Yeah. Of course, this is the industry having (and giving it to you) both ways. When a kid microwaves my stellar CD, own the physical item, and if I want a new one I have to buy it. If I want to duplicate the physical item and let my wife play an MP3 in the car while I listen to the CD at home, I suddenly only own the license to use it in one place.
Even Microsoft are better than that - if I toast my Office CDs, they'll replace them for the cost of mailing a new CD out to me - because I've licensed the software.
Plane avionics run through the plane, not just the cabin.
Here's a better question: Can anyone explain which dumbass thought it would be a good idea to develop a wireless standard that could knock a jet out of the air?
I live in Wellington. Like damn near everyone in Wellington, I know people involved in various aspects of the production. They're currently doing the 7 week, way too many hour thing to try and hit the release date.
The movie ain't even close to done. Someone may have smuggled a bunch of footage out, but given that neither Gollum nor the Ents are finished in post-production, it's gotta be pretty slim.
Most of the incredible smart guys had probably been there since the days of DEC and didn't have crap like that in their contracts.
It's an interesting social phenomenon in many companies - first and second class employees. The first class ones are the older staff, with older contracts that don't rape them of anything they've ever thought of, have decent redundancy provisions, and so on. The newer employees get the second class contract which make it clear they should consider themselves lucky they aren't ebing used for organ harvesting.
You missed his third complaint, buried in the last page of the article: Google doesn't rate his politics above other peoples' politics. He believes Google has a responsibility to, for example, push down the ranking of officially (ie government) supplied information on Richard Perle, while pushing up is anti pages.
And while it might be a good thing if more people knew that in spite of his enthusiasm for sending other people to die in foreign wars, Rick is a draft-dodger himself, I don't see how its Google's business to make those judgements.
rpm is a free tool. You can build it on most any POSIXish system. The format of rpm files in cpio with a few extra bits. It is trivial to get files, scripts, and whatnot out; it is trivial to build and install and use rpm on Debian, AIX, Solaris, what have you.
The vendors of those commercial applications are unlikely to support you using rpm on Debian to install their product, but that's because they probably don't support Debian, anyway. In which case it doesn't matter how they ship it.
If you're too fucking stupid to understand that rpm is no more "proprietary lock-in" than using newfangled gzip instead of real Unix compress on your tarballs, you shouldn't be working with computers, you should be scratching in the dirt with a stick.
Yeah, because rpm is a closed source program with no published information, and is protected by a variety of patents which RedHat use to ruthlessly stamp out any attempts to use rpm on anything other than their own authorised distribution.
And your last point identifies the problem. It will never feature the CEOs of companies. It will never have their kids listed as "potential drug buyers". You are extermemly unlikely to see the police trwling through/. looking for pro-Napster posts so they round up copyright violaters. There will be no profiles of accountants likely to embezzle, or lawyers likely to beat up on their spouses, or politicians likely to murder their girlfriends.
All these systems will do is act as an amplifier for the problems which already see a skew in the system.
Which statistics? Because the strongest trend criminologists have identified is that most crime is committed by repreat offenders. (Oh, and men - I doubt the majority of the./ population are would be especially happy about targetting based on that). A database such as this is almost certainly worthless.
Your claim also runs counter to the known profiles in a number of areas. While it may be true for burglary, domestic abuse is mostly independant of socio-economic background. Fraud is a more significant problem up the income scale.
And frankly, given that number of studies which suggest that given the same crime, the factor which most determines the liklihood of being apprehended and convicted is the colour of your skin, I'd be pretty sceptical about this kind of profiling. It's more making manifest the racism which still seems to float around many police forces.
The urge to play. No different to when I picked up an old Mac SE/30 with an Asante card and got Linux running on it. It's fun, for certain values of fun.
Of course, I've long since thrown out most of the crap old systems I have, since they take up space. Couldn't be arsed in the end. Obviously the people wanting NetBSD on their Dreamcast haven't gotten bored yet.
They didn't decide, it was decided for them - Sony didn't want family unfriendly filth on Beta, so the story goes, and the adults who bought videos went for VHS.
Mum and Dad may not want little Johnny watching "Anal Annie's Greatest Hits", but they wanted to be able to watch it themselves.
It's interesting to view the online gaming plans for the X-Box and PS2 in that light - Sony are making it lasseiz-faire, Microsoft are promising control, safety and decency.
I'm, in general, pretty sceptical of the value of ad campaigns it's worth noting that a client of mine launched a new product a while back. Leaving people to find it for themselves, they got around 200-300 customers per day. When they started to advertise it, they went to 600+ customers per day.
It already happens. At the local film-fests, there's usually one or two really interesting things only distributed on VHS (or BetaMax, or some variation thereof), because that's the best quality format people can duplicate and send around the world without being a major studio. Once you could only get tapes or the odd 45 of small, interesting bands.
What's changed over the years is that people have been able to cheaply and easily produce in higher quality formats. Instead of accepting my friend's band will only ever release on tape, I know they'll be able to cut CDs to demo, and produce a whole album, probably with a better recording studio than was available 20 years ago (for any money - and that studio can now be built cheap, apart from the physical environment) at a price so cheap they can sell CDs at their gigs for NZD$10 a pop.
