Bullshit. He can shame you all he wants. I hate it when assholes like you cry about your fucking freedom. Nobody is imposing their will on you. Debian only taking software that the Debian team wants IS freedom. Freedom of choice. Just like you have the freedom to write whatever software you choose and license it under any legal license your bitchy, whiny little heart desires.
This guy can write a real review or go fuck himself.
Distro XZ? Please. The first thing that comes to mind when I hear someone say shit like that is "Asshole". I applaud anyone who could manage to read the whole article. It must be great to have a brain that can shut off on a whim.
Seriously, there is a better way. If you time the lights so that taking off from a step, smoothly accelerating to the speed limit and then maintaing the legal limit to the next light causes you to hit concurrent lights just as they turn green then it becomes useless to speed and all drivers get the best results by going the speed limits.
I'm not a civil engineer or city planner or anything, but I've seen well planned traffic light systems and I know what they look like. People move through stopping AS LITTLE as possible. It is easier on vehicles, safer for drivers, and much less stressful to drivers if they can just get up to speed and maintain it. This light is all for show as it will probably be more detrimental than helpful. It is just a way for local government to wave its dick without accomplishing... well, dick.
Did you even read the article? Lamo wasn't hacking for any sort of personal gain. He was emailing people he hacked explaining the vulnerabilities used and how to fix them! Does that sound like someone trying to be a superhacker? He was nicknamed the "Helpful Hacker" for fuck's sake. He was just a guy doing what he enjoyed doing and finding a way to make others benifit from it. The key problem here is that people don't like to look stupid. Having someone point out that your system is insecure even though you've spent millions securing it makes you look stupid. Thus NYT took action against him.
It's a shame some rich asshole's bruised ego means this poor kid is going to have to do jail time. The best of luck to him I say.
Does it matter? It's none of Tom Hanks's fucking business how I watch his goddamn movie. If I want to watch Saving Private Ryan with a naked picture of Al Rocher taped to the screen I will and if Tom Hanks has a problem with it then fuck him.
This is nothing more than fair use. It is a pre-programmed fast forward button. Tom Hanks's goddamned artistic vision isn't more important than people's rights.
1. A movie will have made money at the box office; DVD sales are just gravy on top of that. Music isn't sold to you twice this way, you buy it on CD and that's it.
No, the movie will make money on the DVDs. The box office was just gravy. It's a shame your "insight" is based on faulty information.
2. You'll get far more use out of a CD than you will a DVD. Think how many times you've listened to your favourite albums. Now think how many times you've watched your favourite films. Unless you're the sort of fool who wastes half his/her life watching Star Wars, Titanic or Grease every week then there's no comparision. With music, you get far more bang for your buck.
And? That may make it worth more in a psychological sense but the movie costs more to produce than the cd. The actors get paid regardless of whether or not the movie sells. It takes far more people to take the movie, and finally the movie is on a DVD which is at least marginally more expensive than a CD.
By your rationale, all PC and console software should cost $10-20 too, but I think you're going to be seriously disappointed if you expect the price of new games to come down to that level just so that all the similar-looking shiny round things cost the same at your local mall.
I think you are awfully wrong about his "rationale". In fact, maybe you shouldn't use the word as you obviously don't have one yourself. He is saying that DVDs are more expensive to make but cost less than CDs. Obviously this difference is going into profit margin, if not for the company then for overpaid executives or something. You are simplifying his argument to be "all shiny things should cost the same".
A lot of people have a really bullshit attitude about this. It is almost like any conversation about TV where I sift through a million posts of people talking about how great life is since they don't watch. You know what? Pat yourself on the ass, great job, nobody cares.
Listen. I don't own a cell phone. I don't say that to insinuate that I'm better than people who do. I want one! I just don't have room for it in the ol' budget at the moment. People who have a cell phone should have every right to have it on and recieving calls where the fuck they choose to be. If the phone is ringing throw their ass out for not turning it to vibrate. Eventually they'll get the picture. However, if I had a cell phone and I missed a call about a loved one being in an accident or something because some asshat thought he had a right to run a jammer in his movie theater you can bet your ass there'd be a lawsuit.
People here are all about saying P2P isn't the problem, it is irresponsible users. Well, that's true. Same with cell phones. I don't want a fucktard with a GED and a jammer messing up my day anymore than I want the RIAA suing kids.
