Taking a few years off from the highly profitable series from star trek will help them in the long run I think. Much of the reason that I like star trek was because it was new to me. With each series that goes by, I lose more and more interest in it.
Not to mention that Bakula is entrenched in the minds of most Sci-Fi fans from his role in Quantum Leap. One thing that trek had going for it in the past was that the actors were relatively new to the minds of viewers, and therefore could be easily molded to the character.
A couple seasons of break would allow for the writers to think up new material. In the meantime, Paramount has the other trek shows to put into syndication. Hell, DS9 went into syndication immediately, and I fully expect VOY to follow the same path.
As far as I'm concerned, konqueror does as good or better on all web pages than netscape, and it has a much smaller footprint than it's major rival, mozilla. (although mozilla has been getting better recently)
I'm afraid of a slippery slope however, ActiveX stuff is fairly cool (hooray, I can play games online!) the last thing we need is to copy everything. I would hate for anything *nix to gain the VBscript crap, if only because of security concerns.
At any rate, this is a good thing(tm) I think, more people going up into space can't be bad fore the economy, and it's not like we're paying for it out of our tax dollars or anything. Good for him.
That's all fine and dandy, but if all the developers out there know about this little hack, wouldn't it be just as easy to take out of the code for a competent coder? Granted, if I was going to rip off code, I would at least grep the source for the original program name and remove or replace the references.
Then again, it's a great tool for catching the not-so-competent coder who is just ripping off code (which is what it looks like in this case, except he knows enough to get it to work in windows)..
Do you think that OSX's imminent release, and betas, have drawn away from the crowd that uses LinuxPPC, or will it eventually add to the userbase because of people getting a taste of *NIX within OSX and wanting more?
I hate it when people complain of restricting TOS agreements that some companies give out. It seems like everyone doesn't realize that this is a SERVICE. It's not something they are forcing you to buy. While the agreement might be restricting to the average linux user, for 99.9% of the windows users, this is a perfectly fine agreement.
The only thing I have a problem with, after reading the agreement, is that they are requesting you to give up rights that you don't have the right to give away, like the ability for the people to come into the premeses after you aren't living there anymore. That's like asking my neighbor if they can have the right to enter my house. I didn't give my neighbor the right to give my rights away, and he can't tell them that they can, and even if he did, it wouldn't be legally challengable.
Also - for all these people who are opposing the agreement. So what. What you need to do it make it known to the public. If AT&T suddenly ends up with a service that isn't gaining any customers, guess what, they just might change the TOS so that they can get customers. Oh well.
I predict that all these predictions are bunk. Like it really matters what we think is going to happen in the next millenium or century or year. Anyway. Here's my prediction anyway:
Someone, somewhere, will come up with a personal, public, efficient, transportation system that will replace the combustible engine in the next 20 to 30 years. This new system will make cars a thing of the past and will be implemented throughout the world. It will make DUI's a thing of the past, and will make being late a thing of the past by using sophisticated scheduling algorithms to make sure that the ones who need to get to their destination faster do not need to slow down or stop.
That's all. Of course, now that I predicted it, it won't come true.
Oh well. Mabye we can hope for peace and love then. (which I don't think will happen until some non-earth presence exists).
If you ask me, we aught to take the inventors of COBOL into the street and shoot them for making such a crappy language. While it's true that this y2k thing could have been caused in any programming language, half of the problem was finding the COBOL programmers to waft through all that all-caps code that's harder than hell to read (not to mention the lovely identifiers). If all that coide was in some language that was more alive, the situation could have been averted even quicker than it was.
That's funny, I have a usernumber below 10k, and I definitely wouldn't consider myself as remembering the '*old* slashdot'... and I have never gone to it before it was slashdot.org, unless my memory fails me.
"gives a nice little warning about not looking at the sun during this time."
Don't look at the sun?!? Then how am I going to see this amazing sunspot! Not looking at the sun is for wussies! If I get to see this cool sunspot, I'd be glad to go blind!
While it's great to know that lots of people at these big universitys that cost lots of money to go to are allowing napster to still be used.. unfortunately, most of the smaller schools don't have the money or legal team to take on any battles. My school has already banned napster, and also banned scour sx. I am personally opposed to this, but I have to face the fact that my school (the University of Northern Iowa) is easily bullied by evil lawyers who send cease and desist letters.
