Well instead of blaming the editors, why don't the submitters be held accountable? If you're going to submit an article to/. be responsible and link to the google cache in the article you're submitting. Why does it have to be the editors responsibility? This site is based on input from everyone, so we have noone but ourselves to yell at.
If you buy a printer at a Gateway store you're going to have your rebate rejected too. The reason is very simple: the $50 off is already reflected in the price of the printer. Epson sells them to Apple and Gateway at a discounted price, so if they were to give the rebate it would be them paying out the $50 twice. If Apple or Gateway chooses to sell the printer at the regular price, thats their business.
Step 4: Burn 100 copies and give them to your other friends.
There is no problem there. Fair use is worded in the way that if you have 100 friends you are allowed to swap cd's with them. The problem with online distribution is that it's not just your friends. It's annonymous swapping, which brings the number of copies that you can give out to extreme levels.
On the distributed P2P system, where stuff is traded as people walk by, it seems like this is a pretty simple system to thwart. Police officers could simply carry a unit themselves, and when they see a system offering up copyrighted or pirated content, they just confiscate the gear. Pretty simple. I don't think you'll ever see it take off because of this (among other reasons).
I think you might be wrong there. Just thing. When a cell phone goes off in a room full of people, how many people reach for their pockets? And thats an audible signal. When/If this takes off, all data could be passed in the time it takes to pass by a person in the street. You might get home and not even know how much you've recieved from other people.
I think it would be a rather difficult time for any group looking to confiscate gear to get the legal OK to walk up to a group of random people and have them all empty their pockets to see who's got these things in their pocket. Or if more than one person has this device to see the data on each of them.
Personally, I'm happiest when a movie doesn't have any huge names at all you usually get a more enjoyable experience because the actors don't carry the baggage that someone you've seen in a number of movies does.
Jeeze... look just a bit above this (with a threshold of 3) and you'll see the same post, but instead of the date being the 17th it's the 9th. Who actually believed this enough to mod it up as informative?
It never fails... yesterday I spent $2500 on a new laptop with 802.11b and an access point, log on today and I see that I probably should have waited another few months.
Oh well, at least when I take my system into a place with 802.11g I know that I'll still be able to get on, even if it's only 1/5 the actual speed I should be getting.
One thing I'm looking forward to is when this new stuff hits the streets. I'll be able to pick up access points and wireless cards for my parents very cheaply as people move to the new tech and start dumping their old 802.11b pieces on ebay.
Thank you, its about time someone else started believing in the US military. Every post I've read here on slashdot has been anti-invasion. There've only been a few people that have said that we can win. This is the USA people. They dont call us a superpower for nothing. We have the tech, the knowledge, and the experience to come up with a plan to win. (If thats completely invade Afghanistan, fine. If it's a series of targeted attacks, also fine.) People say that we cant kill any civilians at all. Well if the terrorists are living in the same cities, then it's their own damn fault for not getting out when they know whats going to happen. It would seem like a good plan from my point of view, have the terrorists live with the commonfolk so we hold back to be merciful. This is a war, people die. But I'm just sick of hearing maybe 1 pro-US comment out of every 100 anti-US comments. Wheres your national pride? We will prevail.
I've played around with the Game Cube dev kit a bit, and if the controllers I used were any indication people over ten years of age will have trouble holding these things.
Don't forget that the Japanese controller is much smaller than the American one.
I'm not sure how much of a size difference exactly, but I read a few different places that the it's going to be pretty big difference, that should help out if you've got larger hands.
Don't forget the obvious: For everything but Wine (and possibly also for Wine right now), you'll need a copy of Windows itself and copies of any applications you might want to run
This means that you wont get away from paying the "Microsoft tax." If you've gotta buy it in the first place just install it normally and boot into it when you need it.
To say "...but it can be very rewarding. Last year I finally had the opportunity to fire the office 'Open Source Zealot'..." and move on implies because s/he was pro-open-source, he needed to be fired.
