I have a 128 MB CF card, and it has saved my butt a number of times, as well as preventing me from having to burn a CD at times. However, have you tried one of those USB pen drives that just hooks right into th e USB port? A couple of people around here have them, and it seems like a great idea. Drive support under Windows is native, though I don't know about the Linux support.
Sorry, but the issue really is black and white. The only people who think there is any gray area are just people who want to rip off other people and get "stuff fer free". In other words, the takers of society want to take from the makers of society.
You almost had a coherent arguement until that remark. If there is one thing you and the recording industry should have learned by now is that it is FAR from a black and white issue. Ask Janis Ian what she thinks about people downloading her tracks.
I just bought 2 CDs this week. Both are albums I already have in MP3 format. I want the originals. In your world, I was a thief the moment I borrowed the CD from a friend. Here in the real world, that group just gained another rabid fan.
Um, Clearchannel didnt own EVERY rock station until the regulation preventing them from doing so was LIFTED. More info here: http://archive.salon.com/ent/feature/2001/04/30/cl ear_channel/.
So it was caused by a lack of regulation. The FM space used to have restrictions on how many stations in one market a company could own. g0d bless capitalism!
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I used Crossover Office exclusively as an Outlook Client and Internet Explorer for about 2 months. GUI bugs and other little problems drove me nuts in OUTLOOK, but it was good enough. IE worked fairly well, allowing me to do my online banking, but that was about it. Flash and Media Player 6.4 did work within it, but it seemed to crash just as frequently as it did on Windows =/.
It isnt necessarily an exploit, as he explains in his vuln-dev post: This is not a bug. This is a new class of vulnerabilities, like a buffer overflow attack or a format string attack. As such, there is no specific vendor to inform, since it affects every software maker who writes products for the Windows platform. A co-ordinated release with every software vendor on the planet is impossible.
I've had an external Firewire/USB2.0 chassis for my hard drive for about 6 months now. It uses an Oxford 911 chipset. EVERYONE needs to check their facts before spouting off =)
What's wrong with finding women's bodies attractive? Or infantile for that matter? I was pointing out, by way of linking to another post of that title, that it was a question chosen by Craig himself. Some of us have a sense of humor. I found it amusing myself.
As someone else pointed out, get over yourself. And I might point out, the quality woman I'm with at the moment seems to like me just fine =). And is a geek to boot.
The ADVC-100 is just a hardware DV codec. It has S-Video/composite and audio in/outs. I used it with Adobe Premiere on my PC, or iMovie on my friend's G4, to rip video as DV. It doesnt need drivers or anything, as it just makes an analog video source look like a DV cam to the computer.
If your buddy wants to make a media hub of sorts, he probably would be better off with the All-In-Wonder, especially on Windows. If he is keen on writing a ton of custom software for linux, then perhaps this device would work better. Recent kernels have support for raw IEEE1394 devices, as well as video devices, so some of the software is there already.
Hope this helps. Feel free to email me if you have any more questions.
And if you dont have a DV cam, try the Canopus ADVC-100. It runs $300US, but supports PAL/NTSC, A/V sync, and has composite and S-Video ins. I played around with it a bit to record shows off Adult Swim. The quality is phenomenal.
My kingdom for a mod point to bitchslap this troll down! Your last sentence gave it away:
Look at the music industry - Because of Napster, they've lost hundreds of millions of dollars, and it shows; The music they're putting out is crap, and it's because of music pirates.
*wipes tear from eye* Too funny =)
WTF is a "legit user"? Someone who plays by the rules Microsoft sets? Just because their business model is based on the flawed assumption that they can keep hax0rs from hax0ring their boxen, doesnt mean we have to play along. In short, FUCK YOU.
Check out http://www.eslmusic.com. A friend got me into Theivery Co. and more after I started listening to the streams on SomaFM. You can buy any of the CDs on their label for $12US + shipping. Not bad, and you don't feel so bad paying for it =P. Especially when you can listen to it commercial free on SomaFM.
"I only do it because it's free," he says matter-of-factly. "I don't do it to sample new music before I buy, like Napster always used to say."
