My Charter Cable Box (and as far as I know, their digital ones also) is on loan. That is, I didn't buy the box. They brought it over, plugged it up, put locks on the cable, and left. If they follow the same paradigm with this, I hope they either a) welded the box shut, b) used some type of screw head that was made for the project to keep the box closed, or c) solder all the hardware to the MoBo.
Could they honestly expect people not to rip off the parts (and expect their un/install labour to open up everyone and check for missing parts, let alone know what to check for)?
Also, I think it'd be even cooler if it had a NAT in it so that I could connect the cable box to the cable modem and not have those bothersome wires everywhere (and not have to rent multiple IPs).
I think the key is "out of the jurisdiction". How much spam do you get from US IPs? When I was actually attempting to figure out where my spam came from, it went back to chello.nl and their sister domains. If it really is a domain that is out of the US, US law can't really do much about it. Luckily, within the US, major ISPs don't allow spam and have methods to prevent it (earthlink makes you send outgoing mail through it's servers, for example, so it can monitor for potential spamers accounts).
I think, perhaps, the best way to get rid of spam is to find out what ISP has the account that the spam is being sent from, then tell them how much you hate that they let that happen (one letter for every spam may add up). Maybe one day they will take precautions to prevent spam if consumer demand really means anything any more (and, yes, I think there are more people that dislike getting spam than people that want to send it).
I think "audiophile" is just an elitest term. No one I've talked to can REALLY hear a difference between a CD and a 128 kbs MP3 (though I'm sure someone will jump my ass for making the claim). Further (though I know some mobo sound is crappy), I can't really tell a difference in any recent onboard sound than any other computer's sound (that I've heard).
I liken it unto playing Quake 3. Scientific studies (sorry, can't find the/. post that covered it) show that the human eye can't really tell a difference past 120 FPS (some number like that), yet there are people who get the biggest-and-best video card and pretend it makes a difference past 120 (or whatever the number is). It's about being 1337.
Though I do have a friend that claims to see refresh lines at certain refresh rates...
Maybe it was Metallica that didn't bitch over tapes but did over swapping. They seem, oh, so related in my mind.
At any rate, I hadn't really heard of the RIAA before Napster (hence I didn't know they fought the dual cassette boom boxes...I guess I still don't know it). Perhaps that counts for something. Perhaps not.
Linking that to the RIAA-hates-file-sharing, no one at RIAA bitched when people were trading tapes, but they get their panties in a wad over trading high-quality rips and copies. Maybe if everyone swapped 96k MP3s they wouldn't bitch as much... or maybe they would anyway.
Are we just greedy about quality? I think the mindset is something like "why shouldn't I have 128K stream?" I guess the spread of broadband is the answer. More multiple simultanious streams causes the server to split bandwidth down too low to actually stream. Funny that the spread of cable/DSL broadband is making cable/DSL broadband more obsolete.
"...one of the speakers was from Microsoft research..."
I trust Microsoft R&D to come up with good security concepts, but I don't trust Microsoft to implement the good security concepts without having giant security holes in them. Then they can make programs that monitor/protect the security holes in the other security programs, and they will have holes, too. This would be an infinite recursion, BTW.
I can see the ad now:
Security programs with security problems. Only from Microsoft.
I think we are getting to a point where hardware is "ahead of it's time." That is, when I was doing design work on Adobe Photoshop 5, I had a 266 MHZ PII and I remember thinking: This is all the computing power I will ever need (which is something I'm sure most of us said, accept Bill Gates, who apparently never that;). Well, 6 years later, we have 3 GHz processors, and I wonder how long it will take business type applications to tax those processors like Office 2K with Windows XP taxes my old 266. It's the poor performance with later versions of Photoshop, etc, that convinced me to upgrade my system four years ago.
Basically, the buying slump (hardware wise) might be because everyone's hardware does what they want at a good speed with plenty room to spare. If corperations want hardware sales to go up, they'll have to wait for more complex programs (or more wildly inefficient --a.k.a. poorly programmed -- programs) to come out. And Longhorn is right around the corner, coincidentally enough.
"Here's what's wrong with kids in the digital age. They live in front of their TV and PC screens. They steal music online. Their attention span is zilch. They multitask on everything and concentrate on nothing except video games. They will buy any trashy product that the media goliaths can sell them, then drop it as soon as the next big hype comes along."
Isn't that the problem with adults in the digital age as well?
"and lots of the stuff I liked when I was a kid (Judus Priest, King Diamond, Early Fates Warning, The Ramones, the list goes on) is getting released on the cheap."
Okay, so all we have to do is wait a decade and then, when everything sounds dated and not quite as good as we remember, we can get it for the prices we should have been getting it for today!?
