I dunno. I liked "Sneakers" enough to buy the DVD, even with the glaring technical inaccuracies.
I think the cool thing about it is that it's about (relatively) 'normal' computer nerds - they weren't saving the world from robots or viruses, they didn't dress all in leather, carry fully automatic weapons, or have uncanny kung-fu skills. They were just security geeks.
Y'all can co for sleek, utilitarian, black boxes - that's fine.
But _I_ want amorphous, green and fugly for my next case!
Magic Bean!
Hell, I wish I was IT director of a fortune 500 company...
I'd draft a new standard, calling for Magic Beans on every desktop!
Magic Bean!
but for some reason lots of people don't apply the same standard to art and data.
That 'some reason' is the law itself. The Supreme Court has upheld the right to make archival copies of data and art.
I never mentioned a thing about distributing copies to persons that had not paid, and neither did the original post you replied to.
I think the copyright (and patent) laws are a load of crap. That doesn't give me the right to ignore them.
In this case the law PERMITS you to make archival copies, time-shift, etc, for your *personal* use.
Archival copies of data are a fine idea. Unfortunately that's not really what a lot of people are using the copies for.
This isn't about piracy, or what kiddies may be doing, it's about big, evil, corporations pissing on rights that were granted to consumers by the government.
(I am really curious to know how the new DVD/CD players that will be able to read CD-R and MP3 data discs are going to respond...)
I can almost guarantee that it won't play.
DVD players are a lot more intelligent than your average Discman,
and that's what this anti-copy tech plays off of.
They make the format slightly out of spec, so that the more intelligent devices get confused.
It's a lot like Macrovision in the way it exploits certain features of the hardware.
Sounds like a good plan. You should also do the same with all of your cash, credit cards, driver's license, etc. Same logic applies, right?
No, clueball, you're trying (as many do) to compare apples to oranges.
Fair use (or whatever statute permits backups, I don't know, nor particularly care.) applies to copyrighted works (data), not media. The media is irrelevant, it's the data that's ON the media that I paid for.
Or, if they are so valuable to you, maybe you should insure them in case they are lost.
Making backups *IS* insurance - if my original media is lost, damaged, or stolen, backups ensure that I can continue to access the data that I paid for.
Why should I pay a third party to protect my data
when I can do it myself easily, legally, and cheaply?
Besides, if I lose my wallet, I can call up my credit card company, gov't and such to get replacements of my cards for minimal cost, unlike music or data CDs.
Your analogy (like SO many others posted to slash) just doesn't work.
Actually, that laser pointer prolly has a (in the better ones) 633/650nm or (in the cheap ones) 680nm laser diode in it, rather than a HeNe tube, so your measurements prolly weren't that far off.
No wonder our educational system is in so much trouble.
Really.
I wonder how that $400 compares to the yearly expenditure on gym equipment, balls for the sports teams, etc.
I'm willing to bet science gets at least 10x less than sports, even though I would consider science to be infinitely more important than sport.
I bought a copy of Type O Negative's "Least worst of" a few months ago, and I've noticed that it won't
play in my laptop (a Dell Inspiron 5k, 24x CDROM), yet works fine in my car.
I never really thought much about it, as I don't usually listen to CDs anywhere but the car,
but now I'm wondering if this disc is usage-disabled.
The symptoms sound similar, the machine can't identify the disc, never starts playing, and occasionally the drive makes a 'wugga-wugga' sound as if it's moving the read head back an forth, looking for something.
Has anyone else seen this happening with this disc?
I just kinda assumed it was mis-stamped or something, and my 'puter couldn't handle it...Now I'm not quite so sure.
I want a display based on the same tech as in the
IBM lin-watch. 740 dpi OLED!
Even just a 15" MONO display at that resolution would kick major arse...I mean, 11100x8140 on a 15x11 screen?! Palmtops at 2220x1480?!
That would be slicker than owl shit.
Getting modded up and replied to is nice, but the karma thing is NOT a game, it's the internet's best way (thus far) of maintaining a large community.
I don't agree. I think K5's system works a lot better...
Karma is a game. You might not like to look at it that way, but many people do, and treat it as such.
OSX is almost usable with 64, but you can basically rule out running Classic apps.
If you plan on using Classic, get 128+, you'll really need it. Not to mention it will speed things up immensely throughout the OS.
I wanna see a Lowrider computer magazine.
I mean, chromed RAID arrays, hydraulic monitor positioning,
overstuffed, ergonomic workstations, boxes covered with shaggy purple fur, golden G4 cubes buffed to a mirror-like finish...
I've never heard of a Sorenson player for *n?x, and it doesn't seem that freshmeat has either.
