That's it. There wasn't any money left in the educational system to teach you people sarcasm and comedy. Oh well, at least you got an irrigation system.
If only Compaq hadn't EOL'd the Vax, we might have easily laughed off a puny 10 degree drop in avg winter temperatures. Is it any wonder southern California is a desert? You youngin's might not be aware of it, but 50 years ago it was a tropical paradise. About that time, California universities and colleges started ordering various DEC computers, and the damage was soon irreversible.
I kid you not, last year NASA published an article claiming that from the years 1976-1984, that side of the planet actually heated the sun, not the other way around.
Our only chance, is to pull as many MicroVaxen as we can out of retirement/storage, and strategically place them throughout the North Atlantic. If we start soon, maybe we can end this ice age before it even begins!
DirecTivo with a turbonet card is the best option, btw. Wouldn't need tivo service, either. Or for that matter, wouldn't need directv service, if he was willing to run a cam emulator.
All my machines are networked. Shouldn't be any need.
Though, I guess if I weren't so damn lazy, I'd figure out a way to write my own server. The Presentation Manager API can't be so hard to write hand-assembled pentium machine language for, should it? I'll break out the hex editor this minute!
"Civilization" creates a system that spans the globe, that uses and controls every square inch of land on the planet. There is no place to escape to. So yes, I expect, and I'm entitled to certain things. If you disagree, you and the other 5.5 billion idiots can go live on Mercury or some other suitably torturous world, and the minority of non-idiots like myself can get on with the work of fixing the mess you made of the planet.
If the only legal option you give people, is to live a literally ascetic life, so that they can avoid breaking your ridiculous laws and rules, then you have turned them into a slave. Don't be suprised if they revolt, and slit your corporate/financial throats in the middle of the night (Note: To editors and any other over-reactionary boobs, this is meant as a strong metaphor, not a death threat).
Wow, very successful troll. They even modded you up.
My hat's off to you, dear ogre. Now go crawl back under your rock. Or, if not a troll, remember to enclose the post in <sarcasm> tags, so we can tell. Even for sarcasm, though, this is grade A-1 stuff.
I'm saving a copy of this post to use as an example, as proof, so that when someonoe claims a low userid implies some sort of wisdom, I can show this and shut them up.
Me, I have trouble understanding why anyone would ever want to watch half a movie, or for that matter, the worst half of it. I'd object if they tried to force me to watch it, or criminalized the search for an uncut version.
You on the other hand, want to force people to watch parts of movies they'd rather not watch. Hell, you want to do this even when it might violate their religious practices in addition to their civil rights.
You see, you can't ask someone to edit their own movie, that they'll later watch. It kind of defeats the purpose, if you have to first watch the parts that you are trying to avoid watching. Duh.
Not to mention, it penalizes those that don't have the skill to edit it themselves.
Or interferes with a private transaction between two individuals when one is selling a legal service to the other. Think about it. If I hire someone to rip pages out of the Reader's Digest for me, what right does anyone have, to interfere?
And, as for the original slashdot question, I'll go to bat for the goody2shoes consumers on this one, no hesitation. The sad part is, even with a fair judge, CleanFlicks is dead as a company. That's what I hate about the judicial system in this country... the penalty isn't something imposed after you lose the case, it's the trial itself.
Yeh, whatever. Google has hundreds of hits for the DCT-1000, DCT-1200, DCT-2000, and the DCT-5000 which only started deployment just recently.
The DCT-3000 gets 3 hits from really bad scam artists/descrambler vendors.
www.gi.com sucks ass, as far as info, but I'd think it would at least mention them. And in the informal survey I've conducted for the past month, no one has ever mentioned this alleged model. (BTW, please consider checking out the digital cable compatibility chart I have on my site folks, trying to populate it with some real info... I could use some help).
Off-topic: And if anyone knows the memory map of the damn things, I would be your friend for life. Best I've managed, is to identify the 0-1meg range as the 16 bit rom, still a 2 meg flash I can't find, 128k of rom, and a small set of security chip registers that arre memory mapped. I'm pulling out my hair...
