Good idea. I've been planning to do this for a while. My wife and I share a very small "computer room" in our otherwise large apartment. The noise of both our machines at the same time is driving my buggy. The only thing holding me back is that I'll have to replace both of our keyboards, my mouse and her trackball.
Not everyone is listening to pop, rock or country. This will work well for jazz and especially classical, both of which suffer from the high noise level, limited bandwidth and heavy compression on FM.
...or even stupider, they could do like the characters in "Mission to Mars" and just pop open a brand name soft drink (taking care of course to hold the container in such a way to to avoid obscuring the product label). The carbonated beverage (how logical is that in zero-g anyway?) will flow towards the leak...thus assuring the sponsor gets to see their suger-water actual save the hero's life (rather than just rotting their teeth).
Finally: come on, it is somewhat about preventing piracy. Sure, they also would like to force users to buy multiple copies, but it's not like the piracy thing is complete fiction.
Not a complete fiction, but the reality is this: People wo have already bought legal copies are the ones most likely to buy additional legal copies. This system is designed to compel them to do so. People who are not using legit copies are more likely to figure out some way to avoid purchasing legal copies.
This does nothing to prevent usage at different sites (imagine the effect on the net of every copy of Word pinging every IP address looking for it's self. Eek!) This is "anti-piracy" that only works inside of a single business or home. Pretty weird definition of "piracy".
No, this is 99% "revenue enhancement", maybe 1% "anti-piracy".
Gee, if you have Office X installed legally, that "finking" is not a problem.
"Legally"? Does Microsoft's marketing department now write the law? Yes, I'm talking about the situation where someone has a legally purchased copy of Office X on a desktop and a laptop. She has Word open on the desktop. And she cannot even open Outlook to check her e-mail!
This is not about preventing "piracy", this is about the old monopolists problem - "How do you sell more copies when you already have nearly 100% of the market?" Answer: Force your existing owners to buy additional copies.
PS: Yes, I have that script, but a lot of Mac users don't. It's a sleezy marketing move and nothing more.
I hope Apple gets behind this and helps - maybe devote a few engineers to cleaning up stuff and help "mac-ify" the interface. It's reasonable enough - I've never believed that Jobs wanted to be in the software business anyway; he's a lot more interested in making cool-looking hardware. I mean, as far as I can tell, Apple is now the world's #1 *NIX retailer.
This is going to potentially have more impact on the popularity of Open Source software than anything to date. Office X on OS X has some really annoying "features" like the finking on it's self through a LAN. If this is solid and "Mac-like" it could prove to be a very popular alternative for Mac users who want to be free of Redmond.
There's a big difference between "swinging a hammer" on a house and "building" a bridge or public monument.
Please read the parent posts, and I think you'll find we're in agreement. The gist of it is this: Al Gore was mis-quoted to make it appear that he claimed to have "invented" the Internet, when in fact he used his political skills to "create" it via legislation and persuasion.
Among U.S. presidents, put Lincoln and Carter in the former (and no dishonor to either); but don't put them in the same category as Jefferson and Hoover!
I'm not familier with Hoover's skills, but I've visited Monticello and became awed at Jefferson's skill as an engineer and designer. I didn't mean to imply that Carter's work for Habitat for Humanity is in the same league as his predecessor.
As a former BBN'er, I was surrounded by various luminaries of the early internet (including Ray Tomlinson of "@" fame, as well as Tony Michell, who wired the first four arpanet computers together). You'll take comfort in knowing that they agree with you. Al Gore was instrumental in securing much interest and funding in the early internet.
You're quite a bit more grizzled than me then. I got on after the Great Renaming, but before widespread domain addressing. Thanks for the info - it is reassuring.
Well, really: it is actually pretty funny.
I suppose David Letterman has taught a generation that any joke becomes funny if it's repeated often enough. People eventually start laughing out of sheer nervousness (Uma/Oprah).
It taps our funny bone on the subject of narcissistic politicians...
On comparison that hasn't been brought up in this discussion is how often politicians claim to have built highways, bridges, parks, housing projects and the like when (aside from Jimmy Carter) not a one of them has swung a single hammer to do so.
Al Gore made an honest claim about something that he was justly proud of. And somebody deliberately misquoted him to make it appear that he was claiming to have "invented the internet".
It wouldn't be so annoying if this deliberate campaign hadn't been so successful at painting this honest (if dull) politician as a "liar", and possibly costing him the election (which was stolen anyway).
