Considering the very illegal nature of a lot of spam already (beastiality, pyramid schemes, stock scams, etc.), what exactly makes people think that some new legislation is going to make it stop this time around? Spam's already hard to trace, what with the ephemeral nature of dial-up accounts and the sometimes difficult-to-trace mail sent through open relays in God-knows-where, Asia.
Before everyone starts clamoring for all out war against these horrible, horrible GPL violators, I would advise you at least give it a few days for the dust to settle. Slashdot, after all, is hardly known for responsible reporting, and has quite often reported such violations erroneously and caused quite a bit of damage to the reputations of various corporations.
It's not like something horrible is going to happen by guessing wrong the first time. I figure that as long as I have something in my hands (or on my monitor in front of me, as the case may be), I will be able to figure it out after a little experimentation. This doesn't just work with pens, either. Through the past year, I've learned many interesting features of Photoshop, Final Cut Pro and Word out of necessity of getting my class work done, and yet, I rarely, if ever picked up a manual. Well, OK, I picked up a manual a couple of times for FCP, but after you learn a general concept, you can apply it to activating the many different options available.
Why this is so easy for me to do while all my peers struggle with, say, trying to cut video footage into smaller clips, is beyond me. It's not like I'm some sort of super genius to whom anything and everything comes easy. I can make guesses - through my observation, I have noticed that I keep helping people get through the same trivial tasks day after day with something like FCP; maybe if I don't hold their hands, they will motivate themselves to learn something. However, I haven't helped people a lot in things like Photoshop, and they still don't really seem to use or understand any of the more advanced features of Photoshop, like paths and masks.
The only other conclusion I can draw is that people can't be made to care about how to do something when they can get away with something less polished and have someone they can whine at whenever they can't figure even the most trivial thing out. I guess they have more important things to do, like gossip about whose boyfriend cheated on who or something equally banal (they are almost invariably girls, I guess the guys are too self-reliant to ask questions or something), but then again, maybe this is just my misanthropic side showing again, proving the thesis proposed in the article. However, if this is a true observation, then I can only say that if people are unwilling to learn, the most intuitive goddamn UI in the world will not save them.
Seriously... isn't the thought of some programmer geek and a few friends funding their own space program just a little beyond believable? I would have to seriously question the veracity of their claims - has anyone noticed that they do not have any kind of video evidence of actually launching anything?
I wouldn't put it past Carmack to construct a huge bomb. Everyone knows about his disturbing obsession with the occult (why else would he have made the Doom series like it is?) and his propensity for watching violence, so it's not at all outside the realm of possibility. There are many studies available that prove beyond a doubt that casual use of ultra-violent video games provokes violent behavior in children and adults alike.
Just imagine, if you will, what a person who is exposed to these influences for 12 hours or more per day, and becoming intimately familiar with them, is going to become. Exploring space? Ha! Not likely. But, with large amounts of peroxide that he is trying to procure, he could build a pretty damn deadly explosive device. And who better to do it than the guy who invented exit wounds and exploding body parts in PC gaming? I think the Department of Homeland Security should keep a very close eye on Mr. Carmack - Timothy McVeigh was able to do more with less, and he wasn't nearly as well funded.
From the get go??? Listen, man, I don't know what OS you're talking about, but I'm talking about BeOS, which has been around for more than eight years. Where are your big commercial applications again? I'm still waaaaiting...
And what exactly are you expecting? Do you think someone's going to write an AutoCAD workalike and release it as open source, all for an OS with something like 5 total users worldwide? Fat chance. Something like that takes time, expertise and manpower.
A stock Linux system using ext2/3 may not be able to hold filesystem metadata, but XFS allows you to attach name-value pairs in a feature called "extended attributes". So it's still possible to do such a thing under Linux, though I'm not sure how efficient it is vs. BeFS, since it doesn't appear that XFS extended attributes were designed with searching in mind.
