They argue that the open source community hasn't benefited from companies like Google and Amazon.
I never really understood this thinking. At amazon, kernel and oracle patches (made by the amazon kernel team) were upstreamed to Redhat and Oracle. While their name does not appear in the credits. They certainly did contribute.
I watched someone yesterday on the freeway change lanes right into one a smaller car was already occupying. The person swerved very quickly and avoided the accident but there is no reason it should have happened.
If the SUV was trying to get into the right lane, and had the blinker on for 4 seconds (may vary by state), then the small car was at fault. He is required to yield to the lane change, and not allowed to pass on the right. Changing lanes to the left is a bit of a different story. While the blinker rules are the same, you 'are' allowed to pass on the left. It would come down to which was instanciated first (the pass or the lane change).
The mountain rescue service around here has hummers that they use for rescues but they should not be used for regular driving around.
How about we simply apply the same driving rules to SUVs that we all have to follow, and start ticketing them. I can't take up 2 lanes on 1st Ave in my Ford Aspire (I'd get a ticket), so each time a Hummer drives doen 1st Ave, ticket them.
Boat boarding and "ramming" are not made up. You didn't watch the America's cup" race a while back when they rammed a competing french boat? How about the boarding of the cargo vessel in Flordia?
1972, actually. Last time I checked, Greenpeace was non-violent and always has been.
Yeah, you're right. Raming one boat into another isn't violent, even when said boat is competing in the America's cup race. Breaking and entering into the control room at a Nuclear plant isn't either. Paying millions to the ELF (definately not a non-violent organization) is OK. So is trespass, destruction of property, forcibly boarding a cargo ship in flordia, etc.
I noticed that the wvm files want to connect to a download server for a license on the origional trailer. Is this still true for the international version?
As if copyright wasn't enough, many of their downloadable trailers require a license. Their 720p trailer is unplayable under mPlayer/Xine because or this (wm9dmo can't dl licenses under linux). Files are drm V1 protected, so freeme doesn't seem to work. Shame on them!
I wouldn't mind seeing green taxis in Albany or Rochester, either
Yes, All five cabs operating in Albany.... Granted, if you count Schenectady and Troy, that brings the total up to 10;-)
The sad fact is that this is the government subsidizing private industry through our tax dollars. I don't want to pay for your ride in NYC, expecially if I live on the other side of the G-Dub or TPNZ. The subsidies also go only to the big fish (yellow and orange cabs) and not to the small private companies (including flat rate towncars).
Why the hell do you have 300 non-stock versions of apache on 3 or 4 different platforms?
Mainly because Cingular Blue(attws), Cingular Orange, Nextel, Boost, Dobson, Triton, Tais Toshiba, and Alltel all have different backends. There is some consolidation (70 Cingular boxes are identical, 50 nextel boxes are identical, etc) but overall, I'm looking at about 10-15 different installations and a handful of custom modules that are not ABI compatible from version to version. On a scale of one to clusterfuck, I'd say it's about a 4 (basically, it's a lot of work and I need to have my shit together on a daily basis).
I appreciate your concern/surprise, but not all telcom network operators' backends are rosy and neat.
Anyone else gonna be working all weekend due to this? Bout 300 non-homogenous servers with non-stock versions of apache on 3 or 4 different platforms should take the better part of two working days. I guess it beats the alternative.
They're making copying their CD a matter of circumventing an encryption device
Protected, yes, Encrypted, no. CD Players cannot play encrypted audio.
Perhaps some meta information
The only redbook metadata are CD-Text, TOC, and leads. Anything else makes it "Not a CD".
for easier / more terrorizing prosecution
Untill they decide to go after the 12yr old daughter of a lawyer, or someone smart who knows what entrapment is. They could come after me for my Beatleg (Slang for rare beatles stuff) or my wife's "Jem and the Holograms" shows and get burried in so much paperwork and legal fee's they'll wish they never met me. I could use a month or two off from work anyway.
