This reminds me of the cops a few years back who decided to remove protesters from a government office area by dripping "pepper gas" into their eyes - in front of television cameras and everything. How exactly does creating closeup footage of bohemian girls screaming in pain resolve a trespassing problem? Obviously the pain went from being a compliance technique to a kind of experiment, and this became the same thing. Saying it's "sadistic" gets right to the point. I have a feeling that UC will regret hiring this cop many years after he's been fired.
It bothers me that the cop's fellow officers apparently weren't doing anything to wind the situation down.
By all accounts Orrin Hatch is a smart, rational, polite, and reasonable fellow. He's a Mormon, and at least partly independent of that, conservative, but that doesn't make him the devil. If he's in the pocket of media, well, people keep voting for him. Anyway, if Utah elected Barney Frank, apparently the senator from Utah would still support the DMCA. (See above.)
We do watch movies, and we do listen to commercial music, and we do elect these people. If you don't like the controls the entertainment industry wants to place on you, and you're not willing to quietly subvert them, then as an alternative use of your recreational time you can always try gardening, or exercise, or sex, or sitting on your sofa smoking a bowl, or sitting around a fire singing your own songs with your friends. We're just talking about freakin' movies after all. It's not like someone has started rationing air.
It makes no sense for the government to take an active part in defending people against actions brought about under the laws created by the same government.
If you are some serious kind of hot shit, and already have at least some connection to one or more development houses (you have interned, gametested, something...) then you might consider game development a serious career possibility. Otherwise, assuming that you can get into game development with a specialized degree is like assuming you can become an NBA basketball player by playing college b-ball. The jobs aren't out there, and the competition for the jobs that do exist is often from young people who are very focused, don't have lives outside work, and are very motivated because there's nothing else they're good enough at to do for a living.
I'd suggest you get a plain old CS degree and make sure you have done some coursework or project(s) that gives you some special hardcore experience - AI, physics/engineering simulation, GPU programming, 3D audio, driver hacking, something like that, and you need extreme and demonstrated proficiency in C and C++. Knowing some OpenGL or assembler or network programming won't do it though.
Sorry, it doesn't matter whether you're "guilty" or "indicted" when you have to cough up thousands of dollars just to get started with a lawyer - and the MPAA and RIAA takes you to civil, not criminal court. No one needs to prosecute you for ripping a DVD when the MPAA can spend its lawyers' idle time writing up civil complaints against parties who have little ability to defend themselves and often have not even have the foggiest idea how the legal system works. A defendant may not even be the correct party, but if he doesn't have means to make an appropriate motion to have the suit amended or dismissed, the result is a default judgement.
I don't see the EFF or ACLU or other legal organizations hopping aggressively into these lawsuits or doing anything beyond filing amicus briefs. Anyway, it's difficult (as in impossible) to get part or all of a piece of legislation overturned, or a law reinterpreted, when every case is either settled or dropped.
I can't characterize this behavior as SLAPP, because strictly speaking it isn't (SLAPP refers to legal maneuvering to dissuade public discussion), but it's one of those cases where it would be nice if there were a government organization, or powerful private interest, whose business it was to intercede in favor of individuals in these cases of imbalanced litigation on controversial rights issues.
Hey, so who here remembers how Cramer promoted Twistor?
I heard about his book by using his excellent periodic table Hypercard stack back in... ohmygod... when? 1993-ish? He was plugging the book in the credits. Then I looked for it for years until I finally found it. I remember sending him an email note about it and getting a nice conversational reply.
His second novel, I bought at an airport newsstand at a "special price" of $1.99 or $2.99. Wow! Who has ever bought a new book, a readable one no less, in an airport for under $3.
Please, my computer desktop should take me to that fantasy land where everything is blue and green and aqua forever. It shouldn't make me think about global warming.
Also, there's the problem that orange, yellow, red, and brown are fast food colors. Don't we computer nerds eat enough already?
You know, when you get down to it, the DRM and format issues are relevant to freakin' entertainment. It's not like they're being applied to your house.
I'd like to hack content as much as the next guy, and do sometimes, but at some point you're just listening to music or watching a movie. And frankly, if you're a naive consumer, it's fairly consumer-friendly.
DRM and format wars are onerous, but they don't affect our livelihoods or for the most part freedom of speech. It's fun to fight that battle, and it's probably a good battle to fight, but there are more important ones. I try to keep my outrage subdued nowadays.
