Actually Linus spent most of his time playing pool in the back. (Where there was some vestige of air conditioning. It was over 90 degrees outside.) He seemed to be enjoying himself. It was not just a bunch of fawning nerds. (How you could tell from only two pictures, I don't know...) Linus is pretty shy around "fans". The main bulk of the party crowd stayed over by the alcohol and food and left Linus alone. (Many of them did not seem to even know he was there.) The crowd seemed to be about 70% men and 30% women. (Just like about every other corporate party I have been to in Portland.) It was a fun relaxed evening.
He still supports DRM, but only "good" implementations of it.
What he does not get is that DRM *has* to be intrusive to work. DRM is based on having someone other than the owner of the machine control the data on that machine. If you want to move that data to another machine, you have to request permission and it had to be hard to get pewrmission, otherwise people will take advantage of you and copy the data more times than allowed.
DRM is all about control. Control does not work unless you show them who is the boss early on.
An interesting side effect of this is what it is teaching Americans. It is teaching them that they only way they can do what they want in society on a day to day basis is to break the law.
Contemptable laws generate contempt for ALL laws.
Or as Macalypse the Yonger put it... "Imposition of order = Escalation of Disorder".
Not really. The number of patent applications is related to the number of problems being solved, not the number of people solving the problems. (Assuming that you don't have overlap in patents. In fact, that may be the only reason we are seeing as many patents as we do. Without overlap, there would be a lot less.)
Patents pretty much hobble innovation. They work when you have a relatively small population base, but not when the population is in the billions. (And not when patents keep getting extended to longer and longer periods of time.)
During the 1800s there were no improvements to the pistol for about 20 years due to patent restrictions. Patents are supposed to promote science and industry, but often have the opposite effect.
There is a large amount of huberis involved with the patent process that says "no one is as smart as me, so anyone who has a similar idea to mine must be stealing it". The problem is that when you have large numbers of people working on the same problems, you are going to encounter the same solutions over and over again.
If we continue to have a "first one to patent wins" on a global scale, we will have crippled ourselves to the fastest filers, not the fastest thinkers.
We no longer stand on the shoulers of giants because we are crippled by midgets.
A peasant looking at a royal notice posted on the wall. The notice reads "Reading this notice is punishable by death".
Next they will get you for images that you deleted, but the OS did not eliminate completely from your hard drive. (With a further charge for attempting to conceal and/or destroy evidence.)
Unless the company is owned by Enron. Then they just collect the sales tax, pay no taxes and keep the money collected and consider it "profit".
They did that with PGE in Oregon. For some odd reason, it is not against the law here! The state is trying to get it changed, but the Republicans are resisting a change in the law. (They claim that it will have unspecified bad consiquences, but they cannot tell you what they are.)
That said, almost every EB employee I have ever spoken to (you know, after that huge spiel when they answer the phone) is a complete idiot who wouldn't last a week in the store I work at. They lie to their customers about anything and everything in order to make a profit, they've completely bought into the "Nintendo is dying" BS that is being spread around, and they rarely know anything about the game they're selling if the title is something other than "Madden" or "GTA". They are casual gamers for the most part, with a small minority being hardcore FPS-freaks (usually Halo) who make minimum wage, don't care about their customers, and have little control over what is on their shelves (meaning if it's rare, it's not there).
Not always true. The EB I go to in Portland Oregon actually has a manager with clues. He tends to hire people who actualy play the games. Probably the only reason I shop there.
Of course there are few game stores left in this town. EB games is about the only one left. (I try not to buy games at Office Despot. It only encourages them.)
The new season of Doctor Who is starting to come out on DVD in the UK. Doctor Who Confidential is not.
Amazon.co.uk will ship to the US. Due to the crashing value of the dollar, it is pretty expensive. (I have spend a lot of money buying region 2 dvds from them.)
You need to have a player that can disable region codes, as well as play PAL format. The Coby DVD-224 is my current favorite. It will play RCE discs on the region free setting without intervention. Some versions can also disable Macrovision. All available through a "secret" menu. Plays everything I have tried on it. Costs about $40 on sale. Lacks video passthru, but has pretty much everything else.
Another documentary to check out is Doctor Who Confidential broadcast by BBC 3. It is a 13 part half-hour documentary series on the Doctor, past and present. It can be viewed on the BBC web site in Real Movie format or can be found on various file sharing networks in a larger and more viewable format.
So far I have seen nothing from the BBC on releasing the series on DVD. I hope they will. It has been quite good so far. (At this date, 11 of the 13 episodes have aired.)
I am glad that they are releasing an anti-virus solution for Linux.
Yes, there are almost no viruses that *run* on Linux, but there are viruses that arrive in my mail and on disks that I am handed by clients. I at least want to identify which viruses I am dealing with so I can inform my clients. ClamAV does not recognise all of the new ones. (Have to collect them all!)
