Realizing that the parent wasn't really saying anything bad about MIDI, I have a similar rant I use on people who tell me they're greatful for mp3 soundtracks in games because MIDI sounded terrible in the old days. I guess I was one of the few with a good Yamaha MIDI chip... and a friend of mine had his sound card hooked up to his professional grade MIDI keyboard for output through concert speakers. Even Lemmings sounded good;-)
There is a huge amount of legitimate copying, especially in countries where such behaviour is *legal*.
What about recent discoveries that many CDs have been printed on sub-standard platters who's glue degrades, ruining the discs permanently? Are you saying I shouldn't have made that set of ISO backups of my entire CD collection? Well I did... have a nice day.
Oh, but this is video, this is different.
No its not; some loser production company will screw up and sell us bad product that will degrade in a few years and tell us we're not entitled to replacements. Protect yourself.
Well said -- the parent doesn't seem to realize the sheer cost of replacing machines and the manpower in testing enterprise applications. We have many sites running Windows 98SE because its stable, it works, and there's no reason to upgrade it.
There are two thoughts going on here at the same time. One is that we'd like to use software that is available on other platforms on our Linux boxen.
The second is that having those programs is not enough a few years down the road when they no longer run on the current distributions and need recompiling that the company won't do for us. Open sourcing the application fixes that problem.
I do work for graphics shops -- this can be a big problem. You put hours of your life into making that 2GB downloadable PDF of their flyer and they get another company to print it for them instead of you.
In the case I'm thinking of, the printed document has the original company's information and website on it still -- inside the edge of the binding for each page (pull pages apart slightly more than normal and read it vertically). The original designer found that slightly gratifying when he saw them in circulation.
The one thing both MS and Apple have over we Linux people is the time and energy they put into development tools for the masses. MSDN is an excellent resource, despite being full of BS half the time. Apple has huge documents outlining usability and great dev tools in many cases. Visual Studio is unmatched on Linux (yes, I've used the Linux IDEs).
I love flexibility, but if we want developers (like my boss), we need to entice them with "cool" development platforms.
I love Makefiles and gcc... they work wonderfully. That said, my boss loves clicking "build and run" on VS.
I was thinking myself earlier how much the whole "cost" issue reminded me of a rant somewhere (Perens maybe?) about the costs of using proprietary software.
I'd like to point out that while I'm in favor of the spirit of "don't ride on my coat tails" I must actually disagree in practice.
Everything we do is based on things we learned from others. If you didn't ride the coat tails of those who invented calculus and higher math, or those who invented the wheel (as is often stated), where would you be today?
It is perhaps dishonest to take someone else's product, make your own identical version and then sell it as your own idea, but that's not what's happening either. AFAICT, major car manufacturers do it all the time -- "hey, people like a longer wheel base from company x, lets make a longer wheel base car for our own customers".
Larry has my sympathies when it comes to trying to make a living off being smart at algorithms vs. having made a physical product to sell, but by virtue of how ideas allow societies to evolve, they must remain basically available for all to use.
He has pointed out many times before that he hacked the SMB protocol entire over the wire, without using any reverse engineering of other companies' binaries. I'd suspect the same is true of BK.
It would be simple enough to leave a "Please click here to reboot" on the screen of the PC. Alternatively, some explanation of the fact that the computer is not in fact busy and you're free to use it as you wish would work.
Of course, replacing the computers with Linux boxes with background processes set to idle would make more sense.
I'm pretty sure most governments would (and do) put out good money to purchase software that would help them enforce the law.
This is an example, to my way of thinking, of the non-evil Microsoft. There are ways in which Microsoft does in fact do good in the world, and this is one of them.
I love how the parent (my post) was moderated flamebait twice but provoked only insightful replies. Please consider how people will respond to a post before moderating.
No, what MAPS is doing is publishing a list of streets that contaminated food was found on.
We all know it publishes *lists* of *streets*, if we want to be picky, we'll have to do our own research. If we just want to avoid entire regions where one bad apple has happened, we'll use their list.
