Ummm.. Perhaps they need to expand their services without adding to their operating costs, such as through licen$ing or increased administration costs.
Just a couple thoughts. String 'em together and maybe they're worth somethin.
No, a theatre owner can't fine you, but they can refuse you service or throw you out if you break the fine print you'll find on the back of any fucking ticket you ever purchase. They've had this power forever. That's why I loved the first few shows in my one-time civic theatre (which I started), when I refused entrance to latecomers until a convenient time in the show, then directed people to the fine print spelling this out on the ticket. tee hee.
I have installed both Win2k and RH 7.3, and RH required only three disks (all CDs), and Win2k required three floppies PLUS the CD, which makes FOUR disks required, and two separate drives. Both installations were from scratch--no OEM disks, on reformatted drives (meaning a totally clean install)
Additionally, Win2k refused to install recently via a CD-RW drive, which may, of course, be due to Win2K not recognizing the CD-RW.
Tech staff will always be needed. Certain functions will become less removed from everyday life as it becomes easier to, say, install hardware. But there will always be a need for someone who can at the very least READ code and make sense of it in solving tech problems. There will also be a need for someone who can understand how an operating system works, and why this means certain apps are being fussy.
You could always work in a library, as I do, but I only recommend this if you wish to be treated as the downstairs help, and get paid as such.
There have been a plethora of different key-device designs over the years. There is nothing new about this--it's just the same crap in a new bag.
This type of device doesn't show any truly innovative thinking--especially inasmuch as it ignores the fact that not all people have fully-functional hands, or even have hands at all. I have a friend for whom a congenital birth defect meant she doesn't have the full five-finger hands most of us have (it was sad to hear how she had to explain to her three year-old son that she couldn't use the game console controller, because she has no thumbs). Additionally, what of the people who are paralyzed?
This sort of new device is so irrelevant that I would expect to see it only in a middle/high school entrepreneuring workshop, and not coming from an adult. Not only does this presume what I have said above, it also presumes that even a mere FRACTION of the PC-using world will want to learn a new type-entry scheme.
Well, lemme see... maybe they were able afford speedier hardware due to the savings on software. One does not simply wave a magic wand and make servers appear out of thin air. Someone has to pay for them, and if a bean counter sees a cogent argument made for freeing up money in software to get spiffier hardware, you can see where the decision process will lead.
If Windows were really up to the task, the bean counters would have forsworn initial savings for the longer-term dividend.
The DMCA is designed to cut Joe Sixpack off at the knees. Using it against 'legit' services that violate it simply gives those in Whoreland a taste of their own WhoreRx.
No wonder the Dowsers group that meets in our library has been wandering around in a daze!
The RIAA/would-be censors NEED such lessons
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RIAA Smacked by DoS
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When I was but a wee little lad, I was a budding artist. I loved scribbling on scrap paper with my awesome flourescent crayolas--I loved the play of color then as much as I do now when I design lighting for the theatre. However, it took loss to teach me a thing or two about the world, young tyke that I was.
At dinner one night, I was turning over the thought in my head of how beautiful my flourescent scribblings were under reflected light, but curiousity and a probing mind told me there could be another angle to appreciating my creation: why not set my creation atop the rim of a glass within which was burning a lit candle? After all, the flame was natural light, which was the perfect compliment for my wierdly-glowing creation!
That was the first time I ever saw my mother make any sort of Mad Dash. She removed the paper from the glass, admonishing me most strongly. Then, in a moment of inspiration, she set it back, but with a mind to be ready to grab the paper and run to the kitchen sink, just in case.
Which is good, because my little objet d'art burst into flame, and not at all as I expected it to do. Mom grabbed it and doused it in the sink, and an object lesson was learned:
Don't play with fire, because something's liable to get burned. This time it might be your beautiful flourescent scribbles (sorry, dear, for your loss, my little budding artiste!). Next time it could be you.
The RIAA was simply taught that playing with fire can get you burned. No one was hurt in the process. If they have any amount of gray matter between their ears, they will learn from this and decide to play nice with the rest of the family at the dinner table.
Ummm... More like "Great job, give them a taste of what they are prescribing for Joe Sixpack."
