My question is, does anyone have any suggestions for *software* to do something like this?
Sure. Download uICE. It supports various infrared controllers such as the IRMan. You can use any infrared remote to control it (your VCR's remote, whatever). Just teach the IR codes to the software and tell it what you want it to do. I use it with an AMX touchscreen linked to an AMX master controller. The master controller sends 6 character strings out one of it's 6 serial ports into one of my server's 10 serial ports. uICE receives those strings and passes control on to Winamp. End result? I can control all functions of Winamp from my living room. The AMX equipment also powers up my audio equipment and switches to the right input when I fire up Winamp from the touchscreen...
There are many places where you can put those windmills without cutting down trees. There are many places u can put solar panels. Sorry but there are so many more environmentally friendly powersources.
You're right, of course, but the issue is not ability, it's practicality. Given the costs of various energy production methods, nuclear is the best and the cleanest available to us. Wind turbines and solar are nice, but they're too damn expensive per Kwh.
Personally, I would like to see the US Government pour billions into solar research. It would be nice to be able to slap solar-generating shingles on every home for a reasonable price.
Hydroelectric dams are the best things we've got going. The energy is clean and incredibly cheap. Unfortunately, the various terrorist groups operating in the US are forcing us to tear our best energy producers down to save the salmon, even though there is absolutely no proof that dams are the reason for the decline in salmon population. As if the people pulling them out of the river by the ton to sell in supermarkets have absolutely nothing to do with it...
there cannot possibly be enough of it even for our current needs even if we coated the entire countryside with collector
BS. If the shingles on my roof were all replaced with small solar cells, it would generate many times more electricity than I use now. I calculated that I would need to cover only one quarter to one third of my roof with cells to more than satisfy my electrical needs and allow for some future expansion.
If every roof shingle in the nation was an individual collector, we would have tons of excess energy. Power plants could go away for good, we wouldn't need them. The problem is cost: To satisfy my electrical needs, I need to cough up close to $75k to buy the equipment. Now, that could be reduced significantly by switching to a gas range & dryer, and I could lose another $15k if I shut my servers off, but the point is it's expensive as hell.
The technology is more than adequate. The price simply needs to come way down.
So instead, here's some simpering for you: sticking your head up your ass won't change the facts.
I found his post insightful and dead-on accurate. You, on the other hand, fail to make a single argument. You talk about the "facts" but won't even define what they are.
Nothing quite coherent enough to deal with? Hell, you provided nothing at all to deal with. Next time, try saying something.
I don't know what Draeker made for the rest of the year, but 46 thousand is not a lot of money, especially for the CEO of a software house. His wife was paid 18 thousand, which is less than my wife makes at Wal-Mart as a cashier.
I doubt your wife makes $36K a year as a Wal-Mart cashier. Note that the figures in question were for a 6.5 month period - January 15th 2001 to July 31st 3001. ~$128k per year for the Draekers seems more than fair under normal circumstances. When the employees are working for free, however, it's fucking bullshit. They took care of themselves and left everyone else to rot.
So (for example) you can plug your audio cable from your CD player into your PC and sample the CD. However, your PC then refuses to play the audio, because it contains a watermark identifying it as needing a keyed source to play from and it doesn't have one.
Good luck. Does your PC have this? Will you buy a PC that has this? Didn't think so.
"Oh, but some day, that will be your only choice." BS. Even if future PCs refuse to boot unless Windows 2010 DRM+ is installed, someone will hack a Linux kernel to report the right info to the BIOS and you'll be set.
"Oh, but they'll make Linux illegal." Good luck. I think the fact that Linux is something like 27% of the server market pretty much counts that out. Do you think the government could ever succeed in ripping 27% of the server market out of the hands of the major corporations who use it? Hell, I work at a DOE lab and we use Linux for almost everything... Are they going to take it away from themselves, too?
"OK, then they'll make the patch illegal." That will be about as effective as making DeCSS illegal. You can still download it any time you choose; it's all over the web and it's not going away.
But is there a _legal_ way to copy it (for legitimate purposes)?
Who gives a fsck. Practice civil disobedience. I for one refuse to follow laws I deem stupid. For instance, the DMCA. Copy the CD anyway whether it's legal or not; it's not like there is a damn thing they can do about it, unless they plan to hire someone to live in your house just in case you get the urge to copy a CD.
