How the heck can Dell get into a cell phone without T.A.R.D.I.S. technology? Cell phones are small and Dell is huge! It sounds like a lot of wishful thinking to me. I guess only time will tell.
In the midst of this kind of controversy, it's important for people to take a step back and really analyze what's going on. Groklaw has done a wonderful job at this by posting all publically available documents regarding the case and level headed analysis of said documents. However, there are a lot of people with an agenda (to tear down Linux and Free and Open software) who want to muddy the entire situation into their chest thumping war against "communism". This vocal minority is doing everything within it's power to work up the fervor and frenzy of every capitalist/neocon in their favor. At this point they have resorted to little more than schoolyard name calling and teacher's pet-ism with the court. Fortunately, the judge is on the ball and isn't falling for it.
We have the SCO folks running scared. Although the litigators (sounds like alligators) have made a good deal of money from this whole situation, they know that the jig is nearly up. In their desperation they have set loose their final secret weapon: file stealing imps. While the rest of us have been playing fairly and trying to do the right thing in court. The litigators have made deals with the devil in the hopes that they can squeeze one last drop out of their turnip. After summoning satan himself, they requested that he provide them with these specialized imps at no cost to them because they are doing "his work". Satan agreed and brought these beings into existence. From reports that I've been provided access to, I hear that they look a lot like "Darl McBride Jr." with arms and legs (if you get my drift).
This is how SCO intends to "go nuclear". They are relying on the sheer number of file stealing imps to scour the SCO source code and make certain that any evidence that THEY, in fact, stole from GNU/Linux is completely obscured. This is a frightful development, but if we can catch these imps and present them to the judge, perhaps we can prove once and for all that SCO doesn't have a case. Only time will tell...
Don't forget the Windows camp. I've never met a more ill-informed bunch of pricks in my life. They tend to suffer from what I like to call "South Park Arrogance". This is in reference to the creators of South Park, not the show itself. Those two dolts are fools and they know it. They admit it. And they are proud of things being that way. To them, you shouldn't need to think beyond some simple observations that are summed up with a catch phrase. Windows folks are the same. They are content to be ignorant of their machines, but have the benefit of doing things that make them feel like they know more than they do. This is THE Wrong (tm) approach to computing. If you want to use the machine, you should know how it works, period.
If "they" can look at our CRTs remotely, then "we" have an even better chance of snagging video from our CRT based TVs just as easily.
or...
We can just reverse engineer an LCD display and tap the digital signal that is UNENCODED to save it to a file which can be converted to whatever format we want.
or...
There are these old things called camcorders. If we're desperate enough to have a copy, there is always the analog hole that they can't close; camcorder in front of TV.
There are tons of ways around this crap and people will always find a way. The genie is out of the bottle. They will never be able to close it for good unless they REALLY piss off their customers.
Not that I endorse piracy. Far from it. I fully support the idea of copyright holders (ie. the artist, not the distributor) getting paid for their work. I don't support kidd13z trading "zero day mov13z" on P2P. If you want to see a movie, pay for it. But you should still have the right to an archival copy. Oh jeezus... what's going to happen when we find a way to rip out the memory of a movie or performance from our brains. Are the RIAA and MPAA going to develop neural copy protection???;P
Hi Brent. Since you won't let me post in your JEs, I've decided to follow you around Slashdot and post replies to your replies even if they are offtopic instead. Check out the link in my SIG. It's a picture of a Bush supporter attacking a Kerry supporter. This is a much more common occurrence than your reality distortion field is allowing you to admit to yourself. The Neocons have a much darker side to them than good American liberals do. Just a bit of truth to brighten your day. Hope you don't mind. Too bad about you taking away that one JE that had the picture of you doing something very questionable to that young man. I think that must have been one of the better Slashdot stupid trolls I've ever seen. Oh well... a little birdie told me it might come back again.:)
If I have a satellite data link that will carry the data from Earth to the moon... most certainly. However, since I'm not likely to set foot on the moon any time soon (neither are you unless you've got better drugs than Rush Limbaugh) that won't really be an issue now will it?;P
...I use Ogg Vorbis and it works just fine. All my music is in one place and, it's all legal (ripped from CDs I purchased) and I can listen to it anywhere thanks to icecast+OpenVPN. Power to the people baby!;)
Bring it bitches. I've already got one loon-a-whack trolling my JEs, I welcome more. I'll take this opportunity to tell you what a bunch of sad and pathetic pieces of shit you are. You're not funny. You're not creative. You're not black. You're not gay. You ARE a bunch of pathetic pimplyassed teenaged boys who beat off in your parents basements appraently to pictures of women with shit on their faces. As soon as I saw you fucks pop up on Slashdot I knew that the AOL crowd was truly well seated in Slashdot. Anything and everything good that USED to be Slashdot was finally lowered down to a ridiculously retarded level by your rude and inane posts. here is what I stand for these days:
Gassing the REAL fucks behind the stupidassed GNAA troll posts. The REAL fucks aren't black. The REAL fucks aren't gay. Pull your hands out of your lube vats for a few minutes and wake up to the fact that you are pointless and worthless.
