In MY day, we toggled programs into the front panel with SWITCHES, and we LIKED IT! Now get off my lawn, you damn kids.
I remember those days also. PDP11/35 16 bit machine with 128K memory. Somewhere I still have my assembly programmer card. If I remember right up for address and down to store data.
I would have hated to have seen the easy test. It seemed repetitive and all very easy, with a lot of port number questions, firewall questions, and basic TCP/IP utility questions, most of which I could have passed without hardly any actual study.
Why is the exam so expensive? It is an order of magnitude above what I paid for my ISCET journeyman exam.
W.W.J.B - What would Jesus Ban? Could simply being an asshole and blacklisting your music selection have an adverse effect on your sales. After all I'm sure no one would steal christian music.
I have found much Christian music to have almost all of the same aliments as major labels music.
Compressed to sound loud High Prices as other major labels or higher. Same association.. RIAA Same restrictions on public performance (can't play it in church without yet another license) Other than the lyrics, it's the same stuff they play on the radio for the most part.
The biggest reasons I don't buy Christian music is I have little exposure to it. It is seldom pirated and as a result, I have little knowledge of what is good.
I went to an Easter church service where the choir did "Red Letters". I bought the CD (expensive). I didn't like the band. I haven't played it since. What a waste of money. I would much rather had the recording of the church choir.
I remember what happened to the greedy money changers.
So, you prevented a customer from buying a CD, and you wonder why is it that you sell less CDs?
That is a small drop in the bucket. Try any of the following;
1 A movie is cheaper. DVD purchases + rentals by my family is at least 20X our CD purchases. 2 Poor Quality. Dynamic range has been compressed killing the advantage of CD's 3 Bad record of defective by design releases may break your PC. Hard to quickly identify real CD's. 4 Rebellion against the lawsuits 5 Internet Radio 6 High Prices (I know repeat of #1) 7 More competition for the entertainment dollar.. Broadband subscription instead of dial-up, New HDTV, DVD, Game Console, MP3 Player, Cable Subscription, Gas for road trip, Better Wheels, Satelite radio, Clothes, Amusement park, Concert,... Again High priced CD's limit purchases. 8 For some, fair quality DRM downloads at a buck a track. You don't have to purchase a $18 CD for 2 or 3 good tracks. 9 And last but not least.. Piracy. Killing only one of 9 major factors is only going to put a minor dent in the overall CD sales problem.
What? Music has always been data. This guy isn't a music lover, he's a memorabilia lover.
What he did discover isn't that the music is 1's and 0's, but that DRM is Defective by Design. He could not use the defective product and found out after the sale.
His beef is summed up in the last paragraph of the article.
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Only problem there is that I'm not a large customer, just a normal guy with a server in the closet
Again, contact the manufacture. Your milage may vary.
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Wow, I checked the replies so I wouldn't be redundant. There is a solution to your sensitive data problem as it is common.
After a few months a disk fails. I remove it and want to get it replaced under warranty
Contact the manufacture. Explain the problem. Most will accept the removed top cover with serial number intact in place of the entire drive for warranty replacement. They offer this service because they do not want to lose volume customers to the competition. Securely dispose of the remainder of the drive in a safe fashion.
Hopefully hardware-based encryption will become standard soon.
FYI, it is on the NAS by Simple Tech, the Simple Share external Network Attached Storage. Works fine. When the volume is un-mounted (power down) it does not re-mount on power-up. To enable the encrypted volume, you have to use a web based configuration utilitie into which the encryption key is entered. The only downside is the key is sent in the clear. For the truly paranoid, use a laptop and unplug the NAS from the net to enter the key to prevent any man in the middle attack.
Given the complete and utter riduculousness that is Windows Activation, your best bet is to upgrade to Windows 2000.
I had given that a thought, but hardware support turned out to be an issue. I had a Windows 2K system. Much new transportable hardware is not directly supported and needs driver installs just to use things like thumb drives and presentation remotes. Using your laptop on the road and a client says, take a look at this file.. Plugging the thumb drive brings up Windows is searching for a driver for USB Mass Storage Device. You are away from your network connection. Your client is away from his office. How do you find a driver in the field in the next 3 minutes? XP and Ubuntu don't have that problem. Displaying photos, Documents, Spreadsheets just work from a thumb drive or iPod.
