CD Free for 3 years and counting. Let's de-fund them to the ground before they sue us into it. Support your local used media store. Support your local artists. Give nothing to RIAA-funded corporations and they will destroy themselves.
That's funny, I'd heard you'd gotten kicked out of Accra after some of the shit you'd pulled in Vientiane. At least that's what the Site/Project leads said they were going to do when they called us about you.
DO NOT waste your money on a VAIO. It will fall apart in less than a year and you'll be pissed and so will she. My Z505LE died not less than 24 hours after my PowerBook 12" showed up at the door. I'd had it barely two years and it really only lasted 1 major software project and 1 technical paper(by which I mean about 9 or so months worth of 12-15 hours a day of working on it) before it started to fall apart. First the keyboard went, then the trackpad, then the finish started to dissolve off it before it's CPU fan stopped working and it would randomly freeze up.
I will never buy another VAIO. They are meant to be used by marketdroids and executives who maybe drag it out for a couple hours a few days a week to fiddle with Powerpoint presentations or Word or something. They are NOT serious traveling/road warrior laptops. The will NOT stand up to serious development or writing work.
...but for the well-off looking for some place to cool their heels until things pick up. Which isn't to say that they're not working. I have no doubt that it's more or less startup business as usual inside most of these places and the workers are excited, clued and working their butts off.
I live out here in San Francisco and the only people I know who are doing equity-only work are the ones who can afford it. The rest move or scrimp and scrape by as they can.
I'm not doing it because I had savings and contract work to get me through to where I am now and need real money at this point.
If people or the gov't want to get up in arms about something, how about the plethora of so-called unpaid "internships" ?
When the MilitaryInfotainmentIndustrialComplex sues TiVO and friends into a smoking hole or otherwise makes them their bitch, his PVR will still retain 100% of its functionality and won't be spying on him or spamming him either.
Somebody files suit against you for fraud(You overpromised your resources and can't deliver) or restraint of trade(Somebody elses worm/'bot/whatever is interfering with theirs and it's your fault because you have things other than THEIR software on your machine.)
Direct Marketing is not a legitimate profession and should be made illegal. A complete and total ban on non-consumer-initiated marketing messages is really the only thing that will ultimately have any effect.
This of course means that marketdroids would have to actually THINK from now on, so I'm not terribly hopeful that this would happen.
I will join you in hoisting a glass my friend. BMRT got me into Renderman and was largely responsible for getting me my first gig at an animation studio, which in itself led to some other really cool gigs.
Larry, if you're reading this, ya did good. Too bad it had to end like this.
Ummm, yeah, this is the first thing that crossed my mind too. It would be neat, but really, this is going to be like NFS-mounting something over your DSL connection.:b)
Bluetooth security is actually pretty good. It's not perfect, but it's certainly much better than 802.11
Some highlights: Bluetooth devices can turn "beaconing" on and off at will quite easily. They can also set the number of devices they allow to communicate with them. Encryption, both seeds and keys can be 128-bit all around(The Apple dongle and Palm SDIO card support 128-bit keys, don't know about others).
Encryption keys are not sent over the air. The Encryption engine is using the SAFER+ algorithm.
Now the downside: It's up to the manufacturer to decide what keylength to support(it is POSSIBLE to use an 8-bit key for example). The key is a single, private, shared-secret kind of key, with all the ads and disads that are incumbent upon them.
Go check out http://bluez.sourceforge.net to see what's up with Linux and Bluetooth.
Hard cases!
I managed to luck out and pick up a couple from a client that was throwing them out before I moved out west. Even UPS couldn't destroy these puppies!
It held my SGI Indy and Sparc IPX AND assorted
peripherals AND they showed up in SF in one piece.
A second case held the monitors.
All were shipped UPS overnight and all arrived in one piece at their destination.
But most of this stuff you should have learned in kindergarten.
Partially true. Certain basics you should've learned in kindergarten, but I'm continually amazed at how many adults haven't mastered basic manners. Plus, there's a lot more than kindergarten skills that go into good managers. Motivating people, communicating complex concepts in ways that people can understand, etc.
Who's got time for manners? HR and management sure don't. It doesn't contribute to the bottom line!
And that's all that matters these days right?
I mean we can't waste time on things that aren't directly productive
I have nothing but good things to say about Speakeasy. We've had service with them for over a year and very few problems. They really are just
about too good to be true. The secret though seems to be they are just interested in selling the service. No add-ons or cross-marketing to Taco Bell or anything like that.
They seem to be marketing themselves towards geeks rather than simple consumers.
We got them because they didn't have any problem with us doing masq'ing or running a firewall on our end, running our own mail, DNS, etc.
I even have an extra IP for my Dreamcast with a BBA.
