At http://www.sunncomm.com/video/video.asp?VideoID=01 30 Peter Jacob says at a congressional hearing in response to "what happens when the market presents a cdrom that mimics the function of a cd player? Would you consider that to be a circumvention device?"
"That protection won't do any good any more for that particular CD"
He also says later:
"Everyone knows that the customer will dictate what fair use is at the end of the day. I think our company will pioneer that."
4,134,800 "penny" stocks add up to quite a bit.
From the FA:
SunnComm believes that by making erroneous assumptions in putting together his critical review of the MediaMax CD-3 technology, Halderman came to false conclusions concerning the robustness and efficacy of SunnComm's MediaMax technology. Based on several of these incorrect assumptions, Halderman and Princeton University have significantly damaged SunnComm's reputation and caused the market value of SunnComm to drop by more than $10 million.
Speak for yourself about not getting a cool office. I work from home and have spent a great amount of time tuning my office space to a great place to spend time making a living. Someone develops a nice office with some very inventive architectural ideas (I'm particularly fond of the window to the next office's window idea), and you write it off as useless due to it having no direct use to you.
Whereas those who get ideas to incorporate into their own ambitions will enjoy this news, you narrowly percieve this as "Dot Bomb flashback syndrome".
As you may be aware, Rep. Phil Barnhart has introduced HB 2892 to require state agencies to consider open source software when considering software, system, or network computer purchases.
As a hard working entrepeneur whose business relies on a foundation of open source technologies, I would like to attest to Phil's statement that "Oregon could save millions of dollars while increasing the flexibility, usefulness, and reliability of its computer systems."
I have used open source software since 1996 to improve my high school, programs for the Housing Authority of Portland, and my home for only the cost of my time as a volunteer. Furthermore, I was able to utilize excess hardware on which commercial solutions could not function as well or at all. I have no hesitation in saying that my entrepreneurial ventures that have contributed to Oregon's economy would not have been possible without open source.
Open source products are created by millions of dedicated developers who benefit from the same culture to which they contribute. Unlike commercial software, open source is designed to embrace the inifinite reproducability that computers allow in order to help the more tangible aspect of computing (hardware) to be used as effectively as possible (read: more bang for the buck). Companies such as IBM and Apple have accepted this and have offered a prominent place for open source in their business planning.
Open source also eases the burden of budget planning and human resources in managing licensing for commercial software. It's great to operate with the peace of mind knowing you will never be audited for what's running on your computers.
More information on open source is available at opensource.org.
Thanks for your help in steering the future in the right direction!
I just wanted to drop in my 2 cents that this is very foul of them to do. Portland is such a great place for the outdoors and computing that it's completely counterproductive and unnecessary for them to wreck a beautiful merging of the two. It's a great place to read, and I've been hoping for the day when I'll be able to work on a notebook comp there. I can't help but think of magnificent pranks that the green and white mandatory tourist stop could use to accomodate this action.
I'm extremely interested in this feature and have read in many places that this is possible. I would believe that it would be done with the 'user' directive in a virtual host context.
The apache docs says this! "Context: server config, virtual host"
But then at the bottom: Special note: Use of this directive in is no longer supported. To configure your server for suexec use SuexecUserGroup.
The only bad thing I've seen in the threads so far is that they spam you. I have NEVER found this to be true, and in all the years I've been using them, I've had the BEST service, the LOWEST prices, and the overall best experience with this registrar.
I even have an opensrs reseller account, and I like this better. (costs like $1 more per domain/year, but don't have to buy in bulk).
In the early days of their service, I even got quick replies from their head admin for some issues I was having transfering domains.
More hits is almost NEVER a bad thing for a site's main purpose (getting people to see it, and hopefully take an interest in what's there)
For just the same reason as the automotive industry has made clean fuel vehicles standard, and the very way our capitalist world operates. For the time (money) it takes to implement this thing to make the world a better place, the costs can not be substantiated. Granted, if a lot of sites did this, there would be more time for everyone to spend playing with their dog rather than dig through irrelevant search results. But Joe webmaster's company is never going to pay him to do it, and he's not going to spend his free time doing it when he could be spending time with his dog.
That's the way the world is working right now, and people who want to change the world to a better place will probably spend their time doing other things rather than putting unwords in their web documents.
