"...and vow in a legally binding, notarized document, never to do it again."
If P2P trading of Copyrighted music is illegal (and we know that it is), why require this? Is it purely a move to allow easy prosecution should they offend again? Or do they think that prosecuting under copyright law might not work in some cases?
"The iTunes Music Store is only available in the U.S" (http://www.apple.com/music/store/)
Oh well. Back to P2P for me then.
(Note - The above is a joke. Well, both bit's are a joke really. When will US media companies learn that breaking the world into regions is a terrible idea?).
I originally read that as "The Direct Marketing Association is threatening to sue U.S. consumers for the potential loss of buying opportunities." and was remarkably unshocked:)
I'd love to duplicate my game CD's. More and more games are forcing this stupid "You must have the CD in the drive to play" stuff (mainly via Securom, it seems). Which means, even with multiple CD drives, I have a platoon of CD's marching up and down my desk constantly as I gamehop. I'd rather not scratch up the real deal, so I'd like to use copies.
Thinner drives make the possibiliy of huge capacity 3.5 disks in laptops, rather than the (relativly) expensive and smaller 2.5s that are currently used. Good for 1U rackmounts as well.
Also adds the posibility that they can be used in things like Tivo without adding excess overhead.
Some cases really are worth that (and more). I paid £120 (around $180) for my new Lian Li, and don't regret a single penny of it. 4 Builtin fans (variable speed), entirely thumb screw based, pull out motherboard tray, and the chasis is 100% aluminium.
$150 spent on a graphics card might get you top FPS for a few months. $150 on a decent case will last you the rest of your ATX sized upgrades, and save you a LOT of pain if you go inside your machine a fair bit.
Isn't this exactly the point of robots.txt? Google won't cache content it doesn't spider, and it won't spider content forbidden by your robots.txt.
Does the WayBack Machine obey the robots rules?
I can certainly related to the funny japanese manuals! Our fridge freezer includes instructions recommending that you "Turn your knob sharply to remove cubes" (The ice machine), and that the fridge will help keep food because it has "An alarming function built in" (The door buzzer).
Conversely, it could be that more and more "normal" people are using Linux, thus pushing the development users down. This is a ratio we want to see decrease (as long as its associated with a large influx of genuine users).
[OT] - Abacho translates using "Systran", which is the same engine as Babelfish. I'm not sure if they have a later version, but they should both be of equal quality.
As someone who was very tempted to buy a Powerbook shortly, the new prices are a bit of a hike. IIRC, yesterday the base model was around £1200. Now the base model is a somewhat heftier £2,149.00.
Doh.
ID always release the game logic portions of the game shortly after retail, to allow mod makers to start hacking on it (it's been this way since Quake 2 - Quake 1 came "source included").
The quake 3 engine source won't see the public light of day till probably Christmas 2003, maybe even later.
Re:Wow. This couldn't have been timed better
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I don't think I am. I agree, it's not an ideal situation for sure - I'd much rather post the document for all see and play with. However, the fact of life is that ISO needs to make money somehow - Standards don't come free. Selling the document is a large source of revenue for them.
We had the choice of either asking everyone who wanted to participate to pay $$$ to them to get the document to even read it through, or settling for the next best option (the liaison). "Membership" in the J2G is really a misnomer - It's more like "contributer". It costs nothing, except a level of commitment to the project (we have to request some form of "entity" in return for membership, otherwise we're effectivly giving away the documents for free again:).
As I said, it's not ideal. However, it is the best compromise we could attain, and shouldn't hamper anyone who is really interested from particpating.
Wow. This couldn't have been timed better
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I've been involved in JPEG 2000 for a while now, and come to the conclusion that..
A) It's an excellent codec, though computationally heavy
B) The design of the codestream along with JP2/JPX file format has a lot of potential to create a "new" type of image that isn't just a picture. Yes, you've heard this before, but this time it's built in at a codec level. In stream ROI's, very flexible reconstruction and compression controllable through great numbers of options - and that's only the codec (at a *very* rudimentary level:).
C) It won't succeed without a decent opensource, "IPR free" (as much as is possible) implementation.
D) Read C again. It's important
To this end, I've started (with support from others in the JPEG 2000 community), a JPEG 2000 Group (See http://www.j2g.org - It's very sparse at the moment, but if you're interested, bookmark it and come back in about a month). Tom Lane and IGJ have expressed no interested in JPEG2000, for various reasons (which I don't entirely disagree with, but I'd rather be proactive and try to correct flaws than walk away totally).
