Don't you think that the system is built for just that 'need for speed'? If you 'punch the hell out of the gas pedal' you will not be hindered by the slight extra resistance the system puts in the path I'd say. For all those other times you suffer from a heavy right foot that extra resistance might just be enough for you to behave like the rule(r)s intended...
That is the way things work here (in Sweden) when you call the doctor ('vårdcentralen' == 'care center'). The machine even tells you when you will be called back before you tell it your number. Quite a good system, both for the customer as well as for the company.
In Europe, Siemens sells the Gigaset M34 USB adapter which lets you use a number of DECT handsets for VoIP. The adapter comes with a (customised) version of Skype. I have not tried this thing yet but I might give it a go, given that I've been using a DECT phone for several years now. Not with Skype though, as I'd rather use something standards-based (ie. a SIP phone like Linphone or the upcoming SIP-enabled version of GnomeMeeting).
Just plain "Ajax" (which in my mind still reeks of a cleaning agent more than a web technology) does not seem to be enough to displace desktop apps, as the interfaces built with it are still clearly web interfaces - albeit more responsive ones. However the combination of asynchronous javascript, XmlHttpRequest and XUL (tutorial can be found here) seems to have more of a chance to provide a native application look and feel to a web-based application. A well-known example of such an app is the Amazon.com browser, give it a try if you have not done so.
As an aside: have a look at the high-res version of the picture showing the gap filler protruding from the belly. It seems that the digital camera they used to take that picture has loads and loads of dead pixels (all the red, white, grey, blueish dots, vague vertical stripes across those dots, etc). I wonder... is this the result of using a non radiation-hardened device in orbit? And if so, what radiation levels is the crew in the ISS exposed to?
Not that strange that they can not find Amsterdam... They can't even find the Netherlands there where it is supposed to be. For some reason the Netherlands is called Belgium, while Belgium is called... the Netherlands.
> Take cigarettes, alcohol, and in amsterdam, heroin, for example.
Selling heroin in Amsterdam will land you in jail, as it is forbidden by law. Selling marihuana is another story, this is (still) tolerated to a certain extent. Heroin is a hard drug (like alcohol), marihuana a soft drug (like tobacco).
Some 5 years ago I stopped buying from RIAA con sorte. I have bought some CD's since, but they are made by independents and sold only at concerts, in a pub, etc. I do not give CD's (or, for that matter, DVD's) as presents.
RIAA has made themselves irrelevant to me. I do not worry to much over their antics, as the world will spin quite well with or without them. Sure, put fingerprint detectors on CD-players. I'll buy that cheap Chinese CD/MP3/... player without Big Brother. Or I'll use a PC. Or I'll do... whatever has to be done not to play their game.
Game Over, RIAA. Enjoy the twilight, while it lasts.
In 2001 I paddled the Yukon from Whitehorse (Canada) to Emmonak (Alaska, at the mouth of the river) in a 17 ft. canoe. To document the experience without too much hassle, I built a solar-powered waterproof computer out of a Virgin WebPlayer (remember those?) and some assorted electronic parts. The machine was/is equipped with a VGA webcam, which took pictures with regular intervals or when ordered to do so (whichever came first). It could also do motion tracking, snapping shots of passing animals etc. It could also record sound if needed. All of that was stored on two 20 GB notebook harddrives inside the machine. I mentioned the project on/. in this posting.
Had I still had my webserver (...no broadband where I now live, in Sweden...) those pictures would be visible for all to see. The camera was attached with a velcro strip to my hat, or sometimes to the canoe. It contains a microphone as well, so it could also record sounds (a function I did not use at the time). The whole setup worked fine, right until a leak in the camera's waterproofing and a subsequent rainy week smudged the CCD sensor. Pictures were blurry after that...
Of course I'm not the only one who has done things like this. There is a lot of 'prior art' in this field.
Well, you might not have to pay a subscription fee to the 'free' ISP's in the Netherlands (and elsewhere in Europe), but you DO pay by the minute through the phone bill. In the US, local calls (like those to your ISP, with a bit of luck) are free, so the price in the US will end up lower for anyone using more than, say half an hour, of net-time a day.
