"...So is being able to change the interfaces you are given. MS (as well as other companies) don't seem to be aware of this fact."
No, they do not seem to be aware. Which is strange since you can change the interface in windows in a limited, but significant, fashion. No I'm not talking about themes, I'm talking about replacing Explorer.exe with a seperate shell. Several shell replacements for windows are out there, most significantly Litestep which is an After/Open/NeXTStep clone... open source as well! While you just can't get around the fact that you are still using windows, you can make it as painless as possible to use. Granted it can be a bear to setup, editing step.rc files and such, but even that is getting easier as the project matures.
There seems to be this strange belief that socialism is inherently populist; ie that government should control industry for the purpose of bettering the people's lot. What many fail to realise that socialism can also be corprativist, protecting industry (ala the DMCA). Socialism, like most economic ideoligies is neither left nor right... or rather can be either left, right, or both.
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Actually... well.... I haven't found any on Napster either. The reason I used them was I had just finished yet another massively unsuccesful search for 'em and they were the first obscure band that popped into mind;^)... I think I heard that same damn song at the 40 Watt, have never heard it again.
Gotta keep looking though, I spent two Minutemenless months (MP3 wise, always got My First Bells and Double Nicks in the car) searching for the boys from San Pedro. Then, allathasudden, I get mondo minmen DLs. Strange...
As Mr. K said "Great scientific discoveries are inseparable from key changes in technology." His point being that, yes, the internet is an engineering advance but that such advances spur scientific advances. Computers and the 'net are not like the periodic table, but they very well may add to it. I agree that societal effects will be huge, the electrical system being a great example of massive societal change being spurred by technology. Very much like those widespread AC electrical systems though, the internet has also spurred many scientific advances. I'd say we were on the cusp of both scientific and social discovery of a magnitude unseen since the beginning of the century, and perhaps since the industrial revolution.
I've been greatly amused lately at people calling Linux a disruptive technology; it's like calling a Ford 289 V8 a disruptive technology when it is the automobile itself that is the technology that altered the societal framework of the nation. Internetworked computers are going to make for a huge change in both society and science regardless of OS or hardware.
Let's hope we wake up to the reality of this new world faster than those of us in the south (and really a lot of the US) got over racism... getting over really; Here in a southern metro region of a half-million people one could think we're over it, but go across the mountains where the black population is closer to 0% rather than 50% and you will see that some of us have a ways to go.
No that doesn't make any sense. What is the difference between producing and making copies? What is a third party copy? I can (kind of) see how getting a copy from another source rather than the original might be considered a violation of copyright, but proving it would be an impossibility; ergo it is effectively legal.
You remeber correctly in the first instance; P=IE: Power (in Watts) equals Inductance ((current) in amps) times Energy (in volts). You were not incorrect in the second, just incomplete. Current depends on voltage and Resistance (in ohms); I=E/R.
No knock on your post, just being bored and pedantic.
For the life of me, I can't contemplate any legal use for Napster.
I downloaded three Woody Guthrie songs last night. All three songs are public domain so there is an absolutely legal use for ya.
The only thing I can think of would be to download songs you already own on CD, but that's just too impractical to be useful. There are plenty of rippers out there that make it really easy to rip your songs into mp3 - and it's a hell of a lot faster than downloading it over a 56k Modem
Ever heard of vinyl? Tape? Try ripping a 45 RPM single sometime and then tell me if DLing it across 56k is so sucky. I actually have about 20 Metalica MP3s, all of which I own on vinyl and all of which would be lost to me without Napster (they don't make USB turntables, and I don't own a stereo system).
Head over to the CD Singles rack, and buy the song you like for $2.99
Oh yea, they have so many Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 singles I wouldn't know which one to pick.
Shit, crack can be dealt from street corners... let's get rid of streets!
