This is the problem being an early adopter. The mainstream won't see the point of throwing many resources at IPv6 until they are using it. You most likely won't have good support for IPv6 until a few years after the mainstream really starts to adopt it. Do any ISPs for home users even support IPv6 in any way? Do many businesses use IPv6 at all? Until the answer is yes, most developers / system administrators / & etc won't care much about IPv6.
Writing programs which use IPv6 is good, but don't expect it to be easy at this early time. I suggest writing in workarounds for the more advanced features of IPv6 until they are fully supported. It is fine to add a compile (or run-time) option to use the real feature, but until systems have adopted IPv6 and worked out all the bugs, you'll need to use basic functionality and hacks around the poor support. Otherwise whole segments of the population won't be able to use your programs with IPv6 at all. It sucks, but is what one has to tolerate with new things.
Just keep going. Once it becomes popular, support will be better, and people will thank early adopters like you.
Perhaps you're the only one which didn't notice GiMP telling the poster to get an operating system with real security. For the most part, the sandbox the poster was talking about can easily be implemented with common commands. Commands which set kernel enforcement of security procedures. They have been operational in various systems before Microsoft had ever heard of security. I was securing my Linux box while Win98 would allow any user or any program (including a virus) to do any nasty thing with the system.
Microsoft has been playing security catch up for the past couple of years. Do you really think they would come up with something better in that time? Do you think they would be able to solve all the security problems in their bloated and buggy OS in that amount of time? Especially considering they completely ignored security before then?
Your sig link? I have sigs turned off, and I use Mozilla. Who's to say most IE users aren't smart enough to turn sigs off, and the Mozilla users are. Though real geeks make their own browser from scratch.;-)
you can buy a printer that would have cost $1000 ten years ago for $80 now.
It's called Research and Development, Moore's law, science, &etc.
I can buy a computer which probably would have cost over a million dollars ten years ago (assuming it could be manufactured at all) for $200 at WalMart now.
Your "good deal" is only a "good deal" if your time is worth nothing. It is a "good deal" if it is worth losing important calls because you don't bother to answer the phone anymore. It is a "good deal" if it is worth losing important emails because you accidently delete them while sifting through hundreds of spam mails.
Oh yeah, saving a few bucks (which you probably could have done by looking on the internet for 10 minutes) is worth all the grief.
I don't think you know what DRM is. It is a form of copy protection which uses encryption and tracking data to make sure you can only copy or use the "product" as many times as the "creator" wants. Since when has DRM been used without encryption?
How would your triangle shaped CD work? Even if they have a serial number on it, not everything is connected to the internet to check how many times it has been played. Is there an area which is writable? If so, the players are going to be damn expensive because they need to have a CD-RW burner capabilities as well, otherwise it wouldn't be able to track copies/plays.
If it _were_ protected by cryptography, it still wouldn't play in the car stereo anyway.
Obviously. DRM doesn't work with normal audio CD players. DRM is a completely different thing and requires special players.
I think you are confusing DRM with various other forms of copy protection (like many on slashdot). DRM (in terms of music) is meant as a replacement to mp3s, except the DRM system will make sure you only have one copy at a time. The big labels supposedly want it so they can sell music on the internet and allow "consumers" to download the song, transfer it to a portable player's memory, and take it with them. All without being able to give multiple copies away, and the song may expire after a certain number of plays. No CDs involved.
One of the problems is it will be bundled with secret programs. If you read some of the news stories and press releases about it, they plan to bundle in censorship software to delete "unauthorized copies." Who is to say they won't delete a smaller competitor's work? No one except the DRM maintainers will know why it disappeared. They'll also need to read people's files to do this. Who is to say they won't use the information they gather against competitors or to blackmail people?
DRM uses encryption. The only way to read DRM content is to have the key, crack the key, or be running an "approved" system. Just using a Mac (or Linux) won't get around the encryption. It may work for "copy protection" (also known as deliberately defective disks), but not DRM.