What is this pro-Microsoft peice doing on Slashdot?! There's nothing slamming Vista, nothing on DRM, there isn't even a flying chair or mention of upgrading to Ubuntu instead. I'm disgusted!
Maybe it is not in the article, but for your enjoyment most of it is in the comments here.
Is it worth upgrading a working XP copy? Hell no! Is it worth learning about so that your comfortable? Hell yes.
This was my arguement exactly for upgrading to Ubuntu. The XP machine is still an XP machine, but the Windows 98 machines and 2000 machine are converted.
If you had asked me a month ago if I planned to move to vista I would have laughed circles around you. If you had asked me 6 months ago if I planned to move to Ubuntu I would have laughed circles around you.
I rather enjoy "windows mail" the OE replacement. I rather enjoy Evolution the Outlook replacement It even has a calander so I could finaly move people away from outlook. It even has a calander so I could finaly move people away from outlook. If you fix computers, you will have to learn it eventually. Theres no use delaying the inevitable. If you fix computers, you will have to learn it eventually. Theres no use delaying the inevitable.
I can't believe 'home' editions can not fax or scan. must be a misprint.
Skip the home version. Go to Ubuntu instead. It works just fine with my Cannon scanner. I haven't tried to send a fax yet, but photocoping and scanning are simple. The range of save options is much greater in the Gimp than anything I have ever seen in any Windows application.
Uhh ISO now fast tracks Microsoft submissions, havnt you heard? One good thing that MSFT is now pushing their standards, that forces Adobe to follow suit with their submissions. The great thing about standards is there is so many to choose from now:)
ISO Certification fast track or not, the Customers will demand formats that exchange nicely. MS is working hard to prevent it as seen in the article..
"Redmonk Analyst Stephen O'Grady said Microsoft could not -- for any number of reasons, most of them political -- support ODF earlier on in the process.
"ODF support would have to be compelled by external parties, and large ones at that," O'Grady said. "I'm sure many within Microsoft hoped that ODF would indeed fade away, but I doubt they expected that, and once it trod down the path towards ISO certification, this move was probably a given." "
It is going to be a fierce battle for a while as MS pushes for their own in house solution and hope the other format will die out because their format is extended.
"The move is a big about-face for Microsoft, which has said it would not natively support ODF, openly dismissing the standard as too "limited" to meet the demands of the market."
MS is trying to define the market again instead of leting the market define the market. If it is too limited to meet the demands of the market, why is the market demanding it? The market is demanding it because the MS format is too limited. The limitation is in it's inability to be accessed by other systems.
It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services that are used to circumvent measures that control access to copyrighted works
You mean posting "Many DRM stricken PDF (especially DRM which prevents printing) can be dealt with is not dissemination of technology that are used to circumvent measures that control access to copyrighted works?
I wonder if discussing "how to circumvent" is a violation. I was under the understanding the very discussion of how to circumvent DRM was a violation in itself.
ISO Certification failure = Product rejection. Embrace, extend, extinguish doens't work when certification acceptance is put in contracts by customers, States and Countries.
It appears that this wont make its way into the Open Source community; however, it does open up the market to competition. More competition is better than zero competition.
Not a problem.. As more places demand Open Document Format and other NON-Microsoft ISO certified formats, MS will have to adopt open standards instead or be left out.
I'd love to see the DMCA go away, but violating it just to entice someone else to violate it further doesn't have any effect on the law itself. If I am missing something here, please tell me, since the NFL appears to have acted within the law initially.
Was it violated? Was it fair use? Since the game wasn't recorded and posted online, I doubt the DMCA was violated. Please don't state the infraction as a done deal fact. A copyright notice was posted online for education in copyright law. Was that a DMCA violation?
They get their software OEM at a significantly lower cost or they "pirate" it.
Absolutely true.. until the machine is about 2 years old. Then the first hit is free model kicks in and you are hit with the sticker shock of the upgrade treadmill. I can buy a new PC with warranty for about the same price as just a software upgrade to my older slower PC. Have you priced a retail version of Windows XP, MS Office, Norton AV, and Photoshop Elements? Compare that with a bundled new PC price.
My older PC's are not ready for the landfill. I also have no desire to empty the bank to update them.
What is so wrong with wanting a version of MS Office I can load on my laptop and desktop without paying 2X the price?
