Steve Jobs: Now, I have something insanely great to show everyone today.
Macworld: <clapping>
Steve Jobs: This is the insanely great iPod 2. Thanks to our new, insanely great, partnership with IBM, the iPod 2 can now decode and playback up to 4096 simultaneous MP3 streams.
Macworld: <clapping and cheering>
Steve Jobs: So, now not only can you can carry the Beatles' entire collection with you, but you can enjoy the entire body of their work during a single commute home! Isn't that insanely great?
Macworld: Yes! <clapping>
Steve Jobs: That's over 4095 times as fast as an ordinary audio player from, say, Intel.
I really don't care if I matter. Your opinion means nothing to me, nor does the opinion of your constituents, your family, or your whole fucking city, for that matter.
What does matter - to me - is that some faceless incorporated entity isn't able to change management or go bankrupt and take my data with them. This isn't about changing the way others operate, it's about insulating tmy operation from those inevitable changes.
It doesn't have a LISP interpreter, but it does read mail. No, I'm not kidding. Here's an excerpt from hello.c:
if (m) { /* Try to read mail. */
char *mailname, *buf, *getenv ();
int mailfd, cc;
struct stat st;
mailname = getenv ("MAIL");
if (!mailname) ...
and the usage:
fputs (_("\
-t, --traditional use traditional greeting format\n\
-n, --next-generation use next-generation greeting format\n\
-m, --mail print your mail\n"), stdout);
You really should have bought that dictionary. They could have profited from everyone who just read this article, but here you are, stealing their ideas. Appropriating their information for others without permission. Republishing their hard work without consent.
"Material on these pages is copyright Cambridge University Press or reproduced with permission from other copyright owners. It may be downloaded and printed for personal reference, but not otherwise copied, altered in any way or transmitted to others (unless explicitly stated otherwise) without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. Hypertext links to other Web locations are for the convenience of users and do not constitute any endorsement or authorisation by Cambridge University Press."
Your mere cutting and pasting violates the inalienable property rights of Cambridge Press. You criminal. You thief. You insensitive clod.
In all seriousness, that's quite a broad definition of theft. I'm not sure if you've ever been burglarized before, but comparing the "loss" of imaginary "property" to true physical theft is borderline offensive.
Where are the convenient bundles of security updates?
I've always installed the service packs solely to fix horrific bugs and system-level compromises. I know I'm not alone, either. Are you suggesting that pushing out every Qxxxxx hotfix would be preferable to just deselecting a few unwanted components from a hypothetical SP4 install?
Just a preference of mine, really. I've never liked leaving unused software on systems, regardless of whether it's turned on or not.
No, you're violating a copyright. Stealing involves depleting a finite resource, copyright infringement involves violating a fixed-term government-granted monopoly on an idea or work. Stealing affects provable loss of a physical possession; copyright infringement dilutes the economic incentive set up by your government to promote the arts and sciences.
Potential profits are not material. Both property law and copyright law play a part in maintaining a healthy economy (read: allowing people who produce value to benefit from it), but they're not even close to being interchangeable.
This was Windows 2000, updating from release to SP3. I didn't wait around with tcpdump to see if it ever connected anywhere, but the box was checked immediately following reboot on two seperate machines today.
The defaults aren't really intrusive so much as they are annoying. I wish they'd distribute just the security updates and bugfixes in the service packs, leaving the new features to be installed seperately.
But back to the original point: at least in Windows 2000, the automatic update piece (and accompanying EULA modifications) were bundled with the service packs. The coersion, IMHO, is being forced to accept a modified EULA to get your security updates. Not some default behaviour of the update software itself.
The "operating system feature" that shipped bundled as part of Service Pack 3. It does pop up a wizard the first time the local machine administrator logs in, but until then, it is indeed enabled by default. Log in as a regular old domain user after the reboot and take a look.
Wrt license agreements in updates/patches, I always liked it better when it was two lines long and said "This operating system feature is distributed under the same license as Windows NT 5.0. Please refer to your operating system documentation." (The old Windows Messaging, if anyone cares).
There was some work done toward getting Linux to map VRAM in as regular-old user or kernel memory. I don't have the link handy, but I believe I saw it on the linux-kernel list.
Occasionally I have delusions of trying something like this - treating the division between the VRAM and regular RAM as a case of non-uniform memory access, and using existing algorithms to prefer the faster memory.