There is one, it's called 'QuickTime 4' and the only *NIX it supports is Mac OS X.;P
As for a free Sorensen-compatible player, sorry.
You can play QT files encoded with different codecs using xanim on *NIX, but Sorensen is not supported anywhere but (AFAIK) Mac and 'Doze.
They have not only cold war 'duck-and-cover' films,
but also some of those old Encyclopedia Brittanica flicks they showed us in elementary school!
(FWIW, I'm not even that old...I saw those wacky educational movies on *16mm film* in the mid 80s.)
Tell me what I get that's "better" with OpenFirmware? A box that has basic intelligence even when there's no OS installed +more.
It's pretty cool stuff.
I'd argue that they've made it worse through some UI changes that make it act much differently, like the scroll bar gizmos. Then there's stuff like Quicktime where UI common sense gave in to the "skin" fad. And there's still too many modal dialogs, which I guess is fine in a non-SMP OS.
I'm not sure what you're talking about with the scroll bars, but I will give you that QT4 was a major cock-up for Apple UI design.
Comparing NT3.51, 4.0 and 2k and calling them the "same" is really stretching the truth.
Never said they were/the/ same.
But the core OS in each is basically the same, be it 3.51, 4 or 5 (2k).
MacOS 6, 7, 8 and 9 are basically the same between verisons, but with incremental updates in each major version.
It's the same phenomenon on a vastly different system.
Until a product is scrapped or rewritten, the releases are similar.
I'd say that each was an improvment on its predecessor,
That's usually what warrants bumping the version number up.:P
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I dunno. I liked "Sneakers" enough to buy the DVD, even with the glaring technical inaccuracies.
I think the cool thing about it is that it's about (relatively) 'normal' computer nerds - they weren't saving the world from robots or viruses, they didn't dress all in leather, carry fully automatic weapons, or have uncanny kung-fu skills. They were just security geeks.
C-X C-S
Magic Bean!
Y'all can co for sleek, utilitarian, black boxes - that's fine.
But _I_ want amorphous, green and fugly for my next case!
Magic Bean!
Hell, I wish I was IT director of a fortune 500 company...
I'd draft a new standard, calling for Magic Beans on every desktop!
Magic Bean!
C-X C-S
Low UID troll day?
Seriously, that's like the third one I've seen today.
C-X C-S
(Oh, and just for good measure, I'll drop my low UID troll.)
"All your top-secret spy plane are belong to us."
For great justice, take off every 'MiG'.
C-X C-S
I think it's like a rock band or something.
C-X C-S
Slashdot is not an advertising resource for large companies
Unless those companies happen to be Linux companies...
C-X C-S
This is some really impressive flash work...
C-X C-S
but for some reason lots of people don't apply the same standard to art and data.
That 'some reason' is the law itself. The Supreme Court has upheld the right to make archival copies of data and art.
I never mentioned a thing about distributing copies to persons that had not paid, and neither did the original post you replied to.
I think the copyright (and patent) laws are a load of crap. That doesn't give me the right to ignore them.
In this case the law PERMITS you to make archival copies, time-shift, etc, for your *personal* use.
Archival copies of data are a fine idea. Unfortunately that's not really what a lot of people are using the copies for.
This isn't about piracy, or what kiddies may be doing, it's about big, evil, corporations pissing on rights that were granted to consumers by the government.
C-X C-S
(I am really curious to know how the new DVD/CD players that will be able to read CD-R and MP3 data discs are going to respond...)
I can almost guarantee that it won't play.
DVD players are a lot more intelligent than your average Discman,
and that's what this anti-copy tech plays off of.
They make the format slightly out of spec, so that the more intelligent devices get confused.
It's a lot like Macrovision in the way it exploits certain features of the hardware.
C-X C-S
Sounds like a good plan. You should also do the same with all of your cash, credit cards, driver's license, etc. Same logic applies, right?
No, clueball, you're trying (as many do) to compare apples to oranges.
Fair use (or whatever statute permits backups, I don't know, nor particularly care.) applies to copyrighted works (data), not media. The media is irrelevant, it's the data that's ON the media that I paid for.
Or, if they are so valuable to you, maybe you should insure them in case they are lost.
Making backups *IS* insurance - if my original media is lost, damaged, or stolen, backups ensure that I can continue to access the data that I paid for.
Why should I pay a third party to protect my data
when I can do it myself easily, legally, and cheaply?
Besides, if I lose my wallet, I can call up my credit card company, gov't and such to get replacements of my cards for minimal cost, unlike music or data CDs.
Your analogy (like SO many others posted to slash) just doesn't work.
C-X C-S
all your bass are belong to us
Y'know, sad as it is, I can really see that being used as a rap record title.