I live in Sweden, where everyone seems to have broadband. Everyone, except for those who live in areas forgotten by Scanova (the only company which is allowed to install equipment in phone exchanges). I use a 'free' ISP, but end up paying more than I'd pay for broadband for dial-up...
It's those suits and ties them 'management' folk are wearing. Nearly strangle them, those ties do. Cuts the blood supply to their brains. No wonder they act the way they do.
Reading the reactions to this item, it strikes me that the 'right' thing in many people's eyes seems to be for big companies to fund the 'warchest' of defendants in these cases, so they can 'fight' these frivolous lawsuits and win.
True, that will get PanIP off the map, but it will also feed the lawyers who are at the base of all these (and other) problems. If you live in a society run and ruled by lawyers, if your every move can be attacked by other lawyers necessitating you to employ yet another lawyer to 'defend' you for something which in a less lawsuit-trigger-happy country would not even be thought about, this is what you can expect.
Of course a society needs some basic rules of conduct. And yes, when someone has to defend him/herself in court it is reasonable to allow that person to employ someone to help him/her with said defense. And that is more or less where the task of a lawyer ends in my (not so) humble opinion.
I seriously doubt that society would be worse off if the whole body of 'corporate law' were to be declared invalid, and all related suits and claims and whatnot were thrown out. Yes, there would be abuse by some unsavoury individuals and/or companies in areas which are currently controlled under corporate law, but the abuse is there now as well. Corporate law does not seem to lessen the abuse, it just concentrates it in a certain group: those with money, and those versed in corporate law - in essence, rich companies and (their) lawyers. Now tell me why there is corporate law in the first place?
There are just too many lawyers, it is too lucrative to become a lawyer, there is too much money in the profession of law. Law is a profit center. It should not be.
In essence, "Don't feed the animals". You don't want them to take over the place, do you?
For me, all these digital-right-enforcing business-plan-ueber-alles buy-this-ball-and-chain sales 'people' achieve by their machinations is to strengthen my resolve not to be caught in their webs. I can do without an X-Box, PS2, Game Cube, Windows XP Entertainment Edition-powered 'home theater', Microsoft Windows Media Player, region-coded DVD player, region-coded anything.
I can do without websites which force me to sign up for a Microsoft Passport. There are enough alternatives.
I can do without 'media players' which require me to use 'Secure Digital' overpriced media.
I can do without all that. I have done without it all my life actually, and I see no reason to start using stuff like that.
Go away, Microsoft. Go away, Sony. Go away, Nintendo. I don't need you. I certainly don't need any new laws tailored to your perceived needs.
I am not the only one who feels like this. For me, these 'products' are dead. Not buried yet, but certainly dead.
OTOH, I seem to have picked up a flaw in the GPL...[deletia]...The reason being is many companies develop their own
private modifications to software...[deletia]...If under a GPL license the company would have had to opensource their modifications
BZZZT... you're wrong.
The GPL does not require modifications of modified versions of software to be 'opensourced' if the modified program is not distributed to a third party, as explained in the GPL FAQ.
The No. 1 song in England today is a remix of a 30-year-old Elvis B-side single, "A Little Less Conversation." Nike commissioned a Dutch disc jockey, JXL, to do the remix for its World Cup ad campaign. He tweaked the instrumental balance and added a techno back beat to create a fresh new sound.
That sort of thing will be simply impossible if digital rights management becomes commonplace.
Hmmm.... I really think that in this case, DRM might actually be beneficial for 'innovation' in music. I mean, how innovative is the zillionth 'take-old-hit-add-techno-beat-and-rap-line' really?
PS. for those who might not understand, no I don't want DRM/Palladium/other-four-letter-laws to become reality. I just want an end to the neverending stream of copy-cat 'hits'.
...which would probably not end anyway when/if DRM becomes mainstream, as those copy-cat 'hits' are a major cash-cow for the recording industry, who would make sure (as they already do) that THEY are allowed to do these things while YOU are not.
