You are free to seek out theaters that will pay you to watch advertisements. Otherwise, when you buy your ticket and enter their property, you play by their rules. If you don't like what you are experiencing, you are free to leave.
The problem is, this is a free country. That means that you only get to exert your will when you are in your domain, or within your rights. It's the theater owner/operator's right to play advertisements and charge what they want. They are also free to make rules like "you can't record the movie" and "don't put your feet up on the seats."
You people suffer from severe delusions when you think that you can enter someone else's private property and start making demands such as "I charge $25/hour to watch your advertisements."
The point the interviewer was trying to make was that the broadcast flag is bad and that Linux doesn't have a licensed DVD player. He asserted that was the result of poor communication between congress and the people he knows personally.
Then he pressed Valenti for a reason why there is no licensed DVD player for Linux, seemingly perplexed as to why Valenti had no answer for that.
Read your own words. When copyright holders are the only people with rights to their copyrighted works, that means that you, as a consumer, have no rights to their works. It is controlled exclusively by them, and they can, therefore, exert full control over their own works.
First of all, grilling Valenti on why there are no licensed DVD players capable of running under Linux is disingenuous. That's something that's driven by the market, not politics. Linux is not inherently more capable than Windows of pirating a movie. In fact, I find converting a DVD to a DIVX file much easier to do in Windows. Valenti wouldn't have the answer to "why there are no licensed players for Linux." Sony, Pioneer, JVD, etc. would have the answer to that. If they wanted to support a DVD player on Linux, they're not barred from doing that.
Too many of you are so fanatically blinded by your ambitions that you don't see some fundamental points Valenti made. If a distributor wants to release content in a restricted manner, tough shit for you; it's their content, deal. It's wrong to try and end-run someone's encryption, no matter how easy it is to do. Ease does not make it right. It's easy to pick fruit from a neighbors tree if their yard has no fence; that doesn't make the fruit yours. If you spend money on content, know what you're getting. You don't get to dictate what the rules are to content owners; you have to play by them.
Stop trying to drive this politically...you're going to lose and cry yourself dry wondering why the world doesn't work the way you want it to.
Shut the fuck up and spend your money on content that ISN'T restricted. Dry up the RIAA's money. Convince your friends and neighbors to purchase only content that doesn't put money in the coffers of those distributors whose methods you don't approve.
My common sense detector is going off, and the lights "won't carry enough weight to carry the things needed to be effective", "won't generate enough of its own power to run the electronics needed to be effective", "too stationary and vulnerable to avoid even the most primitive attacks" are all flashing.
I have a button that's marked "expend all cash until requirements are met for a production model", but I'm going to wait for a cost estimate before I press it.
Also, I just got a memo that says taxpayers are sick and tired of spending money on even more things that can be used to invade their privacy.
Latex gives you pixel-level control? How? I beat my head into a pulp looking for such control...how do you place things in very specific places? What reference documents that?
Boxes, as far as I can tell, can't be placed anywhere arbitrarily...like everything else, it's located with the flow of text. You can change the justification, but that's it.
At least, from what I could tell.
If I'm wrong, suffice it to say that Google didn't turn me up any answers, and learning latex in its entirety, including the practice needed to completely understand it to place text boxes in specific locations, is out of the question. I spent 3 days fighting with latex just to generate and print an plain old envelope with latex, and that pretty much did me in.
My feeling is, latex is not for formatted text. It's just for plain text, and it will automatically format plain text for very stream-like documents such as books, thesis papers, single articles, etc. into something that comes out formatted, but according to conventions, not according to your wishes. It's too much of a fight for so many other things that are done quite well with a word processor such as Word or OpenOffice.
I looked at Tex, and it didn't look as if you could print within a rectangle, which was placed in an arbitrary, but specified location, and wrap and/or trim within the rectangle area. Without that, data being merged into the form template has to be massaged through a script for it to appear properly on the form.
I still use Latex for some things, but I really think there's a place in the world for something that's geared more towards people with the need for more, and easier, control over the formatting, but which can still perform neat tricks like references, footnotes and TOC generation.
Latex DOES have advantages, but it's still just SO limited in what it can be used for.
For example, Latex would be perfect for generating pre-filled out forms on the web. You could generate a latex template of the form, and take values in a CGI program and dynamically merge the template and the data to produce a temporary latex document, then generate a PDF from it for the web user to download and print. Problem is, latex is a BEAR to get text placed in specific places and constrained to specific rectangle areas. I tried, but never did figure that out.
Another example is creating letters with addresses located in specific places such that the address can appear in an envelope window when folded and inserted. I haven't figured that one out yet, either.
Also, I've found that documents, when they're converted ps or pdf files, don't appear the same. If you print ps output, and print out a pdf generated from that same ps, the paper representation looks different; the margins are different, where text appears is different. It's very inconsistent that way.
With all the limitations, not to mention the learning curve for non-technical types, it's really just one tool for people to use in specific instances...but it's not a general tool for everybody. Word processors are still the best general tool for generating formatted text documents.
If you think it's slow using a word-processor, Latex will make you feel like you have a clone who's only job is to figure stuff out while the rest of the world continues getting work done, oh, and you're the clone who doesn't get anything done while you figure Latex out.
