Errr, OpenBSD is a project aimed at making a operating system where security is the primary goal. Of course the same people who contribute security-related patches to other projects such as Apache are going to contribute to OpenBSD - they have similar interests.
If I am interested in optimizing the speed of an application, just because I work on project X doesn't mean I won't also be interested in project Y and project Z. And the neat thing about open source is if I don't do it someone will eventually anyway.
You agreed to pay a month to month bill when you signed up. Everything was fine and dandy, but the ISP messed up and stopped billing. You are still using the service assuming everything is fine.
IT SHOULD be your responsibility to pay for the service. This is simple moral principals, and people are trying to say, "well, he did this so I don't need to pay" is a bunch of bullshit and an example of what our society has turned to. Pay for what you use.
As for the lawsuit, this is pretty cut and dry too. Did the ISP inform her that her account was suspended and she would no longer be able to recieve email, access the web, and use other services the company provided? If so, then she is at fault. If not, the company needs to settle somthing out because they really goofed.
But when the terrorist (or threatened US citizen) is placed with the sheet of paper where he has to write down the model number of the laptop, he surely will fumble.
Think about it. What stops me from lieing? What stops me from replacing one of the removable floppy drives with a small explosive that has the same front cover as a floppy drive? Or replacing the harddrive? The laptop will still start up.
Its pointless. At local military bases, they require to look under your hood of your car if you want to drive in. Understandable, but they look for maybe 5 seconds max. Unless you've replaced your entire engine with a bomb, they wouldn't notice a thing. Its useless security checks that take peoples time but would do absolutely nothing for a person determined to get in.
And the 9/11 hijackers were simply brilliant. They took a hole in the system and (almost) flawlessly exploited it. You would have never thought that sombody would REALLY run an airplane into a building in order to blow it up, but it happened.
really? how many people that win the lottery are happy?
if you had everything, what would you do?
Reaching lifetime goals are the last thing that really matter - its the strive to get there that we get satisfaction from.
its funny, ever since i heard the quote from the matrix that the first matrix failed because it was perfect, and that humans accept life because of failure and pain - it seems completly true.
the problem is microsoft DID support java, then they dropped it. Yes the support may have sucked, but every first version of microsoft products have sucked or been buggy - windows 95, direct X, etc.
this was just at the same time as they are coming out with a product that follows nearly the exact same model as java has. I certianly would drop a competetors product when I come out with my own which I want to get adopted.
Any chance of replacing IE with the gecko engine as a whole? I know virtually nothing about windows, but from messing with visual basic for 5 minutes it looks like the IE "browser" is just the activex control for the real rendering engine. Couldn't IE's rendering engine be removed and drop in gecko, and emulate all the API that IE has?
I like mozilla and all, but why should I use mozilla when IE is already required to be loaded in memory (basicly)? It just takes twice as long to load (yes, i know you can load it into memory at startup - why do i have 2 browsers loaded again?) and both accomplish the goal of rendering webpages.
funny, my story is more like I learned to read because of Monkey Island and I learned math because of TCL/C/PHP. And it all adds up - in about 3rd grade when I was playing the game my reading scores were much higher then most students, and between 7th and 8th grade my math somehow skipped a year ahead.
I absolutely love being in a more advanced math class, personally. Being in the classes that everyone has to take sucks badly when all you want to do is get the work done and get back home playing on your computer. If the students cared, they would learn, like I did. But they don't, so they screw around and theres a few who hurt the classes as a whole. Its not the teachers fault, IMO, because I have yet to see a teacher who *wouldn't* try a creative idea trying to get students interested.
A typical music fan who buys a CD might use that CD at home, take that CD in the car, make a tape of that CD, - or using it as part of a compilation, play that CD with friends and for friends, and keep that CD for many years. That's probably why most consumers, when asked, describe CDs as a good value. At the same time, when asked directly whether CDs cost too much, some consumers will say yes! Why the contradiction? Because some consumers don't understand why the sales tag on a CD is so much higher than the cost of producing the actual physical disc, a cost, which in fact, has decreased over the years.
Yes, its cheap to make a cd. Agreed.
While the RIAA does not collect information on the specific costs that make up the price of a CD, there are many factors that go into the overall cost of a CD -- and the plastic it's pressed on, is among the least significant. CD manufacturing costs may be lower, but it takes more money than ever before to put out a new recording.
Yes, this is true too... Go on.
