A 2-pass 1080p x264 rip+encode takes much longer than the runtime of the movie, unless you have a very nice computer. You could rent any movie you wanted from a video store.
but those things are irrelevant, the movie industry hasn't died. It's making as much money as ever.
however theres no documentation, and likely doesn't work with the latest version of openlaszlo. It wasn't tied into our inventory system at all. I manually merged several different sources into a single xml file.
We've since moved away from laszlo in favor of html+css+javascript+svg. Eventually we might rewrite this, but have no concrete plans right now.
Linus isn't affiliated with the lab. He works for the Linux Foundation, formally the Open Source Development Lab. The Open Source Lab also host's the rest of Linux Foundation's infrastructure in addition to master.kernel.org
If everyone were to request absentee ballots you would recieve a paper ballot that you mail or bring to the polling place. Unfortunatly this does mean EVERYONE should do it because these ballots are usually only counted when there are statistically enough absentee ballots that they could change the result received by the polling machines.
This many absentee ballots would do a few things:
provide verifiable paper trail thats harder to alter
cost the government extra time and money.
force the issue that "We the people" are fed up and want a fair and secure voting system.
Take back our voting system without relying on the government, who obviously doesn't test any of the magic black boxes they buy.
I tried using subclipse but it worked so slow and was so buggy it wasn't usable. Moving or renaming a file almost certainly broke the changelog.
I switched back to IntelliJ which had a much more functional plugin. A few months later they added official support for SVN that was even better than the plugin. I don't regret the switch back at all. They even give free licenses to opensource projects.
Listen to yourself! Who said anything about wiretapping? This is not about wiretapping, nor is it about *coming into my house* and seizing my computer. None of my e-mail or my web surfing move along telecomm wires inside my home.
YOU did: "I've never expected privacy on the Internet, either from the peering eyes of the government or my neighbors."
privacy on the internet is about noone peering into your personal communication aka "wiretapping". Wiretapping requires a warrant because of the 4th amendment. It does not matter if the wires are physically in your home and courts have upheld this.
And it doesn't take a heck of a lot of effort to not use the Internet or e-mail in any way that might incriminate yourself. And I would prefer that people rely upon their own discipline and common sense than call upon a nanny-state government to "protect" them in the name of their "rights."
This has nothing to do with people incriminating themselves, it has to do with my right to privacy. It doesn't matter what i'm discussing, i still have the right for it to be private. I know you're working with the thought "If you don't have anything to hide why do you care?" well i prefer "If i've done nothing wrong why do you spy on me?".
If the government can't protect ALL of my rights then it serves no purpose especially since it was founded for that reason.
It shouldn't and it doesn't.
The SCOTUS extrapolated a constitutional right to privacy -- extrapolated, mind you; no where is it mentioned in the document -- as relates to the stuff that goes on *inside* your home. That's it! And your average middle-of-the-road consitutional scholar will still tell you even that's a stretch. Seriously, now: where do you come up with this "every form of communication?" As best as I can deduce -- and IANAL -- the only form of communication whose privacy is protected is the note you might slip to your spouse at the dinner table.
Whether it is extrapolated or written explicitly it has been upheld by the courts. It has also been upheld that you need a warrant for any search & seizure whether it is physical search or wiretapping of phone/internet. They only have the right to search if a court specifically authorizes it. Anyone else outside the government has no right whatsoever to listen to these communications. I don't see how it could be any more clear that we should expect privacy.
So let me spell it out: I don't want someone putting a camera in my house, and I have a right to that privacy. But the government has a right to put a camera on my street corner, and it has a right to look at my e-mail. Clinton kicked that off with ECHELON, and now Bush is just adding some buzzers and whistles (and bad press) to the process. Doesn't affect the way I live my life at all. Hopefully, the next ultra right-wing religious extremist looking to slam a plane into a building or collapse a tunnel on top of my commute will use the Internet to plot some of his shenanigans and get nailed.
see my previous paragraph about how your house and your internet/phone are considered the same thing as far as search and seizure go.
I opposed the ECHELON project just as much as any other invasion of privacy. I'm an independant and care about issues not party lines.
Oh, wait: Didn't that just happen?
Those terrorists were not even in this country, nor had they ever been. Wiretapping did not have anything to do with catching them. They were caught by monitoring websites and chatrooms. Details, Details..
