Manalapan is the secluded south end of Palm Beach Island, and the average house price is over a million dollars. Only about 300 people live there, and it is an island/peninsula that has no through traffic - no through streets. The only houses visible are ones positioned to overlook the sea; everything else is hidden way back past tall bushes. The local hotel is the Ritz-Carlton, and that's about the only reason to go there, as everything else is pretty much residential.
So, it's a tiny speck of a town, stuffed to the gills with millionares. If you drive there right now, if the police do not think your vehicle looks like it's one being driven by somebody with legitimate business there, they will pull you over to check out who you are. I went to a small private school in the area, and got pulled over all the time while visiting friends during high school (same for Palm Beach). A beater station wagon was a bit of a variance from the normal traffic.:) Very courteous officers, however.
Then try to get it licenced and street legal. It'll never happen.
There are loads of cars and even airplanes that are built from scratch. Usually some things (the engine) is bought off the shelf, just as Linux is a common underlying OS for these DVD players. There are people who make the whole thing from scratch, however, and the various DMVs and the FAA can license them for normal use... and the historic recreations and such that cannot meet the normal requirements are often specially licensed. It happens regularly enough so that there are standard forms and procedures to do so.
It's because the FAA and DMV are there to serve you, the flying and driving public. They are sane regulatory agencies put in place to protect the safety of other people. The RIAA and MPAA are there to serve the studios. Not even the artists... just the people making money and trying to maintain their own personal control of what could feasibly otherwise be a free and open market.
Odd. I've mentioned this several times on Slashdot and have always gotten many responses of agreement. I've even gotten several that mirror my own experience that when I stopped playing for awhile, my wrists felt poorly, and picking up a violin, woodwind or guitar always seemed to have an immediate beneficial effect.
I don't play piano (not for many many years in a college class far far away)... possibly the "spider", "palm down" position is too similar to using a keyboard (putting the R in RSI)?
Learn to play a musical instrument. Seriously. Most people I know who are in IT and play tend to have wrists in perfect shape. Both guitar and using a PC tend to cause RSI, but switching between both seems to counteract the effect.
Is/. going to complain and be hypocritical by cheering on other circumventing techniques like PlayFair, DeCSS, and other DRM removers?
There's no reason you need to do this. The kernel happily loads any license. They are lying for the sake of misleading users. There's nothing to circumvent. This is like Pizza Hut advertising that they are giving out Free Pizza, and then cutting off the edge of the coupon that says "$15 per pie charge". There is no technical reason for this; this is simply lying to the end users.
In fact lying to hardware/software is a well-accepted practice for interoperability, emulation and fair use.
That would make sense if this had anything to do with "interoperability, emulation and fair use". The kernel doesn't care what license it is; it will load a module under any license. This is strictly a user documentation string for the people who might have personal care about the license. You can put "This code 0wned by Darl", and it will load just fine.
This is strictly a case of a manufacturer lying about the license to the end user.
Just as their drivers won't work properly unless they lie about it and claim to be GPL?
But their drivers do work fine if they don't claim to be GPL. They can be any license they want. It's not an issue of interoperability, it's an issue of lying solely for the sake of misleading the user.
That would make sense... except for the fact that there is no check. They could have put in the string "You agree to send us your firstborn", or "This code 0wned by Darl", and it would load just fine. It's a misleading documentation string.
Back in the 80s, I attended Lake Park Baptist in Palm Beach County, Florida. My parents hauled me out of there because in one year I had my science project picketed and defaced and I (more on topic), got kicked off the school bus for carrying a Dungeons and Dragons manual to school.
I hate to say it, but the memorizing weekly bible verses really helped later on when I started playing an undead revival preacher in a LARP.
I'm trying to think of the Trek analogue to "Strike me down, and I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine"
That would be when the character representing logic sacrifices himself saying "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one", and then the next movie his friends, representing passion and human emotion risk their lives and set back their careers to pull him back from beyond the grave with the very human sentiment that speaks of friendship: "Sometimes the needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many".
As Kirk says, "If I had not tried the cost would have been my soul".
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"It seems our friend here has found a way of perfecting it. A device which is capable of breaking down solid matter and then projecting it through space, and - who knows - perhaps even time itself!"
At one point Radio Shacks were actually places where you could get really good support. This is back when they were selling TRS-80s. You could take in a Apple ][ power supply or something like that (something they didn't even sell you), and sit in the back with them as they tore down and rebuilt the thing, generally just charging for parts.
There's a reason they still sell components like capacitors and flux in most stores; historically they had everything you needed to build your own working circuitboards, and the staff to help you do so.
