How many people out there, who aren't anarchists/socialists as RMS is, really care about his opinion? I honestly hope Miguel tell him to shove it up his rear.
That's not necesarily true. Sometimes, being the little guy has an advantage when fighting a goliah of a company like AOL/TW. It can draw a pity verdict, especially considering how relatively small amount of competition they are. Personally, I don't see what AOL complains about. Especially if they were to makes advertisements a part of the protocol. That way, they could theoretically give the potocol away, but when giving out the specs freely make everyone agree to show the ads in in the client.
Much more advantageous to something like that.
Big corperations are like governments though, they can't think for crap.
Yo, 2.5.3, anyone who needs it is tracking it's development, and it's not exactly a major release at this point.
Now when we get a decently working VM into the kernel and settle on it, then we can all jumpf or joy!:-) Or announce it when they announce alsa is gonna be in the kernel.
analyze the word homophobe, fear of homosexuals. How does being heterosexual and not liking people randomly responding to my posts with perverse comments like that make me afraid of homosexuals?
Homophobia is a word that is bandied about way to much. Eww, that person doesnt approve of homsexuality he's a homophobe. Eww, that person doesn't think gay people should be allowed to get married or have the significant others of a homosexual get insurance benefits, she must be a homophobe!
Come on, get over it. Also get a life, you just make yourself sound dumb posting comments like that.
These frauds ought to be hunted down! Credit cards companies don't help, police don't help, banks don't help, ebay certainly doesn't help, so these people did the right thing and took it into their own hands. Congratulations to them!
Oh I'm with you are protecting their reputation. Georgia Tech (at least here in the south) is regarded as a school with much prestige. We have a history of academic pride, and many traditions, including hard work, and extremely tough classes. The grading is stringent and the professors rough. It angers me that the administration is doing this stuff, because calling kids who truthfully just needed help ( which the learning enviroment they were thrown into didn't provide in any manner) cheaters is more damaging to the reputation than some kids who will never use this stuff collaborating for one class, on how to do the HOMEWORK (the tests were all done by hand, they weren't checked by the program.)
The problem is though, that the article didn't tell the whole story. Not all of these kids were actually caught with the program. By the rules of the courses, if you have a TA look at your code..that's cheating. If you ask for help (note the word ask) from another student, you were cheating. Show someone else, anyone else your code, you were cheating. Also, the results of the program were not validated before handing the students over for investigation. Which is VERY dangerous. Also an even bigger problem: the people required tot ake the course. The articles didn't state it correctly...everyone at Georgia Tech HAS to take that course at some point. There was a girl in pre-law struggling hideously through it in my section last semester. She could hardly use e-mail, much less write programs or use command-line linux via ssh!
I will say, while for me, (I stated this in a previous post) the course was boring, it could be very challenging for the inexperience computer-science or computer-engineering major (I'm of the latter.)
I took the course last semester, and well, the rules about cheating are insane. If you so much as look at another student's code in order to help him, or her, you both are technically cheating and if found out will both flunk the course. Also, alot of people who take the course, have no business taking it! Why? Well it's not every student at the college of computing, it's EVERY student who has to take that course. Some of these kids can't move a mouse in a straight line, much less write computer programs! And it IS a programming course, from day 1, you are taught scheme syntax and usage and some stupid sorting algorithms. Half the time, there aren't very many different approachs to the problems give you (they are VERY structured in how you are to complete them.) Also...at the beginning of the semester there were 5 of these classes being taught, 300 to a class. Of those who remained after drop day, 186 people ACCUSED of cheating is very surprising that it was so few to me! This so-called scandal is not because kids wanted to circumvent the system, it's because the CoC's administration has some overbearing rules.
On a sidenote...this is actually not new...it happens there EVERY semester, it's just the first time it was announced in mass to the press.
Face it, in real life, these students will have to collaborate on projects and problems. Telling them that they can't even give each other hints (I'm not joking,they devoted an entire lecture to what constitutes cheating!) is moronic in my opinion. And no, I was not one of the 186 students, I was so bored in the course that I never even went to class, I only bothered to show up for tests.
Question: Why in the heck should they not be allowed to do whatever the hell they want with their own product? If it's easy to pirate their stuff, who should care but the people putting it out?
How is this news? The Duron has be kicking the Celeron's tail end since the Duron's release. The Duron can usually keep up with a P3 of the same speed, or at least trail very closely behind. The fact that they are both over 1ghz is not new either, not to mention that the so-called advances for the Celeron trully haven't helped it much, as it's an aging architecture. Please people, save money, get a better product from the AMD processors. (I'd still prefer a XP over a P4 personally, I'm yet to see a P4 that didn't give me this feeling that everything for some reason loads slower, though benchmarks seem to say it can be faster in some cases...yet it's only slightly faster than a much lower clocked Athlon XP, see a problem here?)