Those terrorists did not have funding or bomb material, they sound about as dangerous as the wannabe al'qaeda in florida. It doesn't take much training to get around wiretapping with encryption and coded messages. I'm sure there are real terrorists out there and all this domestic spying wont hinder them any more than gun control laws stop criminals from getting guns.
What's this "we" stuff? That's my point. *I* never had any preconceptions regarding privacy as relates to my e-mail or web browsing, and I live my life (quite well, thanks for asking) without them. The conversation is not about phonecalls or semaphore or morse code or microphones in my house or any crazy stuff like that. It's about the Internet.
"We" as in "We the people of the United States" as in the people protected by the constitution and bill of rights.
This is about every form of communication. There are no fundamental or ideological differences between them. The same privacy should apply to all of them.
You call microphones in your house "crazy" because you assume it will never happen. Unfortunatly, the reason it wouldn't happen is not because it is ideologically different from tapping the internet, but instead because of technical and financial limitations. If putting microphones in houses was as easy and cost effective as tapping a router you better believe it would happen.
Now lets say hypothetically the government was able to afford microphones in everyones house. Following the same rules as internet tapping they only turn on the microphones for specific people they want to watch, but you wouldn't ever know if or when you had been watched. Would you be ok to this in-home equivilant of internet spying and why? I know you'd like to just dismiss this as "crazy" but thats just a cop out.
I've never expected privacy on the Internet, either from the peering eyes of the government or my neighbors
What about privacy in telephone calls? Letters? or any conversation over any medium? The same school of thought could be applied to those as well. Imagine a world where everything was watched, where even your house has microphones for convenient "tapping" of conversations. Sure you could get around that by never conversing about something you didn't want others to hear but then we would also be brutally oppressed.
We have a very reasonable expectation to privacy in any form of communication. That you can overcome abuses of that privacy does not ever change that. Even worse your solution encourages more abuse by simply letting it happen.
i also remember reading about guns that had a matching glove. There was something in the glove that needed to be in close proximity (almost touching) the grip to actually fire. This was targeted for police especially in courtrooms and prisons where there is a higher likely hood that someone might try and take your gun from you.
"I would rather have a gun that beeps, or lights, or does something when I hold it...that way when I press the trigger I won'get an erro which you know could mean I don't shoot the guy trying to shoot me...Talk about BSOD."
The scary part is sooner or later they will be. When enough rights have been infringed on and our way of life has changed enough, other americans will realize they no longer truely have freedom. At that point they will come to realize what real patriotism is. Its unfortunate that they take thier freedom for granted so much that they have to be reminded what it is in the worst possible way: Losing it.
People download the movies even if they are crap because it costs them almost nothing. The cost of bandwidth is negligible because its used for other things as well. The majority of these people would probably not pay any amount to see these movies because as you said, its trash and has very little value. The only thing reinforcing the concept that C movies are viable is the idea that every download is a lost sale.
Piracy is just a scapegoat for an industry that churns out horrible products. I'd love to see piracy stopped just so the MPAA and RIAA no longer have anyone to blame.
That didn't take long for intelligence gathered to "fight terrorists" be used for another purpose.
"Its ok because im not a terrorist" has now become "Its ok because im not in the media."
We study history to prevent the same mistakes of the past
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
"Remind me why artists need companies like Sony? Especially known bands."
Of course theres the common reasons of marketing, distribution etc...
BUT the big reason is the recording companies are the gateway to popularity since they own or are in bed with the major radio stations and MTV/VH1. They control what gets airtime and therefore what is popular. Sure you can have some success as an independant but rarely the instant popularity you can achieve through the recording companies.
I think the downfall of the recording companies will come from services that use aggragated peer reviews (ala digg) and recommendation engines (ala pandora.com) to provide listeners with a broader collection of music catered to thier personal tastes. When "popular" is derived from the people, instead of the companies' required playlists, the companies will no longer have the bargaining power to enforce prices or horrible contracts
They ARE making money from it. They make money because people are forced to use IE or suffer a barely usable interface. Requiring IE also requires windows which costs money. Its not just about locking them into IE, its about preventing them from using linux. They will continue to develop features and services that do not work on FOSS equivilants just to slow the adoption. Preventing FOSS converts indirectly makes microsoft money.
This is all very blatant because microsoft has already authored a mail system (exchange server) that is capable of supporting at least pop3 at the enterprise level. The only reason to leave out pop3 and imap is because then users wouldn't be locked in to thier client.