So come on... have a field day in my JEs. If you don't take me up on my request, I win all of your gold and you you must cease and desist.
..."self writing programs in the armchair IT publication "PC World". I think it was the July or August edition. It was about this company that is writing the "next generation" of development tools. They suggest that in the near future everyone will be a programmer because this new approach basically lets anyone build their own applications by pointing and clicking and writing basic text descriptions of what they want the application to do. Then this development environment sets out to building the application to their specs.
To me, I thought... "Aha! He wants to make programming go the way that word processing and data entry did after the 80s". For the youngsters in the audience, believe it or not, but there used to be a very short lived period of time when people went to school to learn how to become word processors or data entry specialists. As soon as GUI based word processing and office suites were released, those people lost their jobs because "anyone could do the tasks". Is that really true though? Read on...
Yes, it is true that pretty much anyone who is plunked down in front of GUI based word processing software or an office suite can build a pretty impressive looking document. It doesn't require schooling anymore, just some introduction and you're off. But, does that mean that same person can design a glossy publication like a magazine or even a well done news letter? No. What about the person who can set up a basic spreadsheet? Would you want them being the DBA for your Oracle database? Probably not. So the titles have changed and the availability of jobs shrunk. I think you're going to see the same thing with programming.
There probably will be a point when the average office jockey will be able to build a basic application for use in their workplace. But that guy isn't going to be a programmer and the program he built isn't going to be efficient, compact or reliable. Programmers will still be needed, but just not in the way that they are now. It's likely that programmers will become more specialized. (Just like you now have graphic design people who are the extension of the more talented word processors of the late 70s) Programmers aren't going to disappear. They are going to become something else.
Ahhh. Another self-centered mental midget then. No wonder you subscribe to Slashdot. You should look at my earliest JEs as they explain why my name is Trolling4Dollars. Here's a clue: I am not a troll. An another clue: I think most Republicans who are focused on money (ie. "dollars") ARE trolls. I'll leave it to you to put that all together. Then you'll see why my name is so entertaining to a lot of people.:)
Well yes. But it also indicates that he's probably like Rain Man since he can whip out figures like that from his head and actually quantify his gut feelings. Must be something ALL "comic book guys" can relate to.;P
Since you are posting AC we can't really take anything you say too seriously. But I'll address the point. Copyright law (as addled as it currently is) should be upheld. But, what about YOU personally? If one of the right wing pundits was on the Al Franken show and ripped him a new one, would you be so quick to point out the copyright issue? I would say that it's doubtful that you would since you probably have no interest in seeing any kind of real balance in the news media. So... decloak and let's have a little more of a real discussion about this.
Sad, but undeniably true. How the hell do I get out of this hellhole? I'm trapped here because I can't afford to leave due to lack of funds. To go to AUS, I have to bring $100,000 with me. As much as many of us would love to leave, we are held here by the fact that immigrating elsewhere is not something we can afford. I guess we drew the short straw?
Yawn. Typical right wing/libertarian textual droppings:
I disagree with the statement "the media... certainly isn't liberal."You're bias is showingWhat makes you say the media doesn't have a bias? What proof do you have?How about the fact that that people on the left regularly talk about the media's right wing bias and people on the right talk about the media's left wing bias? Sounds to me like the media is likely a little bit more in the middle for the most part with only slight biases to one side or the other.Sure, Fox tends to lean to the right, but how do you explain the lackadaisial coverage of CBS's BLATENT Kerry supporting with their little memo scandal?Try... the fact that there was NO conclusive evidence that there was forgery involved with those memos that DIDN'T come from people with a pro-Bush stance? I wouldn't trust pro-Bush folks any farther than I could throw them. I WOULD trust someone who really was a disinterested party with all funding clearly in the public record.
