And we've been criticizing the movie industry for their outdated business models and lack of innovation. Now they have discovered USB thumb drives? Will someone please tell them that they can stop selling VHS?
Does anyone besides me see that this is just another ridiculous attempt to bind media to a physical medium in order to control customer ability to enjoy content?
Well I'll store all my torrent files on external hard drives from now on... maybe they'll release one of those with a keycard soon.
"As they drove he was shot in the temple... They threw him out of the car near the hospital," Kaloi Akhilgov told Reuters by telephone. "He was discovered there and they quickly put him on the operating table, which is where he died."
Sounds pretty conclusive to me. The last time I shot someone in the head "accidentally" with my gun, I also threw him out of the car because I was "careless". Wake up.
It's 7am Monday morning, this happened last week. I think one geek is up early before anything else starts happening THIS week. In other words: Shut up.
Kill 1 person, Destroy the life of at least 2 other persons = You have to suffer for at least 3 lifetimes.
And this has nothing to do with personal revenge or anything. But what else would you punish murderers for? If you can get out of jail faster than what it actually takes to "make" a new life (and I'm talking grown up, adulthood, family life here). Where's the point?
Usually a lifetime in the U.S. is seemingly regarded somewhere around 25 years of sentence. So I'm just saying to me he could go free in 75 years. To me, that equates to never, unless you go to jail at age 5.
You must be a close friend of the family the way you write. Or you are just a pretentious douchebag that's full of shit.
Haven't decided yet. But all the corny set phrases and referring to two people you don't even know personally by their first names and in a way that one would assume you knew them makes my decision easier with every line I read. No wait, now I'm sure
In the end, good things can come from darkness, like a phoenix rising from the ashes. Nina may be dead,...,we can (and it is our duty to) put our faith in the justice system that a criminal has been found and is being punished, and we need to have faith that after he has served his punishment, he can return to/our/ society and contribute to and better it.
You're just full of shit.
Ohh yeah, completely full of shit
Hans committed a heinous crime and deserves to be punished. However, Hans has not demonstrated to us that he is completely unfit for civil society, and should NOT be looked at as such. He may, after a decade and a half, return to innovate in the computer sciences as a changed man.
I don't know what's going on in your wicked mind but if KILLING YOUR WIFE over a shitty argument doesn't qualify you as "unfit for civil society" then I don't know what does. Where does your definition for social co-existence come from? If somebody in my Neighborhood killed someone just to have the last word in some silly little fight... I would want that person to be as far away as possible for ever. And even if the person eventually returned the last thing I'd to is to look up at them for scientific authority.
Prison this, therapy that. That kind of self-righteous behavioral pattern is really hard to get out of someone. You're telling me you would let Reiser move into the house next to yours? Go to his dinner party and meet his "new" wife? Are you kidding me? Oh sorry I forgot, you're full of shit.
If by any means you ARE actually a friend of the Reiser family and really wrote this from a personal perspective I am sorry for your loss and apologize for what I wrote just now. Any other way, fuck you and you delusional bullshit.
My question would rather be: Who the fuck would be interested in using such a piece of software? I mean everybody knows that some software has questionable background but I, for one, wouldn't be able to justify using that "Killer App". Seriously, this guy, no matter how smart he is, is one of the dumbest people I ever heard of. If he makes decisions like "I'm gonna kill my wife, mother of my kids, because she is pissing me off" what kind of shit decisions does he make when faced with the not-so-trivial consequences of "real life file system programming". Seriously, I wouldn't let a line of that freaks code near my computer,
Who knows, maybe when he's done ReiserFS will destroy my data, bury it in the MBR and then try to tell me that it went back to Russia.
He can do in jail whatever he wants, he shouldn't get special treatment and when he comes out he will be around 70years old. Good luck on the VR Kernel mailing list, grandpa.
While I do not advocate killing anybody...it does have advantages if you were a hardcore geek. It would be like college, except without all that silly dating and learning. Just sit in your new 'dorm' room and code.
