Well, I have no doubt that is true. I was just playing Jumpman (on a real C64, loaded from real floppies) the other day and the load time was serious. And my recollection is that sometimes loading software would hang! And then you'd have to start all over again.
However, booting the operating system was nearly instant as the entirety of it was burn into ROM (unlike an Apple II, I believe). Also, if you bought software on a cartridge you had a similar instantaneous boot experience. The problem was that most software was released on floppies. Like GEOS. I still have my original boxed set of GEOS books and disks. Are these things collectible, or just taking up space in my basement?
I'm with the people who also point out that the waitress does not normally share this with all of her associates and all of the waitresses at other locations of the same restaurant. The other thing to point out with respect to the staff at local shops, like restaurants, corner stores, neighborhood hardware shops, etc is that the customers are just as likely to get to know the people working at the store, so it is/was something of a two-way street.
Linux has ZERO capabilies to deliver any media that is not OPEN.
So in that respect it's really not that different from all the other operating systems on the market, now is it?
Protecting content is a waste of time because humans can only experience the content via analog methods. Meaning: there is always going to be a weak spot. Not only that, every single attempt at a DRM system to date has been cracked-- unless you consider the various encryption tools out there, like PGP/GnuPG... and even those suffer the same problem as every other protection scheme. The data has to be decrypted at some point in order for it to be useful.
Are you kidding? That's only one benefit of digital photography lost. You still have lots of others: immediate feedback (via the LCD), price (depending on how expensive write-only media is, direct digitization of the image (no need to scan film), etc etc.
In fact, the Sony Mavica MVC-CD1000 uses 3" CD-Rs. So it's possible that no further development needs to be done to get us to a write-only camera being on the market. As I understand the 156MB CD-Rs hold hundreds of pictures and cost a few bucks a piece (if that). That beats film on price any day.
I'm just going to call it Phoenix no matter how many twists and turns the project's name takes.
Not a bad idea since we'll need someone to remind us that all of our Firefox files are still being kept in the.phoenix directory. Took me a while to figure that out with MozillaFirebird 0.7.:)
It would be profoundly unconstitutional for President Bush to run again in 2008 unless he loses this year. And if he loses this year (to either Dean or Kerry) why would the Republican party want him to run against Senator Clinton in 2008? Senator Clinton is far more popular than either of those guys and would beat him in a walk! Also questionable is the idea that the Democrats would choose to nominate Senator Clinton over rerunning their incumbent in 2008 if Bush loses this year.
Now... if the Democrats do nominate Clinton in 2008 and the Republicans do nominate Powell (in spite of his having already indicated that he was not interested in running back in 2000) that would be an interesting race.
By the way, Condoleezza Rice is not a "Ms.", she is a "Dr."
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Read their FAQ. They are aware that some of you are experiencing some sort of cognitive dissonance on that score, but I am pretty sure from my own test results that their axes are right where they belong. And just to make sure I took the test several times varying my answers slightly in cases where my opinions are not firm.
Oddly enough, the people who made The Political Compass rated Dean a lot closer to Bush than Kerry-- not that they're experts, but I found their test extremely accurate for myself.
I personally don't see much difference between Dean and Kerry, so your whole assertion that the media is helping the "establishment" guy win is confusing to me. They both started out in politics around the same time... and indeed, let's see what else CNN says about Dean:
Raised in exclusive New York enclaves in a Rockefeller Republican household, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean would seem at first glance an unlikely candidate to take up the mantle of the Democratic Party's faithful.
Indeed, Dean's background is somewhat similar to President Bush's. Both men attended Yale University in the late 1960s, and they come from wealthy families with roots in the Northeast.
Also troubling is your assertion that Dean won more delegates than Kerry. The link you provided says that Kerry got 21 to Dean's 11 in Iowa and 13 to Dean's 9 in New Hampshire.
Besides battery life and time-to-wake, I've never had any reason to consider my Zaurus less worthy than my Visor. However, because of time-to-wake (which is more than several seconds I think) the device is worthless for quick lookups and the like, which defeats a lot of the point to having a computer to carry around.
