"global coalition of large and small companies committed to advancing the concept that multiple competing software markets should be allowed to develop and flourish unimpeded by government preference or mandate"
no problem here, you just go about your business as usual and if you put out something good enough to compete with what's given away for free we'll talk...
I'm confident we've got nothing to fear from signing away our privacy and having a little Big Brother monitoring, after all they just have our best interest in mind. Power doesnt corrupt, right.....right?
Bruteforce. No really:) The computer tries every possible move, when it's not using any of the built-in opening books, and predicts which is the most likely to win in the majority of the cases, and plays that.
I found a little more info here, and a nice explanation of the "Minimax Game Tree" that's used when it tries to predict it all.
Yeah yeah karma whore and all that, but I couldnt resist:)
10. After slugging down six Shirley Temple's in 10-forward, Wes stumbles to the holodeck, which he commands to "take me to hell." His broken body is later found on the empty holodeck in a pool of vomit.
9. Wesley gets gang-raped by a group of female Klingons.
8. Riker gets carried away executing an order from Picard to "knock the little snot around a bit."
7. Data catches him tossing off. Uncomprehending, he requires a detailed explanation from Wesley, who dies of embarrassment.
6. Extensive lab analysis of a green slime found on one of the control panels uncovers the fact that our favorite ensign has, once again, been picking his nose. He is summarily fired and commits suicide.
5. Wes gets gang-raped by a group of male Klingons.
4. On an earlier episode, Wes got to kiss a girl who turned into a Chewbacca-like creature. Here, she returns, and they once again get involved. (Un)fortunately, once she gets really heated, she mutates back into a wookie and forces Wesley to be her cringing sex slave. She then tears him limb from limb and eats him.
3. In a rare episode involving characters from both ST and ST:TNG, Spock attempts a Vulcan mind-meld with Wesley. Wesley's head explodes. Spock barely survives, spending the next several days scratching himself and whining.
2. Worf notices a Romulan ship on the scanners, and sends Wesley down to clean out the photon tubes. Later, someone makes a comment about the needs of the many having outweighed the needs of the few.
1. Wes gets involved in a deviant sexual practice known as "tribble stuffing," not realizing that tribbles multiply any where. Even an emergency laser enema by Dr. Crusher fails to save him
This new policy is most likely a direct result of the ongoing ddos against them.
I see two possible reasons for the attack;
You're pissed with DALnet for closing your channel, suspending your nick, banning your clones, etc. etc..
DALnet is caught in he middle of a fight between two of these filesharing crews, and rather than attacking each other they're hitting at DALnet do disrupt their chance of serving any files. Nasty, but that's IRC. It isnt entirely impossible that the staff might have been involved in this aswell to warrant the insane ddos' (several GB/second) for the last months, but it started with a fight between two groups of l33t kiddies.
With the latest news it seems the latter is a very likely scenario, time will tell if I'm (and they?) right about this...
I did the obvious and asked for a couple of quotes of Bill Gates...
Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday released additional details about digital entertainment PCs coming for the holidays. But new anti-copying technology could hamper sales, say analysts and potential buyers. Source: http://www.privacydigest.com/
Microsoft announced the latest round of Technology Leadership Grants this week. More than $3,350,000 in software will be given to five nonprofit organizations. Source: http://www.pnnonline.org/article.php?sid=425
Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software for personal and business computing, Microsoft strives to produce innovative products and services that meet our customers' evolving needs. Source: http://www.avs.com/partners/
Apart from the somewhat biased results the feature kicks ass:)
This wont work. It doesnt sound any different from the protections companies employ now where the CD has a magic key or secret uncopyable section on it. Pirates simply copy the part of the CD that is readable and then use a cracked executable distributed on the CD that doesnt bother looking for the secret section or bytes.
Until it's impossible to copy all the information on a CD this is the way illegal games and applications are distributed. This innovation, however ingenious wont make a dent in the pirate industry.
The idea of the program is good, if only to poke the riaa in the eye with a big long stick, but I didnt see that he mentioned anywhere how these P2P finds each other if the main-server goes down. Limeware and all the others needed to connect to a special server the first time they were ran to give them something to start off with. None of them started off right from scratch and suddenly found 67482 friends advertising their location to all possible ip's.
Has someone solved this for new clients or when all the old ip's have been forgotten from the cached list?
Have a kid go at it for an hour or two, they're cheap and efficient.
Seriously, this is the best thing to do. You want to see how your product performs out of the test lab? Then go outside the lab and give a copy to your friends and their friends. People who know how the product is supposed to work seldom breaks stuff, it's when you let the inexperienced join the game the fun begins.
