Except that, as far as I know, Linus has not been determined an illegal monopoly and does not continue to operate illegally under the guise "Freedom to Innovate"
I will not deal with businesses that are not legal entities (since they're illegal they can't be legal, right?)
On a side note.. the #1 thing that has reduced the number of viruses coming out of my office has been to ban the use of outlook/outlook express.
I too have employed this strategy. No matter how you configure/patch it, Outlook is too fundamentally flawed for us to consider using. Since banning outlook, viruses are now pretty much non-existent where I work. Besides, there are much better mail clients out there.
The first time I read the article headline I read: "DMCA Attack Loons", and I thought "yes, we know about those attack loons working to uphold the DMCA, what have they done now?"
I'm not sure what post-processing it employs in it's SDL output at least, but playing so-so quality AVI's in MPlayer yields a STAGGERINGLY better picture then the same file played under all recent versions of Windows Media Player.
They both seem to resolve the same level of detail, but there are little if any compression artifacts when viewed with MPlayer.
I remember in '99 not being able to turn around in a mall without seeing drink cups, shop posters, sticker sets, comic books proudly displaying the "STAR WARS EPISODE I The Phantom Menace" logo. Interesting to note also that "EPISODE I" was always written bigger than the actual title of the movie, "The Phantom Menace".
The over-saturation was enough to make even a fan like myself sick of the sight of "Star Wars", even though I loved the movie.
Still, I guess if LucasFilm had UNDER-merchandised the film (no toys, books etc) people would have called it "The Phantom Merchandise".
... is that travelling in time will (using basic physics) require a change in time over a period of time as measured by an observer inside the machine.
Just as motion along an x-axis with respect to time is represented as dx/dt, we would see a dt/dt. The top and bottom lines cancel to give 1.
What does this mean? Some say this is one if the major problems with time travel, that people make the assumption that time is just another dimension like x-y-z. I'm not saying this is necessarily 100% correct, but it does give another perspective on the possibility of time travel or lack thereof.
I guess if I really wanted to be honest, I'd send the recording company a check for the value of the album I'd downloaded -- but chances are that they'd then prosecute me for piracy -- even though I had offered to pay anyway.
Just send cash. And don't put a return address on the envelope:)
We are already reaping the results of idiots ripping music they don't own. Try buying some blank CD-R's some time. The price is kept artificially high not because of price fixing, but taxes paid in turn to the RIAA to compensate for lost CD sales revenue!
That tars all CD writing people with the same brush. Those of us who LEGITIMATELY ogg vorbis our music (and burn them to CD for backup) are forced to sponsor the RIAA for the piracy we're supposed to be guilty of.
This latest countermeasure by Sony is just a sign of things to come. And it is going to get worse before it gets better.
Ultimately, I see one of three outcomes:
1) Things stay pretty much as they are, with people ripping music, companies implementing countermeasures, and crackers working out how to circumvent them in an endless war of consumers vs capitalists.
2) The RIAA will win, and no music will be able to be played except in RIAA-approved(tm) devices, which employ features such as string encryption and tamper-alarms. Monthly BIOS updates will be necessary (along with a small subscription fee) to download a new encryption key, otherwise it will stop working.
3) (and most likely) Artists will stop using monolithic recording companies altogether, as small businesses pop up with SOHO recording studios, printeries and distribution channels. Songs will be made available in numerous formats (ogg vorbis, realAudio, perhaps mp3 if they ever lose the patent ties), and be freely downloadable as "shareware". Consumers will be encouraged to donate (say $0.15 per track) via paypal or similar.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I do not allow the presence of any Microsoft products, either being taught in classes, or installed on machines where I work.
Technical issues aside, it is just too harmful to my business' reputation to be seen dealing with illegal monopolies. Not to mention possibilities of litigation by third parties.
Any self-respecting University board would arrive at the same decision.
... do they still insist on ordering the desktop switcher in the downward reading order? (Is this how the chinese read, I'm not sure?)
What I'm talking about is the layout of the desktop switcher in the toolbar looking like this: 1 3 2 4 Why isn't it in the order that the english language reads text? ie: 1 2 3 4 I know you can go for the 'tiny' scheme, where they are all on one line, but that makes a lot of other things ugly. At least it's not like much earlier KDE versions, where you had: One Three Two Four
You're assuming it was to be a perfect circle, and not oval.
You're also assuming that, with the quality of materials and tools in that era, a 4.5% error was outside acceptable bounds.
If they don't mail to people who don't opt-in...
