and you all called Randy Weaver a loony for having all those guns and shooting at people trying to invade his home.
be careful - you are going to find yourself the long-haired coding version of Randy Weaver. I am.
I have a shotgun, and i don't care who comes to my house - its my freaking house - and if i don't want them in, i'm shooting first, and asking questions later.
I'm completely sick of the rights we are giving to our country regarding non-terrorism (read: IP protectioneering) security. I have no issue with the govt. seeing if i'm a raghead terrorist bastard - i do care if they want to come and snoop and ask me if i have a non-approved DVD player. The former is actually important - the latter is completely none of the government's business.
Remember - it IS the old west.. if you and the bad guys are both armed. Just learn how to shoot, and you'll be fine.
if you read the Time article - it is clear. Apple is going to lead the way. Just not in 48 hours.
TIME: What about independent labels? Will they follow suit?
Jobs: Yes. They've already been calling us like crazy. We've had to put most of them off until after launch just because the big five have most of the music, and we only had so many hours in the day. But now we're really going to have time to focus on a lot of the independents and that will be really great.
There is no moral dilemma... unless Apple sold the soul of iTMS and their deal stipluated "no indie music" - then I'm planning on taking Jobs at his word.
I also assume that what they did for music buying, they'll do for music selling... that there will be some simple, easy to use interface for musicians to put their stuff on iTMS which will be fair and a fair price.
Apple is going to be one of the largest music labels out there... and i bet it will happen very soon - can you say Apple Records?
Better yet, they should go by the label name "Sosumi Records".
I sat across the street from Cereal Box's house with my PowerBook. I requested an IP via DHCP.
Cereal Box's acesss point not only had a big neon sign saying come to my house (announcing SSID), when when i knocked (DHCP request for an IP), it opened the door (no wep, no MAC access list), when i asked to sit down (requested a leased IP via DHCP), it showed me to the first most comfortable couch (gave me a valid IP address on the network), and brought me the TV guide and remote (passed me a valid DNS server), and then shoveled food into my head and carried me to the bathroom. (sent/recieved packets)
DHCP requests are just that, REQUESTS. And like any request, requests CAN BE DENIED. I REQUESTED - YOU gave. I don't care how esoteric it may be, its in the fscking RFC called request.
If you hack/crack/break - that is a totally different scenario.. but its the common scenario - default setups for acess points - that we are talking about, and when YOU compare an open, DHCP serving, no access listed access point to breaking down your door and easting your food, you're just Micheal Moore, except probably less sweaty.
once again... - YOU had a big neon sign on your door saying COME IN I knocked - YOU opended YOUR door I asked for a seat - YOU showed me to the nearest couch - YOU handed me the TV remote and TV guide - YOU brought me food and showed me to the shitter.
And that's my fault?
"You can tune it in, but doing anything more than that is morally wrong (and I think should have legal repercussions)"
1. Call Apple. 2. Ask them if they will put you on thier iTunes service. 3. Report back here.
whining and assuming is only making an ass of you. I suspect completely the opposite, and I bet you that we'll soon see some for of "Contact Apple" page so one can get one's wares of music (and i bet, video soon too) onto their service.
Stop whining and come up with a solution.
I can't sing, so i have no desire to find this out. You are motivated, so lets get going. I've already given you the steps you can take.
what is good about the uninformed and apathetic and disinterested voting to change my country to benefit them? We're not talking about fscking voting for class president at Springfield Jr. High. We're talking about people who are lazy - by nature, hence they don't vote - voting to confiscate what i work for to put into things which benefit them, and hurt me.
I would be more enclined to understand an allow the confiscation of my money if i were eligible to partake in the fruits of my labor - but the simple fact is that i am NOT. I was unable to get college grants, i am not eligible to receive medical treatment under Medical or Medicare, I cannot get Social Security beneifts to help my sick friend (i buy her many things out of my own pocket, and would buy more if I could get back what i put into SS), or any other form of welfare that i'm aware of.
What is the fuscking stupidity of it all is that i am excluded from all of this becuase I work. Period.
And now, its a "good idea" to let the millions of non-English speaking entry-level workers to have it _that much easier_ for them to simply click-n-steal more of my money?
Remember - its not like its taxes that benefit all.. these taxes do not go to benefit me.
I just went thru the numbers. I have exactly 36.4% of my income taken from me
I do not make $100k. I live in SoCal, in a 900 sq. foot condo that has a monthly payment of well over $1500. No, not beverly Hills - La Habra, CA. (aka GuadaLaHabra).
I do not have a crappy life - but i am most certainly prevented from doing things like contributing to my local church that runs a year-round free food/rent money distribution center (they write checks to landlords for people who are having a tough time).
But see - after taxes - that all of the non-income tax payers that live in Los Angeles will now be able to vote on even easier now - i can't give more money to that quality charity... because it was all stolen from me on April 15th.
I swear to.... it isn't going to be until election day is the day is April 16th will things ever be fair.. and not not fscking coincidence that April is about 6.5 months away from Election day - it's intentionally that way.
