think about it: if the record industry manages to move music over to the DVD format from CD, the ripping days of the average citizen may be over. (yes, hax0rz will still r00l, but most people won't)
given that many DVD players are connected to people's stereos, and many (like me) replaced our CD players with them, we're all unwittingly contributing to providing the record industry with a platform that favors restrictions on content freedom (which I consider to be quite distinct from stealing--by content freedom, i mean the ability to put music I pay for on my iPod)
when DVD players reach a critical mass, record labels can stop releasing music on CD, move us all over to DVD, and have us over a barrel on content freedom
Europe had the luxury of getting rebuilt by the United States after World War II (Marshall Plan) and THEN had the luxury of having the United States provide Europe's defense for 40 years (Cold War).
Maybe Europe should repay the United States for all of that. Then the Europeans would realize much more quickly what all of that socialism is doing to their economies...
I've written several CGI scripts--most recently today--that would technically be in violation of a ban on forged headers.
In the script I was working on today, users are able to RSVP themselves and friends to an event. The friends then receive an e-mail that appears to be coming from the person who used the script.
This is necessary, because if the e-mail had come from the domain of the person whose site contained the script, either (1) the recipients might not recognize the address and they'd ignore the invitation without reading it, or (2) it would get flagged as spam by some program.
If there's some kind of draconian, DCMA-type law against headers, then simple CGI scripts will land all sorts of people like me in prison. So, if they're going to pass a law, they'd damn well better do it sensibly...or better yet, don't do it at all, because it could never be enforced anyway.
Our politics operate a little differently. What may be right-wing in your country may not be in ours, because we've got different histories and cultures.
For example, here in America, it's considered bigoted to be anti-semetic. In Europe, it's perfectly acceptable.
Eventually you will run out of ways to obfuscate information such that a human bran will be the only way to decipher it, because eventually we will be able to outdo our own brains with software. In fact Ray Kurzwiel thinks we will do that in the next 40 years. I don't know if it will be that soon, but eventually you'll run ot of ways to fool the software.
Kurzweil's book was a fascinating read--and he made many intriguing points--but in this case, he assumes that the barrier to emulating a brain today is the amount of computing power available to do it successfully. But, we don't know enough about the functioning of the brain now to model it successfully even if we had the processing capacity. Ultimately, I think it'll take quite a while longer than 40 years, because our understanding won't expand quickly enough to enable it sooner.
This makes me feel intellectually inferior, so I will attempt to make myself feel compatatively better by taking you down a notch with a nit-pick:
In the last twenty years, the average amount of memory in a computer has gone from about 512k to 512 megs...
At the beginning of 1983, most people were lucky if they were using computers with 64K of RAM. By the end of that year, a few had 128K. 512K didn't become common until 1985 or 1986, probably...
I'm assuming you're not running OS X, but if you are, you can use Safari, Apple's new browser. Has a Google box right next to the address bar...
Or, you can make a Bookmark (possibly to put in your toolbar):
javascript:void(q=prompt('Google%20se arch:','')); if (q) void(location.href='http://google.com/search?clien t=googlet&q='+escape(q))
Note that the code above has been put on multiple lines to get around possible lameness filter. Put on one line and remove all spaces, should work. I use it all the time in Chimera Navigator and Mozilla, where I don't have a Google box.
Will someone please tell me how the hell to pronounce PostgreSQL?
Or are we supposed to pronounce it POST-GRE-SEE-KWEL? Or POST-GRES-CUE-ELL? Or POST-GRES-QUERY LANGUAGE?
And where the hell did that name come from? Did they take "Ingres", and increment it (like how C became C++), thereby making it "Postgres"? Then "PostgreSQL" means "the better-than-Ingres query language"?
I hate it when techies come up with names. It always ends up being something that's either stupid and meaningless, like C#, or self-referential and too-cute-by-half, like GNU. Recursive acronym my ass.
The irony is this: I've noticed that Hollywood seems to have no problems with using open systems (such as linux) for editing and special effects, and then locking down everything in sight after doing their production.
I sympathize with your sentiments, but I think the guys using Linux to do rendering, for example, are very far removed from the guys selling the movies. In fact, they're probably in different companies, since the studio producing the film will often outsource postproduction...
Microsoft claims it's for providing "safe computing", citing viruses, etc., but does it seem like a coincidence that Microsoft is also currently pitching a DRM system to the entertainment industry? Without something like Palladium, DRM is dead in the water.
