no, you don't get it.
if it's a business, then those assets are held in the name of the business, not the person. even farmers perform transactions under the name of a business-it's common sense. if the kids want the business, chances are they'll just move up, take it over and keep going. if not, they;ll sell it anyway. it's a business, not a railroad set.
now, if daddy has a million dollar railroad set, yeah, it should be taxed when he dies. that's an asset those kids are receiving that they could just sell and run with. not the business.
actually, all macs with dvd drives (except for the g3 towers) use software dvd decoding. ati has nothing to do with it, even though the rage chip supports hardware dvd decoding. i don't watch dvds on my g4, but i know that mac community was a bit disgruntled when apple went to software decoding--with the cooperative multitasking of os9, watching a dvd in a window and doing anything else cause stutters and skips. maybe things will be better under x's preemptive scheme.
here's something i don't necessarily understand:
everyone has mentioned how WMP can run under WINE on most x86 linux boxes, like MacOnLinux (MOL) can run most macos binaries on my linuxppc box.
so....why can't anyone run quicktime for windows under wine on x86?
actually, apple has an exclusive license to the sorensen tech, so it's up to apple.
or so they say.
in reality, exchanges of this nature look like this:
apple: ask sorensen to port it--it's really their tech.
sorensen: well, apple has the only license, so ask them to port qt over.
i'm betting that if/when apple ports qt over to linux (which it may well do--they're halfway there with the BSD version they've developed for mac os x) they'll bring sorensen over with it.
remember--sorensen is just a codec. the real work is moving quicktime over.
browsing through the apple t-shirt website, and i came across this one which celebrates john-louis gassee's triumph over steve jobs in building an open-architecture macintosh.
from the blurb: Jean-Louis Gassée had always thought the Macintosh needed an open architecture, like the Apple II computers, to make it successful. However, this conflicted with Steve Jobs' view of the Mac as an "appliance."
does anyone else find it interesting that steve spent most of yesterday hyping his new, partially open-source OS and spiffy new PCI-based G4's, and that john-louis now makes internet appliances?
[the mother]...will have permamnent but slight numbness on the sides of her feet...
not only will his mom hit him with the whole "pain of birth" argument when his room is messy, she'll light her feet on fire to drive home the point of what an ungrateful little bastard he is.....
you'd think that napster was never in it to make money, or anything....
OF COURSE they're going to subscriptions, just like every other content provider throughout history. magazines, cable tv, newspapers--hell, even/. makes ya login if you want to participate in the moderation system, which, in its own special way, is the thrill of it all.
they have to pay that army of lawyers, liggers-on-of-shawn, and shawn's uncle somehow. not to mention the folks who actually are coding the damn thing.
as much as we'd like to pretend, napster is _not_ under the GPL, and their fight is _not_ the same as Free Software's fight. while napster raises some interesting IP issues, they still want to make a lot of money with what they're doing, and for those looking to make napster into a shining cause of the New Internet, this was a train wreck waiting to happen. napster is just another channel on that miraculous box in the the den, only instead of the news and weather it's music on demand. isn't that what cable companies have promised for years with movies?
napster has always been about the network it spawned, and it will go to great lengths to market, protect, and profit from that network, much like AOL and instant messenger.
don't be surprised when napster sells out. this was never a fight about free (as in beer) music and the growing of community. this was a play fight for publicity, plain and simple.
i feel bad for shawn fanning. i get the feeling he lies up at night and wonders how much better he could have handled this on his own, instead of letting the VC'ers take his creation away from him.
i wonder if this was rushed out the door today as a PR stunt, just so LinuxPPC could claim some sort of techinical superiority over Apple? they've pulled this sort of thing in the past, piling the FUD on TerraSoft, which makes a competing PPC Linux distro, over clustered Linux-on-Mac solutions.
they may make the platform's #1 distro, but they play dirty as hell.
well, here goes, kids:
from netcraft:
www.hotmail.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000
www.webtv.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000
www.microsoft.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000
bcentral.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000
go.msn.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000
www.msn.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000
carpoint.msn.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000
homeadvisor.msn.com is running Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4 or Windows 98 leader.linkexchange.com is running Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) on FreeBSD
memberservices.passport.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000
so bsd is one-for-ten on MS' major sites. although the front-end may be hosted by win2k, i doubt they would just leave all th db servers alone. i bet they're aggressively moving to 2k on the back end as well.
