Maybe the installer should have a small built-in version of Solitaire embedded in it
Better yet, Tetris. Wouldn't it rule if you could play Tetris from within an operating system's installer? It would also be really easy to scale the game length to the install progress: just increase the speed of the falling pieces.
Install DeCSS by default and the plugin for Xine to play encrypted DVDs.
They're a company; they can't do that. It would be a direct violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, leaving the company liable for $100,000 (maximum statutory penalty per work for copyright infringement) for each DVD that the studios have released.
In fact, you don't need to have the source available for everyone publicly - you can limit the source distribution to those who purchased the product from you.
Wrong. According to the GNU GPL, if you're going to satisfy section 3 by offering CDs via mail order, you must
Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give
any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange
Wouldnt be suprised if IBM starts selling BMI drives:)
Except Broadcast Music Inc. is a group of songwriters and music publishers. Watch these new "BMI" drives enforce copy protection to protect the rights of BMI members.
I would expect Ambrosia to put out a fix for this when they went under.
According to a moderator on an Ambrosia board, if Ambrosia Software goes out of business, it will release source code for all its software, essentially turning it into free(beer)ware, if not free software.
That doesn't sound like something the RIAA would like to have around to me.
The "Products" section of the web site mentions an application remarkably similar to Circuit City DIVX:
flexRights is an innovative solution that allows content owners to offer a "test drive" of their premium content to the market for a limited time. New markets will benefit greatly from this service. A music company can "give" a customer an entire CD of a chart- topping artist for a week. After that week, the digital encryption technology "locks" the music, leaving the consumer with the choice of going online to pay and "unlock" the music, or purchasing the rigid CD from the store. flexRights can also be used with Video and software content.
So what do you get when you combine flexRights with video content in MPEG-4 format? You get DivX DIVX:-)
With these new floppy discs, if you scratch the thing, you probably just scratch the medium, and the underlying flexible medium has not been scratched. Because producing and selling adapters costs less than producing and selling an album, you can just shell out a couple bucks for a new adapter if yours gets scratched.
You can have the same name for two commercial ventures if they operate in different businesses: Showtime - a movie vs. Showtime - a softcore porn channel
Showtime also shows feature films. So we have Showtime - a movie from one studio vs. Showtime - a movie channel owned by another studio. Now they're both in the movie business; does this complicate your analysis?
Apple Computer - Apple Records
That was true for ten years, but in 1999, Apple Computer got sued and lost after the company "entered the recording industry" by introducing high-end audio functionality into the Power Macintosh line.
Trademark problems?
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You might want to start a P3P Slashdot Initiative. Tell those in charge that you won't subscribe until Slashdot implements P3P, a W3C Proposed Recommendation. You can even call it P3PSI (pronounced PEP-see).
Sure, it's possible to copy all "templates" to another subfolder and link logged-in users to this one, but why should I do so?... I'm able to use the same "templates" for logged-in and anonymous
users - well, half the work to do
Then simply have the templates in / and the templates in/members/ include the same PHP code.
The last batch I bought was a spindlepack of 100 for $17 at Microcenter. Even Office Despot sells 100 packs for $34. Before you complain about the quality of cheap CDRs
How long do you think those prices will last in the face of heavy RIAA lobbying? It's already happening in Canada; see my other comment.
(mods: I cross-replied to get this on the messages.pl radar of all who raised this issue; I checked 'mod myself down')
Haven't paid a buck a disk for -R since at least mid 2000.
Not with the tariffs that will inevitably be attached as a rider to the SSSCA if it passes. See also my other comment. In other words, I guess I should stock up now.
good cd -i.e. mitsui and TY - can be had for about a quarter a piece when bought in bulk (50-100packs)
Not with these proposed taxes. In Canada, the tariffs alone amount to CAD$1.23 per disc. And I have no reason to believe that the RIAA and its satellite organizations in other countries will stop at the border[1]; "harmonization" has lately been a buzzword in IP circles, especially with garbage such as the Bono Act and the WIPO Copyright Treaty (international DMCA).
[1] Strictly, this introduces a slippery-slope fallacy.
there is an integer vorbis implementation with source available.
But it only reliably plays content encoded with Vorbis encoder beta 3 or earlier. Since the release of beta 3, there has been at least beta 4, RC1, RC2, and RC3.
Why would you want to pay $450 for an mp3 harddrive when you could buy an mp3/cd player for around $100 and be able to burn mp3's onto cd's from any persons house.
Many MP3 CD players can't read CD-RW because of lower reflectivity, but CD-R costs $1.00 or so every time you change the playlist (add or delete a bunch of songs) because you have to buy a new blank CD.
If you're not paying for digital music (author's premise) why would you pay for "jingles".