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Spammer Sues List Broker
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... should we still call them spammers? If it's for people who have genuinely opted-in to a bulk mailing service then the mail is solicited, isn't it? Surely spam is still defined as unwanted, unsolicited mail. Even if some spammers do blatantly lie, telling me I've opted in for their mailing 'services'.
... according to places I've seen would go something like this:
10. Actual function (eg Mailman) 9. Famous scientists (Einstein) 8. Famous computer pioneers (Babbage) 7. Historical computers (Bombe) 6. Characters from Terry Pratchet Novels (Hodgesaargh) 5. Places, characters, technologies from Star Wars universe (Tosche) 4. Garden fruit/vegetables (Tomato) 3. Characters from Lord of the Rings (Gandalf) 2. Planets, stars, other celestial objects (Sol) 1. Whim of the sysadmin that particular day (Smeghead)
Of course, with 400 computers, perhaps you'd better just stick with S001, S002,... S399, S400.
I really hope they get over the whole communist-like theme. Those red stars with yellow borders (Help->About Mozilla) do not impress, and I suspect those who have suffered at the hands of communist regimes would take offence.
I much preferred the cute little green dinosaur, briefly visible on the splash screen.
Not a big issue for me, but others on the Mozilla mailing lists seem to be up in arms about it.
In the place where I work there is an increasing number of people installing Linux on their desktop machines, as well as servers, and doing away with Closed-source operating systems altogether.
Sure, there's still a few legacy systems we have to support, such as Digital Unix and Windows 2000/XP, but they are only really kept around now for compatibility with applications that haven't been ported yet.
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Except that, as far as I know, Linus has not been determined an illegal monopoly and does not continue to operate illegally under the guise "Freedom to Innovate"
I will not deal with businesses that are not legal entities (since they're illegal they can't be legal, right?)
My recommendation would still be Netscape 4.78.
It's stable, not virus-prone, and has much better preview facilities than Outlook.
If you want multiple mailboxes per account, go for Mozilla Mail 1.0rc1.
Other than that, you could revert to the days of Pegasus Mail or Eudora.
On a side note.. the #1 thing that has reduced the number of viruses coming out of my office has been to ban the use of outlook/outlook express.
I too have employed this strategy. No matter how you configure/patch it, Outlook is too fundamentally flawed for us to consider using. Since banning outlook, viruses are now pretty much non-existent where I work.
Besides, there are much better mail clients out there.
The first time I read the article headline I read:
"DMCA Attack Loons",
and I thought "yes, we know about those attack loons working to uphold the DMCA, what have they done now?"
... makes me glad that me and everyone else in my area run secure (read: not quite as brain-dead) mail clients.
Friends don't let friends run Outlook/IE
This is terrible!
When did Red Hat die?
I agree.
I'm not sure what post-processing it employs in it's SDL output at least, but playing so-so quality AVI's in MPlayer yields a STAGGERINGLY better picture then the same file played under all recent versions of Windows Media Player.
They both seem to resolve the same level of detail, but there are little if any compression artifacts when viewed with MPlayer.
...the Merchandise Menace!
I remember in '99 not being able to turn around in a mall without seeing drink cups, shop posters, sticker sets, comic books proudly displaying the "STAR WARS EPISODE I The Phantom Menace" logo. Interesting to note also that "EPISODE I" was always written bigger than the actual title of the movie, "The Phantom Menace".
The over-saturation was enough to make even a fan like myself sick of the sight of "Star Wars", even though I loved the movie.
Still, I guess if LucasFilm had UNDER-merchandised the film (no toys, books etc) people would have called it "The Phantom Merchandise".
... about "burn the GPL" posted on the MPlayer website previously?
:)
I see they've changed the layout of their site now, but previously there was an anti-GPL logo with a spiel about why the developers hated it so much.
I guess a change of heart, or perhaps a change of developers?
In either case: good on you MPlayer developers, for a truly excellent piece of software.
"Yeah, except for that Ozone Layer, which has that whole 'filtering' ultraviolet light part, whereas the moon has no atmosphere."
Y'know, there is a big gaping hole in the Ozone layer over the Antarctic. If it isn't big enough yet, just keep using that fly spray.
... is that travelling in time will (using basic physics) require a change in time over a period of time as measured by an observer inside the machine.
Just as motion along an x-axis with respect to time is represented as dx/dt, we would see a dt/dt. The top and bottom lines cancel to give 1.
What does this mean? Some say this is one if the major problems with time travel, that people make the assumption that time is just another dimension like x-y-z.
I'm not saying this is necessarily 100% correct, but it does give another perspective on the possibility of time travel or lack thereof.
Well, this guy can explain it better then I can.
Wait until it happens to an artist you enjoy listening to. Who will be laughing then?
I guess if I really wanted to be honest, I'd send the recording company a check for the value of the album I'd downloaded -- but chances are that they'd then prosecute me for piracy -- even though I had offered to pay anyway.
:)
Just send cash.
And don't put a return address on the envelope
We are already reaping the results of idiots ripping music they don't own. Try buying some blank CD-R's some time. The price is kept artificially high not because of price fixing, but taxes paid in turn to the RIAA to compensate for lost CD sales revenue!
That tars all CD writing people with the same brush. Those of us who LEGITIMATELY ogg vorbis our music (and burn them to CD for backup) are forced to sponsor the RIAA for the piracy we're supposed to be guilty of.
This latest countermeasure by Sony is just a sign of things to come. And it is going to get worse before it gets better.
Ultimately, I see one of three outcomes:
1) Things stay pretty much as they are, with people ripping music, companies implementing countermeasures, and crackers working out how to circumvent them in an endless war of consumers vs capitalists.
2) The RIAA will win, and no music will be able to be played except in RIAA-approved(tm) devices, which employ features such as string encryption and tamper-alarms. Monthly BIOS updates will be necessary (along with a small subscription fee) to download a new encryption key, otherwise it will stop working.
3) (and most likely) Artists will stop using monolithic recording companies altogether, as small businesses pop up with SOHO recording studios, printeries and distribution channels. Songs will be made available in numerous formats (ogg vorbis, realAudio, perhaps mp3 if they ever lose the patent ties), and be freely downloadable as "shareware". Consumers will be encouraged to donate (say $0.15 per track) via paypal or similar.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I do not allow the presence of any Microsoft products, either being taught in classes, or installed on machines where I work.
Technical issues aside, it is just too harmful to my business' reputation to be seen dealing with illegal monopolies. Not to mention possibilities of litigation by third parties.
Any self-respecting University board would arrive at the same decision.
... do they still insist on ordering the desktop switcher in the downward reading order? (Is this how the chinese read, I'm not sure?)
What I'm talking about is the layout of the desktop switcher in the toolbar looking like this:
1 3
2 4
Why isn't it in the order that the english language reads text? ie:
1 2
3 4
I know you can go for the 'tiny' scheme, where they are all on one line, but that makes a lot of other things ugly.
At least it's not like much earlier KDE versions, where you had:
One Three
Two Four
/rant
You're assuming it was to be a perfect circle, and not oval.
You're also assuming that, with the quality of materials and tools in that era, a 4.5% error was outside acceptable bounds.
... should we still call them spammers?
If it's for people who have genuinely opted-in to a bulk mailing service then the mail is solicited, isn't it?
Surely spam is still defined as unwanted, unsolicited mail.
Even if some spammers do blatantly lie, telling me I've opted in for their mailing 'services'.
Mod parent up!
Chris makes an important point about the RIAA and who they say they represent, an assumption often overlooked.
Quick, GPL it now, so development can carry on!
Don't just kill it off, pass the flame, man.
... according to places I've seen would go something like this:
... S399, S400.
10. Actual function (eg Mailman)
9. Famous scientists (Einstein)
8. Famous computer pioneers (Babbage)
7. Historical computers (Bombe)
6. Characters from Terry Pratchet Novels (Hodgesaargh)
5. Places, characters, technologies from Star Wars universe (Tosche)
4. Garden fruit/vegetables (Tomato)
3. Characters from Lord of the Rings (Gandalf)
2. Planets, stars, other celestial objects (Sol)
1. Whim of the sysadmin that particular day (Smeghead)
Of course, with 400 computers, perhaps you'd better just stick with S001, S002,
I really hope they get over the whole communist-like theme. Those red stars with yellow borders (Help->About Mozilla) do not impress, and I suspect those who have suffered at the hands of communist regimes would take offence.
I much preferred the cute little green dinosaur, briefly visible on the splash screen.
Not a big issue for me, but others on the Mozilla mailing lists seem to be up in arms about it.
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... I'd still really love to see ROT-13 encoding/decoding in the mailer a la netscape.
Its absence makes reading encoded usenet spoiler postings most difficult.
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So I wonder if the obligatory reference to 1138 will appear in the trailer, and if so who will be the first to spot it?
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In the place where I work there is an increasing number of people installing Linux on their desktop machines, as well as servers, and doing away with Closed-source operating systems altogether.
Sure, there's still a few legacy systems we have to support, such as Digital Unix and Windows 2000/XP, but they are only really kept around now for compatibility with applications that haven't been ported yet.
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