having worked on a few govt. programs using DSP and software radios - the G4 is the defacto standard used by folks.. but usually running VxWorks and using proprietary solutions like this one where the accepted use is to buy some dual or quad PPC single board computers.
The problem is that in almost every case - like the one i referenced, these systems are still.. today...almost ALWYAS less than 500Mhz G4's. In fact, this 466 is a model i've never seen before. A project i worked on was using state of the art 300 Mhz G4's. Many of these solutions alos run near the $10k price range.
In fairness, many of these SBCs are built to extreme timing tolerances, have insane backplane speed and often have RF gear built in... in the case of real-time processing. you _have_ to have this, and therefore, these costs are justified.
But a lot of the time, they simply wanted to use them for post-processing of data.. not real time.. so everything you made up in speed on these highly custom boards was useless...
i always wondered - silently - wtf is wrong with you people (engineers who come up with the "requirement" to run SBCs for post processing")? You can get 1U dual 1 GHz G4's to run the SAME SOFTWARE for 1/3 the price? Why won't you even concider it? ARRRGH!!!!
Well, it seems that there is some very very very very brave program manager in the Navy who stuck his/her neck out and proved what i always thought in silence... that this buying of slow G4-based SBC's to do DSP post processing was stupid and silly. The answer was to get some Xserves and do it two to 4 times as fast for 1/3 the money.
This is not so much a coup for TerraSoft - though, of course, they did the "hard work"... but let me tell you.. whoever the Navy PM was took a LOT of shit for their suggestion to use Macs. I guarantee you that.
I hope we'll be able to find out who that PM was.. i'd liek to talk to them and find out how they made the sell...
Apple computer is a BAD WORD in the Government.. and this was really a coup on the part of everyone involved... but don't think that its a novel idea or somehow "amazing". Using dozens of rack-mount G4 macs has been the elephant in the middle of the room solution to literally thousands of DoD problems for at least 5 years... its actually pretty pathetic and sad how long it took for it to make it to prime time.
that is totally inconsistent with the rest of their actions (did i just inferr the SCO has been consistent on anything? Sorry... )
in all other cases of use of Linux they ARE demanding $xx a copy of Linuxfrom the end user. What the hell could their justification possibly be for going after end users of Linux.. except end users of Linux when it comes to TiVo?
What is so frustrating about this whole thing is that there is not a single shred of logic to ANY of it... that it makes it hard to think about. I literally can't dwell on it too long because its just one great big SCO version of Calvinball (the game where the rules and logic are made up on the fly). I try sorting out the reasons for anything SCO does.. and i literally end up with a headache. Maybe that's the plan?
I mean, the Chewbacca defense is just as logical and well reasoned as the moves SCO has made. honestly, what would a judge do if you walked in and literally gave the Chewbacca defense? I have no idea... but its got to be exactly the same as what the judge would do to SCO if/when this gets to trial.
I hate to say it... but i'm going to pull a larry flint here... we need to call for God to smote SCO.
Hemos is the key to this one. It is up to him if this design can be used. After all, all it has is a url... it doesn't make use of the slashdot logo at all.
in fact, i can't see how Dan would not be sfe if he simply removed the word "SLASHDOT" from the top of the design... are you suggesting that OSDN would be against someone making a shirt with a URL on it?
In any case - to do this above board and leave the logo as original, we need to rally Hemos to either make the "Soothing Green Light" shirt along with the others, or allow Sandler to make it avail on CafePress.
Would there be any rights violations if folks went and sold these other shirts on CafePress?
I for one won't be seen in any of the winner shirts - but i'm all over the "soothing green light" shirt when that becomes available.
and where the fsck is the ad-shirt for Natalie Portman's Hot Grits?
it would have Yakov holding a box of the grits pouring them into his pants saying : "Natalie Portman's Hot Grits : In SOVIET RUSSIA you MOD PARENT UP and ??? Profit!"
i wanted to do this design myself - but i'm as artistic as a dung beetle.
Well maybe not nesting, but this is the next best thing...
a great piece of freeware called iPhotoBuddy allows you to create and select multiple photo libraries. I don't even have iPhoto in my dock any more because of this software. I keep 4 different libraries and about 3000ish photos (i have a digital camera and a puppy, bite me).
You simply choose which library you want to run - and it launches iPhoto with the corresponding library. My previously insanely slow library is now quick and easy, and iPhoto is a wonderful tool to use again, like when it first came out and I only had 500 pictures.
i just sent an email to Jody Whitesides explaining that there is this wonderful, benevolent group of kindhearted people called the RIAA, and that they are "in it for the struggling artist".... they are always there to crush a 12 year old for downloading a Britany Spears single, or some guy that wanted to listen to a Metallica song on his work computer that he has on CD back at home...
i suggested that he contact them have have them shut down BuyMusic.com by sending them a subpoena (like they do for other music pirates) because buymusic.com has been accused of illegally distributing copyrighted music without consent of the copyright holder (jody whitesides).
