They're not trying to prevent any piracy (how do they plan on preventing copies from being copied?), but to strongarm download services into adding DRM. The CD protection industry is a joke. It's clear that they can't produce protected disc that plays in every model of CD player. The digital distributors however are under the thumb of all the labels. If all of the labels say it must be the case that every song available for d/l is DRM'd, then it will be so.
As long as I have at least one legacy, DRM free machine lying about, I will be able to capture that tune digitally. How can you stop me? DRM all soundcards? Outlaw legacy hardware? Legislate mandatory Cochlear implants that only recognized digitally signed and authorized music?
Really, I think this is just another thing the RIAA can point at when they tell Congress to legislate them back into the black. "See, see what those hacking music sharing terrorists did now? They BROKE our encryption! They CIRCUMVENTED our protection mechanisms! Clearly these sophisticated sabateurs can only be stopped if we have laws that can incarcerate them and an enforcement policy that generates enough publicity top scare potential terrorists. Here's a draft to get you started. Yeah, we know the first ammendment is going to be tough to excise, but we thought we'd ask in case Bush got re-elected. Besides, 'better to shoot for the stars' right?"
They're positioning themselves. Ultimately, they hope they can make legally downloaded music more restricted than music from a CD, and they probably can.
Re:Why not just record straight to the hard disk?
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is there any performance hit or other reason why you wouldn't record straight to (RAM then) hard disk?
Power for one. An affordable digital video hard disk recording solution may consume more power than a VCR. Remember, at a minnimum you'd have to power a disk, a video encoder and a backplane (unless both the hd and video controllers are integrated I suppose). A professional solution would cost more than a VCR. A homebrew system is possible, but also has drawbacks. It's probably more cumbersome and complicated. VCR's require very little time to get from an unpowered state to an actively recording state since digital solutions may require a booting period. A VCR has standard and easy interface. The homebrew interface may be rougher.
The/. collective-consciousnless will call it 'gay'. (Not to mention the risks involved with someone 0wn3ring your car and driving you off a cliff!)
Automotive sexual orientation aside, I'd really like to know how they plan on preventing someone from making your car do something you don't want it to. I'm sure a manual override is a part of the plan, but if a passenger in my car were to serve my wheel on I-80, I imagine it would be a fairly terminal action, one which I couldn't recover from.
Without additional ifrastructure (collision detection, road orientation and speed monitoring, etc), I don't see how this will work. It's a neat problem.
The post it note analogy was pretty spot on explanation of a problem most people never think about (assuming I'm most people).
I've wanted to do that for AGES! I have an iPaq 3750 (I think it's probably very similar to yours). I got a linux boot loader on it, but have failed to progress past that point.
If you have any notes or pointers to share, I'd be most appreciative.
This should be +5 informative. It's a perfectly relevant response to the parent post. Maybe someones panties are in a twist because they don't want to admit that Kerry isn't the saint the liberal press has made him out to be? I can't stand Bush, but just as bad as re-electing a tyrant, is electing someone based on false or incomplete information. The whole push to elect "anyone but bush" is a great synopsis of the state of the US politic.
No VST is a real killer. I was told that, even as flawed, ugly, hacked, and putrid as VST is, it's the only real name in the game right now. My DJ friends won't move to a platform without VST. No matter how enthused they are about free software or the ideas of open source, no matter how much the ideals of the open source community ring true to them, if it doesn't work, they're not going to switch.
Yeah. I tried that. It didn't work. I don't know why. I don't know if it's something about the way cdrecord works or my specific hardware. I only know that in order to write a cd, I have to use that ATAPI magic.
White Box Linux. All of the functionality, security and stability of RHE3 without any expense.
It also makes a snappy desktop distro with a 2.6 kernel. There are even apt-repositories if you're an apt-rpm type admin.
It's not a desktop distro, on the other hand, I look forward to not having to crossing my fingers and praying that an upgrade works for another five years or so.
Normally I hate posting "me too" replies, but in this case I'll make an exception.
Me Too!;)
Eclipse has made my life easier. It literally takes me less than an hour to set up a powerful development environment on a new box. Even my whites are whiter.
