You're a real piece of work. I've read all your anonymous posts in this article. It really isn't any different than before which is the disappointing part. It must suck not having enough influence to make the waves you'd really like to.
Tell us, what will you do with the power you so richly desire once you get it.. if you get it? Strike down all those that mocked you on pissy little blogs like slashdot? You can do better than that.Go after the ones that are really laughing at you from up above. Aim higher and test your mettle.
No shit dude, look at the other posts in my thread and others for this article. Someone sees real or perceived "attacks" and responds to all such posts with Karl Rove-like zeal. This person should get a job in White House press office. They're quite reactive at spinning dissenting opinion to make them seem more favorable and the "attacker" discredited. Fascinating.
Settlements are conducted for reasons other than a pending loss in court. Not everyone that goes to trial wants to win. Be that as it may, a settlement is hardly a precedent setting event... which is what some people think the GPL needs. This isn't it.
Why does every groklaw article that shows up here rub me the wrong way... even when I always seem to be on their ideological side of the fence.
Now there is a case in Michigan, which just settled, where the GPL not only stood its ground, it came off victorious, and this time it was very much a part of the case.
IANAL (and neither is groklaw) but how can a settlement be considered a test of the GPL or even a victory? Unless their intent is to spin the result which doesn't do anyone any good. So why are they trying to do it?
I don't have to sign when I use my credit card to purchase something over the phone or online, why do I have to sign if I am in person? Also, what good does it do? Is the $5.15 per hour drone going to get all CSI on my ass if they don't match exactly? Please.
I worked on some NT servers for the last couple of years and hated every minute of it. Microsoft pulling support is great motivation for managers. I was so happy when we finally got the funding to migrate to Windows Server 2003. Now I can move on to something more interesting like this new Linux thing I keep reading about. I've always enjoyed being an early adopter!
email (has access to other pop3 accounts via webmail)
Why I use Google:
search web/usenet/images
aggregate news
email (would use exclusively if could access pop3 accounts)
maps (used to use Yahoo! Maps)
I've had an account on Yahoo since the days when you had to bang two rocks together to get ones. Everything I use google for now I used to use on Yahoo. IMHO, google has just done a better job (except email) with these services. I briefly used Yahoo to host a website but quickly left. They suck at that.
If google were to introduce briefcase, dicussion groups, and access to pop3 accounts via webmail I would probably no longer use Yahoo.
Just recently Garrett Graf, who runs the political blog FishbowlDC, was granted access to the White House Press Briefing - the same thing Guckert/Gannon was maligned for attending without any "real" credentials.
Guckert/Gannon was not maligned for receiving a press pass. He was maligned for receiving a press pass using a false name, lying about his journalistic credentials, and lying about his involvement in illegal prostitution. All of this is well documented on blogs and legit newsoutlets.
(I don't want to step over the bounds into liberal conspiracy theories and bring up rsync with White House/GOPUSA press releases as "news", access to CIA Plume documents, and "go ahead Jeff" access to the press secretary and the President himself. Ooops. I just did.)
As would many on Slashdot. I even think the studios want this too...so long as it can be done their way. What's the point of DRM if not to be able to offer content for a fee with the 'comfort' of knowing that the content can't be then shared with 100,000 of your closest friends.
Good point. I guess I don't see video files any different than music files from a consumption point of view. Through iTunes one can buy a la cart mp3s acceptably encumbered. Why couldn't the same be applied to videos, e.g. unlimited consumption but limited devices consumed on. The distribution would have to be different based on bandwidth which is where bittorrent comes in.
I missed last week's episode of Lost. None of my friends had recorded it so I found the torrent and downloaded it. Hurley's crazy. Anyway, I would rather have gone to the ABC site, paid like a $1 or something, and downloaded it from them. I want to support stuff I find interesting but there is no way to do that with TV episodes. What do I do, wait for the DVD next year? Please. ABC and the like could use BitTorrent to distribute Pay Per View content. I'd like that very much.
Don't like the xp search dog? You can go back to the win2k search interface. Not the best but better than the dog. In regedit go here: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\CabinetState
(without the lame/. added space) and set "Use Search Asst" to "no".