This is a red-herring intended to throw out some FUD to keep those interested from checking to see what the emperor's new clothes REALLY look like. More than likely the person who made this statement isn't interested in seeing the tricks stop. Some people out there are afflicted with a mental illness that makes them want to see their side win at any cost. I would say that the parent poster is just such a person.
...to the sea of stupid, we won't see this kind of thing catch on at all. Before shows like this can become popular, we have to make sure that intelligence is something that is pushed as being positive in popular culture. Right now, being stupid is what's seen as being cool. My wife read something last week that said that in England, the person that most boys idolize after Beckham is... Stephen Hawking. What do you want to bet that in the U.S. it's Kidd Rock or Eminem?
I understand what you were saying about digital recording devices. But, what I meant was that a pentium 100 with a decent soundcard with analog line in and line out would be able to easily record from any digital playback device unless they find a way to make speakers that are truly digital. Even then, you can put the speakers in boxes with mics and still record. The quality from a PC even recording with a soundblaster 16 rivals most cheap analogue cassette decks.
...the music industry is ever going to prevent piracy is if they take away the ability for the average person to record. There is no way in hell that they can do that without getting some kind of law passed that requires you to be a licensed professional in order to record audio or video. I can't see things going that far yet. But like it or not, the average person has a lot of options for recording these days.
Back when I was in high school and was lusting after a 4 track reel-to-reel multitrack deck from Tascam, there was a financial barrier to high quality recordings. But today, there are so many options out there that even if you aren't using AES/EBU digital connection (no SCMS DRM) you can still get much higher quality copies than you could with a cassette deck back in the 80s. So, even if the RIAA and MPAA do get DRM so intertwined into newer audio and video gear, it's going to be next to impossible to prevent older decent quality devices from recording. This is a battle that can't be won without draconian mesaures.
The shame of all of this is that nearly everyone with a computer has the facilities for making their own music and therefore bypassing the RIAA altogether. I do remember a period of time in the 80s when it was illegal to own a 4-track recorder in a residential area in my state. I wonder if they are going to try that with software based virtual studios? Likely not since most people with the ability and talent are just too lazy to make their own music. (It's easier than you think. If you can set up a Cisco network, you can make your own music.) So, what can the RIAA and MPAA do to stop people from pirating? How about they take away all sound cards and video caputre cards, digital audio and video recorders, and software based audio? They can't. The genie is out of the bottle.
With that out of the way, is it right to distribute music that you aren't authorized to distribute? Absolutely not. Quite a problem, ehhh?
That worked for me with my first 486 beige box in the mid 90s. For some reason it would refuse to get on with it's POST unless I smacked it squarely on the top of the tower case. That would be followed up by an initial beep and then the POST. You know what though? Like the Millennium Falcon, that 486 is still ticking...:)
Speaking of blue screens... did anyone ever notice that the Windows XP Logon Screen (the pretty one with all the playschool buttons) is mostly... blue? Wanna guess why? Maybe they were hoping if XP bluescreened, a user wouldn't be able to tell from a distance because they'd still see blue and think it was the logon screen.;P (I kid! I kid! Because of love!!!)
Yes. Because everyone knows that stylish brushed aluminum cases with holes in them and blue or white LEDs add at least 5 gigaflops to a system right off the bat.;P
By that standard PCs with those neon lights and side panels should increase processing power to the "nth" factor!
Ricers with Office Max wastebaskets hanging off the exaust and underside neon and hood LEDs should get 400 miles to the gallon and have a starting RPM of 100,000 with 12,000,000 HP.
Mustbe some, as yet, undiscovered property of neon and LEDs to increase the performance of, well... ANYTHING. By that logic, an old diner with more neon should be a real mean mover.
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How the heck can Dell get into a cell phone without T.A.R.D.I.S. technology? Cell phones are small and Dell is huge! It sounds like a lot of wishful thinking to me. I guess only time will tell.