Within 10 years, corporate lobbyists will have managed to buy a federal law or two that negates this completely. Or, barring that, at least allows companies to sue former employees into bankruptcy with impunity, which is practically the same thing.
Sorry to shatter everyones jackoff fantasy. Oh, and just to be cruel, I'll add this... the tech corporations aren't against DRM (the customer ultimately pays for it, after all), they're just biding their time until they come up with a DRM strategy that maximizes any profit or royalties that they'd recieve.
We got into a pissing match that had to be one of the longest running threads in slashdot history. At least I think it was you. I have strong opinions.
On a related note, I just learned that pet monkeys can be trained to throw feces at neighbors you don't like. This probably means they're more closely related to corporate lawyers than trial judges.
Maybe they're all so in sync with each other, and subconsciously aware, that nothing so crass and obivous needs to happen.
I'm not suggesting they all meet 4 times a year, in some abandoned castle and have a "Let's dominate the wedding photography industry, and grind newlyweds into the dirt!" rally, where they all practice their best evil genius "Muahaha" laughs. Sorry if I gave the impression that I was suggesting this.
They're paying for quality, and not getting it. The seller, in this case a photographer, has it built into their business model to not offer quality at any price.
Art is about doing something because it's beautiful. If these photographers were artists, they sold out long ago.
And before you whine that they don't make much money, you can't garner much sympathy for those who sell out and sold too low.
Well, if you wish to understand my vehemence, I suppose that is fair enough. Read through other people's experiences. Videographers unwilling to make DVD's... as if VHS hasn't been a dead format for 2 years. As if they'd replace the tape from the digital master for a nominal fee, if it were destroyed. Why the fuck doesn't he just offer it on exclusively film? It would only be slightly more worthless.
Things like that. Then again, just the fact that she intentionally sells low-quality product, when her costs are fixed. Not even willing to sell high qual... it's not a part of her pricing scale, she never intends to do so. Claiming she owns a fucking "moment" for christs sake... she'd do much better if she just provided a photography lighting service. But I suppose that doesn't make her feel artistic enough.
It's legal to imply that you will provide top-notch wedding photography service, and then once the once-in-a-lifetime experience is over, refuse to provide any real service at all?
The stupid bitch might just as well only offer sequia-toned tintype pictures in postage stamp dimensions.
I can't wait til they're all bankrupted and out of business. Hope she can flip burgers, because I doubt she has any other trade worth knowing.
Nothing was said about him being under contract. Was he?
Or was it one of these "contracts" that asshole executives pull out of their ass, when their flawed business model proves itself to be flawed?
Sort of like the "contract" that I'm under that says I have to watch commercials on broadcast tv?
C'mon, show us the goods. Show us something where he violated a contract. As long as he wasn't forced to sign one, he is obligated to uphold it no matter how stupid it is.
If he didn't sign one, why did you bring up contracts?
It is cut and dried. I'm only asking for a single piece of good faith evidence. If you find some story, that says he did something like this, that's good enough for me. I'm not a judge, and this isn't a trial... if it were, you could be damn sure he wouldn't get off on a technicality.
More likely, something weird happened. That explains why he changed his story, he was trying to understand it himself. Being a farmer, and not a PR rep or lawyer, he failed to realize that speculation was a bad thing, at least publically. Otherwise, we're left with options which are either absurd, make his actions criminal without even mentioning patent law, or prove that he shouldn't be liable at all. We have:
A) He stole the canola seed from Monsanto (wearing a ninja would be optional). This is burglary or larceny or something, not patent infringement. B) He stole the canola from a Monsanto customer. Again, burglary. C) He somehow managed to independently breed an exact genetic duplicate. Patent infringement only if he sells the product, which in this case wouldn't be the crop itself, but whatever materials (seed?) are required for another farmer to grow such a crop. D) He somehow managed to harvest a significant amount of seed from a sterile crop. A crop that no one has ever mentioned him having... leads us back to other options. Even then, this can't be illegal by itself. Harvesting seed would be normal use of a legally purchased, patented product. If I used a patented wheelbarrow, could they come back and recharge me a week later, claiming that my wheelbarrow disappeared, and that I had in fact manufactured a replacement, thereby incurring a second fee? E) Space aliens, acting on orders from Jimmy Carter and the Illuminati Council of Sages, teleported his original crop of rutabaga to the 11th planet, and replaced it with Monsanto canola in an intricate diabolical plot. This is only slightly more absurd than the other options. F) He bought the seed from someone other than Monsanto. At best, trafficing in stolen property, and then only if he had reason to know it was stolen. If it was indeed stolen, that is. G) Some virus or similar vector transmigrated genes from the Monsanto crop 5 miles down the road. Meaning Monsanto is liable for contaminating his crop. H) Cowboyneal recieved a Beginner's Genetics kit, complete with test tube, microscope, PCR equipment and a bank of gene sequencers. Damn I hate this poll option;)
If they didn't sell it to him, or have it stolen by him, it's not their product.
