I agree. Programming on Carbon (a mac os 9-x bridge thing) is hideous. Programming in windows is like running through a sewer. Programming in java is fine but you have to debug everywhere. Cocoa (objective C with the foundation and appkit frameworks, among others) is the simplest most powerful way to get programs done.
RIAA: Care to explain how big radio (infinity, clear channel, emmmis, ect...) more or less forces you to pay them to play crap? How could a firmly entrenched highly profitable business be so shortsided with radio deregulation that playlists would be decided a very select group of people?
If you want any more money from me, lower CD prices in half. A movie soundtrack should not cost the same as the DVD! If individual labels had online stores that sold an album for like $10 or a single for $1, I'd buy. You would save a lot of money in distribution costs. Also, youd save money if you didnt try to sue ISP's, computer programmers, power companies, universities, corporations, individuals, and every other person with an independent thought who doesnt like what you do.
Ever read a history book? A student of US history? Know what happened with the stamp act? Britain decided to tax the writers, who organized a revolution. Live free of die! Remember the hideous tax on tea? Boston tea party! This is an American Tradition here! Be patriotic or suck it!
MPAA: I dont mind spending $6 dollars to go see a movie in a theater. I can download movies but the quality sucks. Id rather pay for good entertainment then sit on my ass working a computer trying to download a crappy divx release. Dont label me as a criminal when I pay to see movies, rent at least 20 movies a year, and buy a couple DVDs every year as well. Jack Valenti: Retire dammit. No one likes you. You belong in an asylum.
Hilary Rosen: If big radio has blackmail on you, haha its your ass. Just dont try to take it out on us or else I wont pay for cds!
Give consumers what they want or else you dont have a business. Simple free market darwinism. Play by the rules fairly or do something else!
Youd probably make a very good asbestos laywer. Use your talents elsewhere
It is a great deal faster than Mozilla on OSX. I tried it on a G3 iMac yesterday. AOL doesnt use the chrome interface, so that helps. Lets hope this can be done for Windows as well.
The browser wars would still be going on if this happened 3 or so years ago. Now better than never
In the interest of getting an early comment out, I havent looked at the program yet. However, is this application anywhere near iMovie or Final Cut Pro? Seems like Apple is doing a ton to make movies easy. How does this Linux App compare? Would it just be worth it to just use a Mac instead?
HDTV's are a nice concept. Its just too many sides are entrenched. The price of those TVs just has to go down to a reasonable level. There have to be compelling benefits to entice the CONSUMER to buy.
Public airwaves should have high definition UNENCRYPTED content streaming over them. HDTV's should have unrestricted firewire outputs.
The movie industry should shut up and recognize a couple of facts, namely 1) If they want to reduce piracy, then movies should be released around the globe at the same time. Can anyone explain to me why movie releases are scattered? 2) If they are worried about movies getting napsterized, they should force theaters like Loews to ban all camcorders from the premesis from workers and employees. 3) If they are worried about DVD piracy, they should make movies region free. 4) As long as a movie costs $6 on average to see in a nice theater, its a hell of a bargain. Id rather just go to a theater to watch it instead of wasting time trying to hunt down a crappy cam version of a movie. Even on college broadband, VideoCD movies take too long. I dont have patience, I want it now. 5) They should just realize that yes DVD's can be ripped, but its a pain in the ass for Joe Sixpack to do it. Blockbuster works just fine. Even me, a Computer Science major, thinks that its too involved. 6) Yes, Dvds can be ripped, but if the industry actually allowed DVD applications to be made on the Linux and Unix platforms, Joe Johansen and company would never have seen the need to crack CSS. The operating system with the highest ratio of programmers to everyday users wants to watch movies too.. 7) Movies on TV come out like a year or too late, after all the money has been made . 8) They really cant stop determined people from watching a movie. They should be glad that we arent reading books for crying out loud. 9) Jackoff Valenti is the idiot who complained about the VCR being the death of the movie industy just like his rant about the boston strangler being harmful to the woman home alone. Look at the austin powers movies. AP1 didnt do well in the theaters. But id did a killing on video. That inspired AP2, which made more money in the opening weekend than AP1 did in theaters, and the hugely successful AP3. They will get their money back.
enough about the movie industry. At least they arent questioning their existence like the radio industry
The only thing that worries me is HDTV over cable. I dont think thats forced to be unencrypted. I dont want DRM on my cable box. Content will just be digitized. Be glad we care to watch it
If the Advertisers are worried about their ads being inneffective with the advent of TIVo, they should cut a deal with them to put ads on the menus of the boxes, in a nonenvasive way. I would not mind having the thing spew commercials while I am deciding what to watch.