Doesn't a tattoo tool (I don't know what they're called) just embed normal ink deep into the skin with pins? I think you'd just need a setting where the pin doesn't go very deep into the skin to create a temporary tattoo...
Then don't let Master Gate$ program the thing. Any decent company or open source project can produce a decent operating system which doesn't crash at the drop of a hat. Too bad M$ had to destroy the market and push their crap on everyone.
That is why I said "most". Not all Christians are as uptight as you. Some will like it because it is one of the few Christian games available. Some will play in the hope they will understand the Bible better--reading it doesn't necessarily help one understand it well. Some may gain a new perspective on their beliefs. Those who have wained in their faith may try it out and get a new found interest. It may even convert a few people.
Yes, maybe they will put it some sort of political crap in there. "Sect X is the only one true church." "God says gay marrage is okay." That would be bad, but I didn't see any indication of it. Also, the article mentioned a spell system in the game. If they don't do it right, even with the best intentions, it could be quite unsavory. And I'm sure no matter what they do, they will clash with some faith.
Maybe there is also something I missed because I couldn't get throught their Flash animation on the game site. I don't know. I just don't see why so many are down on any mass media product which contains Christian themes. This is one of the major reasons so many companies shy away from such products. Movies like "The Last Temptaion of Christ" (or whatever the movie was called) which show Jesus having sex with women or whatever crap they put in it (I didn't see it) should be protested. (Though a review at imdb.com suggests it may not be so bad) Or "art" which is just some idiot throwing dung at a painting of the Virgin Mary. But why projects which try to honestly portray Christian ideas and/or values?
I think the point of this thread was M$ Palladium will force you to use M$ products to interoperate with any other M$ product. Unless you think it's possible to crack the encryption and you have no problem going to jail under the DMCA.
Without some DMCA violating program where someone stole the crypto keys from M$, Linux/Macs/whatever will not be able to read the DRM content from Palladium or work with any Palladium protocols.
That should be: Christian groups will be offended. People who claim to be Christian so they can strike down everyone will be "offended". I imagine most real Christians will think the game is cool.
What 'Billy Gates puts out' isn't that bloated compared to KDE and GNOME these days.
Reread my post. That was my point.
That meant my main desktop machine had to be scaled back to a Pentium II 233. I run Windows 2000, Office 2000, and various graphics programs to edit pix and whatnot. It works fine.
My 100 MHz 486 with 16 MB of RAM worked fine with Linux. I used word processors, GIMP and various development tools. Yeah with huge images or many images, GIMP would swap. That should be expected with only 16 MB of RAM. Mozilla took forever to start up, but it's a piece of shit. I liked to use Lynx anyway...until too many crappy sites started using tonnes of images, javascript and flash for navigation.
It's good to see M$ caught partly up with Linux. Now if they can just stop being jack-booted thugs, I won't hate them so much.
Yeah, maybe they shouldn't put KDE (or GNOME) on these "low end" 1 GHz 128 MB RAM desktop machines. My computer works great without them. If it weren't for bloatware like KDE, GNOME, and Billy Gates put out, we could have $100 desktop computers.
Yeah, assuming you have the money to pay for a site and the huge bandwidth bills if your file becomes popular. Not everyone who publishes a file on the internet is a millionare.
There is no guarantee this law will stop criminal activity. However, "copyright holders" have a track record of using these types of laws to silence detractors and competitors. Just think of all the abuses of the DMCA. A guy was going to give a speech about how crappy ebook encription was, so the company had him arrested under the DMCA. Printer manufacturers use it to shut down competing ink cartridge manufacturers. Various cults and companies routinely use it to shut down naysayer websites. The list goes on and on.
In these cases, States + Corporations do equal fascism! More and more these days, the US Government together with large Corporations (not nessesarily US based) are acting like the old Soviet Union. Censorship (DMCA). Banning of devices which may override censorship (mandated DRM). Taking away individual's property rights (Selling something to a customer, then, after they pay, saying it's really leased, and you have to follow a very absurd and restrictive license agreement). In Soviet Russia, the government owns you. In Soviet US, the corporations own you.