Remember, UCLA and the UC Berkley campus don't make up the majority of college students.
This seems like something that 3d gaming people would jump to have - Imagine being able to take a picture of a real-life room, and then plugging this camera into your computer and using a converter. Quake 1/2/3 levels of real buildings in seconds! I wonder how well this camera works with large objects like rooms or groups of people though. Anyway, you hear alot about people going out for game companies and visiting dumps to get pictures of stressed metal and such.. This could improve the realistic quality of games alot.
And now, they need to sue all the music fan sites
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They need to sue UBL.com, and AllMusic.com, all the sites that "exploit that[the artists music] for commercial gain". This is completely ludicrous. I mean, their software confirms that you have the CD that they are providing the music for. The RIAA is still getting it's fat pocket filled by the CDs that are given out, and so are the artists. Their "we are fighting for the artists" facade is completely blown to smithereens by this. The artists have ALREADY BEEN PAID. What mp3.com is doing is just like me ripping and encoding my mp3s, and putting them on a passworded ftp server for my personal use. It's completely legal. The RIAA, IMHO, just signed it's own death warrant.
This is very interesting. I thought that I was actually making a difference. I run a littlw site called puremp3.org (link above) that is basically a portal to mp3 sites on the web that do not contain porn or links to porn of any kind.. It was startedabout 3 or 4 years ago, when MP3 and warez were linked profusely. Now the list has over 1000 sites on it, and is a great starting point to find anything you wish in the mp3 world.. Well, enough of a plug for my site, I'll return to lurking again.
I sorta hate to toot my own horn here, but I've known that the music industry isn't winning all along. My nice little website Puremp3 has been gaining members form the outset, and now that it is easier for sites to apply via a keen web interface, I've been getting 10-20 new members a day. At this rate, I'll hit 1000 sites by the end of the year easily.
Even if the companies behind SDMI and music protection get their way and alot of the colleges start cracking down on mp3s, it will stil go on. About all that colleges can do is scan the Samba shares for mp3s or anon ftps within their IP block(s), and then pull the connections. As a college student that's seen this happen to many students before, it's not that big a deal. You get a visit from a network guy who verifies that the directory you were sharing isn't shared, and might delete the mp3s in that directory. Other than that, they aren't allowed to do anything else.
Most of the people who do these visits use mp3 themselves, so it realy isn't in their best interest to delete the mp3s. The sites are usually back up on a non-standard port or private ftp within a matter of days, if not hours. The IT departments in most colleges don't have the resources to do an all-out MP3 crackdown.
Bottom Line: There's a/VERY/ slim chance that anything will stop MP3 in the near-future.
SDMI, I think, will be pushed to the limit of all use. The RIAA isn't looking to nicely on MP3 (like it ever did), and if the RIAA is still against MP3, so will the Big 5 recording labels follow. DVD, on the other hand, had many supporters from big studios from the beginning. DIVX had relatively had none.
I for one am glad that this part of the trial is over. I'm tired of hearing all about everyone going up to testify and having it be daily news. The closing statements should be interesting. Granted, it's not as all-inundating(SP?) as the OJ trial was, but it's in my area of life, so it seems worse somehow. My prediction: Microsoft will be severely reprimanded and excluded from those contracts that force the OEM to ship MS OS's only.
TV is quite different. We don't pay for the equipment to broadcast, produce, and film TV shows. We pay for the TV set. Our TV set doesn't display a ABC ad every time we turn it on before going to the channels does it?
One of the reasons that WinAMP switched to the FFH engine was because it would avoid the lawsuit then. For a small company, a lawsuit like that would literally kill NullSoft, stopping progress on the engine for months, and the lawyer fees alone would put them out of business. Nullsoft isn't going to be a part of this trial if they have their say with it.
Of course the whole linux community and slashdot are arrogant. Usually when people are going from one majority to a minority, they believe that it's because ther minority is better. I seem to remember a Dr. Seuss about some strange yellow bird-type things on the beach which preached alot of the same point. Once you switch, you don't want any part of what you came from.
We become heretics because we're still a minority. It might be that when the majority becomes Linux, we might be a little less arrogant about it. Of course then there will be some other arrogant minority...
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Taking a few years off from the highly profitable series from star trek will help them in the long run I think. Much of the reason that I like star trek was because it was new to me. With each series that goes by, I lose more and more interest in it.
