Well, the thing reports you to the authorities though a communication network so I guess that qualifies as "on-line". And once it's implimented in a few countries and the bugs worked out, lawmakers will have a template to go on to further exise what few rights you have left wherever you might live.
:) DVD Jon is likely just some guy who agreed to take credit for the real hacker's work. They release their work though him to avoid litigation. Either that or he's a very industrious fellow, cracking apple's drm and then releasing a complete Linux itunes music store client and what not.
PowerPC eh? That'd be pretty sweet if these could be hacked to run OS X. Bet that'd boost sales. Also I wonder if xbox360 games could be easilly ported to OS X... likely not as compiling for a different architecture probably is already the easiest part of a port. It's the APIs that are the hard part.
I agree that in this particular case the values involved are basically nil. However, in the general case, if we take the assumption that copyright law is based on at face value, that information is property (an assumption I happen to disagree with, it has some attributes of property but is not the same), then creating unauthorized copies does devalue legitimate copies. In the general case, people would not be willing to pay as much for something if they know it will be valueless when they are though with it. I know I mentally think about how much I can get selling a computer game used when I decide to purchase it. I don't want to pay $40-$50 for a game I'm going to play for a month and then discard. If I can get $20 for it used after playing it for a month, that helps defray the cost. Also rental stores won't buy as many copies if people just make illegal copies instead of renting legitimate copies. Again, I'd like to point out that I don't think information as property is the best system. Users of information have rights that have more value the value lost through illegal copying. There's got to be a middle ground.
Well, technically, even if Nintendo doesn't sell the old games anymore, the people who own ligitimate copies are seeing the value of their old games reduced by illegal copying. I'm not saying I agree that that's something a person should be removed from society for, as very few legitimate owners would care, but it is something.
Those quotes are 14 years apart. It's not so strange that someone would change their mind on a subject over 14 years, especially considering that in '91 software patents were mostly not in Microsoft's favor, and now they are.
From the wikipedia entry on gamma rays, it would appear that your garden variety fallout shelter would do the trick:
Shielding for ? rays requires large amounts of mass. The material used for shielding takes into account that gamma rays are better absorbed by materials with high atomic number and high density. Also, the higher the energy of the gamma rays, the thicker the shielding required. Materials for shielding gamma rays are typically illustrated by the thickness required to reduce the intensity of the gamma rays by one half (the half value layer or HVL). For example, gamma rays that require 1 cm (0.4 inches) of lead to reduced their intensity by 50% will also have their intensity reduced in half by 6cm (2.4inches) of concrete or 9cm (3.6inches) of packed dirt.
I disagree. I think there are always better, simpler, more elegant ways of acheiving the desired outcome. If something is so complicated that vast armies of developers can't impliment it over the course of several years, and all you're trying to do is display text and images, that's a sure sign you're doing something very very wrong.
C is fairly straight forward. There is very little variability in different implimentations, but C++ has exactly the same problem as CSS2. It's hideously complex to the point of being near impossible to impliment fully and correctly, which defeats the point of having a standard in the first place. You've just given a second example of a broken standard.
They proabably are reviewed by a human. Most likely an intern hoping to build up a resume that will allow him get into the hip-hop business at some point, i.e. someone who who can't tell the difference between a Kb and Mb and has never heard of X-windows.
Ha! all you suckers who don't mail in your rebates are subsidising my purchases.:P My rebates are bigger because most of you don't mail yours in, which is why it makes good business sense for best buy to offer products below cost after rebate. I'm sad to see it go.
I haven't looked at it, but I assume these new features can be specified on a table by table basis, so if you don't need them, you get the performance benifit of not having them, like innodb vs standard tables now.
Holy Crap! You're comparing our government to Stalin's Soviet Union?!? You are aware that Stalin is the greatest mass murdurer in the history of the world aren't you? Hitler? He's only number 3, right behind Mao. I against gag orders and id checks at airports and the other stuff you mentioned of course, but let's be realistic here, we've got a long way to go before we're anything *remotely* like North Korea. At this point the people affected by these questionable practices are relatively few, and they are relatively well publicised. We can discuss them and vote for candidates who oppose them. I don't expect to get drug out into the street and shot any time soon because I voted Libertarian.
