The MPAA is violating the law, the FTC regulations state that traffic going over a dial-up voice network are protected and regarded as private. The MPAA can only go after cable and xDSL suscribers now that the FTC has classified these as information services. Dial-up is still protected as voice and is protected by the constitution and freedom of speech, the Telcos cannot dictate or allow others to dictate what happens over a dial-up connection.
Mod Parent up. IANAL but it sounds like you are. Oh well, it's BBS time. And all these ACs thinking that they're posting anonymously, bwa ha ha haaaaaa.
The demographic of China is the same as India. 80% of the country is below the poverty line, they're uneducated and agrarian. ("POOR") 18% of the country has a small amount of money and minimum knowledge ("LOWER CLASS") 2% of the country is rich ("UPPER CLASS") and use the cheap services provided by the poor 98% of the population.
This 2% of the population 0.02*1000mil = 20 million rich people which is a lot, even the US doesn't have that many rich people. The idea is that schooling will improve and this 2% will increase and spread to the rest of the population, there is much scope for intellectual growth. This assumes markets for these intellectual goods exist, if they don't then educatig your population is pointless, and with the high-tech crash it's becoming possible that educating your population won't increase your GDP any more. The US like Japan is starting to get saturated by knowledge workers, having an excessive number of knowledge workers just causes knowledge to be wasted (Unix guru working in McDonalds).
There's a limit to how much money Joe sixpack will spend on having the most advanced PC and software. The first wave of PC sales by Micro$oft has been incredibly succesful, but now that the market is saturated, unless Joe sixpack finds video-editing appealling we're looking at GDP stagnation unless a non-knowledge worker way can be found to increase GDP e.g. decreasing the cost of imported oil, hence Afghanistan to get more oil pipelines there. So just shut up and let the US army kill lots of innocent Afghan civilians, US GDP growth is at stake here. Otherwise in 20 years we'll all be trying to emmigrate to Ethiopea.
Im chinese, what can I say. Heh, we suck at the battles =P More often than not its the chinese who defeat the chinese. Uprisings and divisions caused China to be pretty weak and open to attack. I mean.. for example look at the great wall of china, great its pretty but u know it didn't take that long for people to figure out where the gaps were.
Isolation is the same system the Taliban used and it worked for them - I think this shows a nice change in the superpowers of today, as long as the oil keeps flowing, everybody shuts up. Nice and quiet.
It just made it follow a differrent timeline. Same as if you look back on America after 100 years you might see that WTC attacks improved the US democratic system, making binLaden a hero in history's eyes that strengthened the American way, and made the US democratic system more like Europe's. Equally history might write that Enron and friends forced SEC to fine-tune Capitalism, making corporate governance a thing of the past, making corporations serve the people again like they were supposed to - when a company increases in size to 80% of the size of Micro$oft it changes from a legal entity into a publically accountable Federal body, and can be removed by public vote. It's up to the Government to implement this fine-tuning, they've started with Enron and Worldcom and will end with...? This would make Enron and Worldcom heroes in the history books
The Yankees simplified and modernized the English language.
I whoop yo ass you punk ass motherf******. Y'all looky here now, it's supergalafragalisticexpialidocious.
More testers, more proponents, etc... By your logic why should any OSS developers release their code? It sounds that by releasing the code and letting people use it just hassles the developers.
Releasing the code is great, having more testers that know what they're doing is great, but having 500 million people use the software, 1000 of which is developers and 499,999,000 of which is Joe sixpack, well what's the point of having the Joe sixpack users? They can't fix the bugs, they can't even report the bugs "Mommy computer went funny, kernel panic uhhhh hmmmm KFC is doing fine so I can't see why the colonel is panicking". I mean what's the point of these users?
OSS should want to stop traditional software piracy. When people can't get those expensive programs for free anymore(ms office anyone?) they will either pay the price, find an alternative, or do without
But what would OSS have to gain from another person using their software? If Mozilla has 10,000 users and then the next day has 500 million users, what difference would it make to the OSS developers? Would they stop developing? It'll just add a whole bunch of dumb users bitchin' on IRC when everybody says RTFM when they ask, "How do I save a Document? Where's the C: drive gone to?"
So these two FBI goons greet him at his door, and ask to see the computer. He shows them the computer on his desk, and they ask him to turn it on. As he's reaching for the red button, he notices that the two goons have shoved their hands inside their jackets, just shy of drawing guns on this dorky kid, and ask him "just WHAT does that button do?!?"
