Also, it will be functionally better than pay-per-view movies (which don't give you the ability to pause, rewind, etc.), except that you have to use your computer to view it.
Actually, on my cable system (Time Warner/AOL/ICQ/CNN...) here in Austin called icontrol (fairly content-sparse link) that has an excellent selection of movies, and it allows you to pause, rewind, suspend, etc until your 'rental period' is up. The rental periods are anywhere from 12-24 hours, iirc. I've used the system for pay-per-view before, and it works as advertised, at the same cost as a regular PPV movie.
BINGO. I'm not interested in all of the politics and other miscellaneous strings that would be attatched to a donation to the FSF and RMS, I just want a way to say 'hey. great job, you've helped me out a lot. I don't have the skills or the time to donate code, but here is what I have.'
Doesn't make what Adobe did 'okay'. The only way to get them to change thier future behaviors is to have this action cost them money. because, really, they're a corporation. They don't give a shit about meetings or if some Russian guy has to go to jail, they care about the bottom line, because that is what thier stockholders care about.
So I still plan on going to my protest and I'm meeting with some people in my company today to try and get us off of the Adobe teat.
No more license fees for you boys if you can't play nice!
At least I can sow my flag on a backpack and not have "problems"...
It's sew, you canadian jackass. If you're going to sit around nitpicking grammar, you should goddamn well make sure yours is right. And you might want to think up some of your own material. Perhaps 'and it's pronounced 'zed'' was going to be next, you non-unique, Molson-commecial-copying shithead?
But hey, I guess you reap what you sow, eh? (owch)
One thing I hope they have set up in the chapters of the DVD: Minmei. I want to just be able to hit next chapter whenever she sings, talks or pretty much exists. Brant
AOLTW cable does this here in Austin, TX. It's called icontrol. I rented? paid for? one of them the other day, and it was pretty cool.. fast forward, rewind, pause.. and they have a catalouge of about 200-300 movies (and yes, billy, they do have pr0n). Brant
Both craft have radar absorbing properties on the aircraft skins, but the primary stealth device is reflective.
The reason the -117 is ugly and the B-2 is pretty has to do with computing power. In 1977 (when the -117 prototype, called the Have Blue) they did not have enough computer power to calculate the reflectivness of a rounded surface, but triangles are 'easy'. The B-2 uses the same math, but 10 years of Moore's law later.
I have an example of a legitimate 20 year secret. The F-117 was prototyped in 1977 as the "Have Blue". We non-gov't pinkboys still do not know the radar cross-section and full capabilities of this aircraft, to the benifit of national security. The same thing can be said of aircraft carriers, but to a lesser degree.
My box has 2 unfilled 1394 ports on it and a filled USB port. Boy, I wish I was smarter, then I could l33t h4x0r my box...
The wierd thing is, I don't see how cable companies, being in bed with the RIAA and MPAA like they are, could ever offer anything that would be dump video through firewire to a PC of any sort. Damn you waldo, now I'm going to have to resist tearing into my cable box when I get home from work. Hmm.. Or maybe I'll just bust up my roommate's. Heh.
The idea of a music DB is an interesting one, and has already been partially implemented on Launch.com. You rated songs you liked by album, artist, track and genre, and thier software used those choices to predict other music you liked. When you listened to a song, the names of other people who liked it popped up in a little side window, and if you wanted to, you could throw them onto your list of 'music selection factors'.
Sadly enough, thier service is crippled right now, because the fsking RIAA is suing them. Combine that with the no more streaming audio, and I have to listen to my mp3s at work instead of ever having a chance to hear new music. Grumble.
Perhaps I was not clear enough in my arguments. Allow me to clarify.
Damn right you could! Unfortunately, your logic is flawed, because it is not YOU who is changing the content, it's Microsoft that has taken it upon themselves to alter it to their liking, then innocently hand it to you as if nothing really happened.
I have purchased/downloaded a program (hired a maid) that arranges HTML for me and makes it look pretty (performs menial tasks around my house). This program (maid) takes the documents from the webserver and puts them on my HDD (goes to borders and buys a book). The program then adds links to things it thinks I might be interested in (reads the book to me, adding commentary at times)(and then wipes my ass with the pages). I fail to see how that can be construed as illegal/immoral/unethical.
As for the first part of your post, the Chapters bookstore is the webserver, not the browser. The steps with 'Smart Tags' are: IE asks for index.html. Webserver says 'okay, here you go' and transfers index.html to your HDD (you have gone to the bookstore and purchased a book). IE translates the HTML into a pleasantly viewable format, and adds the Smart Tags (you have the aforementioned maid read the book for you and highlite things she thinks are neat and find newspaper clippings about them). There is no selling as if it came from the author. You can choose what maid you hire to read your books for you (Opera, NS, Mozilla, IE) and you can even choose your bookstore (slashdot.org, seanbaby.com, hotgaysex.net).