It has to be stronger than ever to support the great leeching of CRC press on the whole effort and yet retain its greatness. The story of how this all happened will open your eyes to the world of corporate america and its short term money making goals. There is a section on what you can do to help that is definitely worth reading. In short:
Buy mathematica (wolfram's sweeet math proggy)
Purchase the second edition of the book, but NOT directly from CRC
write a positive testimonial in the guestbook to help their applications for funding.
While I can understand the need for compassionite sensitivity during such events, the issue of censorship really comes out. I was glad to see Conan O'Brien back on the air - certainly his job had much to suffer by trying to do something immediately after the attacks, and I think it was for the best that his show was put on hold. But to not show certain shows and to not play certain songs is a bit more questionable. These are segments produced before the event, and can help people reflect on what is happening simply because of that fact. I'm glad that many (my local community radio, KBOO being one of them) chose this option.
Are there really any good arguments for taking shows like this off the air, even for a little while? Think about it, and comapre any such arguments to the idea that video games inspire violent behaviour in children. To me (and I'm sure many enlightened/. readers) such things are an outlet, a playground for the mind to explore the ideas with the depth that they deserve rather than stifling any response other than instinctive reaction.
I think back to the days when Mortal Kombat (as the prime example) was being fiercely attacked by parents afraid of the hordes of violent predators video games were making of their children. Funny thing is that obviously none of them evert tried playing these games (or at least not long enough to do well and understand it), and they were all very stupid people with wild imaginations.
I can't help but think of a parallel between these overly concerned parents and the type of people that watch a LOT of tv.
Do you ever watch the evening news? Try holding a straight face when there's LIVE BREAKING news outside the bookstore about a woman that might be missing for a couple days. Everything the talking heads say must be said with a most serious attitude. The news anchor doesn't have time to tell if the story has any truth to it.
It's a lot more fun to watch stoned. You can at least laugh at it.
I saw this for this first time yesterday! I heard an audio cd I made for someone skipping, and took it out to dust it off. To my surprise, it looked like a small drop of liquid hit the outer part of the cd, and completely eroded the aluminum bits, leaving a little hue of blue in the middle but otherwise making the spot completely transparent. She's been getting into rare incense studies a lot lately, and I wonder if maybe that had something to do with it.
Sure, I can see some use in patents, but software patents are simply out of control. It's all well and good that companies can discover things on their own, but it's just wrong to prevent someone else from coming to their own solution sparked by an idea (or from their own creativity) with a patent. Imagine if the idea of using a 4/4 measure for music was patented. "It's catchy, works for us selling music, and cost $200 in R&D for us to find this out. I want a patent. Gimme gimme gimme!" The world would either be in a very sorry state, or we'd all be grooving to waltz.
Granting a patent is just like columbus discovering a new land before its own inhabitants. It was always there, it just became known to different people at different times.
Starting over from scratch isn't necessarily a bad thing. bladeenc was built "from scratch" using the iso specification of an mp3. This didn't stop the Fwhatever institute from threatening them, and for many applications (higher bitrate), it was a better encoder.
OGG is simply a better standard, started with ideas from the mp3 codec. Last night, I lost my entire implementation of a tree class I had for a project. But in writing it, I know how to write a better one. I'm turning in my project late, but now it's better and I have a better understanding of it.
If I don't die of sleep deprivation, I'll be glad that happened (And I'll thank the ultraedit dev team first - fuckers)
Sure, Joe Bob might pirate some radio for a while, but when he gets bored, he goes back to work like the rest of us.
Perhaps you are unaware of the countless efforts pirate radio broadcasters have gone through to keep our society from becoming a bunch of wage slaves living to buy gap clothing to wear while we listen to what someone driven by corporate interest (money) thinks we should. There have been incredible volunteer efforts foiled by the FCC. In one case (I don't recall), the FCC busted a station and had to use a jackhammer to remove their transmitter from the foundation of the premise and confiscate it. People don't mind running good radio without monetary profit, but the FCC sure does get pissed off when they don't pay a tremendous license fee, forcing them to make money off of advertising and thus keeping our apple pie institution running the way it should^tm.
Here's some Joe Bob's you should check out:
http://www.echonyc.com/~gargoyle/str/
Linky version: Steal This Radio 88.7 FM
I read that and thought - the industry is putting breaks on sdmi? Are these funky breaks worth downloading? I wish people in professional journalism (anyone who posts for./) could at least have a secretery to proofread for them.