Well on its way? We've been conducting secret trials for some time now. Remember Jose Padilla? A US citizen, arrested, then accused of being an enemy combantant and transfered to a military brig and held incomunicado with no legal representation, never to be heard from again. He's still there as far as anyone knows.
Have you installed gentoo? The "installer" is a command prompt and that 12 page installation document you mention.
As far as the tweaks, they mostly involved selecting the right applications to install. VidaLinux does a decent job of providing a gentoo installation with reasonable defaults, but you run into problems with for instance ATI's and Nvidia's X windows drivers not wanting to both be installed at the same time, so by default you get neither. And what are the chances of convincing the gnome team to drop metacity and gnome-terminal in favor of xfwm and xfterm? I could submit my window theme, but as I pointed out, you can't resize windows using the bottom corners... At this point you'd pretty much have to come up with your own distro and with some decent hardware detection that would autmatically install hardware accellerated video drivers, turn on compositing and change the default theme if your hardware happened to support it.
Most of my open soruce work is with lower level tools like xml parsers and version control systems, although I did make the gimp.app package for OS X. A lot of people seem to appreciate the usability improvement with that.
They had a sign that said, feed a musician, download legally. If you can't afford food, it's because no one *wants* to hear your music. If you really are an as yet unsuccessful musician, wouldn't you do well to give your stuff away to get some attention? Then maybe you get a few more paying gigs. I think that'll be the music business model in the future. Why do we need a recording industry at all? In the future, successful musicians will give away recordings for free to gain popularity and then make money from concerts and other live performances.
Hmm... I'm definately a hardcore hacker and I spent the last two weeks working on and tweaking my linux system to get it up to the usability stanadards of os x. I'd say I was able to get maybe 90% of the way there. On linux I still don't have anti-aliased fonts in emacs (much easier on my eyes for long coding sessions), can't seem to get skippy-xd working (expose for linux, would have been single biggest usability improvement), don't have access to my zeroconf/rendezvous only network printer (zeroconf support coming in gnome 2.11... maybe), I've yet to figure out how to make the bottom-left corner of an xfwm4 window resizable with zero pixel borders. (window borders are superfluous when you have dropshadows to distinguish the window edge) and I haven't figured out how to automatically set the transparency of my terminal window. The best I can do is have it automatically call transset and then click on the terminal each time I open a new one. True transparency is very usefull for terminal windows so you can see for example a command listed on a web browser window when it would otherwise have been obscured.
xfwm4 kicks ass. I was trying out xfce today but I miss my usb and cdrw drives popping up on my desktop when I put them in. I realized the only thing I really wanted was a faster full-featured gtk2 terminal and xfwm4 (metacity sux). It's fast, light, and has builtin support for x compositing!, So now I'm using xfterm4 on gnome with xfwm4 with a customized 0 pixel border theme. Who needs window borders when you have dropshadows to distinguish the window edge?
Yes, what's needed for binary packages to work is a well defined base system like commercial OSs like Windows and OS X have. This base system gets upgraded no more often than every six months except for minor patches. That way you can release a binary package that works with standard linux base version 3 or standard linux base version 4, etc... Without that the best option is soruce compiling, otherwise even with something like autopackage, you're still stuck in at least the 3rd circle of dependency hell instead of the 9th.
Yeah, I've been a FreeBSD guy for some years now, but was force to use Linux when I got an amd64 box, due to Nvidia's failure to release amd64 FreeBSD drivers. After suffering thought the nightmare that was the total lack of a gentoo installer once, I decided to try out vidalinux. Ahh... anaconda installer, BSDlike ports collection, linux hardware support. As soon as Nvidia releases amd64 drivers for FreeBSD, I'm going back though. Managing use variables and figuring out what's marked stable that's not and and what's marked unstable that is, sux.
our legal system didn't kill enron, it was the investors once they learned enron's profits were a figment of their anderson accounting firm's imagination.
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Well, the thing reports you to the authorities though a communication network so I guess that qualifies as "on-line". And once it's implimented in a few countries and the bugs worked out, lawmakers will have a template to go on to further exise what few rights you have left wherever you might live.