Yeah, I read what you wrote. It was obviously with the assumption all files on Kazaa must be illegal, so Kazaa should be illegal. Similar things could be said about the VCR. A lot of people use them to copy movies too. Would you like it if someone called you a criminal because you have a VCR? Just insert your favorite brand of VCR where you wrote "Kazaa", and you'll see how stupid it is.
This is exactly why legitimate uses have stayed away from P2P systems. Too many idiots lumping everyone into the same group and trying to get P2P developers and users arrested/sued. Stop the smear campaign.
Since I have not been actively looking for a DVD player lately, I do not know if they are meeting the market demands of playing CD's with MP3 files on them. With the exception of the $300 devices, I am not sure that there are many competitors making players without this feature.
My cheapo sub $100(US) Koss A/V DVD player has this feature. Bought it a few months ago. It even has a little dialog box to browse the files. Not very well designed, but it seems to work.
DVDs need the hardware decoder chips anyway and have microcontrollers/processors, so I doubt it added to the cost. The only reason they wouldn't have such a feature would be because of the DVD Copy Control Association. I wouldn't be surprised if the peckers refused to license players with such features...
As an aside, anyone looking for a DVD player may not want to buy a Koss A/V one. Mine has power problems, and looking at posts on the internet, others have too. My first one died. They replaced it, but still a hassle. The woman at the store said about half of them have been returned. My current one has probably only lasted this long because I pull out the plug when I'm not using it. Koss A/V isn't even a part of the speaker company Koss, they just licensed the name. Maybe this was just a fluke mistake, but I don't trust Koss AV to make decent products anymore.
I bet with an ethernet port and a firmware upgrade, many DVD players could browse a filesystem of mp3s and read m3u playlists just fine. There are many protocols to choose from (HTTP, NFS, & etc). HTTP will work just fine, and is very common. I don't see why they can't do this. I don't see why any new "standard" needs to be developed.
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This is the problem being an early adopter. The mainstream won't see the point of throwing many resources at IPv6 until they are using it. You most likely won't have good support for IPv6 until a few years after the mainstream really starts to adopt it. Do any ISPs for home users even support IPv6 in any way? Do many businesses use IPv6 at all? Until the answer is yes, most developers / system administrators / & etc won't care much about IPv6.
Writing programs which use IPv6 is good, but don't expect it to be easy at this early time. I suggest writing in workarounds for the more advanced features of IPv6 until they are fully supported. It is fine to add a compile (or run-time) option to use the real feature, but until systems have adopted IPv6 and worked out all the bugs, you'll need to use basic functionality and hacks around the poor support. Otherwise whole segments of the population won't be able to use your programs with IPv6 at all. It sucks, but is what one has to tolerate with new things.
Just keep going. Once it becomes popular, support will be better, and people will thank early adopters like you.
Perhaps you're the only one which didn't notice GiMP telling the poster to get an operating system with real security. For the most part, the sandbox the poster was talking about can easily be implemented with common commands. Commands which set kernel enforcement of security procedures. They have been operational in various systems before Microsoft had ever heard of security. I was securing my Linux box while Win98 would allow any user or any program (including a virus) to do any nasty thing with the system.
Microsoft has been playing security catch up for the past couple of years. Do you really think they would come up with something better in that time? Do you think they would be able to solve all the security problems in their bloated and buggy OS in that amount of time? Especially considering they completely ignored security before then?
The chroot command should help.
How about cat - > /var/spool/mail/$DESTUSER?
Your sig link? I have sigs turned off, and I use Mozilla. Who's to say most IE users aren't smart enough to turn sigs off, and the Mozilla users are. Though real geeks make their own browser from scratch. ;-)
It's called Research and Development, Moore's law, science, &etc.
I can buy a computer which probably would have cost over a million dollars ten years ago (assuming it could be manufactured at all) for $200 at WalMart now.
