Are you arguing that DeCSS is in fact not in violation of the DMCA? Didn't the fed. disagree with you? Isn't that required to rip the DVD and make his composite videos?
The copyright owner owns the bits / ideas and can prevent them from being *copied* but not read, thought about, or discussed.
This is the meat of the whole problem. The copyright owner can no longer prevent those bits from being copied. It's a rule of the network, and at this point it's like REALLY WISHING that gravity worked in reverse. Cat's out of the bag, copying happens all the time, and MUST for us to watch content digitally.
Anyway, that's life. BTW I purchase "Compact Discs" all the time that don't play in my car stereo because they don't conform the the Red Book Audio standard (and, therefore, are not "Compact Discs" and such sale is fraud.) When that happens, it never takes longer than a fifteen second glance on the network to find the content I purchased, burn it on a Compact Disc that adheres to said standard, and listen to it in my car.
I use Sphinx as well on http://www.mystock.com/ and can agree that it's amazing. Also, if you're using UltraSphinx I must suggest you have a look at Thinking Sphinx, it's a better Rails plugin all around though I can't speak to your specific use case. FWIW it also works in Merb.
I actually just donated some money to Sphinx yesterday, because Andrew Askyanoff (lead dev from Russia) spent some time on Skype with me getting an issue sorted out where Sphinx's BM25 algorithm was a bad algorithm to use on a particular use case, and he pointed us to use wordcount and it was much better for that use case.
Anyway, just a bit of info, esp. if you haven't seen Thinking Sphinx. Pat Allan develops that, and he is currently in Turkey I think, at least he gets on Google Talk very late still so I assume he's still there:) Anyway, all very good devs involved all the way down the stack.
Both Inkscape and GIMP have come a ridiculously long way in the past year. GIMP has made the transition to GEGL on the backend, and that's going to both (a) further GIMP and (b) lower the barrier to entry for a linux programmer to make a serious GIMP competitor. Also, looked at GIMP's preferences screen lately compared to, say, 2.4's? It's great.
Also, Inkscape. Inkscape can open multipage.ai documents just fine (it used to fail on this), it can import pdfs just fine (it used to fail on this), it can be used to do at least a few company's entire line of branding and make them very happy. We use exclusively open source software at http://www.isotope11.com/
Seriously, it's at least KIND OF a deal. First, there was no terminal of any sort on an android phone since I got mine Oct. 20th. So ~16 days from my receiving it to getting a root terminal. The pTerminal program is in many ways useless, as it's a really crappy terminal. But this is just what the doctor ordered.
Now, as I understand it the bootloader on the phone is encrypted or some such thing, so installing your own firmware is probably tivo-lockedout, but I'm not sure at all. I know android's running on the openmoko devices already, and it's apparently phenomenal.
-Josh
caveat: I'm in love with the G1. It's my constant friend. etc., etc.
How is it that no one has mentioned http://www.github.com/ yet? Does any similar offering exist for svn? No need to answer, as it simply can't.
GitHub is the bee's knees people.
Re-reading my post, I realize I sound like a ridiculous shill. I'm not, I'm just a guy working on an open source CMS in Ruby on Rails (http://www.ansuzcms.com).
Oh yeah, my company's new site is in progress at http://www.ansuzcms.com3000/ if anyone cares to let me know what they think of the design. The content's pretty much at nothing right now.
My company is a development partner with http://mor.ph/ and we're doing exactly this. A website we're working on has high load twice a year, and other than that it can be handled by a single web server. What we're doing is augmenting our year-long server with a few extra app servers running at mor.ph during the two peak seasons.
The problems you worry about in this case are the same as any distributed HA web serving: having another site handle master-server failover gracefully, etc.
w/r/t smart home software, hope you've seen http://www.linuxmce.org./ I've got a weak linuxmce setup in my home, and it's very nice. Someone with any money at all could have a badass system orders of magnitude cheaper than any other way.
I just can't imagine why you'd be pissed. People taking a course for free obv. don't have access to the professors (80% of the value of college). Been through college yet? A weekend of talking over particularly complex math with a professor >> a year of watching online videos. And this is coming from a guy who LOVES MIT's open courseware.
At any rate, sunk costs shouldn't affect decisions. You paid the money and got the education (hypothetically), so sound economic theory suggests you shouldn't care shit about what happens after that.