So obviously, this asshole's opinion and yours MUST represent the view of EVERYONE who uses a file-sharing application.
I don't know about anyone else, but I rarely use any P2P apps. Most of my bandwidth use is for A) VPNing to work, to admin servers and such, or B) Downloading ISOs for the latest distros, updating my boxen, etc., or C) pr0n.
Sure, I used to download tons of music from Napster and OpenNap. But most of it was either music I already owned, but was lost or scratched, or live bootleg sets. I might still be buying CDs to this day, if the RIAA hadn't made it clear that we're all a bunch of cheap commie pinko pir8s. Fuck the RIAA, and fuck you. I'll continue buying my records from the artists and labels that don't brand me a theif.
Reducing a product to an insanely cheap price won't work, because you just can't beat free.
They havent tried, have they? Thanks for clearing things up for me.
Speaking of which, whatever happened to Enterprise 1701? That was the best comic/RPG/just plain Neat Stuff store I'd ever been to. Spent way too many hours in there as a kid =).
I have a 3Com "Home Wireless Gateway" at home (not sure on the model) and the range is pathetic. Just being a room over it drops in and out of range. Only bought it because it was on sale for cheap. The 3Com plain AP I have here at work has probably 4 times the range.
Also, I've found Linksys cards suck for range. Cisco Aironet 350s can almost double their range. You get what you pay for =).
Yet another application for when we have universal wireless networking. People love talking about what you can do with universal wireless networking, but they all conveniently ignore the fact that such a network does not exist and will not for a long time yet.
It exists today. We have ASICs already. Believe me, it IS coming.
Getting the network up ISN'T an easy task. But by making every car a node, we could deploy a fairly robust network across the country in a car model year. The fact of the matter is mesh networking NEEDS to happen, whether my company does it or not. The problems you mention about cell coverage (dropouts, service in tunnels, etc.) would be solved, you could hop from car to car out of the tunnel and onto the infrastructure. When a building gets between you and a tower, you could hop through a subscriber that has line of sight to it. Physics works FOR you, instead of against you. It really is cool, and I get to use it every day =).
This is about a whole hell of a lot more than browsing in a car. Think ubiquitous computing.
This would enable more than internet access. By putting mesh nodes in every vehicle, you could deploy a broadband network across the entire country, for very little cost, and in a minimal amount of time. The users would subsidize the network, a complete 180 from the current cell phone business model. Since it is IP based, ANY existing IP app would work over it. With QoS support, VoIP could replace CDMA/GSM networks, and sound better too (I can vouch for this, my company is doing this TODAY).
The problem with a technology like this, and predicting where it will go, is that the applications arent there yet. And they wont be until a network capable of enabling them is deployed. It is short-sighted to claim there is no use for something like this. But I can tell you one app that it could be applied to today, that every Slashdotter would love: internet radio. Think about it, access to thousands of stations, spanning hundreds of countries, thousands of genres, and no Clear Channel in sight =).
You're missing the point. You share resources with others to get access to the network. It is designed for sharing from the ground up. By deploying a node in every car, we could eliminate cell towers COMPLETELY.
So to address your points: 1) Perhaps. 2) Yup, but it is a trivial amount, and more users use LESS power. and 3) Noone is stealing, you share your resources with the expectation that others do, and help deploy the network, along with using LESS power and enabling much higher data rates.
Huge profits? Maybe, but the benefits for the users are much much higher. Less, or no dropouts. Communication between eachother with no infrastructure. No cell towers. High speed access (MEGAbits per second). Less power use. The list goes on and on.
I don't know what area you live in, but down here in Florida a lot of communities have been enacting very strict zoning regulations, making it more and more difficult to obtain cell sites. We have a lot of those "camoflauged" cell towers that are supposed to look like pines or something. Kind of odd to see a tree that extends more than twice as high as the existing tree line...
Just a disclaimer, I work for one of the companies in question in the article.
IP routing is difficult enough without worrying about someone suddenly turning off to Albuquerque with your IP packets locked in the outbound queue.
