Oh come on, I'd be pissed off to, if I had to work with Jar Jar as a publicity stunt. They probably just caught him before his morning coffee, and started harassing him about having to work with an children's character added in post-production.
These prices you're throwing around are *way* below the average. Here in my tiny little upstate college town, movie tickets for evening showings are $7.75, the carbonated battery acid is $3-5, and the puffed starch is $4-6. Taking a family of four to the movies costs about $40-$50.
If you want to hit the theaters where it hurts, ignore the concession stand.
Or is there some technical reason to make BO2K a cracking tool and SMS not one?
Actually, for all practical purposes, what makes SMS not a cracking tool is its cost and its bloat. The average script kiddie (obviously) could not afford a legit copy of SMS, and probably wouldn't be able to figure it out if he/she did have it. Ironically, what makes BO2k a "cracking tool" is its price and ease-of-use. I'm sure that if MS made SMS small, easy, and free, crackers would have a field-day with it, too.
This is seriously good news. I worked in Max pretty much all through college, but then after I graduated, I went to wintel for apps like Sonic Foundry and so forth. I'm really glad that jMax is back on a better platform, and I'm excited to start working in the newer audio DSP stuff. (Max through v2.5 only did MIDI processing.)
How about your root password, is that worth hiding? Let's not forget that ssh is also crypto.
You say, "wouldn't it be way easier for someone to crack into your system and steal your key?" Well, then use crypto to prevent people from cracking your system. Shut down services that aren't needed, and only allow ssh logins.
Another mistake in the article was the continual reference to NT being able to see FAT32 filesystems. Unless they've finally fixed that, NT and FAT32 are completely incompatible.
> At least Jar Jar is an alien race, which theoretically at least COULD be that annoying. Also, the annoyance, in it's own strange way, explains some of the friction between the Gungans and the Naboo.
Yeah, but I got the impression that Jar Jar was about to be exiled/jailed by his own people, when whatshisface the jedi master "rescues" him. So it's not even the species that's that annoying. It that one particular character.
First, my comments make the assumption that the site(s) in question provide mp3s for download legally, a la mp3.com. Since warez sites follow a different philosophy, my comments don't really apply to them.
Question: by "warez" site, do you mean those sites with endless porno consoles and blink tags that never actually go anywhere (aka warez.com), or are we talking about an unpublished ftp server that someone's running out of their basement? The former would probably never carry Grateful Dead mp3's, but the latter is probably much more likely to comply with the Dead's licensing than mp3.com.
Of course, then there's the ethical issue of whether Grateful Dead trading should be subsidized by the work and efforts of other bands who are, after all, competitors in a sense, which is what is arguably happening if banner ads to pay for the sites are viewed when downloading their material.
This is more to the point, I think. I would say that an ideal solution would be for commercial mp3 sites to simply not carry Dead tunes. Leave it up to the amateurs, who have more of a vested interest in keeping it real.
Look at it this way-- before mp3s and the internet, cassette tapes and the parking lot outside concerts served much the same function. This is simply extending the same rules to new media. And I would imagine that it's perfectly all right to ask people to pay for shipping or the cost of the CD-R, since you're still not making a profit off the transaction.
I think that the Grateful Dead were pretty revolutionary in their treatment of "bootlegging". Instead of considering it a loss of revenue, they called it free promotion. If only Fox would do the same thing with Simpsons fan sites!
What I'd like to know is, where can one buy an NLX motherboard? Any who's had the opportunity to open up a Dell Optiplex knows that they're the way to go! On an NLX mobo, the PCI/ISA bus is on a daughterboard that can be easily pulled out of the machine without disturbing anything else. Also, at least on the Optiplex, the case opens with a single button in a similar way as the G3 mac, and the power supply and HD bays are on hinges to make removal simple. Definitely the easiest PC hardware I've ever worked with.
Is TV violence part of our culture? Sure! Does it desensitize people to violence? No doubt about it. Does it blur the morality of violence? Seems likely. But does it actually
cause violent behaviour? Well, that's debatable. It's all in how you phrase the question.
Not that I think these people should win the lawsuit, but I don't think that media culture in the U.S. values human life too much, either.
