It can be used for passing video round home networks, rights-managed peer-to-peer file sharing, or playing media in handheld devices, as well as for web streaming.
And this is why it will be fought against on the political front. How much you want to bet that the feds will want to require some sort of keying/user tracing mechanism in order for this "free" technology to be made publically available? Big media will argue that in order for the government to protect copyright, they shouldn't allow technology that can subert other's copyrights.
As part of the deal with Apple making fixes they need to get Bash to version 10 ASAP for Bash X marketing.
"I was writing a command string in the bash shell, and it was, like, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, and then, like, half of my grep string was gone. And I was, like... huh? It devoured my regex pattern. It was a really good pattern. And then I had to do it again and I had to do it fast so it wasn't as good. It's kind of a bummer."
Sorta OT, but I must say: I apologize to the rest of the freedom-loving world for our court, legislative, and executive system (regardless of who-signed-the-DMCA). This is truly sickening. I can only hope that enough Americans can get up off their butts and support some sort of change in the law. This, however, is doubtful. Due to the growing apathy in both the voting population of the US and of her elected officials, I have developed into qute the fatalist -- however a deep, dark corner of me still has hope.
As someone above suggested, "where is my checkbook -- time to donate to the EFF."
Ummm... the FOLK thing exist purely for testing purposes. No one is required to install it. Their bloat is available by *choice* (how big was the last Service Pack you downloaded?) --
With the growth of the internet, Linux, MP3s, and any other open method of media distribution, it is becoming aparent that the populace will not long endure the shackles that have been placed them by the global mega-corps.
Yes they will. The populace in general are under-educated about this. A vast majority of consumers don't have a clue about any of this. They know what they are told by the corps. They will buy whatever they are told to buy from the corps. Heck, I just saw something on the local news about "a device which tracks your movement on the internet", of course referring to cookies. The news people didn't understand what cookies were, just that they represented some vague threat.
I don't want to sound like a fatalist, but I think that you assume people are smarter than they really are (at least about technological/political issues).
Ok, bored 16 year olds on/. post uninventive crap. (*sigh*) This is what I get when I jump into a flamewar while at work. I'd better stop while I'm behind.
One person's troll is another person's marketing campaign. The serious posts, although may be replying to someone's joke, was meant to educate the casual/. skimmer who may take the troll post seriously.
Trolling's an artform
So is dung on a painting of the Virgin Mary or a crucifix in a glass of urine. It doesn't mean it has value.
Slashdot Mirror
It's time this site starts to grow up.
..says the guy with the all caps, boldface sig.
It can be used for passing video round home networks, rights-managed peer-to-peer file sharing, or playing media in handheld devices, as well as for web streaming.
And this is why it will be fought against on the political front. How much you want to bet that the feds will want to require some sort of keying/user tracing mechanism in order for this "free" technology to be made publically available? Big media will argue that in order for the government to protect copyright, they shouldn't allow technology that can subert other's copyrights.
No offense or anything, but why is this on the front page?
one of the patents burned in the fire was the first internal sprinkler system...
Guinness? ;)
Just look at the *BSD projects ;)
As part of the deal with Apple making fixes they need to get Bash to version 10 ASAP for Bash X marketing.
"I was writing a command string in the bash shell, and it was, like, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, and then, like, half of my grep string was gone. And I was, like ... huh? It devoured my regex pattern. It was a really good pattern. And then I had to do it again and I had to do it fast so it wasn't as good. It's kind of a bummer."
Uh, that's Lewis Black, not Chris. *duck*
Or someone is really working overtime whoring for a minor Microsoft UI trick. Transparent windows, W2K first, geez Osty, quit creaming your jeans.
Also, please note that Windows 2000 did this before OS X did this. Not that it matters, but it's true.
If it doesn't matter then why bother mentioning it?
Next thing you know Rosie O'Donnell is going to claim that she invented the chubby
You had me soooooooo worried there for a second.
Sorta OT, but I must say: I apologize to the rest of the freedom-loving world for our court, legislative, and executive system (regardless of who-signed-the-DMCA). This is truly sickening. I can only hope that enough Americans can get up off their butts and support some sort of change in the law. This, however, is doubtful. Due to the growing apathy in both the voting population of the US and of her elected officials, I have developed into qute the fatalist -- however a deep, dark corner of me still has hope.
As someone above suggested, "where is my checkbook -- time to donate to the EFF."
Ummm... the FOLK thing exist purely for testing purposes. No one is required to install it. Their bloat is available by *choice* (how big was the last Service Pack you downloaded?)
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No direct OpenGL support (which is what I meant to type).
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The BeOS GeForce driver doesn't even support hardware 3D yet...
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True. Freshmeat.net was affected, at least from my 'net entrypoint.
The human body is the battery. Ever watch The Matrix? :)
With the growth of the internet, Linux, MP3s, and any other open method of media distribution, it is becoming aparent that the populace will not long endure the shackles that have been placed them by the global mega-corps.
Yes they will. The populace in general are under-educated about this. A vast majority of consumers don't have a clue about any of this. They know what they are told by the corps. They will buy whatever they are told to buy from the corps. Heck, I just saw something on the local news about "a device which tracks your movement on the internet", of course referring to cookies. The news people didn't understand what cookies were, just that they represented some vague threat.
I don't want to sound like a fatalist, but I think that you assume people are smarter than they really are (at least about technological/political issues).
Everyone go to Copyleft.net and buy a DVD t-shirt with css_descramble.c source code on the back!
It's from MST3K: The Movie
Then please become one, so you may enlighten all us idiots. Please hurry, before I suffocate on my mousepad!
Ok, bored 16 year olds on /. post uninventive crap. (*sigh*) This is what I get when I jump into a flamewar while at work. I'd better stop while I'm behind.
All art has value, trolling is like anti-art
Trolling is what bored 16 year olds do when they are too lazy to do anything else.
ps, someone assumed I was the original poster, this assumption is incorrect -- for all I know, they were really that clueless ;)
Which was the whole reason for all the serious rebuttals. There are people that clueless out there.
How can you people get trolled by a FUNNY POST
Because some idiot moderator marked it as INSIGHTFUL before it was marked as FUNNY.
One person's troll is another person's marketing campaign. The serious posts, although may be replying to someone's joke, was meant to educate the casual /. skimmer who may take the troll post seriously.
Trolling's an artform
So is dung on a painting of the Virgin Mary or a crucifix in a glass of urine. It doesn't mean it has value.