I once had two computers sitting next to each other, but was getting sick of hopping keyboards when going one from another. What I ended up doing was using VNC to link the two computers similar to how a KVM works. Instead of watching the update on the client computer, I'd watch the monitor on the host computer. It was neat, it was kinda like rerouting my keyboard and mouse on one computer to the other! Pity, though, I wish I could find a version of VNC where I can turn the image signal off. When using it like that, I don't need to waste the bandwidth/runtime. Anybody know of a flavor of VNC (or another App for Windows) that does that?
The cool thing is that because it's VNC, doesn't matter which OS I'm using. So my computer (or computer like device, heh.) could benefit from this type of interface as well. It'll be an interesting day when I can get my TV to work the same way.
Re:You all really want to piss off the RIAA?
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Wish I had the article link on me. Somebody posted an article that said the the CD won't play properly in a PC, thus preventing the PC features on it from working as well. But it can still be copied just fine, AND the copy works in the PC like it should.
Sorry, I made a bad assumption that everybody had read that story. It wasn't a headline on Slashdot. My bad.
You all really want to piss off the RIAA?
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Get a bunch of people to buy a CD (like the Spiderman Soundtrack that has PC features, but won't play on a PC... heh) and then return it the next day. With the # of Slashdot people around, it shouldn't be hard for the RIAA to take notice.
Here's the thing: If we're willing to spend the money to buy the CD in the fisrt place, it's kinda hard to accusse people of 'stealing' music on the web. It lends more credence to the desire to keep our rights in tact.
"We took 1,000 people and had them listen to an NSync song off a 64-kbit WMA file, and then off the CD. When asked 'Do you like the song any better?', 999 out of 1,000 people said "No. Can I go now?"
So yes, there is no quality difference between WMA and CD's, it's just a matter of asking the right question.
Seinfeld is one of those few shows that can be easily transmitted around the web. You don't need to watch very long to see Jerry observe nonsensical about the world, George having a twisted view on how to deal with women, Elaine's problems at work, and Kramer being Kramer. That's why the entire series can fit on one VCD! Heh
... it'll end up in the closet once I get a gf. Unless she's one of those feminist types that thinks I should get beer on me own. Oh well, none of us can really be that picky.
Well I hope you take one thing away from my post: I didn't deny it was wrong.
I can understand you not respecting my decision. I hope you can at least see that I made the most of my situation. Both Newtek and I ultimately benefitted from it, but that didn't happen without LOTS of work on my end. I had to impress my employer in order to get hired. I had to prove to them that it was worth spending $2,500 for me to get the software. I had to demonstrate to them that the upgrades were worth the $500 price tag each time around.
Do all people who get unauthorized software go that far? I doubt it. As I said, I'm not denying it's wrong.
"Just because you can't afford to buy something doesn't give you the right to steal it."
Nobody's saying "I'm poor so I have the right to steal it." What people are saying is "I need to know how to use these things in order to succeed in life, but there's no outlet to let me do it affordably."
I'm a Lightwave animator. When I started using it, it cost $2,500. You cannot get a job using Lightwave unless you know how to use Lightwave. Here's the thing though, LW's not about pushing buttons, it's about being an artist who understands his/her medium. School can teach me how to cut clay, but it cannot teach me to be a scupltor.
The simple fact of the matter is that in order to use any 3D App, you have to be intimately familiar with it. Without a job, there's no way I can pay $2,500 to buy the software. (Plus that's really risky, what if you're better off with Maya?)
The resort is to 'acquire' the software. Is it right? No, it's piracy. Should Newtek do something about it if they know you have it? Yes they should, otherwise the floodgates open to people being able to legitimatley use LW without paying for it. Should Newtek look the other way? Oh absolutely.
3D Apps are unusual software because you can make a good living knowing how to use it. I learned how to use Lightwave, and now I have a job where I use it extensively. Not only has my company purchased a full license plus 2 upgrades, but now I have my own copy I paid full price for. My 'piracy' 6 years ago earned Newtek 2 full licenses, 2 upgrade licenses, and repeat business from me in the future.
One day, the licensing will be figured out such that it's okay to use unauthorized copies of software for educational use. Until it is, yes it is wrong. But there's a difference between being legally wrong and being ethically wrong. Newtek profited off me being legally wrong, but ethically right.
...is to make design choices that are the opposite of what they want. If they say "Why did you do it this way? It's stupid!" respond with "Because I'm smarter than you." They'll go fix it themselves.
