Yes it was. Look up the "Project for a New American Century." 9/11 is what gave them the political capital needed to go forward with the "regime change" they had been clamoring for since the 90s.
Open Source would have saved Sun, if they had thought of it 18 years ago. But they spent so long fighting it, when they finally flipped no one cared.
Worse yet, when you spend that long fighting it and you flip, people don't trust you or your commitment. They'll go with the people who had already been promoting and supporting it for years.
Company leadership would like people to think that the company has no failures. Ridiculous, of course, but there you have it.
More importantly, company leadership would like people to forget the past and believe there will be no glaring errors moving forward. It's a bit hard to do that if many of the people who made those decisions are still making decisions at the company and their bad choices are being highlighted.
When you start out with "Employees that are so stupid" you'd better provide some pretty hard evidence to back it up. It's a fairly insulting statement, and while I personally wouldn't have bothered to mod it down, I don't think it was undeserving. Sure, insults are as common as oxygen on the Internet but that's a pretty low standard to go by.
Well, the fact is, few works are worth millions and millions of dollars to an author. An author may reach the end of his productive career, and all of his works taken together may earn him a couple thousand dollars a month. He deserves that couple of thousand, IMO. More, if he dies a short time after publication, his estate should be entitled to something.
Why? Why should the estate get anything from the public (copyright is, after all, justified (and justifiable) taking from the public) for years after the author died? What did they do to earn this continued revenue stream, again, courtesy of the American public?
Who boots anymore? With sleep/suspend/hibernate, "booting" is so 1997.
Unless Vista decides to spontaniously break its ability to suspend and hibernate, like it did on my laptop. If the laptop battery gets low, half the time instead of hibernating it blue-screens. Same with sleeping.
Then again my Fedora 9 box likes to kernel panic in the nvidia driver after recovering from a hibernate, so that's not really better.
That line of thinking is too narrow-minded. How much money (and, mind you, human lives, without which there could be no economic stimulus) could we have saved by spending more up-front on hurricane monitoring and response before Katrina hit for instance?
Very little. We didn't need more hurricane monitoring -- we knew where Katrina would hit and how hard it might hit. We even have the resources to recover from it. What we did not have, however, was the political will to do what has to be done. The political will to effectively evacuate, in Lousiana's case, or the political will to throw as many resources as needed into rescuing Lousiana in the immediate aftermath, in FEMA's case. All the fancy equipment and forecasts won't do much good if people don't want to evacuate, and are totally useless when you have weak politicians more concerned about blaming the other guy.
Make sure you update ffmpeg and mplayer to the latest versions. They had problems properly decoding a number of media files (h.264 I believe; may be wrong about that) and would show them with very strange color bands.
Indeed. Does it rescale video decently now, or is it still a pixelated mess (see, this worked fine in old versions, and then, somewhere along the line, it got broken. "It was ffmpeg's fault," but somehow mplayer didn't have the same problem)?
That depends, was VLC trying to do hardware of software scaling? mplayer will do both.
And when you use it to transcode, does it produce MPEG-2 output that is correct-enough to be played by... any other player? 'Cus it hasn't yet in any version I've tried previously.
I've had bad luck getting this to work in mencoder as well. The "magic settings" that actually make videos compatible with Windows and Mac world (to say nothing of the PS3 world!) are not that well documented.
The glove not fitting was meaningless. A glove, soaked in blood and dried, doesn't fit over a hand that's covered by another latex glove? Of COURSE it won't fit, but the defense played it up and the incompitent prosecution was blindsided. I'll agree with you on one point here, I think the case was completely mishandled by the prosection.
Do you have any kind of logic or experience to support that statement?
"Hey, I really love programming, and I've been doing it for a few years now.. guess it's time to switch to something I don't enjoy, like project management!"
It is one of the great fallacies in IT that the programmer should graduate to management. There are a lot of projects out there that are mismanaged by programmers who were told their careers "had" to advance to management, when the two jobs really require different skill sets.