I have a theory that defenders of XFree86 and X11 probably have at least one of two things in common: they either don't use other operating systems often or they are fans of simplicity and don't really have uses for certain functionality that a more advanced windowing system can offer. There are just so many things that X11 can't do. The one that most immediately jumps to mind is transparency. Real transparency, you know the kind where you i could have a terminal open over a konqueror window and see konqueror through it!
Yes I know, a lot of people think such a function is just eye candy. Well it can be (and there is nothing wrong with eye candy for the record). It can also be extremely useful. For instance, I really wouldn't mind having an OSX style dock that can be always on top, yet semi-transparent. I also wouldn't mind having X pass off the desktop rendering to my videocard to ease up on my processor a little.
I am not even saying X11 would have to be ditched completely to do these things. It wouldn't. In fact there are people experimenting with it. However, none of this is going to move into the mainstream until people accept that maybe X should change a little. So you like X, say you like it, but don't try and bullshit the world into believing it's perfect. X IS outdated and it ISN'T as feature rich as it could be. Will it get there? I hope so, but at the current rate of development it will take it awhile.
These guys didn't do anything special. The libraries they used have been out and available in a simple command-line form for quite awhile. They apparently just made it more accessible to the public. The libs are available at http://www.audiocoding.com/.
I've played with the command-line version before and it works fine.
Umm, gentoo doesn't even have an installer. How is that less scary than a text installer and how did a clueless fuck like you figure out how to post on a forum?
I don't even play many games, but come on. If you are really interested in playing video games how much does a new console every 3 years really hurt you?
Seven years is way, way too long to stick with one console. Didn't the PSX come out about 7 years ago? Seriously, it was a great system, but any company sticking with it would be suicide. It can't hold a candle to what is out now. If you're serious about gaming pick a favorite console and go with it. Seriously, $200 every three years is less than $100 a year. Divide that up and you're looking at less than $10 a month for your console until the new one comes out and you know you'll keep playing it even after.
First of all, the movie just as it appeared is available on its own (right now). Go to the store and buy it if that is how you like it.
Second, all of the "extended version" dvds I've seen (or even just dvds that include deleted scenes of any sort) have had the option to watch it just as it appeared at the cinema. If that is what you like, I suggest doing nothing and using the default play mode. Usually it requires some special effort to see deleted scenes.
As for myself, nothing annoys me more than a dvd with few to no extras. Part of the beauty of the dvd medium is capacity. There is room for a director's commentary, a few deleted scenes, and maybe some character art, etc. If there is room on the disc to give me extras, then by God they should! It isn't as if they'll charge me less if they skimp on them.
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Maybe we aren't slaves to corporations in the literal sense, but at some point or another we have come to terms with the fact that materialism is an addiction. If it wasn't, why would Bill Gates still be working.
While I agree this is something worth thinking about, the mock trial itself is flawed. As with many of the activities and ideas associated with Kurzweil, the mock trial assumes that when processing capability hits a certain point, artificial intelligence will magically manifest. This is just plain ridiculous!
We have absolutely no reason to believe that processing power is in any way connected with sentience. To determine a real case I would think we would need a computer to actually defend itself. This hasn't happened, and in this mock trial they do not have a computer that is capable of making a defense. It is a waste of time and effort. If AI that really can defend itself is ever programmed (or spontaneously manifests, as Kurzweil suggests) then there may be a need for some kind of ruling. However, there is no reason to believe such a thing will occur. If intelligence were just processing power, why doesn't my computer ask me not to shut it off? Even an infant will protest what it sees as danger (if only by crying).
Said like a true non-hacker. Do you think he was hacking the X-Box for some sort of commercial gain? Do you think he was hacking it to get a cheap computer? This is obviously not the case. Hackers hack the X-Box for the same reason they hack anything else, because they like to.
Obviously hardware hacking doesn't interest you, it clearly does interest him. Apply your comments to anybody else's hobby and see how they sound? How about my dad, he likes to fix cars. He spends long stretches of time working on his 68 Mustang. "68 Mustang is pretty long in the tooth. Carburator, AM radio, no power steering. By the time he gets the thing usable you could get a used car for cheaper." No shit!? Really!!! Someone tell my dad, quick, before he wastes any more time doing what he loves to do!
I didn't find Odyssey retarded at all, in fact, I loved it. Odyssey didn't pretend to be scientific though. Also it happened in my imagination and I didn't imagine the characters to be wearing ridiculous uniforms completely devoid of fashion or function (especially in the case of TNG).
