...set up your terms of service to place your bandwidth limits on traffic that is "off your grid." and little or no limit to "on grid traffic." It's not hard to track traffic at your connection point to the Internet, and this would encourage people to use proper P2P distribution techniques to ease your traffic out.
The obvious example is that day that RedHat 10.0, or OSX 12.5 is released you don't have the grid come to a halt as 200 people from your 8000 try to simultaneously download a 3 CD set. They reserve their [generous, but limited] bandwidth for things that won't be on the Town or University mirrors later that day, and your usage hardly shows a spike on "release days."
And for the lawful sharing of uncopyrighted or justly-copyrighted materials, the local kids would be encouraged to make their buddy lists from local buddies, and not waste external bandwidth.
Apparently he hasn't read Title 17 down to section 107. The section titled:
Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use
But any one who can read that far would also hit
[Title 17] section 104 which contains:
(1) ENFORCEMENT OF COPYRIGHT IN RESTORED WORKS IN THE ABSENCE OF A RELI-
ANCE PARTY.--As against any party who is not a reliance party, the remedies pro-
vided in chapter 5 of this title shall be available on or after the date of restoration of
a restored copyright with respect to an act of infringement of the restored copyright
that is commenced on or after the date of restoration.[emphasis mine]
Makes it pretty clear that even if Fox got their copyright restored, that damages for acts prior to that time are clearly unavailable.
I for one hope they get their bottoms spanked in court for this.
Til we had the toys to play with quantum physics, all this multi-verse stuff was just about as useful as saying "God made it that way."
Now we know something funny is going on with those itty-bitty bits of matter, but don't leap to conclusions because, because that's bad. And, um, this could all be like the Matrix inside the Matrix. So, be careful.
No supporting data is available, but these ideas seem to make sense so I'm getting them published.
It's neat to see any country doing the research that has little practical appliation and doesn't get them any "Firstness! (or on the moon, or in orbit) notoriety." It leaves me with hope that the days when the space program was a thinly veiled military weapons development program (in many countries), are behind us, and that the research that continues, is work toward the more noble goal of exploring a little more of the universe than an 8000 mile across ball of mud has to offer.
You are a "consultant." Though the word is used to cover a more broad range of services than "consultation." That service is still implied. For me the crux of the issue is to let them know:
I question everything, so it's nothing personal.
I know damned well what I'm talking about, or I'd keep my mouth shut.
Whatever way your internal folks want it is what we'll work to make happen. Since they have to stay here and support it.
The best example of this came early in my career when I had a modest dozen programming languages under my belt and I was asked to extend a Customer Billing System for a wireless Telcom carrier. After getting all the specs. I asked the guy who would maintain it what language he thought would be best for the app. He said TCL/Expect. I'd never even heard of it, but it was going to be his baby, they were willing to pay for the extra time to have it written in a language other than C. So I bought the O'Reily book, learned Expect, and to my great suprise it was an excellent choice, and I was paid to learn Yet Another Cool Scripting Language.
I've been using this for years. It has the voting features that allow you to demphasize a song on the playlist and it has permissions. It can look sharp on any browswer and has some very nifty client interfaces. I've had it running for more than two years, and it's become an indispensible part of my work environment.
Boy do I know what you mean. I have a friend who is a former and soon to be again Duke addict. None of his computers since his old 400Mhz beater have been able to run Duke properly. The sad fact is that the Win98 emulation of DOS drivers is flawed, and when very specific things with graphics and sound occur (like on the second level of L.A. Meltdown when you blow up the building and jump down the roof access hatch to get the jetpack) it would always crash.
Though I hear XP has decent enough emulation to play Duke well on some systems, the solution I found was to get one of the original SB16PCI cards with the original driver CD that came with it from Creative (ebay $12 shipped).
It has DOS drivers on the disk that don't rely on the Win98 hardware emulation, and they worked faultlessly. When the SB128 first came out it had real DOS drivers as well. In fact it's the same ct5880 chipset with line out "converted" to spk-out2 for quad-channel sound.
That box should do the trick until the Linux port is stable. OpenGL 1280x1024x32x40fps Mmmmmmm yummy.:)
If you're such a genius...
