No, of course this shows the bias of this writer. You aren't obligated to pay for the content you recieve, only that which you like. Which is the mindset warez/p2p'ers seem to have. Ie; "I buy the games/movies/albums that I like, this ones not good enough to buy so its OK to get a free copy"
Of course, the example is backwards. Zealot types would be likely to "donate" all of the money that should go to the artists, to their leader, be it Falwell or Stallman or the EFF or whatever.
I watched that deal on TechTV last week, where they had the industry and P2P guys arguing about the future.
They boiled down the debate to this: RIAA side: "Artists deserve to get paid", P2P side: "Promising new technology can greatly increase blah blah".
It was completely disingenuous. Artists dont make shit through the distributors, and KaZaa/iTunes/Rhapsody are hardly necessary to obtain music.
What it really was, was a pissing contest between two sets of non-talen beurocrats to see who gets to be the middleman of the future.
Facts are, we need no middleman. We need KaZaa just as much as we need the RIAA. We can get music straight from the performers, most of whom will gladly offer it up for free to get us into a seat at their next concert. If some band thinks their shit is worth a buck a pop, go ahead, but I probably wont pay.
Just mp3s on the bands website, that's all. Google will be all the search engine needed.
Fuck RIAA, fuck P2P, and shut up now I'm sick of hearing from all these jackasses who've done nothing to entertain me, yet feel they deserve a percentage of my entertainment dollar.
All thats needed is performers (including necessary technical folk, mixers and whatnot) and audiences.
There's a class 5 hurricane Isabel that's gonna come straight up the Chesapeake bay and knock my fucking house down and I'm not too concerned about cable standards right now.
Oh why oh why did I build my house of sticks! Never hire a little pig as an architect.
No they cant go on your property unless called or they have 'probable cause', like they hear screaming or something. They certainly cant come inside without permission or a warrant. I've had the cops show up to parties because the neighbours bitched about the music. I've had them ask if they can come in and look around. I've told them to pound sand. I've been pulled over and asked if they can look in the trunk. Same deal, they can look in "plain sight" - if you have a shotgun and a bong on your back seat you're fucked, but they cant go into the trunk without a warrant, or again "probable cause" like the safety copout I mentioned before.
He can walk down the sidewalk, and if he can see from there that you're cutting up a bunch of pot plants or whatever, then he can easily get a warrant.
Why do you think HomeSec wanted mailmen to do the snooping? They're allowed on your property to deliver the mail.
And DA's and Judges, while "chummy" keep them on a tight, tight leash, because they know a good defense attorney will rip them a new one if they forget to dot an i or cross a t. They hate nothing more than putting all the time and effort and money into building a case, then having it thrown out because Deputy Dawg forgot the warrant or stuttered reading miranda, or asked you questions without a lawyer, etc etc..
It's really about the tracking data obtained being admissible in court.
So there's a murder, a body dumped in the woods. The cop finds out through a GPS device on your car that your vehicle drove from the victims apartment to the woods right after the murder.
Without a warrant to obtain that data, the judge throws this evidence out. Otherwise it would be a violation of your rights. There's very little a cop can do to you without a warrant, they can't step onto your property, peer through your windows to see whats going on.
A more extreme example you'd see on "Law and Order", I suppose.
Potheads who grow their own are paranoid about cops patrolling the neighbourhoods with heat-sensing cameras, looking for the "hot" houses - which would be a tip that there's some lamps running in there. Or watching power bills for extra usage. They can't - they've tried and judges have thrown it out. You need a warrant first. Public property is fair game, though, and they can go through your trash once it hits the public curve.
Anyhow, that's getting off topic. Point is, this is no shock. Without a warrant a cop is limited to what he sees in public property, he can't go onto your property or through your car without permission.
With exceptions (that they love to exploit) like they can search a trunk of a car if there's a safety concern. They like to pull over suspected dealers, play "hey now I think your exhaust might be leaking, we need to look in the trunk for your safety!"... Though a good lawyer chews such actions up in court.
By and large, Judges are very pro-citizen and very anti-cop. They were all attorneys or DAs and know the games they play, and aren't impressed.
What are we talking about again? Oh yeah. GPS. Dont worry about the local LEOs slipping one into your pocket and watching you. Thats federal black helicopter shit (and if you get the feds on your case all bets are off)
Plenty of emulator specific live CD's around, for folks that build MAME machines and whatnot. An RTCW live CD would need to be reburned every other day when new/updated drivers and cards come out...
Frankly it shouldnt be hard to roll your own. Or buy a console.
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ISO9660 has nothing to do with being bootable, a bootable CDROM has what's analgous to a bootsector, a chunk outside of the filesystem that holds an image of the "boot floppy" that the bios emulates. (theres virtual hard drive mode).
It's basically a kludge - another session that contains the boot stuff.
DVDs just dont have this. DVDs arent multisession either. So they need an entirely different kludge.
You could carry a DVD and a floppy, or bootable CD around.
