how many people think that the piracy of games under the banner of "backups" is actually "right"?
I do think that backups under the banner of "backups" are right (a right, in fact, just hanging in there). Since Sega (or Sony, or EA, or Blizzard...) won't tell me how to back up the software I just bought (and I am talking about software I bought, not downloaded), then I'm happy for GameCopyWorld to tell me, and I'll use that information.
Particularly in the case of PC games where they will install 500Mb+ (or 1200Mb+, Diablo II, I'm looking at you), and still require the CD(s), I more or less always will use the noCD 'crack' for that game, for no other reason than to reduce wear and tear on the CDs that I can't copy.
What is the software company's argument against this practice? At the end of it, I have either my archival copy on CDR, or a much less vulnerable uncopiable CDROM... naturally since all computer software users are thieves by default, I am going to post the ISOs of those CDROMs to all and sundry, I suppose.
You are playing into the hands of lawyers at Sega, Nintendo and all of those people, when you think of "copying" as a synonym for "pirating", which the quoted sentence above implies.
or not at all... why does it need to be a (national|international|anything else) heritage site? Protection from rampant real estate developers and yobbish tourists? I think not.
Ignoring for a moment the fact (if what I've read is to be believed) that the earthbound National Parks folks spend a lot more of their budget on building private logging roads than they do on preservation...
I live not far from an overseas US National Monument, IIRC - there is a war memorial at Runymede, just outside Windsor that is a 'square mile of US soil' or something along those lines. Great big slab of a memorial, similar to the Vietnam Memorial in DC.
Hmm - those three paragraphs don't really join up much, eh?
Aside from still not understanding why things that have Crusoe in are automatically desirable (it's a processor, and it's low power, and?), you can bet that this thing will talk only to other Sony things. I have liked Sony gear in the past (particularly their various CRTs), but I'm really starting to dislike their 'gadget' strategy...
This post was generally informative and useful, but my coke-addled mind latched onto "
although for human authors they only expire long after the person has died".
Is it possible (in the legal sense) for a machine to publish a book? What copyright protection does it's creation get? If I can get my PC to typeset and produce an entire book, say, of mathematical tables, with no human intervention (in the 'creation' part of the process), can Generic PIII PC and LaTeX get the credit, and the royalties?
Maybe I am a little then, from years of obnoxious walkman usage, but I don't hear much of a difference between the CD and the MP3 except in a few cases (Sarah McLachlan springs to mind), where there is more 'air' in the CD. It's not the stereo which is pretty decent NAD separates. Of course, the PC running may well mask out some of the crud.
The point still stands though that I can carry and listen to many more CDs with the MP3/HDD that lugging CD changers or CDs, and when I'm not home, it's likely to be played through either my work PC speakers (pretty crappy), or someone's boombox (not *as* crappy but still...).
The point (for me) of MP3 is to be the biggest damn auto-changer there is with no change-over delay. I have a lot of CDs, I dislike searching through them for an odd track, and it's impractical to carry them around. With this device I can carry my whole CD collection with me.
A Pioneer 100-disk changer was about $500-600 last time I checked, and still has a change delay, isn't computer controlled, and couldn't reasonably be called portable.
My current solution is a removable caddy with a 40Gb drive, which is now full halfway though ripping my CDs. This still needs a PC to be useful. Bigger drives are around now, so a portable (as in small boombox) MP3 device with 80Gb+ is not at all unreasonable, and the price is good if that is what you want. It's not a rio competitor.
I just "bought" a digital TV set-top box/service this weekend with just this sort of model.
In advertising the service OnDigital in the UK say that you will get a free box with your first years service. What you actually get is the free hire of the box for the duration of your subscription, at which point you agree to return the box at your cost to them. Interestingly, it *doesn't* say what will happen at the end of the year if you *do* want to continue...
I'm not sure what else you can do with the the Nokia DVB unit that they supply though (it appears that it has a modem, and On are launching an ISP service at some point soon...), so at that stage the link to this case falls over a little.
I believe that a lot of cellular phone networks have (or have had) similar sorts of agreements with regards to the (relatively expensive) phones.
