In the graphics and 3d business, time is money, so equipment upgrades tend to happen every couple of years. They are moving to macs less for the OSX side of things (but I am sure it helps) and more for the processing power and bus speeds allowed by the new G5s. Their workstation boxes were X86 with some SGI scattered about and if there were a couple of years old, they new G5s could render frames and refresh much faster than those older X86 machines. With Pixlet being a software renderer, it would make sense for them to be on the fastest boxes available because without the help of hardware, all that matters in decompressing those frames for viewing is the spped of the box. Remember, for a company like Pixar, it is not about the money, it is about time, and the G5 will save them time on the workstation side.
The song was not copyrighted unitl October 27, 2003. That was after the ads were pulled. Seems to me if they went to look up the copyright and found none they could use it until the copyright was filed. Basically the published did not own it until the copyright was filed so they are going to sue over a song they later owned... not which they owned when the ad was created.
As absurd as this is, this guy is an attorney. He has the knowledge and ability to fight this as long as he likes. He can also file any number of countless lawsuits and fight them all himself thus costing millions of dollars in attorney fees to those he is sueing. He could make the arguement.. it is better to settle than fight this forever. Extorsion.
Isn't it obvoius that it takes time for the martian rover eater to get from the beagle landing to the spirit landing. I am sure it is pissed off the darn rover got some pictures off before getting eaten.
The first two films were better, or at least according to my child. Remember folks, the movies were not made for adult geeks, but 10 year old kids. I am sure by the time the last three are made I will REALLY hate them and will refuse to go because I will be a hard headed old man. But my child, and perhaps his children, will love them. One thing Lucas does really well is children's movies... not 20-50 something trying to re-live their childhood movies.
I couldn't help but think one of these could be modified to check out what is goin on in that little place in Nevada out in the desert. If it could send back pictures and find something for me that would be great. I hear some little grey men lost something out there and maybe this thing could help me find it for them...
I am a designer and not a programmer so could someone tell a lamen the significance of this. It would seem good to me that there would be some flexibility in the kernal. Am I confiusing flexibility with inconsistency?
This is what I get on my mac...
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OK, most of these posts need to be marked redundant. The US captured a tyrant dictator and no one can say whether or not this is significant unless you live in Iraq. Those people will ultimatly decide if this incursion was justified.
I am sorry that American soldiers are dying in Iraq but guess what, it is there job to follow the commands of the commander in chief. If he says go and fight, then go. Since 1991, it is the first time these people have been asked to do what they were hired to do. I have not been at my job for 10 years and only asked to do it once. We don't draft in America anymore and so everyone that is in the military chose to be there. I am not for those people getting a free paycheck. I pay my taxes and expect people in the military defend me both domesticaly and abroad. I thank them for doing there job and doing better than anyone else in the world. I am not some self-righteous person that beleives I can make better decisions that the person that was elected to do so.
Now time to seriously burn Karma. I am tired of people in the miltary and in the reserves that cannot fight for some reason. I am sorry if you had childern and don't have anyone else to take care of then. Pay the government back for all the money you made defrauding the government when you said you would defend it and now cannot.
Drug makers make ther money on the come back (see crack dealers as well). Think about it... the last thing really cured was probably polio. I am sure that if this works you will have to keep getting "regular injections" in order to keep the cancer away. I am sure there will never be a pill or shot that can cure cancer... just let you live with it. I am sure at a few hundred bucks a shot (or whatever they choose), some company will make billions on everyone getting their "no cancer shots..." or better yet give them periodically throughout life and let the government pay for it, how do I get stock in that company:)
The longer the industry can keep selling you TVs (the "digital" ones) without tuner the better for them. You will have to buy another anftermarket tuner from them later (can you say profit) or buy another TV (wow more profit). The odds are if you bought your "digital" in 2002 you will buy another one with the tuner in it in 2009 or 10 since your TV will be 8 years old as opposed to just buying a tuner in 5.
PS. The reason for the "digital" is that it ain't a digital TV unless it is an LCD... if not an LCD it is just a fancy CRT.
Would it have been spam and subject to these penalties if he used his own email address(s)?
Here is the definition I found for spam...