Your "good deal" is only a "good deal" if your time is worth nothing. It is a "good deal" if it is worth losing important calls because you don't bother to answer the phone anymore. It is a "good deal" if it is worth losing important emails because you accidently delete them while sifting through hundreds of spam mails.
Oh yeah, saving a few bucks (which you probably could have done by looking on the internet for 10 minutes) is worth all the grief.
It also wouldn't stop spam. Spammers have no problem breaking into people's systems to send email. Digital certificates will not stop them.
I have to agree MS joysticks are crap. A few years ago, my roommate bought a MS joystick, and it broke within a month.
I don't think you know what DRM is. It is a form of copy protection which uses encryption and tracking data to make sure you can only copy or use the "product" as many times as the "creator" wants. Since when has DRM been used without encryption?
How would your triangle shaped CD work? Even if they have a serial number on it, not everything is connected to the internet to check how many times it has been played. Is there an area which is writable? If so, the players are going to be damn expensive because they need to have a CD-RW burner capabilities as well, otherwise it wouldn't be able to track copies/plays.
Obviously. DRM doesn't work with normal audio CD players. DRM is a completely different thing and requires special players.
I think you are confusing DRM with various other forms of copy protection (like many on slashdot). DRM (in terms of music) is meant as a replacement to mp3s, except the DRM system will make sure you only have one copy at a time. The big labels supposedly want it so they can sell music on the internet and allow "consumers" to download the song, transfer it to a portable player's memory, and take it with them. All without being able to give multiple copies away, and the song may expire after a certain number of plays. No CDs involved.
One of the problems is it will be bundled with secret programs. If you read some of the news stories and press releases about it, they plan to bundle in censorship software to delete "unauthorized copies." Who is to say they won't delete a smaller competitor's work? No one except the DRM maintainers will know why it disappeared. They'll also need to read people's files to do this. Who is to say they won't use the information they gather against competitors or to blackmail people?
DRM uses encryption. The only way to read DRM content is to have the key, crack the key, or be running an "approved" system. Just using a Mac (or Linux) won't get around the encryption. It may work for "copy protection" (also known as deliberately defective disks), but not DRM.
With Ardor, you don't have to evade the BSA and their jack booted thugs. Plus, you can edit the source code to make a better program. ;-)
Doesn't a tattoo tool (I don't know what they're called) just embed normal ink deep into the skin with pins? I think you'd just need a setting where the pin doesn't go very deep into the skin to create a temporary tattoo...
Then don't let Master Gate$ program the thing. Any decent company or open source project can produce a decent operating system which doesn't crash at the drop of a hat. Too bad M$ had to destroy the market and push their crap on everyone.
That is why I said "most". Not all Christians are as uptight as you. Some will like it because it is one of the few Christian games available. Some will play in the hope they will understand the Bible better--reading it doesn't necessarily help one understand it well. Some may gain a new perspective on their beliefs. Those who have wained in their faith may try it out and get a new found interest. It may even convert a few people.
Yes, maybe they will put it some sort of political crap in there. "Sect X is the only one true church." "God says gay marrage is okay." That would be bad, but I didn't see any indication of it. Also, the article mentioned a spell system in the game. If they don't do it right, even with the best intentions, it could be quite unsavory. And I'm sure no matter what they do, they will clash with some faith.
Maybe there is also something I missed because I couldn't get throught their Flash animation on the game site. I don't know. I just don't see why so many are down on any mass media product which contains Christian themes. This is one of the major reasons so many companies shy away from such products. Movies like "The Last Temptaion of Christ" (or whatever the movie was called) which show Jesus having sex with women or whatever crap they put in it (I didn't see it) should be protested. (Though a review at imdb.com suggests it may not be so bad) Or "art" which is just some idiot throwing dung at a painting of the Virgin Mary. But why projects which try to honestly portray Christian ideas and/or values?
I think the point of this thread was M$ Palladium will force you to use M$ products to interoperate with any other M$ product. Unless you think it's possible to crack the encryption and you have no problem going to jail under the DMCA.