While I can spot a pinch of cynicism radiating from your post it still must be the dumbest sentence I've read in ages. Even for a shitty joke that's just plain ridiculous. I am a hardcore geek. I spend 90% of my time indoors in the same room. But just the thought someone locking me in here makes me go cuckoo. What you, from your elevated perspective, refuse to see is that there is but a small difference between "college dorm" and "jail"... in one you get raped in the butt while you are asleep and everybody treats you like a useless pile of shit. In the other one you get to leave after the governor has granted your pardon. You've obviously never even thought about what jail sentences actually mean, how they affect people and what is going on in the world. Am I mistaken if I assume that you don't give a crap about what happened to Reisers wife and how ruined their kids lifes are but you are only interested in him developing some shitty piece of software? Mod me as Troll but if this is trolling I'll gladly do it again and take the blame.
I take more of the old bible view of murder, it's just not acceptable under any circumstance and the people that do it shouldn't be allowed around the rest of us ever again.
Well possible it is, but it's also possible that tomorrow Aliens will land in front of the White House and jam brain probes up GWBs butt only to leave disappointed after a few minutes. It's certainly possible, but it's so remotely possible, so unlikely that no one in their right mind would assume this is about to happen, hence the word "reasonable" = able to reason.
He killed her, he lied about it, he confessed, he knew where the body is. If after all that and facing possible Life in jail if he is still covering up for something it must reaaaaaaaaally be worth it. Maybe the CIA forced him to kill his wife because she found out about the secret Alien Anal Brain Probe Invasion plan. Oh wait, you're not supposed to know that.
Why should he be allowed to leave prison ever again? And why of all should he be granted access to computers? This guy is lucky he will be granted access to books and/or some Prep-H when he goes to prison. He murdered his wife for fucks sake, tried to hide it by saying "she went back to Russia". That's what I call a first class scummbag.
"Benefits all of us as well"
see that's what YOU are thinking about... what is YOUR benefit from this. I'll tell you, nothing! This guy killed a human being, his own wife, mother of his children. Why in the world do you think you are entitled to some kind of benefit from that? He murdered a breathing person and ruined at least the lives of his kids, I think this guy should never be let close to a computer again just as punishment. If he loves it that much, let's see how that feels if we take it away.
I don't hate Reiser, I never used ReiserFS, I don't even care that much about this whole case because there are murders every day. What IS pissing me off though are people like you that apparently are only interested in getting a "new version" or something. You answer to a thread called "Try to be objective, everybody" by basically saying "I don't give a fuck about his kids who lost their mother, I don't care about his murdered wife, I don't care about her relatives -All I care about is that this guy keeps making his software". That's pathetic.
Too bad GPS is useless in SPACE. And on the other hand a mobile phone is probably not the most reliable solution to grab sensor outputs and have them relayed to earth. The price of text messages alone would be outrageous...
Get your WoW Space Gold now! Farmed in space, sold on eBay. One time opportunity.
I really wonder if one of the astronauts actually tried to play one of these games to kill some spare time.
"If those few hits become public domain while the author/artist still try to make a living, it ruins the "business model" of that profession."
Sorry but that's some bullshit argument.
Look at the artists that DO in fact still perform after more than 20 years (which aren't that many) and look at how they make their cash. Take The Rolling Stones for example. They wrote a great deal of songs but only a few of them were actual "hits". If their music became public domain, like say, every kid that picks up a guitar learns how to play one or two of them, their business model should be fucked.... Pardon, they're part british... royally fucked.
But instead their popularity is unbroken and people pay hundreds of dollars for concert tickets to see them live. I bet the "Running Noses" cover band doesn't make millions of dollars just because they now could legally perform any old song.
You've been braindwashed by the shit definition of what performance and "business" means for the music industry. All these guys care about is to acquire rights to something, lock it away in a drawer and let it collect money for them. That's about the whole "business model" of the industry.
Meanwhile, some people have realized that music is intrinsically connected with the person playing it, people want to see Mick fucking Jagger sing on stage in "The Mummy 4" and not to some stupid kid that knows how to play Jumpin Jack flash half way through.
If you are actually the composer of a piece of music then I would assume that you are a talented musician and that you should be able to defend your work artistically against copiers. If you are not that talented and can't keep making better music than people trying to copy your stuff... then you shouldn't get any more money because you suck.