Tax cuts for the rich?
when 5 guys go to dinner, and only 3 of them pay, and 1 pays for 36% of the meal - of course the guy paying for 36 is going to resent it.. hell, maybe, he'll just stop coming to dinner.. and leave the other 4 to foot thier own fscking bill.
don't forget the most popular one of all time... Apple is dead. (everyone, starting with that stupid ass Dvorak)
unfortunately, i find any of these calls of "teachnology death" a waste of time... i'm working at a frmr TRW (now NG) location - and my cow-orker just brought in a floppy disk to my computer because they can't seem to get us network access to the printer.
This is not a matter of COST. It is a matter of NPR being a bitch, and wanting payola. Period.
THERE IS NO COST to you (besides using a Mac for the broadcaster) in order to use Quicktime Streaming Server. Its an Open Source product - Apple even has links to RH, Solaris, and Windows NT versions freely downloadable. Oh, and the source, if you REALLY want to use your new Fossil PDA watch as a QTSS server once you port the software.
QTSS and Quicktime Broadcaster are both freely downloadable and have 0 cost to you, the unpaying user. You can use whatever codecs you think are good enough for you, meaning that you can use this even on Linux.
"We regret that we were unable to reach mutually acceptable terms for a new arrangement with Apple QuickTime" is liberal NPR speak for "just because Al Gore is on your board doesn't mean shit to us. Don't think that we aren't closet free-marketers in real life, so give us free money, or we'll drop your ass."
I am totally floored that they have ditched the only 100% free streaming server in order to shill up to their favorite right-wing "Big Software" companies like Microsoft and Real.
(You have read the word "Real". Real is a registered trademark of Real Networks, and we are now directing you to a website where finding the free player is practically impossible. Once its downloaded, you will need to give us your email address, full control of your computer, your DNA, your first born child, your credit cards and numbers, your preferred sexual postition, and state if you supported the war in Iraq before we fill up your screen with an entire window of advertisements just to listen to our "welcome to real" jingle)
Cable width? airplanes? orbitology? how they plan to lower the cable? how they plan to connect the cable? how payloads can actually be lifted and forces dealt with? initial chemical-launches required? first ribbon payloads? space debris? weather? space weather? electrical potentials? what if the cable breaks? environmental concerns? safety? how to power the lift? etc. etc. etc.
none of these are unique questions.... they fall under "frequently asked".
Read the answers to your frequently asked questions, and they will be answered.
if you have a UNIQUE question - that should get rated a +5... but so far, no one has one of those that i've seen.
and so, when this person leaves college in 3 months - and brings that computer from school back home.. or worse, takes it with him to his first post-college job....
and during a BSA sweep...
you get the picture.
fscking Microsoft cannot break the rules any more than anyone else. The marketroid knob that gave out these disks is flat-out no-way around it gawddamned pirate, and the BSA should be contacted about this guy's ass and have him ass raped by them and sent to pound-me-in-the-ass prison like all the other pirates (argh) that redistribute software without proper licenses.
Replace "asshole from Microsoft" with "asshole from the Sigma Chi house" - and it doesn't change a damn thing.. its illegal in both cases.
and if you think i sound pissed - think about how pissed Microsoft would get if someone did this with their software that didn't work for them?
If they play hardball and asshole - then WE need to do it to.. to keep everyone honest.
Thuraya handsets are GSM phones which fallover to the Thuraya satellite system if one is outside the range of a ground-based GSM tower.
The satellite-to-phone protocol is a very slightly modified GSM that runs in L-Band. This was done for two reasons. A - if it ain't broke, don't fit it. B - why put in totally separate comm gear if you don't need to? C - everybody knows GSM inside fscking out. (yes, that's three reasons)
it also has a GPS receiver in it which provides the Thuraya satellite the information to decide which L-band spot beam(s) would be the correct beam to use (sometimes, you're in between beems, and if you are, and beam A is busier than beam B, then the Thuraya NOC will decide to put you on beam B)
it also provides a means for Thuraya Inc. to payback the countries their cut... much like the mass confusion which plagued the licensing schema for Iridium, Thuraya phone calls are not all alike... if you're in country A, then you'll be paying country A's tarrif + the base cost you pay to Thuraya. The easiest way to keep track of where one is was to put a GPS in the handset, then calculate the tarrif charges abse on the absolute location.
http://www.thuraya.com/tech/ will let you know some of this information. You'll also see there the increasingly missnamed "country code" for Thuraya calls, as well as the neeto tidbit that Thuraya was launched from Sea Launch - which is quite a sight to behold. Looking down the shaft of the laucher into the ocean 100+ feet down was quite a stomach-moving experience.
Where i got the rest of this info is an exercise left to the reader to guess.
As cool as computers will ever be, space shit is far cooler, y'all. Sorry.
"You see, most blokes will be serving at 10. You're on 10, all the way up, all the way up...Where can you go from there? Nowhere. What we do, is if we need that extra push to handle a Slashdotting...Eleven. One faster."