I guess that works (somehow), but I'd much rather pay a decent/fair price now for the new cd my fav. artist is putting out than wait until it isn't as pertinent to my life. Thought I do remember $35 for Ranma 1/2. Glad my friend was buying them and making copies for me:P
"...insightfull...insightfull..." Do you think he thought it was "insightfull"?
Pay for just "good quality" and "fair price"? I wouldn't. I want good quality and fair price, yes, but fair use is just as important (if not more). If I pay anything for it, I want to be able to use it to it's fullest, whether that means ripping it to listen to on my MP3 player, burning a copy for my car, or putting it in the microwave. Then I'll buy it if I decide I want/"need" it.
Everyone sounds surprised to some degree, but really... who can you trust any more? Certainly not the government, certainly not big corperations, certainly not your neighbor, and maybe not even yourself. Nothing is sacred any more. I'm surprised some government big wig didn't buy in on a system to track e-mail addresses and harvest accounts via headers, then sell them.... or maybe they did.
I'm wondering if protecting privacy is even important any more since privacy may not exist in these times. (that statement was partially sarcasim, but partly genuine)
On the OLED note: This might be a rant but here it goes. I was stoked when I heard about OLED. It was supposed to squash LCD because it was not only flexible/bendable but capable of better pictures (esp. at odd angles), smaller sizes, and required less electricity (for one because it apparently was able to hold an image w/o a constant signal of that image, so unchanged parts didn't need to have current sent to them to keep them on; sorry for the crude description). So, I was stoked, and the technology that was available has not been delivered (except a couple of cell phones and cd players).
So they have cheap portable LCDs. I want cheap portable OLED displays. PLEASE... It's time.
If you get really bored (and rich), you could have a string of yatchs equipt with base sations that goes all the way to some main land (or other island) and sell wireless access...during the non-cyclone season, that is. You might even make your money back if you get really really lucky.
The only bug I have found so far is that it doesn't run on 10.1.5. Maybe I should "debug" my OS by getting Jaguar. I'd really like to see what all the fuss is about.
Anyone read anything that says why there isn't a release for 10.1.5? What was added in 10.2 that makes 10.1 unusable? After all, the i* applications work on both (don't they)?
I never said FORCE. No one is forcing anything. Simply giving an option by letting people know it exists. There are people that don't know Linux (or any other given OS except maybe Windows or Mac OS) exists. But I'm all about choices. Stick vs Manual tranny, HTML vs WYSIWYG, Linux vs Windows, etc. I like more control. Not everyone has to (like I said, I put my mom on Mac+Apple 'cause it's easy and generally less buggy than Windows+PC).
But I agree. I'd rather have bi-lingual kids, though bi-OS would be nice too...
Learning a new environment is easier when someone is younger. If students are introduced to different languages early in life, they are easier to learn. I reckon OSes are quite the same.
As far as mom's are concerned, I forced mine to start using Mac OS X after getting her used to Windows. She made the transition nicely (probably because she wasn't very experienced with Windows in the first place);)
SCO is probably right...
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Linux must have tons of "copied" code.
for(*){*}
if(*){*}else{*}
somevariable++
The list goes on and on...
...sorry if someone already made that joke already...
In one scene, when the Neb was entering Zion, a big white control room was shown. If anyone caught it, the interface looks the same as the one in Minority Report. So, who had the idea first?
For those of who were priveledged enough, we found out about hell.com a long time ago. I think I'm not supposed to talk about it, and I know I'm not supposed to link to it. But look what that did for fight club.
At any rate, hell.com is supposed to be defunct, replaced by no-such.com. I don't know why. Probably something about money.
Hell.com (where I found out about jodi, among other things such as intropy8zuper.com and the sites that sprung those) has been supporting "HTML" Art (I'd rather call it web based art) community for years. I think I signed up on their mailing list in '98, and they were around a while before.
Anyone interested in this form of art should check out hell.com or no-such.com. People are doing a lot of eccentric stuff with browsers.
I just ate a gallon of arsenic b/c I was so upset about this RPM adoption, and now it turns out to be April Fools! What a cruel world. He who is valorous and pure of heart may find the Holy Grail in the aaaaarrrrrrggghhh...
OMFG. Have you SEEN Windows 1 || 2? I've seen better shell scripts.
I AM sorry for Windows 1 || 2 users. It must have been hell. Almost like installing Debian.
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Once they hit 10.9, the naming scheme will be 10.9.x.
Once they hit 10.9.9, they will move to 10.9.9.x.
to infinity and beyond.
