This is hooey. CDs spread error correction data physically within the data stream -- enough so that if you have to hold a disc up to the light to see the damage, any data lost because of that damage completely recoverable. (Theoretically you could lose data equivalent to a hole about a tenth of an inch across, though anything that big would probably make the transport mistrack.)
I just downloaded Process Explorer a few minutes ago and the EULA has been changed yet again. My favorite section:
2. SCOPE OF LICENSE. [...] You may not
* work around any technical limitations in the software;
* reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the software, except and only to the extent that applicable law expressly permits, despite this limitation;
Front page of todays WSJ had a great article on MSFT. It's a tale of two or three individuals that are making a change in the way MSFT develops software. There is some great stuff in there.
Sign me up to be in the room when Ballmer finds out that Google's hired them away as well.
Harry Potter was/is a huge mainstream front-cover-of-every-newsmagazine publishing phenomenon, and JKR's personal story is an integral part of that. The Harry Potter producers would have ignored Rowlings' concerns at the cost of her publicly trashing the movie(s) to her legions of devoted young fans. In short -- they had to listen to her, because she might have cost them a great deal of money if they hadn't.
There is no way in hell Ursula LeGuin would have had, or ever will have, this kind of juice with the people who adapt her work for TV or film.
I agree, but the obligatory Slashdot Bizarro twist... what if this was about Microsoft Word locking out OO.org with respect to "protected.doc" files....
A more realistic analogy would have OO.org creating a way to falsify digital signatures used by a theoretical MS-owned.doc file authentication system, and then charging people for documents "secured" using these false signatures.
I don't think either of the two companies in the Apple/Real AAC dispute is doing anything legally or technically wrong but that doesn't make Real any less slimy. They're profiting from the exploitation of something they didn't create, don't own and haven't been granted permission to use. If Apple had released a GPL'd implementation of their AAC+DRM encoding system and Real was making money selling a closed-source application that incorporated that code, it's clear that many of the people supporting Real in this argument would be firmly on the other side. I don't see a substantive difference from an IP perspective between that theoretical case and the one at issue between Apple and Real today -- using someone's work without their permission is either okay or it isn't. If it isn't, then Real are out of line.
The man to discuss this with would be Jim Oberg. His books "Red Star In Orbit" and "Uncovering Soviet Disasters" are both great reads, covering lots of stuff Russia tried to hide from the West during the cold war. (They both predate the fall of the Soviet Union, though, so they're pretty out of date by now.)
I agree with the other responders to this message: TFG is much, much wittier than The Simpsons. They're also less afraid to go for the cheap shot, and the musical bits just knock me on my ass. (Don't get me started on those flaccid "Evita" takeoffs on The Simpsons the other day -- yecccch!)
Most significantly to me, Family Guy doesn't succumb to a sitcom-ish last-two-minutes-of-the-episode personal-redemption jones. The Simpsons seems to be constitutionally incapable of wrapping things up on a mean-spirited note. Nobody ever "learns a valuable lesson" on The Family Guy; it's kinda like Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm in that sense.
It's obviously a matter of personal taste, but if you haven't seen The Family Guy you should at least give it a shot. When it first aired I dumped it after a couple of episodes because the whole "Stewie killing Lois" thing was way too overwrought for me, but after jumping back in for the Adult Swim airings I realized just how good a show it is. Arguably it's the most tightly-written network comedy in recent memory.
(I would leave King of the Hill out of the discussion, because it's a completely different kind of show -- much more grounded and less reliant on pop-culture references and flights of whimsy and "wackiness" than TFG or Simpsons, or even your average network sitcom.)
I used S&T until 2003 came out and was missing lots of business information (e.g., according to S&T03 there are, like, three movie theatres in the entire bay area). This wasn't fixed in 2004 even though MS acknowledged it as a problem for the 2003 release, so it seems safe to consider S&T to be a dead product line.
I want to be able to store, display and import/export custom locations, preferably by category, but I haven't found any consumer mapping software that does it. The mapping web sites aren't much more flexible unfortunately.
Now the closest thing to mapping software I use is EarthViewer 3D, and that's really just a fancy tech-toy...
