You're first paragraph raised a very insightful point. Then you had to go and push your own adjenda with the following statements:
And now you want to give the seperation of wheat from chaff to people with the sense of taste to make the round translucent green line of personal doorstops?
"Hi, I'm a Macintosh, and I'm nonthreatening because I look edible. Won't you please write software for me?... that's okay, neither will anyone else, I don't hate you. Gumdrops don't hate."
Just guessing, but I'd place money the troll moderation comes from that.
I wonder if piracy would become less of an issue if it were more affordable to see a movie in the theaters. The theater is hands down a better movie watching experience than a computer monitor. However, tickets to most theaters are at least $8.00 a seat. Your four person family is spending at least $32.00 for 1 1/2 - 2 hours of entertainment, not counting the pound of flesh they lose if they visit the snack counter.
I remember going to the theater quite often 10 years or so ago as a child. I don't remember it being so expensive then, but I also wasn't paying for it.
The movie industry makes far more money off rentals from me, as that is what is affordable. Three bucks can let me and as many friends watch a flick, along with the all the free snacks that a person can find stashed away in a cupboard.
Sorry if I gave you the wrong impression. I should have clarified my point more.
I too have also downloaded a bunch of music from bands on MP3.com. Some I have liked so much that I have even went to their live shows. Jim's Big Ego is a great one, if you're into checking something out.
However, there is also a lot of stuff on there that I consider to be not very good. Granted, one man's trash is another's treasure, but MP3.com seems kind of littered to me, and I am sure to most people. My usage of it has gone way down because I have found the quality ratio to be too low. I simply don't find bands I enjoy as regularly anymore. I was simply raising this point to share my desire that the same situation not befall iTMS.
Apple definately needs a solution to keep the quality of the selection resonably high. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for variety of choice, and I fully support independant bands. However, I would hate to see iTMS turn into a place where there is a bunch of crap music, sort of like MP3.com. No one will buy music there if they have to wade through sludge to find a choice indie band.
Get ready to be modded flamebait. Anyway, I just wanted to clarify your position. The DRM in buymusic.com is much, much more restrictive than that found in iTMS. Given the state of the industry, it is a pipe dream to even think that any store will get to license media from the big record labels without at least some DRM. Hence, we like Apple for getting the job done with the least invasive DRM possible. It is a lesser of two evils situation.
OK, I went to the site and noticed their restrictions information. Each song comes with a certain limit to how many times it can be downloaded, transfered to a portable, and burned.
My question is, what exactly does burning mean? Can I burn the tracks to a regular audio CD which I can play in my CD player (and, hence, re-rip to MP3)? Or does the song go to a data CD in WMA9 format, making it pretty much useless?
Sure, NAT effectively solves the address shortage problem that IPv4 has. I'm not entirely sure it is a real effective solution, but it works, and I can't argue that.
IPv6 brings a lot of other improvements to the table besides just a greater address space. One of the main things is more prioritization of routing. This will specifically benefit areas such as VoIP and streaming media, improving quality of audio and helping to eliminate choppy video. Other improvements are there in security and network configuration issues as well.
I found entering text, and even accurately tapping on items on the screen, to be awkward and frustrating -- especially with the watch on my arm, but even when I removed it to hold it with both hands.
Yeah, I've always had the same problem with my regularly sized Palm. Whenever I hold it using both hands, it is damn near impossible to use the stylus with any accuracy, much less trying to write letters. However, I don't suspect Palm is going to fix this anytime soon. My inclination is that they will just wait for users to evolve a third hand. Even then, I suppose you will have people trying to hold their Palms with all three of their hands.
It seems to me that you should be able to glean the intended meaning of a license by reading it and filtering it through a lawyer-speak sieve. Which is not as hard as it sounds really.
However, being as they make the big bucks, other, competing lawyers, seem to like to play games and find obscure definitions or wording loopholes so they can slip through contractual obligations. No matter what you learn from this seminar, this will continue to happen and you will still have to deal with these issues. That is the first point you should commit to memory.