In Latin, "pro se" means "for self", "pro persona" means "for a person". Whether Legalese is consistent or accurate in its use of the Latin is another question.
1) I was going for "ha-ha" more than "ooh, deep". 2) Pure digital distribution is the "new way". CDs are the "old way". Doesn't matter how many blank discs you include in your package. Even having a package indicates a lack of forward thinking.
You sound somewhat informed on this topic (unlike these "guys from Montana"-- obCarlinReference). Are you saying we already have a similar law or practice here in the U.S. but that law enforcement agents are heavily involved to ensure that proper use of force is exercised if it's even necessary and that the scope of the warrant is not exceeded, etc, etc? I can perform my own Google and Findlaw searches, but do you know of any keywords that would help me out?
Given the ubiquity of bindings for either of these libraries (KDE/GNOME) to higher level languages (and not just OO, but also procedural and functional languages), I think the real question is why one would write in either C or C++ any sooner during development than necessary in the first place?
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You mean there are still people programming in low level languages like C and C++?;)
I use the GNOME libraries from Ruby (via the excellent Ruby-GNOME2 bindings)-- and I've never heard anyone assert that Ruby is less OO than C++. Oddly enough, no one seems to be making Qt or KDE-lib Ruby bindings (probably has a lot to do with the C++-based FOX bindings already existing as free software on both Windows and Linux). And just in case people care: the gtk++ parts of Ruby-GNOME2 work on MS Windows, too, via the Dropline Gtk++ runtime for Windows.
For other scripting languages I can't speak as confidently, but doesn't Python have bindings for both gtk++ and Qt? Not remotely so sure about Perl, since most Perlers seem pretty happy with Perl's forked Tk library.
Now don't anybody get me wrong, I think the KDE project is very impressive and has a lot to be proud of. Especially of note is the wide range of native utility applications.
Sooner or later, the music industry will realize that the old ways are dead.
If the old ways are dead, why are you buying a CD in the first place?
If a band wants to impress me with how hip they are, they should include pre-ripped high bitrate MP3s or.oggs on their discs. Or, better yet, just sell me the mp3s off a web site using a service like Kagi.
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Well, yes. At first the very idea of such a law is shocking to the American sensibility. Some of us are even a bit concerned that the FBI has subpoena/warrant-free access to things like our library records. But my main question here is not whether the government can execute this type of search. That answer is clear: they can. The question is: does this sort of Order constitute a type of temporary deputization? What kind of oversight is done in these countries to ensure that these Orders are performed correctly? After all, it seems to me that allowing a plaintiff to perform this type of act is a huge conflict of interest.
Cops are private citizens, too. Except when acting under color of law as allowed by their office. So the law obviously recognizes that the government has the right to authorize agents. That is not at issue. AFAIK, store security guards have the right to detain and search people (with probable cause).
So the question is: does the involvement of the Court in granting the Order satisfy due process? Are there any Constitutional protections against plaintiffs being the ones authorized to perform searches and seizures? Nothing in the 4th amendment says who will be doing the searching and seizing. Obviously the police have the right to do so, as they are technically neutral in these disputes, but can the government authorize parties to the complaint to do so? Do we have precedents one way or the other on this?
I think your concerns about targeted marketing are misplaced. Personally I go to all kinds of retail establishments where the people know me. I buy my lunch from a few small joints fairly frequently, and they always yell my order back to the cook before I even say hello. Only in the Wal-Mart age of no service, incompetent clerks, high-school drop-out security, cheap plastic crap products, etc etc, would we expect this sort of impersonal antisocial retail environment.
Until they can force you to buy something without your permission, you always have the choice to write them a letter saying you are shopping elsewhere until they ease up on the nonsense. I do hope that in your zeal to be left alone that you've been avoiding the large, big box retailers pushing for this and a thousand other consumer annoyances. Or that you will at least start now.
