Now where is a reasonable video chat program that takes advantage of it? Us windows kids gotta be jealous of iChat for how much longer? Is Ekiga ever going to come out gtk?
Other than completely eliminating free speech financially and otherwise, is there anything the FCC has actually done RIGHT in the last 20 years? Isn't it time to fix this regression in the Bill of Rights once and for all? SHE'S A WITCH!! BURN HER!!!
My band sells mp3s without DRM via:
http://www.emusic.com/artist/11669/11669917.html
There are other competitors in this space, they just don't have the market locked down quite as well as iTunes. Hopefully with time, that will change?
rhY
The problem is that DRM hurts everybody. The artist, the consumer, the quality of audio, the quality of audio device, the economy, and even human dignity. On some levels it ruins a fundamental part of the very experience that art is supposed to convey.
Granted, you can get an ipod (or in particular a linux formatted 3rd gen ipod), and put regular unDRMed mp3s on it. As you point out it does make the player unnecessarily more complicated, among other minor problems. However, the fact that there is no free market competitor offering a solid product in the same place, shows that our loss of democracy in 1963 also has led to our loss of free markets as well. (I don't consider those other brand's products as solid competitors. I wonder at their lack of quality with respect to build and ergonomics.)
With reference to the band, they don't support the IRA as such. The IRA is an ugly failed solution to an ugly problem. However, as an analog to our own founding fathers, who I hold in very high regard, I'd say that they have more in common with Franklin and Washington, than the Crown, who interestingly was and is the same enemy. I can speak with some authority on these issues because I have researched them, because I'm IN that band.
Terrorism is ugly, but much uglier is the wanton destruction of human life that is corporate greed and imperialism. The blood on IRA hands I'm sure is a drop in the ocean of blood that is on CIA hands at this point, for instance.
Don't let the lack of a free press in most of the "free" world color your opinions too deeply. History has shown that those attempting to evict a conquering force (win or lose), were generally in the right, and as ugly as it sounds, this means the IRA, the PLO, The American Indians, Hamas, and a myriad of other murderous freedom fighters who have little choice other than to fight or starve.
If you really want to stop the killing (which I'm in complete agreement with you on), you would probably serve yourself and others better by demanding real democracy, and real elections. If we had that here (in the US), I doubt Vietnam, Iraq, or any of the myriad of world problems we've caused would have happened, or at least not gotten quite so bad. Remember that Saddam was the guy WE put in power, shortly after killing our rightful leader (JFK). So maybe Iraq would be a burgeoning civil democracy (like we used to be!) now, had we not done that initially. Who's to say? Certainly we've completely fucked over Iran and all of South America, and largely because we do not have real elections and real representation any more.
Hi, I would love to buy one of your products. I have a great idea to make them desirable to me and other technology savvy individuals:
Please remove all DRM. Please allow 3rd party apps.
If you do those two things, you can expect much higher sales, and to beat the competition, including each other. If you don't, *I* and most of the people I know, will continue bidding for older ipods on ebay that we can install linux on and have the features we desire, making you guys zero dollars in the process.
Thank you. rhY
PS Some other company will do this and take all of your sales if you don't. It's called the free market.
I'll give you that window. It's called a webcam, VLC, and a 5 minute buffer. Shesh, anybody can have one of those. I'll make you one myself that is real pretty for a couple grand. LCD or projector not included.
If you think the FISA court is anything but a rubber stamp for our new Gestapo, pass the kool aid. I want everything in a PUBLIC COURT. WITH A JURY OF PEERS. AS WRITTEN IN THE CONSTITUTION. Anything less is traitorous fascism, and the perpetrators should be dealt with as such. What's the penalty for treason again?
FUCK OVERSIGHT! I want this program OVER. Unless I am an actual proven threat in a court of law, there should be nobody listening to anything I'm doing.
I think they are all just pissed off about being the bad guys forever, since Wolfenstein 3-d. But that's what happens when you let a false flag terror operation suspend the original precepts of democracy so that the fascists can take over and start espionage against the public. Luckily here in the US we're way too smart for that..... Oh. Shit.......
Well that clean interface itself is an innovation. However, you'll notice I used the words PUSHED innovation. Not innovated by itself, but pushed OTHER innovations into the mainstream. That was intentional. What good is innovation without being pushed? Opera is a perfect example of what I mean. Because it is not FOSS, it was not pushed, and all of it's innovation is basically worthless from where I'm sitting (except of course for what innovations firefox borrowed and then pushed by being FOSS).