Another way to obfuscate one's self from this fingerprint technique while maintaining compliance might be to modulate your CPU clock/bus speed on a period (day/hour/minute). Under/overclock yourself to hundreds of new identities!
I hate to "me too!" on this but me too! I heard about how good Battlestar Galactica (2004) was about half way into the season. I watched the current episode was and was thoroughly confused by the plot elements. I downloaded the first episode "33" and was instantly hooked. (I had already seen the mini-series.) If I could have bought the episodes up to the current broadcast episode I would have. How else was I supposed to catch up and enjoy the remained of the season.. wait for the DVD's next year? I downloaded over half of the first season to catch up.
Did scifi channel loose money over this? How could they tell, I didn't see it when it was broadcast and I can't legally pay for it now. One could argue that because I downloaded some of them I won't buy the DVD but I might not have bought it to begin with. Besides, does DVD quality even compare to a 350MB 40 minute divx rip? I think not.
There is so a market opportunity here for the cable channels. Provide past episode downloads for a small fee. I would have paid it for Battlestar Galactica rather than sift through crappy rips on emule.
One glaring ommission from the FAQ is "Why participate in this?" I guess if you have to ask why, there's no point in asking.
You're right, compared to protein folding, cancer research, and other research projects there is no good reason to run GIMPS. Heck even SETI@home could return something useful. But there are a couple reasons to do it:
One reason is money. The EFF put up a $100,000 prize for the discovery a 10 million digit prime.
Another reason is developing new algorithms and enhancing existing ones. The source code for the GIMPS project is available here.
Their deterministic stress test is great for checking stability of overclocked CPUs. Run./mprime -t for a week with no errors and you're probably solid.
My only real complaint about GIMPS is the lack of optimized AMD64 clients.
I'd agree with you except the public's reviews are not what determines the tmeter value on RT: it is film critic reviews. Spongebob is a bad movie. Hitch is a bad movie. The only way a critic can like these movies is if they are paid to or are braindead. I can understand paid critics. I cannot understand braindead critics. So they must be paid to like it. This kind of review doesn't help you, me, or anyone else trying to find worthwhile movies.
I know the public may like something that I do not. How else can one explain the existence of Ashlee Simpson, Survivor, McDonalds, or Celine Dion? I have faith that someone out there truly loves these products but for the life of me I do not know anyone for miles around who does.
I'm sure there are those that enjoyed Hitch and Spongebob, but a true honest-to-goodness film critic? I think not... unless they were paid to like it.
RT sold out a couple years ago. They used to have unbiased aggregate reviews but look at the T-Meter reading for some truly horrible movies in the last couple of years. Movies that would have gotten 20% or less now get 60% (e.g. Spongebob, Hitch) which is just enough to make them "fresh". RT seems to include selective reviews instead of all sources. This massaging gives studios decent ratings even for craptacular flicks.
I welcome more competition in the aggregate review biz.
I downloaded the brit BSG episodes because they are IHMO better. There is content in the brit version that isn't in the yank version. Also the into music is different for some odd reason. The brit version is ethereal and very cool. The yank version sounds like a funeral march. I watched all the episodes from the brits and only a couple from the yanks. Makes you wonder what else is missing.
Unlike other robots that have to power every move, these three save energy by letting gravity do a lot of the work. Like humans, they pick up their feet and just let 'em drop.
Heh, mind your example subjects. Only American's kick their legs when they walk. If you knew that well.. then you knew that.;)
Piece of dead plastic doesn't count you in automated attendence? Cops knocking on parents' door? Just speculation...
I would trust my kid over a what RFID badges represent or what a thug cop says any day.
The point is moot anyway. I would never allow something compulsory like this to be put on myself or my kid. We would have moved far away before the truancy cops showed up.
From TFA: My kids will settle for Intel Inside PC or Laptop but they want an Apple computer. Beyond paying for
product placements in movies, developing a better relationship between Intel and Hollywood is great way to
make Intel the "Cool" computer company of the future.