No, really...Latex has many advantages. If you are happy to let it pick all your formatting settings, then speed is one of them. Otherwise, if you need things formatted a certain way, it's a HUGE time-sink. I personally like more control, so I find myself spending the vast majority of my time finding out how to format things MY way and often I forget loads of cryptic codes, so I find myself having to look up stuff again and again.
Use styles in a word processor...then as you write, just select which style you want to be using currently. It's faster, safer and much much cheaper.
I don't believe you can add support for Pantone or any other spot color system to either Scribus or GIMP, whether you license libraries or not. I don't believe it's an option at all.
Am I wrong on that? Can you design and set spot colors in Scribus or GIMP after performing some licensing task, or some other mechanism?
A lot of web sites are developed by designers (people with photoshop skills) and not programmers (people with perl skills). Dreamweaver is an excellent tool for designers.
It doesn't do what he's asking for, though. Quanta is lacking any sort of automatic dynamic template system, either using templates proper or via a library system. Their version of templates is write-only.
Quanta is a nice project manager, and editor... but for a professional designer looking to update a large web site efficiently, it's useless. It's good for programmers doing web sites, but not designers.
Hardware supprt under Linux is abysmal. It seems modelled on a proprietary hardware development system, as though Linux were somehow tied to a particular hardware vendor, but of course it isn't.
Hardware needs to come out of the kernel and into a mature dynamic loading environment. One that is easy for people to add/remove drivers, and easy for developers to create new drivers.
Note the word: mature dynamic loading environment.
CTRL+C was always cancel. In Windows, CTRL+INS was copy, SHIFT+INS was paste. Then new standards came along and CTRL+C was changed to mean copy, and CTRL+V became paste.
Just a quick history lesson. Your implied assertion that CTRL+C/CTRL+X/CTRL+V are the de-facto clipboard commands are correct, but not regarding time.
You're really sad when you waste your mod points marking posts of mine as flamebait when you partook of the conversation willingly. If it was flamebait to you, why did you reply? Lamer. I'd say get a life, but clearly you're incapable of that.
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You are free to seek out theaters that will pay you to watch advertisements. Otherwise, when you buy your ticket and enter their property, you play by their rules. If you don't like what you are experiencing, you are free to leave.
The problem is, this is a free country. That means that you only get to exert your will when you are in your domain, or within your rights. It's the theater owner/operator's right to play advertisements and charge what they want. They are also free to make rules like "you can't record the movie" and "don't put your feet up on the seats."
You people suffer from severe delusions when you think that you can enter someone else's private property and start making demands such as "I charge $25/hour to watch your advertisements."
Dumbass.
I read the article completely.
The point the interviewer was trying to make was that the broadcast flag is bad and that Linux doesn't have a licensed DVD player. He asserted that was the result of poor communication between congress and the people he knows personally.
Then he pressed Valenti for a reason why there is no licensed DVD player for Linux, seemingly perplexed as to why Valenti had no answer for that.
You, sir, are a dumbass.
Read your own words. When copyright holders are the only people with rights to their copyrighted works, that means that you, as a consumer, have no rights to their works. It is controlled exclusively by them, and they can, therefore, exert full control over their own works.
It's ironic that a theater full of college students would laugh at someone defending their livelihood.
I wonder how hard they'll laugh a year after graduation, when they're living at their parents, unemployed and wondering where all the work went.
First of all, grilling Valenti on why there are no licensed DVD players capable of running under Linux is disingenuous. That's something that's driven by the market, not politics. Linux is not inherently more capable than Windows of pirating a movie. In fact, I find converting a DVD to a DIVX file much easier to do in Windows. Valenti wouldn't have the answer to "why there are no licensed players for Linux." Sony, Pioneer, JVD, etc. would have the answer to that. If they wanted to support a DVD player on Linux, they're not barred from doing that.
Too many of you are so fanatically blinded by your ambitions that you don't see some fundamental points Valenti made. If a distributor wants to release content in a restricted manner, tough shit for you; it's their content, deal. It's wrong to try and end-run someone's encryption, no matter how easy it is to do. Ease does not make it right. It's easy to pick fruit from a neighbors tree if their yard has no fence; that doesn't make the fruit yours. If you spend money on content, know what you're getting. You don't get to dictate what the rules are to content owners; you have to play by them.
Stop trying to drive this politically...you're going to lose and cry yourself dry wondering why the world doesn't work the way you want it to.
Shut the fuck up and spend your money on content that ISN'T restricted. Dry up the RIAA's money. Convince your friends and neighbors to purchase only content that doesn't put money in the coffers of those distributors whose methods you don't approve.
My common sense detector is going off, and the lights "won't carry enough weight to carry the things needed to be effective", "won't generate enough of its own power to run the electronics needed to be effective", "too stationary and vulnerable to avoid even the most primitive attacks" are all flashing.
I have a button that's marked "expend all cash until requirements are met for a production model", but I'm going to wait for a cost estimate before I press it.
Also, I just got a memo that says taxpayers are sick and tired of spending money on even more things that can be used to invade their privacy.
