Yes, Blockbuster et. al. pay a higher price for the movies they rent out, and are only able to rent them out with permission licensed by the movie cartel. That is why Joe Viewer gets in trouble if he rents his copy of a movie to his neighbor, and that is why the MPAA was able to shut down Movie88.
Simply buying a DVD movie doesn't give you license to make copies and sell them, nor does it allow you to broadcast that content.
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David Kuo worked there for about 6 months and knew just about jack squat about the company. A better account can be had from the founder: In the Company of Good and Evil (ISBN: 0971448108).
Smalltalk seems to fit your criteria, and IBM has an IDE that can run on Linux (there may be others.) The real zinger in your requirements was that "multiple inheritance" thing.
If you want the power of Lisp (it also satisfies your language requirements) with an IDE, checkout Franz's Allegro Composer
Am I the only one who has trouble getting plugins to work under Linux/Mozilla? After months of trying things out I finally have the Java plugin working, but every other one I try (including this new Blender plugin I just downloaded) crashes Mozilla.
They could use these patents to gain royalties on games meant for other platforms, not just ones made for the Xbox or Windows. Say, if Sony were to incorporate some 3D texturing method in the PS2 API that MS just bought.
I'm a Charlottesville resident, as well as a member of C-ville's tech crowd (tightly-knit bunch that we are) so I don't think you'll have any problem finding local advocates to back you (or help with implementations.)
To the rest of our community (the non-techies) I'd cite the licensing trouble several local governments have had with Microsoft, and some of the BSA actions. That should be enough to convince them that if they're going to use non-free software, they're going to not only pay for the licenses, but also for the license audits. That should help bottom-line-oriented people understand the benefits of free software.
I should also add that I think it would be highly inappropriate for any governmental body to publish any document in a proprietary format (Read RMS's editorial on that). If all of the desktops in the city offices used only free software I think the odds of that happening are slim.
Actually, what I'd really like to see the city do is own the "last mile" of telecom wiring...
And if you did *drink* them, well then you would *release* them later on
Maybe, maybe not. Mercury atoms are even smaller, but that doesn't allow them to pass through our systems.
Hopefully the transmitter that allows them to communicate their data will allow us to track them down (and hopefully they're very reliable). Otherwise we won't even have a place to start to recover them if they get stuck in blue whale livers and can't find their way home.
The proof that 100-to-1 compression of random data is impossible is so simple as to be trivial: There are 2^N files of length N bits. There are 2^(N/100) files of length N/100 bits. Clearly not all 2^N files can be compressed to length N/100.
Clearly. But by their own admission (and by the caveats of all compression authors) they are not trying to compress all files (including purely random files), just some. That doesn't make an algorithm impossible.
How could a website that shows commercials for a living, and people love going to that site just to watch those commercials, lose money?
Evidently they aren't getting advertising money from the companies whose commercials they show. That would be silly. However, if they are getting that money they must be blowing it all on an obscene amount of liquor and women. Can you imagine a TV channel as popular as adCritic that just showed commercials??
for a trial of the DMCA itself. I for one have been anxious to see a DMCA dispute go all the way to the Supreme Court, but I guess the DMCA lobyists and backers aren't as anxious to test their legal grounding.
Really, can someone explain to me all of the mis-directed righteous indignation at Microsoft over this?
I think this is an appropriate post under this topic. Yes, MS should and will use whatever authentication scheme they want, and if you use their services you need to agree to understand that. However, in order to decide whether or not to use Passport (or buy an MS game title, or whatever) one needs to be informed of the ramifications of that choice.
That's the sort of thing I read these posts for. I personally dislike Microsoft's business tactics, but it's hard for me to justify either to myself or others why their products and services shouldn't be used unless I have a valid argument. Even though "MS bashing" tends to get out of hand here, for the most part the top moderated comments provide valid arguments.
So, from this article I now know that in order to play MS games online I'll need to give them personal information by signing up for Passport. I like AoE, but I'm not willing to sacrifice my privacy to play it. Privacy issues definitely belong under the "Your Rights Online" topic.
While it may take a leap of logic to want to do this for external search engines, I ran into this problem when building the search engine for our e-commerce site.
