Nothing like building a big wall around yourself, then complaining that nobody ever comes to visit.
No, more like "We've built this big wall between us, the carriers, and the consumers to shave the sheep clean, and now all this open and free comes along to ruin it for us!"
THAT is the real reason.
This sounds completely awesome, but probably won't be put into anyone outside of special forces/SEALS. It would be awesome if ANY military did this to anyone, but the old saying goes:
"Overspecialize and you breed in weakness."
Whatever decent advancement is made, nothing can compare to raw experience. Some helpful things like the cooling blood would be nice or an enhanced exoskeleton, but outside of the specialized units these wouldn't be practical or cost effective.
And then someone will get the smart idea to stick his whole tower in the freezer. Then nerds will become buff by moving around all their heavy equipment.
I went to a private high school and due to things posted on a non school affiliated forum that was owned by one of my classmates about the school he was expelled our Senior year. It was taken to court and my school said that since we signed the code of conduct it included provisions that allowed them to enforce their rules while we were at home.
I don't know how this applies to public schools, but they have to follow mandates and laws setup byt he government, since their funding comes from the government. So yes, they can do this. Just like the government defines libel, hate speech, and etc.
But I stand for the bullies on this one. I was bullied throughout my early years, and it taught me to stand up for myself and to not pay attention to people who need to belittle me to make themselves feel better. Having the government involved only pets the egos of bullies.
There's also block lists, email filters, etc. for those who feel really harassed. I mean, come the **** on, this is supposed to be the tech generation, and they can't block bullies?!
We'll stick around to stay in our little galaxy's lives, as we want to pass on our knowledge and provide care for them. That and the threat of paying child support.
It's the false fear that if DRM doesn't exist their income will plummet to 0, which isn't the case. Peopel that want music for free have been and still are getting it for free. Removing DRM may convert those people that get it for free BECAUSE of DRM to actually pay for music they can use anywhere.
One of the reasons why I used allofmp3.com for my music was becuase it was in a format I could use anywhere and that wasn't restricted by DRM.
And it's a problem when your record company is trying to cling to a failing business model. The gloriousness of CD's back int he 90s was that reguardless of the brand of player, location of it, and the age I could play my CD's on it. It makes no sense to restrict music under the false veil of "protection".
With the Linux 2.6.19 kernel coming out last November and only two additional releases in the 2.6.19 branch, the Linux 2.6.20 kernel is certainly coming quickly. Linus Torvalds had mentioned in the 2.6.20-rc6 release announcement that this is likely the last release candidate. However, even with this quick kernel release coming the features are definitively impressive. Sony Playstation 3 support and Kernel-based Virtual Machine support are among the exciting features in this release. From today's testing in our environment used and set of benchmarks, there were no definitive performance gains or losses seen throughout the set of tests.
It's nice to get features without sacrificing performance. The added PS3 support would nab those ubuntu people to put it on PS3. Not only that, but yellow dog might get some competition if some peoepl decide to make their own PS3-based distro with all kinds of extras.
If you're using windows you can download the.NET framework and grab Pain.net (http://www.getpaint.net/index2.html). I have it and it's great if you're familiar with MS paint. That with the ability to add different plugins makes it a wonderful free programs like GIMP.
Blackboard helps to pull in resources so it's easier for education materials to get to the students and to help communication bewteen students and teachers.
It's too bad Blackboard sucks. My college switched from it to Angelhttp://ais.its.psu.edu/angel/ and the server when from having constant hiccups to being totally stable except for heavy load when peoepl schedule classes or they need to upgrade parts.
Otherwise I'm glad they're reviewing it. Maybe this small step to reviewing patents will have them reexamin patnet sthat were just given out like free burgers.
It was a nice piece of paper pushed by the MPAA and RIAA during the 90s when people were really uneducated and saw that people were "sharing music without paying the artists." the courts could stop file sharing software because the people judgign and serving in jury's didn't have any knowledge on it, it was something that their kids did.
Now everyone knows that isn't the case anymore. People are more educated than back then, and they know of the RIAAs dirty deeds (uploading fake files, suing 10 year olds, using the same file sharing programs to find people) and they know what a Napster, torrent, itunes, and a Shareaza is. The DMCA stands, now, as a loose piece of paper with no sway either way and only serves to hamper the courts with lawsuits and injunctions that have swayed in the favor of the file sharing applications.
This article does state YouTube, but going through the DCMA, especially since it's been pretty much the losing tool of copyright holders, is almost useless if you have copyrighted content you didn't authorize posted on a website. I hope the guy mentioned relaized that just because you pick an icon in a virtual world doesn't mean you own it. It's up to the peoepl that own and operate second life to make the call.
