Are you writing a full book or a chapter? If you're writing a chapter for a book (like I did with a Cisco Study Guide) - you're given a flat rate per page - kind of like a work for hire...this is typical.
If you're writing more like the whole book, you should get royalities...I'm not sure how much, however.
Stewart Copeland (of later "Police" Fame) used to write anomynous letters to London music mags bragging about the incredible talent of this new up and coming drummer (himself)
A good chunk of promotion is tooting your own horn, whether you like to admit it or not. Why should it be any different in the modern day. It's all grand and ideal to assume every grassroots movement you see is done by selfless volunteers, but it's almost never that way. Deal with it.
13 years from the moment of the patent to the lawsuit -
Yeah, this was a major priority for them.
A pointy haired boss came up with this one. This is so Dilbert, it's pathetic. - A whole new way to make money off the internet...Just sue your way into the industry.
Both have David Touretzky as an adversary...David has written several essays exposing Scientology for the sham it is...and he hosts the DeCSS gallery at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/
Guess that's where he figured out how to take on mind controlling organizations that want to limit your freedom and your rights...
It's the same thing with every software development group rushing to meet a deadline - rush the product out the door, leave a few bugs in it, and pray the patience of your consumers doesn't give out before your programmers do
I expected better of Apple, though. This isn't Windows, after all, this is a company that has prided itself on stability, innovation, and creativity. To just push this out the door when prudence demands a few more weeks is just an attempt to boost stock value...too bad
I've decided to learn more programming and get my butt in gear. If I can't control what's on my personal computer, there's no point in having one.
What we need is something that encrypts all data with an OS that works off the front end and decrypts within software. This is more practical now that Processors have hundreds of MHZ to waste. (unless you're like me and running distributed.net on the side) -
For example, you burn your favorite CD to your computer as MP3 (as I do) - then you encrypt the files (like PGP disk) - and the Winamp player decrypts them in memory and plays them out.
No HD copy protection can target it, cause they don't recognize it encrypted. Napster can't ban it, cause you can't identify the file (except by name....but hell, you can get around that) - No one can take your DeCSS away, cause they don't know what it is, and they can't ask you to take down something they can't identify. No one can suopena your HD and look for their stuff.
Screw distributed and Freenet...Let's find ways to secure what we have instead of tucking tail and spamming newsgroups.
swords into plowshares, er, spacecraft
on
Solar Sails
·
· Score: 2
This is beyond cool, and I hope this works out. Not only is this a hopeful new technology for space travel, but I get a kick out of how it's being launched from a converted ICBM -
Turning swords into plowshares...boring. How about turning missles into spacecraft. Now that rocks.
And to think, this will be the first. I hope NASA gets off their ass if this works. Typical that something so experimental, hopeful, and daring had to come from private funding and not from NASA.
My friend had constructed one of these for the Episode one opening and they are HARD to keep together. He used Velcro, and you kind of have to watch out that the pieces don't slip or fall off, but the snaps look cool. (lamo disclaimer, the Mall of America wouldn't let him use a stormtrooper rifle - no toy guns allowed)
Our Boba Fett, on the other hand, had all the pieces stitched into a burlap type shirt and pants, so they stayed on a lot better.
TROLL? I GET TROLLED? A LEGITIMATE FIRST POST AND I GET TROLLED!!! BASTARDS!!! THIS IS A TROLL POST !! YOU'RE JUST LUCKY I GET TO HAVE VALENTINE'S DAY SEX, OR YOU'D ALL BE GETTING A BEATING...(ok, so I'm not getting Valentine's Day sex. I lied)
Seriously, though...I thought at one time Canadian disks were more expensive... (granted, I haven't burned a boot for a Canadian in about two years) - and I know that CD for Consumer Media - like those used in early Phillips CD burners was a rip. (3-4 Dollars for one disk) They were used to pay off music copyright holders.
I was 50% right. Better record then any politician, lawyer, or weather forcaster.