At first we just allowed our out-of-the-box search engine package to index our catalog, but the problem we kept running into was the relavance of the results (for example returning VCR stands ahead of an actual VCR when the search was "VCR".)
So to solve this our merchandizers manually added keywords to each group of products that amounted to a thesaurus. We coded the indexing to place a weighted value for these keywords ahead of the title words, and those ahead of body text.
It's actually a bigger problem than most geeks realize (as our CEO pointed out.) We were trying to return not just pages that corresponded to the search string, but to the intent of the user. That takes a little more thought on the part of the search engine coders and the implementers.
We are currently using SOAP-like mechanisms, and there are a number of security precautions that can be implemented that in my opinion balance the threat of accepting such messages.
Possibly the most secure precaution is using SSL for the requests. You can require a client certificate to access the service and your site certificate will reassure your partners that they have connected to the correct server. In addition, you can build in custom username/password fields into the app, or have each message PGP signed.
Another option is to move your application to a different IP address and use the firewall to restrict access to it. This method is good if your partners are known ahead of time.
That chemical contained CFC's and therefore was discarded.
I saw the same demo and was pretty impressed. I remember at the time thinking it'd be pretty cool to fill underwater remote sensing machines with this stuff so that they could go deeper.
I'm in the process of determining where I stand on this issue. However, regardless of which side I eventually choose, one fact will remain against globalization:
If an economic entity is multinational, its goal of profit will eventually come into conflict with the geographically narrower national interests in the countries it resides.
The proof is fairly obvious, and I don't think I need to go into a whole lot of detail, but just as an example, a multinational entity would contribute to a political candidate's camaign fund based solely on that candidate's ties with the other countries that entity resides in (Mega Corp. would contribute to John Doe's US Presidential campaign just because John would likely normalize trade with Iraq, and Mega Corp. does business in Iraq.) Long-term national security would take a back seat to fourth quarter profits.
I hope you get my meaning. I think I would feel better about multi-nationals if they were prohibited from influencing any national policy. (Actually, I'd feel better about corporations in general if they kept out of all politics - national or regional.)
A more practical point made was...
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That 3 is the ideal integer for menus. For example, if the menubar at the top of GUI applications was only 3 menus wide, and each contained only 3 submenus and so on, users would spend less time reading through the options and less time clicking submenus.
It'd be an interesting exercise to try this out on an existing app like the Gimp where there are complex menu options.
I think this guy's found 9 of his favorite angles in the Voyeur Dorm
From the original NYT article:
The 6,000 square foot house where Voyeur Dorm is located contains six bedrooms, four baths, and a bricked-in outdoor pool, according to Marshlack. Six to eight college-age women live in the house, amid 75 hidden live video cameras.
First of all, regardless of whether or not you believe there are "universal" Rights, every person has boundaries that they want to protect. If you are the only person who objects to being searched then I'd say that you are out of place there and look for a more satisfying job. However, some would say, along the same lines as equal opportunity arguments, that you should have a right to work there and that everyone should protect that right.
So I guess the first thing you should do is decide whether or not you like working there and if you would want to take action to continue doing so. If you decide that you want to stay and change the policy, find out which of your co-workers agree with you. At the end of that exercise you'll have a pretty good idea what sort of force you can put behind change (either you have a lot of people who agree with you or you have a choice few who have political power.) Also keep in mind who opposes you.
Thank you for voicing that correction. I think what people refer to when they cite that quote is the ever-decreasing value of a certain piece of knowledge. However, I think the reason for that is that if that certain piece of knowledge is useful, it will be used to gain advantage. The more it is used, the more the nature of that knowledge reveals itself (the dilema we faced in using the German's decripted messages in WWII, for example.)
So while the cost of a particualar piece information tends downwards, as long as there is independent thought, there will always be a market for new information that can be used to an advantage.
In this case, there was a cost associated with (for instance) viewing The Matrix movie. That cost decreased as more people viewed the movie (either legally or illegally.) Microsoft increased the value of that knowledge with knowledge of encryption, and in response some hacker once again decreased that knowledge proportionally with his knowledge of hacking the encryption.