Both systems would be an end-user activity that adds value, in the user's mind, to the information already present in the website.
First, there is no "right" to add value to somebody else's copyrighted work. If your use isn't covered under the extremely limited fair-use clauses and you don't have permission, you are legally out of luck.
So it seems to me that you're saying that I am not allowed to use a highliter in my textbooks. They're copyrighted works, right? I'm adding value, right? And this little 'feature', while not something I'd use (Go opera!), merely serves to highlight further content in web pages.
I don't think that your argument holds water. I see it like this: I ask the server for a document. It does its job and serves me up index.html. I now have index.html on my machine. I have recieved a copy of that document into my personal posession. I am now free to modify that document as I see fit (barring redistribution, of course), which includes having software look at the text of the page and auto-link other pages.
The content provider does not have to approve the way I use the content, barring public presentation, redistribution, etc. I can go down to Borders, pick up a copy of Finnegan's Wake, go home and proceed to wipe my ass with every page (front and back) of it. That is not illegal, but I'm sure that the 'content provider' would not approve of my use, but if they didn't want me to use thier content in that manner, they shouldn't have sold me the book, or they should have had a contract signed.
That's just me, tho. And I haven't had my coffee yet this morning.
The problem with launching plutonium into space is that it is one of the most toxic substances we have. I read somewhere that if some ridiculously low (like still measured in grams low) amount of plutonium were vapourised into the atmosphere it would kill hundreds of millions of people. So I wouldn't want to be anywhere near the path of one of those rockets when they were launching that stuff into orbit.
Offtopically, I remember this article (in discover, maybe?) talking about how they made the containers for the radioactive material that went up in probes for the thermal generators they have.. The way they test this gadget is by putting it in between two x (where x is large) hundred ton hydraulic rams and then smash them together with the force of 2 locomotives crashing into eachother at 80 miles per hour.
And that new netspend thing from mastercard. Disposable CC numbers that can be purchased from vending machines. Cash-->Valid MC number. No personal information at all.
The airbag detonation system is (or at least was five years ago when I learned about them) far simpler than a GPS. The airbag is basically a switch or two attatched to a very small bomb, whereas the GPS is this complicated electronical doodad that has a mugh higher number of failable components. I'd trust the bag over the GPS.
I want some of that, in Taco Bell Burrito (TM) flavor. Everything I ate would taste like taco bell. I'd be eating burrito salads, burrito ice cream, burrito SPAM. I could lose massive amounts of weight! this could be the new diet craze.
"If you act now, you, too, could lose fifty pounds by summer, just take some narsty sort of diet mush dish and pour our sauce on top! It's made in New Jersey fresh from the waters of lovely Newark! Buy now and we'll throw in our new Burger King flavor. Spice up those boring diet dishes, and come over to flavor country."
Brant
I listen to launch all day at work..
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It's a pretty good service, but it really isn't all that customizable.. I mean, I still get rap songs and garage about 5% of the time, when I have them crossed off of my genre list.
Launch provides a good service, the system of DJs and learning prefrences is good, and avoids being *too* customizable, the client is decent, they have bunches of music videos. I mean, I would actually PAY for the launch service, if they wanted the money.
Something like Launch.com seems like it would be right up the RIAA's alley. They provide a robust service for the consumer, they have a large (300K+ song db, iirc) music base, they use a fairly secure client (WMP streaming embedded in Flash) and they continue to improve services on a weekly basis.. I fail to see the problem here.
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Because if some one shoots me, it's the firearms manufacturer's responisbility for not installing IFF transponders in the gun.
And if I get run over, it is GM's responsibility for not making thier cars out of foam rubber that won't hurt me.
Jesus fucking christ, why don't you take your head and pull it out of your ass.
that I've seen at SIGGRAPH is this one (stolen from today's memepool).
Some startlingly beautiful images are obtained by mixing a magnetic fluid suspension and some electromagnets. It's pretty damn neat, IMHO.
Also, it will be functionally better than pay-per-view movies (which don't give you the ability to pause, rewind, etc.), except that you have to use your computer to view it.
Actually, on my cable system (Time Warner/AOL/ICQ/CNN...) here in Austin called icontrol (fairly content-sparse link) that has an excellent selection of movies, and it allows you to pause, rewind, suspend, etc until your 'rental period' is up. The rental periods are anywhere from 12-24 hours, iirc. I've used the system for pay-per-view before, and it works as advertised, at the same cost as a regular PPV movie.
