First off, if the EULA changes, which it does fairly often with most software in terms of upgrades, they'll have to have a history of EULA's available. So if you bought Half-Life Game of the Year edition with the orange box and not including this mod, here is your EULA, but if it has this mod and you bought it on a Tuesday, here's your EULA. It will get convoluted quickly.
Second, that implies that it is the users responsibility to check the company website before making a purchase.
saying something along the lines of "we don't know why the kids aren't buying more albums. This last boy band album was just like the others we've released, and they made millions."
Perhaps they'll eventually learn that a good script with an original story line even off a commonly used theme (see Big Fat Greek Wedding) will make more money than a rehashed overdone clone.
Give some reason for the customers to click. Offer prizes.
"If this banner is flashing, you may already be a winner!"
Well, did you win? People see right through that type of internet advertising as well, after punch the monkey and the annoying flashing banner has ZERO payoff.
This idea of peeling away layers is great for if you have a high bitrate file and want to use it on something of lesser "quality". What I don't understand is why these high quality, lossy codecs aren't good enough, ESPECIALLY for live shows. Maybe I'm missing something but if someone is taping a show off a microphone onto some digital device of some type, aren't you just losin quality there anyway? Even if you're patched into board you still have loss AND its a live show so like you could tell the difference anyway.
First off, off topic. But, might I ask why Microsoft has no right to make Word use a closed, binary format? Its their program after all. Their strategy SHOULD be profit. No company will survive if they aren't making a profit (excluding non-profits of course). The way they make their profit is by making some of the best software out there. You can claim all day long that Linux is FAR superior to Windows, but in terms of Joe Everyday user, Windows is just that much easier, and MacOS is a breeze. Microsoft has had some shady practices in terms of their EULAs on occasion. But there's nothing that says they have to include Netscape just like Coke doesn't need to sell a six pack with a bottle of Pepsi. If OEM's don't like that, then by a FULL license instead of an OEM one and they can do whatever they want.
So, if Microsoft sees a demand for DRM (from copyright holders, not users, but if they don't do it, someone else will) then they should try to be the first on the market to push it. Security of content is a inconvenience for us but don't blame Micorsoft, blame the people making a demand for it.
I'm totally in the same boat. I have a Celeron 566, formerly oc'd to 850 but lately kept 566 for stability. I've had the same CPU for quite a while but only now have I hit a spot where I actually need more CPU power and thats for that new Army game. Halflife and mods, Quake 3 and mods, all run perfectly fine. GTA3 liked to hiccup occasionally but honestly, in the land of 3ghz, 1 would do me just fine now.
It's like saying 64k will be enough for everyone. As bandwidth and speed increase, people WILL find a use for it. Its how the computer industry survives. No one needs a 3ghz Pentium, unless you want to run Quake 3 with fps in the triple digits, or you want to compress a DIVX even faster. So when bandwidth increases, expect your Mp3's in less than a second, a full length DIVX in a matter of minutes, or your linux iso faster than you can burn it.
I am from their second graduating class and it is a good program. Its 5 years with 5 quarters of COOP for graduation required. They are still working on the framework for their Masters program last I checked but and even their undergrad still needs SOME work. RIT also has CS,IT,CE,MIS, and even biomedical computing programs so no matter which flavor you want to go for, I'd look at RIT.
You act as if the RIAA and MPAA are out to control exactly what we see and hear. In reality, its just people working for an industry hoping to make money.
Lets go back in time a little with muscians. Do you think muscians were making any money in the 1800's? Heck no. But then there was this thing called radio. And then there was TV so you could see the beatles on Ed Sullivan. Elvis and the Beatles brought along the notion of a superstar. Then you get MTV, VH1, TNN, CMT, etc. Technology has done nothing but make more money for muscians. It helps propogate their music to more people. Minstrels to millionaires so to speak. Of course, an industry (RIAA) sprang up around it to protect the interests of musicians and much as you people don't want to hear it, thats what they are trying to do. Now, here's the rub.
The Internet
You can't reproduce a record cheaply, taping a tape loses quality. Who cares if you tape the Beatles on Sullivan or an MTV video. But you can easily copy a CD, you can easily share that ISO over the net, or even easier, share the MP3s. The RIAA could care less if pop if Britany is popular or Enya, all they care about is making sure the artists gets their money and they get their royalties. They aren't out to get us or control what we listen to, thats the record companies that want to push people signed to their labels.
