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This "Ask Slashdot" is clearly an ad for the companies linked in the post itself. I don't mind this, unlike other advertising media, you are free to post your own ads on the second page (user comments).
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I almost entirely agree with your sentiment, but I don't believe that software could truly be considered Free unless it is free for everyone - even rude, greedy imbeciles.
I'm reasonably sure luck has played some part in my achievement as a technologist, but I'm absolutely certain that the 12 years I've been diligently laboring with electronics and forsaking almost all else has had a marginally greater impact.
Manual labor has its tradeoffs, so does computer work. You're not special just because you toil - we all do in our own way.
Hmmm... I could have sworn that I got the info right off of goatse.cx... I'll dig deeper.
Damn, no such luck. That's a pretty sad thing, not being able to find anything but the inside of the dead guy's ass to remember him by.
Oh well, I can't substantiate my story, so take it or leave it. I'm certain that I got the facts right, but hopefully I can dig up my source sometime in the future.
Why's this show (Score:-1) when it's scored at 2 on my slashdot page? Hell, if you click to reply to it, it show a 2 there, also.
Editorial modification or just a glitch? This seems to occur to my controversial comments with reasonable frequency, so I'm betting on the former. I don't really have a problem with that - I'm not paying for any of this - I just find it odd that it's being done so covertly (if indeed it is).
..especially oily fingertips, will eventually lead to nasty build-up partially obscuring the cavity.
I hope they put a little glass window over these rather than leaving it exposed like the bottom of my optical mouse - human hands are just too oily for this kind of thing, especially those of us who are less sanitary than my OCD-laden self.;)
When Microsoft is officially declared to be the cyber-arm of the Bush's country, their DRM technology will be deployed everywhere and all businesses will be directly audited by government oversight.
If I was an interstellar commuter (alien), I'd transmit information in the form of directed gravity waves.
This assumes a few things, but I'll let that slide in lieu of my preferred response: If you had that degree (or better) of control over gravity, why send a message at all? Why not just warp space and make contact in-person?
Surely you would have the time, you could adjust your local gravitational field to slow the passing of time relative to you.
Debian has something similar for libdvdcss (I think that was the one, it was CSS-related in either casee), the legality of which is questionable in some places, but I have my own feelings about the validity of such laws.
They can't be distributed with the OS, but they can be installed.
You've got a good point, any reservations I have about this technique would lie in my distrust of the "anonymity" the Internet provides, not in locally run software. Well, given that that software itself isn't of dubious providence.;)
I've been spending way too much time on network security, I'm getting far too paranoid. Nix that, just blame it on all the damnedtabloids.
I've got some encrypted messages which I posted a long time ago that have been archived. I'm not going to tell you where, you'll have to find them yourself. Their contents are not catastrophically embarrassing, but they're definitely not something I would enjoy having out there completely in public view - hence the encryption.
My problem is: the encryption I used when I was working on a 386 is now trivial to decrypt on modern machinery - potentially rendering my messages fully in the public view - at least to anyone who is marginally motivated.
If Internet archiving is more than a passing trend, I urge you to be very careful about what you put online - period. Encrypted content may be safe now, but when you're applying for a job 20 years down the road and your potential employer can view all of your PGP'd email from today, you might have one less job opportunity.
I'm not even inclined to entertain thoughts about how bad things could get for you if the changing climate of politics were to count your antiquated encrypted correspondence as disloyal.
The.dll directory has been dwindling as the various codecs have become open source.
It's definitely true that the number is decreasing, but in my experience, the more useful codecs are the ones which are yet to be opensourced. I suspect we simply have different sources for our media; one example, I haven't been able to find many videos from Stileproject that don't require win32 dll's.
A year ago, even DivX needed a dll - now it's got native and fully open sourced support.
...which is extremely cool.
I'm one of those that thinks the "make it work now, and then make it work right" philosophy seems to be the best, most practical and sucessful method. KDE was based on Qt, which is now fully GPL, mplayer works right now, and is being converted to require no binary codecs... make it work, then make it work right.
I totally agree with you, my only concern is that not supporting a chunk of the codecs used in the wild (I would have no way to view Stile's horrible, depraved collection), isn't really what I would define as a "replacement" for WMP. I'm happy to use the win32 dll's, but I suspect that selling them (hell, even using them as I could) might be a trifle illegal in certain jurisdictions. If so, some major media codecs will be unsupported, hence my inability to call MPlayer a replacement for WMP.
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As an added bonus, these sites are powered by my favorite programming language - Lisp, specifically Allegro Common Lisp.
Look forward to the Oddcast powered bots in the near future (now available via Pandorabots' site)
This "Ask Slashdot" is clearly an ad for the companies linked in the post itself. I don't mind this, unlike other advertising media, you are free to post your own ads on the second page (user comments).
In that vein, visit Yashaneko.com, my girlfriend Andromeda's site. She'll have her art up soon, she does custom designs for everything from framed art, to comics, to tattoos.
I almost entirely agree with your sentiment, but I don't believe that software could truly be considered Free unless it is free for everyone - even rude, greedy imbeciles.
