I don't care what the intent was on this anti-worm worm. I have one sales guy in Australia right now that somehow managed to get *both* worms on his laptop- despite the fact that I sent him instructions ahead of time on how to patch his system and ensure that his virus definitions were updated. Now he's expecting me to help him out despite the fact that he cannot connect to our VPN, and that he's 12 hours ahead of us.
Good Samaratain worm my ass- this one is just as big a pain as Lovesan was.
It'll be interesting to see how this impacts the future of worms and virii though.
my rig is all MOTU and Freemidi. My only complaint about Free Midi is lack of support on many vendors part. For example, Propellerheads reason is not free midi compatible, so if I want to use it, OMS is the only option. I realize that most programs do support free midi, but there are some choice one's that do not.
As a semi-pro musician (check out my website:-) I think this sounds really cool. It will indeed make life simpler as far as setup and cabling is concerned.
I do have a few issues though. By the time you get 32 or more tracks of 96khz audio running, it would surely fill up most if not all of the entire available bandwidth.
Also, I'm really not looking forward to replacing a rather expensive mackie mixer. I'll do just fine with what I already have.
Lastly, If Gibson manages this as well as they do other products, then it is doomed from the beggining. I used to use Opcode Studio Vision Pro. It was killed, along with one of the only viable macintosh midi managers (OMS,) within a matter of months after Gibson bought them out.
Oh how I loved this game in the earlt 1990's, and oh how I love it with a modern graphics engine. This one is one not to miss. I literally sweat while playing this game!
Good god, if you want to surf for pr0n, do it at home. What is so hard about that? While at work, you should be doing your job and not spending your whole time surfing the internet. I know this isn't a popular opinion, but chances are that your employer has hired you to do something other than surf. This isn't the man trying to smack you down afterall:-)
The show is so distinctly japanese that I worry it won't translate well using american production teams.
I also can't see them using gooey soybeans and lobster brains a theme ingredients either. After all how many ways can you actually cook mac & cheese:-)
Also, it just *won't* be iron chef without morimoto or sakai.
Well, I hope it ends up being good. It will be different for sure.
Maybe they will learn that technology is a multi-headed hydra. Chop off one head, and 5 others will grow to take its place. You can stop innovation, no matter how hard you try,
I most certainly did not make that comment as a troll. It is a valid point, with a joke about the current exchange rate for the Franc (see I learn from my mistakes.) Moderators need to lighten up a bit.
That said, I now reiterate:
I am most certain that you will not be able to access Nazi memorabilia from the french version of Yahoo. Sure, this will be easily bypassed, but it is true nonetheless. If Yahoo does allow these items to be displayed on their french page, they *will* have a big ugly mess on their hands with the French government.
Well, they don't have to abide by it in the States. You can bet your ass that those things will not appear on the french version of Yahoo- at least not if they don't want to get a massive fine slapped on them.
At lease the exchange rate on Franks is really good. Any fine would probably end up costing them oh about $2.00:-)
Hmmmm, However cool I think this is, it just doesn't seem to me that VR will really realize its' potential until we can wire the system directly to the brain.
I know, I can already hear a whole bunch of Neuromancer groans, but some goggles and a treadmill really doesn't cut it.
Full on, full imersion reality will happen sooner or later. Anyone researching holodeck tech?:-)
I still must express my unabashed joy at seeing that Alpha is not going to go the way of the dinosaur. It's a wonderful chip. Diversity in products available to us compu geeks is most assuredly a good thing. This announcement is a glimmer of hope in an otherwise almost completely wintel world:-)
The primary difference is in the verbiage. it acts pretty much the same as a mail order tax. I think that purchases over the internet in Ohio have a different rate of taxation though.
Ohio has already passed a taxation law based on what you purchase over the internet. I don't remember the name of the law exactly, but essentially you are required to put down on your taxes the amount of goods you purchased over the internet. Last year I entered in about $100. They take you on your word, but I have a feeling if a person was ever audited about this 'voluntary' tax, that they could possibly find themselves in state tax hell.
