There is already a command line option for offensive and obscene fortune, but what about one for slighly obnoxios, or potentially intellectually stimulating?
Not to mention not-US-school-shooting-related options?
NOTE: may be OFF TOPIC
(Thus I have removed my Score +1 bonus)
Point taken.
But it's not always so simple.
I have discovered artists unknown to me through illegal MP3 files, and have bought their CDs (IF I could find them). To every 1 mainstream artist, there are hordes of talented artists who will fail.
In my country, the BIG station (Radio 5) have singled out a couple of artists, and only those artists have made it. They would be the only ones to lose on MP3 copying.
I take your point, but, contrawise: copyright MP3 spreading is the PR of struggling artists.
Making an MP3 for me to use it in my Nomad Jukebox is not against the wishes of the Artist.
Point two:
Many artists don't have a problem with this. In fact some artists openly encourage spreading of MP3s. It is mostly record companies and BIG music stars that have problems.
Point three:
People DO lose something. What was the purpose of sending it to CDDB otherwise? Why did they do it? It was not a nessesary step to get the MP3 in the end.
Point four:
I agree with you fully.
:)
Just wanted to make SOME points clear.
You obviously are playing devil's advocate, and so am I.
For those unsure of how they propose to implement this:
There is a copyright field in the newer ID3v2 tad info.
Since the CDDB was a community based system, it would thus rely on the people ripping it to enter the correct information. There is also a field which specifies: "Encoded by".
These fields are all good and well, but it will take a lot of time and effort for them to verify these.
To my knowledge it's only most BW CCTV cameras that have this attribute.
I've written framegrabbing software for a security company on linux and winnt (inclusive of the entire rest of the access control system) and have played with many types of cameras.
Most colour cameras must not be sensitive to IR if they want to be colour perfect.
As a matter of interest: Never mind your remote control, look at elevator doors with the IR detectors! It looks like a disco!
The same goes for track 80 (and 81-82?) on my old Amiga. There used to be copy-protect schemes which used these tracks, and thus there were LOTS of programs that could read them. Basically every kid in those days knew about the extra tracks... but then, non of those kids were spy catchers...
Another way of floppy copy protection was to make half-written tracks, when yielded a random different result each time they were read. The software would read this a couple of times, and bomb out if it got a consistent result. This was pretty hard to duplicate with a nibble-copy, and could only be done by damaging that part of the floppy
A Professor at the University of Pretoria (South Africa), a guy named Prof. D. Oosthiuzen, had the entire class of final year students write on a piece of paper what they though each member in his or her team had to contribute to the project.
I though this was a particularly childish gesture, since in a team, each member contributed 100% in their own way. I was not impressed. For various reasons that was counter to what the course tried to teach us -: working as a team.
A thought just crossed my mind... what are the consequences of altering the genetic makeup of an animal that is poplar in certain cultures as a 'sacred' animal.
Cows and elephants in particular come to mind.
How does this impact on the animals religious perspective....
I'm a South African, and my main aim in life is to hack DVDROM drive bioses and software players to be region free. I've help three people in the past week!:) My life has meaning! -chuckle-
I really really love movies, but find that the local sole-(read monopoly)-importers and distributers find it non-profitable to import certain titles. So I have to buy it from the UK or USA. (can you say Amazon.co.uk?)
I'll hack and distribute anything I cannot buy locally, until they friggin' kill this silly Zoning thing.
Some people confuse what Americans say as the truth... this site may be hosted and run by americans, but it has not geographical boundaries.
Thus is the era of cyberspace, as coined by Gibson. Sure, American movies have the quantity, but I only buy quality.
Americans are paranoid... face it. I prefer European movies, from my top 10 about 2 were made for American mass media. Some of the other may have been produced in America, but that's not saying much.
Then there is Anime. I won't even go there...
Not to mention India has a film production to rival that of Holy-wood. (But not rivaling the quality, admittedly)
All this is besides the point. What is the point is that Slashdot (for a cyberspace entity - global village etc.) seems a bit biased toward a specific continent.
I would not have minded at all, IF I could buy and watch the DVD at the same time as some other people.