That's very empowering for the artists, just as the existence of cheaps CGI has allowed small moviemakers to make an indie film (like The Irrefutable Truth About Demons) that isn't another Go Fish or Clerks.
Combine that with a ability to easily and cheaply distribute high quality information (compared to traditional distribution mechanisms) and you've got a real threat to the existing regime - because the likes of Sony Entertainment and 20th Century Fox are big because they have distribution networks stitched up, and get a slice of every pie. Even if you're independent, if you want your art to be available to anyone other than a small slice of the potenetial audience, you'll have to deal with the distribution arm and fork over your money.
Forget piracy - what scares MPAA and RIAA members is that their cosy little oligopily is threatened by the potential for the re-emergence of the old small-to-medium studios like Elektra who could eat their lunch. And that, incidentally is why all the laws this mob lobby for specify minimum damages for IP theft - if I (or they) steal the IP of a small indie, you can't claim squat. If I steal a copy of crap bands or the Season 7 Buffy, I get hammered.
Congratulations, you've noticed one of the less-discussed aspects of DVD (and now DVD-A/ SACD) models.
It goes, "Fuck you, indie shithead. You knuckle under, you suck our cock, and maybe we'll buy your company with loose change and pay your artists a few pennies on the CD, like we do with our artists".
Many European peoples are more concerned by depictions of violence than of people naked (never mind having sex). Germany is probably the premier example of this.
One reason is prints. Movie prints are mondo expensive to manufacture, so Hollywood studios may make enough for the opening in the US (a few thousand for a big release) and then ship them overseas, rather than making tens of thousands of prints for worldwide releases.
The revenue stream is another, since staggered releases provide the peak of a new release when business tails off in another market.
Local market variations may be a factor, too - school holidays are at different times in different countries, which is when studios like to have kids' films in the theatres.
It's fucking annoying, though, when you live outside the States, because it's all but impossible to avoid picking up more information than you wanted about things before they arrive here.
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Yeah. Of course, this is the industry having (and giving it to you) both ways. When a kid microwaves my stellar CD, own the physical item, and if I want a new one I have to buy it. If I want to duplicate the physical item and let my wife play an MP3 in the car while I listen to the CD at home, I suddenly only own the license to use it in one place.
Even Microsoft are better than that - if I toast my Office CDs, they'll replace them for the cost of mailing a new CD out to me - because I've licensed the software.
Plane avionics run through the plane, not just the cabin.
Here's a better question: Can anyone explain which dumbass thought it would be a good idea to develop a wireless standard that could knock a jet out of the air?
The government may be full of crackpots cross-species virial infections have happened before, and pigs are a good source.
I live in Wellington. Like damn near everyone in Wellington, I know people involved in various aspects of the production. They're currently doing the 7 week, way too many hour thing to try and hit the release date.
Go follow Need to Know's coverage of the European DMCA. Then tell me you're still not worried.
The movie ain't even close to done. Someone may have smuggled a bunch of footage out, but given that neither Gollum nor the Ents are finished in post-production, it's gotta be pretty slim.
Most of the incredible smart guys had probably been there since the days of DEC and didn't have crap like that in their contracts.
It's an interesting social phenomenon in many companies - first and second class employees. The first class ones are the older staff, with older contracts that don't rape them of anything they've ever thought of, have decent redundancy provisions, and so on. The newer employees get the second class contract which make it clear they should consider themselves lucky they aren't ebing used for organ harvesting.
HP was legendary for how well it treated its staff, not how shittily. Perhaps you should poke around their history some more.
Of course, that's all changed under Commandant Carly.
You missed his third complaint, buried in the last page of the article: Google doesn't rate his politics above other peoples' politics. He believes Google has a responsibility to, for example, push down the ranking of officially (ie government) supplied information on Richard Perle, while pushing up is anti pages.
And while it might be a good thing if more people knew that in spite of his enthusiasm for sending other people to die in foreign wars, Rick is a draft-dodger himself, I don't see how its Google's business to make those judgements.
Three harddrives, two alternating between a hotswap enclosure and some safe storage area (such as a fire safe). Easy.
No good for long term archive, but that's a whole other problem.
Unfortunately, yes.
The most wastefully wrapped laxatives on the planet.
rpm is a free tool. You can build it on most any POSIXish system. The format of rpm files in cpio with a few extra bits. It is trivial to get files, scripts, and whatnot out; it is trivial to build and install and use rpm on Debian, AIX, Solaris, what have you.
The vendors of those commercial applications are unlikely to support you using rpm on Debian to install their product, but that's because they probably don't support Debian, anyway. In which case it doesn't matter how they ship it.
If you're too fucking stupid to understand that rpm is no more "proprietary lock-in" than using newfangled gzip instead of real Unix compress on your tarballs, you shouldn't be working with computers, you should be scratching in the dirt with a stick.
Yeah, because rpm is a closed source program with no published information, and is protected by a variety of patents which RedHat use to ruthlessly stamp out any attempts to use rpm on anything other than their own authorised distribution.