For wav and FLAC, sure. (Although I haven't played with FLAC - lossless or almost, right?). My point was about mp3s. And there are cheap headphones versus semi-decent headphones that make a difference, but from semi-decent to outrageous, you're not getting anything more out of an mp3.
Sound supression is something that is good, but it doesn't help the actual sound quality, just the listening experience - a good set of over the ear headphones do the same. But that's format, and I was talking overall quality - once you're at a fairly low quality, you've wrung all you're gonna get out of an mp3 source.
I'd just like one in my house so I can choose to use the landline when at home so I don't have to worry about minutes or long distance, plus having better reception and high speed bandwidth. Kind of like a base station for a portable, and when I get too far away, it flips over to the cell system.
No matter how good your headphones are, or how many spoilers or neon kits are on your player.
I hate the tingle of mp3 or the wussiness of wma. mp3 sounds like tinny speakers and wma sounds like FM. For convenience sake, I am more than happy to listen to it, but putting a nice set of headphones on a compressed format player and listening to it out in a high ambient noise environment is pointless. Enjoy the music, but slapping one really nice bit into a bad listening environment doesn't do anything but increase your snooty audiophile quotient.
I don't like earbuds because they feel funky. I use a normal pair of headphones (out of a pile of about 20) on a cassette player (for learning lyrics or listening back to session tapes to refine them). If I'm listening to an album, I have a 25 watt purple light bulb in one lamp for low light levels, drapes on the walls to kill noise from outside and two nice headphones. Right now I have a rack computer in the room which spits out way too much noise, but that's unavoidable until I move in September.
And if I'm doing that, I sure as hell am not going to listen to a portable mp3 player, no matter how good the headphones are.
I'm in the middle of a one day project writing a TUI library for Lua. The only reason I'm writing it is to play with the language, really dig into how the object metaphors work and how metatables are built and stored. Kind of like writing a Tetris game or Life simulation, it's a way of coding to learn the system.
I had a flashback to Borland Turbo C 2.0 (or was it 2.5?), and I wanted to reproduce the IDE, plus some SideKick style utilities, just for the heck of it. I still think the Turbo C 2.something IDE was one of the best systems for development. Nice, fast and direct to the point.
So far I have a desktop with a menu that can popup windows that scroll with static content and can load the content from text files. Silly, but fun. And for some reason, it just feels good. Probably just nostalga.
Yes, they (or at least the one I took apart) use the exact same block unit that's used in the disposable flash cameras. One of which, when disassembled and charged, arced in a white flash and blew a chunk out of one of my keys... and caused a friend in the studio to leap back, and he's a professional high-current electrician. Heh.
I may be interested in helping out on your endeavor, since I am local and I support spreading awareness of free software.:)
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Be careful - this guy also almost pillaged Europe. If he gets cocky trying to help you spread CDs, I suggest dusting him down with a little Comet. That did the trick when he was riding wild last time.
He showed no interest in the possibilities of Open Source Software regarding especially developing countries. Nevertheless he was using Linux as a tool for teaching special features of Operating Systems in his lecture on this topic.
Could it be that he showed no interest because he's grown up in a country where people die of malnutrition and corrupt leaders reserve aid money for their own consumption? But in the face of that he's got some quasi-religious technodipwad pointing out the oh-so-bitter ironies of how open source is viewed in this the-most-needful of nations.
Wait a minute. Did you even observe that there are enough educated, well to do people in the country that he can fill a lecture hall on the "special features of Operating Systems"? That there is at least a certain portion of the country that is becoming educated and has the income to pay for advanced education? That to get to that point that they have gone through quite a bit of education, meaning they didn't die of malnutrition?
These are the people in the country who need to be supported most - the rising leaders and infrastructure to make a change. This is teaching them to fish, rather than sending them a tin of anchovies and feeling good sitting a world away. These are the people who will make the country better. And supporting them is somehow wrong?
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Funny that... I always get a "Rush" when I hear people mention Geddy.
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So, it's a tiny speck of a town, stuffed to the gills with millionares. If you drive there right now, if the police do not think your vehicle looks like it's one being driven by somebody with legitimate business there, they will pull you over to check out who you are. I went to a small private school in the area, and got pulled over all the time while visiting friends during high school (same for Palm Beach). A beater station wagon was a bit of a variance from the normal traffic. :) Very courteous officers, however.
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There are loads of cars and even airplanes that are built from scratch. Usually some things (the engine) is bought off the shelf, just as Linux is a common underlying OS for these DVD players. There are people who make the whole thing from scratch, however, and the various DMVs and the FAA can license them for normal use... and the historic recreations and such that cannot meet the normal requirements are often specially licensed. It happens regularly enough so that there are standard forms and procedures to do so.