Show me some evidence that he stole it. Even a little bit, I'm not some lawyer for fuck's sake. I don't need to know it was him, just that some substantial amount went missing or stolen from where ever they keep this. That would be enough, hell, maybe even for a conviction.
And if he bought it... well, DUH.
I don't think you're saying either of those, though. Are you?
All this says, is that you aren't allowed to resell something that is patented, or buy it from a reseller. The patent holder can come and charge AGAIN, for the same item.
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That's it. There wasn't any money left in the educational system to teach you people sarcasm and comedy. Oh well, at least you got an irrigation system.
If only Compaq hadn't EOL'd the Vax, we might have easily laughed off a puny 10 degree drop in avg winter temperatures. Is it any wonder southern California is a desert? You youngin's might not be aware of it, but 50 years ago it was a tropical paradise. About that time, California universities and colleges started ordering various DEC computers, and the damage was soon irreversible.
I kid you not, last year NASA published an article claiming that from the years 1976-1984, that side of the planet actually heated the sun, not the other way around.
Our only chance, is to pull as many MicroVaxen as we can out of retirement/storage, and strategically place them throughout the North Atlantic. If we start soon, maybe we can end this ice age before it even begins!
They have serial ports in the back.
/dev/ttyS0
echo "command chars" >
usually works.
DirecTivo with a turbonet card is the best option, btw. Wouldn't need tivo service, either. Or for that matter, wouldn't need directv service, if he was willing to run a cam emulator.
All my machines are networked. Shouldn't be any need.
Though, I guess if I weren't so damn lazy, I'd figure out a way to write my own server. The Presentation Manager API can't be so hard to write hand-assembled pentium machine language for, should it? I'll break out the hex editor this minute!
Damn I'm bored.
*grumble* *grumble* All I have is a really old copy of visual age, like forr 2.x. Someone HAS to write it, I can't afford a decent KVM.
I'd sure as hell convert, if he could kick the trolls off slashdot.
Besides, Buddha smells funny.
Verilog bigot! *grin*
Bah, I still can't get even the simplest logic to compile. High school flunkies just shouldn't be allowed to play with PLDs, I suppose.
Maybe you haven't noticed, but stock prices of companies that still fab 74xx logic are slowly rising. Blame me.
Sorry that I don't agree with your religion or practices. If you object, I'll be glad to stop defending your right to continue them.
"Civilization" creates a system that spans the globe, that uses and controls every square inch of land on the planet. There is no place to escape to. So yes, I expect, and I'm entitled to certain things. If you disagree, you and the other 5.5 billion idiots can go live on Mercury or some other suitably torturous world, and the minority of non-idiots like myself can get on with the work of fixing the mess you made of the planet.
If the only legal option you give people, is to live a literally ascetic life, so that they can avoid breaking your ridiculous laws and rules, then you have turned them into a slave. Don't be suprised if they revolt, and slit your corporate/financial throats in the middle of the night (Note: To editors and any other over-reactionary boobs, this is meant as a strong metaphor, not a death threat).
Wow, very successful troll. They even modded you up.
My hat's off to you, dear ogre. Now go crawl back under your rock. Or, if not a troll, remember to enclose the post in <sarcasm> tags, so we can tell. Even for sarcasm, though, this is grade A-1 stuff.
So would the person hired to do it for you personally.