I think we're entering a world where you can't pass off half-baked and ill conceived properties and expect to make hand over fist gobs of cash because you control every outlet of that property. The world is too small and too fast: release a CD, and the individual files are ready to be shared on the old P2P networks, the whole album is being ripped and uploaded to people across the world (albeit not instantly like some RIAA people would want you to think), and someone just bought it and ripped it to their iPod.
But I'm getting off topic. DMCA is a nostalgic piece of law that should be revoked in favor of newer wordings that either exclude actaul programs that could be used for piracy, or it needs to go afetr the individuals that misuses these programs. But in orde rto do that, the issue of "fair use" needs to be defined for music, video, and words. As long as the fiar use is determined by the studios and labels and is controleld based on their whims they can't expect to get fair treatment in the courts. Either have fair use defined and procecute people based on that, or don't define fair use and confuse peoepl on whether they actually own what they bought.
Having 1 console doesn't help anyone at all, except the game developers looking to make a buck. Not only that it impedes competition, which has been the breeding grounds for some of the best franchises and games ever made, but it allows the market to be flooded with crap games and hardware. Who would you go with other than someon else? The genesis/snes battle spat out some of the best games and franchises.
THere's more 3rd party games, but there's still plenty of first party games that rope peopel in to a certain console.
There's more 3rd party action today because video games are taken more seriously then something that vegetates us. That and back in the old days exclusivity was almost commonplace unless it was sports games. Console companies could pay the money to keep it exclusive. Today, not so much. Also look how the industry has changed: It used to be Sega, Nintendo, and Atari: all 3 were in the video game business only. Now it's Microsoft (OS, web content, videogames), Sony (computers, electronics, videogames), and Nintendo, who has managed to be video games only.
Right now the console industry couldn't get any better: Nintendo delivers games while MS and Sony square off in the ring for home media control with content and video games. It's the software industry that could change.
Good one, probably a little bit better than TPB for a few files. I also liked their "mod choice" or whatever it was called. They actually approved certain files so you knew you weren't getting dummy info. they also had a ton of trackers for every torrent.
There was a Stargate SG1 movie released. Maybe it was the first few episodes put into movie and released. I just assumed they made a sequel movie then turned it into a movie. Sry.
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This sounds completely awesome, but probably won't be put into anyone outside of special forces/SEALS. It would be awesome if ANY military did this to anyone, but the old saying goes:
"Overspecialize and you breed in weakness."
Whatever decent advancement is made, nothing can compare to raw experience. Some helpful things like the cooling blood would be nice or an enhanced exoskeleton, but outside of the specialized units these wouldn't be practical or cost effective.
We'll need water cooling for the water coolers.
And then someone will get the smart idea to stick his whole tower in the freezer. Then nerds will become buff by moving around all their heavy equipment.
I went to a private high school and due to things posted on a non school affiliated forum that was owned by one of my classmates about the school he was expelled our Senior year. It was taken to court and my school said that since we signed the code of conduct it included provisions that allowed them to enforce their rules while we were at home.
I don't know how this applies to public schools, but they have to follow mandates and laws setup byt he government, since their funding comes from the government. So yes, they can do this. Just like the government defines libel, hate speech, and etc.
But I stand for the bullies on this one. I was bullied throughout my early years, and it taught me to stand up for myself and to not pay attention to people who need to belittle me to make themselves feel better. Having the government involved only pets the egos of bullies.
There's also block lists, email filters, etc. for those who feel really harassed. I mean, come the **** on, this is supposed to be the tech generation, and they can't block bullies?!
You are reissuing empty threat against Open Source. (Cancel/Allow)?
What does this switch do?
We'll stick around to stay in our little galaxy's lives, as we want to pass on our knowledge and provide care for them. That and the threat of paying child support.
It's the false fear that if DRM doesn't exist their income will plummet to 0, which isn't the case. Peopel that want music for free have been and still are getting it for free. Removing DRM may convert those people that get it for free BECAUSE of DRM to actually pay for music they can use anywhere.
One of the reasons why I used allofmp3.com for my music was becuase it was in a format I could use anywhere and that wasn't restricted by DRM.
And it's a problem when your record company is trying to cling to a failing business model. The gloriousness of CD's back int he 90s was that reguardless of the brand of player, location of it, and the age I could play my CD's on it. It makes no sense to restrict music under the false veil of "protection".
With the Linux 2.6.19 kernel coming out last November and only two additional releases in the 2.6.19 branch, the Linux 2.6.20 kernel is certainly coming quickly. Linus Torvalds had mentioned in the 2.6.20-rc6 release announcement that this is likely the last release candidate. However, even with this quick kernel release coming the features are definitively impressive. Sony Playstation 3 support and Kernel-based Virtual Machine support are among the exciting features in this release. From today's testing in our environment used and set of benchmarks, there were no definitive performance gains or losses seen throughout the set of tests.