The real issue here is how the government will collect, manage, and use this data, and whether or not it will produce significantly different results than what we already see. I think more data is more likely to produce accurate results, which ought to reduce the amount of false positives and false negatives. We'll be harrassing the innocent less and letting the criminals slip by less. Those are good things.
As to tracking purchases? They already can do a lot of that. But just as now, you'd have to be pretty dimwitted to go buying the Anarchists Cookbook from someone who is planning to report that sale to the FBI. If the FBI were really interested in who was buying gasoline (umm, that's everyone, btw) and fertilizer all they really need to do is post a guy in the fertilizer departement with a radio to the guy in the parking lot (who will write down your plate number). So the complaint here isn't that they will find out something they couldn't find out... it's that it might be less work for them?
The feds can already track where I go if they so choose. So can my local police. So can any private citizen who can do so without violating anti-stalker and trespassing laws.
I think the idea of a portable RFID scanner is a bit far-fetched right now, but to play along... are you worried when you go out in public that I might take your picture? Are you ready to outlaw ultra-miniature cameras because I might start taking pictures of everyone who ticks me off?
A quick Google search seems to indicate that this Anton Pillar Order thing started in the UK, and has spread to at least Canada, Australia, Israel, and Trinidad & Tobago. These orders do, in fact, allow private citizens to enter another private citizen's domain (I have not yet determined whether there is any law enforcement oversight to guarantee that evidentiary chains are followed and that the scope of the order is not exceeded).
Note that an Anton Pillar Order is a court order, so this is not just at the searcher's whim. However, prior to having one's premises searched, there is no opportunity for the searchee to lodge any sort of counter-claim, since their foreknowledge of the search is not required.
Even the Howard Bermans and Fritz Hollingses of the United States haven't proposed laws this off-kilter. One wonders whether this type of law would pass "Due Process" scrutinity here-- obviously law enforcement doesn't need to notify the subject of an investigation or raid in advance. That's well-established. But do we have any precedent saying that a private citizen, even holding court order has the right to perform such an act pro se? Any lawyers, paralegals, or armchair legislators care to comment?
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Well, I have no doubt that is true. I was just playing Jumpman (on a real C64, loaded from real floppies) the other day and the load time was serious. And my recollection is that sometimes loading software would hang! And then you'd have to start all over again.
However, booting the operating system was nearly instant as the entirety of it was burn into ROM (unlike an Apple II, I believe). Also, if you bought software on a cartridge you had a similar instantaneous boot experience. The problem was that most software was released on floppies. Like GEOS. I still have my original boxed set of GEOS books and disks. Are these things collectible, or just taking up space in my basement?
There is an option to cap upload speeds in BT. Very handy when you find that your upstream is vastly higher than your downstream.
I'm with the people who also point out that the waitress does not normally share this with all of her associates and all of the waitresses at other locations of the same restaurant. The other thing to point out with respect to the staff at local shops, like restaurants, corner stores, neighborhood hardware shops, etc is that the customers are just as likely to get to know the people working at the store, so it is/was something of a two-way street.
Linux has ZERO capabilies to deliver any media that is not OPEN.
So in that respect it's really not that different from all the other operating systems on the market, now is it?
Protecting content is a waste of time because humans can only experience the content via analog methods. Meaning: there is always going to be a weak spot. Not only that, every single attempt at a DRM system to date has been cracked-- unless you consider the various encryption tools out there, like PGP/GnuPG... and even those suffer the same problem as every other protection scheme. The data has to be decrypted at some point in order for it to be useful.
You must be new here. The mods never had it.
Are you kidding? That's only one benefit of digital photography lost. You still have lots of others: immediate feedback (via the LCD), price (depending on how expensive write-only media is, direct digitization of the image (no need to scan film), etc etc.
In fact, the Sony Mavica MVC-CD1000 uses 3" CD-Rs. So it's possible that no further development needs to be done to get us to a write-only camera being on the market. As I understand the 156MB CD-Rs hold hundreds of pictures and cost a few bucks a piece (if that). That beats film on price any day.
Not unless that has a handy GUI associated with it. What a mess!