:) DVD Jon is likely just some guy who agreed to take credit for the real hacker's work. They release their work though him to avoid litigation. Either that or he's a very industrious fellow, cracking apple's drm and then releasing a complete Linux itunes music store client and what not.
PowerPC eh? That'd be pretty sweet if these could be hacked to run OS X. Bet that'd boost sales. Also I wonder if xbox360 games could be easilly ported to OS X... likely not as compiling for a different architecture probably is already the easiest part of a port. It's the APIs that are the hard part.
I agree that in this particular case the values involved are basically nil. However, in the general case, if we take the assumption that copyright law is based on at face value, that information is property (an assumption I happen to disagree with, it has some attributes of property but is not the same), then creating unauthorized copies does devalue legitimate copies. In the general case, people would not be willing to pay as much for something if they know it will be valueless when they are though with it. I know I mentally think about how much I can get selling a computer game used when I decide to purchase it. I don't want to pay $40-$50 for a game I'm going to play for a month and then discard. If I can get $20 for it used after playing it for a month, that helps defray the cost. Also rental stores won't buy as many copies if people just make illegal copies instead of renting legitimate copies. Again, I'd like to point out that I don't think information as property is the best system. Users of information have rights that have more value the value lost through illegal copying. There's got to be a middle ground.
Well, technically, even if Nintendo doesn't sell the old games anymore, the people who own ligitimate copies are seeing the value of their old games reduced by illegal copying. I'm not saying I agree that that's something a person should be removed from society for, as very few legitimate owners would care, but it is something.
Those quotes are 14 years apart. It's not so strange that someone would change their mind on a subject over 14 years, especially considering that in '91 software patents were mostly not in Microsoft's favor, and now they are.
From the wikipedia entry on gamma rays, it would appear that your garden variety fallout shelter would do the trick:
Shielding for ? rays requires large amounts of mass. The material used for shielding takes into account that gamma rays are better absorbed by materials with high atomic number and high density. Also, the higher the energy of the gamma rays, the thicker the shielding required. Materials for shielding gamma rays are typically illustrated by the thickness required to reduce the intensity of the gamma rays by one half (the half value layer or HVL). For example, gamma rays that require 1 cm (0.4 inches) of lead to reduced their intensity by 50% will also have their intensity reduced in half by 6cm (2.4inches) of concrete or 9cm (3.6inches) of packed dirt.
I disagree. I think there are always better, simpler, more elegant ways of acheiving the desired outcome. If something is so complicated that vast armies of developers can't impliment it over the course of several years, and all you're trying to do is display text and images, that's a sure sign you're doing something very very wrong.
C is fairly straight forward. There is very little variability in different implimentations, but C++ has exactly the same problem as CSS2. It's hideously complex to the point of being near impossible to impliment fully and correctly, which defeats the point of having a standard in the first place. You've just given a second example of a broken standard.
Steve owns a private jet that he "leases" to Apple for somewhat more than the going market rate. ;)
Or better yet, maybe it's dissension in the ranks. Some intern who downloads x-files episodes himself and wants to embarass RIAA/MPAA
They proabably are reviewed by a human. Most likely an intern hoping to build up a resume that will allow him get into the hip-hop business at some point, i.e. someone who who can't tell the difference between a Kb and Mb and has never heard of X-windows.
Ha! all you suckers who don't mail in your rebates are subsidising my purchases. :P My rebates are bigger because most of you don't mail yours in, which is why it makes good business sense for best buy to offer products below cost after rebate. I'm sad to see it go.
I haven't looked at it, but I assume these new features can be specified on a table by table basis, so if you don't need them, you get the performance benifit of not having them, like innodb vs standard tables now.
Leaders?!? We don't want no stinking leaders. We want public servants damit!
Holy Crap! You're comparing our government to Stalin's Soviet Union?!? You are aware that Stalin is the greatest mass murdurer in the history of the world aren't you? Hitler? He's only number 3, right behind Mao. I against gag orders and id checks at airports and the other stuff you mentioned of course, but let's be realistic here, we've got a long way to go before we're anything *remotely* like North Korea. At this point the people affected by these questionable practices are relatively few, and they are relatively well publicised. We can discuss them and vote for candidates who oppose them. I don't expect to get drug out into the street and shot any time soon because I voted Libertarian.