This is typical. When I burn bootlegs, the people in Canada generally will trade bland CD's for them because prices are twice as much there due to fees levied for copyright holders. Same with the CD for Consumer Media (propritary CD burners - like Phillips - that used this type of media that was 2-3 times as expensive as the old stuff) - that went over here about as well as DIVX
This will take out the basic production costs, but not necessarily marketing/promotional costs which are always high. And to be completely frank, a lot of these musicians aren't the greatest recording engineers
I think a better approach is to look at how much more of a grassroots audience you can hit. One of my favorite bands is Guided by Voices, who made a living releasing 4-track recordings for a lot of years. But if they play a show, they pack the house - Over the last few years, they've upgraded, but they're still letting lo-fi stuff out the door occasionally.
Actually, the store broke on USA Today first - CNN, MSNBC, and other sources are reprinting it, but USA Today did the legwork.
M$ is confidant they'll win the anti-trust appeal
on
Linux Is Going Down
·
· Score: 2
M$ hyped up Linux as a threat in an attempt to point out they aren't a "monopoly" - (see, we're not the only OS - look at this great thing giving us a run for our money)
With a business friendly Bush Administration, I suspect now M$ is confident it will win the anti-trust case brought against it. Time to start minimizing and dismissing Linux again.
And if things go badly in the courts, they'll support it again as a viable option
Yeah, I know - not glamourous, but the thing is this - we were poor folk in Montana, and they didn't have PC's up there and very little involvement in school.
They scraped together a couple hundred bucks and bought me a TI-99/4A - which got me started on BASIC and a couple of books of basic programs (the kind of books you order from the Arrow book club - you know... that was the start of the lunacy
Later I lost track of it but my programming experience was later used in High school using a programmable graphics calculator (the Casio FX-7000 - with about 480 bytes of memory!!!) and programming the Mandelbrot set using those mathmatical instructions and other fractals and watching them plot out on the screen. Lots of fun. But I never had a decent CS teacher. What can you do?
Half the countries in the world would have started shooting each other had this election fisaco we just went thru occured there. We didn't.
We developed the Internet - and one of the best federalist governments ever developed. We still have freedom - just some mega Intellectual property issues that will be ironed out one way or the other.
I agree with the first post. I used to be a guy trying to get Cisco router experience, and I tried sims and the like, but NOTHING compares with the real object. You can use help easier, you can select Enterprise Plus IOS to get more features, and you can see how interfaces are set up and plug cables into them and observe the responses - and there's a ton of subfeatures you'll want to know that I don't think any sim product will support.
Now that I dig in routers every day, I'd rather buy a 2502 on Ebay for a few hundred bucks - usually, it's even cheaper then some sims - and you'll get the stuff down better then hoping your sim gives the correct output.
to the GUI of my dreams - that 3D tower design you see in the movie "Hackers" - where when surfing file folders, you swoop down thru tall towers to the correct listing.
That was the coolest part of the movie. Much better than windoze or even Gnome.
If this comes to pass, it could blow Moore's Law and CPU projections into a growth spurt that would make 18 months look like a lifetime. (CPU speed doubles every 18 days?) -,at least for a while - If this comes to pass, it would justify the change we made from TripleDES and Rijnael. It could also knock a hell of a blow in factoring large primes - the mainstay of public-key cryptography
Hell, I don't even feel comfortable with that. Give me 1024 bit private key encryption. I can find a use for it!!
1. - Wasn't as bad as Battlefield Earth
2. - Yummy mage in tight bodysuit
3. - Several funny cameos and homages (I didn't catch Tom Baker - but I did catch the Rocky Horror Picture Show writer
Otherwise - just barely worth watching. I was a player, so I had to see it, but it just didn't do it for me.
Ah well, what can you do.
RB
The ILOVEYOU virus was designed to run on Outlook and Outlook express - MS exchange helped it along. Your chances of spreading MS-hostile viri to the enterprise are reduced if you're not using MS related email software. (I know, oversimplification, but I didn't spread ILOVEYOU with my Netscape email) -
This thing is going to have so many lawyers swarming around it you'd think the designer had tobacco leaking out of his breast implants.
Atari is making money selling emulated versions of their 2600 games for computer. I would count on this device going the way of most rom sites. Too bad - it'd be real cool
Remember CueCat? That's pretty hard to find right now. If a content provider really decides to go all out, attacking, say, 2600 not just for DeCSS links but also plain text of html locations, and if they win, then the info will have to go way underground to survive.
Servers off shore might help for awhile, but looks like the European Cybercrime Treaty is working on wrecking that as well.
