Look, as much as I resent the RIAA, I have to say that they have a total right to fill up P2P networks with bogus files that look like copyrighted material.
And we have every right to take note of their actions and implement countermeasures. And so it goes.
Sure, you can block those, but you can bet that 99.99% of the people using P2P apps won't, because they won't know how or won't care. Soon enough, they'll have all the bogus content, and then you'll have to start blocking idiot p2p users IPs as well. Then the RIAA wins.
If we called it a Piece of Crap Interconnect, we'd all still know what we were talking about. Then just lose their logo and replace it with a picture of some turds sitting in card slots of a motherboard. Now you're legal, and if you're not legal, you're protected because your site is satire/political speech. End of problem.
Maybe software should come completely unconfigured, with all options set to some kind of null value. It'd be a lot less user-friendly that way, but in another respect it'd at least be user-respectful.
I can't stand Real media, and haven't had their player installed on my systems for a few years now. Unfortunately, it means I have to pass on a lot of content that is only available in that format -- including NPR archive broadcasts, of all things. It's particularly galling that *public* funded radio archives are made available to the public in a format that is not Free.
Why can't websites publish streaming video in some kind of open format that doesn't suck? What's wrong with ogg or mpeg?
Nice plan, except popularity has almost no connection to quality.
There's a ton of great but obscure stuff that you miss with this filtering approach, and a ton of highly commercially successful crap that you get instead.
Maybe you should try customized mix CDs. Then you can get songs *you* actually like, in the version/remix you prefer, in the order you want.
If all new chips incorporate DRM, and all current chips are phased out, then the market won't have any say at all. This is particularly true if DRM-enabled technologies are mandated by legislation. Even nastier will be when they make it illegal to own any legacy hardware that's capable of circumventing DRM.
They can pry it out of my cold, dead hands I suppose. But more likely they'll just infect legacy equipment with some kind of hardware-destroying worm that overwrites the BIOS with something that fries mobos and procs. The anti-virus companies will be forced to ignore this virus by the Dept. of Homeland Security in the interest of protecting the information based economy from "economic terrorists".
I thought Transmeta had Linus, and were therefore good guys. Now we're going to have to design and fabricate our own OSH chips so we can code and compile our own OSS. Maybe I'll just take up fishing instead...
They don't need a worm to do that; all they have to do is log in to the p2p network, do a search for *.mp3 and username=%yourID% and they can tell what mp3 files you have on your hard drive... well, at least the one's you're sharing anyway.
The number of undocumented species is truly gargantuan, but within 25 years enough of them ought to have gone extinct that it shouldn't be so hard to find and name them all. Most of them are lower life forms anyway.
If the 8GB drive is a 10,000 or 15,000 rpm SCSI and the 80GB drive is a 5400 rpm IDE or even a 7200 rpm IDE drive, that probably explains the price difference.
Is how I got into IT in the first place. In fact, it's how a LOT of people I know got into IT. We got sick of the know-nothings at CompUSA and Best Buy jerking us around, maximizing their profits and our downtime. We said, screw this, we can do it better ourselves.
And you know what? By and large, we did. And you can too. It's really not that hard.
Yes, there's a lot to learn. But there are a lot of people willing to give you their knowledge and their time for free if you ask them nicely and show a real interest in learning. Much of the information is freely available online. Most of the documentation these days is pretty accurate and the instructions work if you follow them.
Regulation will help kill DIY and add to the expense of repairing and upgrading computers, because simple things like installing RAM or PCI cards don't require hardly any knowledge or expertise to do right at all, but suddenly people will be afraid to do it without shelling big bucks out to some guy who read a book and passed the A+ exam.
"devices capable of dynamically changing their ornamental or decorative appearance."
I thought that a patent had to be on a particular method or device, not on a general class of devices that has a capability to do something.
If Inventor A patents Mousetrap A that works using a mechanical spring baited with cheese, and Inventor B invents Mousetrap B that works using poison, if Inventor A holds a patent on Mousetrap A, it shouldn't affect B's ability to build or patent Mousetrap B. It's not the capability of the device (the capability to trap mice in this case), it's the *method* or the *design* used to achieve that capability.
Or has the patent system gotten completely screwed up?
So you get MS Whatever 2002 for peanuts. Big deal. Think it'll be useful -- or even compatible -- with MS Whatever 2007? Guess again. But now that they've sucked you in, they'll be sucking on your wallet for a good, long time. Your MS Wallet! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-hahahahahaaaaa!!!
I still haven't filled my 60GB HDD...
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I wonder how much one of these things will cost? Considering I could probably buy one and not fill it up for like 10 years, I'm curious as to how this technology will be viable, at least in the home user market. It'll be great for big IT department backups, though.
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Lots of people seemingly download stuff but never audit what they download for quality or validity of files.
Look, as much as I resent the RIAA, I have to say that they have a total right to fill up P2P networks with bogus files that look like copyrighted material.
And we have every right to take note of their actions and implement countermeasures. And so it goes.
Sure, you can block those, but you can bet that 99.99% of the people using P2P apps won't, because they won't know how or won't care. Soon enough, they'll have all the bogus content, and then you'll have to start blocking idiot p2p users IPs as well. Then the RIAA wins.