I don't know what kind of HD content you've been seeing, but high bitrate HD (not the "HD lite" you get from DirecTV and most cable and broadcast providers) on a good set or projector (especially one with a 1080p converter/doubler) is just stunning. There is no way you could possibly confuse it with 480 line material. If I could buy a player for $200 or maybe even $300 and get a decent selection of discs from NetFlix, sure, I'd go for it. I'd prefer to go the HD-DVD route just so I don't get stuck with some screwed up Sony format though.
Actually, that means "double double" at In-N-Out. In other words, ordering a "four by four" means you get four patties and four slices of cheese. No, it's not on the menu. Neither is "animal style."
Multitasking on *nux has worked fine since the 70s. Threading has been evolving on *nux since the 1980s and there is no shortage of threading support in that world.
The problem is with Windows and its tireless efforts to fill memory with dirty pages that get flushed at the most inconvenient times. Lots of CPU-intensive Windows applications support multithreading. It's not as if multiple CPUs are a new thing in desktop PCs. The old thing is the crappy NT scheduler and the OS's bizarrely dysfunctional memory management.
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Somewhere in the 160s they tell me. Or maybe Scotty was referring to some clever ceramic. But it would be inifinitely cooler if the unobtanium in question were on a line of its own in a periodic table.
Now, apparently, and I have this on reliable inside information, stable transuranides are produced by "crossing the streams."
Finally, we computer nerds have our own sensational murder trial.
I for one hope there will be daily updates on Wikipedia News, live webcasts, podcasts of commentary, talking-head blogs, real crime experts whose expertise is acceptable to geeks, and all that, for years. Maybe Reiser is the smart man's Scott Peterson!
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This reminds me of the cops a few years back who decided to remove protesters from a government office area by dripping "pepper gas" into their eyes - in front of television cameras and everything. How exactly does creating closeup footage of bohemian girls screaming in pain resolve a trespassing problem? Obviously the pain went from being a compliance technique to a kind of experiment, and this became the same thing. Saying it's "sadistic" gets right to the point. I have a feeling that UC will regret hiring this cop many years after he's been fired.
It bothers me that the cop's fellow officers apparently weren't doing anything to wind the situation down.
Live at least another 60 years, till I'm 100, and then wait for Harold Robbins and Jacqueline Susanne will to be considered "the masters."
By all accounts Orrin Hatch is a smart, rational, polite, and reasonable fellow. He's a Mormon, and at least partly independent of that, conservative, but that doesn't make him the devil. If he's in the pocket of media, well, people keep voting for him. Anyway, if Utah elected Barney Frank, apparently the senator from Utah would still support the DMCA. (See above.)
We do watch movies, and we do listen to commercial music, and we do elect these people. If you don't like the controls the entertainment industry wants to place on you, and you're not willing to quietly subvert them, then as an alternative use of your recreational time you can always try gardening, or exercise, or sex, or sitting on your sofa smoking a bowl, or sitting around a fire singing your own songs with your friends. We're just talking about freakin' movies after all. It's not like someone has started rationing air.
That's true, strictly speaking, and the DMCA has held up to all the challenges that I'm aware of. The "remedy" for it is legislation.
It makes no sense for the government to take an active part in defending people against actions brought about under the laws created by the same government.
If you are some serious kind of hot shit, and already have at least some connection to one or more development houses (you have interned, gametested, something ...) then you might consider game development a serious career possibility. Otherwise, assuming that you can get into game development with a specialized degree is like assuming you can become an NBA basketball player by playing college b-ball. The jobs aren't out there, and the competition for the jobs that do exist is often from young people who are very focused, don't have lives outside work, and are very motivated because there's nothing else they're good enough at to do for a living.
I'd suggest you get a plain old CS degree and make sure you have done some coursework or project(s) that gives you some special hardcore experience - AI, physics/engineering simulation, GPU programming, 3D audio, driver hacking, something like that, and you need extreme and demonstrated proficiency in C and C++. Knowing some OpenGL or assembler or network programming won't do it though.
Sorry, it doesn't matter whether you're "guilty" or "indicted" when you have to cough up thousands of dollars just to get started with a lawyer - and the MPAA and RIAA takes you to civil, not criminal court. No one needs to prosecute you for ripping a DVD when the MPAA can spend its lawyers' idle time writing up civil complaints against parties who have little ability to defend themselves and often have not even have the foggiest idea how the legal system works. A defendant may not even be the correct party, but if he doesn't have means to make an appropriate motion to have the suit amended or dismissed, the result is a default judgement.