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...why didn't you submit a dozen or so more-clever hoaxes?
If you did, please post them here so we can see what CmdrTaco passed over to rerun his "Evil Bits" stories.
If your hoaxes are original, and superior in wit and imagination, you'll no-doubt get piles of Karma points and I will apologize for lack of faith in your inestimable mirthfulness.
And if you can't post at least one original, and clearly wittier hoax, then it's pretty clear who the idiot really is.
.000000023% seems a bit low. I would concede that at least half the people complaining have multi-thousand song collections of which less than 10% were paid for. When I ask them about this they usually go on a length about the music companies are bad, therefore they don't have to pay for their music. A strange logic to be certain.
I'm not one of these people though. My music comes from used/new CD stores. I don't bother to "make archival backups" of it because the originals serve as the backups and the music plays on my old 400Mhz music server in the corner.
I've been paying the music industry's inflated prices for years, and now that I finally have my own cool web-available Linux-reliable "Jukeboxless Jukebox" they've decided to screw it up. It's called disenfranchising your legitimate userbase. And in my case, I like Carlos Santana's work, and they will lose sales for this.
I'm running RH 8.0, and although there is a.font-cache-1 file in my home directory, there is no.fonts directory. locate.fonts /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.fonts .fonts.cache-1
$
The readme is a 1029 line file detailing how to add new fonts. But it makes no reference to the.fonts directory in my home directory?
Is there really any easier way?
It allows them send a text command over the pager service that changes the color of the device. Their computers are set up to send out the "change color" commands based on stocks weather and instant messages. This means that you don't have to be at home, and don't have to have a computer to operate it. You can go to your favorit webcafe, do an online trade, and let the color of the ambient orb tell you how your stock is doing throughout the day. You can send it with your kid to college, and tell him Green means all is well at home, yellow means "call me if you want your next check on time." and red means "family emergency." etc. etc. etc.
When I first saw these things, I couldn't tell how much effort would be involved with reverse engineering the interface so that it could reflect the current state of my servers. Now that they've opened it up (and show the simplicity of the interface) it's much more appealing. Thanks guys.
<evil plot mode>Now how do I convince the boss we need one at work?</evil plot mode>
In Hanji's post he claims "Everything he says is true"
You object to his statement that "overzealous" could be true because it's a value judgement. The fact that it's a value judgement doesn't mean it isn't true. The obvious example is that Jerks == Jerks. It may be that Jerk is a value judgement, but the statement is inarguably true. I personally believe that the "zeal" shown by the record companies in this regard is measurably in excess of that needed by their own best interests. Overzealous by definition then.
Broken is quite definitely factual. When I skimmed over the CD specs., at no point does it mention "In this PCM stream random bits should be inserted in these places." The fact that an ECC is included to fix defects in the media does not change the fact that every sample on the disk is supposed to accurately represent the value of a waveform to be recreated at a particular point in time. If your software, or company, writes disks that do not have the correct values in these places, and depend on the ECC to to catch the errors they are simply not complying. Therefore if it says DISC with the funny Philps logo and it contains these intentional aberrations "broken" very much applies.
As does "defective."
I personally do not believe that the people who drafted Copyright law and chose the wording that defines "Fair Use" intended that any artists work would would be made available to the world, free of charge, 40 minutes after the CD is home from the store. If you want to argue against such behavior you'll find my postings in support of such. I cannot, however, redefine the language to suit my own personal opinions.
"ignoring the problems of today" is a misquote from ebyrob that shows he missed the fundamental point at hand.
done by ignoring, "what will get the job done today" and paying attention to "what will bring me closer to an ultimate solution."
This statement is not about ignoring the responsibilities to your installed base of customers or slacking off at the office.
To use geekoid's Apple computer example: I cannot count the number of times I needed to get the X register into the Y or viceversa to do something on the 6502. I have no doubt that the soon-to-be-Apple designers also got tired of PHA, TXA, TAY, PLA every time they wanted to do this, when what the chip really needed was a TXY (and of course TYX) instruction (yes, a swap XY would be even cooler). Adding these two instructions would have saved rom, made more stack space available, increased execution speed, improved on their ability to write modular code by allowing them to specify two additional registers of input data to called functions with significantly decreased overhead for "arranging" them prior to the function call, and it would have increased the orthogonality of the instruction set.