Well on its way? We've been conducting secret trials for some time now. Remember Jose Padilla? A US citizen, arrested, then accused of being an enemy combantant and transfered to a military brig and held incomunicado with no legal representation, never to be heard from again. He's still there as far as anyone knows.
Have you installed gentoo? The "installer" is a command prompt and that 12 page installation document you mention.
As far as the tweaks, they mostly involved selecting the right applications to install. VidaLinux does a decent job of providing a gentoo installation with reasonable defaults, but you run into problems with for instance ATI's and Nvidia's X windows drivers not wanting to both be installed at the same time, so by default you get neither. And what are the chances of convincing the gnome team to drop metacity and gnome-terminal in favor of xfwm and xfterm? I could submit my window theme, but as I pointed out, you can't resize windows using the bottom corners... At this point you'd pretty much have to come up with your own distro and with some decent hardware detection that would autmatically install hardware accellerated video drivers, turn on compositing and change the default theme if your hardware happened to support it.
gentoo doesn't have an installer... :(
Most of my open soruce work is with lower level tools like xml parsers and version control systems, although I did make the gimp.app package for OS X. A lot of people seem to appreciate the usability improvement with that.
They had a sign that said, feed a musician, download legally. If you can't afford food, it's because no one *wants* to hear your music. If you really are an as yet unsuccessful musician, wouldn't you do well to give your stuff away to get some attention? Then maybe you get a few more paying gigs. I think that'll be the music business model in the future. Why do we need a recording industry at all? In the future, successful musicians will give away recordings for free to gain popularity and then make money from concerts and other live performances.
Hmm... I'm definately a hardcore hacker and I spent the last two weeks working on and tweaking my linux system to get it up to the usability stanadards of os x. I'd say I was able to get maybe 90% of the way there. On linux I still don't have anti-aliased fonts in emacs (much easier on my eyes for long coding sessions), can't seem to get skippy-xd working (expose for linux, would have been single biggest usability improvement), don't have access to my zeroconf/rendezvous only network printer (zeroconf support coming in gnome 2.11... maybe), I've yet to figure out how to make the bottom-left corner of an xfwm4 window resizable with zero pixel borders. (window borders are superfluous when you have dropshadows to distinguish the window edge) and I haven't figured out how to automatically set the transparency of my terminal window. The best I can do is have it automatically call transset and then click on the terminal each time I open a new one. True transparency is very usefull for terminal windows so you can see for example a command listed on a web browser window when it would otherwise have been obscured.
xfwm4 kicks ass. I was trying out xfce today but I miss my usb and cdrw drives popping up on my desktop when I put them in. I realized the only thing I really wanted was a faster full-featured gtk2 terminal and xfwm4 (metacity sux). It's fast, light, and has builtin support for x compositing!, So now I'm using xfterm4 on gnome with xfwm4 with a customized 0 pixel border theme. Who needs window borders when you have dropshadows to distinguish the window edge?
Yes, what's needed for binary packages to work is a well defined base system like commercial OSs like Windows and OS X have. This base system gets upgraded no more often than every six months except for minor patches. That way you can release a binary package that works with standard linux base version 3 or standard linux base version 4, etc... Without that the best option is soruce compiling, otherwise even with something like autopackage, you're still stuck in at least the 3rd circle of dependency hell instead of the 9th.
Yeah, I've been a FreeBSD guy for some years now, but was force to use Linux when I got an amd64 box, due to Nvidia's failure to release amd64 FreeBSD drivers. After suffering thought the nightmare that was the total lack of a gentoo installer once, I decided to try out vidalinux. Ahh... anaconda installer, BSDlike ports collection, linux hardware support. As soon as Nvidia releases amd64 drivers for FreeBSD, I'm going back though. Managing use variables and figuring out what's marked stable that's not and and what's marked unstable that is, sux.
our legal system didn't kill enron, it was the investors once they learned enron's profits were a figment of their anderson accounting firm's imagination.