More fun with ejecting disks... try command E (eject) or command Y (dismount)... buttons! Or if your user just can't handle the metaphor, make an alias for the trash can, change it's icon, and call it Disk Ejector. Strike 1. MacOS does NOT pre-emptively multitask, it uses suck-ass cooperative multitasking like Windows 3. Strike 2. OS9 does away with many of those dialogs that stomp the system, but now they are very easy to miss... guess you can't win trying to patch up a 16 year old OS. Still strike 3, try using something more recent than System 6 and while you are at it try using it for more than 5 minutes.
Easy shouldn't be crossed out, it should be ammended to easier , as clean should be cleaner and intuitive should be more intuitive as for powerfull yea the current MacOS leaches the power right out of a G4. Hopefully OSX will fix all that legacy junk.
I agree that the vast majority of people don't deserve breathable air much less freedom, but does that mean we must suffer for their worthlessness? Once you start limiting freedom it's the screw-heads like the religous right that are gonna use it as a lever to take our freedom (of religion, speech, security, etc.) away. Next thing you know troops are quartered in your rumpus room.
"Finally, did freedom of speech help the indigenous native American population avoid genocide at the hands of the European invaders?" Nope, neither did it help the Irish against the English, Basques vs the Spaniards, Nepalese against the Chinese, Zulu against the Boers, the Islamic world against the Horde, the Persian empire against the Islamic world, the Romans vs the Germans, the Mycaeneans against the Dorians, or the Neanderthals against the Cro-Magnons. What's your point?
God damnit! The original post was insightful, it was interesting, and it was relevant. I disagree with it and said so, but it is not a fucking neg one flamebait post. The posts saying not to moderate it down get moderated up while the subject goes down? Thrice cursed fools!
You know, other cultures "more mature approach" to freedom of expression may very well explain why american music, films, and culture in general are the most popular in the world. Curtailing freedom is not forcing responsibility on the people, it is denying responsibility. America's method is the one that stresses responsibility, ie you can say anything that you want to but you must face the consequences of your speech, you are responsible for what you say not the government, not AOL, but you and you alone.
This ruling proves that with the dawning of the internet age, Germany and the rest of the "mature societies" still haven't even woken up to the age of enlightenment. Hell, what do you expect; every fifty years or so europe goes crazy and we get to absorb all their intellectuals (not necessarily a good thing as the international style of architecture proves).
An article at currents contains a quote that should make us fear and loathe the Pinkertons and their like:
"One alternative is to change the law to allow non-law enforcement agencies to investigate without complying with the Fourth Amendment and numerous other constitutional principles such as due process, and allow those agencies to take the necessary steps to protect their own systems and to protection national security,"
Thats from the director of the National Infrastructure Protection Center. They say they are not endoresing this or any other proposal, but the fact that they could even think of such a thing is insane.
A bunch of Pinkertons ignore my 4th amendment rights and come storming into my home are gonna find out they can't ignore the 2nd quite so easily. Granted such a likelyhood is remote at best, but corporate rights to make money should never trump our basic civil rights.
This is slahdot at it's best. Fine work guys, and excellent responses Dr. Pollack. I especially liked the quote "...money is information about potential trade. " Deep.
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Microsoft offers partial support for Macintosh today, with a version of Office that lacks web development or database support. They would be required to move the missing pieces of Office as well.
Please gods, no. How 'bout requiring them to follow Apple's developer guide first? Just the other day I had to do a complete uninstall of Office 98 for Mac, M$ puts 23 extensions and 26 preference files in the system folder for office (compare Adobe Photoshop at 0 extensions and 1 pref). Triple click (to select an entire line) does not work on any M$ ware. And those insipid button bars need to be replaced with floating pallates.
I don't want any new features for Office until they make the damned thing correctly.
Thank you Gaijin for talking some sense... neo-liberalism indeed. We all know that North Carolina is just a hotbed for the new left don't we? Yea, and Jesse Helms and I are chineese jet-pilots.
It's amazing how people so smart with computers can be so fucking dumb about politics.