Whoo Hoo! Do we have all our buzzwords accounted for? Steven and Woz didn't bother to lobby their manufacturer for this incremental though academically correct improvement. Their inspiration seemed to be, "If we add these X features, ten times as many people will be able to use these things." This is a process that repeated. Today they produce a computer, not only usable to children, but that children like to use. The creators of the LOGO language, and Xerox, and IBM can be credited for the most of the "patentable" advances, but Apple's products are inspired.
Free software existed before Linus released his kernel. Unix certainly predates it. I would argue Linus Torvalds is less the "inventor of the Kernel" than the Wright Brothers are the "inventors of aircraft." And yet it's easy to see as I type this in anti-aliased fonts, on a Wintel-free box that his small portion of the pursuit of a free operating system has changed the way the way we use computers. Whether any portion of his kernel is a patentable leap of technological savvy isn't really relevant to the question of whether it's inspired.
These two stories have in common hard working people who set goals that were nothing like "normal" at the time they set them. They were visionaries in the purest sense.
"Put the designer in a room with an existing implementation and let them watch the process to be improved unfold before them"
This is a great way to make a faster bread slicer, a more road hugging skateboard, or a better tooth pick. But these things are hardly the class of inspiration one gets from reading good SciFi. Whereas, friendly computers and the Free flow of information have been integral parts of SciFi for a very long time.
In Ebyrob's defense. The Replicator is quite a leap from the self-setting microwave, but it is certainly a step closer to that great scene in The Fifth Element where the beautiful LeeLoo who has almost no command of the language has just put a food disc in a large bowl, shoved it in something vaguely like a microwave, and a few seconds later she is walking away with a bowl, stuffed full of roasted bird, smiling wide, and practicing one of her new words: "Chiiiiiiikeeen."
Slashdot Mirror
...set up your terms of service to place your bandwidth limits on traffic that is "off your grid." and little or no limit to "on grid traffic." It's not hard to track traffic at your connection point to the Internet, and this would encourage people to use proper P2P distribution techniques to ease your traffic out.
The obvious example is that day that RedHat 10.0, or OSX 12.5 is released you don't have the grid come to a halt as 200 people from your 8000 try to simultaneously download a 3 CD set. They reserve their [generous, but limited] bandwidth for things that won't be on the Town or University mirrors later that day, and your usage hardly shows a spike on "release days."
And for the lawful sharing of uncopyrighted or justly-copyrighted materials, the local kids would be encouraged to make their buddy lists from local buddies, and not waste external bandwidth.
It will be because judges can't read, or have been bought. I know Jack Valenti is out their trying to convince the world that we just mad up fair use:
JV: What is fair use? Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law.
Apparently he hasn't read Title 17 down to section 107. The section titled:
Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use
But any one who can read that far would also hit [Title 17] section 104 which contains:
(1) ENFORCEMENT OF COPYRIGHT IN RESTORED WORKS IN THE ABSENCE OF A RELI- ANCE PARTY.--As against any party who is not a reliance party, the remedies pro- vided in chapter 5 of this title shall be available on or after the date of restoration of a restored copyright with respect to an act of infringement of the restored copyright that is commenced on or after the date of restoration.[emphasis mine]
Makes it pretty clear that even if Fox got their copyright restored, that damages for acts prior to that time are clearly unavailable.
I for one hope they get their bottoms spanked in court for this.
Til we had the toys to play with quantum physics, all this multi-verse stuff was just about as useful as saying "God made it that way."
Now we know something funny is going on with those itty-bitty bits of matter, but don't leap to conclusions because, because that's bad. And, um, this could all be like the Matrix inside the Matrix. So, be careful.
No supporting data is available, but these ideas seem to make sense so I'm getting them published.
It's neat to see any country doing the research that has little practical appliation and doesn't get them any "Firstness! (or on the moon, or in orbit) notoriety." It leaves me with hope that the days when the space program was a thinly veiled military weapons development program (in many countries), are behind us, and that the research that continues, is work toward the more noble goal of exploring a little more of the universe than an 8000 mile across ball of mud has to offer.
