While we're at it, how about one that lets me click one window, then drag all the windows in the group as one, maintaining relative position?
There is one. I'm not sure which one it is, but I've used an X11 windowmanager that allowed you to select windows as a group and drag them together maintaining relative position. Maybe it was Windowmaker, I'm not sure. Although it was cool, I rarely if ever used it.
Piracy doesn't deny anoyne acces to the pirated goods. So piracy is per definition not theft.
True, but in the same spirit, if everyone pirated goods, then no one would continue making commercial software. Say what you will about "free" software, there is plenty of software that is not sexy enough for people to independently and give away for free, but the software is needed and wanted by users.
For example, look at the "Linux desktop". Granted its under development, but what Apple and Microsoft have provided for years is much more complete and integrated than what is available under Linux today.
It's a bit convoluted, but here's how to play these videos on Linux without having to delve into HTML and JS, and without having to use an embedded video plugin (lots of which seem to lock up and crash frequently):
- Install the GreaseMonkey extension to Firefox: http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/ - Install the Unembed script for GreaseMonkey: http://dunck.us/collab/GreaseMonkeyUserScripts - Install xine and the Windows codecs: http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/ - Go to http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html in Firefox (the links on each story don't work, they check to see if WMP9 is installed, and then they fail) - Click on the story you want. - Right-click on the title above the embedded video (it's the name of the video in blue text, and it's in the same frame as the embedded video). Select "This Frame->Show only this frame" from the context menu. - There should now be a link next to the video that says "[download]". - Shift-click on the "[download]" link to open it in a new tab (right-click doesn't work, so you can't copy the link destination). - Switch to the new tab, and press Ctrl-L Ctrl-C to copy the URL. - Open a terminal, and type "xine " then Ctrl-Shift-V to paste the URL. Press enter and the movie should play!
Phew!
Granted, I assume that this is informative and accurate, but for God's sake, its 2005. Aside from Microsoft's DRM junk in WMV9 formats, is it still that difficult to view a movie from the web?
The first time I viewed an MPEG that I got off the internet was something like 1994, and the directions were something like 1) download MPEG from FTP site and 2) start whatever Sun called their media player at the time and open the file in it.
Now the newer music CDs that are coming out don't even let me back up my music.
Take the plastic thing back to the store and ask for a CD. The DRMed stuff does not count as a real CD and _should_ not purport to be one by using the CD logo.
CDs only last for a few minutes in my grasp until they get scratched up and explode.
Please stay away from my CDs and anything else of value that I own and my workplace. Thanks.
Back on topic. Good riddance! I'm glad tapes are gone. When CDs first came out, I liked the fidelity of them and that they could play more than 20 minutes before flipping them over, but I didn't like that they did not record.
Even "back in the day", I thought tapes were only useful for making portable (possibly pirated, yes this is not new) recordings of my LPs so they could play in my car or walkman. I always hated tapes because of the lack of indexing songs (no the "listen for a quiet enough passage" does not count). I hated that eyeSSSccc! sound of your tape getting eaten (optionally thrown on the side of the road for miles of brown tape litter fun). Good fidelity from a tape costed a ton of money (people who know what a Nakamichi Dragon is know what I'm talking about). I also was very active in trading music via snail mail with cassette copies.
Now with burnable CDs that I can burn in a couple of minutes with almost zero difference between that and the original CD or file on my harddisk for a whopping 25 cents a piece, remind me what is cool about cassettes again? I used to pay something like $1.25 for a cassette.
I'm not saying that digital recordings are better than analog ones (they aren't), but they have gotten to be "Good Enough"(TM).
shows one customer's example of a photo rejected by Wal-Mart
Maybe, people should go somewhere besides Poor-Mart to get their pictures developed.
I would imagine that there are camera stores near every place that has a Wal-Mart. You go in to one of those, talk with the knowledgeable and helpful staff member (ie, not high-school kids) and maybe even get compliments tips and whatnot for your photos vs having them rejected on some moral or legal grounds.
