Oh sure, let's all get 20 companies to lay their own pipes. Make sure they all work in your street. Oh all the tarmac-and-dirt-flinging-fun that would be caused.
Yes, I was one of the so-called "nerds". So nerdy that I was a reference-model for nerdness in my high-school, up to the point that everybody knew exactly who I was yet nobody "knew me" (no saying hi, didn't even garner enough respect for that).
I've seen some posts here that, thruthfully, claim that many times you get bullied for being arrogant and self-delusional. I think they are absolutely right and a good share of my bad experiences of being bullied with are the result of my own making. However...... that wasn't always the case. Even most of the times it wasn't. I got a nickname in pre-high-school that appeared after I started having too many tests rated above 80% correct. A lot of people bullied me for that, beaten and laughed at by boys, scorned by some girls. Being the youngest and smallest one (sometimes to a good difference) in the class didn't help too. I got beat up because I refused to let some asshole copy from my test (yeah, like it was my obligation or something). And no, before you even think, he wasn't just "asking a couple of questions". Soon people who didn't know me from anywhere were bullying me because you see, bullying is a fashion and a mob act. People get envious of you, and take advantage of the fact that they're not "alone" in their misery and bully you as well for no good reason.
That continued into high-school, where I was 99.99 % known, and 85% hated for no particular reason. Guys who didn't have the slightest idea who I was would hit me. Nobody really knew who I was, only that I was a despicable being of some sort. Starting an argument with a teacher in the class over some stuff (even simple) would lead me to having the whole class against me, even if I was right.
This changed. A lot. Started changing in high-school's last year, when a lot of the assholes and bullies started seeing their life go backwards over bad results. I started giving pretty much a shit about most people so eventually they forgot me. I laughed in the end.
And now, today, 6 years after high-school, I get to laugh a good lot. Laugh at those jerks who can't now get a job, save read a good book, because they're so goddamn stupid. Some even came to me for a job. Tough luck, I'm not in a position to do so, thankfully, because maybe I'd feel bad smacking in their face that they didn't deserve it. As the saying puts it, "he who laughs last laughs best". Don't now have any problems with girls avoiding me (if at all, it's the opposite problem;), and whoever gets to know me ends up surprised that I am a computer geek in addition to being whatever I am. Really.
So to all the bullies out there, hey, have your fun beating up the nerds. When a nerd then passes in his high-powered car, driving into a puddle of water, and gets your gutter-trash ass all wet, try to remeber the good days of beating him.
Sorry for the long rant and sorry if it's offensive to some, but I really got hit bad in my days, unfairly, and I had to shout this out to whoever's listening.
Why are people so intent on running their machines so slow? Hasn't anyone ever heard of dual-boot?
Everyone has, but not everyone likes rebooting every five minutes, especially when developing for several OSs and testing out stuff. I do this myself. VMWare *is* a lifesaver.
However, it's only a lifesaver as much as you need one. If you don't need to be switching OSs that often, then rebooting does fine.
- Backups so a single file (no, I don't want to copy a fscking whole directory structure, thank you very much. - Video editing. - Large sound editing (multi-channel). - Ever tried to create a DVD ISO image? there you go... - Speaking of DVD's, *you* try dumping one to your harddisk with 2GB files. - Disk images (ever had to Ghost around a boot-disk or boot-DVD with a disk image?) - 3D animation files (probably included in the "video editing" section).
-------And god forbid anyone would do the "right thing"
Everyone knows that in a manager/marketer's head, "the right thing" is the one that immediately solves their problem and brings in immediate profit/less expense.
Of course, some weeks/months later, they may be regretting their decisions, but hey, they're the ones who know the "right thing" to do...
...it means that TCPA is not DRM "per se", but simply as a tool that enables trusted computing. The problem lies with the fact that this tool can easily be used to implement a DRM scheme. If all the media, programs necessary to play the media (it has already happened with many audio CDs), and etc. all have DRM restrictions which in turn require TPCA to work, then having the option to disable it in the BIOS is not really an option, since all the stuff I'm going to run is mostly likely need it anyway.