I might give a shit for the artists if they hadn't supported the theft of 36 years worth of public domain music from me. Any music made before 1966 should, by the original intent of copyright, be mine... and yours. Instead we only get music for free if it was made before 1930. I just can't dig up to much sympathy for artists that would rather get screwed by the RIAA than attempt to create a new distribution model (How 'bout CD Kiosks where you select the songs you want on the CD, slap some cash into the slot, and it burns a CD for you and pays the musicians per song... oh but what about the poor record stores?..Fuck 'em.). I noticed Salon didn't interview any of the less popular artists whose music does not sell and they end up in massive debt to the record companies.
Your opinion is misinformed. If one factors in the uses of NASA research by corporations then NASA becomes the finest money-maker the US Government has ever produced. Technology developed by NASA is helping developing nations, saving trees, and contributing to the cure for diseases. Weather prediction, low weight building materials, optics, ergonomics, chemistry, and computing (just off the top of my head) have all benefited enormously from space research, and contribute directly to the problems you mention. Hell, we wouldn't even know we needed to save the trees if it wasn't for space-based imagery. In my opinion the best way to save our species is to get at least some of it off of this planet (the best way to save the rest of the species on the planet is to get all the people off of it). Don't keep all your eggs in one basket... or gravity well.
Coca-Cola has a long history of... uh, vigorously protecting their trademarks. It is well known that coke will spare no expense when it believes it's trademark is infringed. It is partly understandable, too many Mocha, Toka, and Choaka-cola's and the trademark, and product, would be worthless. I'd try and settle, this is shaky legal ground and Coke will bury you in highpriced lawyers if they have to.
All kidding aside, I found a great flaw in his argument. All of his arguments depend upon humanity being limited to a single ecosphere with no limits on transference of both physical and informational objects. Nanotech, in addition to it's effects directly upon humans, could easily create materials strong enough for space elevators and conductors effective enough for cheap mass drivers. Robots can have habitats witing for our arrival. Opening space up allows humanity to create one of the finest safety nets a species can have; not having all your eggs in one basket.
It has been argued that humanity no longer evolves due to the lack of natural selection and because we no longer have populations isolated from the 'mainstream' genetics of the race. NGR combined with space exploration can fix that in a hurry. We would actually be able to controll our own evolution (or at least our portion of humanity's evolution). Let genetics and nanotech run loose on the habitats, if we lose a few the impact is negligable in the long run. We could create our own biodeversity, another safety net against extinction.
The other thing that truly makes me irate is the tired luddite assertions (both in the article and here on/.) that technology will take our jobs away and we will have nothing to do. The 'dignity of labor' is a crock. If I am doing a job that a fucking robot can do better, that's not dignity thats just make work on an industrial scale. The only thing the demobilization of the work-force would do is take away the pieces in the rich-man's game that has come to be called capitalism. Is digging ditches any more dignified than sitting on the couch, drinking beer, watching TV, and screwing would be? Eventually people will get bored and educate themselves to find something they want to do. Voluntarily, no forcing people to be unhappy so they can 'earn a living'. Make living a right and thay can earn something like a degree or literary praise, or whatever they want to earn.
A claim for libel requires proof of the following elements: 1. A defamatory communication about the complainant, 2. Which was untrue, 3. With respect to which the party complained of was either: (a) in the case of a complainant that is not a public figure: negligent in ascertaining its truth or (b)in the case of a public figure: acting with actual malice, in the sense of knowledge that the communication was false or having reckless disregard of its truth or falsity, 4. Which was published; 5. Causing actual damage to the complainant.
Lets see; 1- Yes, "this site is blocked..." is a defamatory communication. 2- Yes, untrue in many cases. 3- 'a' is true in most incorrectly blocked sites and 'b' is especialy true in the blocking of sites critical to blocking software. 4- Yes, the blocking software is published. 5- A case can be made that any lost hits are damaging to a website.
While IANSL, it seems pretty clear cut to me. Of course it's clarity to me does not mean it is legaly clear at all, but I really want someone to find out.
