Some years ago, 1995, I got through a 5-month unemployemnt period.
It was quite hard to keep in a good mood but I went through by doing as many benevolent work as I could (development, Acorn/RiscPC User Group, continuous self-teaching of things like web development, GNU/Linux hacking...).
As these activities involved lots of professionnally valuable material, I ended finding a job as a Macromedia Director teacher for unemployed, then as an interactive devices developper, then as a webmaster...
The hardest thing was gather some money to buy some book but I benefitted from my bro's Internet access, in the university and I could print many many RFC's, man pages, etc.
So, my advice is that one should remain busy learning interesting potentially emerging new technologies so that this unemployement period appears to be constructive, after all.
According to their website, these DVDs are just coated a strange way and become unreadable after 24-48 hours.
So, how will it differ from the typical VHS rental situation (besides the fact one can bin the DVD instead of returning it after) ?
How will it prevent me from DivX;-)-ing it ?
What about the AROS Project which has been running for long ?
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Yop, got it : I also downloaded in ap2 gfxboot-devel.rpm in order to hack around the breakout.config as I couldn't play (shift keys not recognized).
FYI I added the following to play using the F9/F10 keys :
key keyF9 eq {/bat.dx -6 def } if
key keyF10 eq {/bat.dx 6 def } if
before the line :
key keyStatus eq {
And now I can play breakout with a freshly switched on computer:-)
Users who use an exotic laptop which APM implementation prevents them to standby/resume may be very happy with this.
Especially as it doesn't significantly extend the boot duration.
The Zila program came on NeXTstations and NeXTcube and was aimed at providing networked users with such solutions by multithreading the apps objects over the network.
Guess the solution you discuss about is actually inherited from this one:-)
Your post was Informative but also Insightful if you really mean releasing some pics.
If you are looking forward to host these, then you'll find the space and bandwidth you need on gnuart.net
Thanks.
The problems with open music, however, haven't put people off trying open source methods elsewhere.
They actually forgot to mention GNUArt which is my attempt to apply the GNU General Public License to Art.
We also opened a Gallery which we slowly fill with whatever quality stuff (mostly music and photographs but, hey, the one who criticize are supposed to help too;-) we get from unselfish artists.
While the audience hears the song on the radio they are invited to order the track through their gsm phone, just by sending an sms to a short
number (5380).
They may have to improve SMS maniability as it is far too uncomfortable.
The sms is answered immediately to validate the email address given in the sms and after a confirmation, the content is sent to the listener's mailbox.
Immediately ?
Are they sure ?
And why would somebody buy the right to play an MP3-like on a shitty phone loudspeaker when they actually hear it on a good radio at the same time? If they really like the song, then they may wait until its has ended to buy it, wouldn't they?
A micropayment of EUR2 is deducted from the phone bill, and the licence is sent separately
to the same mailbox, or as a present to a friend, all within seconds. So:
It is quite expensive
This means that the phone companies will be the new banks which'll not only know how much we own but also with whom we communicate. This is dangerous for privacy
mail on a phone ? I knew I was getting old but please, why not on something comfortable with a maniable device which name begins with "key" and end with "board" ?
When the listener opens his email he finds the track and licence in his mailbox and may play the
music.
So it'll take some time to actually hear what we wanted to hear when we were too busy purchasing it?
The content owner - in this case Radio 538 - has the choice to allow cd burning or not;
to listen for a week, a month, or forever - whatever they agree to with the artist can be set in the business model.
Content owner ?
What about public domain songs ? (see my.sig)
They will be thrown out of the media?
And why do the song "belong" to the radio (content owner)?
In addition to the unwarranted collection of consumer data, Microsoft offers no method to delete a Passport registration. Microsoft claims
that Passport gives users control of their personal information. However, the most basic aspect of control--the right to take back one's
personal information--is not accommodated by the Passport system.
Note that one can't delete his Slashdot account either. which could actually be the source of some trouble as if he suddenly changes his mind about whichever opinion or way to express it he has, there'd be a way to track his former behaviour if the account he opened was named like him and we know for sure how much we change over the time (maybe from the pro-patent to anti-patent or from the extremist to the moderate).
Though I dislike to add such disclaimer in my Slashdot post, I'd like to point out that I don't want this comment to be considered as a troll neither it is off-topic.
This is just a way to point out that we should ensure that noone may reproach us with the sam ethings that are being reproached to Microsoft or whoever else.