End of story, no musician needs to collect royalties for a song they wrote 70 years ago. Usually they are dead by then. Copyright lawyers and relatives on the other hand do want copyright terms to be as long as possible, of course. If you sat in one place, never doing anything but you had that slip of paper in the drawer that guaranteed you money... you wouldn't want to give that up, would you? Neither would they, but since they are not doing anything or never did anything to begin with they don't deserve to be paid for whatever their ancestor was making. That's just plain ridiculous shit that got our societies into the place we are right now. Wealthy assholes inheriting their wealthy assholeness to their kids, which in turn insist they have the right to earn money with doing nothing while everyone else is struggling to come up with the money for their lifestyle.
I can not really agree to that study, I live in the middle of Germany, not exactly a place known for it's brilliant weather and I have been growing Ginger and Chili since March, the latter with a tremendous yield. So it can't be THAT cold.
Well, I'll grant you that my argument was not specific enough. I am in fact aware of all those points you've mentioned and I do regard them as the true reasons for what has happened in the Middle East. Nevertheless, since that post was meant to be more of a pressure relief for my frustrated mind I didn't give it the journalistic attention one should have applied on such a sensitive topic...
I couldn't have guessed that someone actually takes seriously what I wrote there especially since I put a eye-opening clue on the bottom of the paragraph
Anyhow, cheating in sports is comparable to cheating in politics. There should be no cheating allowed in politics either but no one seems to have found doping tests for that so far. I don't see where the difference is between changing the legal age of one of your athletes for a competitive advantage and altering the perception of the public interest with false allegations and evidence to achieve support for your ulterior motives in foreign policy.
After all... if they had know she was 16 she wouldn't have been allowed to compete in the games.
If we the people had known Saddam wasn't truly a threat they wouldn't have been allowed to invade Iraq.
I don't see any difference except for the fact that none of the athletes died for a Gold medal...
Outside of the/. crowd most of the people don't even know how to properly use Google. Everyone that uses technology in a way that makes non-tech people go "Wow, I didn't know it worked like that" is considered a hacker.
In the classic definition a hacker is someone that uses his knowledge in a specific field (here: technology) to achieve means that are outside of the acknowledged boundaries. Looking through cryptic search engines in a sign language and compiling valid evidence from cached websites, to you, might just be "search skills"... to the non-savy crowd it's more like a miracle.
I agree with you that he probably isn't a classical hacker but this IS the internet and there are really too many examples of terms being used incorrectly. After all what the mainstream considers hacking is a really rubbery notion.
I can't believe how people keep criticizing China for this. I mean this is ridiculous.
If the country officially changes the date of birth on the certificate or passport it should be OBVIOUS that this is for good reasons and as we all know, it's a valid legal document. Whatever's true for you, is true for you -right? I would love to see the IOC go to a Chinese court over this.
I mean, that's like if the U.S. claimed they had proof a foreign state was a threat to their nation and then invaded them only to gain control over the natural resources in the area and later on admit that they had fabricated the evidence or once again engaged in "preemptive disinformation". Who are these rumor-spreading freedom-hating enemies of democracy? What a ridiculous discussion. When states lie it's not evil, it's politics.
*Cynicism sponsored by the Peoples Republic of Dystopia*
...or for entertainment purposes I don't care what the hell people do to their photographs. Without editing regular photos nobody would care about "ma lazor" and 300. The second you use the pictures to try to fool someone into thinking you actually had sex with the entire New Zealand cheerleading team (the female one) or that your ex girlfriend really did have two differently sized breasts that's despiccable and should be persecuted. The only problem is it will be harder and harder to prove.
The sentence "Whatever is true for you, is true for you" works perfectly here. As long as you don't want to make people believe in your fake photos I don't give a damn. But as we see on a daily basis that border has long been crossed (need I say Beijing '08 fireworks or Iranian missile test?)
So the scale can send your picture and ID to the FBI for large scale vegetable fraud and conspiracy to fruit theft when your puny human brain can't decide whether the apple on the picture is slightly larger or less reddish than the one you are actually trying to pay for.
What I tried to imply with the title of my original post is that there are strong forces from Apple and Microsoft taking influence in Adobes decisions. It's about shipping pre-installed systems with Adobe Reader and all that. After all Photoshop is THE synonymous Mac application. They would support it for their own good if it surpassed the benefits from their cooperations with Cupertino and Redmond but as of now, I would guess, like you said it's indirect revenue and that doesn't matter much.
