I'm sorry Dave...
The correct answer is: The Monolith Got Me High Thanks for playing! =)
It's funny that the TMBG add is up top now too! =) TTFN.
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Cracking the format wouldn't necessarily be bad...
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Prolong their time to market with an already too-little-too-late stopgap measure... Maybe submit a thorough and unquestionable compromise of their proposed format shortly before the deadline... send them back to the drawing boards and if they challenge again... full circle again?...
By that time, OggVorbis should be ready for primetime and maybe animated PNGs (MNGs is it?) streamable and GPL'd in Mozilla... Sweet digital freedom =) maybe.
Otherwise, they may get products to market real soon and upgrade shipping nomads and rios etc. with shrinkwrapped crippleware. It might be simply better to crack it and open the method (DeSDMI?) after it's adopted but it could do some damage to further prolong their ability to compete while reevaluating new security schemes and not selling new devices. That's what I thinq anyway. TTFN.
You shouldn't be sad and you shouldn't agree. I'm not saying you should be insensitive. Your friend losing his store (or anybody losing their jobs etc.) is not something to shrug off but the reality of life is harsh and not always smooth or eternally lucrative. People have to show adaptability. Entire jobs and markets and sectors are obsoleted all the time. That is what's truly happening here. Yes... sometimes things hit close to home (or hit home directly) and the personalness of the experience makes everything more touchy but new distribution mechanisms for digital media are no worse than automation procedures in factories that obsolete manual laborers.
Sometimes what somebody does or wants to do is no longer valuable in the marketplace. If they want to get payed, they must do something else. It's really simple. It doesn't make the MPAA right for all their heavy-handed dealings and legal manipulations. Data is inherently copyable. The same arguments resonate incessantly... it's not stealing from artists or store owners or suits or anybody else because there is no physical product. It is a binary copy with no production costs. The copy doesn't degrade or devalue the original. It's a different world. Scouring or Napstering mp3s is not even close to stealing a tv from the local Good Guys... no matter how much they tell you it is. Think about what theft is. Maybe there was a market for digital media distribution before. That doensn't mean there always should be. People get hurt when they lose jobs or perceived income which they thought was owed to them. They'll get over it and they'll lern (just as we all are having to do) how to cope with the reality of an entirely connected world. Don't believe what they tell you and don't take everything at face value. TTFN.
is a MatchBox (or HotWheels if you prefer) computer with a Transmeta CPU (for conservative power consumption), 32+ RAM, IBM tiny drive, integrated SBLive! for mp3s, SVGA out to interface with Sony's Glasstron, 100 ethernet, & 2 USB ports. Maybe an old 9pin serial port and a floppy port and an UltraDMA66 port but it can be pretty simple. This would kick all kinds of keester as pocket server/client/java slave/mp3 trick/etc. I'd pay out the nose for one of those if I could afford it. TTFN & Shalom.
I'd like to add some cents. Firstly, this whole thing should've been posted as an MP3 (with a EULA for extra irony =) ). Secondly, all these analogies being spouted just don't hold water. The first half (of course) are totally valid like no stealing Suburbans or TV's etc. but when the physical-ness of the media is actually a factor of your bandwidth and a negligable amout of your own physical hard drive space (or other recordable media which is obviously your own and personal)... it's just not equivalent.
How am I stealing when I haven't taken anything? I've read the data (just as I would have if I were to listen to it etc.) and made my own local copy. Yes, it may be copyrighted data but the ease with which data can be copied and widely distributed fundamentally changes the nature of anything which has been datafied whether copyrighted or not.
Files (as in packetized data elements with a hopefully descriptive handle) have been transmitted and traded ever since there were two computers. People (as opposed to services or servers or intelligent computer agents or anything else inhuman) are initiating such data duplication either by offering or retrieving themself. Bottom-line this and what-I-authorize-for-my-IP-that-I've-worked-hard-o n that... They are all nice ideas of cute capitalistic profit assurance but the world is connected now.
Data... personal information... intelligence... art...
It doesn't matter what you want private or public. If it's data (or somebody can record it as data), it's copyable. It's searchable and modifyable and it's practically free to duplicate. It's not the way things have been. It's not always going to seem fair. I'm $JAPH =~ s/(\w)([A-Z])(.)(\S)/$1ust$2nother$3erl$4acker/; and I know that code is data too. Creative data never refraining from not being unsimilar to doubled reverse recursive inverted negatives like video games or music or movies. The idea that ideas can't be protected can't be protected... unless nobody knows... for either one. Hopefully you read this and you understand and it is not protected. It is shared and we all become wealthy with understanding that we are connected and we can share.