Back to the article, now: what sort of effect does such a letter have?
So, Jay Roach just tell anybody how his not-filmed-yet movie will be funny and especially how it will be called.
If he used an Apple-like strategy (only unveil what's ready) then he'd have the chance to gain some notoriety in order to ask the public whether his movie is prejudiciable to 007 or not.
Look the next Bond : "Bond 20".
I guess this is obfuscated enough not to raise lawyers' suspicion around, the world, isn't it ?
Now, the problem is that you can't claim to be of public utility if you create proprietary stuff from which you'll get money by preventing public organisations not only to use them but also to learn and teach pothers to use them.
IMHO only public international organization should be involved in such researches and thus *not* make a life out of it.
We're not dealing with some home luxury device here but with a communication standard and if such standard accessibility is hindered by a royalty-hog patent, then it should no more be considered as a communication standard.
Now, you can see the obvious problem with patents when handled by multinational profit-seeking entities if you consider these bio-piracy exemples from the real world.
Acoording to similar sources, a glass of red wine a day is okay, lots of beer when you're thirsty is not.
Remember the "One glass is okay, 3 glasses will put you in trouble"-campaign ("un verre, ca va, 3 verres, bonjour les degats") ?
There are obviously countries in which this product won't be possibily exported : These are the countries which somehow forbid the consumption of alcohol or just its advertising.
For example, in France, you can't just advertise for Health-hazardous stuff, so you see, this is not only a matter of talibanism.
But if they added the possibility to just find whatever with this, I'd be interested, especially for
gas stations (which'd seriously help people driving to their tank limits),
garbage or ashtrays to incitate people to keep their environment clean
hairdresser (if coupled with a camera and face-recognition software : "Mirror, am I the most beautiful ?")
coffeee shops or brothels, for the Amsterdam tourists (don't mod if you've not been there)
surprise option for the tourist (takes at random a monument, a museum or a pub)
CowboyNeal... oups.. it is not a/. poll but it could actually help to be able to point towards other similarly featured devices to quickly find somebody lost in a crowd... But wait. I don't want this to become a new kind of digital id / (aka tracking / spying / bug)... So, let's just do it the old fashioned way : ask people, you may even make friends:-)
Who actually uses.tv domain names for their main web site ?
Frankly, most TV channels prefer to have a.com web site (Mostly because it came first...) and eventually by the corresponding.tv in order to avoid plagiarism... Look at CNN(.com and.tv).
Now, my other problem is about.tv TLD buy : how can somebody buya TLD which isactually a standard and, as such, not for sale ?
They say their database would consist of 25 millions of docs taken from 7100 magazines you'd usually have to pay for.
So, unless Google actually offer a significant document base (in terms of quality, not of quantity), there is no concurrence, here.
this service could be invaluable for students, researchers documentalists, librarians, journalists who want to know more about the tech info they want to publish...
So, yeah, this could work, if the money is also used to retribute the documents authors (which'd authorize their indexation/publication).
Of course, such a functionality is not aimed at the public but just at its scientific subset.
I just hope they'll offer some test queries to try-and-eventually-adopt such thing.
So, tell me how the unemployment rate in Switzerland is that low, especially if you take its social order into account ?
I think the correlation between protectionism and employment is higher.
...or an hi-fi VCR which usually have the best analog sound reproduction quality possible.
personally, I'm avoiding any CD from Universal, not because of this only but also because of the number of ads they broadcast on French TV (mostly for shit, anyway). So, if I don't look for something specific, I'll browse around GNUArt.net for Free music.
If I really want a copy-protected album, I guess I'd first dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/tmp/somefile
and then carefully extract some bit sequences that I'd further translate to ogg, mp3 or wav...
I don't think the raw data after the copy-protection header is encrypted, is it ?
IMHO, Google has lost its accuracy and its results lack relevance compared to the all-time-favourite Altavista (which I usually access the light way).
I just can't find the equivalent of Altavista's syntax on Google.
Need an example ?
Remember the hint that appeared in italics :
Need a bedtime story ?
Type : +Fairy +princ* -dragon
(note the wildcard use)
There are also lots of short ways to find which pages refer to one another (+link:...) or if you want to filter whichever result after a given url part (+url:...)
But, on the bottom, the guy is right, most people now ask Google first instead of looking for a funky domain name which sounds like what they'd enter in the Google form.
Does that mean the environment was closed after an initial air-supply in order to let its contents re-generate its required oxygen itself ?
