you're just one of the crowd, saying "so what, i got my windoze media player, who cares?"
No, I do care about choice. I wonder about saturation in the market preventing adoption. If a free codec came out a few years ago it might have more acceptance. Time will tell with Vorbis and Theora. With the currently used codecs firmly entrenched switching people over may be difficult. I have no use right now for ogg. People who use Linux (I used to be one) will love it. This means that probably 98% of the userbase out there will neither hear about nor use either Ogg format.
Someone's gonna mod me down for trolling because I don't echo the Slashdot groupspeak on this. Oh well.
Who honestly cares about or uses Ogg? Really. I have yet to even contemplate it. Sure I have the codec on my machine, but I haven't used it. Nothing is out there in the format that I am interested in or have even ran across accidently. I like portability of my music so I use MP3. (I can't very well install the codec on my machine at work.) I have no intention of recording anything into the format, so it would be a poor choice for me to use it. How many people is it a good choice for? Why?
What about Theora? Probably the same thing, at least for me. Most people already are happy with using DivX, XviD, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, or whatever. Adding another into the mix, while giveing people more choices, probably won't sway one person over. Ogg just didn't do it for me. Theora may not, either.
The only place that I can envision Theora being used is by developers needing royalty free in-game movies.
Or am I completely off base here and it will take the world by storm by sheer ease of use, compatability, support, file size, file quality, consumer knowledge, and/or consumer acceptance?
Ever learn to draw? Then you are probably familiar with the workings of the left and right sides of the brain.
The left side is the logical, analytical, and symbolic side of the brain. It deals with things like language, math, and object identification. If you were to take a child and ask them to draw a picture of a car, it would most likely be a symbolic representation of a car.
The right side of the brain is much more holistic. It is the part of the brain an artist taps to do their work. It also seems to be the part of the brain that starts to kick in as soon as the threshhold of realism kicks in. While the left brain is saying that the eyes, nose, lips, ears, cheeks, and chin all look just fine and consist of the components of a "face", the right side of the brain is telling you that something major is wrong.
Left brain program and press keys.
Right brain draw.
Jumping this hurdle in a game is going to be a PITA.
1) I want a phone that works like a phone should work. No games, no internet, no walkie-talkie functions, and no stinkin' roaming or overage fees. An easy to use directory would be nice, though.
2) I want this same phone to look exactly like the communicators on ST:TOS. Voice recognition, too, so when I say "Kirk to Enterprise" or "Kirk to Starbase 1" it dials the programmed number.
How does a critical vulnerability happen? Seriously. Is there a URL someone can provide or a good description that shows what it takes to make an OS or application with a vulnerability? I read just about every week or so about "Application X" or "OS Y" having a security issue and a deeper understanding of what is going on is a good thing to help judge the threat of the warning. It will also help reduce the FUD factor a little bit. If an example (current or outdated) could be given showing HOW the security of a system is compromised that would also be beneficial.
Parents who went out to dinner left the phone number (shock) of the restaurant that they were going to be at. Friends, same thing. Also, they would typically leave instructions to the sitter to, in case of an actual emergency, call this relative or friend AFTER calling 911 and have them get you to the hospital, jail, or their house.
Now, however, we just feel that it is easier to annoy everyone else rather than take a few prudent safety measures. Let the cell phone solve it.
Did it lean toward the section that was to be prominent in the next passage? Did it succeed in getting the attention of the one section (and only that section) that was dragging down the temp? How about deciding that with the particular acoustics at the venue being what they were that the flute section was a bit piercing and decide to have them play a bit quiter?
What if you received a magazine that only had stories and ads that you were interested in and pertained to you?" he asked. "That would be a magazine that everyone would want to read."
Actually, I'm a rather boring guy. NOBODY would want to read a magazine about me:
His Morning Ritual: The three S's followed by a soul numbing commute.
A Study In Monotony: Life on the job.
Living On The Edge: Details of his precarious financial situation.
But in Windoze land do the viruses fire back? How about spy ware? Do they all wear trenchcoats and black masks? What about Ad Ware? Does this require deformable terrain to destroy the billboards?
I agree with your logic. Sadly, I don't think that SCO agrees. They disagree with the GPL, and because they disagree with it they choose to not follow it because it is wrong (their opinion) or not legal according to copyright law (their opinion again).
