Re:Open Source Pioneers? Or $$$ Saving?
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Perhaps that's the whole idea of them using opensource... to get Slashdot support.:)
Nah, in all seriousness, we hate the MPAA here... the people who make the films and neato 3d effects (esp for those great geek movies) are for the most part cool in our books here...
Open Source Pioneers? Or $$$ Saving?
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the artists at the studios are using and helping create open source It seems to be implying that the studios are doing it out of love, but methinks that they are finding that it's cheaper, and more flexable (their programmers can get their hands on all the code)... Not that this is a bad thing, just that it's not because they hate MSFT...
If I put a $100 dollar bill unguarded on the hood of my new Benz (no I don't have one) with the carkeys sitting there.... whose fault is it when I don't have a car or $100?.... I am not trying to say that those raped are at fault.(although I think sometimes when people don't get out of abusive relationships it's partially their fault, but rape is never the victim's fault)...
Hell, anyway, if they were actually WATCHING instead of sleeping on their asses, those work worked at the theatres would probaly notice cameras and microphones being set up...
If you statistics are true (which I have no reason to believe elsewise), then this is the best point that i have heard all year. Too bad we can't mod you to like +10 or something:)
What would you say to the US government if they posted all the information (private) that they have on you online accidentally. What if Mastercard or Visa accidentally put your credit card # online when someone screwed up in administrting their network?
What if an admin leaves the password files as 755 and in plaintext for everyone to see?
What about a guard sleeping on the job? If something gets stolen is it his fault? Accountabilty... I think that it can be the victim's fault. Sometimes, they were asking for it.
I know that some of you are going to give useless answers such as:
Shouldn't you kid get the social experiences of High School? Don't do that, get your kid back in High School. Teach him yourself, don't use online stuff etc...
This is the worst thing that I can see about Slashdot. People think that those asking questions want life advice, instead of a simple answer. But really, they just want a simple answer. Too often I see questions of "How can I implement this in my school" or something liek that, and people go and just try to convince them that it's not a good idea, instead of answering the question that they asked. If they wanna use Linux in elemetary schools, let them- if they wanna have their kid go through High School online, let them; and give them good advice on how to do it- let them device whether it's the best thing to do. They didn't ask your opinion whether they should... I am sure that everyone here knows what I am talking about...
That just sent chills up my spine. Perhaps they will start burning the books too. Perhaps Firefighters will become more important in the future that they were around 9-11... Truely scary. What's next, venomous dogs that hunt us down? I guess Sony's Aibo is working on that. A media that sensationalizes everything? Totally blows everything out of proportion, and even misreports things? Hmm, well we have CNN.com. This is truely starting the scare me. I wonder how long until the burn the constituion...
Since when did you need "very high frequencies down the Internet using newly developed fiber optic cables and extremely high bandwidths" to transmit up to 1,000 Hertz of information? Does anyone here think that 1000 != High frequency and shouldn't require high bandwidth or special fibre optics?
Really, though, I mean the cable guy doesn't wanna sit there while you call a lawyer (hey, if everyone could understand the law and it was simple enough, we wouldn't need lawyers) and go through the contract before signing it? I guess you could make him, but it's just poor form.
There really isn't much in the average Time Warner contract that is odd. When I was working at Time Warner in the Business Division, we would even get contract back and the boss would kinda 'haggle' with them and our lawyers on points in the contract. It's not out of the question to ammend the contract. And for the most part every part of the contract was good to start with. Us as employees (and the bosses) really didn't like the idea of screwing people over, all we intended to do with contracts was protect ourselves from retarded lawsuits. In fact though, when I worked for the Business Division of Road Runner, I never installed ANY software on a person's computer. Most of the time we did just throw them the Cat 5 cable and left. We would hook up 1 computer, or hook it up to their network (but they would have to configure their network). No Spyware, no install CDs, etc... We even carried our own laptops to test everything on, instead of thinking that it was just 'their computer'. Anyway, it's hard to move their computer over to the rack to plug the serial port into the Cisco UBRs...