I'm just going to call it Phoenix no matter how many twists and turns the project's name takes.
.phoenix directory. Took me a while to figure that out with MozillaFirebird 0.7. :)
Not a bad idea since we'll need someone to remind us that all of our Firefox files are still being kept in the
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/. karma.
It would be profoundly unconstitutional for President Bush to run again in 2008 unless he loses this year. And if he loses this year (to either Dean or Kerry) why would the Republican party want him to run against Senator Clinton in 2008? Senator Clinton is far more popular than either of those guys and would beat him in a walk! Also questionable is the idea that the Democrats would choose to nominate Senator Clinton over rerunning their incumbent in 2008 if Bush loses this year.
Now... if the Democrats do nominate Clinton in 2008 and the Republicans do nominate Powell (in spite of his having already indicated that he was not interested in running back in 2000) that would be an interesting race.
By the way, Condoleezza Rice is not a "Ms.", she is a "Dr."
Posted under my own name because I don't give a rat's hindquarters about
Read their FAQ. They are aware that some of you are experiencing some sort of cognitive dissonance on that score, but I am pretty sure from my own test results that their axes are right where they belong. And just to make sure I took the test several times varying my answers slightly in cases where my opinions are not firm.
I personally don't see much difference between Dean and Kerry, so your whole assertion that the media is helping the "establishment" guy win is confusing to me. They both started out in politics around the same time... and indeed, let's see what else CNN says about Dean:
Also troubling is your assertion that Dean won more delegates than Kerry. The link you provided says that Kerry got 21 to Dean's 11 in Iowa and 13 to Dean's 9 in New Hampshire.
Did I miss something?
slashdot is about stories, not about news.
Is that why the tagline reads, "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."?
Besides battery life and time-to-wake, I've never had any reason to consider my Zaurus less worthy than my Visor. However, because of time-to-wake (which is more than several seconds I think) the device is worthless for quick lookups and the like, which defeats a lot of the point to having a computer to carry around.
Fabulous link. Thank you. I had hoped for something along those lines.
In Latin, "pro se" means "for self", "pro persona" means "for a person". Whether Legalese is consistent or accurate in its use of the Latin is another question.
1) I was going for "ha-ha" more than "ooh, deep". 2) Pure digital distribution is the "new way". CDs are the "old way". Doesn't matter how many blank discs you include in your package. Even having a package indicates a lack of forward thinking.
You sound somewhat informed on this topic (unlike these "guys from Montana"-- obCarlinReference). Are you saying we already have a similar law or practice here in the U.S. but that law enforcement agents are heavily involved to ensure that proper use of force is exercised if it's even necessary and that the scope of the warrant is not exceeded, etc, etc? I can perform my own Google and Findlaw searches, but do you know of any keywords that would help me out?
What difference does it make? Photoshop won't let you do that anyway! ;)
Given the ubiquity of bindings for either of these libraries (KDE/GNOME) to higher level languages (and not just OO, but also procedural and functional languages), I think the real question is why one would write in either C or C++ any sooner during development than necessary in the first place?
You mean there are still people programming in low level languages like C and C++? ;)
I use the GNOME libraries from Ruby (via the excellent Ruby-GNOME2 bindings)-- and I've never heard anyone assert that Ruby is less OO than C++. Oddly enough, no one seems to be making Qt or KDE-lib Ruby bindings (probably has a lot to do with the C++-based FOX bindings already existing as free software on both Windows and Linux). And just in case people care: the gtk++ parts of Ruby-GNOME2 work on MS Windows, too, via the Dropline Gtk++ runtime for Windows.
For other scripting languages I can't speak as confidently, but doesn't Python have bindings for both gtk++ and Qt? Not remotely so sure about Perl, since most Perlers seem pretty happy with Perl's forked Tk library.
Now don't anybody get me wrong, I think the KDE project is very impressive and has a lot to be proud of. Especially of note is the wide range of native utility applications.
Sooner or later, the music industry will realize that the old ways are dead.