They will be able to keep this dance going for a long time. [Speculation] When it comes down to being forced to show their code, they will. They will show that they didn't provide the notices that show that their code is GPL and therefor isn't due to omission. They will fight that for as long as they can. When it becomes a GPL fight, they will change tactics. Again. [/Speculation]
If code of theirs is identified it will be removed from the tree so fast it will make your head spin (but we knew this). Should that happen then they may plead that they were wounded (financially or otherwise) by the misappropriation or misuse of their IP (by being selectively ignorant of unauthorized release of their code) and demand compensation from us Open Source thieves or all parties who have used or distributed Linux. They may then start filing suits against companies, governments, schools, and anyone else who provide mirrors of Linux claiming they are contributing to the distribution of their IP. Personally I want to see them try to sue the NSA for their contributions to Linux. THAT, my friend, will be some high quality entertainment! Also, it would not be entirely out of character for them to start suing their current or former employee base.
They have changed (IIRC), or attempted to change, the scope or purpose of their lawsuit so many times now that it is now morbid entertainment to see what they will change their tactics to next.
Any thoughts? Here, borrow my spare Tin Foil Hat in case you need extra protection.
Sontag: We don't have to knock out the GPL for us to succeed on the copyright issue. The GPL itself supports, in a lot of ways, our positions. Section 0 of the GPL states that the legit copyright holder has to place a notice assigning the copyright over to the GPL.
All these contributions of our IP did not have an assignment by SCO saying here, 'We assign these copyrights to the GPL.' The fact that we participated with Linux does not mean that we inadvertently contributed our code to the GPL. You can't contribute inadvertently to Linux. We feel we have a very strong position based on the GPL.
End quoth.
I think that what Sontag is saying here is that they inserted their code without the required notice assigning it to the GPL. This would mean that their code is not covered by the GPL (which is counter to their business model) and is still theirs. (Assuming that any code put there actually is theirs).
He says that you "can't contribute inadvertently to Linux" and I think they new that. Their code, according to them, is in Linux, being used by Linux, having never been assigned to the GPL. This means that they deliberatly attempted to "poison" Linux. I can here him saying "Too bad for Linux that they didn't look for the copyright notice."
Janus would add a hacker-resistant clock to portable music players for files encoded in Microsoft's proprietary Windows Media Audio format.
So how long until someone tries to set the clock to December 31st, 2010? The 30 day time perios won't expire for about 6 years or so. After all, there has to be a mechanism for setting the clock should the battery run out.
That hack has been around for eternity. Change the date on your computer to Dec 1st 2010, install the time limited software which sets an expiration date of, say December 14th 2010, then reset the clock back to normal when you are done. Of course, the good programs don't fall for that one anymore.
If they are smart, the will make certain that the song will only play if it is within a 30 day window according to the time on the clock on the device. It should also update the clock (via NIST or somesuch) when you transfer the file to the portable player thus nullifying any tampering each time you get new songs.
This could be a windfall for Microsoft. They are again following their strategy of not selling a product (music or software) but selling a service (rental of music or rights to use their software).
So, does Hoagland believe that the "blueberries" found on Mars are, instead, pieces of buckshot leftover from them taking their favorite "Quake" game a bit too seriously? Or is is just one large deathmatch level?
Take your boss on a tour of the server room. Show him your current configuration scripts and how they inform you, day or night regardless of location, when a problem occurs, on the cell phone which is now banned. Show him how you must reluctantly comply with the new regulations and hit the delete button (or custom script) to dramatically erase all of the notification tools you have.
Apologize that you were unable to get special exception status to continue this free service. Wish him luck on his next review and hand him the help wanted section of the paper.
And I suppose it also has the "feature" that it'll automatically "fix" any "corrupt" (Linux/BSD) partitions it discovers on bootup?
And if it does do you expect IBM, Red Hat, and other major Linux to just be silent on the issue? Any disruption to their revenue stream would get the shareholders up in arms. Nothing makes businesses jump like a revenue shortfall.
What would they do? Put their trust behind whichever hardware vendors make their lives easy. The market cannot survive killing off major portions of itself in the quest for "trusted computing". There will be alternatives to the New World Order. The ironic thing is that the corporations will see to this.
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you're just one of the crowd, saying "so what, i got my windoze media player, who cares?"
No, I do care about choice. I wonder about saturation in the market preventing adoption. If a free codec came out a few years ago it might have more acceptance. Time will tell with Vorbis and Theora. With the currently used codecs firmly entrenched switching people over may be difficult. I have no use right now for ogg. People who use Linux (I used to be one) will love it. This means that probably 98% of the userbase out there will neither hear about nor use either Ogg format.
Someone's gonna mod me down for trolling because I don't echo the Slashdot groupspeak on this. Oh well.
Who honestly cares about or uses Ogg? Really. I have yet to even contemplate it. Sure I have the codec on my machine, but I haven't used it. Nothing is out there in the format that I am interested in or have even ran across accidently. I like portability of my music so I use MP3. (I can't very well install the codec on my machine at work.) I have no intention of recording anything into the format, so it would be a poor choice for me to use it. How many people is it a good choice for? Why?