Hee hee.. I know this has been getting a lot of play on the "science" channels, like discovery, but what makes you think a catastrophic asteroid collision is any more likely in the next 50 years than in the last 50, the 50 before that, etc, etc?
Psst.. Corporations dont care about exploring Uranus, they care about profits.
Show them how to profit by putting a man on the moon, or on mars, or on Saturn, and they'll be on it like a hobo on a ham sandwich.
BTW, there's no such thing as "cost efficient" space exploration. There are no immediate tangible benefits, therefore even if the cost was 50 cents, it'd be inefficient.
Yeah whatever, this bill will die in committee, because it's silly.
But then, would we have gone to the moon without JFKs presidential challenge?
Short of the government ordering a mars mission and moon base, is there enough interest in such things?
Not from me, at least. Fuck mars, what's the big whoopty do about mars? Do they know something about mars that I dont? Is there something on mars worth checking out that they aren't telling me about? Because those rover pictures look mighty boring to me.
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Well, then the light hits the wall at the end of the universe. Either way, a straight line couldn't extend infinitely.
I don't think so, I think "seamless" means that you don't see/know when the plugin starts or stops.
Maybe a message in a status bar that says "Now starting flash!" and "Now stopping flash!"? Or does execution have to pause and be acknowledged by the user?
Sure, because Mozilla isn't bloated enough. Let's add another 50 megs of binary code to that executable.
Besides, the way it looks, it doesnt matter whether the code is in a dynamic library or in the same executable. If it seamlessly displays something thats not HTML, it's a plugin. Library vs statically compiled is just a loading semantic.
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In the future people will wear hats on their feet and hamburgers will eat people!
I for one welcome our sequentially accessed overlords.
No, of course this shows the bias of this writer. You aren't obligated to pay for the content you recieve, only that which you like. Which is the mindset warez/p2p'ers seem to have. Ie; "I buy the games/movies/albums that I like, this ones not good enough to buy so its OK to get a free copy"
Of course, the example is backwards. Zealot types would be likely to "donate" all of the money that should go to the artists, to their leader, be it Falwell or Stallman or the EFF or whatever.
Yeah, lunix sure is gay I agree with you 1000%
Dear entertainment industry,
Quit trying to come up with new and innovative ways to nickel and dime me to death, thanks.
Although, the potential for a fella like myself to abuse this system for big moolah is too great to ignore.
I watched that deal on TechTV last week, where they had the industry and P2P guys arguing about the future.
They boiled down the debate to this: RIAA side: "Artists deserve to get paid", P2P side: "Promising new technology can greatly increase blah blah".
It was completely disingenuous. Artists dont make shit through the distributors, and KaZaa/iTunes/Rhapsody are hardly necessary to obtain music.
What it really was, was a pissing contest between two sets of non-talen beurocrats to see who gets to be the middleman of the future.
Facts are, we need no middleman. We need KaZaa just as much as we need the RIAA. We can get music straight from the performers, most of whom will gladly offer it up for free to get us into a seat at their next concert. If some band thinks their shit is worth a buck a pop, go ahead, but I probably wont pay.
Just mp3s on the bands website, that's all. Google will be all the search engine needed.
Fuck RIAA, fuck P2P, and shut up now I'm sick of hearing from all these jackasses who've done nothing to entertain me, yet feel they deserve a percentage of my entertainment dollar.
All thats needed is performers (including necessary technical folk, mixers and whatnot) and audiences.
New York TIMES?!
You think you're better than us?
US?
U.S.?
U.S.A.?
No way!
Pros:
Free as in working-for-IBM-without-getting-paid
Cons:
Does not fit in my ass.
After Isabel hits on thursday, I'm gonna be living offshore.
You know, because my house is going to get blown away and swept into the chesapeake bay, you insensitive clod.
For everyone complaining and bragging about how they built a mini-itx box for much cheaper, it's time for a whack from the clue by four.
These are terminals, not stupid little computers shoved up an ET dolls ass.
Terminals generally include monitor, keyboard and mouse, ready to plug and play.
Thank you, that is all.
There's a class 5 hurricane Isabel that's gonna come straight up the Chesapeake bay and knock my fucking house down and I'm not too concerned about cable standards right now.
Oh why oh why did I build my house of sticks! Never hire a little pig as an architect.
No they cant go on your property unless called or they have 'probable cause', like they hear screaming or something. They certainly cant come inside without permission or a warrant. I've had the cops show up to parties because the neighbours bitched about the music. I've had them ask if they can come in and look around. I've told them to pound sand. I've been pulled over and asked if they can look in the trunk. Same deal, they can look in "plain sight" - if you have a shotgun and a bong on your back seat you're fucked, but they cant go into the trunk without a warrant, or again "probable cause" like the safety copout I mentioned before.
He can walk down the sidewalk, and if he can see from there that you're cutting up a bunch of pot plants or whatever, then he can easily get a warrant.
Why do you think HomeSec wanted mailmen to do the snooping? They're allowed on your property to deliver the mail.