It's because the FAA and DMV are there to serve you, the flying and driving public. They are sane regulatory agencies put in place to protect the safety of other people. The RIAA and MPAA are there to serve the studios. Not even the artists... just the people making money and trying to maintain their own personal control of what could feasibly otherwise be a free and open market.
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I don't play piano (not for many many years in a college class far far away)... possibly the "spider", "palm down" position is too similar to using a keyboard (putting the R in RSI)?
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There's no reason you need to do this. The kernel happily loads any license. They are lying for the sake of misleading users. There's nothing to circumvent. This is like Pizza Hut advertising that they are giving out Free Pizza, and then cutting off the edge of the coupon that says "$15 per pie charge". There is no technical reason for this; this is simply lying to the end users.
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That would make sense if this had anything to do with "interoperability, emulation and fair use". The kernel doesn't care what license it is; it will load a module under any license. This is strictly a user documentation string for the people who might have personal care about the license. You can put "This code 0wned by Darl", and it will load just fine.
This is strictly a case of a manufacturer lying about the license to the end user.
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But their drivers do work fine if they don't claim to be GPL. They can be any license they want. It's not an issue of interoperability, it's an issue of lying solely for the sake of misleading the user.
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I hate to say it, but the memorizing weekly bible verses really helped later on when I started playing an undead revival preacher in a LARP.
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You have clearly never seen Shock Treatment. Witness picture of Ruby Wax making sweet love to an elderly orangutan. "Some people do it for the money..."
Gawd, the internet has everything...
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That would be when the character representing logic sacrifices himself saying "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one", and then the next movie his friends, representing passion and human emotion risk their lives and set back their careers to pull him back from beyond the grave with the very human sentiment that speaks of friendship: "Sometimes the needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many".
As Kirk says, "If I had not tried the cost would have been my soul".
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Evan "Oops, wrong movie, wrong Scott"
There's a reason they still sell components like capacitors and flux in most stores; historically they had everything you needed to build your own working circuitboards, and the staff to help you do so.
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Sound supression is something that is good, but it doesn't help the actual sound quality, just the listening experience - a good set of over the ear headphones do the same. But that's format, and I was talking overall quality - once you're at a fairly low quality, you've wrung all you're gonna get out of an mp3 source.
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No matter how good your headphones are, or how many spoilers or neon kits are on your player.
I hate the tingle of mp3 or the wussiness of wma. mp3 sounds like tinny speakers and wma sounds like FM. For convenience sake, I am more than happy to listen to it, but putting a nice set of headphones on a compressed format player and listening to it out in a high ambient noise environment is pointless. Enjoy the music, but slapping one really nice bit into a bad listening environment doesn't do anything but increase your snooty audiophile quotient.
I don't like earbuds because they feel funky. I use a normal pair of headphones (out of a pile of about 20) on a cassette player (for learning lyrics or listening back to session tapes to refine them). If I'm listening to an album, I have a 25 watt purple light bulb in one lamp for low light levels, drapes on the walls to kill noise from outside and two nice headphones. Right now I have a rack computer in the room which spits out way too much noise, but that's unavoidable until I move in September.
And if I'm doing that, I sure as hell am not going to listen to a portable mp3 player, no matter how good the headphones are.
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I had a flashback to Borland Turbo C 2.0 (or was it 2.5?), and I wanted to reproduce the IDE, plus some SideKick style utilities, just for the heck of it. I still think the Turbo C 2.something IDE was one of the best systems for development. Nice, fast and direct to the point.
So far I have a desktop with a menu that can popup windows that scroll with static content and can load the content from text files. Silly, but fun. And for some reason, it just feels good. Probably just nostalga.
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(I'm proud of that run on up above, yes I am).
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Gangis M. Khan
Be careful - this guy also almost pillaged Europe. If he gets cocky trying to help you spread CDs, I suggest dusting him down with a little Comet. That did the trick when he was riding wild last time.
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Could it be that he showed no interest because he's grown up in a country where people die of malnutrition and corrupt leaders reserve aid money for their own consumption? But in the face of that he's got some quasi-religious technodipwad pointing out the oh-so-bitter ironies of how open source is viewed in this the-most-needful of nations.
Wait a minute. Did you even observe that there are enough educated, well to do people in the country that he can fill a lecture hall on the "special features of Operating Systems"? That there is at least a certain portion of the country that is becoming educated and has the income to pay for advanced education? That to get to that point that they have gone through quite a bit of education, meaning they didn't die of malnutrition?
These are the people in the country who need to be supported most - the rising leaders and infrastructure to make a change. This is teaching them to fish, rather than sending them a tin of anchovies and feeling good sitting a world away. These are the people who will make the country better. And supporting them is somehow wrong?
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