I agree. I don't know if this is being done as a way of intentionally conrtolling people, but the results can lead to the same thing.
By limiting language you limit expression. Limiting expression limits thought. If this were done subtly enough over enough time people in a way lose freedom. When there's no word equivalent to calling something crap, what do you call it?
Stupid Microsoft, empires are for people with armies!
Actually, working on the assumption that all computer systems are unix, and all home systems are unix, there isn't a problem. They don't need to touch MS formats at all if they don't want to.
It sounds mostly like you expect all the students to want to use IE and MS Office eventhough there are alternatives for their home machines (Opera, Mozilla, etc, etc, StarOffice, etc).
Really, I rarely run across webpages that don't view properly on Opera under Linux, also, if I work solely in StarOffice (many of my schools computers are running Solaris, so StarOffice there too) I have no problem. And usually (I know there are conversion problems) if I convert MS files to StarOffice files, it's okay, but if I and all my classmates were theoretically using Unix and StarOffice, I'd almost never need an MS file format.
Of course, this is the gross simplification that everyone would use the Unix/StarOffice setup at home.
I just delete mp3s out of choice. I'd rather listen to my CDs.
But yah, it's always a tough one with unreleased material and live performances. I usually keep them. I've never been sure where bootlegs sit with the law, is it only illegal if you try and sell them?
I agree. If I buy a CD, I should be able make copies... but the catch is... for myself. I don't think it is right to post spread copyrighted material around. I know I'm being a bit hypocritical because I download mp3s, but I download them with the "hey, I like this music, when the funds are available I'm going to buy the CD/record and delete the mp3s".
What a useless waste of time on the government's part. I mean really, let's say they manage to tap the whole internet, that's what, 1, 2 billion using it? Okay, most of those people doing things like "hi how's it going emails". Let's say there's an equal distribution of 1 terrorist for ever 100 000 legitimate users. Oh yah, they're going catch them. What, doing a word search on the packets?
It would just slow the internet down and result in copious amounts of largely useless data. Like tapping every phone line, like anything usefull would come out of it. You'd never be able to keep up with the quantity of information.
Besides, if you have nothing to hide, where's the big deal. We haven't had "freedom" for a long time, what's the point in starting now.
Write great operating system (I don't know, I haven't used or looked at SkyOS). Gosh, you spent all that time on the OS you don't have development tools, graphics programs, games, office suites... hmm, no one will use the OS if you don't have a good base of those.
Where else can you get them from? Emulate until you have had time to build some native ones.
An OS is useless without the tools and it's pointless to make the tools without the OS. The easiest thing to do is make the OS and borrow tools for a short time, get a user base and build your own tools.
Hell, if you want a popular group that has done their albums with Protools, check out Collective Soul's newer album... comes after Dosage... has Why Pt 2 on it... ahh the name escapes me.
I was kinda shocked to see Protools listed on their pull-out. I've used protools in a classroom music recording set, I liked it a lot.
Oh come one, they seem to assume that the Internet is only comprised of the web. There's a lot of ways to transfer information that doesn't involve the http protocol, and if they want to snoop on people they'd need to know this.
Oh look, aaa-zb$# is apparently in their database, but there doesn't seem to be a melody attached? I wonder why??!?!
Aside from that, to register music, doesn't that also include rhythm of the music? So theoretically if this were inforcable, if I played it to a different beat, wouldn't that be a totally different tune? (Hey, just look at modern pop/rock, they do it all the time, and don't get me started on rap, but at least they usually liscense their samplings of classics)
As I understand it you can register words as a broad sweeping trademark. Yahoo is simply a slang word. It would be like me trying to register the word dog, I could do it in reference to a company called Dog in say, the tactile proliferation business, but not in general.
Be warned, take all I say with at least a handful of salt, I could be wrong, long time since I looked up trademark laws, and I know, tactile proliferation just sounds silly.
The problem is that the state of the entertainment industry has changed. There's no way to become number one in music without "selling out". Example: Sting's Brand New Day Album, entered the charts high then plummetted, the single Brand New Day I think topped at around 30 or so. The single Desert Rose I think got into the top 10, why? Because it was done in conjunction with a BMW commercial and so it got lots of airplay on the TV. As a result the Album rose again.
I don't agree with it, but to be a top act you have to sell out. Then again, I'm not a huge fan of most of the top acts and prefer the non-top's, but I've always been told that I had bizarre music tastes.
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I have to say Alsa was a pain in the ass to get working the first time, but now that I know how it works (good old handy note book with notes on what I did the first few times) it's been good to me. Stupid Yamaha sound card.
I love how in the news they talk about the latest "mutations" and such of code red. People haven't quite caught on that the virus does not modify itself the same way a "real world" virus can. Someone else is simply re-writing it differently. Now, unless something extraordinary has happened while I was asleep and virii can in fact modify themselves to attack in different ways, each different than the one before, then spray me red and call me a monkey's lost uncle.
I went there an all I got was hundreds of pop up windows. If I have to close hundreds of pop-up windows just to read about some new sound format, then I'm not reading it.
Slashdot should open up "patent traq". Dedicated to following what patents are make, when and how insanely stupid they are. Now to annoy my cat with a laser... doh!! That's been patented.
Here's something I learned from a economics class. Drugs are worth so much money because the government made it illegal to sell them. If you make it ultra illegal to use them, and crack down on it, then people will demand lower prices for the drugs. So in short, if you make it legal to deal but illegal to use, they have little or no value.
Just a thought, I'm not saying it's the way to go, because ethically it'd be pretty stupid.
You could always legalize it but that introduces a new host of problems, which North America isn't ready to handle. The drug situation is in a position where legalizing drugs would be a smooth transition. It would be hell.