Ok then, let's just point out the evidence of thermate that they excluded from their reports. And as for tinfoil:
If you think that the US government just allows off course airliners to fly wherever they want at any given time, even after hijacking reports, well, your head should be safe then? I'm certainly taking other precautions where my head is concerned.
Well, I meant for FOSS projects that are still active. I'll agree that Firefox, Linux, and a handful of other apps fit my description exactly, but there are plenty of examples that are debatable. OpenOffice/MSOffice, Nvu/Dreamweaver, Shareaza/Kazzaa, Gimp/Photoshop, Audacity/Others. Long term I've got winners picked in all these categories, and FOSS is it.
That's where the (long term) came in!:D
The only commercial software I still use, need, or prefer to FOSS alternatives is Winamp (which I doubt makes anybody any real money, anyway), and Nero.
I think a good FOSS Nero clone is definitely on the horizon, though, and ditto for Winamp.
FOSS has obvious development advantages. Some of them may require patience to appreciate, but FOSS is not going anywhere, and is rapidly growing into the hegemonic dominant force in several areas, starting with Firefox.
It's not that I hate Microsoft, or any of these corporations. They just have plenty of corporate customers who USE their products that will greatly benefit from investing in and using FOSS.
Why would a school district for instance bother with Word, when they can have abiword or open office for free? There's no upside, and lots of downsides to sticking with MS. In 20 years, nobody will use Microsoft Word.
Open Office will be EVERYWHERE, unless some other FOSS project supersedes it, which I'm guessing will happen since OO is a big bundled group of programs over java, and not the best implementation that separate superior apps will prove to be. Look at Firefox vs. Mozilla Suite for a perfect example of what needs to happen for Open Office.
That's poorly worded at best. Firefox has pushed all the innovation in web browsers (unless you count Opera, other FOSS browsers). IE hasn't done anything new in nearly a decade. Open Source is always superior to proprietary (long term), for the simple fact that Open Source gets fixed faster, and by a bigger pool of coding talent.
Plus, last I checked, Mozilla doesn't have a vendor locked in OS X clone that is the hegemonic dominant force in the industry with which to leverage their sub-par browser.
The fact that Firefox even has 2% of the market (and obviously it's much higher) given this environment that so strongly favors IE, speaks volumes to the superiority of the browser, the superiority of the code, and the superiority of the Open Source model of software development.
My prediction is that IE will not have a version 9. If it does, nobody will pay any attention. Version 8 will be nearly as laughable a joke, but still have some market dominance just based on sheer MS monopolism, and the lethargic ignorance of the average Joe computer user.
Version 10 of IE will be Firefox automatically installed in Windows 2012, because otherwise Windows will fall even farther behind Linux and OS X in user adoption and market dominance.
Is this the same Popular Mechanics that tells the public that large steel frame buildings can spontaneously explode, jettisoning giant steel beams hundreds of yards after a weakly smoldering jet fuel fire?
Isn't their credibility completely shot by now? For me, Popular Mechanics has become the Fox news of science journalism: It's obnoxious, generally wrong, even during the bulk of their stories which are fluff pieces, and I try to ignore it as best I can.
I'd like peer review to be a scientific term, not a term to describe putting together a coalition of vested interests to formulate lies that are somehow more believable or accredited by the sheer volume of liars involved.
Slashdot Mirror
You're going to need it!
From:
another Diebold truster.
I CAN'T be alone in thinking:
10 Print "PUT THEM IN JAIL."
20 goto 10
Now where is a reasonable video chat program that takes advantage of it? Us windows kids gotta be jealous of iChat for how much longer? Is Ekiga ever going to come out gtk?
rhY
Like a SCIENTIFIC calculator. You have no idea how helpful that was to me in pretty much ALL of my collegiate math classes.
rhY
Hell yeah! That fully kicks ass! Power to the people of Maine!
rhY
WHAT is your favorite DIMENSION?!?!
"10... no, wait 11!.... AUUUUGGGGHHH"
Other than completely eliminating free speech financially and otherwise, is there anything the FCC has actually done RIGHT in the last 20 years? Isn't it time to fix this regression in the Bill of Rights once and for all? SHE'S A WITCH!! BURN HER!!!
rhY
How about some real consumer rights, like "If you own it, do what you want with it."