To this day we can't figure out what they hell they THOUGHT it was going to do. (release the hounds!) ... From my knowledge of US produced films, I know that all US police officers have the right to shoot anyone in the back if they run away after the cops say "Stop or I'll shoot".
Dorky kid reaches for the red button: "Scotty, fire photon torpedoes." FBI: "Don't even think about it, we're gonna take you down asshole" Dorky kid: "I hate cops. I pop a cap in your ass, you punk ass motherf*****" -- FBI fires rocket launcher, destroys entire building, FBI agents walk out covered in soot looking slightly dizzy, Dorky kid is decapitated with arms and legs strewn all over the place. FBI: "I told you we're gonna take you down beeeeatch"
Fair use rights for software should be the norm.. Free for personal or non-profit use. How many photoshop professionals learned photoshop at home on a pirated copy? How many of these professionals now do their work with a legit copy that some business provides for them? Repeat this question for any other highly pirated expensive software and ask yourself if anyone is truly being hurt by the process
Ahhh but that software has a business use. If you look at residential-only software like ACDSEE, that'll be hit hard by piracy because there's no reason to have that software at work, because nobody in their right mind would store their pr0n collection at work, and there's no point rotating an image by 90 degrees using ACDSEE at work when you have photoshop licensed and installed.
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A standardised way for describing metadata just looks nice. Unless you're planning on operating corporate-wide or intercorporate-wide, XML, RDF and DAML are just buzzwords. What's most important is a working system, and then document your application API and communications. In other words for a developer, documented communications = XML+DTD. Remember many apps can read Microsoft Word.doc format despite it being bespoke. Supporting XML is just icing on the cake, if you tell a developer a document's gonna be in XML he'll say "cool" whereas a secret proprietary format would be a PITA but can still be done. You want to take the pain out of the ass, I'm not going to complain about that.
With standards compliance, you would benefit from being able to plug in "out of the box" software like Microsoft Access (for whatever reason). But then if you're on the cutting edge, your DTD can be so weird that any "out of the box" software will just be able to put your data into DOM format and then uhhhhh it won't know what to do.
However it looks good if you have RDF standards compliance, same as Microsoft Windows looks good if it's compatible with a HP Deskjet printer. Stick it on the front of your product, heck even if you stick a dog turd on the front of your product people will think it's special and buy it anyway (like Eminem).
Now with DAML and RDF you... One sec, must eat breakfast and check email.
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Hello, it's been a while, I just got your email, I love holidays. Nowwwww, RDF and XML are both lightweight so that doesn't make your system that different. RDF will only be effective inside big companies, companies rarely cooperate together on their own standards, as you can see from Enron and half a dozen other gigantic companies if they can't even add up (accounting flaws) then what hope is there for homogenous resource-sharing? If it's their interests they'll do it, like Internet Protocol - having more than one Internet is pointless even if you're in China, firewalls can compartmentalise, no company uses a non-IP and non-HTTP compatible system for global Internet traffic. How the heck did you write 1 mil LOC? Hopefully you just the Enter key too many times. How the heck could the RDF people write 50 pages on something so simple? Why don't they just write "it encapsulates part of an XML document for resource-mapping"? Why does this appear 10 pages down. Short abstracts are good but Bajesus, even IETF RFCs are better.
Yeah anyway I can't see how RDF could possibly add further information for natural language parsing than XML can. XML can compartmentalise and categorise by language components if you make your DTD right. A lexically parsed document won't benefit by being declared as a resource to be shared, I think you're using a screwdriver instead of a wrench, like writing a Perl language compiler in Ada. But then if you write this in your conclusion right, you'll get major marks.
. If you're using WinXP, I figured that doing more advanced things would be a bit over your head.
You made a mistake by jumping to the wrong conclusion based on you believing the stereotype that "XPHome users are stupid". Ah well, can't be right all the time, eh? Sometimes I wish my coworkers would give me a nice psychologically disarming giggle, but it's all frowns down here now that we're in sales.