For the time being, however, I'll just rip and distribute all the crap movies that I can't afford anyway (read: American), and buy the Rest on DVD. (read: Quality)
The fact that there is a discussion about this movie from people who have already seen it, and here I am, still waiting patiently for the cinema release.
-sigh-
Why MUST the USA get the releases before the rest of the planet? And then impose silly things like zoned DVDs so that people like me suffer to purchase DVDs, just because the local movie distributers deem certain films non-profitable to import?
This may seem off-topic, but that's exactly my point... please refrain from discussing films on an worldwide open forum of the likes of Slashdot.
People did not buy this for graphical effect only, but rather for it's control strength. Since it is a deathmatch only game, which halflife and Unreal are not, it is the perfect place to test skill.
And I do not play with all my options off... as cards give more and more power, you can put on certain fetures which may aid you. There are features which do not aid one, and these you will put off only in serious competitions.
Some people prefer high res and smooth to pretty. For some people these things are more 'sexy'.
The game is designed in such a manner that there is always a server and a client, even in single player mode. Quake has this little oddity (which hardcore Quake player use a lot) that allows them to achive a bit more height with certain update ferequencies. And somehow the updates are linked to certrain FPS. For instance: Begin able to just jump normally up onto the megahealth platform without any other aid on the Q3DM13 level has certain advantages. I can only do it with a FPS of 120 and 140.
With an FPS of 140 I can rocketjump higher, and with a FPS of 120 gravity seems to work a little less harder, and I can jump from the railgun to the rocket-launcher platform (and back) on Q3DM6. (Using a combination of circle-jumping and stafe-jumping techniques that exploit some other physics feature - these are so difficult to master that they were left in from previous bugs)
Thus for Quake I need a sustained 120. It is possible in Quake3 to cap the framerate at acertain value, but then you must be sure you can keep it there. Besides, there are certain jerking phenomena with my mouse with has a update frequency of 120 Hz, and my monitor with refreshes at 120 Hz if I cannot seem to keep 120 FPS in quake. (Which makes railing more inacurate)
These things are only important in competitive playing, for which Quake3 was designed.
Secondly: Other games.
Mostly similar to reasons I stated above - Mouse jitter on certain systems, as well as sustaining the same FPS on even high difficulty scenes. Most of the FPS ratings were done with certain detail off, and was only an average. You need about 150+ on average to have >80 on worst scenario.
Except, of course (more to the point of my previous post) search engines. I cannot (without knowing my search engine more intimately) search for all permutations and combinations of "colourise"
Dialect produces similar problems, though less in impact, to language.
Primary language people would be more abundant where American Engish is concerned, whereas Brittish English is known as a secondary language by quite a large number of international people (since a number of countries were at one stage also British colonies)
I was having a hard enough battle at University at one stage to try and convince the web designer to actually support English!
Just like I'm having an uphill battle with most applications to start using metric, and English-UK spell checkers and grammer. Not to mention pains with printing on A4 vs. Letter!
Slashdot Mirror
And to think, other bird's wings will be useless!
:)
The point was that I used CDDB, Napster was not really the issue. I've never used napster, and I have thousands of MP3s.
No, excuse me. ;)
Tell that to the person busy breaking into a car:
"Excuse me, Mr. Criminal, Sir. But that there cellphone jammer you are carrying there is illegal."
"Oh, sorry, you are quite right! I forgot... let me put it off."
-chuckle-
My point? I don't think criminals care.
There is already a command line option for offensive and obscene fortune, but what about one for slighly obnoxios, or potentially intellectually stimulating?
Not to mention not-US-school-shooting-related options?
-sigh-
Stupid people make me tired.
...if it falls in the wrong list context.
;)
NOTE: may be OFF TOPIC
(Thus I have removed my Score +1 bonus)
Point taken.
But it's not always so simple.
I have discovered artists unknown to me through illegal MP3 files, and have bought their CDs (IF I could find them). To every 1 mainstream artist, there are hordes of talented artists who will fail.
In my country, the BIG station (Radio 5) have singled out a couple of artists, and only those artists have made it. They would be the only ones to lose on MP3 copying.
I take your point, but, contrawise: copyright MP3 spreading is the PR of struggling artists.