Ahhhh how much I love watching people twist other peoples words around... read about 4 words past that statement... the guy was wasting other employees time complaining about such-and-such software that was being used, or whatever buisness practice that was going on. Thats not firing for enjoyment, that's eliminating a person who is losing the company money by disrupting other peoples work enviornment with their own view that they think is right. Aside from the fact that the original poster mentioned open source, there's no argument there. What if the person was going around saying that Macs were the only way to do buisness, everything else sucked? Or what if it was a GNU based company and the person was running around saying that windows was the only way to do buisness? Now granted, I'm not pro-anything. I use both linux and windows in my everyday life, and I woundn't choose either if I had to. Some tasks are just better suited to different operating systems. Your secretary wants to check email and write some documents... well then she needs to be using windows with outlook, office, and a good SA who can block all of those annoying email viruses that she is going to open no matter what program she's using. Why? Because thats what she's used to. Thats what she and 99% of the people out there know. For the coder, maybe they want to use linux because of system stability. But one tool is not the only tool for a job, and your post doesn't need to talk down to someone who made a decision to get rid of someone who was losing the company money who also happened to be pro-open-source.
Of course, I should now expect some flames from other pro-open-source-only people. Ah well, such is life : )
The reviewer is often unqualified to perform the review, and the reader is equally unqualified to asses the review.
For example most people think that DDR memory is a good thing. But does anyone out there really know what DDR memory is ? I bet half the slashdot readership think they are 'hardware experts' simply because they have overclocked their Athlon or whatever.
I really believe this strategy is best for all but the most hardcore tech-savvy propellerheads. (you know, the kind of person who opens up their PC and is capable of understanding all that hardcore jargon about 'bus speeds' and IRQs.
So without these hardware review sites, how are people supposed to become tech-savy? As a fairly long time reader of Toms Hardware and many of the other hardware review sites, I can say that when I was first starting out many of the "beginners guides" gave me a lot of insight into how everything worked. Heck, the first time I'd even heard of a North Bridge or a South Bridge it was on toms hardware in a comparison of a new chipset that had just been released. Typically, those sites do a good job of explaining most of the technical jargon that gets thrown around... Maybe not in the current article or the next one, but at least every few months when they decide to do another "for beginners" article.
Because no one has a choice about what browser to use? Last I checked Opera and Mozilla both exist for Windows. No one's twisting your arm to use IE.
I don't think a typical slashdot reader is going to have much of a problem with that. I thought I heard somewhere that there was an option to disable smart tags... BUT, what about your parents, sisters, or friends? Ask them what Opera is and they'll probably reply with something along the lines of "oh, thats when everyone gets together and watches a fat Italian woman sing in another language for a few hours"
Microsoft has produced a software product called Microsoft Reader, which turns a PC into an e-book reader, and Dick Brass, the Microsoft executive in charge of the product, is making predictions (supported by a rather flamboyant marketing videotape) that publishing will shift rapidly to electronic formats.
Can I toss an ebook reader in my pocket without worrying about sitting on it and breaking something? With books I own, they get torn up... They're bent, torn in places, the spine is messed up. Can I do that with an ebook? What happens when the power goes out and I don't have any charge left in the tablet or whatever I'm using to view the digital text? Can I dogear parts of a digital book and go back to them by simply picking it up and opening it? Will I be able to read an ebook for hours like I can do with regular books and not have any form of eye strain?
And I guess the most important question on my mind:
If I like the book enough that I loan it to friends or family, will they all have to pay additional licenses or transfer fee just to read it?
I think for now, you can count me out for electronic books
But quite frankly, some of my relatives, when asked "do you have an x86, PowerPC, 68000, or Sparc chip in that there puppy" can only respond with "huh?!?"
Well I think when you're given that answer, it'd be safe to say they've got an x86 computer... I'll give ya 3 guesses as to which operating system they're running also ; )
-C
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from the concept of my lending a friend the actual CD? I ask because as I recall, that behaviour was termed "piracy" by that industry anti-piracy association, and such corporate wonders as Microsoft themselves.
Well what do you call it when you rent a movie from Blockbuster? Or how about a playstation game? From what I read, the system doesn't download the entire game to your hard drive, just the parts that you are using at that point. Also, the software publishers are giving their blessing to doing this... When was the last time you emailed MS asking if you could let someone borrow one of your CD's?
One question... if you rent something from the service, how are you going to get a permanent backup of the software to install/reinstall as many times as you want, or to get to that next level once you beat the current one?
That's the minimum speed, below which we lose the impression of continous motion and start to see seperate images (actually, 18fps is roughly the min -- film was sped up to 24fps so that a soundtrack could be run on the edge of the same piece of film without sounding too crappy). The maximum fps we can discern is much higher (somewhere between 70fps and 150fps, depending on who you ask) -- beyond which point most people could not tell the difference caused by additonal frames per second.