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I've lost hours at a time, soaked in sweat, chain smoking cigarettes during some recent sessions with Unreal Tournament.
although it's true that india has a large number of people, it's not as simple as that.
smart indian kids get pushed, scolded, and over-encouraged into utilizing their talents. this isn't to say that all indians are smart, it's just that those who demonstrate some ability are generally advised to make something of themselves.
and the two most desirable professions? why, medicine and engineering, of course. _that's_ why india has so many programmers. the culuture there is geared towards science, from early on.
europe is where the notion of free service started. most folks in europe would be shocked if you told them that people in the states pay for dialup.
while i agree that @home i a fairly good deal, it certainly doesn't deserve such platitudes. they're still just after as much money as they can squeeze out of you with as little effort as possible.
so...if the scope of the abandonware scene is as large as the article maks it seem, one could live in a time warp of sorts--a fully functioning ~1994 computer.
and since most corporations are throwing away most old parts like hard drives, 486dx2 mobos etc, you could do this all for free.
just think, if you're willing to be fix years behind the curve (more like five years behind the gentle initial incline of the curve) you could compute for free.
IB lives on in mac os x as project builder--even the terminology of nibs and packages is the same. it's a lot of fun--the coolest bit is that it's essentially an interface to "classic" tools like gcc and the like. all the grunt compiler work is done by standard console tools, while project builder happily spends its cycles crafting the interface and links.
obj-c is slowly dying--java and c++ (the mac standard) are apple's compatibility big push. hopefully, tho, as new, non-carbon apps get developed, we'll see rekindled interest in obj-c through the cocoa libraries. i personally think they should bring back pascal as the default language, as it was on the mac until the powerpc's.:)
sub-pop was purchased by geffen records at the peak of the grunge era. kinda drove kurt right to the edge, i imagine, working for a major.
SST and alternative tentacles are still safe bets, and have great music if you like old school punk rock (black flag, dead kennedys, jello biafra spoken word, minutmen, descendents, mojo nixon, to think of a few)
is anyone else noticing how hard it is to find music that's NOT on an RIAA label? this is getting pretty silly.
just because a label is indie doesn't mean that they are sweet and grandmotherly and innocent. TVT is an excellent example:
TVT got their start selling semi-legal tapes of old sitcom theme songs (TeleVision Tunes--get it?). when they got shut down for that, they put up a big fuss over how it was fair use etc. etc. fairly similar to the whole napster "well it's on the radio" argument, both in scope and ludicrous nature.
so TVT moved on to indie music, which at the time (~1979) was punk/industrial. they snapped up a little record shop in chicago called wax trax! and went at it. ministry was signed for a time, as was wire, i think. they were horrible to all their bands, mostly because they lied about having money (which they didn't) and about tour support (which they never gave).
the late eighties came, and with it trent reznor and NIN. he signed to TVT under the name nothing records. the idea was that NIN would release under nothing, as would other industrial bands. long story short (too late!) trent fought and fought TVT for control of his own music on his own label and nearly lost. hence the long delay between the release of broken and the downward spiral. he was moving himself over to a major, because they treated him better than his indie label.
so boycott TVT too! although they talk the talk, they act just as irresponsibly as any major label.
just a side note: what constitutes a "major label?" units shipped? number of signed acts? membership in the RIAA/"big 5?" this has never been made clear.
umm....i used key caps and a mouse. right. moving on:
but i've always assumed that carnivore, echelon and their ilk are always-on type systems that scan for strings that signal illegality, like the joker's smilex personal care products in "batman": "bomb" alone won't do it, but "bomb"+"federal"+"fucking"+"waco" sets off alarm bells and flashing lights in washington.
phone taps, on the other hand, need to have a warrant, reasonable burnden of suspicion, etc. so no, a phone tap wouldn't have worked in oklahoma. but a carnivore system such as i've described would've.
it's not that i would like to see such a system installed. it's just that i wonder if that's the price we have to pay for liberty+safety. and i've heard the ben franklin quote. i just don't think it applies as intended.
every time i read about these sorts of systems, i have these weird mixed feelings about them. on the one hand, i don't want anyone looking through my stuff without my permission. on the other hand, i want to feel secure knowing that the government to which i pay taxes is doing what it can to protect me from harm. how can i as a citizen demand that the government have the utmost respect for my privacy when demanding that respect cripples its ability to protect me?
if timothy mcveigh had sent an email about 1 federal plaza, would that picture of the fireman and the bloody little girl ever been taken?
if he had and there had been no such thing as carnivore in place, would we have kicked ourselves about it?