Ah, true. The only part missing is the right to buy a new copy of the work at media costs (plus a little for distribution etc.) when the old one has died, or when a new medium (DVD-A, MiniDisc, those little blue-laser-discs Philips developed, etc) hits the market.
Ugh, that's an *ugly* solution to a problem which should not even exist in the first place. Why not move your email to a platform which is not sensitive to all this (Microsoft-spexific) virus/worm nonsense? That way, you's be able to send email like it was meant to be, without having to worry about the worm-du-jour problems still bothering those who wave not made the switch yet. Quick, cheap, easy!
...obviously my Mozilla browser and Junkbuster proxy are not officially Microsoft sanctioned. This is the result, a result I've seen on many many many Microsoft-driven websites:
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d'
Type mismatch: 'CInt'
/education/content/DonatedComputers.asp, line 63
This, to me, looks just soooooo unprofessinal... The same browser/proxy combo works on most other sites, except those Microsoft-driven ones and some sites which insist on getting a valid Referer: tag (which I block).
I know I would not want my companies website to display this nonsense to potential customers...
VirtualDub runs quite well under (recent?) incarnations of Wine. As do many other video-related tools. Oh, and of course there's also Broadcast2000 (originally found here, but now also to be found here), and (for the more adventurous) its successor Cinelerra, which is not on their main site but lives on the Sourceforge project site. Beware, compiling Cinelerra is not for the faint of heart.
if you have the 'magic sysrq' option enabled, you can use the key-combination 'Alt-PrintScreen-S' (from the console, of course...) to sync the filesystems. Do this a couple of times (with a 1-2 second interval), followed by a couple of 'Alt-PrintScreen-U' (unmounts and remounts read-only all filesystems). When all filesystems have been remounted R/O, use 'Alt-PrintScreen-R' (on some systems only the left Alt-key works for this combo) to reboot the box. The presence of the/forcefsck file should force a fsck on the next boot (it does this through a check in the rc.sysinit script, grep for fsck in this script to see whether your rc.sysinit uses this file or some other mechanism if you're not sure about this).
If you DON'T have the magic_sysrq option enabled, you can sync(1) a couple of times before rebooting to lower the chance of there being dirty inodes on umount.
The most important bit is that about forcing a fsck on the next boot, no matter what filesystems you use. This bug affects all filesystems, including ext3 and reiserfs and others.
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Don't you think that the system is built for just that 'need for speed'? If you 'punch the hell out of the gas pedal' you will not be hindered by the slight extra resistance the system puts in the path I'd say. For all those other times you suffer from a heavy right foot that extra resistance might just be enough for you to behave like the rule(r)s intended...
That is the way things work here (in Sweden) when you call the doctor ('vårdcentralen' == 'care center'). The machine even tells you when you will be called back before you tell it your number. Quite a good system, both for the customer as well as for the company.
Tried it:
a der.asp, line 9
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'
[MySQL][ODBC 3.51 Driver]Too many connections
E:\WWWROOT\WWW.EV50.COM\HTML\POLL\../include/dbhe
Oops....
In Europe, Siemens sells the Gigaset M34 USB adapter which lets you use a number of DECT handsets for VoIP. The adapter comes with a (customised) version of Skype. I have not tried this thing yet but I might give it a go, given that I've been using a DECT phone for several years now. Not with Skype though, as I'd rather use something standards-based (ie. a SIP phone like Linphone or the upcoming SIP-enabled version of GnomeMeeting).
Just plain "Ajax" (which in my mind still reeks of a cleaning agent more than a web technology) does not seem to be enough to displace desktop apps, as the interfaces built with it are still clearly web interfaces - albeit more responsive ones. However the combination of asynchronous javascript, XmlHttpRequest and XUL (tutorial can be found here) seems to have more of a chance to provide a native application look and feel to a web-based application. A well-known example of such an app is the Amazon.com browser, give it a try if you have not done so.
As an aside: have a look at the high-res version of the picture showing the gap filler protruding from the belly. It seems that the digital camera they used to take that picture has loads and loads of dead pixels (all the red, white, grey, blueish dots, vague vertical stripes across those dots, etc). I wonder... is this the result of using a non radiation-hardened device in orbit? And if so, what radiation levels is the crew in the ISS exposed to?