I notice you also need separate licensing to create a client that runs on a mobile. Hmm. Something to do with mobile operators not wanting to lose all that SMS revenue from people using AIM instead, perhaps?;-)
Most cell-phones come with AIM now anyways, but that is because the manufacturers have licensed the software from AOL. Phone features have always been a selling point for phone companies so they gladly shell out money for something millions of people already use at home. AOL does this instead of selling to end users because end users are used to getting it for free or just pirating it. This way they still make a decent amount of money while end users pays a negligible amount, so little that most think they get it for free (I've had lengthy arguments with other people about how free it is. you bought the phone you paid for everything in it).
To protect this business model AOL has to limit the clients that come out.
When i bought my new PDA-phone (cingluar 8125 wizard) I was very upset that even though AIM was advertised it did not come with it. AOL doesn't offer a free download for their US version of the mobile client. Its offered free in the UK but it doesn't even work that well. Fortunatly i found a 3rd party program (Agile Messenger) that works with most networks (aim,yahoo,xmmp) and integrates better with windows mobile.
This client and others were available before the SDK and the licensing that comes with it. Theres not much better to come from the SDK
What "shard/realm" based gmaes like warcraft need to do is make it more like D2. Allow every player to log into any realm that uses the same ruleset that they were created on. Allow people to join instances together even if they arent on the same realm. people will still goto thier favorite realm but if they are stuck in a queue they will always have an alternative place to get almost the same experience.A system like this would help distribute the population and create a large community instead of numerous small ones.
blizzard is already planning to implement battlegrounds where people from different servers will fight against eachother. this is for the same reason that faction balance isn't occuring on alot of servers. as a result one faction will have instant queues while the other may wait hours for a battleground match.
In advertising, "unlimited" is still used within the context of reasonable behavior. If copying a Netflix movie were "reasonable", you would not need to ship the discs back, since they could make a new copy themselves for less than the cost of the return postage and let you keep the old one instead of bothering with DVDShrink.
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Then that should be listed in the advertisement. I can do whatever i want with the movies as long as i don't damage them. If all i wanted to do was immediatly put them in the sleeves and mail them back, it would be perfectly within my rights to do so. Even if we chose to do something illegal it does not give netflix the right to "throttle" us, they are neither a judge or a jury.
We were told unlimited movies per month and we're not getting it.
Sure there might be good reasoning behind not wanting pottential antitrust charges but they could easily give the product away for free. There is a serious conflict of interest when the same company is selling both the OS and applications to protect the OS. What they should be doing is ensuring that the OS is safe from virii in the first place, you shouldn't have to pay extra for that.
Whats worse is M$ actually has the incentive to create and allow virii. Everytime a virus gets a headline people have a reason to go buy thier product.
Not unless you are in asia. Blizzard has the technology to do so they just refuse to use it elsewhere.
Anyone who had the client from open beta already had a more up-to-date version than what was stamped on the cds. For many of us we just went to the store and then used the cd-key to create an account with which to play the game. I felt bad for the 50 or so people waiting in line at 5am on release day, at the only store 40 miles, who didn't get to purchase it. I smacked my forehead when i realized i should have just had my friend on the east coast get me a copy on his midnight trip to walmart.
In s.korea people were even allowed to keep thier accounts, they just had to purchase a cd-key online to activate it for retail. Wow was released there at almost the same time so they had the technology. Its not like online account generation is that hard, only just about every website has registration of some form or another. Especially when they already had the credit card payment back end for account subscriptions.
He was paranoid because he had enemies who could ruin his life in a thousand different ways. He could never know when he was being watched or what they were planning to do about him.
Were talking about an organization that, if what Tice said is true, has automated spying on millions of people. Its scary to imagine what they could do to someone they've singled out.
Many of the "features" you mentioned are only available in eclipse from plugins. I've tried using eclipse but I prefer intelliJ because the things you mention are actually part of the IDE instead of barely working plugins.
Don't get me wrong though I'm compeletely for open source and think eclipse is a great project i just see major issues:
plugins don't integrate well
configuration is a pain
not very intuitive at all
This is to be expected with any large OS project. You have lots of features being developed by many different people. Without organization between the various programmers there isnt consistency between the features. Give it time and eventually the mess will get sorted out. Unfortunatly an IDE is the most important tool to a developer and we have to use the tools that are out there now. Commercial products will always be ahead of OS for features.
