I'm all for having reasonable laws for reasonable people. And this one seems to have it's heart in the right place.
However, if you have the ability to use someone's network "accidentally" how do you distinguish someone who is using a lot of bandwidth for an innocuous reason from someone using a little bandwidth for a protective screen? I seem to recall reading an article about SPAMmers using open links to anonymously go through SMTP sites to further propogate their "stuff"...
And if the company is running Windows and has shared network resources, where does my 100 page accidental printing land on the scale of things?
I agree that you don't want to arrest someone for browsing through "linkedsys" when they meant "linksys" (or picking up the wrong "linksys" which is probably even more likely). But I'm not sure this is the answer.
Perhaps the reason the game extends far beyond the "geek" community is that "real" geeks don't have that much time to devote to playing games?
Or perhaps I'm just showing my age again...:-)
Our company has Windows on the desktop, and Red Hat Advanced Server on our servers. Our programmers have to X-Window into the Linux servers when they do server programming.
Why don't they have Linux on their desktops? When we looked at moving folks over, we ran into the following:
Testing the Red Hat, Lycoris, and Lindows desktop offerings we would have to buy a number of additional licenses - while we already have a campus license for MS Windows and Office.
Both Lycoris and Lindows seemed to have trouble recognizing some of our hardware - particularly Firewire and Wireless Networking.
In all three cases trying to use the available options for working with MS Word documents (used by virtually all our clients) showed compatibility problems with any of them that had a large number of tables or that used automatic labelling of Figures.
As a final straw, there is currently no way to sync a PocketPC with appointment and contact data on any of the Linux offerings.
My point is that no one is going to switch to Linux just to be running Linux to do the same things they do on Windows. The ONLY way that folks are going to be convinced to make the switch is to have a Linux that does something folks can't do easily or cheaply in Windows, and then promote the heck out of that.
Personally, I think that the Gimp is a start in the right direction - and that Lycoris and Lindows isn't.
Just my.02 worth...
Please take a moment and check out some soothing images if my commentary has stressed you:-)
I'm happily employed (though I wouldn't mind seeing more visitors to my Ewan Photos site), but as an early Dice member I've kept my daily search running as a means of keeping up with the market.
Over the last couple weeks my matches have gone from an average of 10 a day to almost 80 a day. I don't think there are THAT many new positions opening, but it at least indicates that there are a few more positions that are of high enough caliber to make the recruiters salivate.
Just my.02 worth...
Even though there isn't as much familiarity with the company in the PC market, they can have a much smaller market penetration and still do as well or better. Remember that the Mac market is still only about 1/10th the size of the WinTel market.
I'd say they'll do even better than the usual shareware company since they'll have a lot of word-of-mouth already going for them.
Rather than trying to make their album available on their own site, they should have been led by their chief techie to the P2P networks. In fact, I suspect the folks at Sherman Networks would have loved to help promote this as another Legal use of Kazaa.
So, anyone who's already posted this around and has the song list to look for?
You have to wonder when you see some of the comments on the DB answers why someone like him would bother. While it's possible there will be a few new readers, it's more likely the same people who already like/hate him who are reading this.
A number of years ago I was acting as a moderator at an online service that had hopes of becoming the next AOL. I scored what I thought (at the time) was a major coup in getting Robert X. Cringely (not sure if it was the PBS one or his predecesor) to come to a chat. I promoted the heck out of it, and even made sure to have extra resources set aside for the crowd.
Twenty people "showed up", ten of whom were obviously there to heckle, and eight of whom had a particular column they wanted to discuss/critique/praise him for.
I remember apologizing profusely at the end of the hour, and him being rather generous and saying it was ok because he liked people, and at least he didn't get any pie on him.
How common is MY name? Let's put it this way, it is usually faster for me to have support personnel or customer service look me up by my first name than to enter my SSN.
A google search (at least for the first few pages) reveals information about me and my dad. And that's about it.
Of course, I keep assuming that the number of Ewan's will rise after the actor - but at least in the US that doesn't seem to be the case.
... that "Dave's World" will start airing on "Nick at Night"?
What we really need is...
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I think this is a very innovative way to make the UI help get around the physical limitations of the device.
But what we REALLY need are answers to those physical limitations. I have a lot more hope for a foldable display in the long term than in ways to try to make a big picture/UI fit on a small screen.
Not knocking what is an excellant piece of work, but sometimes a great solution to a problem blocks better solutions.