That said there are a few stability issues on linux with the 3.0Mx series (of course, it's still in Beta, so bitching about it is kind of silly).
Javabeans aren't plugins. Javabeans is basically just an interface that you can make your classes implement. It's just getters and setters for all the data you wish to expose that conforms to a specific naming convention.
The Plugin standard they're talking about is the one that allows you to write things like controllers for app containers (the Sysdeo Tomcat Plugin for example) or to make the IDE aware of things that aren't a part of the Java language, or to make the IDE aware of things like J2EE (like the Lomboz plugin). Currently, you have to write plugins differently for each IDE. The plugins do not conform to the Java mantra of "write once, (debug) run (everywhere) anywhere."
Sun hasn't lost control of anything. They just don't build the best products to suit the needs of the developers.
Javabeans are NOT poorly designed. The argumemnt that Javabeans sucks is mainly driven by the boondoggle of EJB (entity java beans, which were a bad bad bad bad idea for many of the problems that people tried to use them to solve). Nothing forces you to use those. And mostly, they get a bad rap because lots of developers tried to solve problems with them that they weren't meant to solve. Pounding a nail in with a screwdriver is not-optimal.
Eclipse just came up with a whiz-bang solution for plugin development. It's not the one that Sun came up with. Sun needs to adapt, NOT eclipse.
That's fine if Sun wants to consolidate the tools. Just pick the best framework. The best framework is (IMHO) Eclipse's. Sun should compramise, not demand Eclipse to.
Sun needs to join Eclipse, not the other way round
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What the hell? Sun wants Eclipse to start doing things more like NetBeans? I hope not. I switched to Eclipse because NetBeans was nearly unusable. Ostensibly Sun's move is an effort to prevent vendor lockin, but really, they just want to prevent developers from being locked in to any vendor but Sun.
Eclipse allows you to develop plugins for the IDE, and provides a powerful interface to do so. NetBeans allows for plugins as well. More people are doing plugins for Eclipse. Plugins help drive the market. Seems like Sun has plugin envy.
"Don't define 'interoperability' on your own terms, but rather work with other major players in the industry to achieve actual interoperability," the Sun letter told Eclipse members. "Push the organization to be a unifying force for Java technology."
Sun should take it's own advice. I hope Eclipse doesn't try and fix what ain't broke. Sun should adopt Eclipse's model. It is clearly superior.
Gah! Enlightenment is only a click away. I had gotten so used to seeing the DMCA abused by slapping crap 'crypto' over a product and suing anyone who dared point out deficiencies that I had forgotten about the myriad other ways that the law can be abused.
Now, if SCO could only manage to invoke the PATRIOT act, my disillusionment and contempt would be complete and warranted.
SCO, n: a concise example of everything that's wrong with IP laws. example: Want to see how the DMCA is broken, go look at the actions of a SCO.
DMCA? What does the DMCA have to do with the SCO case? What actions has SCO taken that demonstrate how the DMCA is unconstitutional (broken)? It's certainly possible that I'm missing something, but nothing regarding the DMCA is jumping right out at me. Please enlighten.
The other definitions I agree with and I definately think someone at SCO (maybe the entire board) should be held criminally liable for something, thought legally, I have no idea what laws they've actually broken.
128 bit encrypted WMA which they claim is "CD Quality." You can't send them as gifts (which sounds like a cool idea now that they mention it). The says All rights in the Products are owned by WALMART.COM or its licensors and you have only a limited, nontransferable, nonexclusive, revocable, nonsublicensable right to use the Products for personal use in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
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They're not trying to prevent any piracy (how do they plan on preventing copies from being copied?), but to strongarm download services into adding DRM. The CD protection industry is a joke. It's clear that they can't produce protected disc that plays in every model of CD player. The digital distributors however are under the thumb of all the labels. If all of the labels say it must be the case that every song available for d/l is DRM'd, then it will be so.
As long as I have at least one legacy, DRM free machine lying about, I will be able to capture that tune digitally. How can you stop me? DRM all soundcards? Outlaw legacy hardware? Legislate mandatory Cochlear implants that only recognized digitally signed and authorized music?