Why do people still expect more than the lowest common denominator when they deal with the lowest common denominator?
Whatever happened to the class-action lawsuit that was planned to force this accomodation to be added under the ADA?
I'm not that familiar with the ADA, but I believe that it is more for "equal opportunity" vs "equal amenities under every circumstance". By that I mean, that the ADA specifies things like handicapped people must have equal opportunity physically to access a public place like ramps, bathrooms, and I guess those electric carts for those that can manage to make it to a store, but are unable to walk upon entering it. But ADA does not specify that there should be echolocation set up for hearing impaired people to navigate. The difference is that there should be some consideration in the design of a building to accommodate most all of the able bodied public to access, not alterations to the environment for every possible physical, mental, or developmental thing out there.
I don't believe that movie theaters should have subtitles for hearing impaired any more than they should stop the movie every 15 minutes for those that have weak bladders or ADD or subtitles for our permanent visitors that refuse to learn English.
The main reason my wife and I don't go to the movies a lot are the kids, specifically the teens. They come in, talk the whole time, can't turn off their cell phones, and usually leave a big mess behind.
I hear this all the time on slashdot, but have not experienced it personally because I basically only see big movies in theaters (LOTR, SW, etc).
Has anyone ever thought about standing up and shouting "Shut the fuck up!"?
It kills me that people are so passive and simply bitch about stuff behind closed doors.
The only thing that is getting annoying about confronting a younger person now a days is that they simply look at you with that blank stare look like "I don't know what the hell you are doing. I've never had anybody, including my parents stand up to me before, is this really happening???"
Actions speak much more loudly than words, especially words behind closed doors with the other party not involved.
You know, I've never understood the mad rush to see a given film the instant it's released...it's a movie..it'll keep...it's not like it'll go bad like milk or something if you don't view it within a given time period.
Its more of a social thing, than a movie thing.
Its much more interesting to talk with people about current irrelevant activities vs already done and overwith irrelevant activities. Even if the experience sucked.
Talking about seeing SW I in the theater last night or last week is much more interesting vs talking about seein SW IV in the theater in 1977. Now, seeing both in the theater is a conversational plus (unless your talking to a young hottie that now thinks your too old...).
Also, the conversation pretty much stops if you say something like "I don't go to movies at the theater, so I'm waiting for it to come out on DVD. Shhh, don't spoil it for me until I see it".
Java and Javascript have nothing at all to do with each other
They have everything to do with each other. Sun pressured Netscape back in the day to brand their browser clientside scripting language with the term Java in it.
They could charge for OSX (some for Michael, some for Steve)
Does Steve have a problem selling computers (and pocketing all the money with none for Michael)? I called today and bought one no problem.
For those that do not know, Apple likes to sell their own computers and locks in the price. That is why you cannot see a variation of prices across different vendors that supplies Apple hardware. At CompUSA they told me their markup was already an abysmal 10%.
Therefore, your signed copy of the original document proves that the employer created both versions.
Too bad you and the court only have one copy.
Granted this may be enough for a cryptographer, mathematician, or some security guru to get upset, but I love those "privacy" agreements and whatnot that say "We will not do X, Y, or Z. But we reserve the right to change the agreed upon agreements at any time without your consent. Please sign below agreeing to my future unknown demands."
There will be collisions in any finite hash algorithm. An md5 has is what 16 bytes? How can all of the data in the universe be uniquely labeled with only 16 bytes of information?
Now, to be able to generate md5 collisions at will in realtime. That is a concern, and then we will either change or use multiple hashes ASAP.
Another thing to keep in mind, is that most people are pussies, and they really aren't out to do anything really bad. There are those that will do anything quasi-legal and dishonest to make a buck or whatever, but few people are out to actually do real harm. For those out to do real harm, knock them off. Its that simple. Ends the problem immediately and permanently.
Maybe MS could just make it easier by letting us know what actually *will* make it into Longhorn...
That is funny, but I was thinking the exact thing when I read the article title.
