To the degree that you really believe what you wrote there, you are an idiot.
And I would like to add the old "if you have nothing to hide, let me install cams in your bedroom and toilet and broadcast them live over the Internet".
look inside the "eyetv" recording, and you'll find the raw MPEG stream, and you can use whatever software you want to export it.
Or, you know, you could just edit is as you want it in EyeTV by pressing Ctrl-E and then export the edited MPEG stream directly from EyeTV.
And for those who read "dual core recommended" above, forget about that, I've been happily running EyeTV for years on a G5, and that machine easily handled recording, editing, trimming and exporting simultaneously. The only thing that would get that ancient machine to stutter a bit was playing more than two videos at once, but hey, it's just a G5.;)
Another great feature that's often overlooked: EyeTV will turn on the computer if it needs to in order to record something. Unfortunately I'm only asking several years to enable turning it off afterwards, but hey, turning it on and having power management enabled is an acceptable workaround.
My only pet peeve: Automated recording isn't a daemon, but only done in the software itself. So you have to set up your Mac with auto-login, otherwise nothing gets recorded.
The important part is that WOFF restricts where the font can be linked to.
Actually this feature was already present in OpenType when I started using OTF in 2001 for a web-to-print application. I don't know if it was the typical MS embrace-and-extend, but when creating OTF from TTF with WEFT you had to specify the URI(s) you wanted to use the fonts from. If you embedded the fonts on any other URI, they would simply display as unstyled text. Some more reading on this is here.
So whatever is the reason for the new format, copy protection isn't it. That was already present in WEFT 2, which came out early 2000, and probably in WEFT 1, too.
I'm with you concerning paid accounts - that's plain stupid. But you are wrong on several other points:
1) IP addresses aren't safe at all
An IP address, combined with the timestamp of the access actually makes for pretty good identification. At least here in Germany you can easily get the name and address of the person who had that IP address at the specified timestamp because all around the EU there's mandatory logging of this information. I figure in the US with its Orwellian laws it's the same.
2) RapidShare is *much* safer than BitTorrent
This is speaking for Germany, but I believe the legal situation is the same in the US.
Here in Germany, *downloading* music isn't illegal, and they can't do jack about it. Making it available is, however. I know several people who got dragged to court because of BitTorrent, and they had to pay quite hefty fees because they "made available" copyrighted music. BTW, those smart-asses who just had an open WLAN and tried the "I didn't do it, it was the bad wardriving hacker bastard!!1!" defense got sued for that *seperately*, and had to pay for that, too, because of negligence.
So, when I download from RapidShare, I don't make anything available. I just download it. This is covered under fair use here in Germany, and I believe that the RIAA didn't successfully sue for downloading alone, but always for making available. (But I don't know for sure and am too lazy to google it. I believe they tried but never succeeded.)
That said, where does one search for music on RapidShare? *8-D
Someone explain how this works, why would anyone sign-up for this?
Because $ 7.250 already is significantly cheaper than a regular heating system with condensing boiler technology (nothing else makes sense from an efficiency point of view), plus you get money for the electricity you produce. So you save on two fronts. You know, there's a law here in Germany which says that the grid *must* take the electricity I produce, and at a fixed price, which conveniently is higher than the price I pay at the moment.
So, it's pretty much a no-brainer. The only thing that makes me a bit uncomfortable is having a fscking power plant in my basement that is connected to the Internet.
I am actually evaluating this at the moment, but I'm not in Northern Germany where they'll launch the pilot systems. So I'll have to wait - OTOH, my heating system probably will be okay for another two or three years.
Being German, I can tell you that I have yet to meet someone who has AC in his home. Public buildings *sometimes* have it, but AC isn't common here at all.
I dunno if the parent used it, but you can do that with Firebug. Just right-click onto the dropdown, choose "Inspect Element" and change the source code for the option as desired. Choose, submit, enjoy.
It's always the same ignorance and know-it-all. *sigh*
You still don't need to know what it was created by.
Yes you do. Look at this file, called "whathefark.eps". What is it? An Adobe Illustrator file with layers and stuff which can only be processed in Illustrator? Or a Quark EPS export file, which is useful for nothing except for being placed as an image inside of Quark XPress? Or maybe a Freehand EPS, only editable in Freehand? It might as well be a Photoshop bitmap image saved as EPS to keep the clipping paths (which none of the above applications can edit).
There are lots of ambiguous file formats. In case you haven't noticed,.doc is one of them. Try to open, for example, a Word for Windows 2.0.doc file containing styles and images in the newest version of Word, and be surprised how different the same file can look.