This is actually very good, though I seriously question the legal aspects of what they're doing. It's nice to see some are adapting to this new world of streaming media and computers instead of trying to buy new laws to stick to old and "trusted" ways of doing business. USA moneyhungry executives might learn something from all this, after they're done suing them and their families of course.
"It may not work flawlessly, it may not be perfect, but it IS!"
In court you need evidence to prove your case, you need hard solid fact proving your case. I assume they entered into evidence the actual code in question here as well, both in written (as to show how the 'original' looks) and as a copy of where it was published (t-shirts, books, internet and later also as a tatoo).
Isn't all of this going to the public records later? I'm sure there's a flaw in my thought somewhere but once it enters the legal system it's there to be poked and made fun of for every citizen, no?
"Oh, so all that money we spent on R&D didnt turn out like we hoped for...anybody we can sue over it instead?"
I'm just waiting for "We-make-silly-software-patents-and-then-license-t hem-to-companies-for-LOADS-AND-LOADS-of-money" to get off the ground, then we'll really have something to bash the patent burea with. Hey we might even get MS in on the deal!
Can you sue a public 'service' for having an average IQ of 5?
Even the navy rely heavily on NT and...you get what you pay for.
The Yorktown lost control of its propulsion system because its computers were unable to divide by the number zero, the memo said. The Yorktown's Standard Monitoring Control System administrator entered zero into the data field for the Remote Data Base Manager program. That caused the database to overflow and crash all LAN consoles and miniature remote terminal units, the memo said.
I'm sure he was just checking up on bugs "hey what if I feed this thing a zero" when he suddenly rendered a 2billion dollar ship virtually defenseless and without propulsion. Something a 2.95$ calculator would avoid. Oops.
Some corporations seems to be into it, kodak, and others are reporting of howgreat this new technology is.
I surely hope this will never catch on seeing how a normal CD is better and more conveniant than this RIAA loved piece of trash but you never know, especially if it continues to get touted in the medias like this. "Ohh so it is ALMOST as good as a CD and can protect our valuable music GUARANTEED? Give me 5 000 000 please and...yeah...those...them old CDs over there...you know what to...yeah ok good..THANK YOU pleasure doing business with you!"
This way you dont have to read all that MS propaganda junk, CNN has done the job of cleaning it up for you.
Has a few good quotes aswell; "I think Microsoft is threatened by this competitor because it's a competitor like no other they've faced before," he said. "It's a band of volunteers from around the world...writing software for the public good. And a lot of them are making money off treating the public well."
I'm so sick of this. I mean, I can understand why they do it but I'm still sick of it. All the way to the bone.
There was a time when companies could ask for money and then have something delivered to it's customers. Soon, this practise became standard all over the world and lots of people payed for things like TV and Radio. All non-physical in it's form, but yet valued highly enough for the consumers to spend their cash on it.
Then, came Computers and later the Internet. Suddenly, everything that could be put into a digital form and transported over the Internet was free for the taking. Consumers didnt have to pay for content anymore, all the non-physical things they previously payed for didnt cost a dime anymore. Of course, all companies scrambled to try to get old laws and rules to apply to the new world but it was pointless. Everything in a digital form was free, and there was nothing to be done about that.
Long story short; if it's in a digital form (tv,radio,mp3,movies) it's free, and if it's physical (food,cinema,concerts,cars) it costs. that's how the future's going to be, you cant expect people to pay and then not get to keep it or lay their hands on it anymore - 'cos it's free. we are greedy by nature, and here I see yet another company kicking wildly on it's way down when it's marketing idea of selling nothing to people is starting to rumble, because it got too greedy. better place all that money on trying to embrace the new digital world than locking it out.
Of course even Slashdot is planning on rolling out subscriptions-for-no-banner-ads sometime soon, so I suppose we're not entirely immune to the subscription bug either.
That's not the same thing, you're still offering the people who doesnt want to pay to freely use your site;
- people paying will a) feel good about themselves and b) help support slashdot
- people not paying can still access everything but will have to live with the ads and (possibly) support slashdot that way
Actually, in the latest version of Winamp (2.78?) if you choose to do a custom install the optional installation of a "free AOL membership" shortcut to the startmeny is available.
Slashdot Mirror
Mobile-review.com got two much better reviews. Honestly, who reviews a phone with a 2MP camera and DESCRIBES the pictures in text?
"global coalition of large and small companies committed to advancing the concept that multiple competing software markets should be allowed to develop and flourish unimpeded by government preference or mandate"
no problem here, you just go about your business as usual and if you put out something good enough to compete with what's given away for free we'll talk...
liberals
I'm confident we've got nothing to fear from signing away our privacy and having a little Big Brother monitoring, after all they just have our best interest in mind. Power doesnt corrupt, right.....right?