Longhorn? They don't have ANYTHING on the Pot Noodle Horn! Of course, as they say in Dunnsbury, only time will tell...
In the midst of this kind of controversy, it's important for people to take a step back and really analyze what's going on. Groklaw has done a wonderful job at this by posting all publically available documents regarding the case and level headed analysis of said documents. However, there are a lot of people with an agenda (to tear down Linux and Free and Open software) who want to muddy the entire situation into their chest thumping war against "communism". This vocal minority is doing everything within it's power to work up the fervor and frenzy of every capitalist/neocon in their favor. At this point they have resorted to little more than schoolyard name calling and teacher's pet-ism with the court. Fortunately, the judge is on the ball and isn't falling for it.
We have the SCO folks running scared. Although the litigators (sounds like alligators) have made a good deal of money from this whole situation, they know that the jig is nearly up. In their desperation they have set loose their final secret weapon: file stealing imps. While the rest of us have been playing fairly and trying to do the right thing in court. The litigators have made deals with the devil in the hopes that they can squeeze one last drop out of their turnip. After summoning satan himself, they requested that he provide them with these specialized imps at no cost to them because they are doing "his work". Satan agreed and brought these beings into existence. From reports that I've been provided access to, I hear that they look a lot like "Darl McBride Jr." with arms and legs (if you get my drift).
This is how SCO intends to "go nuclear". They are relying on the sheer number of file stealing imps to scour the SCO source code and make certain that any evidence that THEY, in fact, stole from GNU/Linux is completely obscured. This is a frightful development, but if we can catch these imps and present them to the judge, perhaps we can prove once and for all that SCO doesn't have a case. Only time will tell...
Don't forget the Windows camp. I've never met a more ill-informed bunch of pricks in my life. They tend to suffer from what I like to call "South Park Arrogance". This is in reference to the creators of South Park, not the show itself. Those two dolts are fools and they know it. They admit it. And they are proud of things being that way. To them, you shouldn't need to think beyond some simple observations that are summed up with a catch phrase. Windows folks are the same. They are content to be ignorant of their machines, but have the benefit of doing things that make them feel like they know more than they do. This is THE Wrong (tm) approach to computing. If you want to use the machine, you should know how it works, period.
If "they" can look at our CRTs remotely, then "we" have an even better chance of snagging video from our CRT based TVs just as easily.
;P
or...
We can just reverse engineer an LCD display and tap the digital signal that is UNENCODED to save it to a file which can be converted to whatever format we want.
or...
There are these old things called camcorders. If we're desperate enough to have a copy, there is always the analog hole that they can't close; camcorder in front of TV.
There are tons of ways around this crap and people will always find a way. The genie is out of the bottle. They will never be able to close it for good unless they REALLY piss off their customers.
Not that I endorse piracy. Far from it. I fully support the idea of copyright holders (ie. the artist, not the distributor) getting paid for their work. I don't support kidd13z trading "zero day mov13z" on P2P. If you want to see a movie, pay for it. But you should still have the right to an archival copy. Oh jeezus... what's going to happen when we find a way to rip out the memory of a movie or performance from our brains. Are the RIAA and MPAA going to develop neural copy protection???
Hi Brent. Since you won't let me post in your JEs, I've decided to follow you around Slashdot and post replies to your replies even if they are offtopic instead. Check out the link in my SIG. It's a picture of a Bush supporter attacking a Kerry supporter. This is a much more common occurrence than your reality distortion field is allowing you to admit to yourself. The Neocons have a much darker side to them than good American liberals do. Just a bit of truth to brighten your day. Hope you don't mind. Too bad about you taking away that one JE that had the picture of you doing something very questionable to that young man. I think that must have been one of the better Slashdot stupid trolls I've ever seen. Oh well... a little birdie told me it might come back again. :)
If I have a satellite data link that will carry the data from Earth to the moon... most certainly. However, since I'm not likely to set foot on the moon any time soon (neither are you unless you've got better drugs than Rush Limbaugh) that won't really be an issue now will it? ;P
...I use Ogg Vorbis and it works just fine. All my music is in one place and, it's all legal (ripped from CDs I purchased) and I can listen to it anywhere thanks to icecast+OpenVPN. Power to the people baby! ;)
Bring it bitches. I've already got one loon-a-whack trolling my JEs, I welcome more. I'll take this opportunity to tell you what a bunch of sad and pathetic pieces of shit you are. You're not funny. You're not creative. You're not black. You're not gay. You ARE a bunch of pathetic pimplyassed teenaged boys who beat off in your parents basements appraently to pictures of women with shit on their faces. As soon as I saw you fucks pop up on Slashdot I knew that the AOL crowd was truly well seated in Slashdot. Anything and everything good that USED to be Slashdot was finally lowered down to a ridiculously retarded level by your rude and inane posts. here is what I stand for these days:
Gassing the REAL fucks behind the stupidassed GNAA troll posts. The REAL fucks aren't black. The REAL fucks aren't gay. Pull your hands out of your lube vats for a few minutes and wake up to the fact that you are pointless and worthless.