"Why don't you just make 10 faster and make 10 be the top number, and make that a little faster?"
what people doing USEFUL things are you going to pry away from doing their jobs - during war, i might add - and go and read stuff to declassify it?
give them 36 months. at least. please be reasonable.
remember - things are classified - most usually - because of their fragility.
some of the most classifed things are those which are "simple" hacks.... that we have verified thru HUMINT that the other guys simply have NOT thought of... and therefore, we are still accomplishing missions.
sorry to burst y'alls bubble on "secret spook" work.. but most of it is no different than what many in here do.
The "Conspiracy" is just average, low paid Americans - just like you - who have 2.3 kids, a yellow labrador, drive a honda Civic, and just love their country.
Damnit and fsck you. We in the "conspiracy" are not fscking out to get you, okay?
_WE_ *ARE* _you_.
The guy that lives across the street from you? - he's got a TS/SCI clearance. He plays softball with you, and when he goes to work, he comes up with ways to monitor North Korea's ability to send nukes to Los Angeles and see if there's a way to defeat that legitimate and real threat.
The lady you sit next to at church? She works on a WAIVED UNACKNOWLEDGED program that will NEVER be declassified. She doesn't go to work in a black helicopter - she doesn't listen in to your wide-open cordless telephone calls. She has far more serious issues to worry about. (that i can't tell you about, but would have to kill you if i did)
Why? Why do these people do this work?
So you can bitch about the conspiracy *without* black helicopters over your house...
so that you and her can both live in freedom.
I swear to.... i just get sick of all the bitching of the people who always assume the worst in people...
MOST OTHER COUNTRIES won't even let you buy video games.... for fscks sake... and you're complaining about the timetable that classifed documents are going to be let out?
Try to gather a little bit of perspective - try to analyze your situation (those here in the US). Try to compare and contrast...
US. I can buy XXX assporn, get cheap drugs from mexico on a weekend trip, and get a hummer in the white house. Germany. Can't buy WWII memorabilia on eBay. France. Must... not... shower... for... months... on... end... Iraq. "I hate Sadd.." *BANG*.... thud. gurgle....
we do the job because we love this country - not because we like to jack off to your personal conversations and emails. We do the job because we want to see this country NOT go to shit.
no - the US is NOT perfect - but if it sucks as much ass as "most of the world" thinks it does... which is totaly bogus.. that's just what the news reports. The numbers don't lie.
the United States is the Apache of countries... its free, and everyone uses it....and there's just no getting around that truth.
(i was going to post anonymously, but that would be chickenshit. i'm out of "it" now (yes, you can get out - stop believing FICTIONAL TV shows). i work for a telco now, so i don't know any more about what's going on in the war than any of you do)
The same arseholes - the senators and assemblypersons - that come up with DMCA and other shite turn around and write up a government rule that you must now puts stickers of all kinds on stuff you sell.
Its like a perpetual motion machine. Come up with laws that violate our rights, then demand that people label that our rights are being violated.
Holy hell - how many different ways does this violate the 10th Amendment?
If we were honest, we'd just white-out that part of the Constitution.. because its become a total joke.
i don't know how hard this is for people to understand...
when rumor sites promise 60 gig iPods, 4 processor G5 Yrbittium laptops that run on water and have 19 inch OLED screens that fold up in your pocket, and iPads....
then when Apple brings out 17" powerbooks, people are let down..
and that's just bad business.
Not to mention the people that don't buy because they are wating for Ryan Meader's wet dreams to come true... he tells everyone that this is going to happen or that that is going to happen.. so they hold off.. get disappointed, and are let down..
all because of Ryan Meader, Nick de Plume, and their rumormongering gives them hard-ons.
its lame - andits not helpful to Apple.
because not everyone "just enjoys" rumor sites.. they make (wrong) decision based on them... like it or not.
Any more or less nefarious than the thousands of madrasas (schools, such as what bin Laden built)in the middle east who's materials do NOT vary from state to state (they all have one book - the Koran), mostly due to religious belief that if you're not a Muslim and you're an American, you're worthy of dying as a infidel?
Or any more or less nefarious that the thousands of schools in North Korea... oh wait.. they don't have schools, they just put all the children to work with dangerous chemicals and in dangerous conditions, never mind...
Or any more or less nefarious than the thousands of Chinese children brought up to believe that its okay for your government to mow you down with tanks and artillery in a public square if you have a difference of political belief? I'm sure the classrooms there are *full* of people just waiting to argue the other side of "government-student relations".
The level of "censorship" across the world is flabbergasting...
and for you, to bitch about a local school system's CHOICE (you know, 'choice', like abortion choice) in its curriculum and call it censorship borders on mental instability....
or an extrmeme left-wing bias.
that you got modded up scares me even more - cause there's someone out there agreeing with you that "choice" = "censorship".
Fsck, so what do you call a woman going to Planned Parenthood? "Censoring her future child"?
I've finally convinced even my mom that I can't do windows. The last 3 times i've tried to help her, i've done more damage than help.
This is because, upon each subsequent "repair attempt" at fixing windows machines, i find myself *actually* unable to fix them - short of formatting and installing windows, that is.