What about Theora? Probably the same thing, at least for me. Most people already are happy with using DivX, XviD, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, or whatever. Adding another into the mix, while giveing people more choices, probably won't sway one person over. Ogg just didn't do it for me. Theora may not, either.
The only place that I can envision Theora being used is by developers needing royalty free in-game movies.
Or am I completely off base here and it will take the world by storm by sheer ease of use, compatability, support, file size, file quality, consumer knowledge, and/or consumer acceptance?
Clue me up.
Ever learn to draw? Then you are probably familiar with the workings of the left and right sides of the brain.
The left side is the logical, analytical, and symbolic side of the brain. It deals with things like language, math, and object identification. If you were to take a child and ask them to draw a picture of a car, it would most likely be a symbolic representation of a car.
The right side of the brain is much more holistic. It is the part of the brain an artist taps to do their work. It also seems to be the part of the brain that starts to kick in as soon as the threshhold of realism kicks in. While the left brain is saying that the eyes, nose, lips, ears, cheeks, and chin all look just fine and consist of the components of a "face", the right side of the brain is telling you that something major is wrong.
Left brain program and press keys.
Right brain draw.
Jumping this hurdle in a game is going to be a PITA.
So then she says back:
Why ain't you drivin' a smaller truck then?
What about if Henry Ford had patented the assembly line?
[sarcasm]That would have been a good thing.[/sarcasm]
how else would you stop the player from swimming out into the ocean?
Sharks with frickin' lasers?
Yes. Star Trek.
I am a simple person with simple tastes.
1) I want a phone that works like a phone should work. No games, no internet, no walkie-talkie functions, and no stinkin' roaming or overage fees. An easy to use directory would be nice, though.
2) I want this same phone to look exactly like the communicators on ST:TOS. Voice recognition, too, so when I say "Kirk to Enterprise" or "Kirk to Starbase 1" it dials the programmed number.
Really, is that asking too much?
A very entertaining group of artists, engineers, and nut cases :^)
You make it sound like there is a distinction.
Thanks for the info. Since it appears to use regular expressions I should be able to dump my blockfile from Junkbuster into it and just go.
Does it allow you not block advertising from, say Slashdot? How about cookies. I only allow cookies from a few sites. All others go to the bit bucket.
What would be the differences between Adblock and Junkbuster?
On a side note, reading the HTML source of the page, or running netstat -a helps out a lot to find out where the advertising comes from.
Linux really needs a killer usability app.
Yes it does. Then what does the Linux community do when it is ported (via GPL) to Windows? Make another?
Open Source it? It ends up on Windows. Close the source? Who knows.
But is it compatable with papyrus?
This isn't a troll. This is an honest question.
How does a critical vulnerability happen? Seriously. Is there a URL someone can provide or a good description that shows what it takes to make an OS or application with a vulnerability? I read just about every week or so about "Application X" or "OS Y" having a security issue and a deeper understanding of what is going on is a good thing to help judge the threat of the warning. It will also help reduce the FUD factor a little bit. If an example (current or outdated) could be given showing HOW the security of a system is compromised that would also be beneficial.
And what happened in the days BEFORE cell phones?
Parents who went out to dinner left the phone number (shock) of the restaurant that they were going to be at. Friends, same thing. Also, they would typically leave instructions to the sitter to, in case of an actual emergency, call this relative or friend AFTER calling 911 and have them get you to the hospital, jail, or their house.
Now, however, we just feel that it is easier to annoy everyone else rather than take a few prudent safety measures. Let the cell phone solve it.
I really don't think there is a need for "throw shit at each other" as a way to communicate.
You've never seen a political campaign before, have you?
Yup.
Did it lean toward the section that was to be prominent in the next passage? Did it succeed in getting the attention of the one section (and only that section) that was dragging down the temp? How about deciding that with the particular acoustics at the venue being what they were that the flute section was a bit piercing and decide to have them play a bit quiter?
Didn't think so.
What if you received a magazine that only had stories and ads that you were interested in and pertained to you?" he asked. "That would be a magazine that everyone would want to read."
Actually, I'm a rather boring guy. NOBODY would want to read a magazine about me:
His Morning Ritual: The three S's followed by a soul numbing commute.
A Study In Monotony: Life on the job.
Living On The Edge: Details of his precarious financial situation.
Nope. Boring shit. They would go under.
But in Windoze land do the viruses fire back? How about spy ware? Do they all wear trenchcoats and black masks? What about Ad Ware? Does this require deformable terrain to destroy the billboards?
I agree with your logic. Sadly, I don't think that SCO agrees. They disagree with the GPL, and because they disagree with it they choose to not follow it because it is wrong (their opinion) or not legal according to copyright law (their opinion again).