In 11 days a free OS with excellent support for sound and music will be available. Granted Be is not releasing the source, but that's their perogative. Several programs are currently available including 3dMix (on Be CD), T-Racks , Audio Elements, ObjektSynth, and many MIDI tools. In development are Nuendo, Logic, Hyperprism, Peak , and Devil Home Studio. Also support for high end cards like the AudioWerks8 is on the way.
Even simple mp3 players like SoundPlay are capable, in Be, of playing multiple tracks simultaneously, even at different speeds. If you are in to making music on computers you really should give Be a look. The free version of R5 should be available on the 28th.
I'm no lawyer, but it seems to me that blocking a sight like peacefire by including them in catagories that peacefire is patently not engaged in is libel. If someone was telling people not to shop in my store because my store deals in pornography when in reality it does not I would be easily within my rights to sue him for slander and/or libel. Likewise a website that is misrepresented by blocking software should take the maker of the blocking software to court for the libelous implication that such a block creates.
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No, they do not seem to be aware. Which is strange since you can change the interface in windows in a limited, but significant, fashion. No I'm not talking about themes, I'm talking about replacing Explorer.exe with a seperate shell. Several shell replacements for windows are out there, most significantly Litestep which is an After/Open/NeXTStep clone... open source as well! While you just can't get around the fact that you are still using windows, you can make it as painless as possible to use. Granted it can be a bear to setup, editing step.rc files and such, but even that is getting easier as the project matures.
Gotta keep looking though, I spent two Minutemenless months (MP3 wise, always got My First Bells and Double Nicks in the car) searching for the boys from San Pedro. Then, allathasudden, I get mondo minmen DLs. Strange...
I've been greatly amused lately at people calling Linux a disruptive technology; it's like calling a Ford 289 V8 a disruptive technology when it is the automobile itself that is the technology that altered the societal framework of the nation. Internetworked computers are going to make for a huge change in both society and science regardless of OS or hardware.
Let's hope we wake up to the reality of this new world faster than those of us in the south (and really a lot of the US) got over racism... getting over really; Here in a southern metro region of a half-million people one could think we're over it, but go across the mountains where the black population is closer to 0% rather than 50% and you will see that some of us have a ways to go.
No knock on your post, just being bored and pedantic.
I downloaded three Woody Guthrie songs last night. All three songs are public domain so there is an absolutely legal use for ya.
The only thing I can think of would be to download songs you already own on CD, but that's just too impractical to be useful. There are plenty of rippers out there that make it really easy to rip your songs into mp3 - and it's a hell of a lot faster than downloading it over a 56k Modem
Ever heard of vinyl? Tape? Try ripping a 45 RPM single sometime and then tell me if DLing it across 56k is so sucky. I actually have about 20 Metalica MP3s, all of which I own on vinyl and all of which would be lost to me without Napster (they don't make USB turntables, and I don't own a stereo system).
Head over to the CD Singles rack, and buy the song you like for $2.99
Oh yea, they have so many Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 singles I wouldn't know which one to pick.
Shit, crack can be dealt from street corners... let's get rid of streets!
No, a strike against you for obviously not knowing what you are talking about.
Also non-easy for people used to REAL power.
Yea, Mac, Windows, Linux, the BSDs, and Be all suck when you are coming from Unicos on an SVP.
Easy shouldn't be crossed out, it should be ammended to easier , as clean should be cleaner and intuitive should be more intuitive as for powerfull yea the current MacOS leaches the power right out of a G4. Hopefully OSX will fix all that legacy junk.
When was Bardstale released?
"Finally, did freedom of speech help the indigenous native American population avoid genocide at the hands of the European invaders?"
Nope, neither did it help the Irish against the English, Basques vs the Spaniards, Nepalese against the Chinese, Zulu against the Boers, the Islamic world against the Horde, the Persian empire against the Islamic world, the Romans vs the Germans, the Mycaeneans against the Dorians, or the Neanderthals against the Cro-Magnons. What's your point?