Then try not buying any products. For every dollar of any product you buy, a few cents goes to marketing, and some percent of that to the poor fellow who wrote the jingle for the commercial.
And I don't see commercials edging out movies.
Ever gone to a movie and seen 15 minutes of trailers? Ever tried pressing fast-forward on a DVD, only to find that the publisher has blocked that action?
On a *nix system it's a 3-second wait if you type the wrong one. On my dad's car, it's 3 seconds first time, 10 minutes second time, and 24 hours the third time
Which means any car thief could just put in three intentionally wrong passwords, watch dad struggle to get in his own car, and then, after everything has closed and everybody is in bed, "social engineer" a tow truck into hauling the car off to a chop shop.
Any system that lets you log 1,000 attempts a minute (or more than 3-10 attempts before locking the account) is poorly designed and should be rooted by one of those l33t h4x0rs to teach the sysadmin a lesson.
However, locking accounts after n attempts opens up a new denial of service: flooding the auth server with requests on known users but purposely invalid passwords to prevent the real user from being able to get in. Imagine what would happen if somebody tried to su with password "DoS" 20 times; the administrator would be locked out.
Linux... projects are given names... that you would NEVER guess what the programs do unless you ALREADY KNEW what they did.
How is this different from "Office", "PowerPoint", "Outlook", "Excel", and "DirectX"? Try explaining "Outlook": it's called that way because the O and L superimposed make up the faces of a clock, WTF?
Its generally not a very smart idea if you in any way want to attract new users, who by definition *don't* just happen to know (or have been born with the knowledge) that "Pine Is Not Elm".
In the IE 3.0 days, before Outlook Express was called "Outlook Express", it was called "Microsoft Internet Mail and News". (The program is still msimn.exe.) This name strikes me as similar to PINE, a "Program for Internet News and E-mail". (Many of the initial-named apps explain themselves adequately in their about box.)
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To what operating system would you be referring?
Grandparent was talking more along the lines of project for an advanced operating systems course at a university.
Maybe the installer should have a small built-in version of Solitaire embedded in it
Better yet, Tetris. Wouldn't it rule if you could play Tetris from within an operating system's installer? It would also be really easy to scale the game length to the install progress: just increase the speed of the falling pieces.
Install DeCSS by default and the plugin for Xine to play encrypted DVDs.
They're a company; they can't do that. It would be a direct violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, leaving the company liable for $100,000 (maximum statutory penalty per work for copyright infringement) for each DVD that the studios have released.
In fact, you don't need to have the source available for everyone publicly - you can limit the source distribution to those who purchased the product from you.
Wrong. According to the GNU GPL, if you're going to satisfy section 3 by offering CDs via mail order, you must
But the only OS I know of that enforces a ten connection limit are the "Workstation" versions of NT, 2K, etc.
You misunderstood grandparent. The ten connection limit isn't part of the product they're selling. It's a limit on the FTP server hosting the ISOs.
Wouldnt be suprised if IBM starts selling BMI drives :)
Except Broadcast Music Inc. is a group of songwriters and music publishers. Watch these new "BMI" drives enforce copy protection to protect the rights of BMI members.
I have heard of these things [over fifteen] years ago ... Why do you always try to sell the same old stuff as "news"?
Because only now have the prices come down (Moore's Law and all) to make the technology viable in the market.
In VA453 (The Entrepreneur) at Rose-Hulman, I learned that creation of a new machine or process is invention; turning it into a product and introducing it to the market is innovation. (Note how the dictionaries define "innovation" in terms of "introduction.")
I would expect Ambrosia to put out a fix for this when they went under.
According to a moderator on an Ambrosia board, if Ambrosia Software goes out of business, it will release source code for all its software, essentially turning it into free(beer)ware, if not free software.
That doesn't sound like something the RIAA would like to have around to me.
The "Products" section of the web site mentions an application remarkably similar to Circuit City DIVX:
So what do you get when you combine flexRights with video content in MPEG-4 format? You get DivX DIVX :-)
When are we going to see scratch-proof cds ?
With these new floppy discs, if you scratch the thing, you probably just scratch the medium, and the underlying flexible medium has not been scratched. Because producing and selling adapters costs less than producing and selling an album, you can just shell out a couple bucks for a new adapter if yours gets scratched.
You can have the same name for two commercial ventures if they operate in different businesses: Showtime - a movie vs. Showtime - a softcore porn channel
Showtime also shows feature films. So we have Showtime - a movie from one studio vs. Showtime - a movie channel owned by another studio. Now they're both in the movie business; does this complicate your analysis?
Apple Computer - Apple Records
That was true for ten years, but in 1999, Apple Computer got sued and lost after the company "entered the recording industry" by introducing high-end audio functionality into the Power Macintosh line.
Showtime is the name of a premium movie channel owned by Viacom.
