wait...you've got a 4 digit/. user ID, and you don't think you've 'earned the right' to make a lot of comments in an area where you are very much an expert?
Hi, as an occasional user of the CC, I really appreciate having someone who has a deep understanding of the CC, and knows how this stuff works come on and answer questions on/.
but this comment:
(and occasionally get sucked into responding to/. comment threads...)
makes it seem like you really don't like answering these sorts of questions. This is a little off-putting for people like me, who use the CC with a little hesitation, because we aren't lawyers who understand this sort of stuff. (or have I misread/misinterpreted the tone of your response, and a *Woosh* is in order)
The real evil are the individuals who made the technology and sold it to Sony. They knew what it was going to do.
or maybe the people who sold the technology to Sony knew exactly what they were doing, and specifically designed it that way because they wanted a worldwide backlash against DRM?...see, I can make unsubstantiated claims too.
why would I give up a proven, reliable OS that has worked for years and years to spend time fussing with and waiting on a new OS to get it's bugs sorted out?
having to needlessly change everything over every few years also kills productivity.
I still run windows 98 on one of my laptops, because it does exactly what i need it to do. why replace it when the only thing that has changed are my expectations of what a piece of software should do?
I don't know how effective a 'spread the word about alternative browsers' campaign would be.
To you and I, doing a quick google search about web browsers to learn the pros and cons of each is no big deal. but to non-techie people, they would not even think about doing this.
we could have a massive online campaign running, radio ads, TV spots, and beat people over the head with the idea that 'web browser x' is better than IE, and it won't mean anything to them because they don't know what a web browser is. To them, it is just a button you click to get the internet.
word of mouth doesn't always work either, people are reluctant to change if they don't see a problem with what they have now. what can we do" do in, install firefox secretly and change the icon so they wont notice?
I would be interested to see how MS would impliment this.the user is presented with a dialogue screen:
please select your browser:
IE: allows you to have easy access to the internet, and allows viruses, adware, and spyware to have easy access to your computer. slow, kinda crashy. FIREFOX: used to be very small and quick. CHROME: looks great with vista's interface LYNX: if you love everything about the 80's, you will love the look of this browser
...I don't see a problem with cameras in public places where you never had a reasonable expectation of privacy anyway. If they were invading my privacy I'd be the first to protest, but you can't claim to have privacy on a street corner.
back in 2001-2004, I worked as a janitor part time at a school that had some surveillance cameras set up to record the parking lots. but, the school didn't have a dedicated security guard to monitor these tapes. it became a job for the janitors to change the tapes each night. when the tape was out, we had control over the cameras, and I was amazed by the zoom on these things. we could look over a parking lot, across a soccer field, past someones backyard, and right into their bedrooms.
even though there was no intention of invading a person's privacy when those cameras were installed, it was very easy to do so. and that's why I object to cameras like this. they can be installed with the best of intentions, but they can be misused too easily.
IR LEDs are pretty tough. It takes a lot more power to burn out an IR LED than a visible light one.
But, if you are looking for durability, and you're using a 9v power source like the guy in this video, throwing in a 390 ohm resistor would be a good idea.
That being said, why is there so much joking in slashdot these days? Truly insightfull posts are hard to come by when every discussion starts with 50 "funny" (but painfully obvious) jokes.
because 'funny' is so much easier than 'insightful'.
what I find frustrating is how often 'funny' comments get modded as 'insightful'.
2 people modded my first comment in this thread 'insightful', rather than 'funny'. what's going on, mods! it is very rare that I make an insightful comment. please, don't give me undeserved karma, you are only encouraging me. make me earn it!
"At the heart of this issue is that the CPU has run its course and the soul of the PC is shifting quickly to the GPU. This is clearly an attempt to stifle innovation to protect a decaying CPU business.""
Sounds like he reads slashdot.
it sounds more like he NEVER reads slashdot. He said nothing about welcoming overlords, Natalie Portman, or hot grits. the phrase IANAL never came up, and no car analogies were used. how does he sound like a slashdotter?
is your argument that we pay to possess the software, but clicking 'Agree' on the EULA is what actually authorizes us to use that software legally.
that's good to know, because I have a ton of pirated software, and since I've clicked "agree" on that EULA during installation, i now have a valid license, and I am now authorized to use it. sweet!
