The thing that really bothered me about the article though, was that the author does not present anything to take the place of music as a dominant cultural mover.
My money is on games taking their place as the cultural driver.
Each console generation seems to create a bigger and bigger market, people play lots of games on their PC's and as cable companies roll out iTV boxes there will be decent games there too (decent for the occasional not hardcore gamer).
Games these days have pretty cool soundtracks and definately have influence the popular culture in certain circles.
I think the future will see lots more "family friendly" games, a few friends of mine have kids and a common passtime (for the fathers) is playing the Playstation with the kids.
MacGeevy cited a recent UK raid on a DVD-R factory turning that was allegedly making copies of Spider Man and Star Wars: Episode II movies. emphasis mine.
Hasn't Hollywood been bosting that Spiderman and Star Wars Ep.2 are two of the highest grossing movies of all time?
How does piracy hurt the industry again?
All that unique idenftiers will do is raise the cost of producing the media, not that CD/DVD's are expensive to produce but I'm sure the cost will be passed on at least once.
This quote, "use piracy to fund other activities such as drug dealing, arms trading, money laundering and terrorism." cracked me up.
I was under the naive impression that drug dealing and arms trading were highly profitable, I thought money laundering was used to hide the massive ammounts money those actvities generated.
It's now obvious to me that file sharing and pirate CD's in flea markets are really just a front to pay for unprofitable activities like drug trafficing and arms trading.
Come on guys, at least try to make up convicing FUD.
Apart from running on Linux, how is this $3000 solution better?
The card is a professional solution for the professional broadcast market, for what it does $3000 is actually pretty resonable.
This product takes SDI (Serial Digial Interface) for video input which is the standard to broadcast video, it runs at 270Mbs and is not found on anything but professional (or at best "prosumer") gear.
This is not the first pro card that does SDI under Linux either, IIRC Optibase have a Mediapump card that does SDI under *nix.
For those interested "ECM" stands for Entitlement Control Message, it contains the control word (encryption key) used to unlock TV services. The ECM itself is encrypted, which is where the smart card comes in, it decrypts the ECM and passes the control word it contains to the mpeg-2 decoder.
Comparisons with Apache are not appropriate, MS did not (and still does not) enjoy a monopoly in the server marker. NT comming bundled IIS has little effect on Apache (or iPlanet), if the majority of servers ran NT it would be different.
If you do look at the NT market IIS *has* pushed other competators out. Apache on NT for example is mainly used as a development platform before deploying on *nix.
In the findings of fact it was found that MS witheld API's from Netscape, API's that made IIS run faster on NT than Netscape's server. Netscape's business model was a razor/blades one. Make little money from the browser (free for personal use, $$$ for corporates) and sell the server. Bundling IIS with NT kept Netscape out of that market, bundling IE on the desktop made it make less sense use Netscape's Server as it would be talking to MS's browser.
I'm not saying Netscape was a saint or didn't make plenty of it's own screw ups but MS did leverage their monopoly on the desktop against Netscape's browser and did hide API's on NT to keep Netscape's server out of the NT market. The case against MS is that it used it monopoly in one area to extend into another, that is illegal.
I was reading somhere (can't remember where) that although we can't hear above 20Khz, sounds that are above that range will lower in frequency when they bounce around the room and fall into some peoples hearing range.
CD's sampled at 44khz miss some of these sounds and that is what audiophiles complain about when they say digital audio sounds flat.
I personally want my kids to understand Word and Excell and possibly how to use Photoshop and applications like that for when they go to work.
Thats funny, I want my kids to be able to understand how to use computers not just memorise usage of a couple of few used programs. The free alternatives to the examples you site are similar enough that if you understand how to use them switching to an alternaive is pretty darn easy.
Don't underestimate the value of being able to quickly learn different software. When your kids go into the workforce they will be introduced to lots of "enterprise" and custom developed systems.
Being able to quickly learn these systems makes a huge impression when new employees start. Those that quickly pickup the software will be assumed to be more intelligent and capable than those that can't (sad but true).
Your kids _will_ learn more than just the philosophy of free software, and don't dismiss the value of learning that philosophy. Interopeable software that supports open standards is a fine lesson to learn. Expecting to be able to modify software also a fine lesson, as is seeing that people can cooperate and build great things without huge finincial backing.
NOTE: For the record I think the whole school settlement is a red herring and RedHat's position is more about showing how self serving MS's proposal is (that and getting lots of free publicity).
There is a problem with idea that people will create their own content using new technology to bypass the cartels.