I think it's interesting to see this many people put this much effort into something they love. But I think it would be even more interesting to see folks put this much effort into something new. Something that would create it's own effect on the world - something new and fresh and...
OK, so when can I expect to see some Cowboy BeBop fan animes?
As anyone who's followed Mark Pilgrim's progress at Dive into Mark (www.diveintomark.org) knows, he recently got a plum writing assignment from O'Reilly because of the work he did on his website. I've noticed that Dave Winer seems to be doing quite well with his job and his web log.
I seem to recall a few logic problems when I was in college that sounded an awful lot like the thinking in this article. Not that you have to take a logic class to be a reporter these days I suppose...:-)
I disagree about your argument - mainly because you are leaping to an assumption that there was Digital Media involved in any form. There's no reason to believe the information wasn't posted by someone at WalMart who read a report - or in your example that someone saw a printed flyer before it was actually distributed.
As such, the only way that WalMart could prove the DMCA had been violated is to assert that it was to get the source revealed so that they could show it had been. But if it wasn't violated then the source shouldn't be revealed under standard First Amendment protection of sources.
Taking a look at this system, I'm struck by how much they don't tell you. For example, where does the "Guide" get it's data? How much will I pay for that?
Also, unless you go with the "Pro" version you still have the problem that when the HD is full, you then have to choose between deleting a program or not recording another. And the Pro version is as much more than the regular version as the DVD drive would cost you retail. Hmmm...
Finally, you are looking at a solution where the upgradability is studiously not addressed. Can I add another HD and use it? Or will the DRM controls only recognize specifically configured disks?
So, are there any radical GUI and/or OS projects on SourceForge worth looking at that address the author's objections?
Personally I'd be interested in a GUI where the system comes up just showing a column with rotating levels - each level representing something about the system (drives, folders, applications), and with "balls" on each level to click that open things into an application specific GUI.
For example, Photoshop does not use the standard Mac or Windows GUI. It has a number of application specific widgets. Why shouldn't other programs do the same?
Certainly the stories described sound interesting. Although the themes for several sound more like amplifications than new ideas. I'm sure most of us can see links to "The Matrix" and "The Truman Show" in "Twenty-two Buttons".
As for the prime magazine comment, I think it's hard to break into the field because there is such a flood of junk that the editors do tend to give preference to those authors they have some reason to think can write a decent story.
I ran a semi-professional magazine (Radius) for a while, and while the funding was difficult, what really drove me out of the business was having to read through the slush pile. I'd get about 200 stories a month, and often would find only one or two that I could get all the way through. I can only imagine the headaches that the editors of "Asimov's" or "Analog" must get.
Having done a Debian as my first shot at Linux for our company - I have to say that the installer gives WAY too many options that require you to be pretty familiar with the hardware you're running. I ultimately was able to ask questions and get things fixed, but our average user doesn't want to have to learn that much about their hardware.
Red Hat was much simpler, and did a better job at probing and giving me reasonable defaults. It still had some goofs - but I was able to get the system running at a baseline so that I was fixing things "within" the system rather than from the outside.
Getting the installer "right" with reasonable guidance for the newbie, and options to override for the expert, seems to be one of the seemingly simple but incredibly difficult things that most distributions still need to get right.
Of course, the other thing I would like to see most distributions understand is that many people are bringing Linux into a Windows world. So having support from the install for Windows networks (mapped drives and authentication) would make it much easier to put on more desktops.
If you read the full article, you'll notice that Helms' office mentions that they heard from Religious broadcasters in the area that felt that the burden would still be too great on them.
Nevertheless, nice to see that even the Religious Right is "getting the idea" in terms of dealing with the RIAA...
Cool looking plane, but it does make one wonder if the fabled "Project Aurora" (spaceplane) also exists. Goodness knows the shape is similar to some of the stories that have been put out there about it (for example, here).
Having seen some of the other crazy things people do, it occurred to me that one of the great uses for this thing would be for starting a new sport - extreme waterskiing...
Is there time for negative reviews?
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I am always interested in reading reviews about material I should read and hadn't heard about. I'm not so keen on spending time reading a review telling me that something I otherwise wouldn't have looked at anyway isn't worth the time and trouble. Just as the moderation guidelines suggest that it's better to raise the good than to punish the bad, I think that would have been a good idea here as well - give us a good review about something rather than spend the mindspace on this.
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Question I usually like to see answered by anyone:
What is the one thing that people usually don't understand about you or what you do that you wish they did?