For Ruby as well as Ruby on Rails, I like http://apidock.com/. It's the first Ruby/Rails doc site that I've seen that has the ability to contribute, rate contributions, etc.
It also covers when methods changed by tags, so you can see that a method that's giving you trouble was changed the last version of rails, etc. Very intuitive interface.
Seriously though, fixed. I've known about that for freaking ever and just didn't think anyone would care:) "Painter's house is always the last to be painted" and all.
-Josh
But I really do mean it - everyone needs to run their own business. Fight the power, and whatnot!
Why did you mention password? I didn't see that listed as an item in the form. Esp. why did you emphasize it, when it's not even supposed to be in the list?
I currently run Debian on my Openmoko Neo1973. The summary implies that it doesn't work, but it absolutely does. I run xfce, with compositing turned on, and it works fine. The pkg-fso is the bit that gets the whole freesmartphone.org stack integrated with debian, so you can use it as a phone.
FSO is the stack that I ran on my phone pre-debian, and it was plenty stable as a phone. The only issues the phone/really/ has are that the other party gets echo sometimes, and yeah GPRS is less great than 3G/EDGE.
But I'll take a phone that's open source any day. Seriously, this is the wearable computer I've always wanted. Couple it with a bluetooth keyboard and just get happy already. I've run at least four different distributions on the phone so far, and it just feels like computers used to.
I don't have gobs of experience with sitepoint books, but that's just because what experiences I HAVE had with them have been nothing short of atrocious. Their Rails book was so ridiculously wrong-headed it didn't even 'sell' after they made it FREE. Looking at their site briefly, I don't feel even a LITTLE bit like this is 'the ultimate reference.'
Their 'layout properties' page may as well be a page from the w3, and indeed looks ridiculously similar. This book seems crap, from my quick glance, and I've been doing web development professionally for over 8 years. Meh.
In all seriousness though, I've ditched svn for a DVCS (git) and I'll never go back. I used svn for maybe forty projects and loved every second of it until I used git for the first time (ok, it took a lot of reading to convince myself git was worth the time investment required to grok another VCS).
Branching in git is so unbelievably natural. I've got my bash set to add (working) to the end of my prompt if I'm in a git repo and I'm on the "working" branch, for instance.
I will say, the designers on my team dislike git significantly. Their lives were almost entirely covered with "svn co/ci" and the idea of having to keep a remote tracking branch, merge a work branch with it, push the changes to the master repo...this just irritates them. But once we find a good way to appease them, it will have been so unbelievably worthwhile.
Anyway, I do believe ease of forking/branching/merging to be the killer feature of a VCS and I think git has got it completely right. I've never tried mercurial (hg) but I've heard great things about it as well...but I have zero dissatisfaction with git, and a project I'm working on has even adopted the short-hash conventions git uses with much success.
Calling it computer science is like calling geometry, rulerography
I disagree, quite a lot. I believe we're still in the process of figuring out the computer. And people that get involved in systems work really are figuring out the computer's proper role as a tool, especially. The counterpoint being that the ruler's much more stagnant than the computer, more 'completely figured out.'
Also, Information Science already exists, and is something different.
I hate this shit about the Geneva Convention. It was intended to handle conventional warfare, with conventional soldiers in uniform. It only applies if you're fighting ANOTHER country that honors the Geneva Convention. Otherwise you're just a pussy waiting to be taken advantage of.
Yes, I'm aware of the recent court decision. No, it doesn't change my mind on this.
I was under the impression that TEMPEST was the name for the regulations that vital computer systems had to fall under so that *they* were not prey to Van Eck phreaking. Have I gotten the nomenclature wrong, or have you?
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Are you arguing that DeCSS is in fact not in violation of the DMCA? Didn't the fed. disagree with you? Isn't that required to rip the DVD and make his composite videos?
The copyright owner owns the bits / ideas and can prevent them from being *copied* but not read, thought about, or discussed.
This is the meat of the whole problem. The copyright owner can no longer prevent those bits from being copied. It's a rule of the network, and at this point it's like REALLY WISHING that gravity worked in reverse. Cat's out of the bag, copying happens all the time, and MUST for us to watch content digitally.
