They repeat the same erroneous statement "... a standard DRM is not as secure as a proprietary one..." Stupidity #1: security through obscurity.
The next stupidity is the assumption that I want to [watch movies|listen to music] on my cellphone. Until my phone becomes a general purpose PDA, I want to do one thing only on my phone - communicate.
The third stupidity is the assumption that, given that I want to "experience content" on my phone/PDA, that I am willing to pay over and over again to do so. DiVX died, get over it. I've paid for it, it's on my damn PDA, I want to enjoy it over and over again.
Oh well - their "proprietary" DRM will be like unto the cheese of the Swiss, and the righteous will properly manage their rights.
Good to see that SGI is still retaining some idea of what makes them great - I look at my little Indy, and when it was built, and wonder what would have happened if they had kept it up.
OT - does anybody know of a Irix UG near Wichita, KS?
Do you have any idea how many PEOPLE there are in the all the Universe of space AND TIME? Do you have any idea how many languages I've had to learn? Do you think it's EASY sorting all those names in interstellar Unicode? Thinking up insults? Tracking these people down?
Sheesh, I'm busier than Zaphod Beeblebrox banging Exotica Gallumbits. (why do you think he grew that extra arm?)
I just thought - what do the actors who's delivery is being altered by this think? Since I know of at least one SAG member who reads this board regularly, maybe we can get some insight what the pros think?
Don't look at this as being "another commercial" - look at it as "overclocking your TV" - just think, that's thirty seconds less time per show you have to watch, just by skipping over it with your Tivo.
Heck, I've often wanted the ability to do just this - compress a TV show I want to see so as to be better able to fit it into my time.
Now, if we could just compress the time wasted by laugh tracks....
A spokesmen for the "Drug Dealers of America" released new guidelines for turf wars.
Spokesman Easy-Q said:
<sniff>Yo - see, we be sayin' now that it's not good to be cappin' norms. So, like, we be having a rule that we won't be doin' drive-bys 'cept on <racial slur deleted> what be causin' us problems. Norm's don' like getting capped, and we be down wit dat.
Does this announcement fill you with any more confidence that the DMA?
In fact, there is a large difference between the DMA and drug dealers - as a general rule, if you tell them you aren't interested in their wares, drug dealers will lose interest and leave you alone.
If these people are sensitive to microwave radiation, how do they handle the microwave emmission created BY THEIR OWN BODY HEAT?
I was at the Very Large Array in Socorro, NM, and they had a display with a microwave receiver that reacted to the heat given off by a human body.
Tell you what: Let's let all these people congrigate in the same area, then nuke the site from orbit. The resulting rise in the average intellegance of the human race will be most dramatic.
First, do you really want to trust any article that uses the term "Megabites" prominently in the headline?
Second, do you REALLY want the US goverment to provide you with Internet service? Consider: in the 1970's the US goverment decided that 55MPH was the law. Since they owned the funds to pay for the roads, their word was law. I always wondered what would have happened if a rich state had said "FUCK OFF! I CAN'T DRIVE 55!" and kept the limits, and accepted the loss of the federal highway funds.
Do you really want the US government to be able to say "No Naptser, No Porn, and DAMN SURE NO.ISO's!"
What I wouldn't mind would be something along the lines of the REA from the early 1900's. The government provided low-interest guaranteed loans to businesses to provide electrical power to rural areas. The catch - YOU WILL PAY THIS LOAN BACK! No Chapter 11, no Chapter 13. Fail to pay it back, and we nationalize your company.
EVERY REA COMPANY PAID ITS LOANS BACK AHEAD OF SCHEDULE.
A concrete example (for the blockheads out there;):
A friend of mine lives in a small town. The cable TV company there is also a phone company (but not in that town), and they don't do DOCSIS, they do DSL (great for me - they are MY telephone company). So cable modems are right out.
The phone company in his town is Sprint. They aren't interested in DSL, they want to do wireless and they aren't ready to deploy that in his town. So, right now he has 2 phone lines and runs bonded PPP to get a measly 112kbps.
He's a networking guy - he could set up his own ISP and run DSL if he could get the seed money to do so. What if he could get a RNA (Rural 'Netification Act) loan to do so?
There is a good reason you put 20+ bugs on the aircraft.
You know the Chinese will inspect the aircraft with a fine tooth comb - they aren't stupid. So, one of two possible outcomes:
They find no bugs. Then they get really suspicious, since they know we've bugged the plane
The find some <N> bugs, and cannot find any more. Now, they have to assess whether their "N" bugs is large enough they can conclude they've found them all.
