I love their math: "According to Cinea's grant abstract, the motion picture industry loses some $3 billion a year due to piracy, including the sale of illegal copies made using camcorders in theaters."
I bet this is how that was calculated: - Seeing a show costs $10. - "Pirate" tapes sold on the street: 18.75 million - Said tapes viewed by 4 distinct people - each viewer sees the movie four times.
So: 18,750,000 tapes * 4 viewers ------------- 75,000,000 * 4 views per viewer ------------- 300,000,000 views total * 10 dollars to see the movie, legit ------------- 3,000,000,000 dollars "lost" to piracy
is this paragraph: "There's a difference in the way a camcorder and the human eye see the world," Schumann said. "We've figured out some ways to exploit that. The trick is to make sure there is no negative impact on the viewing experience for the audience."
I would completely quit going to see movies at the theatre for $10 a show if they start to flicker to avoid copying. I'm already ticked off that most theatres are run by 17 year olds who can't focus properly.
I saw Matt Groening in Montreal (here) a few months ago at the Simpsons Reading (Just For Laughs Festival). He confirmed that there would, in fact, be a Simpsons Feature.
In other words, after the first year, you are paying $3.50 a meg after 15 per month (that's 500K a day...)
That would actually be a GOOD deal, here.
Our GPRS carrier (in Montreal), Microcell Fido, has 3 plans: 1) $50 unlimited (the only reasonable plan) 2) $25 for 2MB, then "only" $10/MB 3) $0.03/KB ($30.72 per MB)
However, I don't think that I, my heirs and/or assigns, and/or my legal-entity estate, and/or the corporation which bought up my catalogue before or after my demise (particularly this latter) should be able to profit from my works forever, or even for three quarters of a century after I'm dead. There's no reason for it.
As you mentioned, it's probably possible to assign copyright to the public domain (or the book-equivalent of the FSF; if it exists), instead of one of the aforementioned parties. People do it with other IP all the time (software).
BUT, if you DO want to sell your catalogue (to eat), but don't want said party to retain copyright "forever", couldn't you just grant/sell them a license, with a specific sunset date, after which, it would revert to the "authority" denoted my my first paragraph?
I, for one, probably won't give 2 shakes what happens to my intellectual property when I'm gone. Mostly 'cause I'd be dead.
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But still, no matter how long you've been a linux user it's still possible to accidently type "rm core *" rather than "rm core*" and not catch it until half a second after you hit enter
I once typed `rm -r logs/old/` instead of `rm -r logs/old/`
... as root...
... on a production machine...
... that didn't yet have the backup-unit installed (by our colo -- their problem)...
Just don't try to play (true) 3D games (with googles).
I have Strabismus. I can only see in two dimensions because my eyes were never aligned properly while developing, so I can "switch" between which eye I'm looking out of.
Made my growth-spurt and stairs a little difficult (-:
to me Mandrake is still RedHat+KDE... Am I the only one?
I used to think the same thing.
I'm a pretty die-hard Debian fan (100% of my server installations have been Debian for the last year). However, when Woody came out, officially, I tore my desktop apart (time for a backup of critical and wipe of the garbage I'd been collecting). I tried Woody.. liked it just as much as any debian I'd tried (started with slink)... I I also decided to try Mandrake9.0beta (since my machine was in a "confused" state, anyway).
I've used Mandrake before (7.1+). It was always "decent", but had its problems.. I must say I'm impressed with 9.0, and I'm running GNOME on top of it right now, as my primary (home) desktop, as I type.
It's no longer just Redhat + KDE. RedHat can do that on its own.
With 9.0, my opinion is that Mandrake is finally holding its own. It's actually decent to work with, and while I miss apt-get (and can't find a decent MDK-9 apt-rpm repository) greatly, I honestly can't be bothered trying to get all my stuff working on Debian, where with Mandrake, it all works nearly out of the box. And it's no longer impossible to find config files (they're starting to be, for the most part, where you'd expect them).
I'm not bashing Debian, by any means.. just praising Mandrake (9).
I'd guess that the cost of going OS X for you is going to be comparable to the cost of going Windows
From a software standpoint, yes, you're right. There was a time when Photoshop ran much better on OS(n) (n=7,8,9). That time has passed, and Photoshop / Premiere / After Effects / Dreamweaver / Freehand work almost identically on much cheaper hardware (x86). I'd rather see us go OSX, but I doubt it'll happen that way.