Look, I've been on the Net since 1988 (via world.std.com, the first commercial ISP), and I can assure you that Al Gore was the first person in the Senate to take it seriously. He provided funding when the NSF was going to pull the plug, and the all the commercial internet providers were squabbling over peering agreements. Read some back issues of "Boardwatch" magazine to learn about all this, OK?
Just because you don't like to hear it doesn't mean it's not true. And something isn't funny just because it's repeated a lot.
Sorry, but this is a pet peeve of mine. What Al Gore claimed was:
During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
A statement that is, in fact, true. All any politician can do to assist in any venture is to get a bill written to provide funding. Al Gore did that. At the time, he was considered a space case by his fellow Senators for insisting that the Internet would be important. Phillip Hallam-Baker of the web development team at CERN said:
In the early days of the Web, he was a believer, not after the fact when our success was already established -- he gave us help when it counted. He got us the funding to set up at MIT after we got kicked out of CERN for being too successful. He also personally saw to it that the entire federal government set up Web sites. Before the White House site went online, he would show the prototype to each agency director who came into his office. At the end he would click on the link to their agency site. If it returned 'Not Found' the said director got a powerful message that he better have a Web site before he next saw the veep.
...and the creators of TCP/IP said this:
Al Gore and the Internet
By Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf
Al Gore was the first political leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and to promote and support its development.
No one person or even small group of persons exclusively "invented" the Internet. It is the result of many years of ongoing collaboration among people in government and the university community. But as the two people who designed the basic architecture and the core protocols that make the Internet work, we would like to acknowledge VP Gore's contributions as a Congressman, Senator and as Vice President. No other elected official, to our knowledge, has made a greater contribution over a longer period of time.
Last year the Vice President made a straightforward statement on his role. He said: "During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet." We don't think, as some people have argued, that Gore intended to claim he "invented" the Internet. Moreover, there is no question in our minds that while serving as Senator, Gore's initiatives had a significant and beneficial effect on the still-evolving Internet. The fact of the matter is that Gore was talking about and promoting the Internet long before most people were listening. We feel it is timely to offer our perspective.
As far back as the 1970s Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the improvement of our educational system. He was the first elected official to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship. Though easily forgotten, now, at the time this was an unproven and controversial concept. Our work on the Internet started in 1973 and was based on even earlier work that took place in the mid-late 1960s. But the Internet, as we know it today, was not deployed until 1983. When the Internet was still in the early stages of its deployment, Congressman Gore provided intellectual leadership by helping create the vision of the potential benefits of high speed computing and communication. As an example, he sponsored hearings on how advanced technologies might be put to use in areas like coordinating the response of government agencies to natural disasters and other crises.
As a Senator in the 1980s Gore urged government agencies to consolidate what at the time were several dozen different and unconnected networks into an "Interagency Network." Working in a bi-partisan manner with officials in Ronald Reagan and George Bush's administrations, Gore secured the passage of the High Performance Computing and Communications Act in 1991. This "Gore Act" supported the Nati
Sure, they can be useful, but my pet peeve is people using faxes as a way to avoid learning to use e-mail. I can't recall how many times I've seen someone:
Create a document in a word processing program.
Print it out.
Feed that into a fax machine.
Fax it to someone who...
Re-types the document into a word processing program (because the fax looks like shit.)
I read that tvtime uses many of the same algorithms that dscaler uses.
I'd say so, based on the screenshots, especially the bottom image capture. They'd be foolish not to anyway; the dScaler filters are excellent and very well tested by a very active and vocal user base.
Get a Brooktree chipset card, and download dScaler and be knocked out at the quality. I've been through half a dozen different cards, and I'm currently using a I/O Magic PC-PVR card. Virtually every one of these cards uses the same reference design, and the only variation is how well they handle the signal path and grounding. I know how clean this card is because I'm using it to capture at 720 x 480 and scale up to 1280 x 720 using dScaler's amazing deinterlacing. Then I show it on my 90" wide screen.
As the greatest philosopher of our time, George Carlin pointed out: "Blueberries? You know they're purple. Blue cheese? That's just white cheese with a bunch of mold in it. And a bluefish? You cut one of them open, and they're every color of the rainbow."
Our eyes suck at seeing blue for an even better reason - there are very few blue things that:
You can eat.
Can eat you.
From an evolutionary perspective, that's the most important thing. We're get good at seeing green, because many green things are edible, and some things that want to kill us are good at hiding in green areas. So people who were especially good at seeing movement in green areas, and finding edible green things tended to survive, while those who didn't died out.