But what's so amazing about not changing the size? Last time I looked every executable I ever ran through a hexeditor had more 00's than code.
Bruteforce. No really :)
The computer tries every possible move, when it's not using any of the built-in opening books, and predicts which is the most likely to win in the majority of the cases, and plays that.
I found a little more info here, and a nice explanation of the "Minimax Game Tree" that's used when it tries to predict it all.
Yeah yeah karma whore and all that, but I couldnt resist :)
10. After slugging down six Shirley Temple's in 10-forward, Wes stumbles to the holodeck, which he commands to "take me to hell." His broken body is later found on the empty holodeck in a pool of vomit.
9. Wesley gets gang-raped by a group of female Klingons.
8. Riker gets carried away executing an order from Picard to "knock the little snot around a bit."
7. Data catches him tossing off. Uncomprehending, he requires a detailed explanation from Wesley, who dies of embarrassment.
6. Extensive lab analysis of a green slime found on one of the control panels uncovers the fact that our favorite ensign has, once again, been picking his nose. He is summarily fired and commits suicide.
5. Wes gets gang-raped by a group of male Klingons.
4. On an earlier episode, Wes got to kiss a girl who turned into a Chewbacca-like creature. Here, she returns, and they once again get involved. (Un)fortunately, once she gets really heated, she mutates back into a wookie and forces Wesley to be her cringing sex slave. She then tears him limb from limb and eats him.
3. In a rare episode involving characters from both ST and ST:TNG, Spock attempts a Vulcan mind-meld with Wesley. Wesley's head explodes. Spock barely survives, spending the next several days scratching himself and whining.
2. Worf notices a Romulan ship on the scanners, and sends Wesley down to clean out the photon tubes. Later, someone makes a comment about the needs of the many having outweighed the needs of the few.
1. Wes gets involved in a deviant sexual practice known as "tribble stuffing," not realizing that tribbles multiply any where. Even an emergency laser enema by Dr. Crusher fails to save him
I see two possible reasons for the attack;
You're pissed with DALnet for closing your channel, suspending your nick, banning your clones, etc. etc..
DALnet is caught in he middle of a fight between two of these filesharing crews, and rather than attacking each other they're hitting at DALnet do disrupt their chance of serving any files. Nasty, but that's IRC. It isnt entirely impossible that the staff might have been involved in this aswell to warrant the insane ddos' (several GB/second) for the last months, but it started with a fight between two groups of l33t kiddies.
With the latest news it seems the latter is a very likely scenario, time will tell if I'm (and they?) right about this...
Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday released additional details about digital entertainment PCs coming for the holidays. But new anti-copying technology could hamper sales, say analysts and potential buyers.
Source: http://www.privacydigest.com/
Microsoft announced the latest round of Technology Leadership Grants this week. More than $3,350,000 in software will be given to five nonprofit organizations.
Source: http://www.pnnonline.org/article.php?sid=425
Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software for personal and business computing, Microsoft strives to produce innovative products and services that meet our customers' evolving needs.
:)
Source: http://www.avs.com/partners/
Apart from the somewhat biased results the feature kicks ass
But helpfiles too, this is taken from the Norton Antivirus helpfile:
Error troubleshooting
If Email Scanning displays an "Error" status:
1 Turn on Email Scanning using the procedure described above.
2 If step 1 does not fix the error, restart your computer.
3 If step 2 does not fix the error, uninstall and reinstall Norton AntiVirus.
Do I have to mention that it didnt work?
So someone at bcc boasted about their new flashy loadbalance system and CmdrTaco took it literally. Doh!
This wont work. It doesnt sound any different from the protections companies employ now where the CD has a magic key or secret uncopyable section on it. Pirates simply copy the part of the CD that is readable and then use a cracked executable distributed on the CD that doesnt bother looking for the secret section or bytes.
Until it's impossible to copy all the information on a CD this is the way illegal games and applications are distributed. This innovation, however ingenious wont make a dent in the pirate industry.
The idea of the program is good, if only to poke the riaa in the eye with a big long stick, but I didnt see that he mentioned anywhere how these P2P finds each other if the main-server goes down. Limeware and all the others needed to connect to a special server the first time they were ran to give them something to start off with. None of them started off right from scratch and suddenly found 67482 friends advertising their location to all possible ip's.
Has someone solved this for new clients or when all the old ip's have been forgotten from the cached list?
Have a kid go at it for an hour or two, they're cheap and efficient.
Seriously, this is the best thing to do. You want to see how your product performs out of the test lab? Then go outside the lab and give a copy to your friends and their friends. People who know how the product is supposed to work seldom breaks stuff, it's when you let the inexperienced join the game the fun begins.