Point one:
Making an MP3 for me to use it in my Nomad Jukebox is not against the wishes of the Artist.
Point two:
Many artists don't have a problem with this. In fact some artists openly encourage spreading of MP3s. It is mostly record companies and BIG music stars that have problems.
Point three:
People DO lose something. What was the purpose of sending it to CDDB otherwise? Why did they do it? It was not a nessesary step to get the MP3 in the end.
Point four:
I agree with you fully.
:)
Just wanted to make SOME points clear.
You obviously are playing devil's advocate, and so am I.
For those unsure of how they propose to implement this:
There is a copyright field in the newer ID3v2 tad info.
Since the CDDB was a community based system, it would thus rely on the people ripping it to enter the correct information. There is also a field which specifies: "Encoded by".
These fields are all good and well, but it will take a lot of time and effort for them to verify these.
:)
To my knowledge it's only most BW CCTV cameras that have this attribute.
I've written framegrabbing software for a security company on linux and winnt (inclusive of the entire rest of the access control system) and have played with many types of cameras.
Most colour cameras must not be sensitive to IR if they want to be colour perfect.
As a matter of interest: Never mind your remote control, look at elevator doors with the IR detectors! It looks like a disco!
-chuckle-
The answer is simple. Get a Cellphone jammer, and you can walk around undetected.
If the picture on the site is anything to go by, the cameras are lowish quality, and look mosly down, and thus can not see people at long distances.
Just call me MR invisible.
They will have to outlaw jammers if they want to succeed.
(But I do agree... I'd rather be photographed in the UK than go to a US school)
:)
Let alone VMware, what about windows hibernation support... you don't need fancy software to get a memory dump!
:)
Just image the possibilities of smearing off our low-quality earth products to richer E.T. aliens..
-giggle-
The same goes for track 80 (and 81-82?) on my old Amiga. There used to be copy-protect schemes which used these tracks, and thus there were LOTS of programs that could read them. Basically every kid in those days knew about the extra tracks... but then, non of those kids were spy catchers...
Another way of floppy copy protection was to make half-written tracks, when yielded a random different result each time they were read. The software would read this a couple of times, and bomb out if it got a consistent result. This was pretty hard to duplicate with a nibble-copy, and could only be done by damaging that part of the floppy
Napster does not steal from people,
People steal from people.
what a brainwave...
A Professor at the University of Pretoria (South Africa), a guy named Prof. D. Oosthiuzen, had the entire class of final year students write on a piece of paper what they though each member in his or her team had to contribute to the project.
I though this was a particularly childish gesture, since in a team, each member contributed 100% in their own way. I was not impressed. For various reasons that was counter to what the course tried to teach us -: working as a team.
A thought just crossed my mind... what are the consequences of altering the genetic makeup of an animal that is poplar in certain cultures as a 'sacred' animal.
Cows and elephants in particular come to mind.
How does this impact on the animals religious perspective....
Just a though... don't shoot me.
;)
Adreed. You suck. ;)
:) My life has meaning! -chuckle-
I'm a South African, and my main aim in life is to hack DVDROM drive bioses and software players to be region free. I've help three people in the past week!
I really really love movies, but find that the local sole-(read monopoly)-importers and distributers find it non-profitable to import certain titles. So I have to buy it from the UK or USA. (can you say Amazon.co.uk?)
I'll hack and distribute anything I cannot buy locally, until they friggin' kill this silly Zoning thing.
:)
My R0.01999999999999
Dom.
Some people confuse what Americans say as the truth... this site may be hosted and run by americans, but it has not geographical boundaries.
Thus is the era of cyberspace, as coined by Gibson. Sure, American movies have the quantity, but I only buy quality.
Americans are paranoid... face it. I prefer European movies, from my top 10 about 2 were made for American mass media. Some of the other may have been produced in America, but that's not saying much.
Then there is Anime. I won't even go there...
Not to mention India has a film production to rival that of Holy-wood. (But not rivaling the quality, admittedly)
All this is besides the point. What is the point is that Slashdot (for a cyberspace entity - global village etc.) seems a bit biased toward a specific continent.
I would not have minded at all, IF I could buy and watch the DVD at the same time as some other people.