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And we've been criticizing the movie industry for their outdated business models and lack of innovation. Now they have discovered USB thumb drives? Will someone please tell them that they can stop selling VHS?
Does anyone besides me see that this is just another ridiculous attempt to bind media to a physical medium in order to control customer ability to enjoy content?
Well I'll store all my torrent files on external hard drives from now on... maybe they'll release one of those with a keycard soon.
Sheesh.
Well, reports quoting local police are not really trustworthy if local police "accidentally" shoots people.
Ingushetia website owner killed by police: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/01/russia1
... They threw him out of the car near the hospital," Kaloi Akhilgov told Reuters by telephone. "He was discovered there and they quickly put him on the operating table, which is where he died."
"As they drove he was shot in the temple
Sounds pretty conclusive to me. The last time I shot someone in the head "accidentally" with my gun, I also threw him out of the car because I was "careless". Wake up.
It's 7am Monday morning, this happened last week. I think one geek is up early before anything else starts happening THIS week. In other words: Shut up.
It's a simple formula
Kill 1 person, Destroy the life of at least 2 other persons = You have to suffer for at least 3 lifetimes.
And this has nothing to do with personal revenge or anything. But what else would you punish murderers for? If you can get out of jail faster than what it actually takes to "make" a new life (and I'm talking grown up, adulthood, family life here). Where's the point?
Usually a lifetime in the U.S. is seemingly regarded somewhere around 25 years of sentence. So I'm just saying to me he could go free in 75 years. To me, that equates to never, unless you go to jail at age 5.
Haven't decided yet. But all the corny set phrases and referring to two people you don't even know personally by their first names and in a way that one would assume you knew them makes my decision easier with every line I read. No wait, now I'm sure
In the end, good things can come from darkness, like a phoenix rising from the ashes. Nina may be dead, ... ,we can (and it is our duty to) put our faith in the justice system that a criminal has been found and is being punished, and we need to have faith that after he has served his punishment, he can return to /our/ society and contribute to and better it.
You're just full of shit. Ohh yeah, completely full of shit
Hans committed a heinous crime and deserves to be punished. However, Hans has not demonstrated to us that he is completely unfit for civil society, and should NOT be looked at as such. He may, after a decade and a half, return to innovate in the computer sciences as a changed man.
I don't know what's going on in your wicked mind but if KILLING YOUR WIFE over a shitty argument doesn't qualify you as "unfit for civil society" then I don't know what does. Where does your definition for social co-existence come from? If somebody in my Neighborhood killed someone just to have the last word in some silly little fight ... I would want that person to be as far away as possible for ever. And even if the person eventually returned the last thing I'd to is to look up at them for scientific authority.
Prison this, therapy that. That kind of self-righteous behavioral pattern is really hard to get out of someone. You're telling me you would let Reiser move into the house next to yours? Go to his dinner party and meet his "new" wife? Are you kidding me? Oh sorry I forgot, you're full of shit.
If by any means you ARE actually a friend of the Reiser family and really wrote this from a personal perspective I am sorry for your loss and apologize for what I wrote just now. Any other way, fuck you and you delusional bullshit.
Too bad you life is a joke that has never been told.
Who knows, maybe when he's done ReiserFS will destroy my data, bury it in the MBR and then try to tell me that it went back to Russia.
He can do in jail whatever he wants, he shouldn't get special treatment and when he comes out he will be around 70years old. Good luck on the VR Kernel mailing list, grandpa.
While I do not advocate killing anybody...it does have advantages if you were a hardcore geek. It would be like college, except without all that silly dating and learning. Just sit in your new 'dorm' room and code.
While I can spot a pinch of cynicism radiating from your post it still must be the dumbest sentence I've read in ages. Even for a shitty joke that's just plain ridiculous. I am a hardcore geek. I spend 90% of my time indoors in the same room. But just the thought someone locking me in here makes me go cuckoo. What you, from your elevated perspective, refuse to see is that there is but a small difference between "college dorm" and "jail" ... in one you get raped in the butt while you are asleep and everybody treats you like a useless pile of shit. In the other one you get to leave after the governor has granted your pardon. You've obviously never even thought about what jail sentences actually mean, how they affect people and what is going on in the world. Am I mistaken if I assume that you don't give a crap about what happened to Reisers wife and how ruined their kids lifes are but you are only interested in him developing some shitty piece of software? Mod me as Troll but if this is trolling I'll gladly do it again and take the blame.