Just have a commercial channel! Adcritic.com was great! Bring it back.
Just price the thing low and get it out. But please dont complain about piracy when you have other issues to deal with.
This sounds eerily just like big radio, ie emmis, clearchannel,
and others, wanting record companies to payola them under the table for the privelege of playing music that the advertisers deem fit.
The internet is like a road. Most content and traffic comes from the US, but that will not be true forever (this is just a guess, dont mod me or flame me down). India is a developing country, but they shouldnt charge major companies access to their country. Are they going to act like China now and try to block it all off?
The internet should be toll free. Or, if India does not like that, their burgeoning programmer base should try to replicate this services on their own.
This is never OK. The law should apply both ways. We should not be allowed to disrupt/penetrate/shut down the computers of the RIAA/BSA/MPAA and They should not be allowed to do the same to us.
ISPs are caught in the middle of this mess. I say that the ISPs of these organizations should just cut their losses and drop them from their networks.
Id much rather like the content cartels off the internet. The BSA has lived with piracy for years and they arent doing anything this draconian.
There has to be a better idea to stopping the RIAA
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They "hire" companies that run search spider programs that automate dns queries and instant cease and desist letters. Lets slashdot all the sites of all the companies that act as bounty hunters on the behalf of the RIAA. If not, then at least get their netblocks known and firewall them off to null. That way they cant find us or do anything
Easy on the anti-semeticism. I agree that the entertainment cartel needs more diversity in leadership. Eisner has ruined the pristine image of disney (Mirimax anyone?) Rosen is just a bitch. Redstone I dont care for because hes too old.
I can't legally deface the webpage of the RIAA or else I would get in to a lot of trouble. If I directed an army of zombie computers to DDoS them, I would get in serious trouble. Those laws are fine and reasonable.
However, if they try to disrupt my internet service because I am sharing a file of a band of my friends that they gave me permission to share so that they can get exposure and try to do it legally, I will complain like no other.
The law must apply both ways. Computer security is paramount, but so does the sovereignity of individual property.
They should be tickled pink that there is such an interest in their music. They should encourage it so that they can get exposure. As to how they can make money is not up to me.
The record industry needs to get out from under the thumb of big radio and their demands for payola payments. That is way more harmful to big music than any idea an enthusiastic music fan who happens to be a good programmer and wants to listen to music will ever be.
I want a congressional investigation of Emmis, Clear Channel, and Infinity. It is time for Re-Regulation of radio and more independent means of distributions. Cartels are not in my interest.
I also do not want the possibility of my computer getting hacked. The internet is a free and open standard, not a corporate playground. My representative (William Lipinksi, or when I move, Rod Blagojovich), in addition to my Senators (Fitzgerald and Durbin) will hear about how much bullshit this is.
If the content cartel gets the legal right to hack computers, they are just asking for a huge fight from every determined computer science student, "hacker", cracker, pirate, warezer, d00d, and pissed off third world islamic terrorist who dont want their rights denied.
I say that everone in their firewall block traffic from the sites that try to hack them. Ban the RIAA's netblock and their bounty hunter hackers coming from corporations.
The Movie industry is one that I have no regrets at all for paying content for. I will pay $6 to see a new movie in the theater. I will pay $4 or less to rent a dvd from blockbuster. I think DVDs are the greatest thing since sliced bread. I think buying movies for $15-30 is a great deal on dvd. I know how to pirate movies but usually I dont because its too much damn work and the quality is very bad. I would much rather walk to blockbuster and rent it.
I dont want that to happen over the internet. It wont work worth a damn. Blockbuster is fine.
I dont want my computer dictated to. Screw windows, I am going to get a powerbook running Mac OS X, a system with real apps and a unix core to block out the content cartel demons.
Steve Jobs doesnt subscribe to the Palladium DRM bullshit. The iPod protection can be subverted easily, but I wont care because its my machine and mine only.
These people need to get a life. The RIAA needs to spend money making music, not trying to beat a dead horse. I say Fire Hilary Rosen!!! And for all the South Carolinans, please vote Hollings out of office! How is representing Hollywood in the interest of the citizens of South Carolina?