This should show them what it is like to have an 'innocent' system brought to its knees by DoS. Perhaps it would be less annoying to them and still inconvenient enough if someone would just squeeze their bandwidth down to a trickle without cutting them off completely. After all, that is an effect of that medicine being promoted by the RIAA.
Oh, and it's nice to see how a RIAA representative seems to feel so founded in the rightness of their position as to remain anonymous. Lord knows that when I believe so strongly that I am in the right, I recognize anonymity as a hindrance rather than a protection.
But then, my thoughts are not programmed by my puppet masters.
If Linux is a puppy, then it's a mutt, which is the best kind of dog you can have. They generally are more intelligent, have a more pleasant disposition, and are healthier than the proprietary "Kennel Club" puppies.
The closed system of breeding proprietary dogs (purebreds) is the cause of no end of trouble.They can suffer from hip problems, gatrointestinal disorders, and also display the unpleasant capacity to both happily wag their tails and growl ominously at you at once.
I, too, am underwhelmed by M$'s TCO claims. Linux *can* be hard to set up, but THAT is because you have a multitude of choices in the installation process. This is no surprise, as it is an OS that can be workstation AND server, without compromising on either role. The question is which is more valuable to you: your time in setting up a robust, stable operating system, or your lost time and money in calling the support line and dragging your PC to the cow store every time it goes belly-up on you because you used the OS that 'came with?'
For those of you who picked what's behind door number two, here's your year's supply of
Now would be a PERFECT time to make a big stink of this, given that it is corporate executives asking for permission to act illegally, and at a time when acting illegally/irresponsibly in corporate America is gaining public attention in a big way. I'm sure Joe Sixpack would be interested to hear about this and vote out congressman who are on the payola train from entertainment execs.
So, for the right price, can I get a law passed allowing me to summarily execute recording and movie company executives on site, without fear of punishment? I'd be really cool with that. Can it be done?
Heaven and ministers of fate defend us! When did our youth take such a sinister course in life? Where did we fail?
The record industry is obviously hoping none of us recall how, in the days of cassette tapes, those heady days of the 70s and 80s, MOST 12-17 year olds didn't pay for music. Lord knows I rarely did, if I had a friend with the tape or LP. Better yet, I'd ASK friends to dub tapes, because I lacked either the equipment or the ambition to do it myself.
Did I buy music, ever? Ohhh yes. But only if I'd had a chance to hear it on it's own merits without feeding the corporate WHORES who claimed to make it possible. That meant hearing music via non-payola avenues. If I liked what I heard, I bought it, and bought other albums by the same artists.
Unfortunately, it appears to this reporter that corporate execs are as ignorant of all-powerful 'word of mouth' today as they have always been of good talent and new and innovative approaches to music.
That is, unless it appears it could bring in lots of money for them and to PROMOTE and ADVERTISE that they, geniuses that they are, have reinvented the wheel, once again, and tht to buy anything else is evil and unpatriotic, dammit!
OK, granted this was on my home PC, but still, why buy an expensive knock-off of what u can get for cheap?
When it comes down to it, everyone is wedded to windows for some damn reasons, but usually, if you can convince the Powers That Be to let you do the research, you can prolly plan towards replacing such servicecs with open-source solutions.
Sure, you can't walk into CompUSA or Best Buy to buy them, but why be like all the other lemmings???? Lately, my guiding philosophy has been to face the damn cliff and simply refuse to leap off it.
The last lemming standing and staring down at the wrecked bodies of his brethren gets the gold.
How much moeny has M$ set aside to cushion the hit they are taking (or expected to take) on Xbox? A cubic BUTTLOAD more than they spent as antitrust insurance on Apple. $150million is petty cash for M$.
The REAL trouble M$ has here is that Apple owns the last remaining piece of the consumer PC pie, without wielding a monopoly-stick, a la M$, and it happens to be the most entertaining one: the digital entertainment hub.
No, wait, let me expand that to read: the digital entertainment, non-BSOD hub.
M$ faces a conundrum: the Windows franchise is petering out, Xbox is clinging marginally to it's piece of the console pie, and everything M$ touches becomes a security risk, or at least that's what people with data to secure are finding. Now, when there is little left to steal (such as Explorer and the various GPL'd code rumoured to be incorporated into Windows), they are faced with a truly competative company with the initiative to innovate, to boot.