No seriously - it is one thing to share files with friends for nothing... but these assmongers at SublicenseMusicThatWeDon'tOwn.com are making a LIVING off the backs of small musicians. I'm the first guy to tell someone "yeah, i limewire for songs i can't buy in iTMS".. and i also almost beat the crap out of kid when he told me he was gonna make CDs and sell them at school.
AsshatMusic.com is nothing more than a shady character that hangs out at the top of the subway with a carboard box full of self-ripped DVDs and CDs and $5 Laker jerseys. These pluggers at
85 Enterprise
Suite 100
Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 are not music stealers a la Kaaza users.. they are making a living off of the work of others that they have no rights to.
They are no better, albiet smaller, than Enron or GlobalCrossing.... they steal from others work to enrich their own lives.
I can't think of many good things about the DMCA, but this, by gawd, is one.
Registrant: Buy.com (BUYMUSIC3-DOM)
85 Enterprise
Suite 100
Aliso Viejo, CA 92656
US
one day and sit on the front stoop there as the folk go in the building with my Powerbook g4 12" and iPod and play with iTunesMusic and just smile.. just to gloat.
i'm in a gloating mood.. i should go do it.
it could be fun. I could take pictures. It could be hysterical.
they are offering illegally obtained music for sale. they are worse than Kazza users because those users are not profiting from the sale of IP theft from the copyright holder.
see www.jodywhitesides.com for the details.
here is the email i sent to the RIAA. __________________ Subj: Information on copyright theft
i wanted to let the RIAA know about a music pirate i have found out information on.
their IP address is 209.67.181.11. They have on their website illegally obtained music from an artist named Jody Whitesides (http://jodywhitesides.com/). This website is owned by a music stealing group known as buy.com, and not only are they distributing this copyrighted music without consent of the copyright holder, but they are also SELLING the music online.
I am all for the stamping out of IP theft.... and i know that the RIAA is as well. I hope you can contact me on this matter to let me know the status of your investigation.
Thanks in advance. _______________________
i'm curious, but doubtful i'll get any kind of response.
"Until now the case started off as a contract dispute with IBM and did not involve intellectual property or copyright. As of today it's a different game, and Linux users now do have a copyright issue to deal with," SCO CEO and President Darl McBride told a media teleconference on Monday.
and now i read...
http://mozillaquest.com/Linux03/ScoSource-24-Cop yr ights_Story01.html
Blake Stowell: No we don't, but this is not a copyright case. This is a contracts case. We have taken IBM to court because they are in breach of contract.
so which the fsck is it? and where is the equal time in PHB websites like InformationWeek, etc.. about this new development??
aaaaarrrrghhh. i'm totally frustrated by this nonsense. And where is the SEC when you ened their sorry butts?
he's bitchy because he's getting harrased by 19 year old know nothings on a BBS (not/.) he seems to spend half his time on.;-)
he's right, they're wrong, but they seem to be "winning" because they are politically correct, while being dumb as toast.
pudge ain't the most politically correct guy alive.. so its making him irritable.
as for the cat - he doesn't let the dogs in his office any more.. i couldn't tell you about the cat. iChat EXTREME him, and ask him to pan the camera around.;-)
some of the songs on VW's website are copyrighted songs - For example (again, sorry, the VW site is a (really nice) Flash site, so i can't give you a direct link), The Decemberists song is available on the VW site, but they obviously want to sell their music.. but, confusingly, provide an MP3 from the CD on their website too? So, if i share this mp3 with Kazza, does that mean that i'm violating copyright or not? So exactly which songs are copyrighted? Is there a list of the copyrighted and non-copyrighted songs on the CD? Does that mean i have to buy the CD to determine which songs are copyrighted?
The song is clearly on the CD that they are expecting you to pay money for, yet they are indiscriminately providing a link to copy copyrighted materials!
And on the VW site - i don't see any information informing me what rights i have to the mp3s they are providing... are these songs copyrighted?
the rules are so fluffy as to be unbeleveable... yet people are going to jail?
omg.. i didn't just read someone say "stable" and Office for X in the same sentence, did i?
If i could keep powerpoint from crashing.... anytime!.. it would suck a lot less.. honestly, it could only suck more if it was PowerPoint for Mac version 4.2.
Apple is 3/7ths of the way to Micro Soft independence.... mail, browser, presentation...
word processing, spreadsheet, small database, and drawing (a la Visio) need to be done (though you could argue that FileMaker Pro is the database app.. they need a FileMaker Lite version that reads/writes Access)
Apple is doing very good things, I must say.. and they are doing them the best way for each particular application.