The RIAA and MPAA are going to try anything they can to protect copyright and thus their interests. If technology continues the way it has, it instantly devalues all movies and music since you can so easily capture and distribute it. Muscians are forced to make their money at concerts since CD's no longer offer money. Their business model must change. The entire industry changes.
So if you're a millionaire, and you industry is on the verge of breaking apart, wouldn't you do everything you could to prevent that from happening to protect YOUR way of life? Not buying copyrighted material isn't the answer, since you won't get enough people to do that to make a difference. You need to change people SOCIALLY. How do you do that? I have no clue. But thinking that the copyright industry is out to get you is not the answer, they're just protecting themselves.
BSD is not at all dead, if it were, you wouldn't be seeing all this new development. As for Darwin's survival of the fittest, why do you think Apple called the underlying BSD system Darwin.:)
Sure, you might not be able to start writing your doc, but how hard is it to say you can't bring it with you period. If you pack it in luggage and your laptop decides to "wake up" from sleep mode or some sort of wake on lan, then you've got the same problems. It won't take long for them to say pull the battery.
Its not completely killing it, but it's certainly making a dent. I always use the example of Photoshop. Photoshop costs and arm and a leg but its one of the few programs that does what I want in terms of graphics. Gimp is free. Gimp has about 90% of the usable (as in stuff I would use) functionality in Photoshop. If it wasn't for Gimp, i'd probably use a pirated copy of Photoshop since there's no way I'm going to shell out that kind of cash for something I use on occasion.
If I have to pay more for the software than the OS it runs on, then its not worth buying.
This will take Divx beyond the desktops of those with broadband connections and into the living rooms of those who don't own computers.
Um, how may I ask are people without computers going to get the Divx movies to begin with and put them on a CDR? I think this is just a novelty thing allowing people who don't have method of getting their computer to their bigscreen TV a chance to at least watch somewhat decent quality movies IF they bother getting DIVX movies and IF they have a CDR and IF they have an X-Box.
You're taking this as the Internet is the last bastion of freedom we have left. Ten years ago, the Internet was nothing. There wasn't mass music pirating or DVD's or anything like that. If you wanted a friend's cd, you taped it, if you wanted a movie, you borrowed it.
The media and government hasn't changed, its the technology and the government couldn't keep up with it. If the DMCA went into effect 10 years ago, NONE of this type of debate would be going now because we wouldn't be used to things like Napster or doom9 etc. We conditioned ourselves on a technology where we can find things for "free" by bending some rules and we're getting called on it. Get used to it.
Of course, it'd also be good if the OSS people fixed their own bugs, like Mozilla
Security Advisory - RHSA-2002:079-13
Summary: Updated Mozilla packages fix a security issue
Updated packages are available which fix a security issue in Mozilla.
Description: One component of the XML Extras package in Mozilla 0.9.9 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files and list directories on a client system. This exploit is performed by opening a URL that redirects the browser to the file on the client and reading the results using the responseText property.
Anhinga is a nice little framework in Java for adhoc network applications currently being researched in conjunction with Sun.
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I'm a college student, and as a college student, I'm at the peak of my social career. I use the net and my computer more than ever but that definately doesn't detract from my socializing.
There are many more factors involving why people are turning to the net instead of socializing outwardly. Lets face it, you can't name "BoyScouts and thriving religious organizations" as the namesakes of socialization. Family and religious values went right out the window a long time ago due to science and the information age. When you see Islam, Buddhism, etc. on TV and in the paper, you start to rethink that maybe your beliefs aren't "perfect". I'm not saying religion doesn't have its place, but free information prevents you from being sheltered in.
If you want to show the connection between social interaction and the net, find out how often people communicate with distant relatives compared to how they used to. Compare the social hierarchy of the current workplace to that of the 50's and 60's. Take a look a GOOD look at how communication with the deaf has changed with the advent of instant messaging. Take a look at what things now take up people's time in terms of work and play. You need to take every factor into account.
They don't need to know everything, but I'd rather accept a student with a general understanding of computing than just a math whiz. From the curriculum I went through in college for Software Engineering, we cover authentication and encryption about 10 weeks out of 5 years.
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First off, if the EULA changes, which it does fairly often with most software in terms of upgrades, they'll have to have a history of EULA's available. So if you bought Half-Life Game of the Year edition with the orange box and not including this mod, here is your EULA, but if it has this mod and you bought it on a Tuesday, here's your EULA. It will get convoluted quickly.