It's not overly-idealistic and it's not communistic. It's relatively new (if not entirely new to many people) and it's inevitable. It's not buzzwords or market hype-able. It's fscking binary data and it ain't gonna disappear unless we run out of power (and the Matrix taught us what happens then). Be smart. Be sharp. Be. Think. Breathe. Work. Learn. Play. My father taught me that when you play, you also learn and work and breathe and think and be. You do everything important when you play. Play right. Play nice. Teach others how to play so we can all play together (and so we can all rise up in arms and grotesquely slaughter and maim those who won't play nice =) j/k). Peace... I'm out. TTFN & Shabbat Shalom.
-*BBC*PipTigger p.s. You don't really have to agree we me or anyone for that matter but please know why you don't (when you don't) before you react with the knee-jerk ignition of intellectual discussions you are ill-prepared to digest due to your misconceptions and predispositions toward that which further dictates your reactions. Life is too recalcitrantly multifarious to wrap our heads around but if we don't try, we cannot contribute and we cannot hope to be anything but a beast responding to primitive stimuli without a purpose. We don't earn our lives. They are gifts but we sure should try to earn them once we realize that what it's all about. More Peace!
Maybe I don't have a seasoned grasp on the situation but it appears to me that the source to Mozilla is and will be available... which means that if it uses bitmapped menu graphics or employs some aweful interface decisions... well we can fix it! Maybe AOL does suck and isn't paying for the browser to be worthwhile so they can try to close the source and tout it as the most cited example for a catastrophic OSS failure (probably hand in hand with M$) to reassure all our parents and computers-are-only-fancy-toasters people that they need to keep paying for quality software.
I don't know if all the source is already available but if it is and remains, I can't see how the whole world of coders won't extend Mozilla to be wonderful and great and useful and even easy to use by default including the inherited native user menu structures and color schemes... fonts even... etc. and the coders will see that it is good... and the world will see that it is good and we will grow and they will grow and it will be good.
'features' may appear poorly thought-out from the start but you could be exactly wrong in assuming that the features weren't late inclusions to the project because they might be useful even if they don't integrate ideally at this point. I want to be as realistic as possible and it's hard to feel pessimistic towards open-source projects (even though many people routinely feel this way) since I still harbor hope that someday, I'll be brilliant enough to make it better... to fix what I don't like or even what I've heard sucks about it from other people. Maybe Perl isn't the best way to soup up Mozilla but it's a start. Maybe I've missed something but I hope not... er I hope that if I have, someone replies to me and is moderated highly. TTFN & Shalom.
Simply index all of Penn State (at least all that can be indexed) with hyperlinks on a website from another educational institution (ie. some other university) and then anyone can simply and legally attain Penn State stuff by first visiting a less restrictive school's student's site. This kinda luddite practices with links is just the kinda kaka that is gonna lead to the "imminent death of the net" as predicted by so many soothsayers gone by. TTFN & Shalom.
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I beg to differ! Microsoft Word is NOT the way!
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It's obviously all about html! Especially if you are a coder... write some tight simple html that can be seen anytime... (even printed from within Word if necessary)... The days of paper resumes for tech jobs should be nearing an end soon... just as black text on white backgrounds deserve to die (monitors are NOT paper either!) but that's a different rant. Am I right or am I right? Props to Beppu-san for teaching me this. TTFN & Shalom.
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I'm sorry Dave...
The correct answer is:
The Monolith Got Me High
Thanks for playing! =)
It's funny that the TMBG add is up top now too! =) TTFN.
-PipTigger
By that time, OggVorbis should be ready for primetime and maybe animated PNGs (MNGs is it?) streamable and GPL'd in Mozilla... Sweet digital freedom =) maybe.
Otherwise, they may get products to market real soon and upgrade shipping nomads and rios etc. with shrinkwrapped crippleware. It might be simply better to crack it and open the method (DeSDMI?) after it's adopted but it could do some damage to further prolong their ability to compete while reevaluating new security schemes and not selling new devices. That's what I thinq anyway. TTFN.
-*BBC*PipTigger
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Sometimes what somebody does or wants to do is no longer valuable in the marketplace. If they want to get payed, they must do something else. It's really simple. It doesn't make the MPAA right for all their heavy-handed dealings and legal manipulations. Data is inherently copyable. The same arguments resonate incessantly... it's not stealing from artists or store owners or suits or anybody else because there is no physical product. It is a binary copy with no production costs. The copy doesn't degrade or devalue the original. It's a different world. Scouring or Napstering mp3s is not even close to stealing a tv from the local Good Guys... no matter how much they tell you it is. Think about what theft is. Maybe there was a market for digital media distribution before. That doensn't mean there always should be. People get hurt when they lose jobs or perceived income which they thought was owed to them. They'll get over it and they'll lern (just as we all are having to do) how to cope with the reality of an entirely connected world. Don't believe what they tell you and don't take everything at face value. TTFN.
-PipTigger
is a MatchBox (or HotWheels if you prefer) computer with a Transmeta CPU (for conservative power consumption), 32+ RAM, IBM tiny drive, integrated SBLive! for mp3s, SVGA out to interface with Sony's Glasstron, 100 ethernet, & 2 USB ports. Maybe an old 9pin serial port and a floppy port and an UltraDMA66 port but it can be pretty simple. This would kick all kinds of keester as pocket server/client/java slave/mp3 trick/etc. I'd pay out the nose for one of those if I could afford it. TTFN & Shalom.
