The innovation means that users will be able to scroll vertically as well as horizontally without using on-screen navigation bars.
Need I say more? This is a hardware solution for a software problem.
Whats next? WWW and email buttons on my computer? How about a Windows key to get in your way every time you go to use the left control?
When I was a windows developer (I've reformed), I got really loaded on coffee and hot chocolate mix and actually pulled the damned windows key off of my keyboard, drilled a hole in my office wall, and shoved it in there.
Having the right to redistribute does not mean that the redistributed code/binaries is properly licensed.
OK, this is where I'm confused. This is a binary only license and there is no source license.
So is SCO going to custom compile kernels for everyone? Also, if their is no source license and you compile your kernel yourself, how can SCO know that their code is #ifdef'ed out?
This whole thing makes no sense, maybe this will be more clear when they call me.
I need claim that MS stole my IP and put it in windows and then spam spam spam asking for my $700. If even a fraction of a fraction of a percent gave me money, i'd me a millionare
How can SCO get away with charging $699 for a license to code that they claim is on your computer, when they have offered no proof that it is on your computer?
Call them up. 1-800-726-8649 I've left a message and they are supposed to call me back.
It means the emulator is getting better and better, so theres a good chance that more and more apps will work with it, which decreases MS's competitive advantage.
And buying a copy of Windows and running it under Linux does what to MS's competitive advantage?
I personally think vmware and wine screw Linux, how are we ever going to get native apps when its OK just to go out and buy windows and run it under Linux?
If any other product on the market (and cellular service is a product like any other) only worked 50% of the time it would be considered defective.
But you keep buying them and tell them that 50% is OK!
I had a cell phone for about 6 months, hated it, got a $400 bill one month, dropped calls left and right (Verizon), and once my jobhunting was over, I enthusiastically paid to get out of my 1 year contract and then threw the phone in the trash.
Once cell phones are as affordable (*cough*) and reliable as a land line, I may consider getting one and replacing my land line with a cell, maybe not, I like holding my phone with my shoulder.
Another thing that needs to disappear are the artists and thier pimp's attitude towards thier work.
How long does it take to create an album?
Lets give them the benefit of a doubt, and say 5 months or about 22 weeks (work weeks excluding weekends, etc), and a "productive" artist like the Beatles or Led Zepplin (can't think of any since then) put out about 1 album a year. A "good" band will last, say, 10 years (think of all the bands that have been around since 1993).
OK, so we have 4 guys working 22 weeks * 10 years which = 880 total weeks of work (or 4.4 years (50 weeks/year) per person of work out of 10).
This does not include the $$ that is made by the record execs, etc.
What more do these people want? If I got to work less than 1/2 time, do all the drugs and girls that I wanted for a couple of years, I'd do it for free!
Hey wanna make easy money? I've got a dot com tip for ya...
Another interesting thing regarding the "theft" of music by sharing.
Why "no"? Because their is no value for the traded mp3's. Again, I believe that once the record execs start putting mp3's, oggs, and other bonus materials with the album art, etc maybe their will be a value put back onto a CD. It works with video DVDs.
...the amplifiers are more overdriven, being pushed to their maximum more...
There's a big difference here. Most professionals use tube amps and when the are overdriven or clip it is entirely different than transistors or the process of compressing/normalizing the music in a sound studio.
Of course all radios should/would/could normalize their playlists
They do normalise and further compress all recordings. FM has very little dynamic range.
This has been going on for a while now
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I dislike many of the recordings nowadays because the are so compressed. Yeah they sound "loud" because the dynamic range has been squashed almost to binary. The quiet nothing pause and full throtle.
Since I listen to many live recordings, it amazes me at how compressed newer studio recordings sound. However, I do not see any reform to the recording industry, because a true dynamic recording does not sound LOUD (ie, GOOD) at 1st listen. Also, I see this as a harm to the quality of recordings to come, because it will be hard to adopt a wider dynamic range format (eg, 24 or 32 bit) when the current 16bit version isn't used correctly anymore.
I don't have anything too insightful to add to the subject, but rather just an "Me too" as I have noticed this trend. Note that good recording companies do not compress their recordings this way, like Blue Note. Also, listening to these recordings at high volumes are difficult becuase they are monotonous and they are already loud.
