The cost of living in most cities where you can live without a car tends to be astronomical. You may not come out ahead... not to discourage you from it. I live in Manhattan, pay through the nose for a tiny studio, and love it. But my finances would probably be a lot better somewhere else, even with a car.
Just to turn this around, isn't it possible that politicians don't want it because Americans don't want it?
Not to follow ideals too closely.. but on long-term, big-budget, and most of all local issues.. doesn't the will of the govt generally follow the will of the people? Especially when the final word hasn't been handed down by a court (eg Roe v. Wade, capital punishment, various civil rights policies)?
Mass transit won't work for suburbs. Suburbs were designed with the car as the basic and necessary method of transportation. Period. Mass transit may get people in and out of the city for work, but it won't take you from your cape cod to the mall. Never has, never will. Any attempt to change that will be a waste of money.
On the other hand. Large cities across America seem to be experiencing a renewed popularity.. perhaps a part of this attraction is the option to live without a car? Perhaps this is America voting to enhance its mass transit options. Smaller cities (eg Denver, Buffalo, Baltimore) all over the place are building small mass transit systems... because people want them, and so the politicians want them. This is not the case in the suburbs, and certainly is not the case in rural America.
If you want your email to be From uiuc (as well as From: uiuc, which is not the same thing), you should use uiuc's SMTP server for outbound mail. They may require you to authenticate (possibly in cleartext, possibly over SMTP/S), or they may require you to VPN to the campus network, so that their mail server sees it as coming from internal (and therefore allowed to send From uiuc).
In my experience administering a mail server for a group of non-propellerheads, the biggest obstacle to setting up secure email is getting your users set up for it. Tell users that they have to sign in via secure SMTP, on a different port number, under the 'advanced' options in Outlook (I'm not sure if Outlook Express even supports it), and they will start crying and complaining that their email is broken. It's a shame, too, because secure user authentication across the board would take a decent bite out of spam, and god knows it would stop a lot of viruses.
How many tow trucks have you seen? How many have you stopped to inspect? If you actually stop and check out every one you see, you are the minority. I've lived in NYC my whole life (a whopping 22 years, to date), and I've got to say... car alarms and tow trucks do not attract any attention. Not mine, not most people's.
The sound of breaking glass, on the other hand, will wake up an entire block.
Maybe alarm companies should retool their sound effects...
Not to knock Gentoo, but don't expect the install to take longer just because you're compiling things. The install process itself is very, very unfinished. While some of this might be in the name of customization, some of it is just the result of being a very unfinished process.. my favorite example is that you have to link the correct timezone files by hand, instead of choosing your timezone out of a list. Sure, it's a little detail, but it adds up. You've also got to make your own partitions (via fdisk) and do your own formatting (via mkfs).. again no more choice, just more grunt work. The installer is full of things like this.
It's not a bad little distro, IMO. But the installer has a *long* way to go.
You clearly don't have to answer email addressed to webmaster, postmaster, admin, etc.. I would say that at least a quarter of my (ham) email comes from people I've never heard of before.
Even if it still effectively filters 50% of the remaining 75% of my email.. that's what, about 38%? SpamAssassin stops more than that before I even train its Bayesian brain. I'm also doubtful of its zero false positive claims.
Very simply, I don't see how this could work for people who conduct business via email. You just get too much email from people who are completely outside your social network, that you absolutely cannot block.
but why don't they just give you two extra copies of album instead of CD-Rs?
Maybe because they're trying to give just enough to keep people happy, but keep the level low enough that no real damage is done. Maybe because if they say that two copies are OK, people will feel guilty about making more. (cf zero tolerance policies, which are frequently ignored, often ridiculed, and -- with the exception of grade schools and underage DUI laws -- rarely enforced) </conspiracy>
Seriously though. Could they be trying to throw us just enough bones to keep us from starting a full-out revolt? People will start with "what do you mean we've lost fair use? We can make *two* whole copies!" And then the people who know what's going on will look like cheapskates and theives to everybody else.
It's hard enough as it is convincing people that I want to be able to copy my iTunes downloads for legitimate reasons, not just to give to my friends (though iPods and car CD players and whatnot have started making it a more mainstream consideration). We don't need some sort of industry-sanctioned amount of copying (artists are a part of the industry as a whole, no?). This whole idea reeks, IMHO.