"Scott, your ISP is not quite evil enough. You're semi-evil. You're quasi-evil. You're the margarine of evil. You're the Diet Coke of evil, just one calorie, not evil enough."
So a few years back I was working for the IT department in a county that I lived in doing Tier 2 networking support. It was kinda nice, being 17 and having my own parking space, office, nametag with picture, etc... and computer that they gave me... Now they were pretty strict about paperwork and licensing, being gov't and all, and at first my boss thought I wouldn't even need a computer of my own in the office at first, but then I needed to check my Groupware email so much, so I got a little crappy Pentium 3/300mhz that I found in the 'Old Computers, Destroy these, don't give them away' room.
Anyway, I installed Windows 2000 (or 98) or it first, but I left 10Gb as an extra partition. I got bored one day and thought, well I am working in Unix stuff in the server room all the time, and this thing doesn't even have SSH built in, so let's install linux. I thought to consult my Boss, but then decieded not to bug him. I had the license, it was free! He said not to bring any software from home, because of pirating/licensing issues, but thought this would be fine. I loaded Linux, and it worked like a dream on the machine (this was before Redhat was BloatHat by default). So of course I use Lilo to switch between Windows for email (groupware...), and Linux. I was also testing out VMWare to try to get the Groupware going in Linux. Anyway, a few weeks later (being a lowly intern) I have to share my desk and computer with someone who is just starting, which was fine with me. It was a two person office anyway, and she was just using my computer until she got her own. One day, apparently she rebooted Windows for something, and I forgot to ever mention linux for more than a second. Lilo comes up, and she sits and thinks, so it goes to Linux. Then when it prompts her for a username/password, she goes to the Bossman:)
Bossman says to me in his office later, "I need to talk to you, did you load Linux on your computer?". To make a long story long, I didn't get fired or anything but I did have to explain my way out of it (GNU, etc...) The next day he gave me a machine to work on in Linux and test VMWare on. It was a Dual Processor Box, with 1gb memory, and 4 harddrives all in Hardware raid!!! I had to load Oracle and VMWare on it... Oh, what a job !
But you have to have something 'above' you in the DNS tree, to be able to do anything above you. Now if you know an alternate DNS server (which there are many), then that's great and you don't need to use the RR DNS server.
Here's a EULA that would be a cool clickthrough for someone to send to Microsoft...
...55) The USER by agreeing to this transfers property of this computer to company XXX.
..... 67) The USER transfers all worldly possesions to company XXX upon clicking this...
Transfer all of corporate assests of Microsoft to Slashdot's control if we could get Bill to click through...
Reminds me of Bonzi Buddy... and other spyware.
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What's the difference between this and the Spyware that Kazaa packages. What % of the users do you think read, let alone understand the EULA that they just agreed to.
Bonzi Buddy and some global time (spywayre) thing does almost the same thing. It sends your personal info to companies and sells it.
The only diffence I can see here is that this is not done by a major company....
From what I understand, if you use Verizon in the Boston area, then it does cost to call 'local' cell phones. I guess they are just getting the jump on everyone
Crap, I just messed up a whole paragraph because I didn't preview and the 's messed it up. Grr. Basically you want the measuring distance (r) to be a b r (where a and b are the dimensions of the object creating sound), because the sound attenuates according to the inverse square law then (6db/doubling of distance)... I had more, but I really screwed it up with the tags...
Well, this is really gonna depend on what you are measuring and where you are measuring it from. To say that a Jet Aircraft is 140dB is meaningless. 140dB at almost any frequency would hurt alot, and probably cause a bit of damage after a few minutes. I know that there are jets taking off from Logan right now but, for some reason I am not losing my hearing. It all depends where you measure it from. There isn't a standard distance.
So quiet PC could be measuring from farther away (and because of the inverse square law, it would get 10 dB quieter pretty fast).
Another thing that nothing here is mentioning is dB @ a freqency @ a distance, or if it's dBA @ a distance. Your ears wouldn't be able to hear 50dB @ 40hz, let alone 30dB @ 80 hz. You could hear 30dB at 2000hz though. dBA is a weighting of multiple bands, and is another beast altogether.