If we called it a Piece of Crap Interconnect, we'd all still know what we were talking about. Then just lose their logo and replace it with a picture of some turds sitting in card slots of a motherboard. Now you're legal, and if you're not legal, you're protected because your site is satire/political speech. End of problem.
Maybe software should come completely unconfigured, with all options set to some kind of null value. It'd be a lot less user-friendly that way, but in another respect it'd at least be user-respectful.
I can't stand Real media, and haven't had their player installed on my systems for a few years now. Unfortunately, it means I have to pass on a lot of content that is only available in that format -- including NPR archive broadcasts, of all things. It's particularly galling that *public* funded radio archives are made available to the public in a format that is not Free.
Why can't websites publish streaming video in some kind of open format that doesn't suck? What's wrong with ogg or mpeg?
When the government auctions off their old decomissioned computer equipment, they remove the hard drives and sell the remnants.
Nice plan, except popularity has almost no connection to quality.
There's a ton of great but obscure stuff that you miss with this filtering approach, and a ton of highly commercially successful crap that you get instead.
Maybe you should try customized mix CDs. Then you can get songs *you* actually like, in the version/remix you prefer, in the order you want.
While GuiltyOfThoughtCrime = True
Do
InvoluntaryElectiveBrainsurgery (GuiltyParty);
(* Thanks, but I think I'll pass. I'd rather own my own machine. *)
We don't need to fight for mandated DRM. It's already on order.
I got bored with it after about five minutes.
If all new chips incorporate DRM, and all current chips are phased out, then the market won't have any say at all. This is particularly true if DRM-enabled technologies are mandated by legislation. Even nastier will be when they make it illegal to own any legacy hardware that's capable of circumventing DRM.
They can pry it out of my cold, dead hands I suppose. But more likely they'll just infect legacy equipment with some kind of hardware-destroying worm that overwrites the BIOS with something that fries mobos and procs. The anti-virus companies will be forced to ignore this virus by the Dept. of Homeland Security in the interest of protecting the information based economy from "economic terrorists".
I thought Transmeta had Linus, and were therefore good guys. Now we're going to have to design and fabricate our own OSH chips so we can code and compile our own OSS. Maybe I'll just take up fishing instead...
They don't need a worm to do that; all they have to do is log in to the p2p network, do a search for *.mp3 and username=%yourID% and they can tell what mp3 files you have on your hard drive... well, at least the one's you're sharing anyway.
The number of undocumented species is truly gargantuan, but within 25 years enough of them ought to have gone extinct that it shouldn't be so hard to find and name them all. Most of them are lower life forms anyway.
If the 8GB drive is a 10,000 or 15,000 rpm SCSI and the 80GB drive is a 5400 rpm IDE or even a 7200 rpm IDE drive, that probably explains the price difference.
Wait, the OS that *can't* play Quake 82 will be considered the "toy OS"? Huh?
Is how I got into IT in the first place. In fact, it's how a LOT of people I know got into IT. We got sick of the know-nothings at CompUSA and Best Buy jerking us around, maximizing their profits and our downtime. We said, screw this, we can do it better ourselves.
And you know what? By and large, we did. And you can too. It's really not that hard.
Yes, there's a lot to learn. But there are a lot of people willing to give you their knowledge and their time for free if you ask them nicely and show a real interest in learning. Much of the information is freely available online. Most of the documentation these days is pretty accurate and the instructions work if you follow them.
Regulation will help kill DIY and add to the expense of repairing and upgrading computers, because simple things like installing RAM or PCI cards don't require hardly any knowledge or expertise to do right at all, but suddenly people will be afraid to do it without shelling big bucks out to some guy who read a book and passed the A+ exam.
"devices capable of dynamically changing their ornamental or decorative appearance."
I thought that a patent had to be on a particular method or device, not on a general class of devices that has a capability to do something.
If Inventor A patents Mousetrap A that works using a mechanical spring baited with cheese, and Inventor B invents Mousetrap B that works using poison, if Inventor A holds a patent on Mousetrap A, it shouldn't affect B's ability to build or patent Mousetrap B. It's not the capability of the device (the capability to trap mice in this case), it's the *method* or the *design* used to achieve that capability.
Or has the patent system gotten completely screwed up?
I can imagine clusters of Tolkien geeks waiting in line outside of bookstores decked out in chain mail and chanting in old english.
Breakthru. Seriously sucks. Play it and see.
Assume a defensive position and brace for incoming "That's no moon..." jokes!
So you get MS Whatever 2002 for peanuts. Big deal. Think it'll be useful -- or even compatible -- with MS Whatever 2007? Guess again. But now that they've sucked you in, they'll be sucking on your wallet for a good, long time. Your MS Wallet! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-hahahahahaaaaa!!!
I wonder how much one of these things will cost? Considering I could probably buy one and not fill it up for like 10 years, I'm curious as to how this technology will be viable, at least in the home user market. It'll be great for big IT department backups, though.
What makes you think NASA doesn't use macs?
...I predict a lot more people are going to learn about Alt-F4.