Of course, the most important component of a CD is the artist's effort in developing that music. Artists spend a large portion of their creative energy on writing song lyrics and composing music or working with producers and A&R executives to find great songs from great writers. This task can take weeks, months, or even years. The creative ability of these artists to produce the music we love, combined with the time and energy they spend throughout that process is in itself priceless. But while the creative process is priceless, it must be compensated. Artists receive royalties on each recording, which vary according to their contract, and the songwriter gets royalties too. In addition, the label incurs additional costs in finding and signing new artists.
And for all that work, they make a good 50 cents off the 20 dollar cd.
Once an artist or group has songs composed, they must then go into the studio and begin recording. The costs of recording this work, including recording studio fees, studio musicians, sound engineers, producers and others, all must be recovered by the cost of the CD.
Guess who pays for it? That 50 cents the ARTIST made.
Then come marketing and promotion costs -- perhaps the most expensive part of the music business today. They include increasingly expensive video clips, public relations, tour support, marketing campaigns, and promotion to get the songs played on the radio. For example, when you hear a song played on the radio -- that didn't just happen! Labels make investments in artists by paying for both the production and the promotion of the album, and promotion is very expensive. New technology such as the Internet offers new ways for artists to reach music fans, but it still requires that some entity, whether it is a traditional label or another kind of company, market and promote that artist so that fans are aware of new releases.
Guess who pays for that? The artist - not RIAA. Again, from the 50 cents...
For every album released in a given year, a marketing strategy was developed to make that album stand out among the other releases that hit the market that year. Art must be designed for the CD box, and promotional materials (posters, store displays and music videos) developed and produced. For many artists, a costly concert tour is essential to promote their recordings.
Very true.
Another factor commonly overlooked in assessing CD prices is to assume that all CDs are equally profitable. In fact, the vast majority is never profitable. Each year, of the approximately 27,000 new releases that hit the market, the major labels release about 7,000 new CD titles and after production, recording, promotion and distribution costs, most never sell enough to recover these costs, let alone make a profit. In the end, less than 10% are profitable, and in effect, it's these recordings that finance all the rest.
Again, true. The artists are suffering.
Clearly there are many costs associated with producing a CD, and despite these costs the price of recorded music to consumers has fallen dramatically since CDs were first introduced in 1983. Between 1983 and 1996, the average price of a CD fell by more than 40%. Over this same period of time, consumer prices (measured by the Consumer Price Index, or CPI) rose nearly 60%. If CD prices had risen at the same rate as consumer prices over this period, the average retail price of a CD in 1996 would have been $33.86 instead of $12.75. While the price of CDs has fallen, the amount of music provided on a typical CD has increased substantially, along with higher quality in terms of fidelity, durability, ease of use, and range of choices, including multi-media material, such as music videos, interviews and discographies. Content of this type often requires considerable production expense and adds a whole new dimension that goes beyond conventional audio.
Blah blah, I'm paying more now then I used to. I don't care - I want to pay less don't I?
In contrast, CD prices are low compared to other forms of entertainment and one of the few entertainment units to decrease in price, even though production, marketing and distribution costs have increased. In a USA Today article entitled, "Spending a Fortune for Fun: The cost of entertainment is rising along with our willingness to pay it," the reporter observes, "though some factions of the industry see price resistance -- CD prices are relatively low and home videos rentals are still a bargain -- consumers don't seem to balk at the rising price of fun in this strong, family-friendly economy." The prices of other forms of entertainment have risen, on average, more rapidly than has music or consumer prices, with most admission prices for other forms of entertainment having increased more than 90% between 1983 and 1996.
Going to the movies doesn't cost 20 bucks. Renting a movie doesn't cost 20 bucks. And I get a MOVIE, not music out of that. Gee.
By all measures, when you consider how long people have the music and how often they can go back and get "re-entertained" CDs truly are an incredible value for the money.
By all means, the only thing entertaining I found was that you made such an incredibley large amount of money off a CD and are still ripping off the artists and consumers. Then you come along and print bullshit up like this.
Its no secret you make your money by dominating the market and paying off the government. How is a independant artist suppost to get by when he doesn't have the "hook-ups" to get his cd out to everybody? So he is forced to join the RIAA, just so he can survive, and hopes the benefits outweigh the consequences.
--- Ok, thats just my crummy opinion. Maybe its not true, I just felt there was a lot more BS on that page then usual.
Migration is the key though. You can't open all Microsoft documents that other people send you in Linux. Nor is GNUCASH equal to Quicken feature wise. The list goes on.