"...but it brings definition of "stealth fighter" to entirely new level"
Stealth fighters are very hard to hide because they fly so fast they create a sonic boom. However, they did find a way to mask this as well. You see, what they do is they mathematically calculate where the sonic boom is going to be heard. Then they place an undercover agent there to say: "Hmm... I think it's going to rain."
Well, you could compare this to guns. It's hard to argue that guns are good for anything but killing and turning off your television. But for some reason, gun owners aren't all labeled as murderers. Interesting, iddn't it?
If memory serves (and clarification/corrections are welcome) the NRA has done a lot of work to protect the right to have guns. Perhaps we need something like DigitalConsumer.org to grow and fight these battles.
It's just a job. It pays the bills. Administrators are no more important nor less important than anyone else in the average organisation.
Cyrill, UK
That's not an attitude I'd share with the guy who can stall the productivity of an entire company. I had somebody belittle my job as a sysadmin once, so when she was away from her desk I unplugged her speakers.
She bugged me about half an hour later to tell me her sound card stopped working. Fortunately, it's easy to act like I'm working on something more important when using a prop like 'Event Viewer'. So I blew her off. About 45 minutes later she comes in and says "Never mind, the plug 'fell out'." Heh.
I can just see a P2P network detecting a DoS attack and instructing other clients to fire shots back at the source. It'd be interesting of Kazaa or somebody were to develop it that way because it'd make anybody who intends to flood a network think twice about it.
Of course, this could potentially be exploited. However, if the MPAA angers enough people they might be willing to risk it.
What'll happen is people will get bored with Mp3 and want to move to something 'better'. As long as Ogg keeps improving, it'll eventually take over. That is, of course, assuming that it stays on top and something new doesn't come along and knock it out of it's roost.
I do wonder, though: Is there a point where they'll stop trying to make music smaller? Internet is only getting faster and storage is only getting bigger. What happens when fingernail sized memory cards can cheaply handle gigs of RAM?
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I once had two computers sitting next to each other, but was getting sick of hopping keyboards when going one from another. What I ended up doing was using VNC to link the two computers similar to how a KVM works. Instead of watching the update on the client computer, I'd watch the monitor on the host computer. It was neat, it was kinda like rerouting my keyboard and mouse on one computer to the other! Pity, though, I wish I could find a version of VNC where I can turn the image signal off. When using it like that, I don't need to waste the bandwidth/runtime. Anybody know of a flavor of VNC (or another App for Windows) that does that?
The cool thing is that because it's VNC, doesn't matter which OS I'm using. So my computer (or computer like device, heh.) could benefit from this type of interface as well. It'll be an interesting day when I can get my TV to work the same way.
Wish I had the article link on me. Somebody posted an article that said the the CD won't play properly in a PC, thus preventing the PC features on it from working as well. But it can still be copied just fine, AND the copy works in the PC like it should.
Sorry, I made a bad assumption that everybody had read that story. It wasn't a headline on Slashdot. My bad.
Get a bunch of people to buy a CD (like the Spiderman Soundtrack that has PC features, but won't play on a PC... heh) and then return it the next day. With the # of Slashdot people around, it shouldn't be hard for the RIAA to take notice.
Here's the thing: If we're willing to spend the money to buy the CD in the fisrt place, it's kinda hard to accusse people of 'stealing' music on the web. It lends more credence to the desire to keep our rights in tact.
Oh but it is CD quality.
"We took 1,000 people and had them listen to an NSync song off a 64-kbit WMA file, and then off the CD. When asked 'Do you like the song any better?', 999 out of 1,000 people said "No. Can I go now?"
So yes, there is no quality difference between WMA and CD's, it's just a matter of asking the right question.
Seinfeld is one of those few shows that can be easily transmitted around the web. You don't need to watch very long to see Jerry observe nonsensical about the world, George having a twisted view on how to deal with women, Elaine's problems at work, and Kramer being Kramer. That's why the entire series can fit on one VCD! Heh
Or just walk around zombie like wearing a Windows T-shirt....
Oh right, just don't get your love tips from Slashdot.
"Density has brought us together..."
... it'll end up in the closet once I get a gf. Unless she's one of those feminist types that thinks I should get beer on me own. Oh well, none of us can really be that picky.
Well I hope you take one thing away from my post: I didn't deny it was wrong.
I can understand you not respecting my decision. I hope you can at least see that I made the most of my situation. Both Newtek and I ultimately benefitted from it, but that didn't happen without LOTS of work on my end. I had to impress my employer in order to get hired. I had to prove to them that it was worth spending $2,500 for me to get the software. I had to demonstrate to them that the upgrades were worth the $500 price tag each time around.