Knowing in which application (and which version of it) a file was created (and should be opened in when double-clicked) is part of what made the Mac the superior publishing platform it used to be. If Apple really has removed this feature, it would be a huge step backwards, and only to remove a PEBKAC effect.
Amazon is fucking up my Snow Leopard delivery, so I can't test it myself, but I imagine that applications still can set their creator codes if they insist on it. After all, it's a FS feature.
OzWin was one of the OLRs I investigated before I really knew what an OLR was, just that I needed to do something to avoid tying up the phone line for hours at a time.
I wasn't so much concerned about the phone line (being online was better than talking on the phone *g*), but about the cost of being online. When I started, the hour was like 15 USD, and I simply didn't have much money and hated the CIM (the online software provided) for reading forums. I just didn't have hundreds of USD to burn on CIS and phone fees (no free local calls in Germany).
Through the summer of 1992 I was working 3+1 (3 weeks onsite, one week offsite) on the south coast, so I moved a day's travel closer to the worksite and spent the summer living in my parents attic. I think that was when I joined up. But I believe that people were using CIS for years before that in Europe. Or would that have been people signing up for US accounts, but using European dial-in nodes?
Yes, people were using CIS since the early 90's, but in the beginning, you'd get 74xxx account IIRC. My girl-friend's father back then joined sometime in 1993 and had 1000xx, so they started a new "namespace" at that time. I joined in 1995 and had 1005xx already. A friend's brother joined at around the same time while living in Thailand and got a 7xxxx.
IIRC, the octal set-up was historically, from the days when CIS consisted of mainframes, selling time slices.
102xxx was German for sure, but quite late in the game, I'd guess 1997 or later. At the end they were at 113xxx for German accounts.
70007 were never handed out to mere mortals. Those were the holy class of accounts, and if you encountered one, you'd notice. They were restriced to high CIS personnel and VIPs. Later in the game, some were used in support (in an attempt to tone down the then raging wars in the support forums), but by then their magic had burned down already.
You'd meet lots of 70007's in SYSOP, which was the center of the world for CIS. You'd only get in if you were a Wizard, and there, under heavy NDA, everything was discussed, all plans for the service, general strategies etc. - it was the main discussion channel between CIS and the forum owners. It also had a huge library full of free versions of commercial software which the vendors gave away for the Wizards, presumably hoping we'd talk about the software in our forums.
Ah well. Makes my heart hurt, remembering how it all got burned down by a handful of idiots who didn't recognize what they had there.
It wasn't the AOLization actually, but the destruction of the classic forums which drove me away. When I called to unsubscribe (you couldn't even unsubscribe online any more), the guy asked me why I quit. I told him "because you are killing the forums, and that's the only reason why I was still a CIS member", to which he replied that they didn't, they were just restructuring stuff, yadda yadda. I then told him "you know, I'm the wizard of several forums, you can just stop lying, I *know* the truth." To which he replied, "well, then I guess I don't need to try and offer you a lower monthly fee - hey, wait a minute!" Obviously he was looking up the details of my account, because he then said [the names of my forums], followed by a pause, and simply "I'm sorry. I was a member in several of your forums. It's sad to see you go."
I don't think the NDA ever times out, but I admit having thrown all that stuff away furiously, so I can't look it up. The contracts were individual, so it can be either way.
Yes, OLRs were quite funny in that respect. I was an OzWin II user, and IIRC it was the only software with full WizOp functionality. When the commands were still ASCII, I used to fool around in HyperTerminal, but when they switched to HMI, that fun went away. I still could prevent one of my forums from being deleted by elfing (L-flagging, L for lockout) the CIS service account which checked whether the destruction of the forum was complete. It couldn't login, so it considered the forum destroyed. Took them almost a week to notice. In hindsight, that made saying good-bye even harder, because everytime you returned to find the forum still online, it was like looking at a carcass, with the chat rooms full of griefing members, and the knowledge that it could be over any second now. It was almost impossible to bear.
100025 would be among the first European accounts, is that correct?
Oh well, 100531,3420 here. Yup, we Europeans had different numbers, and back in the old days before Eternal September you could even tell the geographical area of someone just by his CIS ID.
For all those who tagged this story "andnothingofvaluewaslost": Back in the day, you could only join CompuServe providing ID and using your real name. It's amazing how much nicer people behaved and how much more substance there was in the discussions. Because, you know, you didn't want your name associated with talking out of your ass. Much less flaming also, leave alone trolling. The trolls couldn't hold onto their accounts for long, because without ID they wouldn't get new ones. Oh, and for the same reasons there was no spam whatsoever.