However, if you have the ability to use someone's network "accidentally" how do you distinguish someone who is using a lot of bandwidth for an innocuous reason from someone using a little bandwidth for a protective screen? I seem to recall reading an article about SPAMmers using open links to anonymously go through SMTP sites to further propogate their "stuff"...
And if the company is running Windows and has shared network resources, where does my 100 page accidental printing land on the scale of things?
I agree that you don't want to arrest someone for browsing through "linkedsys" when they meant "linksys" (or picking up the wrong "linksys" which is probably even more likely). But I'm not sure this is the answer.
FWIW,
Ewan
Perhaps the reason the game extends far beyond the "geek" community is that "real" geeks don't have that much time to devote to playing games? :-)
Or perhaps I'm just showing my age again...
Why don't they have Linux on their desktops? When we looked at moving folks over, we ran into the following:
Testing the Red Hat, Lycoris, and Lindows desktop offerings we would have to buy a number of additional licenses - while we already have a campus license for MS Windows and Office.
Both Lycoris and Lindows seemed to have trouble recognizing some of our hardware - particularly Firewire and Wireless Networking.
In all three cases trying to use the available options for working with MS Word documents (used by virtually all our clients) showed compatibility problems with any of them that had a large number of tables or that used automatic labelling of Figures.
As a final straw, there is currently no way to sync a PocketPC with appointment and contact data on any of the Linux offerings. .02 worth...
:-)
My point is that no one is going to switch to Linux just to be running Linux to do the same things they do on Windows. The ONLY way that folks are going to be convinced to make the switch is to have a Linux that does something folks can't do easily or cheaply in Windows, and then promote the heck out of that.
Personally, I think that the Gimp is a start in the right direction - and that Lycoris and Lindows isn't.
Just my
Please take a moment and check out some soothing images if my commentary has stressed you
I'm happily employed (though I wouldn't mind seeing more visitors to my Ewan Photos site), but as an early Dice member I've kept my daily search running as a means of keeping up with the market. .02 worth...
Over the last couple weeks my matches have gone from an average of 10 a day to almost 80 a day. I don't think there are THAT many new positions opening, but it at least indicates that there are a few more positions that are of high enough caliber to make the recruiters salivate. Just my
Even though there isn't as much familiarity with the company in the PC market, they can have a much smaller market penetration and still do as well or better. Remember that the Mac market is still only about 1/10th the size of the WinTel market.
I'd say they'll do even better than the usual shareware company since they'll have a lot of word-of-mouth already going for them.
Rather than trying to make their album available on their own site, they should have been led by their chief techie to the P2P networks. In fact, I suspect the folks at Sherman Networks would have loved to help promote this as another Legal use of Kazaa.
So, anyone who's already posted this around and has the song list to look for?
You have to wonder when you see some of the comments on the DB answers why someone like him would bother. While it's possible there will be a few new readers, it's more likely the same people who already like/hate him who are reading this.
A number of years ago I was acting as a moderator at an online service that had hopes of becoming the next AOL. I scored what I thought (at the time) was a major coup in getting Robert X. Cringely (not sure if it was the PBS one or his predecesor) to come to a chat. I promoted the heck out of it, and even made sure to have extra resources set aside for the crowd.
Twenty people "showed up", ten of whom were obviously there to heckle, and eight of whom had a particular column they wanted to discuss/critique/praise him for.
I remember apologizing profusely at the end of the hour, and him being rather generous and saying it was ok because he liked people, and at least he didn't get any pie on him.
How common is MY name? Let's put it this way, it is usually faster for me to have support personnel or customer service look me up by my first name than to enter my SSN.
A google search (at least for the first few pages) reveals information about me and my dad. And that's about it.
Of course, I keep assuming that the number of Ewan's will rise after the actor - but at least in the US that doesn't seem to be the case.
Just another data point...
... that "Dave's World" will start airing on "Nick at Night"?
I think this is a very innovative way to make the UI help get around the physical limitations of the device.
.02 worth...
But what we REALLY need are answers to those physical limitations. I have a lot more hope for a foldable display in the long term than in ways to try to make a big picture/UI fit on a small screen.
Not knocking what is an excellant piece of work, but sometimes a great solution to a problem blocks better solutions.
Just my
I think it's interesting to see this many people put this much effort into something they love. But I think it would be even more interesting to see folks put this much effort into something new. Something that would create it's own effect on the world - something new and fresh and...
OK, so when can I expect to see some Cowboy BeBop fan animes?