Douglas Trumbull did a lot of research into this area, and created a process called Showscan that uses 70mm film projected at 60fps, which is supposed to look incredible!
Have you ever been to an IMAX movie? From what I remember they show the film at like 30 or 32 FPS (I might be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure it's faster than normal film)
Either way, when I see IMAX films it looks much better than standard film, so there's definitely a difference when going to higher FPS.
What I want to know, is how much of this is due to the "tax" on blank media? How many people, seeing this tax, now feel they have paid for the privilege to download the music?
I'm one of them, no doubt about it. The second I have to spend even one penny more on blank cd's or other media to a recording company because they think that I'm going to use it to copy music... then I'm damn well gonna use that media to do it. If I'm paying tax on something because it can be used for one thing, then I take that as a sign that I can. Otherwise, what am I paying the tax for?
You people dont understand the horror of actually having the name Chad. Till the whole election thing I didn't even know chad was a word... The first day they started talking about it people would walk in to my store and get OFFENDED that my name was chad. Damn! After a few days people started becoming comedians... That wouldn't have been too bad if people could be original, but NO, every single person, 10 times a day, 5 days a week would come up with the same lame "so how's the baby doin" or "I dont see your dimples" joke.
It got to the point where I was ready to strangle people for that stuff, but they didn't know any better. They were all the greatest comedians born in the history of the world. To this day I still get those jerks in the store, I dealt with 2 today.
I'm askin slashdot, as a community, please write your congressmen and request a change to electronic voting! Think of all the abused Chad's out there in the world! Well actually I'd be happy with just changing the name to John's. Theres a name you dont hear every day.
In fact, I think I'll start a petition now... Everyone who's with me in changing the Chad's to John's reply to my post! If we can get enough responses we'll have a good start! Do it for the children!
I'm sure they'll eventually get around this, but the first thing I thought of when I read the article is what happens when you have multiple programs running at the same time? What if one of them hasn't been accessed in quite a while and the chip evolves around the other programs. You could bring up a game of quake and send the wrong signal to the wrong chip...
Poof, no more hard drive. Ah well, better luck next time : )
I'was there last year, living in the Electronic Village. One of the problems with having so many ethernet lines running, with very few people that actually know what's going on, is the horrible service. The lines would randomly stop functioning, and access was very, very slow.
I'm all for ethernet right into the home, but just getting the lines out there isn't gonna solve the problem, we have to make sure that theres enough competent people running the whole thing to make sure that it actually serves a god purpose.
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I've got the ISO's I'm downloading going right into my Kazaa shared folder... how bout you?
Well instead of blaming the editors, why don't the submitters be held accountable? If you're going to submit an article to /. be responsible and link to the google cache in the article you're submitting. Why does it have to be the editors responsibility? This site is based on input from everyone, so we have noone but ourselves to yell at.
If you buy a printer at a Gateway store you're going to have your rebate rejected too. The reason is very simple: the $50 off is already reflected in the price of the printer. Epson sells them to Apple and Gateway at a discounted price, so if they were to give the rebate it would be them paying out the $50 twice. If Apple or Gateway chooses to sell the printer at the regular price, thats their business.
The problem comes in step 0 and step 4.
Step 0: Borrow cd from a friend
Step 4: Burn 100 copies and give them to your other friends.
There is no problem there. Fair use is worded in the way that if you have 100 friends you are allowed to swap cd's with them. The problem with online distribution is that it's not just your friends. It's annonymous swapping, which brings the number of copies that you can give out to extreme levels.
The RIAA is investigating just like Microsoft investigates Linux. Anyone can hire detectives and thugs to do some "detective" work.
;)
I don't think thats Microsoft doing detective work. Thats them "buying someone out".
-C
Just 1 piece: Don't EVER submit a story to slashdot that's hosted on your server ;)
On the distributed P2P system, where stuff is traded as people walk by, it seems like this is a pretty simple system to thwart. Police officers could simply carry a unit themselves, and when they see a system offering up copyrighted or pirated content, they just confiscate the gear. Pretty simple. I don't think you'll ever see it take off because of this (among other reasons).
I think you might be wrong there. Just thing. When a cell phone goes off in a room full of people, how many people reach for their pockets? And thats an audible signal. When/If this takes off, all data could be passed in the time it takes to pass by a person in the street. You might get home and not even know how much you've recieved from other people.