If Microsoft was only worried about susceptibility to viruses, it can solve the problem without having to redesign the entire platform from the chips up...
Given the effort Microsoft is putting in, Palladium is more about providing additional revenue streams for Microsoft--DRM licensing. Everyone knows Microsoft products are buggy and prone to viruses, but I doubt Microsoft views those problem as immediate to the company's bottom line. But, a cut of the action any time someone buys music or video? That's where the action is...
>If they were we'd have heard some hype
>like we did for the ipod and the imac.
Well, the flat-screen iMac had absolutely no pre-MacWorld hype (except for Time Canada's "accidental" posting of the iMac article the night before the keynote)...all the rumor sites were dead wrong last January when it was announced.
As for the iPod, there were rumors also, but none of them were 100% correct...
I think the above poster is right about "voluntary" (i.e., industry-managed as opposed to legislatively-mandated) DRM with respect to Microsoft...
Microsoft's DRM scheme serves as yet another way to lock people into their operating system by restricting the choice (of content) that is available to users of other operating systems.
Think about it: if Microsoft is successful at convicing Hollywood that their content will only be safe on Microsoft Windows systems, then Hollywood will only produce content for Microsoft Windows systems.
Microsoft may actually fear legislative attempts at creating DRM schemes, since those attempts would be much less likely to favor one OS over another.
Don't forget that in 1996 the Sudanese government offered three separate times to hand over bin Laden to the U.S. and Clinton refused. Ironically, Clinton, who could find a legal excuse to explain away ANY of his OWN behavior--including quibbling over the meaning of the word "is"--said that there was no legal justification for the U.S. to take custody of bin Laden.
Oh, if only Boy Clinton had put his legalistic mind towards something USEFUL (like protecting our country against bin Laden) as opposed to using it only to get himself out of his own self-made messes...who knows how different the world might be right now?
I don't see what the big deal about a la carte is; every time I order sushi that way, I end up ordering too much, spending an assload of money and getting stuck with a bunch of uneaten raw fish.
Why do y'all keep saying it looks like XP? Have you *seen* XP? It looks nothing like this, unless you go ahead and switch it to the "Classic" Windows look, which resembles 95, 98, ME, NT 4.0, and 2000. This looks exactly like the *old* ("Classic") Windows.
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Nerds are unpopular because they spend too much time thinking about why nerds are unpopular.
i have some stuff you can smoke that will mellow you out.
in the meantime, he wasn't just talking about getting FTP working with NAT, he was talking about getting FTP through ssh tunnelling working with NAT.
think about it: if the record industry manages to move music over to the DVD format from CD, the ripping days of the average citizen may be over. (yes, hax0rz will still r00l, but most people won't)
given that many DVD players are connected to people's stereos, and many (like me) replaced our CD players with them, we're all unwittingly contributing to providing the record industry with a platform that favors restrictions on content freedom (which I consider to be quite distinct from stealing--by content freedom, i mean the ability to put music I pay for on my iPod)
when DVD players reach a critical mass, record labels can stop releasing music on CD, move us all over to DVD, and have us over a barrel on content freedom
print "Hello World!";
Where do I pick up my paycheck???
Maybe Europe should repay the United States for all of that. Then the Europeans would realize much more quickly what all of that socialism is doing to their economies...
In the script I was working on today, users are able to RSVP themselves and friends to an event. The friends then receive an e-mail that appears to be coming from the person who used the script.
This is necessary, because if the e-mail had come from the domain of the person whose site contained the script, either (1) the recipients might not recognize the address and they'd ignore the invitation without reading it, or (2) it would get flagged as spam by some program.
If there's some kind of draconian, DCMA-type law against headers, then simple CGI scripts will land all sorts of people like me in prison. So, if they're going to pass a law, they'd damn well better do it sensibly...or better yet, don't do it at all, because it could never be enforced anyway.
Homer: ...but we're gonna miss Inside the Actors Studio. F. Murray Abraham's on, Marge. F. Murray Abraham!
Our politics operate a little differently. What may be right-wing in your country may not be in ours, because we've got different histories and cultures.
For example, here in America, it's considered bigoted to be anti-semetic. In Europe, it's perfectly acceptable.