Another thing is if you are measuring the sound right beside the power supply, you are screwing your measurements anyway. It's acting as a Plane Source if r So basically, move the mic a few feet away, not right up on the thing.
I am personally wondering if they used a good measurement system, or just a radioshack thing...
Woha, this topic has gotten posts quickly! I guess people get errors every now and then:)
My oddest one was when I got a blue screen of some type, that seemed recoverable, because it said it any key to try to continue or something like that (hard to remember it was in Windows 98 years ago...). Anyway, I hit the spacebar about 30 times, getting different error messages, until I got one that indicated I had to then reset my computer, and reload Windows... That's pretty odd.
I get plenty of Protools errors that are outright as well. The damn program tells me that I dont' have a fast enough hard drive to record one freaking track of audio some days. For some reason, other programs will record fine...
We really need more efficiant programming in OSes today. Look at the system requirements for OSes over the past few years. It's gone crazy. Check out the requirements for NT Workstation 4.0, Windows XP Pro and Windows 2000 Pro.
Doesn't something seem messed up? What have we really gained since 4.0 that causes 4x the memory, 3x the procecssor, and almost 15x the harddrive space? Is USB and Firewire support really that big? And have you ever tried to run XP on the min system? It doesn't work so well. I remember being able to tweak a system to run Windows 95 on a 386 with 5mb memory and a 45mb harddrive. It wasn't pretty but it could run. Today if you aren't going 1ghz+, then they want to leave you behind.
They are just using really fast hardware as an excuse for bloating the code. Even Linux (redhat moreso) is guilty of this. Remember when awesome games could fit on a handful of floppies? I think that could fly today if they tried. Look at the Demo scene. 64k can do alot of graphics. The most awesome games like Betrayal at Krondor were only a few floppies. Sure, if you have big hardware use it, but don't waste it. Programmers are just getting slack and including (literally) everything in the world, and not writing anything for themselves. They aren't looking to optimize stuff, just to kick it out and make money (obviously open source isn't guilty of the money or the fast kickout thing)...
Some people argue, "If everyone carried a gun, then no one would dare shoot another person". They claim that it would solve violence and make people safer.
Using the same logic, if everyone had a knife no one would be stabbed. Ok, look in everyone's kitchen. I bet everyone has a potentially deadly knife of some type (basically anything sharp.) Now, how many people were stabbed in domestic disputes last year.
Look at your hands, look at your feet. Most people have two of each. Now, does that mean that since almost everyone has hands and feet that no one was strangled, kicked, or beaten to death or near it last year?
Everyone in War has a gun or some type of weapon, does that mean that no one will be killed? So think, if more people had guns, does that mean that there would be less problems? No
The problems will occur with or without the guns, but the guns sure make it easier. Think if the Sniper had to get out of his car and kick each of his victims to death. I don't feel that he would be as sucessful.
Now back to topic, I feel that it would be possible to 'register' the balistics data on all guns. We currently require that all guns are registered (which obviously doesn't happen). But we could require everyone to register the data on their gun, with stiff penalties for being caught with an unregistered gun. And if someone's gun was 'stolen' and someone was shot with it, well if you didn't report your gun stolen (and the court could show that you knew it was stolen), then you should be in deep shit too. People seriously need to keep their weapons locked up with no access to other people's hands. Biometric locking systems or even smartcard systems are cheap enough now.
Hey, is Zipcar publically held? In large cities, this could be the best thing since cars themselves. I would love to invest, if Bush ever stops screwing up the market (How the hell can a president drive down the economy and still be in a 'wartime' ecomony?), in Zipcar.
Its seems like a really great idea, and even the jadedness of citydwelling slashdot members seem to find zipcar favorable. I mean, if it can pass the./ approval with little friction, it's gotta be good. Half the time we can't even decide if a new kernel patch is good or not, let alone cars..