Yup, hence the reason developing protocols to effectively route traffic in an ad-hoc is quite difficult. We get around this by shifting the intelligence from the host to the network card. The transceivers communicate at layer 2 and below, and present what looks like an ethernet interface to the host. It involves a good bit of CPU, and some cleverly designed routing algorithms. But it does work, I show it to people every day =).
You hit the nail on the head right there. Check out my employer's website, since that is the crux of what we are doing today. Actually, Fox News just did a story on us, which should go national soon. I'm the one running the computer in the video, and yes I'm busy surfing Slashdot;)
Basically, instead of transmitting at high power to a base station, the transciever finds the path that takes the least amount of power. By transmitting at lower power, you get better spectrum reuse in a given area. One conventional cell becomes thousands of picocells. It really doesnt make sense to try to run a packet switched protocol like IP over circut switched networks like CDMA, et al.
This guy does have the right idea, but I think some people are reading the article the wrong way. He isn't calling for deregulation, just more bands for people to experiment in, like the ISM band.
Not that it matters, you proved you have no clue what you are talking about when you said: its not really that expensive (hell you buy a computer and they give it to you). Obviously you haven't paid for or deployed Windows in an enterprise environment. As long as you can steal your favorite music, and run all the latest viruses, what do you care?
And how would you propose one enforces this? If the DMCA gets overturned, God willing, congress is back to square one again.
How about using, um, EXISTING COPYRIGHT LAW? Before the DMCA, it was STILL against the law to distribute illegal copies of copyrighted works. The only thing the DMCA has done is: A) Give the RIAA/MPAA the ability to take away the fair use rights we already had, and B) Smack anyone who even TALKS about defeating their half-assed protection schemes with a lawsuit.
Yea, we'll be back to square one. Back to when I could write software to do whatever the fuck I wanted to do with the CD I bought, like put it on my portable MP3 player.
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I have a 128 MB CF card, and it has saved my butt a number of times, as well as preventing me from having to burn a CD at times. However, have you tried one of those USB pen drives that just hooks right into th e USB port? A couple of people around here have them, and it seems like a great idea. Drive support under Windows is native, though I don't know about the Linux support.
Sorry, but the issue really is black and white. The only people who think there is any gray area are just people who want to rip off other people and get "stuff fer free". In other words, the takers of society want to take from the makers of society.
You almost had a coherent arguement until that remark. If there is one thing you and the recording industry should have learned by now is that it is FAR from a black and white issue. Ask Janis Ian what she thinks about people downloading her tracks.
I just bought 2 CDs this week. Both are albums I already have in MP3 format. I want the originals. In your world, I was a thief the moment I borrowed the CD from a friend. Here in the real world, that group just gained another rabid fan.
Um, Clearchannel didnt own EVERY rock station until the regulation preventing them from doing so was LIFTED. More info here: http://archive.salon.com/ent/feature/2001/04/30/cl ear_channel/.
So it was caused by a lack of regulation. The FM space used to have restrictions on how many stations in one market a company could own. g0d bless capitalism!
Since when does sanity play any part in our government? And prove it to you? Read the text of the ruling yourself: http://www.loc.gov/copyright/carp/webcasting_rates .html.
Nice to see that Hilary Rosen's email address isnt anywhere to be found on the RIAA website. Guess she knows better.
Fscking RIAA, glad I haven't bought a CD from them in 3 years or so. Now if you'll excuse me, time to go pirate some more music. Fuckers.
Um, Simpsons already did that...
I used Crossover Office exclusively as an Outlook Client and Internet Explorer for about 2 months. GUI bugs and other little problems drove me nuts in OUTLOOK, but it was good enough. IE worked fairly well, allowing me to do my online banking, but that was about it. Flash and Media Player 6.4 did work within it, but it seemed to crash just as frequently as it did on Windows =/.
It isnt necessarily an exploit, as he explains in his vuln-dev post: This is not a bug. This is a new class of vulnerabilities, like a buffer overflow attack or a format string attack. As such, there is no specific vendor to inform, since it affects every software maker who writes products for the Windows platform. A co-ordinated release with every software vendor on the planet is impossible.