They're very verbose about the fact that you're taking matters into your own hands by using their lists.
I don't care how secure you think BIND 9 is -- I care that I can use dnscache and its logic is much more sound in how it handles reference data than BIND is. Proof is in the recent cache poisonings.
DNSSEC is a non-starter by the way, if you think that actually contributes to BIND 9's superiority -- until root servers have encryption, it won't matter. That said, there are much better ways to secure DNS data -- like encrypted links to said DNS servers with proven technologies; IPSec comes to mind.
90% of the word processing market tapped by the paid market research agencies use MS Word, perhaps.
Most of the scientific and research communities which are not on such lists are using TeX or something similar.
I've met many groups that have moved to Word from something else only to be sorely disappointed with its abilities -- Word *sucks* at large document management, sorry to say.
PS, if you're a techie and you managed to make Word handle your 300MB manual, good for you -- you don't count.
Also, if you're a believer and you think Word *can* do these things because your $1000 course told you it can, but you haven't done it yourself, then your opinion's pretty invalid as well.
I remember going to France, travelling from there (as a canadian citizen) into Switzerland, Italy and Monaco all without the need for my passport to be shown.
Often the border gate post was uninhabited and we simply drove through.
Although the US-Canada border is huge, I believe it is now undefended mostly because of our shared history and values where we are connected (northern states vis-a-vis Canada) and the sheer cost of putting up a fence that long.
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I can't stand anything less than 224 produced by bladeenc if I'm using MP3s on most of my CDs.
Just my preference -- I know people who think their 96's sound perfect. Personally, they're deaf.
Realizing that the parent wasn't really saying anything bad about MIDI, I have a similar rant I use on people who tell me they're greatful for mp3 soundtracks in games because MIDI sounded terrible in the old days. I guess I was one of the few with a good Yamaha MIDI chip ... and a friend of mine had his sound card hooked up to his professional grade MIDI keyboard for output through concert speakers. Even Lemmings sounded good ;-)
There is a huge amount of legitimate copying, especially in countries where such behaviour is *legal*.
... have a nice day.
What about recent discoveries that many CDs have been printed on sub-standard platters who's glue degrades, ruining the discs permanently? Are you saying I shouldn't have made that set of ISO backups of my entire CD collection? Well I did
Oh, but this is video, this is different.
No its not; some loser production company will screw up and sell us bad product that will degrade in a few years and tell us we're not entitled to replacements. Protect yourself.
Well said -- the parent doesn't seem to realize the sheer cost of replacing machines and the manpower in testing enterprise applications. We have many sites running Windows 98SE because its stable, it works, and there's no reason to upgrade it.
There are two thoughts going on here at the same time. One is that we'd like to use software that is available on other platforms on our Linux boxen.
The second is that having those programs is not enough a few years down the road when they no longer run on the current distributions and need recompiling that the company won't do for us. Open sourcing the application fixes that problem.
I do work for graphics shops -- this can be a big problem. You put hours of your life into making that 2GB downloadable PDF of their flyer and they get another company to print it for them instead of you.
In the case I'm thinking of, the printed document has the original company's information and website on it still -- inside the edge of the binding for each page (pull pages apart slightly more than normal and read it vertically). The original designer found that slightly gratifying when he saw them in circulation.
The one thing both MS and Apple have over we Linux people is the time and energy they put into development tools for the masses. MSDN is an excellent resource, despite being full of BS half the time. Apple has huge documents outlining usability and great dev tools in many cases. Visual Studio is unmatched on Linux (yes, I've used the Linux IDEs).
... they work wonderfully. That said, my boss loves clicking "build and run" on VS.
I love flexibility, but if we want developers (like my boss), we need to entice them with "cool" development platforms.
I love Makefiles and gcc
Someone moderate parent up.
I was thinking myself earlier how much the whole "cost" issue reminded me of a rant somewhere (Perens maybe?) about the costs of using proprietary software.
... we live and learn.