I don't see the EFF or ACLU or other legal organizations hopping aggressively into these lawsuits or doing anything beyond filing amicus briefs. Anyway, it's difficult (as in impossible) to get part or all of a piece of legislation overturned, or a law reinterpreted, when every case is either settled or dropped.
I can't characterize this behavior as SLAPP, because strictly speaking it isn't (SLAPP refers to legal maneuvering to dissuade public discussion), but it's one of those cases where it would be nice if there were a government organization, or powerful private interest, whose business it was to intercede in favor of individuals in these cases of imbalanced litigation on controversial rights issues.
I heard about it tomorrow.
Hey, so who here remembers how Cramer promoted Twistor?
... ohmygod ... when? 1993-ish? He was plugging the book in the credits. Then I looked for it for years until I finally found it. I remember sending him an email note about it and getting a nice conversational reply.
I heard about his book by using his excellent periodic table Hypercard stack back in
His second novel, I bought at an airport newsstand at a "special price" of $1.99 or $2.99. Wow! Who has ever bought a new book, a readable one no less, in an airport for under $3.
Please, my computer desktop should take me to that fantasy land where everything is blue and green and aqua forever. It shouldn't make me think about global warming.
Also, there's the problem that orange, yellow, red, and brown are fast food colors. Don't we computer nerds eat enough already?
Honestly there's only so much detail that intrigues me. There is a point of diminishing returns ....
You know, when you get down to it, the DRM and format issues are relevant to freakin' entertainment. It's not like they're being applied to your house.
I'd like to hack content as much as the next guy, and do sometimes, but at some point you're just listening to music or watching a movie. And frankly, if you're a naive consumer, it's fairly consumer-friendly.
DRM and format wars are onerous, but they don't affect our livelihoods or for the most part freedom of speech. It's fun to fight that battle, and it's probably a good battle to fight, but there are more important ones. I try to keep my outrage subdued nowadays.
I don't know what kind of HD content you've been seeing, but high bitrate HD (not the "HD lite" you get from DirecTV and most cable and broadcast providers) on a good set or projector (especially one with a 1080p converter/doubler) is just stunning. There is no way you could possibly confuse it with 480 line material. If I could buy a player for $200 or maybe even $300 and get a decent selection of discs from NetFlix, sure, I'd go for it. I'd prefer to go the HD-DVD route just so I don't get stuck with some screwed up Sony format though.
At Office Depot, or was that OfficeMax, of all places. I still haven't seen a retail BD-R or HD-DVDR drive in the flesh though.
Anyone remember that?
Being fired is one thing ... but being fired into space?
Actually, that means "double double" at In-N-Out. In other words, ordering a "four by four" means you get four patties and four slices of cheese. No, it's not on the menu. Neither is "animal style."
Multitasking on *nux has worked fine since the 70s. Threading has been evolving on *nux since the 1980s and there is no shortage of threading support in that world.
The problem is with Windows and its tireless efforts to fill memory with dirty pages that get flushed at the most inconvenient times. Lots of CPU-intensive Windows applications support multithreading. It's not as if multiple CPUs are a new thing in desktop PCs. The old thing is the crappy NT scheduler and the OS's bizarrely dysfunctional memory management.
Somewhere in the 160s they tell me. Or maybe Scotty was referring to some clever ceramic. But it would be inifinitely cooler if the unobtanium in question were on a line of its own in a periodic table.
Now, apparently, and I have this on reliable inside information, stable transuranides are produced by "crossing the streams."
"That would be bad." Oh, yeah?
You didn't have a UPS that could last through an install? Or you were just showing off?
As I said in another post, if you want to market it, just rename it "The Filesystem that Serves You Right." ServesYouRightFS anyone? :-/
4. The bitch set me up (Marion Barry)
5. The glove's too tight (OJ)
6. Is that Chewbacca here? (Chewbacca defense)
I bet we see this article once every day for the next ... well, till the trial is over.
It's now called ServesYouRightFS.
Finally, we computer nerds have our own sensational murder trial.
I for one hope there will be daily updates on Wikipedia News, live webcasts, podcasts of commentary, talking-head blogs, real crime experts whose expertise is acceptable to geeks, and all that, for years. Maybe Reiser is the smart man's Scott Peterson!