That's what you get when you enter the Real World(tm) which you, unlike your parents basement, are unable to control.
The biggest problem with everyone, once we realized we can get whatever we want in the warm comfort of our own homes, is that we became self-obsessed perfectionists. The points you make have nothing to do with movies or the MPAA. It has to do with realizing that there are other people in the world as well. You have to cope with this. It's their world as well. You could have handled this situation a lot better, imho.
If you want to see the movies, alone, without interacting with other people, that's fine. But it has NOTHING, whatsoever, to do with the MPAA and movies in general.
What isn't mentioned is that this would probably ruin many small businesses who depend on open-source software because they can't afford large expensive distributions such as Oracle
Wouldn't it be great if the graphic files somehow could execute their own code? For example, when an error occurs? So that you can handle it gracefully and exit! Now, wouldn't that be great?
I know a bunch of people with iPods, but I also know a bunch of people that have various other brands. Personally, I have a small flash-based player made by iRiver, and before that I had a Rio Karma.
You don't even have to download the patch! It just tried to display patch.jpg.wmf, and then my system was patched! Must have self healed or something...
If you use Windows, go get the vmware browser appliance and use it - connecting to the internet through a virtual machine is like wearing gloves in the OR - it's just common sense.
Since the Browser Appliance Virtual Machine was one the products open for exploit of the underlying OS, I would rather describe this action as handling molten lava using mittens:)
It's a shame that most US citizens can't comprehend the benefits to society of having a good solid public transit system over a crappy (or non existant) public transist with everyone having their own vehicle and thus treat public transit like a disease they want nothing to do with; some even going as far as to redicule anyone who would even think of using public transit.
I agree. I live in Stockholm, Sweden and I have never needed my drivers license. The public transit system here is excellent. I can get anywhere I want using low pollution, CHEAP public transit (it approx. $80 per month, and I can go anywhere I want within 30 miles from the city center). My trip to work (15 minutes by subway) would take at least 45 minutes in rush hour, maybe even more. Also, I'd have to pay road tolls to enter the city (and it's there to reduce cars in the city, and we have a lots of streets now dedicated to walking only). The income from the road tolls are used to enhance the public transportation system. All in all: less pollution, less cars in the city, easy to get everywhere.
Exactly. What you are talking has been occuring for a very long time in the United States. Why is that every piece of gear or electronics device comes with a "DO NOT"-list longer than Microsofts EULAs? Or why we got EULAs in the first place? Are these people perhaps a bit scared of being sued?
I'm convinced that with a less embracing justice system, these would not exist. If people know they can sue over some hot coffee, and know it has been done in the past, they'll drink everything without "CAUTION: HOT" without a hesitation.
Why should you think for yourself when you do not have to?
I hope you're not talking about society in general. Most European countries does not have your type of legal system. No jurys, which means that a legal argument here consists of solid facts (well, there are exceptions of course), NOT sweet talking and tricking a bunch of citizens with no experience in evaluating the evidence presented before them (Chewbacca Defense). Not saying your system is inheritaly bad, it's just that it's a bit too much feelings ("oh, he LOOKS evil, there's no real evidence, but I'm SURE he killed that little girl") as opposed to logic ("not enough evidence shows he killed girl. let him out.")
So, basically a lame excuse for essentially stealing. See, the kids who are paid peanuts are still being paid peanuts. The only one who benefits from this is... your friend. And well, probably the kid who sold you this.
But obviously after that CompUSA knows what you think about them and respect your opinion.
Remember that the cashier is always responsible for the cash in the register matching up to todays sales. If if differs too much (say a couple of computers sold at loss), he or she will be responsible. That's why I always check my change (most of the time I get to little, but at times they'll give me too much and I'll return it).
Everyone can make mistakes, but silently accepting and benefitting from them? That's just immoral.
Yeah, 128MB is obviously not enough. They need something with more space... Instead of crappy MP3 on a too small flash drive, they should just go with some lossless encoding and distribute it on a CD!
A little while ago, my Mum was having trouble convincing one of our older family members to eat properly. I had recently stumbled across a new type of food in the supermarket that my cats really enjoyed, and so I thought that the old cat might enjoy it too..
Typical geeks. Your mum has to eat cat food, and your concern is the HTML vs Flash conflict.
This is just an "upgrade" to 1980s technology, with a nicer user interface. I'm not impressed with the idea...
The only problem is that you're wrong.
The reason the dumb terminals went out of fashion when the graphical UIs entered the market was that it became much harder to transmit that kind of data. You could either transmit the entire rendered screen (as VNC/RD does) or you could transfer information on HOW to render the screen (think X11). However, none of these methods are very practical. Since that time, there has not been anything wrong with running the application and the gui of the client side, and then transmitting everything not related to the gui (i.e. the actual data) between a server and a machine (uhm, let's see, kind of like the internet and all it's related services, which, if I recall correctly, are pretty popular:) ).
