First it was Apple, now Intel's doing it.
That is, showing you all the kool stuff you can do with your computar, like burning CDs for your friends and shit.
You know, all the stuff the *AA is trying to convince people is illegal and immoral. (And is trying to buy enough laws to make them actually illegal.)
Is Intel sending a big "fuck off" to the *AAs? (Now mind you, I think they should do that. I mean, the computer/electronics industry is bigger than the music/movie industry. The tail shouldn't wag the dog and all that.)
Not only that, but he couches his specious argument in the same terms as the (French Academy of Sciences (?)) dismissed reports of meteorites in the 18th century. That is: "rocks obviously can't fall from the sky, because there are no rocks up there".
Charles Fort made great sport of this attitude in acadamia in "Lo!" (or was it "New Lands"?).
Geeze, I was looking forward to a I-Opener 2002! Then I see they're still paying to ship ginormous honking vacuum tubes to people!
As far as the C3, I had just recently been considering one of these cute little boxes for my home entertaintment system. I had read some review somewhere comparing the performance of a C3/800 to a 400mhz Celeron, so they're not speed demons. But damn, these itty bitty ITX boards have everything but TV capture and a modem on them.
Find a resource you can mine cheaply (or better yet, FREE!) use it for raw material, and turn around and sell it for $$$$ (or beter yet, $$$$$$ !)
This is the same methodology that Disney corp uses when it rapes the public domain common culture for story ideas, and then gets nasty about the copyright on a 74 year old crappy cartoon of a mouse on a steamboat.
Of course that's all many businesses will see. But, this may utilmately work in our best interests! The price gets free software in the belly of the beast, but it's too late when they realize the ramifications of FREE software.
I say, "Stick it to the Man!" (But it's even better if he drives the knife into his own belly himself!)
those laser etched "glass" paperweights you see at places like Disneyworld? They use some sort of clear "glass" and a laser is used to create "bubbles" inside it.
It seems that it might be possible to use something like that to create a "duplicate" key. (Ok, so this is an awful lot of conjecture... gimme $5M and I'll see if I can break it.)
As long as there are commonly available 74LS* and PALs and GALs and FPGAs and PICs, there will be systems out there that won't support DRM.
Microsoft is doing what they do best -- marketing inadequate solutions to the technically illiterate who don't understand what is possible and what isn't.
You can have my bits when you pry them from my cold, dead hands!
Damn, that gives whole new meaning to letting the "magic smoke" out of your electronics. Remind me to be more careful in the future when modchipping my Xbox!
That was the story of the '80s. Everyone was afraid that the Japanese economic juggernaut would take over the world. Japanese economy cars were taking market share away from Detroit's overweight, underpowered offerings. Japanese businessmen seemed to be buying up every building in NYC.
"who was the guy (Landstrom, Langford?) who did the insane postscript coding - raw programs in postscript to generate fractals and the like. He advocated selfpublishing,"
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Ha!
Soon Engrigsh will be the universal languge!
And you'll like it!
This being the FCC, shouldn't their Roshambo protocol be "Rock,Paper,Scissors,Lizard,Spock"?
Miramax announces Don Knotts to play hacker Emmanuel Goldstein in upcoming movie "Takedown"
An oldie but a goody.
-- the troll archivist
First it was Apple, now Intel's doing it.
That is, showing you all the kool stuff you can do with your computar, like burning CDs for your friends and shit.
You know, all the stuff the *AA is trying to convince people is illegal and immoral. (And is trying to buy enough laws to make them actually illegal.)
Is Intel sending a big "fuck off" to the *AAs? (Now mind you, I think they should do that. I mean, the computer/electronics industry is bigger than the music/movie industry. The tail shouldn't wag the dog and all that.)
That should be "Well, it should be obvious to even the most dim-witted individual who holds an advanced degree in hyperbolic topology". -- From tome of all wisdom, book of Frink
Not only that, but he couches his specious argument in the same terms as the (French Academy of Sciences (?)) dismissed reports of meteorites in the 18th century. That is: "rocks obviously can't fall from the sky, because there are no rocks up there".
Charles Fort made great sport of this attitude in acadamia in "Lo!" (or was it "New Lands"?).
That would be the "shit happens" clause.
Holy shit, POTATO GUY?!!!!
Dude, I'm gettin' a Microtel!
Geeze, I was looking forward to a I-Opener 2002! Then I see they're still paying to ship ginormous honking vacuum tubes to people!
As far as the C3, I had just recently been considering one of these cute little boxes for my home entertaintment system. I had read some review somewhere comparing the performance of a C3/800 to a 400mhz Celeron, so they're not speed demons. But damn, these itty bitty ITX boards have everything but TV capture and a modem on them.
Find a resource you can mine cheaply (or better yet, FREE!) use it for raw material, and turn around and sell it for $$$$ (or beter yet, $$$$$$ !)
This is the same methodology that Disney corp uses when it rapes the public domain common culture for story ideas, and then gets nasty about the copyright on a 74 year old crappy cartoon of a mouse on a steamboat.
Of course that's all many businesses will see. But, this may utilmately work in our best interests! The price gets free software in the belly of the beast, but it's too late when they realize the ramifications of FREE software.
I say, "Stick it to the Man!" (But it's even better if he drives the knife into his own belly himself!)
WWEND?
"The MPAA claims (take it for what it's worth), that most movies don't make their money back until video. "
Does anyone else see the irony in Jack Valenti claiming that VHS would cause the collapse of civiliztion in 1980?
Jeebus, we joke about these people being dinosaurs, but it's really true. They can't see the opportunity offered by change, they only see a threat.
those laser etched "glass" paperweights you see at places like Disneyworld? They use some sort of clear "glass" and a laser is used to create "bubbles" inside it.
It seems that it might be possible to use something like that to create a "duplicate" key. (Ok, so this is an awful lot of conjecture... gimme $5M and I'll see if I can break it.)
Your sister has eight legs? Freaky!
Do you own the cartriges for all those games you play on the emulator?!!
A great philosopher once said : "We're all interested in the future, that's where we'll all live one day."
As long as there are commonly available 74LS* and PALs and GALs and FPGAs and PICs, there will be systems out there that won't support DRM.
Microsoft is doing what they do best -- marketing inadequate solutions to the technically illiterate who don't understand what is possible and what isn't.
You can have my bits when you pry them from my cold, dead hands!
Damn, that gives whole new meaning to letting the "magic smoke" out of your electronics. Remind me to be more careful in the future when modchipping my Xbox!
fhqwhgads, is that you?
Been reading Stanislaw Lem, again, haven't you?
Macs Won't Boot Into Mac OS 9 in 2003
So remember kids, failure to cooperate can have DIRE CONSEQUENCES!
ah, hell! Here's a goatse for good measure.
That was the story of the '80s. Everyone was afraid that the Japanese economic juggernaut would take over the world. Japanese economy cars were taking market share away from Detroit's overweight, underpowered offerings. Japanese businessmen seemed to be buying up every building in NYC.
Ugh. Link should be http://www.tinaja.com/ . Like Don Lancaster. Me go bang rocks now.
"who was the guy (Landstrom, Langford?) who did the insane postscript coding - raw programs in postscript to generate fractals and the like. He advocated selfpublishing,"
Would that be Don Lancaster?
I?There, I've done my good deed for the day.
But that only works IFF you have two eyes!
Damn stereoscopic bigots! What about us triscopic-Americans? Do you Americans seriously assume that everybody in the whole world has only two eyes?!!!
( Yes, I can see through time....)