So the trick is to plant N+M bugs, making sure that they are all so difficult to find that the Chinese are likely to only find N+X bugs, where X<M.
As for the issues of spying - EVERYBODY SPYS ON EVERYBODY ELSE. That's how the game is played. You don't get pissed when you get fragged on "the hill" when you are playing King of the Hill (unless you are a complete lamer), and you don't get pissed when you find you are being spyed on by another contry. However, you DO make political hay of the event - that's part of the game as well.
If we DIDN'T spy on everyone else, if we DIDN'T bitch when we caught them spying on us, then the rest of the world would point at us and make "googley" circles around their temples.
Olympic web designer's viewpoint:
The site can be viewed with Internet Explorer? Good. The site can ONLY be viewed with Internet Explorer? Who cares - see 1)
My viewpoint:
The site can only be viewed with Internet Explorer? Who cares- I don't give a fetid rodent's rectal tissue about the Olympics.
Since the Olymics has degenerated into a professional athlete hawking commercial interests adfest rather than a celebration of what people can do, I've lost interest. Does it suprise anyone that they cannot make a good web site?
BSA sends me "the letter"
My response is the shortest English sentance, consisting of a verb (vulgar) and a direct object.
The show up with federal marshals and a warrent.
Question: cannot I counter-subpoena, requesting the name of the individual(s) that asserted I have pirated software, for the purposes of filing a "defamation of character" or "bearing false witness" suit?
If I do so, and they refuse, what then?
If they say "sorry, anonymous tip", can I then hold them accountable?
How can they get a warrent in a situation like that?
Can I bill them for time lost?
This all assumes that I am dead legal in all things - presume I am 100% Free Software.
You don't want to use both sides of the motherboard - it makes production a nightmare.
Consider a single sided board:
Solder screening deposits solder paste on board
Pick and Place machines place the parts on the board. They are held in place by the surface tension of the solder paste.
IR reflow melts the solder. Any misalignment of a part is handled by the surface tension of the liquid solder.
Board cools.
Smoke test.
Ship it.
Now, consider a two sided board:
Screen solder on backside.
Pick and place parts, using small daubs of glue to hold the parts on the board (surface tension won't hold a part against gravity).
IR reflow backside. Because parts are not free-floating, any misalignment stays.
Flip board over.
Screen solder on top of board
Pick and Place parts.
IR reflow. Solder on bottom of board melts too, hence the glue.
Smoke test.
Swear, since the parts on the bottom of board are out of alignment and board doesn't work.
They mention using navigation software and GPS. This pretty much leaves Linux out unless there is a good navigation package for Linux of which I am unaware (and I've looked long and hard, beleive me).
The closest I've been able to come is using older versions of Delorme's MapNGo under Wine, but that is still rather twitchy.
I've pestered Delorme to make a port, but they don't seem interested.
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Of course BSD doesn't have this problem: the tree is maintained by a very small number of groups, all of whom are in close communications with each other, so they keep their dependancies well groomed.
Same thing with Debian: small number of groups creating packages, therefor the dependancies are well maintained.
Now, RPM is used by a very LARGE number of groups, many of whom are not even aware of each other's existance. Furthur, some of those groups are very sloppy about the dependancy data they add to their packages (my favorite: I want version 1.2.3-pl5-v4-x_i686_mmx_with_asm_x-thursday-4_31_b uild_3 of this package, and I won't accept any other version DAMMIT!).
The problem is NOT in the package format, it is in the absense of any centralized agency performing QC on the builds.
Since they are Crayola, could they bring suit against the German company? Could a lawyer in Gemany bring suit against the folks who brought suit against SuSE? Could a lawyer nominally working for SuSE bring suit on behalf of Binney&Smith?
I didn't see anybody at +3 making the analogy to the GPL vs. the BSD-like licenses.
In a sense, the GPL "punishes" freeloaders by denying them resources - "If you don't share with us, then we won't let you have a share of the pot." If you won't contribute to the shared codebase, you cannot take from the shared codebase.
Compare and contrast that to the BSD-like licenses that don't have the "Release the source" requirement - a freeloader (certainly Microsoft, possibly Transgaming, possibly Lindows) can take from the public pool, not give back, and incur no "punishment".