JFYI our shop develops only OS products and we prefer workers to use OS products (eat your own dogfood) but we also want them to be effective and happy. As a test we had new hires with no experience try both intelliJ and Eclipse. Eclipse took considerably longer to configure, if they could get it working at all. Jetbrains offer free licenses for opensource projects so there is no additional cost to us for more efficient workers.
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A 2-pass 1080p x264 rip+encode takes much longer than the runtime of the movie, unless you have a very nice computer. You could rent any movie you wanted from a video store. but those things are irrelevant, the movie industry hasn't died. It's making as much money as ever.
RAIV wasn't graphical at all, so you must be thinking of the virtual server room tour we put together 2 years ago.
The code for that is here: http://git.osuosl.org/?p=rackview.git
however theres no documentation, and likely doesn't work with the latest version of openlaszlo. It wasn't tied into our inventory system at all. I manually merged several different sources into a single xml file. We've since moved away from laszlo in favor of html+css+javascript+svg. Eventually we might rewrite this, but have no concrete plans right now.
Linus isn't affiliated with the lab. He works for the Linux Foundation, formally the Open Source Development Lab. The Open Source Lab also host's the rest of Linux Foundation's infrastructure in addition to master.kernel.org
This many absentee ballots would do a few things:
unfortunatly the opposite to that is close enough for most companies: If Cedega lets users play games on linux then we don't have to do the work.
I switched back to IntelliJ which had a much more functional plugin. A few months later they added official support for SVN that was even better than the plugin. I don't regret the switch back at all. They even give free licenses to opensource projects.
privacy on the internet is about noone peering into your personal communication aka "wiretapping". Wiretapping requires a warrant because of the 4th amendment. It does not matter if the wires are physically in your home and courts have upheld this.
This has nothing to do with people incriminating themselves, it has to do with my right to privacy. It doesn't matter what i'm discussing, i still have the right for it to be private. I know you're working with the thought "If you don't have anything to hide why do you care?" well i prefer "If i've done nothing wrong why do you spy on me?".If the government can't protect ALL of my rights then it serves no purpose especially since it was founded for that reason.
I opposed the ECHELON project just as much as any other invasion of privacy. I'm an independant and care about issues not party lines.
Those terrorists were not even in this country, nor had they ever been. Wiretapping did not have anything to do with catching them. They were caught by monitoring websites and chatrooms. Details, Details..Those terrorists did not have funding or bomb material, they sound about as dangerous as the wannabe al'qaeda in florida. It doesn't take much training to get around wiretapping with encryption and coded messages. I'm sure there are real terrorists out there and all this domestic spying wont hinder them any more than gun control laws stop criminals from getting guns.
This is about every form of communication. There are no fundamental or ideological differences between them. The same privacy should apply to all of them.
You call microphones in your house "crazy" because you assume it will never happen. Unfortunatly, the reason it wouldn't happen is not because it is ideologically different from tapping the internet, but instead because of technical and financial limitations. If putting microphones in houses was as easy and cost effective as tapping a router you better believe it would happen.
Now lets say hypothetically the government was able to afford microphones in everyones house. Following the same rules as internet tapping they only turn on the microphones for specific people they want to watch, but you wouldn't ever know if or when you had been watched. Would you be ok to this in-home equivilant of internet spying and why? I know you'd like to just dismiss this as "crazy" but thats just a cop out.
What about privacy in telephone calls? Letters? or any conversation over any medium? The same school of thought could be applied to those as well. Imagine a world where everything was watched, where even your house has microphones for convenient "tapping" of conversations. Sure you could get around that by never conversing about something you didn't want others to hear but then we would also be brutally oppressed.
We have a very reasonable expectation to privacy in any form of communication. That you can overcome abuses of that privacy does not ever change that. Even worse your solution encourages more abuse by simply letting it happen.
i also remember reading about guns that had a matching glove. There was something in the glove that needed to be in close proximity (almost touching) the grip to actually fire. This was targeted for police especially in courtrooms and prisons where there is a higher likely hood that someone might try and take your gun from you.
I believe its WSOD (whitelight screen of death)
The scary part is sooner or later they will be. When enough rights have been infringed on and our way of life has changed enough, other americans will realize they no longer truely have freedom. At that point they will come to realize what real patriotism is. Its unfortunate that they take thier freedom for granted so much that they have to be reminded what it is in the worst possible way: Losing it.