FUCK DRM.
rhY
My band sells mp3s without DRM via: http://www.emusic.com/artist/11669/11669917.html There are other competitors in this space, they just don't have the market locked down quite as well as iTunes. Hopefully with time, that will change? rhY
The problem is that DRM hurts everybody. The artist, the consumer, the quality of audio, the quality of audio device, the economy, and even human dignity. On some levels it ruins a fundamental part of the very experience that art is supposed to convey.
Granted, you can get an ipod (or in particular a linux formatted 3rd gen ipod), and put regular unDRMed mp3s on it. As you point out it does make the player unnecessarily more complicated, among other minor problems. However, the fact that there is no free market competitor offering a solid product in the same place, shows that our loss of democracy in 1963 also has led to our loss of free markets as well. (I don't consider those other brand's products as solid competitors. I wonder at their lack of quality with respect to build and ergonomics.)
With reference to the band, they don't support the IRA as such. The IRA is an ugly failed solution to an ugly problem. However, as an analog to our own founding fathers, who I hold in very high regard, I'd say that they have more in common with Franklin and Washington, than the Crown, who interestingly was and is the same enemy. I can speak with some authority on these issues because I have researched them, because I'm IN that band.
Terrorism is ugly, but much uglier is the wanton destruction of human life that is corporate greed and imperialism. The blood on IRA hands I'm sure is a drop in the ocean of blood that is on CIA hands at this point, for instance.
Don't let the lack of a free press in most of the "free" world color your opinions too deeply. History has shown that those attempting to evict a conquering force (win or lose), were generally in the right, and as ugly as it sounds, this means the IRA, the PLO, The American Indians, Hamas, and a myriad of other murderous freedom fighters who have little choice other than to fight or starve.
If you really want to stop the killing (which I'm in complete agreement with you on), you would probably serve yourself and others better by demanding real democracy, and real elections. If we had that here (in the US), I doubt Vietnam, Iraq, or any of the myriad of world problems we've caused would have happened, or at least not gotten quite so bad. Remember that Saddam was the guy WE put in power, shortly after killing our rightful leader (JFK). So maybe Iraq would be a burgeoning civil democracy (like we used to be!) now, had we not done that initially. Who's to say? Certainly we've completely fucked over Iran and all of South America, and largely because we do not have real elections and real representation any more.
rhY
Hi, I would love to buy one of your products. I have a great idea to make them desirable to me and other technology savvy individuals:
Please remove all DRM. Please allow 3rd party apps.
If you do those two things, you can expect much higher sales, and to beat the competition, including each other. If you don't, *I* and most of the people I know, will continue bidding for older ipods on ebay that we can install linux on and have the features we desire, making you guys zero dollars in the process.
Thank you.
rhY
PS Some other company will do this and take all of your sales if you don't. It's called the free market.
I'll give you that window. It's called a webcam, VLC, and a 5 minute buffer. Shesh, anybody can have one of those. I'll make you one myself that is real pretty for a couple grand. LCD or projector not included.
rhY
If you think the FISA court is anything but a rubber stamp for our new Gestapo, pass the kool aid. I want everything in a PUBLIC COURT. WITH A JURY OF PEERS. AS WRITTEN IN THE CONSTITUTION. Anything less is traitorous fascism, and the perpetrators should be dealt with as such. What's the penalty for treason again?
FUCK OVERSIGHT! I want this program OVER. Unless I am an actual proven threat in a court of law, there should be nobody listening to anything I'm doing.
rhY
I think they are all just pissed off about being the bad guys forever, since Wolfenstein 3-d. But that's what happens when you let a false flag terror operation suspend the original precepts of democracy so that the fascists can take over and start espionage against the public. Luckily here in the US we're way too smart for that..... Oh. Shit.......
rhY
Right, but plus having it on a big screen. My ancient eyes can't see that little fucker.
The ultimate sequel that myself and all of my friends want is a version of Mario Kart with improved graphics, levels, and etc.
:D
One based on the n64 version, as we've all roundly agreed that Double Dash sucks.
Now if we could have it on PC, with AA, Ansio, and at 1280x1024, with 8 person internet play, well.... that'd be even better!
rhY
This isn't really funny if you consider how many people design their MySpace page. It's downright frightening, actually.