My boss is what I would've called a "Mac Zealot", a year ago.
He just ordered a KVM so he could run a PC alongside his mac, in his office.
Why? Web browsing. We got a 10MBit line a few months ago. IE on mac blows. It's SLOW and buggy. Performance of the network in IE degrades from 800K/sec down to 35K/sec (reproducible).
This, of course, doesn't happen in OSX, but it's going to cost us a lot of cash to buy new versions of all the Adobe and Macromedia software we need all over again (we have OS9 stuff now). When those machines need upgrading, we'll prolly go PC. Why? Price.
Meanwhile we're gradually phasing out our Windows boxes (registry rot) and I've been taking every opportunity possible to make the switch to Linux (servers).
OSX is expensive to upgrade (classic mode is slow). Mac hardware is far from "cheap". That's the bottom line.
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The dairy industry seeks non-dairy product regulation and distinctive markings so that consumers will not be "duped" by "inferior" products.
You think that's funny, but here in Quebec, it's illegal to produce yellow margarine for that very reason.
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Are you insinuating that AOL users frequently piss themselves?
No, I think (s)he was alluding to "what AOL is full of"
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I love their math:
"According to Cinea's grant abstract, the motion picture industry loses some $3 billion a year due to piracy, including the sale of illegal copies made using camcorders in theaters."
I bet this is how that was calculated:
- Seeing a show costs $10.
- "Pirate" tapes sold on the street: 18.75 million
- Said tapes viewed by 4 distinct people
- each viewer sees the movie four times.
So:
18,750,000 tapes
* 4 viewers
-------------
75,000,000
* 4 views per viewer
-------------
300,000,000 views total
* 10 dollars to see the movie, legit
-------------
3,000,000,000 dollars "lost" to piracy
Give me a break.
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is this paragraph:
"There's a difference in the way a camcorder and the human eye see the world," Schumann said. "We've figured out some ways to exploit that. The trick is to make sure there is no negative impact on the viewing experience for the audience."
I would completely quit going to see movies at the theatre for $10 a show if they start to flicker to avoid copying. I'm already ticked off that most theatres are run by 17 year olds who can't focus properly.
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I thought he meant:
Digital Millenium Copyright Police
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The arsenic accomulation ends up killing off the wolves/bears/rabid squirrels that eat deer.
The piles and stench of said dead animals would hopefully serve as a warning to others.
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Nations that want to remain nations ... must have legal, economic, or martial ability to defend and counterattack.
Dude, you're scaring me. I'm CANADIAN!
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I use InstantSSL (Comodo) [flash alert]. Works great. A little Apache tweak, nothing on the client side, and haven't found an unsupported browser.
Best part: $49.
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I saw Matt Groening in Montreal (here) a few months ago at the Simpsons Reading (Just For Laughs Festival). He confirmed that there would, in fact, be a Simpsons Feature.
The show (reading) was pretty cool, too. (-:
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Are we not missing the irony of nitpicking apostrophes and less / fewer in a sentence that contains the phrase "mad propz" ??
No kidding. EVERYONE knows that "mad" has is spelled "madd" in this context.
"pr0pz" is an accepted alternate spelling to "propz", as well.
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In other words, after the first year, you are paying $3.50 a meg after 15 per month (that's 500K a day...)
That would actually be a GOOD deal, here.
Our GPRS carrier (in Montreal), Microcell Fido, has 3 plans:
1) $50 unlimited (the only reasonable plan)
2) $25 for 2MB, then "only" $10/MB
3) $0.03/KB ($30.72 per MB)
30 bucks a meg? heh.. RIIIIGHT.
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However, I don't think that I, my heirs and/or assigns, and/or my legal-entity estate, and/or the corporation which bought up my catalogue before or after my demise (particularly this latter) should be able to profit from my works forever, or even for three quarters of a century after I'm dead. There's no reason for it.
As you mentioned, it's probably possible to assign copyright to the public domain (or the book-equivalent of the FSF; if it exists), instead of one of the aforementioned parties. People do it with other IP all the time (software).
BUT, if you DO want to sell your catalogue (to eat), but don't want said party to retain copyright "forever", couldn't you just grant/sell them a license, with a specific sunset date, after which, it would revert to the "authority" denoted my my first paragraph?