This is nuts. A lot of people are not motivated to download old episodes on a p2p program. Most people want to be entertained, not to think.
It is a major hassle to digitize something. I dont mind paying for the convenience of renting something physically (like a movie on dvd).
I tape some shows that I like. If i digitized every show I like, i would run out of hard drive space.
These bozos need to realize that not everyone has our inclinations. Just sell us the stuff to keep us entertained. There's a reason tv rots your brain: You dont think while watching it. You just watch
I must say that on all computers where I have some influence, I tell people to ditch IE and install Mozilla. The tabbed browsing, pop-up remover, ad killer add-on, speed, and not being integrated into windows in addition to being open source make this the best browser I have ever seen.
I just started developing on java at the beginning of the year. Thats roughly about the same time i started to work with OSZ. Im taking a java class at school, and im just starting to work with OSX.
I like java a heck of a lot more than c++. I know im inexperienced. I dont deny it. I will take time to learn more stuff.
Morpheus/KaZaa is not responsible for copyright infringement. They make it easier to distribute audio, video, and applications (whether they be pirated or not), but if people really want something, they will get it.
4 years ago, before napster, i used IRC to get all my mp3s and such. Same for warez.
The ISPs arent responsible for infringement. You dont sue the us postal service for allowing someone to mail something that might be illegal. You dont sue sears for making a hammer if someone uses it to break into a house by smashing it into a window.
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They tried to sneak some crap into the patriot act. They are slimeballs and shysters every last one of them
Actually, is a hybrid. It is mach with some bsd fused together.
Its not a microkernel or a macrokernel. Its something in between.
It works beautifully.
www.apple.com/darwin
I agree. Programming on Carbon (a mac os 9-x bridge thing) is hideous. Programming in windows is like running through a sewer. Programming in java is fine but you have to debug everywhere. Cocoa (objective C with the foundation and appkit frameworks, among others) is the simplest most powerful way to get programs done.
Interface Builder.
Try and and then respond.
RIAA: Care to explain how big radio (infinity, clear channel, emmmis, ect...) more or less forces you to pay them to play crap?
How could a firmly entrenched highly profitable business be so shortsided with radio deregulation that playlists would be decided a very select group of people?
If you want any more money from me, lower CD prices in half. A movie soundtrack should not cost the same as the DVD!
If individual labels had online stores that sold an album for like $10 or a single for $1, I'd buy.
You would save a lot of money in distribution costs. Also, youd save money if you didnt try to sue ISP's, computer programmers, power companies, universities, corporations, individuals, and every other person with an independent thought who doesnt like what you do.
Ever read a history book? A student of US history?
Know what happened with the stamp act? Britain decided to tax the writers, who organized a revolution. Live free of die! Remember the hideous tax on tea? Boston tea party! This is an American Tradition here! Be patriotic or suck it!
MPAA: I dont mind spending $6 dollars to go see a movie in a theater. I can download movies but the quality sucks. Id rather pay for good entertainment then sit on my ass working a computer trying to download a crappy divx release. Dont label me as a criminal when I pay to see movies, rent at least 20 movies a year, and buy a couple DVDs every year as well.
Jack Valenti: Retire dammit. No one likes you. You belong in an asylum.
Hilary Rosen: If big radio has blackmail on you, haha its your ass. Just dont try to take it out on us or else I wont pay for cds!
Give consumers what they want or else you dont have a business. Simple free market darwinism. Play by the rules fairly or do something else!
Youd probably make a very good asbestos laywer. Use your talents elsewhere
It is a great deal faster than Mozilla on OSX. I tried it on a G3 iMac yesterday. AOL doesnt use the chrome interface, so that helps. Lets hope this can be done for Windows as well.
The browser wars would still be going on if this happened 3 or so years ago. Now better than never
Like the Barenaked Ladies song "Its all been done".
Someone should simply merge the SVG graphics or PDF graphics format ala Quartz into the X11 Server.
On reading the site, Im impressed that there is a free program that does video that well. Anyone know how well it does against Final Cut Pro?
In the interest of getting an early comment out, I havent looked at the program yet. However, is this application anywhere near iMovie or Final Cut Pro?
Seems like Apple is doing a ton to make movies easy. How does this Linux App compare? Would it just be worth it to just use a Mac instead?
Too bad no one will buy their products with drm. Their Loss
HDTV's are a nice concept. Its just too many sides are entrenched. The price of those TVs just has to go down to a reasonable level. There have to be compelling benefits to entice the CONSUMER to buy.