- Safari was a nice front end on an OSS project - Keynote is a good 1.1 of a totally new Cocoa app - Mail.app is a really good NeXT app port
It will be interesting to see how they proceed with iExcel, iWord, and iAccess... I suspect that iWord and iExcel will be native Cocoa apps - how freaking hard could these be to make? I don't think very compared to Keynote.... I assume that iExcel will be some nice front end for MySQL in Safari fashion...
My only question is how they are going to do Micro Soft file conversion _good enough_ which means, it always fscking works... and Keynote ain't it. Could they simply borrow the flie import code from OOo? i don't understand how all that works as well as i'd like to.
it should be fun to watch how Apple migrates away from Microsoft... i, for one, intend to have a front row seat on a Dual G5.:-)
there have been little skirmishes between hardware makers and MS... the horrible cellphone stuff, the cable-box stuff...
but this... this is one of two things..
i hope its what i said - tht its a coup for the hardware makers to take back their devices... i mean, they can see the friggen code.. and if its not working for them, they can fix it.
but what i fear this may be is simply $15 of domain registration and 15 minutes of web development geared to scare MS into complying with their demands to lower Windows CE licensing (hell, Windows itself) and CE development tool licensing fees.
i'll be optimistic.. i say its really a coup and everyone in the WINCE dept in Redmond is getting a Holloween letter today about how they need to do whatever it takes, including dumping, to get back these people as customers.
gone are the days of 5 buttons and no UI to run CE devices.. the iPod has totally convinced everyone of that. These hardware makers need some way to control their products.. and this is really the best way to do it.
I mean, hell, i have Mac OS X on my laptop, and it still crashes about once a month. I have apps that dump on me constantly. And don't talk to me about Windows 2000 and IE 5.5 on it... that thing bombs all the time (its the Big Company's standard install, and I don't have admin privs. outdated versions of Windows turns out to be the fscking Windows experience of MANY people around the world, okay?)
I sear, i thought it had already been established that all the talk about AI in the 90's really meant BS.
sorry folks, but unless i'm reading something wrong - and i totally admit that i may be - but it appears that MS had made some massive wholesale changes to their EULA...
i can't believe that this has happened.. i'm sure i'm missing something... this is completely not their way. Yes, i am an official/. MS cynic.
previously, SP3 mentioned that they basically retained the right to modify, delete, or install software to ensure that DRM was functional...
SP4 is not at all that way.... i know.. scary.. but it appears that they no longer believe your computer is THEIR computer.
d. Windows Media Digital Rights Management.
    Content providers are using the digital rights management
    technology for Windows Media contained in this Software
    ("WM-DRM") to protect the integrity of their content
    ("Secure Content") so that their intellectual property,
    including copyright, in such content is not misappropriated.
    Portions of this Software and third party applications such
    as media players use WM-DRM to play Secure Content
    ("WM-DRM Software"). If the WM-DRM Software's security
    has been compromised, owners of Secure Content ("Secure
    Content Owners") may request that Microsoft revoke
    the WM-DRM Software's right to copy, display and/or
    play Secure Content. Revocation does not alter the
    WM-DRM Software's ability to play unprotected content.
    A list of revoked WM-DRM Software is sent to your
    computer whenever you download a license for Secure
    Content from the Internet. Microsoft may, in
    conjunction with such license, also download
    revocation lists onto your computer on behalf of
    Secure Content Owners. Secure Content Owners
    may also require you to upgrade some of the WM-DRM
    components in this Software ("WM-DRM Upgrades") before
    accessing their content. When you attempt to play
    such content, WM-DRM Software built by Microsoft
    will notify you that a WM-DRM Upgrade is required
    and then ask for your consent before the WM-DRM
    Upgrade is downloaded. WM-DRM Software built
    by third parties may do the same. If you decline
    the upgrade, you will not be able to access content
    that requires the WM-DRM Upgrade; however, you will
    still be able to access unprotected content and
    Secure Content that does not require the upgrade.
    WM-DRM features that access the Internet, such
    as acquiring new licenses and/or performing a
    required WM-DRM Upgrade, can be switched off. When
    these features are switched off, you will still be able
    to play Secure Content if you have a valid license for
    such content already stored on your computer.
I'm trying to read the EULA before I try to install it. But there does not seem to be any link to read the EULA so that I can decide if i agree to the agreement before i go thru the trouble of downloading it.
Can anyone please just copy/paste the text of the SP4 EULA?