Between this post and the article the other day about the LOTR renderfarm - is there something I'm missing?
What on earth is in the system that costs $8000 per node? As I understand it, for a compute/render farm the important parts are the processors, and the I/O (mainly network?). I can get 1U Celeron/PIII systems with 100BaseT for about $1000 each. Lets throw in a pair of cheap 100BT switches for $2000. Doesn't that give me a 32 (ish) processor cluster for the original $35k or 64 for your 8-cpu $80000? Does it work like that? (Seriously, I didn't understand in either case why people spent so much on each node of what seemed to be a network-attached CPU - I must be missing something...)
Everyone knows that Open Source is a "neo-Socialistic cult that renounces individual ownership of software", anyway.
...They often work by enticing teens and young adults with the promise of free software and beer, before they start encouraging them to read parable-laced screeds that further indoctrinate them into the cult... (presumably/. is one such screed).
You didn't know that? Check out Citizens United for a Decent Internet, (in particular the March 8th story) referred in this weeks excellent NTK . I always have trouble telling if these rather extreme christian things are serious or not, but I think it is.
I think the last line of the summary is significant: "A selected set of information may also be moved out of the selected area by pointing to its selection indicator and dragging it away"
I was about to post that Word 6 had tabbed dialogs in 1994, which fit the main 3 points listed, but they aren't draggable in that cute Photoshop way. AFAIK, letraset/fractaldesign/metacreations Painter has also always done this though (not as old a Photoshop).
Napster could be used like you say, but it isn't. Napster is a for profit company. Their business plan is intimately tied to the free availability of copyrighted musical works.
That's not entirely true. Their business plan is intimately tied to the free availability of musical works. You are not required to pirate your CD collection (or someone else's, for that matter). I've used napster to download MP3 copies of parts of albums I only have on vinyl (old Strangler's stuff mainly) - I could have made those MP3s myself, given enough time to sort out the turntable and so on. My understanding is that this use is the 'personal backup copy' part of the copyright legislation.
All that said, I wouldn't doubt someone who claimed that x% of the material is illegally copied (where x tends to 100). I do doubt that all those violations are food stolen from the mouths of record company executive's children though.
I never laugh so hard as when seeing Americans complain about gas prices. I pay 85p (roughly $1.30) per LITRE of unleaded. That's £3.88, or about $6.20 a gallon.
It always astounds me to see you guys (my gf does this) driving around for another gas station because $1.40 is outrageous dammit. Of course, it's possible that your prices have tripled since last september (when I was last there:( ), but I doubt it...
I want a way to make MP3s kosher, but this ain't it.
My MP3's already are kosher dammit! They're mostly rips of my own purchased CDs. I know that RIAA are trying to say that "oh - when we said you could have a backup, we didn't mean you could have a good backup", but AFAIK, that is merely their position, and besides, I'm not American - your earth weapons cannot harm me. I don't play the CD and MP3 at the same time. I don't then sell the original CDs or lend them out (much). I don't trade the MP3s I've made.
As far as I am concerned - the power/noise issue is a big deciding factor. It's true that you could get a Pentium700 system for the same money, but it would be a noisy S.O.B. My modest P500 has three fans (including the graphics card) and two spindles constantly spinning!
I have been looking around at NCD/Wyse thin clients and similar for a while, as well as the Netwinder, and this falls into the same slot. I want a silent, network-booting, reasonable graphics performance system for my desktop, to talk to Unix and Windoze boxes elsewhere in a closet. The sad part is that all of Wyse and NCDs current lines seem to focus entirely on Citrix/TerminalServer clients, not X anymore.
So what happens when you add a single backtick to the rc.conf in freebsd? Surely pretty much the same sort of thing? AFAIK, it's a shell script that gets source'd by the real/etc/rc or/etc/rc.sysinit or whatever...
I'd be curious to know what its costs to get the writers of a proprietary program to fix deficiencies in their product? If Joe Schmoe buys Borland C++ and finds a deficiency in the compiler, does he wait months and months for the problem to get fixed in the bug release? Does he annoy their tech support lines and get told to reinstall it six times or use some cheezy workaround?