I'm reasonably sure luck has played some part in my achievement as a technologist, but I'm absolutely certain that the 12 years I've been diligently laboring with electronics and forsaking almost all else has had a marginally greater impact.
Manual labor has its tradeoffs, so does computer work. You're not special just because you toil - we all do in our own way.
Hmmm... I could have sworn that I got the info right off of goatse.cx... I'll dig deeper.
Damn, no such luck. That's a pretty sad thing, not being able to find anything but the inside of the dead guy's ass to remember him by.
Oh well, I can't substantiate my story, so take it or leave it. I'm certain that I got the facts right, but hopefully I can dig up my source sometime in the future.
I'd love to hack together a portable version of this to affix to my belt.
..looks like someone off Star Trek. I'm not talking Federation here.
Why's this show (Score:-1) when it's scored at 2 on my slashdot page? Hell, if you click to reply to it, it show a 2 there, also.
Editorial modification or just a glitch? This seems to occur to my controversial comments with reasonable frequency, so I'm betting on the former. I don't really have a problem with that - I'm not paying for any of this - I just find it odd that it's being done so covertly (if indeed it is).
...wait a second - you said Microsoft?
I'd like to see the hat that Bill Gates should be eating right now.
It's sad, but the Goatse guy is dead. He was 73 and an ex merchant-marine. He will be dearly missed.
(By the way, I'm serious - well, about his stats anyway)
...than to drop the soap for someone who wants to swing both ways!
;)
Damn, I was wrong!
..especially oily fingertips, will eventually lead to nasty build-up partially obscuring the cavity.
I hope they put a little glass window over these rather than leaving it exposed like the bottom of my optical mouse - human hands are just too oily for this kind of thing, especially those of us who are less sanitary than my OCD-laden self. ;)
When Microsoft is officially declared to be the cyber-arm of the Bush's country, their DRM technology will be deployed everywhere and all businesses will be directly audited by government oversight.
Is this not the plan?
If I was an interstellar commuter (alien), I'd transmit information in the form of directed gravity waves.
This assumes a few things, but I'll let that slide in lieu of my preferred response: If you had that degree (or better) of control over gravity, why send a message at all? Why not just warp space and make contact in-person?
Surely you would have the time, you could adjust your local gravitational field to slow the passing of time relative to you.
..had this many features!
It's an orgy of features!
No one expects... oh, screw it.
This is what they mean by "Trustworthy Computing" - they're just being up-front and honest about their new project's viability. Give them some credit!
This is not an article about winamp under wine; this is an article about winamp plugins under wine!
Sheesh!
This is about winamp's plugins, not winamp itself. Read more carefully before you comment.
I think that any number whose length we could express would be too optimistic.
Debian has something similar for libdvdcss (I think that was the one, it was CSS-related in either casee), the legality of which is questionable in some places, but I have my own feelings about the validity of such laws.
They can't be distributed with the OS, but they can be installed.
You've got a good point, any reservations I have about this technique would lie in my distrust of the "anonymity" the Internet provides, not in locally run software. Well, given that that software itself isn't of dubious providence. ;)
I've been spending way too much time on network security, I'm getting far too paranoid. Nix that, just blame it on all the damned tabloids.
I've got some encrypted messages which I posted a long time ago that have been archived. I'm not going to tell you where, you'll have to find them yourself. Their contents are not catastrophically embarrassing, but they're definitely not something I would enjoy having out there completely in public view - hence the encryption.
My problem is: the encryption I used when I was working on a 386 is now trivial to decrypt on modern machinery - potentially rendering my messages fully in the public view - at least to anyone who is marginally motivated.
If Internet archiving is more than a passing trend, I urge you to be very careful about what you put online - period. Encrypted content may be safe now, but when you're applying for a job 20 years down the road and your potential employer can view all of your PGP'd email from today, you might have one less job opportunity.
I'm not even inclined to entertain thoughts about how bad things could get for you if the changing climate of politics were to count your antiquated encrypted correspondence as disloyal.
The .dll directory has been dwindling as the various codecs have become open source.
It's definitely true that the number is decreasing, but in my experience, the more useful codecs are the ones which are yet to be opensourced. I suspect we simply have different sources for our media; one example, I haven't been able to find many videos from Stileproject that don't require win32 dll's.
A year ago, even DivX needed a dll - now it's got native and fully open sourced support.
...which is extremely cool.
I'm one of those that thinks the "make it work now, and then make it work right" philosophy seems to be the best, most practical and sucessful method. KDE was based on Qt, which is now fully GPL, mplayer works right now, and is being converted to require no binary codecs... make it work, then make it work right.
I totally agree with you, my only concern is that not supporting a chunk of the codecs used in the wild (I would have no way to view Stile's horrible, depraved collection), isn't really what I would define as a "replacement" for WMP. I'm happy to use the win32 dll's, but I suspect that selling them (hell, even using them as I could) might be a trifle illegal in certain jurisdictions. If so, some major media codecs will be unsupported, hence my inability to call MPlayer a replacement for WMP.
You're entirely, absolutely, and unequivocally correct.
Why don't I hear more people observing that (obviously correct) point of view? After all, what would a corporation be without corporate officers?
I suspect some greater lazy tendency to shy away from recognition of personal responsibility.