Granted I will not use Longhorn, but I have heard more about what is not going to be in it vs what is. First, the big thing was WinFS. Oops, not to be released in Longhorn. OK, now its that great scripting metashell. Oops, that is not going to be released in Longhorn.
So, for all of those MS fanboys out there, what is to be in Longhorn? Is this going to be a secure windows release? Are there any new features?
However, my belief is that packaging systems are inherently flawed.
Yeah, it sucks to drag and drop an application to anywhere on my harddrive and have it work.
I don't know guys. Using OS X for a while really makes other OSes seem very, very primitive. Most all applications can just be DNDed or run out of a disc image and they work. "Applications" in OS X are specially organized directories and all of the libraries and/or helper applications (I've even seen perl scripts inside of an application) are contained in one place.
Best method of installing software that I've ever come across, hands down.
I listen to cd's in my car all the time (I'm a loser with no car mp3 player)
I have a car MP3 player, and I've made 2 MP3 CDs just to play with it.
The first one went OK the second time I burned it. My car player requires the disc to be burned DAO for some reason.
The biggest disappointment was the second disc that I burned. I put 5 to 8 albums on the disc, but this time the tracks were in random order.
Also, MP3 players are annoying with live music because of the gap between songs.
In summary, the second MP3 CD might very well be my last. Having a CD with 5-8 albums on it is no more convenient, if not less so (my passenger can't look to see what else is on the CD) vs a book of a hundred or so discs.
Aside from the drastic disc space savings over lossless encoded music, I just don't get the MP3 desire. I would say that I have more music than most people, but I only have a handful of MP3 encoded material. I also rarely listen to it because it sounds so bad. The MP3s I make sound good, but they aren't 128bit either. (I use lame -V2 --vbr-new -q0 --lowpass 19.7 --cwlimit 10.7 -b128 -B320 --athaa-sensitivity 1).
Yeah, I'm starting to believe that Gartner is a Microsoft funded alias for Dvorak. The shit that these guys come up with (and reverse their opinions) is absurd.
However, Dvorak and Gartner are great flamebate stories for slashdot!
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I don't see why it couldn't be a folder!
They don't exist! Remember, that is the topic of discussion.
If Apple really works on shining up Wine (or buys out some other Wine based company - Crossover I believe?), then they can offer Windows compatibility with a certain number of apps, perhaps a solid list such as Photoshop, Office, etc (and grow the list as necessary).
Yeah, that works wonders for Linux right?
Ever since Linus said that Wine was the "killer" linux application, and that it would bring all the end user apps to Linux... Well, that is the single most thing that I have ever disagreed with Linus, and I would say that time has proven me more right than he was.
Iff running on an x86 improves cross-platform development between Macs and Windows, then I see the Intel switch as a good thing. IMHO, I see that it will decrease the already low number of apps available for Macs. People will say, "Yeah, it runs on a Mac, throw it in Wine!"
It may pan out over the years, but I'm very bitter about the Intel decision. I guess there isn't really another chip provider at this time, but an Intel based Mac is going to confuse most people. Being that Windows is merely the OS that comes with their Intel PC, what is so different about that other Intel PC? It looks a little nicer than this black or beige box. Its more expensive. What do you mean none of my applications will run on it?
I would like to be wrong about this and many other things, but I doubt I am.
The FCC is the Federal Communications Commission. They are in charge of _everything_ that passes over the air waves. The advent of digital television will clear up many of the airwave bands.
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While we're at it, how about one that lets me click one window, then drag all the windows in the group as one, maintaining relative position?
There is one. I'm not sure which one it is, but I've used an X11 windowmanager that allowed you to select windows as a group and drag them together maintaining relative position. Maybe it was Windowmaker, I'm not sure. Although it was cool, I rarely if ever used it.
Piracy doesn't deny anoyne acces to the pirated goods. So piracy is per definition not theft.
True, but in the same spirit, if everyone pirated goods, then no one would continue making commercial software. Say what you will about "free" software, there is plenty of software that is not sexy enough for people to independently and give away for free, but the software is needed and wanted by users.
