Well, as far as US copyright goes, they can put it out there for download - they own the copyright and can decide how they distribute it. However, you, even as a downloader, have no rights to further distribute the work.
Kinda stupid to put it on P2P given the share nature of the networks. It's the same argument that applies to TV recordings and the redistribution. Even if it is broadcast over the air, you still don't have a right to rebroadcast or distribute it.
I remember seeing a commercial a few years (okay...like 12 years ago) where they would push the cart through an enclosed machine, and it would come out the other end with your purchases tabulated. Never made it live, but a cool idea.
Of course, when they start going with the RFID, just start making sure you buy a lot of aluminum foil everytime you go to the store and place it strategically around the cart:)
I don't mind waiting in lines (or queues) as long as they are moving. One chain has very friendly people that can get you through the line rather fast. Wal-mart on the other hand hardly ever has anyone working and takes an eternity. Tonight at 9pm I was standing looking at the closed aisle which proudly displayed a "Open Everyday 9am - 10pm" sign.
It all comes down to how the company treats the workers. I actually don't mind paying a little bit more if it is a better environment.
Not all of them. I've seen MacOS errors on some of the ones are our local Wally World.
I agree with your other points - most people are too dumb to use them and they are a POS.
Though my best recollection was a 70 year old guy and his wife. He scanned her dress, put it on the belt and as it got halfway through the arches, it sent it back to him - must have not thought it was the right item. He looked at the screen, belt and dress, and just chucked it down to his wife who was bagging stuff.
"Hi...I'm your video dj. I wear this satin jacket everywhere I go.":)
What kills me is the way they try to force the crap everywhere. Look at...Scooby Doo 2. Shaggy and Scooby go into a bar for villians that the gang had put away...and it's all hiphop. Yeah...all those tough old bad guys are sure to hang out like that. But hell---at the end of the movie they have that Ruben Studdard from American Idol doing a song - no...it's not at all about trying to force things down the throats!
Have Riker and Troi in the present (well, the present for them at least - TNG time) and have them researching or learning about something that happened during Enterprise's time period and show it with the enterprise crew in flashbacks or something.
That way you can get the guest appearances without having to come up with a complete cheese story.
Kinda like how they got Starbuck into Galactica 1980!
Either that or have them be guest stars but in different roles or something.
When I was a kid, I love ToS. I don't know why - I can hardly watch it now. Probably cause it was sci-fi more than anything. I remember when TNG came on, and while rough at start, it became a damn good show, going all sorts of places the original never did.
I'll admin that I never really watched DS9. The theme music put me to sleep, and I saw it as B5 without tha action. I understand it got a lot better, but the first season turned me right off.
I watched Voyager - I can't recall very much about it. Lots of holodeck adventures or "oh...that never really happened" stories to the best of my knowledge.
Voyager to me was way too calm. TNG had stuff going on, crap that just had to happen even if Picard thought it was a bad way to handle things. Voyager just seemed to be too much of "well...we're in a jam, lets all sit down, talk about it, and then talk our way out of it." Though, in their defense with Species 8xxx, they finally came up with an alien that was more than a funny forehead or nose! Though another annoying thing was every alien planet looked like the california desert with little mud homes that had high tech doors on them or something. Okay...find a few different locations to shoot on folks.
I was REALLY looking forward to Enterprise. Sounded cool - the Federation at the beginning during it's rough founding years. Soundes like a nitty gritty show. I like Scott Bacula as an actor and thought that would help.
While I still like it better than Voyager, the show suffers from the same problem - too much "lets show the universe how wonderful and diplomatic humans are".
I think one of the best episodes was when Archer sole the warp coil or something from one ship stranding them. Reminded me of TNG where crap had to be done, against the rules or not and it was done - damn the consequences.
Other problems I have with enterprise are: 1) Why is it so damn dark? Here it is in 2005 and we have light bulbs that put use 25 wants and act like a 75 watt light bulb. The enterprise looks like it is lit with a few flashlighs that need new batteries.
2) why is the ship so nice? This is one of the first ships, it should be rougher. I like the different bridge design, but to me, it should be something more like the Maru in Andromeda.