But they are selling something that they bought legally, and first sale doctrine also applies.
I'm saving a copy of this post to use as an example, as proof, so that when someonoe claims a low userid implies some sort of wisdom, I can show this and shut them up.
Me, I have trouble understanding why anyone would ever want to watch half a movie, or for that matter, the worst half of it. I'd object if they tried to force me to watch it, or criminalized the search for an uncut version.
You on the other hand, want to force people to watch parts of movies they'd rather not watch. Hell, you want to do this even when it might violate their religious practices in addition to their civil rights.
You see, you can't ask someone to edit their own movie, that they'll later watch. It kind of defeats the purpose, if you have to first watch the parts that you are trying to avoid watching. Duh.
Not to mention, it penalizes those that don't have the skill to edit it themselves.
Or interferes with a private transaction between two individuals when one is selling a legal service to the other. Think about it. If I hire someone to rip pages out of the Reader's Digest for me, what right does anyone have, to interfere?
And, as for the original slashdot question, I'll go to bat for the goody2shoes consumers on this one, no hesitation. The sad part is, even with a fair judge, CleanFlicks is dead as a company. That's what I hate about the judicial system in this country... the penalty isn't something imposed after you lose the case, it's the trial itself.
Yeh, whatever. Google has hundreds of hits for the DCT-1000, DCT-1200, DCT-2000, and the DCT-5000 which only started deployment just recently.
The DCT-3000 gets 3 hits from really bad scam artists/descrambler vendors.
www.gi.com sucks ass, as far as info, but I'd think it would at least mention them. And in the informal survey I've conducted for the past month, no one has ever mentioned this alleged model. (BTW, please consider checking out the digital cable compatibility chart I have on my site folks, trying to populate it with some real info... I could use some help).
Off-topic:
And if anyone knows the memory map of the damn things, I would be your friend for life. Best I've managed, is to identify the 0-1meg range as the 16 bit rom, still a 2 meg flash I can't find, 128k of rom, and a small set of security chip registers that arre memory mapped. I'm pulling out my hair...
Um, you mean the DCT-2000. And the Scientific Atlanta Explorer series is as prolific, if not more so.
I should know, check out my site.
Within 10 years, corporate lobbyists will have managed to buy a federal law or two that negates this completely. Or, barring that, at least allows companies to sue former employees into bankruptcy with impunity, which is practically the same thing.
Sorry to shatter everyones jackoff fantasy. Oh, and just to be cruel, I'll add this... the tech corporations aren't against DRM (the customer ultimately pays for it, after all), they're just biding their time until they come up with a DRM strategy that maximizes any profit or royalties that they'd recieve.
We got into a pissing match that had to be one of the longest running threads in slashdot history. At least I think it was you. I have strong opinions.
On a related note, I just learned that pet monkeys can be trained to throw feces at neighbors you don't like. This probably means they're more closely related to corporate lawyers than trial judges.
PS I have been known to troll.
Yeh, which will eventually put editorial cartoonists out of business.
Someday, I wish to have my own pet judge. But they cost almost as much as spider monkeys, and aren't as clever. Maybe I'll get a monkey instead.
Um, Kazaa sucks?
If nothing else though, the spyware should let lot's of spammers and con artists find you, if that's any consolation.
Maybe they're all so in sync with each other, and subconsciously aware, that nothing so crass and obivous needs to happen.
I'm not suggesting they all meet 4 times a year, in some abandoned castle and have a "Let's dominate the wedding photography industry, and grind newlyweds into the dirt!" rally, where they all practice their best evil genius "Muahaha" laughs. Sorry if I gave the impression that I was suggesting this.
No, when seperate businesses all coordinate activity to increase prices while providing less service than is called for, it's a trust, not a monopoly.
My boycott is really hurting too, as you can tell. That's an effective strategy if I ever heard of one.
They're paying for quality, and not getting it. The seller, in this case a photographer, has it built into their business model to not offer quality at any price.
Art is about doing something because it's beautiful. If these photographers were artists, they sold out long ago.
And before you whine that they don't make much money, you can't garner much sympathy for those who sell out and sold too low.