I commuted with a friend just to be able to ride the "bad" part of the drive in the "carpool" lane.
this almost doubled my driving distance, but got me over to a freeway across town that was far less congested... got to work 15 minutes sooner because of it.
so, no, the carpool lane does not reward reduction of fossil fuel emmissions. Carpool lanes have but one goal, at least here in California... to make driving a car as unpleasant as possible... for you see now, during rush hour, carpool lanes are only filled by MORONS that have it in their heads that carpool lanes are faster.. when in fact now, they are, during rush hour, much slower and far more prone to accidents. See stats on the "Orange Crush" in SoCal where the 5, 57, and 22 all connect.. the SB 5 carpool lane is just a rear-ender haven because you go from 60 for a few miles to parking lot in 100 feet because this stop usually begins around a slight turn - and you can't see the traffic ahead in the CP lane because there is an extra high wall blocking people from seeing it coming.
if you live in LA, you by, default, hate carpool lanes. We live in a 10,000 square mile work-area.. and the cheapest way to get people around that is not fscking busses or fscking trains or fscking subways (in quakeland).. its flat cheap roads..
now bring us cheap, reliable hybrid SUVs, 10 lane wide freeways and take your hatred of cars and shove it up your ass. Its a big place, and there's not a fscking thing i can do about that.
bear in mind that if we reduce our reliance on oil from the Middle East that the economies of the middle east will all sink like a 747 without an engine at 36,000 feet... plunging them all into a second stone age that, quite frankly, the world wouldn't give half a shit about.
seriously, what differentiates the brutal massacres that the UN has ignored for decades in Iraq and Sudan? One word: Oil.
Without oil, the mass graves of innocent Iraqi's would be as deep as those in Rwanda because the US wouldn't have gone in like we did in Iraq and saved the innocent people from evil tyrannical governments.
Honestly, the US is not much better than the UN because we usually only save people if they have oil. If they don't have oil, well, we are no different than the UN - and we let them die at the hands of tyrants and dictators.
(in fact, i'm convinced that the only reason we fought hitler was that we thought he'd get a nuke - otherwise, we'd just have turned our eyes from the Holocaust like the rest of the world did.)
something to think about....
Dear "environmentalist" NIMBYs everywhere,
on
A Mighty Wind
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
GO FUCK YOURSELVES.
Sincerely, The rational libertarian, moderate and liberal people of the United States who want to see clean, cheap energy so as to save our environment and power our lives at the same time
We have the same people living here in SoCal - who don't want to widen freeways - or build rail systems for that matter, and prevent all forms of growth. They would rather increase the pollution by having cars running in their least-efficent mode (stop and go traffic) instead of them zipping around at 60 MPH (when cars are by far the most efficient).
Here in Los Angeles, the number of hybrids are growing exponentially, with next year's hybrid SUVs on the way (Ford Escape Hybrid), Near-Zero Emmission Vehicles (NZEV's) like the Prius, the Insight, and Escape are going to be the rage of Los Angeles. SoCal car dealers cant keep hybrids in stock here!
We are the largest buyers of NZEV's and with increasing numbers of NZEV's, freeways are the cheapest, least-polluting form of transportation. Rail systems cost far more to build, upkeep and power (central power plants). NZEV's lose near zero energy in transportation (unlike electricity), and they do not require polluting central-plants to produce electricity, they simply use the jouels in gasoline extremely efficiently, and easily can be converted to hydrogen thereafter (hydrogen burning ICE + electrcity storage may be cheapest, most effective means of vehicle power instead of fuel cells which are very expensive to make and power)
The same NIMBY's are crushing the addition of an Orange County airport which would take the load off of LAX, which is 60 miles from Orange County - causeing all those people to DRIVE their cars (read: clog the freeways), and increase current poolution and congestion - not to mention watsting about 2 hours every time you want to fly out of SoCal.
I swear, i just want to put you fscking NIBMY's on a boat and sink the ship sometimes. YOU ALL SUCK!
I swear, this is all i could think of this morning when i read the c|net.com.com.com.com article on their threat to move monday..
"Here is line of death in the sand, Friday, you cross this line, we revoke your AIX license rights and you die. Ok, you cross this line on Monday and you die. This line, you die. This line, you die. Nyaah, I'm going my house, you knock on my door, and I won't come out."
Slashdot Mirror
damnit.. sorry..
Single board computers like THIS one....running multiple G4's at 466 Mhz (be still my beating heart! BLAZING speed)
note to self... PREVIEW DAMINT!
having worked on a few govt. programs using DSP and software radios - the G4 is the defacto standard used by folks.. but usually running VxWorks and using proprietary solutions like this one where the accepted use is to buy some dual or quad PPC single board computers.
.almost ALWYAS less than 500Mhz G4's. In fact, this 466 is a model i've never seen before. A project i worked on was using state of the art 300 Mhz G4's. Many of these solutions alos run near the $10k price range.
The problem is that in almost every case - like the one i referenced, these systems are still.. today..
In fairness, many of these SBCs are built to extreme timing tolerances, have insane backplane speed and often have RF gear built in... in the case of real-time processing. you _have_ to have this, and therefore, these costs are justified.
