I don't think there is anyone specifically working on this yet, but I'd like to see it.
I downloaded Paint.NET a few days ago to see what it would take to convert it to run on GTK# with mono (much the same way the MonoDevelop guys ported SharpDevelop). The first issue I hit was that it seems to be tightly bound to Ink (the TabletPC SDK). Nonetheless, I plan to do some more experimenting with it over the next few days. If anyone else is working on this, I'd really like to hear from them.
The interesting thing in your point about sweeping for bugs is that now the general community of "people with things to hide" (who would sweep for bugs) also know that they need a kill switch for the services that come with their car. The general populace won't be doing that though, so they're the ones who will be susceptible to this new lower common denominator type of spying.
Actually, if everyone followed this logic, we would live in a world with a quality of life that is much lower than that which we have now. It is difficult to imagine that many of the industries that are profitable today would be so if they had to build their business model around the prices of even a few years ago. An example that immediately comes to mind is the decreased cost of higher bandwidth in people's homes. Almost no one would have broadband if they had to pay as much for T1 downloads as they would have in 1996. Much of microeconomics is focused on the study of the decreased cost of inputs into a product over time.
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It is well known that the console makers are trying to position their next gen consoles as, in essence, the household "computer/internet" box. The makers such as Sony, Nintendo, et. all have come right out and stated exactly that.
Actually, Nintendo has come right out and stated exactly that they do not want to be mistaken for a set-top appliance, and that is why they opted for the Gamecube name...
What I take away from this interview, is that you did not, for whatever reason, answer this one question.
It is sad that this is all that you were able to take away from this interview. I was able to learn so much more from it, regardless of my views before or after reading his letter. I am pretty "middle-of-the-road" in this matter, but I would have to say that in view of how much was said in his interview, statements like this are representative of the closed mindedness of many of the participants on both sides of the fence, and are overall detrimental to dealing with the real issues at hand.
That being said, IMHO, the question of the artists stake in the sell of a CD was more of a lead into the real meat of chwicks' post, and likely more of a rhetorical question. Regardless, Lars' concession as to the artist's portion of the profits being low essentially answered the question, and the remainder of his response was at least as on par with the overall question, and its relevance to the matters at hand.
I believe that he only scratched the surface, but really, he stated the only possible path for Napster to continue, as a profitable entity.
Essentially, it comes down Napster as the New Radio (tm). The best way for anyone to have music on demand is a distributed file system, but ultimately, in issues of IP, the owner should get to decide the method of its distribution. Accepting this as fact, while at the same time, accepting that sharing files increases sales, and is a good avenue for smaller bands to gain noteriety, owners of IP will most likely in the future choose to release some of their titles to public distribution. In turn, they will choose to keep the rights to the rest of their titles to themselves, and distribution of which will be handled through whatever methods prevail (cd, secure mp3 download, etc.)
I believe this is the best way for Napster, et al, to flourish, with their services standing to profit from advertising, and becoming labels for their up-and-coming bands.
All in all, a good article; however, in regard to: Given that Microsoft has made the information freely available, I can't imagine what this can gain for them. I believe that a main point of this release that MC missed is that by releasing these the specs for Kerberos in this manner, they have tainted the water, in as much as they have made it near impossible for someone such as the Samba team to prove that they developed the correct methods to extend Kerberos into the same areas as MS without using MS's copyrighted, freely available, EULA protected methods.
Not only is there money to be made in all of the resources to do this filtering, but then you can turn around and sell all of the data you collected while doing the filtering. "Don't worry, the child in this family didn't hit any porn sites, but they seem to be interested in baseball and race cars." I am sure the some marketing people somewhere can find that information useful. You are 100% correct, the industry is totally behind censorship.
That's odd, I normally agree with what Katz says, but this is way off. I find his to fall precisely in line with the Luddite's view. If I use a machine to weed out what I don't need to read or use, or what its perception of what I want, then how would I ever be exposed to anything new? I don't use every new technology that comes out, but some of it is useful. I am not personally into sports, but if that were the most important thing to me, how could I depend her to bring me my news when I want it. It may not be a question of if I need to see the scores a half hour earlier, but rather a question of if I want to see them earlier. We can't sacrifice our freedom of choice and speech for the momentary convenience of not having to filter through information ourselves.
Worse, how do I know that Clotho.org isn't out to serve her own pupose? On the radical end, she could filter out the news of the revolution, or any other views that don't coincide with the general populous, but at the very least, she probably isn't going to tell me when her competitor, Atropos.org, go online.