I think it would be a rather difficult time for any group looking to confiscate gear to get the legal OK to walk up to a group of random people and have them all empty their pockets to see who's got these things in their pocket. Or if more than one person has this device to see the data on each of them.
Personally, I'm happiest when a movie doesn't have any huge names at all you usually get a more enjoyable experience because the actors don't carry the baggage that someone you've seen in a number of movies does.
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<coughcough>I'll be back<coughcough>
Who modded this up as informative???
Jeeze... look just a bit above this (with a threshold of 3) and you'll see the same post, but instead of the date being the 17th it's the 9th. Who actually believed this enough to mod it up as informative?
Are we still drunk from New Years?
It never fails... yesterday I spent $2500 on a new laptop with 802.11b and an access point, log on today and I see that I probably should have waited another few months.
Oh well, at least when I take my system into a place with 802.11g I know that I'll still be able to get on, even if it's only 1/5 the actual speed I should be getting.
One thing I'm looking forward to is when this new stuff hits the streets. I'll be able to pick up access points and wireless cards for my parents very cheaply as people move to the new tech and start dumping their old 802.11b pieces on ebay.
-C
Thank you, its about time someone else started believing in the US military. Every post I've read here on slashdot has been anti-invasion. There've only been a few people that have said that we can win. This is the USA people. They dont call us a superpower for nothing. We have the tech, the knowledge, and the experience to come up with a plan to win. (If thats completely invade Afghanistan, fine. If it's a series of targeted attacks, also fine.) People say that we cant kill any civilians at all. Well if the terrorists are living in the same cities, then it's their own damn fault for not getting out when they know whats going to happen. It would seem like a good plan from my point of view, have the terrorists live with the commonfolk so we hold back to be merciful. This is a war, people die. But I'm just sick of hearing maybe 1 pro-US comment out of every 100 anti-US comments. Wheres your national pride? We will prevail.
-C
I've played around with the Game Cube dev kit a bit, and if the controllers I used were any indication people over ten years of age will have trouble holding these things.
Don't forget that the Japanese controller is much smaller than the American one.
I'm not sure how much of a size difference exactly, but I read a few different places that the it's going to be pretty big difference, that should help out if you've got larger hands.
-C
Exactly...
Right from the article itself:
Don't forget the obvious: For everything but Wine (and possibly also for Wine right now), you'll need a copy of Windows itself and copies of any applications you might want to run
This means that you wont get away from paying the "Microsoft tax." If you've gotta buy it in the first place just install it normally and boot into it when you need it.
-C
I could and whatever group of people decides to try it better have insurance for when the building they're in collapses around them
-C
Ahhhh how much I love watching people twist other peoples words around... read about 4 words past that statement... the guy was wasting other employees time complaining about such-and-such software that was being used, or whatever buisness practice that was going on. Thats not firing for enjoyment, that's eliminating a person who is losing the company money by disrupting other peoples work enviornment with their own view that they think is right. Aside from the fact that the original poster mentioned open source, there's no argument there. What if the person was going around saying that Macs were the only way to do buisness, everything else sucked? Or what if it was a GNU based company and the person was running around saying that windows was the only way to do buisness? Now granted, I'm not pro-anything. I use both linux and windows in my everyday life, and I woundn't choose either if I had to. Some tasks are just better suited to different operating systems. Your secretary wants to check email and write some documents... well then she needs to be using windows with outlook, office, and a good SA who can block all of those annoying email viruses that she is going to open no matter what program she's using. Why? Because thats what she's used to. Thats what she and 99% of the people out there know. For the coder, maybe they want to use linux because of system stability. But one tool is not the only tool for a job, and your post doesn't need to talk down to someone who made a decision to get rid of someone who was losing the company money who also happened to be pro-open-source.
Of course, I should now expect some flames from other pro-open-source-only people. Ah well, such is life : )
I really believe this strategy is best for all but the most hardcore tech-savvy propellerheads. (you know, the kind of person who opens up their PC and is capable of understanding all that hardcore jargon about 'bus speeds' and IRQs.
So without these hardware review sites, how are people supposed to become tech-savy? As a fairly long time reader of Toms Hardware and many of the other hardware review sites, I can say that when I was first starting out many of the "beginners guides" gave me a lot of insight into how everything worked. Heck, the first time I'd even heard of a North Bridge or a South Bridge it was on toms hardware in a comparison of a new chipset that had just been released. Typically, those sites do a good job of explaining most of the technical jargon that gets thrown around... Maybe not in the current article or the next one, but at least every few months when they decide to do another "for beginners" article.
