Apple Computer Corp. has such a history of screwups, bad decisions, bad marketing, etc. et. al. that I have written them off.
I just read this morning how they chose not to give or even sell (at street price) iMacs to freeiMac. The company FreeiMac would give away free iMac computers with the usual 3 years of Earthlink subscription plus accepting advertising.
Talk about clueless! They have turned down another opportunity to increase the awareness and use of their computers. They already have an ever decreasing share of the market and decisions like this will only help seal their doom.
Jobs is an insane, megalomanial leader of a corporation led by more fools. Not that Apple doesn't do good things -- the Macintosh is an incredible computer and I loved mine. But I bowed to economics and bought a less expensive PC (I prefer Linux or BeOS, thank you).
This possible move to the Crusoe processor may be the sign of intelligence: Emulating the G4 in a cheaper and less power-hungry processor == Less expensive G4 == Cheaper Macs == More consumers buying your expensive hardware.
I work in the real world with access to a T1 from my desk. I share it but get about 25-80K/sec...
I shared that to show I have no real identity with what they are experiencing, other than modem experience. I've worked with modems from 300 baud up to 56K. I can remember the shit-fit I had when I went from 300 to 1200 baud! But enough "old-fart" reminiscing. You're facing a problem with management of the network. You need some OC-3's or OC-12's. (That's the fastest I know of.)
I suggest you use FreeDSL.com to get some higher speed access to the net. (www.freedsl.com) They're similar to AllAdvantage in how they work, but if you have a 19" monitor you can easily forget those ****ing banner ads.
Corporations are beginning to learn that the people have the power and not them. They don't like this, as it cuts into their profit margin.
With the growth of the internet, Linux, MP3s, and any other open method of media distribution, it is becoming aparent that the populace will not long endure the shackles that have been placed them by the global mega-corps. This will not be a sudden or violent revolution, but rather a quiet and constant one.
As Linux has grown and will subsume other OSs in the computer world, DVD and other proprietary standards will likewise whither and die.
The people have spoken and they all said: [Penguin sound]
How long does anyone believe it will be before someone sells DVDs with encryption already burned in and the rest of the disk ready to strore information???
Please, perform a bit of study of what you speak as this kind of ignorant crap should be well below my threshold.
Windows in nothing more than a GUI pasted on top of DOS. Nothing more, nothing less. I don't care how much you talk about abstraction layers and other shit.
If a server were setup where Chinese journalists could anonymously leave articles about activities of the government (such as Tianaman Square) existed, it would help open the country and let the world take more of an interest in their affairs.
The MPA (Motion Picture Association) is an American organization that has trouble with the fact that the DVD "code" mechanism has been broken. They still don't realize some facts of life.
When recordable cassette decks became common, they were feared as a means of breaking the back of the music industry -- one person would buy an album, and then distribute copies.
This happened with videotapes.
With CDs.
Will happen with DVDs. (Just buy a Phillips DVD recorder and make bit-wise copies of a DVD for an exact copy.)
The majority of people (the market) will still buy original copies. This is not a theory or hypothesis but a simple truth. It is easier for a person to go to the local MediaShop to buy a movie, or music, or anything else than to find Joe "Jon Johansen" Hacker to burn them a copy of Titanic.
Sure some people copy their work and distribute the copies. There is always going to be a "grey" (I think chartreuse, but that's me) area surrounding the profit zone. Grow up and live with it.
Focus on the profitable area and be satisfied with it.
Everyone go out, find an international mirror of the deCSS program, and post it on your personal web site!
I'm going to explicitly defy the MPAA's desire by posting it to my site later. I'll also e-mail them that I have it up in defiance of their irrational complaints.
Once an idea has occurred, it is then immediately accessible to the collective unconcious. Anyone, anywhere, may have the same idea. This happens in a continual process and is the reason patents exist. (Or why they were begun...) That's another issue -- If all Computer Science programmers are trained in similar manners, why is it surprising that they can all produce similar products through similar processes?
If someone, somewhere does something in a program, all I need to do is think about the problem -- eventually I'll have a solution and there is a good chance it will be similar to the original method. Do I need to pay licensing fees? Bullshit.
Open source programming creates more robust software and is more responsive to consumer need. If a company based it's programming policy on OS, it will produce the software the computing-public needs.
It is up to other minds than mine to refine the profit-making process from OS programs.
Just what is this encryption going to be used for?
Probably to ensure the security of a transmission to Bill HQ telling him my credit card numbers and other vital information.
Then in the year 2001 he's going to call every infomercial on TV and buy us all an "Abdominizer -- Rock Your Way To Fitness". And we'll all be pissed off.
Yes, but it gives us something to do with our spare brain-cycles in the interim.
P.S. "start helping actual humans on the streets of your hometown" ?? I help people who can help themselves. Most homeless people are mental and should be recycled into a protein source.