So again, as long as people are capable of independent thought and are willing to invest that thought (be it in study time for encryption or jail time for hacking) this battle will continue. Nothing to see here, move along:)
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"They're just now announcing this? We've known they were doing this a LONG time ago! They all look alike!"
Yah, it's not very funny. Post intelligently.
Yes, Blockbuster et. al. pay a higher price for the movies they rent out, and are only able to rent them out with permission licensed by the movie cartel. That is why Joe Viewer gets in trouble if he rents his copy of a movie to his neighbor, and that is why the MPAA was able to shut down Movie88.
Simply buying a DVD movie doesn't give you license to make copies and sell them, nor does it allow you to broadcast that content.
David Kuo worked there for about 6 months and knew just about jack squat about the company. A better account can be had from the founder: In the Company of Good and Evil (ISBN: 0971448108).
Smalltalk seems to fit your criteria, and IBM has an IDE that can run on Linux (there may be others.) The real zinger in your requirements was that "multiple inheritance" thing.
If you want the power of Lisp (it also satisfies your language requirements) with an IDE, checkout Franz's Allegro Composer
Compaq Presario 6000
Am I the only one who has trouble getting plugins to work under Linux/Mozilla? After months of trying things out I finally have the Java plugin working, but every other one I try (including this new Blender plugin I just downloaded) crashes Mozilla.
That's the main reason I don't use more plugins.
when all of the top Veri$ign execs are transvestites?
They could use these patents to gain royalties on games meant for other platforms, not just ones made for the Xbox or Windows. Say, if Sony were to incorporate some 3D texturing method in the PS2 API that MS just bought.
I'm a Charlottesville resident, as well as a member of C-ville's tech crowd (tightly-knit bunch that we are) so I don't think you'll have any problem finding local advocates to back you (or help with implementations.)
To the rest of our community (the non-techies) I'd cite the licensing trouble several local governments have had with Microsoft, and some of the BSA actions. That should be enough to convince them that if they're going to use non-free software, they're going to not only pay for the licenses, but also for the license audits. That should help bottom-line-oriented people understand the benefits of free software.
I should also add that I think it would be highly inappropriate for any governmental body to publish any document in a proprietary format (Read RMS's editorial on that). If all of the desktops in the city offices used only free software I think the odds of that happening are slim.
Actually, what I'd really like to see the city do is own the "last mile" of telecom wiring...
And if you did *drink* them, well then you would *release* them later on
Maybe, maybe not. Mercury atoms are even smaller, but that doesn't allow them to pass through our systems.
Hopefully the transmitter that allows them to communicate their data will allow us to track them down (and hopefully they're very reliable). Otherwise we won't even have a place to start to recover them if they get stuck in blue whale livers and can't find their way home.
Still, a very cool idea.
Clearly. But by their own admission (and by the caveats of all compression authors) they are not trying to compress all files (including purely random files), just some. That doesn't make an algorithm impossible.
How could a website that shows commercials for a living, and people love going to that site just to watch those commercials, lose money?
Evidently they aren't getting advertising money from the companies whose commercials they show. That would be silly. However, if they are getting that money they must be blowing it all on an obscene amount of liquor and women. Can you imagine a TV channel as popular as adCritic that just showed commercials??
for a trial of the DMCA itself. I for one have been anxious to see a DMCA dispute go all the way to the Supreme Court, but I guess the DMCA lobyists and backers aren't as anxious to test their legal grounding.
Really, can someone explain to me all of the mis-directed righteous indignation at Microsoft over this?
I think this is an appropriate post under this topic. Yes, MS should and will use whatever authentication scheme they want, and if you use their services you need to agree to understand that. However, in order to decide whether or not to use Passport (or buy an MS game title, or whatever) one needs to be informed of the ramifications of that choice.
That's the sort of thing I read these posts for. I personally dislike Microsoft's business tactics, but it's hard for me to justify either to myself or others why their products and services shouldn't be used unless I have a valid argument. Even though "MS bashing" tends to get out of hand here, for the most part the top moderated comments provide valid arguments.
