That seems to be typical console manufacturer SOP. Remember the big to-do with Nintendo and Tengen on the NES way back when? Tengen (Atari) didn't want to have to buy licenses of any sort, and skirted the system set up by the Big "N" by reverse engineering the lock chip. Good thing there was no DMCA back then, otherwise I'd have to be playing Nintendo's stinky version of Tetris instead of Tengen's.
I find it rather troubling to hear that DC is threatening
legal action against people who use its product (the
CueCat) under Linux by writing their own software to
interface with it. Perhaps you could explain to your customers why you choose to threaten them, without the
cloak of legal doubletalk. All in all, this is definitely
a great way to stir up support for your product on
the Net. I'll be sure to throw away my CueCat as soon
as I get home from work, and tell my friends to do the
same.
The perfect goal of "write once, run anywhere, anything runs on anything" is just goofy. You're never
going to run some piece of weather modeling software on a toaster [laughs]. And you wouldn't want
to. So there are some scale and capability limits. But within that, you can do an awful lot to make
sure that if somebody wants to read a file, it looks the same everywhere reading a file makes sense.
That's a lot different, I'd say, than Gosling saying that "neither purity nor portability exists", and that it was "more of a marketing thing." My interpretation: All he's admitting is that you'll never have all the various platforms in the world (e.g., a toaster and a PC) be identical. An iMac isn't a Cray SV1. Therefore, perfect "write once, run anywhere, anything runs on anything" cannot exist, but one can get really close (i.e., as close as the hardware and the tasks and hand allow).
Disney movies, particularly Tarzan, I believe, had commercials for Disney products at the beginning that one couldn't fast foward through.
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You realize that in the IT industry there is a major backlash against people coming out of colleges with degrees, because they haven't learned a damn think useful. It is these programmers who I writing the crap software like this, not the self taught ones...
Funny. I'm in the IT industry, and I haven't noticed any such backlash. Let's not be insulting by making such broad generalizations, especially when you fail to back them up with any evidence whatsoever. There are plenty of hackers I know that went on to be formally trained, and *gasp* got some sort of college degree in what they loved doing most (CS).
But I should say this: People who have no interest in programming and hacking independent of making money, who just go to college and get an IT degree but otherwise couldn't care less about computers or technology and their impact, will probably never be nearly as skilled as those who truly love it and spend their free time doing it as well. If this is what you meant, then I agree with you.
If only you were right. Under the Home Audio Recording Act of 1992, it is illegal to make digital copies onto a non-approved medium. This includes your computer hard drive. Thus you don't even have to make mp3s to be breaking the law.
Read this for more info: http://www.riaa.com/tech/tech_ht.htm
That's not the point. _No one_ should have to jump through hoops to maintain their right to privacy on the Internet. One shouldn't have to be a "geek" and know how to beat the system, because the system shouldn't be that way in the first place.
> the sheer volume of information they'll need to process will be overwhelming
So maybe it'll be difficult in the beginning, but remember Moore's Law can be applied to more things than your Quake III fps score or your Linux compile time. While processing power, bandwidth and storage capacity continue to increase, the last time I checked, the length of URLs was pretty much constant. If they can't handle all the data now, with the right funding, they will be able to soon. It's only a matter of time....
With religion, you're still stuck with "the Bible tells me so, and it feels right, so it must be true."
Hardly. If that were the case, religion would be incredibly impersonal, and who would care? My religion is important to me because I spent considerable time and effort studying it in all its many forms, and the many facets of its beliefs. No less a rigorous investigation was performed by myself than if I were testing a scientific theorem.
Well, hardly, unforntunately. They're pretty good at annihilating the competition. Just a few years ago we had many, local, independent bookstores that were thriving. Then _two_ B&N's dropped out of hyperspace within three miles of each other, and my town smack dead between the two. All but one local bookstore has since folded....
I wonder... if I were to log on remotely to a site someplace in Sweden from my home here in the US of A, and do all my hacking there, then what? Certainly there is work being done in America, since I'm the one who's thinking and trying to understand what's going on, and I'm most definitely here. But at the same time, much of that process is going on remotely in another nation. What if some one else was doing all the hacking on that other computer, without me actually coding anything, but through IRC or on the telephone I was explaining to him/her what was going on and what needed to be done to reverse engineer the product. What then? Where is the reverse engineering taking place?