I don't. Most apps assume they can just open() the sound device, but actually that doesn't work. You might have a music player running in the background, and then start up some VOIP software
Which was fine when you had a decent sound card with a sound mixer in hardware. Then sound card manufacturers figured out they could save a few cents (literally, that's how much these mixers cost) by not including them and forcing the user to rely on a "sound server" in userspace or in the sound driver. It's one reason why I never bothered with the shoddy-quality on-board integrated sound in motherboards.
And yet this happens all the time. ISPs change their terms, credit card companies, online game companies, and so forth. Has one of these TOS changes been invalidated before as an adhesion contract?
First the RIAA should not be able to retrieve the addresses directly from the provider. Privacy and such.
Umm, that's nice, but why do you think that is the case? If the RIAA and ISP collude, so far no laws are being broken.
Second the provider does not know what is legal and what is not. IANAL defence and such.
This is the nice part about working with an ISP instead of going through the court system -- legality is unimportant. If the RIAA says "this user/ip was sending material owned by us at " and the ISP says "ok," that's all that's needed.
The RIAA is finally able to take advantage of the great weakness in the American system -- lack of choice in broadband ISPs.
Again, the same falacy - no peer to peer applications demand two way traffic, so all they have to do is turn off uploading and they are not distributing in any fashion at all. Thus no copyright infringement on their part.
In addition, if they are the copywrite holders or are authorized by them, they may be fully legally entitled to distribute the song in such a manner, and it would still be illegal for the recipient to redistribute it.
If not... then your analogy falls apart. You don't want just "a carrot," any more than you want "a pop song." You want a specific carrot. But if you try looking any deeper into that example the analogy falls apart again since the distribution and quality of carrots and music aren't close to comparable.
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Yes it was. Look up the "Project for a New American Century." 9/11 is what gave them the political capital needed to go forward with the "regime change" they had been clamoring for since the 90s.
Open Source would have saved Sun, if they had thought of it 18 years ago. But they spent so long fighting it, when they finally flipped no one cared.
Worse yet, when you spend that long fighting it and you flip, people don't trust you or your commitment. They'll go with the people who had already been promoting and supporting it for years.
Company leadership would like people to think that the company has no failures. Ridiculous, of course, but there you have it.
More importantly, company leadership would like people to forget the past and believe there will be no glaring errors moving forward. It's a bit hard to do that if many of the people who made those decisions are still making decisions at the company and their bad choices are being highlighted.
When you start out with "Employees that are so stupid" you'd better provide some pretty hard evidence to back it up. It's a fairly insulting statement, and while I personally wouldn't have bothered to mod it down, I don't think it was undeserving. Sure, insults are as common as oxygen on the Internet but that's a pretty low standard to go by.
hey it's ok, only in the EU are we retarded enough to re-copyright stuff that had already fallen into public domain
Oh please. Here in the US we've been out-retarding you for years.
Well, the fact is, few works are worth millions and millions of dollars to an author. An author may reach the end of his productive career, and all of his works taken together may earn him a couple thousand dollars a month. He deserves that couple of thousand, IMO. More, if he dies a short time after publication, his estate should be entitled to something.
Why? Why should the estate get anything from the public (copyright is, after all, justified (and justifiable) taking from the public) for years after the author died? What did they do to earn this continued revenue stream, again, courtesy of the American public?
When a copyright is retroactively extended every 20 years for an additional 20 years, they really do become "non-expiring."
Who boots anymore? With sleep/suspend/hibernate, "booting" is so 1997.
Unless Vista decides to spontaniously break its ability to suspend and hibernate, like it did on my laptop. If the laptop battery gets low, half the time instead of hibernating it blue-screens. Same with sleeping.
Then again my Fedora 9 box likes to kernel panic in the nvidia driver after recovering from a hibernate, so that's not really better.
I keep seeing people clinging to this desperate delusion. So far he's no improvement over Bush's first ten weeks. Not by a long shot.
Meh. Bush really didn't do much at all, positive or negative, in his first year.
That line of thinking is too narrow-minded. How much money (and, mind you, human lives, without which there could be no economic stimulus) could we have saved by spending more up-front on hurricane monitoring and response before Katrina hit for instance?