Now how many MySpacers check their work on both IE and Firefox...... That's probably funny, somehow.
Well that clean interface itself is an innovation. However, you'll notice I used the words PUSHED innovation. Not innovated by itself, but pushed OTHER innovations into the mainstream. That was intentional. What good is innovation without being pushed? Opera is a perfect example of what I mean. Because it is not FOSS, it was not pushed, and all of it's innovation is basically worthless from where I'm sitting (except of course for what innovations firefox borrowed and then pushed by being FOSS).
rhY
Ok then, let's just point out the evidence of thermate that they excluded from their reports. And as for tinfoil:
If you think that the US government just allows off course airliners to fly wherever they want at any given time, even after hijacking reports, well, your head should be safe then? I'm certainly taking other precautions where my head is concerned.
rhY
Well, I meant for FOSS projects that are still active. I'll agree that Firefox, Linux, and a handful of other apps fit my description exactly, but there are plenty of examples that are debatable. OpenOffice/MSOffice, Nvu/Dreamweaver, Shareaza/Kazzaa, Gimp/Photoshop, Audacity/Others. Long term I've got winners picked in all these categories, and FOSS is it.
:D
That's where the (long term) came in!
The only commercial software I still use, need, or prefer to FOSS alternatives is Winamp (which I doubt makes anybody any real money, anyway), and Nero.
I think a good FOSS Nero clone is definitely on the horizon, though, and ditto for Winamp.
FOSS has obvious development advantages. Some of them may require patience to appreciate, but FOSS is not going anywhere, and is rapidly growing into the hegemonic dominant force in several areas, starting with Firefox.
It's not that I hate Microsoft, or any of these corporations. They just have plenty of corporate customers who USE their products that will greatly benefit from investing in and using FOSS.
Why would a school district for instance bother with Word, when they can have abiword or open office for free? There's no upside, and lots of downsides to sticking with MS. In 20 years, nobody will use Microsoft Word.
Open Office will be EVERYWHERE, unless some other FOSS project supersedes it, which I'm guessing will happen since OO is a big bundled group of programs over java, and not the best implementation that separate superior apps will prove to be. Look at Firefox vs. Mozilla Suite for a perfect example of what needs to happen for Open Office.
rhY
Ok, for the sake of accuracy, you're right. But I'm not a huge fan of all things mozilla, however I AM a huge fan of all things firefox.. :D
That's poorly worded at best. Firefox has pushed all the innovation in web browsers (unless you count Opera, other FOSS browsers). IE hasn't done anything new in nearly a decade. Open Source is always superior to proprietary (long term), for the simple fact that Open Source gets fixed faster, and by a bigger pool of coding talent.
Plus, last I checked, Mozilla doesn't have a vendor locked in OS X clone that is the hegemonic dominant force in the industry with which to leverage their sub-par browser.
The fact that Firefox even has 2% of the market (and obviously it's much higher) given this environment that so strongly favors IE, speaks volumes to the superiority of the browser, the superiority of the code, and the superiority of the Open Source model of software development.
My prediction is that IE will not have a version 9. If it does, nobody will pay any attention. Version 8 will be nearly as laughable a joke, but still have some market dominance just based on sheer MS monopolism, and the lethargic ignorance of the average Joe computer user.
Version 10 of IE will be Firefox automatically installed in Windows 2012, because otherwise Windows will fall even farther behind Linux and OS X in user adoption and market dominance.
rhY
The sheer volume of clothes that she seems to be able to fit in the closet is an engineering feet *I* could never duplicate.
I doubt she could write software though, because there is no celebrity gossip in gcc. Fix that and I'm sure many female programmers will emerge.
rhY
Is this the same Popular Mechanics that tells the public that large steel frame buildings can spontaneously explode, jettisoning giant steel beams hundreds of yards after a weakly smoldering jet fuel fire?
Isn't their credibility completely shot by now? For me, Popular Mechanics has become the Fox news of science journalism: It's obnoxious, generally wrong, even during the bulk of their stories which are fluff pieces, and I try to ignore it as best I can.
I'd like peer review to be a scientific term, not a term to describe putting together a coalition of vested interests to formulate lies that are somehow more believable or accredited by the sheer volume of liars involved.
rhY