You really think Avid's tired ass interface based on a film cutting table with different specialized tools in different areas is better than FCP's interface that can do everything anywhere and really works with the concept that any clip can have an alpha channel???
Avid's "tired ass interface" has evolved over 10 years of active development w/professional editors. Yes, it uses the film cutting table model, but so does FCP. ("bins", "clips", "cuts"). Guess what, a computer keyboard is based on a typewriter too. Who cares?
FCP's interface is a direct ripoff of Avid's but many things are done half-assed and many features are missing. The difference is that avid has refined their UI and Apple hasn't. I can rattle off a bunch of problems with FCP's interface, but this is all the time I'm going to dedicate to an anonymous troll.
Then you think a freebee that hardly competes with iMovie is better than FCP? You?re on crack and need to detox right
I said it was available as an option. I'm not saying it'll directly compete with FCP. There aren't any film options, for instance. But it may have more features than iMovie and definitely a better interface.
Long taken for granted among Avid editors, dupe detection is incredibly helpful, especially when cutting longform documentaries and music videos.
When editing film on a computer (for conforming back to film), you can't use the same piece of film negative more than once. That is, unless you want to have to create extra copies of the negatives every time you reuse footage.
Since FCP now supports film projects, dupe detection is essential. In fact, for 16mm film, you have to be especially careful, since the gluing together of clips actually "eats" a frame of negative every time.
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Oh, and yeah.. it would be nice if slashdot had dupe-detection built in as well.
It should be fully functional (ie, not a "demo' version) although somewhat limited in terms of number of tracks. But no watermarks or anything. More info here.
As anyone who has used both Avid and FCP can attest, Avid's GUI is far superior. Or at least was, as I haven't used FCP since 2.0.
It turns out that if you have physical access to a system, you can perform a pretty effective denial of service attack using a rather devious little bit of technology called a 'baseball bat'.
Don't tell Ashcroft, he'll try to ban baseball in the name of national security!
Anti-circumvention language in the DMCA has been a foundation for a number of recent copyright actions, including the Justice Department's crackdown earlier this week on a site distributing "mod chips" for Microsoft's Xbox video game console.
If the mod chips were sold as "XBOX Linux-Enabler Chips" rather than pirate devices, would it have made a difference?
Actually, Open Office, cannot do all the things office can do. The problem comes in where you define as what is Office? First, most think of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access (Professional) as the standard office suite. But now, with the 2000 versions, include Project/Project Server, Visio, MapPoint, Frontpage, Publisher, and the list goes on and on.
Well, Microsoft Office for Mac contains Word, Excel, Entourage, and Powerpoint. That's it. So it doesn't seem like even MS is consistent in what "Office" means.
What about the Apple tax that come with Apple hardware?
It was said in another thread, but the difference is that you are buying a computer from a SOLE VENDER-- Apple. Apple is not forcing other companies to include Mac OS X when selling a non-Apple computer, unlike MIcrosoft.
Put another way-- if you buy a Civic from Honda, there is no special added cost for the tires that come with it. Those tires are part of what make a Honda a Honda.
BUT if Honda forced OTHER auto companies to make you pay for Honda tires on *all* THEIR cars (even if you wanted to put your own tires on it!), well, that would be unfair.
There's another problem that people laugh about, but which really is a problem: They only have one mouse button. I now have a Vaio R505G, which has three buttons... the middle is a mouse wheel. One mouse button is insufficient for me to conveniently use a desktop. I know a few Mac people who claim that it is easy to compensate for only having one, but I never have.
There was an analysis written regarding the phrase "Life, Liberty and Persuit of Happiness" and it essential boiled down to this. Those words were chosen very specificaly and placed in the order that they were specificaly.
If I recall correctly, these words were actually a modification to philosopher John Locke's writings on human rights.
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"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session." - Mark Twain
Why doesn't someone simply hand over their money to the retailer for a product but wrap it in a sealed envelope with a SMLA (Start Manufacturer Licence Agreement) which states that, by opening the envelope, the manufacturer agrees to be bound by the follwing conditions.... It seems to me that this is as valid a contract as the EULAs imposed on users.