I, for one, probably won't give 2 shakes what happens to my intellectual property when I'm gone. Mostly 'cause I'd be dead.
S
But still, no matter how long you've been a linux user it's still possible to accidently type "rm core *" rather than "rm core*" and not catch it until half a second after you hit enter
/` instead of `rm -r logs/old/`
... as root...
... on a production machine ...
... that didn't yet have the backup-unit installed (by our colo -- their problem)...
I once typed `rm -r logs/old
that was a sucky weekend. (-:
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And yes, you can burn porn images
REALLY?
You mean there's no special software that detects them and refuses the burn? hmm strange.
</sarcasm>
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Just don't try to play (true) 3D games (with googles).
I have Strabismus. I can only see in two dimensions because my eyes were never aligned properly while developing, so I can "switch" between which eye I'm looking out of.
Made my growth-spurt and stairs a little difficult (-:
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I know, IHBT, but:
Then I think Solaris shouldn't ship with Java and Linux shouldn't ship with glibc.
The CLR and JAVA are nothing like glibc, if my understanding is right..
glibc is more analogous to \%SystemRoot%\system32\msvc*.dll
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http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/ope nssl094/libssl09_0.9.4-6.woody.0_i386.deb
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Don't know too much about it, but, check out Power Over Ethernet (POE). Runs things like hubs by delivering electricity over cat5.
You need a special "injector", to get power into the cable, though.. might be able to find a battery operated injector.
Worth a check, at least.
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Mandrake.
/etc where they belong.
MDK is finally starting to put config files in
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to me Mandrake is still RedHat+KDE ... Am I the only one?
I used to think the same thing.
I'm a pretty die-hard Debian fan (100% of my server installations have been Debian for the last year). However, when Woody came out, officially, I tore my desktop apart (time for a backup of critical and wipe of the garbage I'd been collecting). I tried Woody.. liked it just as much as any debian I'd tried (started with slink)... I I also decided to try Mandrake9.0beta (since my machine was in a "confused" state, anyway).
I've used Mandrake before (7.1+). It was always "decent", but had its problems.. I must say I'm impressed with 9.0, and I'm running GNOME on top of it right now, as my primary (home) desktop, as I type.
It's no longer just Redhat + KDE. RedHat can do that on its own.
With 9.0, my opinion is that Mandrake is finally holding its own. It's actually decent to work with, and while I miss apt-get (and can't find a decent MDK-9 apt-rpm repository) greatly, I honestly can't be bothered trying to get all my stuff working on Debian, where with Mandrake, it all works nearly out of the box. And it's no longer impossible to find config files (they're starting to be, for the most part, where you'd expect them).
I'm not bashing Debian, by any means.. just praising Mandrake (9).
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I'd guess that the cost of going OS X for you is going to be comparable to the cost of going Windows
From a software standpoint, yes, you're right.
There was a time when Photoshop ran much better on OS(n) (n=7,8,9). That time has passed, and Photoshop / Premiere / After Effects / Dreamweaver / Freehand work almost identically on much cheaper hardware (x86). I'd rather see us go OSX, but I doubt it'll happen that way.
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After the adoption of Palladium, DVD's (or their successors) could be designed to play only on trusted players that don't allow you to do these things
If I'm not mistaken, the original, current DVD technology was designed to do exactly this.
Fortunately their technology to circumvent such evilness sucked, and was broken.
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My boss is what I would've called a "Mac Zealot", a year ago.
He just ordered a KVM so he could run a PC alongside his mac, in his office.
Why? Web browsing. We got a 10MBit line a few months ago. IE on mac blows. It's SLOW and buggy. Performance of the network in IE degrades from 800K/sec down to 35K/sec (reproducible).
This, of course, doesn't happen in OSX, but it's going to cost us a lot of cash to buy new versions of all the Adobe and Macromedia software we need all over again (we have OS9 stuff now). When those machines need upgrading, we'll prolly go PC. Why? Price.
Meanwhile we're gradually phasing out our Windows boxes (registry rot) and I've been taking every opportunity possible to make the switch to Linux (servers).
OSX is expensive to upgrade (classic mode is slow). Mac hardware is far from "cheap". That's the bottom line.
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"Will you please lone me your sig?"
It's loan, not lone, but yes. You can use my sig.
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advertise in my sig like PIGFACE is doing (-:
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