However, if someone tries to stop you through the courts, by accusing you of infringement, you can use the Fair Use defense (and will probably win, under current law).
Probably not, as you won't be prosecuted for infringement, you'll be prosecuted for violations of the DMCA and labeled a terrorist. Then they can do whatever they damn well please with you. "Fair use" is not a valid defense for terrorists...
The way I read that is quite simple - he's a guy who might actually understand a little bit about the SCOPE of Windows as an OS and knows what an incredibly monumental task it would be to go in and clean up all the little kludges and hacks and all the general design changes it would take to make Windows compliant.
Last I checked, a 50k script called Windows 98 Lite ripped IE right out of the motherfscker, causing Windows 98 to run faster and more stable. Also, it seems to me that any geek can change a few registry entries in XP, safely delete IE, and continue using XP just fine.
Why the hell can't Microsoft do the same thing? The justice department isn't saying "rip out all your embedded libraries and remove any code that IE ever used to operate." They're saying, "Remove the fscking icon and iexplore.exe. Give users back their normal file browser that they had in Windows 95, and when they install the latest version of Media Player or Office, don't bend them over and shove IE up their asses without at least a little lubrication."
That's all they have to do: No built in web browsing. Forget the embedded code, just make web browsing impossible until the user manually decides to install it on his own and everyone is happy.
That won't bother them any. They'll just drop her and create another. Young, sexy girls that can sing and are willing to dress like a whore for a few million bucks are a dime a dozen...
You are NOT being sold a license when you buy a CD. You are being sold a CD. And the material on it is covered by copyright law. Period.
Really, so I'm not licensed to listen to the music, nor do I own it? That would mean it's illegal to even listen to it... It also means I got ripped off buying shiny discs at $18 a pop that are completely worthless to me since I can't legally access the content on them.
If only a thousand MP3 zealots who don't already have Macs went out to buy new iMacs... that would be almost a million dollars straight into Apple's coffers
$799 * 1000 = $799,000. Apple *might* get 20% of that. Maybe.
It is not illegal to write music about doing drugs or committing crimes
...
Actually, it IS illegal.
Damn, better round up every single rap artist out there (& most rock 'n' roll artists) and throw them in jail, since singing about doing drugs is illegal...
You must be new to this country. Let me be the first to say, "Welcome!" Now I'd like to introduce you to this little thing called freedom of speech. It basically says that writing songs about doing drugs and committing crimes is protected speech and is perfectly legal. I understand that you were denied these freedoms growing up as a young communist, but you're in America now, and we do things a little differently around here.
With this new understanding, go forth with your life in your new country. Enjoy, frolic, but please don't multiply unless you plan on teaching your children the foundations this country was built on before allowing them to post idiotic statements on public forums.
The more we gloat about how easy it is to get music without buying it
What the hell is wrong with moderators today? +4, Interesting?
Would Mr. Zzyzzyxxfkcnasf care to tell us exactly how Apple's commercials gloated about pirating music? The campaign wasn't "Rip, mix, post on your web site." This post should have been -1, Never Saw The Commercial.
but now for the most part I use p2p to pirate movies so I don't have to shell out cash to the damn DVD consortium
[Sarcasm mode on]
Yeah, that damn DVD consortium, ripping everyone off by making DVDs available to anyone for less than the cost of a CD. All DVDs should be $1. Then I'll stop pirating their stuff.
Music is not software, you can't give it away... especially when it technically belongs to someone else.
Especially nothing.
You CAN give music away, EXCEPT when it belongs to someone else.
Don't tell me you really believe I can't record a song and give it to anyone I damn well please... If it's my song, or if the copyright owner wants it to be free, then I can give it away all I want.
However, Photoshop skills are marketable, and could land you a job. It's the old catch 22; you can't get a job without knowing the software, and you can't afford the software without a job.
I don't know, maybe try/investing/ in your future? What do you think college is all about? "But I can't afford college without a job." No shit. None of us can. That's why there are student loans and financial aid. And can't you download a trial version of Photoshop? Or buy a book, "Photoshop for Idiots", they're out there. Most probably include a student version of the software to boot...
$1500 a month? You can move to Milpitas for $750 a month and still be in driving distance to all the same jobs.
Re-read his post. It's not like he wants that expensive apartment now; He said he is locked into a lease at that price. I suppose he could break it, but then the landlord would levy a big fat fine and sick collections on him.