Microsoft does the exact same thing - ever wondered why Microsoft didn't jump to convert the desktop version of Windows to a FAR better kernel (NT) until only recently (Windows XP)? Because it lost compatability with most DOS/16-bit programs. They did their best to make as much legacy work as possible, and just let time pass by to let the old applications weed out.
Besides, its too cool to say My OS supports Your OS but Your OS Hates Mine.
Ack, I'm an idiot. The review link also didnt load for me, maybe it was slashdotted after a couple seconds, but I found this because I wanted to see how well it worked:)
From the article: The system allows artists to render textures, shading and resolution of scenes in an iterative process. The faster they can do that the better the pictures.
Now theres some interesting editor commentary. Since when does drawing somthing faster make it better? It might get it out a month earlier, but really... better pictures?
my bad, i also should have noted that reserving the right to disconnect any user for any reason would give you the right to get rid of the MPAA bots searching the network too. If you can detect em, kill them. When they complain, if you revise your terms of service, you can simply quote that it's a private network and we can do whatever we want.
So after I connect to your webserver and retrieve that message, it says I am agreeing not to hold them liable. WRONG.
If you connected, were presented the message, and were said to hit an "agree" button or specificly say you agree to it, you MIGHT get by. And the agreement which i was never asked to agree to may also change without notice? Yeah right.
That "warning" or whatever its ment to be means jack shit. The only thing that is correct in it is that you may reserve the right to disconnect any user from any servers with or without reason, since it is a privately owned network.
Slashdot Mirror
Or you could stay sane and have 4 machines capturing 4 complete streams. Don't make things more complicated then they already are.
As for your p2p idea, try eDonkey. It will download a file from as many sources as possible, if possible.
Errr, OpenBSD is a project aimed at making a operating system where security is the primary goal. Of course the same people who contribute security-related patches to other projects such as Apache are going to contribute to OpenBSD - they have similar interests.
If I am interested in optimizing the speed of an application, just because I work on project X doesn't mean I won't also be interested in project Y and project Z. And the neat thing about open source is if I don't do it someone will eventually anyway.
What isn't?
You agreed to pay a month to month bill when you signed up. Everything was fine and dandy, but the ISP messed up and stopped billing. You are still using the service assuming everything is fine.
IT SHOULD be your responsibility to pay for the service. This is simple moral principals, and people are trying to say, "well, he did this so I don't need to pay" is a bunch of bullshit and an example of what our society has turned to. Pay for what you use.
As for the lawsuit, this is pretty cut and dry too. Did the ISP inform her that her account was suspended and she would no longer be able to recieve email, access the web, and use other services the company provided? If so, then she is at fault. If not, the company needs to settle somthing out because they really goofed.
wow, analogies like that just bring a tear to my eye. reminds me of how to lie with statistics
+4 interesting for an email?
im goanna cash in on this one.
jsmith@jsmithco.com
i'd love to be the person who made the mistake. Thats like the ultimate bragging right.
bah, MacGyver would have done it with 2 rubber bands in a pencil. I pity your lack of cunningness.
It felt a LOT like UT to me. Pretty graphics, but it really was the same. A lot of potential but it just didn't click.
I'm a quake fan, though.
Who would have guessed sombody thought of this before and called it Bluetooth.
But when the terrorist (or threatened US citizen) is placed with the sheet of paper where he has to write down the model number of the laptop, he surely will fumble.
Think about it. What stops me from lieing? What stops me from replacing one of the removable floppy drives with a small explosive that has the same front cover as a floppy drive? Or replacing the harddrive? The laptop will still start up.
Its pointless. At local military bases, they require to look under your hood of your car if you want to drive in. Understandable, but they look for maybe 5 seconds max. Unless you've replaced your entire engine with a bomb, they wouldn't notice a thing. Its useless security checks that take peoples time but would do absolutely nothing for a person determined to get in.
And the 9/11 hijackers were simply brilliant. They took a hole in the system and (almost) flawlessly exploited it. You would have never thought that sombody would REALLY run an airplane into a building in order to blow it up, but it happened.
And that means what to a large team of lawyers?
really? how many people that win the lottery are happy?
if you had everything, what would you do?