Not only DRM-ed media, but DRM-ed applications, utilities, and all sort of stuff will probably rely on the TCPA itself for implementation. This leaves us with two scenarios:
- Use only open-source/non-signed software. This is the very good scenario, given that if a good number of commercial companies follow, then we can keep on working with our computers just the way we did before TCPA or DRM came around. Unfortunately, with all the anti-piracy craziness of late, this doesn't seem to be in any chance of happening, because the first thing software vendors will do when enough people have TCPA-enabled PCs will be digitally signing them and bang, you're dead.
- Use only proprietary, TCPA-signed, DRM-ed media and software. We all know that scenario. All your base are belong to us, Embrance and Extend, You Will Be Assimilated.
So if this gets along, there's nothing that can be done except providing good open-source alternatives to all the current mainstream applications. Unfortunately, that's not enough to cover the "DRM-media" problem, but hopefully if the ghoulish media companies get themselves locked out because nobody wants or needs TCPA, they'll end up playing "our game" and drop this thing in the trash bin where it belongs.
One of the bands that "appeared from nowhere" and gained instant appreciation from whoever I had shown it to, was Clann Zu. They have their MP3 free on the site. A sort of modern rock-folk with a real flavor and excellent lyrics.
Another one, and on the more melodic rock-metal wave, would be (albeit this one not exactly "unknown") Sinch. You can listen to snippets of songs on the site.
And, to finish, one of my all-time best surprises: My Vitriol. Just listen to the on-site snippets of their debut album Finelines. 'nuff said:)
Note: just a basic restatment, but... If I hadn't downloaded the MP3s ilegally, I wouldn't have bought the albuns (save for Clann Zu, for which the MP3 were legal and the physical album hasn't come out yet).
It'll be really good when I start to get pissed off at the computer and it then decides to work fine withouth any further questions because it saw me waving a 15Kg iron mallet
So given this new technology...
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... and all its applications with packet networking, I presume we will be calling the next tsunami a waterwall?:)
... see a whole bunch of new "viruses" that l33t h4x0r5 will be sending as attachments for the poor Outlook victims to open? VBScript was bad enough, but a proper shell scripting language will be even worse.
Yeah. How about remembering that you aren't going to college to be trained for a job. You are going there to learn something and perhaps broaden your knowledge in many subject areas, hopefully making you a bit of a better person.
Having said that, then you wouldn't mind telling me why is it that when companies look for potencial workers, they take the ones with degrees first instead of the ones who came from trade schools?
After all, it could only get better if they all used some sort of Linux instead of Windows/proprietary software. The community "back here" wouldn't gain much by means of development or direct contribution, but the movement in general would gain a pretty hefty momentum.
Remember simple math: take a million people, say 90% pirate a $100 piece of software. That leaves 100000 people buying $10 million worth of bytes. Pretty much enough for profit. Get those 10% desktops all running Linux, and see if the commercial application companies won't be running like the wind converting their software. Who wants to lose out on an opportunity to make money?
... it doesn't mean that.DOC isn't the default document format. When the Average Joe is confronted with the "Save file" dialog box, if he sees "Microsoft Word Document format" in the box, then.DOC it goes. If he sees something else, it goes anyway.
As long as the binary.DOC format is the default format, nothing's going to change an inch. Plus, the fact that they state that XML is now supported for document types, doesn't mean that it will even write documents to XML. Either way, I think nothing changes.
Not to be a zealot, but this is Microsoft we're talking about. If this was going to move they office desktop monopoly even a fingernail back, do you'd think they would make this move anyway?
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Actually... there's a download utility called GoZilla.
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Music sharers are terrorists! They should be put immediately to the death row! Why fill up the jails?
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(OK, so she turned out to be a stalker, but you get the idea...)
;)
BZZZT! LIEEE!! This gave you away dude.... A slashdotter doesn't get so much as a talker, much less a stalker
Can anyone say "premature ejaculation"?
Oh sure, let's all get 20 companies to lay their own pipes. Make sure they all work in your street. Oh all the tarmac-and-dirt-flinging-fun that would be caused.
... and it wasn't a funny experiment. Not at all.
