Prevent heart attacks, not with drugs or diet, but with a good California Zinfandel!
Do my eyes betray me or did that actually imply taht there's a such thing as a good Californian wine, and then go further to suppose that a Zinfandel, whatever its origin, could be included in the list of "good" wines?
My eyes bleed to see such horrific lies.;)
No one is talking about a company buying up a DVD of Lord of the Rings, editting it and selling chopped copies.
We're talking about buying a thousand copies of the DVD, editting it and selling the thousand copies. No more. Peter Jackson gets his money. The MPAA get their cut. The actors get their cut. The consumer gets exactly what they paid for (an editted copy of the movie). No one, at any point, loses anything.
An example given earlier is PERFECT. If I choose to buy up a thousand copies of READERS DIGEST that's okay. If someone wants to buy those damaged READERS DIGEST issues from me, that's okay too.
Changing the media does not change the legal right to purchase, deface, and resell that media.
Ah forget it. What do I know? I'm just some moron on Slashdot.
I don't know about your Ford, but my Merkur manual suggests that I check oil, tire pressure, transmission fluid, etc before starting my car or driving it. Come to think of it, my Nissan manual has the same thing.
This is a verbatim repost of an old troll--which, I might add, was shot down point for point for point.
"No root user" is NOT the same thing as "always running as root".
Just begging for an infection vector, aren't we?
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Oh great, just what we need: a machine/program that makes it easier for us to snow crash.
I'd like to play with this a bit, and find out where it's rough edges are--especially running translated output back through, a la the Babelfish.
Then again, Australia has a long and distinguished record of being a penal colony for the British...
One thing I hate about the American educational system is the way in which we cover history. America was used more extensively by Britain as a penal dumping ground than any other Crown colony bar none. Further, Australia was barely used as a penal colony. The vast majority of colonists in Australia were neither indentured nor criminal. They chose to go.
Of course, teaching history in such a way that we don't paint ourselves as The Greatest Country In The World (Now With Extra Freedom!) (tm) would be unpatriotic.
Before anyone gets carried away, read the article. Jan van den Beld, the ECMA secretary general stated clearly that any license Microsoft were to claim would cover only Microsoft's own implementation. Quote:
"There are no known rights owned by Microsoft that would require a licensing agreement"
--Ruhk --
I love this idea. I don't know how practical it is until I have one 'in hand', so to speak but It would go a ong way to help something that's been driving me nuts for a while. It was pointed out in Dilbert as a joke, but its the absolute truth:
We have designed the modern PC for people with three hands.
This becomes most apparent when you're working in 3d apps, like Lightwave, 3d Studio, Truespace, or the like. You've got one hand working the controls, one hand on the mouse and you wish you could have a third hand on the number pad.
The other thing that drives me nuts on mice is the wheel. So my mouse maps X and Y axes to the standard motion of the mouse. Why can't I map the wheel to a Z axis? The best example of this is the Kensington TurboRing trackball. The 'wheel' is actually a ring set into the top of the trackball and indeed rotates about the Z-axis. Why don't 3d apps allow for this?
Although my opinion is obviously biased, I was disappointed that there was no mention of Free Software or some other not-for-profit projects that benefit everyone. I find that many of the corporate ties within the Free Software community are very much along the lines of Klein's notion of an ideal balance between corporations and communities.
I'm surprised that no one else has seen fit to mention the continual insistence of RMS to 'brand' Linux derivatives as 'GNU/Linux'. Even the opensource/freesoftware community is not immune.
So all the bad little Napster users that downloaded Metallica MP3s had their accounts killed. Of course this didn't fix the problem, nor did it even help remedy it.
While I don't like Napster, this isn't the way to go.
You want to stop Napster? You have to shut them down completely. Heck that won't even stop the problem: Gnutella and Hotline and every other $WAREZ_TRADING_SOFTWARE will still be out there. What needs to be addressed is the cause. I suddenly have this image (gods I'm a geek) of Leia standing in front of Grand Moff Tarkin telling him, "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more MP3s will slip through your fingers."
Something needs to be done about the reason people go after MP3s (collecting, its a counterculture/rebellion thing, they're thieves, they're fed up with the low quality of the music industry, the industry rips everyone off--artists and customers).
Banning 300K users from Napster is just like the trying to stop an avalanche. You can't do it just by standing in the way.
That was easily my favorite cartoon of that period, inching just ahead of Dungeons and Dragons.
I'm geek: my computer starts to the sound of the OrBots theme.;)
--Ruhk
...And it makes a great gift!
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My wife bought this book for me for Christmas because I had enjoyed Fermat's Enigma (also by Simon Singh) so much. On Christmas Eve the book was presented to me. 48hrs later, I had read it through.
If it hadn't been for familial obligations, I would likely have devoured it whole, at one sitting. Damn, DAMN good book.