I could see many other states following Ohio's example, simply because this sort of thing would be very difficult to track on the state level- that is unless carnivore is a *lot* better than I suspect it really is:-)
"Which tip would that be? The tip where I am forced to insert a perticular CD-ROM every time I want to play a game?And swap for another CD when I want to play a different game?"
I bet you have a 100 cd changer for you music eh?:-) Perhaps that was a bad example on my part.
I humbly offer another:
http://www.motu.com (Mark of the Unicorn) is a maker of medium to high end audio software and hardware. Their sequencing program, Digital Performer, which I use and paid for, has absolutely *no* copy protection. No hidden files, no dongles, no 'insert this CD'. This came about because they *listened* to their customers complaints about how they managed their copy protection. What's resulted from this? They have an extremely loyal customer base, and their products have gained marketshare over the past several years. All of it due to good customer service, and putting the convienience of their customers first.
When I used the gaming industry as an example, I meant it as a "see: this tpye of copy protection does not work" example.:-)
When are MS, Sony and others going to learn that any sort of system like this will be broken? They should take a tip from the gaming industry.
I was excited to get a sony mp3 player as a gift last year. Until I realized that it used a proprietary format, atrac3. It will only allow me to load a particular piece of music 4 times. I've even loaded the music I make on it, but I am still subjected to this limitation. HELLO, it's my music, I made it,I own the copyright.
Digital Rights Management is there only to help support the massive amount of proffit that the recording industry is used to making. Well, I have a message for these people: The days of the $20 CD are long gone. Charge a fair amount of money for your product, and people will buy it. If you continue sticking it to the customer, they will break your systems and get it for free. Evolve or die. It's that simple.
I don't think wine would cut it. Even if you could find an application that would run under WINE, the latency would be so high that you wouldn't be able to get decent performance out of it.
Why someone would want to stay away from macintosh for audio is beyond me. OS 8/9 may not have all the cool modern OS goodness, but it *is* wonderful for real time recording and processing. Granted, there are no applications at the moment for OS X, but that should change now that there is a stable OS release (i.e. 10.1)
There is a multi track recorder available for linux.....searching google now......Oh well, I can't find the program I was thinking of, but there is a good linux DAW resource here:
http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/
Sameless plug: To see how one can attain pre studio level recording on a mac, visit my tracks at
Many people I work with seem happy enough to give up some freedoms to ensure that somehow they will be safe.
I always seem to get stange looks when I say 'fsck em! I don't want or need anyone's protection.' The powers that the government has right now are sufficient to get the job done. It's been one month since the WTC attack, and they have nabbed what around 600 people. They were able to do this without the aid of an anti terrorism act. Hell, would this new law enable the government to give us something other than 'we suspect that we might be attacked somewhere, sometime?' I doubt it.
This is window dressing when you put it next to what I personally suspect is coming our way from Congress and the President.
I don't know about anyone else, but I will fight for my liberties. I won't fight for the 'right' to burn lots of oil, make a profit, or for some corporation to be able to open their valu-mart without fear of it being attacked in some godforsaken corner of the globe. The dream and promise of America was never profit. It was freedom.
Hell, in the new america, you can start a war without having to declare it.
I don't think these services will be around for much longer. With the legislation going through congress at the moment as a startingpoint, I don't see how anonymizers in general are going to be able to survive. Anon.penet.fi crumbled under much less pressure than the current political climate provides.
I may just be paranoid, but I have a feeling that NSA spooks are knocking on a lot of anonymizer doors.
He said he would relay it on to the appropriate people and let them know that there was concern out there for using microsoft web servers:-) This is a largish company that makes products that only work under Windows, so I am not going to hold my breath.
This is an application that generates multi-level reports, and then converts them into HTML. The application has direct (read only) access to an Oracle database. It has oodles of cool features, and would really be quite useful. I just have nightmares of someone getting into the database and/or the server itself.