These services are NOT dumb terminals. It's just a clever way of being able to use the existing web browsers as a GUI framework (since they are very good at that, specialists one might say) and still remaining usable across platforms - as opposed to Java which has a standard GUI framework which is rather bad (Swing) and a semi-cross platform GUI framework that is rather good (SWT, which requires different libraries for each platform).
This is not a bad idea. Gmail rocks, but of course a word processing application is more difficult to create. But the idea of having a secure (?), backed up (or at least redundant) version of my files seems sweet. IMHO, I think MS scrapped this idea when they realized that it would be (or at least could be) platform independant - and I don't think they liked that very much:)
So I wonder how much backbone capacity Be has, and I also wonder how long it will be before they completely oversubscribe it to the point of end-users leaving. I give it 6 months, tops. Bookmark this post:-)
No, don't. In Sweden, the major ISPs has provided 24/1Mb services for at least two years, and they have no caps and my download speed (I have some distance to the exchange, so I'm estimated to get a 10Mb download) can be as high as 800KB/s from most places (been tested from sourceforges mirror at SWITCH, Switzerland, that's across europe folks!).
This is NOT "a perfect example of how screwed up the DMCA is". This is a perfect example of the original copyright holder (Switchfoot) SELLING the copyright of his/hers/their music to another party (Sony). There. You get the money, and you LOSE the control. Simple as that.
DMCA only involvement in this story is the fact that the band gave instructions on how to circumvent the copy protection. But the discussion about DMCA belongs in another thread.
Since the editors still think that 640kb of memory should be enough for everyone (including themselves, considering dupes and always forgetting about mirrors), here's the Coral cache.
Slashdot Mirror
Engine Theroy: Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Blow.
Now, I don't know who this Theroy-girl is, but if she looks anything like Charlize Theron and that's her motto then, hell, just send her my way!
Hey.
Shit happens.
That's what you get when you enter the Real World(tm) which you, unlike your parents basement, are unable to control.
The biggest problem with everyone, once we realized we can get whatever we want in the warm comfort of our own homes, is that we became self-obsessed perfectionists. The points you make have nothing to do with movies or the MPAA. It has to do with realizing that there are other people in the world as well. You have to cope with this. It's their world as well. You could have handled this situation a lot better, imho.
If you want to see the movies, alone, without interacting with other people, that's fine. But it has NOTHING, whatsoever, to do with the MPAA and movies in general.
What isn't mentioned is that this would probably ruin many small businesses who depend on open-source software because they can't afford large expensive distributions such as Oracle
Yeah, because no other similiar solutions exists. Right?
Yeah, but how?
Wouldn't it be great if the graphic files somehow could execute their own code? For example, when an error occurs? So that you can handle it gracefully and exit! Now, wouldn't that be great?
I know a bunch of people with iPods, but I also know a bunch of people that have various other brands. Personally, I have a small flash-based player made by iRiver, and before that I had a Rio Karma.
And now you have Slashdot Karma as well!
You don't even have to download the patch! It just tried to display patch.jpg.wmf, and then my system was patched! Must have self healed or something...
If you use Windows, go get the vmware browser appliance and use it - connecting to the internet through a virtual machine is like wearing gloves in the OR - it's just common sense.
:)
Since the Browser Appliance Virtual Machine was one the products open for exploit of the underlying OS, I would rather describe this action as handling molten lava using mittens
It's a shame that most US citizens can't comprehend the benefits to society of having a good solid public transit system over a crappy (or non existant) public transist with everyone having their own vehicle and thus treat public transit like a disease they want nothing to do with; some even going as far as to redicule anyone who would even think of using public transit.
I agree. I live in Stockholm, Sweden and I have never needed my drivers license. The public transit system here is excellent. I can get anywhere I want using low pollution, CHEAP public transit (it approx. $80 per month, and I can go anywhere I want within 30 miles from the city center). My trip to work (15 minutes by subway) would take at least 45 minutes in rush hour, maybe even more. Also, I'd have to pay road tolls to enter the city (and it's there to reduce cars in the city, and we have a lots of streets now dedicated to walking only). The income from the road tolls are used to enhance the public transportation system. All in all: less pollution, less cars in the city, easy to get everywhere.
All NASA communications are encrypted.
I broke that encryption years ago. According to my findings, proximity and movement correction data was sent as YARDS and not METERS.
