>There is already a way - totally DRMed and >controlled dedicated hardware.
With per viewer, I meant the persons who is pointing his eyeballs to the screen. No DRM method can currently control how many people are allowed to watch in one go!!:)
Well there is a very important difference for the companies between going to cinema and paying $5, and downloading and watching it once for $5.
If a bounch of 10 of you will go to the cinema, the industry will earn 5x10 = $50. Since it is star wars, at least 3 of you will go and see it again, so they will earn another 5x3 = $15.
If a bounch of you meet in a friends house, the industry will earn only $5. Plus, some norwegian kid is bound to release a deDRM hack that will allow your geeky friends who would ordinarily go again to the cinema and watch it, to watch it for free. All these not taking into acount that you wont share the hacked movie with other friends.
I hear you saying that cracking a drm file will be too advanced for most people. Wrong again. Keep in mind that P2p, DVD-rips, bittorent where all advanced for most when they were all released.
Unless there is a way to enforce a pay-per-viewer license (hmmm.. the display is checking for all the different pairs of retinas that are pointed to it and then charges you?), no, we won't see any releases straight to the net.
You are absolutely missing the point. I am not arguing whether it's write or wrong to copy useful features from another program. I am talking about the attidute of the Slashdot crowd which is summarised as:
"It's always OK when Open Source groups do it, but never OK when companies do it".
This is pure prejudice. Yes, it is for the benefit of open source, but is still prejudice. That's what I am bored of, and that's what I am fed up with here!
We continuousely see people complaining that linux apps copy windows-land GUI features (look at OpenOffice, and firefox that has copied almost all the innovative features introduced by Opera).
But the attitude in Slashdot is that if it's Open Source, we accept it in the name of attracting more users. On the contrary, when Microsoft does it, we always have 600-comment discussions of people whining!
Don't get me wrong, I am absolutely no Microsoft zealot. But I am getting fed up with the same story repeated here. Additionally, the Gates-Borg image reminds me that Simpsons episode with the Fox News spoof and the devil horns on the democrat candidate.
Search by number exists for more than a year! Why is this even posted here?
I was wondering what would happen if I used that MIT random content generating gizmo to submit articles to slashdot. I expect that the number of the random articles tweaked to seem to praise linux and google that are accepted would outnumber the ones that are actually usefull IT news.
Yes. Google has been approached to remove links, due to DMCA, and very frequently actually. And it seems that they always agree. Just look at the notice in the bottom of this page. Here actually is a nice archive of a lot of DMCA notices sent to a number of sites.
If you are getting paid millions of dollars/euros/pounds for just allowing someone to broadcast what is happening in your event, you really don't want them to get angry at you! And I am sick and tired of people whining that olympics have become too commercial. In the last 30 years, the cost of organising the olympics, with the added ENORMOUS cost of security, it would make little sense for a country/city to actually want to organise/finance them on their own, no matter how much tourism promotion it will receive.
And by the way, no matter what most of the international media report, this years games have already sold 3E6+ tickets already, with one week to go, and greeks still buying tickets as crazy. (Info: Recordholder for most ticket sales is seoul if I am not mistaken with 3.1E6 tickets). The stadiums are just too large peopleee!!:-)
Basically $1.5bn dollars was what the games were supposed to cost. That was sort of covered by the European Union, Sponsors, and Greece. The final cost was closer to a $3bn price, due to the mismanagement and the corruption of the previous government.
That extra $1.5bn is going straight to the taxpayers.. I expect that my country will not be able to get over this debt for the next 25 years.
Still, I expect that no foreigner can understand how much to these games mean to us. I am greatly looking forward to them!!!
PS: It also goes without saying that all the greek construction companies will be doomed on the post-olympics era since no major projects are going to take place in the forthcoming years...
