Yeah, but how else is a musician supposed to make serious money for his work? The Internet is a fledgling distribution method. It's going to take some serious time before more than 20% of the world can get music off of the Net. In the meantime, the RIAA is the way to musicians get their money. Lets face it: the system sucks. While we change it, let's just get along until we can move on.
I had a talk with my musician friend, Phil R., yesterday about this whole Napster debacle. He thinks the Internet is great and is going to revolutionize music distribution. However, when he found someone posted the LP he and his high school buds were working on to the Internet he felt violated. "They" didn't ask, however if "they" did it would probably have been okay. But what I got from my chat was that a musician has certain rights. Those rights need to be protected if the musician is to live.
Sure the RIAA is evil, Phil will loudly attest to that. However, it is looking out for the interests of its musicians no matter how little money the musicians actually realize.
Classic case of Microsoft wanting to eat their own dog food.
Microsoft pressures a lot of its partner companies to do the same. At a large CAD company )(auto something or other:), they had so many problems migrating the servers to Microsoft but they got pushed through anyway. Too bad too. It just gave everyone more lasting headaches.
I think the problem with most distribued operating systems today is that the langauges used to build them were not designed with threaded inter-operability in mind. Sure POSIX has been standardized for years now, but is C really a true threaded language?
Some distribued operating environments assert that applications can run unmodified, but to really take advantage of the large noded clusters one must adapt the program for running in a distributed environment.
Which brings me to my point. Java the programming language / operating environment darling of the Internet has really been living up to its hype lately.
The language is maturing, development tools and resources have reached a critical mass, the libraries are stabilizing, more people have had significant experience with it than not, etc.
What does this mean for distributed systems? Everything. More languages like Java, multi- threaded to the lowest levels (VM specification) are going to be the stepping stone to the distributed revolution. By providing multi- threaded support in the language Java is enabling the mass movement to the distributed systems of the future with little to no headaches.
Bullshit. This is not the same as the iMac vs. the eMachines box. The eMachines box was trying to ride the same personal computer wave of fame that the iMac had created. The Apple Cube is: 1) For a completely different market - desktop not server 2) A full fledged computer, not an internet applicance. 3) of a totally different industrial design : colors, utilization of space, etc. The eMachines boxes copied the iMac in almost everyway (remember the faux iMac translucent racing stripes)
Wait a second, didn't NeXT come out with a cube in the 80s? Why does Cobalt think they can claim a patent on something that is in common use?
Now, if Apple were marketing the cube in the same market as the Cobalt Cube, the same advertising as the Cube, and the same color scheme as the cube, their case would probably hold as much water as Jimmy Hoffa's bladder.
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My friend and I used to operate a PC running RedHat Linux at a local high school. We remotely administered the machine until the school burned down, but that is a different story... Getting to the point, a script-kiddie broke into our machine exploiting a buffer-overflow hack in our IMAP daemon. How did we know? The guy, we finally tracked him to France, left the hacking kit in a home directory he created for himself! It's sad that these script packages give anyone the tools to get into a large minority of machines on the Internet, but the packages do not educate the users. These kiddies aren't bad, they're not evil, they're just mis-guided. I got into a lot of trouble a few years back in Jr. High. I'm sure I would've stayed on the misguided path had not an older, wiser computer hacker helped me see the light. We need to spread the following maxim: 1) Just because it's easy, doesn't mean you should do it. 2) Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. 3) Just because you'd like to, doesn't mean you should.
Okay, all three are really the same...but, we need to educate the masses.
There was a discussion on NPR today concerning digital music. An intellectual property lawyer was arguing that MP3s and services like Napster are coming under the same fire that VCR and VHS tapes did back in the 80s(?).
The movie companies and broadcast TV stations, were scared that VCRs would erode their markets. Suddenly, millions of viewers could record their programs and distribute them. How could the broadcasters protect their material?
They couldn't, and even today they cannot.
When Sony, among other companies, was brought to court, the judge ruled against the media companies for a few reasons: 1) The VCR technology had become penetrated the consumer market very deeply. To outlaw a device in common use would anger a huge amount of citizens. 2) If there is a legal use of a technology, like using VCR tapes to store personal videos, or share licensed material, the media cannot be made illegal even if there is an illegal market -- video pirates.
MP3s parallel VCRs so incredibly well. There is a legal market for MP3s, as evidenced by eMusic and MP3.com. These companies have been growing a customer base that isn't going to be happy if unnecesary restrictions are put upon them. Further, by virtue of the aforementioned companies, MP3s have a legitamite and legal use: the preservation on digital media of home audio recordings.
Content distribution channels like Napster are going to come under fire, but this doesn't spell the end for MP3. This is only the beginning...
All the Mac users out there must remember the classic tank game, Bolo. It had so many cheating checks built into the game. It was impossible! Every player had to have the same major version of the game so that every player could keep tabs on every other player. I'm sure that once you get to 64 way Half Life games, the network traffic generated by checking to see if a given player is moving too fast is unwieldly.
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Yeah, but how else is a musician supposed to make serious money for his work? The Internet is a fledgling distribution method. It's going to take some serious time before more than 20% of the world can get music off of the Net.
In the meantime, the RIAA is the way to musicians get their money. Lets face it: the system sucks. While we change it, let's just get along until we can move on.
