Ever see the movie Lost Highway? It featured several Rammstein songs in the movie and on its soundtrack and was popular in the US long before online music trading became popular.
People just want the music, not to take credit for it. Digitally watermarking is the perfect application for this type of thing. Even if it is possible to mangle or remove the watermark with a lot of effort, there would be no point.
They -never- have an up to date stable release! I can't even compile half of the software out there today on potato without recompiling all of the necessary libraries as well because its own libraries are so old.
At that point i might as well just use a do it your self "distro" like slackware or roll my own.
Make a release, bugs included, and your users will be much happier.
mod the above post up, the reason PDAs don't make wonderful scientific calculators is because they don't have any buttons.
The tactile feedback and ease of use of the buttons on a real calculator make them -much- faster and easier to use. HP48 and TI8x series calculators have great buttons.
Even setting up a PDAs screen as a touch screen is nowhere near as good (and can't fit nearly as many useful multi-labeled buttons).
Only a monopoly or seriously vertical market (game consoles for example) can charge the people that it -needs- in order for it to stay popular for development tools necessary to create applications for their platform.
the simple explanation for the described trust metric reputation system is "your reputation is based on your total sales volume as well as the reputations of those who left feedback for you"
or for buyers:
"your reputation is based on your total purchases and of the reputation of those who left feedback for you."
the word "negative" should be scrapped at that point though. trust metrics require positive numbers and you don't want people to think that someone with a bad reputation leaving you feedback could harm you (it can't, it just "won't boost you" which is the current problem).
some issues that eBay would need to deal with are who the seeds of the trust metric would be (existing well established 20000+ ebay reputation sellers would be a good starting point, a legal contract could be drawn up between ebay and them even).
film companies like kodak and fuji have been retreating from digital cameras by making disposable film cameras with special features (panaoramic, waterproof, etc.). this is the only market left to be conquered digitially before film becomes extreemly expensive and returns to being an esoteric medium.
If microsoft were release new software without exploitable bugs that would be abusing their operating system monopoly to unfairly compete with network security device and virus scanning software companies. The DOJ could sue them for anti-competitive business practices.;)
"If software makers see they are losing money to people going the open-source route, then they will change. Until then, it will be business as usual despite appearances."
Not quite true. Unfortunately many software companies are chosing to "change" by paying their legal and political departments to make open source software illegal.
Go on everyone, keep ripping at various rates, then VBR, then ogg and spend your time.
I am very happy myself ripping using lame at 256kbit/sec for all of my own CDs.
The advantages?
* It is a much faster to rip than with VBR.
* The quality is good enough that i feel this is an acceptable backup of my music suitable for reburning normal CDs should the originals die a microwave death.
* I rip it once and never have to rerip it for different size or quality.
* My Aiwa CDC-MP3 car stereo displays the time position in the song properly (it plays vbr fine but shows the time wrong)
* I can fit 8-10 albums on a single CD-ROM. I'll have to buy gas or use the bathroom before having to change that CD in the car.
Ogg may be a nice open standard (three cheers for that!) but unless it gets mainstream cheap player hardware acceptance (cheap car stereos, portable cd-r players, etc.) it won't hit mainstream.
VBR encoded stuff sounds good, that's true, but there is no economical reason to try and save that last little bit of space.
marketing the reason? Oh come on, if apple had released their cheapest machine with a 100mhz bus speed it would seriously hurt the sales of their higher end machines.
Remember that apple has monopoly control over their hardware.
Re:not in the toilet paper and food sense: useful.
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potential uses: looking up movie listings, online banking, imdb access while watching a movie or show,
doodling, reading online magazines, photo album viewing, etc.
if this comes out at that price and has a useful handwriting input mechanism, i'd buy one. it gets rid of most desires for a computer in the living room.
The author was very lucky to have a free 10mbit/sec connection.
Normal residential DSL lines include terms of service agreements that disallow any sharing of the line outside of the residence in which it was intended to serve. (that's how they make their money). This may not be true if you upgrade to a more expensive business class DSL line.
Freenet is a bad name for obvious already taken name reasons and that it is really a "cheap community net"
Ever since i actually tried using laptops on my lap for any reasonable period of time I decided that they really should run cold, using my body heat for power...
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Ever see the movie Lost Highway? It featured several Rammstein songs in the movie and on its soundtrack and was popular in the US long before online music trading became popular.
this sounds like a lot of what mojonation implements.
People just want the music, not to take credit for it. Digitally watermarking is the perfect application for this type of thing. Even if it is possible to mangle or remove the watermark with a lot of effort, there would be no point.
this is debian's fatal problem:
They -never- have an up to date stable release! I can't even compile half of the software out there today on potato without recompiling all of the necessary libraries as well because its own libraries are so old.