You may argue that Microsoft is missing an opportunity by not offering "site licenses" for home users, and I wouldn't disagree,
Thanks. By not meeting consumer demands, they are quickly being left out of this market. I wish I had figures on the number of Open Office installations on both Linux and Windows. The Open Document Format as certified by ISO is going to give MS nightmares.
Many DRM stricken PDF (especially DRM which prevents printing) can be dealt with convert drmstricken.pdf tmp.ps; convert tmp.ps free.pdf in linux. While this makes the files huge and unsearchable, an additional OCR allows to recover most of the text. As usual, DRM does not prevent access, but makes it a nuisance.
If you are going to openly share how to do a DMCA violation; at least post AC.
Have you seen the prices for common standards like CAN-BUS (Car Area Network) and OBD (On-Board Diagnostics)? It's usually over $1,000 for a SINGLE copy of the standard, and last I looked, you couldn't get electronic copies, only paper.
The National Electrical Code is starting to get expensive now that the $20 book is well over $100. Remember you have to abide by the code.. even for low voltage stuff like running a cat 5 cable. The trouble is that they make it very difficult to know what the code is without leaving behind a serious chunk of change.
My last inspected job passed! I didn't buy the book but followed the online discussion on the codebook revisions so I knew what changed.
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In MY day, we toggled programs into the front panel with SWITCHES, and we LIKED IT! Now get off my lawn, you damn kids.
I remember those days also. PDP11/35 16 bit machine with 128K memory. Somewhere I still have my assembly programmer card. If I remember right up for address and down to store data.
I just looked.. The prices of the ISCET exam has gone up also, but it is still 3x the price.
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ISCET exam prices..
TESTING FEES
Associate and One Journeyman Exam $75.00
Journeyman Exam $50.00
Associate Exam $45.00
Endorsements $50.00
http://www.iscetedu.net/ec/certManager/registerIn
I did pass on my first try. I have also taken my Low Voltage NEC classes. (Class 2 electrical)
So at todays prices the ISCET exam is $75 compared to $225 for the non-member in home tech exam.
I would have hated to have seen the easy test. It seemed repetitive and all very easy, with a lot of port number questions, firewall questions, and basic TCP/IP utility questions, most of which I could have passed without hardly any actual study.
Why is the exam so expensive? It is an order of magnitude above what I paid for my ISCET journeyman exam.
W.W.J.B - What would Jesus Ban? Could simply being an asshole and blacklisting your music selection have an adverse effect on your sales. After all I'm sure no one would steal christian music.
I have found much Christian music to have almost all of the same aliments as major labels music.
Compressed to sound loud
High Prices as other major labels or higher.
Same association.. RIAA
Same restrictions on public performance (can't play it in church without yet another license)
Other than the lyrics, it's the same stuff they play on the radio for the most part.
The biggest reasons I don't buy Christian music is I have little exposure to it. It is seldom pirated and as a result, I have little knowledge of what is good.
I went to an Easter church service where the choir did "Red Letters". I bought the CD (expensive). I didn't like the band. I haven't played it since. What a waste of money. I would much rather had the recording of the church choir.
I remember what happened to the greedy money changers.
So, you prevented a customer from buying a CD, and you wonder why is it that you sell less CDs?
.. Piracy. Killing only one of 9 major factors is only going to put a minor dent in the overall CD sales problem.
That is a small drop in the bucket. Try any of the following;
1 A movie is cheaper. DVD purchases + rentals by my family is at least 20X our CD purchases.
2 Poor Quality. Dynamic range has been compressed killing the advantage of CD's
3 Bad record of defective by design releases may break your PC. Hard to quickly identify real CD's.
4 Rebellion against the lawsuits
5 Internet Radio
6 High Prices (I know repeat of #1)
7 More competition for the entertainment dollar.. Broadband subscription instead of dial-up, New HDTV, DVD, Game Console, MP3 Player, Cable Subscription, Gas for road trip, Better Wheels, Satelite radio, Clothes, Amusement park, Concert,... Again High priced CD's limit purchases.
8 For some, fair quality DRM downloads at a buck a track. You don't have to purchase a $18 CD for 2 or 3 good tracks.
9 And last but not least
What? Music has always been data. This guy isn't a music lover, he's a memorabilia lover.
