Between the fountains and the Pompidou center is a great wifi spot. I posted using my Zaurus regularly while I was in Paris for four months.
I even met the guy who's point it is. He's on the third floor to the right of the police station. I asked him if it bothered him that I was on his wifi and he said, "Pas de tout" ("Not at all").
PS - Go easy on him, turn off images while browsing.
When I was an undergrad, a new administration decided to shut down an important campus road to non-faculty drivers. The students raised a ruckus, but, when I came back to do a PhD, none of the current students knew the road had ever been opened to students.
The same thing happened when they doubled parking fees.
If the **AA can slowly choke rights, or the implimentations of these restrictions, and bundle them with "improvements" or "new feature" like digital or HD broadcasts, there will be those of us who scream about it, but, in the end, our voices will be silenced (one way or another) and no one will care.
I also have, on very good authority, that the DMCA only covers encryption for copy protection. Region coding is neither encryption, nor for copy protection. So, working around it does not violate the DMCA.
If you write Hatch, be sure to quote a little Mormon scripture:
--- D&C 121:39 We have learned by sad experience that it is the nature and disposition of almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority, as they suppose, they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion. ---
I work on a university campus, oddly, in Hatch's state, and I got a call from a guy in the Humanities dept., who does a lot of foreign language media production, and he wanted to know if it was possible to convert DVD video into QuickTime. The DVD in question was produced in-house.
I told him that there are tool available, but that me telling him where he could get them, and how to use them would be illegal. He wanted to know what I was talking about, so I let him know about the DMCA.
Guess what... He didn't care. He didn't care about the law - he was willing to break it - and he didn't care that the guy who was behind it was his senator. Meanwhile, I've sent three letters in the last two years to Hatch about this stuff.
We are reaching HUGE levels of apathy here. I don't think it matters how loudly we yell. Joe Sixpack just doesn't care.
Yeah, I should post the text from the letter he sent me about Dmitry. He said something to the effect of: "Because Mr. Sklyarov's case is still pending, tt would be improper for me to comment on it at this time."
Bullocks!
Does that mean that if I get wrongfully imprisioned, as long as my case is "pending", I cannot even turn to a local senator for help?
BTW, my mother-in-law, along with a lot of people around here, blindly vote for this guy every six years. God couldn't get elected as a Democrat in Utah. My mother-in-law told me she votes for people's "character", so I detailed the crooked nature of Hatch's voting record, including the Ephedra fiasco. She's not convinced, but at least its a start.
I'm sending this at: http://hatch.senate.gov/index.cfm?Fuseaction= Offic es.Contact
Dear Senator Hatch,
This is the third letter I have sent you over the last three years. I am a Ph.D. student at Brigham Young University and I have lived in Utah County for almost ten years. For my education, and my employment, I have worked in cutting-edge technology and multimedia. I have authored DVDs for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as well as several other commercial DVDs. I have also traveled to Europe and Africa to collect audio and video materials for use in online language instruction, so I understand the time, effort, and money that is required to produce high quality content.
However, your current assailing of fair-use rights has once again reached the point of being absurd. Your bill outlined in this article: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=st ory&cid=77 &e=1&u=/mc/20040706/tc_mc/billtargetsfirmsthatindu cecopyrightviolations seems to follow the attitude of legislating broadly, intending to enforce narrowly. Senator Hatch, we have seen "from sad experience" that this does not work.
When I wrote you before, concerning Dmitry Sklyarov, you responded that the DMCA, as currently instituted, struck the proper balance between content provided rights and the rights of consumers. My question is this: What has changed in the last two years that the DMCA suddenly does not go far enough in impeding citizens' rights.
You might believe that peer-to-peer technologies have no legitimate purpose. I know this is wrong. I have used P2P applications to quickly move huge amounts of data across heterogeneous networks, saving me hours. I also attended a subcommittee hearing you held at Brigham Young University where four local firms, including Novell, demonstrated how they were using P2P applications.
I sincerely hope that you will reconsider the present INDUCE legislation, and realize that the scales are already tipped in favor of copy-right holders.
Marge: [Murmurring] Panel Member: Uh, what are you doing? Marge: I'm praying. Panel: Gasp! Panel Member: And to whom are you praying? Marge: To God. Panel Member: I see. And is this "God" in this room? Marge: Well, yes. He's sort of everywhere. Panel: [Whispers to each other.] Panel Member: Marge Simpson, you leave us no choice but to find you clinically insane.
Yeah, so if patents are supposed to be so good for the field/economy/humanity, how is it that most technology is not fully explored/exploited until after the patent expired?
If you want an even better effect, save up some dough and head to Normandy.