I used to think that RMS was a crazy, extremist bastard. Then something happened to cause me to revisit that thinking. I work professionally with a product called RtX, which is an X Windowing System server for the embedded operating system VxWorks. RtX is derived from XFree86. I've had several problems with RtX - it won't recognize certain graphics chips, it doesn't support font server use, it won't do anything but 256 pseudocolor, I cannot easily add key bindings or LEDs to the keyboard routines, and (most importantly) it won't work under the newer versions of VxWorks. None of these would be insurmountable problems if I had the source, but the folks that did the conversion of XFree into RtX (and it isn't a trivial conversion, not just./configure --with-vxworks; make ) were not compelled to release their changes by the XFree license. Result - a less than stellar server, that locks me into a buggy and feature-lacking OS (Don't say it - as soon as I have the manpower my project will be converted to Linux.)
I know I just enraged the "GPL is tyranny, BSD is freedom" crowd. But please, think about this for a moment. If you wish to continue to use the BSD license for your code, wonderful. However, any code I do off-hours will be released under the GPL, for the reasons stated above.
You are required not to TALK to that station. You can listen all you want.
So, if you hear
CQ CQ CQ de EPA0X3 You can listen to your heart's content without it ITU (International Telecommunication Union) having a problem with it (now, your local government may, but that's a different story).
Go to all of those "Click here to send somebody you love a card" sites (which are nothing but address harvesters for spam.) Put his email in.
Every time you get a spam, reply to the "Remove" address with his e-mail address.
Give him a taste of his own medicine.
Oh, and Bernie, if you are reading this - you are hearby advised not to email me (even if you are bright enough to figure out how.) If you wish to serve me papers, you may ask for my lawyer's snail mail address.
You are missing the point. The point is, neither Apple nor Sorenson wish to license the codec to anybody else, least of all a Free or Open Source software project.
Apple uses the Sorenson codec as a USP (unique selling point) of their Quicktime players. Were some other program to become able to play Sorenson files, then Quicktime would lose market share. This will not do. So Apple won't let it happen.
So, by playing the "Go ask you mother" game, neither Apple nor Sorenson incur the wroth of the FS/OSS movement, yet they accomplish their goal.
It is APPLE that is doing the strong-arming, not MS - if MS told Apple "no Sorenson for Linux", Apple would probably do it just out of spite.
At least, that is my hypothesis on the subject. I have no hard evidence, but if you go to the Xanim web page, and read what he has to say....
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They repeat the same erroneous statement "... a standard DRM is not as secure as a proprietary one..." Stupidity #1: security through obscurity.
The next stupidity is the assumption that I want to [watch movies|listen to music] on my cellphone. Until my phone becomes a general purpose PDA, I want to do one thing only on my phone - communicate.
The third stupidity is the assumption that, given that I want to "experience content" on my phone/PDA, that I am willing to pay over and over again to do so. DiVX died, get over it. I've paid for it, it's on my damn PDA, I want to enjoy it over and over again.
Oh well - their "proprietary" DRM will be like unto the cheese of the Swiss, and the righteous will properly manage their rights.
Anybody have a link to those commerials online?
I've not seen them, just "The Heist".
Good to see that SGI is still retaining some idea of what makes them great - I look at my little Indy, and when it was built, and wonder what would have happened if they had kept it up.
OT - does anybody know of a Irix UG near Wichita, KS?
Do you have any idea how many PEOPLE there are in the all the Universe of space AND TIME? Do you have any idea how many languages I've had to learn? Do you think it's EASY sorting all those names in interstellar Unicode? Thinking up insults? Tracking these people down?
Sheesh, I'm busier than Zaphod Beeblebrox banging Exotica Gallumbits. (why do you think he grew that extra arm?)
I just thought - what do the actors who's delivery is being altered by this think? Since I know of at least one SAG member who reads this board regularly, maybe we can get some insight what the pros think?
Don't look at this as being "another commercial" - look at it as "overclocking your TV" - just think, that's thirty seconds less time per show you have to watch, just by skipping over it with your Tivo.
Heck, I've often wanted the ability to do just this - compress a TV show I want to see so as to be better able to fit it into my time.
Now, if we could just compress the time wasted by laugh tracks....
Spokesman Easy-Q said:
Does this announcement fill you with any more confidence that the DMA?
In fact, there is a large difference between the DMA and drug dealers - as a general rule, if you tell them you aren't interested in their wares, drug dealers will lose interest and leave you alone.
Yamhill is a name only a marketroid could love, but "Hammer" isn't exactly a a good name either:
Hey George, how's your Hammer hanging? All the time, stupid AMD!
Hey George, can't get a good frame rate? Get a bigger Hammer!
If these people are sensitive to microwave radiation, how do they handle the microwave emmission created BY THEIR OWN BODY HEAT?
I was at the Very Large Array in Socorro, NM, and they had a display with a microwave receiver that reacted to the heat given off by a human body.