Someone with the balls to try enforcing such a a SMLA would put the manufacturers in a very difficult position...
you may not use the Product to permit any Device to use, access, display or run other executable software residing on the Workstation Computer,
I may be totally misunderstanding this language, but wouldn't the above prohibit running ANY kind of server on the "Product"?
I mean, I'm not sure how they're defining "Device", but wouldn't a webserver allow other devices to "access" executable software residing on the Workstation Computer? Add PHP or a CGI perl script and it even "run"s executable software...
I'm not familiar with this case, and I am not a lawyer (Look-- I even typed it out!), but I don't think a disclaimer of liability is the same as a licensing agreement. Was this software written or configured particularly for the construction contractor by the licensors? If so, there may have been some kind of paperwork aside from your typical shrink-wrapped EULA..
Again w/o knowing the details, it's hard to say, but again, it just seems there's a difference between negligence/liability with business contractors and licensing issues.
All your nextgen secure computing base belong 2us?
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How do you make up a catchy slogan -- any slogan -- containing the inconceivably awkward phrase "next-generation secure computing base"?!
This is absolutely the point. As anyone who follows the abortion issue knows (ex-- is it "Pro-Life" or "Anti-Choice?"), much of controlling a public debate is about winning the "terminology" war. How better to obfuscate a debate by blurring the way the topic is labeled and discussed? Is anyone in the general public really going to read an article which refers to Microsoft's dull-sounding "next-generation secure computing base"? Who wants to be "anti-security" anyway?
Notice that "NGSCB" is unpronouncable and hard to wrap your head around. Where as people can rally around a fight against something called "Palladium" there is no easy "brain-handle" in NGSCB to grab onto. They've chosen a bland nothing-name.
The Federal government had a similar problem with "Carnivore" which just sounds ominous. So what did they do? They changed the name to something bland-- DCS1000...something that sounds boring and innocuous, like the model of a breadmaker.
I'm sure the Department of Justice's Total Information Awareness will be renamed shortly to some anagram with no vowels like the "next-generation secure nation base 2003LJFBF". When you see they've changed the name, remember you saw it here first.
Incidentally, Time has a good article about how the White House is trying the same kind of thing by reterming thinning of trees as "management-caused changes in vegetation". While they can't do an all-out assault on the environment...
"They are rejecting the full-frontal-assault approach that gets a lot of media attention in favor of death by a thousand strokes of the pen," contends Stoermer. The Republicans are also learning how to spin environmental issues in their direction. In a confidential document distributed to G.O.P. Governors and members of Congress just before last November's elections, Republican pollster Frank Luntz advised party members to refer to themselves as "conservationists." The document said, "The first (and most important) step to neutralizing the [Republican environmental] problem and eventually bringing people around to your point of view on environmental issues is to convince them of your 'sincerity' and 'concern.'"
It's all about baby-steps and controlling the debate through language. As far as I'm concerned, whatever Microsoft now calls PALLADIUM, we and the press should not let them get away with it.
First thing I did with my ZyXEL Prestige 600 is change that damned default password.
To do this, at least on my 600:
1. Telnet in (make sure you have vt100). On my LAN, the Zyxel is set at 192.168.1.1 -- I don't know how Sprint has it. 2. Use the default 1234 password, and then hit return to log in. 3. At the menu, type "23" and return. 23 is the option for the "System Password" page. 4. Now type the old and new password (twice) using the TAB key to skip fields. Don't pick something obvious. 5. Go down to where it says "Enter here to CONFIRM or ESC to CANCEL" and hit ENTER/RETURN to save your new password. (You may be asked to confirm that you want to do this.) 6. When you get back to the main menu, exit your telnet session by typing "99". 7. Try telnetting in again using 1234 and make sure it doesn't work. Now try to use your new password. 8. Profit.
I'm guessing that if these aren't the exact instructions for the later Prestiges, it'll be pretty close.