I have used both of them in the past(ipod 2nd gen, and iriver H140), and this is a listing of my thoughts on both products. please note that my experience with the ipod was relatively short, i feel that i have a good knowledge of all the features of the device, but please dont flame me if i made a mistake, just corrent me
- Ipod had a battery life of around 8 hours, while with iriver h140 i have experienced average battery lifes of 16 hours
- ipod is smaller slightly smaller than iriver hseries
- iriver remote has lcd screen, and provides access to ALL features of the device and to all the menus. you can use everything without ever touching the main module
- iriver leather case sucks (why brown leather???) while ipods rocks
- iriver has fm radio receiver, ipod doesn't
- iriver has built in microphone (which is of very good quality for a built in microphone). also there you have the option to connect an external microhone
- iriver has built in both optical input and outputs (which work as analogue as well)
- iriver has WOW and SRS audio filters, i don't remember something like that existing on the ipod
- iriver DOES NOT ANY SOFTWARE AT ALL in order to connect to a pc, apart from a basic USB storage driver. i find the simplicity of just chucking the songs you want to the device unparraled compared to the burden of having to install an extra piece of proprietory software
- you have the option to install a media indexer on your pc (which is slightly buggy at the moment) which builds a database of all the songs you have in the device. after that you can broswe by genre / artist / album (normally you get a filemanager). the database however increases the boot time of the device to about 30 seconds
- it plays MP3, WMA, ASF, WAV and OGG while ipod has AAC, MP3, AIFF, WAV
- the 40gb iriver costs as much as the 20gb ipod
- i believe that the ipod is much more of a fashion item, than a device that will meet the requirements of the average geek:)
The iRiver series (Hxxx) with similar functionality have radio (FM only though), and also an option to select your country of residence in order to adjust radio settings appropriatelly (Europe / Japan / USA)
- The pop-up management in modern browsers who provide this feature although more efficient than in the past is still not perfect. Adapt to what pop-ups a person normally uses
- Content highlighting (especially in news sites). Learn what types of news articles / subjects a user is interested in, and highlight titles in news pages that suit the user.
- Accelerator for narrowband connections. Predict which pages the user is more likely to visit next, and start loading them as the user still reads the previous page.
- Recognise efficiently scam sites? Protect users from fraudsters?
PS: Not machine learning, but the sole requirement by me for a browser (dunno if its done in firefox now as hvent used it for a long time): Open new tab as a default rather than a new window, or at least provide the option.
I don't want to be a troll, or to flame anybody! Don't get me wrong, I am a great Linux fan but is this really news? Not talking about the hardware part, but for the movie. It was news in 1997 when linux was used in Titanic, but 7 years later, the use of linux in yet another movie or dull (as in.. lets say cheese manufacturing) sector of industry doesn't move me and I believe that a lot of folks out there think the same.
PS: It is also not news when yet another journalist writes another variation of a "Future of Linux in the desktop" article every two days.
I have bought a domain (let's say johndoe.org) from a very cheap url forwarding company (at a rate of something like $15/year). It comes with unlimited e-mail forwarding aliases, and a "catch-everything" alias (let's say notexisting@johndoe.org), that forwards any e-mail send to non-existing alias to the default e-mail address that I have defined.
The default e-mail address (let's say secret@johndoe.org) is an alias that forwards everything to my real mailbox (let's say johndoe@aol.com). Of course, my real mailbox address, my catch-all address and the "default" address are not given to ANYBODY.
For my communication needs, or whenever asked, I just makeup a e-mail address (jonamazon@johndoe.org for amazon so that I will remember easily what address I use on the site). Since the alias is not setup in the mailserver, when amazon tries to contact me, the e-mail will follow the following alias path:
1) jonamazon
2) notexisting
3) secret (default)
4) real mailbox
When I see an spam message (once in two weeks!!!), I just divert the alias to point to an abuse address of a random spamhaus. The good thing, is that since I use random but descriptive addresses, I can see what websites actually harvest e-mails and sell them to spammers!!! It is interesting to note that at some point I received e-mail that were addressed at some ridiculus random aliases (e.g. jesus@, happykitty@ etc) of my domain (clearly not used by me). Just an indication of the use of wordlists (of course every such alias got blocked).
I have not yet reached the levels of paranoia of giving seperate e-mail addresses to any of my friends of course:P
Anyway, it is not as complicated as it looks, and of course way less complicated than using bayesian filters and the like. And believe me, it works:)
I had installed it in my desktop two days ago and I can't say that I was impressed. ----I know that it is still beta----, put it has a lot of way to go!