Public airwaves should have high definition UNENCRYPTED content streaming over them. HDTV's should have unrestricted firewire outputs.
The movie industry should shut up and recognize a couple of facts, namely
1) If they want to reduce piracy, then movies should be released around the globe at the same time. Can anyone explain to me why movie releases are scattered?
2) If they are worried about movies getting napsterized, they should force theaters like Loews to ban all camcorders from the premesis from workers and employees.
3) If they are worried about DVD piracy, they should make movies region free.
4) As long as a movie costs $6 on average to see in a nice theater, its a hell of a bargain. Id rather just go to a theater to watch it instead of wasting time trying to hunt down a crappy cam version of a movie. Even on college broadband, VideoCD movies take too long. I dont have patience, I want it now.
5) They should just realize that yes DVD's can be ripped, but its a pain in the ass for Joe Sixpack to do it. Blockbuster works just fine. Even me, a Computer Science major, thinks that its too involved.
6) Yes, Dvds can be ripped, but if the industry actually allowed DVD applications to be made on the Linux and Unix platforms, Joe Johansen and company would never have seen the need to crack CSS. The operating system with the highest ratio of programmers to everyday users wants to watch movies too..
7) Movies on TV come out like a year or too late, after all the money has been made .
8) They really cant stop determined people from watching a movie. They should be glad that we arent reading books for crying out loud.
9) Jackoff Valenti is the idiot who complained about the VCR being the death of the movie industy just like his rant about the boston strangler being harmful to the woman home alone.
Look at the austin powers movies. AP1 didnt do well in the theaters. But id did a killing on video. That inspired AP2, which made more money in the opening weekend than AP1 did in theaters, and the hugely successful AP3. They will get their money back.
enough about the movie industry. At least they arent questioning their existence like the radio industry
The only thing that worries me is HDTV over cable. I dont think thats forced to be unencrypted. I dont want DRM on my cable box. Content will just be digitized. Be glad we care to watch it
If the Advertisers are worried about their ads being inneffective with the advent of TIVo, they should cut a deal with them to put ads on the menus of the boxes, in a nonenvasive way. I would not mind having the thing spew commercials while I am deciding what to watch.
Just have a commercial channel! Adcritic.com was great! Bring it back.
Just price the thing low and get it out. But please dont complain about piracy when you have other issues to deal with.
This sounds eerily just like big radio, ie
emmis, clear channel,
and others, wanting record companies to payola them under the table for the privelege of playing music that the advertisers deem fit.
The internet is like a road. Most content and traffic comes from the US, but that will not be true forever (this is just a guess, dont mod me or flame me down). India is a developing country, but they shouldnt charge major companies access to their country. Are they going to act like China now and try to block it all off?
The internet should be toll free. Or, if India does not like that, their burgeoning programmer base should try to replicate this services on their own.
Can they just make up their minds?!?
While they are at it, Sun should work with Apple to make a much faster JVM in OSX. Having Java 2 version 1.4 would be a big help.
Java is their crown jewel, but a cocoa-ized version of Star Office would be kick ass.
At this rate, I think I'll buy the batmobile. Or take out the passenger side airbag and shove a computer in there
Computing and Driving dont mix....
Now if I can justify the cost for the darn thing, itll be perfect. The ultimate computing machine
This is never OK. The law should apply both ways. We should not be allowed to disrupt/penetrate/shut down the computers of the RIAA/BSA/MPAA and They should not be allowed to do the same to us.
ISPs are caught in the middle of this mess. I say that the ISPs of these organizations should just cut their losses and drop them from their networks.
Id much rather like the content cartels off the internet. The BSA has lived with piracy for years and they arent doing anything this draconian.
They "hire" companies that run search spider programs that automate dns queries and instant cease and desist letters. Lets slashdot all the sites of all the companies that act as bounty hunters on the behalf of the RIAA. If not, then at least get their netblocks known and firewall them off to null. That way they cant find us or do anything
half the job is done. Go download darwin for intel. It;s not all of osx, just the base.
A Mach based BSD like unix distribution from apple. sweet.
Easy on the anti-semeticism. I agree that the entertainment cartel needs more diversity in leadership. Eisner has ruined the pristine image of disney (Mirimax anyone?) Rosen is just a bitch. Redstone I dont care for because hes too old.