Proposals like SSSCA aim to ensure that digital devices will only play "trusted" content. Eg. That movie you shot on your handicam and rendered with an iMac will assumed to be "pirate". Thus, if you want to distribute your content you have to get it "certified" before it will play on a "digital interactive device".
NB: I belive some DVD burners will not burn a real transport stream that a DVD player will understand, only raw 100101001's.
9.61% operating profit: i.e., Roche was 3.64 times as profitable.
Something that makes me sick about the current system (FWIW I consider myself a capitalist) is that investment flows to companies with the highest profit margin.
Why does this make me sick? Because there are industries with artificially high profit margins because of government protection. In this case it's drug companies but many industries that fall under the banner of "Intellectual Property" have these artificially high margins.
If company X who trades in IP (with govt granted monopolies) can make 3-4 times the profits of company Y who trades real world goods and services, investment is obviously going to flow to company X and others like it.
This undermines what makes capitalism work, competition.
I work in a control room where all the boxes are located in another room, we use KVM's for the machines we use all the time and a conbination of VNC and PCAnywhere for the rest.
I can't speak for Terminal Server Client but VNC and PCAnywhere are no substitute for remote X, they are slower and more unresponsive than a Java app on a P90. Doing work for any extended period of time simply sends you insane.
don't go to a movie unless you have some substantial reason to think it's good
Wow, I've been doing this for years, I think it make heaps of sense.
At first I thought it was just becuase I didn't like movies, but then discovered that I just don't like watching shit (same goes for TV). I see maybe half a dozen movies (including rentals) a year.
I came to this realisation at party talking to a buch of film students. The coverstation turned to films (as usually does with film students) and I made the bold statemnent that I, "don't like movies"!
These people couldn't understand that I may not like movies. After about 2 hours of debate it came down to us actually agreeing that almost all movies are shite (I conceded that I have liked some movies and they conceded that most movies suck).
government workers seem to be the worst offenders at the "seniority makes me special" game.
We recently had a couple of hires who had spent their carrers in the public service before getting layoff packages, my god what you say is true.
These guys require everthing to be spelled out for them, you can't just point them in the general direction and expect them to figure things out on their own. They'll spend all day "working on it" and leave it for the next person to do. This isn't just a case of them being new either, the've been here for 3 months and are showing no signs of improvement.
Not too long ago I gave one of these guys some shit about continually rocking up late (we work in a 24/7 control room and not getting out on time after working all night really pisses me off). This guy not only had the nerve to say that he didn't "agree" to the start time so it was ok to be 5+ minutes late every day but raved on about how he was my senior.
The only basis for him being my senior is age. Myself and the rest of the team are constantly having to explain things to him, he actually has less experience than me in all but a few areas and he contributes nothing extra to the control room (by this I mean documenting, having cool ideas to make things work better, fixing long term problems etc).
How right your are, where's a mod point when you need one.
As an Australian I think this is about the only decent internet regulation in.au so far. Why? because gambling and loteries are (as someones sig puts it) it "a tax on stupidity". Allowing gambling online is essentially like allowing people to pay taxes to other countries, when there still at home.
The main reason gambling is so prevelant is because governments too scared to raise regular taxes, they are not however too scared to intruduce new forms of heavily taxed gambling. Of course they only see the revenue that gambling brings in not the welfare/bankruptcy/crime costs that go along with it.
Yeah it is a guess, and I do hope it's wrong but I don't think so.
I don't see any reason change the story after it has been posted, other stories get an UPDATED: when the editor fscks up, why didn't this?
Either way you look at it he tried to hide what he wrote, was it his own doing or pressure from above. You can have your opinion and I'll have mine.
I don't see the big deal anyway. If Taco had posted that "...he wasn't actually as qualified as we had hoped. Then he quit..." there would be have been endless rants about tech wannabes with useless certification. I haven't seen any posts like that or about the her not being able to do the job becase she's a women. There may be some languishing at 0 and -1 but I don't browse that low.
The only posts I've seen are ones that are defending her because the problem was so hard cisco itself had to called in, which is probably fair enough.
My point remains that the post was changed for no reason other than politics. I belive that there was pressure from above and that's my perogative. Though perhaps I won't use such strong language next time;-)
or perhaps a troll that dicovered Robs girlfriends nick wasn't taken. The user id is pretty high and the account holder has only just started posting, after how many years as "Robs other half".
Sarcasta also seems to know an autful lot about Oracle databases for a "Graphic Designer and Mac Lover".
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The thing that really bothered me about the article though, was that the author does not present anything to take the place of music as a dominant cultural mover.
My money is on games taking their place as the cultural driver.