Will they introduce new sensors to the Mindstorms product line?
Imagine, if you will, the combination of the Zowie Intertainment technology and Mindstorms Lego and new 'joint' sensors that can detect angle (in the 1d/2d hinge joints) or depth (in the case of 1d slide joints). You could roll your own Monkey2 animation armature. Being able to tell where the armature is and how its posed would be excellent for setting up 3d scenes, etc.
This is some of the coolest news I've heard yet for the Mindstorms line.
--Ruhk
Coming from the US Navy, and indeed from secured environment, I can vouch for this one.
Any machine that is classified with anything other than a pretty green sticker (UNCLAS) can't have a modem in it, period, unless that modem has integrated, automatic crypto, like the data line in a STU-II or STU-III telephone.
Regardless of what the media would have you believe, machines containing data that constitutes national security concerns, simply cannot get hacked from outside the system. To do so would require some the sort of crypto gear not available to the public.
Hrm. Then again, you can buy an entire Cobra helicopter part by part if you want... *heh* But you would still have to get the crypto keys...
This sort of thing is good news for people with seriously degrad(ed/ing) sight like me. Right now I spend nearly $400 on lenses right now before I even start looking at frames.
The technology isn't good enough for full vision replacement yet but it's only going to improve. What I'd like is 'augmentation' applications: - 360deg vision - microscope extension that can be put into a machine and get a good view of the motherboard or components - direct output from a video game or computer
Windows Millennium Edition is not based on Windows2000. It is not based in any way on the Windows2000 code base.
WinME is a direct extension of the old 9x code. It incorporates some of the UI changes made in the Win2k UI and MSDOS mode is gone. Other than that though, it is Win95 version 3.
This is ridiculous. I'm all for intellectual property, and copyright. I firmly believe in being paid for the fruit of you labor. That said, this is ridiculous. Lets look at details:
QUOTE "The National Football League... is asking for more than $5 million in damages, was particularly focused on shutting down iCraveTV this weekend, when the Super Bowl championship game will be broadcast. " UNQUOTE The fact that the Superbowl was highlighted makes me suspicious. The only reason for this, IMHO, is that they want their ratings, which don't get counted on ICraveTV's rebroadcast.
QUOTE: "...that Canada's laws give it the right to retransmit broadcast television signals, in the same way that cable companies and satellite companies do. As long as the company doesn't cut or insert its own commercials into the programming, and ultimately pays copyright holders for their work, iCraveTV's action is completely legal..." UNQUOTE
When you consider that Canadian law allows for this, so long as they pay the copyright holders, their only motivation can be the ratings.
Finally, how many people have the bandwidth for this? They aren't even touching a signifigant segment of the market. In fact, by rebroadcasting content, they are probably EXTENDING the market by getting people who ordinarily wouldn't be watching television to view the webcast
This is just a case of a small company getting slapped for daring to do something useful/cool.
Basically, there's way too many. Essentially, we should be EXPECTING publishers to make sure that they focus on Linux the same way they do on Windows, or at least nearly so. --Ruhk
What's really funny about this, is that it meshes really well with the recent story about campus life and the internet.
Let's take a reality check here: QUOTE: Napster was "hogging" 5 percent of the university's bandwidth, White said, so more than 3,500 students connecting to the Net through RCN were permanently shut off from using Napster's software. "We made the decision to block access in October before the RIAA lawsuit was filed," added Curt Pederson, vice provost for information services at Oregon State. The university has an annual budget of $75,000 for bandwidth. Based on peak Net usage statistics, the campus could have gone over budget because of Napster traffic and other non-education-related activity, Pederson said. /QUOTE IMHO, more than the RIAA, this is the real reason Napster is getting banned. This isn't about free expression or whether or not the RIAA manages to win their suit (I hope not!), it comes down to cost. As a systems and network administrator for a college, you have to balance "wants" against "needs". I WANT to be able to play network games, trade MP3s, download pr0n and the like. I NEED to make sure that there is maximum bandwidth available for the business I work for, the college. That bandwidth is primarily for the furthering of the college's purposes. Everything else comes in as a secondary consideration.
The assumption that your tuition check is the sole source of income for your university is wrong at best, and foolish at worst.
Most universities run on many revenue sources: tuition, small items sales, charity, state and federal budgetary supplemnts, private/public investments for projects, etc.
Bandwidth is expensive and, to be blunt, doesn't belong to you. It belongs to the university. They can dictate what it is used for.
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Prevent heart attacks, not with drugs or diet, but with a good California Zinfandel! Do my eyes betray me or did that actually imply taht there's a such thing as a good Californian wine, and then go further to suppose that a Zinfandel, whatever its origin, could be included in the list of "good" wines? My eyes bleed to see such horrific lies. ;)
Nah. Considering the horror that is the Linux kernel, just a few minutes of output from /dev/random should give you a fair approximation. ;)
No one is talking about a company buying up a DVD of Lord of the Rings, editting it and selling chopped copies.