sometimes this reminds me of when my friends would come over in middle school and forget their cigarettes at my house. i tried to hide them in my room from my mother, and i'd throw a fit about how it was my room and she should stay out if she went in there to put away my laundry or whatever, but i was really worried that she would find the smokes and yell at me for something i didn't do (which i didn't). her response was always, "what are you so worried about if you've got nothing to hide?"
actually, the entire sony catalog (and thus the enitre cbs, columbia, epic, and and maverick) is available on MD---you just have to find it. besides MD has always been about recording your own mixes, not purchasing music. the lossy compression precludes that.
a pda should probably be thought of more as an embedded device, not as a little desktop computer. what happens if x goes down? a neat little shell prompt with no way of entering commands? i don't think the handwriting recognition sw is going to still work.
besides, i want the apps on a pda to be transparent. the palm comes close, but i still find myself wondering how to do something (admittedly arcane) from time to time ("i have this class on monday, tuesday and friday all quarter. how do i put that in there with out doing it manually 30 times?") just porting over desktop linux apps to 160^2 is asking for trouble. i want an electronic piece of paper that clears itself after every use and remembers what i wrote down on it so i can access it later in the same state. i don't want or need to play doom, (well, i don't need to, anyway) or have the thing run a window manager. even web browsing seems like a bit much to ask. just pop/imap would be sufficient.
sunrays are popping up all over campus--most of the new computer labs being built have a cluster of 'em out front for email and web access. they're kinda cool--just these mammoth flat-screens with a keyboards and mouse attached. my boss described them as "video cards plugged into a network," meaning that they possess no meaningful computational power of their own--they just display the user's activity on the server. this leads to some interesting possibilities: for example, the server admin can take control of all the connected displays and broadcast a system message, or just a subset of the displays (say, the bio building) and change their access level on the network. pretty nifty stuff.
i haven't seen the keycard access you're talking about, but that's probably an option the university hasn't picked up on because these terminals are primarily used for ssh into the mailserver for pine, and everybody already has a passwd for that.
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no, you don't get it.
if it's a business, then those assets are held in the name of the business, not the person. even farmers perform transactions under the name of a business-it's common sense. if the kids want the business, chances are they'll just move up, take it over and keep going. if not, they;ll sell it anyway. it's a business, not a railroad set.
now, if daddy has a million dollar railroad set, yeah, it should be taxed when he dies. that's an asset those kids are receiving that they could just sell and run with. not the business.
actually, all macs with dvd drives (except for the g3 towers) use software dvd decoding. ati has nothing to do with it, even though the rage chip supports hardware dvd decoding. i don't watch dvds on my g4, but i know that mac community was a bit disgruntled when apple went to software decoding--with the cooperative multitasking of os9, watching a dvd in a window and doing anything else cause stutters and skips. maybe things will be better under x's preemptive scheme.
here's something i don't necessarily understand:
everyone has mentioned how WMP can run under WINE on most x86 linux boxes, like MacOnLinux (MOL) can run most macos binaries on my linuxppc box.
so....why can't anyone run quicktime for windows under wine on x86?
actually, apple has an exclusive license to the sorensen tech, so it's up to apple.
or so they say.
in reality, exchanges of this nature look like this:
apple: ask sorensen to port it--it's really their tech.
sorensen: well, apple has the only license, so ask them to port qt over.
i'm betting that if/when apple ports qt over to linux (which it may well do--they're halfway there with the BSD version they've developed for mac os x) they'll bring sorensen over with it.
remember--sorensen is just a codec. the real work is moving quicktime over.
browsing through the apple t-shirt website, and i came across this one which celebrates john-louis gassee's triumph over steve jobs in building an open-architecture macintosh.
from the blurb:
Jean-Louis Gassée had always thought the Macintosh needed an open architecture, like the Apple II computers, to make it successful. However, this conflicted with Steve Jobs' view of the Mac as an "appliance."
does anyone else find it interesting that steve spent most of yesterday hyping his new, partially open-source OS and spiffy new PCI-based G4's, and that john-louis now makes internet appliances?
made me laugh.
so what? you plant a couple zinc trees, you're golden.....
[the mother]...will have permamnent but slight numbness on the sides of her feet...
not only will his mom hit him with the whole "pain of birth" argument when his room is messy, she'll light her feet on fire to drive home the point of what an ungrateful little bastard he is.....
conceeded. i guess tv and cable (or satellite) are just synonymous in my head.
you'd think that napster was never in it to make money, or anything....