This seems like a kind of ack-basswards way of going about it, doesn't it? Mind you, I think that it's great that they're transforming the turntable into a real-time digital audio controller, but wouldn't it make more sense just to be able to burn your mp3s onto vinyl? Anyone know how much a used record press goes for these days? Or how hard it is to use?
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Oh come on, I'd be pissed off to, if I had to work with Jar Jar as a publicity stunt. They probably just caught him before his morning coffee, and started harassing him about having to work with an children's character added in post-production.
These prices you're throwing around are *way* below the average. Here in my tiny little upstate college town, movie tickets for evening showings are $7.75, the carbonated battery acid is $3-5, and the puffed starch is $4-6. Taking a family of four to the movies costs about $40-$50.
If you want to hit the theaters where it hurts, ignore the concession stand.
Actually, for all practical purposes, what makes SMS not a cracking tool is its cost and its bloat. The average script kiddie (obviously) could not afford a legit copy of SMS, and probably wouldn't be able to figure it out if he/she did have it. Ironically, what makes BO2k a "cracking tool" is its price and ease-of-use. I'm sure that if MS made SMS small, easy, and free, crackers would have a field-day with it, too.
This is seriously good news. I worked in Max pretty much all through college, but then after I graduated, I went to wintel for apps like Sonic Foundry and so forth. I'm really glad that jMax is back on a better platform, and I'm excited to start working in the newer audio DSP stuff. (Max through v2.5 only did MIDI processing.)
That's funny, I thought it was a Whitney Houston lyric. I shit you not.
--Alex
How about your root password, is that worth hiding? Let's not forget that ssh is also crypto.
You say, "wouldn't it be way easier for someone to crack into your system and steal your key?" Well, then use crypto to prevent people from cracking your system. Shut down services that aren't needed, and only allow ssh logins.
--Alex
Another mistake in the article was the continual reference to NT being able to see FAT32 filesystems. Unless they've finally fixed that, NT and FAT32 are completely incompatible.
--Alex
This didn't work for me.. I kept getting the same error. Funny thing is, util/wmsetbg.c, which is what was giving the error, actually does have an
#include "../WINGs/WUtil.h"
in it. Oh well, back to 0.53 for me.
Yeah, but I got the impression that Jar Jar was about to be exiled/jailed by his own people, when whatshisface the jedi master "rescues" him. So it's not even the species that's that annoying. It that one particular character.
Question: by "warez" site, do you mean those sites with endless porno consoles and blink tags that never actually go anywhere (aka warez.com), or are we talking about an unpublished ftp server that someone's running out of their basement? The former would probably never carry Grateful Dead mp3's, but the latter is probably much more likely to comply with the Dead's licensing than mp3.com.
This is more to the point, I think. I would say that an ideal solution would be for commercial mp3 sites to simply not carry Dead tunes. Leave it up to the amateurs, who have more of a vested interest in keeping it real.
--Alex
Look at it this way-- before mp3s and the internet, cassette tapes and the parking lot outside concerts served much the same function. This is simply extending the same rules to new media. And I would imagine that it's perfectly all right to ask people to pay for shipping or the cost of the CD-R, since you're still not making a profit off the transaction.
I think that the Grateful Dead were pretty revolutionary in their treatment of "bootlegging". Instead of considering it a loss of revenue, they called it free promotion. If only Fox would do the same thing with Simpsons fan sites!
What I'd like to know is, where can one buy an NLX motherboard? Any who's had the opportunity to open up a Dell Optiplex knows that they're the way to go! On an NLX mobo, the PCI/ISA bus is on a daughterboard that can be easily pulled out of the machine without disturbing anything else. Also, at least on the Optiplex, the case opens with a single button in a similar way as the G3 mac, and the power supply and HD bays are on hinges to make removal simple. Definitely the easiest PC hardware I've ever worked with.
--Alex
Approximately quoted from Calvin & Hobbes:
Not that I think these people should win the lawsuit, but I don't think that media culture in the U.S. values human life too much, either.
--AlexThis seems like a kind of ack-basswards way of going about it, doesn't it? Mind you, I think that it's great that they're transforming the turntable into a real-time digital audio controller, but wouldn't it make more sense just to be able to burn your mp3s onto vinyl? Anyone know how much a used record press goes for these days? Or how hard it is to use?