Funny you mention the 596.. I just bought one. Discrete (~)100w x5. It does do the video switching, has at least 3 digital inputs and (the reason I bought it) decodes dts. I also like having the extra 5.1 input on the back of the receiver, so I can still plug in my old Yamaha DSP-1 and get nostalgic.:)
Besides, wasn't Yamaha on the cutting edge of surround equipment for the home? I thought the DSP-1 was a groundbreaker in its day. It's also one of the reasons I bought one.. it has a high noise floor compared to today's stuff, but the unit is just killer. Bought it for $350 from some military guy who got it at his PX. It's my first Internet purchase, to boot.
It and the Sony 550 DVD player are the only two 'current' pieces of equipment I have... the rest are going on 12+ years old. I didn't really even have to replace my old receiver: I just wanted the video & dts. The center speaker & sub are next.
Be careful asking questions like this.. you never know when you'll get to the end of the shopping spree.:)
More likely, however, is that more corporations -and not just in the software industry- will adopt this model, and in the end we all become little more than a sort of slave class, except that instead of being forced to give them endless labor, we're forced to give them endless cash for something we've already bought and paid for.
uuh.. this already does happen elsewhere in the software community. Specifically, with major applications in the commercial unix world. I admin system with at least two apps with this type of license structure (HKS Abaqus, MSC Patran). Big apps in the unix world have been doing this for years. And we're talking major bucks for the licenses here.. ~$8k/seat for patran as an example. Unfortunately, it's the cost for us to get things done.
Does that mean I like it? No. Is Microsoft justified in their actions? Well.. if other companies are doing it and doing well, why not? I don't like it (and will probably look elsewhere for my wordprocessing needs). Let's just not turn a blind eye to other software houses who are already offering their product in this fashion simply as a new means to bash BillCo.
(personally I just took the site as a humour thing though I feel the kernel is a bit overdue. but as i'm no k-hacker and just sit on the sidelines and bitch, what do I matter?:)
So, the Dept. of Justice is the catch-all solution for issues such as this? Jeezis...
Did I cheer when M$ got their (initial) slap from the govt? Kinda. You want to cheer for the big bully getting smacked around.. but from a bigger bully?
Don't you think involving the government in market concerns sets a rather bad precedent? I wanted to cheer like mad seeing Gates stomped.. but for what reason was I cheering? Is it any better that the government is trying to tell these companies how to conduct busisness? Look at the state of some of this contry's agencies & their desire to micromanage every single little detail. Case in point: the 'gas crisis' this summer combined with the DOE (Dept. of Energy) & EPA. See what happens to an industry sector when you let government have any sort of control, regulatory or otherwise?
It's said a bunch, but take it to heart. Vote your Intel dissention yourself; with your wallet. I'll happily investigate Crusoe when/if the need arises. I'm more than happy to avoid Intel (I'm avoiding them right now; this is on an hp pa8600). But leave it to be my choice, not some damned 'market equality' mandate from some government agency. That is hardly better than the situation as it exists.
.. or, guess that wasn't MY ass. Somebody's ass. And quite a horrid ass it was too.
ashamed,
Open source.. assisted? (well, gpl perhaps..)
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What about the claims by some that M$ uses portions of GPL'd code? If that was revealed in the any sources absconded with, could this not work in open source's favor? Granted, M$ will still take the position the material was illegally obtained (probably rightfully so) and try to supress it (fat fscking chance). This could give the free software movement some justifaction for its model and some teeth for any legal wrangling they felt they should do.
if they invalidate the search results so dejafilter no longer parses away the junk, whatever shall I do?[0]
So, are they selling the entire archive? Or just submissions after May 15, 1999?:)
[0] okay, rhetorical.. I'll hack the fscking perl source just like I did when they started putting those fscking little arrows all over the place, but still... *sigh*
It's not a question of using the filesystem under linux as an everyday occurence as much as simply having access if needed. Perfect case in point is a 'rescue' disk. I routinely use tom's rtbt disk around here as a win9x box recovery tool, mirroring/backup tool, etc.. and it has the ntfs module on it as well. Being able to edit the contents of an ntfs volume instead of simply reading it would make it a lot more versatile for me.