3) Why don't we ever come across aliens that can't kick our ass?
4) Enough of the shots of the shuttles. We know the transporters work pretty okay now - time to start using them and stop having "were stuck due to shuttle issue" stories.
5) enuff of the damn vulcan's. Yeah...they are annoying but mostly look good in tight garb. We get the picture.
Probably my two favorite characters are Hoshi and the Doctor. Hell...on Voyager, the Doctor was my favorite character as well. Perhaps they should write more medical stories.
While I agree with your points, to be effective, you need, as you said, a decent package management system.
However - I love/opt when it comes to stuff I install from source - that way I know where it all is.
What would be nice is a standard way of installing something from a tarball which puts something, lets say/var/genericpackagemanagment, which contains a list of all the files installed, where, and directories created.
That way, removal becomes something as simple as rm `cat/var/genericpackagemanagment/mytarball`
Everyone already seems to use automake/autoconf - how about an autoinstall or something like that?
The problem is when ssh says "Unable to connect to host". Once you finally find a monitor and hook it up, you see
LI
on the screen. Most server class equipment is getting better about things like console/bios over serial port - not as good as a huge HPUX box, but better than the run-of-the-mill PC. The hard part is what to do when you need to see something that is between the realms of the POST and boot loader, or somthing like that.
I love my Avocent for that!!! And MasterSwitch's by APC.
Same here - no complaints about performance. When you uplink is only 15Mbps, 802.1b is fine for the most part. Coverage concerns come up.
The only person who thinks that we need to have G/A/whatever else is my boss, who I think looks at wireless speed like others look at big stereo speakers - overcompensating for something else:)
Like others said - the effort for you to get them to realize that the file has nothing to do with Microsoft would be high moneywise. Look at the approach the RIAA took with pay our penalty or we take you to court. How many opted to just pay instead of trying to defend themselves in court - right or wrong?
Nah....it'd just force a mild evolution in the p2p programs. A bunch of nodes in some other country that the p2p program would contact on startup thus ensuring that initial pack going out.
Lets say you put a file named windows.zip on Kazaa. Turns out it has nothing to do with Microsoft, however with the way some of these anti-piracy searches go, they may catch that and want to go after you.
As of right now, to figure out your identity, they have to file to get that information from your ISP. What they are proposing is they can just pick up the phone and say "we think this person is doing something bad, give us all their information."
It would be scary enough if the government could do that without going through the proper legal channels, but this is proposing that coporate america get these kinds of power and unlimited access.
Yes...the law should crack down on illegal activities, but it should not allow businesses to be able to hurl an overwhelming number of lawsuits at people just based on thinking it's illegal and having instant access to the client information. Just like the law - they should have to do all their homework and make sure they have a decent case before hauling you into court, not just a bunch of conjecture. With this change, it'd be too easy for the BSA to haul any average joe into court and accuse them and draing their financial resources in a heartbeat - before they could prove they didn't do anything wrong.
I think that if Larry Elison thought he could cut into Bill's share by porting Oracle to the Palm III he would do it:)
However, Oracle for Linux probably is more or less the same code base as Oracle for HPUX or Solaris or AIX. And for the most part it's either java or backend server type stuff...much simpler than trying to figure out what toolkit to use to show a preference box for the user (hence their move to Java for the GUI stuff) or the display and i/o intensive nature of a game.
And even Oracle on Linux is only "supported" on a couple distros.
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Lots of steroid use by baseball players, lots of kids idolize baseball players, therefore lots of kids using steroids.
Won't somebody think of the children!!!
Well, as far as US copyright goes, they can put it out there for download - they own the copyright and can decide how they distribute it. However, you, even as a downloader, have no rights to further distribute the work.
Kinda stupid to put it on P2P given the share nature of the networks. It's the same argument that applies to TV recordings and the redistribution. Even if it is broadcast over the air, you still don't have a right to rebroadcast or distribute it.
Same hear - thank you 80's heavy metal concerts.
I remember seeing a commercial a few years (okay...like 12 years ago) where they would push the cart through an enclosed machine, and it would come out the other end with your purchases tabulated. Never made it live, but a cool idea.
