The pieces became obvious last month. It's not something that could happen in a competitive system and it's not something I would have imagined just a year ago but the end of the free internet is here.
I've seen these multipage TIFFs you are talking about and hate them. They invariably require some kind of non free viewer that sucks next to any free or non free pdf viewer. TIFF compression itself has lots of vendor specific schemes and you would be better off with pdf or png as alternatives. If you have not been bitten by a TIFF format, you have not been using TIFF long enough. If you add text to your TIFF, the size will probably grow to the same size as a pdf of the same but you trade the Scalar Vector nature of post script for a bitmap.
I don't understand why anyone would move from tried and true pdf systems for a TIFF system unless they want to lose text search for employees, regulators and the public. Handing people image based pdf instead of text files or normal pdf is a standard practice for the Bush administration that borders on criminal obstruction of justice.
Old media will say anything to keep you away from the boundless culture available without cost on new media. This was true in 2001 because it's premise is contradictory:
this state of constant intentional self-distraction could well be of profound detriment to individual and cultural well-being
Boundless communications and cultural stimulation is somehow detrimental to culture? Ridiculous.
To understand things you must first immerse yourself in them. Quiet contemplation has it's place but culture is inherently a group activity and the more connected you are, the more you understand. Nowhere is this more clear than in music. A lively tuba has universal appeal but the words of a song and their interplay with the music has no real meaning to a person who has yet to live their own life, let alone understand the life and circumstances of the artist. It is only after we have lived the life of another that we can spend a few hours contemplating it and come to real understanding of others and ourselves.
It's a kind of virtual protest. The real kind has been pushed to the sidelines of "free speech areas" and all but forbidden. It would only be a trick if the people involved did not believe what they were saying or if they were creating fake blogs, as previous political operators and PR firms have done. Don't confuse this with the far worse practices of Astroturfing, robo blogs and other fake stuff. Coordinated action by real people is legitimate.
Lighten up? No, what I saw question and answer was repulsive. The last fake search for weapons of mass destruction cost 4,000 US service men and more than a million Iraqis their life. It's not something to joke around about. Leaders should not pander to bigots.
Because these attacks don't happen on Mac or GNU/Linux, we can be sure they are only useful because of Windows flaws. The marketing people at Microsoft must have lost their minds to push this story, it only proves their OS is still not ready for networking.
That's true. If you can remote execute code you can remote execute FTP and have it "Carpet Bomb" your desktop with stuff you can then execute. Most botnets perpetuate themselves in a more stealthy manner than that.
I've seen several people telling you idiots to can it already. Why is it that you insist on chasing and inadvertently glorifying Twitter? Every normal person is tired of this conversation and it's counterproductive even by your own twisted worldview. As one a target of your vindictive little Jihad, I've got more than my fair share of annoyance.
What are you trying to suppress anyway? Twitter said that Windows security sucks and this whole issue is some kind of Steve Ballmer fantasy. So what? it's obvious. Go ahead and use your little botnet to bury this comment too. It only serves to prove the point. Without a network full of Windows computers to exploit, you people would have nothing.
You have to wonder if the people modding you down have a botnet of Windows computers and get to sneer twice about it. It is unlikely someone would use their own computers for this kind of thing.
Sorry for the confusion, I thought we were discussing DRM free versions.
I don't own DRM'd ebooks and won't for the reasons you mention. I also would not want the book "locked" to me because I could never give it to a friend. It is rare that I need to do it but I don't want to lose the ability and every workplace should have a library.
First make sure your monitor is working well. You can easily check this with a test pattern If it flickers or has aliasing you need better.
Try to reduce the contrast in light levels between your monitor and it's surroundings. High contrasts in light level will cause your eyes to work harder and reduce your ability to see fine details.
Ever try to sell your old textbooks? You are lucky to get 1/3 rd the value the next semester. The kind of O'Reilly books you would sell won't get you much more. If you don't want it anymore, most people don't want it. You are not going to be losing much this way.
If I'm willing to pay for a print book, I'm willing to pay for the electronic copy. I want the information, not the paper. The easiest place to find it will be the publisher.