Unfortunatly the "buy on line" link starts at 11 licenses, not one.
As for Macromedia, I would be happier if they would provide a Flash client that would work on my AMD64 in 64 bit Linux.
"Does this mean I get to wear a cool fedora and carry my distro CDs in a violin case?"
Sure, but the jocks are still going to kick your ass.
Not when I have my high power, full auto CD disc gun! Let them laugh when they have old Knopix discs and Fedora test releases sticking out of bloody wounds.
"But pity stayed his hand. It is a pity my gnu has run out of bullocks." - Bilbo Stallman
The more I look at the zv6000, the more I am glad I bought a zv5000z.
The screen resolution on the zv5000 is 1920x1600 instead of whatever the current screen is on the zv6000. (The hp shopping site is bjorked, so I can't look it up.) The video card is the nVIDIA 440go instead of the ATI. (I have had much more luck with nVIDIA than ATI, especially on the lower end cards.)
You might want to try Fedora Core 3 for 64 bit or SuSE for 64 bit. Those seem to have had more work done on them. (I use Fedora Core 4 Test 3 at the moment.)
There are a few quirks. Cardbus on the zv5000 requires patching the kernel. (The patch is pretty small.) The Broadcom wireless does not work as of yet. The weird memory card attachment does not work either. Other than that, it is pretty sweet.
I have not tested Eclipse yet. I will have to see if I can replicate the problem.
Actually the tools have the same problems on live action video.
On the Kino DVD for the restoration of Metropolis there is a documentry about the restoration process. The restorers ran into the same problems with the tools lopping off limbs and the like.
The tools work well for restoring frames that are realitivly static. They do not work well for things that are in motion.
BTW, the Kino restoration of Metropolis is EXCELLENT!
LOL, this is a health issue. We don't want kids getting drunk and turning into alcoholics. Most banks and currency exchanges sell credit cards. All a kid needs to do is buy a credit card, they will sell them to anyone. Then they go on-line, and order wine. A few days later, they recieve a shipment at their front door. Find some house where the parents work late, and can collect the wine and go drinking.
Since when did kids have to order expensive wine over the net to get drunk? It is not a problem. Kids do not have that good of taste, nor are they willing to spend that kind of money when they don't have to. They will get ripped on anything at hand, including American beer. They are not going to buy mail order wine to do that.
This idea that this is to "save the children" is incredibly bogus. The real reason is to protect the in-state wine distributors from any competition.
Anyone who uses the excuse that something is to "save the children", it almost never is. There is always some other agenda in play. Most people are too clueless to see it, however.
I am surprised how many supposedly inteligent people buy into the idea that somehow games (or comic books or rock music or movies) are going to convert their kids into little hooligans.
Either they are or they are not.
Except for the ones who are nasty little bastards due to genetics, the rest grow up how you raised them. You are far better preparing them for audulthood than sheltering them from every little thing the control freaks tell you are bad for your kid.
I get comments all the time about how mature and well-adjusted my daughter is.
Guess what? I let her play whatever games she wants as long as they are good games. (She is enjoying "God of War" at the moment.) I took her to R rated movies when she was small. (I also taught her the difference between fantasy and reality. Something far too few Americans ever learn.) She has uncensored access to the internet. She has her own e-mail account. Her own computer (running Linux). I also taught her to stand up for herself and not take crap from anyone.
By todays rules, I am a bad parent. But I am willing to bet my daughter has come out a lot better than any of your kids.
The people who are telling you that something is "bad for kids" are really saying "I do not want this to exist for anyone". They know that they can exert control over something if they claim they are doing it "for the children". Remember that these are the same people who claimed in the past that rock music and comic books were bad for kids as well. They also believe that if you don't teach them about sex or violence or secular humanism that they won't figure it out themselves.
It breaks a whole bunch of apps. It is a large enough list that something will probably not work on a high percentage of machines in any sizable deployment of Windows XP.
Windows admins have a good reason to be a bit careful here. Windows Service Packs have a long tradition of making systems or applications no longer function. After getting burned a few times, you learn to be careful.
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Why do I have this feeling like this "cutting edge technology" involves the entrails of an animal and some form of divination?
If not, then they have just violated the law.
And not a single tourist attraction.
What about Powell's?
Actually Linus spent most of his time playing pool in the back. (Where there was some vestige of air conditioning. It was over 90 degrees outside.) He seemed to be enjoying himself. It was not just a bunch of fawning nerds. (How you could tell from only two pictures, I don't know...) Linus is pretty shy around "fans". The main bulk of the party crowd stayed over by the alcohol and food and left Linus alone. (Many of them did not seem to even know he was there.) The crowd seemed to be about 70% men and 30% women. (Just like about every other corporate party I have been to in Portland.) It was a fun relaxed evening.