But a lot of the time, they simply wanted to use them for post-processing of data.. not real time.. so everything you made up in speed on these highly custom boards was useless...
i always wondered - silently - wtf is wrong with you people (engineers who come up with the "requirement" to run SBCs for post processing")? You can get 1U dual 1 GHz G4's to run the SAME SOFTWARE for 1/3 the price? Why won't you even concider it? ARRRGH!!!!
Well, it seems that there is some very very very very brave program manager in the Navy who stuck his/her neck out and proved what i always thought in silence... that this buying of slow G4-based SBC's to do DSP post processing was stupid and silly. The answer was to get some Xserves and do it two to 4 times as fast for 1/3 the money.
This is not so much a coup for TerraSoft - though, of course, they did the "hard work"... but let me tell you.. whoever the Navy PM was took a LOT of shit for their suggestion to use Macs. I guarantee you that.
I hope we'll be able to find out who that PM was.. i'd liek to talk to them and find out how they made the sell...
Apple computer is a BAD WORD in the Government.. and this was really a coup on the part of everyone involved... but don't think that its a novel idea or somehow "amazing". Using dozens of rack-mount G4 macs has been the elephant in the middle of the room solution to literally thousands of DoD problems for at least 5 years... its actually pretty pathetic and sad how long it took for it to make it to prime time.
that is totally inconsistent with the rest of their actions (did i just inferr the SCO has been consistent on anything? Sorry... )
in all other cases of use of Linux they ARE demanding $xx a copy of Linuxfrom the end user. What the hell could their justification possibly be for going after end users of Linux.. except end users of Linux when it comes to TiVo?
What is so frustrating about this whole thing is that there is not a single shred of logic to ANY of it... that it makes it hard to think about. I literally can't dwell on it too long because its just one great big SCO version of Calvinball (the game where the rules and logic are made up on the fly). I try sorting out the reasons for anything SCO does.. and i literally end up with a headache. Maybe that's the plan?
I mean, the Chewbacca defense is just as logical and well reasoned as the moves SCO has made. honestly, what would a judge do if you walked in and literally gave the Chewbacca defense? I have no idea... but its got to be exactly the same as what the judge would do to SCO if/when this gets to trial.
I hate to say it... but i'm going to pull a larry flint here... we need to call for God to smote SCO.
"Grey Davis. I have a penis, you have a vagina"
- Candidate Arnold "Kindergarten Cop" Schwarzenegger
Hemos is the key to this one. It is up to him if this design can be used. After all, all it has is a url... it doesn't make use of the slashdot logo at all.
in fact, i can't see how Dan would not be sfe if he simply removed the word "SLASHDOT" from the top of the design... are you suggesting that OSDN would be against someone making a shirt with a URL on it?
In any case - to do this above board and leave the logo as original, we need to rally Hemos to either make the "Soothing Green Light" shirt along with the others, or allow Sandler to make it avail on CafePress.
Would there be any rights violations if folks went and sold these other shirts on CafePress?
I for one won't be seen in any of the winner shirts - but i'm all over the "soothing green light" shirt when that becomes available.
and where the fsck is the ad-shirt for Natalie Portman's Hot Grits?
it would have Yakov holding a box of the grits pouring them into his pants saying : "Natalie Portman's Hot Grits : In SOVIET RUSSIA you MOD PARENT UP and ??? Profit!"
i wanted to do this design myself - but i'm as artistic as a dung beetle.
Well maybe not nesting, but this is the next best thing...
a great piece of freeware called iPhotoBuddy allows you to create and select multiple photo libraries. I don't even have iPhoto in my dock any more because of this software. I keep 4 different libraries and about 3000ish photos (i have a digital camera and a puppy, bite me).
You simply choose which library you want to run - and it launches iPhoto with the corresponding library. My previously insanely slow library is now quick and easy, and iPhoto is a wonderful tool to use again, like when it first came out and I only had 500 pictures.
i just sent an email to Jody Whitesides explaining that there is this wonderful, benevolent group of kindhearted people called the RIAA, and that they are "in it for the struggling artist".... they are always there to crush a 12 year old for downloading a Britany Spears single, or some guy that wanted to listen to a Metallica song on his work computer that he has on CD back at home...
i suggested that he contact them have have them shut down BuyMusic.com by sending them a subpoena (like they do for other music pirates) because buymusic.com has been accused of illegally distributing copyrighted music without consent of the copyright holder (jody whitesides).
No seriously - it is one thing to share files with friends for nothing... but these assmongers at SublicenseMusicThatWeDon'tOwn.com are making a LIVING off the backs of small musicians. I'm the first guy to tell someone "yeah, i limewire for songs i can't buy in iTMS".. and i also almost beat the crap out of kid when he told me he was gonna make CDs and sell them at school.