So, from this article I now know that in order to play MS games online I'll need to give them personal information by signing up for Passport. I like AoE, but I'm not willing to sacrifice my privacy to play it. Privacy issues definitely belong under the "Your Rights Online" topic.
Quietly accept the copy-prevention scheme the RIAA introduces
Wait until they commit to the technology by exclusively releasing titles with that technology
Then break the scheme and force them to go through the whole development/tech testing/market testing/release cycle again
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Buy lame artist copy-prevented CD
Break the prevention scheme
Return CD
Repeat ad nauseum
While it may take a leap of logic to want to do this for external search engines, I ran into this problem when building the search engine for our e-commerce site.
At first we just allowed our out-of-the-box search engine package to index our catalog, but the problem we kept running into was the relavance of the results (for example returning VCR stands ahead of an actual VCR when the search was "VCR".)
So to solve this our merchandizers manually added keywords to each group of products that amounted to a thesaurus. We coded the indexing to place a weighted value for these keywords ahead of the title words, and those ahead of body text.
It's actually a bigger problem than most geeks realize (as our CEO pointed out.) We were trying to return not just pages that corresponded to the search string, but to the intent of the user. That takes a little more thought on the part of the search engine coders and the implementers.
We are currently using SOAP-like mechanisms, and there are a number of security precautions that can be implemented that in my opinion balance the threat of accepting such messages.
Possibly the most secure precaution is using SSL for the requests. You can require a client certificate to access the service and your site certificate will reassure your partners that they have connected to the correct server. In addition, you can build in custom username/password fields into the app, or have each message PGP signed.
Another option is to move your application to a different IP address and use the firewall to restrict access to it. This method is good if your partners are known ahead of time.
Hope this helps.
That chemical contained CFC's and therefore was discarded.
I saw the same demo and was pretty impressed. I remember at the time thinking it'd be pretty cool to fill underwater remote sensing machines with this stuff so that they could go deeper.
Do we really need these things anymore?
I'd rather have those than even the shortest full-screen add like they used to have (at least I don't think think they have those anymore.)
And Yes, if the network wants brand identity they need to continually do it. People forget, and new people enter the market.
I'm in the process of determining where I stand on this issue. However, regardless of which side I eventually choose, one fact will remain against globalization:
If an economic entity is multinational, its goal of profit will eventually come into conflict with the geographically narrower national interests in the countries it resides.
The proof is fairly obvious, and I don't think I need to go into a whole lot of detail, but just as an example, a multinational entity would contribute to a political candidate's camaign fund based solely on that candidate's ties with the other countries that entity resides in (Mega Corp. would contribute to John Doe's US Presidential campaign just because John would likely normalize trade with Iraq, and Mega Corp. does business in Iraq.) Long-term national security would take a back seat to fourth quarter profits.
I hope you get my meaning. I think I would feel better about multi-nationals if they were prohibited from influencing any national policy. (Actually, I'd feel better about corporations in general if they kept out of all politics - national or regional.)
It'd be an interesting exercise to try this out on an existing app like the Gimp where there are complex menu options.
From the original NYT article:
The 6,000 square foot house where Voyeur Dorm is located contains six bedrooms, four baths, and a bricked-in outdoor pool, according to Marshlack. Six to eight college-age women live in the house, amid 75 hidden live video cameras.
So I guess the first thing you should do is decide whether or not you like working there and if you would want to take action to continue doing so. If you decide that you want to stay and change the policy, find out which of your co-workers agree with you. At the end of that exercise you'll have a pretty good idea what sort of force you can put behind change (either you have a lot of people who agree with you or you have a choice few who have political power.) Also keep in mind who opposes you.
Then act.
So while the cost of a particualar piece information tends downwards, as long as there is independent thought, there will always be a market for new information that can be used to an advantage.
In this case, there was a cost associated with (for instance) viewing The Matrix movie. That cost decreased as more people viewed the movie (either legally or illegally.) Microsoft increased the value of that knowledge with knowledge of encryption, and in response some hacker once again decreased that knowledge proportionally with his knowledge of hacking the encryption.
So again, as long as people are capable of independent thought and are willing to invest that thought (be it in study time for encryption or jail time for hacking) this battle will continue. Nothing to see here, move along :)