Good God, if anyone plans to use NTFS under Linux as a primary fs they should be shot. But having the option to read/write would be really really cool.
Also imagine a linux box as a failover machine for that POS NT machine yer phb bought... simply slap them hard disks in it and keep going. Wouldn't that be a nifty way to prove Linux's mettle?
After seeing the perl script that does ISBN autolookups on amazon.com, I plan to use one to catalog all my books. I planned to do this eventually anyway, but I can see this saving me shitloads of time.
If I get REALLY bored I might see if I can hack something similar for my CD collection.
That, and what self-respecting geek wouldn't be interested in ANY toy like a barcode scanner to play with? Especially if the price is right?
Re: the SecurityFocus article. Does this guy have his head way up his arse or what? He really thinks the cease-and-desist had any real impact? Doesn't he realize all those sw bits are still out there, just hidden a little better? This guy appears a textbook example of a clueless suit in charge of a tech company. No fscking idea of what is going on in the real world.
This sounds like a nice thing.. except ask yourself this question: are you going to see one red cent of these collected 'damages' awarded? You, after all, are the 'victim' of these increased prices.
hrm... ~$4/cd * ~800 CDs.. I have the money spent already!
".. A second primary concern is what software a vendor ships, and how it is configured..."
".. I have not fully covered Slackware and Debian, with their ridiculously slow release schedules..."
Hello, McFly? Part of the reason Slack doesn't ship a new revision or make lots of little changes to keep up with software updates is because of using well-tested, stable, secure software. You want a rock-stable distro or the most-current-toys distro? These two things are usually not equal.
From slackware.com: "What is Slackware Linux? The Official Release of Slackware Linux by Patrick Volkerding is an advanced Linux operating system, designed with the twin goals of ease of use and stability as top priorities."
Look at the whole package, including the philosiphy behind the distro itself. Is it better? Not for me to tell you... but your opinion might change a little (though I doubt it..)
Ridley wanted Deckard to be a replicant.. but it was never concretely decided by the writers. It's still unknown to this day whether Hampton Fancher & David Peoples intended Deckard to be a replicant.
At one spot in the book Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner (pg. 361), Peoples states: ".. what I had intended as kind of a metaphysical speculation, Ridley had read differently, but I now realize there was nothing wrong with his reading. That confusion was my own fault." Meaning: Peoples wrote an ambiguous ending suggesting there was no difference between replicant & their creator vs. Deckard (humans) and their creator.. but Ridley interpreted it as Deckard == replicant.
This is regardless to what Phil Dick may have intented in his book; Future Noir also informs us that Fancher read Dick's book, but Peoples did not. Peoples only stared with the script Hampton had at that stage and concentrated on the story/screenplay from that focus.
I would highly suggest any interested Blade Runner fans pick up this book (ISBN: 0-06-105314-7). It may not clear up all thing Blade Runner related, but it provides a damn greater amount of insight than even Ridley himself can provide on the topic. It is also one kick-ass read on the entire Blade Runner mystique.
Exactly; it isn't proof of age. Yet, places like Yahoo are trying to use it like it is.
This all sounds vaguely familiar to the use-SSN-as-your- concept.. SSNs were only supposed to be a national ID value and used for nothing else.. but try and convince your Bureau of Motor Vehicles, College or even orkplace of that fact. My SSN is printed on my DL, it was my ID value at school and part of it is used as a employeeID. Nowadays, with privacy issues coming to the forefront and things like identity theft becoming more commonplace these fools are moving away from such a stupid (and illegal?) practice. My SSN on my DL is now optional and I believe my former U is starting to generate new ID values for students. But the misuse went on for years beforehand.
Never stopped anyone using or requiring it, however... and at some places you could scream you do not need that information and still be denied some service or good. Kinda like places asking your phone number.. refuse to give it and at the least you get a snotty glare.
and what of the risk of yahoo even keeping this info on file? "oh yes, we are secure.. uh, what wu-ftpd process? oops..."
.. and how is fate destined I would post a story about said site above (which of course was rejected because I suq) but another Apple/QuickTime story still makes me able to prove my point? More karma involved than simply/.'s...:)
(and an OBSlashRant: why the fsck does ExTrans display eat me as <b>eat me</b>? Is ExTrans fscked?)