... that wasn't always the case. Even most of the times it wasn't. I got a nickname in pre-high-school that appeared after I started having too many tests rated above 80% correct. A lot of people bullied me for that, beaten and laughed at by boys, scorned by some girls. Being the youngest and smallest one (sometimes to a good difference) in the class didn't help too. I got beat up because I refused to let some asshole copy from my test (yeah, like it was my obligation or something). And no, before you even think, he wasn't just "asking a couple of questions". Soon people who didn't know me from anywhere were bullying me because you see, bullying is a fashion and a mob act. People get envious of you, and take advantage of the fact that they're not "alone" in their misery and bully you as well for no good reason.
;), and whoever gets to know me ends up surprised that I am a computer geek in addition to being whatever I am. Really.
Yes, I was one of the so-called "nerds". So nerdy that I was a reference-model for nerdness in my high-school, up to the point that everybody knew exactly who I was yet nobody "knew me" (no saying hi, didn't even garner enough respect for that).
I've seen some posts here that, thruthfully, claim that many times you get bullied for being arrogant and self-delusional. I think they are absolutely right and a good share of my bad experiences of being bullied with are the result of my own making. However...
That continued into high-school, where I was 99.99 % known, and 85% hated for no particular reason. Guys who didn't have the slightest idea who I was would hit me. Nobody really knew who I was, only that I was a despicable being of some sort. Starting an argument with a teacher in the class over some stuff (even simple) would lead me to having the whole class against me, even if I was right.
This changed. A lot. Started changing in high-school's last year, when a lot of the assholes and bullies started seeing their life go backwards over bad results. I started giving pretty much a shit about most people so eventually they forgot me. I laughed in the end.
And now, today, 6 years after high-school, I get to laugh a good lot. Laugh at those jerks who can't now get a job, save read a good book, because they're so goddamn stupid. Some even came to me for a job. Tough luck, I'm not in a position to do so, thankfully, because maybe I'd feel bad smacking in their face that they didn't deserve it. As the saying puts it, "he who laughs last laughs best".
Don't now have any problems with girls avoiding me (if at all, it's the opposite problem
So to all the bullies out there, hey, have your fun beating up the nerds. When a nerd then passes in his high-powered car, driving into a puddle of water, and gets your gutter-trash ass all wet, try to remeber the good days of beating him.
Sorry for the long rant and sorry if it's offensive to some, but I really got hit bad in my days, unfairly, and I had to shout this out to whoever's listening.
... what exactly is stopping me from removing said identifier from a track I download?
Oh how I'd love to have a 1GB/day limit... All I have here is 3GB/month (Netvisão ISP, Portugal).
Why are people so intent on running their machines so slow? Hasn't anyone ever heard of dual-boot?
Everyone has, but not everyone likes rebooting every five minutes, especially when developing for several OSs and testing out stuff. I do this myself. VMWare *is* a lifesaver.
However, it's only a lifesaver as much as you need one. If you don't need to be switching OSs that often, then rebooting does fine.
and as for Konqueror, that isn't even a real competitor on the windows platform or in the mobile
Probably not, but Apple is using the Konqueror engine for their new browser, which does present a significant market-share.
... that now, the French-fries-bazooka will be the equivalent to a fragmentation grenade, right? :)
- Backups so a single file (no, I don't want to copy a fscking whole directory structure, thank you very much.
- Video editing.
- Large sound editing (multi-channel).
- Ever tried to create a DVD ISO image? there you go...
- Speaking of DVD's, *you* try dumping one to your harddisk with 2GB files.
- Disk images (ever had to Ghost around a boot-disk or boot-DVD with a disk image?)
- 3D animation files (probably included in the "video editing" section).
want me to go on? the list is bigger...
-------And god forbid anyone would do the "right thing"
Everyone knows that in a manager/marketer's head, "the right thing" is the one that immediately solves their problem and brings in immediate profit/less expense.
Of course, some weeks/months later, they may be regretting their decisions, but hey, they're the ones who know the "right thing" to do...
I demand that the perpetrators that discovered the weakness with these locks be sentenced to life in prison
:)
I hope the guards don't use normal door-locks on them
...it means that TCPA is not DRM "per se", but simply as a tool that enables trusted computing. The problem lies with the fact that this tool can easily be used to implement a DRM scheme. If all the media, programs necessary to play the media (it has already happened with many audio CDs), and etc. all have DRM restrictions which in turn require TPCA to work, then having the option to disable it in the BIOS is not really an option, since all the stuff I'm going to run is mostly likely need it anyway.