I was there last winter, and the crosses at the American Memorial tell the whole story. If you stand back, you see a sea of white crosses, and some stars of David, all the same height, with no one standing out.
Get up close, and you'll see name after name. They also have their rank and home state on the cross. I couldn't help asking myself if these people even knew where France was when they left Montana.
The most incredible part are the crosses that read: "Here rests in honored glory a comrade known only to God"
One of my friends has a grandfather who fought and was upset that his batallion was not chosen for D-Day.
WTF am I suppose to do with a laptop that can only run for 1.75 hours before needing to be plugged in again?
I would agree with you. Escpecially since I own a Zaurus SL-5500, and an IBM X20 whose battery no longer holds any charge whatsoever.
However, I also just bought a Pontiac Vibe (twin to the Toyota Matrix), and it has a passenger seat that converts into a desk and a 115-volt AC outlet in the dash (I think the Honda Element has like features). Suddenly, that laptop with its DVD player is a lot more useful, especially on long hauls with my 2-year-old.
Personally, I like the way other systems, including my Sharp Zaurus, do handwriting input. First, they offer several single or multiple stroke inputs for each letter, then they give you the option on making you own.
The Zaurus even has a utility that lets you draw a stroke and it will tell you the three characters it most resembles, and the percentage of ressemblance. I used to think the keyboard on the Zaurus was the best input method, but I find a customized hand writing input just as effective.
My father visited me in France, and brought his Cannon digital camera, which uses CF cards. I took one, popped it in my Sharp Zaurus, and viewed/copied/emailed the pics. I have an SMC CF WiFi that works on my IBM X20 as well. Two friends of mine have HP cameras, and they use SD cards. My Zaurus also has an SD slot, so I can see/exchange pics with them.
I was wondering why Sony continues to fight this battle as well, but don't forget who was behind beta video cassettes. (Yes, I know the story, and I have a DigiBeta in the office, but its a good example of closing your patents and loosing the lion's share of your market.)
I was at Sea World once and I was walking by the Killer Whale pool. There were some trainers feeding and apparently taking blood samples of Shamu and co.
When we saw the show they had played a video on the jumbotron about the program at Sea World and how they've bread more orca than anybody else. They mentioned that every calf was artificially inseminated.
Of course, this begs the obvious question... Where does the, er, sperm com from?
As I was just about the ask one of the trainers, she made a signal to a whale that I gues meant "hey, baby" because the huge male floated on his side and, well, showed his manhood.
The trainer pulled out a padded, 6-inch PVC pipe with handles and proceeded to service the beast. When she was done, she gave the animal a big handful of fish as a "reward". I really wonder how much training they have to go through before the males respond.
One of the reasons IBM is not allowed to do this is that way back when, during their anti-trust suits, IBM could shut down small startups by just announcing that they were looking into maybe doing the same thing.
Now IBM doesn't announce new tech until it is mature, or has show verifiable results.
RTFA. The iPod would be great for my needs were it not for the lack of built-in voice recording. While the Dell offering falls short on some point, its lower price and its built-in recording make it more usable in my life than the iPod.
Every freshman at my school was required to take a tour of the library. Basically, you'd go to an office, they would give you a walkman, and you would listen to a tape that would tell you where to go and what everything was for.
I discovered that I could hold down the fast forward and play button to get "chipmonk speed". I finished the tour well ahead of theose who picked up their tapes at the same time.
Of course, the office people thought there was no way I would pass the little test at the end because I obviously had not taken the whole tour. Well, they were wrong.
All I have to say is that our main DB server's HDD failed while I was on a production trip to Cairo (Egypt).
I made one phone call, had a low level tech install a new HDD, Debian base and SSH. I did all of the config, and restored all of the records (up to the last backup, which was less than 24 hours earlier) in less than four hours from a dial-up in El-Dokki.
Whenever my boss asks me why I prefer Linux for servers over Windows, I just remind him of that experience.
I tried to get my wife to use it. She was taking a personal finance class that required Quicken. I thought we could give GnuCash a try and maybe save some dough/impress the teacher.
Boy was I wrong. I figured out the take-out-of-one-account-to-credit-another system, but I couldn't figure out how to put money into the system.
Anyway, we spent a few hours on it, but eventually just forked over the dough for Quicken and rebooted into Windows.
I'm not wishing death to GnuCash, but it is in need of huge improvements to be up their with the other accounting (personal and otherwise) that I've seen.
Slashdot Mirror
Between the fountains and the Pompidou center is a great wifi spot. I posted using my Zaurus regularly while I was in Paris for four months.