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I agree. I don't know if this is being done as a way of intentionally conrtolling people, but the results can lead to the same thing.
By limiting language you limit expression. Limiting expression limits thought. If this were done subtly enough over enough time people in a way lose freedom. When there's no word equivalent to calling something crap, what do you call it?
Stupid Microsoft, empires are for people with armies!
Microsoft can do whatever the hell they want with their sites. Just like if I make a webpage I can block IE browsers if I want.
There's only a problem if they try to force people to block non-IE browsers (for example, forcing the code to be inserted into Frontpage docs, etc)
Actually, working on the assumption that all computer systems are unix, and all home systems are unix, there isn't a problem. They don't need to touch MS formats at all if they don't want to.
It sounds mostly like you expect all the students to want to use IE and MS Office eventhough there are alternatives for their home machines (Opera, Mozilla, etc, etc, StarOffice, etc).
Really, I rarely run across webpages that don't view properly on Opera under Linux, also, if I work solely in StarOffice (many of my schools computers are running Solaris, so StarOffice there too) I have no problem. And usually (I know there are conversion problems) if I convert MS files to StarOffice files, it's okay, but if I and all my classmates were theoretically using Unix and StarOffice, I'd almost never need an MS file format.
Of course, this is the gross simplification that everyone would use the Unix/StarOffice setup at home.
I just delete mp3s out of choice. I'd rather listen to my CDs.
But yah, it's always a tough one with unreleased material and live performances. I usually keep them. I've never been sure where bootlegs sit with the law, is it only illegal if you try and sell them?
I agree. If I buy a CD, I should be able make copies... but the catch is... for myself. I don't think it is right to post spread copyrighted material around. I know I'm being a bit hypocritical because I download mp3s, but I download them with the "hey, I like this music, when the funds are available I'm going to buy the CD/record and delete the mp3s".
What a useless waste of time on the government's part. I mean really, let's say they manage to tap the whole internet, that's what, 1, 2 billion using it? Okay, most of those people doing things like "hi how's it going emails". Let's say there's an equal distribution of 1 terrorist for ever 100 000 legitimate users. Oh yah, they're going catch them. What, doing a word search on the packets?
It would just slow the internet down and result in copious amounts of largely useless data. Like tapping every phone line, like anything usefull would come out of it. You'd never be able to keep up with the quantity of information.
Besides, if you have nothing to hide, where's the big deal. We haven't had "freedom" for a long time, what's the point in starting now.
Write great operating system (I don't know, I haven't used or looked at SkyOS). Gosh, you spent all that time on the OS you don't have development tools, graphics programs, games, office suites... hmm, no one will use the OS if you don't have a good base of those.
Where else can you get them from? Emulate until you have had time to build some native ones.
An OS is useless without the tools and it's pointless to make the tools without the OS. The easiest thing to do is make the OS and borrow tools for a short time, get a user base and build your own tools.
Hell, if you want a popular group that has done their albums with Protools, check out Collective Soul's newer album... comes after Dosage... has Why Pt 2 on it... ahh the name escapes me.
I was kinda shocked to see Protools listed on their pull-out. I've used protools in a classroom music recording set, I liked it a lot.
Oh come one, they seem to assume that the Internet is only comprised of the web. There's a lot of ways to transfer information that doesn't involve the http protocol, and if they want to snoop on people they'd need to know this.
Aside from that, to register music, doesn't that also include rhythm of the music? So theoretically if this were inforcable, if I played it to a different beat, wouldn't that be a totally different tune? (Hey, just look at modern pop/rock, they do it all the time, and don't get me started on rap, but at least they usually liscense their samplings of classics)
Be warned, take all I say with at least a handful of salt, I could be wrong, long time since I looked up trademark laws, and I know, tactile proliferation just sounds silly.
I don't agree with it, but to be a top act you have to sell out. Then again, I'm not a huge fan of most of the top acts and prefer the non-top's, but I've always been told that I had bizarre music tastes.
I have to say Alsa was a pain in the ass to get working the first time, but now that I know how it works (good old handy note book with notes on what I did the first few times) it's been good to me. Stupid Yamaha sound card.
I love how in the news they talk about the latest "mutations" and such of code red. People haven't quite caught on that the virus does not modify itself the same way a "real world" virus can. Someone else is simply re-writing it differently. Now, unless something extraordinary has happened while I was asleep and virii can in fact modify themselves to attack in different ways, each different than the one before, then spray me red and call me a monkey's lost uncle.
I went there an all I got was hundreds of pop up windows. If I have to close hundreds of pop-up windows just to read about some new sound format, then I'm not reading it.
"I think I'm a clone now, 'cause everywhere I go I'm always hanging around" and other such lyrics from I think I'm a clone now.
All kidding aside, 'tis a shame that half of the Windows side of the Internet shall be beaten down for a while.
Sarcasm aside, I have nothing to say.
I'm still holding on for my OLED Active Display. I can't remember where, but they do have a 19" one already made, but it's only for research...
Sparc machines have the two on one cable from the keyboard. Mouse plugs into the keyboard.
Slashdot should open up "patent traq". Dedicated to following what patents are make, when and how insanely stupid they are. Now to annoy my cat with a laser... doh!! That's been patented.
Wouldn't reverse hacking be when you leave the system clean up after your hack and put all their security holes back in place? :)
Just a thought, I'm not saying it's the way to go, because ethically it'd be pretty stupid.
You could always legalize it but that introduces a new host of problems, which North America isn't ready to handle. The drug situation is in a position where legalizing drugs would be a smooth transition. It would be hell.
Sort of a damned either way type situation.
Wouldn't it be nice if everyone could deal with the problems and not the results...
could definitely use the calling home feature for my keys... Now where were they last??
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