I've had an external Firewire/USB2.0 chassis for my hard drive for about 6 months now. It uses an Oxford 911 chipset. EVERYONE needs to check their facts before spouting off =)
What's wrong with finding women's bodies attractive? Or infantile for that matter? I was pointing out, by way of linking to another post of that title, that it was a question chosen by Craig himself. Some of us have a sense of humor. I found it amusing myself.
As someone else pointed out, get over yourself. And I might point out, the quality woman I'm with at the moment seems to like me just fine =). And is a geek to boot.
Read the fscking article d00d. Besides, some of us geeks actually *gasp* like girls?
The ADVC-100 is just a hardware DV codec. It has S-Video/composite and audio in/outs. I used it with Adobe Premiere on my PC, or iMovie on my friend's G4, to rip video as DV. It doesnt need drivers or anything, as it just makes an analog video source look like a DV cam to the computer.
If your buddy wants to make a media hub of sorts, he probably would be better off with the All-In-Wonder, especially on Windows. If he is keen on writing a ton of custom software for linux, then perhaps this device would work better. Recent kernels have support for raw IEEE1394 devices, as well as video devices, so some of the software is there already.
Hope this helps. Feel free to email me if you have any more questions.
And if you dont have a DV cam, try the Canopus ADVC-100. It runs $300US, but supports PAL/NTSC, A/V sync, and has composite and S-Video ins. I played around with it a bit to record shows off Adult Swim. The quality is phenomenal.
And not to plug them, but I got mine from DV411.
My kingdom for a mod point to bitchslap this troll down! Your last sentence gave it away:
Look at the music industry - Because of Napster, they've lost hundreds of millions of dollars, and it shows; The music they're putting out is crap, and it's because of music pirates.
*wipes tear from eye* Too funny =)
WTF is a "legit user"? Someone who plays by the rules Microsoft sets? Just because their business model is based on the flawed assumption that they can keep hax0rs from hax0ring their boxen, doesnt mean we have to play along. In short, FUCK YOU.
Check out http://www.eslmusic.com. A friend got me into Theivery Co. and more after I started listening to the streams on SomaFM. You can buy any of the CDs on their label for $12US + shipping. Not bad, and you don't feel so bad paying for it =P. Especially when you can listen to it commercial free on SomaFM.
From the article:
"I only do it because it's free," he says matter-of-factly. "I don't do it to sample new music before I buy, like Napster always used to say."
So obviously, this asshole's opinion and yours MUST represent the view of EVERYONE who uses a file-sharing application.
I don't know about anyone else, but I rarely use any P2P apps. Most of my bandwidth use is for A) VPNing to work, to admin servers and such, or B) Downloading ISOs for the latest distros, updating my boxen, etc., or C) pr0n.
Sure, I used to download tons of music from Napster and OpenNap. But most of it was either music I already owned, but was lost or scratched, or live bootleg sets. I might still be buying CDs to this day, if the RIAA hadn't made it clear that we're all a bunch of cheap commie pinko pir8s. Fuck the RIAA, and fuck you. I'll continue buying my records from the artists and labels that don't brand me a theif.
Reducing a product to an insanely cheap price won't work, because you just can't beat free.
They havent tried, have they? Thanks for clearing things up for me.
Speaking of which, whatever happened to Enterprise 1701? That was the best comic/RPG/just plain Neat Stuff store I'd ever been to. Spent way too many hours in there as a kid =).
I have a 3Com "Home Wireless Gateway" at home (not sure on the model) and the range is pathetic. Just being a room over it drops in and out of range. Only bought it because it was on sale for cheap. The 3Com plain AP I have here at work has probably 4 times the range.
Also, I've found Linksys cards suck for range. Cisco Aironet 350s can almost double their range. You get what you pay for =).
Yet another application for when we have universal wireless networking. People love talking about what you can do with universal wireless networking, but they all conveniently ignore the fact that such a network does not exist and will not for a long time yet.
It exists today. We have ASICs already. Believe me, it IS coming.