There's nothing quite like deathmatching while simultaneously downloading kernel sources let me tell you:):)
I hate to agree with you, but I'm starting to.
What the hell is going on Tim!?!?
Is that really you?
Or did Bill kill you and replace you with a robot designed to do his bidding?
What's next? O'Reilly only publishing on C# and Microsoft products?
The Armadillo book being delisted in favor of the Mandrill?
Cool!, now I can watch from other rooms in my place!
Of course the *2nd* thought that popped into my head was that people could(would) use this to bleed content off DSS onto the net.
Notice the difference here?
My subscription, my equipment, my (ab)use (of my LAN).
Another thing:Please stop with the hypocritical "You can't do that, that's illegal!, Shocked, shocked,*SHOCKED* I am!!!" type of messages.
You sound like a bunch of 6th-grade smokers railing against the one kid who managed to get caught.
Interestingly enough, IRDA.org has some things to say about this. They make some noises on the "Industry news" part of their site about putting
FIR transceivers in seatbacks and armrests.
This makes a hell of a lot more sense than 802.11.
The signal is LOS between you "and the seat in front of you" and could easily accomodate whatever link speed you could get between the air and the ground(and let me tell you folks, it isn't gonna be much).
RK
Hands down, no question. It's easily the best $100 I've dropped on a gadget in years. My IIIxe goes in one pocket, keyboard in another. It's great for popping out and tapping in MapQuest direx when doing it in Graffiti would take too long and the laptop would take too much time to wake up.
I've had friends try out both and they've all got
Stowaways or a re-branded version thereof.
The GoType looks and feels like it was designed by Microsoft or ex-M$-ers. They're trying to cram too much into too little of a space. Why would I want to use a sub-notebook sized half-keyboard that fits in my satchel/backpack when I can carry arround a classic-style IBM 101-type kbd in my pocket?
'dillo
Wow,
A lot of people here failed their reading compreshension tests in grade school didn't they?
This isn't about the usual RIAA tactics, it is about them being legally declared the only way to get royalties for "webcasted music"(Whatever that is).
So go ahead and post you MP3s on your website,just don't expect to be paid for them unless you bend over for Hillary Rosen and co.
That's like VISA being the only way to get paid for stuff you sell online.
"Sure you can run an online business, but you'll need our card 'cause the only legal way to pay people is to credit their VISA balance. If you want to use MC or Amex, not only will you not get paid, but you're a dirty,filthy, stealing-bread-from-the-mouths-of-our-children criminal! How *DARE* you even THINK of getting paid some other way!"
Only 8% for my man Harry?---I guess you guys are only for your individual rights until the t-shirt comes off ehh?
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised or disappointed, but I am....
So who wants to go down to LA with me and recite the DeCSS code at the steps/frontage of the MPAA building. I've been thinking for a while now that
a bunch of us should memorize it, w/out paper and recite it in front of their building.
What are they going to arrest us for?
RK
The market will take care of destroying their business, not us. Corporations have a right to go into business, but they don't have a right to STAY in business. That's their problem. If they come up with a crappy business methodology/model, they deserve to go out of business. Loopholes in their license agreements are not our problem or responsibility.
I am significantly underwhelemed by Mr. Davis rant. The poor spelling,poor grammar and general tone of "you darn kids!" almost makes me laugh.
Did you proof-read your statement at all or did you just expect your bar-code reader to do the work for you?
I saw "Something About Mary" last week and remember the scene when the lunatic in Ben Stiller's car starts going off, "No man, it's 6! 6-minute Abs!" when Ben calmly explains than somebody else could just as easily come up with "5-minute Abs" and he comes unglued.
Mr. Davis sounds a lot more like this in his letter than he does a serious businessman.
But, as always,
That's Just Me.
RK
And this is a problem? Look, for a flu shot or similar meatspace things I can see we're not going to get rid of lines. For things like the DMV, taxes, tickets, etc., please explain to me why I should waste hours of my life waiting in line to deal with the dregs of the civil service make-work pool when I can take care of it all with the click of a button?
....I'm actually working on something like this for the Palm right now. No specific name for it right now ("Tricorder" would undoubtedly ruffle some corporate feathers at Paramount) but the goal is to be able to do common sysadmin status checks(top,du,uptime, ps, etc.) from your Palm. The POC implementation is via IRDA but there's no reason it couldn't be over radio,Palm.net, etc. Why:Because I want to be able to point my Palm at a machine(w/ appropriate IR or other connectivity) and see the perfmeter stats crawling across the Palm's screen just like in Star Trek. I want a real tricorder. I want to be able to get a page at a conference or dinner or something and be able to do some simple first-step diags before I make a mad dash for the terminal room or the office for something that could be taken care of by just tapping a couple buttons to kick an errant daemon in the butt.
