Why not give the program to the English department and use it for teaching?
Would be great for high-school students. Have students write an essay or paper and analyze it right in front of them. Then the program highlights their errors (or what the program perceives as an error). Even better, complaining students would help fix bugs in the software because they know their intent - they could send off a highlighted error-ridden version to the developers with an explanation of why they think they are right.
Better yet, give it to everyone! It's not like you can cheat, you still have to rewrite and resubmit your papers. Shit, I say build it into text boxes on slashdot and wikipedia to start!
please do not hold this post to the standard of the Qualrus (real page of the software)
I assume that most people who don't want to get caught for their work related blogging are writing something questionable, if not downright illegal.
Trade secrets, rumors, lies... it's easy to forget that most of the things you think about your boss isn't true and that the company isn't really going under (like you wish). Not that being anonymous is equal to lying. I see your points but the statement "If you want to be treated like a criminal, then act like one" always scares me. Often I hear this argument applied to the way people dress, you know?
Well, does Fair Use laws (or the DMCA) say that you can even attempt to play Xbox games on the PS2?
Because last time I checked both copyright law and the backwards ass DMCA allow you to do anything to take advantage of Fair Use (which includes ripping to mp3, AAC or whatever).
I think what he is arguing is "Don't I own this song?" And the answer that Napter gave him was "no, that's the big secret behind our industry... we are worse than CD's!!!!" (well he should have said that)
Yeah, and it just so happens that all of the aformentioned products decode MPEG-2 right?
If your comment were the case then most codecs would never get invented and sold in the USA. And we've seen an explosion of sub-MPEG-4 and other codecs in the past year.
Multimedia is a patent minefield. All important techniques and formats are covered by broad and trivial patents that are harming progress and alternative implementations, such as free software multimedia players.
That really is a mischaracterization of what the truth is. It should read:
Multimedia is a patent minefield. All invented formats are covered by patents that are harming progress and alternative implementations, such as free software multimedia players.
It's not that the simple things are patented, it's the complex things like MPEG-2. Not that someone can't come up with their own decoder - it's just not okay with the MPEG group. (Which I know is redundant)
It isn't that you can't write your own codecs, not at all. It's that you can't decode their formats without paying a license.
If it was debian this software wouldn't be included in the US distributions (although it is).
Not trying to be a prick, but you don't work with it. DVD? Gone! SVCD? Gone! MP3? Gone!
Widespread adoption is what makes it hard huh? Well develop a new codec with brand new methods and you won't have to worry so much. Go help the vorbis project.
I have not RTFA, but I'm sure almost all of the codecs and the patents that are being discussed are owned by the MPEG group (being they are using MPEG-2 encoding/decoding without a license).
LAME is already illegal in the U.S. because it did MP3, and I suspect the rest of these projects will be killed off for similar reasons.
I'm not suprised - when you look for "free mpeg-2 decoders" you don't find much. Well, you don't find anything that is gratis. After careful research you find that open source projects are doing a lot of mpeg-2 work, but they usually don't advertise that fact.
I didn't say it was "right", but it's not suprising. Really, you can't do anything with SVCD or DVD on Windows without owning a MPEG-2 decoder. If I was someone who made money on selling MPEG-2 codecs, I'd go after VideoLAN too. It's a lucrative business.
How about an RSS aggregator that watches hundreds of feeds and shows me the posts I'd like based on a voting system?
Or even better make the RSS display a screensaver feature. Why? Because I've been looking for a RSS screensaver for about a year now. I'd like to have my own on screen news crawl (huge feature) or even a slick screensaver that did something fancy with showing the feed contents.
like, don't use this stuff in a commercial product...
I would have swapped that for The Ladies Man (which wasn't the best). By far the worst is Stuart Smalley, even though I love Al Franken (remember, it's the Al Franken millenium!).
In reality, Austin Powers is the best disguised SNL spin-off ever. All of the characters that Myers does is from SNL (or tested on SNL) and Dr. Evil is Loren Micheals.
And you think that George W. Bush would condone a savings in energy spending? A negative one at that!
He owned a oil company, attacked Iraq, and has friends in the Saudi government.... and how much is gas right now? I saw $2.29 last time I left the house (which was suprisingly today).
Hey, I just happen to vote Democrat. Really though I'm a liberal. Hell, call me a NeoLib or whatever, but I'm not a Democrat anymore. Not after the refusal to push the real liberal philosophy up front. In the last presidential election, the Democrat's actually ran a real liberal. If you don't believe me, look at his anti-war and pro-environmental record - even Bush called him a liberal. However he meant it as a smear.