It was a great time. It went down the drain when German laws dictated that everybody had to be allowed in, using nicknames, and without proof of identity. Then came the trolls, the idiots, and Eternal September followed.
I was a sysop, and even a wizop (Wizard Sysop, basically "root" of the forum), and have seen much of the shit which started when AOL took over. That basically killed the spirit. It's a real pity that I signed a pretty badass NDA, otherwise all that would make for a great book on how *not* to run an online service.
*sigh*
I feel old now. Being online used to be fun and fascinating and educational. Nowadays it's, well, shit.
The greatest weapons you didn't mention were tripbombs and pipe bombs. That made multiplayer BIG FUN. Put a handful of pipebombs in front of a door, then deposit a tripbomb so that the laser would point to the door. The next player to open that door sure was in for a surprise. I haven't seen anything like that in modern multiplayer FPS.
Wait. You mean that this talk about choosing between the dog, dead people and cash wasn't a joke?
Damn. I feel like I did when I realized that the cheesy phrase "Kiss me again like you did..." that I read on Slashdot *really* was in that Star Wars movie.
At least stuff like that makes me feel OK with the fact I haven't been gaming for, like, 15 years. Doesn't seem as if I'm missing much.
I agree, and I'm only building communities since 1996. But, seriously, what do you do when encountering the inevitable "fuck you, I'm coming back with all my friends and destroy your board"? You know, I can't count the forums I've seen beaten to death by flashmobs of/b/tards, to name one example.
To put it another way, how do you handle massive crowds with too much time on their hands and an axe to grind?
Slashdot Mirror
To the degree that you really believe what you wrote there, you are an idiot.
And I would like to add the old "if you have nothing to hide, let me install cams in your bedroom and toilet and broadcast them live over the Internet".
look inside the "eyetv" recording, and you'll find the raw MPEG stream, and you can use whatever software you want to export it.
Or, you know, you could just edit is as you want it in EyeTV by pressing Ctrl-E and then export the edited MPEG stream directly from EyeTV.
And for those who read "dual core recommended" above, forget about that, I've been happily running EyeTV for years on a G5, and that machine easily handled recording, editing, trimming and exporting simultaneously. The only thing that would get that ancient machine to stutter a bit was playing more than two videos at once, but hey, it's just a G5. ;)
Another great feature that's often overlooked: EyeTV will turn on the computer if it needs to in order to record something. Unfortunately I'm only asking several years to enable turning it off afterwards, but hey, turning it on and having power management enabled is an acceptable workaround.
My only pet peeve: Automated recording isn't a daemon, but only done in the software itself. So you have to set up your Mac with auto-login, otherwise nothing gets recorded.
Signed,
another happy EyeTV user.
You forgot the obvious link in case you're not the only WHOOOSH in this thread.
Actually that sounds comes from over *your* head.
PowerPoint.
The important part is that WOFF restricts where the font can be linked to.
Actually this feature was already present in OpenType when I started using OTF in 2001 for a web-to-print application. I don't know if it was the typical MS embrace-and-extend, but when creating OTF from TTF with WEFT you had to specify the URI(s) you wanted to use the fonts from. If you embedded the fonts on any other URI, they would simply display as unstyled text. Some more reading on this is here.
So whatever is the reason for the new format, copy protection isn't it. That was already present in WEFT 2, which came out early 2000, and probably in WEFT 1, too.
I'm with you concerning paid accounts - that's plain stupid. But you are wrong on several other points:
1) IP addresses aren't safe at all
An IP address, combined with the timestamp of the access actually makes for pretty good identification. At least here in Germany you can easily get the name and address of the person who had that IP address at the specified timestamp because all around the EU there's mandatory logging of this information. I figure in the US with its Orwellian laws it's the same.
2) RapidShare is *much* safer than BitTorrent
This is speaking for Germany, but I believe the legal situation is the same in the US.
Here in Germany, *downloading* music isn't illegal, and they can't do jack about it. Making it available is, however. I know several people who got dragged to court because of BitTorrent, and they had to pay quite hefty fees because they "made available" copyrighted music. BTW, those smart-asses who just had an open WLAN and tried the "I didn't do it, it was the bad wardriving hacker bastard!!1!" defense got sued for that *seperately*, and had to pay for that, too, because of negligence.
So, when I download from RapidShare, I don't make anything available. I just download it. This is covered under fair use here in Germany, and I believe that the RIAA didn't successfully sue for downloading alone, but always for making available. (But I don't know for sure and am too lazy to google it. I believe they tried but never succeeded.)