Very little. We didn't need more hurricane monitoring -- we knew where Katrina would hit and how hard it might hit. We even have the resources to recover from it. What we did not have, however, was the political will to do what has to be done. The political will to effectively evacuate, in Lousiana's case, or the political will to throw as many resources as needed into rescuing Lousiana in the immediate aftermath, in FEMA's case. All the fancy equipment and forecasts won't do much good if people don't want to evacuate, and are totally useless when you have weak politicians more concerned about blaming the other guy.
You missed the scene then when the protagonists were chased through the library and around corners by.. cold air.
Whoever wrote that must be either female or a eunuch. Real men know it's not a media player until it has frame advance.
Real men demand both a frame advance and a frame back!
Make sure you update ffmpeg and mplayer to the latest versions. They had problems properly decoding a number of media files (h.264 I believe; may be wrong about that) and would show them with very strange color bands.
Indeed. Does it rescale video decently now, or is it still a pixelated mess (see, this worked fine in old versions, and then, somewhere along the line, it got broken. "It was ffmpeg's fault," but somehow mplayer didn't have the same problem)?
That depends, was VLC trying to do hardware of software scaling? mplayer will do both.
And when you use it to transcode, does it produce MPEG-2 output that is correct-enough to be played by... any other player? 'Cus it hasn't yet in any version I've tried previously.
I've had bad luck getting this to work in mencoder as well. The "magic settings" that actually make videos compatible with Windows and Mac world (to say nothing of the PS3 world!) are not that well documented.
There's nothing wrong with having both a good GUI functionality and keyboard shortcuts. Most power applications in the GUI world do that.
mplayer's GUI is pretty useless. The program is fine for CLI power-users, but not so great for a larger end-user audience.
The glove not fitting was meaningless. A glove, soaked in blood and dried, doesn't fit over a hand that's covered by another latex glove? Of COURSE it won't fit, but the defense played it up and the incompitent prosecution was blindsided. I'll agree with you on one point here, I think the case was completely mishandled by the prosection.
Trust me.. he's not the only one who does this..
Do you have any kind of logic or experience to support that statement?
"Hey, I really love programming, and I've been doing it for a few years now.. guess it's time to switch to something I don't enjoy, like project management!"
It is one of the great fallacies in IT that the programmer should graduate to management. There are a lot of projects out there that are mismanaged by programmers who were told their careers "had" to advance to management, when the two jobs really require different skill sets.
No, "Karma" is not real, but peoples' perceptions of you and your social networks are real.
This conversation is going places.
I don't. Most apps assume they can just open() the sound device, but actually that doesn't work. You might have a music player running in the background, and then start up some VOIP software
Which was fine when you had a decent sound card with a sound mixer in hardware. Then sound card manufacturers figured out they could save a few cents (literally, that's how much these mixers cost) by not including them and forcing the user to rely on a "sound server" in userspace or in the sound driver. It's one reason why I never bothered with the shoddy-quality on-board integrated sound in motherboards.
And yet this happens all the time. ISPs change their terms, credit card companies, online game companies, and so forth. Has one of these TOS changes been invalidated before as an adhesion contract?
First the RIAA should not be able to retrieve the addresses directly from the provider. Privacy and such.
Umm, that's nice, but why do you think that is the case? If the RIAA and ISP collude, so far no laws are being broken.
Second the provider does not know what is legal and what is not. IANAL defence and such.
This is the nice part about working with an ISP instead of going through the court system -- legality is unimportant. If the RIAA says "this user/ip was sending material owned by us at " and the ISP says "ok," that's all that's needed.
The RIAA is finally able to take advantage of the great weakness in the American system -- lack of choice in broadband ISPs.
Again, the same falacy - no peer to peer applications demand two way traffic, so all they have to do is turn off uploading and they are not distributing in any fashion at all. Thus no copyright infringement on their part.
In addition, if they are the copywrite holders or are authorized by them, they may be fully legally entitled to distribute the song in such a manner, and it would still be illegal for the recipient to redistribute it.
Did the guy in the back alley steal the carrots?
If not... then your analogy falls apart. You don't want just "a carrot," any more than you want "a pop song." You want a specific carrot. But if you try looking any deeper into that example the analogy falls apart again since the distribution and quality of carrots and music aren't close to comparable.