One thing that just hit me, is maybe the music of today has demanded this recording style. It too is either at a pause/rest or full out, hmm.
BTW, since Rush's 1st album came out in 1974 how is that the "late seventies"?
1st, this letter has inconsistancies in it. It 1st says that the songs disappeared, but later said that they could not be played.
When reading the "Terms of Service", it says that purchases are not available outside of the US and the "service" is not used outside of the US. I'm guessing that iTunes must phone home or something to do with its DRM. If he were to move back to the US, I would guess that he could play his songs again, provided that they were not deleted.
As his letter ends with, maybe we should buy CDs, they are not that expensive when bought used, or download free music, or "share" mp3s off of someone you don't know.
Everytime passwords get mentioned on slashdot, I say they suck with little to no moderation. Regarding the lack of standard protocols and software packages try:
I attended the 10th annual smartcard convention in 1999, yet have not seen a smartcard outside of the places I used to work programming them. Maybe its time... The cards then were 1 or 2 dollars and the readers were about 6 or 7, hardly an expensive periferal on your computer.
Let me reiterate. Passwords have nothing to do with authentication, they only say that someone knows your password. Even having a magstripe card at least says that you know a password and were able to obtain phyisical access to the card. The best is a biometric reader with a smartcard. I think bioreaders are about 50 dollars.
Owned and operated by a bank which you could sue/complain or whatever if there were a problem. If your (US) bank is FDIC insured, then so are your deposits.
But look at the data. It may be that robots, etc will take over manufacturing kinds of jobs, but socioligist are classifying the current "age" as "post-industrial", and before that it was industrial, and before that agricultural.
A 100 years ago much of the US population were farmers. I've never met a farmer. Then, with industrialization, people moved off of the farms to cities to do manufacturing. Now, something like 16% of the pop does manufacturing. Where we are now is a "service age", where much of the population are doing service jobs. One quick ref for this stuff is here.
People are social animals. There will always be a need for human to human contact. Like with the ATMs not replacing tellers, people (including myself) are more likely to feel better giving a deposit to a teller vs an ATM even though the teller is at least an order of magnitude more likely to make an error.
In fact, look at the importance of human to human contact today in conjunction with technology. We have email, cell phones, wired phones, snail mail, instant messaging. With the exception of snail mail, all of these are very new technologies, and very popular with the average person.
I don't see machines completely replacing ppl any time soon.
Food, yes, paper not really. Newspapers in landfills from the WWII era can still be read. Also, food is not really the problem, its all the packaging. Especially, if your like me and get single serving foods all the time.
Doesn't it make more sense to save money and recycle them?
If it were cheaper, yes. How long do you think it would take to get 5 tons of, say, copper from a mine vs. getting it from used electronics? I'm no mining expert, but I would imagine that its much easier to separate the valuable metals from dirt, etc. than it would be to separate them from other metals, plastics, glass, etc.
I'm not sure about NT, but most UNIX like systems have some kind of shadow password file that is only readable by root. If a person has already hacked root on my box, I could care less if they then "crack" user level passwords. This may leave other systems vulnerable to a userlevel compromise, but when I've been called in to fix a rooted box, I always assume that the passwords have been compromised and tell the users to change their password if they reuse it on another system.
Wargames and default passwords are the only times I've heard of a password being cracked by "guessing". The random letters is not a solution, but a reiteration of the problem. People cannot remember passwords (including me). I hate passwords, they have nothing to do with authentication, all it means is that someone knows your password, which may or may not be you.
Me personally, I use an ssh key to go to all my machines, and for those silly websites that require a password, I throw it into a password manager, because its impossible to remember them all.
The wife got confused because the room was dark when it happened, and the two men bore similar appearances under that kind of lighting.
Note to self: When choosing a wife, make sure she is not easily confused in strange lighting conditions so that she could misidentify me as a rapist/murderer and send me to prison for long periods of time.
Look at the OJ simpson case. OJ was pronounced not guilty in the criminal case, yet lost the civil case and most of his fortune.
But he still plays golf, and is not in prison. A simplistic difference between civil and criminal court:
In criminal court you are found guilty or "not guilty" (which does not mean innocent). OJ was found "not guilty".
In civil court you are found liable or "not liable", and if you are found to be liable, then its up to the jury to determine "how liable". OJ was found liable to some XX million dollars, it could have been 50 cents.