Getting the network up ISN'T an easy task. But by making every car a node, we could deploy a fairly robust network across the country in a car model year. The fact of the matter is mesh networking NEEDS to happen, whether my company does it or not. The problems you mention about cell coverage (dropouts, service in tunnels, etc.) would be solved, you could hop from car to car out of the tunnel and onto the infrastructure. When a building gets between you and a tower, you could hop through a subscriber that has line of sight to it. Physics works FOR you, instead of against you. It really is cool, and I get to use it every day =).
This is about a whole hell of a lot more than browsing in a car. Think ubiquitous computing.
This would enable more than internet access. By putting mesh nodes in every vehicle, you could deploy a broadband network across the entire country, for very little cost, and in a minimal amount of time. The users would subsidize the network, a complete 180 from the current cell phone business model. Since it is IP based, ANY existing IP app would work over it. With QoS support, VoIP could replace CDMA/GSM networks, and sound better too (I can vouch for this, my company is doing this TODAY).
The problem with a technology like this, and predicting where it will go, is that the applications arent there yet. And they wont be until a network capable of enabling them is deployed. It is short-sighted to claim there is no use for something like this. But I can tell you one app that it could be applied to today, that every Slashdotter would love: internet radio. Think about it, access to thousands of stations, spanning hundreds of countries, thousands of genres, and no Clear Channel in sight =).
You're missing the point. You share resources with others to get access to the network. It is designed for sharing from the ground up. By deploying a node in every car, we could eliminate cell towers COMPLETELY.
So to address your points: 1) Perhaps. 2) Yup, but it is a trivial amount, and more users use LESS power. and 3) Noone is stealing, you share your resources with the expectation that others do, and help deploy the network, along with using LESS power and enabling much higher data rates.
Huge profits? Maybe, but the benefits for the users are much much higher. Less, or no dropouts. Communication between eachother with no infrastructure. No cell towers. High speed access (MEGAbits per second). Less power use. The list goes on and on.
I don't know what area you live in, but down here in Florida a lot of communities have been enacting very strict zoning regulations, making it more and more difficult to obtain cell sites. We have a lot of those "camoflauged" cell towers that are supposed to look like pines or something. Kind of odd to see a tree that extends more than twice as high as the existing tree line...
Just a disclaimer, I work for one of the companies in question in the article.
IP routing is difficult enough without worrying about someone suddenly turning off to Albuquerque with your IP packets locked in the outbound queue.
Yup, hence the reason developing protocols to effectively route traffic in an ad-hoc is quite difficult. We get around this by shifting the intelligence from the host to the network card. The transceivers communicate at layer 2 and below, and present what looks like an ethernet interface to the host. It involves a good bit of CPU, and some cleverly designed routing algorithms. But it does work, I show it to people every day =).
You hit the nail on the head right there. Check out my employer's website, since that is the crux of what we are doing today. Actually, Fox News just did a story on us, which should go national soon. I'm the one running the computer in the video, and yes I'm busy surfing Slashdot ;)
Basically, instead of transmitting at high power to a base station, the transciever finds the path that takes the least amount of power. By transmitting at lower power, you get better spectrum reuse in a given area. One conventional cell becomes thousands of picocells. It really doesnt make sense to try to run a packet switched protocol like IP over circut switched networks like CDMA, et al.
This guy does have the right idea, but I think some people are reading the article the wrong way. He isn't calling for deregulation, just more bands for people to experiment in, like the ISM band.
Gee, you trolling for Microsoft or what?
Not that it matters, you proved you have no clue what you are talking about when you said: its not really that expensive (hell you buy a computer and they give it to you). Obviously you haven't paid for or deployed Windows in an enterprise environment. As long as you can steal your favorite music, and run all the latest viruses, what do you care?
And how would you propose one enforces this? If the DMCA gets overturned, God willing, congress is back to square one again.
How about using, um, EXISTING COPYRIGHT LAW? Before the DMCA, it was STILL against the law to distribute illegal copies of copyrighted works. The only thing the DMCA has done is: A) Give the RIAA/MPAA the ability to take away the fair use rights we already had, and B) Smack anyone who even TALKS about defeating their half-assed protection schemes with a lawsuit.
Yea, we'll be back to square one. Back to when I could write software to do whatever the fuck I wanted to do with the CD I bought, like put it on my portable MP3 player.