The school has two T1 lines. They've had two T1 lines for ages, and haven't ever even thought about getting a third. The second isn't even turned on, it's just there for backup. That means that they aren't going to turn it off, either.
500,000 songs, 4MB a song, that's... 2TB of storage? Are you sure that they're kept on a local server? I admit I haven't done my homework on this, but that sounds a little ridiculous to me.
Not to mention the fact that newly released (or licensed) songs will have to be downloaded onto the Napster server. If it's effectively just a caching server, great. If it keeps a full catalog locally, well, that's a lot of music being downloaded that nobody will probably ever listen to. starting at 500,000 songs, with 3,700 students who have incredibly large overlap in their tastes. Think about it.
Here's the problem, from the perspective of a recent UR graduate:
College students are cheap. They are going to download free music off the net one way or another. For better or worse, it's been a fact since the day mp3 and broadband both became available. ftp, irc, usenet, napster, it doesn't matter.
BUT.. The university will say "use this! it's free!" and the students will, instead of using Kazaa or DC or whatever else. New students come in every year and don't know square 1 about computers, but they see the kid down the hall get free music off Kazaa, and they learn. Except now, the university is going to mention napster, and they will use it, ignorant of the other choices.
In other words, this service is about to gain market share against all the other P2P apps, in almost exactly the same way IE beat out Netscape. Of course in this case, it means trading an illegal and often spyware- and virus-ridden platform for a legal, responsible, and monitored platform.
I still think this is a bad thing. The University should not be spending the money on this (believe me, I was there for four years, they have plenty of better things on which to spend money), and the students honestly don't care if it's legal. They never have and probably never will. They will, however, use it, simply because it's there.
A computer scientist studies (and at least supposedly understands) the science behind computers. A degree in CS doesn't mean you know how to use a particular environment, or compiler, or even that you know how to use email or a zip file.
As I like to say, I just build 'em... I don't know how to use 'em. I just finished my BS in CS, and guess what? Working in an IT department, I face all sorts of things that I don't understand. Installing a web server (or in this case, upgrading an environment) is a completely different skillset than (for example) designing an efficient cache or a better chess player.
Sorry dude, it's fraud... Claiming to be somebody else, and/or purchasing something with somebody else's credit card, claiming to be authorized to use that card... that's fraud, not theft.
Fraud != theft != copyright infringement, even if they're all part of the set of illegal activities, possibly even illegal activities that hurt others.
No they didn't! This is exactly the sort of thing that Jabber would have been perfect for. I'm not a Jabber freak or anything. Honestly, I think most of the Jabber hype is pretty stupid, most of the time. But, Jabber is practically made for things like this. Several operating systems, and you have (or want, or need...) your own network (and therefore your own server). This is where Jabber really shines.
Honestly, I'm surprised they didn't even think of it.
The first thing I thought when I read this article was 'hey, my grandfather drank coffee constantly,' too. Then I read the headline again and it all made sense.
You can run 10 miles a day. Hell, you can be a pro athlete. You could still have a heart attack at any moment.
Happened once to a delivery to my company. UPS put a forklift straight through the crate, and pierced several feet into the computer (an SGI Onyx deskside).
We pointed it out right away, and the delivery guy said he needed proof that it was more than just external damage.
My boss tore the thing open and pulled out a logic board with a four inch gash in it.
Don't ship UPS. Even worse, don't ship FedEx Ground. No horror stories of that magnitude with FedEx Ground, but countless smaller incidents.
I'd call Opera the IE killer. It's smaller, faster, quicker, more stable (YMMV), and doesn't have anything *wrong* with it the way Mozilla does.
Yes, Opera costs money, and shows annoying ads if you don't pay. But really, $40 ($20 if you're a student) for a browser that does everything correctly and quickly, has enough techie stuff to keep us happy as well as enough simplicity to keep My Grandmother happy, I can't tell you what a deal it is. And mouse gestures just make it better. You can tell that they really thought about user design.. my personal favorite feature: the status bar telling you how much of the page is loaded.. First, it has all sorts of good details. Second, when everything is loaded, it DISAPPEARS to make more room for the page. That, my friend, is smart user interface design.
I'll back that up. They're wonderfully community-oriented guys. I've actually exchanged emails with them a few times, and once sent in a patch. It wasn't a big patch -- sorting things alphabetically. Basically using a sort_insert instead of an insert call. But they appreciated the contribution and put it in.