For the time being, however, I'll just rip and distribute all the crap movies that I can't afford anyway (read: American), and buy the Rest on DVD. (read: Quality)
-chuckle-
The fact that there is a discussion about this movie from people who have already seen it, and here I am, still waiting patiently for the cinema release.
-sigh-
Why MUST the USA get the releases before the rest of the planet? And then impose silly things like zoned DVDs so that people like me suffer to purchase DVDs, just because the local movie distributers deem certain films non-profitable to import?
This may seem off-topic, but that's exactly my point... please refrain from discussing films on an worldwide open forum of the likes of Slashdot.
I have no self-control, so sue me...)
Dom.
When I bought it, I enquired for the Linux version, but was greeted by blank stares.
So I went and bought the Windows version.
I later bought the Linux version as well, but many people will not do this. (It's a waste of money, I know, but I really liked the tin box!
;)
People tend to buy the first version available.
I'm not sure how other people in other countries experienced this, but I stay in South Africa, and the average IQ here is abysmal.
The problem is the script-kiddie type of people that work in computer software retail stores tend to be pro-DOS... erm... Windows 98/ME I meant.
My $0.01999999999999999999999
Domini.
People did not buy this for graphical effect only, but rather for it's control strength. Since it is a deathmatch only game, which halflife and Unreal are not, it is the perfect place to test skill.
And I do not play with all my options off... as cards give more and more power, you can put on certain fetures which may aid you. There are features which do not aid one, and these you will put off only in serious competitions.
Some people prefer high res and smooth to pretty. For some people these things are more 'sexy'.
;)
e.Lailoken.
Firstly: Quake3
The game is designed in such a manner that there is always a server and a client, even in single player mode. Quake has this little oddity (which hardcore Quake player use a lot) that allows them to achive a bit more height with certain update ferequencies. And somehow the updates are linked to certrain FPS. For instance: Begin able to just jump normally up onto the megahealth platform without any other aid on the Q3DM13 level has certain advantages. I can only do it with a FPS of 120 and 140.
With an FPS of 140 I can rocketjump higher, and with a FPS of 120 gravity seems to work a little less harder, and I can jump from the railgun to the rocket-launcher platform (and back) on Q3DM6. (Using a combination of circle-jumping and stafe-jumping techniques that exploit some other physics feature - these are so difficult to master that they were left in from previous bugs)
Thus for Quake I need a sustained 120. It is possible in Quake3 to cap the framerate at acertain value, but then you must be sure you can keep it there. Besides, there are certain jerking phenomena with my mouse with has a update frequency of 120 Hz, and my monitor with refreshes at 120 Hz if I cannot seem to keep 120 FPS in quake. (Which makes railing more inacurate)
These things are only important in competitive playing, for which Quake3 was designed.
Secondly: Other games.
Mostly similar to reasons I stated above - Mouse jitter on certain systems, as well as sustaining the same FPS on even high difficulty scenes. Most of the FPS ratings were done with certain detail off, and was only an average. You need about 150+ on average to have >80 on worst scenario.
Read about it HERE
Strange... I submitted this to Slashdot yeaterday, and still some other sites came out with it first.
Slashdot seems to be slipping a bit.
Except, of course (more to the point of my previous post) search engines. I cannot (without knowing my search engine more intimately) search for all permutations and combinations of "colourise"
Dialect produces similar problems, though less in impact, to language.
Primary language people would be more abundant where American Engish is concerned, whereas Brittish English is known as a secondary language by quite a large number of international people (since a number of countries were at one stage also British colonies)
I was having a hard enough battle at University at one stage to try and convince the web designer to actually support English!
Just like I'm having an uphill battle with most applications to start using metric, and English-UK spell checkers and grammer. Not to mention pains with printing on A4 vs. Letter!
:)
My R0.02 (Aprox. $0.00)
;)
English is not my Native Language, but I (amongst many other people, I'm sure) would prefer it as the standard.
Don't look at Native speakers, look at largest common language.
It's difficult enough searching the web already.
And more to my post Subject: Why specifically American? Who on earth trusts people who cannot even use metric? And spells colour as color!
-shiver-
Dom.
(A previous-British-Colony ist.) ?