the new desktop features coming in 10.5. Oh, and after you look at the desktop demo, check out some of the other great ones.
I went all Intel Mac this year, Intel Macbook and Intel iMac, and it is the best computing choice I have ever made. I have been using computers for 20 years and programming them for 12. I mostly used MS Windows and Linux. However, I was always interested in trying a Mac but for some reason never did. Once Apple went to Intel the choice became obvious for me. I use Parallels to get to my.Net dev environment, everything else I stick to OS X.
MS is not trying to push you back to Vista. They already got their payment from you:-)
MS wants to see more home users either buying Vista or getting a new computer with the MS-Tax applied. Oh, and MS really wants to get massive business adoption of Vista on the desktop, that is where they make a killing. I hope everyone holds out for a long time. Hell, I hope to see some small to medium sized business try switching to iMacs and XServers.
Yes, however Dell offers business systems with FreeDOS. Do you think that Dell actually supports FreeDOS?
business user: "My business dell with FreeDOS doesn't support my USB device."
Tech: "Please type see dee space see colon back slash...."
I doubt Dell is doing any real business support for FreeDOS. This is probably some contract thing with MS, IMO.
The tour is getting longer not because of men's strength (how many pro golfers look like very fit athletes?), but because of better tech in clubs and balls. Women should be able to keep up since they have access to the same tech.
Hey, I agree, the only way one can learn is to try and to be wrong from time to time. Don't let the trolls bother you. With that said, many pro sports have different regulations for women vs. men. Is that "right" or "wrong"? I don't know. For some sorts "yes and no" and for others "no and yes".
WRT to sports, if it is a sport that is dominated by strength, then yes, splitting by sex is OK. But sports like tennis, soccer(footbal)? I am not too sure about. Heck, what about American bowling? There is no reason a women cannot go against a man. I know I suck at bowling and would get creamed by a pro female. I also don't see why runners, not sprinters, should be segregated by sex. A female can be just as endurance conditioned as a man.
For the most part I agree with you. However, a 200 lbs. male power lifter will be stronger than a 200 lbs. female power lifter. It is just the nature of humans. For most sports, I do think you are spot on. Take tennis for example. Why can't that be unisex?
I remember when I was a kid this battle of the sexes tennis match. I think it was during the 70's? I was born in 1972, so I was a little young and don't remember it all. Anyway, they put some young female tennis player in her prime against some really old fart, over the hill male tennis player. The dude lost. Duh! I remember, vaguely, the media making a stink over it. Any old-timers out there remember this?
Please spare me. Women bitch about men all the time. Tons of places on the net for women to complain how "there are no good men out there".
Let me ask you, would you be saying 'Loosen up' if it were a racist joke?
I wouldn't. People need to get over this racism/sexism/Blah-ism junk. If someone makes a joke about a white dude, I don't get all flustered over it.
One thing I am wondering is why is this even news? I am not being sexist. Why should there be the first male who spent the longest time in space and the first female? Why not just the human with the longest time in space? Oh, and what about sports? Aren't women equal? So why are there world records for men and world records for women? Why not just a world record for the fastest, strongest, etc.?
This type of stuff isn't just male/female. It is also for every non-white man that does something. The first man in space, the first black man in space, the first women in space, the first black women in space, the first Asian in space, etc, etc. I personally don't care what the race/sex is. How about as a society we just acknowledge the first person to accomplish something regardless of sex/race?
100 years is nothing on a cosmic scale. Even 1,000 years is a blink of the eye. If you brought a man from 1,000 years ago to present day, he would indeed be blown away. How about a man from 5,000 years? Or 10,000?
I don't like articles like TFA. The writer is looking at the world through a narrow straw. Where will we be technologically in 5,000 - 10,000 years?
If you go back in history far enough, man couldn't travel around the world because the Earth was flat. We now know that is not true. I am willing to bet that in 1,000 years our science of today will look as basic as the state of science from 1,000 years ago. I think man will be able to go faster than the speed of light one day. It is just that our current science doesn't understand how.
Why post as an AC fag? No, if a cop pulls me over, my first qestion is WHY. If there is a legitimate reason, I comply. Simple. However, I have not been pulled over for about 15 years or so now. If a cop wants me to "comply" with his/her directions, they better have a reason to pull me over and better be following the laws that do not strip away my rights. I am a card carrying member of the ACLU and proud of that. I have rights that many, many others have died for. I am not going to let some cop with a "god complex" strip away my rights.
No member of the Corps would mouth off to a Judge.
Huh? I am laughing as I read this. The U.S.M.C is a very unruly bunch, you should have seen me and my buddies when we were in SOI. Sorry, we don't hold a "judge" to be someone we fight/train for. You are not a Marine, so you don't know what you are talking about.
No member of the Corps lies, or will tolerate a liar.
