C'mon guys, let's screw 'em like they've screwed us. Any help is appreciated, and I'm equally interested in Scientific Atlanta or Motorola/GI digital cableboxes.
Yes, but take those very same monkeys, take away their typewriters. Given only 5 months, these monkeys can and will write the legislation for the USA for the given year.
And if they do a poor job, you can always vote for another monkey next November.
Or said another way, given very large numbers of N, and incredible lengths of time, Congress might actually write something worth reading....
No. OEM's chose BeOS because they had record profits, and could afford to experiment on the gamble that it might take off, and they would have "gotten in early". But that wasn't all they saw in it. They saw a "little guy" that was willing to give it to them cheap so he could get his foot in the door, they saw a mature OS that had everything it needed to be useful even if missing a few oddball apps, and they saw absolutely gorgeous technology.
And so, they said, "let'd give this a try". And that's when Microsoft stepped in.
Micro$oft, you see, doesn't like this sort of thing. So they blackmailed the OEM's into dropping Be, before it even hit the shelf. And we aren't talking the lunatic fringe, as I remember it, it was the likes of Dell, Compaq, and Gateway that were interested in it.
This isn't conjecture, this is fact. For the most part, it's even fact as far as courts are concerned. Be really did have a few of the big companies more than interested, they had deals with plans in place. And then suddenly they get stood up, with more than a few executives willing to tell them why the deals collapsed.
So, you're more like the advocate of Cletis, god of retards, than you are the devils.
99% of people that want violins want Stradivarius's. Why? Because there is an incredible centuries long tradition that they are the best, based in fact, not to mention they are far from worthless.
99% of people that want a pound of metal want gold. Why? Because gold is worth far more than others in a financial sense. Not to mention it's beautiful, has a long tradition of being luxurious, and is useful in any number of modern industries for a variety of uses.
99% of people that want an OS want Windows. Why? Um... yeh. Let's see. It's substandard, never works the way it is supposed to, the price keeps rising while it has zero resale value.
Let me clarify what you meant. 99% of people don't know there is a viable alternative that would be largely compatible with the other computers in their office, in their home, and would play many of their kids' games.
BeOS didn't have software, because Microsoft threatened to yank windows licenses completely from any OEM that dared sell a BeOS system.
Your argument is beyond the pale of retarded. BeOS had enough default software to let a non-power user enjoy it and find it usable. Especially since they wouldn't have to endure another BSOD ever again.
And after a few non-power users have BeOS, you'd find that alot of ISV's would start porting to it, which would be bad for, you guessed it...
Micro$oft.
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Yeh, we'll have 0.0000000001 x 0.0000000001 pixel resolution for the solar system. Talk about voyeurism....
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Well, if that damn SETI would get off its ass, and get us a dialup account GOL (galaxy online), we could start collecting alien porn. You know, that green chick Kirk did wasn't half bad...
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this has for porn collecting?!?! It may soon become possible for the individual to afford enough storage, to have every single piece of pornography ever created by human beings since the beginning of time.
If you weren't a retard and copyright nazi apologist, it would be painfully clear that first sale doctrine applies. Sure, the copyright owners can distribute as they please, but once sold, the person can resell it or use it anywhere in the world that they like.
When I buy a paperback book in europe, and fly home with it, customs doesn't wrestle me to the ground for distribution infringment. Of course, not until the publishing industry gets it in its head that it could somehow impose region restrictions.
Region encoding is neither protected in law (at least until the DMCA was bought and paid for) nor morally. For anyone to claim that I can read their book, or watch MY movie, once I have legally purchased it, only where they wish me to, is beyond absurd.
Haha. I know you, heathen. We excommunicated you from the Church of Trolls years ago... now you hang out with that cult, what's its name? Church of the Glorious Crapflood?
Marketing/advertising is a flawed idea, that has outlived its usefulness in human civilization.