Second, that implies that it is the users responsibility to check the company website before making a purchase.
What college students do you know with more than $2000?
saying something along the lines of "we don't know why the kids aren't buying more albums. This last boy band album was just like the others we've released, and they made millions."
Perhaps they'll eventually learn that a good script with an original story line even off a commonly used theme (see Big Fat Greek Wedding) will make more money than a rehashed overdone clone.
then I could...
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Sorry, thats just wrong.
Missed first post cause I was walking across the room.
:)
Karma burning
Give some reason for the customers to click. Offer prizes.
"If this banner is flashing, you may already be a winner!"
Well, did you win? People see right through that type of internet advertising as well, after punch the monkey and the annoying flashing banner has ZERO payoff.
Seems to me that its just a more advanced refridgerator. Rather than moving freon to the back, it moves methanol to the sides. No news here people.
This idea of peeling away layers is great for if you have a high bitrate file and want to use it on something of lesser "quality". What I don't understand is why these high quality, lossy codecs aren't good enough, ESPECIALLY for live shows. Maybe I'm missing something but if someone is taping a show off a microphone onto some digital device of some type, aren't you just losin quality there anyway? Even if you're patched into board you still have loss AND its a live show so like you could tell the difference anyway.
First off, off topic. But, might I ask why Microsoft has no right to make Word use a closed, binary format? Its their program after all. Their strategy SHOULD be profit. No company will survive if they aren't making a profit (excluding non-profits of course). The way they make their profit is by making some of the best software out there. You can claim all day long that Linux is FAR superior to Windows, but in terms of Joe Everyday user, Windows is just that much easier, and MacOS is a breeze. Microsoft has had some shady practices in terms of their EULAs on occasion. But there's nothing that says they have to include Netscape just like Coke doesn't need to sell a six pack with a bottle of Pepsi. If OEM's don't like that, then by a FULL license instead of an OEM one and they can do whatever they want.
So, if Microsoft sees a demand for DRM (from copyright holders, not users, but if they don't do it, someone else will) then they should try to be the first on the market to push it. Security of content is a inconvenience for us but don't blame Micorsoft, blame the people making a demand for it.
BTW, I use Debian.
But folding@home doesn't make you money, while these things do. :) Money makes the world go round.
Ignore my last post, I just realized its legal issues. Stupid legal issues.
Except you can't play it on linux....unless you have an nVidia card. Supporting something available on one brand is very shortsighted if you ask me.
I'm totally in the same boat. I have a Celeron 566, formerly oc'd to 850 but lately kept 566 for stability. I've had the same CPU for quite a while but only now have I hit a spot where I actually need more CPU power and thats for that new Army game. Halflife and mods, Quake 3 and mods, all run perfectly fine. GTA3 liked to hiccup occasionally but honestly, in the land of 3ghz, 1 would do me just fine now.
It's like saying 64k will be enough for everyone. As bandwidth and speed increase, people WILL find a use for it. Its how the computer industry survives. No one needs a 3ghz Pentium, unless you want to run Quake 3 with fps in the triple digits, or you want to compress a DIVX even faster. So when bandwidth increases, expect your Mp3's in less than a second, a full length DIVX in a matter of minutes, or your linux iso faster than you can burn it.
I am from their second graduating class and it is a good program. Its 5 years with 5 quarters of COOP for graduation required. They are still working on the framework for their Masters program last I checked but and even their undergrad still needs SOME work. RIT also has CS,IT,CE,MIS, and even biomedical computing programs so no matter which flavor you want to go for, I'd look at RIT.
You act as if the RIAA and MPAA are out to control exactly what we see and hear. In reality, its just people working for an industry hoping to make money.
Lets go back in time a little with muscians. Do you think muscians were making any money in the 1800's? Heck no. But then there was this thing called radio. And then there was TV so you could see the beatles on Ed Sullivan. Elvis and the Beatles brought along the notion of a superstar. Then you get MTV, VH1, TNN, CMT, etc. Technology has done nothing but make more money for muscians. It helps propogate their music to more people. Minstrels to millionaires so to speak. Of course, an industry (RIAA) sprang up around it to protect the interests of musicians and much as you people don't want to hear it, thats what they are trying to do. Now, here's the rub.