And DA's and Judges, while "chummy" keep them on a tight, tight leash, because they know a good defense attorney will rip them a new one if they forget to dot an i or cross a t. They hate nothing more than putting all the time and effort and money into building a case, then having it thrown out because Deputy Dawg forgot the warrant or stuttered reading miranda, or asked you questions without a lawyer, etc etc..
New York Times?
New York TIMES?!?!??!
You think your better than us?
US?
U. S.?
U.S.A.!
No way!
It's really about the tracking data obtained being admissible in court.
So there's a murder, a body dumped in the woods. The cop finds out through a GPS device on your car that your vehicle drove from the victims apartment to the woods right after the murder.
Without a warrant to obtain that data, the judge throws this evidence out. Otherwise it would be a violation of your rights. There's very little a cop can do to you without a warrant, they can't step onto your property, peer through your windows to see whats going on.
A more extreme example you'd see on "Law and Order", I suppose.
Potheads who grow their own are paranoid about cops patrolling the neighbourhoods with heat-sensing cameras, looking for the "hot" houses - which would be a tip that there's some lamps running in there. Or watching power bills for extra usage. They can't - they've tried and judges have thrown it out. You need a warrant first. Public property is fair game, though, and they can go through your trash once it hits the public curve.
Anyhow, that's getting off topic. Point is, this is no shock. Without a warrant a cop is limited to what he sees in public property, he can't go onto your property or through your car without permission.
With exceptions (that they love to exploit) like they can search a trunk of a car if there's a safety concern. They like to pull over suspected dealers, play "hey now I think your exhaust might be leaking, we need to look in the trunk for your safety!"... Though a good lawyer chews such actions up in court.
By and large, Judges are very pro-citizen and very anti-cop. They were all attorneys or DAs and know the games they play, and aren't impressed.
What are we talking about again? Oh yeah. GPS. Dont worry about the local LEOs slipping one into your pocket and watching you. Thats federal black helicopter shit (and if you get the feds on your case all bets are off)
This is stuff that matters.
You guys wanna talk about dual use? Tommy Chong is off to the slammer for 9 months for selling pipes. Not drugs, but pipes.
choice quote:
He admitted once having "a drug problem with marijuana" but said he beat it by redirecting his energy to salsa dancing.
Fuckin lame war on drugs. Yeah, Cheech and Chong are dangerous lunatics and definately need to be taking up cell space.
Knoppix isnt no rescue system.
If you cant rescue it from a floppy, it ain't worth rescuing!
All you should need is a bash prompt for linux, a dos prompt for windows.
At least, thats all *I* need.
Plenty of emulator specific live CD's around, for folks that build MAME machines and whatnot. An RTCW live CD would need to be reburned every other day when new/updated drivers and cards come out...
Frankly it shouldnt be hard to roll your own. Or buy a console.
ISO9660 has nothing to do with being bootable, a bootable CDROM has what's analgous to a bootsector, a chunk outside of the filesystem that holds an image of the "boot floppy" that the bios emulates. (theres virtual hard drive mode).
It's basically a kludge - another session that contains the boot stuff.
DVDs just dont have this. DVDs arent multisession either. So they need an entirely different kludge.
You could carry a DVD and a floppy, or bootable CD around.
AFAIK, there's no method/protocol for bootable DVDs
Seriously, nothing else has solved more problems in the world than private companies looking to make a profit on some lofty goal.
Such as?
Hee hee.. I know this has been getting a lot of play on the "science" channels, like discovery, but what makes you think a catastrophic asteroid collision is any more likely in the next 50 years than in the last 50, the 50 before that, etc, etc?
Psst.. Corporations dont care about exploring Uranus, they care about profits.
Show them how to profit by putting a man on the moon, or on mars, or on Saturn, and they'll be on it like a hobo on a ham sandwich.
BTW, there's no such thing as "cost efficient" space exploration. There are no immediate tangible benefits, therefore even if the cost was 50 cents, it'd be inefficient.
Yeah whatever, this bill will die in committee, because it's silly.
But then, would we have gone to the moon without JFKs presidential challenge?
Short of the government ordering a mars mission and moon base, is there enough interest in such things?
Not from me, at least. Fuck mars, what's the big whoopty do about mars? Do they know something about mars that I dont? Is there something on mars worth checking out that they aren't telling me about? Because those rover pictures look mighty boring to me.
Well, then the light hits the wall at the end of the universe. Either way, a straight line couldn't extend infinitely.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
I don't think so, I think "seamless" means that you don't see/know when the plugin starts or stops.
Maybe a message in a status bar that says "Now starting flash!" and "Now stopping flash!"? Or does execution have to pause and be acknowledged by the user?
Sure, because Mozilla isn't bloated enough. Let's add another 50 megs of binary code to that executable.
Besides, the way it looks, it doesnt matter whether the code is in a dynamic library or in the same executable. If it seamlessly displays something thats not HTML, it's a plugin. Library vs statically compiled is just a loading semantic.
Now Eolas is in a position to release the only browser that displays flash, vivo, etc, etc, without prompting the user each and every time.