Heh yeah. The thing is that when they remove the matte for this type of thing, you sometimes get shots where you can see the mike boom and other things the director and editor never intended.
I seriously doubt any court would bother if you downloaded it instead of converting it yourself.
This was the heart of the mp3.com case. Mp3.com had encoded thousands of CDs and if you proved you owned it by putting the CD in your CDROM, you could then download the MP3 version of it.
Mp3.com lost, because they used really silly defenses that didn't have a snowball's chance in hell. Unfortunatly their bumbling does somewhat set a precedent.
Copyright law makes no such claims. When you buy something copyrighted, you own that copy of it. You may not make further copies of it, except as provided for in the laws, but other than that, there's no restriction on how you use it.
There is no "license". It's sold under "All rights reserved".
The first sale doctrine says you can do whatever the hell you want with your copy, including selling it to someone else. No company can take that away from you, except in some cases with software under the UCITA, in the states where that has passed.
Three letter orginizations wouldn't have too tough a time decrypting a 128bit RC4 document. Especially when most people are going to use 4 or 5 letter passwords that are their last name.
Getting your idea of the US tech job market from Slashdot is like learning english by watching only John Wayne movies. Sure, it's english, but you'll still sound like an idiot talking like that.
There are plenty of happily employed tech workers in the US. The losers and whiners just post more.
So you are saying, when you take a language designed for portability, and run it in a situation where portability no longer matters (server side app), it works well? So what?
That's like saying "this computer really sucks as a computer, but it works great as a doorstop".
I hoped you could tell from my post, this isn't exactly the first Java app(let) I have ever tried. OpenOffice is slow as shit too.
I am glad to say I finally found a Java app I like, Drawboard. It's a shared whiteboard thingy, and it's really cool.
It's still slow as molassas. When it's running, my whole computer is noticably slowed down. I don't know if it's just some Java reality distortion field that makes you guys think Java isn't slow as hell, or what.
Says Tony: "Here is an "example" patch to fix some of the LBD issues with various filesystems (ext3, xfs, reiserfs, afs). Unfortunately it looks like there are many more LBD problems with the filesystems that I didn't fix, so I am just calling this an "example" patch that shows some of what needs to be done, but doesn't fix everything."
He later mentions the only XFS fix is in some debugging code, and it appears to be the cleanest of them.
Common linux file systems (ext, reiser, etc) contains critical data-losing type bugs on file systems bigger than 2TB, except XFS. This was found to be the case in even the most recent 2.6 kernels.
Tony Battersby posted a patch to the LBD mailing list recently to address the ones he could find, but lacking a full audit, you probably shouldn't use any filesystem other than XFS.
Considering the gravity of these bugs, you might consider using XFS for everything, if the developers left these critical bugs in for so long, it makes you wonder about the general quality of the filesystems.
It's not the IT community that is trying to do that, it's the idiot with the Apple computer and a copy of Frontpage or Flash whatever.
They want total control over what the users sees, and can't understand that someone might have a monitor running a different resolution than theirs, or that the person might want to view the data 30 years from now on a completely different display technology.
In other words, it's idiot Mac fags who care more about the artistic look of the page than actually conveying data.
Of course you could always do all transformations and logic before the final rendering step, but in a lot of cases it's easier to do it purely XSL.
I've not found that to be the case. Can you tell me of any example where it would be easier to use XSL rather than just some CSS spit out based on some logic that something like PHP handles?
My view is, why throw yet another programming language into the mix, just to do output? As you said there are already a number of transformations needed to get the data in the first place.
If people designed web apps like some advocate, you'd have to work in a million different langauges, something like PHP with triggers and stored procedured in the database written in something else, SQL for the actual interface to the DB, XSL for output.
That's a lot of complete programming languges to write one app.
"It's extremely rare there's any relevent reason to try to compare arbitrary groups of people (having a penis vs having breasts being arbitrary in the context of mathematics) in terms of skills."
Sociology is an example of a relevant reason to make such comparisions. Not everyone has a negative agenda to disparage a group.
If women really were inherently bad at math for some reason, wouldn't it be good to know about it?
I find it hard to swallow any argument that claims the truth is too dangerous to seek out.
Uh, that's really pointless info for this discussion.
And even so, you misunderstood it, it says thinnet is *not* used for 100Mbps speeds.
Anyway, cable internet has little in common to the old thinnet, in the old system you didn't have tons of splices and splitters and stubs, it was all one nice well terminated bus, something the cable system is not.
Yes, but the real world effect of computers is that they create new jobs in workflow design, application design, programming, etc, which are more stimulating and creative than the menial jobs they eliminated.
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Moderations are stored in a MySQL database, which detects and silently converts moderations that are positive to ones that are negative, when they are attached to a message critical of MySQL.
could a computer replace your job to save the company some money?
Well, yeah, that's the entire point of computers. Destroy the boring, repetitive jobs, create more opportunities for jobs that are interesting and require some skill and creativity.
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Heh yeah. The thing is that when they remove the matte for this type of thing, you sometimes get shots where you can see the mike boom and other things the director and editor never intended.
I seriously doubt any court would bother if you downloaded it instead of converting it yourself.
This was the heart of the mp3.com case. Mp3.com had encoded thousands of CDs and if you proved you owned it by putting the CD in your CDROM, you could then download the MP3 version of it.
Mp3.com lost, because they used really silly defenses that didn't have a snowball's chance in hell. Unfortunatly their bumbling does somewhat set a precedent.