For those who don't consider Apple competitive, please realize they've maintained their market share despite M$ monopolistic practices, and that was BEFORE OSX and the digital hub concept, as well as before the goofy execs that followed and preceeded the insanely whacky Steve jobs.
Now, with OSX and the PPC line opening up basically all software for the consumer (well, Windows under emulation and unixware that can compile under OSX) and fueling future growth, M$ is looking at the gas guage and realize they are in the middle of the desert and nearing empty. So what if M$ has poured $$ into Offive v.x? People can still run older versions in Classic mode under OSX, so why upgrade?
Now, all they have to work with is good ol' Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, only this time around, they're feeling it, rather than a-spreadin' it around.
I see a lot of responses from guys whose manhood probobly feels challenged because the Rocket Man has a bigger, more powerful phallic artifice... But that's beside the point.
There isn't any comparing this to either gov't space programs or amateur 'Junkyard Wars' endeavours. First, most of the science has been done for him--he admits buying parts off-the-shelf, and acknowledges the need for a stability system of smaller engines. So, there goes the "he's a crackpot who [ahem!] doesn't have any [use flowery enunciation here] 'Formal Training.'" argument.
As for the reference to Junkyard Wars... They only get a day to work, and use scrap parts of marginal value, beyond mere entertainment. This guy has been working a while, seems to have a novel launch concept, and admits he won't go if it looks like a fatal day for flying. And who cares he didn't acknowledge the Slim Pickens reference. Maybe he was too busy focusing on answering rocket questions to clue in to an off-topic question.
Additionally, all you Jealous Joes out there, dyslexic and ADHD persons tend to be fairly intelligent creatures, so reel in your criticism. I see here a lot of sour grapes from Slashdotters who are pissed that they didn't think of it first, or would never be able to get permission from their apartment management/parents to launch from the parking lot/driveway.
So, Nyah!
"DRM is like a virus infecting and crippling what is otherwise a versatile system."
Hmmm... Do you think maybe SARC could update their virus definitions to include such unwanted downloads? Seems to me that DRM cuts both ways: as much as the Man wants to protect his digital rights, I would want to protect the digital rights to my PC. I think blocking such subterfuge should be incorporated into future antivirus packages.
They struck a recent deal with the ESA to launch from their pad in South America. Do you think for a minute the US would let the Russians build a base in Cuba for the launch of big rockets? LOL
The end of Apollo was really the climax of US space exploration. The shuttle/ISS are the post-coital cigarette.
But seriously, the US was all set to go to Mars, but in the heady days of the early 70s, the Nixon administration had other plans. After all, remember that Apollo was really just a political carrot held before us by the Kennedy administration. Once we got to the moon, the collective sigh was sent up: "Been there, done that". By the time of Apollo 13, people took rocket science for granted, and were caught off guard by the Apollo 13 debacle, which, in my opinion, was a textbook example of Nasa at both it's worst and at its best.
In theory, the shuttle program could have been a more practical stepping-stone, but various budget-cutting measures and a highly-diminished drive to go to space handicapped it before it ever flew. So, you get what you pay for. Signs of this are extant in the solid rocket boosters, which are a cheap (and dangerous) alternative to a throttleable booster system. Whole unmanned systems were developed on paper as shuttle derivatives, but never flew off the drawing board due to intransagent budget hawks
Challenger showed the pennywise-poundfoolishness of the various cost-saving measures. Hopefully the people will see the real threat emerging from China now - they want to go to the moon themselves - and vote in pro-space legislators. Slip on over to space.com or spaceflightnow.com to bone up n your space geek knowledge. Your brain will goo "Mmmmmm!"
Again, I say why not a cache server, or is Slashdot afraid of being Slashdotted?
Wow... Slashdot could have it's own outer event horizon o' shlashdottiness!
Slashdot Mirror
Ummm.. Perhaps they need to expand their services without adding to their operating costs, such as through licen$ing or increased administration costs.
Just a couple thoughts. String 'em together and maybe they're worth somethin.
The iWalk??? ;-)
How SOON we forget!