We're talking about buying a thousand copies of the DVD, editting it and selling the thousand copies. No more. Peter Jackson gets his money. The MPAA get their cut. The actors get their cut. The consumer gets exactly what they paid for (an editted copy of the movie). No one, at any point, loses anything.
An example given earlier is PERFECT. If I choose to buy up a thousand copies of READERS DIGEST that's okay. If someone wants to buy those damaged READERS DIGEST issues from me, that's okay too.
Changing the media does not change the legal right to purchase, deface, and resell that media.
Ah forget it. What do I know? I'm just some moron on Slashdot.
I don't know about your Ford, but my Merkur manual suggests that I check oil, tire pressure, transmission fluid, etc before starting my car or driving it. Come to think of it, my Nissan manual has the same thing.
Interesting? Please.
This is a verbatim repost of an old troll--which, I might add, was shot down point for point for point.
"No root user" is NOT the same thing as "always running as root".
Oh great, just what we need: a machine/program that makes it easier for us to snow crash. I'd like to play with this a bit, and find out where it's rough edges are--especially running translated output back through, a la the Babelfish.
Heavy? Perhaps compared to a PalmOS device. I've been I carry a Zaurus with me everywhere, everyday, and do not find it 'heavy' in the least.
But it looks, to me, an awful lot like Qtopia, except the 'menu' button in the lower left is a lot bigger. So... what's the point?
Before anyone gets carried away, read the article. Jan van den Beld, the ECMA secretary general stated clearly that any license Microsoft were to claim would cover only Microsoft's own implementation. Quote:
"There are no known rights owned by Microsoft that would require a licensing agreement" --Ruhk
--
I love this idea. I don't know how practical it is until I have one 'in hand', so to speak but It would go a ong way to help something that's been driving me nuts for a while. It was pointed out in Dilbert as a joke, but its the absolute truth:
We have designed the modern PC for people with three hands.
This becomes most apparent when you're working in 3d apps, like Lightwave, 3d Studio, Truespace, or the like. You've got one hand working the controls, one hand on the mouse and you wish you could have a third hand on the number pad.
The other thing that drives me nuts on mice is the wheel. So my mouse maps X and Y axes to the standard motion of the mouse. Why can't I map the wheel to a Z axis? The best example of this is the Kensington TurboRing trackball. The 'wheel' is actually a ring set into the top of the trackball and indeed rotates about the Z-axis. Why don't 3d apps allow for this?
Ignore the craze ravings of a 3d geek.
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Go ahead. Mark me down for flamebait.
Although my opinion is obviously biased, I was disappointed that there was no mention
of Free Software or some other not-for-profit projects that benefit everyone. I find that
many of the corporate ties within the Free Software community are very much along the
lines of Klein's notion of an ideal balance between corporations and communities.
I'm surprised that no one else has seen fit to mention the continual insistence of RMS to 'brand'
Linux derivatives as 'GNU/Linux'. Even the opensource/freesoftware community is not immune.
--Ruhk
--
So all the bad little Napster users that downloaded Metallica MP3s had
their accounts killed. Of course this didn't fix the problem, nor did it
even help remedy it.
While I don't like Napster, this isn't the way to go.
You want to stop Napster? You have to shut them down completely.
Heck that won't even stop the problem: Gnutella and Hotline and every
other $WAREZ_TRADING_SOFTWARE will still be out there.
What needs to be addressed is the cause. I suddenly have this image
(gods I'm a geek) of Leia standing in front of Grand Moff Tarkin telling
him, "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more MP3s will
slip through your fingers."
Something needs to be done about the reason people go after MP3s
(collecting, its a counterculture/rebellion thing, they're thieves, they're
fed up with the low quality of the music industry, the industry rips
everyone off--artists and customers).
Banning 300K users from Napster is just like the trying to stop an
avalanche. You can't do it just by standing in the way.
--Ruhk
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Yes! Bring back the Mighty OrBots!
;)
That was easily my favorite cartoon of that period, inching just ahead of Dungeons and Dragons.
I'm geek: my computer starts to the sound of the OrBots theme.
--Ruhk
My wife bought this book for me for Christmas because I had enjoyed
Fermat's Enigma (also by Simon Singh) so much. On Christmas Eve the book
was presented to me. 48hrs later, I had read it through.
If it hadn't been for familial obligations, I would likely have devoured
it whole, at one sitting. Damn, DAMN good book.