I had a talk with my musician friend, Phil R., yesterday about this whole Napster debacle. He thinks the Internet is great and is going to revolutionize music distribution. However, when he found someone posted the LP he and his high school buds were working on to the Internet he felt violated. "They" didn't ask, however if "they" did it would probably have been okay. But what I got from my chat was that a musician has certain rights. Those rights need to be protected if the musician is to live.
Sure the RIAA is evil, Phil will loudly attest to that. However, it is looking out for the interests of its musicians no matter how little money the musicians actually realize.
Classic case of Microsoft wanting to eat their own dog food.
:), they had so many problems migrating the servers to Microsoft but they got pushed through anyway. Too bad too. It just gave everyone more lasting headaches.
Microsoft pressures a lot of its partner companies to do the same. At a large CAD company )(auto something or other
However, the practicality of reading the DeCSS source code off a t-shirt and implementing it shares the stature of a midget with both knees missing.
What about the guy who tatooed RSA in Perl onto his arm? The man is walking munitions.
When is this going to stop?
If Iridium does up for sale on the virtual block, I hope Motorola doesn't a reserve on the auction or try to bid it up secretly.
Bastards. I'm not expecting much dignity that company nowadays.
I think the problem with most distribued
operating systems today is that the langauges
used to build them were not designed with
threaded inter-operability in mind. Sure POSIX
has been standardized for years now, but is C
really a true threaded language?
Some distribued operating environments assert
that applications can run unmodified, but to
really take advantage of the large noded clusters
one must adapt the program for running in a
distributed environment.
Which brings me to my point. Java the
programming language / operating environment
darling of the Internet has really been living up
to its hype lately.
The language is maturing, development tools and
resources have reached a critical mass, the
libraries are stabilizing, more people have had
significant experience with it than not, etc.
What does this mean for distributed systems?
Everything. More languages like Java, multi-
threaded to the lowest levels (VM specification)
are going to be the stepping stone to the
distributed revolution. By providing multi-
threaded support in the language Java is enabling
the mass movement to the distributed systems of
the future with little to no headaches.
Bullshit.
This is not the same as the iMac vs. the eMachines box. The eMachines box was trying to ride the same personal computer wave of fame that the iMac had created.
The Apple Cube is:
1) For a completely different market - desktop not server
2) A full fledged computer, not an internet applicance.
3) of a totally different industrial design : colors, utilization of space, etc. The eMachines boxes copied the iMac in almost everyway (remember the faux iMac translucent racing stripes)
Wait a second, didn't NeXT come out with a cube in the 80s? Why does Cobalt think they can claim a patent on something that is in common use?
Now, if Apple were marketing the cube in the same market as the Cobalt Cube, the same advertising as the Cube, and the same color scheme as the cube, their case would probably hold as much water as Jimmy Hoffa's bladder.
Check out Penny-Arcade.com for a rousing political cartoon!
Jump to it!
This is a pointer to a presentation on MSNBC that contains all the information and details I brought-up:
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/DigitalMusic/
My friend and I used to operate a PC running RedHat Linux at a local high school. We remotely administered the machine until the school burned down, but that is a different story...
Getting to the point, a script-kiddie broke into our machine exploiting a buffer-overflow hack in our IMAP daemon. How did we know? The guy, we finally tracked him to France, left the hacking kit in a home directory he created for himself!
It's sad that these script packages give anyone the tools to get into a large minority of machines on the Internet, but the packages do not educate the users.
These kiddies aren't bad, they're not evil, they're just mis-guided. I got into a lot of trouble a few years back in Jr. High. I'm sure I would've stayed on the misguided path had not an older, wiser computer hacker helped me see the light.
We need to spread the following maxim:
1) Just because it's easy, doesn't mean you should do it.
2) Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
3) Just because you'd like to, doesn't mean you should.
Okay, all three are really the same...but, we need to educate the masses.
There was a discussion on NPR today concerning digital music. An intellectual property lawyer was arguing that MP3s and services like Napster are coming under the same fire that VCR and VHS tapes did back in the 80s(?).
The movie companies and broadcast TV stations, were scared that VCRs would erode their markets. Suddenly, millions of viewers could record their programs and distribute them. How could the broadcasters protect their material?
They couldn't, and even today they cannot.
When Sony, among other companies, was brought to court, the judge ruled against the media companies for a few reasons:
1) The VCR technology had become penetrated the consumer market very deeply. To outlaw a device in common use would anger a huge amount of citizens.
2) If there is a legal use of a technology, like using VCR tapes to store personal videos, or share licensed material, the media cannot be made illegal even if there is an illegal market -- video pirates.
MP3s parallel VCRs so incredibly well. There is a legal market for MP3s, as evidenced by eMusic and MP3.com. These companies have been growing a customer base that isn't going to be happy if unnecesary restrictions are put upon them.
Further, by virtue of the aforementioned companies, MP3s have a legitamite and legal use: the preservation on digital media of home audio recordings.
Content distribution channels like Napster are going to come under fire, but this doesn't spell the end for MP3. This is only the beginning...
A quick search on the Internet reveals that Stuart Cheshire is still distributing Bolo, but no word of him actively developing it.
http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/
I'm not sure if Bolo could be ported to other platforms. The game really relies on AppleTalk.
All the Mac users out there must remember the classic tank game, Bolo.
It had so many cheating checks built into the game. It was impossible! Every player had to have the same major version of the game so that every player could keep tabs on every other player.
I'm sure that once you get to 64 way Half Life games, the network traffic generated by checking to see if a given player is moving too fast is unwieldly.