-It uses the mldonkey fasttrack plugin in order to connect to the kazaa network... Hmmm... doesn't this mean that they should provide source or something? Correct me if I am wrong
-User interface is awful!! Big ugly graphic buttons and I have the impression that I didn't see any proper menu bar. Of course, there is a ad-box in an uncomortable position taking up a whole strip of the screen just in order to display an ad in the middle. At least kazaa ads to not take up a whole row (There are the play-stop-etc buttons next to them)
- There is no way to see the peers you are connecting to (At least that was my impression after the 20min. period that it had the honour of being installed in my machine)
-UI was slow on my P4 3ghz, 1gb ram (!)
-It crashed.
Let's be serious... What kind of person in the right frame of mind (except some rich geeks who want to exhibit their k3wlness) will need such a device? 1700$ for a remote?
It was about time that big consumer product companies understood that linux powered devices are the trent of the days, but instead of using their resources and creativity in right way and producing something really usefull based on embedded linux, they just try to find in which types of everyday devices nobody else has put linux or internet in (eg.. microwave ovens, fridges, remotes) just in order to get some publicity in some certain circles.
Ha! Zaurus runs on linux, has the ability to do the same (WiFi/MMC/SD/Internet/remote controler --yes, i know, its IR is not that strong--) and even more (digital camera/gps/with openzaurus, compact flas, and some programming the sky is the limit), and you could buy it for just 169.08
Censorship in slashdot?
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After reading some comments, and having a look on the kind of modding they received, I couldn't help noticing that almost every anti-war comment has been characterised as mod. This is not objective modding, but censorship in one of it's worst forms, which you, Americans, say that you hate and fight against. I hope that metamods will take this into account and that they will be more objective than those people who do not know how to use the privelege of modding and who turn it into a tool of censorship.
Does anybody know about how much laptop graphics cards cost? (like geforce2go etc). I guess that they should be more expensive than dektop pc cards, but how much more?
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>There is already a way - totally DRMed and
:)
>controlled dedicated hardware.
With per viewer, I meant the persons who is pointing his eyeballs to the screen. No DRM method can currently control how many people are allowed to watch in one go!!
Well there is a very important difference for the companies between going to cinema and paying $5, and downloading and watching it once for $5.
If a bounch of 10 of you will go to the cinema, the industry will earn 5x10 = $50. Since it is star wars, at least 3 of you will go and see it again, so they will earn another 5x3 = $15.
If a bounch of you meet in a friends house, the industry will earn only $5. Plus, some norwegian kid is bound to release a deDRM hack that will allow your geeky friends who would ordinarily go again to the cinema and watch it, to watch it for free. All these not taking into acount that you wont share the hacked movie with other friends.
I hear you saying that cracking a drm file will be too advanced for most people. Wrong again. Keep in mind that P2p, DVD-rips, bittorent where all advanced for most when they were all released.
Unless there is a way to enforce a pay-per-viewer license (hmmm.. the display is checking for all the different pairs of retinas that are pointed to it and then charges you?), no, we won't see any releases straight to the net.
Slashdot has been doing the same for Linux
Don't agree with:
Open Source-2 and MS-2
What I've seen happening in the case of OS-2 is that people hail its superiority and originality.
I aggree with your comment on Apple-2, it NEVER happends in the case of MS-2.
Regarding the point that Slashdot is not a hive mind, I couldn't disaggree more. Do you read anything else but slashdot?
It's simple really. I am not seeing a difference. I say "STOP WHINING" for both cases. Slashdot will then be a better place for everybody.
You are absolutely missing the point. I am not arguing whether it's write or wrong to copy useful features from another program. I am talking about the attidute of the Slashdot crowd which is summarised as:
"It's always OK when Open Source groups do it, but never OK when companies do it".
This is pure prejudice. Yes, it is for the benefit of open source, but is still prejudice. That's what I am bored of, and that's what I am fed up with here!
We continuousely see people complaining that linux apps copy windows-land GUI features (look at OpenOffice, and firefox that has copied almost all the innovative features introduced by Opera).
But the attitude in Slashdot is that if it's Open Source, we accept it in the name of attracting more users. On the contrary, when Microsoft does it, we always have 600-comment discussions of people whining!
Don't get me wrong, I am absolutely no Microsoft zealot. But I am getting fed up with the same story repeated here. Additionally, the Gates-Borg image reminds me that Simpsons episode with the Fox News spoof and the devil horns on the democrat candidate.
Search by number exists for more than a year! Why is this even posted here?