In both cases the burdon of proof is on the prosecution or plaintiff to prove the guilt or liability.
DirectTV's lawyers have an assload of work if they really feel like gathering all the evidence they need for each of thier defendants. However, if the ppl are like the guy in the article that just wrote them a check, I guess its worth it.
I used to program these guys, and this is the 1st time I've heard of a "smartcard programmer". So what is this big difference?
For a little background, smartcards vary greatly in how "smart" they are. In fact, the first smartcards used in DirectTV systems were simple memory cards that had little or no tampering protection (they may of had a checksum for the ID number, but thats it). People used to put new cards on their devices and simply become another customer.
Later versions used encryption and/or public/private keys, which were much more difficult to hack, but some of these too can be hijacked like a man in the middle attack by putting a device between the card and the reader, but this is rare.
Personally, I find this hilarious. Let them go around suing people for all I care. All of the burdon of proof is on them to prove that you were stealing thier service. That would be very difficult to attempt if the person they were sueing did not do anything, like the sucker in the article that just wrote them a check.
FBI WARNING: Federal law provides severe civil and criminal penalties for the unauthorized reproduction, distribution or exhibition of copyrighted motion pictures, video tapes or video discs. Criminal copyright infringement is investigated by the FBI and may constitute a felony with a maximum penalty of up to five years in prison and/or a $250,000 fine.
The real crime is that they have to write and vote on a new law when there are already existing laws that either cover the same thing, or ones that should have been written more vaguely.
Next, the US will do something like make a constitutional amendment to make alcoholic beverages illegal, and another one to repeal that amendment.
Although I think the "War on Drugs" is bs, the law is pretty clear. If its on the list, you can't do it (or its illegal to do so). While I'm on it you might want to look at the "War on Drugs budget" (which does not include incarceration) vs. NASA's budget.
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Maybe you need to drink less coffee.
actually, I'm down to 16oz or less a day. I used to drink it when I was awake, no clue the actual amount.
The innovation means that users will be able to scroll vertically as well as horizontally without using on-screen navigation bars.
Need I say more? This is a hardware solution for a software problem.
Whats next? WWW and email buttons on my computer? How about a Windows key to get in your way every time you go to use the left control?
When I was a windows developer (I've reformed), I got really loaded on coffee and hot chocolate mix and actually pulled the damned windows key off of my keyboard, drilled a hole in my office wall, and shoved it in there.
OK, what is this mouse for?
Call them up. 1-800-726-8649 I've left a message and they are supposed to call me back. /me waits by phone....
Having the right to redistribute does not mean that the redistributed code/binaries is properly licensed.
OK, this is where I'm confused. This is a binary only license and there is no source license.
So is SCO going to custom compile kernels for everyone? Also, if their is no source license and you compile your kernel yourself, how can SCO know that their code is #ifdef'ed out?
This whole thing makes no sense, maybe this will be more clear when they call me.
I need claim that MS stole my IP and put it in windows and then spam spam spam asking for my $700. If even a fraction of a fraction of a percent gave me money, i'd me a millionare
Already a work in progress
How can SCO get away with charging $699 for a license to code that they claim is on your computer, when they have offered no proof that it is on your computer?
Call them up. 1-800-726-8649 I've left a message and they are supposed to call me back.
slashdot that phone!
It means the emulator is getting better and better, so theres a good chance that more and more apps will work with it, which decreases MS's competitive advantage.
And buying a copy of Windows and running it under Linux does what to MS's competitive advantage?
I personally think vmware and wine screw Linux, how are we ever going to get native apps when its OK just to go out and buy windows and run it under Linux?
If any other product on the market (and cellular service is a product like any other) only worked 50% of the time it would be considered defective.
But you keep buying them and tell them that 50% is OK!
I had a cell phone for about 6 months, hated it, got a $400 bill one month, dropped calls left and right (Verizon), and once my jobhunting was over, I enthusiastically paid to get out of my 1 year contract and then threw the phone in the trash.
Once cell phones are as affordable (*cough*) and reliable as a land line, I may consider getting one and replacing my land line with a cell, maybe not, I like holding my phone with my shoulder.
Another thing that needs to disappear are the artists and thier pimp's attitude towards thier work.