Is it just me or does this sketch drawing for court trials seem a bit nostalgic and silly?
I take more of the old bible view of murder, it's just not acceptable under any circumstance and the people that do it shouldn't be allowed around the rest of us ever again.
Is that why they build Vatican city?
You certainly played a teensy bit too much of No More Heroes.
Well possible it is, but it's also possible that tomorrow Aliens will land in front of the White House and jam brain probes up GWBs butt only to leave disappointed after a few minutes. It's certainly possible, but it's so remotely possible, so unlikely that no one in their right mind would assume this is about to happen, hence the word "reasonable" = able to reason.
He killed her, he lied about it, he confessed, he knew where the body is. If after all that and facing possible Life in jail if he is still covering up for something it must reaaaaaaaaally be worth it. Maybe the CIA forced him to kill his wife because she found out about the secret Alien Anal Brain Probe Invasion plan. Oh wait, you're not supposed to know that.
Why should he be allowed to leave prison ever again? And why of all should he be granted access to computers? This guy is lucky he will be granted access to books and/or some Prep-H when he goes to prison. He murdered his wife for fucks sake, tried to hide it by saying "she went back to Russia". That's what I call a first class scummbag.
"Benefits all of us as well"
see that's what YOU are thinking about... what is YOUR benefit from this. I'll tell you, nothing! This guy killed a human being, his own wife, mother of his children. Why in the world do you think you are entitled to some kind of benefit from that? He murdered a breathing person and ruined at least the lives of his kids, I think this guy should never be let close to a computer again just as punishment. If he loves it that much, let's see how that feels if we take it away.
I don't hate Reiser, I never used ReiserFS, I don't even care that much about this whole case because there are murders every day. What IS pissing me off though are people like you that apparently are only interested in getting a "new version" or something. You answer to a thread called "Try to be objective, everybody" by basically saying "I don't give a fuck about his kids who lost their mother, I don't care about his murdered wife, I don't care about her relatives -All I care about is that this guy keeps making his software". That's pathetic.
Breaking News: Burglar steals key to gate, breaks fence, now faced with front door lock and armed owner.
Too bad GPS is useless in SPACE. And on the other hand a mobile phone is probably not the most reliable solution to grab sensor outputs and have them relayed to earth. The price of text messages alone would be outrageous ...
Get your WoW Space Gold now! Farmed in space, sold on eBay. One time opportunity. I really wonder if one of the astronauts actually tried to play one of these games to kill some spare time.
"If those few hits become public domain while the author/artist still try to make a living, it ruins the "business model" of that profession."
... Pardon, they're part british ... royally fucked.
... then you shouldn't get any more money because you suck.
... you wouldn't want to give that up, would you? Neither would they, but since they are not doing anything or never did anything to begin with they don't deserve to be paid for whatever their ancestor was making. That's just plain ridiculous shit that got our societies into the place we are right now. Wealthy assholes inheriting their wealthy assholeness to their kids, which in turn insist they have the right to earn money with doing nothing while everyone else is struggling to come up with the money for their lifestyle.
Sorry but that's some bullshit argument.
Look at the artists that DO in fact still perform after more than 20 years (which aren't that many) and look at how they make their cash. Take The Rolling Stones for example. They wrote a great deal of songs but only a few of them were actual "hits". If their music became public domain, like say, every kid that picks up a guitar learns how to play one or two of them, their business model should be fucked.
But instead their popularity is unbroken and people pay hundreds of dollars for concert tickets to see them live. I bet the "Running Noses" cover band doesn't make millions of dollars just because they now could legally perform any old song.
You've been braindwashed by the shit definition of what performance and "business" means for the music industry. All these guys care about is to acquire rights to something, lock it away in a drawer and let it collect money for them. That's about the whole "business model" of the industry.
Meanwhile, some people have realized that music is intrinsically connected with the person playing it, people want to see Mick fucking Jagger sing on stage in "The Mummy 4" and not to some stupid kid that knows how to play Jumpin Jack flash half way through.