Does BeOS have any Avid application ported to it? No. Does it have anything that comes even remotely close? No. Does it have a major 3D application (3DS Max, Lightwave, AutoCAD, Maya) ported to it? No. For a so-called "media OS", it is sorely lacking in the department it was supposed to favor...
But why are you touting slow hard drives with provably weak encryption when the poor crew of the Columbia are not 8 hours dead? NASA has just suffered the worst accident in their history, and all you dorks can talk about is shitty harddrives and other consumer products??? GET SOME PRIORITIES, PEOPLE! You make me sick!
Are you sure? I was reading the mplayer FAQ the other day for just this reason, and it said you needed to install RealOne to get the use of their libraries.
They seem to be all in Real Media format, and I refuse to install that spyware-ridden piece of crapware called "RealOne". Links would be much appreciated, even to WMVs.
Could someone please define "UFO"?
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It seems that people here wave around the discovery of UFOs as some kind of major event. So they found some previously unidentified comets? What's the big deal?
Just out of curiosity, I'm wondering what developing a luminance curve does. Does it aid in color correction somehow? Would it result in a higher resolution image? I've been into DV for a little more than a year now through school, and we use Final Cut Pro and mini DV cameras (the lowest resolution for digital video, more or less). Would a generating a greater dynamic range during processing enable more accurate color correction or image transformations than would normally be possible, given the low resolution of the source footage?
Not to mention that he's grossly overestimating the colorspace. TVs don't include alpha channels, you can throw 8 bits/pixel out the window right there. Additionally, NTSC doesn't use the RGB color model - it uses YCrCv, which equates to something like RGB with 219 possible values per channel. It all works out to considerably less than 40MB/sec.
That is nothing more than a perverse form of thought control. What else do you do in Canada? Do you have listening devices in everyone's home to make sure that nobody discusses a high profile case? The media isn't the only group that can have opinions, you know.
This is just about the saddest thing I have ever read about Canada. If one were to remove all references to Canada from the Wired article, one could easily be led to believe that it was an article, instead, about China and their Great Firewall. From the article:
The judge had limited journalists to reporting on the color of Pickton's sweater and the sound of his voice, and Canadian networks blacked out television reports coming in from the United States.
I can only be thankful that I live in the land of Freedom to the south. Such behavior would even make people like John Ashcroft blush.
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Considering the very illegal nature of a lot of spam already (beastiality, pyramid schemes, stock scams, etc.), what exactly makes people think that some new legislation is going to make it stop this time around? Spam's already hard to trace, what with the ephemeral nature of dial-up accounts and the sometimes difficult-to-trace mail sent through open relays in God-knows-where, Asia.
Before everyone starts clamoring for all out war against these horrible, horrible GPL violators, I would advise you at least give it a few days for the dust to settle. Slashdot, after all, is hardly known for responsible reporting, and has quite often reported such violations erroneously and caused quite a bit of damage to the reputations of various corporations.
Why this is so easy for me to do while all my peers struggle with, say, trying to cut video footage into smaller clips, is beyond me. It's not like I'm some sort of super genius to whom anything and everything comes easy. I can make guesses - through my observation, I have noticed that I keep helping people get through the same trivial tasks day after day with something like FCP; maybe if I don't hold their hands, they will motivate themselves to learn something. However, I haven't helped people a lot in things like Photoshop, and they still don't really seem to use or understand any of the more advanced features of Photoshop, like paths and masks.
The only other conclusion I can draw is that people can't be made to care about how to do something when they can get away with something less polished and have someone they can whine at whenever they can't figure even the most trivial thing out. I guess they have more important things to do, like gossip about whose boyfriend cheated on who or something equally banal (they are almost invariably girls, I guess the guys are too self-reliant to ask questions or something), but then again, maybe this is just my misanthropic side showing again, proving the thesis proposed in the article. However, if this is a true observation, then I can only say that if people are unwilling to learn, the most intuitive goddamn UI in the world will not save them.