Well, if you wish to understand my vehemence, I suppose that is fair enough. Read through other people's experiences. Videographers unwilling to make DVD's... as if VHS hasn't been a dead format for 2 years. As if they'd replace the tape from the digital master for a nominal fee, if it were destroyed. Why the fuck doesn't he just offer it on exclusively film? It would only be slightly more worthless.
Things like that. Then again, just the fact that she intentionally sells low-quality product, when her costs are fixed. Not even willing to sell high qual... it's not a part of her pricing scale, she never intends to do so. Claiming she owns a fucking "moment" for christs sake... she'd do much better if she just provided a photography lighting service. But I suppose that doesn't make her feel artistic enough.
Screw'em all.
It's legal to imply that you will provide top-notch wedding photography service, and then once the once-in-a-lifetime experience is over, refuse to provide any real service at all?
The stupid bitch might just as well only offer sequia-toned tintype pictures in postage stamp dimensions.
I can't wait til they're all bankrupted and out of business. Hope she can flip burgers, because I doubt she has any other trade worth knowing.
Nothing was said about him being under contract. Was he?
;)
Or was it one of these "contracts" that asshole executives pull out of their ass, when their flawed business model proves itself to be flawed?
Sort of like the "contract" that I'm under that says I have to watch commercials on broadcast tv?
C'mon, show us the goods. Show us something where he violated a contract. As long as he wasn't forced to sign one, he is obligated to uphold it no matter how stupid it is.
If he didn't sign one, why did you bring up contracts?
It is cut and dried. I'm only asking for a single piece of good faith evidence. If you find some story, that says he did something like this, that's good enough for me. I'm not a judge, and this isn't a trial... if it were, you could be damn sure he wouldn't get off on a technicality.
More likely, something weird happened. That explains why he changed his story, he was trying to understand it himself. Being a farmer, and not a PR rep or lawyer, he failed to realize that speculation was a bad thing, at least publically. Otherwise, we're left with options which are either absurd, make his actions criminal without even mentioning patent law, or prove that he shouldn't be liable at all. We have:
A) He stole the canola seed from Monsanto (wearing a ninja would be optional). This is burglary or larceny or something, not patent infringement.
B) He stole the canola from a Monsanto customer. Again, burglary.
C) He somehow managed to independently breed an exact genetic duplicate. Patent infringement only if he sells the product, which in this case wouldn't be the crop itself, but whatever materials (seed?) are required for another farmer to grow such a crop.
D) He somehow managed to harvest a significant amount of seed from a sterile crop. A crop that no one has ever mentioned him having... leads us back to other options. Even then, this can't be illegal by itself. Harvesting seed would be normal use of a legally purchased, patented product. If I used a patented wheelbarrow, could they come back and recharge me a week later, claiming that my wheelbarrow disappeared, and that I had in fact manufactured a replacement, thereby incurring a second fee?
E) Space aliens, acting on orders from Jimmy Carter and the Illuminati Council of Sages, teleported his original crop of rutabaga to the 11th planet, and replaced it with Monsanto canola in an intricate diabolical plot. This is only slightly more absurd than the other options.
F) He bought the seed from someone other than Monsanto. At best, trafficing in stolen property, and then only if he had reason to know it was stolen. If it was indeed stolen, that is.
G) Some virus or similar vector transmigrated genes from the Monsanto crop 5 miles down the road. Meaning Monsanto is liable for contaminating his crop.
H) Cowboyneal recieved a Beginner's Genetics kit, complete with test tube, microscope, PCR equipment and a bank of gene sequencers. Damn I hate this poll option
So which is it?
If they didn't sell it to him, or have it stolen by him, it's not their product.
Show me some evidence that he stole it. Even a little bit, I'm not some lawyer for fuck's sake. I don't need to know it was him, just that some substantial amount went missing or stolen from where ever they keep this. That would be enough, hell, maybe even for a conviction.
And if he bought it... well, DUH.
I don't think you're saying either of those, though. Are you?
All this says, is that you aren't allowed to resell something that is patented, or buy it from a reseller. The patent holder can come and charge AGAIN, for the same item.