Anyway, that's life. BTW I purchase "Compact Discs" all the time that don't play in my car stereo because they don't conform the the Red Book Audio standard (and, therefore, are not "Compact Discs" and such sale is fraud.) When that happens, it never takes longer than a fifteen second glance on the network to find the content I purchased, burn it on a Compact Disc that adheres to said standard, and listen to it in my car.
I use Sphinx as well on http://www.mystock.com/ and can agree that it's amazing. Also, if you're using UltraSphinx I must suggest you have a look at Thinking Sphinx, it's a better Rails plugin all around though I can't speak to your specific use case. FWIW it also works in Merb.
I actually just donated some money to Sphinx yesterday, because Andrew Askyanoff (lead dev from Russia) spent some time on Skype with me getting an issue sorted out where Sphinx's BM25 algorithm was a bad algorithm to use on a particular use case, and he pointed us to use wordcount and it was much better for that use case.
Anyway, just a bit of info, esp. if you haven't seen Thinking Sphinx. Pat Allan develops that, and he is currently in Turkey I think, at least he gets on Google Talk very late still so I assume he's still there :) Anyway, all very good devs involved all the way down the stack.
- Josh Adams
http://www.isotope11.com/
Both Inkscape and GIMP have come a ridiculously long way in the past year. GIMP has made the transition to GEGL on the backend, and that's going to both (a) further GIMP and (b) lower the barrier to entry for a linux programmer to make a serious GIMP competitor. Also, looked at GIMP's preferences screen lately compared to, say, 2.4's? It's great.
Also, Inkscape. Inkscape can open multipage .ai documents just fine (it used to fail on this), it can import pdfs just fine (it used to fail on this), it can be used to do at least a few company's entire line of branding and make them very happy. We use exclusively open source software at http://www.isotope11.com/
Hey dipshit. When you mock someone's grammar, you'd sure as fuck better not mis-spell 'apostrophe'
Idiot.
I'll paste it a few times so you can look at your grotesque failure more:
aprostrophe
aprostrophe
aprostrophe
aprostrophe
See how stupid that looks?
Speaking of, seen viewzi? http://www.viewzi.com/
parent++
Seriously, it's at least KIND OF a deal. First, there was no terminal of any sort on an android phone since I got mine Oct. 20th. So ~16 days from my receiving it to getting a root terminal. The pTerminal program is in many ways useless, as it's a really crappy terminal. But this is just what the doctor ordered.
Now, as I understand it the bootloader on the phone is encrypted or some such thing, so installing your own firmware is probably tivo-lockedout, but I'm not sure at all. I know android's running on the openmoko devices already, and it's apparently phenomenal.
-Josh
caveat: I'm in love with the G1. It's my constant friend. etc., etc.
How is it that no one has mentioned http://www.github.com/ yet? Does any similar offering exist for svn? No need to answer, as it simply can't.
GitHub is the bee's knees people.
Re-reading my post, I realize I sound like a ridiculous shill. I'm not, I'm just a guy working on an open source CMS in Ruby on Rails (http://www.ansuzcms.com).
Oh yeah, my company's new site is in progress at http://www.ansuzcms.com3000/ if anyone cares to let me know what they think of the design. The content's pretty much at nothing right now.
My company is a development partner with http://mor.ph/ and we're doing exactly this. A website we're working on has high load twice a year, and other than that it can be handled by a single web server. What we're doing is augmenting our year-long server with a few extra app servers running at mor.ph during the two peak seasons.
The problems you worry about in this case are the same as any distributed HA web serving: having another site handle master-server failover gracefully, etc.
-Josh Adams
http://isotope11.com/
w/r/t smart home software, hope you've seen http://www.linuxmce.org./ I've got a weak linuxmce setup in my home, and it's very nice. Someone with any money at all could have a badass system orders of magnitude cheaper than any other way.
The *Federal Reserve* took a 79.9% stake and the *Federal Reserve* bailed them out. They are a private company, not a government branch.
The US Taxpayer just got swindled, and The Federal Reserve now owns 80 percent of AIG.
I just can't imagine why you'd be pissed. People taking a course for free obv. don't have access to the professors (80% of the value of college). Been through college yet? A weekend of talking over particularly complex math with a professor >> a year of watching online videos. And this is coming from a guy who LOVES MIT's open courseware.