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Perhaps that's the whole idea of them using opensource... to get Slashdot support. :)
Nah, in all seriousness, we hate the MPAA here... the people who make the films and neato 3d effects (esp for those great geek movies) are for the most part cool in our books here...
the artists at the studios are using and helping create open source
It seems to be implying that the studios are doing it out of love, but methinks that they are finding that it's cheaper, and more flexable (their programmers can get their hands on all the code)...
Not that this is a bad thing, just that it's not because they hate MSFT...
Point taken, and agreed.
If I put a $100 dollar bill unguarded on the hood of my new Benz (no I don't have one) with the carkeys sitting there.... whose fault is it when I don't have a car or $100?....
I am not trying to say that those raped are at fault.(although I think sometimes when people don't get out of abusive relationships it's partially their fault, but rape is never the victim's fault)...
Hell, anyway, if they were actually WATCHING instead of sleeping on their asses, those work worked at the theatres would probaly notice cameras and microphones being set up...
If you statistics are true (which I have no reason to believe elsewise), then this is the best point that i have heard all year. :)
Too bad we can't mod you to like +10 or something
What would you say to the US government if they posted all the information (private) that they have on you online accidentally. What if Mastercard or Visa accidentally put your credit card # online when someone screwed up in administrting their network?
What if an admin leaves the password files as 755 and in plaintext for everyone to see?
What about a guard sleeping on the job? If something gets stolen is it his fault?
Accountabilty... I think that it can be the victim's fault. Sometimes, they were asking for it.
I know that some of you are going to give useless answers such as:
Shouldn't you kid get the social experiences of High School?
Don't do that, get your kid back in High School.
Teach him yourself, don't use online stuff
etc...
This is the worst thing that I can see about Slashdot. People think that those asking questions want life advice, instead of a simple answer. But really, they just want a simple answer. Too often I see questions of "How can I implement this in my school" or something liek that, and people go and just try to convince them that it's not a good idea, instead of answering the question that they asked. If they wanna use Linux in elemetary schools, let them- if they wanna have their kid go through High School online, let them; and give them good advice on how to do it- let them device whether it's the best thing to do. They didn't ask your opinion whether they should...
I am sure that everyone here knows what I am talking about...
That just sent chills up my spine. Perhaps they will start burning the books too. Perhaps Firefighters will become more important in the future that they were around 9-11... Truely scary.
What's next, venomous dogs that hunt us down? I guess Sony's Aibo is working on that.
A media that sensationalizes everything? Totally blows everything out of proportion, and even misreports things? Hmm, well we have CNN.com.
This is truely starting the scare me. I wonder how long until the burn the constituion...
... had the same type of ideas.
Hey, if I make money, I keep paying the rent- No money, no rent.
Since when did you need "very high frequencies down the Internet using newly developed fiber optic cables and extremely high bandwidths" to transmit up to 1,000 Hertz of information?
Does anyone here think that 1000 != High frequency and shouldn't require high bandwidth or special fibre optics?
Really, though, I mean the cable guy doesn't wanna sit there while you call a lawyer (hey, if everyone could understand the law and it was simple enough, we wouldn't need lawyers) and go through the contract before signing it? I guess you could make him, but it's just poor form.
There really isn't much in the average Time Warner contract that is odd. When I was working at Time Warner in the Business Division, we would even get contract back and the boss would kinda 'haggle' with them and our lawyers on points in the contract. It's not out of the question to ammend the contract. And for the most part every part of the contract was good to start with. Us as employees (and the bosses) really didn't like the idea of screwing people over, all we intended to do with contracts was protect ourselves from retarded lawsuits.
In fact though, when I worked for the Business Division of Road Runner, I never installed ANY software on a person's computer. Most of the time we did just throw them the Cat 5 cable and left. We would hook up 1 computer, or hook it up to their network (but they would have to configure their network). No Spyware, no install CDs, etc... We even carried our own laptops to test everything on, instead of thinking that it was just 'their computer'. Anyway, it's hard to move their computer over to the rack to plug the serial port into the Cisco UBRs...
"Scott, your ISP is not quite evil enough. You're semi-evil. You're quasi-evil. You're the margarine of evil. You're the Diet Coke of evil, just one calorie, not evil enough."
