WHy not instead of asking for MS to sign a bootloader doesn't someone figure out how to replace the bios of the XBOX entirely and make everything open source with some sort of gpl or bsd licence?
that way everyone could sign their own bootloader, or better yet- not need a signed bootloader because the bios would just accept anything.
because much like a greater part of history, time and period of days etc have religious backgrounds/history to them. 7 is the number of God , 12 and 24 represent a priesthood if I'm not mistaken. The methods we use for time were developed long before the metric system was a twinkel in it's daddy's eye.
Apple plan to roll out Net music in Europe delayed By Charles Arthur, Technology Editor 25 June 2003
Attempts by Apple Computer to launch a European version of its online "Music Store", where people can download individual songs, has been held up until next year by disputes between record companies and their artists over licensing.
The delay could mean more problems for the record companies, which face a growing tide of online piracy with the increase in high-speed "broadband" connections in Europe, and frustration for Apple, which has seen 5 million tracks sold at 99 cents each through its US-only online "iTunes Music Store" since its launch eight weeks ago.
In Europe, though, different artists can have different arrangements in each country over how much they are paid for a digital download - if such clauses are in their contract at all. That has caused headaches for Apple, which wants to take advantage of its momentum in the US to roll the program out in the rest of the world.
Pascal Cagni, vice-president of Apple's European operations, said yesterday: "In Europe the legal environment [for licensing songs for download] is more complicated than in the US, so the one-price-fits-all system that the US uses is difficult to do here. And the major labels themselves haven't sorted out their rights."
Mr Cagni declined to put a date on the timing of the launch, but insisted it would not be ready by September, contrary to some reports. One music industry source said yesterday: "I don't suspect Apple will have this in Europe until next year."
Although the five major record labels have signed internet download deals with a British company, OD2 (Online Digital Distribution) of Bristol, the number of tracks sold is not believed to approach that achieved by Apple's online store.
Both, however, are dwarfed by the number of illicit downloads carried out every day through "peer-to-peer" networks that are increasingly popular with people disenchanted with the price of CDs. Millions of tracks change hands every day through those networks, enabled by broadband connections, to the frustration of the record companies.
However, despite only being accessible to those using the company's newest operating system, Apple's iTunes Music Store has been a hit in the US. The company notes that its statistics suggest that albums are still popular: more than 46 per cent of the songs have been purchased as albums, and more than 80 per cent of the 200,000-plus songs available on the online store have been purchased at least once.
The key to its appeal seems to be simplicity. The "store" is accessed through a simple web browser-like interface to buy individual tracks for 99 cents or entire albums for $9.99, and allows people to "burn" their music on to a CD that will play normally in a car or hi-fi.
By contrast, OD2 - which has a comparable number of tracks for sale - only allows some tracks to be burned on to CD, and requires a subscription; once that expires, the downloaded tracks will not play. OD2 was not able to give a figure for the number of downloads from its system in the past eight weeks.
"The iTunes Music Store is changing the way people buy music," said Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, on Monday. The company is now focusing on developing a version that will be able to draw users of the more widely used Windows operating system: that is expected by the end of the year.
Now with that said I wonder what specifically the artists have against this? Anyone do further research than myself?
actually the above post was in fact just seconds after me. my fellow mods, please look at the time before you moderate and not just the location in the discussion of where a comment is made.
not to pick but Andorion and I were on the same ball:)
if you'd be quick to note, schindlers list wasn't a story. it was dramatized history.
and as for living violence and sexuality, I have and as shocked you may be, in art, I find it expressly distasteful. Sexuality in movies and not blatent porn found in "regular" meetings. Yeah. sorry- no place for it.
I'm going to stick my neck out for this one. Karma be damned.
not really. there's a difference between looking professional and looking obnoxious or just plain silly. while I maintain your skills should be the determinant of your position and title within your organisation. When you present yourself as a representative of ABC Corp. you can't flaunt your adornments just because you chose to express your self. (hence the seperation there) Get your earring. If the company policy prohibits this, take it out during the day. During those hours you represent the company. Not your own fasion sense, not your own beliefs (unless your Amish, but if you're in IT and amish you have issues) and not because you want to promote your own image. Do it in your own time, or start your own company... which isn't a bad idea. Some of the best businessmen and companies are those that didn't follow rules so well.