I was wondering what would happen if I used that MIT random content generating gizmo to submit articles to slashdot. I expect that the number of the random articles tweaked to seem to praise linux and google that are accepted would outnumber the ones that are actually usefull IT news.
And let the France / EU - bashing begin.
Seriousely, if this was told by the head of the German library do you believe that it would have made it to Slashdot?
Yes. Google has been approached to remove links, due to DMCA, and very frequently actually. And it seems that they always agree. Just look at the notice in the bottom of this page. Here actually is a nice archive of a lot of DMCA notices sent to a number of sites.
If you are getting paid millions of dollars/euros/pounds for just allowing someone to broadcast what is happening in your event, you really don't want them to get angry at you! And I am sick and tired of people whining that olympics have become too commercial. In the last 30 years, the cost of organising the olympics, with the added ENORMOUS cost of security, it would make little sense for a country/city to actually want to organise/finance them on their own, no matter how much tourism promotion it will receive. And by the way, no matter what most of the international media report, this years games have already sold 3E6+ tickets already, with one week to go, and greeks still buying tickets as crazy. (Info: Recordholder for most ticket sales is seoul if I am not mistaken with 3.1E6 tickets). The stadiums are just too large peopleee!! :-)
Basically $1.5bn dollars was what the games were supposed to cost. That was sort of covered by the European Union, Sponsors, and Greece. The final cost was closer to a $3bn price, due to the mismanagement and the corruption of the previous government.
That extra $1.5bn is going straight to the taxpayers.. I expect that my country will not be able to get over this debt for the next 25 years.
Still, I expect that no foreigner can understand how much to these games mean to us. I am greatly looking forward to them!!!
PS: It also goes without saying that all the greek construction companies will be doomed on the post-olympics era since no major projects are going to take place in the forthcoming years...
I have used both of them in the past(ipod 2nd gen, and iriver H140), and this is a listing of my thoughts on both products. please note that my experience with the ipod was relatively short, i feel that i have a good knowledge of all the features of the device, but please dont flame me if i made a mistake, just corrent me
:)
- Ipod had a battery life of around 8 hours, while with iriver h140 i have experienced average battery lifes of 16 hours
- ipod is smaller slightly smaller than iriver hseries
- iriver remote has lcd screen, and provides access to ALL features of the device and to all the menus. you can use everything without ever touching the main module
- iriver leather case sucks (why brown leather???) while ipods rocks
- iriver has fm radio receiver, ipod doesn't
- iriver has built in microphone (which is of very good quality for a built in microphone). also there you have the option to connect an external microhone
- iriver has built in both optical input and outputs (which work as analogue as well)
- iriver has WOW and SRS audio filters, i don't remember something like that existing on the ipod
- iriver DOES NOT ANY SOFTWARE AT ALL in order to connect to a pc, apart from a basic USB storage driver. i find the simplicity of just chucking the songs you want to the device unparraled compared to the burden of having to install an extra piece of proprietory software
- you have the option to install a media indexer on your pc (which is slightly buggy at the moment) which builds a database of all the songs you have in the device. after that you can broswe by genre / artist / album (normally you get a filemanager). the database however increases the boot time of the device to about 30 seconds
- it plays MP3, WMA, ASF, WAV and OGG while ipod has AAC, MP3, AIFF, WAV
- the 40gb iriver costs as much as the 20gb ipod
- i believe that the ipod is much more of a fashion item, than a device that will meet the requirements of the average geek
The iRiver series (Hxxx) with similar functionality have radio (FM only though), and also an option to select your country of residence in order to adjust radio settings appropriatelly (Europe / Japan / USA)
- The pop-up management in modern browsers who provide this feature although more efficient than in the past is still not perfect. Adapt to what pop-ups a person normally uses
- Content highlighting (especially in news sites). Learn what types of news articles / subjects a user is interested in, and highlight titles in news pages that suit the user.
- Accelerator for narrowband connections. Predict which pages the user is more likely to visit next, and start loading them as the user still reads the previous page.
- Recognise efficiently scam sites? Protect users from fraudsters?
PS: Not machine learning, but the sole requirement by me for a browser (dunno if its done in firefox now as hvent used it for a long time): Open new tab as a default rather than a new window, or at least provide the option.