The irony is that such out-of-touch statements is the reason why companies that make them have products that are not considered "cool". Apple is cool because Apple is cool. Pepsi has tons of product placement, would anyone consider Pepsi (or any other product placement product) to be "cool"? I highly doubt it. These execs just don't get it and probably never will.
Don't you feel bad for this Intel employee's kids that want an Apple but can't get one because daddy can't? How do you think that makes the dad feel? The poor guy must be completely divorced from reality.
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You're a real piece of work. I've read all your anonymous posts in this article. It really isn't any different than before which is the disappointing part. It must suck not having enough influence to make the waves you'd really like to.
Tell us, what will you do with the power you so richly desire once you get it.. if you get it? Strike down all those that mocked you on pissy little blogs like slashdot? You can do better than that.Go after the ones that are really laughing at you from up above. Aim higher and test your mettle.
Thanks for proving my point. Find another case and try again. Next time have a victory before claiming one. Jackass.
No shit dude, look at the other posts in my thread and others for this article. Someone sees real or perceived "attacks" and responds to all such posts with Karl Rove-like zeal. This person should get a job in White House press office. They're quite reactive at spinning dissenting opinion to make them seem more favorable and the "attacker" discredited. Fascinating.
Settlements are conducted for reasons other than a pending loss in court. Not everyone that goes to trial wants to win. Be that as it may, a settlement is hardly a precedent setting event... which is what some people think the GPL needs. This isn't it.
whiskey tango foxtrot?
Why does every groklaw article that shows up here rub me the wrong way ... even when I always seem to be on their ideological side of the fence.
Now there is a case in Michigan, which just settled, where the GPL not only stood its ground, it came off victorious, and this time it was very much a part of the case.
IANAL (and neither is groklaw) but how can a settlement be considered a test of the GPL or even a victory? Unless their intent is to spin the result which doesn't do anyone any good. So why are they trying to do it?
I don't have to sign when I use my credit card to purchase something over the phone or online, why do I have to sign if I am in person? Also, what good does it do? Is the $5.15 per hour drone going to get all CSI on my ass if they don't match exactly? Please.
Schlep your lappy to a Starbucks, tap into the wifi, and fire up Driftnet (linux) or EtherPEG (mac). Watch what flies by... hours of entertainment.
I worked on some NT servers for the last couple of years and hated every minute of it. Microsoft pulling support is great motivation for managers. I was so happy when we finally got the funding to migrate to Windows Server 2003. Now I can move on to something more interesting like this new Linux thing I keep reading about. I've always enjoyed being an early adopter!
- briefcase
- groups
- email (has access to other pop3 accounts via webmail)
Why I use Google:I've had an account on Yahoo since the days when you had to bang two rocks together to get ones. Everything I use google for now I used to use on Yahoo. IMHO, google has just done a better job (except email) with these services. I briefly used Yahoo to host a website but quickly left. They suck at that.
If google were to introduce briefcase, dicussion groups, and access to pop3 accounts via webmail I would probably no longer use Yahoo.
Just recently Garrett Graf, who runs the political blog FishbowlDC, was granted access to the White House Press Briefing - the same thing Guckert/Gannon was maligned for attending without any "real" credentials.
Guckert/Gannon was not maligned for receiving a press pass. He was maligned for receiving a press pass using a false name, lying about his journalistic credentials, and lying about his involvement in illegal prostitution. All of this is well documented on blogs and legit news outlets.
(I don't want to step over the bounds into liberal conspiracy theories and bring up rsync with White House/GOPUSA press releases as "news", access to CIA Plume documents, and "go ahead Jeff" access to the press secretary and the President himself. Ooops. I just did.)
As would many on Slashdot. I even think the studios want this too...so long as it can be done their way. What's the point of DRM if not to be able to offer content for a fee with the 'comfort' of knowing that the content can't be then shared with 100,000 of your closest friends.
Good point. I guess I don't see video files any different than music files from a consumption point of view. Through iTunes one can buy a la cart mp3s acceptably encumbered. Why couldn't the same be applied to videos, e.g. unlimited consumption but limited devices consumed on. The distribution would have to be different based on bandwidth which is where bittorrent comes in.