Even better than changing passwords is to disable remote login from outside the local network. (I hear this is the default on new Prestige modems). Or, depending on how insecure your LAN is, you can assign particular IPs permission to get in and block all others. This is accomplished using a "filter", just like a w/ a firewall.
To block incoming telnet sessions on the WAN, check out this page. This page also offers a "probe" you can use to discover vulnerable modems.
Finally, check this list for common default passwords. This is an important page, so check it for any equipment you might be using.
However, for DeCSS to be legally available once the copyrights on the DVDs expire, it has to continue to be illegally available until then.
If by "it" you mean DeCSS, then yeah. But even if only one CSS-locked work becomes public, then DeCSS has a legitimate use. (Playing movies on Linux may constitute a legitimate use, but it's still circumventing protection of a copyrighted work.)
This has been said before, but as copyrighted works ascend into the public domain, tools such as DeCSS will no longer fall under the DMCA category of items whose primary function is to protect copyrighted works. Now they are legitimately required to *free* newly UNcopyrighted works.
So the ban on DeCSS-like tools will presumably have to be lifted as CSS-locked works go public, whether because their copyrights have expired, or because their copyright holders released them into the public domain.
The first refund day was a disaster. It got little coverage, no one got a refund, and the most memorable image was someone dressed like Obiwan Kenobe...
Microsoft condescendingly had a banner that said "Microsoft Welcomes the Linux Community" and offered free lemonade.
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You really think Avid's tired ass interface based on a film cutting table with different specialized tools in different areas is better than FCP's interface that can do everything anywhere and really works with the concept that any clip can have an alpha channel???
Avid's "tired ass interface" has evolved over 10 years of active development w/professional editors. Yes, it uses the film cutting table model, but so does FCP. ("bins", "clips", "cuts"). Guess what, a computer keyboard is based on a typewriter too. Who cares?
FCP's interface is a direct ripoff of Avid's but many things are done half-assed and many features are missing. The difference is that avid has refined their UI and Apple hasn't. I can rattle off a bunch of problems with FCP's interface, but this is all the time I'm going to dedicate to an anonymous troll.
Then you think a freebee that hardly competes with iMovie is better than FCP? You?re on crack and need to detox right
I said it was available as an option. I'm not saying it'll directly compete with FCP. There aren't any film options, for instance. But it may have more features than iMovie and definitely a better interface.
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9. No clip dupe detection in the timeline
Long taken for granted among Avid editors, dupe detection is incredibly helpful, especially when cutting longform documentaries and music videos.
When editing film on a computer (for conforming back to film), you can't use the same piece of film negative more than once. That is, unless you want to have to create extra copies of the negatives every time you reuse footage.
Since FCP now supports film projects, dupe detection is essential. In fact, for 16mm film, you have to be especially careful, since the gluing together of clips actually "eats" a frame of negative every time.
W
Oh, and yeah.. it would be nice if slashdot had dupe-detection built in as well.
I haven't seen anyone point out yet that Avid has responded to FCP by announcing a free version of their editing software for DVD, just as they already offer a free version of ProTools.
It should be fully functional (ie, not a "demo' version) although somewhat limited in terms of number of tracks. But no watermarks or anything. More info here.
As anyone who has used both Avid and FCP can attest, Avid's GUI is far superior. Or at least was, as I haven't used FCP since 2.0.
W
It turns out that if you have physical access to a system, you can perform a pretty effective denial of service attack using a rather devious little bit of technology called a 'baseball bat'.
Don't tell Ashcroft, he'll try to ban baseball in the name of national security!
W
I believe the preferred term is "Snappier".
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And don't forget that the Cassini mission risked scattering plutonium into earth's high atmosphere not once, but twice.
Good thing NASA doesn't ever make mistakes.
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From the article...
Anti-circumvention language in the DMCA has been a foundation for a number of recent copyright actions, including the Justice Department's crackdown earlier this week on a site distributing "mod chips" for Microsoft's Xbox video game console.
If the mod chips were sold as "XBOX Linux-Enabler Chips" rather than pirate devices, would it have made a difference?