At any rate, sunk costs shouldn't affect decisions. You paid the money and got the education (hypothetically), so sound economic theory suggests you shouldn't care shit about what happens after that.
For Ruby as well as Ruby on Rails, I like http://apidock.com/. It's the first Ruby/Rails doc site that I've seen that has the ability to contribute, rate contributions, etc.
It also covers when methods changed by tags, so you can see that a method that's giving you trouble was changed the last version of rails, etc. Very intuitive interface.
Know the saddest part? I was a math major.
Seriously though, fixed. I've known about that for freaking ever and just didn't think anyone would care :) "Painter's house is always the last to be painted" and all.
-Josh
But I really do mean it - everyone needs to run their own business. Fight the power, and whatnot!
I run a software company. http://isotope11.com./ We build web apps for companies all over. I make more than I ever did working for someone else.
Everyone needs to run a software company.
This is easy to answer - he sold Thawte for $575 million.
Do you not have the internets where you are? Wikipedia, geezus.
Why did you mention password? I didn't see that listed as an item in the form. Esp. why did you emphasize it, when it's not even supposed to be in the list?
I currently run Debian on my Openmoko Neo1973. The summary implies that it doesn't work, but it absolutely does. I run xfce, with compositing turned on, and it works fine. The pkg-fso is the bit that gets the whole freesmartphone.org stack integrated with debian, so you can use it as a phone.
FSO is the stack that I ran on my phone pre-debian, and it was plenty stable as a phone. The only issues the phone /really/ has are that the other party gets echo sometimes, and yeah GPRS is less great than 3G/EDGE.
But I'll take a phone that's open source any day. Seriously, this is the wearable computer I've always wanted. Couple it with a bluetooth keyboard and just get happy already. I've run at least four different distributions on the phone so far, and it just feels like computers used to.
-Josh
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/8753/?cpg=cj&selsku=1
I don't have gobs of experience with sitepoint books, but that's just because what experiences I HAVE had with them have been nothing short of atrocious. Their Rails book was so ridiculously wrong-headed it didn't even 'sell' after they made it FREE. Looking at their site briefly, I don't feel even a LITTLE bit like this is 'the ultimate reference.'
Their 'layout properties' page may as well be a page from the w3, and indeed looks ridiculously similar. This book seems crap, from my quick glance, and I've been doing web development professionally for over 8 years. Meh.
In all seriousness though, I've ditched svn for a DVCS (git) and I'll never go back. I used svn for maybe forty projects and loved every second of it until I used git for the first time (ok, it took a lot of reading to convince myself git was worth the time investment required to grok another VCS).
Branching in git is so unbelievably natural. I've got my bash set to add (working) to the end of my prompt if I'm in a git repo and I'm on the "working" branch, for instance.
I will say, the designers on my team dislike git significantly. Their lives were almost entirely covered with "svn co/ci" and the idea of having to keep a remote tracking branch, merge a work branch with it, push the changes to the master repo...this just irritates them. But once we find a good way to appease them, it will have been so unbelievably worthwhile.
Anyway, I do believe ease of forking/branching/merging to be the killer feature of a VCS and I think git has got it completely right. I've never tried mercurial (hg) but I've heard great things about it as well...but I have zero dissatisfaction with git, and a project I'm working on has even adopted the short-hash conventions git uses with much success.
Erm, enough.
vim - desert256
I defy anyone to disagree with me.
Calling it computer science is like calling geometry, rulerography
I disagree, quite a lot. I believe we're still in the process of figuring out the computer. And people that get involved in systems work really are figuring out the computer's proper role as a tool, especially. The counterpoint being that the ruler's much more stagnant than the computer, more 'completely figured out.'
Also, Information Science already exists, and is something different.
I hate this shit about the Geneva Convention. It was intended to handle conventional warfare, with conventional soldiers in uniform. It only applies if you're fighting ANOTHER country that honors the Geneva Convention. Otherwise you're just a pussy waiting to be taken advantage of.
Yes, I'm aware of the recent court decision. No, it doesn't change my mind on this.
I was under the impression that TEMPEST was the name for the regulations that vital computer systems had to fall under so that *they* were not prey to Van Eck phreaking. Have I gotten the nomenclature wrong, or have you?
Answer? You: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEMPEST