Ever tried ctrl-alt-escape in KDE? Obvious and transparent, no?
Huh? And I guess Ctrl-Alt-Delete to kill processes is more obvious?
Just a thought. IANAIP (I Am Not An Insightful Person), but wouldnt the best option be a system that didnt have the need to kill stray processec manually?:)
Actually, Edonkey is somewhere in between kazaa and AG. It identifies files via checksums. Much better than Kazaas filename and size-identification.(although the constant hashing drives me nuts) The ability to download from multiple scources increases by scores that way. And while online, it constantly searches for alternative scources. And the interface kicks ass. You can see exactly how your download is progressing. me like alot. But its best for movies, the shared MP3 base among the users aint much.
AG took it one step further with their index server. It means you can actually search for songs that are not online, and queue them for download. The web interface even made it possible to browse, search and queue froma remote machine. Brilliant.
Another thing that I will miss from AG are the Groups. Join a group, and other members or the group starts sending you songs without you searching for them. This way I found 10 to 15 new artists that I didnt even knew existed - every day. And Ive buyed scores of albums thanks to what the group shoved my way.
This is probably true. As your body doesnt offer much of a resistance it probably will be qute unaffected. Unless it pass directly throuh your brain or spine and manages to cut off some small but important neural pathway, that is.
But then agan, when the little bugger impacts with the ground a fraction on a spilt second later, which absorbs a helluva lot more energy than you, it will probably wreck some minor havoc. The quakes and craters that these things supposedly have caused were not major, but you would actually be in the very epicenter of it. And I sure wouldnt recommend that...
Besides, the South Pole is a point in the middle of a big friggin glacier. At least 1000 km to the closest ocean and much colder than the coast. They would either strarve or freeze to death there.
"There is a lot of pressure on studios to avoid long movies."
Well, I think that there is a simple solution. Pay for what you buy. For a long movie, more more. For a short movie, pay less. What I actually do is rent a seat to place my ass in for an hour or three. The location of the seat is what makes it expensive, due to the interresting view.:) Also, I think I should be able to pay more to get seats with a better view.
To pay the same for 1.5 hours as for 3, aswell as paying full price for the crappiest seats, is just plain stupid.
1. Digital media is not as likely do lose quality with each play. Dust marks and scratches on a movie roll is a pain in the arse for both projectionists and cinema goers.
2. Digital film is, and this is important, cheaper. A digital projection good enough for a small to medium sized cinema screen is much more affordable than a set of projetors. The media, be it DVD for the smaller salons or a better and uncompressed formats för the larger ones.
This means that they are cheaper to copy, easier to distribute and therefore can get spread to backwater cinemas that would normally have to wait for months to get hold of a copy of the latest box office hits
This also means that it will cost much less to distribute smaller, independent films. That might be the vitamin injection that the movie industry needs.
Also, sending events live to big screens all over the world might opens up for some real interresting opportunity. Pay 10 bux to see Super Bowl on a Big F***n Screen, instead of on your vimpy little tv at home.
Its short, but oh so true. IBM have NOT patented what FrontPage do. They have patented a template based method to create alternative pages for browser specific functions. Read the whole patent pepole.
And if someone breaks into my house (or my computer) and pose a threat to my person or property (or files) I have the right to defend myself against that. So Ill treat a visit from the RIAA as any other illegal hack attack.
Thats not the question. The question is what Joe Shmoe will say when he discovers that owbners of copyrighted material obviously has the right to oogle his private hard drive. He doesnt know this, but when he does (if it is presented that way, and not as "We Just Wanna Protect You From Evil Pirates"), you can be assured that he will go ballistic.
Passing this new law, the (C)-owners cant format your hard drive if they find MP3 files there. Thats all that is new. To Joe Shmoe, this new law is one that protects his ass from damage by hacking.
Ok, you are too cool to broadcast Top 40 music. What has that got to do with the issue at hand? So if the album by the artist that I like is copy protected, I should be just as satisfied with another artist music? This is not how music buyers reason. They buy discs by artists, not by record labels.
The problem here is that the doesnt have a choice. Since a record company has exclusive deals for the albums artists and groups make, there is no alternative than to buy the music in whatever package the company choose.
