So if Copyright had been invented in say the time of Mozart extensions over time and dealings with his estate would have resulted in his music being private right up until today. Seems kind of absurd doesn't it?
I think copyright should end the day you die. You created it, you can no longer benefit from it, and your children should have find their own damn way of making money rather than living off of the income from your great ideas.
Of course it gets complex if an item is the copyright of a company because companies could theoretically last a long time (re IBM).
Everyone always says code rewrites are bad. I think the copyright laws are in severe need of a good rewrite.
Ooh, I don't like their email client they want. It's got too much crap in it. I like stand alone utilities. Then if something breaks it doesn't break everything!! Oops, my email client is screwed up, now I can't IM my friends or view my calender. Bah!
Hmm, as for other email clients. In Windows I'd have to say Outlook Express is the best. Unfortunately it does too much stuff and is prone to problems, but I've accepted that because it's really easy to use and maintain.
Netscape's I didn't care much for. It was sluggish and a little unwieldly.
I used to like Eudora but then it got bloated and more awkward.
In linux I liked using Mutt, and I used Balsa. I never used the one in Gnome or KDE, I hear those are good. I might try in a couple months.
What I want in an email client is easy folder and mail management. Spell checking or connection to a spell checker. Address book or connection to one. Easy multi-email address capabilities. The possibility of locking email folders/accounts. So that I can have one desktop running for multiple people and still keep their email private. Easy PGP. And it should only read/send text!! Stupid pictures, html, scripts and crap. They should be attachments. Email is supposed to be fast, you shouldn't have to worry about placing pictures, backgrounds and junk. A button to remove html tags would be handy in that:) Maybe a letter head type thing for business emails.
I don't think I'm asking too much. Maybe someday I'll make one if I ever get off my ass.
Everytime I see an article about this sort of stuff I keep praying that OLED monitors will be out soon. Flat, less power required than in LCD, flatter than LCD, bright like CRT and once in full production likely up to 30% cheaper than LCD.
Why can't MP3 players work with plug-ins?? Software plug-ins that is. Give it a small hard drive and an operating software (the playing program) that works with plug ins. Set it up with USB so you can hook it up to your computer and install different codecs.
Then the whole WMA, MP3, OGG thing is done with. You want OGG, install the OGG codec, you want MP3, go with the MP3 codec. Want some wild codec that nobody has heard of? Install that one!
It's stupid to hardcode the audio format into the player. That you could also update the codec if a new standard comes out two months after you buy your player.
But do you get no net benefit if you convert from MP3 to OGG? I would think you would only gain anything from changing formats if you went from the WAV to OGG. After all, MP3 has already removed some things, and if OGG doesn't remove it, and it removes other things then you've got less things!!
(I haven't looked into the exact differences of the formats and I don't know which is better in which situation, I just know that they remove "things" to make music smaller, I'm assuming they remove a lot of the same "things" as well as different "things" and do some other compressions).
I knew a cat that absolutely loved the classical guitar. He'd go and lick it like crazy. Then again the guy that the guitar was borrowed from did a lot of pot. We figured pot is like catnip.
Egads people, the when I read the article I did not take that the mother was trying to BLAME Sony, she was just trying to figure out what pushed her son over the edge. She was aware he had a lot of problems, she tried to get him to go to a group home, but you know what, he was 21, a legal adult, he could do what he wanted.
It's like a drug addict, you can try to pursuade them to get help but if they don't you can't do anything.
People want some labels, that's not such a bad idea. What if my kid has some mental problems, but likes to play video games. I don't have the time to go out and research every possible video game they could be playing. You can try to be as aware as possible but things slip through, and you know what, if this guy was as dependant on EverQuest as it sounds, just pulling it away probably would have led him to another psychotic episode.
There's nothing wrong with putting a label on games that lend themselves to being immersive that says something to the effect "Warning: Over use of this game has been known to lead to a dependance in some individuals, and can be a hazard to your health".
Then some poor computer illiterate mother or father can read it and say, oh geez, that can lead to an addiction? My son has an addictive personality, I'd better not get him it as a birthday present.
I was always taught to alternate between "he" and "she". If you're working with a new fictitious subject, just swap from the gender of the previous one, that way you can't be unfair.
Actually (this might have been stated earlier, so forgive me). You can't place all the blame on Microsoft, but a good portion of it. The holes are still there in Linux, they get exploited all the time. When you exploit a hole in MS products, it becomes a huge problem because a lot more people use them. Whereas if you exploit a linux hole, then a smaller amount of people are affected, and the vast majority tend to have more computer knowledge so they can fix and patch it up quickly.