BINGO. I'm not interested in all of the politics and other miscellaneous strings that would be attatched to a donation to the FSF and RMS, I just want a way to say 'hey. great job, you've helped me out a lot. I don't have the skills or the time to donate code, but here is what I have.'
Way to steal from a Larry Niven short story.. the one about the teachers from another planet who gave people pills to learn skills.
Why don't you suggest that we make our sun go nova instead?
you should find something more esoteric to plagarize in this arena.. I'm just shocked that nobody has commented on this yet.
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Doesn't make what Adobe did 'okay'. The only way to get them to change thier future behaviors is to have this action cost them money. because, really, they're a corporation. They don't give a shit about meetings or if some Russian guy has to go to jail, they care about the bottom line, because that is what thier stockholders care about.
So I still plan on going to my protest and I'm meeting with some people in my company today to try and get us off of the Adobe teat.
No more license fees for you boys if you can't play nice!
Brant
At least I can sow my flag on a backpack and not have "problems"...
It's sew, you canadian jackass. If you're going to sit around nitpicking grammar, you should goddamn well make sure yours is right. And you might want to think up some of your own material. Perhaps 'and it's pronounced 'zed'' was going to be next, you non-unique, Molson-commecial-copying shithead?
But hey, I guess you reap what you sow, eh? (owch)
Brant
One thing I hope they have set up in the chapters of the DVD: Minmei. I want to just be able to hit next chapter whenever she sings, talks or pretty much exists.
Brant
They sell the entire list for one low low fee.
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AOLTW cable does this here in Austin, TX. It's called icontrol. I rented? paid for? one of them the other day, and it was pretty cool.. fast forward, rewind, pause.. and they have a catalouge of about 200-300 movies (and yes, billy, they do have pr0n).
Brant
The job of the police is to Protect and Serve.
Like robocop said: "Protect the innocent. Serve the public trust. Uphold the law."
And of course, your little Amnesty International plug there does nothing to enhance your credibility.
So, all in all, not a very good troll. You should have thrown something in there like "We could fix this problem by taking all of the guns."
Brant
Both craft have radar absorbing properties on the aircraft skins, but the primary stealth device is reflective.
The reason the -117 is ugly and the B-2 is pretty has to do with computing power. In 1977 (when the -117 prototype, called the Have Blue) they did not have enough computer power to calculate the reflectivness of a rounded surface, but triangles are 'easy'. The B-2 uses the same math, but 10 years of Moore's law later.
Brant
I have an example of a legitimate 20 year secret. The F-117 was prototyped in 1977 as the "Have Blue". We non-gov't pinkboys still do not know the radar cross-section and full capabilities of this aircraft, to the benifit of national security. The same thing can be said of aircraft carriers, but to a lesser degree.
Brant
It is still around, http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/00.n.games.html has it for 14.99
Also, googling for it, I found an old journal from the version 1 of the game. It's pretty funny.
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Must...kill..all...deer.
Your daughter, Jamie, has just died from typhoid fever.
You try to ford the river.
12 horses and 42 of your children have died.
Do you want to buy more bullets? (Y/N)
God, I loved that game.
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Must...kill..all...deer.
Your daughter, Jamie, has just died from typhoid fever.
You try to ford the river.
12 horses and 42 of your children have died.
Do you want to buy more bullets? (Y/N)
God, I loved that game.
Brant
My box has 2 unfilled 1394 ports on it and a filled USB port. Boy, I wish I was smarter, then I could l33t h4x0r my box...
The wierd thing is, I don't see how cable companies, being in bed with the RIAA and MPAA like they are, could ever offer anything that would be dump video through firewire to a PC of any sort.
Damn you waldo, now I'm going to have to resist tearing into my cable box when I get home from work. Hmm.. Or maybe I'll just bust up my roommate's. Heh.
Brant
The idea of a music DB is an interesting one, and has already been partially implemented on Launch.com. You rated songs you liked by album, artist, track and genre, and thier software used those choices to predict other music you liked. When you listened to a song, the names of other people who liked it popped up in a little side window, and if you wanted to, you could throw them onto your list of 'music selection factors'.
Sadly enough, thier service is crippled right now, because the fsking RIAA is suing them. Combine that with the no more streaming audio, and I have to listen to my mp3s at work instead of ever having a chance to hear new music. Grumble.
Brant
Perhaps I was not clear enough in my arguments. Allow me to clarify.
Damn right you could! Unfortunately, your logic is flawed, because it is not YOU who is changing the content, it's Microsoft that has taken it upon themselves to alter it to their liking, then innocently hand it to you as if nothing really happened.