As anyone who's followed Mark Pilgrim's progress at Dive into Mark (www.diveintomark.org) knows, he recently got a plum writing assignment from O'Reilly because of the work he did on his website. I've noticed that Dave Winer seems to be doing quite well with his job and his web log.
:-)
I seem to recall a few logic problems when I was in college that sounded an awful lot like the thinking in this article. Not that you have to take a logic class to be a reporter these days I suppose...
I disagree about your argument - mainly because you are leaping to an assumption that there was Digital Media involved in any form. There's no reason to believe the information wasn't posted by someone at WalMart who read a report - or in your example that someone saw a printed flyer before it was actually distributed.
As such, the only way that WalMart could prove the DMCA had been violated is to assert that it was to get the source revealed so that they could show it had been. But if it wasn't violated then the source shouldn't be revealed under standard First Amendment protection of sources.
I am not a lawyer, YMMV, etc.
Taking a look at this system, I'm struck by how much they don't tell you. For example, where does the "Guide" get it's data? How much will I pay for that?
Also, unless you go with the "Pro" version you still have the problem that when the HD is full, you then have to choose between deleting a program or not recording another. And the Pro version is as much more than the regular version as the DVD drive would cost you retail. Hmmm...
Finally, you are looking at a solution where the upgradability is studiously not addressed. Can I add another HD and use it? Or will the DRM controls only recognize specifically configured disks?
Basically I just don't see this as a solution.
Thanks! That looks pretty interesting.
So, are there any radical GUI and/or OS projects on SourceForge worth looking at that address the author's objections?
.02 worth...
Personally I'd be interested in a GUI where the system comes up just showing a column with rotating levels - each level representing something about the system (drives, folders, applications), and with "balls" on each level to click that open things into an application specific GUI.
For example, Photoshop does not use the standard Mac or Windows GUI. It has a number of application specific widgets. Why shouldn't other programs do the same?
My
Certainly the stories described sound interesting. Although the themes for several sound more like amplifications than new ideas. I'm sure most of us can see links to "The Matrix" and "The Truman Show" in "Twenty-two Buttons".
As for the prime magazine comment, I think it's hard to break into the field because there is such a flood of junk that the editors do tend to give preference to those authors they have some reason to think can write a decent story.
I ran a semi-professional magazine (Radius) for a while, and while the funding was difficult, what really drove me out of the business was having to read through the slush pile. I'd get about 200 stories a month, and often would find only one or two that I could get all the way through. I can only imagine the headaches that the editors of "Asimov's" or "Analog" must get.
FWIW...
Having done a Debian as my first shot at Linux for our company - I have to say that the installer gives WAY too many options that require you to be pretty familiar with the hardware you're running. I ultimately was able to ask questions and get things fixed, but our average user doesn't want to have to learn that much about their hardware.
.03 worth...
Red Hat was much simpler, and did a better job at probing and giving me reasonable defaults. It still had some goofs - but I was able to get the system running at a baseline so that I was fixing things "within" the system rather than from the outside.
Getting the installer "right" with reasonable guidance for the newbie, and options to override for the expert, seems to be one of the seemingly simple but incredibly difficult things that most distributions still need to get right.
Of course, the other thing I would like to see most distributions understand is that many people are bringing Linux into a Windows world. So having support from the install for Windows networks (mapped drives and authentication) would make it much easier to put on more desktops.
My
If you read the full article, you'll notice that Helms' office mentions that they heard from Religious broadcasters in the area that felt that the burden would still be too great on them.
Nevertheless, nice to see that even the Religious Right is "getting the idea" in terms of dealing with the RIAA...
Cool looking plane, but it does make one wonder if the fabled "Project Aurora" (spaceplane) also exists. Goodness knows the shape is similar to some of the stories that have been put out there about it (for example, here).
The problem you describe is one that is run into more often than folks realize, and ignored more often than it should.
I personally would recommend Constantine and Lockwood's books and other information available at this site.
The "official" website for the series.
Having seen some of the other crazy things people do, it occurred to me that one of the great uses for this thing would be for starting a new sport - extreme waterskiing...
I am always interested in reading reviews about material I should read and hadn't heard about. I'm not so keen on spending time reading a review telling me that something I otherwise wouldn't have looked at anyway isn't worth the time and trouble. Just as the moderation guidelines suggest that it's better to raise the good than to punish the bad, I think that would have been a good idea here as well - give us a good review about something rather than spend the mindspace on this.
.02 worth...
Just my