The employees seem to understand that Microsoft products are inherently flawed (at least as far as home OS's are concerned). The shipping manager told me today: "i'm suprised that after all this time that someone hasn't come up with a solution that just kicks the sh*t out of Windows."
Our ERP vendor has also released a thin client application that uses a good chunk of MSIE as the core of the application. They want to charge around $25k for the product. Again it's a cool product, but I told them that I had concerns regarding the security of MS internet products. I haven't heard back from them yet.
Open the source. Put it up for peer review. Fix the holes. I'm not saying that they should hand out the source for their whole OS, but when they have had as many debacles with one piece of software it might actually help them out quite a bit.
I refuse to install products that require IIS as well. A software provider of ours makes an ultra nice business mining product that can be nicely web enabled. I told them that I would purchase it as soon as they supported a web server that didn't have a new security flaw or bug discovered every week.
I agree. I really don't think the dem's would be doing any better. IMHO, the two party system forces one to choose from the lesser of two evils. That still leaves you with evil:-) I fully realize that there are other political parties in the U.S., but there only two that *matter*
I would probably be posting very similar remarks if Gore were in office at this particular time.
Anyone who needs or wants privacy *must* be a terrorist after all. What's a terrorist I hear you ask? Well son, a terrorist is anyone that doesn't agree with Ashcroft, Bush, or his Daddy. In fact, if your political leaning is even slighty less than far right, you're a terrorist. Furthermore, if you won't allow us to install a camera in your home, or if you won't accept our hand-dandy biometric-recording national ID card- then you're a terrorist. In fact, you will know if you are a terrorist when we tell you, as we are currently updating the definition.
Thank you for your cooperation. Now go buy something and watch TV.
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I don't care what the intent was on this anti-worm worm. I have one sales guy in Australia right now that somehow managed to get *both* worms on his laptop- despite the fact that I sent him instructions ahead of time on how to patch his system and ensure that his virus definitions were updated. Now he's expecting me to help him out despite the fact that he cannot connect to our VPN, and that he's 12 hours ahead of us.
Good Samaratain worm my ass- this one is just as big a pain as Lovesan was.
It'll be interesting to see how this impacts the future of worms and virii though.
Indeed,
my rig is all MOTU and Freemidi. My only complaint about Free Midi is lack of support on many vendors part. For example, Propellerheads reason is not free midi compatible, so if I want to use it, OMS is the only option. I realize that most programs do support free midi, but there are some choice one's that do not.
As a semi-pro musician (check out my website :-) I think this sounds really cool. It will indeed make life simpler as far as setup and cabling is concerned.
I do have a few issues though. By the time you get 32 or more tracks of 96khz audio running, it would surely fill up most if not all of the entire available bandwidth.
Also, I'm really not looking forward to replacing a rather expensive mackie mixer. I'll do just fine with what I already have.
Lastly, If Gibson manages this as well as they do other products, then it is doomed from the beggining. I used to use Opcode Studio Vision Pro. It was killed, along with one of the only viable macintosh midi managers (OMS,) within a matter of months after Gibson bought them out.
Oh how I loved this game in the earlt 1990's, and oh how I love it with a modern graphics engine. This one is one not to miss. I literally sweat while playing this game!
5 fps stars!
Good god, if you want to surf for pr0n, do it at home. What is so hard about that? While at work, you should be doing your job and not spending your whole time surfing the internet. I know this isn't a popular opinion, but chances are that your employer has hired you to do something other than surf. This isn't the man trying to smack you down afterall :-)
The show is so distinctly japanese that I worry it won't translate well using american production teams.
:-)
I also can't see them using gooey soybeans and lobster brains a theme ingredients either. After all how many ways can you actually cook mac & cheese
Also, it just *won't* be iron chef without morimoto or sakai.
Well, I hope it ends up being good. It will be different for sure.
errr, can't stop innovation that is..... :-)
Maybe they will learn that technology is a multi-headed hydra. Chop off one head, and 5 others will grow to take its place. You can stop innovation, no matter how hard you try,
Viva la resistance!