...several mass market retailers featuring Bob promotions. Sears stores are offering consumers the opportunity to meet Bob via exclusive "technology makeovers."
Man, when Sears is the featured retail partner for your technology rollout, it's time to start looking for the emergency exits.
I'm also amused that email, the address book, and the "letter writer" counted as three of the eight functions. Oooh, but they interoperate, what an innovation!
In fact, I was hoping against all hope that somebody might actually suggest a credible scheme or two to curb such behavior.
Sorry you don't like for people to cite fair use in situations like this. Fortunately using sneer quotes around the term doesn't change the fact that despite recent efforts by the content industry, the fair use doctrine is black-letter law in the US and people have every right to take advantage of it (differences between Japanese and US copyright law notwithstanding depending on the circumstances).
It is neither illegal nor morally wrong to copy a single picture out of a magazine for personal use, and there's no reason it should be.
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If IBM starts seeing significant resistance to Linux adoption out in the field, they can just include a clause in their standard contracts indemnifying their customers against any legal problems that arise from the use of IBM's distribution. In fact I suspect many customers already have this in their agreements. There's been IP FUD around open source for years -- any company big enough to be buying commercial Linux support from a major vendor is probably big enough to have thought this stuff through before letting Linux through the door in the first place. The SCO suit might affect ad hoc adoption under some circumstances, but small installations might just as easily assume they're too small to get caught up in this nonsense.
Theoretically IBM could actually use the suit to increase their Linux market: Hey company, if you install Linux on your own you might be sued by a Slimy Cretinous Obfuscator. Buy your support from us and we'll protect you from them!
I've been loving the show this season. Great characters, a focus on the kind of culture clash stories that TOS specialized in..
I've found that many of this season's episodes are more enjoyable if I watch them while pretending that they're TOS episodes (Kirk instead of Archer, etc.) Seems to me they're going to great lengths to write T'Pol as Spock this year so why not go all the way?
Many adults have better things to do than amass huge boxes of pamphlets in their closets. Trade collections sell better to the general audience.
Local retailers are often unreliable; few people have easy access to a quality shop (Golden Apple, Comic Relief, et al.). Good luck following an indie series if your supplier can't be bothered to stock it properly.
Manga are finally a significant force in the US, giving kids a great introduction to the medium. But when they outgrow Shonen Jump (300+ pages, $4.95/month) the average indie title (24-32 pages, $2.95/month) is going to be a really hard sell.
I would love to see indie comics publishers start up monthly "phonebook" anthologies to dump into the mainstream retail distribution network. Unfortunately the costs are likely prohibitive if you don't have eight hours a day of free advertising courtesy of Kid's WB and Cartoon Network. Meanwhile I'll keep going to Comic Relief every now and then and picking up all the trade collections that've been released since my last visit.
I've been using "per-site" addresses for about eighteen months now. Last night I finally got the first spam I could track back to one of these addresses -- the one I used at the original cdnow.com. Apparently they decided they could make a little money on the side by selling off their customer list.
I've been pretty lazy about scrubbing my email address from the publicly-accessable web. Guess it's time to start.
I went there for the first time a few weeks ago to pick up some old Apple Disk ][ drives. They have those in abundance but I certainly didn't expect to find an old Tandy Modem I (300 baud external, direct connect, plug in your phone and dial manually and then flip the carrier switch by hand when the remote modem answers). This was my very first modem back in 1983 and I'd been thinking for a while how cool it would be to pick one up. Never thought I'd see one again but there it was. $3!
(They also had several examples each of my third and fourth modems -- a stylish little tower-style ViVa! 2400 and a 9600 baud Practical Peripherals external -- so I may be going back again. The venerable Novation Apple-Cat 212 is still in its original box in a trunk at my apartment.:-)
* The people reading this aren't the people responding to spam. * Someone foolish enough to respond to spam isn't trainable enough to stop. * You can't use social pressure to change the behavior of a sociopath.
Snood is the rip-off of Bust-A-Move (a/k/a Puzzle Bobble, et al.). The fact that so few people seem to recognize this kind of reinforces the original author's point about the recent obscurity of the puzzle-game genre.