Tell you what: Let's let all these people congrigate in the same area, then nuke the site from orbit. The resulting rise in the average intellegance of the human race will be most dramatic.
Now we'll have a bunch of morons driving around writing "Prist Frost" and linking to a certain Christmas Islands domain.... Wonderful.
First, do you really want to trust any article that uses the term "Megabites" prominently in the headline?
.ISO's!"
;):
Second, do you REALLY want the US goverment to provide you with Internet service? Consider: in the 1970's the US goverment decided that 55MPH was the law. Since they owned the funds to pay for the roads, their word was law. I always wondered what would have happened if a rich state had said "FUCK OFF! I CAN'T DRIVE 55!" and kept the limits, and accepted the loss of the federal highway funds.
Do you really want the US government to be able to say "No Naptser, No Porn, and DAMN SURE NO
What I wouldn't mind would be something along the lines of the REA from the early 1900's. The government provided low-interest guaranteed loans to businesses to provide electrical power to rural areas. The catch - YOU WILL PAY THIS LOAN BACK! No Chapter 11, no Chapter 13. Fail to pay it back, and we nationalize your company.
EVERY REA COMPANY PAID ITS LOANS BACK AHEAD OF SCHEDULE.
A concrete example (for the blockheads out there
A friend of mine lives in a small town. The cable TV company there is also a phone company (but not in that town), and they don't do DOCSIS, they do DSL (great for me - they are MY telephone company). So cable modems are right out.
The phone company in his town is Sprint. They aren't interested in DSL, they want to do wireless and they aren't ready to deploy that in his town. So, right now he has 2 phone lines and runs bonded PPP to get a measly 112kbps.
He's a networking guy - he could set up his own ISP and run DSL if he could get the seed money to do so. What if he could get a RNA (Rural 'Netification Act) loan to do so?
There is a good reason you put 20+ bugs on the aircraft.
You know the Chinese will inspect the aircraft with a fine tooth comb - they aren't stupid. So, one of two possible outcomes:
So the trick is to plant N+M bugs, making sure that they are all so difficult to find that the Chinese are likely to only find N+X bugs, where X<M.
As for the issues of spying - EVERYBODY SPYS ON EVERYBODY ELSE. That's how the game is played. You don't get pissed when you get fragged on "the hill" when you are playing King of the Hill (unless you are a complete lamer), and you don't get pissed when you find you are being spyed on by another contry. However, you DO make political hay of the event - that's part of the game as well.
If we DIDN'T spy on everyone else, if we DIDN'T bitch when we caught them spying on us, then the rest of the world would point at us and make "googley" circles around their temples.
If you maintain different kernels, people say "OHMYGOD we are forking we will all DIE"
If you roll changes into a kernel and make it unstable, people say "OHMYGOD production kernel's not stable we will all DIE"
RTFA and lighten up. The patches are being considered for 2.5. They haven't been ruled out.
Olympic web designer's viewpoint:
The site can be viewed with Internet Explorer? Good. The site can ONLY be viewed with Internet Explorer? Who cares - see 1)
My viewpoint:
The site can only be viewed with Internet Explorer? Who cares- I don't give a fetid rodent's rectal tissue about the Olympics.
Since the Olymics has degenerated into a professional athlete hawking commercial interests adfest rather than a celebration of what people can do, I've lost interest. Does it suprise anyone that they cannot make a good web site?
BSA sends me "the letter"
My response is the shortest English sentance, consisting of a verb (vulgar) and a direct object.
The show up with federal marshals and a warrent.
Question: cannot I counter-subpoena, requesting the name of the individual(s) that asserted I have pirated software, for the purposes of filing a "defamation of character" or "bearing false witness" suit?
If I do so, and they refuse, what then?
If they say "sorry, anonymous tip", can I then hold them accountable?
How can they get a warrent in a situation like that?
Can I bill them for time lost?
This all assumes that I am dead legal in all things - presume I am 100% Free Software.
You don't want to use both sides of the motherboard - it makes production a nightmare.
Consider a single sided board:
Solder screening deposits solder paste on board
Pick and Place machines place the parts on the board. They are held in place by the surface tension of the solder paste.
IR reflow melts the solder. Any misalignment of a part is handled by the surface tension of the liquid solder.
Board cools.
Smoke test.
Ship it.
Now, consider a two sided board:
Screen solder on backside.
Pick and place parts, using small daubs of glue to hold the parts on the board (surface tension won't hold a part against gravity).
IR reflow backside. Because parts are not free-floating, any misalignment stays.
Flip board over.