I wouldn't put it past Carmack to construct a huge bomb. Everyone knows about his disturbing obsession with the occult (why else would he have made the Doom series like it is?) and his propensity for watching violence, so it's not at all outside the realm of possibility. There are many studies available that prove beyond a doubt that casual use of ultra-violent video games provokes violent behavior in children and adults alike.
Just imagine, if you will, what a person who is exposed to these influences for 12 hours or more per day, and becoming intimately familiar with them, is going to become. Exploring space? Ha! Not likely. But, with large amounts of peroxide that he is trying to procure, he could build a pretty damn deadly explosive device. And who better to do it than the guy who invented exit wounds and exploding body parts in PC gaming? I think the Department of Homeland Security should keep a very close eye on Mr. Carmack - Timothy McVeigh was able to do more with less, and he wasn't nearly as well funded.
After all, BeOS's failure had absolutely nothing to do with it's lack of commercial viability or hardware support.
And what exactly are you expecting? Do you think someone's going to write an AutoCAD workalike and release it as open source, all for an OS with something like 5 total users worldwide? Fat chance. Something like that takes time, expertise and manpower.
What in the world is this article about?
A stock Linux system using ext2/3 may not be able to hold filesystem metadata, but XFS allows you to attach name-value pairs in a feature called "extended attributes". So it's still possible to do such a thing under Linux, though I'm not sure how efficient it is vs. BeFS, since it doesn't appear that XFS extended attributes were designed with searching in mind.
Does BeOS have any Avid application ported to it? No. Does it have anything that comes even remotely close? No. Does it have a major 3D application (3DS Max, Lightwave, AutoCAD, Maya) ported to it? No. For a so-called "media OS", it is sorely lacking in the department it was supposed to favor...
fixed your subject line for you. HTH.
But why are you touting slow hard drives with provably weak encryption when the poor crew of the Columbia are not 8 hours dead? NASA has just suffered the worst accident in their history, and all you dorks can talk about is shitty harddrives and other consumer products??? GET SOME PRIORITIES, PEOPLE! You make me sick!
The worst disaster in NASA just happened not four hours ago, and all you people can talk about are duplicate stories???? GET SOME PRIORITIES, PEOPLE!
Don't we have enough parasites screaming for handouts without the government paying out money for that which is, by definition, free?
Doesn't work for the Lameness Filter, won't work for spam .
How original.
You obviously have never done any work with video before. Most DV will eat up 2GB easy with 15min of footage or less.
Let's hear it for FreeBSD, of all things, actually having better large file support. What were the Linux kernel hackers thinking? How sloppy.
Are you sure? I was reading the mplayer FAQ the other day for just this reason, and it said you needed to install RealOne to get the use of their libraries.
They seem to be all in Real Media format, and I refuse to install that spyware-ridden piece of crapware called "RealOne". Links would be much appreciated, even to WMVs.
It seems that people here wave around the discovery of UFOs as some kind of major event. So they found some previously unidentified comets? What's the big deal?
Just out of curiosity, I'm wondering what developing a luminance curve does. Does it aid in color correction somehow? Would it result in a higher resolution image? I've been into DV for a little more than a year now through school, and we use Final Cut Pro and mini DV cameras (the lowest resolution for digital video, more or less). Would a generating a greater dynamic range during processing enable more accurate color correction or image transformations than would normally be possible, given the low resolution of the source footage?
Since when does a self-professed "UI designer" know shit about thread models, anyway?
Not to mention that he's grossly overestimating the colorspace. TVs don't include alpha channels, you can throw 8 bits/pixel out the window right there. Additionally, NTSC doesn't use the RGB color model - it uses YCrCv, which equates to something like RGB with 219 possible values per channel. It all works out to considerably less than 40MB/sec.
That is nothing more than a perverse form of thought control. What else do you do in Canada? Do you have listening devices in everyone's home to make sure that nobody discusses a high profile case? The media isn't the only group that can have opinions, you know.