Not to mention that Bakula is entrenched in the minds of most Sci-Fi fans from his role in Quantum Leap. One thing that trek had going for it in the past was that the actors were relatively new to the minds of viewers, and therefore could be easily molded to the character.
A couple seasons of break would allow for the writers to think up new material. In the meantime, Paramount has the other trek shows to put into syndication. Hell, DS9 went into syndication immediately, and I fully expect VOY to follow the same path.
As far as I'm concerned, konqueror does as good or better on all web pages than netscape, and it has a much smaller footprint than it's major rival, mozilla. (although mozilla has been getting better recently)
I'm afraid of a slippery slope however, ActiveX stuff is fairly cool (hooray, I can play games online!) the last thing we need is to copy everything. I would hate for anything *nix to gain the VBscript crap, if only because of security concerns.
Realizing that you should use database software with less bugs: priceless.
if you have the cash..
At any rate, this is a good thing(tm) I think, more people going up into space can't be bad fore the economy, and it's not like we're paying for it out of our tax dollars or anything. Good for him.
That's all fine and dandy, but if all the developers out there know about this little hack, wouldn't it be just as easy to take out of the code for a competent coder? Granted, if I was going to rip off code, I would at least grep the source for the original program name and remove or replace the references.
Then again, it's a great tool for catching the not-so-competent coder who is just ripping off code (which is what it looks like in this case, except he knows enough to get it to work in windows)..
Do you think that OSX's imminent release, and betas, have drawn away from the crowd that uses LinuxPPC, or will it eventually add to the userbase because of people getting a taste of *NIX within OSX and wanting more?
I hate it when people complain of restricting TOS agreements that some companies give out. It seems like everyone doesn't realize that this is a SERVICE. It's not something they are forcing you to buy. While the agreement might be restricting to the average linux user, for 99.9% of the windows users, this is a perfectly fine agreement.
The only thing I have a problem with, after reading the agreement, is that they are requesting you to give up rights that you don't have the right to give away, like the ability for the people to come into the premeses after you aren't living there anymore. That's like asking my neighbor if they can have the right to enter my house. I didn't give my neighbor the right to give my rights away, and he can't tell them that they can, and even if he did, it wouldn't be legally challengable.
Also - for all these people who are opposing the agreement. So what. What you need to do it make it known to the public. If AT&T suddenly ends up with a service that isn't gaining any customers, guess what, they just might change the TOS so that they can get customers. Oh well.
I predict that all these predictions are bunk. Like it really matters what we think is going to happen in the next millenium or century or year. Anyway. Here's my prediction anyway:
Someone, somewhere, will come up with a personal, public, efficient, transportation system that will replace the combustible engine in the next 20 to 30 years. This new system will make cars a thing of the past and will be implemented throughout the world. It will make DUI's a thing of the past, and will make being late a thing of the past by using sophisticated scheduling algorithms to make sure that the ones who need to get to their destination faster do not need to slow down or stop.
That's all. Of course, now that I predicted it, it won't come true.
Oh well. Mabye we can hope for peace and love then. (which I don't think will happen until some non-earth presence exists).
If you ask me, we aught to take the inventors of COBOL into the street and shoot them for making such a crappy language. While it's true that this y2k thing could have been caused in any programming language, half of the problem was finding the COBOL programmers to waft through all that all-caps code that's harder than hell to read (not to mention the lovely identifiers). If all that coide was in some language that was more alive, the situation could have been averted even quicker than it was.
That's funny, I have a usernumber below 10k, and I definitely wouldn't consider myself as remembering the '*old* slashdot'... and I have never gone to it before it was slashdot.org, unless my memory fails me.
Winamp now uses fronhoffer's engine (remember that big lawsuit a long time ago?) After being bought by AOL, AFAIK.
"gives a nice little warning about not looking at the sun during this time."
Don't look at the sun?!? Then how am I going to see this amazing sunspot! Not looking at the sun is for wussies! If I get to see this cool sunspot, I'd be glad to go blind!
The University of Northern Iowa has banned Napster AND Scour SX for this entire year, Napster has been banned since last year december.
While it's great to know that lots of people at these big universitys that cost lots of money to go to are allowing napster to still be used.. unfortunately, most of the smaller schools don't have the money or legal team to take on any battles. My school has already banned napster, and also banned scour sx. I am personally opposed to this, but I have to face the fact that my school (the University of Northern Iowa) is easily bullied by evil lawyers who send cease and desist letters.