The Internet
You can't reproduce a record cheaply, taping a tape loses quality. Who cares if you tape the Beatles on Sullivan or an MTV video. But you can easily copy a CD, you can easily share that ISO over the net, or even easier, share the MP3s. The RIAA could care less if pop if Britany is popular or Enya, all they care about is making sure the artists gets their money and they get their royalties. They aren't out to get us or control what we listen to, thats the record companies that want to push people signed to their labels.
The RIAA and MPAA are going to try anything they can to protect copyright and thus their interests. If technology continues the way it has, it instantly devalues all movies and music since you can so easily capture and distribute it. Muscians are forced to make their money at concerts since CD's no longer offer money. Their business model must change. The entire industry changes.
So if you're a millionaire, and you industry is on the verge of breaking apart, wouldn't you do everything you could to prevent that from happening to protect YOUR way of life? Not buying copyrighted material isn't the answer, since you won't get enough people to do that to make a difference. You need to change people SOCIALLY. How do you do that? I have no clue. But thinking that the copyright industry is out to get you is not the answer, they're just protecting themselves.
BSD is not at all dead, if it were, you wouldn't be seeing all this new development. As for Darwin's survival of the fittest, why do you think Apple called the underlying BSD system Darwin. :)
Sure, you might not be able to start writing your doc, but how hard is it to say you can't bring it with you period. If you pack it in luggage and your laptop decides to "wake up" from sleep mode or some sort of wake on lan, then you've got the same problems. It won't take long for them to say pull the battery.
Its not completely killing it, but it's certainly making a dent. I always use the example of Photoshop. Photoshop costs and arm and a leg but its one of the few programs that does what I want in terms of graphics. Gimp is free. Gimp has about 90% of the usable (as in stuff I would use) functionality in Photoshop. If it wasn't for Gimp, i'd probably use a pirated copy of Photoshop since there's no way I'm going to shell out that kind of cash for something I use on occasion.
If I have to pay more for the software than the OS it runs on, then its not worth buying.
This will take Divx beyond the desktops of those with broadband connections and into the living rooms of those who don't own computers.
Um, how may I ask are people without computers going to get the Divx movies to begin with and put them on a CDR? I think this is just a novelty thing allowing people who don't have method of getting their computer to their bigscreen TV a chance to at least watch somewhat decent quality movies IF they bother getting DIVX movies and IF they have a CDR and IF they have an X-Box.
You're taking this as the Internet is the last bastion of freedom we have left. Ten years ago, the Internet was nothing. There wasn't mass music pirating or DVD's or anything like that. If you wanted a friend's cd, you taped it, if you wanted a movie, you borrowed it.
The media and government hasn't changed, its the technology and the government couldn't keep up with it. If the DMCA went into effect 10 years ago, NONE of this type of debate would be going now because we wouldn't be used to things like Napster or doom9 etc. We conditioned ourselves on a technology where we can find things for "free" by bending some rules and we're getting called on it. Get used to it.
Of course, it'd also be good if the OSS people fixed their own bugs, like Mozilla
Security Advisory - RHSA-2002:079-13
Summary:
Updated Mozilla packages fix a security issue
Updated packages are available which fix a security issue in Mozilla.
Description:
One component of the XML Extras package in Mozilla 0.9.9 and
earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files and list
directories on a client system. This exploit is performed by opening a
URL
that redirects the browser to the file on the client and reading the
results using the responseText property.
http://www.cs.rit.edu/~anhinga/
Anhinga is a nice little framework in Java for adhoc network applications currently being researched in conjunction with Sun.
I'm a college student, and as a college student, I'm at the peak of my social career. I use the net and my computer more than ever but that definately doesn't detract from my socializing.
There are many more factors involving why people are turning to the net instead of socializing outwardly. Lets face it, you can't name "BoyScouts and thriving religious organizations" as the namesakes of socialization. Family and religious values went right out the window a long time ago due to science and the information age. When you see Islam, Buddhism, etc. on TV and in the paper, you start to rethink that maybe your beliefs aren't "perfect". I'm not saying religion doesn't have its place, but free information prevents you from being sheltered in.
If you want to show the connection between social interaction and the net, find out how often people communicate with distant relatives compared to how they used to. Compare the social hierarchy of the current workplace to that of the 50's and 60's. Take a look a GOOD look at how communication with the deaf has changed with the advent of instant messaging. Take a look at what things now take up people's time in terms of work and play. You need to take every factor into account.
They don't need to know everything, but I'd rather accept a student with a general understanding of computing than just a math whiz. From the curriculum I went through in college for Software Engineering, we cover authentication and encryption about 10 weeks out of 5 years.