Not that strange that they can not find Amsterdam... They can't even find the Netherlands there where it is supposed to be. For some reason the Netherlands is called Belgium, while Belgium is called... the Netherlands.
> Take cigarettes, alcohol, and in amsterdam, heroin, for example.
Selling heroin in Amsterdam will land you in jail, as it is forbidden by law. Selling marihuana is another story, this is (still) tolerated to a certain extent. Heroin is a hard drug (like alcohol), marihuana a soft drug (like tobacco).
Some 5 years ago I stopped buying from RIAA con sorte. I have bought some CD's since, but they are made by independents and sold only at concerts, in a pub, etc. I do not give CD's (or, for that matter, DVD's) as presents.
RIAA has made themselves irrelevant to me. I do not worry to much over their antics, as the world will spin quite well with or without them. Sure, put fingerprint detectors on CD-players. I'll buy that cheap Chinese CD/MP3/... player without Big Brother. Or I'll use a PC. Or I'll do... whatever has to be done not to play their game.
Game Over, RIAA. Enjoy the twilight, while it lasts.
In 2001 I paddled the Yukon from Whitehorse (Canada) to Emmonak (Alaska, at the mouth of the river) in a 17 ft. canoe. To document the experience without too much hassle, I built a solar-powered waterproof computer out of a Virgin WebPlayer (remember those?) and some assorted electronic parts. The machine was/is equipped with a VGA webcam, which took pictures with regular intervals or when ordered to do so (whichever came first). It could also do motion tracking, snapping shots of passing animals etc. It could also record sound if needed. All of that was stored on two 20 GB notebook harddrives inside the machine. I mentioned the project on /. in this posting.
Had I still had my webserver (...no broadband where I now live, in Sweden...) those pictures would be visible for all to see. The camera was attached with a velcro strip to my hat, or sometimes to the canoe. It contains a microphone as well, so it could also record sounds (a function I did not use at the time). The whole setup worked fine, right until a leak in the camera's waterproofing and a subsequent rainy week smudged the CCD sensor. Pictures were blurry after that...
Of course I'm not the only one who has done things like this. There is a lot of 'prior art' in this field.
Well, you might not have to pay a subscription fee to the 'free' ISP's in the Netherlands (and elsewhere in Europe), but you DO pay by the minute through the phone bill. In the US, local calls (like those to your ISP, with a bit of luck) are free, so the price in the US will end up lower for anyone using more than, say half an hour, of net-time a day.
I live in Sweden, where everyone seems to have broadband. Everyone, except for those who live in areas forgotten by Scanova (the only company which is allowed to install equipment in phone exchanges). I use a 'free' ISP, but end up paying more than I'd pay for broadband for dial-up...
It's those suits and ties them 'management' folk are wearing. Nearly strangle them, those ties do. Cuts the blood supply to their brains. No wonder they act the way they do.
Reading the reactions to this item, it strikes me that the 'right' thing in many people's eyes seems to be for big companies to fund the 'warchest' of defendants in these cases, so they can 'fight' these frivolous lawsuits and win.
True, that will get PanIP off the map, but it will also feed the lawyers who are at the base of all these (and other) problems. If you live in a society run and ruled by lawyers, if your every move can be attacked by other lawyers necessitating you to employ yet another lawyer to 'defend' you for something which in a less lawsuit-trigger-happy country would not even be thought about, this is what you can expect.
Of course a society needs some basic rules of conduct. And yes, when someone has to defend him/herself in court it is reasonable to allow that person to employ someone to help him/her with said defense. And that is more or less where the task of a lawyer ends in my (not so) humble opinion.
I seriously doubt that society would be worse off if the whole body of 'corporate law' were to be declared invalid, and all related suits and claims and whatnot were thrown out. Yes, there would be abuse by some unsavoury individuals and/or companies in areas which are currently controlled under corporate law, but the abuse is there now as well. Corporate law does not seem to lessen the abuse, it just concentrates it in a certain group: those with money, and those versed in corporate law - in essence, rich companies and (their) lawyers. Now tell me why there is corporate law in the first place?