The aims of the JPEG 2000 Group are to create a public, open source (probably BSD license) implementation of "Part 1" (This is the codestream syntax, codec, and file format wrapper). We'll also provide a community JPEG 2000 resource. To facilitate this, we've already attained a Class C liaison with the committee. This grants all members the option of acquiring the standard free of charge. We also get a minimal channel back into the process to give opinions.
The point of this ever rambling post is this : We need members. The standard is large, and the support around it will be larger. We need volunteers who would be interested in assisting in the creation of the codec. Sadly, "Membership" is going to require some form of contribution and commitment to acquire copies of the texts you'll need - I hate this as much as you, but it was accept it, or don't get any copies at all (without $$$). If you're interested in contributing in any way (code, documents, testing, support), please drop by the at forum - Even if its only a passing interest, I'd be happy to go into more detail regarding the project (or just JPEG 2000 itself). I'd do it here, but I'd loose all my (low:) karma in offtopics.
So, rather than bitch about the lack of a free implementation and how late it is, and how it'll never get used, come and help out! You know you (might possibly | maybe | someday) want to!
Well, if one of the "users" really wanted to hack the box, all he has to do is walk up to it and remove the harddrive:) I don't have any external access past the DMZ.
I have old internal boxes that are way way out of date, but safely firewalled away doing just what I want them to do. Rebuilding those every few months/years (or having to remove timebombs from software before I install it) == Bad idea.
I agree that software should assist admins in keeping it uptodate, but honestly, legitimate users shouldn't be affected if an admin is incompetant or lazy.
This assumes your "modern safe language" doesn't have a hole of its own. At some point, it's bound to interface with "unsafe"/"unmanaged" code, and if you get one exploit there, you get an exploit in *every single* "safe and modern" language application.
Re:Regarding Pet Peeve #2
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Somewhat OT, but google.com come's to the rescue (as I'm sure most of the big search engines do) with their "Who's linking to who" searches. To see who's linking to slashdot, for example, try...
http://www.google.com/search?as_lq=slashdot.org&bt nG=Seerch
Slashdot Mirror
"...and vow in a legally binding, notarized document, never to do it again."
If P2P trading of Copyrighted music is illegal (and we know that it is), why require this? Is it purely a move to allow easy prosecution should they offend again? Or do they think that prosecuting under copyright law might not work in some cases?
"The iTunes Music Store is only available in the U.S" (http://www.apple.com/music/store/)
Oh well. Back to P2P for me then.
(Note - The above is a joke. Well, both bit's are a joke really. When will US media companies learn that breaking the world into regions is a terrible idea?).
http://optimoz.mozdev.org/ - Mozilla gestures. Works great!
I originally read that as "The Direct Marketing Association is threatening to sue U.S. consumers for the potential loss of buying opportunities." and was remarkably unshocked :)
I'd love to duplicate my game CD's. More and more games are forcing this stupid "You must have the CD in the drive to play" stuff (mainly via Securom, it seems). Which means, even with multiple CD drives, I have a platoon of CD's marching up and down my desk constantly as I gamehop. I'd rather not scratch up the real deal, so I'd like to use copies.
Did personal camcorders eliminate hollywood? Did affordable video equipment and home computing force ILM to close?
Who manages the management system?
"All of these require an XBox with modified hardware"
So, that'll be an IBM-PC then.
Thinner drives make the possibiliy of huge capacity 3.5 disks in laptops, rather than the (relativly) expensive and smaller 2.5s that are currently used. Good for 1U rackmounts as well.
Also adds the posibility that they can be used in things like Tivo without adding excess overhead.
adamw
Some cases really are worth that (and more). I paid £120 (around $180) for my new Lian Li, and don't regret a single penny of it. 4 Builtin fans (variable speed), entirely thumb screw based, pull out motherboard tray, and the chasis is 100% aluminium.
$150 spent on a graphics card might get you top FPS for a few months. $150 on a decent case will last you the rest of your ATX sized upgrades, and save you a LOT of pain if you go inside your machine a fair bit.
Expending my of my coke & chocolate research budget, I've finally managed to map out one of the internets worst DOS offenders...
Slashdot -----> Some poor unsuspecting fool
Isn't this exactly the point of robots.txt? Google won't cache content it doesn't spider, and it won't spider content forbidden by your robots.txt. Does the WayBack Machine obey the robots rules?
I can certainly related to the funny japanese manuals! Our fridge freezer includes instructions recommending that you "Turn your knob sharply to remove cubes" (The ice machine), and that the fridge will help keep food because it has "An alarming function built in" (The door buzzer).