I've had earrings before and I'm glad to say it was a "phase". Tatoos? Ever see a WWII vet with a tatoo? Could you even make out what it was let alone tell it apart from the vericose viens?
Take it as you leave it guys. But if you're on their dime, you can be expected to follow a few rules. It's not that big of a deal.
You're missing the point. Each copy that's bought is owned, edited and resold. There is no mass copying/selling. They only change they make is in the skipping or editing of certian scenes from whatever movies YOU CHOOSE TO BUY. This is an option. If I wanted to, I could buy a famous painting of say... some misc. dancers, or figures that were nude. Say I was objecting to their nakedness and wanted to paint some fig leaves over them, right? Wait!!!!!!!!! What If someone wanted to buy that painting for that reason but never would have thought of doing that for themselves? BINGO! SOMEONE TAPPED INTO A MARKET!
Your choice of words "bastardizing creative works" isn't actually correct in any context here. Take it up a notch and use your own mind for a change. It's called personal preference.
What a sad state of humanity when you take out a sex scene or violent scene in a movie and suddenly you missed a vital part of the storyline. Sorry, that doesn't qualify as anything substantial from or for humanity. Art, it may be, can also be expressed in ways that are more intellectual. But I'm not one for mass censorship either. This is a CHOISE people make.
"Consumers are being empowered to use technology to customize the way they view something in the privacy of their own home, and this makes Hollywood nervous," said Jason Schultz, the EFF attorney who filed the brief
Perhaps this is because they'd rather force feed our brains with crap some of us don't like viewing with small children in the room, or even just because some of us (??) find it objectional
Schultz argues that companies like ClearPlay and Trilogy do not infringe on movie copyright because those laws or restrictions only apply to public performances or involve "derivative works," in which the movies are drastically changed
Drastically changed and sold in mass... THAT would be illegal. It's no different if I bought a DVD and wanted some of the violence or sex "skipped" by a third party. This is all Trilogy Studios in Sandy, ClearPlay in Salt Lake City and CleanFlicks of Salt Lake City are doing.
I don't see much wrong, if anything at all if I wanted to skip or edit something I owned - so if I can buy this product from a third party where certian items are "skipped" then I'm more inclined to purchace there.
then again, i don't have my system running 24/7 either. no ego here about uptime, that and it's a pain to get kazaa running with winex on my nix machine:P
the source is available if you contact the right people who are inactive from the CDC, that, and I put it up on kazaa as Hucknet-0x4A.tar.gz (the variant I knew of).
have fun:)
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If Sun were smart they would slap together cheap parts (may be but don't have to be x86), put KDE (not GNOME) and Linux on it and offer it at a good price
why not gnome? you fear change, choice, freedom? If so work for microsoft& let the user be the one to decide.
As for the rest of your post, I agree. Sun is in the lead if they were to do this. However I feel it would compete with their own OS.. even if it is on its way down. Some company (re: execs) don't like the idea of throwing out their baby.
this may seem a bit redundant, but I haven't seen anyone post about it yet. Release the patch on the kernel.org site a week in advance. Post the gpg signature for the patch AND the full kernel source. Then post the full kernel on kazaa, eDonkey, torrent etc. they download the kernel and then can verify the archive with the gpg sig and md5sum.
though those who provide the spaces can handle the demand, i figure we can ease up on costs for them by using some of our own precious bandwidth even if we set a cap on it. 100,000 users at 5k is faster then 1 server at 225k. even if it it takes a large community effort:D
The 802.15.3 standard for High Rate WPANs also operates in the 2.45-GHz band and at similar rates, from 11 to 55 Mbit/s, but is designed for shorter-range (1 to 50 meters), very-low-power operation. It also uses time division, multiple access (TDMA) protocol.