Will they introduce new sensors to the Mindstorms product line? Imagine, if you will, the combination of the Zowie Intertainment technology
and Mindstorms Lego and new 'joint' sensors that can detect angle (in the 1d/2d
hinge joints) or depth (in the case of 1d slide joints). You could roll your own
Monkey2 animation armature. Being able to tell where the armature is
and how its posed would be excellent for setting up 3d scenes, etc. This is some of the coolest news I've heard yet for the Mindstorms line. --Ruhk
I'm not refuting you, but can you give some examples of "...some nasty pranks were revealed back in '99..."?
I must have been out of the loop (not surprising).
--Ruhk
Coming from the US Navy, and indeed from secured environment, I can vouch for this one.
Any machine that is classified with anything other than a pretty green sticker (UNCLAS) can't have a modem in it, period, unless that modem has integrated, automatic crypto, like the data line in a STU-II or STU-III telephone.
Regardless of what the media would have you believe, machines containing data that constitutes national security concerns, simply cannot get hacked from outside the system. To do so would require some the sort of crypto gear not available to the public.
Hrm. Then again, you can buy an entire Cobra helicopter part by part if you want... *heh* But you would still have to get the crypto keys...
--Ruhk
This sort of thing is good news for people with seriously degrad(ed/ing) sight like me. Right now I spend nearly $400 on lenses right now before I even start looking at frames.
The technology isn't good enough for full vision replacement yet but it's only going to improve. What I'd like is 'augmentation' applications:
- 360deg vision
- microscope extension that can be
put into a machine and get a good
view of the motherboard or components
- direct output from a video game or computer
*heh*
Sign me up.
--Ruhk
... Not so long as I own the domain name! *muahahahahahahahahhaaaaaaa*
Then again, the domain name just won't be funny anymore if 404 Errors go away. *sigh*
--Ruhk
Windows Millennium Edition is not based on Windows2000. It is not based in any way on the Windows2000 code base.
WinME is a direct extension of the old 9x code. It incorporates some of the UI changes made in the Win2k UI and MSDOS mode is gone. Other than that though, it is Win95 version 3.
--Ruhk
This is ridiculous. I'm all for intellectual property, and copyright. I firmly believe in being paid for the fruit of you labor. That said, this is ridiculous. Lets look at details:
QUOTE
"The National Football League... is asking for more than $5 million in damages, was particularly focused on shutting down iCraveTV this weekend, when the Super Bowl championship game will be broadcast. "
UNQUOTE
The fact that the Superbowl was highlighted makes me suspicious. The only reason for this, IMHO, is that they want their ratings, which don't get counted on ICraveTV's rebroadcast.
QUOTE:
"...that Canada's laws give it the right to retransmit broadcast television signals, in the same way that cable companies and satellite companies do. As long as the company doesn't cut or insert its own commercials into the programming, and ultimately pays copyright holders for their work, iCraveTV's action is completely legal..."
UNQUOTE
When you consider that Canadian law allows for this, so long as they pay the copyright holders, their only motivation can be the ratings.
Finally, how many people have the bandwidth for this? They aren't even touching a signifigant segment of the market. In fact, by rebroadcasting content, they are probably EXTENDING the market by getting people who ordinarily wouldn't be watching television to view the webcast
This is just a case of a small company getting slapped for daring to do something useful/cool.
--Ruhk
Basically, there's way too many. Essentially, we should be EXPECTING publishers to make sure that they focus on Linux the same way they do on Windows, or at least nearly so.
--Ruhk
What's really funny about this, is that it meshes really well with the recent story about campus life and the internet.
/QUOTE
Let's take a reality check here:
QUOTE:
Napster was "hogging" 5 percent of the university's bandwidth, White said, so more than 3,500 students connecting to the Net through RCN were permanently shut off from using Napster's software.
"We made the decision to block access in October before the RIAA lawsuit was filed," added Curt Pederson, vice provost for information services at Oregon State.
The university has an annual budget of $75,000 for bandwidth. Based on peak Net usage statistics, the campus could have gone over budget because of Napster traffic and other non-education-related activity, Pederson said.
IMHO, more than the RIAA, this is the real reason Napster is getting banned. This isn't about free expression or whether or not the RIAA manages to win their suit (I hope not!), it comes down to cost.
As a systems and network administrator for a college, you have to balance "wants" against "needs". I WANT to be able to play network games, trade MP3s, download pr0n and the like. I NEED to make sure that there is maximum bandwidth available for the business I work for, the college. That bandwidth is primarily for the furthering of the college's purposes. Everything else comes in as a secondary consideration.
--Ruhk
The assumption that your tuition check is the sole source of income for your university is wrong at best, and foolish at worst.
/not/ your dime.
Most universities run on many revenue sources: tuition, small items sales, charity, state and federal budgetary supplemnts, private/public investments for projects, etc.
Bandwidth is expensive and, to be blunt, doesn't belong to you. It belongs to the university. They can dictate what it is used for.
So, in short, its
--Ruhk