A friend of mine was making $12 an hour and bought a new car with $300/month payments. His wife had to have emergency surgery a month before his health benefits kicked in at his new job, and they took a $12k hit. They couldn't afford to pay it so they looked to the state for help. Their response? "Sell the car." Sure, that would be nice, except he still owed $16k, the car was now worth $14k, so if he sold it he would have to find a $2k loan to pay the difference (good luck with $12k of debt against him) AND would have no way of getting to work.
This guy is in a similar situation. He signed the lease for the apartment when he could afford it. Now he can't, but he can't break the lease, either. At least in his case, the government is helping somewhat. My friend couldn't get a fscking dime and the hospital was threatening to tack on thousands more in fees and destroy his credit.
He ended up getting his parents to cosign on a large credit card and dumped the balance onto it. He was barely able to make the payments, but it was either that or tell the hospital to fsck off and kiss his credit goodbye. Sold the car a year later when the payments caught up with depreciation and got $500 back to buy a beater with. Still took him 5 years to pay the credit card off.
Stop waiting for the government to solve your problems for you.
He's not. He's only asking for his money back - money he put into the system fair and square. If the government hadn't taken that money out of his paycheck for years for exactly this purpose, I would have no sympathy for him. But, since he's only getting the money back that he already paid in, I'm on his side. At least it's not coming out of MY paycheck, as it would be if he were on welfare.
As for your baby comment, well, someone else already responded to that just like I would have. You don't know the details of that and the divorce may have been his wife's doing.
Slashdot Mirror
My question is, does anyone have any suggestions for *software* to do something like this?
Sure. Download uICE. It supports various infrared controllers such as the IRMan. You can use any infrared remote to control it (your VCR's remote, whatever). Just teach the IR codes to the software and tell it what you want it to do. I use it with an AMX touchscreen linked to an AMX master controller. The master controller sends 6 character strings out one of it's 6 serial ports into one of my server's 10 serial ports. uICE receives those strings and passes control on to Winamp. End result? I can control all functions of Winamp from my living room. The AMX equipment also powers up my audio equipment and switches to the right input when I fire up Winamp from the touchscreen...
There are many places where you can put those windmills without cutting down trees. There are many places u can put solar panels. Sorry but there are so many more environmentally friendly powersources.
You're right, of course, but the issue is not ability, it's practicality. Given the costs of various energy production methods, nuclear is the best and the cleanest available to us. Wind turbines and solar are nice, but they're too damn expensive per Kwh.
Personally, I would like to see the US Government pour billions into solar research. It would be nice to be able to slap solar-generating shingles on every home for a reasonable price.
Hydroelectric dams are the best things we've got going. The energy is clean and incredibly cheap. Unfortunately, the various terrorist groups operating in the US are forcing us to tear our best energy producers down to save the salmon, even though there is absolutely no proof that dams are the reason for the decline in salmon population. As if the people pulling them out of the river by the ton to sell in supermarkets have absolutely nothing to do with it...
if you do stuff like listen to what they say
I don't know, man... that sounds like a lot of work! [Kudos to Stifler]
"Yay! We're going to Mars! ... And we're propelling ourselves using the worlds largest (hopefully controlled/directed) nuclear bomb!"
And built by the lowest bidder!
(What is this 11 seconds from the time you hit reply until the time you can submit crap? I thought Slashdot was designed for geeks who can type.)
there cannot possibly be enough of it even for our current needs even if we coated the entire countryside with collector
BS. If the shingles on my roof were all replaced with small solar cells, it would generate many times more electricity than I use now. I calculated that I would need to cover only one quarter to one third of my roof with cells to more than satisfy my electrical needs and allow for some future expansion.
If every roof shingle in the nation was an individual collector, we would have tons of excess energy. Power plants could go away for good, we wouldn't need them. The problem is cost: To satisfy my electrical needs, I need to cough up close to $75k to buy the equipment. Now, that could be reduced significantly by switching to a gas range & dryer, and I could lose another $15k if I shut my servers off, but the point is it's expensive as hell.
The technology is more than adequate. The price simply needs to come way down.
So instead, here's some simpering for you: sticking your head up your ass won't change the facts.
I found his post insightful and dead-on accurate. You, on the other hand, fail to make a single argument. You talk about the "facts" but won't even define what they are.