I mean, i honestly don't know how to do it any more.. my Windows repair muscles have completely atrophied in the last 6 years....
I don't know wtf anything is, i don't understand why changing the IP forces a reboot, i don't know which DLLs to uninstall when i uninstall something....
and seriously... what the fuck is up with the start menu in XP? Is that supposed to be "easier" to use? where the fsck did all the programs go? where the fsck is the printer folder underneath the Settings folder so i can see what printers the computer thinks it knows about? and where can i go to get a fscking command line?
I'm 100% totally lost using Windows XP - i feel like my grandafther trying to stop the VCR from blinking 12:00.
so i just tell them all, honestly..i do not know how to fix windows - and i won't help you because I *CAN'T* help you.
But i'll talk your ear off to get a Mac... and if you get one, I can help you then. But i cannot fix your problems with windows.
Mac OS X problems take me 30 seconds to resolve, and most often involve someone being too fearful to just hit a button.
I don't know what to say.. it think i'm getting old.
people who are users like me just want a fscking file that i can open with Word, with OOo, with iWrite.. whatever... and then send it to other people. If it requires the use of pixie dust or ass cream - so long as it works, that's all anyone wants.
Relgious zeal with XML content being separated doesn't MEAN SHIT to users. And it doesn't get me anywhere when the fact remains that when i send in my busines proposals to the government, they want it in Word-97.doc format. Like i can even buy fuscking Office 97....
wankers. However you want to make an open format - be our (the Joe Salesdepartment) guest... until there is something which is universal (.doc and.pdf) and editable (.doc only) we're stuck realistically with.doc... as bad as it is.
Any plans in the works on the two superpowers coming together to put together the truly great aspects of each software package?
Right now, it seems that SE Clicker has the jump as far as expandability, as well as the unofficial support from Apple - Romeo seems to have mousing and crashing (i know its.5, i know) down.
Together - a unified app wouldn't require one to jump between the two apps (of course, it would only take two scripts to jump between apps, wouldn't it?) may be able to more quickly focus expandability, functionality, bug squashing, etc...
right now - these are both great apps, but the bugs are still too many to be "trustworthy" for me to use my phone as a PowerPoint and Keynote clicker (i am a PowerPoint ranger - it is my life's blood).
And finally - maybe one single repository for quality checked scripts. Maybe a slashcode site? Maybe a sourceforge website? I dunno, but i do know that going between a ton of sites looking for a script here and there kinds sucks. I'd host it, but i've only got a DSL link at home.
the true intent of the media companies is to go out and "prove" that internet distribution is "not workable".
Who in their right fscking mind would pay $18 to burn 10 tracks? If i want to take it in the ass, i'll go and buy a cd for $18 in the store! Hell, it may have 12 tracks on it?
And, of course, the AOL 56k modem crowd is really looking forward to downloading music over 56k because that's not the 21st century's version of Chineese Water Torture.
Look - lets all be reasonable - the media companies are dead set against the internet as a form of distribution, because the old form of distribution is what they know, and makes them money by the truckload.
Do you blame them for selling (essentially) $.50 of materials for a markup of 3600%?? If i could shit in my hand and sell it for $5 a pop, you're damn right i'd be eating "Britanny Spears Bran Flakes" night and day too.
I swear to.... if Gutenberg were alive today, they'd have his nuts in the courts for trying to "take down the industry" of scribes. Because that's all that this is... this is the 21st century equivalent of scribes who copied books.. who now see their liveihoods being threatened by that newfangled contraption which is pirateing away their profits...
Who's going to write books if everyone can get a copy for nothing?
I have to learn German to use Office 11? oh fsck that...
I'm moving to Mac OS X. [/ha ha]
Seriously tho, other than that they now suck up a portion of your editing window by using 30% of the right side for clip art searches and multi-clip clipboards... what really is different? And i bet you a donut that you can make those dialogs float above the window if you like.
This looks like more justification to whine about the fact that MS really needs to move to a subscription model.. cause if i was a MS shop (which i'm not), id be pissed as hell about this... Office 2003 does not look substancially different enough to justify the migration from 2000, hell, 97! 97 looks like it pretty much does the same junk...
i don't know, but i bet that i'd feel like an ass if i had to dump $300/box for the move to 2000, and then another $300/box to move to this. If i have a lot of machines, that's a lot of money for what doesn't look like a whole lot of anything togive a crap about.
if you can by Office 97 for $15 at any software surplus.. i'm thinking we're entering an age where office suites are commodity items... much like the PC's that they run on.
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and you all called Randy Weaver a loony for having all those guns and shooting at people trying to invade his home.
be careful - you are going to find yourself the long-haired coding version of Randy Weaver. I am.
I have a shotgun, and i don't care who comes to my house - its my freaking house - and if i don't want them in, i'm shooting first, and asking questions later.
I'm completely sick of the rights we are giving to our country regarding non-terrorism (read: IP protectioneering) security. I have no issue with the govt. seeing if i'm a raghead terrorist bastard - i do care if they want to come and snoop and ask me if i have a non-approved DVD player. The former is actually important - the latter is completely none of the government's business.