I most certainly did not make that comment as a troll. It is a valid point, with a joke about the current exchange rate for the Franc (see I learn from my mistakes.) Moderators need to lighten up a bit.
That said, I now reiterate:
I am most certain that you will not be able to access Nazi memorabilia from the french version of Yahoo. Sure, this will be easily bypassed, but it is true nonetheless. If Yahoo does allow these items to be displayed on their french page, they *will* have a big ugly mess on their hands with the French government.
Well, they don't have to abide by it in the States. You can bet your ass that those things will not appear on the french version of Yahoo- at least not if they don't want to get a massive fine slapped on them.
:-)
At lease the exchange rate on Franks is really good. Any fine would probably end up costing them oh about $2.00
Hmmmm, However cool I think this is, it just doesn't seem to me that VR will really realize its' potential until we can wire the system directly to the brain.
:-)
I know, I can already hear a whole bunch of Neuromancer groans, but some goggles and a treadmill really doesn't cut it.
Full on, full imersion reality will happen sooner or later. Anyone researching holodeck tech?
At the risk of being moderated redundant:
:-)
I still must express my unabashed joy at seeing that Alpha is not going to go the way of the dinosaur. It's a wonderful chip. Diversity in products available to us compu geeks is most assuredly a good thing. This announcement is a glimmer of hope in an otherwise almost completely wintel world
The primary difference is in the verbiage. it acts pretty much the same as a mail order tax. I think that purchases over the internet in Ohio have a different rate of taxation though.
Ohio has already passed a taxation law based on what you purchase over the internet. I don't remember the name of the law exactly, but essentially you are required to put down on your taxes the amount of goods you purchased over the internet. Last year I entered in about $100. They take you on your word, but I have a feeling if a person was ever audited about this 'voluntary' tax, that they could possibly find themselves in state tax hell.
:-)
I could see many other states following Ohio's example, simply because this sort of thing would be very difficult to track on the state level- that is unless carnivore is a *lot* better than I suspect it really is
"Which tip would that be? The tip where I am forced to insert a perticular CD-ROM every time I want to play a game?And swap for another CD when I want to play a different game?"
:-) Perhaps that was a bad example on my part.
:-)
I bet you have a 100 cd changer for you music eh?
I humbly offer another:
http://www.motu.com (Mark of the Unicorn) is a maker of medium to high end audio software and hardware. Their sequencing program, Digital Performer, which I use and paid for, has absolutely *no* copy protection. No hidden files, no dongles, no 'insert this CD'. This came about because they *listened* to their customers complaints about how they managed their copy protection. What's resulted from this? They have an extremely loyal customer base, and their products have gained marketshare over the past several years. All of it due to good customer service, and putting the convienience of their customers first.
When I used the gaming industry as an example, I meant it as a "see: this tpye of copy protection does not work" example.
When are MS, Sony and others going to learn that any sort of system like this will be broken? They should take a tip from the gaming industry.
I was excited to get a sony mp3 player as a gift last year. Until I realized that it used a proprietary format, atrac3. It will only allow me to load a particular piece of music 4 times. I've even loaded the music I make on it, but I am still subjected to this limitation. HELLO, it's my music, I made it,I own the copyright.
Digital Rights Management is there only to help support the massive amount of proffit that the recording industry is used to making. Well, I have a message for these people: The days of the $20 CD are long gone. Charge a fair amount of money for your product, and people will buy it. If you continue sticking it to the customer, they will break your systems and get it for free. Evolve or die. It's that simple.
http://www.assasins.net
I don't think wine would cut it. Even if you could find an application that would run under WINE, the latency would be so high that you wouldn't be able to get decent performance out of it.