I took a look at the G3 specs page again. Vorbis is only supported to Q8. FLAC at Q3. Since all of my vorbis files are at Q10 and flac are at Q8, I'm still screwed.
If you're looking for Ogg or FLAC support (the HD unit) check out iAudio
I am, and none of the units on their page support vorbis above Q3 and FLAC above Q2. No 24bit audio either? I guess it doesn't have a floating point unit or something. So rather than transcoding my 60,000 file music collection, I'll just wait untill someone releases a "real" portable audio player. It will probably end up taking the same amount of time either way.
A bit underwhelmed at the current crop of PAPs,
BBH
Just because this guy wrote UNIX N1.1 doesn't make him some sort of God or anything
But it does qualify him for demi-god status. When you get to hang with the gods, and have a small cult following of strangely deticated people.... Maybe a shrine or two...
No, hence my comment about bringing the thread on topic (the article was about IE). a lot of corporates consider their intranet (extranet/web) apps 'critical
Yes, hence my references to IE, wininet, and winhttp. None of these three should be used on the backend. I'm down with IIS and it's infrastructure (ISAPI, ASP, ASPX), but custom apps relying on win32 dlls to provide outbound web functionality (once again wininet, winhttp, and IE) is just begging for trouble.
On the client side, people can use whatever they want. They're clients after all, and are not "running" the app. The server is. If they're a fat client (rmi over iiop esque), then all their browser should be doing is kicking off the client, and the VM should do all the rest.
The fact isthat no-one is going to apply a patch to a critical environment unless it's been through major testing
At the risk of staying on topic: The fact is that no-one is going to have a critical environment that uses IE. If you're using wininet or winhttp for your mission critical apps, shame on you.
But "Laws" are already in place here in the US. You could file a civil suit tomorrow if your credit is compromised by this data loss. Getting the government involved would only serve to further federalize our financial infrastructure (something that we don't really want nor need here in the US). Take it from someone who has just gone through a SAS 70 audit.
Which do you think is the most effective and appropriate option?
Neither. The only appropriate option is for someone to figure out how to make recycling computers profitable (like some waste oil recyclers, glass recyclers, and aluminum recyclers). Socialism and laws are only going to create more crime, and not less mess
This is seriously good news for solid modelers and animators. These are two fields where you can never have enough horsepower. It also may prove useful in rendering farms (nvidia is working on hardware acceleration for render farms).
On the downside, you can only use one monitor in SLI mode, and most pros would rather saw off their own genitals than go to a single monitor setup. The workaround would be to grab an older PCI card for the secondary display device. Kinda sux.
A passport can allow someone to do some of those things as well, but it's not the first thing that will be requested.
Actually, A passport will allow you to do ALL of those things, except drive on public roads..... Which is what a DL is for.... Driving on public roads.
4) It provides few, if any, clear benefits. Maybe a bartender in Cali won't have to worry about knowing what Vermont's drivers licenses look like with a national ID card, but people with the money and determination will still be able to get fake IDs.
Don't we already have Passports for that? We require passports for traveling out of the country. Why would we require something other than a passport if we need an ID for traveling within the country? Not that I agree with what they are doing, but the infrastructure is already in place, and it's federalized.
look at things like the Johns-Manville asbestos bankruptcy or the Dow-Corning breast implant bankruptcy
This is a little different in that Johns-Manville and Dow-Corning were found guilty of producing a completely legal and safe product. Basically, these companies are like IBM. Completely innocent being hit up for cash by an establishment with no other business model than to sue people based on shaky evidence.
On the enron comment? I think you may have missed the point again. Canopy = Enron, SCO = Subsidiary. You want Corporate ethics? Make shareholders legally and financially accountable for violations that occured during the period which they held stock.
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They argue that the open source community hasn't benefited from companies like Google and Amazon.
I never really understood this thinking. At amazon, kernel and oracle patches (made by the amazon kernel team) were upstreamed to Redhat and Oracle. While their name does not appear in the credits. They certainly did contribute.
BBH
I watched someone yesterday on the freeway change lanes right into one a smaller car was already occupying. The person swerved very quickly and avoided the accident but there is no reason it should have happened.
