I think the reason for the x86 port of darwin is to tempt more developers... and it has seemed to work.
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>The only thing is they pronounce linux wrong; they call it leenooks.
Neat, I'm not sure how much time I'll spend doing computer related things, as this is a vacation away from computers (iBook is for iMovies for home:) )
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Interesting... I wonder how much UNIX they hate? Seeing as they are big gamers, it doesn't suprise me much.
I am going to Seoul tomorrow for about 2 1/2 weeks. I'm very excited. It seems that getting access online is easier than Tokyo, London, and ANYWHERE in america. I wonder how the wireless networks are there, I'll be toting my iBook around and since SO MANY homes have high speed internet, I wonder how much free internet access I'll be getting. Anyone have experience?
Forget the rare beatings the average guy will suffer doing this, how about the even greater likelyhood of sexual harrassment? I wonder what they signed to get that $100.00 a day?
In all fairness, 911 did have dramatic effects on most americans lives. It made us all sit back and think for a while, and for a lot of us it really changed our views on the world. The media explosion because of 911, not all bad.
As for Columbine, I think that has a particular interest to this community, so writing about it helped a lot of people here. What jonkatz didn't do was provide an up-to-the-second update on a shoe found 30 miles away that might have been one of the Columbine kids'.
On the contrary, a lot of people go to school just to study ethics. With computers becoming such a major part of everyones lives, isn't it important to discuss computer ethics in an open forum?
My mame box has been running linux hooked up to a TV on an old PII. The problem is, there is no good interface for people viewing it on a TV. This leads me to believe that mame for the x-box might be a practical solution. My only question is, is it compatable with the i-pac (USB keyboard interface thing)?
Being a musician the thing I find most wonderful about music is that it can cross all genre's. Every CD that is made (with the exception of spoken word in some cases) can be enjoyed by anyone anywhere in the world. With book sales there is often language barriers or even literacy barriers. You don't have to know anything to enjoy music, and that will keep the music industry alive.
That being said, I would have no problem with the "death of the rockstar." Have the musicians creating music out of passion, not out of greed. Maybe the only people to get hurt by this would be the big scary record companies.
I'm addicted to VST plug-ins and VST instruments. Is anything in the linux arena even close to having support for this stuff? This is just one of the many things that a linux-based audio program will have to overcome, which is why I switched to Mac (and have been waiting for stuff to be brought to OS X)
>You want 95% green space, no cars, communal agriculture, etc.? I'm not sure what you're looking for, but it sounds more like FantasyCity than SimCity.
That is the joy of the SimCity games though. You can create cities that you think would be wonderful, watch how they fail and see what compromises you have to make.
> I'll admit it took me quite awhile to come around and admit I enjoyed the first one.
Same, although I still have a lot of reservations. The "Evil Genius" concept is nothing new. I got sick of hearing people say "it's such an original idea." However, The Matrix did present the idea in a way that was easy to swallow for a lot of people. I almost wish that they wouldn't make a sequals, because they did such a good job of presenting the idea.
They are about $35 USD. Not to bad, but i perfer the initial price of $7. Then again, who can put a price on safety, I'd love to have these in my apartment.
Great... cyberwar, massive DoS, blah... I keep in touch with people over the internet in China, and I will NOT be blocking them at my level, but what happens if the US mandates all chinese traffic be blocked? Then what do I do?
I guess I should colocate my box in Canada:)
Things like this destroy what's so great about the internet to me.
There are secure POP3 servers (can't remember off hand). And apple's sight does use SSL, so it's modertly secure. I know on my own personal web mail site, which I use when I'm on the road without web access for my laptop (or, when mindterm is being screwy), I use https. Good stuff really.
>That's what they say and you are entitled to take them at their word. The laws they back, however, strike at all copying, including that which is perfectly legal. That includes the DMCA, which is law, and the CBDTPA, which, for now, is not.
Well, in my reply I sounded very pro-RIAA... which i am not at all. I just think that in this case, file sharing on the internet that is, they are right.