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He still supports DRM, but only "good" implementations of it.
What he does not get is that DRM *has* to be intrusive to work. DRM is based on having someone other than the owner of the machine control the data on that machine. If you want to move that data to another machine, you have to request permission and it had to be hard to get pewrmission, otherwise people will take advantage of you and copy the data more times than allowed.
DRM is all about control. Control does not work unless you show them who is the boss early on.
An interesting side effect of this is what it is teaching Americans. It is teaching them that they only way they can do what they want in society on a day to day basis is to break the law.
Contemptable laws generate contempt for ALL laws.
Or as Macalypse the Yonger put it...
"Imposition of order = Escalation of Disorder".
Not really. The number of patent applications is related to the number of problems being solved, not the number of people solving the problems. (Assuming that you don't have overlap in patents. In fact, that may be the only reason we are seeing as many patents as we do. Without overlap, there would be a lot less.)
I blame patents.
Patents pretty much hobble innovation. They work when you have a relatively small population base, but not when the population is in the billions. (And not when patents keep getting extended to longer and longer periods of time.)
During the 1800s there were no improvements to the pistol for about 20 years due to patent restrictions. Patents are supposed to promote science and industry, but often have the opposite effect.
There is a large amount of huberis involved with the patent process that says "no one is as smart as me, so anyone who has a similar idea to mine must be stealing it". The problem is that when you have large numbers of people working on the same problems, you are going to encounter the same solutions over and over again.
If we continue to have a "first one to patent wins" on a global scale, we will have crippled ourselves to the fastest filers, not the fastest thinkers.
We no longer stand on the shoulers of giants because we are crippled by midgets.
I wonder if anyone has translated the song "Fish Heads" to Thai.
They won't ship these set for free. I wonder why.
My biggest problem with this is that they call it "Complete Penguin Classics" and not one book on Linux in the entire set!
Lovecraft claimed that some of the Great Old Ones lived on or near Fomalhaut. Maybe it is not the eye of Sauron, but something far worse.
And now that we can see it, it can see us. And it will come for us in our dreams. And lick the sweet icor from our brains.
Enya! Enya! Cthulhu fthagan!
A peasant looking at a royal notice posted on the wall. The notice reads "Reading this notice is punishable by death".
Next they will get you for images that you deleted, but the OS did not eliminate completely from your hard drive. (With a further charge for attempting to conceal and/or destroy evidence.)
Unless the company is owned by Enron. Then they just collect the sales tax, pay no taxes and keep the money collected and consider it "profit".
They did that with PGE in Oregon. For some odd reason, it is not against the law here! The state is trying to get it changed, but the Republicans are resisting a change in the law. (They claim that it will have unspecified bad consiquences, but they cannot tell you what they are.)
That said, almost every EB employee I have ever spoken to (you know, after that huge spiel when they answer the phone) is a complete idiot who wouldn't last a week in the store I work at. They lie to their customers about anything and everything in order to make a profit, they've completely bought into the "Nintendo is dying" BS that is being spread around, and they rarely know anything about the game they're selling if the title is something other than "Madden" or "GTA". They are casual gamers for the most part, with a small minority being hardcore FPS-freaks (usually Halo) who make minimum wage, don't care about their customers, and have little control over what is on their shelves (meaning if it's rare, it's not there).
Not always true. The EB I go to in Portland Oregon actually has a manager with clues. He tends to hire people who actualy play the games. Probably the only reason I shop there.
Of course there are few game stores left in this town. EB games is about the only one left. (I try not to buy games at Office Despot. It only encourages them.)
The new season of Doctor Who is starting to come out on DVD in the UK. Doctor Who Confidential is not.
Amazon.co.uk will ship to the US. Due to the crashing value of the dollar, it is pretty expensive. (I have spend a lot of money buying region 2 dvds from them.)
You need to have a player that can disable region codes, as well as play PAL format. The Coby DVD-224 is my current favorite. It will play RCE discs on the region free setting without intervention. Some versions can also disable Macrovision. All available through a "secret" menu. Plays everything I have tried on it. Costs about $40 on sale. Lacks video passthru, but has pretty much everything else.
Another documentary to check out is Doctor Who Confidential broadcast by BBC 3. It is a 13 part half-hour documentary series on the Doctor, past and present. It can be viewed on the BBC web site in Real Movie format or can be found on various file sharing networks in a larger and more viewable format.
So far I have seen nothing from the BBC on releasing the series on DVD. I hope they will. It has been quite good so far. (At this date, 11 of the 13 episodes have aired.)
The "clamscan" command is a command line virus scanner. The problem is not usage, the problem is up to date virus signatures.