More importantly, how does/will law deal with the Zen koan that is the Internet -- it being both everywhere and nowhere all at once?
I think it's understandable that Christians on Slashdot be defensive, even in this "pre-emptive" manner: For example, I attended an extremely liberal college, and was (and is) extremely liberal myself, yet while there I was subject to vast blanket statements concerning Christians, that in most cases were only applicable to a small minority of ultra-fundementalists, if at all. Needless to say, I became very defensive while there, and probably jumped the gun more than once. While I think much of Slashdot is probablly neutral on these issues, we do feel like we have a lot of s**t attributed to us here, and unfairly at that.
Ever have windows crash in safe mode? I haven't. That's what this will run in, a permanent safe mode, because it's all standard overly-tested drivers.
No, but of course I don't generally run Windows in safe mode 100% of the time... more like 5% of the time when something incredibly screwy happens (mind you, pretty screwy things happen all the time, but not always "Safe-Mode (TM)" worthy screwy things -- follow?).
Who knows what Windows crash stats would look like for safe-mode....
Bu dui a! Wo shi nanren! Tingshuo ni shi cong Taiwan lai de -- Taiwande tianqi xianzai zemmeyang? Sorry, just had to make brief use of my Chinese major!
Well, I called the MPAA, and after stating my little "I'm boycotting all movies released by MPAA members, etc" to the operator who answered the phone, I was immediately forwarded up the food chain to someone who sounded important and who gave her cell phone number (but said it too fast for me to catch) on her answering machine. I left a message restating that same spiel above (in a somewhat shaky voice, I must admit -- I'm pretty pissed), and hung up.
I just plunked down $250 for a "Benefactor" membership to the EFF, bought the DVD-CCA T-shirt, and am considering spending a similar amount for the lifetime subscription to 2600.
Is this going overboard? Somehow it doesn't feel like it at all -- not under these conditions....
Company Officers Nabil M. Lawandy, Ph.D, Chairman, CEO, and President Rhonda Landers, Chief Financial Officer Scott A. Tillotson, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development
Spectra Science Corporation 321 South Main Street Suite 102 Providence, Rhode Island 02903
Now I have a question: On their web page, they mention that their one-play DVD is "for the mass consumer entertainment and advertising markets." What exactly do they mean by "advertising markets?" Will people be distributing DVDs through the postal service just as another way to send me junk mail?
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That seems to be typical console manufacturer SOP. Remember the big to-do with Nintendo and Tengen on the NES way back when? Tengen (Atari) didn't want to have to buy licenses of any sort, and skirted the system set up by the Big "N" by reverse engineering the lock chip. Good thing there was no DMCA back then, otherwise I'd have to be playing Nintendo's stinky version of Tetris instead of Tengen's.
Hu shuo! Wo ziji shuo hua de shihou, zongshi mei you yisi!
That's a silly name for a cat.... ;)
I find it rather troubling to hear that DC is threatening legal action against people who use its product (the CueCat) under Linux by writing their own software to interface with it. Perhaps you could explain to your customers why you choose to threaten them, without the cloak of legal doubletalk. All in all, this is definitely a great way to stir up support for your product on the Net. I'll be sure to throw away my CueCat as soon as I get home from work, and tell my friends to do the same.
The perfect goal of "write once, run anywhere, anything runs on anything" is just goofy. You're never going to run some piece of weather modeling software on a toaster [laughs]. And you wouldn't want to. So there are some scale and capability limits. But within that, you can do an awful lot to make sure that if somebody wants to read a file, it looks the same everywhere reading a file makes sense.
That's a lot different, I'd say, than Gosling saying that "neither purity nor portability exists", and that it was "more of a marketing thing." My interpretation: All he's admitting is that you'll never have all the various platforms in the world (e.g., a toaster and a PC) be identical. An iMac isn't a Cray SV1. Therefore, perfect "write once, run anywhere, anything runs on anything" cannot exist, but one can get really close (i.e., as close as the hardware and the tasks and hand allow).