I am not going to advise someone publically to go rooting about their machine. If you're using WinXP, I figured that doing more advanced things would be a bit over your head. Its not good practice to tell people to go spulenking all over the place
Micro$oft tells people to reformat their HD and reinstall Windows. I don't think there are a lot of non-Sysadmins on Slashdot, you can speak freely here, Google can show anyone how to root their machine anyway. Using XPHome is an experience I thoroughly recommend, it doesn't let you do anything interesting, it's relaxing like walking down the beach. Well, I've just been transferred to the CD labelling department, yipee.
Ohh Jesus, WinXP home. Well, I have no advice for you!
Dude, you should have more advice, you should tell me to boot linux on a floppy, create an ext2fs partition and use the NTFS tools provided by www.winternals.com and www.sysinternals.com from a Win95 partition, or you could have referred me to the excellent Penguin archives. If you give up that easily you can't be a linux user;-) But then again I also couldn't be bothered to set up a new partition just for getting a few Megs of files, especially since a power failure in the middle of a partition-resize or partition-move (even in PartitionMagic) wipes the partition (maybe all the partitions). Hmmm time to remove that Micro$oft bumper-sticker.
Now that I've been told I lose my job or go into sales 'n' marketing of the software I just coded, I don't think my little file recovery matters any more. Ah well.
Roxio specifically warns against installing GoBack on a new-ish (2k/XP) system
It's on Win98/RH5.2 dual-boot. GoBack loves Win98 and has saved my ass so many times. It's refreshing to see a commercial Windows app coded in critical systems style. It hasn't crashe in 3 years, on Win98 that's something.
FYI, this an ownership issue, not permissions. Those files are marked as having an owner with an invalid (on your new WinXP install) owner. Therefore any attempt to access them or change the permissions will fail. All you need to do is find the folder, right click to show the property, move on over to the security tab, move on down to the Advanced button, slide on over to the Owner tab, check the "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects" box, and then hit apply.
No security tab, I'm using XP Home "Make this folder private" is greyed out. The only Advanced options available are "Archive" and "Compress".
Linux takes more effort to admin, and thus requires a more fanatical admin. This explains the linux phenomenon we see today. Windows users have the right attitude - I'll stick this CD drive in, if it doesn't work I'll bitch at my Manager, demand a refund or spend 10 hours on the support line wasting money. In the end the Epson people or whatever will say, "Just switch to Windows and plug it in. We made it plug and play for a reason. If your OS doesn't support auto Plug and Play and have a huge compiled binary driver base that comes with the OS, then it's not a OS."
I can't comment on the Windows using community yet. I've not yet had a problem that a simple point and click couldn't fix. However, I will say that my original concern with Windows '95 has been addressed in Windows XP. The stability is finally there.
I use XP on one system, and dual-boot Win87/RH on the other. I like LILO, although detailed knowledge of booting sequence is needed because Roxio GoBack displaced LILO from my MBR a year ago so partitioning needs a lady's touch and $1000 of backup systems.
Anyhoo, I won't be throwing away my backup systems, after installing SETIqueue server my XP boot.ini got corrupted somehow, and when I rebooted I got "HAL.DLL" is missing or corrupt, operating system cannot boot. System restore that comes with XP only works after booting, so... I consoled in and extracted hal.dll from the XP CD. Didn't work, ah well. I reinstalled XP, and despite having Admin rights I can't access my old "My Documents" because Administrator doesn't have enough permissions to perform a system recovery. So now I'm stuck with "My Documents" from before my system failed, I'll need System rights to access it or delete it
On my Win98 system I trust Roxio GoBack completely, it gives me far more control over everything than linux gave me, I haven't booted into the linux partition for 2 years.
We're paying them for our connection. Why do they care what we do with it after that? They've already got their money. And if you're like the majority of cable modem subscribers, you're capped anyway, so it's not like you're using more bandwidth than you're paying for, regardless of how many people you have sharing it at any given time.
LOL, to rephrase... Saddam is paying for his Uranium-238. Why should the US Government care what he does with it after that? They've got their money. If you're like the majority of the world, nobody uses nukes anyway, so it's not like he's going to use nukes regardless of how many people he shares the technology with.
Now nukes hurt people, and free bandwidth hurts telcos, if ATT and MCI go the same way as global crossing when the FBI finds they also use Arthur Andersen, the majority of the US might be left with no Internet whatsoever (?)
Why don't they just charge for bandwidth usage like a lot of them are anywaiz.
Either that or a two-tier license. Cable-to-home for residents only, and cable-to-ISP for anybody that walks by. A bit like MS NT4 server and NT4 workstation, (flame: or Linux and Unix), same thing just more expensive.
