Sounds like what I would expect from Arizona. Ever go to school in Utah? You won't be employed after graduating but you will see a way of life like no other in this country. It's amazing that part of the country is on the same continent.
Well previously we had 5 companies each signing 1 artist a year, hence the wonderful selection of music we've seen. Now we'll have 4 companies each signing 1 artist. The upside of this age of scientific management is that they know exactly the one artist who will sell the most CDs so instead of 5 new CDs they only have to print 1. It also means you have songs staying on the top ten longer than ever before. The last time I listened to the radio, the #1 song was there for 20 weeks. Of course, I haven't paid much attention to the music business since they stopped signing new artists. The downside is of course, with the speed information gets around, the artists get signed when they're 16 and retire when they're 17. Sometimes it's better to not get discovered until you've developed a foundation for a longer career. Nowadays you're either employed or a bum before you graduate highschool.
The soundblaster 128 was revised on Jan 4, 2000 such that either the PCM recording or playback won't work in any of the 3 sound drivers. Also the gain on the PCM output itself is set too high, resulting in clipping at all levels. No control on the mixer has any effect on this.
So does anyone actually use deCSS for anything? I read all the comments since the controversy began and found only 1 person who actually tried to use it. This is a controversy based on principle and has nothing to do with being able to watch DVDs on a Linux box. As such, we can only expect the MPAA to win as students lose interest in fighting. Nobody's complaining about not being able to write mp3 encoders anymore.
Have one of the MPAA lawyers try extracting the title key with tstdvd themselves.
Jan 20 20:18:03 heroine kernel: ATAPI device hdd: Jan 20 20:18:03 heroine kernel: Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05) Jan 20 20:18:03 heroine kernel: Media region code is mismatched to logical unit -- (asc=0x6f, ascq=0x04) Jan 20 20:18:03 heroine kernel: The failed "Test Unit Ready" packet command was:
Yeah, big threat to the movie industry here. Good luck getting your DVD's decrypted. You ever wonder if they're just trying to generate publicity for DVD? The same kind of publicity that caused every college student in Sweden to write an mp3 encoder.
I was building 500 foot FM radio stations back when slashdotters were all in elementary school. The first one was an $8 microtransmitter from Radio Shack. The second one was a $25 stereo transmitter from Ramsey. They both ran between 89 and 100Mhz. Back then we didn't have very cheap sound cards, so you could either rebroadcast the radio or play a CD in a loop. You know you're getting old when the chairman of the FCC is younger than you.
Amazing how World War II got a lot of women to do things they would never to today. With all the men fighting it was like a phsychological switch. By forcing them to take their husband's place they found that technology wasn't impossible and that seems to have carried over into the 60's. Today of course, there is no incentive for them to work and we live in a rapidly moving economy, with very high economic mobility, equal opportunity for everyone, and no women.
You'll find my last comment on this issue in the pollbooth. I interpreted the T-shirt poll to be about MPAA goons inspecting T-shirts for the CSS code. Anyways, the point is, would any of this have happened if instead of releasing a command line utility for decrypting DVD's we released a player whose decryption engine was only useful in that player. The problem is the MBA's who license this stuff can't make the connection between command line utilities, UNIX pipes and perl scripts, that the computer scientists can.
You didn't have to be a prophet to know those mirrors were history the moment they got on slashdot. By the way, the color sucks on the enlarged version. I saw it 6 months ago. You can have the most hyped compressor in the world. You can say Linux should never be used for video like all these suits in North Carolina. Your end quality still depends on the human factor.
If you spend 4 hours a day writing software and 8 hours selling T shirts to pay for it, your day job is selling T shirts. If you write software and then perform application specific alterations on it, your day job is performing those application specific operations. In no way can you seriously survive off of general purpose applications. The only way is application specific programming.
If you haven't already noticed, most of the servers which are used by businesses are Win NT. Maybe if businesses used UNIX instead you'd see UNIX SQL installations getting cracked. UNIX owns the college and hobbyist world for 50% of the internet, but Win NT clearly owns the part of the internet that deals with business. Just read Alan Cox's diary. Every business server he deals with is running Win NT whether it's catalog orders or metro stations. Not a single business server he mentions is running UNIX. Not a one. Just because colleges and hobbyists account for over 50% of the internet doesn't mean that businesses are flocking to UNIX, which they obviously aren't.