So come on... have a field day in my JEs. If you don't take me up on my request, I win all of your gold and you you must cease and desist.
Well you can just suck off my bloated application!
..."self writing programs in the armchair IT publication "PC World". I think it was the July or August edition. It was about this company that is writing the "next generation" of development tools. They suggest that in the near future everyone will be a programmer because this new approach basically lets anyone build their own applications by pointing and clicking and writing basic text descriptions of what they want the application to do. Then this development environment sets out to building the application to their specs.
To me, I thought... "Aha! He wants to make programming go the way that word processing and data entry did after the 80s". For the youngsters in the audience, believe it or not, but there used to be a very short lived period of time when people went to school to learn how to become word processors or data entry specialists. As soon as GUI based word processing and office suites were released, those people lost their jobs because "anyone could do the tasks". Is that really true though? Read on...
Yes, it is true that pretty much anyone who is plunked down in front of GUI based word processing software or an office suite can build a pretty impressive looking document. It doesn't require schooling anymore, just some introduction and you're off. But, does that mean that same person can design a glossy publication like a magazine or even a well done news letter? No. What about the person who can set up a basic spreadsheet? Would you want them being the DBA for your Oracle database? Probably not. So the titles have changed and the availability of jobs shrunk. I think you're going to see the same thing with programming.
There probably will be a point when the average office jockey will be able to build a basic application for use in their workplace. But that guy isn't going to be a programmer and the program he built isn't going to be efficient, compact or reliable. Programmers will still be needed, but just not in the way that they are now. It's likely that programmers will become more specialized. (Just like you now have graphic design people who are the extension of the more talented word processors of the late 70s) Programmers aren't going to disappear. They are going to become something else.
Ahhh. Another self-centered mental midget then. No wonder you subscribe to Slashdot. You should look at my earliest JEs as they explain why my name is Trolling4Dollars. Here's a clue: I am not a troll. An another clue: I think most Republicans who are focused on money (ie. "dollars") ARE trolls. I'll leave it to you to put that all together. Then you'll see why my name is so entertaining to a lot of people. :)
Well yes. But it also indicates that he's probably like Rain Man since he can whip out figures like that from his head and actually quantify his gut feelings. Must be something ALL "comic book guys" can relate to. ;P
Since you are posting AC we can't really take anything you say too seriously. But I'll address the point. Copyright law (as addled as it currently is) should be upheld. But, what about YOU personally? If one of the right wing pundits was on the Al Franken show and ripped him a new one, would you be so quick to point out the copyright issue? I would say that it's doubtful that you would since you probably have no interest in seeing any kind of real balance in the news media. So... decloak and let's have a little more of a real discussion about this.
Sad, but undeniably true. How the hell do I get out of this hellhole? I'm trapped here because I can't afford to leave due to lack of funds. To go to AUS, I have to bring $100,000 with me. As much as many of us would love to leave, we are held here by the fact that immigrating elsewhere is not something we can afford. I guess we drew the short straw?
I disagree with the statement "the media ... certainly isn't liberal." You're bias is showing What makes you say the media doesn't have a bias? What proof do you have? How about the fact that that people on the left regularly talk about the media's right wing bias and people on the right talk about the media's left wing bias? Sounds to me like the media is likely a little bit more in the middle for the most part with only slight biases to one side or the other. Sure, Fox tends to lean to the right, but how do you explain the lackadaisial coverage of CBS's BLATENT Kerry supporting with their little memo scandal? Try... the fact that there was NO conclusive evidence that there was forgery involved with those memos that DIDN'T come from people with a pro-Bush stance? I wouldn't trust pro-Bush folks any farther than I could throw them. I WOULD trust someone who really was a disinterested party with all funding clearly in the public record.