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This ruling proves that with the dawning of the internet age, Germany and the rest of the "mature societies" still haven't even woken up to the age of enlightenment. Hell, what do you expect; every fifty years or so europe goes crazy and we get to absorb all their intellectuals (not necessarily a good thing as the international style of architecture proves).
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"One alternative is to change the law to allow non-law enforcement agencies to investigate without complying with the Fourth Amendment and numerous other constitutional principles such as due process, and allow those agencies to take the necessary steps to protect their own systems and to protection national security,"
Thats from the director of the National Infrastructure Protection Center. They say they are not endoresing this or any other proposal, but the fact that they could even think of such a thing is insane.
A bunch of Pinkertons ignore my 4th amendment rights and come storming into my home are gonna find out they can't ignore the 2nd quite so easily. Granted such a likelyhood is remote at best, but corporate rights to make money should never trump our basic civil rights.
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Please gods, no. How 'bout requiring them to follow Apple's developer guide first? Just the other day I had to do a complete uninstall of Office 98 for Mac, M$ puts 23 extensions and 26 preference files in the system folder for office (compare Adobe Photoshop at 0 extensions and 1 pref). Triple click (to select an entire line) does not work on any M$ ware. And those insipid button bars need to be replaced with floating pallates.
I don't want any new features for Office until they make the damned thing correctly.
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It's amazing how people so smart with computers can be so fucking dumb about politics.
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All kidding aside, I found a great flaw in his argument. All of his arguments depend upon humanity being limited to a single ecosphere with no limits on transference of both physical and informational objects. Nanotech, in addition to it's effects directly upon humans, could easily create materials strong enough for space elevators and conductors effective enough for cheap mass drivers. Robots can have habitats witing for our arrival. Opening space up allows humanity to create one of the finest safety nets a species can have; not having all your eggs in one basket.
It has been argued that humanity no longer evolves due to the lack of natural selection and because we no longer have populations isolated from the 'mainstream' genetics of the race. NGR combined with space exploration can fix that in a hurry. We would actually be able to controll our own evolution (or at least our portion of humanity's evolution). Let genetics and nanotech run loose on the habitats, if we lose a few the impact is negligable in the long run. We could create our own biodeversity, another safety net against extinction.
The other thing that truly makes me irate is the tired luddite assertions (both in the article and here on /.) that technology will take our jobs away and we will have nothing to do. The 'dignity of labor' is a crock. If I am doing a job that a fucking robot can do better, that's not dignity thats just make work on an industrial scale. The only thing the demobilization of the work-force would do is take away the pieces in the rich-man's game that has come to be called capitalism. Is digging ditches any more dignified than sitting on the couch, drinking beer, watching TV, and screwing would be? Eventually people will get bored and educate themselves to find something they want to do. Voluntarily, no forcing people to be unhappy so they can 'earn a living'. Make living a right and thay can earn something like a degree or literary praise, or whatever they want to earn.
Yegods, rant over.
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A claim for libel requires proof of the following elements:
1. A defamatory communication about the complainant,
2. Which was untrue,
3. With respect to which the party complained of was either:
(a) in the case of a complainant that is not a public figure: negligent in ascertaining its truth or
(b)in the case of a public figure: acting with actual malice, in the sense of knowledge that the communication was false or having reckless disregard of its truth or falsity,
4. Which was published;
5. Causing actual damage to the complainant.
Lets see; 1- Yes, "this site is blocked..." is a defamatory communication. 2- Yes, untrue in many cases. 3- 'a' is true in most incorrectly blocked sites and 'b' is especialy true in the blocking of sites critical to blocking software. 4- Yes, the blocking software is published. 5- A case can be made that any lost hits are damaging to a website.
While IANSL, it seems pretty clear cut to me. Of course it's clarity to me does not mean it is legaly clear at all, but I really want someone to find out.
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Even simple mp3 players like SoundPlay are capable, in Be, of playing multiple tracks simultaneously, even at different speeds. If you are in to making music on computers you really should give Be a look. The free version of R5 should be available on the 28th.
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