Well anyways, just my thoughts on the matter.
-C
I don't think a typical slashdot reader is going to have much of a problem with that. I thought I heard somewhere that there was an option to disable smart tags... BUT, what about your parents, sisters, or friends? Ask them what Opera is and they'll probably reply with something along the lines of "oh, thats when everyone gets together and watches a fat Italian woman sing in another language for a few hours"
-C
Can I toss an ebook reader in my pocket without worrying about sitting on it and breaking something? With books I own, they get torn up... They're bent, torn in places, the spine is messed up. Can I do that with an ebook? What happens when the power goes out and I don't have any charge left in the tablet or whatever I'm using to view the digital text? Can I dogear parts of a digital book and go back to them by simply picking it up and opening it? Will I be able to read an ebook for hours like I can do with regular books and not have any form of eye strain?
And I guess the most important question on my mind:
If I like the book enough that I loan it to friends or family, will they all have to pay additional licenses or transfer fee just to read it?
I think for now, you can count me out for electronic books
-C
Well I think when you're given that answer, it'd be safe to say they've got an x86 computer... I'll give ya 3 guesses as to which operating system they're running also ; )
-C
Well what do you call it when you rent a movie from Blockbuster? Or how about a playstation game? From what I read, the system doesn't download the entire game to your hard drive, just the parts that you are using at that point. Also, the software publishers are giving their blessing to doing this... When was the last time you emailed MS asking if you could let someone borrow one of your CD's?
One question... if you rent something from the service, how are you going to get a permanent backup of the software to install/reinstall as many times as you want, or to get to that next level once you beat the current one?
-C
Douglas Trumbull did a lot of research into this area, and created a process called Showscan that uses 70mm film projected at 60fps, which is supposed to look incredible!
Have you ever been to an IMAX movie? From what I remember they show the film at like 30 or 32 FPS (I might be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure it's faster than normal film)
Either way, when I see IMAX films it looks much better than standard film, so there's definitely a difference when going to higher FPS.
-C
What I want to know, is how much of this is due to the "tax" on blank media? How many people, seeing this tax, now feel they have paid for the privilege to download the music?
I'm one of them, no doubt about it. The second I have to spend even one penny more on blank cd's or other media to a recording company because they think that I'm going to use it to copy music... then I'm damn well gonna use that media to do it. If I'm paying tax on something because it can be used for one thing, then I take that as a sign that I can. Otherwise, what am I paying the tax for?
You people dont understand the horror of actually having the name Chad. Till the whole election thing I didn't even know chad was a word... The first day they started talking about it people would walk in to my store and get OFFENDED that my name was chad. Damn! After a few days people started becoming comedians... That wouldn't have been too bad if people could be original, but NO, every single person, 10 times a day, 5 days a week would come up with the same lame "so how's the baby doin" or "I dont see your dimples" joke.
It got to the point where I was ready to strangle people for that stuff, but they didn't know any better. They were all the greatest comedians born in the history of the world. To this day I still get those jerks in the store, I dealt with 2 today.
I'm askin slashdot, as a community, please write your congressmen and request a change to electronic voting! Think of all the abused Chad's out there in the world! Well actually I'd be happy with just changing the name to John's. Theres a name you dont hear every day.
In fact, I think I'll start a petition now... Everyone who's with me in changing the Chad's to John's reply to my post! If we can get enough responses we'll have a good start! Do it for the children!
-C
I'm sure they'll eventually get around this, but the first thing I thought of when I read the article is what happens when you have multiple programs running at the same time? What if one of them hasn't been accessed in quite a while and the chip evolves around the other programs. You could bring up a game of quake and send the wrong signal to the wrong chip...
Poof, no more hard drive. Ah well, better luck next time : )
-C
I'was there last year, living in the Electronic Village. One of the problems with having so many ethernet lines running, with very few people that actually know what's going on, is the horrible service. The lines would randomly stop functioning, and access was very, very slow.
I'm all for ethernet right into the home, but just getting the lines out there isn't gonna solve the problem, we have to make sure that theres enough competent people running the whole thing to make sure that it actually serves a god purpose.
-C