Other projects have been less interested in such small patches.
It isn't their software (is it? It didn't sound like it in the letter). It's just software that does something they don't want it to do.. Does copyright/patent law really say that they aren't supposed to have that?
I understand the DMCA and all that. But they're not claiming circumvention or anything, they're just saying its unlicensed. But is the ac3dec package Dolby's to license in the first place?
The only reason Pixar went with Suns for Toy Story 2 is that Sun donated the systems to them in the name of advertising.
That said, I don't know what they'd have used, had Sun not given them the hardware. I think they used SGIs for the first Toy Story, but I may be mistaken.
Dollar for dollar, pound for pound, you're much better off using x86 for database stuff than Apple. There isn't much more to it. What you can buy with $2k in Apple hardware will suck compared to what you can buy with $2k in x86 hardware. Filemaker Pro works, sure, but what's the point?
Granted I haven't really been looking, but I've never seen any sort of PPC setup that can go in a rack. Then again, don't the new G4s all come with gig Ethernet? I really wonder what the purpose of throwing that in was.
I don't think you quite got the point of the story. The camera comes bundled with the software. My guess is when you install the drivers and whatnot, the software goes along with it.
I agree with you. Setting things up for general use is a good idea. It is a good idea to have some sort of default, so that if you have nothing else, you still have something. But it's also necessary to make it possible to change that default.
What people are going apeshit over is the fact that Kodak couldn't set up their software to be the default. Imagine if we had no choice but to use Media Player to play mp3s, because Winamp (or Sonique, or even Real for that matter) just plain couldn't register itself as the right program to start. That would be supremely uncool.
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The cost of living in most cities where you can live without a car tends to be astronomical. You may not come out ahead... not to discourage you from it. I live in Manhattan, pay through the nose for a tiny studio, and love it. But my finances would probably be a lot better somewhere else, even with a car.
Just to turn this around, isn't it possible that politicians don't want it because Americans don't want it?
Not to follow ideals too closely.. but on long-term, big-budget, and most of all local issues.. doesn't the will of the govt generally follow the will of the people? Especially when the final word hasn't been handed down by a court (eg Roe v. Wade, capital punishment, various civil rights policies)?
Mass transit won't work for suburbs. Suburbs were designed with the car as the basic and necessary method of transportation. Period. Mass transit may get people in and out of the city for work, but it won't take you from your cape cod to the mall. Never has, never will. Any attempt to change that will be a waste of money.
On the other hand. Large cities across America seem to be experiencing a renewed popularity.. perhaps a part of this attraction is the option to live without a car? Perhaps this is America voting to enhance its mass transit options. Smaller cities (eg Denver, Buffalo, Baltimore) all over the place are building small mass transit systems... because people want them, and so the politicians want them. This is not the case in the suburbs, and certainly is not the case in rural America.
Diff'rent strokes. That's all.
uhh. then why are you reading it? and why are you replying to posts?
i don't like the fat girls section of the porno sites.. so i just scroll past it.
No, you are wrong.
Researching it involves taking embryos that weren't going to turn into humans, anyway.
Saying that it kills embryos is like saying that masturbation kills sperm.
Terrorists may not be too smart. But tell me, how disorganized do you consider organized crime?
If you want your email to be From uiuc (as well as From: uiuc, which is not the same thing), you should use uiuc's SMTP server for outbound mail. They may require you to authenticate (possibly in cleartext, possibly over SMTP/S), or they may require you to VPN to the campus network, so that their mail server sees it as coming from internal (and therefore allowed to send From uiuc).
In my experience administering a mail server for a group of non-propellerheads, the biggest obstacle to setting up secure email is getting your users set up for it. Tell users that they have to sign in via secure SMTP, on a different port number, under the 'advanced' options in Outlook (I'm not sure if Outlook Express even supports it), and they will start crying and complaining that their email is broken. It's a shame, too, because secure user authentication across the board would take a decent bite out of spam, and god knows it would stop a lot of viruses.
How many tow trucks have you seen? How many have you stopped to inspect? If you actually stop and check out every one you see, you are the minority. I've lived in NYC my whole life (a whopping 22 years, to date), and I've got to say... car alarms and tow trucks do not attract any attention. Not mine, not most people's.