Given the choice, I will always buy an ebook from O'reilly. I can put them on sftp and have them anywhere, they won't sag my shelf and so on and so forth. I also imagine it will be easier to buy because I don't have to drive to a store or wait for UPS. I wish all my textbooks were like this.
There's no good and much evil that will come from ISP caches. Technically, P2P is a local cache powered by your neighbors. An "official" node created by your ISP would just be another neighbor but one you should not trust. Basically, they will be deploying a better Media Defender network. The ISPs talking about this stuff are the same ISPs that block ports and have been sending reset packets for P2P. They should trusted to do more of the same.
It would be better to open the public servitude and spectrum to real competition than to grant ISPs more power over us. To turn their own goofey argument around, a network that can be saturated by less than 5% of it's users is completely inadequate. It is obvious that there is big money to be made but those with monopoly grants would rather partner with big publishers.
"Legitimate" media caches and disruption of all other P2P traffic only makes step one worse. They will continue to slow the rest to lower than their heavily filtered networks can deliver. The result will look like broadcast media does today, one big corporate billboard, instead of a free press. Part of censorship is shouting louder than others.
Available NOW with Suse 11 - M$ compatible ODF. Yes, you too can have the fantastic results of M$ collaboration, for the low low price of your freedom. You get special, non free fonts you can't share with your friends. Astound your friends and stun your enemies with documents only the paytard leets can read! Woooo hoooo! [very fast voice] some conditions and restrictions apply, void where prohibited or sane, pay no attention to the man behind the curtian, Xandros, Mepis and other collaborators sold separately under slightly different terms and conditions.[end fast voice][end spot]
Somehow, I don't see the above going over very well.
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Expect the M$FT people to swarm this one to defend their sick cash cow.
MSOL has a better ring to it.
TWM$NBC.failure Will someone please call an anti-trust lawyer?
The pieces became obvious last month. It's not something that could happen in a competitive system and it's not something I would have imagined just a year ago but the end of the free internet is here.
They are raizing the bar, right? My locked tight as a drum so ATT can spy on me iPhone is a sure sign of freedom.
But not like Vista did.
Eat that, whoever modbombed me.
I've seen these multipage TIFFs you are talking about and hate them. They invariably require some kind of non free viewer that sucks next to any free or non free pdf viewer. TIFF compression itself has lots of vendor specific schemes and you would be better off with pdf or png as alternatives. If you have not been bitten by a TIFF format, you have not been using TIFF long enough. If you add text to your TIFF, the size will probably grow to the same size as a pdf of the same but you trade the Scalar Vector nature of post script for a bitmap.
I don't understand why anyone would move from tried and true pdf systems for a TIFF system unless they want to lose text search for employees, regulators and the public. Handing people image based pdf instead of text files or normal pdf is a standard practice for the Bush administration that borders on criminal obstruction of justice.
Old media will say anything to keep you away from the boundless culture available without cost on new media. This was true in 2001 because it's premise is contradictory:
Boundless communications and cultural stimulation is somehow detrimental to culture? Ridiculous.
To understand things you must first immerse yourself in them. Quiet contemplation has it's place but culture is inherently a group activity and the more connected you are, the more you understand. Nowhere is this more clear than in music. A lively tuba has universal appeal but the words of a song and their interplay with the music has no real meaning to a person who has yet to live their own life, let alone understand the life and circumstances of the artist. It is only after we have lived the life of another that we can spend a few hours contemplating it and come to real understanding of others and ourselves.
It's a kind of virtual protest. The real kind has been pushed to the sidelines of "free speech areas" and all but forbidden. It would only be a trick if the people involved did not believe what they were saying or if they were creating fake blogs, as previous political operators and PR firms have done. Don't confuse this with the far worse practices of Astroturfing, robo blogs and other fake stuff. Coordinated action by real people is legitimate.
I must be a little jerk, that's too bad.
Lighten up? No, what I saw question and answer was repulsive. The last fake search for weapons of mass destruction cost 4,000 US service men and more than a million Iraqis their life. It's not something to joke around about. Leaders should not pander to bigots.
The bomb Iran song.