I was very vocal against the CBDTPA (wrote letters to my represenatives and all that). I am very happy that it is no longer.
I should also clarify, I am confident that as long as consumers are vocal we will not have to fear our rights to listen to music how we choose. I know 60-year old ladies that use iTunes to play all their music, but they don't know how to share files on the interent. A LOT of people would get very upset if "BAD" copyright protection was put in place.
>Fun statistic with regard to quality of product and consumer reaction: Latin CD sales were up 7% in the same period that the overall CD sales went down 5.3%. Might be a lesson in there.
It's a new hot trend?:) I don't know much about pop music, but from what I gather, it's been a weak year for it...
>I don't doubt it, I just don't how big the impact is. I do not support internet file-swapping and am quite happy that Napster was shut down.
Agreed. I thought the whole "i have a right to steal and help other people steal" argument was incredibly weak.
>An important note on this topic. Did you notice that Judge Patel (judge in the Napster case) has been far less sympathetic to the music industry of late? She has expressed the belief that the music industry is doing all it can to lock up its own monopoly in digitally downloaded music.
No I have not heard this, do you have a link, I would like to read it.
It is a weird situation. The RIAA is evil, and they won the Napster thing (which as said earlier, I believe was the right thing), but now they are going nuts with this, thinking they can control all digital (music) media. It's an interesting thing to follow. I really doubt the Bush administration will do a damn thing about it though. Republicans traditionally don't care about anti-trust very much. Plus look at how he has instructed people to act in the microsoft trial. This doesn't even begin to talk about our economy or our 'war on evil.'
>>>1. Much of the copying the RIAA complains about is completely legal under the Home Recording Act. As such, it isn't piracy at all.
No, the RIAA is complaining about file swapping and album swapping on the internet. This is simply not legal.
>>>2. It is amazing that the record industry seems to think it has a right to be immune to the economy. 2001 was a year of massive layoffs and dot.com implosion. IT workers, people who ordinarily have the kind of discretionary income to support large CD collections were especially hard-hit.
True. The economy did suck, it affected everyone. 10% is still a huge decrease though, so they need to justify it SOMEHOW.
>>>3. Napster, the largest and most visible source for swapped files spent much of 2001 under an injunction that severely hobbled it. If anything, 2001 should have brought less so-called piracy than 2000.
Good point, but there are even more choices for people now in post-napster world.
>>>4. C'mon now. Weren't boy bands and teeny-girls starting to grow a little stale in 2001? To generate sales, you gotta deliver product worth buying.
Yeah, pop music is wretched now. But there are a lot of smaller bands that are getting hurt by the MP3 internet thing. If a good band does not get good sales, they are not going to get signed again. This has to have happened...
File-sharing is the RIAA's scapegoat for bad record sales. Can you blame them though?
Also, this article was a bit of fluff. Who honestly does not support copyright protection? We are all fans of the GPL or BSD liscence here. The Best Buy guy did not say that he supported any current methods, but said that he believes they can work together with the RIAA to come up with a good solution. Hey, more power to them. As long as I can listen to music on my iPod, I'm happy. I support bands, I buy music. I am confident that I will still be able to listen to the music I legally own on a device of my choosing, and I believe stores and artists recognize this fact.
The problem with Quicktime is not Apple, it's the people that do the codec (Soresen? sorry can't remember off hand). It's a big mess actually, each company says it is the others fault. Quicktime will come to linux (not through wine plug-ins) soon I think. It is an EXCELLENT movie format...
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I think the reason for the x86 port of darwin is to tempt more developers... and it has seemed to work.
>The only thing is they pronounce linux wrong; they call it leenooks.
:) )
Neat, I'm not sure how much time I'll spend doing computer related things, as this is a vacation away from computers (iBook is for iMovies for home
Interesting... I wonder how much UNIX they hate? Seeing as they are big gamers, it doesn't suprise me much.