Perhaps I'm missing something here, but it seems to me that people as a whole have ANY problem reproducing. Now only if they could fix the stupidity problem...
I read that part in the article and thought "Wow, I wasn't giving gates enough credit, what with him completely ignoring the internet in 1995" but if that statement in the speech is a blatant lie, that makes this some pretty dirty FUD. I mean, that's the first thing you read, to draw in the crowd - "Behold our mighty prophet who told you not to buy 5,000 shares of amazon back in '95" - That's just straight out of 1984 - "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
Seeing as how this is one of my favorite movies of all time, I'm a bit biased - but if the general public had a clue how brilliant this film is consider the ramifications! What if another Godzilla (the matt broderick one) were to happen!? With such an enlightened audience it wouldn't make a dime! Can't let that happen - no, no.
As I bask in the bliss of invulnerability to email viruses and such, I also have the woes as discussed in this article. I get by pretty well with pine's interface to a word viewer, and fortunately all of the clients who send us print layouts in excel (it sounds funny, but it sucks) are dealt with by our graphics guys. But it would be so much nicer if developers could adhere to standards and not just give in all the time.
A small example, I had to spend an hour explaining how bad of an idea it would be to allow email from nonexistant domains in order for someone else's automated mailbot to get email to us. Fortunately we got the developer to comply. I can't imagine how often these situations are put on others where it's easier to just give in and make your product crappier so that it works with what most everyone else is using.
I remember slackware getting me into knowing more about intel pc's than I had ever imagined. Now I can start busting 31337 knowledge on my iSparc (that's what I call it, it's really some all-in-one workstation w/ no HD collecting dust in my closet). If only I can get it to run off the network, THE computer, whatever sun calls it.
Sarcasm: on There should be a moderation option for "might offend someone". Perhaps that statement should be censored harming people with MS. There's no way that it might be really amusing and informative at the same time. And there's absolutely no way that it might bring more awareness to MS. Please don't breed
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Now then... when will the music software industry start catching on?
Pro Tools has a free version available here
At http://www.sunncomm.com/video/video.asp?VideoID=01 30 Peter Jacob says at a congressional hearing in response to "what happens when the market presents a cdrom that mimics the function of a cd player? Would you consider that to be a circumvention device?"
"That protection won't do any good any more for that particular CD"
He also says later:
"Everyone knows that the customer will dictate what fair use is at the end of the day. I think our company will pioneer that."
4,134,800 "penny" stocks add up to quite a bit. From the FA: SunnComm believes that by making erroneous assumptions in putting together his critical review of the MediaMax CD-3 technology, Halderman came to false conclusions concerning the robustness and efficacy of SunnComm's MediaMax technology. Based on several of these incorrect assumptions, Halderman and Princeton University have significantly damaged SunnComm's reputation and caused the market value of SunnComm to drop by more than $10 million.
Speak for yourself about not getting a cool office. I work from home and have spent a great amount of time tuning my office space to a great place to spend time making a living. Someone develops a nice office with some very inventive architectural ideas (I'm particularly fond of the window to the next office's window idea), and you write it off as useless due to it having no direct use to you.
Whereas those who get ideas to incorporate into their own ambitions will enjoy this news, you narrowly percieve this as "Dot Bomb flashback syndrome".
Living in the past is for suckas!
Dear Beloved Politicians,
As you may be aware, Rep. Phil Barnhart has introduced HB 2892 to require state agencies to consider open source software when considering software, system, or network computer purchases.
As a hard working entrepeneur whose business relies on a foundation of open source technologies, I would like to attest to Phil's statement that "Oregon could save millions of dollars while increasing the flexibility, usefulness, and reliability of its computer systems."
I have used open source software since 1996 to improve my high school, programs for the Housing Authority of Portland, and my home for only the cost of my time as a volunteer. Furthermore, I was able to utilize excess hardware on which commercial solutions could not function as well or at all. I have no hesitation in saying that my entrepreneurial ventures that have contributed to Oregon's economy would not have been possible without open source.
Open source products are created by millions of dedicated developers who benefit from the same culture to which they contribute. Unlike commercial software, open source is designed to embrace the inifinite reproducability that computers allow in order to help the more tangible aspect of computing (hardware) to be used as effectively as possible (read: more bang for the buck). Companies such as IBM and Apple have accepted this and have offered a prominent place for open source in their business planning.