A better wayt would be to let the record companies sign individual nonexclusive deals with the artist to distribute and market the same album. The one who makes the best artwork, gives the pest price of throw in the best extras will sell the most. If I can get my album from two different record labels, only then can I choose the label that I prefer.
Big, profitable artists would have no trouble making deals like that, since they could finance the recording of their music themselves. For smaller bands, who rely on the big co. for production costs, it could be trickier. Here exclusives are brobably nessecary to get a label to support new artists. But someone (some union maybe?) should really look into the kind of sell-my-whole-career contracts that artists are signing.
Heres what Ill do. Ill buy the CD and attempt to rip it digitally. If that doesnt work Ill probably rip it anyway, using an analog device. THEN Ill return it. Those bastards are not gonna keep me from the music I pay for.
There is something fishy about all this. It has to do with the use of the word "Terrorism".
To place a bomb on a bus in the morning rush is not nessecarily terrorism. It is sick and twisted and evil, but its not terrorism.
Not even nuking New York is nessecarily terrorism.
Terrorism always has a political agenda, like with ETA, or a religious one, like Hamas.
To use violence upon innocent bystanders on order to achieve a political (or religious) goal. That is terrorism. If that is done by hacking into a air traffic control central and make planes crash, or by running into the mall with a dynamite belt, it is still the same act.
So, when a hacker commits a criminal act the laws we got already covers his crime. Be it terrorism, murder, vandalism or just plain stupidity, the computer is just another tool.
Dont use email. Dont use phone. The more low-tech the communication is, the hearder it is for computers to watch it.
Send a letter via the US Postal Service. Buy a car, and drive over to your fellow terorists house where you can privately chat in a bug-free enviroment. Staple a message hidden in a Haiku poem on your neghbour's dog. Or whatever. With patience, you dont need Internet to spread the message.
What really amazes me here is the belief that restrictions in hich-tech communications will do anything at all to stop future terrorists from talking to each other.
Guerillas, terrorists and other underground organisations have through history been very inventive to keep information away from the prying eye of the enemy. Sure, Echelon-esque surveillance of Internet communication and constant radio scanning can prevent terrorist messaging (some of it, maybe only a small part of it) to be conducted.
But you can just as well coordinate a devastating terror attack with uinstructions written on a scrap of goddamn paper sent in a pink envelope with yellow flowers and a light touch of perfume.
Or scibbled down on a note in the back pocket of a "tourist".
Or why not word of mouth?
The bottom line is, this wont stop terrorism. It will find a way.
The suggested communicative restrictions are just the congress and white houses need to show that they are acting.
If the result is to find the joke that makes most pepole laugh, it wont be very funny. It will be unoffening, politically correct, culturally tansparent and aimed at all ages and both sexes.
In other words, a mildly amusing, but pretty lame joke.
This is not surprising. In the webs youth (three, four years ago?), the number of enthusiastic and engaged Internet users that use it as a soapbox, were a certain amount of pepole. These days, they are pretty much the same amount.
What happened was that The Rest Of The World, who wouldn't care about the soapbox weherever it may be also learned to log on. Pepole who watches Days Of Our Lives, prime time MTV and, if they feel like going on a limb, just might watch the evening news.
The amount of pepole using the web for what the idesalist dreamers wanted are still increasing, but as they were the ones to be firts online, the percentage dropped like a rock with the MSN and AOL efforts to put everyone online.
Call me a cynic, but I think that just because there is a new media for it, everyone will all of a sudden use it to it's fullest extent. Man is a creature of comfort, and you have to have an exceptional interrest in something particular to take the time to look it up.
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Toss your TV. You'll like the results.
Depends on which direction I toss it. Is a hole in the wall ore one in the window better?
Ever tried ctrl-alt-escape in KDE? Obvious and transparent, no?
:)
Huh? And I guess Ctrl-Alt-Delete to kill processes is more obvious?
Just a thought. IANAIP (I Am Not An Insightful Person), but wouldnt the best option be a system that didnt have the need to kill stray processec manually?