What he did discover isn't that the music is 1's and 0's, but that DRM is Defective by Design. He could not use the defective product and found out after the sale.
His beef is summed up in the last paragraph of the article.
Only problem there is that I'm not a large customer, just a normal guy with a server in the closet
Again, contact the manufacture. Your milage may vary.
Wow, I checked the replies so I wouldn't be redundant. There is a solution to your sensitive data problem as it is common.
After a few months a disk fails. I remove it and want to get it replaced under warranty
Contact the manufacture. Explain the problem. Most will accept the removed top cover with serial number intact in place of the entire drive for warranty replacement. They offer this service because they do not want to lose volume customers to the competition. Securely dispose of the remainder of the drive in a safe fashion.
Hopefully hardware-based encryption will become standard soon.
FYI, it is on the NAS by Simple Tech, the Simple Share external Network Attached Storage. Works fine. When the volume is un-mounted (power down) it does not re-mount on power-up. To enable the encrypted volume, you have to use a web based configuration utilitie into which the encryption key is entered. The only downside is the key is sent in the clear. For the truly paranoid, use a laptop and unplug the NAS from the net to enter the key to prevent any man in the middle attack.
This has to be one of the most ridiculous statements I have ever read. Did you even read the article? Are you just a moron?
Do you recognise Humor? Have you seen this arguement used before for another operating system? This is a returning to haunt parody on MS.
Given the complete and utter riduculousness that is Windows Activation, your best bet is to upgrade to Windows 2000.
I had given that a thought, but hardware support turned out to be an issue. I had a Windows 2K system. Much new transportable hardware is not directly supported and needs driver installs just to use things like thumb drives and presentation remotes. Using your laptop on the road and a client says, take a look at this file.. Plugging the thumb drive brings up Windows is searching for a driver for USB Mass Storage Device. You are away from your network connection. Your client is away from his office. How do you find a driver in the field in the next 3 minutes? XP and Ubuntu don't have that problem. Displaying photos, Documents, Spreadsheets just work from a thumb drive or iPod.
What is this pro-Microsoft peice doing on Slashdot?! There's nothing slamming Vista, nothing on DRM, there isn't even a flying chair or mention of upgrading to Ubuntu instead. I'm disgusted!
Maybe it is not in the article, but for your enjoyment most of it is in the comments here.
Um Steve Bal.. um Eve,
I may get modded informative, but you don't have to log in as AC to post AC.
See the little checkbox right over the Preview and Submit buttons?
Try checking the one marked "Post Anonymously"
Is it worth upgrading a working XP copy? Hell no! Is it worth learning about so that your comfortable? Hell yes.
;-)
This was my arguement exactly for upgrading to Ubuntu. The XP machine is still an XP machine, but the Windows 98 machines and 2000 machine are converted.
If you had asked me a month ago if I planned to move to vista I would have laughed circles around you.
If you had asked me 6 months ago if I planned to move to Ubuntu I would have laughed circles around you.
I rather enjoy "windows mail" the OE replacement.
I rather enjoy Evolution the Outlook replacement
It even has a calander so I could finaly move people away from outlook.
It even has a calander so I could finaly move people away from outlook.
If you fix computers, you will have to learn it eventually. Theres no use delaying the inevitable.
If you fix computers, you will have to learn it eventually. Theres no use delaying the inevitable.
Sorry, I couldn't help my self..
I can't believe 'home' editions can not fax or scan. must be a misprint.
Skip the home version. Go to Ubuntu instead. It works just fine with my Cannon scanner. I haven't tried to send a fax yet, but photocoping and scanning are simple. The range of save options is much greater in the Gimp than anything I have ever seen in any Windows application.
Uhh ISO now fast tracks Microsoft submissions, havnt you heard? One good thing that MSFT is now pushing their standards, that forces Adobe to follow suit with their submissions. The great thing about standards is there is so many to choose from now :)
ISO Certification fast track or not, the Customers will demand formats that exchange nicely. MS is working hard to prevent it as seen in the article..
"Redmonk Analyst Stephen O'Grady said Microsoft could not -- for any number of reasons, most of them political -- support ODF earlier on in the process.