So a few years back I was working for the IT department in a county that I lived in doing Tier 2 networking support.
:)
It was kinda nice, being 17 and having my own parking space, office, nametag with picture, etc... and computer that they gave me...
Now they were pretty strict about paperwork and licensing, being gov't and all, and at first my boss thought I wouldn't even need a computer of my own in the office at first, but then I needed to check my Groupware email so much, so I got a little crappy Pentium 3/300mhz that I found in the 'Old Computers, Destroy these, don't give them away' room.
Anyway, I installed Windows 2000 (or 98) or it first, but I left 10Gb as an extra partition.
I got bored one day and thought, well I am working in Unix stuff in the server room all the time, and this thing doesn't even have SSH built in, so let's install linux. I thought to consult my Boss, but then decieded not to bug him. I had the license, it was free! He said not to bring any software from home, because of pirating/licensing issues, but thought this would be fine.
I loaded Linux, and it worked like a dream on the machine (this was before Redhat was BloatHat by default). So of course I use Lilo to switch between Windows for email (groupware...), and Linux. I was also testing out VMWare to try to get the Groupware going in Linux.
Anyway, a few weeks later (being a lowly intern) I have to share my desk and computer with someone who is just starting, which was fine with me. It was a two person office anyway, and she was just using my computer until she got her own.
One day, apparently she rebooted Windows for something, and I forgot to ever mention linux for more than a second. Lilo comes up, and she sits and thinks, so it goes to Linux. Then when it prompts her for a username/password, she goes to the Bossman
Bossman says to me in his office later, "I need to talk to you, did you load Linux on your computer?". To make a long story long, I didn't get fired or anything but I did have to explain my way out of it (GNU, etc...)
The next day he gave me a machine to work on in Linux and test VMWare on. It was a Dual Processor Box, with 1gb memory, and 4 harddrives all in Hardware raid!!! I had to load Oracle and VMWare on it... Oh, what a job !
But you have to have something 'above' you in the DNS tree, to be able to do anything above you. Now if you know an alternate DNS server (which there are many), then that's great and you don't need to use the RR DNS server.
Here's a EULA that would be a cool clickthrough for someone to send to Microsoft...
...55) The USER by agreeing to this transfers property of this computer to company XXX.
.....
67) The USER transfers all worldly possesions to company XXX upon clicking this...
Transfer all of corporate assests of Microsoft to Slashdot's control if we could get Bill to click through...
What's the difference between this and the Spyware that Kazaa packages. What % of the users do you think read, let alone understand the EULA that they just agreed to.
Bonzi Buddy and some global time (spywayre) thing does almost the same thing. It sends your personal info to companies and sells it.
The only diffence I can see here is that this is not done by a major company....
From what I understand, if you use Verizon in the Boston area, then it does cost to call 'local' cell phones. I guess they are just getting the jump on everyone
How in the world does a quad stealthfully climb through the woods carrying a weapon, while in a steven hawkins style wheelchain with a ventalator?...
It's just a funny picture in my head...
Crap, I just messed up a whole paragraph because I didn't preview and the 's messed it up. Grr. Basically you want the measuring distance (r) to be a b r (where a and b are the dimensions of the object creating sound), because the sound attenuates according to the inverse square law then (6db/doubling of distance)... I had more, but I really screwed it up with the tags...
Well, this is really gonna depend on what you are measuring and where you are measuring it from.
To say that a Jet Aircraft is 140dB is meaningless. 140dB at almost any frequency would hurt alot, and probably cause a bit of damage after a few minutes. I know that there are jets taking off from Logan right now but, for some reason I am not losing my hearing. It all depends where you measure it from. There isn't a standard distance.
So quiet PC could be measuring from farther away (and because of the inverse square law, it would get 10 dB quieter pretty fast).
Another thing that nothing here is mentioning is dB @ a freqency @ a distance, or if it's dBA @ a distance. Your ears wouldn't be able to hear 50dB @ 40hz, let alone 30dB @ 80 hz. You could hear 30dB at 2000hz though. dBA is a weighting of multiple bands, and is another beast altogether.