Having more information about the poster would help greatly. Knowing that such and such a post was by a 14 year old student would reduce the time it takes to hit the NEXT button to zero. Or knowing that a post was by a 35 year old Sys Admin would encourage me to read it.
Young punks (M and F) don't know jack-sh*t about the world or how to live in it. Deal with it or be culled in the revolution.
The foundation of this issue is the same as that of the open-source / proprietary argument.
Any security can be easily broken today -- throw the resources of an entire planet at a problem and it ceases to be a problem.
In a dream last night, the RIAA and MPAA recanted their mistakes and began publishing music and movies in an open format.
This will happen sooner or later (probably later, as lawyers tend to have a long lifespan unless an "accident" occurs) and we will live in an open-source society.
I also plan to create a matter transmuter next year.
Any person who is well informed knows that no data today is private. Someone, somewhere has access to that particular datum and knows it front to back.
The RIAA hasn't caught up. They live in the 1400's when knowledge==data==music==MP3...etc. where proprietary.
If it doesn't evolve to meet the current conditions, an organism will die -- Just wait in the case of the RIAA.
Population Increase? Legalize murder of stupid people...just thinning out the herd.
Excuse me, but I am going to reply in a vituperous manner to this post.
What the **** kind of **** is this ****ing message saying? You must be the most ignorant piece of **** ever to escape the death squads!
Coresh's compound was broken into and torn down by the BATF with no attempts at peaceful negotiation! At the time you could have viewed film footage taped by locals with cameras on Public Access TV showing tanks shooting fire breaking into the compound!
Findings: There was no abuse of children going on, there was no manufacturing of drugs, there was none of the BULLSHIT they tried to feed to the ignorant, docile American Joe "Fuck Me Up The Ass" Smith!!!
That was a local event which in which extreme force was used and the mass media was fed lies and cover-up stories to ensure that the truth did not escape.
If you live in America, you are in a dictatorship more absolute than any that ever existed -- only sugar-coated so the _average_ citizen does not know this.
In the spirit of independant, scientific verification I propose engaging in a test of this supposed Australian "theory".
After all, they're on the other side of the planet -- so wouldn't things that sink on this side rise in Australia?
Does anyone have a few dozen pints of Guiness (the good English brew, not the bastardized version they export!) to give away for an experiment which will reveal the One Truth of Beer?
When a population allows technology to reach a point which causes that population to question their basic reality, they have reached the end of their evolutionary road. They need to die out.
Slashdot Mirror
I just read this morning how they chose not to give or even sell (at street price) iMacs to freeiMac. The company FreeiMac would give away free iMac computers with the usual 3 years of Earthlink subscription plus accepting advertising.
Talk about clueless! They have turned down another opportunity to increase the awareness and use of their computers. They already have an ever decreasing share of the market and decisions like this will only help seal their doom.
Jobs is an insane, megalomanial leader of a corporation led by more fools. Not that Apple doesn't do good things -- the Macintosh is an incredible computer and I loved mine. But I bowed to economics and bought a less expensive PC (I prefer Linux or BeOS, thank you).
This possible move to the Crusoe processor may be the sign of intelligence: Emulating the G4 in a cheaper and less power-hungry processor == Less expensive G4 == Cheaper Macs == More consumers buying your expensive hardware.
I work in the real world with access to a T1 from my desk. I share it but get about 25-80K/sec...
I shared that to show I have no real identity with what they are experiencing, other than modem experience.
I've worked with modems from 300 baud up to 56K. I can remember the shit-fit I had when I went from 300 to 1200 baud! But enough "old-fart" reminiscing. You're facing a problem with management of the network. You need some OC-3's or OC-12's. (That's the fastest I know of.)
I suggest you use FreeDSL.com to get some higher speed access to the net. (www.freedsl.com) They're similar to AllAdvantage in how they work, but if you have a 19" monitor you can easily forget those ****ing banner ads.
With the growth of the internet, Linux, MP3s, and any other open method of media distribution, it is becoming aparent that the populace will not long endure the shackles that have been placed them by the global mega-corps. This will not be a sudden or violent revolution, but rather a quiet and constant one.
As Linux has grown and will subsume other OSs in the computer world, DVD and other proprietary standards will likewise whither and die.
The people have spoken and they all said: [Penguin sound]
How long does anyone believe it will be before someone sells DVDs with encryption already burned in and the rest of the disk ready to strore information???
Windows in nothing more than a GUI pasted on top of DOS. Nothing more, nothing less. I don't care how much you talk about abstraction layers and other shit.
Just wanted add this to the discussion.
Visit my site "home.earthlink.net/~tilleyrw/" for a look at the (in)famous source code.
If anyone knows an address for the MPAA, I'd love to fart in their general direction by notifying them of my code display.
Visit my site "home.earthlink.net/~tilleyrw/" for a look at the (in)famous source code.