That said, where does one search for music on RapidShare? *8-D
don't click the box
But I want to see the dancing monkeys!
Someone explain how this works, why would anyone sign-up for this?
Because $ 7.250 already is significantly cheaper than a regular heating system with condensing boiler technology (nothing else makes sense from an efficiency point of view), plus you get money for the electricity you produce. So you save on two fronts. You know, there's a law here in Germany which says that the grid *must* take the electricity I produce, and at a fixed price, which conveniently is higher than the price I pay at the moment.
So, it's pretty much a no-brainer. The only thing that makes me a bit uncomfortable is having a fscking power plant in my basement that is connected to the Internet.
I am actually evaluating this at the moment, but I'm not in Northern Germany where they'll launch the pilot systems. So I'll have to wait - OTOH, my heating system probably will be okay for another two or three years.
Being German, I can tell you that I have yet to meet someone who has AC in his home. Public buildings *sometimes* have it, but AC isn't common here at all.
I dunno if the parent used it, but you can do that with Firebug. Just right-click onto the dropdown, choose "Inspect Element" and change the source code for the option as desired. Choose, submit, enjoy.
It's always the same ignorance and know-it-all. *sigh*
You still don't need to know what it was created by.
Yes you do. Look at this file, called "whathefark.eps". What is it? An Adobe Illustrator file with layers and stuff which can only be processed in Illustrator? Or a Quark EPS export file, which is useful for nothing except for being placed as an image inside of Quark XPress? Or maybe a Freehand EPS, only editable in Freehand? It might as well be a Photoshop bitmap image saved as EPS to keep the clipping paths (which none of the above applications can edit).
There are lots of ambiguous file formats. In case you haven't noticed, .doc is one of them. Try to open, for example, a Word for Windows 2.0 .doc file containing styles and images in the newest version of Word, and be surprised how different the same file can look.
Knowing in which application (and which version of it) a file was created (and should be opened in when double-clicked) is part of what made the Mac the superior publishing platform it used to be. If Apple really has removed this feature, it would be a huge step backwards, and only to remove a PEBKAC effect.
Amazon is fucking up my Snow Leopard delivery, so I can't test it myself, but I imagine that applications still can set their creator codes if they insist on it. After all, it's a FS feature.
maybe it will make my hair grow back
OTOH, it might as well make your back hair grow, and who wants that?
I've bashed twitter more than anybody I know, but I will admit now it's actually useful for some things.
Like what? I'm not bashing Twitter, I just keep reading "it's useful for something" without ever having seen any example whatsoever.
How can you defend free-will without believing in God?
No problem. Many Worlds Interpretation. Just consider that, and Schrödinger's cat.
That reminds me.
Schrödinger and Heisenberg are driving around when they run over a cat. Asks Schrödinger: "Is it dead?" - "I can't be certain", responds Heisenberg.
OzWin was one of the OLRs I investigated before I really knew what an OLR was, just that I needed to do something to avoid tying up the phone line for hours at a time.
I wasn't so much concerned about the phone line (being online was better than talking on the phone *g*), but about the cost of being online. When I started, the hour was like 15 USD, and I simply didn't have much money and hated the CIM (the online software provided) for reading forums. I just didn't have hundreds of USD to burn on CIS and phone fees (no free local calls in Germany).
Through the summer of 1992 I was working 3+1 (3 weeks onsite, one week offsite) on the south coast, so I moved a day's travel closer to the worksite and spent the summer living in my parents attic. I think that was when I joined up. But I believe that people were using CIS for years before that in Europe. Or would that have been people signing up for US accounts, but using European dial-in nodes?
Yes, people were using CIS since the early 90's, but in the beginning, you'd get 74xxx account IIRC. My girl-friend's father back then joined sometime in 1993 and had 1000xx, so they started a new "namespace" at that time. I joined in 1995 and had 1005xx already. A friend's brother joined at around the same time while living in Thailand and got a 7xxxx.
IIRC, the octal set-up was historically, from the days when CIS consisted of mainframes, selling time slices.
102xxx was German for sure, but quite late in the game, I'd guess 1997 or later. At the end they were at 113xxx for German accounts.
70007 were never handed out to mere mortals. Those were the holy class of accounts, and if you encountered one, you'd notice. They were restriced to high CIS personnel and VIPs. Later in the game, some were used in support (in an attempt to tone down the then raging wars in the support forums), but by then their magic had burned down already.