They will be able to keep this dance going for a long time. [Speculation] When it comes down to being forced to show their code, they will. They will show that they didn't provide the notices that show that their code is GPL and therefor isn't due to omission. They will fight that for as long as they can. When it becomes a GPL fight, they will change tactics. Again. [/Speculation]
If code of theirs is identified it will be removed from the tree so fast it will make your head spin (but we knew this). Should that happen then they may plead that they were wounded (financially or otherwise) by the misappropriation or misuse of their IP (by being selectively ignorant of unauthorized release of their code) and demand compensation from us Open Source thieves or all parties who have used or distributed Linux. They may then start filing suits against companies, governments, schools, and anyone else who provide mirrors of Linux claiming they are contributing to the distribution of their IP. Personally I want to see them try to sue the NSA for their contributions to Linux. THAT, my friend, will be some high quality entertainment! Also, it would not be entirely out of character for them to start suing their current or former employee base.
They have changed (IIRC), or attempted to change, the scope or purpose of their lawsuit so many times now that it is now morbid entertainment to see what they will change their tactics to next.
Any thoughts? Here, borrow my spare Tin Foil Hat in case you need extra protection.
Quoth the article:
Sontag: We don't have to knock out the GPL for us to succeed on the copyright issue. The GPL itself supports, in a lot of ways, our positions. Section 0 of the GPL states that the legit copyright holder has to place a notice assigning the copyright over to the GPL.
All these contributions of our IP did not have an assignment by SCO saying here, 'We assign these copyrights to the GPL.' The fact that we participated with Linux does not mean that we inadvertently contributed our code to the GPL. You can't contribute inadvertently to Linux. We feel we have a very strong position based on the GPL.
End quoth.
I think that what Sontag is saying here is that they inserted their code without the required notice assigning it to the GPL. This would mean that their code is not covered by the GPL (which is counter to their business model) and is still theirs. (Assuming that any code put there actually is theirs).
He says that you "can't contribute inadvertently to Linux" and I think they new that. Their code, according to them, is in Linux, being used by Linux, having never been assigned to the GPL. This means that they deliberatly attempted to "poison" Linux. I can here him saying "Too bad for Linux that they didn't look for the copyright notice."
Quoth the article:
Janus would add a hacker-resistant clock to portable music players for files encoded in Microsoft's proprietary Windows Media Audio format.
So how long until someone tries to set the clock to December 31st, 2010? The 30 day time perios won't expire for about 6 years or so. After all, there has to be a mechanism for setting the clock should the battery run out.
That hack has been around for eternity. Change the date on your computer to Dec 1st 2010, install the time limited software which sets an expiration date of, say December 14th 2010, then reset the clock back to normal when you are done. Of course, the good programs don't fall for that one anymore.
If they are smart, the will make certain that the song will only play if it is within a 30 day window according to the time on the clock on the device. It should also update the clock (via NIST or somesuch) when you transfer the file to the portable player thus nullifying any tampering each time you get new songs.
This could be a windfall for Microsoft. They are again following their strategy of not selling a product (music or software) but selling a service (rental of music or rights to use their software).
isn't this a case of the patsy using a patsy? What I wanna know is who is going to be the patsy for this paty's patsy.
Yes. I thought that the Evil Empire were using SCO, who is allegedly in turn using other companies.
Excuse me, my tinfoil hat just arced.
So, does Hoagland believe that the "blueberries" found on Mars are, instead, pieces of buckshot leftover from them taking their favorite "Quake" game a bit too seriously? Or is is just one large deathmatch level?
Close.
Take your boss on a tour of the server room. Show him your current configuration scripts and how they inform you, day or night regardless of location, when a problem occurs, on the cell phone which is now banned. Show him how you must reluctantly comply with the new regulations and hit the delete button (or custom script) to dramatically erase all of the notification tools you have.
Apologize that you were unable to get special exception status to continue this free service. Wish him luck on his next review and hand him the help wanted section of the paper.
And I suppose it also has the "feature" that it'll automatically "fix" any "corrupt" (Linux/BSD) partitions it discovers on bootup?
And if it does do you expect IBM, Red Hat, and other major Linux to just be silent on the issue? Any disruption to their revenue stream would get the shareholders up in arms. Nothing makes businesses jump like a revenue shortfall.
What would they do? Put their trust behind whichever hardware vendors make their lives easy. The market cannot survive killing off major portions of itself in the quest for "trusted computing". There will be alternatives to the New World Order. The ironic thing is that the corporations will see to this.
Maybe having an adult content provider listed on your geek resume isn't so bad after all."
The only thing better than surfing the internet for pr0n is getting paid to put it there.