Karma goes up, karma goes down. Personally, I never moderate "off-topic" when I'm pulling jury duty (aka moderation). It's a waste of the points, as far as I'm concerned. I'm much more interested in promoting worthwhile posts.
The most likely possibility isn't that they deliberatley snubbed both Matrix films. Both were released in the same year, so some voted for one, some voted for the other, and neither got enough to get on the list. Probably a good reason not to release two films in the same year until the Academy changes their voting in some way that can more fairly acknowledge multi-part works.
With a HASH being calculated for each file, they need to allow multi-part downloads. This would speed up like bittorrent.
Yeah, I'd like to see this "virtual address" concept applied to BitTorrent. Everyone could just route portions of files, with a file coming via dozens of different paths. Also, nodes could check to see if they had the portion they are being requested to forward.
If your department manager is the type of prick who would try to steal credit for your brilliant ideas then walk around his desk and talk directly to his boss about your brilliant ideas... if you have enough of those conversations with that boss you may even find yourself being promoted to replace the prick who stole credit for all of your ideas.
The flaw in this plan is that most geeks, in my experience, have no desire to be promoted to management. We just want to do the work. The dream job for someone who is generally attracted to network security work is to be left alone most of the time by a boss who can realize that the fact that they haven't had to concern themselves with network security is a Good Thing. Then they throw more money.
The worst bosses I've ever worked for have been fellow geeks promoted above their social skill set. They are usually grumpy that they no longer get to play with the technology, and have to spend their days in meetings.
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Good idea. I've been planning to do this for a while. My wife and I share a very small "computer room" in our otherwise large apartment. The noise of both our machines at the same time is driving my buggy. The only thing holding me back is that I'll have to replace both of our keyboards, my mouse and her trackball.
Not everyone is listening to pop, rock or country. This will work well for jazz and especially classical, both of which suffer from the high noise level, limited bandwidth and heavy compression on FM.
Flat Dr Pepper? Bleagh!
Man, product placement people are really the lowest form of life on the planet.
...or even stupider, they could do like the characters in "Mission to Mars" and just pop open a brand name soft drink (taking care of course to hold the container in such a way to to avoid obscuring the product label). The carbonated beverage (how logical is that in zero-g anyway?) will flow towards the leak...thus assuring the sponsor gets to see their suger-water actual save the hero's life (rather than just rotting their teeth).
Not a complete fiction, but the reality is this: People wo have already bought legal copies are the ones most likely to buy additional legal copies. This system is designed to compel them to do so. People who are not using legit copies are more likely to figure out some way to avoid purchasing legal copies.
This does nothing to prevent usage at different sites (imagine the effect on the net of every copy of Word pinging every IP address looking for it's self. Eek!) This is "anti-piracy" that only works inside of a single business or home. Pretty weird definition of "piracy".
No, this is 99% "revenue enhancement", maybe 1% "anti-piracy".
"Legally"? Does Microsoft's marketing department now write the law? Yes, I'm talking about the situation where someone has a legally purchased copy of Office X on a desktop and a laptop. She has Word open on the desktop. And she cannot even open Outlook to check her e-mail!
This is not about preventing "piracy", this is about the old monopolists problem - "How do you sell more copies when you already have nearly 100% of the market?" Answer: Force your existing owners to buy additional copies.
PS: Yes, I have that script, but a lot of Mac users don't. It's a sleezy marketing move and nothing more.
I hope Apple gets behind this and helps - maybe devote a few engineers to cleaning up stuff and help "mac-ify" the interface. It's reasonable enough - I've never believed that Jobs wanted to be in the software business anyway; he's a lot more interested in making cool-looking hardware. I mean, as far as I can tell, Apple is now the world's #1 *NIX retailer.
This is going to potentially have more impact on the popularity of Open Source software than anything to date. Office X on OS X has some really annoying "features" like the finking on it's self through a LAN. If this is solid and "Mac-like" it could prove to be a very popular alternative for Mac users who want to be free of Redmond.
Please read the parent posts, and I think you'll find we're in agreement. The gist of it is this: Al Gore was mis-quoted to make it appear that he claimed to have "invented" the Internet, when in fact he used his political skills to "create" it via legislation and persuasion.
I'm not familier with Hoover's skills, but I've visited Monticello and became awed at Jefferson's skill as an engineer and designer. I didn't mean to imply that Carter's work for Habitat for Humanity is in the same league as his predecessor.
You're quite a bit more grizzled than me then. I got on after the Great Renaming, but before widespread domain addressing. Thanks for the info - it is reassuring.