:)
Of course, when they start going with the RFID, just start making sure you buy a lot of aluminum foil everytime you go to the store and place it strategically around the cart
I don't mind waiting in lines (or queues) as long as they are moving. One chain has very friendly people that can get you through the line rather fast. Wal-mart on the other hand hardly ever has anyone working and takes an eternity. Tonight at 9pm I was standing looking at the closed aisle which proudly displayed a "Open Everyday 9am - 10pm" sign.
It all comes down to how the company treats the workers. I actually don't mind paying a little bit more if it is a better environment.
Not all of them. I've seen MacOS errors on some of the ones are our local Wally World.
I agree with your other points - most people are too dumb to use them and they are a POS.
Though my best recollection was a 70 year old guy and his wife. He scanned her dress, put it on the belt and as it got halfway through the arches, it sent it back to him - must have not thought it was the right item. He looked at the screen, belt and dress, and just chucked it down to his wife who was bagging stuff.
RIP DoughBag Darrell.
Well, you can still get some good use out of it.
Go to baconwhores.com (nothing obscene)
They can rewrite the menu/favorite/etc. code of IE in .Net and use the com/interop stuff to call the HTML Com object for all the content.
.net :) Okay...so it's cheating, but as long as it's marketable, whose gonna ask?
There - you get IE in
That is what I was thinking - guess I'm not getting the garage cleaned anytime soon.
"Hi...I'm your video dj. I wear this satin jacket everywhere I go." :)
What kills me is the way they try to force the crap everywhere. Look at...Scooby Doo 2. Shaggy and Scooby go into a bar for villians that the gang had put away...and it's all hiphop. Yeah...all those tough old bad guys are sure to hang out like that. But hell---at the end of the movie they have that Ruben Studdard from American Idol doing a song - no...it's not at all about trying to force things down the throats!
Okay...so I'm slow catching up :)
:)
What if Gary Kindall's wife had talked to IBM under the NDA?
What if QDOS was not avail for Microsoft to buy?
What if Bill stayed in school?
What if Steve's daughter wasn't named Lisa?
I countered it with a mention of Starbuck, evoking the good memories of Dirk and thus hiding the memories of that other train wreck where they belong.
Have Riker and Troi in the present (well, the present for them at least - TNG time) and have them researching or learning about something that happened during Enterprise's time period and show it with the enterprise crew in flashbacks or something.
That way you can get the guest appearances without having to come up with a complete cheese story.
Kinda like how they got Starbuck into Galactica 1980!
Either that or have them be guest stars but in different roles or something.
When I was a kid, I love ToS. I don't know why - I can hardly watch it now. Probably cause it was sci-fi more than anything. I remember when TNG came on, and while rough at start, it became a damn good show, going all sorts of places the original never did.
I'll admin that I never really watched DS9. The theme music put me to sleep, and I saw it as B5 without tha action. I understand it got a lot better, but the first season turned me right off.
I watched Voyager - I can't recall very much about it. Lots of holodeck adventures or "oh...that never really happened" stories to the best of my knowledge.
Voyager to me was way too calm. TNG had stuff going on, crap that just had to happen even if Picard thought it was a bad way to handle things. Voyager just seemed to be too much of "well...we're in a jam, lets all sit down, talk about it, and then talk our way out of it." Though, in their defense with Species 8xxx, they finally came up with an alien that was more than a funny forehead or nose! Though another annoying thing was every alien planet looked like the california desert with little mud homes that had high tech doors on them or something. Okay...find a few different locations to shoot on folks.
I was REALLY looking forward to Enterprise. Sounded cool - the Federation at the beginning during it's rough founding years. Soundes like a nitty gritty show. I like Scott Bacula as an actor and thought that would help.
While I still like it better than Voyager, the show suffers from the same problem - too much "lets show the universe how wonderful and diplomatic humans are".
I think one of the best episodes was when Archer sole the warp coil or something from one ship stranding them. Reminded me of TNG where crap had to be done, against the rules or not and it was done - damn the consequences.