Welcome to the new bragging domain of the geek! No more $GENETAL-size wars of the past. I can see it now...
Bootlog Battle ('d00d' my bootlog consumes its own 1Gb disk')
Uptime Follies ('What do you mean it's impossible? This machine HAS been up for 23.723243 years!!!')
Peripheral Cramming ('It was tough making PCI-slot splitter cables so I could cram those seven Geforce cards in there, but you should see the results!')
Megahertz Madness ('I can melt the case on my overclocked Celeron in 2.5 seconds.. and that's MOLTEN baby!')
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Funny you mention the 596.. I just bought one. Discrete (~)100w x5. It does do the video switching, has at least 3 digital inputs and (the reason I bought it) decodes dts. I also like having the extra 5.1 input on the back of the receiver, so I can still plug in my old Yamaha DSP-1 and get nostalgic. :)
:)
Besides, wasn't Yamaha on the cutting edge of surround equipment for the home? I thought the DSP-1 was a groundbreaker in its day. It's also one of the reasons I bought one.. it has a high noise floor compared to today's stuff, but the unit is just killer. Bought it for $350 from some military guy who got it at his PX. It's my first Internet purchase, to boot.
It and the Sony 550 DVD player are the only two 'current' pieces of equipment I have... the rest are going on 12+ years old. I didn't really even have to replace my old receiver: I just wanted the video & dts. The center speaker & sub are next.
Be careful asking questions like this.. you never know when you'll get to the end of the shopping spree.
Bill Gates emptying Port-O-Lets.
"oh what a relief it whiz..."
More likely, however, is that more corporations -and not just in the software industry- will adopt this model, and in the end we all become little more than a sort of slave class, except that instead of being forced to give them endless labor, we're forced to give them endless cash for something we've already bought and paid for.
uuh.. this already does happen elsewhere in the software community. Specifically, with major applications in the commercial unix world. I admin system with at least two apps with this type of license structure (HKS Abaqus, MSC Patran). Big apps in the unix world have been doing this for years. And we're talking major bucks for the licenses here.. ~$8k/seat for patran as an example. Unfortunately, it's the cost for us to get things done.
Does that mean I like it? No. Is Microsoft justified in their actions? Well.. if other companies are doing it and doing well, why not? I don't like it (and will probably look elsewhere for my wordprocessing needs). Let's just not turn a blind eye to other software houses who are already offering their product in this fashion simply as a new means to bash BillCo.
Perhaps Linus finally grew a spine?
:)
(as referenced in a recent issue of kernel traffic)
(personally I just took the site as a humour thing though I feel the kernel is a bit overdue. but as i'm no k-hacker and just sit on the sidelines and bitch, what do I matter?
So, the Dept. of Justice is the catch-all solution for issues such as this? Jeezis...
Did I cheer when M$ got their (initial) slap from the govt? Kinda. You want to cheer for the big bully getting smacked around.. but from a bigger bully?
Don't you think involving the government in market concerns sets a rather bad precedent? I wanted to cheer like mad seeing Gates stomped.. but for what reason was I cheering? Is it any better that the government is trying to tell these companies how to conduct busisness? Look at the state of some of this contry's agencies & their desire to micromanage every single little detail. Case in point: the 'gas crisis' this summer combined with the DOE (Dept. of Energy) & EPA. See what happens to an industry sector when you let government have any sort of control, regulatory or otherwise?
It's said a bunch, but take it to heart. Vote your Intel dissention yourself; with your wallet. I'll happily investigate Crusoe when/if the need arises. I'm more than happy to avoid Intel (I'm avoiding them right now; this is on an hp pa8600). But leave it to be my choice, not some damned 'market equality' mandate from some government agency. That is hardly better than the situation as it exists.
.. and i fell for it too..
'slackware sparc FAQ' my ass..