No, a theatre owner can't fine you, but they can refuse you service or throw you out if you break the fine print you'll find on the back of any fucking ticket you ever purchase. They've had this power forever. That's why I loved the first few shows in my one-time civic theatre (which I started), when I refused entrance to latecomers until a convenient time in the show, then directed people to the fine print spelling this out on the ticket. tee hee.
I have installed both Win2k and RH 7.3, and RH required only three disks (all CDs), and Win2k required three floppies PLUS the CD, which makes FOUR disks required, and two separate drives. Both installations were from scratch--no OEM disks, on reformatted drives (meaning a totally clean install)
Additionally, Win2k refused to install recently via a CD-RW drive, which may, of course, be due to Win2K not recognizing the CD-RW.
Tech staff will always be needed. Certain functions will become less removed from everyday life as it becomes easier to, say, install hardware. But there will always be a need for someone who can at the very least READ code and make sense of it in solving tech problems. There will also be a need for someone who can understand how an operating system works, and why this means certain apps are being fussy.
You could always work in a library, as I do, but I only recommend this if you wish to be treated as the downstairs help, and get paid as such.
There have been a plethora of different key-device designs over the years. There is nothing new about this--it's just the same crap in a new bag.
This type of device doesn't show any truly innovative thinking--especially inasmuch as it ignores the fact that not all people have fully-functional hands, or even have hands at all. I have a friend for whom a congenital birth defect meant she doesn't have the full five-finger hands most of us have (it was sad to hear how she had to explain to her three year-old son that she couldn't use the game console controller, because she has no thumbs). Additionally, what of the people who are paralyzed?
This sort of new device is so irrelevant that I would expect to see it only in a middle/high school entrepreneuring workshop, and not coming from an adult. Not only does this presume what I have said above, it also presumes that even a mere FRACTION of the PC-using world will want to learn a new type-entry scheme.
Ok... now setting bitchfest=0...
Now at an IMAX theatre near you:
BENEATH THE VALLEY OF THE ULTRA-VIXENS
Well, lemme see... maybe they were able afford speedier hardware due to the savings on software. One does not simply wave a magic wand and make servers appear out of thin air. Someone has to pay for them, and if a bean counter sees a cogent argument made for freeing up money in software to get spiffier hardware, you can see where the decision process will lead.
::shrug::
If Windows were really up to the task, the bean counters would have forsworn initial savings for the longer-term dividend.
The DMCA is designed to cut Joe Sixpack off at the knees. Using it against 'legit' services that violate it simply gives those in Whoreland a taste of their own WhoreRx.
No wonder the Dowsers group that meets in our library has been wandering around in a daze!
When I was but a wee little lad, I was a budding artist. I loved scribbling on scrap paper with my awesome flourescent crayolas--I loved the play of color then as much as I do now when I design lighting for the theatre. However, it took loss to teach me a thing or two about the world, young tyke that I was.
At dinner one night, I was turning over the thought in my head of how beautiful my flourescent scribblings were under reflected light, but curiousity and a probing mind told me there could be another angle to appreciating my creation: why not set my creation atop the rim of a glass within which was burning a lit candle? After all, the flame was natural light, which was the perfect compliment for my wierdly-glowing creation!
That was the first time I ever saw my mother make any sort of Mad Dash. She removed the paper from the glass, admonishing me most strongly. Then, in a moment of inspiration, she set it back, but with a mind to be ready to grab the paper and run to the kitchen sink, just in case.
Which is good, because my little objet d'art burst into flame, and not at all as I expected it to do. Mom grabbed it and doused it in the sink, and an object lesson was learned:
Don't play with fire, because something's liable to get burned. This time it might be your beautiful flourescent scribbles (sorry, dear, for your loss, my little budding artiste!). Next time it could be you.
The RIAA was simply taught that playing with fire can get you burned. No one was hurt in the process. If they have any amount of gray matter between their ears, they will learn from this and decide to play nice with the rest of the family at the dinner table.
End of lecture.
Ummm... More like "Great job, give them a taste of what they are prescribing for Joe Sixpack."
This should show them what it is like to have an 'innocent' system brought to its knees by DoS. Perhaps it would be less annoying to them and still inconvenient enough if someone would just squeeze their bandwidth down to a trickle without cutting them off completely. After all, that is an effect of that medicine being promoted by the RIAA.