I think, and this has been said, that the word liberal needs to be re0wned. Labels help - people need them. It's the parties who have failed us, it's not the labels. The Republican party has looked at the liberal philosophy and hated it for years - they have made liberal a bad word. Democrats meanwhile have run from that term. In fact, I'd argue most of the country is really "liberal" even though elections have showed us something else.
I think most people, normal folk, think with the liberal philosophy. The reason the media seems so liberal is because they have been writing with the majority in mind. Sure, the O'Reilly Factor gets a lot of buzz - but actually doesn't do as good in the ratings as you'd think (someone told me a number, but it's an unreliable source. But this is slashdot, back it up or debunk it.)
This is why I'm working on (the GNU FDL) a document "What It Takes To Be A Liberal In America". It's only in pre-Alpha stage, but I hope it will help people feel better when they are called a liberal.
It's just called Time Warner "Digital Phone". (Web site)
It's the same company, and will be the same service. It's now just pointed/marketed towards AOL users and I'm guessing a few DSL users too. (I've got to add that I hate Time Warner after getting cable. I've only had it for 2 months, but their whole purpose for having a cable tv business is to put Time Warner commercials 25 hours a day! I've already got the service, quit trying to make me a fanboy.)
It's a fact: we run a huge trade deficit pretty much always.
Oh really? Cause that is a complete bull-shit statement. We've mainly operated at a deficit since 1960 - but not always. Either way, trade deficit isn't the only way to measure the economy.
conservative lawyer and prominent proponent of the Pentagon's controversial Total Information Awareness project
I'm not trying troll - but usually "conservative" and proponent of "Total Information Awareness" doesn't go together. I mean, I'm a liberal and I can remember a time "conservatives" were for more privacy rights (ok, forget the fight over sodomy laws).
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Why not give the program to the English department and use it for teaching?
Would be great for high-school students. Have students write an essay or paper and analyze it right in front of them. Then the program highlights their errors (or what the program perceives as an error). Even better, complaining students would help fix bugs in the software because they know their intent - they could send off a highlighted error-ridden version to the developers with an explanation of why they think they are right.
Better yet, give it to everyone! It's not like you can cheat, you still have to rewrite and resubmit your papers. Shit, I say build it into text boxes on slashdot and wikipedia to start!
please do not hold this post to the standard of the Qualrus (real page of the software)
Now with these advanced features:
Now offering speeds up to 166 MHz!
Better memory access!
New six-way Sexispeed arcitechture!
Overclocking abilities - overclock your processor to an amazing 2.8 GHz!
Now you can deface Google as well!
I tried 'what is real ultimate power?'
Ninjas? Are you kidding me? Everyone knows Terri Schiavo is real ultimate power. Maybe George W. Bush, maybe, but freaking ninjas?
Who decided that?
And I thought you were joking!
Libel is so much more fun.
I assume that most people who don't want to get caught for their work related blogging are writing something questionable, if not downright illegal.
Trade secrets, rumors, lies... it's easy to forget that most of the things you think about your boss isn't true and that the company isn't really going under (like you wish). Not that being anonymous is equal to lying. I see your points but the statement "If you want to be treated like a criminal, then act like one" always scares me. Often I hear this argument applied to the way people dress, you know?
But, any advice for bloggers who are not worried about their employer but their federal governement?
AHHH!!
But can you stop someone from giving the source back to the original author or anyone else?
No...
Well, does Fair Use laws (or the DMCA) say that you can even attempt to play Xbox games on the PS2?
Because last time I checked both copyright law and the backwards ass DMCA allow you to do anything to take advantage of Fair Use (which includes ripping to mp3, AAC or whatever).
I think what he is arguing is "Don't I own this song?" And the answer that Napter gave him was "no, that's the big secret behind our industry... we are worse than CD's!!!!" (well he should have said that)
Yeah, and it just so happens that all of the aformentioned products decode MPEG-2 right?
If your comment were the case then most codecs would never get invented and sold in the USA. And we've seen an explosion of sub-MPEG-4 and other codecs in the past year.
Multimedia is a patent minefield. All important techniques and formats are covered by broad and trivial patents that are harming progress and alternative implementations, such as free software multimedia players.
That really is a mischaracterization of what the truth is. It should read:
Multimedia is a patent minefield. All invented formats are covered by patents that are harming progress and alternative implementations, such as free software multimedia players.
It's not that the simple things are patented, it's the complex things like MPEG-2. Not that someone can't come up with their own decoder - it's just not okay with the MPEG group. (Which I know is redundant)
It isn't that you can't write your own codecs, not at all. It's that you can't decode their formats without paying a license.
If it was debian this software wouldn't be included in the US distributions (although it is).
Well you don't.