Oh well
I'd like to point out that while I'm in favor of the spirit of "don't ride on my coat tails" I must actually disagree in practice.
Everything we do is based on things we learned from others. If you didn't ride the coat tails of those who invented calculus and higher math, or those who invented the wheel (as is often stated), where would you be today?
It is perhaps dishonest to take someone else's product, make your own identical version and then sell it as your own idea, but that's not what's happening either. AFAICT, major car manufacturers do it all the time -- "hey, people like a longer wheel base from company x, lets make a longer wheel base car for our own customers".
Larry has my sympathies when it comes to trying to make a living off being smart at algorithms vs. having made a physical product to sell, but by virtue of how ideas allow societies to evolve, they must remain basically available for all to use.
He has pointed out many times before that he hacked the SMB protocol entire over the wire, without using any reverse engineering of other companies' binaries. I'd suspect the same is true of BK.
I prefer Monster's special "designed for the PS2" optical audio cable at around $75 (CAN) -- perhaps $50 US last time I saw it in a store.
I bought my Belkin optical audio cables for under $10 each.
It would be simple enough to leave a "Please click here to reboot" on the screen of the PC. Alternatively, some explanation of the fact that the computer is not in fact busy and you're free to use it as you wish would work.
Of course, replacing the computers with Linux boxes with background processes set to idle would make more sense.
I'm pretty sure most governments would (and do) put out good money to purchase software that would help them enforce the law.
This is an example, to my way of thinking, of the non-evil Microsoft. There are ways in which Microsoft does in fact do good in the world, and this is one of them.
I love how the parent (my post) was moderated flamebait twice but provoked only insightful replies. Please consider how people will respond to a post before moderating.
Besides, my karma's still excellent anyway.
I'd moderate your reply "informative" and/or "insightful" if I hadn't posted to this thread already.
Because the USA has pretty piss poor programming education compared to some other countries in the world?
No, what MAPS is doing is publishing a list of streets that contaminated food was found on.
We all know it publishes *lists* of *streets*, if we want to be picky, we'll have to do our own research. If we just want to avoid entire regions where one bad apple has happened, we'll use their list.
They're very verbose about the fact that you're taking matters into your own hands by using their lists.
Tom's Hardware has a review of the multi-core Intel chips and specifically states a low benefit for non-supporting applications; like most games.
I don't care how secure you think BIND 9 is -- I care that I can use dnscache and its logic is much more sound in how it handles reference data than BIND is. Proof is in the recent cache poisonings.
DNSSEC is a non-starter by the way, if you think that actually contributes to BIND 9's superiority -- until root servers have encryption, it won't matter. That said, there are much better ways to secure DNS data -- like encrypted links to said DNS servers with proven technologies; IPSec comes to mind.
Waiting for heat resistent DVD-3 to be released is yet another reason for the delay of Windows 2012 ;-).
90% of the word processing market tapped by the paid market research agencies use MS Word, perhaps.
Most of the scientific and research communities which are not on such lists are using TeX or something similar.
I've met many groups that have moved to Word from something else only to be sorely disappointed with its abilities -- Word *sucks* at large document management, sorry to say.
PS, if you're a techie and you managed to make Word handle your 300MB manual, good for you -- you don't count.
Also, if you're a believer and you think Word *can* do these things because your $1000 course told you it can, but you haven't done it yourself, then your opinion's pretty invalid as well.
Opportunistic encryption (ipsec) enabled for all root DNS servers would be a nice start. Published keys, etc.
At least then we'd know the root data was from the roots.
Running dnscache which is much more intelligent about how it handles cacheable data than BIND is high on my recommendations list.
I remember going to France, travelling from there (as a canadian citizen) into Switzerland, Italy and Monaco all without the need for my passport to be shown.
Often the border gate post was uninhabited and we simply drove through.
Although the US-Canada border is huge, I believe it is now undefended mostly because of our shared history and values where we are connected (northern states vis-a-vis Canada) and the sheer cost of putting up a fence that long.