Why someone would want to stay away from macintosh for audio is beyond me. OS 8/9 may not have all the cool modern OS goodness, but it *is* wonderful for real time recording and processing. Granted, there are no applications at the moment for OS X, but that should change now that there is a stable OS release (i.e. 10.1)
There is a multi track recorder available for linux.....searching google now......Oh well, I can't find the program I was thinking of, but there is a good linux DAW resource here:
http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/
Sameless plug: To see how one can attain pre studio level recording on a mac, visit my tracks at
http://www.assasins.net
*warning, rambling rant attached*
Many people I work with seem happy enough to give up some freedoms to ensure that somehow they will be safe.
I always seem to get stange looks when I say 'fsck em! I don't want or need anyone's protection.' The powers that the government has right now are sufficient to get the job done. It's been one month since the WTC attack, and they have nabbed what around 600 people. They were able to do this without the aid of an anti terrorism act. Hell, would this new law enable the government to give us something other than 'we suspect that we might be attacked somewhere, sometime?' I doubt it.
This is window dressing when you put it next to what I personally suspect is coming our way from Congress and the President.
I don't know about anyone else, but I will fight for my liberties. I won't fight for the 'right' to burn lots of oil, make a profit, or for some corporation to be able to open their valu-mart without fear of it being attacked in some godforsaken corner of the globe. The dream and promise of America was never profit. It was freedom.
Hell, in the new america, you can start a war without having to declare it.
*end rant*
I don't think these services will be around for much longer. With the legislation going through congress at the moment as a startingpoint, I don't see how anonymizers in general are going to be able to survive. Anon.penet.fi crumbled under much less pressure than the current political climate provides.
I may just be paranoid, but I have a feeling that NSA spooks are knocking on a lot of anonymizer doors.
He said he would relay it on to the appropriate people and let them know that there was concern out there for using microsoft web servers :-) This is a largish company that makes products that only work under Windows, so I am not going to hold my breath.
This is an application that generates multi-level reports, and then converts them into HTML. The application has direct (read only) access to an Oracle database. It has oodles of cool features, and would really be quite useful. I just have nightmares of someone getting into the database and/or the server itself.
The employees seem to understand that Microsoft products are inherently flawed (at least as far as home OS's are concerned). The shipping manager told me today: "i'm suprised that after all this time that someone hasn't come up with a solution that just kicks the sh*t out of Windows."
Our ERP vendor has also released a thin client application that uses a good chunk of MSIE as the core of the application. They want to charge around $25k for the product. Again it's a cool product, but I told them that I had concerns regarding the security of MS internet products. I haven't heard back from them yet.
Open the source. Put it up for peer review. Fix the holes. I'm not saying that they should hand out the source for their whole OS, but when they have had as many debacles with one piece of software it might actually help them out quite a bit.
I refuse to install products that require IIS as well. A software provider of ours makes an ultra nice business mining product that can be nicely web enabled. I told them that I would purchase it as soon as they supported a web server that didn't have a new security flaw or bug discovered every week.
I agree. I really don't think the dem's would be doing any better. IMHO, the two party system forces one to choose from the lesser of two evils. That still leaves you with evil :-) I fully realize that there are other political parties in the U.S., but there only two that *matter*
I would probably be posting very similar remarks if Gore were in office at this particular time.
Yeah, I've gotten that knowing "you aren't patriotic" from my co-workers over the past couple of weeks.
Although I do think that "you aren't patriotic," is only a few steps away from "you are a terrorist." Group think at its finest.
Anyone who needs or wants privacy *must* be a terrorist after all. What's a terrorist I hear you ask? Well son, a terrorist is anyone that doesn't agree with Ashcroft, Bush, or his Daddy. In fact, if your political leaning is even slighty less than far right, you're a terrorist. Furthermore, if you won't allow us to install a camera in your home, or if you won't accept our hand-dandy biometric-recording national ID card- then you're a terrorist. In fact, you will know if you are a terrorist when we tell you, as we are currently updating the definition.
Thank you for your cooperation. Now go buy something and watch TV.
What does Xp stand for anyway? Apparently 'eXtremely Pokey' , or maybe even 'Ex-Purchaser.' :-)