Oh, and it's nice to see how a RIAA representative seems to feel so founded in the rightness of their position as to remain anonymous. Lord knows that when I believe so strongly that I am in the right, I recognize anonymity as a hindrance rather than a protection.
But then, my thoughts are not programmed by my puppet masters.
If Linux is a puppy, then it's a mutt, which is the best kind of dog you can have. They generally are more intelligent, have a more pleasant disposition, and are healthier than the proprietary "Kennel Club" puppies.
The closed system of breeding proprietary dogs (purebreds) is the cause of no end of trouble.They can suffer from hip problems, gatrointestinal disorders, and also display the unpleasant capacity to both happily wag their tails and growl ominously at you at once.
I, too, am underwhelmed by M$'s TCO claims. Linux *can* be hard to set up, but THAT is because you have a multitude of choices in the installation process. This is no surprise, as it is an OS that can be workstation AND server, without compromising on either role. The question is which is more valuable to you: your time in setting up a robust, stable operating system, or your lost time and money in calling the support line and dragging your PC to the cow store every time it goes belly-up on you because you used the OS that 'came with?'
For those of you who picked what's behind door number two, here's your year's supply of
BLUE
SCREEN
OF
DEATH!
Now would be a PERFECT time to make a big stink of this, given that it is corporate executives asking for permission to act illegally, and at a time when acting illegally/irresponsibly in corporate America is gaining public attention in a big way. I'm sure Joe Sixpack would be interested to hear about this and vote out congressman who are on the payola train from entertainment execs.
So, for the right price, can I get a law passed allowing me to summarily execute recording and movie company executives on site, without fear of punishment? I'd be really cool with that. Can it be done?
I'm only asking...
Heaven and ministers of fate defend us! When did our youth take such a sinister course in life? Where did we fail?
The record industry is obviously hoping none of us recall how, in the days of cassette tapes, those heady days of the 70s and 80s, MOST 12-17 year olds didn't pay for music. Lord knows I rarely did, if I had a friend with the tape or LP. Better yet, I'd ASK friends to dub tapes, because I lacked either the equipment or the ambition to do it myself.
Did I buy music, ever? Ohhh yes. But only if I'd had a chance to hear it on it's own merits without feeding the corporate WHORES who claimed to make it possible. That meant hearing music via non-payola avenues. If I liked what I heard, I bought it, and bought other albums by the same artists.
Unfortunately, it appears to this reporter that corporate execs are as ignorant of all-powerful 'word of mouth' today as they have always been of good talent and new and innovative approaches to music.
That is, unless it appears it could bring in lots of money for them and to PROMOTE and ADVERTISE that they, geniuses that they are, have reinvented the wheel, once again, and tht to buy anything else is evil and unpatriotic, dammit!
Grrr.
...and replace Win2k with Linux.
;-)
OK, granted this was on my home PC, but still, why buy an expensive knock-off of what u can get for cheap?
When it comes down to it, everyone is wedded to windows for some damn reasons, but usually, if you can convince the Powers That Be to let you do the research, you can prolly plan towards replacing such servicecs with open-source solutions.
Sure, you can't walk into CompUSA or Best Buy to buy them, but why be like all the other lemmings???? Lately, my guiding philosophy has been to face the damn cliff and simply refuse to leap off it.
The last lemming standing and staring down at the wrecked bodies of his brethren gets the gold.
Or, in the case of Linux, the herring.
To quote Reagen (re.: missile agreements with the Soviets): "TRUST, but VERIFY."
EXCUUUUUSE ME!
How much moeny has M$ set aside to cushion the hit they are taking (or expected to take) on Xbox? A cubic BUTTLOAD more than they spent as antitrust insurance on Apple. $150million is petty cash for M$.
The REAL trouble M$ has here is that Apple owns the last remaining piece of the consumer PC pie, without wielding a monopoly-stick, a la M$, and it happens to be the most entertaining one: the digital entertainment hub.
No, wait, let me expand that to read: the digital entertainment, non-BSOD hub.