If you are actually the composer of a piece of music then I would assume that you are a talented musician and that you should be able to defend your work artistically against copiers. If you are not that talented and can't keep making better music than people trying to copy your stuff
End of story, no musician needs to collect royalties for a song they wrote 70 years ago. Usually they are dead by then. Copyright lawyers and relatives on the other hand do want copyright terms to be as long as possible, of course. If you sat in one place, never doing anything but you had that slip of paper in the drawer that guaranteed you money
Bullshit I tell you, Bullshit I say. Wake up.
Good day, fine sir.
I can not really agree to that study, I live in the middle of Germany, not exactly a place known for it's brilliant weather and I have been growing Ginger and Chili since March, the latter with a tremendous yield. So it can't be THAT cold.
I'd like to get a Silicon Diavolo with garlic and Mozzarella please.
Well, I'll grant you that my argument was not specific enough. I am in fact aware of all those points you've mentioned and I do regard them as the true reasons for what has happened in the Middle East. Nevertheless, since that post was meant to be more of a pressure relief for my frustrated mind I didn't give it the journalistic attention one should have applied on such a sensitive topic...
... if they had know she was 16 she wouldn't have been allowed to compete in the games.
...
I couldn't have guessed that someone actually takes seriously what I wrote there especially since I put a eye-opening clue on the bottom of the paragraph
Anyhow, cheating in sports is comparable to cheating in politics. There should be no cheating allowed in politics either but no one seems to have found doping tests for that so far. I don't see where the difference is between changing the legal age of one of your athletes for a competitive advantage and altering the perception of the public interest with false allegations and evidence to achieve support for your ulterior motives in foreign policy.
After all
If we the people had known Saddam wasn't truly a threat they wouldn't have been allowed to invade Iraq.
I don't see any difference except for the fact that none of the athletes died for a Gold medal
Outside of the /. crowd most of the people don't even know how to properly use Google. Everyone that uses technology in a way that makes non-tech people go "Wow, I didn't know it worked like that" is considered a hacker.
... to the non-savy crowd it's more like a miracle.
In the classic definition a hacker is someone that uses his knowledge in a specific field (here: technology) to achieve means that are outside of the acknowledged boundaries. Looking through cryptic search engines in a sign language and compiling valid evidence from cached websites, to you, might just be "search skills"
I agree with you that he probably isn't a classical hacker but this IS the internet and there are really too many examples of terms being used incorrectly. After all what the mainstream considers hacking is a really rubbery notion.
I can't believe how people keep criticizing China for this. I mean this is ridiculous.
If the country officially changes the date of birth on the certificate or passport it should be OBVIOUS that this is for good reasons and as we all know, it's a valid legal document. Whatever's true for you, is true for you -right? I would love to see the IOC go to a Chinese court over this.
I mean, that's like if the U.S. claimed they had proof a foreign state was a threat to their nation and then invaded them only to gain control over the natural resources in the area and later on admit that they had fabricated the evidence or once again engaged in "preemptive disinformation". Who are these rumor-spreading freedom-hating enemies of democracy? What a ridiculous discussion. When states lie it's not evil, it's politics.
*Cynicism sponsored by the Peoples Republic of Dystopia*
...or for entertainment purposes I don't care what the hell people do to their photographs. Without editing regular photos nobody would care about "ma lazor" and 300. The second you use the pictures to try to fool someone into thinking you actually had sex with the entire New Zealand cheerleading team (the female one) or that your ex girlfriend really did have two differently sized breasts that's despiccable and should be persecuted. The only problem is it will be harder and harder to prove. The sentence "Whatever is true for you, is true for you" works perfectly here. As long as you don't want to make people believe in your fake photos I don't give a damn. But as we see on a daily basis that border has long been crossed (need I say Beijing '08 fireworks or Iranian missile test?)
So the scale can send your picture and ID to the FBI for large scale vegetable fraud and conspiracy to fruit theft when your puny human brain can't decide whether the apple on the picture is slightly larger or less reddish than the one you are actually trying to pay for.
What I tried to imply with the title of my original post is that there are strong forces from Apple and Microsoft taking influence in Adobes decisions. It's about shipping pre-installed systems with Adobe Reader and all that. After all Photoshop is THE synonymous Mac application. They would support it for their own good if it surpassed the benefits from their cooperations with Cupertino and Redmond but as of now, I would guess, like you said it's indirect revenue and that doesn't matter much.