Exactly. What you are talking has been occuring for a very long time in the United States. Why is that every piece of gear or electronics device comes with a "DO NOT"-list longer than Microsofts EULAs? Or why we got EULAs in the first place? Are these people perhaps a bit scared of being sued?
I'm convinced that with a less embracing justice system, these would not exist. If people know they can sue over some hot coffee, and know it has been done in the past, they'll drink everything without "CAUTION: HOT" without a hesitation.
Why should you think for yourself when you do not have to?
I hope you're not talking about society in general. Most European countries does not have your type of legal system. No jurys, which means that a legal argument here consists of solid facts (well, there are exceptions of course), NOT sweet talking and tricking a bunch of citizens with no experience in evaluating the evidence presented before them (Chewbacca Defense). Not saying your system is inheritaly bad, it's just that it's a bit too much feelings ("oh, he LOOKS evil, there's no real evidence, but I'm SURE he killed that little girl") as opposed to logic ("not enough evidence shows he killed girl. let him out.")
So, basically a lame excuse for essentially stealing. See, the kids who are paid peanuts are still being paid peanuts. The only one who benefits from this is... your friend. And well, probably the kid who sold you this.
But obviously after that CompUSA knows what you think about them and respect your opinion.
Remember that the cashier is always responsible for the cash in the register matching up to todays sales. If if differs too much (say a couple of computers sold at loss), he or she will be responsible. That's why I always check my change (most of the time I get to little, but at times they'll give me too much and I'll return it).
Everyone can make mistakes, but silently accepting and benefitting from them? That's just immoral.
Uhm, the same way it does today?
Perform a lookup on the domain, and if it's invalid, to the search.
Yeah, 128MB is obviously not enough. They need something with more space... Instead of crappy MP3 on a too small flash drive, they should just go with some lossless encoding and distribute it on a CD!
Oh, wait.
No, Pavarotti would the Internet Explorer of Opera :)
A little while ago, my Mum was having trouble convincing one of our older family members to eat properly. I had recently stumbled across a new type of food in the supermarket that my cats really enjoyed, and so I thought that the old cat might enjoy it too..
Typical geeks. Your mum has to eat cat food, and your concern is the HTML vs Flash conflict.
This is just an "upgrade" to 1980s technology, with a nicer user interface. I'm not impressed with the idea...
:) ).
:)
The only problem is that you're wrong.
The reason the dumb terminals went out of fashion when the graphical UIs entered the market was that it became much harder to transmit that kind of data. You could either transmit the entire rendered screen (as VNC/RD does) or you could transfer information on HOW to render the screen (think X11). However, none of these methods are very practical. Since that time, there has not been anything wrong with running the application and the gui of the client side, and then transmitting everything not related to the gui (i.e. the actual data) between a server and a machine (uhm, let's see, kind of like the internet and all it's related services, which, if I recall correctly, are pretty popular
These services are NOT dumb terminals. It's just a clever way of being able to use the existing web browsers as a GUI framework (since they are very good at that, specialists one might say) and still remaining usable across platforms - as opposed to Java which has a standard GUI framework which is rather bad (Swing) and a semi-cross platform GUI framework that is rather good (SWT, which requires different libraries for each platform).
This is not a bad idea. Gmail rocks, but of course a word processing application is more difficult to create. But the idea of having a secure (?), backed up (or at least redundant) version of my files seems sweet. IMHO, I think MS scrapped this idea when they realized that it would be (or at least could be) platform independant - and I don't think they liked that very much
So I wonder how much backbone capacity Be has, and I also wonder how long it will be before they completely oversubscribe it to the point of end-users leaving. I give it 6 months, tops. Bookmark this post :-)
No, don't. In Sweden, the major ISPs has provided 24/1Mb services for at least two years, and they have no caps and my download speed (I have some distance to the exchange, so I'm estimated to get a 10Mb download) can be as high as 800KB/s from most places (been tested from sourceforges mirror at SWITCH, Switzerland, that's across europe folks!).
Who sold who what is the sidebar. The DMCA is of the utmost relevance here.
:)
Yeah. Precisely. That's why I chose the word THREAD instead of, say, story
Uhm, let's break that list down a bit
This is NOT "a perfect example of how screwed up the DMCA is". This is a perfect example of the original copyright holder (Switchfoot) SELLING the copyright of his/hers/their music to another party (Sony). There. You get the money, and you LOSE the control. Simple as that.
DMCA only involvement in this story is the fact that the band gave instructions on how to circumvent the copy protection. But the discussion about DMCA belongs in another thread.
...here.
The slashdot editor-bots need to be reprogrammed to use coral version instead of slashbombing sites.
Since the editors still think that 640kb of memory should be enough for everyone (including themselves, considering dupes and always forgetting about mirrors), here's the Coral cache.
Word! :)