Actually - I have had good experiences with this sort of thing, although you have to go back a ways for it. I used to use Zortech C++ (IIRC, the first native C++ compiler for x86), to write DOS and Windows 3.x apps - I found a wierd bug in the linker, emailed them, got a reply and a fix from Walter Bright, the guy who wrote the compiler (although not actually the linker!). I was very impressed. Of course, then they got absorbed by Symantec and started to suck a little. I stopped getting free/cheap updates, and they became a 'big company'.
For contrast, similar types of problems with MS Access (2.0 - around the same sort of time), were solved by reading the Compuserve forum for Access - all MS did when you called them was search the knowledgebase that I had already searched. [when Win95 first came out, the Access ADT would make setup disks using the DLLs from your installation. If you made them on a 95 machine, and then installed on a 3.x machine, it killed OLE completely on the target machine.]
How many compilers to Borland et al really sell, anyway? I have bought BC++ in the past, and found it good, but not really better/different than VC++... the main driving force in upgrading has been support for new executable types (win32 PE) or APIs (ATL).
You want to customize the authentication process? Nope, you can't do that in JSP.
Well... if you take the JSP/Servlet package as one lump (which you almost always do - I don't think there is a JSP implementation which doesn't use servlets), then you can do those things. Likewise with ASP/COM although that is stretching it a little (you can extend IIS via COM).
I got given this box as a gift last year, and it's one of the best examples of what you can do with all that extra storage and interactivity. Admittedly, it cheats by using 3 discs, but there is so much stuff here! I've been a fan of the movie since I saw it not long after it's release, and this was the first time I'd seen the Studio's version and a full documentary of the whole saga. This should show all those DVD production people that try to claim 'chapter menu' as a Special Feature on the back of the box. *this* is the special stuff.
And Mr "Undegreed" up above would get along just fine with Phillip "I'm a godlike creature from MIT" Greenspun;-) I like his writing, and he knows his stuff, but if you read a lot of it in one sitting you end up wanting to go out and beat up smug ivy leaguers.
OTJoke: "How do you know when you are in the same room as a Harvard man?" "He'll tell you."
Going back a few years further - I seem to recall that the French government employed government intelligence agencies to help Thomson win a large contract over (IIRC) Phillips during the 80's. At the time that was reported, it wasn't the first time people had heard of such things from them.
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I stand corrected then :)
I do think that backups under the banner of "backups" are right (a right, in fact, just hanging in there). Since Sega (or Sony, or EA, or Blizzard...) won't tell me how to back up the software I just bought (and I am talking about software I bought, not downloaded), then I'm happy for GameCopyWorld to tell me, and I'll use that information.
Particularly in the case of PC games where they will install 500Mb+ (or 1200Mb+, Diablo II, I'm looking at you), and still require the CD(s), I more or less always will use the noCD 'crack' for that game, for no other reason than to reduce wear and tear on the CDs that I can't copy.
What is the software company's argument against this practice? At the end of it, I have either my archival copy on CDR, or a much less vulnerable uncopiable CDROM... naturally since all computer software users are thieves by default, I am going to post the ISOs of those CDROMs to all and sundry, I suppose.
You are playing into the hands of lawyers at Sega, Nintendo and all of those people, when you think of "copying" as a synonym for "pirating", which the quoted sentence above implies.
or not at all... why does it need to be a (national|international|anything else) heritage site? Protection from rampant real estate developers and yobbish tourists? I think not.
Ignoring for a moment the fact (if what I've read is to be believed) that the earthbound National Parks folks spend a lot more of their budget on building private logging roads than they do on preservation...
I live not far from an overseas US National Monument, IIRC - there is a war memorial at Runymede, just outside Windsor that is a 'square mile of US soil' or something along those lines. Great big slab of a memorial, similar to the Vietnam Memorial in DC.
Hmm - those three paragraphs don't really join up much, eh?