Carpal Tunnel is preventable to a great extent, and usually can be caught before it gets to a point of nagging pain, being both a musician and a computer professional (and student), I'm in a high risk group for Carpal Tunnel, so I take steps necesary to try and prevent it. Sorry lady, if your wrists were sore from typing, you should have taken a couple sick days or just not typed for a couple days. Also...one word: ergonomic. Why should my tax dollars go to pay for someone else's problem, particularly one that they might (you can't always) have been able to prevent? That's why you buy disability insurance!
That's the stupidest lie I've ever heard!:-) I meant really...we're shipping with software we have no clue about...hyuk hyuk!
Blah. I'd disagree with the fellow who says this is a death knell to closed source software though, since, a) most folks don't care and b) the number of people who use this type of software is in the minority.
Umm...they've got alot better emulation if they can run Internet Explorer, which uses some undocumented API calls which wine can not yet emulate. Hence, IE doesn't even start under wine. It IS KDE with a windows theme (KDE comes stock with one.) Oh yeah, and if you want ugly try the default Windows XP theme!:-)
Personally the only bowl game I cared about was on thursday night: The Seattle Bowl... Stanford managed to lose in a good one to my school (Georgia Tech) 24-14.:-)
I'm thinking baldur's gate is calling my name rather loudly...
I'm all for watching tomorrow's buffy the vampire slayer marathon except that I have to work!:-( Poor Ms. Gellar will have to perform some other audience.:-(
Umm, I can't remember the URL, but a day or two ago I saw that they were suing PS2 mod chip makers. I thought it was here hence, I didn't post my reference.
Either or, while we have legal precedence for reverse engineering et cetera, it still doesn't stop the DMCA sillyness from allowing for suits and jail time in the U.S.:-(
Also, even thought he mod chip makers may win...the costs of the suit could knock them off the map in some cases.
Umm, damn...we're just to dumb...guess i'll have to stop using my computers....and man since the Q is no more complex than my N64, I'll have to stop using it...and my Playstation, and SNES so on so forth....and my TV...shoot my car is just to complex...
Selling out? Oh you must be one of those anti-social geeks! Some of us are geeks with lives, and movies actually interest us! Odd concept I know...human beings doing something other than messing with computers all day long. Even movies are news for us nerds man! I'm sick of people makiong posts like this: the people who run the site are nerds...so if it interested them enough to post it, it's automatically news for nerds by definition. If you're not interested, don't fucking read the story!!!
And I thought we were getting ripped off at 7 dollars here in Atlanta!:-)
My comment: if your liked Scary Movie, or if you just think the Breakfast Club was sooooo stupid it was funny...or even if you just want a good laugh...go see it.
My question: I'm still not to sure if he liked it or disliked it...he sounds like he doesn't until the end. Jon Katz articles are a decent yarn but my God he couldn't give a eighth-of-the-way-to-decent movie review if his life depended on it!
Nice, conspiracy, but there's some problems. WMF is just modified MPEG-4 as I understand it, which is the same thing as a VCD, which most DVD players understand already (the el cheapo $99 set-top DVD player I just bought my parents, plays every CD format including CD-RW, VCD, MP3, and DVD), MPEG-4, is just slightly modified MPEG-2. So, basically the manufacturers (Who have very little to do with the people releasing the films btw!) are just saying hey looky what I can do! and providing nifty new features, so that they can get more people to buy new players. It's what you do when you begint o hit market saturation: you put out new features so people will "upgrade." Mind you they'll probably never use them. Why phase out MPEG-2, if the goal is more features?
Next thing, MPEG-2 is much higher quality than MPEG-4...MPEG-4 leaves behind alot of artifacts! By that I mean ALOT of artifacts!!!!! They biggest draw with DVD for alot of people...most people...is the higher quality than VHS...why go back in time??? There simply isn't a reason for it. Also, the WMF is something you'd burn to a CD, not put on a DVD with menus and such!
Another thing...WMF's copy-protection is not even on the same level as DVDs. In fact, alot of linux multimedia programs can already use it.
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How many people out there, who aren't anarchists/socialists as RMS is, really care about his opinion? I honestly hope Miguel tell him to shove it up his rear.