My Charter Cable Box (and as far as I know, their digital ones also) is on loan. That is, I didn't buy the box. They brought it over, plugged it up, put locks on the cable, and left. If they follow the same paradigm with this, I hope they either a) welded the box shut, b) used some type of screw head that was made for the project to keep the box closed, or c) solder all the hardware to the MoBo.
Could they honestly expect people not to rip off the parts (and expect their un/install labour to open up everyone and check for missing parts, let alone know what to check for)?
Also, I think it'd be even cooler if it had a NAT in it so that I could connect the cable box to the cable modem and not have those bothersome wires everywhere (and not have to rent multiple IPs).
I think the key is "out of the jurisdiction". How much spam do you get from US IPs? When I was actually attempting to figure out where my spam came from, it went back to chello.nl and their sister domains. If it really is a domain that is out of the US, US law can't really do much about it. Luckily, within the US, major ISPs don't allow spam and have methods to prevent it (earthlink makes you send outgoing mail through it's servers, for example, so it can monitor for potential spamers accounts).
I think, perhaps, the best way to get rid of spam is to find out what ISP has the account that the spam is being sent from, then tell them how much you hate that they let that happen (one letter for every spam may add up). Maybe one day they will take precautions to prevent spam if consumer demand really means anything any more (and, yes, I think there are more people that dislike getting spam than people that want to send it).
I think "audiophile" is just an elitest term. No one I've talked to can REALLY hear a difference between a CD and a 128 kbs MP3 (though I'm sure someone will jump my ass for making the claim). Further (though I know some mobo sound is crappy), I can't really tell a difference in any recent onboard sound than any other computer's sound (that I've heard).
/. post that covered it) show that the human eye can't really tell a difference past 120 FPS (some number like that), yet there are people who get the biggest-and-best video card and pretend it makes a difference past 120 (or whatever the number is). It's about being 1337.
I liken it unto playing Quake 3. Scientific studies (sorry, can't find the
Though I do have a friend that claims to see refresh lines at certain refresh rates...
Maybe it was Metallica that didn't bitch over tapes but did over swapping. They seem, oh, so related in my mind.
At any rate, I hadn't really heard of the RIAA before Napster (hence I didn't know they fought the dual cassette boom boxes...I guess I still don't know it). Perhaps that counts for something. Perhaps not.
Linking that to the RIAA-hates-file-sharing, no one at RIAA bitched when people were trading tapes, but they get their panties in a wad over trading high-quality rips and copies. Maybe if everyone swapped 96k MP3s they wouldn't bitch as much... or maybe they would anyway.
Are we just greedy about quality? I think the mindset is something like "why shouldn't I have 128K stream?" I guess the spread of broadband is the answer. More multiple simultanious streams causes the server to split bandwidth down too low to actually stream. Funny that the spread of cable/DSL broadband is making cable/DSL broadband more obsolete.
"...one of the speakers was from Microsoft research..."
I trust Microsoft R&D to come up with good security concepts, but I don't trust Microsoft to implement the good security concepts without having giant security holes in them. Then they can make programs that monitor/protect the security holes in the other security programs, and they will have holes, too. This would be an infinite recursion, BTW.
I can see the ad now:
Security programs with security problems. Only from Microsoft.
I think we are getting to a point where hardware is "ahead of it's time." That is, when I was doing design work on Adobe Photoshop 5, I had a 266 MHZ PII and I remember thinking: This is all the computing power I will ever need (which is something I'm sure most of us said, accept Bill Gates, who apparently never that ;). Well, 6 years later, we have 3 GHz processors, and I wonder how long it will take business type applications to tax those processors like Office 2K with Windows XP taxes my old 266. It's the poor performance with later versions of Photoshop, etc, that convinced me to upgrade my system four years ago.
Basically, the buying slump (hardware wise) might be because everyone's hardware does what they want at a good speed with plenty room to spare. If corperations want hardware sales to go up, they'll have to wait for more complex programs (or more wildly inefficient --a.k.a. poorly programmed -- programs) to come out. And Longhorn is right around the corner, coincidentally enough.
"Here's what's wrong with kids in the digital age. They live in front of their TV and PC screens. They steal music online. Their attention span is zilch. They multitask on everything and concentrate on nothing except video games. They will buy any trashy product that the media goliaths can sell them, then drop it as soon as the next big hype comes along."
Isn't that the problem with adults in the digital age as well?
"and lots of the stuff I liked when I was a kid (Judus Priest, King Diamond, Early Fates Warning, The Ramones, the list goes on) is getting released on the cheap."
:P
Okay, so all we have to do is wait a decade and then, when everything sounds dated and not quite as good as we remember, we can get it for the prices we should have been getting it for today!?