It's just statistics, it's a proven fact that any complex software will have bugs and exploits, it's just how many people use it. Plus the more people using MS products means more malicious people using it (why target the minority if you want to be a pain in the ass).
But yes, Microsoft really does need to think a few things out better when they're making their code. But I don't hole them 100% responsible for the exploits (although their responses to the exploits could be better).
Hmm, I guess my lazy reading habits have failed me once again. I missed that part, must have been about the time I got bored of the interview and started skiming (especially near the beginning about "hey, did you manage to make any calls after the planes hit the building?" oie. That was not a question that I needed to hear.
But regardless, I believe my point still stands, although QA should be starting before the product ships:) And in reference to some other posts, yes, bug checking should be done the whole way through the development cycle. But they do get through because of logic errors. Things that after a few months you find the bug, track it down and go "doh! I can't believe I forgot that case!"
Do you know how hard it is to check for security issues? You can have QA consisting of hundreds of people and they will not be able to replicate something that one in one million will. It's just numbers. They could catch all of the security holes before they made it to market if the whole market was their quality assurance.
Don't get me wrong, I think MS could do a better job of writing secure software, but looking for security holes isn't as easy as it sounds.
I haven't seen it yet, but from the previews Gandalf doesn't seem how I pictured him from the books. Physically yah he's pretty close (Except the hobbit clearly states the beard goes to his toes, but I imagine that could be annoying for the actor)
Perhaps it will flesh out more when I see the movie, but the previews made him look ultra-super serious which I don't think he was all the time. He was pretty mellow except in extremely serious situation. Especially that clip of him asking "Do you have the ring", it seemed too intense on the preview.
It's pretty annoying how pretty much nothing can be done about spam (I know there are the usual methods, register the domain in one of the spam registries, install a filter, etc, etc).
One would think that spam should be tracable back to the source. Email server keeping track of the IP and time, server giving out the IP keeping track of who used the IP at the time. Then it would be likely that people could complain and get the IP to block said person.
Of course, there are many complications for this.
Die spam die!! Until then, I guess I just have to get used to using the delete key.
(I know you're being sarcastic but for those that might not think so...)
Well one thing to prevent making tonnes and tonnes of gold would be, well, the cost? To make it would cost tonnes more than the gold is worth.
Oh, and sure Canada hasn't been making any nukes, but we've had the materials for a long time. Ever heard of the Can-Du reactor? (safest reactor in the world I believe) It outputs perfect nuclear waste for a nuke (hence all the fuss by the US when a few were sold to China)
It's kinda cool for nifty sake as well. Hmm, maybe we can create more elements with stupid names!
(do I hear that song blame canada on the horizon?)
The idea is that by recreating a supernova we can possibly see how the universe was formed. The theory I believe suggests that the big bang was essentially a really large supernova. It said this in the article (although I've been known for not reading every single little word, sort of like in Army of Darkness)
Funny, when I'm in the first 20 posts and I'm stating my opinions, I get marked as redundant. When someone says the same thing 70 posts later, it's marked as interesting.
I'm going to get modded down for this bug dammit, if you're going to mod then read the earliest posts first.
Here they go again, making my life difficult. If the CD refuses to work in my computer or CD player, it's going back to the store.
Maybe it's time to grow my vinyl collection again. I'm sure Cream will be in style again soon... won't they?
Now everyone is going to bitch and complain. It's the record company's right to try to copyprotect their CDs. You don't have to buy them. Think of it like this, they're just cutting their sales down as I'm sure some Mac users will not be buying CDs, along with people that have cd players that it won't play on, etc, etc.
Although I'm not quite sure why they're targetting Mac users, or is that just a side effect of their method of copyprotection?
Oh no, I can see the anti-MS headlines now: "Microsoft coding with the enemy" and other such crap.
Well, I guess this is our chance to really see how well MS' coding processes prevent malicious code.
And before you bash MS, remember that theoretically terrorists and other such people could be programming in open source as well and creating malicious code for Linux, so this isn't necessarily a windows specific security risk.
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So if Copyright had been invented in say the time of Mozart extensions over time and dealings with his estate would have resulted in his music being private right up until today. Seems kind of absurd doesn't it?
I think copyright should end the day you die. You created it, you can no longer benefit from it, and your children should have find their own damn way of making money rather than living off of the income from your great ideas.
Of course it gets complex if an item is the copyright of a company because companies could theoretically last a long time (re IBM).