/. makes ya login if you want to participate in the moderation system, which, in its own special way, is the thrill of it all.
OF COURSE they're going to subscriptions, just like every other content provider throughout history. magazines, cable tv, newspapers--hell, even
they have to pay that army of lawyers, liggers-on-of-shawn, and shawn's uncle somehow. not to mention the folks who actually are coding the damn thing.
as much as we'd like to pretend, napster is _not_ under the GPL, and their fight is _not_ the same as Free Software's fight. while napster raises some interesting IP issues, they still want to make a lot of money with what they're doing, and for those looking to make napster into a shining cause of the New Internet, this was a train wreck waiting to happen. napster is just another channel on that miraculous box in the the den, only instead of the news and weather it's music on demand. isn't that what cable companies have promised for years with movies?
napster has always been about the network it spawned, and it will go to great lengths to market, protect, and profit from that network, much like AOL and instant messenger.
don't be surprised when napster sells out. this was never a fight about free (as in beer) music and the growing of community. this was a play fight for publicity, plain and simple.
i feel bad for shawn fanning. i get the feeling he lies up at night and wonders how much better he could have handled this on his own, instead of letting the VC'ers take his creation away from him.
i wonder if this was rushed out the door today as a PR stunt, just so LinuxPPC could claim some sort of techinical superiority over Apple? they've pulled this sort of thing in the past, piling the FUD on TerraSoft, which makes a competing PPC Linux distro, over clustered Linux-on-Mac solutions.
they may make the platform's #1 distro, but they play dirty as hell.
well, here goes, kids:
from netcraft:
www.hotmail.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000
www.webtv.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000
www.microsoft.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000
bcentral.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000
go.msn.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000
www.msn.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000
carpoint.msn.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000
homeadvisor.msn.com is running Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4 or Windows 98
leader.linkexchange.com is running Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) on FreeBSD
memberservices.passport.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000
so bsd is one-for-ten on MS' major sites. although the front-end may be hosted by win2k, i doubt they would just leave all th db servers alone. i bet they're aggressively moving to 2k on the back end as well.
I've lost hours at a time, soaked in sweat, chain smoking cigarettes during some recent sessions with Unreal Tournament.
i'm scared of you.
although it's true that india has a large number of people, it's not as simple as that.
smart indian kids get pushed, scolded, and over-encouraged into utilizing their talents. this isn't to say that all indians are smart, it's just that those who demonstrate some ability are generally advised to make something of themselves.
and the two most desirable professions? why, medicine and engineering, of course. _that's_ why india has so many programmers. the culuture there is geared towards science, from early on.
what--do you work for @home?
europe is where the notion of free service started. most folks in europe would be shocked if you told them that people in the states pay for dialup.
while i agree that @home i a fairly good deal, it certainly doesn't deserve such platitudes. they're still just after as much money as they can squeeze out of you with as little effort as possible.
so...if the scope of the abandonware scene is as large as the article maks it seem, one could live in a time warp of sorts--a fully functioning ~1994 computer.
windows 3.1, older wordperfect, older games, older printer drivers older everything.
and since most corporations are throwing away most old parts like hard drives, 486dx2 mobos etc, you could do this all for free.
just think, if you're willing to be fix years behind the curve (more like five years behind the gentle initial incline of the curve) you could compute for free.
i don't get it...what's the goat secant? is that [1/(goat cos x)]?
IB lives on in mac os x as project builder--even the terminology of nibs and packages is the same. it's a lot of fun--the coolest bit is that it's essentially an interface to "classic" tools like gcc and the like. all the grunt compiler work is done by standard console tools, while project builder happily spends its cycles crafting the interface and links.
:)
obj-c is slowly dying--java and c++ (the mac standard) are apple's compatibility big push. hopefully, tho, as new, non-carbon apps get developed, we'll see rekindled interest in obj-c through the cocoa libraries. i personally think they should bring back pascal as the default language, as it was on the mac until the powerpc's.
sub-pop was purchased by geffen records at the peak of the grunge era. kinda drove kurt right to the edge, i imagine, working for a major.