An electronic message is "spam" IF: (1) the recipient's personal identity and context are irrelevant because the message is equally applicable to many other potential recipients; AND (2) the recipient has not verifiably granted deliberate, explicit, and still-revocable permission for it to be sent; AND (3) the transmission and reception of the message appears to the recipient to give a disproportionate benefit to the sender.
If his message was to a particular person and that person welcomes responses on his/her web pages and does not offer anything other than an opinion, it would not be spam until the guy complains.
If the perpetrator had a script that sent one email a day until the writer or person responded then asked a friend if he would do the same it would be annoying but not illegal.
Lesson of the day: Spam is bad... do you homework first.
I am always that guy who comoes on slashdot to shoot down these things. Using laptops to post audio is still the exception rather than the rule. Many people still prefer using consoles for their durability and reliability. Whether or not they sound better is subjective so I won't mention that. I suspect when they talk about creating an album they are talking about tracking and not mastering and mixing. While mixing is possible on a laptop, an external I/O box would be required to isolate the output from the potential interference of the motherboard and various other components of the laptop. Mastering still requires specialty equipment from specialty houses.
Remember, like with video tools, this is the exception and the average Joe will not get professional quality from their laptop. I look at stories like this like the recent one showing how the show Scrubs is posted entirly in Final Cut Pro... this is but one or two examples. Every non-event based show in the top twenty Nielson rating is still posted on an Avid, and most records are still mixed using consoles.
I agree. I would fight it myself in court if necessary. If I lose, I declare bankrupcy. In most states the judgment and costs go away then. But heck, I would have my day in court. I would like to take a stab and argueing excessive penalties, and whether or not I am really hurting the music industry then turn over my life savings to those goons. Bankrupcy would suck... but hey better than giving up.
Actually it is different and therefore radical. Mozilla and others can either copy or move messages into other folders. In Opera, all messages remain in "recieved". The views you set up or similar to database queries. They merely show you what is there. This is different than any other product on the market (that I know of). Also, M2 is extremly fast. The best overview can be found at the M2 tutorial.
Check out Opera's M2 email client. It uses one massive "received" box and then the emails are distributed, well not actually moved but sorted, into different "views". It is a radical approach to email sorting. Messages from contacts will show up next to their names and also in and of the views you like. You can sort your email in many diffrent ways. You can set one view for, in my case "financial", where all my bank and dreaded credit card stuff goes, and also by "bank" and "credit card". It took a while to get used to but I LOVE IT.
"If this is a sig, and sigs are for losers, then I am a loser..."
"the company estimates at least 3.6 million bogus copies of its programs are sold annually, causing headaches both for Symantec and unsuspecting buyers, who find out too late that the software isn't doing the job."
Sold... I thought that is what Kazaa is for:)
All kidding aside, a good anti-virus app is worth every penny. I have no problem paying good money for an app. that will do the job and Norton sure as heck does. But I guess not a lot of people feel the same way, a quick Kazaa check landed me over 80 users to download from.... WOW, if only those Metallica songs I want had so many users... *pokes jab at RIAA.
One employer I had told me never to say I could not... let them know under what circumstances I could.
I have lived by that ever since. I am a supervisor that is responsible for not only my time but the time of others. I never say no, I just let people know, without whinning, where there project stands... and what possible delays there may be. I have neen known to tell someone that I was planning to shelve their job for a week, and if they want they can give me materials now, or wait until I am ready to start. I usually let people know that I am just trying to be honest with them and not lend them false hope.
In my small firm I keep my schedule posted as well as the tasks of my subordinates (I don't put their exact shedules... can of worms I won't open). Most of the time people can tell where on the totem pole their project falls and will often hold the job themselves seeing that something more important is in front of them. Ultimatly communication is the key, not bitching. If people see things getting done and you working hard and working snart, they will rarely (I won't say never) get upset at how long something is taking.
As a casual linux user I like Mandrake. It supports everything on my laptop (including my Sony R505 - IEEE1394 DVD-ROM drive) right out of the box. It is great for anyone who is thinking of moving to Linux but does not know where to start (or have time dealing with compatibility issues that can pop-up). We all know it is bloated, but I don't have the time to work some of the other compatibility challenged distros.