Other problems I have with enterprise are:
1) Why is it so damn dark? Here it is in 2005 and we have light bulbs that put use 25 wants and act like a 75 watt light bulb. The enterprise looks like it is lit with a few flashlighs that need new batteries.
2) why is the ship so nice? This is one of the first ships, it should be rougher. I like the different bridge design, but to me, it should be something more like the Maru in Andromeda.
3) Why don't we ever come across aliens that can't kick our ass?
4) Enough of the shots of the shuttles. We know the transporters work pretty okay now - time to start using them and stop having "were stuck due to shuttle issue" stories.
5) enuff of the damn vulcan's. Yeah...they are annoying but mostly look good in tight garb. We get the picture.
Probably my two favorite characters are Hoshi and the Doctor. Hell...on Voyager, the Doctor was my favorite character as well. Perhaps they should write more medical stories.
Oh well...I'm tired.
It's a company, an ISP, that is blocking the e-mail.
It isn't the government blocking it, therefor it's not a freedom of speech issue.
While I agree with your points, to be effective, you need, as you said, a decent package management system.
/opt when it comes to stuff I install from source - that way I know where it all is.
/var/genericpackagemanagment, which contains a list of all the files installed, where, and directories created.
/var/genericpackagemanagment/mytarball`
However - I love
What would be nice is a standard way of installing something from a tarball which puts something, lets say
That way, removal becomes something as simple as rm `cat
Everyone already seems to use automake/autoconf - how about an autoinstall or something like that?
The problem is when ssh says "Unable to connect to host". Once you finally find a monitor and hook it up, you see
LI
on the screen. Most server class equipment is getting better about things like console/bios over serial port - not as good as a huge HPUX box, but better than the run-of-the-mill PC. The hard part is what to do when you need to see something that is between the realms of the POST and boot loader, or somthing like that.
I love my Avocent for that!!! And MasterSwitch's by APC.
Same here - no complaints about performance. When you uplink is only 15Mbps, 802.1b is fine for the most part. Coverage concerns come up.
:)
The only person who thinks that we need to have G/A/whatever else is my boss, who I think looks at wireless speed like others look at big stereo speakers - overcompensating for something else
Like others said - the effort for you to get them to realize that the file has nothing to do with Microsoft would be high moneywise. Look at the approach the RIAA took with pay our penalty or we take you to court. How many opted to just pay instead of trying to defend themselves in court - right or wrong?
Nah....it'd just force a mild evolution in the p2p programs. A bunch of nodes in some other country that the p2p program would contact on startup thus ensuring that initial pack going out.
:)
Remember, the internet routes around censorship
Lets say you put a file named windows.zip on Kazaa. Turns out it has nothing to do with Microsoft, however with the way some of these anti-piracy searches go, they may catch that and want to go after you.
As of right now, to figure out your identity, they have to file to get that information from your ISP. What they are proposing is they can just pick up the phone and say "we think this person is doing something bad, give us all their information."
It would be scary enough if the government could do that without going through the proper legal channels, but this is proposing that coporate america get these kinds of power and unlimited access.
Yes...the law should crack down on illegal activities, but it should not allow businesses to be able to hurl an overwhelming number of lawsuits at people just based on thinking it's illegal and having instant access to the client information. Just like the law - they should have to do all their homework and make sure they have a decent case before hauling you into court, not just a bunch of conjecture. With this change, it'd be too easy for the BSA to haul any average joe into court and accuse them and draing their financial resources in a heartbeat - before they could prove they didn't do anything wrong.
I think that if Larry Elison thought he could cut into Bill's share by porting Oracle to the Palm III he would do it :)
However, Oracle for Linux probably is more or less the same code base as Oracle for HPUX or Solaris or AIX. And for the most part it's either java or backend server type stuff...much simpler than trying to figure out what toolkit to use to show a preference box for the user (hence their move to Java for the GUI stuff) or the display and i/o intensive nature of a game.
And even Oracle on Linux is only "supported" on a couple distros.
Well...my packetshaper shows that P2P traffic is still going strong at it's max - 28k
My head still hurts from trying to remember what key did what for that game.
I remember in the 80's when MTV showed videos and cable stations showed original programming instaed of reruns of 80's shows :)