Robert
The MPA (Motion Picture Association) is an American organization that
has trouble with the fact that the DVD "code" mechanism has been broken.
They still don't realize some facts of life.
When recordable cassette decks became common, they were feared as a
means of breaking the back of the music industry -- one person would
buy an album, and then distribute copies.
This happened with videotapes.
With CDs.
Will happen with DVDs.
(Just buy a Phillips DVD recorder and make bit-wise copies of a DVD for an
exact copy.)
The majority of people (the market) will still buy original copies.
This is not a theory or hypothesis but a simple truth. It is easier
for a person to go to the local MediaShop to buy a movie, or music, or
anything else than to find Joe "Jon Johansen" Hacker to burn them a copy
of Titanic.
Sure some people copy their work and distribute the copies. There is always
going to be a "grey" (I think chartreuse, but that's me) area surrounding
the profit zone. Grow up and live with it.
Focus on the profitable area and be satisfied with it.
If the laws in your country impede you, act collaboratively over the internet and place the resulting files on a server in a mature country.
I don't know of any "mature" countries at the moment, but most of the northern European ones are close.
I'm going to explicitly defy the MPAA's desire by posting it to my site later. I'll also e-mail them that I have it up in defiance of their irrational complaints.
MPAA -- Go F Yourself
Once an idea has occurred, it is then immediately accessible to the collective unconcious. Anyone, anywhere, may have the same idea. This happens in a continual process and is the reason patents exist. (Or why they were begun...) That's another issue -- If all Computer Science programmers are trained in similar manners, why is it surprising that they can all produce similar products through similar processes?
If someone, somewhere does something in a program, all I need to do is think about the problem -- eventually I'll have a solution and there is a good chance it will be similar to the original method. Do I need to pay licensing fees? Bullshit.
Open source programming creates more robust software and is more responsive to consumer need. If a company based it's programming policy on OS, it will produce the software the computing-public needs.
It is up to other minds than mine to refine the profit-making process from OS programs.
Probably to ensure the security of a transmission to Bill HQ telling him my credit card numbers and other vital information.
Then in the year 2001 he's going to call every infomercial on TV and buy us all an "Abdominizer -- Rock Your Way To Fitness". And we'll all be pissed off.
P.S. "start helping actual humans on the streets of your hometown" ?? I help people who can help themselves. Most homeless people are mental and should be recycled into a protein source.
You've just destroyed your customer base. No one will buy an addition to their video library they can't reuse.
BBBAAAAAA... You sell a better product than I can make, so you can't play in my sandbox!!!
Fuckin' grow up...
Young punks (M and F) don't know jack-sh*t about the world or how to live in it.
Deal with it or be culled in the revolution.
Any security can be easily broken today -- throw the resources of an entire planet at a problem and it ceases to be a problem.
In a dream last night, the RIAA and MPAA recanted their mistakes and began publishing music and movies in an open format.
This will happen sooner or later (probably later, as lawyers tend to have a long lifespan unless an "accident" occurs) and we will live in an open-source society.
I also plan to create a matter transmuter next year.
The RIAA hasn't caught up. They live in the 1400's when knowledge==data==music==MP3...etc. where proprietary.
If it doesn't evolve to meet the current conditions, an organism will die -- Just wait in the case of the RIAA.
Population Increase? Legalize murder of stupid people...just thinning out the herd.
Be careful how you respond,
Life sucks, kill a friend today.
Be careful how you respond,
What the **** kind of **** is this ****ing message saying? You must be the most ignorant piece of **** ever to escape the death squads!
Coresh's compound was broken into and torn down by the BATF with no attempts at peaceful negotiation! At the time you could have viewed film footage taped by locals with cameras on Public Access TV showing tanks shooting fire breaking into the compound!
Findings: There was no abuse of children going on, there was no manufacturing of drugs, there was none of the BULLSHIT they tried to feed to the ignorant, docile American Joe "Fuck Me Up The Ass" Smith!!!
That was a local event which in which extreme force was used and the mass media was fed lies and cover-up stories to ensure that the truth did not escape.
If you live in America, you are in a dictatorship more absolute than any that ever existed -- only sugar-coated so the _average_ citizen does not know this.
Be careful how you respond,
After all, they're on the other side of the planet -- so wouldn't things that sink on this side rise in Australia?
Does anyone have a few dozen pints of Guiness (the good English brew, not the bastardized version they export!) to give away for an experiment which will reveal the One Truth of Beer?
Be careful how you respond,
If my daughter wants to view porn on the computer and masturbate, the only thing I'd be concerned about is if she does her homework.
Those who wish to censor should automitically be labeled "Shark Bait -- Not Too Spoiled" and shipped in barrels to Cuba.
"Have you ever noticed that people who believe in Creationism seem unevolved?" -- Bill Hicks
People suck, kill a friend today.