The only way AOL would help Time Warner by moving it into the internet century is if AOL planned to eliminate Time Warner's TV investments and get them into catalog sales. On the other hand, they've been consistantly emphasizing the opposite, moving the internet from catalog sales to TV broadcasts.
Do you have to arrange a license agreement with the MPAA? What happens to these kids who just happen to code 10 times more than the suits? Is there something special about a business suit that says these guys can offer a DVD player and the kid who does the equivalent work using 1/1000000 the venture capitol can't offer anything?
Remember in 1998 when Gates stepped down as CEO and became chairman? Ballmer gave all the keynote speaches for Microsoft that year. Are they really playing musical positions or just trying to get on Slashdot?
There's a good article on http://www.dv.com/magazine/2000/0100/johnson0100.h tml on why you might not want to jump on the streaming bandwagon. Streaming was originally developed so you wouldn't have to wait for the entire movie to download. What happened was that people didn't like constant interruptions from network conjestion so the purpose of streaming video became copyright protection. When you see those stream-only websites, the reason they do that is to prevent you from copying it and uploading it to your website. On the other hand, Linux has pretty good low-bitrate downloadable solutions. MPEG-2 with sound can go as low as 200kbit/sec. VALinux, which does all its multimedia on Win NT incidentally, hosts 300kbit streams.
Well when Beowolf was temporarily banned in 1998 for fear of it being used to develop nuclear weapons in India, who would have thought that 2 years later we'd be reading about it in a positive article. NASA even deleted the home page for beowolf and we had a college student ftp server uprising much like the DVD uprising of 1999. It's good to see that what was once a security threat is now a triumph. Or maybe the columnist wasn't around in 1998.
Get up at 5am on an aircraft carrier 3000 miles out in the ocean. Clean toilets. Spend 6 months at a time at sea surrounded by ex convicts and guys who never take a shower. You're better off just getting good grades in your CS program and getting a job which can pay off your loans. There's a direct correlation between GPA and happiness which no ROTC program or anything else can defeat.
Judging by the comments there obviously isn't a lot of interest in this from slashdotters. The whole idea of integrating movies and the PC is called convergence and nobody is promoting Linux as a convergent platform. The mood is really quite the opposite. So when we see these stories about using your web browser to watch movies on the internet it's like stabbing the Linux community in the back.
The laws dictating gender roles in the IT industry are no different than any other industry in other periods of time. In every case where there was sufficient income for one person to sustain the needs of two, women dropped out and men assumed the providing role. It's no more different in IT than it was in advertizing in the 50's or biology in the 80's. Even the female engineering students can be seen following around their boyfriends, steadfastly waiting to graduate and stay home. And the women really expect it as surely as the sun sets. The IT industry is just like the 50's and you often wonder whether the re-emergence of the nuclear family we live in now is good or bad, because it's so ubiquitous.
The same thing happened with CDs at one point. They wanted to support 24 bit 192khz sampling. The quality was so good that it would give consumers just a little too much control over what they did with it. So CDs are still 16 bit 44100. George is just a little to control freakish.
Some of their predictions agree exactly with mine so that's 2 votes and they're even a suit. Although Linux will stay in use as a server, it's use as a desktop will diminish. There will be two well hyped camps of visionaries: diversionists and convergenists. The diversionists want the PC replaced by dedicated appliances. The convergenists want everything integrated on the PC. For Linux the argument for embedded use is repeated over and over and over wherever you look so Linux will definitely be focused on diversionism while Win NT will be the primary operating system of convergence. What's good for Linux is that corporations will market divergence like hell because it's more profitable for them. Consumers will love divergence on the outside but at the same time continue supporting convergence with their spending. For example, everybody loves dedicated TV's and dedicated VCR's and yet what they're buying is DVD decryption and hacking, a very convergenist idea.
No-one gets paid to write software. You get paid because you have a knowledge base about computer science that you can offer in addition to some programming on the side. There are simply too many programmers, it's too easy to program, and you can't put a market value on something which costs nothing to distribute.
The interesting thing about internet 2 is that there is no provision for upgrading it. They just lobbied for all this money to build a super fast network but lacked any incentive to upgrade it. When it first came out it was monumental: 200k/sec downloads. Since then internet 1 has far surpassed internet 2 with 600k/sec downloads. Clearly, competition has driven internet 1 while not just a lack of competition but restricting use to academia has locked internet 2.
How about fixing NFS on SMP too. That's been broken ever since 2.2.13. It seems like Alan was working on it in September and then he just lost interest in it.