Showtime is also a film directed by Tom Dey produced by AOL Time Warner, who owns HBO, which competes with Showtime the channel.
Wait till Showtime the movie hits cable. Watch the legal sparks fly.
The KDE guys used the right tool for the job.
Last time I checked, OpenOffice.org (the office suite, not the web site) ran on Windows, and Qt Free Edition didn't, running only on POSIX + X11.
When will Slashdot become P3P complaint?
You might want to start a P3P Slashdot Initiative. Tell those in charge that you won't subscribe until Slashdot implements P3P, a W3C Proposed Recommendation. You can even call it P3PSI (pronounced PEP-see).
Sure, it's possible to copy all "templates" to another subfolder and link logged-in users to this one, but why should I do so? ... I'm able to use the same "templates" for logged-in and anonymous
users - well, half the work to do
Then simply have the templates in / and the templates in /members/ include the same PHP code.
A buck each for CDR media? What?
Ninety pence a litre (five bucks a gallon) for gasoline? What?
The last batch I bought was a spindlepack of 100 for $17 at Microcenter. Even Office Despot sells 100 packs for $34. Before you complain about the quality of cheap CDRs
How long do you think those prices will last in the face of heavy RIAA lobbying? It's already happening in Canada; see my other comment.
(mods: I cross-replied to get this on the messages.pl radar of all who raised this issue; I checked 'mod myself down')Haven't paid a buck a disk for -R since at least mid 2000.
Not with the tariffs that will inevitably be attached as a rider to the SSSCA if it passes. See also my other comment. In other words, I guess I should stock up now.
good cd -i.e. mitsui and TY - can be had for about a quarter a piece when bought in bulk (50-100packs)
Not with these proposed taxes. In Canada, the tariffs alone amount to CAD$1.23 per disc. And I have no reason to believe that the RIAA and its satellite organizations in other countries will stop at the border[1]; "harmonization" has lately been a buzzword in IP circles, especially with garbage such as the Bono Act and the WIPO Copyright Treaty (international DMCA).
[1] Strictly, this introduces a slippery-slope fallacy.
there is an integer vorbis implementation with source available.
But it only reliably plays content encoded with Vorbis encoder beta 3 or earlier. Since the release of beta 3, there has been at least beta 4, RC1, RC2, and RC3.
Why would you want to pay $450 for an mp3 harddrive when you could buy an mp3/cd player for around $100 and be able to burn mp3's onto cd's from any persons house.
Many MP3 CD players can't read CD-RW because of lower reflectivity, but CD-R costs $1.00 or so every time you change the playlist (add or delete a bunch of songs) because you have to buy a new blank CD.
If you're not paying for digital music (author's premise) why would you pay for "jingles".
Then try not buying any products. For every dollar of any product you buy, a few cents goes to marketing, and some percent of that to the poor fellow who wrote the jingle for the commercial.
And I don't see commercials edging out movies.
Ever gone to a movie and seen 15 minutes of trailers? Ever tried pressing fast-forward on a DVD, only to find that the publisher has blocked that action?
And the last one is easy. The ape wears a tie
This is supposed to represent 'a1', but how do you know not to substitute 'dk' instead? To me, an ape wearing a tie just screams Donkey Kong.
On a *nix system it's a 3-second wait if you type the wrong one. On my dad's car, it's 3 seconds first time, 10 minutes second time, and 24 hours the third time
Which means any car thief could just put in three intentionally wrong passwords, watch dad struggle to get in his own car, and then, after everything has closed and everybody is in bed, "social engineer" a tow truck into hauling the car off to a chop shop.
Any system that lets you log 1,000 attempts a minute (or more than 3-10 attempts before locking the account) is poorly designed and should be rooted by one of those l33t h4x0rs to teach the sysadmin a lesson.
However, locking accounts after n attempts opens up a new denial of service: flooding the auth server with requests on known users but purposely invalid passwords to prevent the real user from being able to get in. Imagine what would happen if somebody tried to su with password "DoS" 20 times; the administrator would be locked out.
Linux ... projects are given names ... that you would NEVER guess what the programs do unless you ALREADY KNEW what they did.
How is this different from "Office", "PowerPoint", "Outlook", "Excel", and "DirectX"? Try explaining "Outlook": it's called that way because the O and L superimposed make up the faces of a clock, WTF?
Its generally not a very smart idea if you in any way want to attract new users, who by definition *don't* just happen to know (or have been born with the knowledge) that "Pine Is Not Elm".
In the IE 3.0 days, before Outlook Express was called "Outlook Express", it was called "Microsoft Internet Mail and News". (The program is still msimn.exe.) This name strikes me as similar to PINE, a "Program for Internet News and E-mail". (Many of the initial-named apps explain themselves adequately in their about box.)