Hours of fun...
Conversely, it could be that more and more "normal" people are using Linux, thus pushing the development users down. This is a ratio we want to see decrease (as long as its associated with a large influx of genuine users).
[OT] - Abacho translates using "Systran", which is the same engine as Babelfish. I'm not sure if they have a later version, but they should both be of equal quality.
As someone who was very tempted to buy a Powerbook shortly, the new prices are a bit of a hike. IIRC, yesterday the base model was around £1200. Now the base model is a somewhat heftier £2,149.00. Doh.
ID always release the game logic portions of the game shortly after retail, to allow mod makers to start hacking on it (it's been this way since Quake 2 - Quake 1 came "source included"). The quake 3 engine source won't see the public light of day till probably Christmas 2003, maybe even later.
I don't think I am. I agree, it's not an ideal situation for sure - I'd much rather post the document for all see and play with. However, the fact of life is that ISO needs to make money somehow - Standards don't come free. Selling the document is a large source of revenue for them.
:).
We had the choice of either asking everyone who wanted to participate to pay $$$ to them to get the document to even read it through, or settling for the next best option (the liaison). "Membership" in the J2G is really a misnomer - It's more like "contributer". It costs nothing, except a level of commitment to the project (we have to request some form of "entity" in return for membership, otherwise we're effectivly giving away the documents for free again
As I said, it's not ideal. However, it is the best compromise we could attain, and shouldn't hamper anyone who is really interested from particpating.
I've been involved in JPEG 2000 for a while now, and come to the conclusion that..
:).
:) karma in offtopics.
A) It's an excellent codec, though computationally heavy
B) The design of the codestream along with JP2/JPX file format has a lot of potential to create a "new" type of image that isn't just a picture. Yes, you've heard this before, but this time it's built in at a codec level. In stream ROI's, very flexible reconstruction and compression controllable through great numbers of options - and that's only the codec (at a *very* rudimentary level
C) It won't succeed without a decent opensource, "IPR free" (as much as is possible) implementation.
D) Read C again. It's important
To this end, I've started (with support from others in the JPEG 2000 community), a JPEG 2000 Group (See http://www.j2g.org - It's very sparse at the moment, but if you're interested, bookmark it and come back in about a month). Tom Lane and IGJ have expressed no interested in JPEG2000, for various reasons (which I don't entirely disagree with, but I'd rather be proactive and try to correct flaws than walk away totally).
The aims of the JPEG 2000 Group are to create a public, open source (probably BSD license) implementation of "Part 1" (This is the codestream syntax, codec, and file format wrapper). We'll also provide a community JPEG 2000 resource. To facilitate this, we've already attained a Class C liaison with the committee. This grants all members the option of acquiring the standard free of charge. We also get a minimal channel back into the process to give opinions.
The point of this ever rambling post is this : We need members. The standard is large, and the support around it will be larger. We need volunteers who would be interested in assisting in the creation of the codec. Sadly, "Membership" is going to require some form of contribution and commitment to acquire copies of the texts you'll need - I hate this as much as you, but it was accept it, or don't get any copies at all (without $$$). If you're interested in contributing in any way (code, documents, testing, support), please drop by the at forum - Even if its only a passing interest, I'd be happy to go into more detail regarding the project (or just JPEG 2000 itself). I'd do it here, but I'd loose all my (low
So, rather than bitch about the lack of a free implementation and how late it is, and how it'll never get used, come and help out! You know you (might possibly | maybe | someday) want to!
Well, if one of the "users" really wanted to hack the box, all he has to do is walk up to it and remove the harddrive :) I don't have any external access past the DMZ.
I have old internal boxes that are way way out of date, but safely firewalled away doing just what I want them to do. Rebuilding those every few months/years (or having to remove timebombs from software before I install it) == Bad idea.
I agree that software should assist admins in keeping it uptodate, but honestly, legitimate users shouldn't be affected if an admin is incompetant or lazy.
Please, please stop! :)
This assumes your "modern safe language" doesn't have a hole of its own. At some point, it's bound to interface with "unsafe"/"unmanaged" code, and if you get one exploit there, you get an exploit in *every single* "safe and modern" language application.
Somewhat OT, but google.com come's to the rescue (as I'm sure most of the big search engines do) with their "Who's linking to who" searches. To see who's linking to slashdot, for example, try... http://www.google.com/search?as_lq=slashdot.org&bt nG=Seerch