I'm convinced it is louder too. Every time a commercial comes on I _have_ to hit the mute button. The ads are just too loud for me to listen to comfortably.
I saw that show twice. I actually liked it (the only thing on TV I had any desire to watch). But I never noticed any of those product placements. I saw the episode where he gave away the scooter, but I didn't know it was mitsubishi.
The american express sponsorship was blatant. Every single commercial break would start with an amex ad. I didn't see them doing anything with it in the actual show again. But that's probably because I have only seen 2 episodes. It does make sense that the whole thing is an amex ad given the struggling small buisness plot of the show.
After the second episode I forgot to watch it again and haven't seen it since. But I'll probably give up trying to remember to watch it given your comment.
I agree, IPsec is an over engineered pain in the ass if all you want is a simple encrypted tunnel. For that I reccommend openvpn. It is mature, easy to work with and works exactly like you'd expect. And they even have a windows port going on...
Seriously, if there was a DVD player out there that advertised on the box "No function lockouts", I'd pay an extra $50 just for that.
My fiancee has one. I think it is a panasonic, not 100% sure. I can check later if you want. But it lets you skip over anything... FBI warning, previews... now if only it didn't do this region nonsense.
I played it for a while (beat the first few levels), but I don't like it. I know a lot of people say it is a really good game, but I just don't care for it.
Their power overrides elected, local political institutions, like governments.
well that clearly isn't true. Governments can restrict the ability of a company to do buisness in the region they govern. It doesn't matter wether the actual buisness resides in a foreign country or many foreign countries.
If that weren't true Honda would be able to sell cars in this country that ignore american emmisions & safety laws simply because they are japanese and not american.
Don't get me wrong, I'd prefer to see no DRM at all, and I intend to vote with my wallet as much as possible. But if DRM does happen anyway, I would have a very strong preference for Intertrust instead of Palladium.
In that case, you've fallen for the DRM industry's plan hook, line and sinker. They want to do something that upsets people. So they first propose something much worse than their real idea, and everyone gets upset. So then they propose their original idea which is less severe, and everyone is relieved and accepts it, thinking they got their way. In reality, the IP fascists have gained everything they wanted and we have given up all the rights we swore we wouldn't years ago.
I don't have a preference for any DRM system, no matter how minor. I have a very strong preference for freedom, my fair use rights, and my rights to my private property.
Even when there is a large minority inside the US (and, for some unimaginable reason, an apparent majority outside the US) who support repressive terrorist sponsoring regimes
Can you describe these terrorist-sponsoring regimes that are supported by so many people? I haven't heard of any.
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This is incorrect 2 ways:
1. Even if it were publicly documented, it would just be a publicly documented proprietary format.
Why would it be both publicly documented and proprietary? If it were publicly documented, then it could be completely implemented by third parties and thus no longer proprietary. Unless you're talking about publicly documented but patented or some other use-inhibitor.
Open Office, Star Office, and AbiWord are 3 implementations by organizations other than Microsoft.
They are incomplete and not always correct. That's what started this whole tread. They were developed by reverse engineering. There's no publication that says "here is thee MS office format, in its entirety".
Uh, yeah it is - a de-facto standard. While you are correct in stating the obvious that IE is a web browser, there is no standard for "Web browser."
Yes there is. HTTP and HTML.
Different web browsers make attempts to implement different standards. You may cite certain three-letter-acronym "standards" that IE either does not implement, or implements in a broken way, but all that is 100% irrelevent: at the end of the day, 98% of the users use the broken, non-committee-standards compliant browser.
It doesn't matter how many people use IE. It still does not properly implement the web standards. There is only one HTML. If you're writing a web page that only works in IE, then you technicaly aren't using HTML any more. You're using IE's proprietary language. You can't use IE's proprietary language and say it is HTML any more than I can claim my toyota is a submarine.
98% of the world can use the broken web implementation just as most of the world uses Word. That's fine. I was never discussing popularity, I was discussing standards.
I'd love to see you start up some mission-critical website, coding only to "committee standards" (IE be damned), and see how long you would last. You'd change your tune then.
Done. I spent 2 years at a former job building a web application. All of the users there used IE. I used Linux+Mozilla to do my job. I wrote standard HTML. The application worked. I got paid.