"Note: I work for the CRTC. They are not proposing influencing the content itself but rather the distribution."
In either case, the nanny province is telling me what I can and cannot watch. Whether it is the content, that is direct cesorship, or the distribution, that is the ability to see what I want without "help" from the government (that is you), it is STILL censorship. It is, like all cancon laws, tarted up censorship, eh.
JE
There, I Canuckified that for you. It's now compliant with the Canadian Content laws.
no. You forgot to post the comment in both English and French.
let's not forget about the medium of machinima, where films (a medium often seen as high-art) are being made with video games (a medium often seen as vulgar and low-art)
or how about artists who use video games as an artistic medium? I have stepped into commercial galleries where video games were the basis for an artwork.
as a professional artist, who has been formally educated in the fine arts, and who has exhibited work on 3 separate continents; it is my opinion that video games are very much a form of art.
for a home computer, you may be right, it can be frustrating having to do the whole 'sudo nautilis' thing every time i want to change some settings in certain directories, but in a work/production environment, do you really want everyone being able to add/remove programs and alter settings at will? do you really want your parents mucking around with their settings?
in these cases, Ubuntu's method works rather well. potentiallly dangerous actions are blocks, but rather than having to log in on a new account, you just pop in a quick password.
If you don't like it, you can enter something in the terminal to give you full admin privileges, all the time, but I would strongly recommend against doing this. you can do all kinds of bad if you aren't careful.
Complaining in the F/OSS world = getting the problem FIXED.
i would absolutely love to believe that was the case, but I am forced to read slashdot in windows, because my wifi wont work in ubuntu, even with ndis wrapper. the reply i got was 'use ndis wrapper' in the F/OSS world, my experience has been people who either mis-understand the problem, or ridicule me for not knowing how to code a solution myself, then they wonder why F/OSS doens't take off like it should.
from the perspective of a computer user (my sig should confirm that I am not a developer) perhaps this is because people expect windows apps to work in the windows world because, "we paid good money for this, it had better work" while in the linux world, if an app doesn't work, i am not all that bothered by it, because its free, i paid nothing for it, i will forgive the occasional bug, and if it gets bad enough, there is an alternative out there that is also free.
In wine, having an app that was intended for an entirely different operating system actually work just blows my mind. i would never think to complain to the wine team that "x program won't work"
in windows, when an app fails, it is frustrating because I expect commercial software to be bug free.
(note to linux zealots: please don't mod this flamebait, did you notice how i said "IF a linux app fails" and "WHEN a windows app fails")
I'm not asking this to be rude or invasive, but for perspective on the issue.
In my province (Ontario) elementary teachers earn about $90,000/year.
if you consider a teachers salary to be so horrible a family can not survive on one, you must either be 1. living in an extremely expensive area, 2. be well-off and spending recklessly, or 3. the teachers in your area have a really, really bad contract.
I had a similar thing happen to me in highschool, where a classmate altered a file, and added a 'Kyle did this' comment at the end of the file.
my argument went along the lines of, "do you really believe that I am both smart enough to hack into your systems, while being dumb enough to put my own name in the file that was hacked?"
apparently, they did, and I got a nice one week mid-semester holiday.
as soon as i returned, I broken in, and changed the principal's password to "Imadouchebag", the vice principals password to "mynameisforestforestgump" and my teacher's password to "fuckmejesusfuckmehard"
I figure, if you are going to punish me anyway, I'll have my fun and go along with it. Ironically, when I actually did that, I never got caught. And I never would have thought of doing this had they not unfairly punished me. their ignorance, unfounded accusations and my unfair punishment are what motivated me to do wrong.
the moral of the story: teachers: using your last name in all caps is not a good password!
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ok, thanks you for clearing that up.
wait...you've got a 4 digit /. user ID, and you don't think you've 'earned the right' to make a lot of comments in an area where you are very much an expert?
so, in response to my previous comment: woosh!
Hi, as an occasional user of the CC, I really appreciate having someone who has a deep understanding of the CC, and knows how this stuff works come on and answer questions on /.
but this comment:
(and occasionally get sucked into responding to /. comment threads...)
makes it seem like you really don't like answering these sorts of questions. This is a little off-putting for people like me, who use the CC with a little hesitation, because we aren't lawyers who understand this sort of stuff.