Without some DMCA violating program where someone stole the crypto keys from M$, Linux/Macs/whatever will not be able to read the DRM content from Palladium or work with any Palladium protocols.
That should be: Christian groups will be offended. People who claim to be Christian so they can strike down everyone will be "offended". I imagine most real Christians will think the game is cool.
Reread my post. That was my point.
My 100 MHz 486 with 16 MB of RAM worked fine with Linux. I used word processors, GIMP and various development tools. Yeah with huge images or many images, GIMP would swap. That should be expected with only 16 MB of RAM. Mozilla took forever to start up, but it's a piece of shit. I liked to use Lynx anyway...until too many crappy sites started using tonnes of images, javascript and flash for navigation.
It's good to see M$ caught partly up with Linux. Now if they can just stop being jack-booted thugs, I won't hate them so much.
Yeah, maybe they shouldn't put KDE (or GNOME) on these "low end" 1 GHz 128 MB RAM desktop machines. My computer works great without them. If it weren't for bloatware like KDE, GNOME, and Billy Gates put out, we could have $100 desktop computers.
Yeah, assuming you have the money to pay for a site and the huge bandwidth bills if your file becomes popular. Not everyone who publishes a file on the internet is a millionare.
There is no guarantee this law will stop criminal activity. However, "copyright holders" have a track record of using these types of laws to silence detractors and competitors. Just think of all the abuses of the DMCA. A guy was going to give a speech about how crappy ebook encription was, so the company had him arrested under the DMCA. Printer manufacturers use it to shut down competing ink cartridge manufacturers. Various cults and companies routinely use it to shut down naysayer websites. The list goes on and on.
In these cases, States + Corporations do equal fascism! More and more these days, the US Government together with large Corporations (not nessesarily US based) are acting like the old Soviet Union. Censorship (DMCA). Banning of devices which may override censorship (mandated DRM). Taking away individual's property rights (Selling something to a customer, then, after they pay, saying it's really leased, and you have to follow a very absurd and restrictive license agreement). In Soviet Russia, the government owns you. In Soviet US, the corporations own you.
Maybe because your site gives a 403 Forbidden error! ;-)
Yeah, I read what you wrote. It was obviously with the assumption all files on Kazaa must be illegal, so Kazaa should be illegal. Similar things could be said about the VCR. A lot of people use them to copy movies too. Would you like it if someone called you a criminal because you have a VCR? Just insert your favorite brand of VCR where you wrote "Kazaa", and you'll see how stupid it is.
This is exactly why legitimate uses have stayed away from P2P systems. Too many idiots lumping everyone into the same group and trying to get P2P developers and users arrested/sued. Stop the smear campaign.
My cheapo sub $100(US) Koss A/V DVD player has this feature. Bought it a few months ago. It even has a little dialog box to browse the files. Not very well designed, but it seems to work.
DVDs need the hardware decoder chips anyway and have microcontrollers/processors, so I doubt it added to the cost. The only reason they wouldn't have such a feature would be because of the DVD Copy Control Association. I wouldn't be surprised if the peckers refused to license players with such features...
As an aside, anyone looking for a DVD player may not want to buy a Koss A/V one. Mine has power problems, and looking at posts on the internet, others have too. My first one died. They replaced it, but still a hassle. The woman at the store said about half of them have been returned. My current one has probably only lasted this long because I pull out the plug when I'm not using it. Koss A/V isn't even a part of the speaker company Koss, they just licensed the name. Maybe this was just a fluke mistake, but I don't trust Koss AV to make decent products anymore.
I bet with an ethernet port and a firmware upgrade, many DVD players could browse a filesystem of mp3s and read m3u playlists just fine. There are many protocols to choose from (HTTP, NFS, & etc). HTTP will work just fine, and is very common. I don't see why they can't do this. I don't see why any new "standard" needs to be developed.
M$ will run out. A fair group of Linux chicks will descend upon them and use the shirts to wipe their asses. It will be quite a spectacle to see!