Nothing quite coherent enough to deal with? Hell, you provided nothing at all to deal with. Next time, try saying something.
I don't know what Draeker made for the rest of the year, but 46 thousand is not a lot of money, especially for the CEO of a software house. His wife was paid 18 thousand, which is less than my wife makes at Wal-Mart as a cashier.
I doubt your wife makes $36K a year as a Wal-Mart cashier. Note that the figures in question were for a 6.5 month period - January 15th 2001 to July 31st 3001. ~$128k per year for the Draekers seems more than fair under normal circumstances. When the employees are working for free, however, it's fucking bullshit. They took care of themselves and left everyone else to rot.
A newcomer who's insufficiently fiery (or bizarre) to energize people might have trouble getting name recognition.
And this is bad how? If you can't energize people, what business do you have being in office?
Thankfully, Phillips disagrees with you and is attempting to prevent the recording industry idiots from labeling them as CDs.
So (for example) you can plug your audio cable from your CD player into your PC and sample the CD. However, your PC then refuses to play the audio, because it contains a watermark identifying it as needing a keyed source to play from and it doesn't have one.
Good luck. Does your PC have this? Will you buy a PC that has this? Didn't think so.
"Oh, but some day, that will be your only choice." BS. Even if future PCs refuse to boot unless Windows 2010 DRM+ is installed, someone will hack a Linux kernel to report the right info to the BIOS and you'll be set.
"Oh, but they'll make Linux illegal." Good luck. I think the fact that Linux is something like 27% of the server market pretty much counts that out. Do you think the government could ever succeed in ripping 27% of the server market out of the hands of the major corporations who use it? Hell, I work at a DOE lab and we use Linux for almost everything... Are they going to take it away from themselves, too?
"OK, then they'll make the patch illegal." That will be about as effective as making DeCSS illegal. You can still download it any time you choose; it's all over the web and it's not going away.
But is there a _legal_ way to copy it (for legitimate purposes)?
Who gives a fsck. Practice civil disobedience. I for one refuse to follow laws I deem stupid. For instance, the DMCA. Copy the CD anyway whether it's legal or not; it's not like there is a damn thing they can do about it, unless they plan to hire someone to live in your house just in case you get the urge to copy a CD.
However, if someone tries to stop you through the courts, by accusing you of infringement, you can use the Fair Use defense (and will probably win, under current law).
Probably not, as you won't be prosecuted for infringement, you'll be prosecuted for violations of the DMCA and labeled a terrorist. Then they can do whatever they damn well please with you. "Fair use" is not a valid defense for terrorists...
The way I read that is quite simple - he's a guy who might actually understand a little bit about the SCOPE of Windows as an OS and knows what an incredibly monumental task it would be to go in and clean up all the little kludges and hacks and all the general design changes it would take to make Windows compliant.
Last I checked, a 50k script called Windows 98 Lite ripped IE right out of the motherfscker, causing Windows 98 to run faster and more stable. Also, it seems to me that any geek can change a few registry entries in XP, safely delete IE, and continue using XP just fine.
Why the hell can't Microsoft do the same thing? The justice department isn't saying "rip out all your embedded libraries and remove any code that IE ever used to operate." They're saying, "Remove the fscking icon and iexplore.exe. Give users back their normal file browser that they had in Windows 95, and when they install the latest version of Media Player or Office, don't bend them over and shove IE up their asses without at least a little lubrication."
That's all they have to do: No built in web browsing. Forget the embedded code, just make web browsing impossible until the user manually decides to install it on his own and everyone is happy.
Until you have Ms. Spears do a press conference
That won't bother them any. They'll just drop her and create another. Young, sexy girls that can sing and are willing to dress like a whore for a few million bucks are a dime a dozen...
He generally gets permission, but there's no legal requirement for him to do so - it's fair use.
Actually not. It's legal because it's a parody. There are clauses outside of fair use that cover parodies.
You are NOT being sold a license when you buy a CD. You are being sold a CD. And the material on it is covered by copyright law. Period.
Really, so I'm not licensed to listen to the music, nor do I own it? That would mean it's illegal to even listen to it... It also means I got ripped off buying shiny discs at $18 a pop that are completely worthless to me since I can't legally access the content on them.
Let me rephrase this: You're wrong.