Really, I think this is just another thing the RIAA can point at when they tell Congress to legislate them back into the black. "See, see what those hacking music sharing terrorists did now? They BROKE our encryption! They CIRCUMVENTED our protection mechanisms! Clearly these sophisticated sabateurs can only be stopped if we have laws that can incarcerate them and an enforcement policy that generates enough publicity top scare potential terrorists. Here's a draft to get you started. Yeah, we know the first ammendment is going to be tough to excise, but we thought we'd ask in case Bush got re-elected. Besides, 'better to shoot for the stars' right?"
They're positioning themselves. Ultimately, they hope they can make legally downloaded music more restricted than music from a CD, and they probably can.
is there any performance hit or other reason why you wouldn't record straight to (RAM then) hard disk?
Power for one. An affordable digital video hard disk recording solution may consume more power than a VCR. Remember, at a minnimum you'd have to power a disk, a video encoder and a backplane (unless both the hd and video controllers are integrated I suppose). A professional solution would cost more than a VCR. A homebrew system is possible, but also has drawbacks. It's probably more cumbersome and complicated. VCR's require very little time to get from an unpowered state to an actively recording state since digital solutions may require a booting period. A VCR has standard and easy interface. The homebrew interface may be rougher.
I certainly can't argue with you. The reality of the situation is just as you've stated.
I guess I'm just fed up.
Thanks for your response, it was definitely not a troll.
The /. collective-consciousnless will call it 'gay'. (Not to mention the risks involved with someone 0wn3ring your car and driving you off a cliff!)
Automotive sexual orientation aside, I'd really like to know how they plan on preventing someone from making your car do something you don't want it to. I'm sure a manual override is a part of the plan, but if a passenger in my car were to serve my wheel on I-80, I imagine it would be a fairly terminal action, one which I couldn't recover from.
Without additional ifrastructure (collision detection, road orientation and speed monitoring, etc), I don't see how this will work. It's a neat problem.
The post it note analogy was pretty spot on explanation of a problem most people never think about (assuming I'm most people).
I've wanted to do that for AGES! I have an iPaq 3750 (I think it's probably very similar to yours). I got a linux boot loader on it, but have failed to progress past that point.
If you have any notes or pointers to share, I'd be most appreciative.
This should be +5 informative. It's a perfectly relevant response to the parent post. Maybe someones panties are in a twist because they don't want to admit that Kerry isn't the saint the liberal press has made him out to be? I can't stand Bush, but just as bad as re-electing a tyrant, is electing someone based on false or incomplete information. The whole push to elect "anyone but bush" is a great synopsis of the state of the US politic.
No VST is a real killer. I was told that, even as flawed, ugly, hacked, and putrid as VST is, it's the only real name in the game right now. My DJ friends won't move to a platform without VST. No matter how enthused they are about free software or the ideas of open source, no matter how much the ideals of the open source community ring true to them, if it doesn't work, they're not going to switch.
Yeah. I tried that. It didn't work. I don't know why. I don't know if it's something about the way cdrecord works or my specific hardware. I only know that in order to write a cd, I have to use that ATAPI magic.
cdrecord works with atapi burners now. (I make this blanket statement based only on the fact that I was able to burn a cd this morning).
The trick is:
cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI
cdrecord dev=ATAPI:1,0,0 isname.iso
no boot time kernel options need to be passed (no more hdb=ide-scsi nonsense).
Good luck.
White Box Linux. All of the functionality, security and stability of RHE3 without any expense.
It also makes a snappy desktop distro with a 2.6 kernel. There are even apt-repositories if you're an apt-rpm type admin.
It's not a desktop distro, on the other hand, I look forward to not having to crossing my fingers and praying that an upgrade works for another five years or so.
Normally I hate posting "me too" replies, but in this case I'll make an exception.
;)
Me Too!
Eclipse has made my life easier. It literally takes me less than an hour to set up a powerful development environment on a new box. Even my whites are whiter.
That said there are a few stability issues on linux with the 3.0Mx series (of course, it's still in Beta, so bitching about it is kind of silly).