Damn, you have never met a Marine have you? Do you think we pee gold or something? Sorry, your fantasy is not reality. Marines lie, they do things that anyone else does. Period. The only difference is that as Marines we are trained fighters. End of story. So please spare me this "Marines never lie" crap.
I have a 3 year old grandson - and a 14 month old granddaughter and a 27 year old son. I'm proud of them and any one of them can out-think you.
Sure they can... Right... Nice talking out your @ss old-man.
recognize that the rules that keep your 3 year old alive are the same rules you broke in your little municipal case.
Huh? What "rules"? I exercised my freedom of speech, nothing more. The same freedom I was sent to the Gulf for in 1991. I guess as "citizens" we should die for our "rights" but not be able to exercise them? If you have a 27 y/o son, then all I have to say is that your generation is way out of touch with reality. I guess you think the internet is nothing more than a "series of tubes"?
A buyer walked on you and you "gave them another shot". You're an idiot.
No, I am called a human and I gave a husband and wife another chance. To me it sounds like you are an @sshole and a dick. I personally am financially OK, so I wanted to help this family. They were Asian and recently moved to the states.
Oh, and I almost forgot - how the hell does someone bail out of buying your house "one week after closing"? How dumb/confused are you? If it was "one week after closing" the house would have already been sold, deed transfered, etc - that's what happens at "closing".
What I meant to say was it was one week after the official closing date. I gave the family a second chance because I am not a dick like you living in my mommy's basement. I have owned 6 homes in the central FL area. Go look up the average home price there. Yeah, you are out of your league.
It sounds to me like you should just rent and leave property ownership to the adults.
No, I am doing very well, owning homes. Much more than you could understand. I own several homes in central FL, the prices of the homes are from $280,000 to $550,000. I guess by "adults" you mean "dicks that don't care about a human family"? Sorry, I am not a dick like you. If I lose $5,000 on the price of a home, but a good family is able to move in, I am happy. However, I am sure a dick like you would rather pocket that extra $5,000. Oh, well, there are dicks in this world and I am sure you are proud to be one.
Huh? You sound about as intelligent as my 3 year old son. Wow. You are trully a dip-shit. Oh, well, Darwinism will take care of getting rid of rejects like you.
Now, if you want a piece of me
Uhh? Is that a challenge sissy boy? I would love to meet you somewhere, I live in the Columbia area of SC, to pound-n-ground your ass. I served in the U.S.M.C. What have you done for your country? I didn't think so.
Here is a pic of me. How about a photo of your little @ss? I didn't think so.
I had a buyer bail out of buying my home one week after closing. I showed up, my wife showed up, the lawyer and realtor showed up... just not buyer.
We gave them another shot. They didn't show up again. Now, during this time, I had a home I was buying and was supposed to close on. The seller of that house was a realtor and a real prick. When he heard what happened, he raised the price $10,000 USD. So, my buyers that didn't show, now cost me $10,000 USD. On the second no-show, the prick I was buying from raised the price another $5,000 and demanded I give him our down payment of $10,000 as CASH with no chance of getting it back. Which we did since we wanted the house.
We found other buyers, closed and bought our new home. The first buyers gave us $5,000 down. They wanted it back. However, the contract said that if they failed to buy, they lost the deposit. I went to a lawyer, it would have cost me at least $5,000 to try to get the $5,000 out of escrow! That didn't include any other "fees" like licking a freaking stamp ($20) or answering a phone call ($50) or sending an email ($75), yes, our lawyer charged me $75 to send a one line reply to my status update email!
Well, I am done bitching. Most lawyers are scum. They don't care about your rights. They want the big bucks. Do you really think all those ambulance chasers care if you are really injured or not? Nope. They only look at how much they can make the insurance companies settle for.
I am not a lawyer hater, I just think 98% are trash money chasers and are totally screwing up our legal system.
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This is seriously very good advice. Hans needs to use the Chewbacca defense! It is the only thing that will save him. Remember, in Soviet Russia...
Maybe... I recently got an Apple update that took Tiger from 10.4.9 to 10.4.10 on my Intel Macbook and Intel iMac. Maybe this release had the patch?
This whole silly thing is not about changing laws, it is about changing contracts that non-commercial companies/software/products will not have to comply with since they never signed a contract. So, there will always be millions of users that can bypass anything these contract changes are supposed to enforce at the contract level only.
Seriously? There will always be tools to rip a DVD, even if you just read the raw image from the disk with dd or something. As far as requiring the DVD in the drive, that is just silly. There are plenty of programs to mount an ISO image on Mac, Linux and Windows. On WinXP I use Daemon Tools, Mac and Linux have built-in support for mounting images.
This seems bound to fail to be enforced at all, so why go through the trouble?
I have always wondered what does having the brackets around something indicate? What does brackets around the W in "'[W]hen we do consider technology..." indicate? Thank you my grammar Nazi friends!