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MS Office is NOT a standard format
According to whom? The Inter-office Memo Standards board? The Clippy Commission? Friends of ASCII? The I-Hate-Microsoft Committee?
It isn't a standard because it is not publicly documented (in its entirety) and not implementable by anyone but Microsoft.
The poster was completely correct when he asserted that MS Office is a de-facto standard. For your information, that means that while it has not been officially blessed by some lofty standards board, the indisputable fact is that everyone uses it.
I can dispute that fact: I don't use it. I'm sure plenty of other people here also do not use it.
You have raised a valid point about the intentional breakage that is periodically introduced to force upgrades, but that is a separate question.
It is not a separate question. It is integral to the whole standards argument. Something can't possibly be a standard if one entity can simply go off and change it on their whim. A standard defines a format/process/protocol so that that format/process/protocol can be implemented by multiple parties. Being changeable on one entity's whim is completely contrary to that.
Since we're veering off topic here, I'll just mention that it is the exact same situation with Internet browsers - IE is the standard. That's what 98% of the universe uses, that what 98% of all internet sites are written for. And we still get the whiners who just keep pissing into the wind, complaining about compliance with some "standard" or another.
IE is not a standard. It is a web browser. HTML 4.0 is a standard. HTTP 1.1 is a standard. IE is a (partial) implementation of those standards. People can write "web pages" that only work in IE all they want. That is fine. But they are not writing standard web pages. They're writing IE documents.
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what link?
what exactly did this thread have to do with scsi again?
oh that's right, nothing. you're just masturbating.
That stopped being funny a long, long time ago.
Kind of like the "all your x belong to us" fad...
I'm convinced it is louder too. Every time a commercial comes on I _have_ to hit the mute button. The ads are just too loud for me to listen to comfortably.
I saw that show twice. I actually liked it (the only thing on TV I had any desire to watch). But I never noticed any of those product placements. I saw the episode where he gave away the scooter, but I didn't know it was mitsubishi.
The american express sponsorship was blatant. Every single commercial break would start with an amex ad. I didn't see them doing anything with it in the actual show again. But that's probably because I have only seen 2 episodes. It does make sense that the whole thing is an amex ad given the struggling small buisness plot of the show.
After the second episode I forgot to watch it again and haven't seen it since. But I'll probably give up trying to remember to watch it given your comment.
Open firmware doesn't have any digital restrictions management garbage, hence the motivation for them to reinvent the wheel.
It is a Philips DVD 724.
It is pretty nice. I don't know if it follows the region bullshit or not (never tried a foreign dvd).
PPTP uses GRE tunnels, it isn't synonymous with them.
I agree, IPsec is an over engineered pain in the ass if all you want is a simple encrypted tunnel. For that I reccommend openvpn. It is mature, easy to work with and works exactly like you'd expect. And they even have a windows port going on...
Seriously, if there was a DVD player out there that advertised on the box "No function lockouts", I'd pay an extra $50 just for that.
My fiancee has one. I think it is a panasonic, not 100% sure. I can check later if you want. But it lets you skip over anything... FBI warning, previews... now if only it didn't do this region nonsense.
I played it for a while (beat the first few levels), but I don't like it. I know a lot of people say it is a really good game, but I just don't care for it.
Or maybe he doesn't want to waste his life by spending most of it playing video games. Just the occasional fun...
That's backing up the DRM license, not backing up your music.
Their power overrides elected, local political institutions, like governments.
well that clearly isn't true. Governments can restrict the ability of a company to do buisness in the region they govern. It doesn't matter wether the actual buisness resides in a foreign country or many foreign countries.
If that weren't true Honda would be able to sell cars in this country that ignore american emmisions & safety laws simply because they are japanese and not american.
advanced degrees in IT
There's no such thing as an advanced degree in IT...
pg_dump(all) is an export
which is a backup.
Who is the "Geek Collective"? Slashdot editors? They're the only ones that deem anything "cool" here on slashdot.
Don't get me wrong, I'd prefer to see no DRM at all, and I intend to vote with my wallet as much as possible. But if DRM does happen anyway, I would have a very strong preference for Intertrust instead of Palladium.