To me this only spells out the death of bluetooth as mentioned here and here And I quote:
Bluetooth's focus on eliminating wires means still having the limitations of wires in that you can only connect between nearby devices. 802.11 on the other hand takes advantage of the Internet and allows you to connect to any device, anywhere
I seem to smell something burning... anyone else??
And all this time I wasn't completely clear on the way to say (type) MAC vs Mac:D Danke
Okay, I'm a writer. Even worse, I'm a tech writer, and we tend to be rather anal types who are into precision, especially when it comes to punctuation and language. I'm consistent with how I write words like email, website, PoweBook, and other tech jargon. I know that MacUser has an uppercase U in the middle, Macworld does not, NeXT is properly written with a lowercase e, and REALbasic has real in uppercase and BASIC all in lower.
I don't make these rules, I just enforce them.
But there's a small thing going on that really bugs me. I can't figure out how it got started, but it's got to stop, that's all there is to it.
I'm talking about people who write Macintosh as MAC. In all capitals. As though MAC is an acronym (Macintosh Apple Computer?).
You usually tend to see this in relation to PC products. PC is an acronym -- it stands for Personal Computer -- and thus should be capitalized. So something might refer to PC/MAC, indicating compatibility with both systems. Except I'm not sure what a MAC system is: it sure ain't a Macintosh computer.
Look on a DVD with "special DVD-ROM features" and it probably says, "DVD-ROM game will not work on a MAC." Yes, shout stupidity to the world, folks!
Using MAC to refer to Macintosh is a blatant way of revealing your ignorance. It screams that you don't know what you're doing. It's an insult to Mac users and the Mac platform. It's the equivalent of a white person using the N word.
I see PC software companies that finally, after years of pleading, port their product to the Mac. The port itself is half-assed, not using standard Mac operating techniques, and the advertising screams MAC, demonstrating the company's stupidity, and then these guys complain that the Mac market sucks because no one bought their product.
Hello, people. If you took the time to actually learn about the Mac way of doing things, your product would sell. But when you try to shove PC-oriented crap down our throats don't be surprised if we don't open our mouths.
Even worse, MAC can be misleading and confusing. That's because there is a MAC acronym. It stands for Machine Address Code and is a (theoretically) unique number assigned to Ethernet networking cards. Spyware software like Microsoft Windows XP will register the MAC number of the computer you install the software on so that you can't easily move the software to another computer. (Of course if you get a new computer or your networking card dies, you're in trouble.)
Since MAC is commonly used in networking discussions, it can be confusing trying to figure out which use the author intends: are they talking about the Mac platform or the MAC address of a computer? Sometimes you'll find brilliant documents like t his one where both uses are used on the same page (but spelled the same)!
Now I can understand PC users getting mixed up and using MAC for Mac. After all, they don't know better. Companies marketing to the Mac market ought to know better, so I can't forgive them, but I can try to educate them.
However, every now and then I run across a Mac user who writes MAC. This, folks, is unforgivable. This is horrible. This person is perpetuating a crime and massacring a beautiful and elegant product name. This person should know better. This person is not a true follower of the Macintosh Way.
Let me repeat it again. It is Mac, folks. Not MAC. Mac. With an uppercase M and a lower case a and c. Even better, write it out: Macintosh. It's such a wonderful product name. Notice how everyone around the world knows Macintosh even if they aren't privileged to own or use one?
But writing MAC destroys something special. It turns elegant Macintosh into something cheap and ugly, like PC. It's loud and obnoxious, with no character and no charm. Mac is special; MAC is common.
Mac versus MAC is a small thing, but it implies a g
Slashdot Mirror
dang /.ers
But doesn't the picture on THIS page HERE look like a Borg cube?
Kidding aside, this is definitely a project I'll be lurking for a long while.
mail sent ;) you should have it soon my friend.
yeah if you could :) any method you'd be willing to send them to me in?
I made a mistake by not doing that and I was wondering if you could send me some of this info?
email me with details!, use my public key!
watch out, sco will send you to the Ministry of Love.