The sound of breaking glass, on the other hand, will wake up an entire block.
Maybe alarm companies should retool their sound effects...
Not to knock Gentoo, but don't expect the install to take longer just because you're compiling things. The install process itself is very, very unfinished. While some of this might be in the name of customization, some of it is just the result of being a very unfinished process.. my favorite example is that you have to link the correct timezone files by hand, instead of choosing your timezone out of a list. Sure, it's a little detail, but it adds up. You've also got to make your own partitions (via fdisk) and do your own formatting (via mkfs).. again no more choice, just more grunt work. The installer is full of things like this.
It's not a bad little distro, IMO. But the installer has a *long* way to go.
You clearly don't have to answer email addressed to webmaster, postmaster, admin, etc.. I would say that at least a quarter of my (ham) email comes from people I've never heard of before.
Even if it still effectively filters 50% of the remaining 75% of my email.. that's what, about 38%? SpamAssassin stops more than that before I even train its Bayesian brain. I'm also doubtful of its zero false positive claims.
Very simply, I don't see how this could work for people who conduct business via email. You just get too much email from people who are completely outside your social network, that you absolutely cannot block.
but why don't they just give you two extra copies of album instead of CD-Rs?
Maybe because they're trying to give just enough to keep people happy, but keep the level low enough that no real damage is done. Maybe because if they say that two copies are OK, people will feel guilty about making more. (cf zero tolerance policies, which are frequently ignored, often ridiculed, and -- with the exception of grade schools and underage DUI laws -- rarely enforced) </conspiracy>
Seriously though. Could they be trying to throw us just enough bones to keep us from starting a full-out revolt? People will start with "what do you mean we've lost fair use? We can make *two* whole copies!" And then the people who know what's going on will look like cheapskates and theives to everybody else.
It's hard enough as it is convincing people that I want to be able to copy my iTunes downloads for legitimate reasons, not just to give to my friends (though iPods and car CD players and whatnot have started making it a more mainstream consideration). We don't need some sort of industry-sanctioned amount of copying (artists are a part of the industry as a whole, no?). This whole idea reeks, IMHO.
The school has two T1 lines. They've had two T1 lines for ages, and haven't ever even thought about getting a third. The second isn't even turned on, it's just there for backup. That means that they aren't going to turn it off, either.
500,000 songs, 4MB a song, that's... 2TB of storage? Are you sure that they're kept on a local server? I admit I haven't done my homework on this, but that sounds a little ridiculous to me.
Not to mention the fact that newly released (or licensed) songs will have to be downloaded onto the Napster server. If it's effectively just a caching server, great. If it keeps a full catalog locally, well, that's a lot of music being downloaded that nobody will probably ever listen to. starting at 500,000 songs, with 3,700 students who have incredibly large overlap in their tastes. Think about it.
Here's the problem, from the perspective of a recent UR graduate:
College students are cheap. They are going to download free music off the net one way or another. For better or worse, it's been a fact since the day mp3 and broadband both became available. ftp, irc, usenet, napster, it doesn't matter.
BUT.. The university will say "use this! it's free!" and the students will, instead of using Kazaa or DC or whatever else. New students come in every year and don't know square 1 about computers, but they see the kid down the hall get free music off Kazaa, and they learn. Except now, the university is going to mention napster, and they will use it, ignorant of the other choices.
In other words, this service is about to gain market share against all the other P2P apps, in almost exactly the same way IE beat out Netscape. Of course in this case, it means trading an illegal and often spyware- and virus-ridden platform for a legal, responsible, and monitored platform.
I still think this is a bad thing. The University should not be spending the money on this (believe me, I was there for four years, they have plenty of better things on which to spend money), and the students honestly don't care if it's legal. They never have and probably never will. They will, however, use it, simply because it's there.
You are a computer-scientist? Yeah right.
A computer scientist studies (and at least supposedly understands) the science behind computers. A degree in CS doesn't mean you know how to use a particular environment, or compiler, or even that you know how to use email or a zip file.
As I like to say, I just build 'em... I don't know how to use 'em. I just finished my BS in CS, and guess what? Working in an IT department, I face all sorts of things that I don't understand. Installing a web server (or in this case, upgrading an environment) is a completely different skillset than (for example) designing an efficient cache or a better chess player.
In other words, STFU. Thanks.