Everyone always says code rewrites are bad. I think the copyright laws are in severe need of a good rewrite.
Ooh, I don't like their email client they want. It's got too much crap in it. I like stand alone utilities. Then if something breaks it doesn't break everything!! Oops, my email client is screwed up, now I can't IM my friends or view my calender. Bah!
:) Maybe a letter head type thing for business emails.
Hmm, as for other email clients. In Windows I'd have to say Outlook Express is the best. Unfortunately it does too much stuff and is prone to problems, but I've accepted that because it's really easy to use and maintain.
Netscape's I didn't care much for. It was sluggish and a little unwieldly.
I used to like Eudora but then it got bloated and more awkward.
In linux I liked using Mutt, and I used Balsa. I never used the one in Gnome or KDE, I hear those are good. I might try in a couple months.
What I want in an email client is easy folder and mail management. Spell checking or connection to a spell checker. Address book or connection to one. Easy multi-email address capabilities. The possibility of locking email folders/accounts. So that I can have one desktop running for multiple people and still keep their email private. Easy PGP. And it should only read/send text!! Stupid pictures, html, scripts and crap. They should be attachments. Email is supposed to be fast, you shouldn't have to worry about placing pictures, backgrounds and junk. A button to remove html tags would be handy in that
I don't think I'm asking too much. Maybe someday I'll make one if I ever get off my ass.
Everytime I see an article about this sort of stuff I keep praying that OLED monitors will be out soon. Flat, less power required than in LCD, flatter than LCD, bright like CRT and once in full production likely up to 30% cheaper than LCD.
Why can't MP3 players work with plug-ins?? Software plug-ins that is. Give it a small hard drive and an operating software (the playing program) that works with plug ins. Set it up with USB so you can hook it up to your computer and install different codecs.
Then the whole WMA, MP3, OGG thing is done with. You want OGG, install the OGG codec, you want MP3, go with the MP3 codec. Want some wild codec that nobody has heard of? Install that one!
It's stupid to hardcode the audio format into the player. That you could also update the codec if a new standard comes out two months after you buy your player.
But do you get no net benefit if you convert from MP3 to OGG? I would think you would only gain anything from changing formats if you went from the WAV to OGG. After all, MP3 has already removed some things, and if OGG doesn't remove it, and it removes other things then you've got less things!!
(I haven't looked into the exact differences of the formats and I don't know which is better in which situation, I just know that they remove "things" to make music smaller, I'm assuming they remove a lot of the same "things" as well as different "things" and do some other compressions).
I knew a cat that absolutely loved the classical guitar. He'd go and lick it like crazy. Then again the guy that the guitar was borrowed from did a lot of pot. We figured pot is like catnip.
Egads people, the when I read the article I did not take that the mother was trying to BLAME Sony, she was just trying to figure out what pushed her son over the edge. She was aware he had a lot of problems, she tried to get him to go to a group home, but you know what, he was 21, a legal adult, he could do what he wanted.
It's like a drug addict, you can try to pursuade them to get help but if they don't you can't do anything.
People want some labels, that's not such a bad idea. What if my kid has some mental problems, but likes to play video games. I don't have the time to go out and research every possible video game they could be playing. You can try to be as aware as possible but things slip through, and you know what, if this guy was as dependant on EverQuest as it sounds, just pulling it away probably would have led him to another psychotic episode.
There's nothing wrong with putting a label on games that lend themselves to being immersive that says something to the effect "Warning: Over use of this game has been known to lead to a dependance in some individuals, and can be a hazard to your health".
Then some poor computer illiterate mother or father can read it and say, oh geez, that can lead to an addiction? My son has an addictive personality, I'd better not get him it as a birthday present.
I was always taught to alternate between "he" and "she". If you're working with a new fictitious subject, just swap from the gender of the previous one, that way you can't be unfair.
Give tax breaks, Canada will do it to almost any one worth enough. Although the rest of us will be taxed everytime we pull out our compasses...
No.. I'm not bitter...
"He's not quite dead yet"
Actually (this might have been stated earlier, so forgive me). You can't place all the blame on Microsoft, but a good portion of it. The holes are still there in Linux, they get exploited all the time. When you exploit a hole in MS products, it becomes a huge problem because a lot more people use them. Whereas if you exploit a linux hole, then a smaller amount of people are affected, and the vast majority tend to have more computer knowledge so they can fix and patch it up quickly.
It's just statistics, it's a proven fact that any complex software will have bugs and exploits, it's just how many people use it. Plus the more people using MS products means more malicious people using it (why target the minority if you want to be a pain in the ass).