Kurzweil's book was a fascinating read--and he made many intriguing points--but in this case, he assumes that the barrier to emulating a brain today is the amount of computing power available to do it successfully. But, we don't know enough about the functioning of the brain now to model it successfully even if we had the processing capacity. Ultimately, I think it'll take quite a while longer than 40 years, because our understanding won't expand quickly enough to enable it sooner.
When the water breaks, it is akin to breaking a shrinkwrap, so consent is implied.
Yikes! That has to be ugliest GUI created by mankind. It makes Windows 3.1 look like OS X...
Is Rendezvous code available for Linux? Didn't Apple release the source for it? Shouldn't be too hard to port if it hasn't been yet...?
I've got a silly hunch that the popular kid in high school was using neither OS/2 nor BeOS...
He realized this bill wouldn't help him get drunk or get laid, so he...pulled out.
This makes me feel intellectually inferior, so I will attempt to make myself feel compatatively better by taking you down a notch with a nit-pick:
At the beginning of 1983, most people were lucky if they were using computers with 64K of RAM. By the end of that year, a few had 128K. 512K didn't become common until 1985 or 1986, probably...
I think what you meant to say was:
If local Hydro can provide cheap, fast internet to everyone with power, more power to them!
I'm assuming you're not running OS X, but if you are, you can use Safari, Apple's new browser. Has a Google box right next to the address bar...
n t=googlet&q='+escape(q))
Or, you can make a Bookmark (possibly to put in your toolbar):
javascript:void(q=prompt('Google%20se arch:',''));
if (q)
void(location.href='http://google.com/search?clie
Note that the code above has been put on multiple lines to get around possible lameness filter. Put on one line and remove all spaces, should work. I use it all the time in Chimera Navigator and Mozilla, where I don't have a Google box.
Or are we supposed to pronounce it POST-GRE-SEE-KWEL? Or POST-GRES-CUE-ELL? Or POST-GRES-QUERY LANGUAGE?
And where the hell did that name come from? Did they take "Ingres", and increment it (like how C became C++), thereby making it "Postgres"? Then "PostgreSQL" means "the better-than-Ingres query language"?
I hate it when techies come up with names. It always ends up being something that's either stupid and meaningless, like C#, or self-referential and too-cute-by-half, like GNU. Recursive acronym my ass.
I sympathize with your sentiments, but I think the guys using Linux to do rendering, for example, are very far removed from the guys selling the movies. In fact, they're probably in different companies, since the studio producing the film will often outsource postproduction...
Microsoft claims it's for providing "safe computing", citing viruses, etc., but does it seem like a coincidence that Microsoft is also currently pitching a DRM system to the entertainment industry? Without something like Palladium, DRM is dead in the water.
If Microsoft was only worried about susceptibility to viruses, it can solve the problem without having to redesign the entire platform from the chips up...
Given the effort Microsoft is putting in, Palladium is more about providing additional revenue streams for Microsoft--DRM licensing. Everyone knows Microsoft products are buggy and prone to viruses, but I doubt Microsoft views those problem as immediate to the company's bottom line. But, a cut of the action any time someone buys music or video? That's where the action is...
>like we did for the ipod and the imac.
Well, the flat-screen iMac had absolutely no pre-MacWorld hype (except for Time Canada's "accidental" posting of the iMac article the night before the keynote)...all the rumor sites were dead wrong last January when it was announced.
As for the iPod, there were rumors also, but none of them were 100% correct...
Microsoft's DRM scheme serves as yet another way to lock people into their operating system by restricting the choice (of content) that is available to users of other operating systems.
Think about it: if Microsoft is successful at convicing Hollywood that their content will only be safe on Microsoft Windows systems, then Hollywood will only produce content for Microsoft Windows systems.
Microsoft may actually fear legislative attempts at creating DRM schemes, since those attempts would be much less likely to favor one OS over another.
Oh, if only Boy Clinton had put his legalistic mind towards something USEFUL (like protecting our country against bin Laden) as opposed to using it only to get himself out of his own self-made messes...who knows how different the world might be right now?
I don't see what the big deal about a la carte is; every time I order sushi that way, I end up ordering too much, spending an assload of money and getting stuck with a bunch of uneaten raw fish.
Why do y'all keep saying it looks like XP? Have you *seen* XP? It looks nothing like this, unless you go ahead and switch it to the "Classic" Windows look, which resembles 95, 98, ME, NT 4.0, and 2000. This looks exactly like the *old* ("Classic") Windows.