That's a very good point as to why the content people have the whip hand. I think it's kind of a Catch 22 thing.
1) HW side doesn't make money because they're crippled by the content people. 2) Content people say "We're more important than you, so you can't produce anything that isn't crippled".
It didn't start out that way. Sony used to make great stuff.:(
At Sony, we believe What customers really want is choice. How we deliver that is a collaborative process between designers, engineers, and marketers.
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The engineers at Sony would love to make a good open product. However, we keep getting slapped around like a red-headed stepchild by the lawyers and the content (Movies/Music) division of the company. As a result we'll keep throwing out sucky DRM'ed products that never take off because of that. But, we'll keep doing it. No matter how much it hurts us.
So, this doesn't seem to difficult to defeat. My new P2P app EMS (Eat My Shorts) will use *two* different hashes. Granted I'm sure for real crytographic purposes this would suck. But for hashes computed to exchange files wouldn't this make it exponentially more difficult to pollute the file-space?
Yes, I'm being fascetious about creating a new P2P app.
Of course the overhead created by a billing structure addition would probably at least triple the cost. By making it freely open you vastly reduce the running costs.
Yup, I gave up on this year. Last year's Defcon was kind of crappy. Sure I met up with my friends, we went to some talks, met some people. But Vegas is such an armpit, and there were way too many people there for the wrong reasons.
I think I'm going to check out some of the smaller conferences that haven't gotten so much press.
Emm, I'm digging now, ehh; why not sew my lips shut too. I can whistle a tune without paying royalties.
Wrong bucko! You get in the line with those law breaking litte tarts! There won't be anyone singing any songs around here without paying up. And we're expecting a check from your next Birthday party too!
it makes good business sense to not bother protecting workers' health or the environment beyond the minimum you can get away with.
Actually, unless you are strictly using low-skill labor, it usually doesn't make sense to endanger your workers health. It's pretty easy to show that the benefits of a clean work environment, with a healthy workforce are greater than any costs for simple safety and healthy practices. The problem is usually that someone is cutting corners to make themselves look good in the short-term, but hurting the whole operation in the long term.
I have seen some similar arguments for environment benefits, but they are not as clear cut.
I could spend extra money to add this polluting loud (presumably) engine to my bicycle. This would allow me to go slower [1] than I already go, albeit for little effort. Hmmm.
Or I can continue to bike to work and around town on my nice comfy road bike, and fuel myself with extra chinese and french pastries, or lunches with my co-workers at asian restaurants.
Hmmm, buy gas or pastry? I know which I pick.
[1] I've hit 49 miles an hour on a nice downhill on my normal commute, and I regularly sprint to ~ 25-27 mph just screwing around. My cruising speed is 21 mph (1 mph faster than this thing)[2].
[2] On the flat, no wind, long distance pacing etc.
How can there be five FLCL DVD's? There were only six episodes in the series. Were they released one per disc? Have there been multiple releases? Am I wrong in how many FuriKuri episodes were made (if so , woohoo - time to find the rest for me!)
You will never be on hold for two hours calling Verizon Wireless {1}, generally your hold time is under 90 seconds.
As to the network, we have the best network in the US (this is using our own testing and independent nationwide testing). And we are constantly working on improving it.
And remember, we have nothing to do with Verizon Landline (totally different companies, not a single worker or executive in common as far as I know).
You'll have to look for a description of it, but it is in fact in impossible to eavesdrop and then resend the information. There is a very good description in "The Code Book" by Simon Singh. I'm not sure where else you would look.
TeX doth indeed rock. I started using it for (of all things) doing a family cookbook. Which I found it did many times better than a normal word processor.
Now I've started using it for reports and documents at work (anything to save me from MS word). I started using Lyx at first, but I found I actually liked doing LaTeX by hand better.
You do know for $20 you get more than being able to watch quicktime?
Some of the other plugins that work out of the box.
Word viewer plugin
Excel viewer plugin
Powerpoint viewer plugin
Shockwave viewer plugin
Plus some other that I did not mention work out of the box.