I am going to Seoul tomorrow for about 2 1/2 weeks. I'm very excited. It seems that getting access online is easier than Tokyo, London, and ANYWHERE in america. I wonder how the wireless networks are there, I'll be toting my iBook around and since SO MANY homes have high speed internet, I wonder how much free internet access I'll be getting. Anyone have experience?
Forget the rare beatings the average guy will suffer doing this, how about the even greater likelyhood of sexual harrassment? I wonder what they signed to get that $100.00 a day?
:)
There you are [nintendo.com]. Start stalking.
Haha, wow, thanks
I'm in love with the girl pictured in that article. I can't imagine anyone wanting to beat up someone THAT good looking ;)
In all fairness, 911 did have dramatic effects on most americans lives. It made us all sit back and think for a while, and for a lot of us it really changed our views on the world. The media explosion because of 911, not all bad.
As for Columbine, I think that has a particular interest to this community, so writing about it helped a lot of people here. What jonkatz didn't do was provide an up-to-the-second update on a shoe found 30 miles away that might have been one of the Columbine kids'.
The article claims that I-Pass (which I'm assuming is the same as EZ-Pass) uses standard 802.11(b) to transmit it's data.
Anyone attempt to hack this, or have more information about this?
On the contrary, a lot of people go to school just to study ethics. With computers becoming such a major part of everyones lives, isn't it important to discuss computer ethics in an open forum?
My mame box has been running linux hooked up to a TV on an old PII. The problem is, there is no good interface for people viewing it on a TV. This leads me to believe that mame for the x-box might be a practical solution. My only question is, is it compatable with the i-pac (USB keyboard interface thing)?
Being a musician the thing I find most wonderful about music is that it can cross all genre's. Every CD that is made (with the exception of spoken word in some cases) can be enjoyed by anyone anywhere in the world. With book sales there is often language barriers or even literacy barriers. You don't have to know anything to enjoy music, and that will keep the music industry alive.
That being said, I would have no problem with the "death of the rockstar." Have the musicians creating music out of passion, not out of greed. Maybe the only people to get hurt by this would be the big scary record companies.
I'm addicted to VST plug-ins and VST instruments. Is anything in the linux arena even close to having support for this stuff? This is just one of the many things that a linux-based audio program will have to overcome, which is why I switched to Mac (and have been waiting for stuff to be brought to OS X)
>You want 95% green space, no cars, communal agriculture, etc.? I'm not sure what you're looking for, but it sounds more like FantasyCity than SimCity.
That is the joy of the SimCity games though. You can create cities that you think would be wonderful, watch how they fail and see what compromises you have to make.
I just use NFS to mount my mp3s :) It works great with iTunes, it's the UNIX way of doing things I think :)
> I'll admit it took me quite awhile to come around and admit I enjoyed the first one.
Same, although I still have a lot of reservations. The "Evil Genius" concept is nothing new. I got sick of hearing people say "it's such an original idea." However, The Matrix did present the idea in a way that was easy to swallow for a lot of people. I almost wish that they wouldn't make a sequals, because they did such a good job of presenting the idea.
I'm sure he has some proof that she was involved from the beginning, which is why she got back involved. I'd imagine he scared her pretty bad :)
:)
Scam artist is a weird trade. I have no respect for them. These are also the same guys that actually get laid after a night at a bar
They are about $35 USD. Not to bad, but i perfer the initial price of $7. Then again, who can put a price on safety, I'd love to have these in my apartment.
Great... cyberwar, massive DoS, blah... I keep in touch with people over the internet in China, and I will NOT be blocking them at my level, but what happens if the US mandates all chinese traffic be blocked? Then what do I do?
:)
I guess I should colocate my box in Canada
Things like this destroy what's so great about the internet to me.
Does TIVO support wireless USB ethernet cards?
There are secure POP3 servers (can't remember off hand). And apple's sight does use SSL, so it's modertly secure. I know on my own personal web mail site, which I use when I'm on the road without web access for my laptop (or, when mindterm is being screwy), I use https. Good stuff really.