You'd meet lots of 70007's in SYSOP, which was the center of the world for CIS. You'd only get in if you were a Wizard, and there, under heavy NDA, everything was discussed, all plans for the service, general strategies etc. - it was the main discussion channel between CIS and the forum owners. It also had a huge library full of free versions of commercial software which the vendors gave away for the Wizards, presumably hoping we'd talk about the software in our forums.
Ah well. Makes my heart hurt, remembering how it all got burned down by a handful of idiots who didn't recognize what they had there.
It wasn't the AOLization actually, but the destruction of the classic forums which drove me away. When I called to unsubscribe (you couldn't even unsubscribe online any more), the guy asked me why I quit. I told him "because you are killing the forums, and that's the only reason why I was still a CIS member", to which he replied that they didn't, they were just restructuring stuff, yadda yadda. I then told him "you know, I'm the wizard of several forums, you can just stop lying, I *know* the truth." To which he replied, "well, then I guess I don't need to try and offer you a lower monthly fee - hey, wait a minute!" Obviously he was looking up the details of my account, because he then said [the names of my forums], followed by a pause, and simply "I'm sorry. I was a member in several of your forums. It's sad to see you go."
I don't think the NDA ever times out, but I admit having thrown all that stuff away furiously, so I can't look it up. The contracts were individual, so it can be either way.
Yes, OLRs were quite funny in that respect. I was an OzWin II user, and IIRC it was the only software with full WizOp functionality. When the commands were still ASCII, I used to fool around in HyperTerminal, but when they switched to HMI, that fun went away. I still could prevent one of my forums from being deleted by elfing (L-flagging, L for lockout) the CIS service account which checked whether the destruction of the forum was complete. It couldn't login, so it considered the forum destroyed. Took them almost a week to notice. In hindsight, that made saying good-bye even harder, because everytime you returned to find the forum still online, it was like looking at a carcass, with the chat rooms full of griefing members, and the knowledge that it could be over any second now. It was almost impossible to bear.
100025 would be among the first European accounts, is that correct?
Oh well, 100531,3420 here. Yup, we Europeans had different numbers, and back in the old days before Eternal September you could even tell the geographical area of someone just by his CIS ID.
For all those who tagged this story "andnothingofvaluewaslost": Back in the day, you could only join CompuServe providing ID and using your real name. It's amazing how much nicer people behaved and how much more substance there was in the discussions. Because, you know, you didn't want your name associated with talking out of your ass. Much less flaming also, leave alone trolling. The trolls couldn't hold onto their accounts for long, because without ID they wouldn't get new ones. Oh, and for the same reasons there was no spam whatsoever.
It was a great time. It went down the drain when German laws dictated that everybody had to be allowed in, using nicknames, and without proof of identity. Then came the trolls, the idiots, and Eternal September followed.
I was a sysop, and even a wizop (Wizard Sysop, basically "root" of the forum), and have seen much of the shit which started when AOL took over. That basically killed the spirit. It's a real pity that I signed a pretty badass NDA, otherwise all that would make for a great book on how *not* to run an online service.
*sigh*
I feel old now. Being online used to be fun and fascinating and educational. Nowadays it's, well, shit.
I sure hope you're kidding, but would love some linkage for that.
Joe Average User is not going to crop and save a screencap using image editing software.
Maybe not, but if he's using a Mac, he might just press Cmd-Shift-4 and directly crop the image to a file on his desktop.
The greatest weapons you didn't mention were tripbombs and pipe bombs. That made multiplayer BIG FUN. Put a handful of pipebombs in front of a door, then deposit a tripbomb so that the laser would point to the door. The next player to open that door sure was in for a surprise. I haven't seen anything like that in modern multiplayer FPS.
Wait. You mean that this talk about choosing between the dog, dead people and cash wasn't a joke?
Damn. I feel like I did when I realized that the cheesy phrase "Kiss me again like you did..." that I read on Slashdot *really* was in that Star Wars movie.
At least stuff like that makes me feel OK with the fact I haven't been gaming for, like, 15 years. Doesn't seem as if I'm missing much.
WHOOSH.
Even if we forgot Poland, Poland would never forget *us*.
Taking over French things is the Germans' job.
Dude, you've got it all backwards. We only SHOT BACK.
(Warning: Moderation of this comment exhibits your knowledge of history.)
I agree, and I'm only building communities since 1996. But, seriously, what do you do when encountering the inevitable "fuck you, I'm coming back with all my friends and destroy your board"? You know, I can't count the forums I've seen beaten to death by flashmobs of /b/tards, to name one example.
To put it another way, how do you handle massive crowds with too much time on their hands and an axe to grind?