(or have I misread/misinterpreted the tone of your response, and a *Woosh* is in order)
Why does every Microsoft Bashing Troll have a homepage that looks like it was designed in 1992?
because those websites were built with frontpage.
The real evil are the individuals who made the technology and sold it to Sony. They knew what it was going to do.
or maybe the people who sold the technology to Sony knew exactly what they were doing, and specifically designed it that way because they wanted a worldwide backlash against DRM? ...see, I can make unsubstantiated claims too.
why would I give up a proven, reliable OS that has worked for years and years to spend time fussing with and waiting on a new OS to get it's bugs sorted out?
having to needlessly change everything over every few years also kills productivity.
I still run windows 98 on one of my laptops, because it does exactly what i need it to do. why replace it when the only thing that has changed are my expectations of what a piece of software should do?
I don't know how effective a 'spread the word about alternative browsers' campaign would be.
To you and I, doing a quick google search about web browsers to learn the pros and cons of each is no big deal. but to non-techie people, they would not even think about doing this.
we could have a massive online campaign running, radio ads, TV spots, and beat people over the head with the idea that 'web browser x' is better than IE, and it won't mean anything to them because they don't know what a web browser is. To them, it is just a button you click to get the internet.
word of mouth doesn't always work either, people are reluctant to change if they don't see a problem with what they have now.
what can we do" do in, install firefox secretly and change the icon so they wont notice?
I would be interested to see how MS would impliment this.the user is presented with a dialogue screen:
please select your browser:
IE: allows you to have easy access to the internet, and allows viruses, adware, and spyware to have easy access to your computer. slow, kinda crashy.
FIREFOX: used to be very small and quick.
CHROME: looks great with vista's interface
LYNX: if you love everything about the 80's, you will love the look of this browser
...I don't see a problem with cameras in public places where you never had a reasonable expectation of privacy anyway. If they were invading my privacy I'd be the first to protest, but you can't claim to have privacy on a street corner.
back in 2001-2004, I worked as a janitor part time at a school that had some surveillance cameras set up to record the parking lots.
but, the school didn't have a dedicated security guard to monitor these tapes. it became a job for the janitors to change the tapes each night. when the tape was out, we had control over the cameras, and I was amazed by the zoom on these things. we could look over a parking lot, across a soccer field, past someones backyard, and right into their bedrooms.
even though there was no intention of invading a person's privacy when those cameras were installed, it was very easy to do so. and that's why I object to cameras like this. they can be installed with the best of intentions, but they can be misused too easily.
IR LEDs are pretty tough. It takes a lot more power to burn out an IR LED than a visible light one.
But, if you are looking for durability, and you're using a 9v power source like the guy in this video, throwing in a 390 ohm resistor would be a good idea.
"in South Korea, only old people use CPUs"
Or "CPUs are for old people".
That being said, why is there so much joking in slashdot these days? Truly insightfull posts are hard to come by when every discussion starts with 50 "funny" (but painfully obvious) jokes.
because 'funny' is so much easier than 'insightful'.
what I find frustrating is how often 'funny' comments get modded as 'insightful'.
2 people modded my first comment in this thread 'insightful', rather than 'funny'.
what's going on, mods! it is very rare that I make an insightful comment.
please, don't give me undeserved karma, you are only encouraging me.
make me earn it!
"At the heart of this issue is that the CPU has run its course and the soul of the PC is shifting quickly to the GPU. This is clearly an attempt to stifle innovation to protect a decaying CPU business.""
Sounds like he reads slashdot.
it sounds more like he NEVER reads slashdot.
He said nothing about welcoming overlords, Natalie Portman, or hot grits. the phrase IANAL never came up, and no car analogies were used.
how does he sound like a slashdotter?
is your argument that we pay to possess the software, but clicking 'Agree' on the EULA is what actually authorizes us to use that software legally.
that's good to know, because I have a ton of pirated software, and since I've clicked "agree" on that EULA during installation, i now have a valid license, and I am now authorized to use it. sweet!
US productions have 10X the audience, they can afford 10X the budget, making it very hard for Canadian productions to compete.
The CRTC might be a huge bloated archaic corporation, but they're not complete morons.
mod parent 'funny'
You wrote:
"Note: I work for the CRTC. They are not proposing influencing the content itself but rather the distribution."