I can't legally deface the webpage of the RIAA or else I would get in to a lot of trouble. If I directed an army of zombie computers to DDoS them, I would get in serious trouble. Those laws are fine and reasonable.
However, if they try to disrupt my internet service because I am sharing a file of a band of my friends that they gave me permission to share so that they can get exposure and try to do it legally, I will complain like no other.
The law must apply both ways. Computer security is paramount, but so does the sovereignity of individual property.
They should be tickled pink that there is such an interest in their music. They should encourage it so that they can get exposure. As to how they can make money is not up to me.
The record industry needs to get out from under the thumb of big radio and their demands for payola payments. That is way more harmful to big music than any idea an enthusiastic music fan who happens to be a good programmer and wants to listen to music will ever be.
I want a congressional investigation of Emmis, Clear Channel, and Infinity. It is time for Re-Regulation of radio and more independent means of distributions. Cartels are not in my interest.
I also do not want the possibility of my computer getting hacked. The internet is a free and open standard, not a corporate playground. My representative (William Lipinksi, or when I move, Rod Blagojovich), in addition to my Senators (Fitzgerald and Durbin) will hear about how much bullshit this is.
If the content cartel gets the legal right to hack computers, they are just asking for a huge fight from every determined computer science student, "hacker", cracker, pirate, warezer, d00d, and pissed off third world islamic terrorist who dont want their rights denied.
I say that everone in their firewall block traffic from the sites that try to hack them. Ban the RIAA's netblock and their bounty hunter hackers coming from corporations.
The Movie industry is one that I have no regrets at all for paying content for. I will pay $6 to see a new movie in the theater. I will pay $4 or less to rent a dvd from blockbuster. I think DVDs are the greatest thing since sliced bread. I think buying movies for $15-30 is a great deal on dvd. I know how to pirate movies but usually I dont because its too much damn work and the quality is very bad. I would much rather walk to blockbuster and rent it.
I dont want that to happen over the internet. It wont work worth a damn. Blockbuster is fine.
I dont want my computer dictated to. Screw windows, I am going to get a powerbook running Mac OS X, a system with real apps and a unix core to block out the content cartel demons.
Steve Jobs doesnt subscribe to the Palladium DRM bullshit. The iPod protection can be subverted easily, but I wont care because its my machine and mine only.
These people need to get a life. The RIAA needs to spend money making music, not trying to beat a dead horse. I say Fire Hilary Rosen!!! And for all the South Carolinans, please vote Hollings out of office! How is representing Hollywood in the interest of the citizens of South Carolina?
This is nuts. A lot of people are not motivated to download old episodes on a p2p program. Most people want to be entertained, not to think.
It is a major hassle to digitize something. I dont mind paying for the convenience of renting something physically (like a movie on dvd).
I tape some shows that I like. If i digitized every show I like, i would run out of hard drive space.
These bozos need to realize that not everyone has our inclinations. Just sell us the stuff to keep us entertained. There's a reason tv rots your brain: You dont think while watching it. You just watch
I must say that on all computers where I have some influence, I tell people to ditch IE and install Mozilla. The tabbed browsing, pop-up remover, ad killer add-on, speed, and not being integrated into windows in addition to being open source make this the best browser I have ever seen.
Internet explorer can suck it!
I just started developing on java at the beginning of the year. Thats roughly about the same time i started to work with OSZ. Im taking a java class at school, and im just starting to work with OSX.
I like java a heck of a lot more than c++.
I know im inexperienced. I dont deny it. I will take time to learn more stuff.
Educated consumers wont buy something that takes away from their rights that they had previously.
Computer Scientists will break whatever you think up almost immediately.
Whatever copy-protection you dream up, remember, its only a math equation. It can and will be reverse-engineered.
This is a logistical nightmare to implement. Dont even try.
This is a paradigm shift. Shift's happen. Keep up or become obsolete.
Remember Jack, the internet moves information a heck of a lot faster than your lawyers can sue.
Why is this even an on slashdot?
Morpheus/KaZaa is not responsible for copyright infringement. They make it easier to distribute audio, video, and applications (whether they be pirated or not), but if people really want something, they will get it.
4 years ago, before napster, i used IRC to get all my mp3s and such. Same for warez.
The ISPs arent responsible for infringement.
You dont sue the us postal service for allowing someone to mail something that might be illegal.
You dont sue sears for making a hammer if someone uses it to break into a house by smashing it into a window.
Piracy is a moral issue. Steve Jobs said it best.