I have purchased/downloaded a program (hired a maid) that arranges HTML for me and makes it look pretty (performs menial tasks around my house). This program (maid) takes the documents from the webserver and puts them on my HDD (goes to borders and buys a book). The program then adds links to things it thinks I might be interested in (reads the book to me, adding commentary at times)(and then wipes my ass with the pages). I fail to see how that can be construed as illegal/immoral/unethical.
As for the first part of your post, the Chapters bookstore is the webserver, not the browser. The steps with 'Smart Tags' are: IE asks for index.html. Webserver says 'okay, here you go' and transfers index.html to your HDD (you have gone to the bookstore and purchased a book). IE translates the HTML into a pleasantly viewable format, and adds the Smart Tags (you have the aforementioned maid read the book for you and highlite things she thinks are neat and find newspaper clippings about them). There is no selling as if it came from the author. You can choose what maid you hire to read your books for you (Opera, NS, Mozilla, IE) and you can even choose your bookstore (slashdot.org, seanbaby.com, hotgaysex.net).
Just my thoughts on the matter.
Brant
Both systems would be an end-user activity that adds value, in the user's mind, to the information already present in the website.
First, there is no "right" to add value to somebody else's copyrighted work. If your use isn't covered under the extremely limited fair-use clauses and you don't have permission, you are legally out of luck.
So it seems to me that you're saying that I am not allowed to use a highliter in my textbooks. They're copyrighted works, right? I'm adding value, right? And this little 'feature', while not something I'd use (Go opera!), merely serves to highlight further content in web pages.
I don't think that your argument holds water. I see it like this: I ask the server for a document. It does its job and serves me up index.html. I now have index.html on my machine. I have recieved a copy of that document into my personal posession. I am now free to modify that document as I see fit (barring redistribution, of course), which includes having software look at the text of the page and auto-link other pages.
The content provider does not have to approve the way I use the content, barring public presentation, redistribution, etc. I can go down to Borders, pick up a copy of Finnegan's Wake, go home and proceed to wipe my ass with every page (front and back) of it. That is not illegal, but I'm sure that the 'content provider' would not approve of my use, but if they didn't want me to use thier content in that manner, they shouldn't have sold me the book, or they should have had a contract signed.
That's just me, tho. And I haven't had my coffee yet this morning.
Brant
The problem with launching plutonium into space is that it is one of the most toxic substances we have. I read somewhere that if some ridiculously low (like still measured in grams low) amount of plutonium were vapourised into the atmosphere it would kill hundreds of millions of people. So I wouldn't want to be anywhere near the path of one of those rockets when they were launching that stuff into orbit.
Offtopically, I remember this article (in discover, maybe?) talking about how they made the containers for the radioactive material that went up in probes for the thermal generators they have.. The way they test this gadget is by putting it in between two x (where x is large) hundred ton hydraulic rams and then smash them together with the force of 2 locomotives crashing into eachother at 80 miles per hour.
Brant
We already have that. It's called cash.
And that new netspend thing from mastercard. Disposable CC numbers that can be purchased from vending machines. Cash-->Valid MC number. No personal information at all.
Brant
The airbag detonation system is (or at least was five years ago when I learned about them) far simpler than a GPS. The airbag is basically a switch or two attatched to a very small bomb, whereas the GPS is this complicated electronical doodad that has a mugh higher number of failable components. I'd trust the bag over the GPS.
Brant
I want some of that, in Taco Bell Burrito (TM) flavor. Everything I ate would taste like taco bell. I'd be eating burrito salads, burrito ice cream, burrito SPAM. I could lose massive amounts of weight! this could be the new diet craze.
"If you act now, you, too, could lose fifty pounds by summer, just take some narsty sort of diet mush dish and pour our sauce on top! It's made in New Jersey fresh from the waters of lovely Newark! Buy now and we'll throw in our new Burger King flavor. Spice up those boring diet dishes, and come over to flavor country."
Brant
It's a pretty good service, but it really isn't all that customizable.. I mean, I still get rap songs and garage about 5% of the time, when I have them crossed off of my genre list.
Launch provides a good service, the system of DJs and learning prefrences is good, and avoids being *too* customizable, the client is decent, they have bunches of music videos. I mean, I would actually PAY for the launch service, if they wanted the money.
Something like Launch.com seems like it would be right up the RIAA's alley. They provide a robust service for the consumer, they have a large (300K+ song db, iirc) music base, they use a fairly secure client (WMP streaming embedded in Flash) and they continue to improve services on a weekly basis.. I fail to see the problem here.
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