My opinion? Find servers in Mainland China, host it there, and tell Chinese Authorities you're trying to undermine captialist pigs in the U.S. and please don't shut you down. In a world where the US is this hostile towards free information, the only place to host it might be in countries hostile to the U.S. -
Just read the article last week about what humans going to Mars are going to have to do to survive, and you get a pretty quick impression that life in space isn't going to be that yummy.
Seriously, though. I understand the fascination with space and the "final frontier" but there is NO WAY you're ever going to see those massive sci-fi dreams realized. First off, humans don't colonize worthless tracts of land. There are places in the world today almost as hospitable as Mars - deserts/Ice caps/South Pole/ that are barren of people. Why? No reason to go, and no resources to exploit when they do arrive. Why did men go to Nevada? Silver - Why did they leave - Silver is gone. They had to start casinos and tourism, otherwise the whole state would be a ghost town.
Without a resource to exploit in space, and a MASSIVE energy source capable of reproducing some of life's amenities and making interplanetary travel a bit more liveable, there's no point, no profit, and no way mankind is going to spread to Mars or space stations or any other place. The one thing they might have going for them is Zero G manufacturing, and we'll have to wait and see on that.
And god help us if we ever find a planet with anything resembling a life form. Historically, Humans react VERY BADLY to foreign organisms they've never been exposed to before. (ask the Amazonian tribes, Native Americans, Europeans ) - it'll be the Andromeda strain all over again.
Not a pessimist, just a realist. People don't colonize inhospitable environments cause they want to, they plan to get something out of it. Find a valuable mineral or resource on Mars or in space, and I promise you, private corporations will beat NASA there - but without incentives, it's almost a waste of time. Go to the Sahara or the South Pole if you want to explore.
I think Kevin Mitnick encrypted the data on his harddrive with Triple DES - although I don't know if that was on startup or if was just specific files. It'd be interesting to find out, to say the least, how he did it.
Anything that will keep you safe from the Feds can keep you safe from corporate espionage - and if you wanted, you could use PGPdisk or PGP to encode your files and decrypt them with your private key when you need them, and wipe them using the wipe feature so no fragments remain on the drive.
Slashdot Mirror
Are you writing a full book or a chapter? If you're writing a chapter for a book (like I did with a Cisco Study Guide) - you're given a flat rate per page - kind of like a work for hire...this is typical. If you're writing more like the whole book, you should get royalities...I'm not sure how much, however.
Stewart Copeland (of later "Police" Fame) used to write anomynous letters to London music mags bragging about the incredible talent of this new up and coming drummer (himself)
A good chunk of promotion is tooting your own horn, whether you like to admit it or not. Why should it be any different in the modern day. It's all grand and ideal to assume every grassroots movement you see is done by selfless volunteers, but it's almost never that way. Deal with it.
13 years from the moment of the patent to the lawsuit -
Yeah, this was a major priority for them.
A pointy haired boss came up with this one. This is so Dilbert, it's pathetic. - A whole new way to make money off the internet...Just sue your way into the industry.
Both have David Touretzky as an adversary...David has written several essays exposing Scientology for the sham it is...and he hosts the DeCSS gallery at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/
Guess that's where he figured out how to take on mind controlling organizations that want to limit your freedom and your rights...
It's the same thing with every software development group rushing to meet a deadline - rush the product out the door, leave a few bugs in it, and pray the patience of your consumers doesn't give out before your programmers do
I expected better of Apple, though. This isn't Windows, after all, this is a company that has prided itself on stability, innovation, and creativity. To just push this out the door when prudence demands a few more weeks is just an attempt to boost stock value...too bad
I've decided to learn more programming and get my butt in gear. If I can't control what's on my personal computer, there's no point in having one.
What we need is something that encrypts all data with an OS that works off the front end and decrypts within software. This is more practical now that Processors have hundreds of MHZ to waste. (unless you're like me and running distributed.net on the side) -
For example, you burn your favorite CD to your computer as MP3 (as I do) - then you encrypt the files (like PGP disk) - and the Winamp player decrypts them in memory and plays them out.
No HD copy protection can target it, cause they don't recognize it encrypted. Napster can't ban it, cause you can't identify the file (except by name....but hell, you can get around that) - No one can take your DeCSS away, cause they don't know what it is, and they can't ask you to take down something they can't identify. No one can suopena your HD and look for their stuff.