- I question everything, so it's nothing personal.
-
I know damned well what I'm talking about, or I'd keep my mouth shut.
- Whatever way your internal folks want it is what we'll work to make happen. Since they have to stay here and support it.
The best example of this came early in my career when I had a modest dozen programming languages under my belt and I was asked to extend a Customer Billing System for a wireless Telcom carrier. After getting all the specs. I asked the guy who would maintain it what language he thought would be best for the app. He said TCL/Expect. I'd never even heard of it, but it was going to be his baby, they were willing to pay for the extra time to have it written in a language other than C. So I bought the O'Reily book, learned Expect, and to my great suprise it was an excellent choice, and I was paid to learn Yet Another Cool Scripting Language.I've been using this for years. It has the voting features that allow you to demphasize a song on the playlist and it has permissions. It can look sharp on any browswer and has some very nifty client interfaces. I've had it running for more than two years, and it's become an indispensible part of my work environment.
http://www.mserv.org/mainpage.html
Boy do I know what you mean. I have a friend who is a former and soon to be again Duke addict. None of his computers since his old 400Mhz beater have been able to run Duke properly. The sad fact is that the Win98 emulation of DOS drivers is flawed, and when very specific things with graphics and sound occur (like on the second level of L.A. Meltdown when you blow up the building and jump down the roof access hatch to get the jetpack) it would always crash.
:)
Though I hear XP has decent enough emulation to play Duke well on some systems, the solution I found was to get one of the original SB16PCI cards with the original driver CD that came with it from Creative (ebay $12 shipped).
It has DOS drivers on the disk that don't rely on the Win98 hardware emulation, and they worked faultlessly. When the SB128 first came out it had real DOS drivers as well. In fact it's the same ct5880 chipset with line out "converted" to spk-out2 for quad-channel sound.
That box should do the trick until the Linux port is stable. OpenGL 1280x1024x32x40fps Mmmmmmm yummy.
...why didn't you submit a dozen or so more-clever hoaxes?
If you did, please post them here so we can see what CmdrTaco passed over to rerun his "Evil Bits" stories.
If your hoaxes are original, and superior in wit and imagination, you'll no-doubt get piles of Karma points and I will apologize for lack of faith in your inestimable mirthfulness.
And if you can't post at least one original, and clearly wittier hoax, then it's pretty clear who the idiot really is.
Thanks :)
.000000023% seems a bit low. I would concede that at least half the people complaining have multi-thousand song collections of which less than 10% were paid for. When I ask them about this they usually go on a length about the music companies are bad, therefore they don't have to pay for their music. A strange logic to be certain.
I'm not one of these people though. My music comes from used/new CD stores. I don't bother to "make archival backups" of it because the originals serve as the backups and the music plays on my old 400Mhz music server in the corner.
I've been paying the music industry's inflated prices for years, and now that I finally have my own cool web-available Linux-reliable "Jukeboxless Jukebox" they've decided to screw it up. It's called disenfranchising your legitimate userbase. And in my case, I like Carlos Santana's work, and they will lose sales for this.
23 years after 2037... Obscure but funny. Thanks.
Thanks, I'll play with that. That sounds much better than the methods suggested in the README.
I'm running RH 8.0, and although there is a .font-cache-1 file in my home directory, there is no .fonts directory. .fonts
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.fonts
.fonts.cache-1 .fonts directory in my home directory?
locate
$
The readme is a 1029 line file detailing how to add new fonts. But it makes no reference to the
Is there really any easier way?
...are doomed to reinvent it; poorly.
It allows them send a text command over the pager service that changes the color of the device. Their computers are set up to send out the "change color" commands based on stocks weather and instant messages. This means that you don't have to be at home, and don't have to have a computer to operate it. You can go to your favorit webcafe, do an online trade, and let the color of the ambient orb tell you how your stock is doing throughout the day. You can send it with your kid to college, and tell him Green means all is well at home, yellow means "call me if you want your next check on time." and red means "family emergency." etc. etc. etc.