Remember - it IS the old west.. if you and the bad guys are both armed. Just learn how to shoot, and you'll be fine.
if you read the Time article - it is clear. Apple is going to lead the way. Just not in 48 hours.
TIME: What about independent labels? Will they follow suit?
Jobs: Yes. They've already been calling us like crazy. We've had to put most of them off until after launch just because the big five have most of the music, and we only had so many hours in the day. But now we're really going to have time to focus on a lot of the independents and that will be really great.
There is no moral dilemma... unless Apple sold the soul of iTMS and their deal stipluated "no indie music" - then I'm planning on taking Jobs at his word.
I also assume that what they did for music buying, they'll do for music selling... that there will be some simple, easy to use interface for musicians to put their stuff on iTMS which will be fair and a fair price.
Apple is going to be one of the largest music labels out there... and i bet it will happen very soon - can you say Apple Records?
Better yet, they should go by the label name "Sosumi Records".
Well, there's one way to find out...
Remember, guns don't kill iBooks, people do!
the house/door analogy is totally correct. 100%.
I sat across the street from Cereal Box's house with my PowerBook. I requested an IP via DHCP.
Cereal Box's acesss point not only had a big neon sign saying come to my house (announcing SSID), when when i knocked (DHCP request for an IP), it opened the door (no wep, no MAC access list), when i asked to sit down (requested a leased IP via DHCP), it showed me to the first most comfortable couch (gave me a valid IP address on the network), and brought me the TV guide and remote (passed me a valid DNS server), and then shoveled food into my head and carried me to the bathroom. (sent/recieved packets)
DHCP requests are just that, REQUESTS. And like any request, requests CAN BE DENIED. I REQUESTED - YOU gave. I don't care how esoteric it may be, its in the fscking RFC called request.
If you hack/crack/break - that is a totally different scenario.. but its the common scenario - default setups for acess points - that we are talking about, and when YOU compare an open, DHCP serving, no access listed access point to breaking down your door and easting your food, you're just Micheal Moore, except probably less sweaty.
once again...
- YOU had a big neon sign on your door saying COME IN
I knocked
- YOU opended YOUR door
I asked for a seat
- YOU showed me to the nearest couch
- YOU handed me the TV remote and TV guide
- YOU brought me food and showed me to the shitter.
And that's my fault?
"You can tune it in, but doing anything more than that is morally wrong (and I think should have legal repercussions)"
that's just galactically dumb.
Asshat.
1. Call Apple.
2. Ask them if they will put you on thier iTunes service.
3. Report back here.
whining and assuming is only making an ass of you. I suspect completely the opposite, and I bet you that we'll soon see some for of "Contact Apple" page so one can get one's wares of music (and i bet, video soon too) onto their service.
Stop whining and come up with a solution.
I can't sing, so i have no desire to find this out. You are motivated, so lets get going. I've already given you the steps you can take.
what is good about the uninformed and apathetic and disinterested voting to change my country to benefit them? We're not talking about fscking voting for class president at Springfield Jr. High. We're talking about people who are lazy - by nature, hence they don't vote - voting to confiscate what i work for to put into things which benefit them, and hurt me.
.... it isn't going to be until election day is the day is April 16th will things ever be fair.. and not not fscking coincidence that April is about 6.5 months away from Election day - it's intentionally that way.
I would be more enclined to understand an allow the confiscation of my money if i were eligible to partake in the fruits of my labor - but the simple fact is that i am NOT. I was unable to get college grants, i am not eligible to receive medical treatment under Medical or Medicare, I cannot get Social Security beneifts to help my sick friend (i buy her many things out of my own pocket, and would buy more if I could get back what i put into SS), or any other form of welfare that i'm aware of.
What is the fuscking stupidity of it all is that i am excluded from all of this becuase I work. Period.
And now, its a "good idea" to let the millions of non-English speaking entry-level workers to have it _that much easier_ for them to simply click-n-steal more of my money?
Remember - its not like its taxes that benefit all.. these taxes do not go to benefit me.
I just went thru the numbers. I have exactly 36.4% of my income taken from me
I do not make $100k. I live in SoCal, in a 900 sq. foot condo that has a monthly payment of well over $1500. No, not beverly Hills - La Habra, CA. (aka GuadaLaHabra).
I do not have a crappy life - but i am most certainly prevented from doing things like contributing to my local church that runs a year-round free food/rent money distribution center (they write checks to landlords for people who are having a tough time).
But see - after taxes - that all of the non-income tax payers that live in Los Angeles will now be able to vote on even easier now - i can't give more money to that quality charity... because it was all stolen from me on April 15th.
I swear to
Tax cuts for the rich?
when 5 guys go to dinner, and only 3 of them pay, and 1 pays for 36% of the meal - of course the guy paying for 36 is going to resent it.. hell, maybe, he'll just stop coming to dinner.. and leave the other 4 to foot thier own fscking bill.
don't forget the most popular one of all time... Apple is dead. (everyone, starting with that stupid ass Dvorak)
unfortunately, i find any of these calls of "teachnology death" a waste of time... i'm working at a frmr TRW (now NG) location - and my cow-orker just brought in a floppy disk to my computer because they can't seem to get us network access to the printer.
nothing is dead - its all just where you're at.