Man, that is a cool logo: the eternet plug as the hole in a Mario pipe. More open source projects need good designers to come up with eye catching logos like this. This may get modded off-topic, but oh well, I've got karma to burn. I went to the site and said, "Damn, that is cool." Anyone else agree?
Among other problems, Berkowitz found that CIA analysts must bounce between multiple, isolated systems to gather information, including separate systems on each desk for accessing the CIA's classified network and using the public Internet.
It only takes a small human error to save a document on a Internet connected computer. I'm sure this has happened before, or, if not, it should be expected to. In any case, as far as a terrorist concerned, any information gleaned from computers within government agencies is better than no information at all.
Incidentally, I also find it odd that you try to refute my point by linking to an article that explains how horrible the CIA's IT department is.
Security can only be as good as the most insecure point, which doesn't make me feel to good about Microsoft winning this contract.
Imagine this senario: DoHS employee writes up a memo about who they are currently profiling and what information they have on file and saves it to his hard drive. Some terrorist writes an e-mail virus designed to send word file back to an account he can access. He then sends this virus to a department account where it spreads and sensitive information is transmitted back to the terrorist.
Virusus like these have already been proven viable in MS Outlook. One can only hope that they are taking the appropriate measures to ensure that all employees have their computers locked down tight.
I wonder if anyone has done any research on the most efficent/user friendly ways to manage a software office suite.
Yes, they found it is best to throw an assload of buttons into 1/4 assload of toolbars. The remaining 3 assloads of options should be buried beneath 1/2 assload of top-level menus each containing 1/8 assload of submenus, repeating ad infinitum.
I think it is neither. If someone hijacks a something, they have taken over said something, i.e. a plane. In this case, the perpetrators have neither taken over porn or spam, but your computer and bandwidth, which they are using to send spam. It should be termed computerjacking or bandjacking. I think...
The other 9% had not yet seen the "decision matrix" that demonstrated clearly, and without any bias, that "Linux is unaffected" in all cases. If they had seen this matrix prior to taking part in the poll, they would have answered differently. At the time, however, they still had concerns that were being looked into.
Please be aware that some companies are not yet aware of this decision matrix, or, worse, have formulated their own that does not come to the same conclusion. Please spread the word.
I've long held the belief that ink for inkjet printers is way to expensive. I bought a cheap laser printer 4 years ago, for about twice that of a nice inkjet printer. However, I am still using the same toner cartiridge that came with it. I've probably saved myself 10 times the money by going with a laser printer. Yeah, I can't print in color but that does not bother me. I'm not sure how the price of toner compares to ink cartridges, but laser is the way to go.
You must have taken this directly off your SourceSafe servers at work. This is exactly the code Microsoft wrote to do this, given its tendency towards overwriting memory and other obvious errors.
No, we will not. The current IPv4 has approximately 4,300,000,000 (4.3 x 10^9) total addresses in its address space. IPv6, however, has 3.4 x 10^38 available addresses.
To quote from the WIDE FAQ: "If the address space of IPv4 is compared to 1 millimeter, the address space of IPv6 would be 80 times the diameter of the galactic system."
It is simply not feasible that we will ever need anything more than IPv6.
It is after articles like these that I rejoice when seeing the phrase "The next Slashdot story will be ready soon..." Nothing like the hope of something better to take your mind away from crap like this.
You just need to look a tiny bit harder to see the value in any project. Say, for instance, you are mentoring a kid who is really interested in old console systems and computer programming. Point him in the direction of this project, and you'll keep him interested and out of trouble. Learn to accept the fact that people have incredibly varied interests, instead of complaining about things which are of no interest to you.
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You're first paragraph raised a very insightful point. Then you had to go and push your own adjenda with the following statements:
... that's okay, neither will anyone else, I don't hate you. Gumdrops don't hate."
And now you want to give the seperation of wheat from chaff to people with the sense of taste to make the round translucent green line of personal doorstops?
