Yes!!! I completely agree. I'm typing this comment on a Thinkpad T43P with a BEAUTIFUL 15" 1600x1200 IPS screen and you just can't buy those anymore. Not only has the resolution gone down, but the displays aren't IPS quality either. The requirements of a TV screen are quite different from a computer - vertical pixels are much more important when you're mostly reading vertical documents and want to see as much of the page as possible.
Back in my first college programming class (in the mid 80's) we were given an assignment which involved some simple graphical pattern matching (a don't break the ice game). A friend of mine in the class and I had both studied graphics programming on our own so the first thing that came to mind for both of us was picking the basic patterns and rotating them to find matches. But I knew that for a first programming class most people wouldn't be thinking that way, so if both of us turned in code that did that we'd be accused of cheating. Of course we weren't cheating, it was the fact that we both thought that way that we were friends to begin with. So I chose to instead code the program the less sophisticated way to avoid any accusations. I'll admit it did bug me a little to hear the professor comment on his unique approach to the problem.
He doesn't claim you don't have a right of first sale to the raw object, he's just saying that if you don't adhere to the contract then the object loses its value as a work of art and will no longer recognize it as his legitimate work of art. So while you have whatever rights the law gives you to the raw materials, but he is controlling the use of the concept which is what anyone who would buy this thing is actually interested in.
A bit twisty, but if you're into that sort of thing it could work for you. I think every week is a bit much, makes it potentially not worth the effort to deal with it. I'd think at least quarterly would be the way to go.
My brother is 5 years younger than me (I'm 44 now). That difference meant that when he was in high school he had the VCR and cable TV and I just missed those things. Amazing how different his experience was.
While I can see the reason for your points, I don't agree with the conclusion.
The fact is that implementing SPF comes with a bigger responsibility to account for every machine your email might be sent from. No doubt this can be a big pain and imply compromise.
I have implemented SPF and for me the big downside is that OTHERS don't check it and pay attention to what I've implemented. I still get bounced email which the receiver SHOULD have ignored as forged because it failed SPF checks, but they didn't and bounced it to me anyway.
So my complaint is that being responsible hasn't bought me as much as it should have.
For me the true FAIL of this incident was the idea of what could happen to the criminals once they're identities are made public after they seriously annoyed the attendees of a hacker convention. Can you imagine a group you'd less want to have seeing how they could make your life miserable (excluding the possibility of physical harm)? Good luck ever getting credit again, and that's just for starters...
My only problem with your suggestion is that we'd end up with an official DOD standard specification for a porn browsing computer and end up paying $5,000 each for them because of their government specs...
I don't have any problem with them recording everything and happen to love pointers. As a consumer I'd love being able to "record" a show which already ended. I'm just saying that some cable company is going to try to offer it someday and the content providers are going to go nuts.
More predictions. The cable companies are going to end up recording one of everything so "recording" something on the DVR is just a matter of keeping a pointer, so the next big fight is going to happen when a cable company allows you to "record" a show after it has already ended and the content producers cry foul.
And more control will be exercised as to how long you can keep a recording. Those Battlestar Galactica episodes you've been keeping on your DVR for 6 months? Um, no.
On the one hand I'm hoping that with a central office based DVR solution we won't be limited by tuners to how many shows we can record - three programs on at the same time? No problem! Set a recording from one cable box and want to watch it in another room? No problem!
However, if the new central DVR service is run through their existing Pay Per View software then the user interface (at least on Comcast) is just awful. Based on how laggy the remote is with PPV I think this is also the death of channel skipping - the control is just too sloppy to do it well, and you can bet your life the content producers like it that way and it won't get fixed.
When I first started at IBM the company accounted for employee time in 1/10 hour (6 min) increments, so the IBM way would be for 36 or 42 minute meetings, 40 minutes is unthinkable!
So your telling me that NASA is parking the worlds most expensive STEREO in the only free parking spots in the solar system? Next you're gonna tell me they used it to blast "In your eyes"...
USB sticks! What's this about USB sticks! In my day (before Win98 with your little USB support) we had floppies (the real floppy ones, not the little dinky things the older kids stopped playing with recently) and we liked it!
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Yes!!! I completely agree. I'm typing this comment on a Thinkpad T43P with a BEAUTIFUL 15" 1600x1200 IPS screen and you just can't buy those anymore. Not only has the resolution gone down, but the displays aren't IPS quality either. The requirements of a TV screen are quite different from a computer - vertical pixels are much more important when you're mostly reading vertical documents and want to see as much of the page as possible.
Is having a triple espresso before this competition considered doping or is it just expected...