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Sounds like what I would expect from Arizona. Ever go to school in Utah? You won't be employed after graduating but you will see a way of life like no other in this country. It's amazing that part of the country is on the same continent.
Well previously we had 5 companies each signing 1 artist a year, hence the wonderful selection of music we've seen. Now we'll have 4 companies each signing 1 artist. The upside of this age of scientific management is that they know exactly the one artist who will sell the most CDs so instead of 5 new CDs they only have to print 1. It also means you have songs staying on the top ten longer than ever before. The last time I listened to the radio, the #1 song was there for 20 weeks. Of course, I haven't paid much attention to the music business since they stopped signing new artists. The downside is of course, with the speed information gets around, the artists get signed when they're 16 and retire when they're 17. Sometimes it's better to not get discovered until you've developed a foundation for a longer career. Nowadays you're either employed or a bum before you graduate highschool.
Yes. ALSA produces the same clipping quite nicely.
The soundblaster 128 was revised on Jan 4, 2000 such that either the PCM recording or playback won't work in any of the 3 sound drivers. Also the gain on the PCM output itself is set too high, resulting in clipping at all levels. No control on the mixer has any effect on this.
So does anyone actually use deCSS for anything? I read all the comments since the controversy began and found only 1 person who actually tried to use it. This is a controversy based on principle and has nothing to do with being able to watch DVDs on a Linux box. As such, we can only expect the MPAA to win as students lose interest in fighting. Nobody's complaining about not being able to write mp3 encoders anymore.
Have one of the MPAA lawyers try extracting the title key with tstdvd themselves.
Jan 20 20:18:03 heroine kernel: ATAPI device hdd:
Jan 20 20:18:03 heroine kernel: Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
Jan 20 20:18:03 heroine kernel: Media region code is mismatched to logical unit -- (asc=0x6f, ascq=0x04)
Jan 20 20:18:03 heroine kernel: The failed "Test Unit Ready" packet command was:
Yeah, big threat to the movie industry here. Good luck getting your DVD's decrypted. You ever wonder if they're just trying to generate publicity for DVD? The same kind of publicity that caused every college student in Sweden to write an mp3 encoder.
I was building 500 foot FM radio stations back when slashdotters were all in elementary school. The first one was an $8 microtransmitter from Radio Shack. The second one was a $25 stereo transmitter from Ramsey. They both ran between 89 and 100Mhz. Back then we didn't have very cheap sound cards, so you could either rebroadcast the radio or play a CD in a loop. You know you're getting old when the chairman of the FCC is younger than you.
Amazing how World War II got a lot of women to do things they would never to today. With all the men fighting it was like a phsychological switch. By forcing them to take their husband's place they found that technology wasn't impossible and that seems to have carried over into the 60's. Today of course, there is no incentive for them to work and we live in a rapidly moving economy, with very high economic mobility, equal opportunity for everyone, and no women.
You'll find my last comment on this issue in the pollbooth. I interpreted the T-shirt poll to be about MPAA goons inspecting T-shirts for the CSS code. Anyways, the point is, would any of this have happened if instead of releasing a command line utility for decrypting DVD's we released a player whose decryption engine was only useful in that player. The problem is the MBA's who license this stuff can't make the connection between command line utilities, UNIX pipes and perl scripts, that the computer scientists can.
You didn't have to be a prophet to know those mirrors were history the moment they got on slashdot. By the way, the color sucks on the enlarged version. I saw it 6 months ago. You can have the most hyped compressor in the world. You can say Linux should never be used for video like all these suits in North Carolina. Your end quality still depends on the human factor.
If you spend 4 hours a day writing software and 8 hours selling T shirts to pay for it, your day job is selling T shirts. If you write software and then perform application specific alterations on it, your day job is performing those application specific operations. In no way can you seriously survive off of general purpose applications. The only way is application specific programming.
If you haven't already noticed, most of the servers which are used by businesses are Win NT. Maybe if businesses used UNIX instead you'd see UNIX SQL installations getting cracked. UNIX owns the college and hobbyist world for 50% of the internet, but Win NT clearly owns the part of the internet that deals with business. Just read Alan Cox's diary. Every business server he deals with is running Win NT whether it's catalog orders or metro stations. Not a single business server he mentions is running UNIX. Not a one. Just because colleges and hobbyists account for over 50% of the internet doesn't mean that businesses are flocking to UNIX, which they obviously aren't.