Each console generation seems to create a bigger and bigger market, people play lots of games on their PC's and as cable companies roll out iTV boxes there will be decent games there too (decent for the occasional not hardcore gamer).
Games these days have pretty cool soundtracks and definately have influence the popular culture in certain circles.
I think the future will see lots more "family friendly" games, a few friends of mine have kids and a common passtime (for the fathers) is playing the Playstation with the kids.
MacGeevy cited a recent UK raid on a DVD-R factory turning that was allegedly making copies of Spider Man and Star Wars: Episode II movies. emphasis mine.
Hasn't Hollywood been bosting that Spiderman and Star Wars Ep.2 are two of the highest grossing movies of all time?
How does piracy hurt the industry again?
All that unique idenftiers will do is raise the cost of producing the media, not that CD/DVD's are expensive to produce but I'm sure the cost will be passed on at least once.
It doesn't even combat commercial piracy.
All it will show is that "pirate" bought their copy of the CD/DVD from Blockbuster HMV etc.
Although this could be amusing if they start trying to clamp down on Blockbuster for supplying "perfect digital masters" to pirates.
This quote, "use piracy to fund other activities such as drug dealing, arms trading, money laundering and terrorism." cracked me up.
I was under the naive impression that drug dealing and arms trading were highly profitable, I thought money laundering was used to hide the massive ammounts money those actvities generated.
It's now obvious to me that file sharing and pirate CD's in flea markets are really just a front to pay for unprofitable activities like drug trafficing and arms trading.
Come on guys, at least try to make up convicing FUD.
As soon as I read that he is a CS guy not an RF guy I had my doubts.
Umm, did you actually read the opening brief, it's
here in case you haven't.
I read the first 30 pages, it clearly focuses on the 3,350,000 copyright registrations between 1923 and 1942.
As another poster has pointed out, the brief is excellent reading. Why don't you try it.
Apart from running on Linux, how is this $3000 solution better?
The card is a professional solution for the professional broadcast market, for what it does $3000 is actually pretty resonable.
This product takes SDI (Serial Digial Interface) for video input which is the standard to broadcast video, it runs at 270Mbs and is not found on anything but professional (or at best "prosumer") gear.
This is not the first pro card that does SDI under Linux either, IIRC Optibase have a Mediapump card that does SDI under *nix.
For those interested "ECM" stands for Entitlement Control Message, it contains the control word (encryption key) used to unlock TV services.
The ECM itself is encrypted, which is where the smart card comes in, it decrypts the ECM and passes the control word it contains to the mpeg-2 decoder.
Comparisons with Apache are not appropriate, MS did not (and still does not) enjoy a monopoly in the server marker. NT comming bundled IIS has little effect on Apache (or iPlanet), if the majority of servers ran NT it would be different.
If you do look at the NT market IIS *has* pushed other competators out. Apache on NT for example is mainly used as a development platform before deploying on *nix.
In the findings of fact it was found that MS witheld API's from Netscape, API's that made IIS run faster on NT than Netscape's server. Netscape's business model was a razor/blades one. Make little money from the browser (free for personal use, $$$ for corporates) and sell the server. Bundling IIS with NT kept Netscape out of that market, bundling IE on the desktop made it make less sense use Netscape's Server as it would be talking to MS's browser.
I'm not saying Netscape was a saint or didn't make plenty of it's own screw ups but MS did leverage their monopoly on the desktop against Netscape's browser and did hide API's on NT to keep Netscape's server out of the NT market. The case against MS is that it used it monopoly in one area to extend into another, that is illegal.
I was reading somhere (can't remember where) that although we can't hear above 20Khz, sounds that are above that range will lower in frequency when they bounce around the room and fall into some peoples hearing range.
CD's sampled at 44khz miss some of these sounds and that is what audiophiles complain about when they say digital audio sounds flat.
I personally want my kids to understand Word and Excell and possibly how to use Photoshop and applications like that for when they go to work.
Thats funny, I want my kids to be able to understand how to use computers not just memorise usage of a couple of few used programs. The free alternatives to the examples you site are similar enough that if you understand how to use them switching to an alternaive is pretty darn easy.
Don't underestimate the value of being able to quickly learn different software. When your kids go into the workforce they will be introduced to lots of "enterprise" and custom developed systems. Being able to quickly learn these systems makes a huge impression when new employees start. Those that quickly pickup the software will be assumed to be more intelligent and capable than those that can't (sad but true).
Your kids _will_ learn more than just the philosophy of free software, and don't dismiss the value of learning that philosophy. Interopeable software that supports open standards is a fine lesson to learn. Expecting to be able to modify software also a fine lesson, as is seeing that people can cooperate and build great things without huge finincial backing.