I missed last week's episode of Lost. None of my friends had recorded it so I found the torrent and downloaded it. Hurley's crazy. Anyway, I would rather have gone to the ABC site, paid like a $1 or something, and downloaded it from them. I want to support stuff I find interesting but there is no way to do that with TV episodes. What do I do, wait for the DVD next year? Please. ABC and the like could use BitTorrent to distribute Pay Per View content. I'd like that very much.
Don't like the xp search dog? You can go back to the win2k search interface. Not the best but better than the dog. In regedit go here:e ntVersion\Explorer\CabinetState /. added space) and set "Use Search Asst" to "no".
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr
(without the lame
Purposeful noncompliance is easy to detect.
Another way to obfuscate one's self from this fingerprint technique while maintaining compliance might be to modulate your CPU clock/bus speed on a period (day/hour/minute). Under/overclock yourself to hundreds of new identities!
Did scifi channel loose money over this? How could they tell, I didn't see it when it was broadcast and I can't legally pay for it now. One could argue that because I downloaded some of them I won't buy the DVD but I might not have bought it to begin with. Besides, does DVD quality even compare to a 350MB 40 minute divx rip? I think not.
There is so a market opportunity here for the cable channels. Provide past episode downloads for a small fee. I would have paid it for Battlestar Galactica rather than sift through crappy rips on emule.
One glaring ommission from the FAQ is "Why participate in this?" I guess if you have to ask why, there's no point in asking.
You're right, compared to protein folding, cancer research, and other research projects there is no good reason to run GIMPS. Heck even SETI@home could return something useful. But there are a couple reasons to do it:
My only real complaint about GIMPS is the lack of optimized AMD64 clients.
There is no such thing as a "merge" except maybe in investorspeak. One company buys another, that's it.
I'd agree with you except the public's reviews are not what determines the tmeter value on RT: it is film critic reviews. Spongebob is a bad movie. Hitch is a bad movie. The only way a critic can like these movies is if they are paid to or are braindead. I can understand paid critics. I cannot understand braindead critics. So they must be paid to like it. This kind of review doesn't help you, me, or anyone else trying to find worthwhile movies.
I know the public may like something that I do not. How else can one explain the existence of Ashlee Simpson, Survivor, McDonalds, or Celine Dion? I have faith that someone out there truly loves these products but for the life of me I do not know anyone for miles around who does.
I'm sure there are those that enjoyed Hitch and Spongebob, but a true honest-to-goodness film critic? I think not... unless they were paid to like it.
RT sold out a couple years ago. They used to have unbiased aggregate reviews but look at the T-Meter reading for some truly horrible movies in the last couple of years. Movies that would have gotten 20% or less now get 60% (e.g. Spongebob, Hitch) which is just enough to make them "fresh". RT seems to include selective reviews instead of all sources. This massaging gives studios decent ratings even for craptacular flicks.
I welcome more competition in the aggregate review biz.
I downloaded the brit BSG episodes because they are IHMO better. There is content in the brit version that isn't in the yank version. Also the into music is different for some odd reason. The brit version is ethereal and very cool. The yank version sounds like a funeral march. I watched all the episodes from the brits and only a couple from the yanks. Makes you wonder what else is missing.
Unlike other robots that have to power every move, these three save energy by letting gravity do a lot of the work. Like humans, they pick up their feet and just let 'em drop.
Heh, mind your example subjects. Only American's kick their legs when they walk. If you knew that well.. then you knew that. ;)
I would trust my kid over a what RFID badges represent or what a thug cop says any day.
The point is moot anyway. I would never allow something compulsory like this to be put on myself or my kid. We would have moved far away before the truancy cops showed up.
The irony is that such out-of-touch statements is the reason why companies that make them have products that are not considered "cool". Apple is cool because Apple is cool. Pepsi has tons of product placement, would anyone consider Pepsi (or any other product placement product) to be "cool"? I highly doubt it. These execs just don't get it and probably never will.
Don't you feel bad for this Intel employee's kids that want an Apple but can't get one because daddy can't? How do you think that makes the dad feel? The poor guy must be completely divorced from reality .
Where's the how to on how to install Debian on this thing?