I'm about half done. I'd be interested in hearing from others out there if they think this would be something they could really use or just a cool, geeky toy.
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CD Free for 3 years and counting. Let's de-fund them to the ground before they sue us into it. Support your local used media store. Support your local artists. Give nothing to RIAA-funded corporations and they will destroy themselves.
Burn Hillary, Burn!
That's funny, I'd heard you'd gotten kicked out of Accra after some of the shit you'd pulled in Vientiane. At least that's what the Site/Project leads said they were going to do when they called us about you.
DO NOT waste your money on a VAIO. It will fall apart in less than a year and you'll be pissed and so will she. My Z505LE died not less than 24 hours after my PowerBook 12" showed up at the door.
I'd had it barely two years and it really only lasted 1 major software project and 1 technical paper(by which I mean about 9 or so months worth of 12-15 hours a day of working on it) before it started to fall apart. First the keyboard went, then the trackpad, then the finish started to dissolve off it before it's CPU fan stopped working and it would randomly freeze up.
I will never buy another VAIO. They are meant to be used by marketdroids and executives who maybe drag it out for a couple hours a few days a week to fiddle with Powerpoint presentations or Word or something. They are NOT serious traveling/road warrior laptops.
The will NOT stand up to serious development or writing work.
...but for the well-off looking for some place to cool their heels until things pick up. Which isn't to say that they're not working. I have no doubt that it's more or less startup business as usual inside most of these places and the workers are excited, clued and working their butts off.
I live out here in San Francisco and the only people I know who are doing equity-only work are the ones who can afford it. The rest move or scrimp and scrape by as they can.
I'm not doing it because I had savings and contract work to get me through to where I am now and need real money at this point.
If people or the gov't want to get up in arms about something, how about the plethora of so-called unpaid "internships" ?
When the MilitaryInfotainmentIndustrialComplex sues TiVO and friends into a smoking hole or otherwise makes them their bitch, his PVR will still retain 100% of its functionality and won't be spying on
him or spamming him either.
Somebody files suit against you for fraud(You overpromised your resources and can't deliver) or restraint of trade(Somebody elses worm/'bot/whatever is interfering with theirs and it's your fault because you have things other than THEIR software on your machine.)
Direct Marketing is not a legitimate profession and should be made illegal. A complete and total ban on non-consumer-initiated marketing messages is really the only thing that will ultimately have any effect.
This of course means that marketdroids would have to actually THINK from now on, so I'm not terribly hopeful that this would happen.
I will join you in hoisting a glass my friend. BMRT got me into Renderman and was largely responsible for getting me my first gig at an animation studio, which in itself led to some other really cool gigs.
Larry, if you're reading this, ya did good. Too bad it had to end like this.
Ummm, yeah, this is the first thing that crossed my mind too. :b)
It would be neat, but really, this is going to be like NFS-mounting something over your DSL connection.
Bluetooth security is actually pretty good. It's not perfect, but it's certainly much better than 802.11
Some highlights:
Bluetooth devices can turn "beaconing" on and off at will quite easily. They can also set the number of devices they allow to communicate with them.
Encryption, both seeds and keys can be 128-bit all around(The Apple dongle and Palm SDIO card support 128-bit keys, don't know about others).
Encryption keys are not sent over the air.
The Encryption engine is using the SAFER+ algorithm.
Now the downside:
It's up to the manufacturer to decide what keylength to support(it is POSSIBLE to use an 8-bit key for example).
The key is a single, private, shared-secret kind of key, with all the ads and disads that are incumbent upon them.
Go check out http://bluez.sourceforge.net to see what's up with Linux and Bluetooth.
HTH,
RK
Hard cases!
I managed to luck out and pick up a couple from a client that was throwing them out before I moved out west. Even UPS couldn't destroy these puppies!
It held my SGI Indy and Sparc IPX AND assorted
peripherals AND they showed up in SF in one piece.
A second case held the monitors.
All were shipped UPS overnight and all arrived in one piece at their destination.
RK
But most of this stuff you should have learned in kindergarten. Partially true. Certain basics you should've learned in kindergarten, but I'm continually amazed at how many adults haven't mastered basic manners. Plus, there's a lot more than kindergarten skills that go into good managers. Motivating people, communicating complex concepts in ways that people can understand, etc. Who's got time for manners? HR and management sure don't. It doesn't contribute to the bottom line! And that's all that matters these days right? I mean we can't waste time on things that aren't directly productive
They seem to be marketing themselves towards geeks rather than simple consumers. We got them because they didn't have any problem with us doing masq'ing or running a firewall on our end, running our own mail, DNS, etc. I even have an extra IP for my Dreamcast with a BBA.