.. or, guess that wasn't MY ass. Somebody's ass. And quite a horrid ass it was too.
ashamed,
What about the claims by some that M$ uses portions of GPL'd code? If that was revealed in the any sources absconded with, could this not work in open source's favor? Granted, M$ will still take the position the material was illegally obtained (probably rightfully so) and try to supress it (fat fscking chance). This could give the free software movement some justifaction for its model and some teeth for any legal wrangling they felt they should do.
just a thought...
if they invalidate the search results so dejafilter no longer parses away the junk, whatever shall I do?[0]
:)
So, are they selling the entire archive? Or just submissions after May 15, 1999?
[0] okay, rhetorical.. I'll hack the fscking perl source just like I did when they started putting those fscking little arrows all over the place, but still... *sigh*
*makes note to self in palm*
:)
"mommy, I got a +5 informative today.. the world must truly be going to hell*..."
* especially since i was actually dopey enough to read that irc transcript..
if you want the complete tarball monster instead of the stupid little 62+k installer...
2 /sea/
ftp://ftp2. net scape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6_PR3/unix/linux2
So, is this another example of considering a product update/release 'beta' after its release, a la Quake3 v1.25? :)
(Graeme et al can claim "it really was a beta" all they want.. but with no mention of it in the readme? c'mon...)
It's not a question of using the filesystem under linux as an everyday occurence as much as simply having access if needed. Perfect case in point is a 'rescue' disk. I routinely use tom's rtbt disk around here as a win9x box recovery tool, mirroring/backup tool, etc.. and it has the ntfs module on it as well. Being able to edit the contents of an ntfs volume instead of simply reading it would make it a lot more versatile for me.
Good God, if anyone plans to use NTFS under Linux as a primary fs they should be shot. But having the option to read/write would be really really cool.
Also imagine a linux box as a failover machine for that POS NT machine yer phb bought... simply slap them hard disks in it and keep going. Wouldn't that be a nifty way to prove Linux's mettle?
After seeing the perl script that does ISBN autolookups on amazon.com, I plan to use one to catalog all my books. I planned to do this eventually anyway, but I can see this saving me shitloads of time.
If I get REALLY bored I might see if I can hack something similar for my CD collection.
That, and what self-respecting geek wouldn't be interested in ANY toy like a barcode scanner to play with? Especially if the price is right?
Re: the SecurityFocus article. Does this guy have his head way up his arse or what? He really thinks the cease-and-desist had any real impact? Doesn't he realize all those sw bits are still out there, just hidden a little better? This guy appears a textbook example of a clueless suit in charge of a tech company. No fscking idea of what is going on in the real world.
This sounds like a nice thing.. except ask yourself this question: are you going to see one red cent of these collected 'damages' awarded? You, after all, are the 'victim' of these increased prices.
hrm... ~$4/cd * ~800 CDs.. I have the money spent already!
(HA!)
".. A second primary concern is what software a vendor ships, and how it is configured..."
".. I have not fully covered Slackware and Debian, with their ridiculously slow release schedules..."
Hello, McFly? Part of the reason Slack doesn't ship a new revision or make lots of little changes to keep up with software updates is because of using well-tested, stable, secure software. You want a rock-stable distro or the most-current-toys distro? These two things are usually not equal.
From slackware.com: " What is Slackware Linux? The Official Release of Slackware Linux by Patrick Volkerding is an advanced Linux operating system, designed with the twin goals of ease of use and stability as top priorities."
Look at the whole package, including the philosiphy behind the distro itself. Is it better? Not for me to tell you... but your opinion might change a little (though I doubt it..)
That's one way to get away from Tony Soprano cleanly.. join the FBI.
heheheheh..
(look up Robert Patrick at IMDB for clue if you don't get it...)
Whipped up a quickie dejafilter patch to kill this stuff.. thought I'd share.
= ========================== = ========================== g if\"(.*?)>(.*)/$3/g; a t_a_glance\/glance.xp(.*?)\">
note I'm no perl God, so the regexp probably is flawed, but wtf...
(if this paste fails snag the diff from http://euler.ewi.org/~rroberts/dejafilter.patch )
I take no blame, backup files first, save the children, blah blah blah...