Realistically, I don't want a machine analyzing my fecal matter (particularly when it is likely to send the results not only to my physician, but also to telemarketers and the government), but this isn't the answer. You can't use a computer program to shield yourself from tough philosophical issues such as this, unfortunately, you have to use your mind.
They have sued sportscards manufactures, as well as Wizards of the Coast before for this same thing. Actually, nine such lawsuits so far. They have yet to when a case based on these grounds (oddly, I suspect they get paid by their clients everytime anyways, so winning or losing probably doesn't matter. It's a niche market.)
Sounds like a good idea for e-mail address...Too bad they already registered pital.com, perhaps I will go for internetc@pital.net or internetc@pital.org. Maybe then everyone will want to be my friend...
Not only is it a very valid point that most of these people would never have purchased the product, but a lot of the time, that kind of pirating eventually turns into a profit. I pulled thousands of programs off of the BBS's and from friends when I was in high school, and now I use many of those companies tools on a regular basis. And my copies are legit.
"Since each jet normally sells for $23 million, Wood said the possibility it could be bought for $700,000 was the first clue that the deal was 'too good to be true.'"
Well, obviously whoever originally arranged the commercial wasn't able to catch onto the fact that this offer was too good to be true. 7,000,000 pepsi points was meant to be a number too high to be obtainable. That was the joke, and also the reason that there was no disclaimer (that they should have put in there anyways). They obviously didn't know the value of the jet, or they wouldn't have set it that low. So, for that matter, why would the reasonable consumer be expected to know that. I don't like the idea of the guy messing with the system like that, and he probably doesn't deserve the jet, but at the same time, the courts shouldn't have the right to decide that an idiot spilling coffee on themselves and sueing is reasonable, but this is not. The whole system needs to be reworked, but in the mean time, at least use the same standards for everybody.
But with data storage space this plentiful, actually losing one of these cds would amount to losing about a penny's worth of data. Just make sure you keep backups of anything more important than a penny. Of course, you could point out that you would have to have a burner for this to hold true, but since we are speculating five to ten years down the road, let's just assume we can all afford read/writables by then.
If only that were as far as it would reach...
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I hope I am wrong, but there seems to be a large tendency for these kinds of laws to infect other countries. Canada would seem to be particularly susceptible to this.
I think our first hope would be that this law never goes into effect. In the event that it does, you need to head to the really technologically challenged third world countries, where likely this disease will spread last.
Well, at least one flaw with that argument is that (at least in a case comparing local stores here), the discounts they offer are only off of (largely) inflated costs, or on products where the lower price is offered as incentive by the manufacturer, and other stores are likely offering the same discount, without the card.
As far as drivers licenses, I only got one to drive, not as ID, record tracking, age verification, etc. Unfortunately, I have no choice but to take the good with the bad if I have to drive; however, I will leave the other points to everyone else to argue...
First, I already refuse to shop at stores that use the "discount club" tactic.
But anyways, the other day I went to pick up a bottle of Vodka, where I was asked for my ID, which didn't seem too odd in consideration of age requirements, but the next thing I know, the clerk didn't even look at it, he swiped it through his reader. So I look at the screen, and all of my personals come up. While I know I don't want people looking at my other buying habits, this would seem to be worse. The point is, for those people who say "Why should it bother you if someone else is tracking your every move unless you are planning on breaking the law?" is that I don't get to decide what is breaking the law. At least the government knows who likes to drink when they decide to make that illegal.
And by the way, this doesn't only apply to alcohol, this one of many actions that could be made illegal at the whim of the government.
(Of course, why should the government need track my drinking habits when I am stupid enough to list them on the internet myself?)
I understood the idea of that quote, but hadn't taken the time to dissect this particular situation in regard to that quote. Thanks for your explanation, (while I am sure the original questioner will not thank you), it made the situation all that much more profound.
The answer to the enduring mystery of why the hatch blew may have been in the inside-the-capsule camera that was running when Liberty Bell 7 splashed down. But the camera was found broken open and the film was ruined.
That is awfully convenient...I wonder what would have caused the camera to break like that...
I believe another point made in 1984 is that a large part of the way the system works is to insure that the Power does not change hands again. The use of mass media to keep people focused on supposed "evils" abroad, attacks by foreign nations, and the prevention of the creation of martyrs prevents the general populace from ever harboring a desire for revolution
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I don't think there is anyone specifically working on this yet, but I'd like to see it.