-PipTigger
I'd like to add some cents. Firstly, this whole thing should've been posted as an MP3 (with a EULA for extra irony =) ). Secondly, all these analogies being spouted just don't hold water. The first half (of course) are totally valid like no stealing Suburbans or TV's etc. but when the physical-ness of the media is actually a factor of your bandwidth and a negligable amout of your own physical hard drive space (or other recordable media which is obviously your own and personal)... it's just not equivalent.
How am I stealing when I haven't taken anything? I've read the data (just as I would have if I were to listen to it etc.) and made my own local copy. Yes, it may be copyrighted data but the ease with which data can be copied and widely distributed fundamentally changes the nature of anything which has been datafied whether copyrighted or not.
Files (as in packetized data elements with a hopefully descriptive handle) have been transmitted and traded ever since there were two computers. People (as opposed to services or servers or intelligent computer agents or anything else inhuman) are initiating such data duplication either by offering or retrieving themself. Bottom-line this and what-I-authorize-for-my-IP-that-I've-worked-hard-o n that... They are all nice ideas of cute capitalistic profit assurance but the world is connected now.
Data... personal information... intelligence... art...
It doesn't matter what you want private or public. If it's data (or somebody can record it as data), it's copyable. It's searchable and modifyable and it's practically free to duplicate. It's not the way things have been. It's not always going to seem fair. I'm $JAPH =~ s/(\w)([A-Z])(.)(\S)/$1ust$2nother$3erl$4acker/; and I know that code is data too. Creative data never refraining from not being unsimilar to doubled reverse recursive inverted negatives like video games or music or movies. The idea that ideas can't be protected can't be protected ... unless nobody knows ... for either one. Hopefully you read this and you understand and it is not protected. It is shared and we all become wealthy with understanding that we are connected and we can share.
It's not overly-idealistic and it's not communistic. It's relatively new (if not entirely new to many people) and it's inevitable. It's not buzzwords or market hype-able. It's fscking binary data and it ain't gonna disappear unless we run out of power (and the Matrix taught us what happens then). Be smart. Be sharp. Be. Think. Breathe. Work. Learn. Play. My father taught me that when you play, you also learn and work and breathe and think and be. You do everything important when you play. Play right. Play nice. Teach others how to play so we can all play together (and so we can all rise up in arms and grotesquely slaughter and maim those who won't play nice =) j/k). Peace... I'm out. TTFN & Shabbat Shalom.
-*BBC*PipTigger
p.s. You don't really have to agree we me or anyone for that matter but please know why you don't (when you don't) before you react with the knee-jerk ignition of intellectual discussions you are ill-prepared to digest due to your misconceptions and predispositions toward that which further dictates your reactions. Life is too recalcitrantly multifarious to wrap our heads around but if we don't try, we cannot contribute and we cannot hope to be anything but a beast responding to primitive stimuli without a purpose. We don't earn our lives. They are gifts but we sure should try to earn them once we realize that what it's all about. More Peace!
I don't know if all the source is already available but if it is and remains, I can't see how the whole world of coders won't extend Mozilla to be wonderful and great and useful and even easy to use by default including the inherited native user menu structures and color schemes ... fonts even... etc. and the coders will see that it is good... and the world will see that it is good and we will grow and they will grow and it will be good.
'features' may appear poorly thought-out from the start but you could be exactly wrong in assuming that the features weren't late inclusions to the project because they might be useful even if they don't integrate ideally at this point. I want to be as realistic as possible and it's hard to feel pessimistic towards open-source projects (even though many people routinely feel this way) since I still harbor hope that someday, I'll be brilliant enough to make it better... to fix what I don't like or even what I've heard sucks about it from other people. Maybe Perl isn't the best way to soup up Mozilla but it's a start. Maybe I've missed something but I hope not... er I hope that if I have, someone replies to me and is moderated highly. TTFN & Shalom.
-PipTigger
Simply index all of Penn State (at least all that can be indexed) with hyperlinks on a website from another educational institution (ie. some other university) and then anyone can simply and legally attain Penn State stuff by first visiting a less restrictive school's student's site.
This kinda luddite practices with links is just the kinda kaka that is gonna lead to the "imminent death of the net" as predicted by so many soothsayers gone by. TTFN & Shalom.
-*BBC*PipTigger
It's obviously all about html! Especially if you are a coder... write some tight simple html that can be seen anytime ... (even printed from within Word if necessary) ... The days of paper resumes for tech jobs should be nearing an end soon... just as black text on white backgrounds deserve to die (monitors are NOT paper either!) but that's a different rant. Am I right or am I right? Props to Beppu-san for teaching me this. TTFN & Shalom.
-PipTigger