Since when?
Copyright law makes no such claims. When you buy something copyrighted, you own that copy of it. You may not make further copies of it, except as provided for in the laws, but other than that, there's no restriction on how you use it.
There is no "license". It's sold under "All rights reserved".
The first sale doctrine says you can do whatever the hell you want with your copy, including selling it to someone else. No company can take that away from you, except in some cases with software under the UCITA, in the states where that has passed.
Three letter orginizations wouldn't have too tough a time decrypting a 128bit RC4 document. Especially when most people are going to use 4 or 5 letter passwords that are their last name.
Glad to see you are back with us.
A spiteful (ex)-employee could easily encrypt and forever destroy sensitive data that is irreplaceable.
Or they could just overwrite it and delete it.
typical user to permanently encrypt data that can never be revealed
Not sure why you'd want to "permanently encrypt data"... You might as well overwrite and delete it.
Winamp sort of plugins and things like cthulhu have been doing this for years.
These aren't the same people that made the Clipper/CLIX workstations right?
Getting your idea of the US tech job market from Slashdot is like learning english by watching only John Wayne movies. Sure, it's english, but you'll still sound like an idiot talking like that.
There are plenty of happily employed tech workers in the US. The losers and whiners just post more.
So you are saying, when you take a language designed for portability, and run it in a situation where portability no longer matters (server side app), it works well? So what?
That's like saying "this computer really sucks as a computer, but it works great as a doorstop".
I hoped you could tell from my post, this isn't exactly the first Java app(let) I have ever tried. OpenOffice is slow as shit too.
Misconception?
I am glad to say I finally found a Java app I like, Drawboard. It's a shared whiteboard thingy, and it's really cool.
It's still slow as molassas. When it's running, my whole computer is noticably slowed down. I don't know if it's just some Java reality distortion field that makes you guys think Java isn't slow as hell, or what.
Well, the LBD mailing list archive might be a good place to start, since I specifically mentioned it.
Patch 1
Patch 2
Says Tony:
"Here is an "example" patch to fix some of the LBD issues with various
filesystems (ext3, xfs, reiserfs, afs). Unfortunately it looks like
there are many more LBD problems with the filesystems that I didn't fix,
so I am just calling this an "example" patch that shows some of what
needs to be done, but doesn't fix everything."
He later mentions the only XFS fix is in some debugging code, and it appears to be the cleanest of them.
Common linux file systems (ext, reiser, etc) contains critical data-losing type bugs on file systems bigger than 2TB, except XFS. This was found to be the case in even the most recent 2.6 kernels.
Tony Battersby posted a patch to the LBD mailing list recently to address the ones he could find, but lacking a full audit, you probably shouldn't use any filesystem other than XFS.
Considering the gravity of these bugs, you might consider using XFS for everything, if the developers left these critical bugs in for so long, it makes you wonder about the general quality of the filesystems.
It's not the IT community that is trying to do that, it's the idiot with the Apple computer and a copy of Frontpage or Flash whatever.
They want total control over what the users sees, and can't understand that someone might have a monitor running a different resolution than theirs, or that the person might want to view the data 30 years from now on a completely different display technology.
In other words, it's idiot Mac fags who care more about the artistic look of the page than actually conveying data.
Of course you could always do all transformations and logic before the final rendering step, but in a lot of cases it's easier to do it purely XSL.
I've not found that to be the case. Can you tell me of any example where it would be easier to use XSL rather than just some CSS spit out based on some logic that something like PHP handles?
My view is, why throw yet another programming language into the mix, just to do output? As you said there are already a number of transformations needed to get the data in the first place.
If people designed web apps like some advocate, you'd have to work in a million different langauges, something like PHP with triggers and stored procedured in the database written in something else, SQL for the actual interface to the DB, XSL for output.
That's a lot of complete programming languges to write one app.
I was responding to:
"It's extremely rare there's any relevent reason to try to compare arbitrary groups of people (having a penis vs having breasts being arbitrary in the context of mathematics) in terms of skills."
Sociology is an example of a relevant reason to make such comparisions. Not everyone has a negative agenda to disparage a group.
If women really were inherently bad at math for some reason, wouldn't it be good to know about it?
I find it hard to swallow any argument that claims the truth is too dangerous to seek out.
One of the best messages in the thread. Thanks.
Until we admit inherent differences, we can't appreciate them. Political correctness is holding back real equality.
I guess sociology is out the window then.
Uh, that's really pointless info for this discussion.
And even so, you misunderstood it, it says thinnet is *not* used for 100Mbps speeds.
Anyway, cable internet has little in common to the old thinnet, in the old system you didn't have tons of splices and splitters and stubs, it was all one nice well terminated bus, something the cable system is not.
Yes, but the real world effect of computers is that they create new jobs in workflow design, application design, programming, etc, which are more stimulating and creative than the menial jobs they eliminated.
Moderations are stored in a MySQL database, which detects and silently converts moderations that are positive to ones that are negative, when they are attached to a message critical of MySQL.
could a computer replace your job to save the company some money?
Well, yeah, that's the entire point of computers. Destroy the boring, repetitive jobs, create more opportunities for jobs that are interesting and require some skill and creativity.
Isopropyl alcohol shouldn't have much residues in it. It's not like anyone is drinking it, it's evaporating off.
Wasn't PlayMedia's AMP code that winamp was based on originally, open source at some point?
That money generally comes from the stockholders directly, it causes dilution of everyone's stock when employee options are exercised.