I downloaded Paint.NET a few days ago to see what it would take to convert it to run on GTK# with mono (much the same way the MonoDevelop guys ported SharpDevelop). The first issue I hit was that it seems to be tightly bound to Ink (the TabletPC SDK).
Nonetheless, I plan to do some more experimenting with it over the next few days. If anyone else is working on this, I'd really like to hear from them.
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Because they are not viable candidates at this point in time. They have no conceivable chance of winning.
How is Nader more viable than Badnarik? Nader is only on the ballot in 34 states vs. Badnarik's 48 states.
The interesting thing in your point about sweeping for bugs is that now the general community of "people with things to hide" (who would sweep for bugs) also know that they need a kill switch for the services that come with their car. The general populace won't be doing that though, so they're the ones who will be susceptible to this new lower common denominator type of spying.
We just need to assign everyone a guid.
Actually, if everyone followed this logic, we would live in a world with a quality of life that is much lower than that which we have now. It is difficult to imagine that many of the industries that are profitable today would be so if they had to build their business model around the prices of even a few years ago. An example that immediately comes to mind is the decreased cost of higher bandwidth in people's homes. Almost no one would have broadband if they had to pay as much for T1 downloads as they would have in 1996. Much of microeconomics is focused on the study of the decreased cost of inputs into a product over time.
It is well known that the console makers are trying to position their next gen consoles as, in essence, the household "computer/internet" box. The makers such as Sony, Nintendo, et. all have come right out and stated exactly that.
Actually, Nintendo has come right out and stated exactly that they do not want to be mistaken for a set-top appliance, and that is why they opted for the Gamecube name...
What I take away from this interview, is that you did not, for whatever reason, answer this one question.
It is sad that this is all that you were able to take away from this interview. I was able to learn so much more from it, regardless of my views before or after reading his letter. I am pretty "middle-of-the-road" in this matter, but I would have to say that in view of how much was said in his interview, statements like this are representative of the closed mindedness of many of the participants on both sides of the fence, and are overall detrimental to dealing with the real issues at hand.
That being said, IMHO, the question of the artists stake in the sell of a CD was more of a lead into the real meat of chwicks' post, and likely more of a rhetorical question. Regardless, Lars' concession as to the artist's portion of the profits being low essentially answered the question, and the remainder of his response was at least as on par with the overall question, and its relevance to the matters at hand.
I believe that he only scratched the surface, but really, he stated the only possible path for Napster to continue, as a profitable entity.
Essentially, it comes down Napster as the New Radio (tm). The best way for anyone to have music on demand is a distributed file system, but ultimately, in issues of IP, the owner should get to decide the method of its distribution. Accepting this as fact, while at the same time, accepting that sharing files increases sales, and is a good avenue for smaller bands to gain noteriety, owners of IP will most likely in the future choose to release some of their titles to public distribution. In turn, they will choose to keep the rights to the rest of their titles to themselves, and distribution of which will be handled through whatever methods prevail (cd, secure mp3 download, etc.)
I believe this is the best way for Napster, et al, to flourish, with their services standing to profit from advertising, and becoming labels for their up-and-coming bands.
All in all, a good article; however, in regard to:
Given that Microsoft has made the information freely available, I can't imagine what this can gain for them.
I believe that a main point of this release that MC missed is that by releasing these the specs for Kerberos in this manner, they have tainted the water, in as much as they have made it near impossible for someone such as the Samba team to prove that they developed the correct methods to extend Kerberos into the same areas as MS without using MS's copyrighted, freely available, EULA protected methods.
Not only is there money to be made in all of the resources to do this filtering, but then you can turn around and sell all of the data you collected while doing the filtering. "Don't worry, the child in this family didn't hit any porn sites, but they seem to be interested in baseball and race cars." I am sure the some marketing people somewhere can find that information useful. You are 100% correct, the industry is totally behind censorship.
Personally, I think a really good cause would be to further the sapce program.
That's odd, I normally agree with what Katz says, but this is way off. I find his to fall precisely in line with the Luddite's view. If I use a machine to weed out what I don't need to read or use, or what its perception of what I want, then how would I ever be exposed to anything new? I don't use every new technology that comes out, but some of it is useful. I am not personally into sports, but if that were the most important thing to me, how could I depend her to bring me my news when I want it. It may not be a question of if I need to see the scores a half hour earlier, but rather a question of if I want to see them earlier. We can't sacrifice our freedom of choice and speech for the momentary convenience of not having to filter through information ourselves.
Worse, how do I know that Clotho.org isn't out to serve her own pupose? On the radical end, she could filter out the news of the revolution, or any other views that don't coincide with the general populous, but at the very least, she probably isn't going to tell me when her competitor, Atropos.org, go online.