For now I cannot go to linux all the way because of what I do for a living (anyone want to talk to Avid about porting XpressDV to linux), but I love it for all of my "office work" and emailing. I will give RC2 a try, and I support Mandrake as a company. To me they are they closest to "Linux on the Desktop". They support the latest packages and builds along with good hardware support. Last Friday I had over 300 SoBig.F viruses in my inbox before I got a chance to filter it out with my host's email server configurator (hosting service thing). I did not fear downloading them at all. I pop-ed them, then trashed them, while my co-worked was freaking out trying not to get infected... can't beat that with a stick, thanks Linux... Mandrake made this possible for me.
SCO may or may not have a point over whether or not GPL will stand up in court, but last time I checked courts still do look at and believe in "good faith." GPL may not hold too much water legaly, but its premise and wording make it obvoius to the user's its intentions. The court should recognize that while it may or may not be legaly binding, releasing something under GPL means that one is embrassing the concept of the GPL and therefore the company should be bound to that assumption. Besides, if SCO markets something as GPL and they don't believe that it is GPL, then that is false advertising and mis-marketing. Talk to you attorney general about that.
PS. Link to the SCO website often and go there to check for updates.... bandwith costs money and we are slashdot... need I say more.
You might be onto something here. I wonder if the ACLU would take a more pro-active stance against abuses of the DMCA if slashdoters en masse were asking them to. I usually do not like the ACLU, but they sure would get my money if they would become a lot more pro-active about these issues, and not the fact the little Johney got kick out of school for having blue hair.
The Reagan is the last Nimitz class carrier. The next-gen carrier is called the CVN-21. More info on it can be found here
. This includes pictures and specs. for all to ooohh and ahhh at (if it does not get slashdotted).
Slashdot Mirror
In the graphics and 3d business, time is money, so equipment upgrades tend to happen every couple of years. They are moving to macs less for the OSX side of things (but I am sure it helps) and more for the processing power and bus speeds allowed by the new G5s. Their workstation boxes were X86 with some SGI scattered about and if there were a couple of years old, they new G5s could render frames and refresh much faster than those older X86 machines. With Pixlet being a software renderer, it would make sense for them to be on the fastest boxes available because without the help of hardware, all that matters in decompressing those frames for viewing is the spped of the box. Remember, for a company like Pixar, it is not about the money, it is about time, and the G5 will save them time on the workstation side.
The song was not copyrighted unitl October 27, 2003. That was after the ads were pulled. Seems to me if they went to look up the copyright and found none they could use it until the copyright was filed. Basically the published did not own it until the copyright was filed so they are going to sue over a song they later owned... not which they owned when the ad was created.
Can the disc now boot off of firewire drives. My laptop uses a firewire dvd-rom and I cannot get any live distribution to work so far. Any thoughts?
As absurd as this is, this guy is an attorney. He has the knowledge and ability to fight this as long as he likes. He can also file any number of countless lawsuits and fight them all himself thus costing millions of dollars in attorney fees to those he is sueing. He could make the arguement.. it is better to settle than fight this forever. Extorsion.
Isn't it obvoius that it takes time for the martian rover eater to get from the beagle landing to the spirit landing. I am sure it is pissed off the darn rover got some pictures off before getting eaten.
The first two films were better, or at least according to my child. Remember folks, the movies were not made for adult geeks, but 10 year old kids. I am sure by the time the last three are made I will REALLY hate them and will refuse to go because I will be a hard headed old man. But my child, and perhaps his children, will love them. One thing Lucas does really well is children's movies... not 20-50 something trying to re-live their childhood movies.
I couldn't help but think one of these could be modified to check out what is goin on in that little place in Nevada out in the desert. If it could send back pictures and find something for me that would be great. I hear some little grey men lost something out there and maybe this thing could help me find it for them...
I am a designer and not a programmer so could someone tell a lamen the significance of this. It would seem good to me that there would be some flexibility in the kernal. Am I confiusing flexibility with inconsistency?