"Hi, I'm a Macintosh, and I'm nonthreatening because I look edible. Won't you please write software for me?
Just guessing, but I'd place money the troll moderation comes from that.
I wonder if piracy would become less of an issue if it were more affordable to see a movie in the theaters. The theater is hands down a better movie watching experience than a computer monitor. However, tickets to most theaters are at least $8.00 a seat. Your four person family is spending at least $32.00 for 1 1/2 - 2 hours of entertainment, not counting the pound of flesh they lose if they visit the snack counter.
I remember going to the theater quite often 10 years or so ago as a child. I don't remember it being so expensive then, but I also wasn't paying for it.
The movie industry makes far more money off rentals from me, as that is what is affordable. Three bucks can let me and as many friends watch a flick, along with the all the free snacks that a person can find stashed away in a cupboard.
Sorry if I gave you the wrong impression. I should have clarified my point more.
I too have also downloaded a bunch of music from bands on MP3.com. Some I have liked so much that I have even went to their live shows. Jim's Big Ego is a great one, if you're into checking something out.
However, there is also a lot of stuff on there that I consider to be not very good. Granted, one man's trash is another's treasure, but MP3.com seems kind of littered to me, and I am sure to most people. My usage of it has gone way down because I have found the quality ratio to be too low. I simply don't find bands I enjoy as regularly anymore. I was simply raising this point to share my desire that the same situation not befall iTMS.
Apple definately needs a solution to keep the quality of the selection resonably high. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for variety of choice, and I fully support independant bands. However, I would hate to see iTMS turn into a place where there is a bunch of crap music, sort of like MP3.com. No one will buy music there if they have to wade through sludge to find a choice indie band.
Get ready to be modded flamebait. Anyway, I just wanted to clarify your position. The DRM in buymusic.com is much, much more restrictive than that found in iTMS. Given the state of the industry, it is a pipe dream to even think that any store will get to license media from the big record labels without at least some DRM. Hence, we like Apple for getting the job done with the least invasive DRM possible. It is a lesser of two evils situation.
Thanks for the answer, it is appreciated.
(Just typing a bit longer since Slashdot does not let me post when typing fast. Damn the 20 second rule.)
OK, I went to the site and noticed their restrictions information. Each song comes with a certain limit to how many times it can be downloaded, transfered to a portable, and burned.
My question is, what exactly does burning mean? Can I burn the tracks to a regular audio CD which I can play in my CD player (and, hence, re-rip to MP3)? Or does the song go to a data CD in WMA9 format, making it pretty much useless?
If anyone knows, I would really like an answer.
Sure, NAT effectively solves the address shortage problem that IPv4 has. I'm not entirely sure it is a real effective solution, but it works, and I can't argue that.
IPv6 brings a lot of other improvements to the table besides just a greater address space. One of the main things is more prioritization of routing. This will specifically benefit areas such as VoIP and streaming media, improving quality of audio and helping to eliminate choppy video. Other improvements are there in security and network configuration issues as well.
Article link for more information: IT-Director.com
I found entering text, and even accurately tapping on items on the screen, to be awkward and frustrating -- especially with the watch on my arm, but even when I removed it to hold it with both hands.
Yeah, I've always had the same problem with my regularly sized Palm. Whenever I hold it using both hands, it is damn near impossible to use the stylus with any accuracy, much less trying to write letters. However, I don't suspect Palm is going to fix this anytime soon. My inclination is that they will just wait for users to evolve a third hand. Even then, I suppose you will have people trying to hold their Palms with all three of their hands.
It seems to me that you should be able to glean the intended meaning of a license by reading it and filtering it through a lawyer-speak sieve. Which is not as hard as it sounds really.
However, being as they make the big bucks, other, competing lawyers, seem to like to play games and find obscure definitions or wording loopholes so they can slip through contractual obligations. No matter what you learn from this seminar, this will continue to happen and you will still have to deal with these issues. That is the first point you should commit to memory.