---
*** dejafilter.pl Wed Jun 14 15:45:32 2000
--- dejafilter2.pl Wed Jul 19 09:54:19 2000
***************
*** 59,64 ****
--- 59,68 ----
# Version 0.07 - 12/04/1999 - P. Wehr, Industrial Softworks
#
#================================================
+ #
+ # Version 0.07b - 19/Jul/2000 - rossr mod; strip embedded ad links
+ #
+ #================================================
use CGI qw( escape param header );
use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser';
***************
*** 110,115 ****
--- 114,126 ----
my $script_name = $ENV{'SCRIPT_NAME'};
+ # what embedded link images? (rossr)
+ $trimmed_down_content =~ s/<img src=\"http:\/\/(\w)\.deja\.com\/gifs\/arrow_link.
+
+
+ # what embedded ad links? (rossr)
+ $trimmed_down_content =~ s/<a href=\"http:\/\/(\w+)\.deja\.com(.*?)\/products\/
(.*?)<\/a>/$4/g;
+
#Redirect form actions to dejafilter
$trimmed_down_content =~ s/<form action="[\w\[\]\.\/:=]*\/(.*)"(.*)>/
<form action="$script_name" \2>
Ridley wanted Deckard to be a replicant.. but it was never concretely decided by the writers. It's still unknown to this day whether Hampton Fancher & David Peoples intended Deckard to be a replicant.
At one spot in the book Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner (pg. 361), Peoples states: ".. what I had intended as kind of a metaphysical speculation, Ridley had read differently, but I now realize there was nothing wrong with his reading. That confusion was my own fault." Meaning: Peoples wrote an ambiguous ending suggesting there was no difference between replicant & their creator vs. Deckard (humans) and their creator.. but Ridley interpreted it as Deckard == replicant.
This is regardless to what Phil Dick may have intented in his book; Future Noir also informs us that Fancher read Dick's book, but Peoples did not. Peoples only stared with the script Hampton had at that stage and concentrated on the story/screenplay from that focus.
I would highly suggest any interested Blade Runner fans pick up this book (ISBN: 0-06-105314-7). It may not clear up all thing Blade Runner related, but it provides a damn greater amount of insight than even Ridley himself can provide on the topic. It is also one kick-ass read on the entire Blade Runner mystique.
read the subject, ignore the above message's link or be subjected to nausea far deeper than you could ever think possible.
and a +1 informative score to boot.. bad moderators! bad bad bad!!
This is a bold line
<i>This is an italic line</i>
am I just an idiot? wtf is wrong with this picture?
This all sounds vaguely familiar to the use-SSN-as-your- concept.. SSNs were only supposed to be a national ID value and used for nothing else.. but try and convince your Bureau of Motor Vehicles, College or even orkplace of that fact. My SSN is printed on my DL, it was my ID value at school and part of it is used as a employeeID. Nowadays, with privacy issues coming to the forefront and things like identity theft becoming more commonplace these fools are moving away from such a stupid (and illegal?) practice. My SSN on my DL is now optional and I believe my former U is starting to generate new ID values for students. But the misuse went on for years beforehand.
Never stopped anyone using or requiring it, however... and at some places you could scream you do not need that information and still be denied some service or good. Kinda like places asking your phone number.. refuse to give it and at the least you get a snotty glare.
and what of the risk of yahoo even keeping this info on file? "oh yes, we are secure.. uh, what wu-ftpd process? oops..."
Slashdot Story on haiku
Self-fufilling post
Personally, the only two haiku I'm really proud of are on the Olestra/Olean Haiku page and are thus:
How did Zappa know?
'Voodoo Butter Underpants..'
Olestra vision.
Olestra Facists;
They have tainted my Fritos!
Fudgie underwear...
It's the codec, silly.. not the transport.
(and an OBSlashRant: why the fsck does ExTrans display eat me as <b>eat me</b>? Is ExTrans fscked?)
And so it begins...
- Bootlog Battle ('d00d' my bootlog consumes its own 1Gb disk')
- Uptime Follies ('What do you mean it's impossible? This machine HAS been up for 23.723243 years!!!')
- Peripheral Cramming ('It was tough making PCI-slot splitter cables so I could cram those seven Geforce cards in there, but you should see the results!')
- Megahertz Madness ('I can melt the case on my overclocked Celeron in 2.5 seconds.. and that's MOLTEN baby!')
More to come, I'm sure...