Screw distributed and Freenet...Let's find ways to secure what we have instead of tucking tail and spamming newsgroups.
This is beyond cool, and I hope this works out. Not only is this a hopeful new technology for space travel, but I get a kick out of how it's being launched from a converted ICBM -
Turning swords into plowshares...boring. How about turning missles into spacecraft. Now that rocks.
And to think, this will be the first. I hope NASA gets off their ass if this works. Typical that something so experimental, hopeful, and daring had to come from private funding and not from NASA.
My friend had constructed one of these for the Episode one opening and they are HARD to keep together. He used Velcro, and you kind of have to watch out that the pieces don't slip or fall off, but the snaps look cool. (lamo disclaimer, the Mall of America wouldn't let him use a stormtrooper rifle - no toy guns allowed)
Our Boba Fett, on the other hand, had all the pieces stitched into a burlap type shirt and pants, so they stayed on a lot better.
TROLL? I GET TROLLED? A LEGITIMATE FIRST POST AND I GET TROLLED!!! BASTARDS!!! THIS IS A TROLL POST !! YOU'RE JUST LUCKY I GET TO HAVE VALENTINE'S DAY SEX, OR YOU'D ALL BE GETTING A BEATING...(ok, so I'm not getting Valentine's Day sex. I lied)
Seriously, though...I thought at one time Canadian disks were more expensive... (granted, I haven't burned a boot for a Canadian in about two years) - and I know that CD for Consumer Media - like those used in early Phillips CD burners was a rip. (3-4 Dollars for one disk) They were used to pay off music copyright holders.
I was 50% right. Better record then any politician, lawyer, or weather forcaster.
This is typical. When I burn bootlegs, the people in Canada generally will trade bland CD's for them because prices are twice as much there due to fees levied for copyright holders. Same with the CD for Consumer Media (propritary CD burners - like Phillips - that used this type of media that was 2-3 times as expensive as the old stuff) - that went over here about as well as DIVX
This will take out the basic production costs, but not necessarily marketing/promotional costs which are always high. And to be completely frank, a lot of these musicians aren't the greatest recording engineers
I think a better approach is to look at how much more of a grassroots audience you can hit. One of my favorite bands is Guided by Voices, who made a living releasing 4-track recordings for a lot of years. But if they play a show, they pack the house - Over the last few years, they've upgraded, but they're still letting lo-fi stuff out the door occasionally.
Actually, the store broke on USA Today first - CNN, MSNBC, and other sources are reprinting it, but USA Today did the legwork.
M$ hyped up Linux as a threat in an attempt to point out they aren't a "monopoly" - (see, we're not the only OS - look at this great thing giving us a run for our money)
With a business friendly Bush Administration, I suspect now M$ is confident it will win the anti-trust case brought against it. Time to start minimizing and dismissing Linux again.
And if things go badly in the courts, they'll support it again as a viable option
Yeah, I know - not glamourous, but the thing is this - we were poor folk in Montana, and they didn't have PC's up there and very little involvement in school.
They scraped together a couple hundred bucks and bought me a TI-99/4A - which got me started on BASIC and a couple of books of basic programs (the kind of books you order from the Arrow book club - you know... that was the start of the lunacy
Later I lost track of it but my programming experience was later used in High school using a programmable graphics calculator (the Casio FX-7000 - with about 480 bytes of memory!!!) and programming the Mandelbrot set using those mathmatical instructions and other fractals and watching them plot out on the screen. Lots of fun. But I never had a decent CS teacher. What can you do?
Half the countries in the world would have started shooting each other had this election fisaco we just went thru occured there. We didn't.
We developed the Internet - and one of the best federalist governments ever developed. We still have freedom - just some mega Intellectual property issues that will be ironed out one way or the other.
- I wouldn't leave for the world,
I agree with the first post. I used to be a guy trying to get Cisco router experience, and I tried sims and the like, but NOTHING compares with the real object. You can use help easier, you can select Enterprise Plus IOS to get more features, and you can see how interfaces are set up and plug cables into them and observe the responses - and there's a ton of subfeatures you'll want to know that I don't think any sim product will support.