Open source also eases the burden of budget planning and human resources in managing licensing for commercial software. It's great to operate with the peace of mind knowing you will never be audited for what's running on your computers.
More information on open source is available at opensource.org.
Thanks for your help in steering the future in the right direction!
Sincerely,
Travis Pulley
which he then donated to the sisters of the road cafe (wonderful organization) in portland, or
From what I've read, this apprears to be the deal here:
- PTP was there first, and has a far superior connection (Dual T1's vs. T-mobile's satellite connection)
- For some reason, T-mobile refuses to occupy a different channel.
- Everyone's connection sucks now because of the clash.
The longer version of this can be found on Omega Hacker's comment.
I just wanted to drop in my 2 cents that this is very foul of them to do. Portland is such a great place for the outdoors and computing that it's completely counterproductive and unnecessary for them to wreck a beautiful merging of the two. It's a great place to read, and I've been hoping for the day when I'll be able to work on a notebook comp there. I can't help but think of magnificent pranks that the green and white mandatory tourist stop could use to accomodate this action.
Holy crap! I entered "red", "green", and "blue" and it came up with NAVY! I've already alerted the Mad Magazine building.
I'm extremely interested in this feature and have read in many places that this is possible. I would believe that it would be done with the 'user' directive in a virtual host context.
The apache docs says this! "Context: server config, virtual host"
But then at the bottom: Special note: Use of this directive in is no longer supported. To configure your server for suexec use SuexecUserGroup.
That makes me a sad panda.
Does anyone have any further information on this?
The only bad thing I've seen in the threads so far is that they spam you. I have NEVER found this to be true, and in all the years I've been using them, I've had the BEST service, the LOWEST prices, and the overall best experience with this registrar.
I even have an opensrs reseller account, and I like this better. (costs like $1 more per domain/year, but don't have to buy in bulk).
In the early days of their service, I even got quick replies from their head admin for some issues I was having transfering domains.
More hits is almost NEVER a bad thing for a site's main purpose (getting people to see it, and hopefully take an interest in what's there)
For just the same reason as the automotive industry has made clean fuel vehicles standard, and the very way our capitalist world operates. For the time (money) it takes to implement this thing to make the world a better place, the costs can not be substantiated. Granted, if a lot of sites did this, there would be more time for everyone to spend playing with their dog rather than dig through irrelevant search results. But Joe webmaster's company is never going to pay him to do it, and he's not going to spend his free time doing it when he could be spending time with his dog.
That's the way the world is working right now, and people who want to change the world to a better place will probably spend their time doing other things rather than putting unwords in their web documents.
Buy mathematica (wolfram's sweeet math proggy)
Purchase the second edition of the book, but NOT directly from CRC
write a positive testimonial in the guestbook to help their applications for funding.
While I can understand the need for compassionite sensitivity during such events, the issue of censorship really comes out. I was glad to see Conan O'Brien back on the air - certainly his job had much to suffer by trying to do something immediately after the attacks, and I think it was for the best that his show was put on hold. But to not show certain shows and to not play certain songs is a bit more questionable. These are segments produced before the event, and can help people reflect on what is happening simply because of that fact. I'm glad that many (my local community radio, KBOO being one of them) chose this option.
/. readers) such things are an outlet, a playground for the mind to explore the ideas with the depth that they deserve rather than stifling any response other than instinctive reaction.
Are there really any good arguments for taking shows like this off the air, even for a little while? Think about it, and comapre any such arguments to the idea that video games inspire violent behaviour in children. To me (and I'm sure many enlightened
I think back to the days when Mortal Kombat (as the prime example) was being fiercely attacked by parents afraid of the hordes of violent predators video games were making of their children. Funny thing is that obviously none of them evert tried playing these games (or at least not long enough to do well and understand it), and they were all very stupid people with wild imaginations.
I can't help but think of a parallel between these overly concerned parents and the type of people that watch a LOT of tv.
Do you ever watch the evening news? Try holding a straight face when there's LIVE BREAKING news outside the bookstore about a woman that might be missing for a couple days. Everything the talking heads say must be said with a most serious attitude. The news anchor doesn't have time to tell if the story has any truth to it.
It's a lot more fun to watch stoned. You can at least laugh at it.