The only way AOL would help Time Warner by moving it into the internet century is if AOL planned to eliminate Time Warner's TV investments and get them into catalog sales. On the other hand, they've been consistantly emphasizing the opposite, moving the internet from catalog sales to TV broadcasts.
Do you have to arrange a license agreement with the MPAA? What happens to these kids who just happen to code 10 times more than the suits? Is there something special about a business suit that says these guys can offer a DVD player and the kid who does the equivalent work using 1/1000000 the venture capitol can't offer anything?
Remember in 1998 when Gates stepped down as CEO and became chairman? Ballmer gave all the keynote speaches for Microsoft that year. Are they really playing musical positions or just trying to get on Slashdot?
There's a good article on http://www.dv.com/magazine/2000/0100/johnson0100.h tml on why you might not want to jump on the streaming bandwagon. Streaming was originally developed so you wouldn't have to wait for the entire movie to download. What happened was that people didn't like constant interruptions from network conjestion so the purpose of streaming video became copyright protection. When you see those stream-only websites, the reason they do that is to prevent you from copying it and uploading it to your website. On the other hand, Linux has pretty good low-bitrate downloadable solutions. MPEG-2 with sound can go as low as 200kbit/sec. VALinux, which does all its multimedia on Win NT incidentally, hosts 300kbit streams.
Well when Beowolf was temporarily banned in 1998 for fear of it being used to develop nuclear weapons in India, who would have thought that 2 years later we'd be reading about it in a positive article. NASA even deleted the home page for beowolf and we had a college student ftp server uprising much like the DVD uprising of 1999. It's good to see that what was once a security threat is now a triumph. Or maybe the columnist wasn't around in 1998.
Get up at 5am on an aircraft carrier 3000 miles out in the ocean. Clean toilets. Spend 6 months at a time at sea surrounded by ex convicts and guys who never take a shower. You're better off just getting good grades in your CS program and getting a job which can pay off your loans. There's a direct correlation between GPA and happiness which no ROTC program or anything else can defeat.
Judging by the comments there obviously isn't a lot of interest in this from slashdotters. The whole idea of integrating movies and the PC is called convergence and nobody is promoting Linux as a convergent platform. The mood is really quite the opposite. So when we see these stories about using your web browser to watch movies on the internet it's like stabbing the Linux community in the back.
The laws dictating gender roles in the IT industry are no different than any other industry in other periods of time. In every case where there was sufficient income for one person to sustain the needs of two, women dropped out and men assumed the providing role. It's no more different in IT than it was in advertizing in the 50's or biology in the 80's. Even the female engineering students can be seen following around their boyfriends, steadfastly waiting to graduate and stay home. And the women really expect it as surely as the sun sets. The IT industry is just like the 50's and you often wonder whether the re-emergence of the nuclear family we live in now is good or bad, because it's so ubiquitous.
The same thing happened with CDs at one point. They wanted to support 24 bit 192khz sampling. The quality was so good that it would give consumers just a little too much control over what they did with it. So CDs are still 16 bit 44100. George is just a little to control freakish.
Some of their predictions agree exactly with mine so that's 2 votes and they're even a suit. Although Linux will stay in use as a server, it's use as a desktop will diminish. There will be two well hyped camps of visionaries: diversionists and convergenists. The diversionists want the PC replaced by dedicated appliances. The convergenists want everything integrated on the PC. For Linux the argument for embedded use is repeated over and over and over wherever you look so Linux will definitely be focused on diversionism while Win NT will be the primary operating system of convergence. What's good for Linux is that corporations will market divergence like hell because it's more profitable for them. Consumers will love divergence on the outside but at the same time continue supporting convergence with their spending. For example, everybody loves dedicated TV's and dedicated VCR's and yet what they're buying is DVD decryption and hacking, a very convergenist idea.
No-one gets paid to write software. You get paid because you have a knowledge base about computer science that you can offer in addition to some programming on the side. There are simply too many programmers, it's too easy to program, and you can't put a market value on something which costs nothing to distribute.
The interesting thing about internet 2 is that there is no provision for upgrading it. They just lobbied for all this money to build a super fast network but lacked any incentive to upgrade it. When it first came out it was monumental: 200k/sec downloads. Since then internet 1 has far surpassed internet 2 with 600k/sec downloads. Clearly, competition has driven internet 1 while not just a lack of competition but restricting use to academia has locked internet 2.
How about fixing NFS on SMP too. That's been broken ever since 2.2.13. It seems like Alan was working on it in September and then he just lost interest in it.