WHy not instead of asking for MS to sign a bootloader doesn't someone figure out how to replace the bios of the XBOX entirely and make everything open source with some sort of gpl or bsd licence?
that way everyone could sign their own bootloader, or better yet- not need a signed bootloader because the bios would just accept anything.
anyone thought of this?
That's why I opted to post a comment to my obvious dupe comment :)
All's fair in love, war... and SLASHDOT!
because much like a greater part of history, time and period of days etc have religious backgrounds/history to them. 7 is the number of God , 12 and 24 represent a priesthood if I'm not mistaken. The methods we use for time were developed long before the metric system was a twinkel in it's daddy's eye.
just me 0.02c
I don't remember that. Can you point out a few references for me to paruse and post them here?
here's the article:
Apple plan to roll out Net music in Europe delayed
By Charles Arthur, Technology Editor
25 June 2003
Attempts by Apple Computer to launch a European version of its online "Music Store", where people can download individual songs, has been held up until next year by disputes between record companies and their artists over licensing.
The delay could mean more problems for the record companies, which face a growing tide of online piracy with the increase in high-speed "broadband" connections in Europe, and frustration for Apple, which has seen 5 million tracks sold at 99 cents each through its US-only online "iTunes Music Store" since its launch eight weeks ago.
In Europe, though, different artists can have different arrangements in each country over how much they are paid for a digital download - if such clauses are in their contract at all. That has caused headaches for Apple, which wants to take advantage of its momentum in the US to roll the program out in the rest of the world.
Pascal Cagni, vice-president of Apple's European operations, said yesterday: "In Europe the legal environment [for licensing songs for download] is more complicated than in the US, so the one-price-fits-all system that the US uses is difficult to do here. And the major labels themselves haven't sorted out their rights."
Mr Cagni declined to put a date on the timing of the launch, but insisted it would not be ready by September, contrary to some reports. One music industry source said yesterday: "I don't suspect Apple will have this in Europe until next year."
Although the five major record labels have signed internet download deals with a British company, OD2 (Online Digital Distribution) of Bristol, the number of tracks sold is not believed to approach that achieved by Apple's online store.
Both, however, are dwarfed by the number of illicit downloads carried out every day through "peer-to-peer" networks that are increasingly popular with people disenchanted with the price of CDs. Millions of tracks change hands every day through those networks, enabled by broadband connections, to the frustration of the record companies.
However, despite only being accessible to those using the company's newest operating system, Apple's iTunes Music Store has been a hit in the US. The company notes that its statistics suggest that albums are still popular: more than 46 per cent of the songs have been purchased as albums, and more than 80 per cent of the 200,000-plus songs available on the online store have been purchased at least once.
The key to its appeal seems to be simplicity. The "store" is accessed through a simple web browser-like interface to buy individual tracks for 99 cents or entire albums for $9.99, and allows people to "burn" their music on to a CD that will play normally in a car or hi-fi.
By contrast, OD2 - which has a comparable number of tracks for sale - only allows some tracks to be burned on to CD, and requires a subscription; once that expires, the downloaded tracks will not play. OD2 was not able to give a figure for the number of downloads from its system in the past eight weeks.
"The iTunes Music Store is changing the way people buy music," said Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, on Monday. The company is now focusing on developing a version that will be able to draw users of the more widely used Windows operating system: that is expected by the end of the year.
Now with that said I wonder what specifically the artists have against this? Anyone do further research than myself?
actually the above post was in fact just seconds after me. my fellow mods, please look at the time before you moderate and not just the location in the discussion of where a comment is made.
:)
not to pick but Andorion and I were on the same ball
cheers!
hmmmmmmmmmm?
Wasn't this covered here:3 /194120 6&mode=thread
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/1
oh wait, this is
any news is good news!
...when you were told to do something. you DID it!