C-X C-S
Actually, that laser pointer prolly has a (in the better ones) 633/650nm or (in the cheap ones) 680nm laser diode in it, rather than a HeNe tube, so your measurements prolly weren't that far off.
C-X C-S
No wonder our educational system is in so much trouble.
Really.
I wonder how that $400 compares to the yearly expenditure on gym equipment, balls for the sports teams, etc.
I'm willing to bet science gets at least 10x less than sports, even though I would consider science to be infinitely more important than sport.
C-X C-S
I bought a copy of Type O Negative's "Least worst of" a few months ago, and I've noticed that it won't
play in my laptop (a Dell Inspiron 5k, 24x CDROM), yet works fine in my car.
I never really thought much about it, as I don't usually listen to CDs anywhere but the car,
but now I'm wondering if this disc is usage-disabled.
The symptoms sound similar, the machine can't identify the disc, never starts playing, and occasionally the drive makes a 'wugga-wugga' sound as if it's moving the read head back an forth, looking for something.
Has anyone else seen this happening with this disc?
I just kinda assumed it was mis-stamped or something, and my 'puter couldn't handle it...Now I'm not quite so sure.
C-X C-S
I want a display based on the same tech as in the
IBM lin-watch. 740 dpi OLED!
Even just a 15" MONO display at that resolution would kick major arse...I mean, 11100x8140 on a 15x11 screen?! Palmtops at 2220x1480?!
That would be slicker than owl shit.
C-X C-S
I've already got the blue balls, but I'm not too excited about getting the red and green balls...
If he doesn't have it, it's probably because he doesn't want it for one reason or another.
Because it sucks donkey nuts?
Getting modded up and replied to is nice, but the karma thing is NOT a game, it's the internet's best way (thus far) of maintaining a large community.
I don't agree. I think K5's system works a lot better...
Karma is a game. You might not like to look at it that way, but many people do, and treat it as such.
--K
There is a LOT of "non-coding" chunks of DNA (called "introns")
Wasn't there a Star Trek plot based on those?
I know I've those that mentioned in a Star Trek setting somewhere...
--K
I don't know what's nerdier: that I remember that, or that I posted about it.
OSX is almost usable with 64, but you can basically rule out running Classic apps.
If you plan on using Classic, get 128+, you'll really need it. Not to mention it will speed things up immensely throughout the OS.
--K
I wanna see a Lowrider computer magazine.
I mean, chromed RAID arrays, hydraulic monitor positioning,
overstuffed, ergonomic workstations, boxes covered with shaggy purple fur, golden G4 cubes buffed to a mirror-like finish...
THAT's where it's at.
--K
I've never heard of a Sorenson player for *n?x, and it doesn't seem that freshmeat has either.
;P
There is one, it's called 'QuickTime 4' and the only *NIX it supports is Mac OS X.
As for a free Sorensen-compatible player, sorry.
You can play QT files encoded with different codecs using xanim on *NIX, but Sorensen is not supported anywhere but (AFAIK) Mac and 'Doze.
--K
They have not only cold war 'duck-and-cover' films,
but also some of those old Encyclopedia Brittanica flicks they showed us in elementary school!
(FWIW, I'm not even that old...I saw those wacky educational movies on *16mm film* in the mid 80s.)
God this rocks.
--K
Is there any pressure to use Objective C for development (not that I'd be adverse to that)?
From what I've seen, Obj-C is pretty intertwined with the NeXT technologies...
I'm starting to learn it tho, and so far, I like it better than C++.
Project Builder also has an option for Java development, which I still have to try out, soon as I have time.
--K
Tell me what I get that's "better" with OpenFirmware?
/the/ same.
:P
A box that has basic intelligence even when there's no OS installed +more.
It's pretty cool stuff.
I'd argue that they've made it worse through some UI changes that make it act much differently, like the scroll bar gizmos. Then there's stuff like Quicktime where UI common sense gave in to the "skin" fad. And there's still too many modal dialogs, which I guess is fine in a non-SMP OS.
I'm not sure what you're talking about with the scroll bars, but I will give you that QT4 was a major cock-up for Apple UI design.
Comparing NT3.51, 4.0 and 2k and calling them the "same" is really stretching the truth.
Never said they were
But the core OS in each is basically the same, be it 3.51, 4 or 5 (2k).
MacOS 6, 7, 8 and 9 are basically the same between verisons, but with incremental updates in each major version.
It's the same phenomenon on a vastly different system.
Until a product is scrapped or rewritten, the releases are similar.
I'd say that each was an improvment on its predecessor,
That's usually what warrants bumping the version number up.
--K