I even met the guy who's point it is. He's on the third floor to the right of the police station. I asked him if it bothered him that I was on his wifi and he said, "Pas de tout" ("Not at all").
PS - Go easy on him, turn off images while browsing.
Very true.
When I was an undergrad, a new administration decided to shut down an important campus road to non-faculty drivers. The students raised a ruckus, but, when I came back to do a PhD, none of the current students knew the road had ever been opened to students.
The same thing happened when they doubled parking fees.
If the **AA can slowly choke rights, or the implimentations of these restrictions, and bundle them with "improvements" or "new feature" like digital or HD broadcasts, there will be those of us who scream about it, but, in the end, our voices will be silenced (one way or another) and no one will care.
I also have, on very good authority, that the DMCA only covers encryption for copy protection. Region coding is neither encryption, nor for copy protection. So, working around it does not violate the DMCA.
True, but because the tools they would use for this purpose have the ability to DeCSS, it is illegal for me to "link" to them.
If you write Hatch, be sure to quote a little Mormon scripture:
---
D&C 121:39
We have learned by sad experience that it is the nature and disposition of almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority, as they suppose, they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion.
---
100% agree.
I work on a university campus, oddly, in Hatch's state, and I got a call from a guy in the Humanities dept., who does a lot of foreign language media production, and he wanted to know if it was possible to convert DVD video into QuickTime. The DVD in question was produced in-house.
I told him that there are tool available, but that me telling him where he could get them, and how to use them would be illegal. He wanted to know what I was talking about, so I let him know about the DMCA.
Guess what... He didn't care. He didn't care about the law - he was willing to break it - and he didn't care that the guy who was behind it was his senator. Meanwhile, I've sent three letters in the last two years to Hatch about this stuff.
We are reaching HUGE levels of apathy here. I don't think it matters how loudly we yell. Joe Sixpack just doesn't care.
Yeah, I should post the text from the letter he sent me about Dmitry. He said something to the effect of: "Because Mr. Sklyarov's case is still pending, tt would be improper for me to comment on it at this time."
Bullocks!
Does that mean that if I get wrongfully imprisioned, as long as my case is "pending", I cannot even turn to a local senator for help?
BTW, my mother-in-law, along with a lot of people around here, blindly vote for this guy every six years. God couldn't get elected as a Democrat in Utah. My mother-in-law told me she votes for people's "character", so I detailed the crooked nature of Hatch's voting record, including the Ephedra fiasco. She's not convinced, but at least its a start.
I'm sending this at:= Offic es.Contact
t ory&cid=77 &e=1&u=/mc/20040706/tc_mc/billtargetsfirmsthatindu cecopyrightviolations
http://hatch.senate.gov/index.cfm?Fuseaction
Dear Senator Hatch,
This is the third letter I have sent you over the last three years. I am a Ph.D. student at Brigham Young University and I have lived in Utah County for almost ten years. For my education, and my employment, I have worked in cutting-edge technology and multimedia. I have authored DVDs for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as well as several other commercial DVDs. I have also traveled to Europe and Africa to collect audio and video materials for use in online language instruction, so I understand the time, effort, and money that is required to produce high quality content.
However, your current assailing of fair-use rights has once again reached the point of being absurd. Your bill outlined in this article:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s
seems to follow the attitude of legislating broadly, intending to enforce narrowly. Senator Hatch, we have seen "from sad experience" that this does not work.
When I wrote you before, concerning Dmitry Sklyarov, you responded that the DMCA, as currently instituted, struck the proper balance between content provided rights and the rights of consumers. My question is this: What has changed in the last two years that the DMCA suddenly does not go far enough in impeding citizens' rights.
You might believe that peer-to-peer technologies have no legitimate purpose. I know this is wrong. I have used P2P applications to quickly move huge amounts of data across heterogeneous networks, saving me hours. I also attended a subcommittee hearing you held at Brigham Young University where four local firms, including Novell, demonstrated how they were using P2P applications.
I sincerely hope that you will reconsider the present INDUCE legislation, and realize that the scales are already tipped in favor of copy-right holders.
Regards,
Jeremy Browne
Marge in a sanity hearing:
Marge: [Murmurring]
Panel Member: Uh, what are you doing?
Marge: I'm praying.
Panel: Gasp!
Panel Member: And to whom are you praying?
Marge: To God.
Panel Member: I see. And is this "God" in this room?
Marge: Well, yes. He's sort of everywhere.
Panel: [Whispers to each other.]
Panel Member: Marge Simpson, you leave us no choice but to find you clinically insane.
Yeah, so if patents are supposed to be so good for the field/economy/humanity, how is it that most technology is not fully explored/exploited until after the patent expired?