Remember, UCLA and the UC Berkley campus don't make up the majority of college students.
Muhahaha! I am senselessly replying to your post
just to brag that I'm #3501. How lame of me.
This seems like something that 3d gaming people
would jump to have - Imagine being able to take a picture of a real-life room, and then plugging this camera into your computer and using a converter. Quake 1/2/3 levels of real buildings in seconds! I wonder how well this camera works with large objects like rooms or groups of people though. Anyway, you hear alot about people going out for game companies and visiting dumps to get pictures of stressed metal and such.. This could improve the realistic quality of games alot.
They need to sue UBL.com, and AllMusic.com,
all the sites that "exploit that[the artists music] for commercial gain". This is completely ludicrous. I mean, their software confirms that you have the CD that they are providing the music for. The RIAA is still getting it's fat pocket filled by the CDs that are given out, and so are the artists. Their "we are fighting for the artists" facade is completely blown to smithereens by this. The artists have ALREADY BEEN PAID. What mp3.com is doing is just like me ripping and encoding my mp3s, and putting them on a passworded ftp server for my personal use. It's completely legal. The RIAA, IMHO, just signed it's own death warrant.
This is very interesting. I thought that I was actually making a difference. I run a littlw site called puremp3.org (link above) that is basically a portal to mp3 sites on the web that do not contain porn or links to porn of any kind.. It was startedabout 3 or 4 years ago, when MP3 and warez were linked profusely. Now the list has over 1000 sites on it, and is a great starting point to find anything you wish in the mp3 world.. Well, enough of a plug for my site, I'll return to lurking again.
I sorta hate to toot my own horn here, but I've known that the music industry isn't winning all along. My nice little website Puremp3 has been gaining members form the outset, and now that it is easier for sites to apply via a keen web interface, I've been getting 10-20 new members a day. At this rate, I'll hit 1000 sites by the end of the year easily.
/VERY/ slim chance that anything will stop MP3 in the near-future.
Even if the companies behind SDMI and music protection get their way and alot of the colleges start cracking down on mp3s, it will stil go on. About all that colleges can do is scan the Samba shares for mp3s or anon ftps within their IP block(s), and then pull the connections. As a college student that's seen this happen to many students before, it's not that big a deal. You get a visit from a network guy who verifies that the directory you were sharing isn't shared, and might delete the mp3s in that directory. Other than that, they aren't allowed to do anything else.
Most of the people who do these visits use mp3 themselves, so it realy isn't in their best interest to delete the mp3s. The sites are usually back up on a non-standard port or private ftp within a matter of days, if not hours. The IT departments in most colleges don't have the resources to do an all-out MP3 crackdown.
Bottom Line: There's a
SDMI, I think, will be pushed to the limit of all use. The RIAA isn't looking to nicely on MP3 (like it ever did), and if the RIAA is still against MP3, so will the Big 5 recording labels follow. DVD, on the other hand, had many supporters from big studios from the beginning. DIVX had relatively had none.
I for one am glad that this part of the trial is over. I'm tired of hearing all about everyone going up to testify and having it be daily news. The closing statements should be interesting. Granted, it's not as all-inundating(SP?) as the OJ trial was, but it's in my area of life, so it seems worse somehow. My prediction: Microsoft will be severely reprimanded and excluded from those contracts that force the OEM to ship MS OS's only.
TV is quite different. We don't pay for the equipment to broadcast, produce, and film TV shows. We pay for the TV set. Our TV set doesn't display a ABC ad every time we turn it on before going to the channels does it?
One of the reasons that WinAMP switched to the FFH engine was because it would avoid the lawsuit then. For a small company, a lawsuit like that would literally kill NullSoft, stopping progress on the engine for months, and the lawyer fees alone would put them out of business. Nullsoft isn't going to be a part of this trial if they have their say with it.
YES!
Of course the whole linux community and slashdot are arrogant. Usually when people are going from one majority to a minority, they believe that it's because ther minority is better. I seem to remember a Dr. Seuss about some strange yellow bird-type things on the beach which preached alot of the same point. Once you switch, you don't want any part of what you came from.
We become heretics because we're still a minority. It might be that when the majority becomes Linux, we might be a little less arrogant about it. Of course then there will be some other arrogant minority...