This is actually very good, though I seriously question the legal aspects of what they're doing. It's nice to see some are adapting to this new world of streaming media and computers instead of trying to buy new laws to stick to old and "trusted" ways of doing business. USA moneyhungry executives might learn something from all this, after they're done suing them and their families of course.
"It may not work flawlessly, it may not be perfect, but it IS!"
In court you need evidence to prove your case, you need hard solid fact proving your case. I assume they entered into evidence the actual code in question here as well, both in written (as to show how the 'original' looks) and as a copy of where it was published (t-shirts, books, internet and later also as a tatoo).
Isn't all of this going to the public records later? I'm sure there's a flaw in my thought somewhere but once it enters the legal system it's there to be poked and made fun of for every citizen, no?
"Oh, so all that money we spent on R&D didnt turn out like we hoped for...anybody we can sue over it instead?"
t hem-to-companies-for-LOADS-AND-LOADS-of-money" to get off the ground, then we'll really have something to bash the patent burea with. Hey we might even get MS in on the deal!
I'm just waiting for "We-make-silly-software-patents-and-then-license-
Can you sue a public 'service' for having an average IQ of 5?
What is the likelihood of bacterial life on Mars infecting the earth if we ever get around to visiting Mars in person?
Are you willing to take that chance?
Even the navy rely heavily on NT and...you get what you pay for.
The Yorktown lost control of its propulsion system because its computers were unable to divide by the number zero, the memo said. The Yorktown's Standard Monitoring Control System administrator entered zero into the data field for the Remote Data Base Manager program. That caused the database to overflow and crash all LAN consoles and miniature remote terminal units, the memo said.
I'm sure he was just checking up on bugs "hey what if I feed this thing a zero" when he suddenly rendered a 2billion dollar ship virtually defenseless and without propulsion. Something a 2.95$ calculator would avoid.
Oops.
Some corporations seems to be into it, kodak, and others are reporting of how great this new technology is.
I surely hope this will never catch on seeing how a normal CD is better and more conveniant than this RIAA loved piece of trash but you never know, especially if it continues to get touted in the medias like this. "Ohh so it is ALMOST as good as a CD and can protect our valuable music GUARANTEED? Give me 5 000 000 please and...yeah...those...them old CDs over there...you know what to...yeah ok good..THANK YOU pleasure doing business with you!"
This way you dont have to read all that MS propaganda junk, CNN has done the job of cleaning it up for you.
...writing software for the public good. And a lot of them are making money off treating the public well."
s oft.open.source.ap/index.html
Has a few good quotes aswell;
"I think Microsoft is threatened by this competitor because it's a competitor like no other they've faced before," he said. "It's a band of volunteers from around the world
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/04/16/micro
I'm so sick of this.
I mean, I can understand why they do it but I'm still sick of it. All the way to the bone.
There was a time when companies could ask for money and then have something delivered to it's customers. Soon, this practise became standard all over the world and lots of people payed for things like TV and Radio. All non-physical in it's form, but yet valued highly enough for the consumers to spend their cash on it.
Then, came Computers and later the Internet. Suddenly, everything that could be put into a digital form and transported over the Internet was free for the taking. Consumers didnt have to pay for content anymore, all the non-physical things they previously payed for didnt cost a dime anymore. Of course, all companies scrambled to try to get old laws and rules to apply to the new world but it was pointless. Everything in a digital form was free, and there was nothing to be done about that.
Long story short;
if it's in a digital form (tv,radio,mp3,movies) it's free, and if it's physical (food,cinema,concerts,cars) it costs. that's how the future's going to be, you cant expect people to pay and then not get to keep it or lay their hands on it anymore - 'cos it's free. we are greedy by nature, and here I see yet another company kicking wildly on it's way down when it's marketing idea of selling nothing to people is starting to rumble, because it got too greedy. better place all that money on trying to embrace the new digital world than locking it out.
babylon is burning.
Am I the only one who started wondering what they're not showing us?
If they're selling things this small and relativly cheap under the name "toys" I wonder what the army and their "toys" are capable of...
Of course even Slashdot is planning on rolling out subscriptions-for-no-banner-ads sometime soon, so I suppose we're not entirely immune to the subscription bug either.
That's not the same thing, you're still offering the people who doesnt want to pay to freely use your site;
- people paying will a) feel good about themselves and b) help support slashdot
- people not paying can still access everything but will have to live with the ads and (possibly) support slashdot that way
It's a fair deal, someone's got to pay the bills.
...but how can restricting spam and other unwanted junk email "raise costs of doing business and hurt consumers"?
If that's your way of conducting business you're in the wrong ballpark alltogether.
Actually, in the latest version of Winamp (2.78?) if you choose to do a custom install the optional installation of a "free AOL membership" shortcut to the startmeny is available.
It isnt called AOL Winamp...yet.