That said I don't dislike ALL science fiction. In fact I really do appreciate Arthur C. Clarke and Asimov, but the books on the shelves at my bookstore are nowhere near that caliber. They mostly remind of the Kilgore Trout stuff Kurt Vonnegut talks about in his books. Often creative, but devoid of any scientific understanding.
Since when has Science Fantasy had anything to do with sound science? Sci-Fi writers are notoriously shallow when it comes to true science understanding. I also hardly associate interest in Science Fiction with interest in real science. When I was a kid I loved model rockets and aviation, but I found Star-Trek patently retarded.
I think the real deal here is that the scientific understanding of the general public has grown enough to outpace that of sci-fi writers. It is hard to write good science fiction when the premise of your book is considered impossible by modern physics and all of your readers know it.
I work for Residential Computing at Kansas State University (it is a student position). We really haven't too much trouble. Yes people have had blaster, but we did a pretty good job with an educational campaign as the dorms were opening. In instructing people to install fixes before hooking into the network. Those unfortunate souls who could not obey simple instructions had their port shut off until an employee got around to installing fixes for them.
Was it a hassle? Yeah, it definitely was, but to have the ICMP traffic bringing the network down is awful and is probably a sign of deeper tech problems at the university.
This seems to me kind of like how you can't just find pi by measuring the circumference or a circle and dividing it by the diameter. I had always thought of this being because there is no such thing as an exact point in space, but maybe I was just misunderstanding or something. It reasons to assume that if there is no exact point in space then there is also no exact point in time.
As to the referee who stated "he author's arguments are based on profound ignorance or misunderstanding of basic analysis and calculus." He needs to understand that math doesn't work if you don't understand the physics behind. Math without physics tells me if I mix a cup of water and a cup of milk I get two cups of fluid. It just aint so.
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Bullshit. He can shame you all he wants. I hate it when assholes like you cry about your fucking freedom. Nobody is imposing their will on you. Debian only taking software that the Debian team wants IS freedom. Freedom of choice. Just like you have the freedom to write whatever software you choose and license it under any legal license your bitchy, whiny little heart desires.
Criticism does not curtail your freedom.
This guy can write a real review or go fuck himself.
Distro XZ? Please. The first thing that comes to mind when I hear someone say shit like that is "Asshole". I applaud anyone who could manage to read the whole article. It must be great to have a brain that can shut off on a whim.
Seriously, there is a better way. If you time the lights so that taking off from a step, smoothly accelerating to the speed limit and then maintaing the legal limit to the next light causes you to hit concurrent lights just as they turn green then it becomes useless to speed and all drivers get the best results by going the speed limits.
I'm not a civil engineer or city planner or anything, but I've seen well planned traffic light systems and I know what they look like. People move through stopping AS LITTLE as possible. It is easier on vehicles, safer for drivers, and much less stressful to drivers if they can just get up to speed and maintain it. This light is all for show as it will probably be more detrimental than helpful. It is just a way for local government to wave its dick without accomplishing... well, dick.
Did you even read the article? Lamo wasn't hacking for any sort of personal gain. He was emailing people he hacked explaining the vulnerabilities used and how to fix them! Does that sound like someone trying to be a superhacker? He was nicknamed the "Helpful Hacker" for fuck's sake. He was just a guy doing what he enjoyed doing and finding a way to make others benifit from it. The key problem here is that people don't like to look stupid. Having someone point out that your system is insecure even though you've spent millions securing it makes you look stupid. Thus NYT took action against him.
It's a shame some rich asshole's bruised ego means this poor kid is going to have to do jail time. The best of luck to him I say.
Does it matter? It's none of Tom Hanks's fucking business how I watch his goddamn movie. If I want to watch Saving Private Ryan with a naked picture of Al Rocher taped to the screen I will and if Tom Hanks has a problem with it then fuck him.
This is nothing more than fair use. It is a pre-programmed fast forward button. Tom Hanks's goddamned artistic vision isn't more important than people's rights.
1. A movie will have made money at the box office; DVD sales are just gravy on top of that. Music isn't sold to you twice this way, you buy it on CD and that's it.
No, the movie will make money on the DVDs. The box office was just gravy. It's a shame your "insight" is based on faulty information.
2. You'll get far more use out of a CD than you will a DVD. Think how many times you've listened to your favourite albums. Now think how many times you've watched your favourite films. Unless you're the sort of fool who wastes half his/her life watching Star Wars, Titanic or Grease every week then there's no comparision. With music, you get far more bang for your buck.