Going to lunch.
How good is a security blimp that remains operational right up until a bad guy pops it with a bb-gun?
Latex gives you pixel-level control? How? I beat my head into a pulp looking for such control...how do you place things in very specific places? What reference documents that?
Boxes, as far as I can tell, can't be placed anywhere arbitrarily...like everything else, it's located with the flow of text. You can change the justification, but that's it.
At least, from what I could tell.
If I'm wrong, suffice it to say that Google didn't turn me up any answers, and learning latex in its entirety, including the practice needed to completely understand it to place text boxes in specific locations, is out of the question. I spent 3 days fighting with latex just to generate and print an plain old envelope with latex, and that pretty much did me in.
My feeling is, latex is not for formatted text. It's just for plain text, and it will automatically format plain text for very stream-like documents such as books, thesis papers, single articles, etc. into something that comes out formatted, but according to conventions, not according to your wishes. It's too much of a fight for so many other things that are done quite well with a word processor such as Word or OpenOffice.
Because the learning curve for Latex makes the learning for XHTML and CSS look like Malcolm X.
I looked at Tex, and it didn't look as if you could print within a rectangle, which was placed in an arbitrary, but specified location, and wrap and/or trim within the rectangle area. Without that, data being merged into the form template has to be massaged through a script for it to appear properly on the form.
I still use Latex for some things, but I really think there's a place in the world for something that's geared more towards people with the need for more, and easier, control over the formatting, but which can still perform neat tricks like references, footnotes and TOC generation.
Latex DOES have advantages, but it's still just SO limited in what it can be used for.
For example, Latex would be perfect for generating pre-filled out forms on the web. You could generate a latex template of the form, and take values in a CGI program and dynamically merge the template and the data to produce a temporary latex document, then generate a PDF from it for the web user to download and print. Problem is, latex is a BEAR to get text placed in specific places and constrained to specific rectangle areas. I tried, but never did figure that out.
Another example is creating letters with addresses located in specific places such that the address can appear in an envelope window when folded and inserted. I haven't figured that one out yet, either.
Also, I've found that documents, when they're converted ps or pdf files, don't appear the same. If you print ps output, and print out a pdf generated from that same ps, the paper representation looks different; the margins are different, where text appears is different. It's very inconsistent that way.
With all the limitations, not to mention the learning curve for non-technical types, it's really just one tool for people to use in specific instances...but it's not a general tool for everybody. Word processors are still the best general tool for generating formatted text documents.
If you think it's slow using a word-processor, Latex will make you feel like you have a clone who's only job is to figure stuff out while the rest of the world continues getting work done, oh, and you're the clone who doesn't get anything done while you figure Latex out.
No, really...Latex has many advantages. If you are happy to let it pick all your formatting settings, then speed is one of them. Otherwise, if you need things formatted a certain way, it's a HUGE time-sink. I personally like more control, so I find myself spending the vast majority of my time finding out how to format things MY way and often I forget loads of cryptic codes, so I find myself having to look up stuff again and again.
Use styles in a word processor...then as you write, just select which style you want to be using currently. It's faster, safer and much much cheaper.
I will have to look again then...I didn't see a customizable spot color system. All I found were CMYK settings...no spot color abilities at all.
I don't believe you can add support for Pantone or any other spot color system to either Scribus or GIMP, whether you license libraries or not. I don't believe it's an option at all.
Am I wrong on that? Can you design and set spot colors in Scribus or GIMP after performing some licensing task, or some other mechanism?
Scribus, like GIMP, has no spot colors, such as Pantone, etc. That's a significant shortcoming.
A lot of web sites are developed by designers (people with photoshop skills) and not programmers (people with perl skills). Dreamweaver is an excellent tool for designers.
It doesn't do what he's asking for, though. Quanta is lacking any sort of automatic dynamic template system, either using templates proper or via a library system. Their version of templates is write-only.
... but for a professional designer looking to update a large web site efficiently, it's useless. It's good for programmers doing web sites, but not designers.
Quanta is a nice project manager, and editor
Paranoid much?
Time to start documenting your sexual harassment ordeal at that company!
Hardware supprt under Linux is abysmal. It seems modelled on a proprietary hardware development system, as though Linux were somehow tied to a particular hardware vendor, but of course it isn't.
Hardware needs to come out of the kernel and into a mature dynamic loading environment. One that is easy for people to add/remove drivers, and easy for developers to create new drivers.
Note the word: mature dynamic loading environment.
Curiously, his backside has the "best" cameltoe.
CTRL+C was always cancel. In Windows, CTRL+INS was copy, SHIFT+INS was paste. Then new standards came along and CTRL+C was changed to mean copy, and CTRL+V became paste.
Just a quick history lesson. Your implied assertion that CTRL+C/CTRL+X/CTRL+V are the de-facto clipboard commands are correct, but not regarding time.
Next thing you know, they'll make the disc readable by the naked eye, patent it and then start suing printers.
You're really sad when you waste your mod points marking posts of mine as flamebait when you partook of the conversation willingly. If it was flamebait to you, why did you reply? Lamer. I'd say get a life, but clearly you're incapable of that.