Jerky Boys Reference rgarding parent: "If I didn't know any better son... I'd say that you're a regular JACKASS!!!!"
This is a red-herring intended to throw out some FUD to keep those interested from checking to see what the emperor's new clothes REALLY look like. More than likely the person who made this statement isn't interested in seeing the tricks stop. Some people out there are afflicted with a mental illness that makes them want to see their side win at any cost. I would say that the parent poster is just such a person.
...to the sea of stupid, we won't see this kind of thing catch on at all. Before shows like this can become popular, we have to make sure that intelligence is something that is pushed as being positive in popular culture. Right now, being stupid is what's seen as being cool. My wife read something last week that said that in England, the person that most boys idolize after Beckham is... Stephen Hawking. What do you want to bet that in the U.S. it's Kidd Rock or Eminem?
I understand what you were saying about digital recording devices. But, what I meant was that a pentium 100 with a decent soundcard with analog line in and line out would be able to easily record from any digital playback device unless they find a way to make speakers that are truly digital. Even then, you can put the speakers in boxes with mics and still record. The quality from a PC even recording with a soundblaster 16 rivals most cheap analogue cassette decks.
...the music industry is ever going to prevent piracy is if they take away the ability for the average person to record. There is no way in hell that they can do that without getting some kind of law passed that requires you to be a licensed professional in order to record audio or video. I can't see things going that far yet. But like it or not, the average person has a lot of options for recording these days.
Back when I was in high school and was lusting after a 4 track reel-to-reel multitrack deck from Tascam, there was a financial barrier to high quality recordings. But today, there are so many options out there that even if you aren't using AES/EBU digital connection (no SCMS DRM) you can still get much higher quality copies than you could with a cassette deck back in the 80s. So, even if the RIAA and MPAA do get DRM so intertwined into newer audio and video gear, it's going to be next to impossible to prevent older decent quality devices from recording. This is a battle that can't be won without draconian mesaures.
The shame of all of this is that nearly everyone with a computer has the facilities for making their own music and therefore bypassing the RIAA altogether. I do remember a period of time in the 80s when it was illegal to own a 4-track recorder in a residential area in my state. I wonder if they are going to try that with software based virtual studios? Likely not since most people with the ability and talent are just too lazy to make their own music. (It's easier than you think. If you can set up a Cisco network, you can make your own music.) So, what can the RIAA and MPAA do to stop people from pirating? How about they take away all sound cards and video caputre cards, digital audio and video recorders, and software based audio? They can't. The genie is out of the bottle.
With that out of the way, is it right to distribute music that you aren't authorized to distribute? Absolutely not. Quite a problem, ehhh?
Yesssss... but have you paid for it now??? ;P
That worked for me with my first 486 beige box in the mid 90s. For some reason it would refuse to get on with it's POST unless I smacked it squarely on the top of the tower case. That would be followed up by an initial beep and then the POST. You know what though? Like the Millennium Falcon, that 486 is still ticking... :)
Speaking of blue screens... did anyone ever notice that the Windows XP Logon Screen (the pretty one with all the playschool buttons) is mostly... blue? Wanna guess why? Maybe they were hoping if XP bluescreened, a user wouldn't be able to tell from a distance because they'd still see blue and think it was the logon screen. ;P (I kid! I kid! Because of love!!!)
Yes. Because everyone knows that stylish brushed aluminum cases with holes in them and blue or white LEDs add at least 5 gigaflops to a system right off the bat. ;P
;P
By that standard PCs with those neon lights and side panels should increase processing power to the "nth" factor!
Ricers with Office Max wastebaskets hanging off the exaust and underside neon and hood LEDs should get 400 miles to the gallon and have a starting RPM of 100,000 with 12,000,000 HP.
Mustbe some, as yet, undiscovered property of neon and LEDs to increase the performance of, well... ANYTHING. By that logic, an old diner with more neon should be a real mean mover.
Ah yes...