In either case, the nanny province is telling me what I can and cannot watch. Whether it is the content,
that is direct cesorship, or the distribution, that is the ability to see what I want without "help" from the
government (that is you), it is STILL censorship. It is, like all cancon laws, tarted up censorship, eh.
JE
There, I Canuckified that for you. It's now compliant with the Canadian Content laws.
no. You forgot to post the comment in both English and French.
that will be $1000 Canadian, or $10 US.
did I just get modded '-1 troll' for bashing microsoft on slashdot?
should I have included a line about chair-throwing overlords or something?
and when we get frustrated by windows 7 not living up to the hype, will we get free downgrades back to XP?
did the guild sue XP?
I can take a text file of a book and have XP read it to me.
why isn't that a problem for the guild?
let's not forget about the medium of machinima, where films (a medium often seen as high-art) are being made with video games (a medium often seen as vulgar and low-art)
or how about artists who use video games as an artistic medium? I have stepped into commercial galleries where video games were the basis for an artwork.
as a professional artist, who has been formally educated in the fine arts, and who has exhibited work on 3 separate continents; it is my opinion that video games are very much a form of art.
for a home computer, you may be right, it can be frustrating having to do the whole 'sudo nautilis' thing every time i want to change some settings in certain directories, but in a work/production environment, do you really want everyone being able to add/remove programs and alter settings at will? do you really want your parents mucking around with their settings?
in these cases, Ubuntu's method works rather well. potentiallly dangerous actions are blocks, but rather than having to log in on a new account, you just pop in a quick password.
If you don't like it, you can enter something in the terminal to give you full admin privileges, all the time, but I would strongly recommend against doing this.
you can do all kinds of bad if you aren't careful.
sudo apt-get with the times, microsoft!
Complaining in the F/OSS world = getting the problem FIXED.
i would absolutely love to believe that was the case, but I am forced to read slashdot in windows, because my wifi wont work in ubuntu, even with ndis wrapper. the reply i got was 'use ndis wrapper'
in the F/OSS world, my experience has been people who either mis-understand the problem, or ridicule me for not knowing how to code a solution myself, then they wonder why F/OSS doens't take off like it should.
if this is the case, wouldn't it be easier to make an OSX emulator and run mac photoshop under linux?
is there a MAC-WINE out there?
from the perspective of a computer user (my sig should confirm that I am not a developer) perhaps this is because people expect windows apps to work in the windows world because, "we paid good money for this, it had better work"
while in the linux world, if an app doesn't work, i am not all that bothered by it, because its free, i paid nothing for it, i will forgive the occasional bug, and if it gets bad enough, there is an alternative out there that is also free.
In wine, having an app that was intended for an entirely different operating system actually work just blows my mind. i would never think to complain to the wine team that "x program won't work"
in windows, when an app fails, it is frustrating because I expect commercial software to be bug free.
(note to linux zealots: please don't mod this flamebait, did you notice how i said "IF a linux app fails" and "WHEN a windows app fails")
what country are you living in?
I'm not asking this to be rude or invasive, but for perspective on the issue.
In my province (Ontario) elementary teachers earn about $90,000/year.
if you consider a teachers salary to be so horrible a family can not survive on one, you must either be
1. living in an extremely expensive area,
2. be well-off and spending recklessly, or
3. the teachers in your area have a really, really bad contract.
I had a similar thing happen to me in highschool, where a classmate altered a file, and added a 'Kyle did this' comment at the end of the file.
my argument went along the lines of, "do you really believe that I am both smart enough to hack into your systems, while being dumb enough to put my own name in the file that was hacked?"
apparently, they did, and I got a nice one week mid-semester holiday.
as soon as i returned, I broken in, and changed the principal's password to "Imadouchebag", the vice principals password to "mynameisforestforestgump" and my teacher's password to "fuckmejesusfuckmehard"
I figure, if you are going to punish me anyway, I'll have my fun and go along with it. Ironically, when I actually did that, I never got caught. And I never would have thought of doing this had they not unfairly punished me. their ignorance, unfounded accusations and my unfair punishment are what motivated me to do wrong.
the moral of the story:
teachers: using your last name in all caps is not a good password!