W
Actually, Open Office, cannot do all the things office can do. The problem comes in where you define as what is Office? First, most think of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access (Professional) as the standard office suite. But now, with the 2000 versions, include Project/Project Server, Visio, MapPoint, Frontpage, Publisher, and the list goes on and on.
Well, Microsoft Office for Mac contains Word, Excel, Entourage, and Powerpoint. That's it. So it doesn't seem like even MS is consistent in what "Office" means.
W
What about the Apple tax that come with Apple hardware?
It was said in another thread, but the difference is that you are buying a computer from a SOLE VENDER-- Apple. Apple is not forcing other companies to include Mac OS X when selling a non-Apple computer, unlike MIcrosoft.
Put another way-- if you buy a Civic from Honda, there is no special added cost for the tires that come with it. Those tires are part of what make a Honda a Honda.
BUT if Honda forced OTHER auto companies to make you pay for Honda tires on *all* THEIR cars (even if you wanted to put your own tires on it!), well, that would be unfair.
W
There's another problem that people laugh about, but which really is a problem: They only have one mouse button. I now have a Vaio R505G, which has three buttons... the middle is a mouse wheel. One mouse button is insufficient for me to conveniently use a desktop. I know a few Mac people who claim that it is easy to compensate for only having one, but I never have.
Why not just plug in an intellimouse?
No, it was a restatement of the rights of "life, liberty and property" as described by philosopher John Locke in Two Treatises on Government in 1690.
See here.
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There was an analysis written regarding the phrase "Life, Liberty and Persuit of Happiness" and it essential boiled down to this. Those words were chosen very specificaly and placed in the order that they were specificaly.
If I recall correctly, these words were actually a modification to philosopher John Locke's writings on human rights.
W
"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session." - Mark Twain
by whereiswaldo (459052)
Right here
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Why doesn't someone simply hand over their money to the retailer for a product but wrap it in a sealed envelope with a SMLA (Start Manufacturer Licence Agreement) which states that, by opening the envelope, the manufacturer agrees to be bound by the follwing conditions.... It seems to me that this is as valid a contract as the EULAs imposed on users.
:)
Someone with the balls to try enforcing such a a SMLA would put the manufacturers in a very difficult position...
I like it
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Microsoft obviously want to discourage people from running servers from the XP Pro operating system
It's more than discouraging. It's prohibiting. Big difference.
(At least, it usually is. For Microsoft they are frequently the same thing.)
W
you may not use the Product to permit any Device to use, access, display or run other executable software residing on the Workstation Computer,
I may be totally misunderstanding this language, but wouldn't the above prohibit running ANY kind of server on the "Product"?
I mean, I'm not sure how they're defining "Device", but wouldn't a webserver allow other devices to "access" executable software residing on the Workstation Computer? Add PHP or a CGI perl script and it even "run"s executable software...
W
I'm not familiar with this case, and I am not a lawyer (Look-- I even typed it out!), but I don't think a disclaimer of liability is the same as a licensing agreement. Was this software written or configured particularly for the construction contractor by the licensors? If so, there may have been some kind of paperwork aside from your typical shrink-wrapped EULA..
Again w/o knowing the details, it's hard to say, but again, it just seems there's a difference between negligence/liability with business contractors and licensing issues.
W
This would be great!..
For spammers... ugh.
W
Well funded? Since when has anyone who wanted to put linux on a console had cash to spare?
This is the obvious response, but what the hell.
W
How do you make up a catchy slogan -- any slogan -- containing the inconceivably awkward phrase "next-generation secure computing base"?!
This is absolutely the point. As anyone who follows the abortion issue knows (ex-- is it "Pro-Life" or "Anti-Choice?"), much of controlling a public debate is about winning the "terminology" war. How better to obfuscate a debate by blurring the way the topic is labeled and discussed? Is anyone in the general public really going to read an article which refers to Microsoft's dull-sounding "next-generation secure computing base"? Who wants to be "anti-security" anyway?