:|
Not only DRM-ed media, but DRM-ed applications, utilities, and all sort of stuff will probably rely on the TCPA itself for implementation. This leaves us with two scenarios:
- Use only open-source/non-signed software. This is the very good scenario, given that if a good number of commercial companies follow, then we can keep on working with our computers just the way we did before TCPA or DRM came around. Unfortunately, with all the anti-piracy craziness of late, this doesn't seem to be in any chance of happening, because the first thing software vendors will do when enough people have TCPA-enabled PCs will be digitally signing them and bang, you're dead.
- Use only proprietary, TCPA-signed, DRM-ed media and software. We all know that scenario. All your base are belong to us, Embrance and Extend, You Will Be Assimilated.
So if this gets along, there's nothing that can be done except providing good open-source alternatives to all the current mainstream applications. Unfortunately, that's not enough to cover the "DRM-media" problem, but hopefully if the ghoulish media companies get themselves locked out because nobody wants or needs TCPA, they'll end up playing "our game" and drop this thing in the trash bin where it belongs.
Sorry for the long rant
Advocating illegal activity is pretty unprofessional.
Even when the laws that illegalize such activicty are blatanly illegal themselves?
One of the bands that "appeared from nowhere" and gained instant appreciation from whoever I had shown it to, was Clann Zu. They have their MP3 free on the site. A sort of modern rock-folk with a real flavor and excellent lyrics.
:)
Another one, and on the more melodic rock-metal wave, would be (albeit this one not exactly "unknown") Sinch. You can listen to snippets of songs on the site.
And, to finish, one of my all-time best surprises: My Vitriol. Just listen to the on-site snippets of their debut album Finelines. 'nuff said
Note: just a basic restatment, but... If I hadn't downloaded the MP3s ilegally, I wouldn't have bought the albuns (save for Clann Zu, for which the MP3 were legal and the physical album hasn't come out yet).
It'll be really good when I start to get pissed off at the computer and it then decides to work fine withouth any further questions because it saw me waving a 15Kg iron mallet
... and all its applications with packet networking, I presume we will be calling the next tsunami a waterwall? :)
... see a whole bunch of new "viruses" that l33t h4x0r5 will be sending as attachments for the poor Outlook victims to open? VBScript was bad enough, but a proper shell scripting language will be even worse.
Yeah. How about remembering that you aren't going to college to be trained for a job. You are going there to learn something and perhaps broaden your knowledge in many subject areas, hopefully making you a bit of a better person.
Having said that, then you wouldn't mind telling me why is it that when companies look for potencial workers, they take the ones with degrees first instead of the ones who came from trade schools?
It's not like it isn't like that already...
After all, it could only get better if they all used some sort of Linux instead of Windows/proprietary software. The community "back here" wouldn't gain much by means of development or direct contribution, but the movement in general would gain a pretty hefty momentum.
Remember simple math: take a million people, say 90% pirate a $100 piece of software. That leaves 100000 people buying $10 million worth of bytes. Pretty much enough for profit. Get those 10% desktops all running Linux, and see if the commercial application companies won't be running like the wind converting their software. Who wants to lose out on an opportunity to make money?
But does anyone listen to what RMS screams about anymore? Geez...
... it doesn't mean that .DOC isn't the default document format. When the Average Joe is confronted with the "Save file" dialog box, if he sees "Microsoft Word Document format" in the box, then .DOC it goes. If he sees something else, it goes anyway.
.DOC format is the default format, nothing's going to change an inch. Plus, the fact that they state that XML is now supported for document types, doesn't mean that it will even write documents to XML. Either way, I think nothing changes.
As long as the binary
Not to be a zealot, but this is Microsoft we're talking about. If this was going to move they office desktop monopoly even a fingernail back, do you'd think they would make this move anyway?
Actually... there's a download utility called GoZilla.
How about those Cuban Missile Crisis pics, do they have that roll available?
Saaaaay, you wouldn't perhaps be Saddam Hussein shopping for a few missiles, would you?