Actually, Edonkey is somewhere in between kazaa and AG. It identifies files via checksums. Much better than Kazaas filename and size-identification.(although the constant hashing drives me nuts) The ability to download from multiple scources increases by scores that way. And while online, it constantly searches for alternative scources. And the interface kicks ass. You can see exactly how your download is progressing. me like alot. But its best for movies, the shared MP3 base among the users aint much.
AG took it one step further with their index server. It means you can actually search for songs that are not online, and queue them for download. The web interface even made it possible to browse, search and queue froma remote machine. Brilliant.
Another thing that I will miss from AG are the Groups. Join a group, and other members or the group starts sending you songs without you searching for them. This way I found 10 to 15 new artists that I didnt even knew existed - every day. And Ive buyed scores of albums thanks to what the group shoved my way.
That I want back more than anything.
...belomg to ms?
This is probably true. As your body doesnt offer much of a resistance it probably will be qute unaffected. Unless it pass directly throuh your brain or spine and manages to cut off some small but important neural pathway, that is.
But then agan, when the little bugger impacts with the ground a fraction on a spilt second later, which absorbs a helluva lot more energy than you, it will probably wreck some minor havoc. The quakes and craters that these things supposedly have caused were not major, but you would actually be in the very epicenter of it. And I sure wouldnt recommend that...
Besides, the South Pole is a point in the middle of a big friggin glacier. At least 1000 km to the closest ocean and much colder than the coast. They would either strarve or freeze to death there.
Thats with japanese passengers, but with big fat gringos like us.
Or whatever...
"For some reason I have this huge fear the Episode II will be somewhat of a click flick. Please tell me I'm wrong."
No you're not wrong. You DO have that fear.
"There is a lot of pressure on studios to avoid long movies."
:) Also, I think I should be able to pay more to get seats with a better view.
Well, I think that there is a simple solution. Pay for what you buy. For a long movie, more more. For a short movie, pay less. What I actually do is rent a seat to place my ass in for an hour or three. The location of the seat is what makes it expensive, due to the interresting view.
To pay the same for 1.5 hours as for 3, aswell as paying full price for the crappiest seats, is just plain stupid.
1. Digital media is not as likely do lose quality with each play. Dust marks and scratches on a movie roll is a pain in the arse for both projectionists and cinema goers.
2. Digital film is, and this is important, cheaper. A digital projection good enough for a small to medium sized cinema screen is much more affordable than a set of projetors. The media, be it DVD for the smaller salons or a better and uncompressed formats för the larger ones.
This means that they are cheaper to copy, easier to distribute and therefore can get spread to backwater cinemas that would normally have to wait for months to get hold of a copy of the latest box office hits
This also means that it will cost much less to distribute smaller, independent films. That might be the vitamin injection that the movie industry needs.
Also, sending events live to big screens all over the world might opens up for some real interresting opportunity. Pay 10 bux to see Super Bowl on a Big F***n Screen, instead of on your vimpy little tv at home.
Its short, but oh so true. IBM have NOT patented what FrontPage do. They have patented a template based method to create alternative pages for browser specific functions. Read the whole patent pepole.
Mod parent up, please.
And if someone breaks into my house (or my computer) and pose a threat to my person or property (or files) I have the right to defend myself against that. So Ill treat a visit from the RIAA as any other illegal hack attack.
Thats not the question. The question is what Joe Shmoe will say when he discovers that owbners of copyrighted material obviously has the right to oogle his private hard drive. He doesnt know this, but when he does (if it is presented that way, and not as "We Just Wanna Protect You From Evil Pirates"), you can be assured that he will go ballistic.
Passing this new law, the (C)-owners cant format your hard drive if they find MP3 files there. Thats all that is new. To Joe Shmoe, this new law is one that protects his ass from damage by hacking.
Rip. Mix. Burn.
Bwahahaha!
Ok, you are too cool to broadcast Top 40 music. What has that got to do with the issue at hand? So if the album by the artist that I like is copy protected, I should be just as satisfied with another artist music? This is not how music buyers reason. They buy discs by artists, not by record labels.
The problem here is that the doesnt have a choice. Since a record company has exclusive deals for the albums artists and groups make, there is no alternative than to buy the music in whatever package the company choose.