Do all people who get unauthorized software go that far? I doubt it. As I said, I'm not denying it's wrong.
Cheers.
"Just because you can't afford to buy something doesn't give you the right to steal it."
Nobody's saying "I'm poor so I have the right to steal it." What people are saying is "I need to know how to use these things in order to succeed in life, but there's no outlet to let me do it affordably."
I'm a Lightwave animator. When I started using it, it cost $2,500. You cannot get a job using Lightwave unless you know how to use Lightwave. Here's the thing though, LW's not about pushing buttons, it's about being an artist who understands his/her medium. School can teach me how to cut clay, but it cannot teach me to be a scupltor.
The simple fact of the matter is that in order to use any 3D App, you have to be intimately familiar with it. Without a job, there's no way I can pay $2,500 to buy the software. (Plus that's really risky, what if you're better off with Maya?)
The resort is to 'acquire' the software. Is it right? No, it's piracy. Should Newtek do something about it if they know you have it? Yes they should, otherwise the floodgates open to people being able to legitimatley use LW without paying for it. Should Newtek look the other way? Oh absolutely.
3D Apps are unusual software because you can make a good living knowing how to use it. I learned how to use Lightwave, and now I have a job where I use it extensively. Not only has my company purchased a full license plus 2 upgrades, but now I have my own copy I paid full price for. My 'piracy' 6 years ago earned Newtek 2 full licenses, 2 upgrade licenses, and repeat business from me in the future.
One day, the licensing will be figured out such that it's okay to use unauthorized copies of software for educational use. Until it is, yes it is wrong. But there's a difference between being legally wrong and being ethically wrong. Newtek profited off me being legally wrong, but ethically right.
I can't believe you got modded as 'insightful' despite your seriously flawed metaphor.
...is to make design choices that are the opposite of what they want. If they say "Why did you do it this way? It's stupid!" respond with "Because I'm smarter than you." They'll go fix it themselves.
"Even better, redirect them to goatse.cx when they type in slashdot.org. That will stop them!"
Or they'll send that around to everybody else thinking it's funny.
"So, to prove your "importance" to the company, you pulled a childish prank?"
That's not what I said.
Don't have a sense of humor do ya?
Ah such a wonderful day when a 'prank' is twisted to mean sabotage.
"...but it brings definition of "stealth fighter" to entirely new level"
Stealth fighters are very hard to hide because they fly so fast they create a sonic boom. However, they did find a way to mask this as well. You see, what they do is they mathematically calculate where the sonic boom is going to be heard. Then they place an undercover agent there to say: "Hmm... I think it's going to rain."
Well, lasers are used to burn CD's. Therefore, the laser cannon is protected under fair use.
Well, you could compare this to guns. It's hard to argue that guns are good for anything but killing and turning off your television. But for some reason, gun owners aren't all labeled as murderers. Interesting, iddn't it?
If memory serves (and clarification/corrections are welcome) the NRA has done a lot of work to protect the right to have guns. Perhaps we need something like DigitalConsumer.org to grow and fight these battles.
She bugged me about half an hour later to tell me her sound card stopped working. Fortunately, it's easy to act like I'm working on something more important when using a prop like 'Event Viewer'. So I blew her off. About 45 minutes later she comes in and says "Never mind, the plug 'fell out'." Heh.
"America's full! Go home!"
Doh!
I can just see a P2P network detecting a DoS attack and instructing other clients to fire shots back at the source. It'd be interesting of Kazaa or somebody were to develop it that way because it'd make anybody who intends to flood a network think twice about it.
Of course, this could potentially be exploited. However, if the MPAA angers enough people they might be willing to risk it.
Hmm I can't imagine getting the full benefit of that from work. I'd be too shy to fully appreciate the porn around other guys. Ahem.
I just wanted to say I appreciate your post. I understood that Ogg was for lower bitrate files, not better audio quality.
*Interested in checking it out*
Thank you!
What'll happen is people will get bored with Mp3 and want to move to something 'better'. As long as Ogg keeps improving, it'll eventually take over. That is, of course, assuming that it stays on top and something new doesn't come along and knock it out of it's roost.
I do wonder, though: Is there a point where they'll stop trying to make music smaller? Internet is only getting faster and storage is only getting bigger. What happens when fingernail sized memory cards can cheaply handle gigs of RAM?
Yeah I do... lots of porn uses it.