Can we get beyond the "If filesharing continues media will die!" arguement? It is wrong on so many fronts.
First of all, it's done. Filesharing is here to stay. There is no better example of wack-a-mole. You get rid of Napster, Kazaa, and Suprnova, but there are still more networks than I care to type that are healthy. It is -not- going away through litigation. Period. Sorry RIAA.
Despite this fact the music industry is still alive! 10 years since Napster and I haven't seen any Atlantic executive begging for change on a street corner! The members of Metallica still own mansions! Go figure! Your apocalyptic claims are simply unfounded.
Even if by some miracle every brick and mortar record/movie store ceased to exist, art still would exist. Are you familiar with the concept of an art college? I live in a city with a major one. The running joke is "I went to smart school, not art school" because you will not make money with a degree in fine arts. Sure, you can show your stuff at a gallery, someone may buy a few paintings, but you will also work in a coffee shop or some other lousy day job. Oddly enough, it doesn't deter people! People enjoy making art! Films would still exist. I think they may actually be better without someone who's sole concern is money overseeing their production. Example: I think Ze Frank's year long show was superior to The Daily Show at it's own game of leftist political comedy. No money involved. Good thing no one told him his fish was dead.
I'd say it's because DD-WRT has a nice GUI and is easy to configure... OpenWRT, not so much.
I use a wireless router as a repeater, and upon searching for which firmware version I would like to use, I found that:
DD-WRT you click repeater, set the SSID of the source network, the SSID of the new repeater network, and assign it a WPA password. Done. Happy point and click. (source: I did it.)
The OpenWRT was doable, but would certainly take more than the 30 seconds I needed to setup, then forget, the DD-WRT firmware that I went with. I think this story is an advertisement because they are losing a popularity contest with DD-WRT. And yes, you can telnet into the DD-WRT and edit the files manually as well if that's your thing.
I'd say PDF is a bit more prolific. Pirate bay agrees with me. Kindle supports PDF by emailing the file to yourself, then having the Kindle convert it, which costs money. Seriously? Costs money to convert a file? No thanks.
This may be flame bait, but does anyone else really not care about this DRM laden device? I feel like people here generally agree that the DMCA, DRM, RIAA, and a lot of other acronyms are bad, however, the Kindle seems to break the rules and suddenly be cool? When someone jailbreaks it and allows the use of admittedly nice looking display without being tied to Amazon's DRM I will be interested. Until then, stop, please.
It took me a week to get to work with my hardware (which is ironic saying that it described itself as plug and play), and nothing would compile without pulling my hair out. But man, nothing beat it!
Come on slashdot readers, you are letting me down! Where is the beaten to a dead horse tag on a story that is OBVIOUSLY causation. I propose we rectify this and tag it up, stat!
Thank you! I'm glad someone else saw that. I'm pretty sure an overdose of caffeine is causation for paranoia and hallucinations. I think a better argumentative tag would have been "obviousscience."
With my experience in the academic setting, Ritalin faded from popularity in the late 90s and was replaced pretty much entirely by Adderall for studying. I don't know why it wouldn't be the same here. Are they by chance just grouping all ADD medications and calling them Ritalin?
call me crazy, but couldn't you just call on a function that calculates pi to the next digit(s) whenever a random number is required? Pretty simple and random.
Scientist have come out with a smaller, more portable version of the hug vest. It is a collar that slips over your arm and just gives your bicept a little hug. It has the added benefit of telling you your blood pressure afterwords. Perfect for the high anxiety market. Groundbreaking inventions here!
Use a french keyboard. All those characters except the + are without shift here. Period uses a shift though, and q/a are transposed. Can't with them all though.
Apparently napster are frenchphobic. After installing succesfully it tells me upon launching that napster lite can not run in my country. This makes little sense. First I assumed it was for legal purposes but last I checked the RIAA was an American organization. Bizarre
Tada, three lines and it plays, I bet that java applet uses more than that.
Does 4 years later consititute a dupe?;)
Lipreading is a myth, as is this code working.
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I have taken many years of ASL classes and am pretty involved with Deaf culture; one of the biggest myths about it is peoples ability to read lips.
The idea most people have of lipreaders, like in the movie See No Evil Hear No Evil (Richard Pryor Gene Wilder comedy) or the Seinfeld lipreader episode just really isn't possible. Many sounds such as "t" and "d" look the exact same, and many such as "k" and "g" are not visible at all. The best lipreaders really can only get 2/3 of what is being said, (if they are entirely Deaf, which many Deaf people are not, if your hearing loss is not total it can be far more efective) and that is with the person speaking slowly, facing them, and human intuition (context). Throw in facial contortions, (like yelling... "they can't hear me so if I yell it will help") low light, bad angle, fast talking, etc. and the accuracy drops dramatically.
Computers lack the ability to figure out what word is being said based on context when the lips don't provide adequate information. They are also historically terribly poor at things like complex image recognition. Registration script busting is based on what? Image recognition with noise in the image (i.e. type the word that appears in the next form box) and no one has even come close to a functional computer ASL interpreter and ASL is far easier to disguish visibly than speech.
I don't see that 40% word error rate it is currently having being able to improve much at all, and I'm guessing the video feed that's off of isn't anything like fullspeed nonexagerated human speech.
Your fears of the video cameras on the streets logging your conversations are pretty unfounded;)
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Can we get beyond the "If filesharing continues media will die!" arguement? It is wrong on so many fronts.
First of all, it's done. Filesharing is here to stay. There is no better example of wack-a-mole. You get rid of Napster, Kazaa, and Suprnova, but there are still more networks than I care to type that are healthy. It is -not- going away through litigation. Period. Sorry RIAA.
Despite this fact the music industry is still alive! 10 years since Napster and I haven't seen any Atlantic executive begging for change on a street corner! The members of Metallica still own mansions! Go figure! Your apocalyptic claims are simply unfounded.