And? That may make it worth more in a psychological sense but the movie costs more to produce than the cd. The actors get paid regardless of whether or not the movie sells. It takes far more people to take the movie, and finally the movie is on a DVD which is at least marginally more expensive than a CD.
By your rationale, all PC and console software should cost $10-20 too, but I think you're going to be seriously disappointed if you expect the price of new games to come down to that level just so that all the similar-looking shiny round things cost the same at your local mall.
I think you are awfully wrong about his "rationale". In fact, maybe you shouldn't use the word as you obviously don't have one yourself. He is saying that DVDs are more expensive to make but cost less than CDs. Obviously this difference is going into profit margin, if not for the company then for overpaid executives or something. You are simplifying his argument to be "all shiny things should cost the same".
A lot of people have a really bullshit attitude about this. It is almost like any conversation about TV where I sift through a million posts of people talking about how great life is since they don't watch. You know what? Pat yourself on the ass, great job, nobody cares.
Listen. I don't own a cell phone. I don't say that to insinuate that I'm better than people who do. I want one! I just don't have room for it in the ol' budget at the moment. People who have a cell phone should have every right to have it on and recieving calls where the fuck they choose to be. If the phone is ringing throw their ass out for not turning it to vibrate. Eventually they'll get the picture. However, if I had a cell phone and I missed a call about a loved one being in an accident or something because some asshat thought he had a right to run a jammer in his movie theater you can bet your ass there'd be a lawsuit.
People here are all about saying P2P isn't the problem, it is irresponsible users. Well, that's true. Same with cell phones. I don't want a fucktard with a GED and a jammer messing up my day anymore than I want the RIAA suing kids.
Uhm... what is broken and outdated about X11?
I have a theory that defenders of XFree86 and X11 probably have at least one of two things in common: they either don't use other operating systems often or they are fans of simplicity and don't really have uses for certain functionality that a more advanced windowing system can offer. There are just so many things that X11 can't do. The one that most immediately jumps to mind is transparency. Real transparency, you know the kind where you i could have a terminal open over a konqueror window and see konqueror through it!
Yes I know, a lot of people think such a function is just eye candy. Well it can be (and there is nothing wrong with eye candy for the record). It can also be extremely useful. For instance, I really wouldn't mind having an OSX style dock that can be always on top, yet semi-transparent. I also wouldn't mind having X pass off the desktop rendering to my videocard to ease up on my processor a little.
I am not even saying X11 would have to be ditched completely to do these things. It wouldn't. In fact there are people experimenting with it. However, none of this is going to move into the mainstream until people accept that maybe X should change a little. So you like X, say you like it, but don't try and bullshit the world into believing it's perfect. X IS outdated and it ISN'T as feature rich as it could be. Will it get there? I hope so, but at the current rate of development it will take it awhile.
You'll notice that illegal and wrong are not necessarily the same thing.
Sure it's illegal. Timmy never implied that it wasn't. He said it isn't wrong. I would probably agree.
These guys didn't do anything special. The libraries they used have been out and available in a simple command-line form for quite awhile. They apparently just made it more accessible to the public. The libs are available at http://www.audiocoding.com/. I've played with the command-line version before and it works fine.
Could this further the argument that we focus more on price then on quality?
Seriously, I'm all for talking 1337, but people who use then for than are the lowest of the low.
Everyone who does this shit should have to watch while their mom is locked in a room with 12 sex-starved convicts.
Umm, gentoo doesn't even have an installer. How is that less scary than a text installer and how did a clueless fuck like you figure out how to post on a forum?
I don't even play many games, but come on. If you are really interested in playing video games how much does a new console every 3 years really hurt you?
Seven years is way, way too long to stick with one console. Didn't the PSX come out about 7 years ago? Seriously, it was a great system, but any company sticking with it would be suicide. It can't hold a candle to what is out now. If you're serious about gaming pick a favorite console and go with it. Seriously, $200 every three years is less than $100 a year. Divide that up and you're looking at less than $10 a month for your console until the new one comes out and you know you'll keep playing it even after.
First of all, the movie just as it appeared is available on its own (right now). Go to the store and buy it if that is how you like it.
Second, all of the "extended version" dvds I've seen (or even just dvds that include deleted scenes of any sort) have had the option to watch it just as it appeared at the cinema. If that is what you like, I suggest doing nothing and using the default play mode. Usually it requires some special effort to see deleted scenes.