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I think my favorite level was "The Parade". Tossing a molitov cocktai into the middle of the band members or using the napalm launcher always amused me greatly. That and the protesters outside the gaming studio offices in the city.
I would have to say that gnut is probably the best gnutella client I've used. It's fairly small, lightweight, and easy to use. Lately it's just running as a server though since I've run out of HD space. Hmmmm, time to fiddle with the burner I suppose.
I'm really of two minds on this subject. Personally, I think that drunk driving costs way too many lives and is penalized too lightly. Just imagine if car crimes were treated like gun crimes. We really shouldn't treat car abuse so differently, given the vast amount of death and harm that results from drunk driving.
Unfortunately, we've shown that doesn't work as much as you'd think. Most people who repeatedly drink and drive are alcoholics. As long as they have access to a car, they will drink and drive. Jail-time, penalties, fines, etc. don't seem to really work. One of the few things that does seem to work well is the breathalyzer on the steering wheel. This does two things, first it means they won't be driving drunk (because the car won't start if they're drunk), and second that they start to realize that they have a problem. This (preferably combined with substance abuse program) can drastically lower recidivism rates for drunk driving.
So I guess the whole point of this is breathalyzer plus treatment is much more effective for everyone.
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1) Washington is a "right to work" state. Yellow-dog contracts have absolutely zero legal basis here. It wouldn't even get to the subpeona stage. I just mention it because I've been job-hunting in the past year or so.
I'll get flamed for this, because most/. readers are excellent coders and most of their peers were successful only because they were in the/.'er's group.
Ahem. Not that we've ever met any of those people while we were at University of Cincinnati. *cough* kelly *cough*. Never.
It does, I installed that and all it's dependencies, and it promptly crashed on start-up. I think I might put a different (more gnome biased) distro on one of my other boxen and see if I can get it to work...
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That's a very good point as to why the content people have the whip hand. I think it's kind of a Catch 22 thing.
:(
1) HW side doesn't make money because they're crippled by the content people.
2) Content people say "We're more important than you, so you can't produce anything that isn't crippled".
It didn't start out that way. Sony used to make great stuff.
Tranlsation:
The engineers at Sony would love to make a good open product. However, we keep getting slapped around like a red-headed stepchild by the lawyers and the content (Movies/Music) division of the company. As a result we'll keep throwing out sucky DRM'ed products that never take off because of that. But, we'll keep doing it. No matter how much it hurts us.
Yes, yes we do.
So, this doesn't seem to difficult to defeat. My new P2P app EMS (Eat My Shorts) will use *two* different hashes. Granted I'm sure for real crytographic purposes this would suck. But for hashes computed to exchange files wouldn't this make it exponentially more difficult to pollute the file-space?
Yes, I'm being fascetious about creating a new P2P app.
Well, nothing else seems to improve their editing style, grammar or general editing skills, so I really don't see why they don't expect hate mail.
It certainly would help if there was some transparency in their processes.
Of course the overhead created by a billing structure addition would probably at least triple the cost. By making it freely open you vastly reduce the running costs.
Yup, I gave up on this year. Last year's Defcon was kind of crappy. Sure I met up with my friends, we went to some talks, met some people. But Vegas is such an armpit, and there were way too many people there for the wrong reasons.
I think I'm going to check out some of the smaller conferences that haven't gotten so much press.
Emm, I'm digging now, ehh; why not sew my lips shut too. I can whistle a tune without paying royalties.
Wrong bucko! You get in the line with those law breaking litte tarts! There won't be anyone singing any songs around here without paying up. And we're expecting a check from your next Birthday party too!
it makes good business sense to not bother protecting workers' health or the environment beyond the minimum you can get away with.
Actually, unless you are strictly using low-skill labor, it usually doesn't make sense to endanger your workers health. It's pretty easy to show that the benefits of a clean work environment, with a healthy workforce are greater than any costs for simple safety and healthy practices. The problem is usually that someone is cutting corners to make themselves look good in the short-term, but hurting the whole operation in the long term.
I have seen some similar arguments for environment benefits, but they are not as clear cut.