Even if by some miracle every brick and mortar record/movie store ceased to exist, art still would exist. Are you familiar with the concept of an art college? I live in a city with a major one. The running joke is "I went to smart school, not art school" because you will not make money with a degree in fine arts. Sure, you can show your stuff at a gallery, someone may buy a few paintings, but you will also work in a coffee shop or some other lousy day job. Oddly enough, it doesn't deter people! People enjoy making art! Films would still exist. I think they may actually be better without someone who's sole concern is money overseeing their production. Example: I think Ze Frank's year long show was superior to The Daily Show at it's own game of leftist political comedy. No money involved. Good thing no one told him his fish was dead.
I'd say it's because DD-WRT has a nice GUI and is easy to configure... OpenWRT, not so much.
/etc/config/network and /etc/config/wireless, adding about 20 lines to each file. (source: http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=53924 )
I use a wireless router as a repeater, and upon searching for which firmware version I would like to use, I found that:
DD-WRT you click repeater, set the SSID of the source network, the SSID of the new repeater network, and assign it a WPA password. Done. Happy point and click. (source: I did it.)
OpenWRT I found that you have to edit the
The OpenWRT was doable, but would certainly take more than the 30 seconds I needed to setup, then forget, the DD-WRT firmware that I went with. I think this story is an advertisement because they are losing a popularity contest with DD-WRT. And yes, you can telnet into the DD-WRT and edit the files manually as well if that's your thing.
I'd say PDF is a bit more prolific. Pirate bay agrees with me. Kindle supports PDF by emailing the file to yourself, then having the Kindle convert it, which costs money. Seriously? Costs money to convert a file? No thanks.
This may be flame bait, but does anyone else really not care about this DRM laden device? I feel like people here generally agree that the DMCA, DRM, RIAA, and a lot of other acronyms are bad, however, the Kindle seems to break the rules and suddenly be cool? When someone jailbreaks it and allows the use of admittedly nice looking display without being tied to Amazon's DRM I will be interested. Until then, stop, please.
It took me a week to get to work with my hardware (which is ironic saying that it described itself as plug and play), and nothing would compile without pulling my hair out. But man, nothing beat it!
Come on slashdot readers, you are letting me down! Where is the beaten to a dead horse tag on a story that is OBVIOUSLY causation. I propose we rectify this and tag it up, stat!
A story about a game that isn't on The Pirate Bay. I'm disappointed in someone, just not sure who yet.
Thank you! I'm glad someone else saw that. I'm pretty sure an overdose of caffeine is causation for paranoia and hallucinations. I think a better argumentative tag would have been "obviousscience."
I think they tried that in the 80s. the result has been impossible to get of. I think they scrapped the project with the help of a "Shredder"
With my experience in the academic setting, Ritalin faded from popularity in the late 90s and was replaced pretty much entirely by Adderall for studying. I don't know why it wouldn't be the same here. Are they by chance just grouping all ADD medications and calling them Ritalin?
I'm just waiting until I get mine!
call me crazy, but couldn't you just call on a function that calculates pi to the next digit(s) whenever a random number is required? Pretty simple and random.
Scientist have come out with a smaller, more portable version of the hug vest. It is a collar that slips over your arm and just gives your bicept a little hug. It has the added benefit of telling you your blood pressure afterwords. Perfect for the high anxiety market. Groundbreaking inventions here!
nutritional yeast contains rediculous amounts of B12 and makes a pretty good cheesy sauce imitation.
Use a french keyboard. All those characters except the + are without shift here. Period uses a shift though, and q/a are transposed. Can't with them all though.
"according to Nintendo's measurement about the weight of 80 paper clips."
Yes, yes, but what is that in sticks of gum?
Apparently napster are frenchphobic. After installing succesfully it tells me upon launching that napster lite can not run in my country. This makes little sense. First I assumed it was for legal purposes but last I checked the RIAA was an American organization. Bizarre
Actually I still had it in a file from the last time this story was posted and there was the "let's post code for better players" war.
wget http://www.asciimation.co.nz/SwPlay.jar
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unzip -j swplay.jar data/sw1.txt
perl -pe 'if(/^(\d+)\s*$/){select undef,undef,undef,$1/15;$_="\e[H\e[J"}' sw1.txt
Tada, three lines and it plays, I bet that java applet uses more than that.
Does 4 years later consititute a dupe?
I have taken many years of ASL classes and am pretty involved with Deaf culture; one of the biggest myths about it is peoples ability to read lips.
;)
The idea most people have of lipreaders, like in the movie See No Evil Hear No Evil (Richard Pryor Gene Wilder comedy) or the Seinfeld lipreader episode just really isn't possible. Many sounds such as "t" and "d" look the exact same, and many such as "k" and "g" are not visible at all. The best lipreaders really can only get 2/3 of what is being said, (if they are entirely Deaf, which many Deaf people are not, if your hearing loss is not total it can be far more efective) and that is with the person speaking slowly, facing them, and human intuition (context). Throw in facial contortions, (like yelling... "they can't hear me so if I yell it will help") low light, bad angle, fast talking, etc. and the accuracy drops dramatically.
Computers lack the ability to figure out what word is being said based on context when the lips don't provide adequate information. They are also historically terribly poor at things like complex image recognition. Registration script busting is based on what? Image recognition with noise in the image (i.e. type the word that appears in the next form box) and no one has even come close to a functional computer ASL interpreter and ASL is far easier to disguish visibly than speech.
I don't see that 40% word error rate it is currently having being able to improve much at all, and I'm guessing the video feed that's off of isn't anything like fullspeed nonexagerated human speech.
Your fears of the video cameras on the streets logging your conversations are pretty unfounded