A better wayt would be to let the record companies sign individual nonexclusive deals with the artist to distribute and market the same album. The one who makes the best artwork, gives the pest price of throw in the best extras will sell the most. If I can get my album from two different record labels, only then can I choose the label that I prefer.
Big, profitable artists would have no trouble making deals like that, since they could finance the recording of their music themselves. For smaller bands, who rely on the big co. for production costs, it could be trickier. Here exclusives are brobably nessecary to get a label to support new artists. But someone (some union maybe?) should really look into the kind of sell-my-whole-career contracts that artists are signing.
Wasnt Universal one of the major forces behind the my.mp3.com lawsuit a while back?
Heres what Ill do. Ill buy the CD and attempt to rip it digitally. If that doesnt work Ill probably rip it anyway, using an analog device. THEN Ill return it. Those bastards are not gonna keep me from the music I pay for.
...you cant digitally rip a vinyl either. So why not?
There is something fishy about all this. It has to do with the use of the word "Terrorism".
To place a bomb on a bus in the morning rush is not nessecarily terrorism. It is sick and twisted and evil, but its not terrorism.
Not even nuking New York is nessecarily terrorism.
Terrorism always has a political agenda, like with ETA, or a religious one, like Hamas.
To use violence upon innocent bystanders on order to achieve a political (or religious) goal. That is terrorism. If that is done by hacking into a air traffic control central and make planes crash, or by running into the mall with a dynamite belt, it is still the same act.
So, when a hacker commits a criminal act the laws we got already covers his crime. Be it terrorism, murder, vandalism or just plain stupidity, the computer is just another tool.
Korea and Vietnam were legally 'police actions', no formal declaration of war.
Niether is this Lets-Go-Shoot-Us-Some-Arabs tragedy that is unfolding.
True. But the most effective way is still this:
Dont use email. Dont use phone. The more low-tech the communication is, the hearder it is for computers to watch it.
Send a letter via the US Postal Service. Buy a car, and drive over to your fellow terorists house where you can privately chat in a bug-free enviroment. Staple a message hidden in a Haiku poem on your neghbour's dog. Or whatever. With patience, you dont need Internet to spread the message.
What really amazes me here is the belief that restrictions in hich-tech communications will do anything at all to stop future terrorists from talking to each other.
Guerillas, terrorists and other underground organisations have through history been very inventive to keep information away from the prying eye of the enemy. Sure, Echelon-esque surveillance of Internet communication and constant radio scanning can prevent terrorist messaging (some of it, maybe only a small part of it) to be conducted.
But you can just as well coordinate a devastating terror attack with uinstructions written on a scrap of goddamn paper sent in a pink envelope with yellow flowers and a light touch of perfume.
Or scibbled down on a note in the back pocket of a "tourist".
Or why not word of mouth?
The bottom line is, this wont stop terrorism. It will find a way.
The suggested communicative restrictions are just the congress and white houses need to show that they are acting.
If the result is to find the joke that makes most pepole laugh, it wont be very funny. It will be unoffening, politically correct, culturally tansparent and aimed at all ages and both sexes.
In other words, a mildly amusing, but pretty lame joke.
Something like Cosby.
This is not surprising. In the webs youth (three, four years ago?), the number of enthusiastic and engaged Internet users that use it as a soapbox, were a certain amount of pepole. These days, they are pretty much the same amount.
What happened was that The Rest Of The World, who wouldn't care about the soapbox weherever it may be also learned to log on. Pepole who watches Days Of Our Lives, prime time MTV and, if they feel like going on a limb, just might watch the evening news.
The amount of pepole using the web for what the idesalist dreamers wanted are still increasing, but as they were the ones to be firts online, the percentage dropped like a rock with the MSN and AOL efforts to put everyone online.
Call me a cynic, but I think that just because there is a new media for it, everyone will all of a sudden use it to it's fullest extent. Man is a creature of comfort, and you have to have an exceptional interrest in something particular to take the time to look it up.
Already being done. Latest mfg to preinstall Linux is big-ass computer giant Dell.
Now THAT means impact.