M$ faces a conundrum: the Windows franchise is petering out, Xbox is clinging marginally to it's piece of the console pie, and everything M$ touches becomes a security risk, or at least that's what people with data to secure are finding. Now, when there is little left to steal (such as Explorer and the various GPL'd code rumoured to be incorporated into Windows), they are faced with a truly competative company with the initiative to innovate, to boot.
For those who don't consider Apple competitive, please realize they've maintained their market share despite M$ monopolistic practices, and that was BEFORE OSX and the digital hub concept, as well as before the goofy execs that followed and preceeded the insanely whacky Steve jobs.
Now, with OSX and the PPC line opening up basically all software for the consumer (well, Windows under emulation and unixware that can compile under OSX) and fueling future growth, M$ is looking at the gas guage and realize they are in the middle of the desert and nearing empty. So what if M$ has poured $$ into Offive v.x? People can still run older versions in Classic mode under OSX, so why upgrade?
Now, all they have to work with is good ol' Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, only this time around, they're feeling it, rather than a-spreadin' it around.
[set gloatingOverOSX=off]
I see a lot of responses from guys whose manhood probobly feels challenged because the Rocket Man has a bigger, more powerful phallic artifice... But that's beside the point.
There isn't any comparing this to either gov't space programs or amateur 'Junkyard Wars' endeavours. First, most of the science has been done for him--he admits buying parts off-the-shelf, and acknowledges the need for a stability system of smaller engines. So, there goes the "he's a crackpot who [ahem!] doesn't have any [use flowery enunciation here] 'Formal Training.'" argument.
As for the reference to Junkyard Wars... They only get a day to work, and use scrap parts of marginal value, beyond mere entertainment. This guy has been working a while, seems to have a novel launch concept, and admits he won't go if it looks like a fatal day for flying. And who cares he didn't acknowledge the Slim Pickens reference. Maybe he was too busy focusing on answering rocket questions to clue in to an off-topic question.
Additionally, all you Jealous Joes out there, dyslexic and ADHD persons tend to be fairly intelligent creatures, so reel in your criticism. I see here a lot of sour grapes from Slashdotters who are pissed that they didn't think of it first, or would never be able to get permission from their apartment management/parents to launch from the parking lot/driveway.
So, Nyah!
"DRM is like a virus infecting and crippling what is otherwise a versatile system."
Hmmm... Do you think maybe SARC could update their virus definitions to include such unwanted downloads? Seems to me that DRM cuts both ways: as much as the Man wants to protect his digital rights, I would want to protect the digital rights to my PC. I think blocking such subterfuge should be incorporated into future antivirus packages.
If liquid fuel boosters hadn't been scrapped, you'd have had no O-rings to fail.
They struck a recent deal with the ESA to launch from their pad in South America. Do you think for a minute the US would let the Russians build a base in Cuba for the launch of big rockets? LOL
The end of Apollo was really the climax of US space exploration. The shuttle/ISS are the post-coital cigarette.
But seriously, the US was all set to go to Mars, but in the heady days of the early 70s, the Nixon administration had other plans. After all, remember that Apollo was really just a political carrot held before us by the Kennedy administration. Once we got to the moon, the collective sigh was sent up: "Been there, done that". By the time of Apollo 13, people took rocket science for granted, and were caught off guard by the Apollo 13 debacle, which, in my opinion, was a textbook example of Nasa at both it's worst and at its best.
In theory, the shuttle program could have been a more practical stepping-stone, but various budget-cutting measures and a highly-diminished drive to go to space handicapped it before it ever flew. So, you get what you pay for. Signs of this are extant in the solid rocket boosters, which are a cheap (and dangerous) alternative to a throttleable booster system. Whole unmanned systems were developed on paper as shuttle derivatives, but never flew off the drawing board due to intransagent budget hawks
Challenger showed the pennywise-poundfoolishness of the various cost-saving measures. Hopefully the people will see the real threat emerging from China now - they want to go to the moon themselves - and vote in pro-space legislators. Slip on over to space.com or spaceflightnow.com to bone up n your space geek knowledge. Your brain will goo "Mmmmmm!"
Again, I say why not a cache server, or is Slashdot afraid of being Slashdotted?
Wow... Slashdot could have it's own outer event horizon o' shlashdottiness!