Not trying to be a prick, but you don't work with it. DVD? Gone! SVCD? Gone! MP3? Gone!
Widespread adoption is what makes it hard huh? Well develop a new codec with brand new methods and you won't have to worry so much. Go help the vorbis project.
I have not RTFA, but I'm sure almost all of the codecs and the patents that are being discussed are owned by the MPEG group (being they are using MPEG-2 encoding/decoding without a license).
LAME is already illegal in the U.S. because it did MP3, and I suspect the rest of these projects will be killed off for similar reasons.
I'm not suprised - when you look for "free mpeg-2 decoders" you don't find much. Well, you don't find anything that is gratis. After careful research you find that open source projects are doing a lot of mpeg-2 work, but they usually don't advertise that fact.
I didn't say it was "right", but it's not suprising. Really, you can't do anything with SVCD or DVD on Windows without owning a MPEG-2 decoder. If I was someone who made money on selling MPEG-2 codecs, I'd go after VideoLAN too. It's a lucrative business.
How about an RSS aggregator that watches hundreds of feeds and shows me the posts I'd like based on a voting system?
Or even better make the RSS display a screensaver feature. Why? Because I've been looking for a RSS screensaver for about a year now. I'd like to have my own on screen news crawl (huge feature) or even a slick screensaver that did something fancy with showing the feed contents.
like, don't use this stuff in a commercial product...
Really!
I would have swapped that for The Ladies Man (which wasn't the best). By far the worst is Stuart Smalley, even though I love Al Franken (remember, it's the Al Franken millenium!).
In reality, Austin Powers is the best disguised SNL spin-off ever. All of the characters that Myers does is from SNL (or tested on SNL) and Dr. Evil is Loren Micheals.
And you think that George W. Bush would condone a savings in energy spending? A negative one at that!
He owned a oil company, attacked Iraq, and has friends in the Saudi government.... and how much is gas right now? I saw $2.29 last time I left the house (which was suprisingly today).
Hey, I just happen to vote Democrat. Really though I'm a liberal. Hell, call me a NeoLib or whatever, but I'm not a Democrat anymore. Not after the refusal to push the real liberal philosophy up front. In the last presidential election, the Democrat's actually ran a real liberal. If you don't believe me, look at his anti-war and pro-environmental record - even Bush called him a liberal. However he meant it as a smear.
I think, and this has been said, that the word liberal needs to be re0wned. Labels help - people need them. It's the parties who have failed us, it's not the labels. The Republican party has looked at the liberal philosophy and hated it for years - they have made liberal a bad word. Democrats meanwhile have run from that term. In fact, I'd argue most of the country is really "liberal" even though elections have showed us something else.
I think most people, normal folk, think with the liberal philosophy. The reason the media seems so liberal is because they have been writing with the majority in mind. Sure, the O'Reilly Factor gets a lot of buzz - but actually doesn't do as good in the ratings as you'd think (someone told me a number, but it's an unreliable source. But this is slashdot, back it up or debunk it.)
This is why I'm working on (the GNU FDL) a document "What It Takes To Be A Liberal In America". It's only in pre-Alpha stage, but I hope it will help people feel better when they are called a liberal.
Wear the label!
Cone drakesoft?
Well, it is from France!
It's just called Time Warner "Digital Phone". (Web site)
It's the same company, and will be the same service. It's now just pointed/marketed towards AOL users and I'm guessing a few DSL users too. (I've got to add that I hate Time Warner after getting cable. I've only had it for 2 months, but their whole purpose for having a cable tv business is to put Time Warner commercials 25 hours a day! I've already got the service, quit trying to make me a fanboy.)
Prescott Bush - Prescott Bush - Prescott Bush
and?
Prescott Bush!!!
Whenever I post and that name is included I get labeled a troll! Must be a filter or something? A perl script?
Rhapsody is far from the standard Real Player application first. Second, I've never had a problem with any version of the Real Player client.
What does spyware look like anyways?
You just like to bitch. Really, iTunes has free music? Where?
I think it would be great if someone buys "OFFICIALCHERRYOS.COM" (available) and forks their code and calls the new project "The Official CherryOS".
Their being a relative term.
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Oh really? Cause that is a complete bull-shit statement. We've mainly operated at a deficit since 1960 - but not always. Either way, trade deficit isn't the only way to measure the economy.
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Additionally, the Bush administration is not trying to shut the borders
Sure, the Canadian border.
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Pop-quiz: who was Germany's top trading partner in 1938?
Prescott Bush?
I guess it's like hiring a theif to look at your security system, a cracker to test your firewall or a spammer to test your "rbl"!
I'm not dumb, or fast, enough to attack a 1 inch wasp!