Wonderful experience, really: Internet access was automatically configured by Mandrake 8.2 during the installation process - in fact, it even made a quick check on the Mandrake Update site to make sure I had the most up-to-date versions of critical software before concluding the installation
Excellent, I feel like an Apache indian in the Montana reservation who's just had a cool breeze waft across his face. And how about when Palladium requires you to run on "Microsoft certified hardware only" ie. Winmodem? I think we should get the Samba people onto this reverse-engineering job.
If that's the only argument you could come with, then I will...
The feeling of linux-patriotism you've instilled in my gut is not allowing me to think creatively in this area any more.
...that shitty excuse for a communication device called a winmodem, then installation of (for example) Mandrake 8.2 is easier and faster than that of Win2k.
Almost the majority of PCs come with Winmodem unless you especially ask for a different one and pay for it. The usual path to linux (to steal an economic term) is dumb guy buys standard PC (sold on "the Internet will go faster on a PentiumIV than a PentiumIII oh yeah"). Billy boy Gates handholds him while he learns "com'uters", he starts with email and HTML, and moves upwards. In time, he wants to try other OSs, he inserts a Mandrake CD... But of course, it doesn't work because standard PCs come with a Winmodem so he throws the CD in the trash.
There's a standard path in electronics as well, you start playing with your first transistorts from radio shack, stick them together, it explodes, and then in a year you're etching your own PCBs in a bucket of Ferric acid and planning an MS in Electronics. If RS only sold to corporate customers then this guy would instead do English or something.
You MS geeks need to get over the Linux is Hard to Install FUD.
There's no need to insult me, if I was a Klingon I'd kill you where you sit (couldn't resist). I have one word for you easy-install linuxman - WinModem.
I've NEVER had Windows 2000 or XP crash on me yet. My neighbor had to reinstall W2k once, but downloaded crappy HP drivers for his modem. You *nix geeks need to get over the Windows Always Crashes groupthink. Microsoft has finally made a stable operating system that doesnt require months of reading man pages to setup.
Right on! The most difficult part of my Win2k install was getting the CD out of the case. That's the way it should be.
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The MPAA is violating the law, the FTC regulations state that traffic going over a dial-up voice network are protected and regarded as private. The MPAA can only go after cable and xDSL suscribers now that the FTC has classified these as information services. Dial-up is still protected as voice and is protected by the constitution and freedom of speech, the Telcos cannot dictate or allow others to dictate what happens over a dial-up connection.
Mod Parent up. IANAL but it sounds like you are. Oh well, it's BBS time. And all these ACs thinking that they're posting anonymously, bwa ha ha haaaaaa.
80% of the country is below the poverty line, they're uneducated and agrarian. ("POOR")
18% of the country has a small amount of money and minimum knowledge ("LOWER CLASS")
2% of the country is rich ("UPPER CLASS") and use the cheap services provided by the poor 98% of the population.
This 2% of the population 0.02*1000mil = 20 million rich people which is a lot, even the US doesn't have that many rich people. The idea is that schooling will improve and this 2% will increase and spread to the rest of the population, there is much scope for intellectual growth. This assumes markets for these intellectual goods exist, if they don't then educatig your population is pointless, and with the high-tech crash it's becoming possible that educating your population won't increase your GDP any more. The US like Japan is starting to get saturated by knowledge workers, having an excessive number of knowledge workers just causes knowledge to be wasted (Unix guru working in McDonalds).
There's a limit to how much money Joe sixpack will spend on having the most advanced PC and software. The first wave of PC sales by Micro$oft has been incredibly succesful, but now that the market is saturated, unless Joe sixpack finds video-editing appealling we're looking at GDP stagnation unless a non-knowledge worker way can be found to increase GDP e.g. decreasing the cost of imported oil, hence Afghanistan to get more oil pipelines there. So just shut up and let the US army kill lots of innocent Afghan civilians, US GDP growth is at stake here. Otherwise in 20 years we'll all be trying to emmigrate to Ethiopea.
Dude, I want some of what you're smoking.
FBI: "Don't even think about it, we're gonna take you down asshole"
Dorky kid: "I hate cops. I pop a cap in your ass, you punk ass motherf*****"
-- FBI fires rocket launcher, destroys entire building, FBI agents walk out covered in soot looking slightly dizzy, Dorky kid is decapitated with arms and legs strewn all over the place.