Another thing is if you are measuring the sound right beside the power supply, you are screwing your measurements anyway. It's acting as a Plane Source if r So basically, move the mic a few feet away, not right up on the thing.
I am personally wondering if they used a good measurement system, or just a radioshack thing...
Woha, this topic has gotten posts quickly! I guess people get errors every now and then :)
My oddest one was when I got a blue screen of some type, that seemed recoverable, because it said it any key to try to continue or something like that (hard to remember it was in Windows 98 years ago...). Anyway, I hit the spacebar about 30 times, getting different error messages, until I got one that indicated I had to then reset my computer, and reload Windows... That's pretty odd.
I get plenty of Protools errors that are outright as well. The damn program tells me that I dont' have a fast enough hard drive to record one freaking track of audio some days. For some reason, other programs will record fine...
We really need more efficiant programming in OSes today. Look at the system requirements for OSes over the past few years. It's gone crazy. Check out the requirements for NT Workstation 4.0, Windows XP Pro and Windows 2000 Pro.
Doesn't something seem messed up? What have we really gained since 4.0 that causes 4x the memory, 3x the procecssor, and almost 15x the harddrive space? Is USB and Firewire support really that big? And have you ever tried to run XP on the min system? It doesn't work so well. I remember being able to tweak a system to run Windows 95 on a 386 with 5mb memory and a 45mb harddrive. It wasn't pretty but it could run. Today if you aren't going 1ghz+, then they want to leave you behind.
They are just using really fast hardware as an excuse for bloating the code.
Even Linux (redhat moreso) is guilty of this.
Remember when awesome games could fit on a handful of floppies? I think that could fly today if they tried. Look at the Demo scene. 64k can do alot of graphics. The most awesome games like Betrayal at Krondor were only a few floppies. Sure, if you have big hardware use it, but don't waste it. Programmers are just getting slack and including (literally) everything in the world, and not writing anything for themselves. They aren't looking to optimize stuff, just to kick it out and make money (obviously open source isn't guilty of the money or the fast kickout thing)...
Some people argue, "If everyone carried a gun, then no one would dare shoot another person". They claim that it would solve violence and make people safer.
Using the same logic, if everyone had a knife no one would be stabbed. Ok, look in everyone's kitchen. I bet everyone has a potentially deadly knife of some type (basically anything sharp.) Now, how many people were stabbed in domestic disputes last year.
Look at your hands, look at your feet. Most people have two of each. Now, does that mean that since almost everyone has hands and feet that no one was strangled, kicked, or beaten to death or near it last year?
Everyone in War has a gun or some type of weapon, does that mean that no one will be killed? So think, if more people had guns, does that mean that there would be less problems?
No
The problems will occur with or without the guns, but the guns sure make it easier. Think if the Sniper had to get out of his car and kick each of his victims to death. I don't feel that he would be as sucessful.
Now back to topic, I feel that it would be possible to 'register' the balistics data on all guns. We currently require that all guns are registered (which obviously doesn't happen). But we could require everyone to register the data on their gun, with stiff penalties for being caught with an unregistered gun. And if someone's gun was 'stolen' and someone was shot with it, well if you didn't report your gun stolen (and the court could show that you knew it was stolen), then you should be in deep shit too. People seriously need to keep their weapons locked up with no access to other people's hands. Biometric locking systems or even smartcard systems are cheap enough now.
Hey, is Zipcar publically held? In large cities, this could be the best thing since cars themselves. I would love to invest, if Bush ever stops screwing up the market (How the hell can a president drive down the economy and still be in a 'wartime' ecomony?), in Zipcar.
./ approval with little friction, it's gotta be good. Half the time we can't even decide if a new kernel patch is good or not, let alone cars..
Its seems like a really great idea, and even the jadedness of citydwelling slashdot members seem to find zipcar favorable. I mean, if it can pass the
Captain, we need to find more Dilithium Crystals to power the warp core reactor! We don't have above impluse power without them!