How long does it take to create an album?
Lets give them the benefit of a doubt, and say 5 months or about 22 weeks (work weeks excluding weekends, etc), and a "productive" artist like the Beatles or Led Zepplin (can't think of any since then) put out about 1 album a year. A "good" band will last, say, 10 years (think of all the bands that have been around since 1993).
OK, so we have 4 guys working 22 weeks * 10 years which = 880 total weeks of work (or 4.4 years (50 weeks/year) per person of work out of 10).
This does not include the $$ that is made by the record execs, etc.
What more do these people want? If I got to work less than 1/2 time, do all the drugs and girls that I wanted for a couple of years, I'd do it for free!
Hey wanna make easy money? I've got a dot com tip for ya...
Another interesting thing regarding the "theft" of music by sharing.
Ever heard of someone selling thier mp3 collection? (CD/record collection, yes)
Why "no"? Because their is no value for the traded mp3's. Again, I believe that once the record execs start putting mp3's, oggs, and other bonus materials with the album art, etc maybe their will be a value put back onto a CD. It works with video DVDs.
...the amplifiers are more overdriven, being pushed to their maximum more...
There's a big difference here. Most professionals use tube amps and when the are overdriven or clip it is entirely different than transistors or the process of compressing/normalizing the music in a sound studio.
Of course all radios should/would/could normalize their playlists
They do normalise and further compress all recordings. FM has very little dynamic range.
I dislike many of the recordings nowadays because the are so compressed. Yeah they sound "loud" because the dynamic range has been squashed almost to binary. The quiet nothing pause and full throtle.
Since I listen to many live recordings, it amazes me at how compressed newer studio recordings sound. However, I do not see any reform to the recording industry, because a true dynamic recording does not sound LOUD (ie, GOOD) at 1st listen. Also, I see this as a harm to the quality of recordings to come, because it will be hard to adopt a wider dynamic range format (eg, 24 or 32 bit) when the current 16bit version isn't used correctly anymore.
I don't have anything too insightful to add to the subject, but rather just an "Me too" as I have noticed this trend. Note that good recording companies do not compress their recordings this way, like Blue Note. Also, listening to these recordings at high volumes are difficult becuase they are monotonous and they are already loud.
One thing that just hit me, is maybe the music of today has demanded this recording style. It too is either at a pause/rest or full out, hmm.
BTW, since Rush's 1st album came out in 1974 how is that the "late seventies"?
1st, this letter has inconsistancies in it. It 1st says that the songs disappeared, but later said that they could not be played.
When reading the "Terms of Service", it says that purchases are not available outside of the US and the "service" is not used outside of the US. I'm guessing that iTunes must phone home or something to do with its DRM. If he were to move back to the US, I would guess that he could play his songs again, provided that they were not deleted.
As his letter ends with, maybe we should buy CDs, they are not that expensive when bought used, or download free music, or "share" mp3s off of someone you don't know.
Everytime passwords get mentioned on slashdot, I say they suck with little to no moderation. Regarding the lack of standard protocols and software packages try:
Multos
EMV (Europay-Mastercard-Visa) Specifications
JavaCard
OpenCard
PC/SC Workgroup
Standards Committees and Standards Related to Smart Cards
I attended the 10th annual smartcard convention in 1999, yet have not seen a smartcard outside of the places I used to work programming them. Maybe its time... The cards then were 1 or 2 dollars and the readers were about 6 or 7, hardly an expensive periferal on your computer.
Let me reiterate. Passwords have nothing to do with authentication, they only say that someone knows your password. Even having a magstripe card at least says that you know a password and were able to obtain phyisical access to the card. The best is a biometric reader with a smartcard. I think bioreaders are about 50 dollars.
An ATM is a public terminal.
Owned and operated by a bank which you could sue/complain or whatever if there were a problem. If your (US) bank is FDIC insured, then so are your deposits.
But look at the data. It may be that robots, etc will take over manufacturing kinds of jobs, but socioligist are classifying the current "age" as "post-industrial", and before that it was industrial, and before that agricultural.
A 100 years ago much of the US population were farmers. I've never met a farmer. Then, with industrialization, people moved off of the farms to cities to do manufacturing. Now, something like 16% of the pop does manufacturing. Where we are now is a "service age", where much of the population are doing service jobs. One quick ref for this stuff is here.