On topic, Getting your friends to link to you is not a Google bomb. Making a farm of fake blogs is. Google does what it can to tell the difference.
Because these attacks don't happen on Mac or GNU/Linux, we can be sure they are only useful because of Windows flaws. The marketing people at Microsoft must have lost their minds to push this story, it only proves their OS is still not ready for networking.
That's true. If you can remote execute code you can remote execute FTP and have it "Carpet Bomb" your desktop with stuff you can then execute. Most botnets perpetuate themselves in a more stealthy manner than that.
I've seen several people telling you idiots to can it already. Why is it that you insist on chasing and inadvertently glorifying Twitter? Every normal person is tired of this conversation and it's counterproductive even by your own twisted worldview. As one a target of your vindictive little Jihad, I've got more than my fair share of annoyance.
What are you trying to suppress anyway? Twitter said that Windows security sucks and this whole issue is some kind of Steve Ballmer fantasy. So what? it's obvious. Go ahead and use your little botnet to bury this comment too. It only serves to prove the point. Without a network full of Windows computers to exploit, you people would have nothing.
as long as you avoid Windows. Don't blame me, that's just the way things work.
You have to wonder if the people modding you down have a botnet of Windows computers and get to sneer twice about it. It is unlikely someone would use their own computers for this kind of thing.
Sorry for the confusion, I thought we were discussing DRM free versions.
I don't own DRM'd ebooks and won't for the reasons you mention. I also would not want the book "locked" to me because I could never give it to a friend. It is rare that I need to do it but I don't want to lose the ability and every workplace should have a library.
First make sure your monitor is working well. You can easily check this with a test pattern If it flickers or has aliasing you need better.
Try to reduce the contrast in light levels between your monitor and it's surroundings. High contrasts in light level will cause your eyes to work harder and reduce your ability to see fine details.
Ever try to sell your old textbooks? You are lucky to get 1/3 rd the value the next semester. The kind of O'Reilly books you would sell won't get you much more. If you don't want it anymore, most people don't want it. You are not going to be losing much this way.
If I'm willing to pay for a print book, I'm willing to pay for the electronic copy. I want the information, not the paper. The easiest place to find it will be the publisher.
Given the choice, I will always buy an ebook from O'reilly. I can put them on sftp and have them anywhere, they won't sag my shelf and so on and so forth. I also imagine it will be easier to buy because I don't have to drive to a store or wait for UPS. I wish all my textbooks were like this.
There's no good and much evil that will come from ISP caches. Technically, P2P is a local cache powered by your neighbors. An "official" node created by your ISP would just be another neighbor but one you should not trust. Basically, they will be deploying a better Media Defender network. The ISPs talking about this stuff are the same ISPs that block ports and have been sending reset packets for P2P. They should trusted to do more of the same.
It would be better to open the public servitude and spectrum to real competition than to grant ISPs more power over us. To turn their own goofey argument around, a network that can be saturated by less than 5% of it's users is completely inadequate. It is obvious that there is big money to be made but those with monopoly grants would rather partner with big publishers.
Here's how media companies will kill the free internet we all know and love:
"Legitimate" media caches and disruption of all other P2P traffic only makes step one worse. They will continue to slow the rest to lower than their heavily filtered networks can deliver. The result will look like broadcast media does today, one big corporate billboard, instead of a free press. Part of censorship is shouting louder than others.
Yeah, I've said this before. As long as ISPs have the same story, so will I.
So L'American thinks the Internet will be lawful if he gives the MAFIAA the ability to kick people off. Brilliant.
Are you violating your ISP's Terms of Service? That would make you a bad person, soon to be disconnected.
Try this as a TV ad:
Available NOW with Suse 11 - M$ compatible ODF. Yes, you too can have the fantastic results of M$ collaboration, for the low low price of your freedom. You get special, non free fonts you can't share with your friends. Astound your friends and stun your enemies with documents only the paytard leets can read! Woooo hoooo! [very fast voice] some conditions and restrictions apply, void where prohibited or sane, pay no attention to the man behind the curtian, Xandros, Mepis and other collaborators sold separately under slightly different terms and conditions.[end fast voice][end spot]
Somehow, I don't see the above going over very well.