Javabeans aren't plugins. Javabeans is basically just an interface that you can make your classes implement. It's just getters and setters for all the data you wish to expose that conforms to a specific naming convention.
The Plugin standard they're talking about is the one that allows you to write things like controllers for app containers (the Sysdeo Tomcat Plugin for example) or to make the IDE aware of things that aren't a part of the Java language, or to make the IDE aware of things like J2EE (like the Lomboz plugin). Currently, you have to write plugins differently for each IDE. The plugins do not conform to the Java mantra of "write once, (debug) run (everywhere) anywhere."
Sun hasn't lost control of anything. They just don't build the best products to suit the needs of the developers.
Javabeans are NOT poorly designed. The argumemnt that Javabeans sucks is mainly driven by the boondoggle of EJB (entity java beans, which were a bad bad bad bad idea for many of the problems that people tried to use them to solve). Nothing forces you to use those. And mostly, they get a bad rap because lots of developers tried to solve problems with them that they weren't meant to solve. Pounding a nail in with a screwdriver is not-optimal.
Eclipse just came up with a whiz-bang solution for plugin development. It's not the one that Sun came up with. Sun needs to adapt, NOT eclipse.
That's fine if Sun wants to consolidate the tools. Just pick the best framework. The best framework is (IMHO) Eclipse's. Sun should compramise, not demand Eclipse to.
What the hell? Sun wants Eclipse to start doing things more like NetBeans? I hope not. I switched to Eclipse because NetBeans was nearly unusable. Ostensibly Sun's move is an effort to prevent vendor lockin, but really, they just want to prevent developers from being locked in to any vendor but Sun.
Eclipse allows you to develop plugins for the IDE, and provides a powerful interface to do so. NetBeans allows for plugins as well. More people are doing plugins for Eclipse. Plugins help drive the market. Seems like Sun has plugin envy.
"Don't define 'interoperability' on your own terms, but rather work with other major players in the industry to achieve actual interoperability," the Sun letter told Eclipse members. "Push the organization to be a unifying force for Java technology."
Sun should take it's own advice. I hope Eclipse doesn't try and fix what ain't broke. Sun should adopt Eclipse's model. It is clearly superior.
What? No. Too many mail servers are running on *nix machines.
This could be the first time I've ever been happy about not having a static IP address from Time Warner.
Could they put a key in the ad and use the dmca to prosecute/sue anyone who subverts the cryptographic protection?
I'll throw a plug in for whitebox linux.
It's RHE3 isos without the support (and with different brand graphics).
Not sure what the differences between Fedora (RH9) and whitebox (RHE3) are. Sure would appreciate enlightenment though.
Gah! Enlightenment is only a click away. I had gotten so used to seeing the DMCA abused by slapping crap 'crypto' over a product and suing anyone who dared point out deficiencies that I had forgotten about the myriad other ways that the law can be abused.
Now, if SCO could only manage to invoke the PATRIOT act, my disillusionment and contempt would be complete and warranted.
SCO, n: a concise example of everything that's wrong with IP laws. example: Want to see how the DMCA is broken, go look at the actions of a SCO.
DMCA? What does the DMCA have to do with the SCO case? What actions has SCO taken that demonstrate how the DMCA is unconstitutional (broken)? It's certainly possible that I'm missing something, but nothing regarding the DMCA is jumping right out at me. Please enlighten.
The other definitions I agree with and I definately think someone at SCO (maybe the entire board) should be held criminally liable for something, thought legally, I have no idea what laws they've actually broken.
Sure. That conclusion follows. ;)
128 bit encrypted WMA which they claim is "CD Quality." You can't send them as gifts (which sounds like a cool idea now that they mention it). The says
All rights in the Products are owned by WALMART.COM or its licensors and you have only a limited, nontransferable, nonexclusive, revocable, nonsublicensable right to use the Products for personal use in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
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thank you.
You can still find it on Kazaa. Oh the irony.
Developers don't need root access. Simple.
For what? Give me one good reason why.
strace for one.
I'm sure there are others. You're attitude reminds me of a school principal who employs a zero tolerance policy out of sheer laziness.
On my dev box, I am root. You cannot predict my every need. To assume so is either supremely arrogant, or stupid.