Not that that will stop it. You ask who "will pay for" questions, never stopping to realize how much money is wasted on it. Those doing the wasting don't seem to mind, so who cares, right?
There are better ways, more efficient ways, for customers to find what they want/need, that isn't the social equivalent of carpet-bombing. These ways don't use barely ethical psychological tricks to persuade people to buy. Sure, some companies would go under, the ones that don't have a product truly worth buying... will that be so sad?
When it's all said and done, I expect to pay something for my TV viewing, but I don't want ads crammed down my throat. I don't have to read a page of advertising for every 10 I read in a novel (though I hope I don't give any ambitious little cockraoches any ideas).
Don't despair though... hopefully by that time, the Tivo's of the day will be powerful enough to recognize and re-render any blatant product placements.
They will also give us the ability to watch the evening news with Dan Rather as a blue-skinned Andorian wearing a leather miniskirt.
Technology can fix anything (except possibly the nightmare I just inspired, sorry, I was only trying to be flippant).
Hah. I must be really strange, because no one seems to agree with me.
A truly good application, would be one that let you "mark" commercials with the thumbs down button, and from that point on, Tivo would recognize the commercial and clip it out of recording AND display.
How? Well, first off, don't be a retard... refuse to subscribe. Then, if you need to, download an image of the 1.3 software, and install it. (Sorry, but the new software sucks) Then, build a crosscompiler for your linux box.
Now, how can software like this work? When you press the button, the tivo would work backward, looking for the mostly black frames that signal a wipe or transition. Once found, it forwards again, to the first few frames of the commercial, and creates a signature for them. Then, every time a new transition occurs, check if its a commercial.
And yes, I am working on it.
Voila, advertisers are put back in their proper place, a dank little hole in the ground.
Generally I tend to respect cynicism, but this is just downright stupid.
No wonder our nation is so fucked up, if retards like this get news coverage. Can't wait til next week, when they'll have a "NASA Shuttle launches causing tornadoes in the midwest" story.
And if they get a warrant to search for evidence of stolen bicycles, and find 3 tons of pure heroin in your basement, they have to get another warrant?
Technically, I believe you are correct. In practice though, judges rarely throw that stuff out, unless it was painfully obvious that the warrant was issued in bad faith.
That's not enough of a protection to alleviate any of my worries.
This would be acceptable, if there were even a good chance that authorities would use reasonable discretion.
They've shown time and time again, that they rarely do so. Sometimes they are assholes, other times they have to look like they're busy. Sometimes they feel the need to prove they're not playing favorites. Other times they are fucking zombies, that follow the letter of the law no matter what. And once you're in the system, discretion is gone, prosecutors feel the need to continue for continuances sake.
So, someone acuses you of something, they do a search. Turns out, it was false, you are innocent. But in exevuting the warrant, they find evidence you tinker with cell phones in the basement...
Society won't let us secede peacefully, and has irresponsibly expanded to the point where leaving it means going beyond low earth orbit.
This wouldn't be so bad, but the majority are idiots like yourself, who like rules for rules sake, as long as they don't impinge on what passes for a hobby among the terminally stupid.
Enlightend people don't worry about laws, they worry about ethics. Most of the time, this is invisible to the retarded, so they don't complain too loudly. But it does put the enlightened individual at risk in times like this one. Exercising your property rights isn't something you do carelessly anymore, I suppose.
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You can be even more subtle than mugging the guy in broad daylight, and ripping his watch off his arm.
Stake it out for a day or two, making sure you're close enough to sniff the "handshake" that the laptop and watch go through... then spoof it.
Authentication that broadcasts everything over the airwaves borders on mental retardation.
No, M$ was buying time and free PR, so that they could decide on the best way to profit from DRM.
No corporations are against it, those that say they are simply haven't figured out how to use it to their own advantage.
Duh.
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C'mon guys, let's screw 'em like they've screwed us. Any help is appreciated, and I'm equally interested in Scientific Atlanta or Motorola/GI digital cableboxes.
My slashdot hotmail account? Yes.
You mean like the
rogue software I'm trying to create?
And no, this isn't a "free tv" thing for me, it's more like a "vengeance against AT&T" thing.
Yes, but take those very same monkeys, take away their typewriters. Given only 5 months, these monkeys can and will write the legislation for the USA for the given year.
And if they do a poor job, you can always vote for another monkey next November.
Or said another way, given very large numbers of N, and incredible lengths of time, Congress might actually write something worth reading....
If she was impregnated by feces smeared on the seat, then yes, even by my atheist standards, it's a miracle.
It also probably means that the baby will grow up to be a lawyer.
No. OEM's chose BeOS because they had record profits, and could afford to experiment on the gamble that it might take off, and they would have "gotten in early". But that wasn't all they saw in it. They saw a "little guy" that was willing to give it to them cheap so he could get his foot in the door, they saw a mature OS that had everything it needed to be useful even if missing a few oddball apps, and they saw absolutely gorgeous technology.
And so, they said, "let'd give this a try". And that's when Microsoft stepped in.
Micro$oft, you see, doesn't like this sort of thing. So they blackmailed the OEM's into dropping Be, before it even hit the shelf. And we aren't talking the lunatic fringe, as I remember it, it was the likes of Dell, Compaq, and Gateway that were interested in it.
This isn't conjecture, this is fact. For the most part, it's even fact as far as courts are concerned. Be really did have a few of the big companies more than interested, they had deals with plans in place. And then suddenly they get stood up, with more than a few executives willing to tell them why the deals collapsed.
So, you're more like the advocate of Cletis, god of retards, than you are the devils.
99% of people want windows?
99% of people that want violins want Stradivarius's. Why? Because there is an incredible centuries long tradition that they are the best, based in fact, not to mention they are far from worthless.
99% of people that want a pound of metal want gold. Why? Because gold is worth far more than others in a financial sense. Not to mention it's beautiful, has a long tradition of being luxurious, and is useful in any number of modern industries for a variety of uses.
99% of people that want an OS want Windows. Why? Um... yeh. Let's see. It's substandard, never works the way it is supposed to, the price keeps rising while it has zero resale value.
Let me clarify what you meant. 99% of people don't know there is a viable alternative that would be largely compatible with the other computers in their office, in their home, and would play many of their kids' games.
Duh.
BeOS didn't have software, because Microsoft threatened to yank windows licenses completely from any OEM that dared sell a BeOS system.
Your argument is beyond the pale of retarded. BeOS had enough default software to let a non-power user enjoy it and find it usable. Especially since they wouldn't have to endure another BSOD ever again.
And after a few non-power users have BeOS, you'd find that alot of ISV's would start porting to it, which would be bad for, you guessed it...
Micro$oft.
Yeh, we'll have 0.0000000001 x 0.0000000001 pixel resolution for the solar system. Talk about voyeurism....
Well, if that damn SETI would get off its ass, and get us a dialup account GOL (galaxy online), we could start collecting alien porn. You know, that green chick Kirk did wasn't half bad...
this has for porn collecting?!?! It may soon become possible for the individual to afford enough storage, to have every single piece of pornography ever created by human beings since the beginning of time.
I have no words.
If you weren't a retard and copyright nazi apologist, it would be painfully clear that first sale doctrine applies. Sure, the copyright owners can distribute as they please, but once sold, the person can resell it or use it anywhere in the world that they like.
When I buy a paperback book in europe, and fly home with it, customs doesn't wrestle me to the ground for distribution infringment. Of course, not until the publishing industry gets it in its head that it could somehow impose region restrictions.
Region encoding is neither protected in law (at least until the DMCA was bought and paid for) nor morally. For anyone to claim that I can read their book, or watch MY movie, once I have legally purchased it, only where they wish me to, is beyond absurd.
Eat shit and die.
Cutting in front of a judge sounds like something I would do, and if the robot imitates me, it must be doing something right, don't you think?