ClamAV also tend to have a problem with false detection of viruses in multi-part zip and rar files.
I prefer to use a number of scanners. It helps find the unusual viruses and trojans.
Fedora Core 4 has binaries for Eclipse in the "core" repository, as well as SRPMS.
/ SRPMS/
http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/development
I am glad that they are releasing an anti-virus solution for Linux.
Yes, there are almost no viruses that *run* on Linux, but there are viruses that arrive in my mail and on disks that I am handed by clients. I at least want to identify which viruses I am dealing with so I can inform my clients. ClamAV does not recognise all of the new ones. (Have to collect them all!)
Unfortunatly the "buy on line" link starts at 11 licenses, not one.
As for Macromedia, I would be happier if they would provide a Flash client that would work on my AMD64 in 64 bit Linux.
"Does this mean I get to wear a cool fedora and carry my distro CDs in a violin case?"
Sure, but the jocks are still going to kick your ass.
Not when I have my high power, full auto CD disc gun! Let them laugh when they have old Knopix discs and Fedora test releases sticking out of bloody wounds.
"But pity stayed his hand. It is a pity my gnu has run out of bullocks." - Bilbo Stallman
The more I look at the zv6000, the more I am glad I bought a zv5000z.
The screen resolution on the zv5000 is 1920x1600 instead of whatever the current screen is on the zv6000. (The hp shopping site is bjorked, so I can't look it up.) The video card is the nVIDIA 440go instead of the ATI. (I have had much more luck with nVIDIA than ATI, especially on the lower end cards.)
You might want to try Fedora Core 3 for 64 bit or SuSE for 64 bit. Those seem to have had more work done on them. (I use Fedora Core 4 Test 3 at the moment.)
There are a few quirks. Cardbus on the zv5000 requires patching the kernel. (The patch is pretty small.) The Broadcom wireless does not work as of yet. The weird memory card attachment does not work either. Other than that, it is pretty sweet.
I have not tested Eclipse yet. I will have to see if I can replicate the problem.
Actually the tools have the same problems on live action video.
On the Kino DVD for the restoration of Metropolis there is a documentry about the restoration process. The restorers ran into the same problems with the tools lopping off limbs and the like.
The tools work well for restoring frames that are realitivly static. They do not work well for things that are in motion.
BTW, the Kino restoration of Metropolis is EXCELLENT!
LOL, this is a health issue. We don't want kids getting drunk and turning into alcoholics. Most banks and currency exchanges sell credit cards. All a kid needs to do is buy a credit card, they will sell them to anyone. Then they go on-line, and order wine. A few days later, they recieve a shipment at their front door. Find some house where the parents work late, and can collect the wine and go drinking.
Since when did kids have to order expensive wine over the net to get drunk? It is not a problem. Kids do not have that good of taste, nor are they willing to spend that kind of money when they don't have to. They will get ripped on anything at hand, including American beer. They are not going to buy mail order wine to do that.
This idea that this is to "save the children" is incredibly bogus. The real reason is to protect the in-state wine distributors from any competition.
Anyone who uses the excuse that something is to "save the children", it almost never is. There is always some other agenda in play. Most people are too clueless to see it, however.
I am surprised how many supposedly inteligent people buy into the idea that somehow games (or comic books or rock music or movies) are going to convert their kids into little hooligans.
Either they are or they are not.
Except for the ones who are nasty little bastards due to genetics, the rest grow up how you raised them. You are far better preparing them for audulthood than sheltering them from every little thing the control freaks tell you are bad for your kid.
I get comments all the time about how mature and well-adjusted my daughter is.
Guess what? I let her play whatever games she wants as long as they are good games. (She is enjoying "God of War" at the moment.) I took her to R rated movies when she was small. (I also taught her the difference between fantasy and reality. Something far too few Americans ever learn.) She has uncensored access to the internet. She has her own e-mail account. Her own computer (running Linux). I also taught her to stand up for herself and not take crap from anyone.
By todays rules, I am a bad parent. But I am willing to bet my daughter has come out a lot better than any of your kids.
The people who are telling you that something is "bad for kids" are really saying "I do not want this to exist for anyone". They know that they can exert control over something if they claim they are doing it "for the children". Remember that these are the same people who claimed in the past that rock music and comic books were bad for kids as well. They also believe that if you don't teach them about sex or violence or secular humanism that they won't figure it out themselves.
They were not right then. They are not right now.
It breaks a whole bunch of apps. It is a large enough list that something will probably not work on a high percentage of machines in any sizable deployment of Windows XP.
Windows admins have a good reason to be a bit careful here. Windows Service Packs have a long tradition of making systems or applications no longer function. After getting burned a few times, you learn to be careful.