Man, that is a cool logo: the eternet plug as the hole in a Mario pipe. More open source projects need good designers to come up with eye catching logos like this. This may get modded off-topic, but oh well, I've got karma to burn. I went to the site and said, "Damn, that is cool." Anyone else agree?
Another article with more detailed information can be found at infoSync World.
From linked article:
Among other problems, Berkowitz found that CIA analysts must bounce between multiple, isolated systems to gather information, including separate systems on each desk for accessing the CIA's classified network and using the public Internet.
It only takes a small human error to save a document on a Internet connected computer. I'm sure this has happened before, or, if not, it should be expected to. In any case, as far as a terrorist concerned, any information gleaned from computers within government agencies is better than no information at all.
Incidentally, I also find it odd that you try to refute my point by linking to an article that explains how horrible the CIA's IT department is.
Security can only be as good as the most insecure point, which doesn't make me feel to good about Microsoft winning this contract.
Imagine this senario: DoHS employee writes up a memo about who they are currently profiling and what information they have on file and saves it to his hard drive. Some terrorist writes an e-mail virus designed to send word file back to an account he can access. He then sends this virus to a department account where it spreads and sensitive information is transmitted back to the terrorist.
Virusus like these have already been proven viable in MS Outlook. One can only hope that they are taking the appropriate measures to ensure that all employees have their computers locked down tight.
It is easy to be precise when you're not actually landing. Everyone knows the moon landings were faked.
I wonder if anyone has done any research on the most efficent/user friendly ways to manage a software office suite.
Yes, they found it is best to throw an assload of buttons into 1/4 assload of toolbars. The remaining 3 assloads of options should be buried beneath 1/2 assload of top-level menus each containing 1/8 assload of submenus, repeating ad infinitum.
It's OK, Slashdot has done a remarkable job of censoring anything that I have been trying to see.
Is this a pornjacking or a spamjacking?
I think it is neither. If someone hijacks a something, they have taken over said something, i.e. a plane. In this case, the perpetrators have neither taken over porn or spam, but your computer and bandwidth, which they are using to send spam. It should be termed computerjacking or bandjacking. I think...
The other 9% had not yet seen the "decision matrix" that demonstrated clearly, and without any bias, that "Linux is unaffected" in all cases. If they had seen this matrix prior to taking part in the poll, they would have answered differently. At the time, however, they still had concerns that were being looked into.
Please be aware that some companies are not yet aware of this decision matrix, or, worse, have formulated their own that does not come to the same conclusion. Please spread the word.
I've long held the belief that ink for inkjet printers is way to expensive. I bought a cheap laser printer 4 years ago, for about twice that of a nice inkjet printer. However, I am still using the same toner cartiridge that came with it. I've probably saved myself 10 times the money by going with a laser printer. Yeah, I can't print in color but that does not bother me. I'm not sure how the price of toner compares to ink cartridges, but laser is the way to go.
You must have taken this directly off your SourceSafe servers at work. This is exactly the code Microsoft wrote to do this, given its tendency towards overwriting memory and other obvious errors.
Won't we need IPv7 by then?
No, we will not. The current IPv4 has approximately 4,300,000,000 (4.3 x 10^9) total addresses in its address space. IPv6, however, has 3.4 x 10^38 available addresses.
To quote from the WIDE FAQ: "If the address space of IPv4 is compared to 1 millimeter, the address space of IPv6 would be 80 times the diameter of the galactic system."
It is simply not feasible that we will ever need anything more than IPv6.
How can any moderator rate posts like these funny anymore? This is one of the lamest, long-running jokes on Slashdot.
It is after articles like these that I rejoice when seeing the phrase "The next Slashdot story will be ready soon..." Nothing like the hope of something better to take your mind away from crap like this.
You just need to look a tiny bit harder to see the value in any project. Say, for instance, you are mentoring a kid who is really interested in old console systems and computer programming. Point him in the direction of this project, and you'll keep him interested and out of trouble. Learn to accept the fact that people have incredibly varied interests, instead of complaining about things which are of no interest to you.