Piracy is just a scapegoat for an industry that churns out horrible products. I'd love to see piracy stopped just so the MPAA and RIAA no longer have anyone to blame.
We study history to prevent the same mistakes of the past
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Of course theres the common reasons of marketing, distribution etc...
BUT the big reason is the recording companies are the gateway to popularity since they own or are in bed with the major radio stations and MTV/VH1. They control what gets airtime and therefore what is popular. Sure you can have some success as an independant but rarely the instant popularity you can achieve through the recording companies.
I think the downfall of the recording companies will come from services that use aggragated peer reviews (ala digg) and recommendation engines (ala pandora.com) to provide listeners with a broader collection of music catered to thier personal tastes. When "popular" is derived from the people, instead of the companies' required playlists, the companies will no longer have the bargaining power to enforce prices or horrible contracts
This is all very blatant because microsoft has already authored a mail system (exchange server) that is capable of supporting at least pop3 at the enterprise level. The only reason to leave out pop3 and imap is because then users wouldn't be locked in to thier client.
The Open Source Lab currently hosts some of Freenode's north american servers.
Most cell-phones come with AIM now anyways, but that is because the manufacturers have licensed the software from AOL. Phone features have always been a selling point for phone companies so they gladly shell out money for something millions of people already use at home. AOL does this instead of selling to end users because end users are used to getting it for free or just pirating it. This way they still make a decent amount of money while end users pays a negligible amount, so little that most think they get it for free (I've had lengthy arguments with other people about how free it is. you bought the phone you paid for everything in it).
To protect this business model AOL has to limit the clients that come out.
When i bought my new PDA-phone (cingluar 8125 wizard) I was very upset that even though AIM was advertised it did not come with it. AOL doesn't offer a free download for their US version of the mobile client. Its offered free in the UK but it doesn't even work that well. Fortunatly i found a 3rd party program (Agile Messenger) that works with most networks (aim,yahoo,xmmp) and integrates better with windows mobile.
This client and others were available before the SDK and the licensing that comes with it. Theres not much better to come from the SDK
blizzard is already planning to implement battlegrounds where people from different servers will fight against eachother. this is for the same reason that faction balance isn't occuring on alot of servers. as a result one faction will have instant queues while the other may wait hours for a battleground match.
Then that should be listed in the advertisement. I can do whatever i want with the movies as long as i don't damage them. If all i wanted to do was immediatly put them in the sleeves and mail them back, it would be perfectly within my rights to do so. Even if we chose to do something illegal it does not give netflix the right to "throttle" us, they are neither a judge or a jury.
We were told unlimited movies per month and we're not getting it.
Whats worse is M$ actually has the incentive to create and allow virii. Everytime a virus gets a headline people have a reason to go buy thier product.
Anyone who had the client from open beta already had a more up-to-date version than what was stamped on the cds. For many of us we just went to the store and then used the cd-key to create an account with which to play the game. I felt bad for the 50 or so people waiting in line at 5am on release day, at the only store 40 miles, who didn't get to purchase it. I smacked my forehead when i realized i should have just had my friend on the east coast get me a copy on his midnight trip to walmart.
In s.korea people were even allowed to keep thier accounts, they just had to purchase a cd-key online to activate it for retail. Wow was released there at almost the same time so they had the technology. Its not like online account generation is that hard, only just about every website has registration of some form or another. Especially when they already had the credit card payment back end for account subscriptions.
Were talking about an organization that, if what Tice said is true, has automated spying on millions of people. Its scary to imagine what they could do to someone they've singled out.
Don't get me wrong though I'm compeletely for open source and think eclipse is a great project i just see major issues:
This is to be expected with any large OS project. You have lots of features being developed by many different people. Without organization between the various programmers there isnt consistency between the features. Give it time and eventually the mess will get sorted out. Unfortunatly an IDE is the most important tool to a developer and we have to use the tools that are out there now. Commercial products will always be ahead of OS for features.
JFYI our shop develops only OS products and we prefer workers to use OS products (eat your own dogfood) but we also want them to be effective and happy. As a test we had new hires with no experience try both intelliJ and Eclipse. Eclipse took considerably longer to configure, if they could get it working at all. Jetbrains offer free licenses for opensource projects so there is no additional cost to us for more efficient workers.