Aside from still not understanding why things that have Crusoe in are automatically desirable (it's a processor, and it's low power, and?), you can bet that this thing will talk only to other Sony things. I have liked Sony gear in the past (particularly their various CRTs), but I'm really starting to dislike their 'gadget' strategy...
Is it possible (in the legal sense) for a machine to publish a book? What copyright protection does it's creation get? If I can get my PC to typeset and produce an entire book, say, of mathematical tables, with no human intervention (in the 'creation' part of the process), can Generic PIII PC and LaTeX get the credit, and the royalties?
IIRC, Word has been multi-threaded since version 6 (circa 1995). Admittedly at that stage it was for 'background printing' but still...
Maybe I am a little then, from years of obnoxious walkman usage, but I don't hear much of a difference between the CD and the MP3 except in a few cases (Sarah McLachlan springs to mind), where there is more 'air' in the CD. It's not the stereo which is pretty decent NAD separates. Of course, the PC running may well mask out some of the crud.
The point still stands though that I can carry and listen to many more CDs with the MP3/HDD that lugging CD changers or CDs, and when I'm not home, it's likely to be played through either my work PC speakers (pretty crappy), or someone's boombox (not *as* crappy but still...).
The point (for me) of MP3 is to be the biggest damn auto-changer there is with no change-over delay. I have a lot of CDs, I dislike searching through them for an odd track, and it's impractical to carry them around. With this device I can carry my whole CD collection with me.
A Pioneer 100-disk changer was about $500-600 last time I checked, and still has a change delay, isn't computer controlled, and couldn't reasonably be called portable.
My current solution is a removable caddy with a 40Gb drive, which is now full halfway though ripping my CDs. This still needs a PC to be useful. Bigger drives are around now, so a portable (as in small boombox) MP3 device with 80Gb+ is not at all unreasonable, and the price is good if that is what you want. It's not a rio competitor.
Back in the old days (1998), it was considered easy to manually, personally go to different websites. Man, look how we have progressed.
I wonder if my wooden shoes still fit?
I just "bought" a digital TV set-top box/service this weekend with just this sort of model.
In advertising the service OnDigital in the UK say that you will get a free box with your first years service. What you actually get is the free hire of the box for the duration of your subscription, at which point you agree to return the box at your cost to them. Interestingly, it *doesn't* say what will happen at the end of the year if you *do* want to continue...
I'm not sure what else you can do with the the Nokia DVB unit that they supply though (it appears that it has a modem, and On are launching an ISP service at some point soon...), so at that stage the link to this case falls over a little.
I believe that a lot of cellular phone networks have (or have had) similar sorts of agreements with regards to the (relatively expensive) phones.
Between this post and the article the other day about the LOTR renderfarm - is there something I'm missing?
What on earth is in the system that costs $8000 per node? As I understand it, for a compute/render farm the important parts are the processors, and the I/O (mainly network?). I can get 1U Celeron/PIII systems with 100BaseT for about $1000 each. Lets throw in a pair of cheap 100BT switches for $2000. Doesn't that give me a 32 (ish) processor cluster for the original $35k or 64 for your 8-cpu $80000? Does it work like that? (Seriously, I didn't understand in either case why people spent so much on each node of what seemed to be a network-attached CPU - I must be missing something...)
I bet Mr Hewlett, Sr. and Mr Packard, Sr. named their sons so that when they formed their garage-based business, it would be that way.
You didn't know that? Check out Citizens United for a Decent Internet, (in particular the March 8th story) referred in this weeks excellent NTK . I always have trouble telling if these rather extreme christian things are serious or not, but I think it is.
Like Sony PCG-C1XS Picturebook Camera Capture you mean?
How does he find the time to work on so much neat software?
I was about to post that Word 6 had tabbed dialogs in 1994, which fit the main 3 points listed, but they aren't draggable in that cute Photoshop way. AFAIK, letraset/fractaldesign/metacreations Painter has also always done this though (not as old a Photoshop).