That's not necesarily true. Sometimes, being the little guy has an advantage when fighting a goliah of a company like AOL/TW. It can draw a pity verdict, especially considering how relatively small amount of competition they are. Personally, I don't see what AOL complains about. Especially if they were to makes advertisements a part of the protocol. That way, they could theoretically give the potocol away, but when giving out the specs freely make everyone agree to show the ads in in the client.
Much more advantageous to something like that.
Big corperations are like governments though, they can't think for crap.
This has been happening for quite some time. Native code compilation of java is nothing new!.
Yo, 2.5.3, anyone who needs it is tracking it's development, and it's not exactly a major release at this point.
:-) Or announce it when they announce alsa is gonna be in the kernel.
Now when we get a decently working VM into the kernel and settle on it, then we can all jumpf or joy!
A retail sales tax, government service user's fees couldn't accomplish all of this? Possibly with a higher income on the government side of things?
analyze the word homophobe, fear of homosexuals. How does being heterosexual and not liking people randomly responding to my posts with perverse comments like that make me afraid of homosexuals?
Homophobia is a word that is bandied about way to much. Eww, that person doesnt approve of homsexuality he's a homophobe. Eww, that person doesn't think gay people should be allowed to get married or have the significant others of a homosexual get insurance benefits, she must be a homophobe!
Come on, get over it. Also get a life, you just make yourself sound dumb posting comments like that.
People like you worry me.
These frauds ought to be hunted down! Credit cards companies don't help, police don't help, banks don't help, ebay certainly doesn't help, so these people did the right thing and took it into their own hands. Congratulations to them!
Oh I'm with you are protecting their reputation. Georgia Tech (at least here in the south) is regarded as a school with much prestige. We have a history of academic pride, and many traditions, including hard work, and extremely tough classes. The grading is stringent and the professors rough. It angers me that the administration is doing this stuff, because calling kids who truthfully just needed help ( which the learning enviroment they were thrown into didn't provide in any manner) cheaters is more damaging to the reputation than some kids who will never use this stuff collaborating for one class, on how to do the HOMEWORK (the tests were all done by hand, they weren't checked by the program.)
The problem is though, that the article didn't tell the whole story. Not all of these kids were actually caught with the program. By the rules of the courses, if you have a TA look at your code..that's cheating. If you ask for help (note the word ask) from another student, you were cheating. Show someone else, anyone else your code, you were cheating. Also, the results of the program were not validated before handing the students over for investigation. Which is VERY dangerous. Also an even bigger problem: the people required tot ake the course. The articles didn't state it correctly...everyone at Georgia Tech HAS to take that course at some point. There was a girl in pre-law struggling hideously through it in my section last semester. She could hardly use e-mail, much less write programs or use command-line linux via ssh!
I will say, while for me, (I stated this in a previous post) the course was boring, it could be very challenging for the inexperience computer-science or computer-engineering major (I'm of the latter.)
I took the course last semester, and well, the rules about cheating are insane. If you so much as look at another student's code in order to help him, or her, you both are technically cheating and if found out will both flunk the course. Also, alot of people who take the course, have no business taking it! Why? Well it's not every student at the college of computing, it's EVERY student who has to take that course. Some of these kids can't move a mouse in a straight line, much less write computer programs! And it IS a programming course, from day 1, you are taught scheme syntax and usage and some stupid sorting algorithms. Half the time, there aren't very many different approachs to the problems give you (they are VERY structured in how you are to complete them.) Also...at the beginning of the semester there were 5 of these classes being taught, 300 to a class. Of those who remained after drop day, 186 people ACCUSED of cheating is very surprising that it was so few to me! This so-called scandal is not because kids wanted to circumvent the system, it's because the CoC's administration has some overbearing rules.
On a sidenote...this is actually not new...it happens there EVERY semester, it's just the first time it was announced in mass to the press.
Face it, in real life, these students will have to collaborate on projects and problems. Telling them that they can't even give each other hints (I'm not joking,they devoted an entire lecture to what constitutes cheating!) is moronic in my opinion. And no, I was not one of the 186 students, I was so bored in the course that I never even went to class, I only bothered to show up for tests.
Question: Why in the heck should they not be allowed to do whatever the hell they want with their own product? If it's easy to pirate their stuff, who should care but the people putting it out?
How is this news? The Duron has be kicking the Celeron's tail end since the Duron's release. The Duron can usually keep up with a P3 of the same speed, or at least trail very closely behind. The fact that they are both over 1ghz is not new either, not to mention that the so-called advances for the Celeron trully haven't helped it much, as it's an aging architecture. Please people, save money, get a better product from the AMD processors. (I'd still prefer a XP over a P4 personally, I'm yet to see a P4 that didn't give me this feeling that everything for some reason loads slower, though benchmarks seem to say it can be faster in some cases...yet it's only slightly faster than a much lower clocked Athlon XP, see a problem here?)