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This is hooey. CDs spread error correction data physically within the data stream -- enough so that if you have to hold a disc up to the light to see the damage, any data lost because of that damage completely recoverable. (Theoretically you could lose data equivalent to a hole about a tenth of an inch across, though anything that big would probably make the transport mistrack.)
That's easy. They found out he was behind Mini-Microsoft.
I love the graphic they use for the story: "World Wibe Ridicule". "Wibe?"
Harry Potter was/is a huge mainstream front-cover-of-every-newsmagazine publishing phenomenon, and JKR's personal story is an integral part of that. The Harry Potter producers would have ignored Rowlings' concerns at the cost of her publicly trashing the movie(s) to her legions of devoted young fans. In short -- they had to listen to her, because she might have cost them a great deal of money if they hadn't.
There is no way in hell Ursula LeGuin would have had, or ever will have, this kind of juice with the people who adapt her work for TV or film.
A more realistic analogy would have OO.org creating a way to falsify digital signatures used by a theoretical MS-owned .doc file authentication system, and then charging people for documents "secured" using these false signatures.
I don't think either of the two companies in the Apple/Real AAC dispute is doing anything legally or technically wrong but that doesn't make Real any less slimy. They're profiting from the exploitation of something they didn't create, don't own and haven't been granted permission to use. If Apple had released a GPL'd implementation of their AAC+DRM encoding system and Real was making money selling a closed-source application that incorporated that code, it's clear that many of the people supporting Real in this argument would be firmly on the other side. I don't see a substantive difference from an IP perspective between that theoretical case and the one at issue between Apple and Real today -- using someone's work without their permission is either okay or it isn't. If it isn't, then Real are out of line.
The man to discuss this with would be Jim Oberg. His books "Red Star In Orbit" and "Uncovering Soviet Disasters" are both great reads, covering lots of stuff Russia tried to hide from the West during the cold war. (They both predate the fall of the Soviet Union, though, so they're pretty out of date by now.)
You laugh, but Keyhole 2 Nv has a Mars dataset.
I agree with the other responders to this message: TFG is much, much wittier than The Simpsons. They're also less afraid to go for the cheap shot, and the musical bits just knock me on my ass. (Don't get me started on those flaccid "Evita" takeoffs on The Simpsons the other day -- yecccch!)
Most significantly to me, Family Guy doesn't succumb to a sitcom-ish last-two-minutes-of-the-episode personal-redemption jones. The Simpsons seems to be constitutionally incapable of wrapping things up on a mean-spirited note. Nobody ever "learns a valuable lesson" on The Family Guy; it's kinda like Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm in that sense.
It's obviously a matter of personal taste, but if you haven't seen The Family Guy you should at least give it a shot. When it first aired I dumped it after a couple of episodes because the whole "Stewie killing Lois" thing was way too overwrought for me, but after jumping back in for the Adult Swim airings I realized just how good a show it is. Arguably it's the most tightly-written network comedy in recent memory.
(I would leave King of the Hill out of the discussion, because it's a completely different kind of show -- much more grounded and less reliant on pop-culture references and flights of whimsy and "wackiness" than TFG or Simpsons, or even your average network sitcom.)
I'd really like to know what's an over-spec prostitute.
Well, you know how sometimes you'll get one with a little extra equipment "down there" . . .
I used S&T until 2003 came out and was missing lots of business information (e.g., according to S&T03 there are, like, three movie theatres in the entire bay area). This wasn't fixed in 2004 even though MS acknowledged it as a problem for the 2003 release, so it seems safe to consider S&T to be a dead product line.
I want to be able to store, display and import/export custom locations, preferably by category, but I haven't found any consumer mapping software that does it. The mapping web sites aren't much more flexible unfortunately.
Now the closest thing to mapping software I use is EarthViewer 3D, and that's really just a fancy tech-toy...
Well, unless Nefertiti was a drag queen, it is perhaps not all that surprising that Yul Brynner didn't make a convincing Nefertiti.
Which is surprising, given that he's otherwise a pretty talented drag performer.