This is not a matter of COST. It is a matter of NPR being a bitch, and wanting payola. Period.
THERE IS NO COST to you (besides using a Mac for the broadcaster) in order to use Quicktime Streaming Server. Its an Open Source product - Apple even has links to RH, Solaris, and Windows NT versions freely downloadable. Oh, and the source, if you REALLY want to use your new Fossil PDA watch as a QTSS server once you port the software.
QTSS and Quicktime Broadcaster are both freely downloadable and have 0 cost to you, the unpaying user. You can use whatever codecs you think are good enough for you, meaning that you can use this even on Linux.
"We regret that we were unable to reach mutually acceptable terms for a new arrangement with Apple QuickTime" is liberal NPR speak for "just because Al Gore is on your board doesn't mean shit to us. Don't think that we aren't closet free-marketers in real life, so give us free money, or we'll drop your ass."
I am totally floored that they have ditched the only 100% free streaming server in order to shill up to their favorite right-wing "Big Software" companies like Microsoft and Real.
(You have read the word "Real". Real is a registered trademark of Real Networks, and we are now directing you to a website where finding the free player is practically impossible. Once its downloaded, you will need to give us your email address, full control of your computer, your DNA, your first born child, your credit cards and numbers, your preferred sexual postition, and state if you supported the war in Iraq before we fill up your screen with an entire window of advertisements just to listen to our "welcome to real" jingle)
$1,000 into $100,000 in less than months...
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so, why should this man be so persecuted?
They are frequently asked...
Cable width?
airplanes?
orbitology?
how they plan to lower the cable?
how they plan to connect the cable?
how payloads can actually be lifted and forces dealt with?
initial chemical-launches required?
first ribbon payloads?
space debris?
weather?
space weather?
electrical potentials?
what if the cable breaks?
environmental concerns?
safety?
how to power the lift?
etc. etc. etc.
none of these are unique questions.... they fall under "frequently asked".
Read the answers to your frequently asked questions, and they will be answered.
if you have a UNIQUE question - that should get rated a +5... but so far, no one has one of those that i've seen.
Geezuz tapdancing Krist.
(folds up soapbox, puts away megaphone)
and so, when this person leaves college in 3 months - and brings that computer from school back home.. or worse, takes it with him to his first post-college job....
and during a BSA sweep...
you get the picture.
fscking Microsoft cannot break the rules any more than anyone else. The marketroid knob that gave out these disks is flat-out no-way around it gawddamned pirate, and the BSA should be contacted about this guy's ass and have him ass raped by them and sent to pound-me-in-the-ass prison like all the other pirates (argh) that redistribute software without proper licenses.
Replace "asshole from Microsoft" with "asshole from the Sigma Chi house" - and it doesn't change a damn thing.. its illegal in both cases.
and if you think i sound pissed - think about how pissed Microsoft would get if someone did this with their software that didn't work for them?
If they play hardball and asshole - then WE need to do it to.. to keep everyone honest.
if you want to live in peace,
just don't have any enemies.
[/sarcasm]
Thuraya handsets are GSM phones which fallover to the Thuraya satellite system if one is outside the range of a ground-based GSM tower.
The satellite-to-phone protocol is a very slightly modified GSM that runs in L-Band. This was done for two reasons. A - if it ain't broke, don't fit it. B - why put in totally separate comm gear if you don't need to? C - everybody knows GSM inside fscking out. (yes, that's three reasons)
it also has a GPS receiver in it which provides the Thuraya satellite the information to decide which L-band spot beam(s) would be the correct beam to use (sometimes, you're in between beems, and if you are, and beam A is busier than beam B, then the Thuraya NOC will decide to put you on beam B)
it also provides a means for Thuraya Inc. to payback the countries their cut... much like the mass confusion which plagued the licensing schema for Iridium, Thuraya phone calls are not all alike... if you're in country A, then you'll be paying country A's tarrif + the base cost you pay to Thuraya. The easiest way to keep track of where one is was to put a GPS in the handset, then calculate the tarrif charges abse on the absolute location.
http://www.thuraya.com/tech/ will let you know some of this information. You'll also see there the increasingly missnamed "country code" for Thuraya calls, as well as the neeto tidbit that Thuraya was launched from Sea Launch - which is quite a sight to behold. Looking down the shaft of the laucher into the ocean 100+ feet down was quite a stomach-moving experience.
Where i got the rest of this info is an exercise left to the reader to guess.
As cool as computers will ever be, space shit is far cooler, y'all. Sorry.
"You see, most blokes will be serving at 10. You're on 10, all the way up, all the way up...Where can you go from there? Nowhere. What we do, is if we need that extra push to handle a Slashdotting...Eleven. One faster."
"Why don't you just make 10 faster and make 10 be the top number, and make that a little faster?"