Reaching lifetime goals are the last thing that really matter - its the strive to get there that we get satisfaction from.
its funny, ever since i heard the quote from the matrix that the first matrix failed because it was perfect, and that humans accept life because of failure and pain - it seems completly true.
the problem is microsoft DID support java, then they dropped it. Yes the support may have sucked, but every first version of microsoft products have sucked or been buggy - windows 95, direct X, etc.
this was just at the same time as they are coming out with a product that follows nearly the exact same model as java has. I certianly would drop a competetors product when I come out with my own which I want to get adopted.
Any chance of replacing IE with the gecko engine as a whole? I know virtually nothing about windows, but from messing with visual basic for 5 minutes it looks like the IE "browser" is just the activex control for the real rendering engine. Couldn't IE's rendering engine be removed and drop in gecko, and emulate all the API that IE has?
I like mozilla and all, but why should I use mozilla when IE is already required to be loaded in memory (basicly)? It just takes twice as long to load (yes, i know you can load it into memory at startup - why do i have 2 browsers loaded again?) and both accomplish the goal of rendering webpages.
This seems like it should be a bigger deal.
funny, my story is more like I learned to read because of Monkey Island and I learned math because of TCL/C/PHP. And it all adds up - in about 3rd grade when I was playing the game my reading scores were much higher then most students, and between 7th and 8th grade my math somehow skipped a year ahead.
I absolutely love being in a more advanced math class, personally. Being in the classes that everyone has to take sucks badly when all you want to do is get the work done and get back home playing on your computer. If the students cared, they would learn, like I did. But they don't, so they screw around and theres a few who hurt the classes as a whole. Its not the teachers fault, IMO, because I have yet to see a teacher who *wouldn't* try a creative idea trying to get students interested.
My commentary on this, of course.
," the reporter observes, "though some factions of the industry see price resistance -- CD prices are relatively low and home videos rentals are still a bargain -- consumers don't seem to balk at the rising price of fun in this strong, family-friendly economy." The prices of other forms of entertainment have risen, on average, more rapidly than has music or consumer prices, with most admission prices for other forms of entertainment having increased more than 90% between 1983 and 1996.
A typical music fan who buys a CD might use that CD at home, take that CD in the car, make a tape of that CD, - or using it as part of a compilation, play that CD with friends and for friends, and keep that CD for many years. That's probably why most consumers, when asked, describe CDs as a good value. At the same time, when asked directly whether CDs cost too much, some consumers will say yes! Why the contradiction? Because some consumers don't understand why the sales tag on a CD is so much higher than the cost of producing the actual physical disc, a cost, which in fact, has decreased over the years.
Yes, its cheap to make a cd. Agreed.
While the RIAA does not collect information on the specific costs that make up the price of a CD, there are many factors that go into the overall cost of a CD -- and the plastic it's pressed on, is among the least significant. CD manufacturing costs may be lower, but it takes more money than ever before to put out a new recording.
Yes, this is true too... Go on.
Of course, the most important component of a CD is the artist's effort in developing that music. Artists spend a large portion of their creative energy on writing song lyrics and composing music or working with producers and A&R executives to find great songs from great writers. This task can take weeks, months, or even years. The creative ability of these artists to produce the music we love, combined with the time and energy they spend throughout that process is in itself priceless. But while the creative process is priceless, it must be compensated. Artists receive royalties on each recording, which vary according to their contract, and the songwriter gets royalties too. In addition, the label incurs additional costs in finding and signing new artists.
And for all that work, they make a good 50 cents off the 20 dollar cd.
Once an artist or group has songs composed, they must then go into the studio and begin recording. The costs of recording this work, including recording studio fees, studio musicians, sound engineers, producers and others, all must be recovered by the cost of the CD.
Guess who pays for it? That 50 cents the ARTIST made.
Then come marketing and promotion costs -- perhaps the most expensive part of the music business today. They include increasingly expensive video clips, public relations, tour support, marketing campaigns, and promotion to get the songs played on the radio. For example, when you hear a song played on the radio -- that didn't just happen! Labels make investments in artists by paying for both the production and the promotion of the album, and promotion is very expensive. New technology such as the Internet offers new ways for artists to reach music fans, but it still requires that some entity, whether it is a traditional label or another kind of company, market and promote that artist so that fans are aware of new releases.
Guess who pays for that? The artist - not RIAA. Again, from the 50 cents...
For every album released in a given year, a marketing strategy was developed to make that album stand out among the other releases that hit the market that year. Art must be designed for the CD box, and promotional materials (posters, store displays and music videos) developed and produced. For many artists, a costly concert tour is essential to promote their recordings.
Very true.