Carpal Tunnel is preventable to a great extent, and usually can be caught before it gets to a point of nagging pain, being both a musician and a computer professional (and student), I'm in a high risk group for Carpal Tunnel, so I take steps necesary to try and prevent it. Sorry lady, if your wrists were sore from typing, you should have taken a couple sick days or just not typed for a couple days. Also...one word: ergonomic. Why should my tax dollars go to pay for someone else's problem, particularly one that they might (you can't always) have been able to prevent? That's why you buy disability insurance!
That's the stupidest lie I've ever heard! :-) I meant really...we're shipping with software we have no clue about...hyuk hyuk!
Blah. I'd disagree with the fellow who says this is a death knell to closed source software though, since, a) most folks don't care and b) the number of people who use this type of software is in the minority.
Umm...they've got alot better emulation if they can run Internet Explorer, which uses some undocumented API calls which wine can not yet emulate. Hence, IE doesn't even start under wine. It IS KDE with a windows theme (KDE comes stock with one.) Oh yeah, and if you want ugly try the default Windows XP theme! :-)
I can't see the firework's use, but the hot tub depends on the sex of the friends. :-)
Personally the only bowl game I cared about was on thursday night: The Seattle Bowl... Stanford managed to lose in a good one to my school (Georgia Tech) 24-14. :-)
I'm thinking baldur's gate is calling my name rather loudly...
Living in Georgia I can answer that: rednecks! :-)
:-( Poor Ms. Gellar will have to perform some other audience. :-(
I'm all for watching tomorrow's buffy the vampire slayer marathon except that I have to work!
Umm, I can't remember the URL, but a day or two ago I saw that they were suing PS2 mod chip makers. I thought it was here hence, I didn't post my reference.
:-(
Either or, while we have legal precedence for reverse engineering et cetera, it still doesn't stop the DMCA sillyness from allowing for suits and jail time in the U.S.
Also, even thought he mod chip makers may win...the costs of the suit could knock them off the map in some cases.
Umm, damn...we're just to dumb...guess i'll have to stop using my computers....and man since the Q is no more complex than my N64, I'll have to stop using it...and my Playstation, and SNES so on so forth....and my TV...shoot my car is just to complex...
then whoever puts out information on how to mod it out, or anyone who sells mod chips of any kind will get sued! :-(
Selling out? Oh you must be one of those anti-social geeks! Some of us are geeks with lives, and movies actually interest us! Odd concept I know...human beings doing something other than messing with computers all day long. Even movies are news for us nerds man! I'm sick of people makiong posts like this: the people who run the site are nerds...so if it interested them enough to post it, it's automatically news for nerds by definition. If you're not interested, don't fucking read the story!!!
And I thought we were getting ripped off at 7 dollars here in Atlanta! :-)
My comment: if your liked Scary Movie, or if you just think the Breakfast Club was sooooo stupid it was funny...or even if you just want a good laugh...go see it.
My question: I'm still not to sure if he liked it or disliked it...he sounds like he doesn't until the end. Jon Katz articles are a decent yarn but my God he couldn't give a eighth-of-the-way-to-decent movie review if his life depended on it!
Nice, conspiracy, but there's some problems. WMF is just modified MPEG-4 as I understand it, which is the same thing as a VCD, which most DVD players understand already (the el cheapo $99 set-top DVD player I just bought my parents, plays every CD format including CD-RW, VCD, MP3, and DVD), MPEG-4, is just slightly modified MPEG-2. So, basically the manufacturers (Who have very little to do with the people releasing the films btw!) are just saying hey looky what I can do! and providing nifty new features, so that they can get more people to buy new players. It's what you do when you begint o hit market saturation: you put out new features so people will "upgrade." Mind you they'll probably never use them. Why phase out MPEG-2, if the goal is more features?
Next thing, MPEG-2 is much higher quality than MPEG-4...MPEG-4 leaves behind alot of artifacts! By that I mean ALOT of artifacts!!!!! They biggest draw with DVD for alot of people...most people...is the higher quality than VHS...why go back in time??? There simply isn't a reason for it. Also, the WMF is something you'd burn to a CD, not put on a DVD with menus and such!
Another thing...WMF's copy-protection is not even on the same level as DVDs. In fact, alot of linux multimedia programs can already use it.