AND WE WERE GLAD TO DO IT.
kids these days with their lunchables, and cellphones.. why i never!
if you'd be quick to note, schindlers list wasn't a story. it was dramatized history.
and as for living violence and sexuality, I have and as shocked you may be, in art, I find it expressly distasteful. Sexuality in movies and not blatent porn found in "regular" meetings. Yeah. sorry- no place for it.
I'm going to stick my neck out for this one. Karma be damned.
not really. there's a difference between looking professional and looking obnoxious or just plain silly. while I maintain your skills should be the determinant of your position and title within your organisation. When you present yourself as a representative of ABC Corp. you can't flaunt your adornments just because you chose to express your self. (hence the seperation there) Get your earring. If the company policy prohibits this, take it out during the day. During those hours you represent the company. Not your own fasion sense, not your own beliefs (unless your Amish, but if you're in IT and amish you have issues) and not because you want to promote your own image. Do it in your own time, or start your own company... which isn't a bad idea. Some of the best businessmen and companies are those that didn't follow rules so well.
I've had earrings before and I'm glad to say it was a "phase". Tatoos? Ever see a WWII vet with a tatoo? Could you even make out what it was let alone tell it apart from the vericose viens?
Take it as you leave it guys. But if you're on their dime, you can be expected to follow a few rules. It's not that big of a deal.
You're missing the point. Each copy that's bought is owned, edited and resold. There is no mass copying/selling. They only change they make is in the skipping or editing of certian scenes from whatever movies YOU CHOOSE TO BUY. This is an option. If I wanted to, I could buy a famous painting of say... some misc. dancers, or figures that were nude. Say I was objecting to their nakedness and wanted to paint some fig leaves over them, right? Wait!!!!!!!!! What If someone wanted to buy that painting for that reason but never would have thought of doing that for themselves? BINGO! SOMEONE TAPPED INTO A MARKET!
Your choice of words "bastardizing creative works" isn't actually correct in any context here. Take it up a notch and use your own mind for a change. It's called personal preference.
What a sad state of humanity when you take out a sex scene or violent scene in a movie and suddenly you missed a vital part of the storyline. Sorry, that doesn't qualify as anything substantial from or for humanity. Art, it may be, can also be expressed in ways that are more intellectual. But I'm not one for mass censorship either. This is a CHOISE people make.
There is a difference.
Perhaps this is because they'd rather force feed our brains with crap some of us don't like viewing with small children in the room, or even just because some of us (??) find it objectional
Drastically changed and sold in mass... THAT would be illegal. It's no different if I bought a DVD and wanted some of the violence or sex "skipped" by a third party. This is all Trilogy Studios in Sandy, ClearPlay in Salt Lake City and CleanFlicks of Salt Lake City are doing.
I don't see much wrong, if anything at all if I wanted to skip or edit something I owned - so if I can buy this product from a third party where certian items are "skipped" then I'm more inclined to purchace there.
then again, i don't have my system running 24/7 either. no ego here about uptime, that and it's a pain to get kazaa running with winex on my nix machine :P
anyone have a patch for WASTE?
the source is available if you contact the right people who are inactive from the CDC, that, and I put it up on kazaa as Hucknet-0x4A.tar.gz (the variant I knew of).
:)
have fun
why not gnome? you fear change, choice, freedom? If so work for microsoft& let the user be the one to decide.
As for the rest of your post, I agree. Sun is in the lead if they were to do this. However I feel it would compete with their own OS.. even if it is on its way down. Some company (re: execs) don't like the idea of throwing out their baby.
this may seem a bit redundant, but I haven't seen anyone post about it yet. Release the patch on the kernel.org site a week in advance. Post the gpg signature for the patch AND the full kernel source. Then post the full kernel on kazaa, eDonkey, torrent etc. they download the kernel and then can verify the archive with the gpg sig and md5sum.
:D
though those who provide the spaces can handle the demand, i figure we can ease up on costs for them by using some of our own precious bandwidth even if we set a cap on it. 100,000 users at 5k is faster then 1 server at 225k. even if it it takes a large community effort
To me this only spells out the death of bluetooth as mentioned here and here
And I quote:
I seem to smell something burning... anyone else??