(insert pause)
"These go to 11."
what people doing USEFUL things are you going to pry away from doing their jobs - during war, i might add - and go and read stuff to declassify it?
.... i just get sick of all the bitching of the people who always assume the worst in people...
give them 36 months. at least. please be reasonable.
remember - things are classified - most usually - because of their fragility.
some of the most classifed things are those which are "simple" hacks.... that we have verified thru HUMINT that the other guys simply have NOT thought of... and therefore, we are still accomplishing missions.
sorry to burst y'alls bubble on "secret spook" work.. but most of it is no different than what many in here do.
The "Conspiracy" is just average, low paid Americans - just like you - who have 2.3 kids, a yellow labrador, drive a honda Civic, and just love their country.
Damnit and fsck you. We in the "conspiracy" are not fscking out to get you, okay?
_WE_ *ARE* _you_.
The guy that lives across the street from you? - he's got a TS/SCI clearance. He plays softball with you, and when he goes to work, he comes up with ways to monitor North Korea's ability to send nukes to Los Angeles and see if there's a way to defeat that legitimate and real threat.
The lady you sit next to at church? She works on a WAIVED UNACKNOWLEDGED program that will NEVER be declassified. She doesn't go to work in a black helicopter - she doesn't listen in to your wide-open cordless telephone calls. She has far more serious issues to worry about. (that i can't tell you about, but would have to kill you if i did)
Why? Why do these people do this work?
So you can bitch about the conspiracy *without* black helicopters over your house...
so that you and her can both live in freedom.
I swear to
MOST OTHER COUNTRIES won't even let you buy video games.... for fscks sake... and you're complaining about the timetable that classifed documents are going to be let out?
Try to gather a little bit of perspective - try to analyze your situation (those here in the US). Try to compare and contrast...
US. I can buy XXX assporn, get cheap drugs from mexico on a weekend trip, and get a hummer in the white house.
Germany. Can't buy WWII memorabilia on eBay.
France. Must... not... shower... for... months... on... end...
Iraq. "I hate Sadd.." *BANG*.... thud. gurgle....
we do the job because we love this country - not because we like to jack off to your personal conversations and emails. We do the job because we want to see this country NOT go to shit.
no - the US is NOT perfect - but if it sucks as much ass as "most of the world" thinks it does... which is totaly bogus.. that's just what the news reports. The numbers don't lie.
the United States is the Apache of countries... its free, and everyone uses it....and there's just no getting around that truth.
(i was going to post anonymously, but that would be chickenshit. i'm out of "it" now (yes, you can get out - stop believing FICTIONAL TV shows). i work for a telco now, so i don't know any more about what's going on in the war than any of you do)
The same arseholes - the senators and assemblypersons - that come up with DMCA and other shite turn around and write up a government rule that you must now puts stickers of all kinds on stuff you sell.
Its like a perpetual motion machine. Come up with laws that violate our rights, then demand that people label that our rights are being violated.
Holy hell - how many different ways does this violate the 10th Amendment?
If we were honest, we'd just white-out that part of the Constitution.. because its become a total joke.
i don't know how hard this is for people to understand...
when rumor sites promise 60 gig iPods, 4 processor G5 Yrbittium laptops that run on water and have 19 inch OLED screens that fold up in your pocket, and iPads....
then when Apple brings out 17" powerbooks, people are let down..
and that's just bad business.
Not to mention the people that don't buy because they are wating for Ryan Meader's wet dreams to come true... he tells everyone that this is going to happen or that that is going to happen.. so they hold off.. get disappointed, and are let down..
all because of Ryan Meader, Nick de Plume, and their rumormongering gives them hard-ons.
its lame - andits not helpful to Apple.
because not everyone "just enjoys" rumor sites.. they make (wrong) decision based on them... like it or not.
Any more or less nefarious than the thousands of madrasas (schools, such as what bin Laden built)in the middle east who's materials do NOT vary from state to state (they all have one book - the Koran), mostly due to religious belief that if you're not a Muslim and you're an American, you're worthy of dying as a infidel?
Or any more or less nefarious that the thousands of schools in North Korea... oh wait.. they don't have schools, they just put all the children to work with dangerous chemicals and in dangerous conditions, never mind...
Or any more or less nefarious than the thousands of Chinese children brought up to believe that its okay for your government to mow you down with tanks and artillery in a public square if you have a difference of political belief? I'm sure the classrooms there are *full* of people just waiting to argue the other side of "government-student relations".
The level of "censorship" across the world is flabbergasting...
and for you, to bitch about a local school system's CHOICE (you know, 'choice', like abortion choice) in its curriculum and call it censorship borders on mental instability....
or an extrmeme left-wing bias.
that you got modded up scares me even more - cause there's someone out there agreeing with you that "choice" = "censorship".
Fsck, so what do you call a woman going to Planned Parenthood? "Censoring her future child"?
I've finally convinced even my mom that I can't do windows. The last 3 times i've tried to help her, i've done more damage than help.
This is because, upon each subsequent "repair attempt" at fixing windows machines, i find myself *actually* unable to fix them - short of formatting and installing windows, that is.