This is what I get on my mac... Macintosh Users The Macintosh operating system is not supported at this time. Netscape currently supports Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. Please check back in the future for a Macintosh version of Netscape!
OK, most of these posts need to be marked redundant. The US captured a tyrant dictator and no one can say whether or not this is significant unless you live in Iraq. Those people will ultimatly decide if this incursion was justified.
I am sorry that American soldiers are dying in Iraq but guess what, it is there job to follow the commands of the commander in chief. If he says go and fight, then go. Since 1991, it is the first time these people have been asked to do what they were hired to do. I have not been at my job for 10 years and only asked to do it once. We don't draft in America anymore and so everyone that is in the military chose to be there. I am not for those people getting a free paycheck. I pay my taxes and expect people in the military defend me both domesticaly and abroad. I thank them for doing there job and doing better than anyone else in the world. I am not some self-righteous person that beleives I can make better decisions that the person that was elected to do so.
Now time to seriously burn Karma.
I am tired of people in the miltary and in the reserves that cannot fight for some reason. I am sorry if you had childern and don't have anyone else to take care of then. Pay the government back for all the money you made defrauding the government when you said you would defend it and now cannot.
Drug makers make ther money on the come back (see crack dealers as well). Think about it... the last thing really cured was probably polio. I am sure that if this works you will have to keep getting "regular injections" in order to keep the cancer away. I am sure there will never be a pill or shot that can cure cancer... just let you live with it. I am sure at a few hundred bucks a shot (or whatever they choose), some company will make billions on everyone getting their "no cancer shots..." or better yet give them periodically throughout life and let the government pay for it, how do I get stock in that company :)
The longer the industry can keep selling you TVs (the "digital" ones) without tuner the better for them. You will have to buy another anftermarket tuner from them later (can you say profit) or buy another TV (wow more profit). The odds are if you bought your "digital" in 2002 you will buy another one with the tuner in it in 2009 or 10 since your TV will be 8 years old as opposed to just buying a tuner in 5.
PS. The reason for the "digital" is that it ain't a digital TV unless it is an LCD... if not an LCD it is just a fancy CRT.
Would it have been spam and subject to these penalties if he used his own email address(s)?
Here is the definition I found for spam... An electronic message is "spam" IF: (1) the recipient's personal identity and context are irrelevant because the message is equally applicable to many other potential recipients; AND (2) the recipient has not verifiably granted deliberate, explicit, and still-revocable permission for it to be sent; AND (3) the transmission and reception of the message appears to the recipient to give a disproportionate benefit to the sender.
If his message was to a particular person and that person welcomes responses on his/her web pages and does not offer anything other than an opinion, it would not be spam until the guy complains.
If the perpetrator had a script that sent one email a day until the writer or person responded then asked a friend if he would do the same it would be annoying but not illegal.
Lesson of the day: Spam is bad... do you homework first.
I am always that guy who comoes on slashdot to shoot down these things. Using laptops to post audio is still the exception rather than the rule. Many people still prefer using consoles for their durability and reliability. Whether or not they sound better is subjective so I won't mention that. I suspect when they talk about creating an album they are talking about tracking and not mastering and mixing. While mixing is possible on a laptop, an external I/O box would be required to isolate the output from the potential interference of the motherboard and various other components of the laptop. Mastering still requires specialty equipment from specialty houses.
Remember, like with video tools, this is the exception and the average Joe will not get professional quality from their laptop. I look at stories like this like the recent one showing how the show Scrubs is posted entirly in Final Cut Pro... this is but one or two examples. Every non-event based show in the top twenty Nielson rating is still posted on an Avid, and most records are still mixed using consoles.
I agree. I would fight it myself in court if necessary. If I lose, I declare bankrupcy. In most states the judgment and costs go away then. But heck, I would have my day in court. I would like to take a stab and argueing excessive penalties, and whether or not I am really hurting the music industry then turn over my life savings to those goons. Bankrupcy would suck... but hey better than giving up.
Actually it is different and therefore radical. Mozilla and others can either copy or move messages into other folders. In Opera, all messages remain in "recieved". The views you set up or similar to database queries. They merely show you what is there. This is different than any other product on the market (that I know of). Also, M2 is extremly fast. The best overview can be found at the M2 tutorial.