Notice that "NGSCB" is unpronouncable and hard to wrap your head around. Where as people can rally around a fight against something called "Palladium" there is no easy "brain-handle" in NGSCB to grab onto. They've chosen a bland nothing-name.
The Federal government had a similar problem with "Carnivore" which just sounds ominous. So what did they do? They changed the name to something bland-- DCS1000...something that sounds boring and innocuous, like the model of a breadmaker.
I'm sure the Department of Justice's Total Information Awareness will be renamed shortly to some anagram with no vowels like the "next-generation secure nation base 2003LJFBF". When you see they've changed the name, remember you saw it here first.
Incidentally, Time has a good article about how the White House is trying the same kind of thing by reterming thinning of trees as "management-caused changes in vegetation". While they can't do an all-out assault on the environment...
"They are rejecting the full-frontal-assault approach that gets a lot of media attention in favor of death by a thousand strokes of the pen," contends Stoermer. The Republicans are also learning how to spin environmental issues in their direction. In a confidential document distributed to G.O.P. Governors and members of Congress just before last November's elections, Republican pollster Frank Luntz advised party members to refer to themselves as "conservationists." The document said, "The first (and most important) step to neutralizing the [Republican environmental] problem and eventually bringing people around to your point of view on environmental issues is to convince them of your 'sincerity' and 'concern.'"
It's all about baby-steps and controlling the debate through language. As far as I'm concerned, whatever Microsoft now calls PALLADIUM, we and the press should not let them get away with it.
W
First thing I did with my ZyXEL Prestige 600 is change that damned default password.
To do this, at least on my 600:
1. Telnet in (make sure you have vt100). On my LAN, the Zyxel is set at 192.168.1.1 -- I don't know how Sprint has it.
2. Use the default 1234 password, and then hit return to log in.
3. At the menu, type "23" and return. 23 is the option for the "System Password" page.
4. Now type the old and new password (twice) using the TAB key to skip fields. Don't pick something obvious.
5. Go down to where it says "Enter here to CONFIRM or ESC to CANCEL" and hit ENTER/RETURN to save your new password. (You may be asked to confirm that you want to do this.)
6. When you get back to the main menu, exit your telnet session by typing "99".
7. Try telnetting in again using 1234 and make sure it doesn't work. Now try to use your new password.
8. Profit.
I'm guessing that if these aren't the exact instructions for the later Prestiges, it'll be pretty close.
Even better than changing passwords is to disable remote login from outside the local network. (I hear this is the default on new Prestige modems). Or, depending on how insecure your LAN is, you can assign particular IPs permission to get in and block all others. This is accomplished using a "filter", just like a w/ a firewall.
To block incoming telnet sessions on the WAN, check out this page. This page also offers a "probe" you can use to discover vulnerable modems.
Finally, check this list for common default passwords. This is an important page, so check it for any equipment you might be using.
W
I believe in Law [stanford.edu] that is for the people.
Apparently that would be Godwin's.
W
Speaking of Nazis, I just saw The Pianist yesterday. It was amazing. And based on a true story.
However, for DeCSS to be legally available once the copyrights on the DVDs expire, it has to continue to be illegally available until then.
If by "it" you mean DeCSS, then yeah. But even if only one CSS-locked work becomes public, then DeCSS has a legitimate use. (Playing movies on Linux may constitute a legitimate use, but it's still circumventing protection of a copyrighted work.)
W
This has been said before, but as copyrighted works ascend into the public domain, tools such as DeCSS will no longer fall under the DMCA category of items whose primary function is to protect copyrighted works. Now they are legitimately required to *free* newly UNcopyrighted works.
So the ban on DeCSS-like tools will presumably have to be lifted as CSS-locked works go public, whether because their copyrights have expired, or because their copyright holders released them into the public domain.
W
The first refund day was a disaster. It got little coverage, no one got a refund, and the most memorable image was someone dressed like Obiwan Kenobe...
Microsoft condescendingly had a banner that said "Microsoft Welcomes the Linux Community" and offered free lemonade.
Of course, Katz disagreed.
Pictures here.
W