And here you go for screenshots: http://www.its.caltech.edu/~tzer-jen/zbochs/
Samsung e700. I am holding it in my hand right now, and it's organic external display is just fabulus.
I don't want to be a troll, or to flame anybody!
Don't get me wrong, I am a great Linux fan but is this really news? Not talking about the hardware part, but for the movie. It was news in 1997 when linux was used in Titanic, but 7 years later, the use of linux in yet another movie or dull (as in.. lets say cheese manufacturing) sector of industry doesn't move me and I believe that a lot of folks out there think the same.
PS: It is also not news when yet another journalist writes another variation of a "Future of Linux in the desktop" article every two days.
Go ahead, mod me down.
I have bought a domain (let's say johndoe.org) from a very cheap url forwarding company (at a rate of something like $15/year). It comes with unlimited e-mail forwarding aliases, and a "catch-everything" alias (let's say notexisting@johndoe.org), that forwards any e-mail send to non-existing alias to the default e-mail address that I have defined.
:P
:)
The default e-mail address (let's say secret@johndoe.org) is an alias that forwards everything to my real mailbox (let's say johndoe@aol.com). Of course, my real mailbox address, my catch-all address and the "default" address are not given to ANYBODY.
For my communication needs, or whenever asked, I just makeup a e-mail address (jonamazon@johndoe.org for amazon so that I will remember easily what address I use on the site). Since the alias is not setup in the mailserver, when amazon tries to contact me, the e-mail will follow the following alias path:
1) jonamazon
2) notexisting
3) secret (default)
4) real mailbox
When I see an spam message (once in two weeks!!!), I just divert the alias to point to an abuse address of a random spamhaus. The good thing, is that since I use random but descriptive addresses, I can see what websites actually harvest e-mails and sell them to spammers!!!
It is interesting to note that at some point I received e-mail that were addressed at some ridiculus random aliases (e.g. jesus@, happykitty@ etc) of my domain (clearly not used by me). Just an indication of the use of wordlists (of course every such alias got blocked).
I have not yet reached the levels of paranoia of giving seperate e-mail addresses to any of my friends of course
Anyway, it is not as complicated as it looks, and of course way less complicated than using bayesian filters and the like. And believe me, it works
I had installed it in my desktop two days ago and I can't say that I was impressed. ----I know that it is still beta----, put it has a lot of way to go! -It uses the mldonkey fasttrack plugin in order to connect to the kazaa network... Hmmm... doesn't this mean that they should provide source or something? Correct me if I am wrong -User interface is awful!! Big ugly graphic buttons and I have the impression that I didn't see any proper menu bar. Of course, there is a ad-box in an uncomortable position taking up a whole strip of the screen just in order to display an ad in the middle. At least kazaa ads to not take up a whole row (There are the play-stop-etc buttons next to them) - There is no way to see the peers you are connecting to (At least that was my impression after the 20min. period that it had the honour of being installed in my machine) -UI was slow on my P4 3ghz, 1gb ram (!) -It crashed.
Let's be serious ... What kind of person in the right frame of mind (except some rich geeks who want to exhibit their k3wlness) will need such a device? 1700$ for a remote?
It was about time that big consumer product companies understood that linux powered devices are the trent of the days, but instead of using their resources and creativity in right way and producing something really usefull based on embedded linux, they just try to find in which types of everyday devices nobody else has put linux or internet in (eg.. microwave ovens, fridges, remotes) just in order to get some publicity in some certain circles.
Ha! Zaurus runs on linux, has the ability to do the same (WiFi/MMC/SD/Internet/remote controler --yes, i know, its IR is not that strong--) and even more (digital camera/gps/with openzaurus, compact flas, and some programming the sky is the limit), and you could buy it for just 169.08
After reading some comments, and having a look on the kind of modding they received, I couldn't help noticing that almost every anti-war comment has been characterised as mod. This is not objective modding, but censorship in one of it's worst forms, which you, Americans, say that you hate and fight against.
I hope that metamods will take this into account and that they will be more objective than those people who do not know how to use the privelege of modding and who turn it into a tool of censorship.
somebody correct the SF link
...if earth is blown into pieces from the next race of aliens which happens to be travelling nearby...
Does anybody know about how much laptop graphics cards cost? (like geforce2go etc). I guess that they should be more expensive than dektop pc cards, but how much more?