If the SUV was trying to get into the right lane, and had the blinker on for 4 seconds (may vary by state), then the small car was at fault. He is required to yield to the lane change, and not allowed to pass on the right. Changing lanes to the left is a bit of a different story. While the blinker rules are the same, you 'are' allowed to pass on the left. It would come down to which was instanciated first (the pass or the lane change).
The mountain rescue service around here has hummers that they use for rescues but they should not be used for regular driving around.
How about we simply apply the same driving rules to SUVs that we all have to follow, and start ticketing them. I can't take up 2 lanes on 1st Ave in my Ford Aspire (I'd get a ticket), so each time a Hummer drives doen 1st Ave, ticket them.
BBH
Boat boarding and "ramming" are not made up. You didn't watch the America's cup" race a while back when they rammed a competing french boat? How about the boarding of the cargo vessel in Flordia?
BBH
1972, actually. Last time I checked, Greenpeace was non-violent and always has been.
Yeah, you're right. Raming one boat into another isn't violent, even when said boat is competing in the America's cup race. Breaking and entering into the control room at a Nuclear plant isn't either. Paying millions to the ELF (definately not a non-violent organization) is OK. So is trespass, destruction of property, forcibly boarding a cargo ship in flordia, etc.
I could go on... really I could
BBH
as well as documents concerning other non-violent groups, including Greenpeace
When did the Greenpeace become something other than a criminal eco-terrorist cult?
BBH
I noticed that the wvm files want to connect to a download server for a license on the origional trailer. Is this still true for the international version?
BBH
As if copyright wasn't enough, many of their downloadable trailers require a license. Their 720p trailer is unplayable under mPlayer/Xine because or this (wm9dmo can't dl licenses under linux). Files are drm V1 protected, so freeme doesn't seem to work. Shame on them!
BBH
I wouldn't mind seeing green taxis in Albany or Rochester, either
;-)
Yes, All five cabs operating in Albany.... Granted, if you count Schenectady and Troy, that brings the total up to 10
The sad fact is that this is the government subsidizing private industry through our tax dollars. I don't want to pay for your ride in NYC, expecially if I live on the other side of the G-Dub or TPNZ. The subsidies also go only to the big fish (yellow and orange cabs) and not to the small private companies (including flat rate towncars).
BBH
Why the hell do you have 300 non-stock versions of apache on 3 or 4 different platforms?
Mainly because Cingular Blue(attws), Cingular Orange, Nextel, Boost, Dobson, Triton, Tais Toshiba, and Alltel all have different backends. There is some consolidation (70 Cingular boxes are identical, 50 nextel boxes are identical, etc) but overall, I'm looking at about 10-15 different installations and a handful of custom modules that are not ABI compatible from version to version. On a scale of one to clusterfuck, I'd say it's about a 4 (basically, it's a lot of work and I need to have my shit together on a daily basis).
I appreciate your concern/surprise, but not all telcom network operators' backends are rosy and neat.
BBH
Anyone else gonna be working all weekend due to this? Bout 300 non-homogenous servers with non-stock versions of apache on 3 or 4 different platforms should take the better part of two working days. I guess it beats the alternative.
BBH
They're making copying their CD a matter of circumventing an encryption device
Protected, yes, Encrypted, no. CD Players cannot play encrypted audio.
Perhaps some meta information
The only redbook metadata are CD-Text, TOC, and leads. Anything else makes it "Not a CD".
for easier / more terrorizing prosecution
Untill they decide to go after the 12yr old daughter of a lawyer, or someone smart who knows what entrapment is. They could come after me for my Beatleg (Slang for rare beatles stuff) or my wife's "Jem and the Holograms" shows and get burried in so much paperwork and legal fee's they'll wish they never met me. I could use a month or two off from work anyway.
I took a look at the G3 specs page again. Vorbis is only supported to Q8. FLAC at Q3. Since all of my vorbis files are at Q10 and flac are at Q8, I'm still screwed.