Sorry dude, it's fraud... Claiming to be somebody else, and/or purchasing something with somebody else's credit card, claiming to be authorized to use that card... that's fraud, not theft.
Fraud != theft != copyright infringement, even if they're all part of the set of illegal activities, possibly even illegal activities that hurt others.
I read your email.
So they had to use talkd!
No they didn't! This is exactly the sort of thing that Jabber would have been perfect for. I'm not a Jabber freak or anything. Honestly, I think most of the Jabber hype is pretty stupid, most of the time. But, Jabber is practically made for things like this. Several operating systems, and you have (or want, or need...) your own network (and therefore your own server). This is where Jabber really shines.
Honestly, I'm surprised they didn't even think of it.
reducing your risk != you will not get it.
The first thing I thought when I read this article was 'hey, my grandfather drank coffee constantly,' too. Then I read the headline again and it all made sense.
You can run 10 miles a day. Hell, you can be a pro athlete. You could still have a heart attack at any moment.
IANAMD.
Happened once to a delivery to my company. UPS put a forklift straight through the crate, and pierced several feet into the computer (an SGI Onyx deskside).
We pointed it out right away, and the delivery guy said he needed proof that it was more than just external damage.
My boss tore the thing open and pulled out a logic board with a four inch gash in it.
Don't ship UPS. Even worse, don't ship FedEx Ground. No horror stories of that magnitude with FedEx Ground, but countless smaller incidents.
Just get Kazaa Lite and stop worrying about all this.
Where to get Kazaa Lite? Well, on Kazaa, of course.. or you could be a weenie and go to their web page.
I'd call Opera the IE killer. It's smaller, faster, quicker, more stable (YMMV), and doesn't have anything *wrong* with it the way Mozilla does.
Yes, Opera costs money, and shows annoying ads if you don't pay. But really, $40 ($20 if you're a student) for a browser that does everything correctly and quickly, has enough techie stuff to keep us happy as well as enough simplicity to keep My Grandmother happy, I can't tell you what a deal it is. And mouse gestures just make it better. You can tell that they really thought about user design.. my personal favorite feature: the status bar telling you how much of the page is loaded.. First, it has all sorts of good details. Second, when everything is loaded, it DISAPPEARS to make more room for the page. That, my friend, is smart user interface design.
count me in for helpign thsee guys out. once i sober up a bit.
alright. for those w/o a sense of humor. my point is, even a drunk oss fan is an oss fan, and wants to help progess htings.
I'll back that up. They're wonderfully community-oriented guys. I've actually exchanged emails with them a few times, and once sent in a patch. It wasn't a big patch -- sorting things alphabetically. Basically using a sort_insert instead of an insert call. But they appreciated the contribution and put it in.
Other projects have been less interested in such small patches.
It isn't their software (is it? It didn't sound like it in the letter). It's just software that does something they don't want it to do.. Does copyright/patent law really say that they aren't supposed to have that?
I understand the DMCA and all that. But they're not claiming circumvention or anything, they're just saying its unlicensed. But is the ac3dec package Dolby's to license in the first place?
-Justin
The only reason Pixar went with Suns for Toy Story 2 is that Sun donated the systems to them in the name of advertising.
That said, I don't know what they'd have used, had Sun not given them the hardware. I think they used SGIs for the first Toy Story, but I may be mistaken.
- Justin
Dollar for dollar, pound for pound, you're much better off using x86 for database stuff than Apple. There isn't much more to it. What you can buy with $2k in Apple hardware will suck compared to what you can buy with $2k in x86 hardware. Filemaker Pro works, sure, but what's the point?
Granted I haven't really been looking, but I've never seen any sort of PPC setup that can go in a rack. Then again, don't the new G4s all come with gig Ethernet? I really wonder what the purpose of throwing that in was.
--Justin
I don't think you quite got the point of the story. The camera comes bundled with the software. My guess is when you install the drivers and whatnot, the software goes along with it.
I agree with you. Setting things up for general use is a good idea. It is a good idea to have some sort of default, so that if you have nothing else, you still have something. But it's also necessary to make it possible to change that default.
What people are going apeshit over is the fact that Kodak couldn't set up their software to be the default. Imagine if we had no choice but to use Media Player to play mp3s, because Winamp (or Sonique, or even Real for that matter) just plain couldn't register itself as the right program to start. That would be supremely uncool.
-Justin