SST and alternative tentacles are still safe bets, and have great music if you like old school punk rock (black flag, dead kennedys, jello biafra spoken word, minutmen, descendents, mojo nixon, to think of a few)
is anyone else noticing how hard it is to find music that's NOT on an RIAA label? this is getting pretty silly.
just because a label is indie doesn't mean that they are sweet and grandmotherly and innocent. TVT is an excellent example:
TVT got their start selling semi-legal tapes of old sitcom theme songs (TeleVision Tunes--get it?). when they got shut down for that, they put up a big fuss over how it was fair use etc. etc. fairly similar to the whole napster "well it's on the radio" argument, both in scope and ludicrous nature.
so TVT moved on to indie music, which at the time (~1979) was punk/industrial. they snapped up a little record shop in chicago called wax trax! and went at it. ministry was signed for a time, as was wire, i think. they were horrible to all their bands, mostly because they lied about having money (which they didn't) and about tour support (which they never gave).
the late eighties came, and with it trent reznor and NIN. he signed to TVT under the name nothing records. the idea was that NIN would release under nothing, as would other industrial bands. long story short (too late!) trent fought and fought TVT for control of his own music on his own label and nearly lost. hence the long delay between the release of broken and the downward spiral. he was moving himself over to a major, because they treated him better than his indie label.
so boycott TVT too! although they talk the talk, they act just as irresponsibly as any major label.
just a side note: what constitutes a "major label?" units shipped? number of signed acts? membership in the RIAA/"big 5?" this has never been made clear.
umm....i used key caps and a mouse.
right. moving on:
but i've always assumed that carnivore, echelon and their ilk are always-on type systems that scan for strings that signal illegality, like the joker's smilex personal care products in "batman": "bomb" alone won't do it, but "bomb"+"federal"+"fucking"+"waco" sets off alarm bells and flashing lights in washington.
phone taps, on the other hand, need to have a warrant, reasonable burnden of suspicion, etc. so no, a phone tap wouldn't have worked in oklahoma. but a carnivore system such as i've described would've.
it's not that i would like to see such a system installed. it's just that i wonder if that's the price we have to pay for liberty+safety. and i've heard the ben franklin quote. i just don't think it applies as intended.
i believe that was earthlink, not mindspring.
every time i read about these sorts of systems, i have these weird mixed feelings about them. on the one hand, i don't want anyone looking through my stuff without my permission. on the other hand, i want to feel secure knowing that the government to which i pay taxes is doing what it can to protect me from harm. how can i as a citizen demand that the government have the utmost respect for my privacy when demanding that respect cripples its ability to protect me?
if timothy mcveigh had sent an email about 1 federal plaza, would that picture of the fireman and the bloody little girl ever been taken?
if he had and there had been no such thing as carnivore in place, would we have kicked ourselves about it?
sometimes this reminds me of when my friends would come over in middle school and forget their cigarettes at my house. i tried to hide them in my room from my mother, and i'd throw a fit about how it was my room and she should stay out if she went in there to put away my laundry or whatever, but i was really worried that she would find the smokes and yell at me for something i didn't do (which i didn't). her response was always, "what are you so worried about if you've got nothing to hide?"
what are we so worried about?
actually, the entire sony catalog (and thus the enitre cbs, columbia, epic, and and maverick) is available on MD---you just have to find it. besides MD has always been about recording your own mixes, not purchasing music. the lossy compression precludes that.
a pda should probably be thought of more as an embedded device, not as a little desktop computer. what happens if x goes down? a neat little shell prompt with no way of entering commands? i don't think the handwriting recognition sw is going to still work.
besides, i want the apps on a pda to be transparent. the palm comes close, but i still find myself wondering how to do something (admittedly arcane) from time to time ("i have this class on monday, tuesday and friday all quarter. how do i put that in there with out doing it manually 30 times?") just porting over desktop linux apps to 160^2 is asking for trouble. i want an electronic piece of paper that clears itself after every use and remembers what i wrote down on it so i can access it later in the same state. i don't want or need to play doom, (well, i don't need to, anyway) or have the thing run a window manager. even web browsing seems like a bit much to ask. just pop/imap would be sufficient.
sunrays are popping up all over campus--most of the new computer labs being built have a cluster of 'em out front for email and web access. they're kinda cool--just these mammoth flat-screens with a keyboards and mouse attached. my boss described them as "video cards plugged into a network," meaning that they possess no meaningful computational power of their own--they just display the user's activity on the server. this leads to some interesting possibilities: for example, the server admin can take control of all the connected displays and broadcast a system message, or just a subset of the displays (say, the bio building) and change their access level on the network. pretty nifty stuff.
i haven't seen the keycard access you're talking about, but that's probably an option the university hasn't picked up on because these terminals are primarily used for ssh into the mailserver for pine, and everybody already has a passwd for that.