That's not entirely true. Their business plan is intimately tied to the free availability of musical works. You are not required to pirate your CD collection (or someone else's, for that matter). I've used napster to download MP3 copies of parts of albums I only have on vinyl (old Strangler's stuff mainly) - I could have made those MP3s myself, given enough time to sort out the turntable and so on. My understanding is that this use is the 'personal backup copy' part of the copyright legislation.
All that said, I wouldn't doubt someone who claimed that x% of the material is illegally copied (where x tends to 100). I do doubt that all those violations are food stolen from the mouths of record company executive's children though.
I never laugh so hard as when seeing Americans complain about gas prices. I pay 85p (roughly $1.30) per LITRE of unleaded. That's £3.88, or about $6.20 a gallon.
:( ), but I doubt it...
It always astounds me to see you guys (my gf does this) driving around for another gas station because $1.40 is outrageous dammit. Of course, it's possible that your prices have tripled since last september (when I was last there
My MP3's already are kosher dammit! They're mostly rips of my own purchased CDs. I know that RIAA are trying to say that "oh - when we said you could have a backup, we didn't mean you could have a good backup", but AFAIK, that is merely their position, and besides, I'm not American - your earth weapons cannot harm me. I don't play the CD and MP3 at the same time. I don't then sell the original CDs or lend them out (much). I don't trade the MP3s I've made.
I have been looking around at NCD/Wyse thin clients and similar for a while, as well as the Netwinder, and this falls into the same slot. I want a silent, network-booting, reasonable graphics performance system for my desktop, to talk to Unix and Windoze boxes elsewhere in a closet. The sad part is that all of Wyse and NCDs current lines seem to focus entirely on Citrix/TerminalServer clients, not X anymore.
So what happens when you add a single backtick to the rc.conf in freebsd? Surely pretty much the same sort of thing? AFAIK, it's a shell script that gets source'd by the real /etc/rc or /etc/rc.sysinit or whatever...
Actually - I have had good experiences with this sort of thing, although you have to go back a ways for it. I used to use Zortech C++ (IIRC, the first native C++ compiler for x86), to write DOS and Windows 3.x apps - I found a wierd bug in the linker, emailed them, got a reply and a fix from Walter Bright, the guy who wrote the compiler (although not actually the linker!). I was very impressed. Of course, then they got absorbed by Symantec and started to suck a little. I stopped getting free/cheap updates, and they became a 'big company'.
For contrast, similar types of problems with MS Access (2.0 - around the same sort of time), were solved by reading the Compuserve forum for Access - all MS did when you called them was search the knowledgebase that I had already searched. [when Win95 first came out, the Access ADT would make setup disks using the DLLs from your installation. If you made them on a 95 machine, and then installed on a 3.x machine, it killed OLE completely on the target machine.]
How many compilers to Borland et al really sell, anyway? I have bought BC++ in the past, and found it good, but not really better/different than VC++... the main driving force in upgrading has been support for new executable types (win32 PE) or APIs (ATL).
Well... if you take the JSP/Servlet package as one lump (which you almost always do - I don't think there is a JSP implementation which doesn't use servlets), then you can do those things. Likewise with ASP/COM although that is stretching it a little (you can extend IIS via COM).
I got given this box as a gift last year, and it's one of the best examples of what you can do with all that extra storage and interactivity. Admittedly, it cheats by using 3 discs, but there is so much stuff here! I've been a fan of the movie since I saw it not long after it's release, and this was the first time I'd seen the Studio's version and a full documentary of the whole saga.
This should show all those DVD production people that try to claim 'chapter menu' as a Special Feature on the back of the box. *this* is the special stuff.
And Mr "Undegreed" up above would get along just fine with Phillip "I'm a godlike creature from MIT" Greenspun ;-) I like his writing, and he knows his stuff, but if you read a lot of it in one sitting you end up wanting to go out and beat up smug ivy leaguers.
OTJoke: "How do you know when you are in the same room as a Harvard man?" "He'll tell you."
Going back a few years further - I seem to recall that the French government employed government intelligence agencies to help Thomson win a large contract over (IIRC) Phillips during the 80's. At the time that was reported, it wasn't the first time people had heard of such things from them.