When I first saw these things, I couldn't tell how much effort would be involved with reverse engineering the interface so that it could reflect the current state of my servers. Now that they've opened it up (and show the simplicity of the interface) it's much more appealing. Thanks guys.
<evil plot mode>Now how do I convince the boss we need one at work?</evil plot mode>
In Hanji's post he claims "Everything he says is true"
You object to his statement that "overzealous" could be true because it's a value judgement. The fact that it's a value judgement doesn't mean it isn't true. The obvious example is that Jerks == Jerks. It may be that Jerk is a value judgement, but the statement is inarguably true. I personally believe that the "zeal" shown by the record companies in this regard is measurably in excess of that needed by their own best interests. Overzealous by definition then.
Broken is quite definitely factual. When I skimmed over the CD specs., at no point does it mention "In this PCM stream random bits should be inserted in these places." The fact that an ECC is included to fix defects in the media does not change the fact that every sample on the disk is supposed to accurately represent the value of a waveform to be recreated at a particular point in time. If your software, or company, writes disks that do not have the correct values in these places, and depend on the ECC to to catch the errors they are simply not complying. Therefore if it says DISC with the funny Philps logo and it contains these intentional aberrations "broken" very much applies.
As does "defective."
I personally do not believe that the people who drafted Copyright law and chose the wording that defines "Fair Use" intended that any artists work would would be made available to the world, free of charge, 40 minutes after the CD is home from the store. If you want to argue against such behavior you'll find my postings in support of such. I cannot, however, redefine the language to suit my own personal opinions.
I couldn't agree more geekoid.
"ignoring the problems of today" is a misquote from ebyrob that shows he missed the fundamental point at hand.
done by ignoring, "what will get the job done today" and paying attention to "what will bring me closer to an ultimate solution."
This statement is not about ignoring the responsibilities to your installed base of customers or slacking off at the office.
To use geekoid's Apple computer example: I cannot count the number of times I needed to get the X register into the Y or viceversa to do something on the 6502. I have no doubt that the soon-to-be-Apple designers also got tired of PHA, TXA, TAY, PLA every time they wanted to do this, when what the chip really needed was a TXY (and of course TYX) instruction (yes, a swap XY would be even cooler). Adding these two instructions would have saved rom, made more stack space available, increased execution speed, improved on their ability to write modular code by allowing them to specify two additional registers of input data to called functions with significantly decreased overhead for "arranging" them prior to the function call, and it would have increased the orthogonality of the instruction set.
Whoo Hoo! Do we have all our buzzwords accounted for? Steven and Woz didn't bother to lobby their manufacturer for this incremental though academically correct improvement. Their inspiration seemed to be, "If we add these X features, ten times as many people will be able to use these things." This is a process that repeated. Today they produce a computer, not only usable to children, but that children like to use. The creators of the LOGO language, and Xerox, and IBM can be credited for the most of the "patentable" advances, but Apple's products are inspired.
Free software existed before Linus released his kernel. Unix certainly predates it. I would argue Linus Torvalds is less the "inventor of the Kernel" than the Wright Brothers are the "inventors of aircraft." And yet it's easy to see as I type this in anti-aliased fonts, on a Wintel-free box that his small portion of the pursuit of a free operating system has changed the way the way we use computers. Whether any portion of his kernel is a patentable leap of technological savvy isn't really relevant to the question of whether it's inspired.
These two stories have in common hard working people who set goals that were nothing like "normal" at the time they set them. They were visionaries in the purest sense.
"Put the designer in a room with an existing implementation and let them watch the process to be improved unfold before them"
This is a great way to make a faster bread slicer, a more road hugging skateboard, or a better tooth pick. But these things are hardly the class of inspiration one gets from reading good SciFi. Whereas, friendly computers and the Free flow of information have been integral parts of SciFi for a very long time.
In Ebyrob's defense. The Replicator is quite a leap from the self-setting microwave, but it is certainly a step closer to that great scene in The Fifth Element where the beautiful LeeLoo who has almost no command of the language has just put a food disc in a large bowl, shoved it in something vaguely like a microwave, and a few seconds later she is walking away with a bowl, stuffed full of roasted bird, smiling wide, and practicing one of her new words: "Chiiiiiiikeeen."