In that case, you've fallen for the DRM industry's plan hook, line and sinker. They want to do something that upsets people. So they first propose something much worse than their real idea, and everyone gets upset. So then they propose their original idea which is less severe, and everyone is relieved and accepts it, thinking they got their way. In reality, the IP fascists have gained everything they wanted and we have given up all the rights we swore we wouldn't years ago.
I don't have a preference for any DRM system, no matter how minor. I have a very strong preference for freedom, my fair use rights, and my rights to my private property.
Do you have a link, or a date that this was published or anything?
Sorry, but even CNN has shown connections between Iraq and the terrorist. Keeping your head in the sand won't make it any different.
CNN did? Can you provide links? I've never seen anything, especially from them.
Even when there is a large minority inside the US (and, for some unimaginable reason, an apparent majority outside the US) who support repressive terrorist sponsoring regimes
Can you describe these terrorist-sponsoring regimes that are supported by so many people? I haven't heard of any.
What kind of enclosure is that? It looks pretty nice.. how did you mount the bedframe rails in it?
Also, those Dell boxes at the bottom - are they mounted or just sitting on shelves?
What is a socket based firewall?
This is incorrect 2 ways:
1. Even if it were publicly documented, it would just be a publicly documented proprietary format.
Why would it be both publicly documented and proprietary? If it were publicly documented, then it could be completely implemented by third parties and thus no longer proprietary. Unless you're talking about publicly documented but patented or some other use-inhibitor.
Open Office, Star Office, and AbiWord are 3 implementations by organizations other than Microsoft.
They are incomplete and not always correct. That's what started this whole tread. They were developed by reverse engineering. There's no publication that says "here is thee MS office format, in its entirety".
Uh, yeah it is - a de-facto standard. While you are correct in stating the obvious that IE is a web browser, there is no standard for "Web browser."
Yes there is. HTTP and HTML.
Different web browsers make attempts to implement different standards. You may cite certain three-letter-acronym "standards" that IE either does not implement, or implements in a broken way, but all that is 100% irrelevent: at the end of the day, 98% of the users use the broken, non-committee-standards compliant browser.
It doesn't matter how many people use IE. It still does not properly implement the web standards. There is only one HTML. If you're writing a web page that only works in IE, then you technicaly aren't using HTML any more. You're using IE's proprietary language. You can't use IE's proprietary language and say it is HTML any more than I can claim my toyota is a submarine.
98% of the world can use the broken web implementation just as most of the world uses Word. That's fine. I was never discussing popularity, I was discussing standards.
I'd love to see you start up some mission-critical website, coding only to "committee standards" (IE be damned), and see how long you would last. You'd change your tune then.
Done. I spent 2 years at a former job building a web application. All of the users there used IE. I used Linux+Mozilla to do my job. I wrote standard HTML. The application worked. I got paid.
MS Office is NOT a standard format
According to whom? The Inter-office Memo Standards board? The Clippy Commission? Friends of ASCII? The I-Hate-Microsoft Committee?
It isn't a standard because it is not publicly documented (in its entirety) and not implementable by anyone but Microsoft.
The poster was completely correct when he asserted that MS Office is a de-facto standard. For your information, that means that while it has not been officially blessed by some lofty standards board, the indisputable fact is that everyone uses it.
I can dispute that fact: I don't use it. I'm sure plenty of other people here also do not use it.
You have raised a valid point about the intentional breakage that is periodically introduced to force upgrades, but that is a separate question.
It is not a separate question. It is integral to the whole standards argument. Something can't possibly be a standard if one entity can simply go off and change it on their whim. A standard defines a format/process/protocol so that that format/process/protocol can be implemented by multiple parties. Being changeable on one entity's whim is completely contrary to that.
Since we're veering off topic here, I'll just mention that it is the exact same situation with Internet browsers - IE is the standard. That's what 98% of the universe uses, that what 98% of all internet sites are written for. And we still get the whiners who just keep pissing into the wind, complaining about compliance with some "standard" or another.
IE is not a standard. It is a web browser. HTML 4.0 is a standard. HTTP 1.1 is a standard. IE is a (partial) implementation of those standards. People can write "web pages" that only work in IE all they want. That is fine. But they are not writing standard web pages. They're writing IE documents.