Realistically, I don't want a machine analyzing my fecal matter (particularly when it is likely to send the results not only to my physician, but also to telemarketers and the government), but this isn't the answer. You can't use a computer program to shield yourself from tough philosophical issues such as this, unfortunately, you have to use your mind.
They have sued sportscards manufactures, as well as Wizards of the Coast before for this same thing. Actually, nine such lawsuits so far. They have yet to when a case based on these grounds (oddly, I suspect they get paid by their clients everytime anyways, so winning or losing probably doesn't matter. It's a niche market.)
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Sounds like a good idea for e-mail address...Too bad they already registered pital.com, perhaps I will go for internetc@pital.net or internetc@pital.org.
Maybe then everyone will want to be my friend...
Not only is it a very valid point that most of these people would never have purchased the product, but a lot of the time, that kind of pirating eventually turns into a profit. I pulled thousands of programs off of the BBS's and from friends when I was in high school, and now I use many of those companies tools on a regular basis. And my copies are legit.
"Since each jet normally sells for $23 million, Wood said the possibility it could be bought for $700,000 was the first clue that the deal was 'too good to be true.'"
Well, obviously whoever originally arranged the commercial wasn't able to catch onto the fact that this offer was too good to be true. 7,000,000 pepsi points was meant to be a number too high to be obtainable. That was the joke, and also the reason that there was no disclaimer (that they should have put in there anyways). They obviously didn't know the value of the jet, or they wouldn't have set it that low. So, for that matter, why would the reasonable consumer be expected to know that. I don't like the idea of the guy messing with the system like that, and he probably doesn't deserve the jet, but at the same time, the courts shouldn't have the right to decide that an idiot spilling coffee on themselves and sueing is reasonable, but this is not. The whole system needs to be reworked, but in the mean time, at least use the same standards for everybody.
But with data storage space this plentiful, actually losing one of these cds would amount to losing about a penny's worth of data. Just make sure you keep backups of anything more important than a penny. Of course, you could point out that you would have to have a burner for this to hold true, but since we are speculating five to ten years down the road, let's just assume we can all afford read/writables by then.
I hope I am wrong, but there seems to be a large tendency for these kinds of laws to infect other countries. Canada would seem to be particularly susceptible to this.
I think our first hope would be that this law never goes into effect. In the event that it does, you need to head to the really technologically challenged third world countries, where likely this disease will spread last.
Well, at least one flaw with that argument is that (at least in a case comparing local stores here), the discounts they offer are only off of (largely) inflated costs, or on products where the lower price is offered as incentive by the manufacturer, and other stores are likely offering the same discount, without the card.
As far as drivers licenses, I only got one to drive, not as ID, record tracking, age verification, etc. Unfortunately, I have no choice but to take the good with the bad if I have to drive; however, I will leave the other points to everyone else to argue...
Hadn't considered that, (which makes me feel kind of silly). Anyways, thanks for the IDea....
[off to buy a new wallet]
First, I already refuse to shop at stores that use the "discount club" tactic.
But anyways, the other day I went to pick up a bottle of Vodka, where I was asked for my ID, which didn't seem too odd in consideration of age requirements, but the next thing I know, the clerk didn't even look at it, he swiped it through his reader. So I look at the screen, and all of my personals come up. While I know I don't want people looking at my other buying habits, this would seem to be worse. The point is, for those people who say "Why should it bother you if someone else is tracking your every move unless you are planning on breaking the law?" is that I don't get to decide what is breaking the law. At least the government knows who likes to drink when they decide to make that illegal.
And by the way, this doesn't only apply to alcohol, this one of many actions that could be made illegal at the whim of the government.
(Of course, why should the government need track my drinking habits when I am stupid enough to list them on the internet myself?)
I understood the idea of that quote, but hadn't taken the time to dissect this particular situation in regard to that quote.
Thanks for your explanation, (while I am sure the original questioner will not thank you), it made the situation all that much more profound.
The answer to the enduring mystery of why the hatch blew may have been in the inside-the-capsule camera that was running when Liberty Bell 7 splashed down. But the camera was found broken open and the film was ruined.
That is awfully convenient...I wonder what would have caused the camera to break like that...
I believe another point made in 1984 is that a large part of the way the system works is to insure that the Power does not change hands again. The use of mass media to keep people focused on supposed "evils" abroad, attacks by foreign nations, and the prevention of the creation of martyrs prevents the general populace from ever harboring a desire for revolution