Seriously though. By those criteria, half the human race might fail.
Haha. I know you, heathen. We excommunicated you from the Church of Trolls years ago... now you hang out with that cult, what's its name? Church of the Glorious Crapflood?
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The billions we've payed isn't enough?
Marketing/advertising is a flawed idea, that has outlived its usefulness in human civilization.
Not that that will stop it. You ask who "will pay for" questions, never stopping to realize how much money is wasted on it. Those doing the wasting don't seem to mind, so who cares, right?
There are better ways, more efficient ways, for customers to find what they want/need, that isn't the social equivalent of carpet-bombing. These ways don't use barely ethical psychological tricks to persuade people to buy. Sure, some companies would go under, the ones that don't have a product truly worth buying... will that be so sad?
When it's all said and done, I expect to pay something for my TV viewing, but I don't want ads crammed down my throat. I don't have to read a page of advertising for every 10 I read in a novel (though I hope I don't give any ambitious little cockraoches any ideas).
Don't despair though... hopefully by that time, the Tivo's of the day will be powerful enough to recognize and re-render any blatant product placements.
They will also give us the ability to watch the evening news with Dan Rather as a blue-skinned Andorian wearing a leather miniskirt.
Technology can fix anything (except possibly the nightmare I just inspired, sorry, I was only trying to be flippant).
Hah. I must be really strange, because no one seems to agree with me.
A truly good application, would be one that let you "mark" commercials with the thumbs down button, and from that point on, Tivo would recognize the commercial and clip it out of recording AND display.
How? Well, first off, don't be a retard... refuse to subscribe. Then, if you need to, download an image of the 1.3 software, and install it. (Sorry, but the new software sucks) Then, build a crosscompiler for your linux box.
Now, how can software like this work? When you press the button, the tivo would work backward, looking for the mostly black frames that signal a wipe or transition. Once found, it forwards again, to the first few frames of the commercial, and creates a signature for them. Then, every time a new transition occurs, check if its a commercial.
And yes, I am working on it.
Voila, advertisers are put back in their proper place, a dank little hole in the ground.
Fuck you, marketdroids!
Generally I tend to respect cynicism, but this is just downright stupid.
No wonder our nation is so fucked up, if retards like this get news coverage. Can't wait til next week, when they'll have a "NASA Shuttle launches causing tornadoes in the midwest" story.
And if they get a warrant to search for evidence of stolen bicycles, and find 3 tons of pure heroin in your basement, they have to get another warrant?
Technically, I believe you are correct. In practice though, judges rarely throw that stuff out, unless it was painfully obvious that the warrant was issued in bad faith.
That's not enough of a protection to alleviate any of my worries.
This would be acceptable, if there were even a good chance that authorities would use reasonable discretion.
They've shown time and time again, that they rarely do so. Sometimes they are assholes, other times they have to look like they're busy. Sometimes they feel the need to prove they're not playing favorites. Other times they are fucking zombies, that follow the letter of the law no matter what. And once you're in the system, discretion is gone, prosecutors feel the need to continue for continuances sake.
So, someone acuses you of something, they do a search. Turns out, it was false, you are innocent. But in exevuting the warrant, they find evidence you tinker with cell phones in the basement...
Society won't let us secede peacefully, and has irresponsibly expanded to the point where leaving it means going beyond low earth orbit.
This wouldn't be so bad, but the majority are idiots like yourself, who like rules for rules sake, as long as they don't impinge on what passes for a hobby among the terminally stupid.
Enlightend people don't worry about laws, they worry about ethics. Most of the time, this is invisible to the retarded, so they don't complain too loudly. But it does put the enlightened individual at risk in times like this one. Exercising your property rights isn't something you do carelessly anymore, I suppose.
Generally, anywhere on the planet, C band offers at least 1500 channels.
Besides, he never said he was going to watch it afterward...
Yeh, it's also illegal for them to DoS p2p netwo...
Doh!