Back in my first college programming class (in the mid 80's) we were given an assignment which involved some simple graphical pattern matching (a don't break the ice game). A friend of mine in the class and I had both studied graphics programming on our own so the first thing that came to mind for both of us was picking the basic patterns and rotating them to find matches. But I knew that for a first programming class most people wouldn't be thinking that way, so if both of us turned in code that did that we'd be accused of cheating. Of course we weren't cheating, it was the fact that we both thought that way that we were friends to begin with. So I chose to instead code the program the less sophisticated way to avoid any accusations. I'll admit it did bug me a little to hear the professor comment on his unique approach to the problem.
He doesn't claim you don't have a right of first sale to the raw object, he's just saying that if you don't adhere to the contract then the object loses its value as a work of art and will no longer recognize it as his legitimate work of art. So while you have whatever rights the law gives you to the raw materials, but he is controlling the use of the concept which is what anyone who would buy this thing is actually interested in.
A bit twisty, but if you're into that sort of thing it could work for you. I think every week is a bit much, makes it potentially not worth the effort to deal with it. I'd think at least quarterly would be the way to go.
My brother is 5 years younger than me (I'm 44 now). That difference meant that when he was in high school he had the VCR and cable TV and I just missed those things. Amazing how different his experience was.
Sounds like a pretty final solution...
I found his ad on http://thereifixedit.com/ I'm sure it'll be fine.
Got a little elective brain surgery scheduled...
While I can see the reason for your points, I don't agree with the conclusion.
The fact is that implementing SPF comes with a bigger responsibility to account for every machine your email might be sent from. No doubt this can be a big pain and imply compromise.
I have implemented SPF and for me the big downside is that OTHERS don't check it and pay attention to what I've implemented. I still get bounced email which the receiver SHOULD have ignored as forged because it failed SPF checks, but they didn't and bounced it to me anyway.
So my complaint is that being responsible hasn't bought me as much as it should have.
Dude, you skipped lunch again.
So apparently "I was just following the specs" doesn't work any better than "I was just following orders"...
In my day we went to Mars uphill both ways unlike you kids who coast the whole way - and we LIKED IT!!!
For me the true FAIL of this incident was the idea of what could happen to the criminals once they're identities are made public after they seriously annoyed the attendees of a hacker convention. Can you imagine a group you'd less want to have seeing how they could make your life miserable (excluding the possibility of physical harm)? Good luck ever getting credit again, and that's just for starters...
I think I'm gonna have nightmares thinking about what a porn star designed to government specs would look like...
My only problem with your suggestion is that we'd end up with an official DOD standard specification for a porn browsing computer and end up paying $5,000 each for them because of their government specs...
I don't have any problem with them recording everything and happen to love pointers. As a consumer I'd love being able to "record" a show which already ended. I'm just saying that some cable company is going to try to offer it someday and the content providers are going to go nuts.
More predictions. The cable companies are going to end up recording one of everything so "recording" something on the DVR is just a matter of keeping a pointer, so the next big fight is going to happen when a cable company allows you to "record" a show after it has already ended and the content producers cry foul.
And more control will be exercised as to how long you can keep a recording. Those Battlestar Galactica episodes you've been keeping on your DVR for 6 months? Um, no.
Coming to the menu soon - bomb vindaloo...
On the one hand I'm hoping that with a central office based DVR solution we won't be limited by tuners to how many shows we can record - three programs on at the same time? No problem! Set a recording from one cable box and want to watch it in another room? No problem!
However, if the new central DVR service is run through their existing Pay Per View software then the user interface (at least on Comcast) is just awful. Based on how laggy the remote is with PPV I think this is also the death of channel skipping - the control is just too sloppy to do it well, and you can bet your life the content producers like it that way and it won't get fixed.
OK, who watched this series...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvage_1
No, usually just a plan for a plan for how to find the answer.
When I first started at IBM the company accounted for employee time in 1/10 hour (6 min) increments, so the IBM way would be for 36 or 42 minute meetings, 40 minutes is unthinkable!
So your telling me that NASA is parking the worlds most expensive STEREO in the only free parking spots in the solar system? Next you're gonna tell me they used it to blast "In your eyes"...
USB sticks! What's this about USB sticks! In my day (before Win98 with your little USB support) we had floppies (the real floppy ones, not the little dinky things the older kids stopped playing with recently) and we liked it!
Alan Cox does assure us that Linux is now working on 64-bit time, and the UNIX epoch 'roll-over' would happen about the time that the sun burnt out."
So great, we're going to be dealing with the 64bit time roll over in the dark? What kinda planning is that! Do we have candles?