I suppose David Letterman has taught a generation that any joke becomes funny if it's repeated often enough. People eventually start laughing out of sheer nervousness (Uma/Oprah).
On comparison that hasn't been brought up in this discussion is how often politicians claim to have built highways, bridges, parks, housing projects and the like when (aside from Jimmy Carter) not a one of them has swung a single hammer to do so.
For my part, please be my guest.
Al Gore made an honest claim about something that he was justly proud of. And somebody deliberately misquoted him to make it appear that he was claiming to have "invented the internet".
It wouldn't be so annoying if this deliberate campaign hadn't been so successful at painting this honest (if dull) politician as a "liar", and possibly costing him the election (which was stolen anyway).
Look, I've been on the Net since 1988 (via world.std.com, the first commercial ISP), and I can assure you that Al Gore was the first person in the Senate to take it seriously. He provided funding when the NSF was going to pull the plug, and the all the commercial internet providers were squabbling over peering agreements. Read some back issues of "Boardwatch" magazine to learn about all this, OK?
Just because you don't like to hear it doesn't mean it's not true. And something isn't funny just because it's repeated a lot.
Sorry, but this is a pet peeve of mine. What Al Gore claimed was:
A statement that is, in fact, true. All any politician can do to assist in any venture is to get a bill written to provide funding. Al Gore did that. At the time, he was considered a space case by his fellow Senators for insisting that the Internet would be important. Phillip Hallam-Baker of the web development team at CERN said:
...and the creators of TCP/IP said this:
The screenplay is by Charlie Kaufman, the writer of "Being John Malkovich", "Adaptation" and "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind".
The director is Michel Gondry, the music video director responsible for such mindfucks as the Chemical Brothers' "Let Forever Be".
The actual plot is the smallest part of why anyone is going to see this film.
Sure, they can be useful, but my pet peeve is people using faxes as a way to avoid learning to use e-mail. I can't recall how many times I've seen someone:
It happens every single day in Corporate America.
I'd say so, based on the screenshots, especially the bottom image capture. They'd be foolish not to anyway; the dScaler filters are excellent and very well tested by a very active and vocal user base.
Get a Brooktree chipset card, and download dScaler and be knocked out at the quality. I've been through half a dozen different cards, and I'm currently using a I/O Magic PC-PVR card. Virtually every one of these cards uses the same reference design, and the only variation is how well they handle the signal path and grounding. I know how clean this card is because I'm using it to capture at 720 x 480 and scale up to 1280 x 720 using dScaler's amazing deinterlacing. Then I show it on my 90" wide screen.
As the greatest philosopher of our time, George Carlin pointed out: "Blueberries? You know they're purple. Blue cheese? That's just white cheese with a bunch of mold in it. And a bluefish? You cut one of them open, and they're every color of the rainbow."
Smurfs are poisonous, thus don't count.
Our eyes suck at seeing blue for an even better reason - there are very few blue things that:
From an evolutionary perspective, that's the most important thing. We're get good at seeing green, because many green things are edible, and some things that want to kill us are good at hiding in green areas. So people who were especially good at seeing movement in green areas, and finding edible green things tended to survive, while those who didn't died out.
Karma goes up, karma goes down. Personally, I never moderate "off-topic" when I'm pulling jury duty (aka moderation). It's a waste of the points, as far as I'm concerned. I'm much more interested in promoting worthwhile posts.
Mod parent up...but I do have to wonder: why bother hanging out on Slashdot and writing comments worthy of being seen...and never register?
The most likely possibility isn't that they deliberatley snubbed both Matrix films. Both were released in the same year, so some voted for one, some voted for the other, and neither got enough to get on the list. Probably a good reason not to release two films in the same year until the Academy changes their voting in some way that can more fairly acknowledge multi-part works.
Yeah, I'd like to see this "virtual address" concept applied to BitTorrent. Everyone could just route portions of files, with a file coming via dozens of different paths. Also, nodes could check to see if they had the portion they are being requested to forward.
The flaw in this plan is that most geeks, in my experience, have no desire to be promoted to management. We just want to do the work. The dream job for someone who is generally attracted to network security work is to be left alone most of the time by a boss who can realize that the fact that they haven't had to concern themselves with network security is a Good Thing. Then they throw more money.
The worst bosses I've ever worked for have been fellow geeks promoted above their social skill set. They are usually grumpy that they no longer get to play with the technology, and have to spend their days in meetings.
PJ himself is in all of the films as well. The folks attending "Trilogy Tuesday" clapped at his cameo appearances.