Check out Opera's M2 email client. It uses one massive "received" box and then the emails are distributed, well not actually moved but sorted, into different "views". It is a radical approach to email sorting. Messages from contacts will show up next to their names and also in and of the views you like. You can sort your email in many diffrent ways. You can set one view for, in my case "financial", where all my bank and dreaded credit card stuff goes, and also by "bank" and "credit card". It took a while to get used to but I LOVE IT.
"If this is a sig, and sigs are for losers, then I am a loser..."
"the company estimates at least 3.6 million bogus copies of its programs are sold annually, causing headaches both for Symantec and unsuspecting buyers, who find out too late that the software isn't doing the job."
:)
All kidding aside, a good anti-virus app is worth every penny. I have no problem paying good money for an app. that will do the job and Norton sure as heck does. But I guess not a lot of people feel the same way, a quick Kazaa check landed me over 80 users to download from.... WOW, if only those Metallica songs I want had so many users... *pokes jab at RIAA.
Sold... I thought that is what Kazaa is for
One employer I had told me never to say I could not... let them know under what circumstances I could.
I have lived by that ever since. I am a supervisor that is responsible for not only my time but the time of others. I never say no, I just let people know, without whinning, where there project stands... and what possible delays there may be. I have neen known to tell someone that I was planning to shelve their job for a week, and if they want they can give me materials now, or wait until I am ready to start. I usually let people know that I am just trying to be honest with them and not lend them false hope.
In my small firm I keep my schedule posted as well as the tasks of my subordinates (I don't put their exact shedules... can of worms I won't open). Most of the time people can tell where on the totem pole their project falls and will often hold the job themselves seeing that something more important is in front of them. Ultimatly communication is the key, not bitching. If people see things getting done and you working hard and working snart, they will rarely (I won't say never) get upset at how long something is taking.
As a casual linux user I like Mandrake. It supports everything on my laptop (including my Sony R505 - IEEE1394 DVD-ROM drive) right out of the box. It is great for anyone who is thinking of moving to Linux but does not know where to start (or have time dealing with compatibility issues that can pop-up). We all know it is bloated, but I don't have the time to work some of the other compatibility challenged distros.
For now I cannot go to linux all the way because of what I do for a living (anyone want to talk to Avid about porting XpressDV to linux), but I love it for all of my "office work" and emailing. I will give RC2 a try, and I support Mandrake as a company. To me they are they closest to "Linux on the Desktop". They support the latest packages and builds along with good hardware support. Last Friday I had over 300 SoBig.F viruses in my inbox before I got a chance to filter it out with my host's email server configurator (hosting service thing). I did not fear downloading them at all. I pop-ed them, then trashed them, while my co-worked was freaking out trying not to get infected... can't beat that with a stick, thanks Linux... Mandrake made this possible for me.
I just want to know when I can get a monkey with five asses.
If sigs are for losers, and this is a sig, then I am a loser!
SCO may or may not have a point over whether or not GPL will stand up in court, but last time I checked courts still do look at and believe in "good faith." GPL may not hold too much water legaly, but its premise and wording make it obvoius to the user's its intentions. The court should recognize that while it may or may not be legaly binding, releasing something under GPL means that one is embrassing the concept of the GPL and therefore the company should be bound to that assumption. Besides, if SCO markets something as GPL and they don't believe that it is GPL, then that is false advertising and mis-marketing. Talk to you attorney general about that.
PS. Link to the SCO website often and go there to check for updates.... bandwith costs money and we are slashdot... need I say more.
How ironic, I just downloaded that song from Kazaa. Pastpolls "Karma can be so overrated."
You might be onto something here. I wonder if the ACLU would take a more pro-active stance against abuses of the DMCA if slashdoters en masse were asking them to. I usually do not like the ACLU, but they sure would get my money if they would become a lot more pro-active about these issues, and not the fact the little Johney got kick out of school for having blue hair.
The Reagan is the last Nimitz class carrier. The next-gen carrier is called the CVN-21. More info on it can be found here . This includes pictures and specs. for all to ooohh and ahhh at (if it does not get slashdotted).