BBH
If you're looking for Ogg or FLAC support (the HD unit) check out iAudio
I am, and none of the units on their page support vorbis above Q3 and FLAC above Q2. No 24bit audio either? I guess it doesn't have a floating point unit or something. So rather than transcoding my 60,000 file music collection, I'll just wait untill someone releases a "real" portable audio player. It will probably end up taking the same amount of time either way.
A bit underwhelmed at the current crop of PAPs,
BBH
Just because this guy wrote UNIX N1.1 doesn't make him some sort of God or anything
But it does qualify him for demi-god status. When you get to hang with the gods, and have a small cult following of strangely deticated people.... Maybe a shrine or two...
BBH
Was I talking about IE?
No, hence my comment about bringing the thread on topic (the article was about IE).
a lot of corporates consider their intranet (extranet/web) apps 'critical
Yes, hence my references to IE, wininet, and winhttp. None of these three should be used on the backend. I'm down with IIS and it's infrastructure (ISAPI, ASP, ASPX), but custom apps relying on win32 dlls to provide outbound web functionality (once again wininet, winhttp, and IE) is just begging for trouble.
On the client side, people can use whatever they want. They're clients after all, and are not "running" the app. The server is. If they're a fat client (rmi over iiop esque), then all their browser should be doing is kicking off the client, and the VM should do all the rest.
BBH
The fact isthat no-one is going to apply a patch to a critical environment unless it's been through major testing
At the risk of staying on topic:
The fact is that no-one is going to have a critical environment that uses IE. If you're using wininet or winhttp for your mission critical apps, shame on you.
BBH
Only if you can correlate the data loss to an incedent of identity theft, or other general misuse.
BBH
But "Laws" are already in place here in the US. You could file a civil suit tomorrow if your credit is compromised by this data loss. Getting the government involved would only serve to further federalize our financial infrastructure (something that we don't really want nor need here in the US). Take it from someone who has just gone through a SAS 70 audit.
BBH
Which do you think is the most effective and appropriate option?
Neither. The only appropriate option is for someone to figure out how to make recycling computers profitable (like some waste oil recyclers, glass recyclers, and aluminum recyclers). Socialism and laws are only going to create more crime, and not less mess
BBH
This is seriously good news for solid modelers and animators. These are two fields where you can never have enough horsepower. It also may prove useful in rendering farms (nvidia is working on hardware acceleration for render farms).
On the downside, you can only use one monitor in SLI mode, and most pros would rather saw off their own genitals than go to a single monitor setup. The workaround would be to grab an older PCI card for the secondary display device. Kinda sux.
BBH
Be careful when opening it, if you break it you have splinter cells all over the place.
Dude, Everyone knows that chips only contain smoke, and that once the smoke is let out, they don't work any more.
BBH
A passport can allow someone to do some of those things as well, but it's not the first thing that will be requested.
Actually, A passport will allow you to do ALL of those things, except drive on public roads..... Which is what a DL is for.... Driving on public roads.
BBH
4) It provides few, if any, clear benefits. Maybe a bartender in Cali won't have to worry about knowing what Vermont's drivers licenses look like with a national ID card, but people with the money and determination will still be able to get fake IDs.
Don't we already have Passports for that? We require passports for traveling out of the country. Why would we require something other than a passport if we need an ID for traveling within the country? Not that I agree with what they are doing, but the infrastructure is already in place, and it's federalized.
Pardon the spelling, been drinkin,
BBH
Which part do you need help with? Be specific.
look at things like the Johns-Manville asbestos bankruptcy or the Dow-Corning breast implant bankruptcy
This is a little different in that Johns-Manville and Dow-Corning were found guilty of producing a completely legal and safe product. Basically, these companies are like IBM. Completely innocent being hit up for cash by an establishment with no other business model than to sue people based on shaky evidence.
On the enron comment? I think you may have missed the point again. Canopy = Enron, SCO = Subsidiary. You want Corporate ethics? Make shareholders legally and financially accountable for violations that occured during the period which they held stock.
BBH