Some people apparently do. (See image caption.)
Man, when Sears is the featured retail partner for your technology rollout, it's time to start looking for the emergency exits.
I'm also amused that email, the address book, and the "letter writer" counted as three of the eight functions. Oooh, but they interoperate, what an innovation!
In fact, I was hoping against all hope that somebody might actually suggest a credible scheme or two to curb such behavior.
Sorry you don't like for people to cite fair use in situations like this. Fortunately using sneer quotes around the term doesn't change the fact that despite recent efforts by the content industry, the fair use doctrine is black-letter law in the US and people have every right to take advantage of it (differences between Japanese and US copyright law notwithstanding depending on the circumstances).
It is neither illegal nor morally wrong to copy a single picture out of a magazine for personal use, and there's no reason it should be.
If IBM starts seeing significant resistance to Linux adoption out in the field, they can just include a clause in their standard contracts indemnifying their customers against any legal problems that arise from the use of IBM's distribution. In fact I suspect many customers already have this in their agreements. There's been IP FUD around open source for years -- any company big enough to be buying commercial Linux support from a major vendor is probably big enough to have thought this stuff through before letting Linux through the door in the first place. The SCO suit might affect ad hoc adoption under some circumstances, but small installations might just as easily assume they're too small to get caught up in this nonsense.
Theoretically IBM could actually use the suit to increase their Linux market: Hey company, if you install Linux on your own you might be sued by a Slimy Cretinous Obfuscator. Buy your support from us and we'll protect you from them!
Sure. Where else would you go for an open source barn?
I've been loving the show this season. Great characters, a focus on the kind of culture clash stories that TOS specialized in..
I've found that many of this season's episodes are more enjoyable if I watch them while pretending that they're TOS episodes (Kirk instead of Archer, etc.) Seems to me they're going to great lengths to write T'Pol as Spock this year so why not go all the way?
- Many adults have better things to do than amass huge boxes of pamphlets in their closets. Trade collections sell better to the general audience.
- Local retailers are often unreliable; few people have easy access to a quality shop (Golden Apple, Comic Relief, et al.). Good luck following an indie series if your supplier can't be bothered to stock it properly.
- Manga are finally a significant force in the US, giving kids a great introduction to the medium. But when they outgrow Shonen Jump (300+ pages, $4.95/month) the average indie title (24-32 pages, $2.95/month) is going to be a really hard sell.
I would love to see indie comics publishers start up monthly "phonebook" anthologies to dump into the mainstream retail distribution network. Unfortunately the costs are likely prohibitive if you don't have eight hours a day of free advertising courtesy of Kid's WB and Cartoon Network. Meanwhile I'll keep going to Comic Relief every now and then and picking up all the trade collections that've been released since my last visit.I've been using "per-site" addresses for about eighteen months now. Last night I finally got the first spam I could track back to one of these addresses -- the one I used at the original cdnow.com. Apparently they decided they could make a little money on the side by selling off their customer list.
I've been pretty lazy about scrubbing my email address from the publicly-accessable web. Guess it's time to start.
I went there for the first time a few weeks ago to pick up some old Apple Disk ][ drives. They have those in abundance but I certainly didn't expect to find an old Tandy Modem I (300 baud external, direct connect, plug in your phone and dial manually and then flip the carrier switch by hand when the remote modem answers). This was my very first modem back in 1983 and I'd been thinking for a while how cool it would be to pick one up. Never thought I'd see one again but there it was. $3!
:-)
(They also had several examples each of my third and fourth modems -- a stylish little tower-style ViVa! 2400 and a 9600 baud Practical Peripherals external -- so I may be going back again. The venerable Novation Apple-Cat 212 is still in its original box in a trunk at my apartment.
Problems with this:
* The people reading this aren't the people responding to spam.
* Someone foolish enough to respond to spam isn't trainable enough to stop.
* You can't use social pressure to change the behavior of a sociopath.
Snood is the rip-off of Bust-A-Move (a/k/a Puzzle Bobble, et al.). The fact that so few people seem to recognize this kind of reinforces the original author's point about the recent obscurity of the puzzle-game genre.