But yes, Microsoft really does need to think a few things out better when they're making their code. But I don't hole them 100% responsible for the exploits (although their responses to the exploits could be better).
That's right, the Terrorist Team has won again. The only team in the competition willing to break out the dirty nukes...
Maybe details are sparse because they're getting it from the future and they still need to build the time machine...
In the hobbit. Near the beginning, of course that was a paraphrase on my part. Maybe he trimmed it back for the Lord of the Rings :)
Hmm, I guess my lazy reading habits have failed me once again. I missed that part, must have been about the time I got bored of the interview and started skiming (especially near the beginning about "hey, did you manage to make any calls after the planes hit the building?" oie. That was not a question that I needed to hear.
:) And in reference to some other posts, yes, bug checking should be done the whole way through the development cycle. But they do get through because of logic errors. Things that after a few months you find the bug, track it down and go "doh! I can't believe I forgot that case!"
But regardless, I believe my point still stands, although QA should be starting before the product ships
Do you know how hard it is to check for security issues? You can have QA consisting of hundreds of people and they will not be able to replicate something that one in one million will. It's just numbers. They could catch all of the security holes before they made it to market if the whole market was their quality assurance.
Don't get me wrong, I think MS could do a better job of writing secure software, but looking for security holes isn't as easy as it sounds.
I haven't seen it yet, but from the previews Gandalf doesn't seem how I pictured him from the books. Physically yah he's pretty close (Except the hobbit clearly states the beard goes to his toes, but I imagine that could be annoying for the actor)
Perhaps it will flesh out more when I see the movie, but the previews made him look ultra-super serious which I don't think he was all the time. He was pretty mellow except in extremely serious situation. Especially that clip of him asking "Do you have the ring", it seemed too intense on the preview.
It's pretty annoying how pretty much nothing can be done about spam (I know there are the usual methods, register the domain in one of the spam registries, install a filter, etc, etc).
One would think that spam should be tracable back to the source. Email server keeping track of the IP and time, server giving out the IP keeping track of who used the IP at the time. Then it would be likely that people could complain and get the IP to block said person.
Of course, there are many complications for this.
Die spam die!! Until then, I guess I just have to get used to using the delete key.
Basic logics,
A | B | A->B
0 | 0 | 1
0 | 1 | 1
1 | 0 | 0
1 | 1 | 1
The only time A implies B is false is if we have B without having A.
(I know you're being sarcastic but for those that might not think so...)
Well one thing to prevent making tonnes and tonnes of gold would be, well, the cost? To make it would cost tonnes more than the gold is worth.
Oh, and sure Canada hasn't been making any nukes, but we've had the materials for a long time. Ever heard of the Can-Du reactor? (safest reactor in the world I believe) It outputs perfect nuclear waste for a nuke (hence all the fuss by the US when a few were sold to China)
It's kinda cool for nifty sake as well. Hmm, maybe we can create more elements with stupid names!
(do I hear that song blame canada on the horizon?)
The idea is that by recreating a supernova we can possibly see how the universe was formed. The theory I believe suggests that the big bang was essentially a really large supernova. It said this in the article (although I've been known for not reading every single little word, sort of like in Army of Darkness)
Funny, when I'm in the first 20 posts and I'm stating my opinions, I get marked as redundant. When someone says the same thing 70 posts later, it's marked as interesting.
I'm going to get modded down for this bug dammit, if you're going to mod then read the earliest posts first.
Here they go again, making my life difficult. If the CD refuses to work in my computer or CD player, it's going back to the store.
Maybe it's time to grow my vinyl collection again. I'm sure Cream will be in style again soon... won't they?
Now everyone is going to bitch and complain. It's the record company's right to try to copyprotect their CDs. You don't have to buy them. Think of it like this, they're just cutting their sales down as I'm sure some Mac users will not be buying CDs, along with people that have cd players that it won't play on, etc, etc.
Although I'm not quite sure why they're targetting Mac users, or is that just a side effect of their method of copyprotection?
Oh no, I can see the anti-MS headlines now: "Microsoft coding with the enemy" and other such crap.
Well, I guess this is our chance to really see how well MS' coding processes prevent malicious code.
And before you bash MS, remember that theoretically terrorists and other such people could be programming in open source as well and creating malicious code for Linux, so this isn't necessarily a windows specific security risk.
Although I believe it's crap and untrue.
I tended to just not use letters or sounds in words. Turned out I was just a lazy speaker :)