Now, we see how Google has become what they appeared to be against, another big money grubby corp with no ethics. If Google really held to the motto of "do no evil", they wouldn't be censoring in China. If Google's founders held to the motto of "do no evil", the two founders wouldn't be flying around in a big multi-million dollar jet wasting tons of fuel (when they can fly on a commercial jet with more people on it) and polluting while on the other hand telling their employees to drive hybrids. I guess it is a case of "do as I say, not as I do"? I use to be a fanboi of Google in the early days. Now I don't care for them much as a company.
It is my opinion that corps. should not be allowed to give bribes or influence law at all. Corporations are fictitious entities, they are not people/citizens. Each member of a corporation has the ability to try to influence law, at the same level as any other citizen. However, when we let these big corps. with big bank accounts bribe our politicians it creates an unfair advantage that the average citizen just cannot compete against. Hence Americas progress toward a corportism.
- You Apple's BootCamp which sets up a dual-boot for you. It is very easy to do. This lets you run a "real" version of XP/Vista and all the needed drivers come with BootCamp. BootCamp is a free download.
- You some virtualization software such as Parallels or VMWare (which I think is beta for OS X).
I personally setup both. I dual-boot if I want to play a game that only runs on WinXP. For my VS.Net dev environment with SQL Server 2000, Crystal Reports, SourceOffsite and a bunch of other tools, I use Parallels. Parallels is probably 90%+ the native speed, so my WinXP VM is very snappy. Parallels also has some nice integration features like clipboard works between VM and OS X and bunch of others. Go read the site. Oh, and Parallels 3.0 just came out with 3D support and says you can now play games in the VM! I have the previous version without this feature, that is why I still dual-boot for some games. However, I plan to try 3.0 and see if the game speeds are good.My Intel Macbook is a late 2006 model and it is the Core Duo, not the Core 2 Duo. My iMac IS a Core 2 Duo and there is a nice speed difference between the two procs. If you get a new MacBook, you will get the faster Core 2 Duo now. If you are not getting an iMac and want to use your MacBook for dev stuff, I would recommend putting 2 GB of ram in, 1 GB for you XP VM and 1 GB for OS X while you are running the VM. This lets you do all the stuff you want in OS X while you are compiling and stuff in your VM. Don't buy the memory from Apple, way over priced. Get it from newegg.com, much cheaper. One other thing you can do for the MacBook (or any laptop for dev work) is to purchase a 7,200 RPM laptop hard drive, again, not from Apple. Big difference.
The only problem with the MacBook is the graphics card is an Intel card. It is plenty good enough for your typical laptop and for any dev work. However, if you want to play some games, especially in WinXP, you will have a hard time since most games need a better video card. For a few hundred more you can get the MacBook Pro which has a good ATI or NVidia card in it. I have found it is worth spending a little extra on a Mac. The hardware is very good and looks great and OS X is a joy to use. I haven't enjoyed using a computer this much in years. I am glad I took the OS X plunge 6 months ago.
Oh yeah, VNC works great on OS X and there are two good Remote Desktop clients, one from MS and my favorite, TSclientX. TSclientX requires you to install Apple's XServer which is very easy and comes on your setup DVD's.
I used Aero. It is ok, but not very efficient. Apple does much cooler things, that don't annoy or get in the way, look much better and are far more efficient. Take a look at just a few of the new desktop features coming in 10.5. Oh, and after you look at the desktop demo, check out some of the other great ones.
.Net dev environment, everything else I stick to OS X.
I went all Intel Mac this year, Intel Macbook and Intel iMac, and it is the best computing choice I have ever made. I have been using computers for 20 years and programming them for 12. I mostly used MS Windows and Linux. However, I was always interested in trying a Mac but for some reason never did. Once Apple went to Intel the choice became obvious for me. I use Parallels to get to my
MS is not trying to push you back to Vista. They already got their payment from you :-)
MS wants to see more home users either buying Vista or getting a new computer with the MS-Tax applied. Oh, and MS really wants to get massive business adoption of Vista on the desktop, that is where they make a killing. I hope everyone holds out for a long time. Hell, I hope to see some small to medium sized business try switching to iMacs and XServers.
Yes, however Dell offers business systems with FreeDOS. Do you think that Dell actually supports FreeDOS? ...."
business user: "My business dell with FreeDOS doesn't support my USB device."
Tech: "Please type see dee space see colon back slash
I doubt Dell is doing any real business support for FreeDOS. This is probably some contract thing with MS, IMO.
The tour is getting longer not because of men's strength (how many pro golfers look like very fit athletes?), but because of better tech in clubs and balls. Women should be able to keep up since they have access to the same tech.
Hey, I agree, the only way one can learn is to try and to be wrong from time to time. Don't let the trolls bother you. With that said, many pro sports have different regulations for women vs. men. Is that "right" or "wrong"? I don't know. For some sorts "yes and no" and for others "no and yes".