It's nice to get features without sacrificing performance. The added PS3 support would nab those ubuntu people to put it on PS3. Not only that, but yellow dog might get some competition if some peoepl decide to make their own PS3-based distro with all kinds of extras.
If you're using windows you can download the .NET framework and grab Pain.net (http://www.getpaint.net/index2.html). I have it and it's great if you're familiar with MS paint. That with the ability to add different plugins makes it a wonderful free programs like GIMP.
Skynet, the end of the world, and the world being overrun with AH-nold robots.
.....Let's hope they run Windows ME, so we have a chance of survival.
Just break the glass and escape through the window.
Blackboard helps to pull in resources so it's easier for education materials to get to the students and to help communication bewteen students and teachers.
It's too bad Blackboard sucks. My college switched from it to Angelhttp://ais.its.psu.edu/angel/ and the server when from having constant hiccups to being totally stable except for heavy load when peoepl schedule classes or they need to upgrade parts.
Otherwise I'm glad they're reviewing it. Maybe this small step to reviewing patents will have them reexamin patnet sthat were just given out like free burgers.
It was a nice piece of paper pushed by the MPAA and RIAA during the 90s when people were really uneducated and saw that people were "sharing music without paying the artists." the courts could stop file sharing software because the people judgign and serving in jury's didn't have any knowledge on it, it was something that their kids did.
Now everyone knows that isn't the case anymore. People are more educated than back then, and they know of the RIAAs dirty deeds (uploading fake files, suing 10 year olds, using the same file sharing programs to find people) and they know what a Napster, torrent, itunes, and a Shareaza is. The DMCA stands, now, as a loose piece of paper with no sway either way and only serves to hamper the courts with lawsuits and injunctions that have swayed in the favor of the file sharing applications.
This article does state YouTube, but going through the DCMA, especially since it's been pretty much the losing tool of copyright holders, is almost useless if you have copyrighted content you didn't authorize posted on a website. I hope the guy mentioned relaized that just because you pick an icon in a virtual world doesn't mean you own it. It's up to the peoepl that own and operate second life to make the call.
I think we're entering a world where you can't pass off half-baked and ill conceived properties and expect to make hand over fist gobs of cash because you control every outlet of that property. The world is too small and too fast: release a CD, and the individual files are ready to be shared on the old P2P networks, the whole album is being ripped and uploaded to people across the world (albeit not instantly like some RIAA people would want you to think), and someone just bought it and ripped it to their iPod.
But I'm getting off topic. DMCA is a nostalgic piece of law that should be revoked in favor of newer wordings that either exclude actaul programs that could be used for piracy, or it needs to go afetr the individuals that misuses these programs. But in orde rto do that, the issue of "fair use" needs to be defined for music, video, and words. As long as the fiar use is determined by the studios and labels and is controleld based on their whims they can't expect to get fair treatment in the courts. Either have fair use defined and procecute people based on that, or don't define fair use and confuse peoepl on whether they actually own what they bought.
Second life is full of peoepl trying to stela my monies!!!!
Quick, someone make a Thrid Life!
*hiding behind a piece of wall, reloading*
Need ammo? Go to ammosuppliers.com! Save 20%
*breaking intoa bank*
"Need better security? Call 1-800-xxx-xxxx!
Having 1 console doesn't help anyone at all, except the game developers looking to make a buck. Not only that it impedes competition, which has been the breeding grounds for some of the best franchises and games ever made, but it allows the market to be flooded with crap games and hardware. Who would you go with other than someon else? The genesis/snes battle spat out some of the best games and franchises.
THere's more 3rd party games, but there's still plenty of first party games that rope peopel in to a certain console.
There's more 3rd party action today because video games are taken more seriously then something that vegetates us. That and back in the old days exclusivity was almost commonplace unless it was sports games. Console companies could pay the money to keep it exclusive. Today, not so much. Also look how the industry has changed: It used to be Sega, Nintendo, and Atari: all 3 were in the video game business only. Now it's Microsoft (OS, web content, videogames), Sony (computers, electronics, videogames), and Nintendo, who has managed to be video games only.
Right now the console industry couldn't get any better: Nintendo delivers games while MS and Sony square off in the ring for home media control with content and video games. It's the software industry that could change.
XFCE is a desktop environment like KDE and Gnome.
Desktop environment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment
But unlike Gnome and KDE, XFCE tries to be lighter than those 2 GUI's.
Besides the bugs?
it isn't Cingular, it's at&t!
Does it run Linux?
Good one, probably a little bit better than TPB for a few files. I also liked their "mod choice" or whatever it was called. They actually approved certain files so you knew you weren't getting dummy info. they also had a ton of trackers for every torrent.
I hope they go back up soon. I liked them.
There was a Stargate SG1 movie released. Maybe it was the first few episodes put into movie and released. I just assumed they made a sequel movie then turned it into a movie. Sry.
But what a twist!