AsshatMusic.com is nothing more than a shady character that hangs out at the top of the subway with a carboard box full of self-ripped DVDs and CDs and $5 Laker jerseys. These pluggers at
85 Enterprise
Suite 100
Aliso Viejo, CA 92656
are not music stealers a la Kaaza users.. they are making a living off of the work of others that they have no rights to.
They are no better, albiet smaller, than Enron or GlobalCrossing.... they steal from others work to enrich their own lives.
I can't think of many good things about the DMCA, but this, by gawd, is one.
to head on down to
Registrant:
Buy.com (BUYMUSIC3-DOM)
85 Enterprise
Suite 100
Aliso Viejo, CA 92656
US
one day and sit on the front stoop there as the folk go in the building with my Powerbook g4 12" and iPod and play with iTunesMusic and just smile.. just to gloat.
i'm in a gloating mood.. i should go do it.
it could be fun. I could take pictures. It could be hysterical.
you forgot one..
they are offering illegally obtained music for sale.
they are worse than Kazza users because those users are not profiting from the sale of IP theft from the copyright holder.
see www.jodywhitesides.com for the details.
here is the email i sent to the RIAA.
__________________
Subj: Information on copyright theft
i wanted to let the RIAA know about a music pirate i have found out information on.
their IP address is 209.67.181.11. They have on their website illegally obtained music from an artist named Jody Whitesides (http://jodywhitesides.com/). This website is owned by a music stealing group known as buy.com, and not only are they distributing this copyrighted music without consent of the copyright holder, but they are also SELLING the music online.
I am all for the stamping out of IP theft.... and i know that the RIAA is as well. I hope you can contact me on this matter to let me know the status of your investigation.
Thanks in advance.
_______________________
i'm curious, but doubtful i'll get any kind of response.
http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,3668,a=45013, 00.asp
p yr ights_Story01.html
and i fscking quote....
"Until now the case started off as a contract dispute with IBM and did not involve intellectual property or copyright. As of today it's a different game, and Linux users now do have a copyright issue to deal with," SCO CEO and President Darl McBride told a media teleconference on Monday.
and now i read...
http://mozillaquest.com/Linux03/ScoSource-24-Co
Blake Stowell: No we don't, but this is not a copyright case. This is a contracts case. We have taken IBM to court because they are in breach of contract.
so which the fsck is it? and where is the equal time in PHB websites like InformationWeek, etc.. about this new development??
aaaaarrrrghhh. i'm totally frustrated by this nonsense. And where is the SEC when you ened their sorry butts?
no.
/.) he seems to spend half his time on. ;-)
;-)
he's bitchy because he's getting harrased by 19 year old know nothings on a BBS (not
he's right, they're wrong, but they seem to be "winning" because they are politically correct, while being dumb as toast.
pudge ain't the most politically correct guy alive.. so its making him irritable.
as for the cat - he doesn't let the dogs in his office any more.. i couldn't tell you about the cat. iChat EXTREME him, and ask him to pan the camera around.
Apparently, VW hasn't learned, you can't just go around giving away people's mp3s and - worse - posting them on the internet.
/joking
just follow the link to the "Pods Unite" link (its a Javascript to a flash... how "Apple/VW) and you'll see VW has mp3's POSTED on their website!!!!
This is just asking for trouble....
Seriously, though.. i don't get it.
some of the songs on VW's website are copyrighted songs - For example (again, sorry, the VW site is a (really nice) Flash site, so i can't give you a direct link), The Decemberists song is available on the VW site, but they obviously want to sell their music.. but, confusingly, provide an MP3 from the CD on their website too? So, if i share this mp3 with Kazza, does that mean that i'm violating copyright or not? So exactly which songs are copyrighted? Is there a list of the copyrighted and non-copyrighted songs on the CD? Does that mean i have to buy the CD to determine which songs are copyrighted?
The song is clearly on the CD that they are expecting you to pay money for, yet they are indiscriminately providing a link to copy copyrighted materials!
And on the VW site - i don't see any information informing me what rights i have to the mp3s they are providing... are these songs copyrighted?
the rules are so fluffy as to be unbeleveable... yet people are going to jail?
this sucks.
lots of countries have "been tempted" to fight against America...
most of them haven't bothered either because they know we'll sqush them into greasy paste stains, so don't feel too special.
omg.. i didn't just read someone say "stable" and Office for X in the same sentence, did i?
:-)
If i could keep powerpoint from crashing.... anytime!.. it would suck a lot less.. honestly, it could only suck more if it was PowerPoint for Mac version 4.2.
Apple is 3/7ths of the way to Micro Soft independence.... mail, browser, presentation...
word processing, spreadsheet, small database, and drawing (a la Visio) need to be done (though you could argue that FileMaker Pro is the database app.. they need a FileMaker Lite version that reads/writes Access)
Apple is doing very good things, I must say.. and they are doing them the best way for each particular application.