And your last point identifies the problem. It will never feature the CEOs of companies. It will never have their kids listed as "potential drug buyers". You are extermemly unlikely to see the police trwling through /. looking for pro-Napster posts so they round up copyright violaters. There will be no profiles of accountants likely to embezzle, or lawyers likely to beat up on their spouses, or politicians likely to murder their girlfriends.
All these systems will do is act as an amplifier for the problems which already see a skew in the system.
Which statistics? Because the strongest trend criminologists have identified is that most crime is committed by repreat offenders. (Oh, and men - I doubt the majority of the ./ population are would be especially happy about targetting based on that). A database such as this is almost certainly worthless.
Your claim also runs counter to the known profiles in a number of areas. While it may be true for burglary, domestic abuse is mostly independant of socio-economic background. Fraud is a more significant problem up the income scale.
And frankly, given that number of studies which suggest that given the same crime, the factor which most determines the liklihood of being apprehended and convicted is the colour of your skin, I'd be pretty sceptical about this kind of profiling. It's more making manifest the racism which still seems to float around many police forces.
The urge to play. No different to when I picked up an old Mac SE/30 with an Asante card and got Linux running on it. It's fun, for certain values of fun.
Of course, I've long since thrown out most of the crap old systems I have, since they take up space. Couldn't be arsed in the end. Obviously the people wanting NetBSD on their Dreamcast haven't gotten bored yet.
They didn't decide, it was decided for them - Sony didn't want family unfriendly filth on Beta, so the story goes, and the adults who bought videos went for VHS.
Mum and Dad may not want little Johnny watching "Anal Annie's Greatest Hits", but they wanted to be able to watch it themselves.
It's interesting to view the online gaming plans for the X-Box and PS2 in that light - Sony are making it lasseiz-faire, Microsoft are promising control, safety and decency.
I'm, in general, pretty sceptical of the value of ad campaigns it's worth noting that a client of mine launched a new product a while back. Leaving people to find it for themselves, they got around 200-300 customers per day. When they started to advertise it, they went to 600+ customers per day.
There's a reason it's called benchmarketing.
There's also a reason that the credible organisations (TPC, SPEC, etc) have to regularly tune thier benchmarks to work around manufacturer cheats.
It already happens. At the local film-fests, there's usually one or two really interesting things only distributed on VHS (or BetaMax, or some variation thereof), because that's the best quality format people can duplicate and send around the world without being a major studio. Once you could only get tapes or the odd 45 of small, interesting bands.
What's changed over the years is that people have been able to cheaply and easily produce in higher quality formats. Instead of accepting my friend's band will only ever release on tape, I know they'll be able to cut CDs to demo, and produce a whole album, probably with a better recording studio than was available 20 years ago (for any money - and that studio can now be built cheap, apart from the physical environment) at a price so cheap they can sell CDs at their gigs for NZD$10 a pop.
That's very empowering for the artists, just as the existence of cheaps CGI has allowed small moviemakers to make an indie film (like The Irrefutable Truth About Demons) that isn't another Go Fish or Clerks.
Combine that with a ability to easily and cheaply distribute high quality information (compared to traditional distribution mechanisms) and you've got a real threat to the existing regime - because the likes of Sony Entertainment and 20th Century Fox are big because they have distribution networks stitched up, and get a slice of every pie. Even if you're independent, if you want your art to be available to anyone other than a small slice of the potenetial audience, you'll have to deal with the distribution arm and fork over your money.
Forget piracy - what scares MPAA and RIAA members is that their cosy little oligopily is threatened by the potential for the re-emergence of the old small-to-medium studios like Elektra who could eat their lunch. And that, incidentally is why all the laws this mob lobby for specify minimum damages for IP theft - if I (or they) steal the IP of a small indie, you can't claim squat. If I steal a copy of crap bands or the Season 7 Buffy, I get hammered.
Congratulations, you've noticed one of the less-discussed aspects of DVD (and now DVD-A/ SACD) models.
It goes, "Fuck you, indie shithead. You knuckle under, you suck our cock, and maybe we'll buy your company with loose change and pay your artists a few pennies on the CD, like we do with our artists".
Any number of things by Heinlein. "Moon is a Harsh Mistress", "Stranger in a Strange Land", you name it.
I'm surprised when one of his novels ends less than well.
You don't bust bricks out of Category One buildings.
Moron.
Many European peoples are more concerned by depictions of violence than of people naked (never mind having sex). Germany is probably the premier example of this.
One reason is prints. Movie prints are mondo expensive to manufacture, so Hollywood studios may make enough for the opening in the US (a few thousand for a big release) and then ship them overseas, rather than making tens of thousands of prints for worldwide releases.
The revenue stream is another, since staggered releases provide the peak of a new release when business tails off in another market.
Local market variations may be a factor, too - school holidays are at different times in different countries, which is when studios like to have kids' films in the theatres.
It's fucking annoying, though, when you live outside the States, because it's all but impossible to avoid picking up more information than you wanted about things before they arrive here.