If only a thousand MP3 zealots who don't already have Macs went out to buy new iMacs ... that would be almost a million dollars straight into Apple's coffers
$799 * 1000 = $799,000. Apple *might* get 20% of that. Maybe.
It is not illegal to write music about doing drugs or committing crimes
...
Actually, it IS illegal.
Damn, better round up every single rap artist out there (& most rock 'n' roll artists) and throw them in jail, since singing about doing drugs is illegal...
You must be new to this country. Let me be the first to say, "Welcome!" Now I'd like to introduce you to this little thing called freedom of speech. It basically says that writing songs about doing drugs and committing crimes is protected speech and is perfectly legal. I understand that you were denied these freedoms growing up as a young communist, but you're in America now, and we do things a little differently around here.
With this new understanding, go forth with your life in your new country. Enjoy, frolic, but please don't multiply unless you plan on teaching your children the foundations this country was built on before allowing them to post idiotic statements on public forums.
The more we gloat about how easy it is to get music without buying it
What the hell is wrong with moderators today? +4, Interesting?
Would Mr. Zzyzzyxxfkcnasf care to tell us exactly how Apple's commercials gloated about pirating music? The campaign wasn't "Rip, mix, post on your web site." This post should have been -1, Never Saw The Commercial.
but now for the most part I use p2p to pirate movies so I don't have to shell out cash to the damn DVD consortium
[Sarcasm mode on]
Yeah, that damn DVD consortium, ripping everyone off by making DVDs available to anyone for less than the cost of a CD. All DVDs should be $1. Then I'll stop pirating their stuff.
[/Sarcasm mode off]
Music is not software, you can't give it away... especially when it technically belongs to someone else.
Especially nothing.
You CAN give music away, EXCEPT when it belongs to someone else.
Don't tell me you really believe I can't record a song and give it to anyone I damn well please... If it's my song, or if the copyright owner wants it to be free, then I can give it away all I want.
However, Photoshop skills are marketable, and could land you a job. It's the old catch 22; you can't get a job without knowing the software, and you can't afford the software without a job.
/investing/ in your future? What do you think college is all about? "But I can't afford college without a job." No shit. None of us can. That's why there are student loans and financial aid. And can't you download a trial version of Photoshop? Or buy a book, "Photoshop for Idiots", they're out there. Most probably include a student version of the software to boot...
I don't know, maybe try
$1500 a month? You can move to Milpitas for $750 a month and still be in driving distance to all the same jobs.
Re-read his post. It's not like he wants that expensive apartment now; He said he is locked into a lease at that price. I suppose he could break it, but then the landlord would levy a big fat fine and sick collections on him.
A friend of mine was making $12 an hour and bought a new car with $300/month payments. His wife had to have emergency surgery a month before his health benefits kicked in at his new job, and they took a $12k hit. They couldn't afford to pay it so they looked to the state for help. Their response? "Sell the car." Sure, that would be nice, except he still owed $16k, the car was now worth $14k, so if he sold it he would have to find a $2k loan to pay the difference (good luck with $12k of debt against him) AND would have no way of getting to work.
This guy is in a similar situation. He signed the lease for the apartment when he could afford it. Now he can't, but he can't break the lease, either. At least in his case, the government is helping somewhat. My friend couldn't get a fscking dime and the hospital was threatening to tack on thousands more in fees and destroy his credit.
He ended up getting his parents to cosign on a large credit card and dumped the balance onto it. He was barely able to make the payments, but it was either that or tell the hospital to fsck off and kiss his credit goodbye. Sold the car a year later when the payments caught up with depreciation and got $500 back to buy a beater with. Still took him 5 years to pay the credit card off.
Stop waiting for the government to solve your problems for you.
He's not. He's only asking for his money back - money he put into the system fair and square. If the government hadn't taken that money out of his paycheck for years for exactly this purpose, I would have no sympathy for him. But, since he's only getting the money back that he already paid in, I'm on his side. At least it's not coming out of MY paycheck, as it would be if he were on welfare.
As for your baby comment, well, someone else already responded to that just like I would have. You don't know the details of that and the divorce may have been his wife's doing.
It's not public money, it's money taken out of our own paychecks ... If you don't put the money in, you don't get the money back.
No fscking kidding. If I had mod points, I'd mod you up. No clue how the original post got +4 Funny. Must be a lot of clueless moderators out today.