For example, look at the "Linux desktop". Granted its under development, but what Apple and Microsoft have provided for years is much more complete and integrated than what is available under Linux today.
It's a bit convoluted, but here's how to play these videos on Linux without having to delve into HTML and JS, and without having to use an embedded video plugin (lots of which seem to lock up and crash frequently):
- Install the GreaseMonkey extension to Firefox: http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
- Install the Unembed script for GreaseMonkey: http://dunck.us/collab/GreaseMonkeyUserScripts
- Install xine and the Windows codecs: http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/
- Go to http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html in Firefox (the links on each story don't work, they check to see if WMP9 is installed, and then they fail)
- Click on the story you want.
- Right-click on the title above the embedded video (it's the name of the video in blue text, and it's in the same frame as the embedded video). Select "This Frame->Show only this frame" from the context menu.
- There should now be a link next to the video that says "[download]".
- Shift-click on the "[download]" link to open it in a new tab (right-click doesn't work, so you can't copy the link destination).
- Switch to the new tab, and press Ctrl-L Ctrl-C to copy the URL.
- Open a terminal, and type "xine " then Ctrl-Shift-V to paste the URL. Press enter and the movie should play!
Phew!
Granted, I assume that this is informative and accurate, but for God's sake, its 2005. Aside from Microsoft's DRM junk in WMV9 formats, is it still that difficult to view a movie from the web?
The first time I viewed an MPEG that I got off the internet was something like 1994, and the directions were something like 1) download MPEG from FTP site and 2) start whatever Sun called their media player at the time and open the file in it.
Now the newer music CDs that are coming out don't even let me back up my music.
Take the plastic thing back to the store and ask for a CD. The DRMed stuff does not count as a real CD and _should_ not purport to be one by using the CD logo.
CDs only last for a few minutes in my grasp until they get scratched up and explode.
Please stay away from my CDs and anything else of value that I own and my workplace. Thanks.
CDs can be nice, but I'm really sick of losing media to scratches.
Keeping CDs in their cases works wonders.
I've lost 2 CDs to scratches over the last 18 years of having CDs.
this may help
Back on topic. Good riddance! I'm glad tapes are gone. When CDs first came out, I liked the fidelity of them and that they could play more than 20 minutes before flipping them over, but I didn't like that they did not record.
Even "back in the day", I thought tapes were only useful for making portable (possibly pirated, yes this is not new) recordings of my LPs so they could play in my car or walkman. I always hated tapes because of the lack of indexing songs (no the "listen for a quiet enough passage" does not count). I hated that eyeSSSccc! sound of your tape getting eaten (optionally thrown on the side of the road for miles of brown tape litter fun). Good fidelity from a tape costed a ton of money (people who know what a Nakamichi Dragon is know what I'm talking about). I also was very active in trading music via snail mail with cassette copies.
Now with burnable CDs that I can burn in a couple of minutes with almost zero difference between that and the original CD or file on my harddisk for a whopping 25 cents a piece, remind me what is cool about cassettes again? I used to pay something like $1.25 for a cassette.
I'm not saying that digital recordings are better than analog ones (they aren't), but they have gotten to be "Good Enough"(TM).
shows one customer's example of a photo rejected by Wal-Mart
Maybe, people should go somewhere besides Poor-Mart to get their pictures developed.
I would imagine that there are camera stores near every place that has a Wal-Mart. You go in to one of those, talk with the knowledgeable and helpful staff member (ie, not high-school kids) and maybe even get compliments tips and whatnot for your photos vs having them rejected on some moral or legal grounds.
Why do people still expect more than the lowest common denominator when they deal with the lowest common denominator?
Whatever happened to the class-action lawsuit that was planned to force this accomodation to be added under the ADA?