Soon you will only need to be within 10 feet of something to get attacked by a worm or virus!
;)
Isn't that what BlueTooth is for?
Hmmm, choices, choices.
I could spend extra money to add this polluting loud (presumably) engine to my bicycle. This would allow me to go slower [1] than I already go, albeit for little effort. Hmmm.
Or I can continue to bike to work and around town on my nice comfy road bike, and fuel myself with extra chinese and french pastries, or lunches with my co-workers at asian restaurants.
Hmmm, buy gas or pastry? I know which I pick.
[1] I've hit 49 miles an hour on a nice downhill on my normal commute, and I regularly sprint to ~ 25-27 mph just screwing around. My cruising speed is 21 mph (1 mph faster than this thing)[2].
[2] On the flat, no wind, long distance pacing etc.
mmmm DDD is the bomb as far as I'm concerned. It's a front-end you can attach to multiple debuggers. Check it out, it's really nice.
How can there be five FLCL DVD's? There were only six episodes in the series. Were they released one per disc? Have there been multiple releases? Am I wrong in how many FuriKuri episodes were made (if so , woohoo - time to find the rest for me!)
Keep in mind, by this I mean it could be tomorrow. I can't remember when their coming.
As I understand it, there is plans for a PC card for laptops. But I couldn't tell you when it's coming out.
Excuse me?
You will never be on hold for two hours calling Verizon Wireless {1}, generally your hold time is under 90 seconds.
As to the network, we have the best network in the US (this is using our own testing and independent nationwide testing). And we are constantly working on improving it.
And remember, we have nothing to do with Verizon Landline (totally different companies, not a single worker or executive in common as far as I know).
{1} I work for Verizon Wireless.
Actually that is incorrect.
You'll have to look for a description of it, but it is in fact in impossible to eavesdrop and then resend the information. There is a very good description in "The Code Book" by Simon Singh. I'm not sure where else you would look.
TeX doth indeed rock. I started using it for (of all things) doing a family cookbook. Which I found it did many times better than a normal word processor.
Now I've started using it for reports and documents at work (anything to save me from MS word). I started using Lyx at first, but I found I actually liked doing LaTeX by hand better.
Some of the other plugins that work out of the box.
Plus some other that I did not mention work out of the box.
I think my favorite level was "The Parade". Tossing a molitov cocktai into the middle of the band members or using the napalm launcher always amused me greatly. That and the protesters outside the gaming studio offices in the city.
I'm definitely going to have to buy this one.
I would have to say that gnut is probably the best gnutella client I've used. It's fairly small, lightweight, and easy to use. Lately it's just running as a server though since I've run out of HD space. Hmmmm, time to fiddle with the burner I suppose.
I'm really of two minds on this subject. Personally, I think that drunk driving costs way too many lives and is penalized too lightly. Just imagine if car crimes were treated like gun crimes. We really shouldn't treat car abuse so differently, given the vast amount of death and harm that results from drunk driving.
Unfortunately, we've shown that doesn't work as much as you'd think. Most people who repeatedly drink and drive are alcoholics. As long as they have access to a car, they will drink and drive. Jail-time, penalties, fines, etc. don't seem to really work. One of the few things that does seem to work well is the breathalyzer on the steering wheel. This does two things, first it means they won't be driving drunk (because the car won't start if they're drunk), and second that they start to realize that they have a problem. This (preferably combined with substance abuse program) can drastically lower recidivism rates for drunk driving.
So I guess the whole point of this is breathalyzer plus treatment is much more effective for everyone.
1) Washington is a "right to work" state. Yellow-dog contracts have absolutely zero legal basis here. It wouldn't even get to the subpeona stage. I just mention it because I've been job-hunting in the past year or so.
I'll get flamed for this, because most /. readers are excellent coders and most of their peers were successful only because they were in the /.'er's group.
Ahem. Not that we've ever met any of those people while we were at University of Cincinnati. *cough* kelly *cough*. Never.
It does, I installed that and all it's dependencies, and it promptly crashed on start-up. I think I might put a different (more gnome biased) distro on one of my other boxen and see if I can get it to work...