I saw this for this first time yesterday! I heard an audio cd I made for someone skipping, and took it out to dust it off. To my surprise, it looked like a small drop of liquid hit the outer part of the cd, and completely eroded the aluminum bits, leaving a little hue of blue in the middle but otherwise making the spot completely transparent. She's been getting into rare incense studies a lot lately, and I wonder if maybe that had something to do with it.
Sure, I can see some use in patents, but software patents are simply out of control. It's all well and good that companies can discover things on their own, but it's just wrong to prevent someone else from coming to their own solution sparked by an idea (or from their own creativity) with a patent. Imagine if the idea of using a 4/4 measure for music was patented. "It's catchy, works for us selling music, and cost $200 in R&D for us to find this out. I want a patent. Gimme gimme gimme!" The world would either be in a very sorry state, or we'd all be grooving to waltz.
Granting a patent is just like columbus discovering a new land before its own inhabitants. It was always there, it just became known to different people at different times.
Starting over from scratch isn't necessarily a bad thing. bladeenc was built "from scratch" using the iso specification of an mp3. This didn't stop the Fwhatever institute from threatening them, and for many applications (higher bitrate), it was a better encoder.
OGG is simply a better standard, started with ideas from the mp3 codec. Last night, I lost my entire implementation of a tree class I had for a project. But in writing it, I know how to write a better one. I'm turning in my project late, but now it's better and I have a better understanding of it.
If I don't die of sleep deprivation, I'll be glad that happened (And I'll thank the ultraedit dev team first - fuckers)
Sure, Joe Bob might pirate some radio for a while, but when he gets bored, he goes back to work like the rest of us.
Perhaps you are unaware of the countless efforts pirate radio broadcasters have gone through to keep our society from becoming a bunch of wage slaves living to buy gap clothing to wear while we listen to what someone driven by corporate interest (money) thinks we should. There have been incredible volunteer efforts foiled by the FCC. In one case (I don't recall), the FCC busted a station and had to use a jackhammer to remove their transmitter from the foundation of the premise and confiscate it. People don't mind running good radio without monetary profit, but the FCC sure does get pissed off when they don't pay a tremendous license fee, forcing them to make money off of advertising and thus keeping our apple pie institution running the way it should^tm.
Here's some Joe Bob's you should check out:
http://www.echonyc.com/~gargoyle/str/
Linky version:
Steal This Radio 88.7 FM
I read that and thought - the industry is putting breaks on sdmi? Are these funky breaks worth downloading? I wish people in professional journalism (anyone who posts for ./) could at least have a secretery to proofread for them.
Perhaps I'm missing something here, but it seems to me that people as a whole have ANY problem reproducing. Now only if they could fix the stupidity problem...
I read that part in the article and thought "Wow, I wasn't giving gates enough credit, what with him completely ignoring the internet in 1995" but if that statement in the speech is a blatant lie, that makes this some pretty dirty FUD. I mean, that's the first thing you read, to draw in the crowd - "Behold our mighty prophet who told you not to buy 5,000 shares of amazon back in '95" - That's just straight out of 1984 - "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
Seeing as how this is one of my favorite movies of all time, I'm a bit biased - but if the general public had a clue how brilliant this film is consider the ramifications! What if another Godzilla (the matt broderick one) were to happen!? With such an enlightened audience it wouldn't make a dime! Can't let that happen - no, no.
As I bask in the bliss of invulnerability to email viruses and such, I also have the woes as discussed in this article. I get by pretty well with pine's interface to a word viewer, and fortunately all of the clients who send us print layouts in excel (it sounds funny, but it sucks) are dealt with by our graphics guys. But it would be so much nicer if developers could adhere to standards and not just give in all the time.
A small example, I had to spend an hour explaining how bad of an idea it would be to allow email from nonexistant domains in order for someone else's automated mailbot to get email to us. Fortunately we got the developer to comply. I can't imagine how often these situations are put on others where it's easier to just give in and make your product crappier so that it works with what most everyone else is using.
I remember slackware getting me into knowing more about intel pc's than I had ever imagined. Now I can start busting 31337 knowledge on my iSparc (that's what I call it, it's really some all-in-one workstation w/ no HD collecting dust in my closet). If only I can get it to run off the network, THE computer, whatever sun calls it.
Sarcasm: on
There should be a moderation option for "might offend someone". Perhaps that statement should be censored harming people with MS. There's no way that it might be really amusing and informative at the same time. And there's absolutely no way that it might bring more awareness to MS. Please don't breed