I mean, i honestly don't know how to do it any more.. my Windows repair muscles have completely atrophied in the last 6 years....
I don't know wtf anything is, i don't understand why changing the IP forces a reboot, i don't know which DLLs to uninstall when i uninstall something....
and seriously... what the fuck is up with the start menu in XP? Is that supposed to be "easier" to use? where the fsck did all the programs go? where the fsck is the printer folder underneath the Settings folder so i can see what printers the computer thinks it knows about? and where can i go to get a fscking command line?
I'm 100% totally lost using Windows XP - i feel like my grandafther trying to stop the VCR from blinking 12:00.
so i just tell them all, honestly..i do not know how to fix windows - and i won't help you because I *CAN'T* help you.
But i'll talk your ear off to get a Mac... and if you get one, I can help you then. But i cannot fix your problems with windows.
Mac OS X problems take me 30 seconds to resolve, and most often involve someone being too fearful to just hit a button.
I don't know what to say.. it think i'm getting old.
people who are users like me just want a fscking file that i can open with Word, with OOo, with iWrite.. whatever... and then send it to other people. If it requires the use of pixie dust or ass cream - so long as it works, that's all anyone wants.
.doc format. Like i can even buy fuscking Office 97....
.pdf) and editable (.doc only) we're stuck realistically with .doc... as bad as it is.
Relgious zeal with XML content being separated doesn't MEAN SHIT to users. And it doesn't get me anywhere when the fact remains that when i send in my busines proposals to the government, they want it in Word-97
wankers. However you want to make an open format - be our (the Joe Salesdepartment) guest... until there is something which is universal (.doc and
Any plans in the works on the two superpowers coming together to put together the truly great aspects of each software package?
.5, i know) down.
Right now, it seems that SE Clicker has the jump as far as expandability, as well as the unofficial support from Apple - Romeo seems to have mousing and crashing (i know its
Together - a unified app wouldn't require one to jump between the two apps (of course, it would only take two scripts to jump between apps, wouldn't it?) may be able to more quickly focus expandability, functionality, bug squashing, etc...
right now - these are both great apps, but the bugs are still too many to be "trustworthy" for me to use my phone as a PowerPoint and Keynote clicker (i am a PowerPoint ranger - it is my life's blood).
And finally - maybe one single repository for quality checked scripts. Maybe a slashcode site? Maybe a sourceforge website? I dunno, but i do know that going between a ton of sites looking for a script here and there kinds sucks. I'd host it, but i've only got a DSL link at home.
the true intent of the media companies is to go out and "prove" that internet distribution is "not workable".
.... if Gutenberg were alive today, they'd have his nuts in the courts for trying to "take down the industry" of scribes. Because that's all that this is... this is the 21st century equivalent of scribes who copied books.. who now see their liveihoods being threatened by that newfangled contraption which is pirateing away their profits...
Who in their right fscking mind would pay $18 to burn 10 tracks? If i want to take it in the ass, i'll go and buy a cd for $18 in the store! Hell, it may have 12 tracks on it?
And, of course, the AOL 56k modem crowd is really looking forward to downloading music over 56k because that's not the 21st century's version of Chineese Water Torture.
Look - lets all be reasonable - the media companies are dead set against the internet as a form of distribution, because the old form of distribution is what they know, and makes them money by the truckload.
Do you blame them for selling (essentially) $.50 of materials for a markup of 3600%?? If i could shit in my hand and sell it for $5 a pop, you're damn right i'd be eating "Britanny Spears Bran Flakes" night and day too.
I swear to
Who's going to write books if everyone can get a copy for nothing?
The Brits have a term for people like this....
WANKERS!
http://homepage.mac.com/jonassalling/Shareware/Cli cker/index.html
I was going to post about this, but wanted to wait until the actual website was up...
dear God.. i guess i have to face the facts... i've become a KARMA WHORE!
oh well, it could be worse.. i could be a California asembly person.. and spend other people's money like a CRACK WHORE.
I have to learn German to use Office 11? oh fsck that...
I'm moving to Mac OS X. [/ha ha]
Seriously tho, other than that they now suck up a portion of your editing window by using 30% of the right side for clip art searches and multi-clip clipboards... what really is different? And i bet you a donut that you can make those dialogs float above the window if you like.
This looks like more justification to whine about the fact that MS really needs to move to a subscription model.. cause if i was a MS shop (which i'm not), id be pissed as hell about this... Office 2003 does not look substancially different enough to justify the migration from 2000, hell, 97! 97 looks like it pretty much does the same junk...
i don't know, but i bet that i'd feel like an ass if i had to dump $300/box for the move to 2000, and then another $300/box to move to this. If i have a lot of machines, that's a lot of money for what doesn't look like a whole lot of anything togive a crap about.
if you can by Office 97 for $15 at any software surplus.. i'm thinking we're entering an age where office suites are commodity items... much like the PC's that they run on.
i actually often spell with lowercase "i".
i don't find myself important enough to capitalize it.
see my history.