Now that I dig in routers every day, I'd rather buy a 2502 on Ebay for a few hundred bucks - usually, it's even cheaper then some sims - and you'll get the stuff down better then hoping your sim gives the correct output.
to the GUI of my dreams - that 3D tower design you see in the movie "Hackers" - where when surfing file folders, you swoop down thru tall towers to the correct listing.
That was the coolest part of the movie. Much better than windoze or even Gnome.
RB
and that's what I get for trying to type at work and finish up my comments when the boss is standing next to me.
the PRODUCT of two primes - Thank you.
RB
If this comes to pass, it could blow Moore's Law and CPU projections into a growth spurt that would make 18 months look like a lifetime. (CPU speed doubles every 18 days?) - ,at least for a while - If this comes to pass, it would justify the change we made from TripleDES and Rijnael. It could also knock a hell of a blow in factoring large primes - the mainstay of public-key cryptography
Hell, I don't even feel comfortable with that. Give me 1024 bit private key encryption. I can find a use for it!!
RB
1. - Wasn't as bad as Battlefield Earth 2. - Yummy mage in tight bodysuit 3. - Several funny cameos and homages (I didn't catch Tom Baker - but I did catch the Rocky Horror Picture Show writer Otherwise - just barely worth watching. I was a player, so I had to see it, but it just didn't do it for me. Ah well, what can you do. RB
The ILOVEYOU virus was designed to run on Outlook and Outlook express - MS exchange helped it along. Your chances of spreading MS-hostile viri to the enterprise are reduced if you're not using MS related email software. (I know, oversimplification, but I didn't spread ILOVEYOU with my Netscape email) -
This thing is going to have so many lawyers swarming around it you'd think the designer had tobacco leaking out of his breast implants.
Atari is making money selling emulated versions of their 2600 games for computer. I would count on this device going the way of most rom sites. Too bad - it'd be real cool
Remember CueCat? That's pretty hard to find right now. If a content provider really decides to go all out, attacking, say, 2600 not just for DeCSS links but also plain text of html locations, and if they win, then the info will have to go way underground to survive. Servers off shore might help for awhile, but looks like the European Cybercrime Treaty is working on wrecking that as well. My opinion? Find servers in Mainland China, host it there, and tell Chinese Authorities you're trying to undermine captialist pigs in the U.S. and please don't shut you down. In a world where the US is this hostile towards free information, the only place to host it might be in countries hostile to the U.S. -
Just read the article last week about what humans going to Mars are going to have to do to survive, and you get a pretty quick impression that life in space isn't going to be that yummy.
Seriously, though. I understand the fascination with space and the "final frontier" but there is NO WAY you're ever going to see those massive sci-fi dreams realized. First off, humans don't colonize worthless tracts of land. There are places in the world today almost as hospitable as Mars - deserts/Ice caps/South Pole/ that are barren of people. Why? No reason to go, and no resources to exploit when they do arrive. Why did men go to Nevada? Silver - Why did they leave - Silver is gone. They had to start casinos and tourism, otherwise the whole state would be a ghost town.
Without a resource to exploit in space, and a MASSIVE energy source capable of reproducing some of life's amenities and making interplanetary travel a bit more liveable, there's no point, no profit, and no way mankind is going to spread to Mars or space stations or any other place. The one thing they might have going for them is Zero G manufacturing, and we'll have to wait and see on that.
And god help us if we ever find a planet with anything resembling a life form. Historically, Humans react VERY BADLY to foreign organisms they've never been exposed to before. (ask the Amazonian tribes, Native Americans, Europeans ) - it'll be the Andromeda strain all over again.
Not a pessimist, just a realist. People don't colonize inhospitable environments cause they want to, they plan to get something out of it. Find a valuable mineral or resource on Mars or in space, and I promise you, private corporations will beat NASA there - but without incentives, it's almost a waste of time. Go to the Sahara or the South Pole if you want to explore.
I think Kevin Mitnick encrypted the data on his harddrive with Triple DES - although I don't know if that was on startup or if was just specific files. It'd be interesting to find out, to say the least, how he did it.
Anything that will keep you safe from the Feds can keep you safe from corporate espionage - and if you wanted, you could use PGPdisk or PGP to encode your files and decrypt them with your private key when you need them, and wipe them using the wipe feature so no fragments remain on the drive.
PGP - it's not just for email anymore.
RB