If this were the case this would be quite exciting as by just carrying this "life-bubble" on other world we could settle there with the minimum needed.
Slashdot Mirror
Some years ago, 1995, I got through a 5-month unemployemnt period.
It was quite hard to keep in a good mood but I went through by doing as many benevolent work as I could (development, Acorn/RiscPC User Group, continuous self-teaching of things like web development, GNU/Linux hacking...).
As these activities involved lots of professionnally valuable material, I ended finding a job as a Macromedia Director teacher for unemployed, then as an interactive devices developper, then as a webmaster...
The hardest thing was gather some money to buy some book but I benefitted from my bro's Internet access, in the university and I could print many many RFC's, man pages, etc.
So, my advice is that one should remain busy learning interesting potentially emerging new technologies so that this unemployement period appears to be constructive, after all.
According to their website, these DVDs are just coated a strange way and become unreadable after 24-48 hours. ;-)-ing it ?
So, how will it differ from the typical VHS rental situation (besides the fact one can bin the DVD instead of returning it after) ?
How will it prevent me from DivX
They could have some breath-detector connected to their drink-pouring machines... ;-) for you...
But you could still let a friend breath (and pay
What about the AROS Project which has been running for long ?
Yop, got it : I also downloaded in ap2 gfxboot-devel.rpm in order to hack around the breakout.config as I couldn't play (shift keys not recognized).
/bat.dx -6 def } if
/bat.dx 6 def } if
:-)
FYI I added the following to play using the F9/F10 keys :
key keyF9 eq {
key keyF10 eq {
before the line :
key keyStatus eq {
And now I can play breakout with a freshly switched on computer
Users who use an exotic laptop which APM implementation prevents them to standby/resume may be very happy with this.
Especially as it doesn't significantly extend the boot duration.
I am using the newest unstable/testing Debian :
/boot/breakout.boot is too big (> 65535 bytes)
;-)
Here's what I get when I try to install the Breakout (201195 bytes) on my laptop :
broomstick:~# lilo
Fatal:
I guess "something is rotten in the realm of Denmark"
The Zila program came on NeXTstations and NeXTcube and was aimed at providing networked users with such solutions by multithreading the apps objects over the network. :-)
Guess the solution you discuss about is actually inherited from this one
Your post was Informative but also Insightful if you really mean releasing some pics.
If you are looking forward to host these, then you'll find the space and bandwidth you need on gnuart.net
Thanks.
So do your post which is actually about me.
The problems with open music, however, haven't put people off trying open source methods elsewhere.
;-) we get from unselfish artists.
They actually forgot to mention GNUArt which is my attempt to apply the GNU General Public License to Art.
We also opened a Gallery which we slowly fill with whatever quality stuff (mostly music and photographs but, hey, the one who criticize are supposed to help too
That's it, hope it'll raise some interest.
number (5380).
They may have to improve SMS maniability as it is far too uncomfortable.
The sms is answered immediately to validate the email address given in the sms and after a confirmation, the content is sent to the listener's mailbox.
Immediately ?
Are they sure ?
And why would somebody buy the right to play an MP3-like on a shitty phone loudspeaker when they actually hear it on a good radio at the same time? If they really like the song, then they may wait until its has ended to buy it, wouldn't they?
A micropayment of EUR2 is deducted from the phone bill, and the licence is sent separately
to the same mailbox, or as a present to a friend, all within seconds.
So:
When the listener opens his email he finds the track and licence in his mailbox and may play the
music.
So it'll take some time to actually hear what we wanted to hear when we were too busy purchasing it?
The content owner - in this case Radio 538 - has the choice to allow cd burning or not;
to listen for a week, a month, or forever - whatever they agree to with the artist can be set in the business model.
Content owner ?
What about public domain songs ? (see my
They will be thrown out of the media?
And why do the song "belong" to the radio (content owner)?
don't they mean the "distributor"?
In addition to the unwarranted collection of consumer data, Microsoft offers no method to delete a Passport registration. Microsoft claims
that Passport gives users control of their personal information. However, the most basic aspect of control--the right to take back one's
personal information--is not accommodated by the Passport system.
Note that one can't delete his Slashdot account either. which could actually be the source of some trouble as if he suddenly changes his mind about whichever opinion or way to express it he has, there'd be a way to track his former behaviour if the account he opened was named like him and we know for sure how much we change over the time (maybe from the pro-patent to anti-patent or from the extremist to the moderate).