There's nothing quite like deathmatching while simultaneously downloading kernel sources let me tell you :) :)
I hate to agree with you, but I'm starting to. What the hell is going on Tim!?!? Is that really you? Or did Bill kill you and replace you with a robot designed to do his bidding? What's next? O'Reilly only publishing on C# and Microsoft products? The Armadillo book being delisted in favor of the Mandrill?
My subscription, my equipment, my (ab)use (of my LAN).
Another thing:Please stop with the hypocritical "You can't do that, that's illegal!, Shocked, shocked,*SHOCKED* I am!!!" type of messages. You sound like a bunch of 6th-grade smokers railing against the one kid who managed to get caught.
Of course the same is true for Brits trying to do American accents. Why do you blokes think that everyone in America comes from Texas?
Interestingly enough, IRDA.org has some things to say about this. They make some noises on the "Industry news" part of their site about putting FIR transceivers in seatbacks and armrests. This makes a hell of a lot more sense than 802.11. The signal is LOS between you "and the seat in front of you" and could easily accomodate whatever link speed you could get between the air and the ground(and let me tell you folks, it isn't gonna be much). RK
Hands down, no question. It's easily the best $100 I've dropped on a gadget in years. My IIIxe goes in one pocket, keyboard in another. It's great for popping out and tapping in MapQuest direx when doing it in Graffiti would take too long and the laptop would take too much time to wake up. I've had friends try out both and they've all got Stowaways or a re-branded version thereof. The GoType looks and feels like it was designed by Microsoft or ex-M$-ers. They're trying to cram too much into too little of a space. Why would I want to use a sub-notebook sized half-keyboard that fits in my satchel/backpack when I can carry arround a classic-style IBM 101-type kbd in my pocket? 'dillo
This isn't about the usual RIAA tactics, it is about them being legally declared the only way to get royalties for "webcasted music"(Whatever that is).
So go ahead and post you MP3s on your website,just don't expect to be paid for them unless you bend over for Hillary Rosen and co.
That's like VISA being the only way to get paid for stuff you sell online.
"Sure you can run an online business, but you'll need our card 'cause the only legal way to pay people is to credit their VISA balance. If you want to use MC or Amex, not only will you not get paid, but you're a dirty,filthy, stealing-bread-from-the-mouths-of-our-children criminal! How *DARE* you even THINK of getting paid some other way!"
Only 8% for my man Harry?---I guess you guys are only for your individual rights until the t-shirt comes off ehh? I suppose I shouldn't be surprised or disappointed, but I am....
So who wants to go down to LA with me and recite the DeCSS code at the steps/frontage of the MPAA building. I've been thinking for a while now that a bunch of us should memorize it, w/out paper and recite it in front of their building. What are they going to arrest us for? RK
The market will take care of destroying their business, not us. Corporations have a right to go into business, but they don't have a right to STAY in business. That's their problem. If they come up with a crappy business methodology/model, they deserve to go out of business. Loopholes in their license agreements are not our problem or responsibility.
I am significantly underwhelemed by Mr. Davis rant. The poor spelling,poor grammar and general tone of "you darn kids!" almost makes me laugh. Did you proof-read your statement at all or did you just expect your bar-code reader to do the work for you? I saw "Something About Mary" last week and remember the scene when the lunatic in Ben Stiller's car starts going off, "No man, it's 6! 6-minute Abs!" when Ben calmly explains than somebody else could just as easily come up with "5-minute Abs" and he comes unglued. Mr. Davis sounds a lot more like this in his letter than he does a serious businessman. But, as always, That's Just Me. RK
And this is a problem? Look, for a flu shot or similar meatspace things I can see we're not going to get rid of lines. For things like the DMV, taxes, tickets, etc., please explain to me why I should waste hours of my life waiting in line to deal with the dregs of the civil service make-work pool when I can take care of it all with the click of a button?
....I'm actually working on something like this for the Palm right now. No specific name for it right now ("Tricorder" would undoubtedly ruffle some corporate feathers at Paramount) but the goal is to be able to do common sysadmin status checks(top,du,uptime, ps, etc.) from your Palm. The POC implementation is via IRDA but there's no reason it couldn't be over radio,Palm.net, etc.
Why:Because I want to be able to point my Palm at a machine(w/ appropriate IR or other connectivity) and see the perfmeter stats crawling across the Palm's screen just like in Star Trek. I want a real tricorder.
I want to be able to get a page at a conference or dinner or something and be able to do some simple first-step diags before I make a mad dash for the terminal room or the office for something that could be taken care of by just tapping a couple buttons to kick an errant daemon in the butt.
I'm about half done. I'd be interested in hearing from others out there if they think this would be something they could really use or just a cool, geeky toy.
RK