FBI: "I told you we're gonna take you down beeeeatch"
A standardised way for describing metadata just looks nice. Unless you're planning on operating corporate-wide or intercorporate-wide, XML, RDF and DAML are just buzzwords. What's most important is a working system, and then document your application API and communications. In other words for a developer, documented communications = XML+DTD. Remember many apps can read Microsoft Word .doc format despite it being bespoke. Supporting XML is just icing on the cake, if you tell a developer a document's gonna be in XML he'll say "cool" whereas a secret proprietary format would be a PITA but can still be done. You want to take the pain out of the ass, I'm not going to complain about that.
With standards compliance, you would benefit from being able to plug in "out of the box" software like Microsoft Access (for whatever reason). But then if you're on the cutting edge, your DTD can be so weird that any "out of the box" software will just be able to put your data into DOM format and then uhhhhh it won't know what to do.
However it looks good if you have RDF standards compliance, same as Microsoft Windows looks good if it's compatible with a HP Deskjet printer. Stick it on the front of your product, heck even if you stick a dog turd on the front of your product people will think it's special and buy it anyway (like Eminem).
Now with DAML and RDF you... One sec, must eat breakfast and check email.
Hello, it's been a while, I just got your email, I love holidays. Nowwwww, RDF and XML are both lightweight so that doesn't make your system that different. RDF will only be effective inside big companies, companies rarely cooperate together on their own standards, as you can see from Enron and half a dozen other gigantic companies if they can't even add up (accounting flaws) then what hope is there for homogenous resource-sharing? If it's their interests they'll do it, like Internet Protocol - having more than one Internet is pointless even if you're in China, firewalls can compartmentalise, no company uses a non-IP and non-HTTP compatible system for global Internet traffic. How the heck did you write 1 mil LOC? Hopefully you just the Enter key too many times. How the heck could the RDF people write 50 pages on something so simple? Why don't they just write "it encapsulates part of an XML document for resource-mapping"? Why does this appear 10 pages down. Short abstracts are good but Bajesus, even IETF RFCs are better.
Yeah anyway I can't see how RDF could possibly add further information for natural language parsing than XML can. XML can compartmentalise and categorise by language components if you make your DTD right. A lexically parsed document won't benefit by being declared as a resource to be shared, I think you're using a screwdriver instead of a wrench, like writing a Perl language compiler in Ada. But then if you write this in your conclusion right, you'll get major marks.
Now that I've been told I lose my job or go into sales 'n' marketing of the software I just coded, I don't think my little file recovery matters any more. Ah well.
Linux takes more effort to admin, and thus requires a more fanatical admin. This explains the linux phenomenon we see today. Windows users have the right attitude - I'll stick this CD drive in, if it doesn't work I'll bitch at my Manager, demand a refund or spend 10 hours on the support line wasting money. In the end the Epson people or whatever will say, "Just switch to Windows and plug it in. We made it plug and play for a reason. If your OS doesn't support auto Plug and Play and have a huge compiled binary driver base that comes with the OS, then it's not a OS."
Anyhoo, I won't be throwing away my backup systems, after installing SETIqueue server my XP boot.ini got corrupted somehow, and when I rebooted I got "HAL.DLL" is missing or corrupt, operating system cannot boot. System restore that comes with XP only works after booting, so... I consoled in and extracted hal.dll from the XP CD. Didn't work, ah well. I reinstalled XP, and despite having Admin rights I can't access my old "My Documents" because Administrator doesn't have enough permissions to perform a system recovery. So now I'm stuck with "My Documents" from before my system failed, I'll need System rights to access it or delete it
On my Win98 system I trust Roxio GoBack completely, it gives me far more control over everything than linux gave me, I haven't booted into the linux partition for 2 years.
Now nukes hurt people, and free bandwidth hurts telcos, if ATT and MCI go the same way as global crossing when the FBI finds they also use Arthur Andersen, the majority of the US might be left with no Internet whatsoever (?)
There's a standard path in electronics as well, you start playing with your first transistorts from radio shack, stick them together, it explodes, and then in a year you're etching your own PCBs in a bucket of Ferric acid and planning an MS in Electronics. If RS only sold to corporate customers then this guy would instead do English or something.
To be fair, maybe it had V.34 or V.92 in which case the sales guy wasn't lying too badly