WRT to sports, if it is a sport that is dominated by strength, then yes, splitting by sex is OK. But sports like tennis, soccer(footbal)? I am not too sure about. Heck, what about American bowling? There is no reason a women cannot go against a man. I know I suck at bowling and would get creamed by a pro female. I also don't see why runners, not sprinters, should be segregated by sex. A female can be just as endurance conditioned as a man.
For the most part I agree with you. However, a 200 lbs. male power lifter will be stronger than a 200 lbs. female power lifter. It is just the nature of humans. For most sports, I do think you are spot on. Take tennis for example. Why can't that be unisex?
I remember when I was a kid this battle of the sexes tennis match. I think it was during the 70's? I was born in 1972, so I was a little young and don't remember it all. Anyway, they put some young female tennis player in her prime against some really old fart, over the hill male tennis player. The dude lost. Duh! I remember, vaguely, the media making a stink over it. Any old-timers out there remember this?
I wouldn't. People need to get over this racism/sexism/Blah-ism junk. If someone makes a joke about a white dude, I don't get all flustered over it.
One thing I am wondering is why is this even news? I am not being sexist. Why should there be the first male who spent the longest time in space and the first female? Why not just the human with the longest time in space? Oh, and what about sports? Aren't women equal? So why are there world records for men and world records for women? Why not just a world record for the fastest, strongest, etc.?
This type of stuff isn't just male/female. It is also for every non-white man that does something. The first man in space, the first black man in space, the first women in space, the first black women in space, the first Asian in space, etc, etc. I personally don't care what the race/sex is. How about as a society we just acknowledge the first person to accomplish something regardless of sex/race?
100 years is nothing on a cosmic scale. Even 1,000 years is a blink of the eye. If you brought a man from 1,000 years ago to present day, he would indeed be blown away. How about a man from 5,000 years? Or 10,000?
I don't like articles like TFA. The writer is looking at the world through a narrow straw. Where will we be technologically in 5,000 - 10,000 years?
If you go back in history far enough, man couldn't travel around the world because the Earth was flat. We now know that is not true. I am willing to bet that in 1,000 years our science of today will look as basic as the state of science from 1,000 years ago. I think man will be able to go faster than the speed of light one day. It is just that our current science doesn't understand how.
Why post as an AC fag? No, if a cop pulls me over, my first qestion is WHY. If there is a legitimate reason, I comply. Simple. However, I have not been pulled over for about 15 years or so now. If a cop wants me to "comply" with his/her directions, they better have a reason to pull me over and better be following the laws that do not strip away my rights. I am a card carrying member of the ACLU and proud of that. I have rights that many, many others have died for. I am not going to let some cop with a "god complex" strip away my rights.
No, I am a "selective lawyer hater". :-)
Huh? What "rules"? I exercised my freedom of speech, nothing more. The same freedom I was sent to the Gulf for in 1991. I guess as "citizens" we should die for our "rights" but not be able to exercise them? If you have a 27 y/o son, then all I have to say is that your generation is way out of touch with reality. I guess you think the internet is nothing more than a "series of tubes"?
Uhh? Is that a challenge sissy boy? I would love to meet you somewhere, I live in the Columbia area of SC, to pound-n-ground your ass. I served in the U.S.M.C. What have you done for your country? I didn't think so.
Here is a pic of me. How about a photo of your little @ss? I didn't think so.
$3,000 won't even allow you to break even.
I had a buyer bail out of buying my home one week after closing. I showed up, my wife showed up, the lawyer and realtor showed up... just not buyer.
We gave them another shot. They didn't show up again. Now, during this time, I had a home I was buying and was supposed to close on. The seller of that house was a realtor and a real prick. When he heard what happened, he raised the price $10,000 USD. So, my buyers that didn't show, now cost me $10,000 USD. On the second no-show, the prick I was buying from raised the price another $5,000 and demanded I give him our down payment of $10,000 as CASH with no chance of getting it back. Which we did since we wanted the house.
We found other buyers, closed and bought our new home. The first buyers gave us $5,000 down. They wanted it back. However, the contract said that if they failed to buy, they lost the deposit. I went to a lawyer, it would have cost me at least $5,000 to try to get the $5,000 out of escrow! That didn't include any other "fees" like licking a freaking stamp ($20) or answering a phone call ($50) or sending an email ($75), yes, our lawyer charged me $75 to send a one line reply to my status update email!
Well, I am done bitching. Most lawyers are scum. They don't care about your rights. They want the big bucks. Do you really think all those ambulance chasers care if you are really injured or not? Nope. They only look at how much they can make the insurance companies settle for.
I am not a lawyer hater, I just think 98% are trash money chasers and are totally screwing up our legal system.