Though I dislike to add such disclaimer in my Slashdot post, I'd like to point out that I don't want this comment to be considered as a troll neither it is off-topic.
This is just a way to point out that we should ensure that noone may reproach us with the sam ethings that are being reproached to Microsoft or whoever else.
Back to the article, now: what sort of effect does such a letter have?
So, Jay Roach just tell anybody how his not-filmed-yet movie will be funny and especially how it will be called.
If he used an Apple-like strategy (only unveil what's ready) then he'd have the chance to gain some notoriety in order to ask the public whether his movie is prejudiciable to 007 or not.
Look the next Bond : "Bond 20".
I guess this is obfuscated enough not to raise lawyers' suspicion around, the world, isn't it ?
What loss are you writing about ?
The cease-and-desist letter actually deals with the name Goldmember, not the film in itself.
Your post has to be modded down as a troll.
Now, the problem is that you can't claim to be of public utility if you create proprietary stuff from which you'll get money by preventing public organisations not only to use them but also to learn and teach pothers to use them.
IMHO only public international organization should be involved in such researches and thus *not* make a life out of it.
We're not dealing with some home luxury device here but with a communication standard and if such standard accessibility is hindered by a royalty-hog patent, then it should no more be considered as a communication standard.
Now, you can see the obvious problem with patents when handled by multinational profit-seeking entities if you consider these bio-piracy exemples from the real world.
Acoording to similar sources, a glass of red wine a day is okay, lots of beer when you're thirsty is not.
Remember the "One glass is okay, 3 glasses will put you in trouble"-campaign ("un verre, ca va, 3 verres, bonjour les degats") ?
For example, in France, you can't just advertise for Health-hazardous stuff, so you see, this is not only a matter of talibanism.
But if they added the possibility to just find whatever with this, I'd be interested, especially for
So, let's just do it the old fashioned way : ask people, you may even make friends
Who actually uses .tv domain names for their main web site ?
.com web site (Mostly because it came first...) and eventually by the corresponding .tv in order to avoid plagiarism... Look at CNN(.com and .tv).
.tv TLD buy : how can somebody buya TLD which isactually a standard and, as such, not for sale ?
Frankly, most TV channels prefer to have a
Now, my other problem is about
They say their database would consist of 25 millions of docs taken from 7100 magazines you'd usually have to pay for.
So, unless Google actually offer a significant document base (in terms of quality, not of quantity), there is no concurrence, here.
this service could be invaluable for students, researchers documentalists, librarians, journalists who want to know more about the tech info they want to publish...
So, yeah, this could work, if the money is also used to retribute the documents authors (which'd authorize their indexation/publication).
Of course, such a functionality is not aimed at the public but just at its scientific subset.
I just hope they'll offer some test queries to try-and-eventually-adopt such thing.
So, tell me how the unemployment rate in Switzerland is that low, especially if you take its social order into account ?
I think the correlation between protectionism and employment is higher.
Here's an article (in French) about such idea as it was discussed about in France in May 2001. ...
A Google translation ca be found here
...or an hi-fi VCR which usually have the best analog sound reproduction quality possible.
personally, I'm avoiding any CD from Universal, not because of this only but also because of the number of ads they broadcast on French TV (mostly for shit, anyway). So, if I don't look for something specific, I'll browse around GNUArt.net for Free music.
If I really want a copy-protected album, I guess I'd first dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/tmp/somefile
and then carefully extract some bit sequences that I'd further translate to ogg, mp3 or wav...
I don't think the raw data after the copy-protection header is encrypted, is it ?
IMHO, Google has lost its accuracy and its results lack relevance compared to the all-time-favourite Altavista (which I usually access the light way).
I just can't find the equivalent of Altavista's syntax on Google.
Need an example ?
Remember the hint that appeared in italics :
Need a bedtime story ?
Type : +Fairy +princ* -dragon
(note the wildcard use)
There are also lots of short ways to find which pages refer to one another (+link:...) or if you want to filter whichever result after a given url part (+url:...)
But, on the bottom, the guy is right, most people now ask Google first instead of looking for a funky domain name which sounds like what they'd enter in the Google form.
Does that mean the environment was closed after an initial air-supply in order to let its contents re-generate its required oxygen itself ?
If this were the case this would be quite exciting as by just carrying this "life-bubble" on other world we could settle there with the minimum needed.