>That's what they say and you are entitled to take them at their word. The laws they back, however, strike at all copying, including that which is perfectly legal. That includes the DMCA, which is law, and the CBDTPA, which, for now, is not.
:) I don't know much about pop music, but from what I gather, it's been a weak year for it...
:)
Well, in my reply I sounded very pro-RIAA... which i am not at all. I just think that in this case, file sharing on the internet that is, they are right.
I was very vocal against the CBDTPA (wrote letters to my represenatives and all that). I am very happy that it is no longer.
I should also clarify, I am confident that as long as consumers are vocal we will not have to fear our rights to listen to music how we choose. I know 60-year old ladies that use iTunes to play all their music, but they don't know how to share files on the interent. A LOT of people would get very upset if "BAD" copyright protection was put in place.
>Fun statistic with regard to quality of product and consumer reaction: Latin CD sales were up 7% in the same period that the overall CD sales went down 5.3%. Might be a lesson in there.
It's a new hot trend?
>I don't doubt it, I just don't how big the impact is. I do not support internet file-swapping and am quite happy that Napster was shut down.
Agreed. I thought the whole "i have a right to steal and help other people steal" argument was incredibly weak.
>An important note on this topic. Did you notice that Judge Patel (judge in the Napster case) has been far less sympathetic to the music industry of late? She has expressed the belief that the music industry is doing all it can to lock up its own monopoly in digitally downloaded music.
No I have not heard this, do you have a link, I would like to read it.
It is a weird situation. The RIAA is evil, and they won the Napster thing (which as said earlier, I believe was the right thing), but now they are going nuts with this, thinking they can control all digital (music) media. It's an interesting thing to follow. I really doubt the Bush administration will do a damn thing about it though. Republicans traditionally don't care about anti-trust very much. Plus look at how he has instructed people to act in the microsoft trial. This doesn't even begin to talk about our economy or our 'war on evil.'
Wow. I'm done ranting now
Wasn't this the point of all those annoying X10 ads? :)
>>>1. Much of the copying the RIAA complains about is completely legal under the Home Recording Act. As such, it isn't piracy at all.
No, the RIAA is complaining about file swapping and album swapping on the internet. This is simply not legal.
>>>2. It is amazing that the record industry seems to think it has a right to be immune to the economy. 2001 was a year of massive layoffs and dot.com implosion. IT workers, people who ordinarily have the kind of discretionary income to support large CD collections were especially hard-hit.
True. The economy did suck, it affected everyone. 10% is still a huge decrease though, so they need to justify it SOMEHOW.
>>>3. Napster, the largest and most visible source for swapped files spent much of 2001 under an injunction that severely hobbled it. If anything, 2001 should have brought less so-called piracy than 2000.
Good point, but there are even more choices for people now in post-napster world.
>>>4. C'mon now. Weren't boy bands and teeny-girls starting to grow a little stale in 2001? To generate sales, you gotta deliver product worth buying.
Yeah, pop music is wretched now. But there are a lot of smaller bands that are getting hurt by the MP3 internet thing. If a good band does not get good sales, they are not going to get signed again. This has to have happened...
File-sharing is the RIAA's scapegoat for bad record sales. Can you blame them though?
Also, this article was a bit of fluff. Who honestly does not support copyright protection? We are all fans of the GPL or BSD liscence here. The Best Buy guy did not say that he supported any current methods, but said that he believes they can work together with the RIAA to come up with a good solution. Hey, more power to them. As long as I can listen to music on my iPod, I'm happy. I support bands, I buy music. I am confident that I will still be able to listen to the music I legally own on a device of my choosing, and I believe stores and artists recognize this fact.
The problem with Quicktime is not Apple, it's the people that do the codec (Soresen? sorry can't remember off hand). It's a big mess actually, each company says it is the others fault. Quicktime will come to linux (not through wine plug-ins) soon I think. It is an EXCELLENT movie format...
As a vegetarian (although I rarely eat dairy) who eats almost all organic foods... I can't think of anything more disgusting.
:)
Well, I probably can
Scientifically it's interesting, but I think this money is spent better other places.