People are social animals. There will always be a need for human to human contact. Like with the ATMs not replacing tellers, people (including myself) are more likely to feel better giving a deposit to a teller vs an ATM even though the teller is at least an order of magnitude more likely to make an error.
In fact, look at the importance of human to human contact today in conjunction with technology. We have email, cell phones, wired phones, snail mail, instant messaging. With the exception of snail mail, all of these are very new technologies, and very popular with the average person.
I don't see machines completely replacing ppl any time soon.
Skynet went on-line on Monday, August 4th, 1997 and becomes self aware at 2:14 a.m. August 29th, 1997.
And 6 years later, were all doing fine.
The paper/food will break down fairly harmlessly
Food, yes, paper not really. Newspapers in landfills from the WWII era can still be read. Also, food is not really the problem, its all the packaging. Especially, if your like me and get single serving foods all the time.
Doesn't it make more sense to save money and recycle them?
If it were cheaper, yes. How long do you think it would take to get 5 tons of, say, copper from a mine vs. getting it from used electronics? I'm no mining expert, but I would imagine that its much easier to separate the valuable metals from dirt, etc. than it would be to separate them from other metals, plastics, glass, etc.
I'm not sure about NT, but most UNIX like systems have some kind of shadow password file that is only readable by root. If a person has already hacked root on my box, I could care less if they then "crack" user level passwords. This may leave other systems vulnerable to a userlevel compromise, but when I've been called in to fix a rooted box, I always assume that the passwords have been compromised and tell the users to change their password if they reuse it on another system.
Wargames and default passwords are the only times I've heard of a password being cracked by "guessing". The random letters is not a solution, but a reiteration of the problem. People cannot remember passwords (including me). I hate passwords, they have nothing to do with authentication, all it means is that someone knows your password, which may or may not be you.
Me personally, I use an ssh key to go to all my machines, and for those silly websites that require a password, I throw it into a password manager, because its impossible to remember them all.
The wife got confused because the room was dark when it happened, and the two men bore similar appearances under that kind of lighting.
Note to self: When choosing a wife, make sure she is not easily confused in strange lighting conditions so that she could misidentify me as a rapist/murderer and send me to prison for long periods of time.
Look at the OJ simpson case. OJ was pronounced not guilty in the criminal case, yet lost the civil case and most of his fortune.
But he still plays golf, and is not in prison. A simplistic difference between civil and criminal court:
In criminal court you are found guilty or "not guilty" (which does not mean innocent). OJ was found "not guilty".
In civil court you are found liable or "not liable", and if you are found to be liable, then its up to the jury to determine "how liable". OJ was found liable to some XX million dollars, it could have been 50 cents.
In both cases the burdon of proof is on the prosecution or plaintiff to prove the guilt or liability.
DirectTV's lawyers have an assload of work if they really feel like gathering all the evidence they need for each of thier defendants. However, if the ppl are like the guy in the article that just wrote them a check, I guess its worth it.
They already tax the media, so thier making money one way or the other.
I used to program these guys, and this is the 1st time I've heard of a "smartcard programmer". So what is this big difference?
For a little background, smartcards vary greatly in how "smart" they are. In fact, the first smartcards used in DirectTV systems were simple memory cards that had little or no tampering protection (they may of had a checksum for the ID number, but thats it). People used to put new cards on their devices and simply become another customer.
Later versions used encryption and/or public/private keys, which were much more difficult to hack, but some of these too can be hijacked like a man in the middle attack by putting a device between the card and the reader, but this is rare.
Personally, I find this hilarious. Let them go around suing people for all I care. All of the burdon of proof is on them to prove that you were stealing thier service. That would be very difficult to attempt if the person they were sueing did not do anything, like the sucker in the article that just wrote them a check.
The real crime is that they have to write and vote on a new law when there are already existing laws that either cover the same thing, or ones that should have been written more vaguely.
Next, the US will do something like make a constitutional amendment to make alcoholic beverages illegal, and another one to repeal that amendment.
Although I think the "War on Drugs" is bs, the law is pretty clear. If its on the list, you can't do it (or its illegal to do so). While I'm on it you might want to look at the "War on Drugs budget" (which does not include incarceration) vs. NASA's budget.