There are just too many lawyers, it is too lucrative to become a lawyer, there is too much money in the profession of law. Law is a profit center. It should not be.
In essence, "Don't feed the animals". You don't want them to take over the place, do you?
For me, all these digital-right-enforcing business-plan-ueber-alles buy-this-ball-and-chain sales 'people' achieve by their machinations is to strengthen my resolve not to be caught in their webs. I can do without an X-Box, PS2, Game Cube, Windows XP Entertainment Edition-powered 'home theater', Microsoft Windows Media Player, region-coded DVD player, region-coded anything.
I can do without websites which force me to sign up for a Microsoft Passport. There are enough alternatives.
I can do without 'media players' which require me to use 'Secure Digital' overpriced media.
I can do without all that. I have done without it all my life actually, and I see no reason to start using stuff like that.
Go away, Microsoft. Go away, Sony. Go away, Nintendo. I don't need you. I certainly don't need any new laws tailored to your perceived needs.
I am not the only one who feels like this. For me, these 'products' are dead. Not buried yet, but certainly dead.
Good riddance. I'd say.
BZZZT... you're wrong.
The GPL does not require modifications of modified versions of software to be 'opensourced' if the modified program is not distributed to a third party, as explained in the GPL FAQ.
Hmmm.... I really think that in this case, DRM might actually be beneficial for 'innovation' in music. I mean, how innovative is the zillionth 'take-old-hit-add-techno-beat-and-rap-line' really?
PS. for those who might not understand, no I don't want DRM/Palladium/other-four-letter-laws to become reality. I just want an end to the neverending stream of copy-cat 'hits'.
Ah, true. The only part missing is the right to buy a new copy of the work at media costs (plus a little for distribution etc.) when the old one has died, or when a new medium (DVD-A, MiniDisc, those little blue-laser-discs Philips developed, etc) hits the market.
Maybe there should be lawsuits over that...
Ugh, that's an *ugly* solution to a problem which should not even exist in the first place. Why not move your email to a platform which is not sensitive to all this (Microsoft-spexific) virus/worm nonsense? That way, you's be able to send email like it was meant to be, without having to worry about the worm-du-jour problems still bothering those who wave not made the switch yet. Quick, cheap, easy!
Uh, I think you got that the wrong way around...? According to the MS doctrine people (users) are the tools, to be used for their purposes...
This, to me, looks just soooooo unprofessinal... The same browser/proxy combo works on most other sites, except those Microsoft-driven ones and some sites which insist on getting a valid Referer: tag (which I block).
I know I would not want my companies website to display this nonsense to potential customers...
VirtualDub runs quite well under (recent?) incarnations of Wine. As do many other video-related tools. Oh, and of course there's also Broadcast2000 (originally found here, but now also to be found here), and (for the more adventurous) its successor Cinelerra, which is not on their main site but lives on the Sourceforge project site. Beware, compiling Cinelerra is not for the faint of heart.
This is not what Tim Berners-Lee intended...
Oops,
Of course you need 'Alt-PrintScreen-B' to boot the box, not 'Alt-PrintScreen-R'.
Before you reboot, do the following:
/forcefsck
/forcefsck file should force a fsck on the next boot (it does this through a check in the rc.sysinit script, grep for fsck in this script to see whether your rc.sysinit uses this file or some other mechanism if you're not sure about this).
touch
if you have the 'magic sysrq' option enabled, you can use the key-combination 'Alt-PrintScreen-S' (from the console, of course...) to sync the filesystems. Do this a couple of times (with a 1-2 second interval), followed by a couple of 'Alt-PrintScreen-U' (unmounts and remounts read-only all filesystems). When all filesystems have been remounted R/O, use 'Alt-PrintScreen-R' (on some systems only the left Alt-key works for this combo) to reboot the box. The presence of the
If you DON'T have the magic_sysrq option enabled, you can sync(1) a couple of times before rebooting to lower the chance of there being dirty inodes on umount.
The most important bit is that about forcing a fsck on the next boot, no matter what filesystems you use. This bug affects all filesystems, including ext3 and reiserfs and others.
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