- Safari was a nice front end on an OSS project
- Keynote is a good 1.1 of a totally new Cocoa app
- Mail.app is a really good NeXT app port
It will be interesting to see how they proceed with iExcel, iWord, and iAccess... I suspect that iWord and iExcel will be native Cocoa apps - how freaking hard could these be to make? I don't think very compared to Keynote.... I assume that iExcel will be some nice front end for MySQL in Safari fashion...
My only question is how they are going to do Micro Soft file conversion _good enough_ which means, it always fscking works... and Keynote ain't it. Could they simply borrow the flie import code from OOo? i don't understand how all that works as well as i'd like to.
it should be fun to watch how Apple migrates away from Microsoft... i, for one, intend to have a front row seat on a Dual G5.
there have been little skirmishes between hardware makers and MS... the horrible cellphone stuff, the cable-box stuff...
but this... this is one of two things..
i hope its what i said - tht its a coup for the hardware makers to take back their devices... i mean, they can see the friggen code.. and if its not working for them, they can fix it.
but what i fear this may be is simply $15 of domain registration and 15 minutes of web development geared to scare MS into complying with their demands to lower Windows CE licensing (hell, Windows itself) and CE development tool licensing fees.
i'll be optimistic.. i say its really a coup and everyone in the WINCE dept in Redmond is getting a Holloween letter today about how they need to do whatever it takes, including dumping, to get back these people as customers.
gone are the days of 5 buttons and no UI to run CE devices.. the iPod has totally convinced everyone of that. These hardware makers need some way to control their products.. and this is really the best way to do it.
like computers and applications that don't crash?
I mean, hell, i have Mac OS X on my laptop, and it still crashes about once a month. I have apps that dump on me constantly. And don't talk to me about Windows 2000 and IE 5.5 on it... that thing bombs all the time (its the Big Company's standard install, and I don't have admin privs. outdated versions of Windows turns out to be the fscking Windows experience of MANY people around the world, okay?)
I sear, i thought it had already been established that all the talk about AI in the 90's really meant BS.
i mean its not like anyone has
found any
actual plans or
parts
to build uranium refinement equipment in Iraq - key to building ACTUAL nuclear bombs.
Saddam obviously never had any intention of doing that.
sorry folks, but unless i'm reading something wrong - and i totally admit that i may be - but it appears that MS had made some massive wholesale changes to their EULA...
/. MS cynic.
i can't believe that this has happened.. i'm sure i'm missing something... this is completely not their way. Yes, i am an official
previously, SP3 mentioned that they basically retained the right to modify, delete, or install software to ensure that DRM was functional...
SP4 is not at all that way.... i know.. scary.. but it appears that they no longer believe your computer is THEIR computer.
d. Windows Media Digital Rights Management.
    Content providers are using the digital rights management
    technology for Windows Media contained in this Software
    ("WM-DRM") to protect the integrity of their content
    ("Secure Content") so that their intellectual property,
    including copyright, in such content is not misappropriated.
    Portions of this Software and third party applications such
    as media players use WM-DRM to play Secure Content
    ("WM-DRM Software"). If the WM-DRM Software's security
    has been compromised, owners of Secure Content ("Secure
    Content Owners") may request that Microsoft revoke
    the WM-DRM Software's right to copy, display and/or
    play Secure Content. Revocation does not alter the
    WM-DRM Software's ability to play unprotected content.
    A list of revoked WM-DRM Software is sent to your
    computer whenever you download a license for Secure
    Content from the Internet. Microsoft may, in
    conjunction with such license, also download
    revocation lists onto your computer on behalf of
    Secure Content Owners. Secure Content Owners
    may also require you to upgrade some of the WM-DRM
    components in this Software ("WM-DRM Upgrades") before
    accessing their content. When you attempt to play
    such content, WM-DRM Software built by Microsoft
    will notify you that a WM-DRM Upgrade is required
    and then ask for your consent before the WM-DRM
    Upgrade is downloaded. WM-DRM Software built
    by third parties may do the same. If you decline
    the upgrade, you will not be able to access content
    that requires the WM-DRM Upgrade; however, you will
    still be able to access unprotected content and
    Secure Content that does not require the upgrade.
    WM-DRM features that access the Internet, such
    as acquiring new licenses and/or performing a
    required WM-DRM Upgrade, can be switched off. When
    these features are switched off, you will still be able
    to play Secure Content if you have a valid license for
    such content already stored on your computer.
I'm trying to read the EULA before I try to install it. But there does not seem to be any link to read the EULA so that I can decide if i agree to the agreement before i go thru the trouble of downloading it.