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I'd studied your cartoons, radio, music, TV, movies, magazines Richard said, "Withdrawal in disgust is not the same as apathy" A smile like the cartoon, tooth for a tooth You said that irony was the shackles of youth You wore a shirt of violent green I never understood the frequency
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Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Pinball community when recently IDC confirmed that Pinball accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all arcade machines. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Pinball has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Pinball is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last the recent Sys Admin comprehensive gaming test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Pinball's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Pinball faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Pinball because Pinball is dying. Things are looking very bad for Pinball. As many of us are already aware, Pinball continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Non-computer Pinball is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core players.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Computerized Pinball leaders state that there are 7000 users of Pinball. How many users of non-electronic Pinball are there? Let's see. The number of computerized Pinball users versus Pinball posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 computerized Pinball users. Pinball posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of non-computerized Pinball posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of non-computerized Pinball. A recent article put computerized Pinball at about 80 percent of the Pinball market. Therefore there are 7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Pinball users. This is consistent with the number of Pinball Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Midway, abysmal sales and so on, non-computerized Pinball went out of business and was taken over by Sega, who sells another troubled arcade machine. Now Sega is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Pinball has steadily declined in market share. Pinball is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Pinball is to survive at all it will be among arcade hobbyist dabblers. Pinball continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Pinball is dead.
(This has been a test of the moderation system. We now return to your regular geek whining, already in progress.)
Ideally, demand by consumers kickstarts the process. Based upon demonstrations of the technology, people *voluntarily* buy the dual-tuner televisions, just like they did with DVD players, CDs, and the game console of the week.
And when it comes right down to it, many of the companies manufacturing televisions are also producingcontent. Which, in the context of this article, adversely affects my sanity. More lobbying, by entertainment groups, for forced acceptance of their product. Brilliance.
So, just to summarize. When the government artificially props up the software industry via the DMCA, we're all up in arms. When the MPAA artificially inflates prices in certain countries through DVD region-coding, it's horrific. Yet when the FCC wants to force analog televisions off the market to prop up digital broadcasting, without any consumer demand for it, that's okay.
The manufacterors dont want to pay for the cost of digital recievers, the broadcasters dont want to pay to upgrade, and the consumers dont want to pay extra.
Then maybe that's a sign that it's not ready to be piped into everyone's home. Not a commodity yet. Not mature enough to be within a sane price range. Let the people buying the televisions decide; don't decide for them.
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Steve Jobs: Now, I have something insanely great to show everyone today.
Macworld: <clapping>
Steve Jobs: This is the insanely great iPod 2. Thanks to our new, insanely great, partnership with IBM, the iPod 2 can now decode and playback up to 4096 simultaneous MP3 streams.
Macworld: <clapping and cheering>
Steve Jobs: So, now not only can you can carry the Beatles' entire collection with you, but you can enjoy the entire body of their work during a single commute home! Isn't that insanely great?
Macworld: Yes! <clapping>
Steve Jobs: That's over 4095 times as fast as an ordinary audio player from, say, Intel.
<Note to self: Less Macworld, more drugs>
Yup. That was the exact point made in the parent. I didn't think it needed repeating.
I really don't care if I matter. Your opinion means nothing to me, nor does the opinion of your constituents, your family, or your whole fucking city, for that matter.
What does matter - to me - is that some faceless incorporated entity isn't able to change management or go bankrupt and take my data with them. This isn't about changing the way others operate, it's about insulating tmy operation from those inevitable changes.
HAND.
And the rest of us will just go buy from a vendor that doesn't treat its customers like criminals.
You really should have bought that dictionary. They could have profited from everyone who just read this article, but here you are, stealing their ideas. Appropriating their information for others without permission. Republishing their hard work without consent.
"Material on these pages is copyright Cambridge University Press or reproduced with permission from other copyright owners. It may be downloaded and printed for personal reference, but not otherwise copied, altered in any way or transmitted to others (unless explicitly stated otherwise) without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. Hypertext links to other Web locations are for the convenience of users and do not constitute any endorsement or authorisation by Cambridge University Press."
Your mere cutting and pasting violates the inalienable property rights of Cambridge Press. You criminal. You thief. You insensitive clod.
In all seriousness, that's quite a broad definition of theft. I'm not sure if you've ever been burglarized before, but comparing the "loss" of imaginary "property" to true physical theft is borderline offensive.
Where are the convenient bundles of security updates?
I've always installed the service packs solely to fix horrific bugs and system-level compromises. I know I'm not alone, either. Are you suggesting that pushing out every Qxxxxx hotfix would be preferable to just deselecting a few unwanted components from a hypothetical SP4 install?
Just a preference of mine, really. I've never liked leaving unused software on systems, regardless of whether it's turned on or not.
No, you're violating a copyright. Stealing involves depleting a finite resource, copyright infringement involves violating a fixed-term government-granted monopoly on an idea or work. Stealing affects provable loss of a physical possession; copyright infringement dilutes the economic incentive set up by your government to promote the arts and sciences.
Potential profits are not material. Both property law and copyright law play a part in maintaining a healthy economy (read: allowing people who produce value to benefit from it), but they're not even close to being interchangeable.
This was Windows 2000, updating from release to SP3. I didn't wait around with tcpdump to see if it ever connected anywhere, but the box was checked immediately following reboot on two seperate machines today.