I'm not that familiar with the ADA, but I believe that it is more for "equal opportunity" vs "equal amenities under every circumstance". By that I mean, that the ADA specifies things like handicapped people must have equal opportunity physically to access a public place like ramps, bathrooms, and I guess those electric carts for those that can manage to make it to a store, but are unable to walk upon entering it. But ADA does not specify that there should be echolocation set up for hearing impaired people to navigate. The difference is that there should be some consideration in the design of a building to accommodate most all of the able bodied public to access, not alterations to the environment for every possible physical, mental, or developmental thing out there.
I don't believe that movie theaters should have subtitles for hearing impaired any more than they should stop the movie every 15 minutes for those that have weak bladders or ADD or subtitles for our permanent visitors that refuse to learn English.
The main reason my wife and I don't go to the movies a lot are the kids, specifically the teens. They come in, talk the whole time, can't turn off their cell phones, and usually leave a big mess behind.
I hear this all the time on slashdot, but have not experienced it personally because I basically only see big movies in theaters (LOTR, SW, etc).
Has anyone ever thought about standing up and shouting "Shut the fuck up!"?
It kills me that people are so passive and simply bitch about stuff behind closed doors.
The only thing that is getting annoying about confronting a younger person now a days is that they simply look at you with that blank stare look like "I don't know what the hell you are doing. I've never had anybody, including my parents stand up to me before, is this really happening???"
Actions speak much more loudly than words, especially words behind closed doors with the other party not involved.
You know, I've never understood the mad rush to see a given film the instant it's released...it's a movie..it'll keep...it's not like it'll go bad like milk or something if you don't view it within a given time period.
Its more of a social thing, than a movie thing.
Its much more interesting to talk with people about current irrelevant activities vs already done and overwith irrelevant activities. Even if the experience sucked.
Talking about seeing SW I in the theater last night or last week is much more interesting vs talking about seein SW IV in the theater in 1977. Now, seeing both in the theater is a conversational plus (unless your talking to a young hottie that now thinks your too old...).
Also, the conversation pretty much stops if you say something like "I don't go to movies at the theater, so I'm waiting for it to come out on DVD. Shhh, don't spoil it for me until I see it".
Java and Javascript have nothing at all to do with each other
They have everything to do with each other. Sun pressured Netscape back in the day to brand their browser clientside scripting language with the term Java in it.
The confusion was a marketing success!
I mean, if it were priced below M$ and ran on x86 machines, it would eventually win.
I mean if Ferrari priced below Toyota, then you would end up with no Ferrari and just an Italian knockoff of a Toyota.
There are some people left in this world that believe in quality over quantity.
They could charge for OSX (some for Michael, some for Steve)
Does Steve have a problem selling computers (and pocketing all the money with none for Michael)? I called today and bought one no problem.
For those that do not know, Apple likes to sell their own computers and locks in the price. That is why you cannot see a variation of prices across different vendors that supplies Apple hardware. At CompUSA they told me their markup was already an abysmal 10%.
It's not like we find any reason to visit Tennessee these days...
Hey, maybe its where Saddam's WMDs are hiding?!?
Therefore, your signed copy of the original document proves that the employer created both versions.
Too bad you and the court only have one copy.
Granted this may be enough for a cryptographer, mathematician, or some security guru to get upset, but I love those "privacy" agreements and whatnot that say "We will not do X, Y, or Z. But we reserve the right to change the agreed upon agreements at any time without your consent. Please sign below agreeing to my future unknown demands."
There will be collisions in any finite hash algorithm. An md5 has is what 16 bytes? How can all of the data in the universe be uniquely labeled with only 16 bytes of information?
Now, to be able to generate md5 collisions at will in realtime. That is a concern, and then we will either change or use multiple hashes ASAP.
Another thing to keep in mind, is that most people are pussies, and they really aren't out to do anything really bad. There are those that will do anything quasi-legal and dishonest to make a buck or whatever, but few people are out to actually do real harm. For those out to do real harm, knock them off. Its that simple. Ends the problem immediately and permanently.
Maybe MS could just make it easier by letting us know what actually *will* make it into Longhorn...
That is funny, but I was thinking the exact thing when I read the article title.