NOTE: For the record I think the whole school settlement is a red herring and RedHat's position is more about showing how self serving MS's proposal is (that and getting lots of free publicity).
CNN reports that it was flight 587 and was an Airbus A300 not 767 on it's way to the Dominican Republic.
There is a problem with idea that people will create their own content using new technology to bypass the cartels.
Proposals like SSSCA aim to ensure that digital devices will only play "trusted" content. Eg. That movie you shot on your handicam and rendered with an iMac will assumed to be "pirate". Thus, if you want to distribute your content you have to get it "certified" before it will play on a "digital interactive device".
NB: I belive some DVD burners will not burn a real transport stream that a DVD player will understand, only raw 100101001's.
Xenix, *shudder*
+2 Funny. where's a mod point :)
Something that makes me sick about the current system (FWIW I consider myself a capitalist) is that investment flows to companies with the highest profit margin.
Why does this make me sick? Because there are industries with artificially high profit margins because of government protection. In this case it's drug companies but many industries that fall under the banner of "Intellectual Property" have these artificially high margins.
If company X who trades in IP (with govt granted monopolies) can make 3-4 times the profits of company Y who trades real world goods and services, investment is obviously going to flow to company X and others like it.
This undermines what makes capitalism work, competition.
I can't speak for Terminal Server Client but VNC and PCAnywhere are no substitute for remote X, they are slower and more unresponsive than a Java app on a P90. Doing work for any extended period of time simply sends you insane.
Wow, I've been doing this for years, I think it make heaps of sense.
At first I thought it was just becuase I didn't like movies, but then discovered that I just don't like watching shit (same goes for TV). I see maybe half a dozen movies (including rentals) a year.
I came to this realisation at party talking to a buch of film students. The coverstation turned to films (as usually does with film students) and I made the bold statemnent that I, "don't like movies"!
These people couldn't understand that I may not like movies. After about 2 hours of debate it came down to us actually agreeing that almost all movies are shite (I conceded that I have liked some movies and they conceded that most movies suck).
We recently had a couple of hires who had spent their carrers in the public service before getting layoff packages, my god what you say is true.
These guys require everthing to be spelled out for them, you can't just point them in the general direction and expect them to figure things out on their own. They'll spend all day "working on it" and leave it for the next person to do. This isn't just a case of them being new either, the've been here for 3 months and are showing no signs of improvement.
Not too long ago I gave one of these guys some shit about continually rocking up late (we work in a 24/7 control room and not getting out on time after working all night really pisses me off). This guy not only had the nerve to say that he didn't "agree" to the start time so it was ok to be 5+ minutes late every day but raved on about how he was my senior.
The only basis for him being my senior is age. Myself and the rest of the team are constantly having to explain things to him, he actually has less experience than me in all but a few areas and he contributes nothing extra to the control room (by this I mean documenting, having cool ideas to make things work better, fixing long term problems etc).
Ok, enough ranting.
Yes it's retarded but you get used to it.
As an Australian I think this is about the only decent internet regulation in .au so far. Why? because gambling and loteries are (as someones sig puts it) it "a tax on stupidity". Allowing gambling online is essentially like allowing people to pay taxes to other countries, when there still at home.
The main reason gambling is so prevelant is because governments too scared to raise regular taxes, they are not however too scared to intruduce new forms of heavily taxed gambling. Of course they only see the revenue that gambling brings in not the welfare/bankruptcy/crime costs that go along with it.
Just my 2 .au cents (1 US cent).
I don't see any reason change the story after it has been posted, other stories get an UPDATED: when the editor fscks up, why didn't this?
Either way you look at it he tried to hide what he wrote, was it his own doing or pressure from above. You can have your opinion and I'll have mine.
I don't see the big deal anyway. If Taco had posted that "...he wasn't actually as qualified as we had hoped. Then he quit..." there would be have been endless rants about tech wannabes with useless certification. I haven't seen any posts like that or about the her not being able to do the job becase she's a women. There may be some languishing at 0 and -1 but I don't browse that low.
The only posts I've seen are ones that are defending her because the problem was so hard cisco itself had to called in, which is probably fair enough.
My point remains that the post was changed for no reason other than politics. I belive that there was pressure from above and that's my perogative. Though perhaps I won't use such strong language next time ;-)
Sarcasta also seems to know an autful lot about Oracle databases for a "Graphic Designer and Mac Lover".
I don't know whether the stories of Rob and Jeff flaming the tech for not being able to her job are true but the fact remains that:
Makes me wonder where editorial control heading.
Yes it is.