I guess that works (somehow), but I'd much rather pay a decent/fair price now for the new cd my fav. artist is putting out than wait until it isn't as pertinent to my life. Thought I do remember $35 for Ranma 1/2. Glad my friend was buying them and making copies for me
"...insightfull...insightfull..." Do you think he thought it was "insightfull"?
Pay for just "good quality" and "fair price"? I wouldn't. I want good quality and fair price, yes, but fair use is just as important (if not more). If I pay anything for it, I want to be able to use it to it's fullest, whether that means ripping it to listen to on my MP3 player, burning a copy for my car, or putting it in the microwave. Then I'll buy it if I decide I want/"need" it.
At least I don't have to cut someone's fingers off/eyes out/head off/etc. to get past these types of security measures any more.
Whew! What a relief.
Everyone sounds surprised to some degree, but really... who can you trust any more? Certainly not the government, certainly not big corperations, certainly not your neighbor, and maybe not even yourself. Nothing is sacred any more. I'm surprised some government big wig didn't buy in on a system to track e-mail addresses and harvest accounts via headers, then sell them.... or maybe they did. I'm wondering if protecting privacy is even important any more since privacy may not exist in these times. (that statement was partially sarcasim, but partly genuine)
On the OLED note: This might be a rant but here it goes. I was stoked when I heard about OLED. It was supposed to squash LCD because it was not only flexible/bendable but capable of better pictures (esp. at odd angles), smaller sizes, and required less electricity (for one because it apparently was able to hold an image w/o a constant signal of that image, so unchanged parts didn't need to have current sent to them to keep them on; sorry for the crude description). So, I was stoked, and the technology that was available has not been delivered (except a couple of cell phones and cd players).
So they have cheap portable LCDs. I want cheap portable OLED displays. PLEASE... It's time.
If you get really bored (and rich), you could have a string of yatchs equipt with base sations that goes all the way to some main land (or other island) and sell wireless access...during the non-cyclone season, that is. You might even make your money back if you get really really lucky.
The only bug I have found so far is that it doesn't run on 10.1.5. Maybe I should "debug" my OS by getting Jaguar. I'd really like to see what all the fuss is about.
Anyone read anything that says why there isn't a release for 10.1.5? What was added in 10.2 that makes 10.1 unusable? After all, the i* applications work on both (don't they)?
"...four individuals for allegedly pirating its music on P2P networks..."
I didn't even know the RIAA had an album out.
I never said FORCE. No one is forcing anything. Simply giving an option by letting people know it exists. There are people that don't know Linux (or any other given OS except maybe Windows or Mac OS) exists. But I'm all about choices. Stick vs Manual tranny, HTML vs WYSIWYG, Linux vs Windows, etc. I like more control. Not everyone has to (like I said, I put my mom on Mac+Apple 'cause it's easy and generally less buggy than Windows+PC).
But I agree. I'd rather have bi-lingual kids, though bi-OS would be nice too...
Learning a new environment is easier when someone is younger. If students are introduced to different languages early in life, they are easier to learn. I reckon OSes are quite the same. As far as mom's are concerned, I forced mine to start using Mac OS X after getting her used to Windows. She made the transition nicely (probably because she wasn't very experienced with Windows in the first place) ;)
Linux must have tons of "copied" code.
for(*){*}
if(*){*}else{*}
somevariable++
The list goes on and on...
...sorry if someone already made that joke already...
Wasn't taking security for granted the problem in the first place? We see where that got Microsoft...
I'd also like to point out (love 'em or hate 'em) what Bob X said about cleaning up code...
In one scene, when the Neb was entering Zion, a big white control room was shown. If anyone caught it, the interface looks the same as the one in Minority Report. So, who had the idea first?
For those of who were priveledged enough, we found out about hell.com a long time ago. I think I'm not supposed to talk about it, and I know I'm not supposed to link to it. But look what that did for fight club. At any rate, hell.com is supposed to be defunct, replaced by no-such.com. I don't know why. Probably something about money. Hell.com (where I found out about jodi, among other things such as intropy8zuper.com and the sites that sprung those) has been supporting "HTML" Art (I'd rather call it web based art) community for years. I think I signed up on their mailing list in '98, and they were around a while before. Anyone interested in this form of art should check out hell.com or no-such.com. People are doing a lot of eccentric stuff with browsers.
I just ate a gallon of arsenic b/c I was so upset about this RPM adoption, and now it turns out to be April Fools! What a cruel world. He who is valorous and pure of heart may find the Holy Grail in the aaaaarrrrrrggghhh...
OMFG. Have you SEEN Windows 1 || 2? I've seen better shell scripts. I AM sorry for Windows 1 || 2 users. It must have been hell. Almost like installing Debian.