At that point i might as well just use a do it your self "distro" like slackware or roll my own.
Make a release, bugs included, and your users will be much happier.
mod the above post up, the reason PDAs don't make wonderful scientific calculators is because they don't have any buttons.
The tactile feedback and ease of use of the buttons on a real calculator make them -much- faster and easier to use. HP48 and TI8x series calculators have great buttons.
Even setting up a PDAs screen as a touch screen is nowhere near as good (and can't fit nearly as many useful multi-labeled buttons).
I'm glad to know that unbounded square-free ternary sequences exist. Life has a meaning now.
Only a monopoly or seriously vertical market (game consoles for example) can charge the people that it -needs- in order for it to stay popular for development tools necessary to create applications for their platform.
Invite industry lobbiests from other departments in your school to pay your classmates.
Then see whether or not your amendment passes...
good point.
the simple explanation for the described trust metric reputation system is "your reputation is based on your total sales volume as well as the reputations of those who left feedback for you"
or for buyers:
"your reputation is based on your total purchases and of the reputation of those who left feedback for you."
the word "negative" should be scrapped at that point though. trust metrics require positive numbers and you don't want people to think that someone with a bad reputation leaving you feedback could harm you (it can't, it just "won't boost you" which is the current problem).
some issues that eBay would need to deal with are who the seeds of the trust metric would be (existing well established 20000+ ebay reputation sellers would be a good starting point, a legal contract could be drawn up between ebay and them even).
film companies like kodak and fuji have been retreating from digital cameras by making disposable film cameras with special features (panaoramic, waterproof, etc.). this is the only market left to be conquered digitially before film becomes extreemly expensive and returns to being an esoteric medium.
Read my other post within this slashdot article for details.
If it were done as a trust network it would be much more meaningful.
Weight the trust passed on to people you certify (via feedback) using both the value of the item and the trust of the certifier.
A more useful metric of how trust worthy someone is would then be based on a combination of:
Do this and keep seperate ratings for buying and selling and enjoy the results!
If microsoft were release new software without exploitable bugs that would be abusing their operating system monopoly to unfairly compete with network security device and virus scanning software companies. The DOJ could sue them for anti-competitive business practices. ;)
"If software makers see they are losing money to people going the open-source route, then they will change. Until then, it will be business as usual despite appearances."
Not quite true. Unfortunately many software companies are chosing to "change" by paying their legal and political departments to make open source software illegal.
Go on everyone, keep ripping at various rates, then VBR, then ogg and spend your time.
I am very happy myself ripping using lame at 256kbit/sec for all of my own CDs.
The advantages?
* It is a much faster to rip than with VBR.
* The quality is good enough that i feel this is an acceptable backup of my music suitable for reburning normal CDs should the originals die a microwave death.
* I rip it once and never have to rerip it for different size or quality.
* My Aiwa CDC-MP3 car stereo displays the time position in the song properly (it plays vbr fine but shows the time wrong)
* I can fit 8-10 albums on a single CD-ROM. I'll have to buy gas or use the bathroom before having to change that CD in the car.
Ogg may be a nice open standard (three cheers for that!) but unless it gets mainstream cheap player hardware acceptance (cheap car stereos, portable cd-r players, etc.) it won't hit mainstream.
VBR encoded stuff sounds good, that's true, but there is no economical reason to try and save that last little bit of space.
my brain hurts because you allowed me to follow the Unlambda link. can i sue?
but if Sun and Oracle had their way at least the hijackers would've had to pay them a royalty first.
marketing the reason? Oh come on, if apple had released their cheapest machine with a 100mhz bus speed it would seriously hurt the sales of their higher end machines.
Remember that apple has monopoly control over their hardware.
potential uses: looking up movie listings, online banking, imdb access while watching a movie or show,
doodling, reading online magazines, photo album viewing, etc.
if this comes out at that price and has a useful handwriting input mechanism, i'd buy one. it gets rid of most desires for a computer in the living room.
they just emit a sad beep no matter what button you press.
The author was very lucky to have a free 10mbit/sec connection.
Normal residential DSL lines include terms of service agreements that disallow any sharing of the line outside of the residence in which it was intended to serve. (that's how they make their money). This may not be true if you upgrade to a more expensive business class DSL line.
Freenet is a bad name for obvious already taken name reasons and that it is really a "cheap community net"
Ever since i actually tried using laptops on my lap for any reasonable period of time I decided that they really should run cold, using my body heat for power...
tetris runs just great!
The article mentions StarOffice and suggests that it is Java based. Is this true? It didn't used to be java afaik.
Why of course, under the logic similar to that found in the DMCA, all wireless networks are perfectly secure!
There, don't you feel better now? Our fine Brother Sam passed a law saying that something is so it must be true and has always been true.
double plus good i say!
1984 here we come.