"ODF support would have to be compelled by external parties, and large ones at that," O'Grady said. "I'm sure many within Microsoft hoped that ODF would indeed fade away, but I doubt they expected that, and once it trod down the path towards ISO certification, this move was probably a given." "
It is going to be a fierce battle for a while as MS pushes for their own in house solution and hope the other format will die out because their format is extended.
"The move is a big about-face for Microsoft, which has said it would not natively support ODF, openly dismissing the standard as too "limited" to meet the demands of the market."
MS is trying to define the market again instead of leting the market define the market.
If it is too limited to meet the demands of the market, why is the market demanding it? The market is demanding it because the MS format is too limited. The limitation is in it's inability to be accessed by other systems.
Good luck the the new browser war!
I doubt if this violates the DMCA.
It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services that are used to circumvent measures that control access to copyrighted works
You mean posting "Many DRM stricken PDF (especially DRM which prevents printing)
can be dealt with is not dissemination of technology that are used to circumvent measures that control access to copyrighted works?
I wonder if discussing "how to circumvent" is a violation. I was under the understanding the very discussion of how to circumvent DRM was a violation in itself.
embrace, extend, extinguish.
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ISO Certification failure = Product rejection. Embrace, extend, extinguish doens't work when certification acceptance is put in contracts by customers, States and Countries.
ODF Certification is done.. http://www.gcn.com/blogs/tech/40647.html
Adoby PDF certification application.. http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/43015-1.html
However, you are correct they are trying to embrace, extend, extinguish.
MS application.. http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/
It appears that this wont make its way into the Open Source community; however, it does open up the market to competition. More competition is better than zero competition.
Not a problem.. As more places demand Open Document Format and other NON-Microsoft ISO certified formats, MS will have to adopt open standards instead or be left out.
To most home users, MS Office is "free" (either bundled or pirated).
WGA is opening up a lot of computers to use something other than Pirated. It isn't always "Bundled"
WGA and upgrade cost is only two of the reasons I have 3 Ubuntu installations.
I'd love to see the DMCA go away, but violating it just to entice someone else to violate it further doesn't have any effect on the law itself. If I am missing something here, please tell me, since the NFL appears to have acted within the law initially.
Was it violated? Was it fair use? Since the game wasn't recorded and posted online, I doubt the DMCA was violated. Please don't state the infraction as a done deal fact. A copyright notice was posted online for education in copyright law. Was that a DMCA violation?
They get their software OEM at a significantly lower cost or they "pirate" it.
Absolutely true.. until the machine is about 2 years old. Then the first hit is free model kicks in and you are hit with the sticker shock of the upgrade treadmill. I can buy a new PC with warranty for about the same price as just a software upgrade to my older slower PC. Have you priced a retail version of Windows XP, MS Office, Norton AV, and Photoshop Elements? Compare that with a bundled new PC price.
My older PC's are not ready for the landfill. I also have no desire to empty the bank to update them.
What is so wrong with wanting a version of MS Office I can load on my laptop and desktop without paying 2X the price?
You may argue that Microsoft is missing an opportunity by not offering "site licenses" for home users, and I wouldn't disagree,
Thanks. By not meeting consumer demands, they are quickly being left out of this market.
I wish I had figures on the number of Open Office installations on both Linux and Windows.
The Open Document Format as certified by ISO is going to give MS nightmares.
Many DRM stricken PDF (especially DRM which prevents printing)
can be dealt with
convert drmstricken.pdf tmp.ps; convert tmp.ps free.pdf
in linux. While this makes the files huge and unsearchable, an
additional OCR allows to recover most of the text. As usual,
DRM does not prevent access, but makes it a nuisance.
If you are going to openly share how to do a DMCA violation; at least post AC.
Have you seen the prices for common standards like CAN-BUS (Car Area Network) and OBD (On-Board Diagnostics)? It's usually over $1,000 for a SINGLE copy of the standard, and last I looked, you couldn't get electronic copies, only paper.
The National Electrical Code is starting to get expensive now that the $20 book is well over $100. Remember you have to abide by the code.. even for low voltage stuff like running a cat 5 cable. The trouble is that they make it very difficult to know what the code is without leaving behind a serious chunk of change.
My last inspected job passed! I didn't buy the book but followed the online discussion on the codebook revisions so I knew what changed.
Did you just admit a DMCA violaton in public?
Oh your posting AC. Phew!