The defaults aren't really intrusive so much as they are annoying. I wish they'd distribute just the security updates and bugfixes in the service packs, leaving the new features to be installed seperately.
But back to the original point: at least in Windows 2000, the automatic update piece (and accompanying EULA modifications) were bundled with the service packs. The coersion, IMHO, is being forced to accept a modified EULA to get your security updates. Not some default behaviour of the update software itself.
The "operating system feature" that shipped bundled as part of Service Pack 3. It does pop up a wizard the first time the local machine administrator logs in, but until then, it is indeed enabled by default. Log in as a regular old domain user after the reboot and take a look.
Wrt license agreements in updates/patches, I always liked it better when it was two lines long and said "This operating system feature is distributed under the same license as Windows NT 5.0. Please refer to your operating system documentation." (The old Windows Messaging, if anyone cares).
And that'd make a lot of sense if the ban was limited to the public internet. It's not.
$ ifconfig eth1 down
$ ifconfig eth1
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:DE:AD:BE:EF
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x7e00
$ ifconfig eth1 hw ether 00:00:ab:ad:1d:ea
$ ifconfig eth1
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:AB:AD:1D:EA
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x7e00
There was some work done toward getting Linux to map VRAM in as regular-old user or kernel memory. I don't have the link handy, but I believe I saw it on the linux-kernel list.
Occasionally I have delusions of trying something like this - treating the division between the VRAM and regular RAM as a case of non-uniform memory access, and using existing algorithms to prefer the faster memory.
I'd studied your cartoons, radio, music, TV, movies, magazines
Richard said, "Withdrawal in disgust is not the same as apathy"
A smile like the cartoon, tooth for a tooth
You said that irony was the shackles of youth
You wore a shirt of violent green
I never understood the frequency
http://www.codewhore.org/tbq
I am a karma whore - And how!
A mirror of the screen shots is at http://www.codewhore.org/tbq.
I must really be starved for attention to do this.
(The Xbox still needs to have a modchip fitted to allow it to run unsigned code)
And if Microsoft's political engineering team has their way, you'll need one to run an "untrusted" OS on any machine! The joy!
Recently forwarded to FOX's "America's Most Wanted".
Am I making this up? I wish I was.
T-Rex, meet Godzilla. :-)
Mothra will protect us!
"You'll laugh, you'll fly... just not very far."
:)
I guess if you're going to fall to a horrible bloody death, it pays to have a sense of humor about it.
Netcraft has now confirmed: Pinball is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Pinball community when recently IDC confirmed that Pinball accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all arcade machines. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Pinball has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Pinball is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last the recent Sys Admin comprehensive gaming test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Pinball's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Pinball faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Pinball because Pinball is dying. Things are looking very bad for Pinball. As many of us are already aware, Pinball continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Non-computer Pinball is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core players.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Computerized Pinball leaders state that there are 7000 users of Pinball. How many users of non-electronic Pinball are there? Let's see. The number of computerized Pinball users versus Pinball posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 computerized Pinball users. Pinball posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of non-computerized Pinball posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of non-computerized Pinball. A recent article put computerized Pinball at about 80 percent of the Pinball market. Therefore there are 7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Pinball users. This is consistent with the number of Pinball Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Midway, abysmal sales and so on, non-computerized Pinball went out of business and was taken over by Sega, who sells another troubled arcade machine. Now Sega is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Pinball has steadily declined in market share. Pinball is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Pinball is to survive at all it will be among arcade hobbyist dabblers. Pinball continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Pinball is dead.
(This has been a test of the moderation system. We now return to your regular geek whining, already in progress.)
but couldn't find a HDTV that looked much better than standard TV until I got to the great than $2000 range.
Exactly. It's not ready yet.
Ideally, demand by consumers kickstarts the process. Based upon demonstrations of the technology, people *voluntarily* buy the dual-tuner televisions, just like they did with DVD players, CDs, and the game console of the week.
And when it comes right down to it, many of the companies manufacturing televisions are also producing content. Which, in the context of this article, adversely affects my sanity. More lobbying, by entertainment groups, for forced acceptance of their product. Brilliance.
So, just to summarize. When the government artificially props up the software industry via the DMCA, we're all up in arms. When the MPAA artificially inflates prices in certain countries through DVD region-coding, it's horrific. Yet when the FCC wants to force analog televisions off the market to prop up digital broadcasting, without any consumer demand for it, that's okay.
The manufacterors dont want to pay for the cost of digital recievers, the broadcasters dont want to pay to upgrade, and the consumers dont want to pay extra.
Then maybe that's a sign that it's not ready to be piped into everyone's home. Not a commodity yet. Not mature enough to be within a sane price range. Let the people buying the televisions decide; don't decide for them.