If you want an even better effect, save up some dough and head to Normandy.
I was there last winter, and the crosses at the American Memorial tell the whole story. If you stand back, you see a sea of white crosses, and some stars of David, all the same height, with no one standing out.
Get up close, and you'll see name after name. They also have their rank and home state on the cross. I couldn't help asking myself if these people even knew where France was when they left Montana.
The most incredible part are the crosses that read: "Here rests in honored glory a comrade known only to God"
One of my friends has a grandfather who fought and was upset that his batallion was not chosen for D-Day.
I would agree with you. Escpecially since I own a Zaurus SL-5500, and an IBM X20 whose battery no longer holds any charge whatsoever.
However, I also just bought a Pontiac Vibe (twin to the Toyota Matrix), and it has a passenger seat that converts into a desk and a 115-volt AC outlet in the dash (I think the Honda Element has like features). Suddenly, that laptop with its DVD player is a lot more useful, especially on long hauls with my 2-year-old.
And paying a per-user/per-processor licencing fee at the same time.
From the department of redundancy department.
Personally, I like the way other systems, including my Sharp Zaurus, do handwriting input. First, they offer several single or multiple stroke inputs for each letter, then they give you the option on making you own.
The Zaurus even has a utility that lets you draw a stroke and it will tell you the three characters it most resembles, and the percentage of ressemblance. I used to think the keyboard on the Zaurus was the best input method, but I find a customized hand writing input just as effective.
Ditto.
My father visited me in France, and brought his Cannon digital camera, which uses CF cards. I took one, popped it in my Sharp Zaurus, and viewed/copied/emailed the pics. I have an SMC CF WiFi that works on my IBM X20 as well. Two friends of mine have HP cameras, and they use SD cards. My Zaurus also has an SD slot, so I can see/exchange pics with them.
I was wondering why Sony continues to fight this battle as well, but don't forget who was behind beta video cassettes. (Yes, I know the story, and I have a DigiBeta in the office, but its a good example of closing your patents and loosing the lion's share of your market.)
One of my best professors used to say that history is only there to help us understand movies.
No different?
I was at Sea World once and I was walking by the Killer Whale pool. There were some trainers feeding and apparently taking blood samples of Shamu and co.
When we saw the show they had played a video on the jumbotron about the program at Sea World and how they've bread more orca than anybody else. They mentioned that every calf was artificially inseminated.
Of course, this begs the obvious question... Where does the, er, sperm com from?
As I was just about the ask one of the trainers, she made a signal to a whale that I gues meant "hey, baby" because the huge male floated on his side and, well, showed his manhood.
The trainer pulled out a padded, 6-inch PVC pipe with handles and proceeded to service the beast. When she was done, she gave the animal a big handful of fish as a "reward". I really wonder how much training they have to go through before the males respond.
One of the reasons IBM is not allowed to do this is that way back when, during their anti-trust suits, IBM could shut down small startups by just announcing that they were looking into maybe doing the same thing.
Now IBM doesn't announce new tech until it is mature, or has show verifiable results.
I wonder why MS gets away with it now.
A use for the Segway.
Mod parent UP
RTFA. The iPod would be great for my needs were it not for the lack of built-in voice recording. While the Dell offering falls short on some point, its lower price and its built-in recording make it more usable in my life than the iPod.
Every freshman at my school was required to take a tour of the library. Basically, you'd go to an office, they would give you a walkman, and you would listen to a tape that would tell you where to go and what everything was for.
I discovered that I could hold down the fast forward and play button to get "chipmonk speed". I finished the tour well ahead of theose who picked up their tapes at the same time.
Of course, the office people thought there was no way I would pass the little test at the end because I obviously had not taken the whole tour. Well, they were wrong.
All I have to say is that our main DB server's HDD failed while I was on a production trip to Cairo (Egypt).
I made one phone call, had a low level tech install a new HDD, Debian base and SSH. I did all of the config, and restored all of the records (up to the last backup, which was less than 24 hours earlier) in less than four hours from a dial-up in El-Dokki.
Whenever my boss asks me why I prefer Linux for servers over Windows, I just remind him of that experience.
Mish Ma'uul!
I tried to get my wife to use it. She was taking a personal finance class that required Quicken. I thought we could give GnuCash a try and maybe save some dough/impress the teacher.
Boy was I wrong. I figured out the take-out-of-one-account-to-credit-another system, but I couldn't figure out how to put money into the system.
Anyway, we spent a few hours on it, but eventually just forked over the dough for Quicken and rebooted into Windows.
I'm not wishing death to GnuCash, but it is in need of huge improvements to be up their with the other accounting (personal and otherwise) that I've seen.