Can anyone please just copy/paste the text of the SP4 EULA?
thanks
oh please stop.
/. No one is going to hand you your ass when you post something which is so obvious and sane.
that was the most reasonable post i've read in a while on
speaking of which.. i no longer feel "guilty" when buying them from my wife's school's bookstore any more for $70....
i have bought every version, including a family pack of Jag since X Beta.
this... this is just silly.
Come on, guys... $70 for upgraders from Jaguar - ask it to insert original Jag CD or something.
still, everything appears to kick ass abd be cool, tho. MacMerc has been the best at live coverage so far.
I commuted with a friend just to be able to ride the "bad" part of the drive in the "carpool" lane.
this almost doubled my driving distance, but got me over to a freeway across town that was far less congested... got to work 15 minutes sooner because of it.
so, no, the carpool lane does not reward reduction of fossil fuel emmissions. Carpool lanes have but one goal, at least here in California... to make driving a car as unpleasant as possible... for you see now, during rush hour, carpool lanes are only filled by MORONS that have it in their heads that carpool lanes are faster.. when in fact now, they are, during rush hour, much slower and far more prone to accidents. See stats on the "Orange Crush" in SoCal where the 5, 57, and 22 all connect.. the SB 5 carpool lane is just a rear-ender haven because you go from 60 for a few miles to parking lot in 100 feet because this stop usually begins around a slight turn - and you can't see the traffic ahead in the CP lane because there is an extra high wall blocking people from seeing it coming.
if you live in LA, you by, default, hate carpool lanes. We live in a 10,000 square mile work-area.. and the cheapest way to get people around that is not fscking busses or fscking trains or fscking subways (in quakeland).. its flat cheap roads..
now bring us cheap, reliable hybrid SUVs, 10 lane wide freeways and take your hatred of cars and shove it up your ass. Its a big place, and there's not a fscking thing i can do about that.
bear in mind that if we reduce our reliance on oil from the Middle East that the economies of the middle east will all sink like a 747 without an engine at 36,000 feet... plunging them all into a second stone age that, quite frankly, the world wouldn't give half a shit about.
seriously, what differentiates the brutal massacres that the UN has ignored for decades in Iraq and Sudan? One word: Oil.
Without oil, the mass graves of innocent Iraqi's would be as deep as those in Rwanda because the US wouldn't have gone in like we did in Iraq and saved the innocent people from evil tyrannical governments.
Honestly, the US is not much better than the UN because we usually only save people if they have oil. If they don't have oil, well, we are no different than the UN - and we let them die at the hands of tyrants and dictators.
(in fact, i'm convinced that the only reason we fought hitler was that we thought he'd get a nuke - otherwise, we'd just have turned our eyes from the Holocaust like the rest of the world did.)
something to think about....
GO FUCK YOURSELVES.
Sincerely,
The rational libertarian, moderate and liberal people of the United States who want to see clean, cheap energy so as to save our environment and power our lives at the same time
We have the same people living here in SoCal - who don't want to widen freeways - or build rail systems for that matter, and prevent all forms of growth. They would rather increase the pollution by having cars running in their least-efficent mode (stop and go traffic) instead of them zipping around at 60 MPH (when cars are by far the most efficient).
Here in Los Angeles, the number of hybrids are growing exponentially, with next year's hybrid SUVs on the way (Ford Escape Hybrid), Near-Zero Emmission Vehicles (NZEV's) like the Prius, the Insight, and Escape are going to be the rage of Los Angeles. SoCal car dealers cant keep hybrids in stock here!
We are the largest buyers of NZEV's and with increasing numbers of NZEV's, freeways are the cheapest, least-polluting form of transportation. Rail systems cost far more to build, upkeep and power (central power plants). NZEV's lose near zero energy in transportation (unlike electricity), and they do not require polluting central-plants to produce electricity, they simply use the jouels in gasoline extremely efficiently, and easily can be converted to hydrogen thereafter (hydrogen burning ICE + electrcity storage may be cheapest, most effective means of vehicle power instead of fuel cells which are very expensive to make and power)
The same NIMBY's are crushing the addition of an Orange County airport which would take the load off of LAX, which is 60 miles from Orange County - causeing all those people to DRIVE their cars (read: clog the freeways), and increase current poolution and congestion - not to mention watsting about 2 hours every time you want to fly out of SoCal.
I swear, i just want to put you fscking NIBMY's on a boat and sink the ship sometimes. YOU ALL SUCK!
I swear, this is all i could think of this morning when i read the c|net.com.com.com.com article on their threat to move monday..
"Here is line of death in the sand, Friday, you cross this line, we revoke your AIX license rights and you die.
Ok, you cross this line on Monday and you die.
This line, you die.
This line, you die.
Nyaah, I'm going my house, you knock on my door, and I won't come out."