As for myself, nothing annoys me more than a dvd with few to no extras. Part of the beauty of the dvd medium is capacity. There is room for a director's commentary, a few deleted scenes, and maybe some character art, etc. If there is room on the disc to give me extras, then by God they should! It isn't as if they'll charge me less if they skimp on them.
Maybe we aren't slaves to corporations in the literal sense, but at some point or another we have come to terms with the fact that materialism is an addiction. If it wasn't, why would Bill Gates still be working.
While I agree this is something worth thinking about, the mock trial itself is flawed. As with many of the activities and ideas associated with Kurzweil, the mock trial assumes that when processing capability hits a certain point, artificial intelligence will magically manifest. This is just plain ridiculous!
We have absolutely no reason to believe that processing power is in any way connected with sentience. To determine a real case I would think we would need a computer to actually defend itself. This hasn't happened, and in this mock trial they do not have a computer that is capable of making a defense. It is a waste of time and effort. If AI that really can defend itself is ever programmed (or spontaneously manifests, as Kurzweil suggests) then there may be a need for some kind of ruling. However, there is no reason to believe such a thing will occur. If intelligence were just processing power, why doesn't my computer ask me not to shut it off? Even an infant will protest what it sees as danger (if only by crying).
Well, seeing as their "copy protection" software only works on Windows and Mac, any non-windows/mac OS is a copyright circumvention tool. Funfunfun.
Not only can magnets give you lighter wireless communication, but also eternal life!
that's a great idea!!! geosynchronous orbit at a pole!!!
keep on living in your own little world there buddy.
Said like a true non-hacker. Do you think he was hacking the X-Box for some sort of commercial gain? Do you think he was hacking it to get a cheap computer? This is obviously not the case. Hackers hack the X-Box for the same reason they hack anything else, because they like to.
Obviously hardware hacking doesn't interest you, it clearly does interest him. Apply your comments to anybody else's hobby and see how they sound? How about my dad, he likes to fix cars. He spends long stretches of time working on his 68 Mustang. "68 Mustang is pretty long in the tooth. Carburator, AM radio, no power steering. By the time he gets the thing usable you could get a used car for cheaper." No shit!? Really!!! Someone tell my dad, quick, before he wastes any more time doing what he loves to do!
Depending on the state, maybe. Honeypots are becomeing illegal in various parts of the united states.
I didn't find Odyssey retarded at all, in fact, I loved it. Odyssey didn't pretend to be scientific though. Also it happened in my imagination and I didn't imagine the characters to be wearing ridiculous uniforms completely devoid of fashion or function (especially in the case of TNG).
That said I don't dislike ALL science fiction. In fact I really do appreciate Arthur C. Clarke and Asimov, but the books on the shelves at my bookstore are nowhere near that caliber. They mostly remind of the Kilgore Trout stuff Kurt Vonnegut talks about in his books. Often creative, but devoid of any scientific understanding.
Since when has Science Fantasy had anything to do with sound science? Sci-Fi writers are notoriously shallow when it comes to true science understanding. I also hardly associate interest in Science Fiction with interest in real science. When I was a kid I loved model rockets and aviation, but I found Star-Trek patently retarded.
I think the real deal here is that the scientific understanding of the general public has grown enough to outpace that of sci-fi writers. It is hard to write good science fiction when the premise of your book is considered impossible by modern physics and all of your readers know it.
I work for Residential Computing at Kansas State University (it is a student position). We really haven't too much trouble. Yes people have had blaster, but we did a pretty good job with an educational campaign as the dorms were opening. In instructing people to install fixes before hooking into the network. Those unfortunate souls who could not obey simple instructions had their port shut off until an employee got around to installing fixes for them.
Was it a hassle? Yeah, it definitely was, but to have the ICMP traffic bringing the network down is awful and is probably a sign of deeper tech problems at the university.
This seems to me kind of like how you can't just find pi by measuring the circumference or a circle and dividing it by the diameter. I had always thought of this being because there is no such thing as an exact point in space, but maybe I was just misunderstanding or something. It reasons to assume that if there is no exact point in space then there is also no exact point in time.
As to the referee who stated "he author's arguments are based on profound ignorance or misunderstanding of basic analysis and calculus." He needs to understand that math doesn't work if you don't understand the physics behind. Math without physics tells me if I mix a cup of water and a cup of milk I get two cups of fluid. It just aint so.