.oggs on their discs. Or, better yet, just sell me the mp3s off a web site using a service like Kagi.
If the old ways are dead, why are you buying a CD in the first place?
If a band wants to impress me with how hip they are, they should include pre-ripped high bitrate MP3s or
Well, yes. At first the very idea of such a law is shocking to the American sensibility. Some of us are even a bit concerned that the FBI has subpoena/warrant-free access to things like our library records. But my main question here is not whether the government can execute this type of search. That answer is clear: they can. The question is: does this sort of Order constitute a type of temporary deputization? What kind of oversight is done in these countries to ensure that these Orders are performed correctly? After all, it seems to me that allowing a plaintiff to perform this type of act is a huge conflict of interest.
Cops are private citizens, too. Except when acting under color of law as allowed by their office. So the law obviously recognizes that the government has the right to authorize agents. That is not at issue. AFAIK, store security guards have the right to detain and search people (with probable cause).
So the question is: does the involvement of the Court in granting the Order satisfy due process? Are there any Constitutional protections against plaintiffs being the ones authorized to perform searches and seizures? Nothing in the 4th amendment says who will be doing the searching and seizing. Obviously the police have the right to do so, as they are technically neutral in these disputes, but can the government authorize parties to the complaint to do so? Do we have precedents one way or the other on this?
I think your concerns about targeted marketing are misplaced. Personally I go to all kinds of retail establishments where the people know me. I buy my lunch from a few small joints fairly frequently, and they always yell my order back to the cook before I even say hello. Only in the Wal-Mart age of no service, incompetent clerks, high-school drop-out security, cheap plastic crap products, etc etc, would we expect this sort of impersonal antisocial retail environment.
Until they can force you to buy something without your permission, you always have the choice to write them a letter saying you are shopping elsewhere until they ease up on the nonsense. I do hope that in your zeal to be left alone that you've been avoiding the large, big box retailers pushing for this and a thousand other consumer annoyances. Or that you will at least start now.
The real issue here is how the government will collect, manage, and use this data, and whether or not it will produce significantly different results than what we already see. I think more data is more likely to produce accurate results, which ought to reduce the amount of false positives and false negatives. We'll be harrassing the innocent less and letting the criminals slip by less. Those are good things.
As to tracking purchases? They already can do a lot of that. But just as now, you'd have to be pretty dimwitted to go buying the Anarchists Cookbook from someone who is planning to report that sale to the FBI. If the FBI were really interested in who was buying gasoline (umm, that's everyone, btw) and fertilizer all they really need to do is post a guy in the fertilizer departement with a radio to the guy in the parking lot (who will write down your plate number). So the complaint here isn't that they will find out something they couldn't find out... it's that it might be less work for them?
The feds can already track where I go if they so choose. So can my local police. So can any private citizen who can do so without violating anti-stalker and trespassing laws.
I think the idea of a portable RFID scanner is a bit far-fetched right now, but to play along... are you worried when you go out in public that I might take your picture? Are you ready to outlaw ultra-miniature cameras because I might start taking pictures of everyone who ticks me off?
A quick Google search seems to indicate that this Anton Pillar Order thing started in the UK, and has spread to at least Canada, Australia, Israel, and Trinidad & Tobago. These orders do, in fact, allow private citizens to enter another private citizen's domain (I have not yet determined whether there is any law enforcement oversight to guarantee that evidentiary chains are followed and that the scope of the order is not exceeded).
Note that an Anton Pillar Order is a court order, so this is not just at the searcher's whim. However, prior to having one's premises searched, there is no opportunity for the searchee to lodge any sort of counter-claim, since their foreknowledge of the search is not required.
Even the Howard Bermans and Fritz Hollingses of the United States haven't proposed laws this off-kilter. One wonders whether this type of law would pass "Due Process" scrutinity here-- obviously law enforcement doesn't need to notify the subject of an investigation or raid in advance. That's well-established. But do we have any precedent saying that a private citizen, even holding court order has the right to perform such an act pro se? Any lawyers, paralegals, or armchair legislators care to comment?