Another factor commonly overlooked in assessing CD prices is to assume that all CDs are equally profitable. In fact, the vast majority is never profitable. Each year, of the approximately 27,000 new releases that hit the market, the major labels release about 7,000 new CD titles and after production, recording, promotion and distribution costs, most never sell enough to recover these costs, let alone make a profit. In the end, less than 10% are profitable, and in effect, it's these recordings that finance all the rest.
Again, true. The artists are suffering.
Clearly there are many costs associated with producing a CD, and despite these costs the price of recorded music to consumers has fallen dramatically since CDs were first introduced in 1983. Between 1983 and 1996, the average price of a CD fell by more than 40%. Over this same period of time, consumer prices (measured by the Consumer Price Index, or CPI) rose nearly 60%. If CD prices had risen at the same rate as consumer prices over this period, the average retail price of a CD in 1996 would have been $33.86 instead of $12.75. While the price of CDs has fallen, the amount of music provided on a typical CD has increased substantially, along with higher quality in terms of fidelity, durability, ease of use, and range of choices, including multi-media material, such as music videos, interviews and discographies. Content of this type often requires considerable production expense and adds a whole new dimension that goes beyond conventional audio.
Blah blah, I'm paying more now then I used to. I don't care - I want to pay less don't I?
In contrast, CD prices are low compared to other forms of entertainment and one of the few entertainment units to decrease in price, even though production, marketing and distribution costs have increased. In a USA Today article entitled, "Spending a Fortune for Fun: The cost of entertainment is rising along with our willingness to pay it
Going to the movies doesn't cost 20 bucks. Renting a movie doesn't cost 20 bucks. And I get a MOVIE, not music out of that. Gee.
By all measures, when you consider how long people have the music and how often they can go back and get "re-entertained" CDs truly are an incredible value for the money.
By all means, the only thing entertaining I found was that you made such an incredibley large amount of money off a CD and are still ripping off the artists and consumers. Then you come along and print bullshit up like this.
Its no secret you make your money by dominating the market and paying off the government. How is a independant artist suppost to get by when he doesn't have the "hook-ups" to get his cd out to everybody? So he is forced to join the RIAA, just so he can survive, and hopes the benefits outweigh the consequences.
---
Ok, thats just my crummy opinion. Maybe its not true, I just felt there was a lot more BS on that page then usual.
Migration is the key though. You can't open all Microsoft documents that other people send you in Linux. Nor is GNUCASH equal to Quicken feature wise. The list goes on.
Microsoft does the exact same thing - ever wondered why Microsoft didn't jump to convert the desktop version of Windows to a FAR better kernel (NT) until only recently (Windows XP)? Because it lost compatability with most DOS/16-bit programs. They did their best to make as much legacy work as possible, and just let time pass by to let the old applications weed out.
Besides, its too cool to say My OS supports Your OS but Your OS Hates Mine.
Ack, I'm an idiot. :)
The review link also didnt load for me, maybe it was slashdotted after a couple seconds, but I found this because I wanted to see how well it worked
Looks neat.
Oh so interesting topic - yet so many broken links! Heellllppp!!
Codeweavers Press Release
Don't know about the rest though.
From the article:
The system allows artists to render textures, shading and resolution of scenes in an iterative process. The faster they can do that the better the pictures.
Now theres some interesting editor commentary. Since when does drawing somthing faster make it better? It might get it out a month earlier, but really... better pictures?
but pixel shaders DO look pretty. Just the water effect in Morrowind made me want a geforce 3 badly after seeing my friends game.
it really IS sweet. and with the dark age of camelot expansion pack using them too... oh dear... theres another 200 bucks down the drain.
Disco Stu: Disco sales are up by 500%. If this trend continues, BAM.
Thats all I could think of when I read that.
my bad, i also should have noted that reserving the right to disconnect any user for any reason would give you the right to get rid of the MPAA bots searching the network too. If you can detect em, kill them. When they complain, if you revise your terms of service, you can simply quote that it's a private network and we can do whatever we want.
So after I connect to your webserver and retrieve that message, it says I am agreeing not to hold them liable. WRONG.
If you connected, were presented the message, and were said to hit an "agree" button or specificly say you agree to it, you MIGHT get by. And the agreement which i was never asked to agree to may also change without notice? Yeah right.
That "warning" or whatever its ment to be means jack shit. The only thing that is correct in it is that you may reserve the right to disconnect any user from any servers with or without reason, since it is a privately owned network.