Screen solder on top of board
Pick and Place parts.
IR reflow. Solder on bottom of board melts too, hence the glue.
Smoke test.
Swear, since the parts on the bottom of board are out of alignment and board doesn't work.
They mention using navigation software and GPS. This pretty much leaves Linux out unless there is a good navigation package for Linux of which I am unaware (and I've looked long and hard, beleive me).
The closest I've been able to come is using older versions of Delorme's MapNGo under Wine, but that is still rather twitchy.
I've pestered Delorme to make a port, but they don't seem interested.
Of course BSD doesn't have this problem: the tree is maintained by a very small number of groups, all of whom are in close communications with each other, so they keep their dependancies well groomed.
b uild_3 of this package, and I won't accept any other version DAMMIT!).
Same thing with Debian: small number of groups creating packages, therefor the dependancies are well maintained.
Now, RPM is used by a very LARGE number of groups, many of whom are not even aware of each other's existance. Furthur, some of those groups are very sloppy about the dependancy data they add to their packages (my favorite: I want version 1.2.3-pl5-v4-x_i686_mmx_with_asm_x-thursday-4_31_
The problem is NOT in the package format, it is in the absense of any centralized agency performing QC on the builds.
Since they are Crayola, could they bring suit against the German company? Could a lawyer in Gemany bring suit against the folks who brought suit against SuSE? Could a lawyer nominally working for SuSE bring suit on behalf of Binney&Smith?
(including the words "Five words")
./configure --with-vxworks; make ) were not compelled to release their changes by the XFree license. Result - a less than stellar server, that locks me into a buggy and feature-lacking OS (Don't say it - as soon as I have the manpower my project will be converted to Linux.)
I didn't see anybody at +3 making the analogy to the GPL vs. the BSD-like licenses.
In a sense, the GPL "punishes" freeloaders by denying them resources - "If you don't share with us, then we won't let you have a share of the pot." If you won't contribute to the shared codebase, you cannot take from the shared codebase.
Compare and contrast that to the BSD-like licenses that don't have the "Release the source" requirement - a freeloader (certainly Microsoft, possibly Transgaming, possibly Lindows) can take from the public pool, not give back, and incur no "punishment".
I used to think that RMS was a crazy, extremist bastard. Then something happened to cause me to revisit that thinking. I work professionally with a product called RtX, which is an X Windowing System server for the embedded operating system VxWorks. RtX is derived from XFree86. I've had several problems with RtX - it won't recognize certain graphics chips, it doesn't support font server use, it won't do anything but 256 pseudocolor, I cannot easily add key bindings or LEDs to the keyboard routines, and (most importantly) it won't work under the newer versions of VxWorks. None of these would be insurmountable problems if I had the source, but the folks that did the conversion of XFree into RtX (and it isn't a trivial conversion, not just
I know I just enraged the "GPL is tyranny, BSD is freedom" crowd. But please, think about this for a moment. If you wish to continue to use the BSD license for your code, wonderful. However, any code I do off-hours will be released under the GPL, for the reasons stated above.
Assuming they catch you, they can order the revocation of your license.
BZZT! Wrong.
You are required not to TALK to that station. You can listen all you want.
So, if you hear
CQ CQ CQ de EPA0X3
You can listen to your heart's content without it ITU (International Telecommunication Union) having a problem with it (now, your local government may, but that's a different story).
However, if you reply, then you are in trouble.
OK, and why did you feel the need for this "tape wire"?
Go to all of those "Click here to send somebody you love a card" sites (which are nothing but address harvesters for spam.) Put his email in.
Every time you get a spam, reply to the "Remove" address with his e-mail address.
Give him a taste of his own medicine.
Oh, and Bernie, if you are reading this - you are hearby advised not to email me (even if you are bright enough to figure out how.) If you wish to serve me papers, you may ask for my lawyer's snail mail address.
You are missing the point. The point is, neither Apple nor Sorenson wish to license the codec to anybody else, least of all a Free or Open Source software project.
Apple uses the Sorenson codec as a USP (unique selling point) of their Quicktime players. Were some other program to become able to play Sorenson files, then Quicktime would lose market share. This will not do. So Apple won't let it happen.
So, by playing the "Go ask you mother" game, neither Apple nor Sorenson incur the wroth of the FS/OSS movement, yet they accomplish their goal.
It is APPLE that is doing the strong-arming, not MS - if MS told Apple "no Sorenson for Linux", Apple would probably do it just out of spite.
At least, that is my hypothesis on the subject. I have no hard evidence, but if you go to the Xanim web page, and read what he has to say....