Granted I will not use Longhorn, but I have heard more about what is not going to be in it vs what is. First, the big thing was WinFS. Oops, not to be released in Longhorn. OK, now its that great scripting metashell. Oops, that is not going to be released in Longhorn.
So, for all of those MS fanboys out there, what is to be in Longhorn? Is this going to be a secure windows release? Are there any new features?
Inquiring geeks want to know...
However, my belief is that packaging systems are inherently flawed.
Yeah, it sucks to drag and drop an application to anywhere on my harddrive and have it work.
I don't know guys. Using OS X for a while really makes other OSes seem very, very primitive. Most all applications can just be DNDed or run out of a disc image and they work. "Applications" in OS X are specially organized directories and all of the libraries and/or helper applications (I've even seen perl scripts inside of an application) are contained in one place.
Best method of installing software that I've ever come across, hands down.
I listen to cd's in my car all the time (I'm a loser with no car mp3 player)
I have a car MP3 player, and I've made 2 MP3 CDs just to play with it.
The first one went OK the second time I burned it. My car player requires the disc to be burned DAO for some reason.
The biggest disappointment was the second disc that I burned. I put 5 to 8 albums on the disc, but this time the tracks were in random order.
Also, MP3 players are annoying with live music because of the gap between songs.
In summary, the second MP3 CD might very well be my last. Having a CD with 5-8 albums on it is no more convenient, if not less so (my passenger can't look to see what else is on the CD) vs a book of a hundred or so discs.
Aside from the drastic disc space savings over lossless encoded music, I just don't get the MP3 desire. I would say that I have more music than most people, but I only have a handful of MP3 encoded material. I also rarely listen to it because it sounds so bad. The MP3s I make sound good, but they aren't 128bit either. (I use lame -V2 --vbr-new -q0 --lowpass 19.7 --cwlimit 10.7 -b128 -B320 --athaa-sensitivity 1).
Yeah, I'm starting to believe that Gartner is a Microsoft funded alias for Dvorak. The shit that these guys come up with (and reverse their opinions) is absurd.
However, Dvorak and Gartner are great flamebate stories for slashdot!
I don't see why it couldn't be a folder!
They don't exist! Remember, that is the topic of discussion.
like he's going to hand over the keys to Apple and say to Intel, "Have fun with my personality-based cult!"
Although it wasn't to Intel, he did it once before while he made remote controls and NeXt boxes.
If Apple really works on shining up Wine (or buys out some other Wine based company - Crossover I believe?), then they can offer Windows compatibility with a certain number of apps, perhaps a solid list such as Photoshop, Office, etc (and grow the list as necessary).
Yeah, that works wonders for Linux right?
Ever since Linus said that Wine was the "killer" linux application, and that it would bring all the end user apps to Linux... Well, that is the single most thing that I have ever disagreed with Linus, and I would say that time has proven me more right than he was.
Iff running on an x86 improves cross-platform development between Macs and Windows, then I see the Intel switch as a good thing. IMHO, I see that it will decrease the already low number of apps available for Macs. People will say, "Yeah, it runs on a Mac, throw it in Wine!"
It may pan out over the years, but I'm very bitter about the Intel decision. I guess there isn't really another chip provider at this time, but an Intel based Mac is going to confuse most people. Being that Windows is merely the OS that comes with their Intel PC, what is so different about that other Intel PC? It looks a little nicer than this black or beige box. Its more expensive. What do you mean none of my applications will run on it?
I would like to be wrong about this and many other things, but I doubt I am.
It sucks that poor people can't afford 32" TV sets.
I make more than an average US salary, and it was a big deal for me to plop down $1,600 for my 43" HDTV a while back.
WTF? Poor people get shit on all the time. That is what they are there for.
The FCC is the Federal Communications Commission. They are in charge of _everything_ that passes over the air waves. The advent of digital television will clear up many of the airwave bands.
Its progress, you've got to have progress!
They could have chosen or stolen any software for free. Lots of people use Windows.
Although I have a degree in psychology, I have given up years ago trying to explain irrational human behavior.