Disney movies, particularly Tarzan, I believe, had commercials for Disney products at the beginning that one couldn't fast foward through.
Funny. I'm in the IT industry, and I haven't noticed any such backlash. Let's not be insulting by making such broad generalizations, especially when you fail to back them up with any evidence whatsoever. There are plenty of hackers I know that went on to be formally trained, and *gasp* got some sort of college degree in what they loved doing most (CS).
But I should say this: People who have no interest in programming and hacking independent of making money, who just go to college and get an IT degree but otherwise couldn't care less about computers or technology and their impact, will probably never be nearly as skilled as those who truly love it and spend their free time doing it as well. If this is what you meant, then I agree with you.
Read this for more info: http://www.riaa.com/tech/tech_ht.htm
That's not the point. _No one_ should have to jump through hoops to maintain their right to privacy on the Internet. One shouldn't have to be a "geek" and know how to beat the system, because the system shouldn't be that way in the first place.
> the sheer volume of information they'll need to process will be overwhelming
So maybe it'll be difficult in the beginning, but remember Moore's Law can be applied to more things than your Quake III fps score or your Linux compile time. While processing power, bandwidth and storage capacity continue to increase, the last time I checked, the length of URLs was pretty much constant. If they can't handle all the data now, with the right funding, they will be able to soon. It's only a matter of time....
Could someone please explain to me why this is off topic? This is an excellent idea (if it could be made secure).
Hardly. If that were the case, religion would be incredibly impersonal, and who would care? My religion is important to me because I spent considerable time and effort studying it in all its many forms, and the many facets of its beliefs. No less a rigorous investigation was performed by myself than if I were testing a scientific theorem.
I do this all the time....
Well, hardly, unforntunately. They're pretty good at annihilating the competition. Just a few years ago we had many, local, independent bookstores that were thriving. Then _two_ B&N's dropped out of hyperspace within three miles of each other, and my town smack dead between the two. All but one local bookstore has since folded....
My favorite? Jersey Shore, right there in the middle of the state....
The ISA/PCI adapter is delivered as a sole adapter; the PC card, which completes the solution, has to be ordered as a separate item.
So that comes to around $250 per machine, plus the gateway. A little rich for my blood still....
More importantly, how does/will law deal with the Zen koan that is the Internet -- it being both everywhere and nowhere all at once?
I think it's understandable that Christians on Slashdot be defensive, even in this "pre-emptive" manner: For example, I attended an extremely liberal college, and was (and is) extremely liberal myself, yet while there I was subject to vast blanket statements concerning Christians, that in most cases were only applicable to a small minority of ultra-fundementalists, if at all. Needless to say, I became very defensive while there, and probably jumped the gun more than once. While I think much of Slashdot is probablly neutral on these issues, we do feel like we have a lot of s**t attributed to us here, and unfairly at that.
No, but of course I don't generally run Windows in safe mode 100% of the time ... more like 5% of the time when something incredibly screwy happens (mind you, pretty screwy things happen all the time, but not always "Safe-Mode (TM)" worthy screwy things -- follow?).
Who knows what Windows crash stats would look like for safe-mode....
But otherwise does this mean my game console could be infected by Word macro viruses?
The also seem to have created a new look-and-feel theme: KDE.
See their description of changes here.
Bu dui a! Wo shi nanren! Tingshuo ni shi cong Taiwan lai de -- Taiwande tianqi xianzai zemmeyang? Sorry, just had to make brief use of my Chinese major!
Is there any good reason why this post has been moderated down to "Flamebait?"
Anybody manage to get through?
Is this going overboard? Somehow it doesn't feel like it at all -- not under these conditions....
info@spectra-science.com
Phone: (401) 274-4700 FAX: (401) 274-3127
Company Officers Nabil M. Lawandy, Ph.D, Chairman, CEO, and President
Rhonda Landers, Chief Financial Officer
Scott A. Tillotson, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development
Spectra Science Corporation 321 South Main Street Suite 102 Providence, Rhode Island 02903
Now I have a question: On their web page, they mention that their one-play DVD is "for the mass consumer entertainment and advertising markets." What exactly do they mean by "advertising markets?" Will people be distributing DVDs through the postal service just as another way to send me junk mail?