Or as the khalif of baghdad, when it was taken by mongolian forces.
You should be placed in a tower, with all your gadges, and the the doors should be sealed, and all the windows should be barred, and you would no bread nor water delivered for thirty days, for you are so happy for your gadgets, that i can only conclude you can live on them!
There, i've made a reference to Marco Polo on slashdot, although sort of half-assed but hey...
my settings is set to give trolls +1 and flamebait +2. It's often some of the most humerous and insightful comments. At other times it's just gay fiction.
Wrong: - Poor people won't donating part of what they were gain from this to politicians. - Music And Film Industry Associations of Anywhere will donate.
It's a matter of balancing control against efficiency.
Understanding the workings of an entire swarm is is not easy.
With a swarm it is harder to differentiate for "elite" customers who pay to get that extra bandwidth. Where you are in the swarm will matter just as much as which connection you're paying for.
I fully agree, they admit two doing two things that are not legal.
Unauthorized access and Denial of Service attack.
I'm not quite sure of the details though, were they using a bug to plant the torrents or was the tracker just negligently configured? The above matters for whether they were hacking(non-geek) or simply using it without authorization.
anyway, "bad boy!" to MediaDefender, surprise surprise. But will the shit stick all the way to those truly responsible?
I was trying to summarize the two ideas that exist today, my personal opinion is that they're both deeply flawed, but that patronage is of greater use to society.
However...
It is my belief that it's possible to come up with a better idea. I myself have not been capable of doing so. I guess i was just ranting, but i was trying to summarize the problem area, which is done to get some sort of agreement to what the problem is.
I agree with you in many points about the artists opportunity to make good deals with recording companies. Unfortunately history shows that few are able to both create good art and be good businessmen. ( this is a hunch, not indisputable fact! But at least it's based on the few people i know with an artistic bone in their body.)
What a corporation is able to do, that a single person can't do is knowledge management.
The bigger the company, the less extra cost to have someone with the knowledge of what to negotiate, another person on how to negotiate and a third person on what not to negotiate. The induhvidual will never have this opportunity, thus it is not a level playing field.
Corporation will always have the upper hand, when you compare to an individual
I noticed that this was tagged "usa" and it quotes the **AAs. I'd like to point out to anyone, that this is not a US-only problem, it's a problem for the entire developed world (and affects the rest).
If a new system is to be functional, it has to do two things.
1. Ensure that the creator is compensated for his time, and the uncertainty inherent to creating a new products and works of art. 2. Ensure that the public gets to enjoy this product once the creator has been compensated.
Intellectual property is a concept aimed at balancing the need to boost creativity to the benefit of the public.
Both patronage and intellectual property ensures 1. But intellectual property is starting to fail at 2 in more than one way. The amount of "compensation" for the creative work, is in many industries currently pushed way beyond reasonable and DRM is an attempt to ensure that 2 will never take place.
One of the interesting aspects, is that most of the music we see today, is still a combination of patronage and intellectual property. The recording & distribution companies, pay the artist to create works, but now patronage means that the artist loses his or hers rights to the music. I don't think this was the idea envisioned in Intellectual Property.
so what's better? How on earth would i know, I haven't studied it intensively, and neither has most!
Just buy a coffee mill for starters. I'm using an electric coffee grinder, that i got for cheap at a supermarket, the result is the same, as long as you do your mash properly
When you make it yourself, it's close to half price of regular beer and often the result is better. For the experienced brewer often becomes almost always.
When you brew beer commercially, it becomes very important to make same beer every time, and to make something which easy to consume. The consumer beer is lighter (in colour and taste), because that's what you can drink in large quantities.
If you want beer full of flavour, the price goes up, or you have to make it yourself.
Vendors having these intentions are are good sign, but until it's more than a third of vendors (rtfa) it's not that hard a push, even though a few of the big ones are in.
To be perfectly honest, this article is much more about what linux foundation wants and needs, than about what vendors demand of suppliers. I wish there had been some links to the actual story in the headline.
Nothing to see here, move along, and remember to encourage your dog to shit outside!
Hi again, i finished my letter, it is now send. as I'm curious as to what others might have written, here's the email i wrote:
I'm sure you're already aware of this, or that at least the people who should be aware of this are.
But the process which has lead to the approval of ISO/IEC 29500 OOXML has been an absolute disgrace, which raises serious questions about the standard approval processes. As a third party observer (I know that means I should have nothing to say) it appears clear how much this vote has been mired in corruption and cronyism, Disgrace!
The voting process has been affected in a way which has,nothing to do with professionalism/everything to do with corporate politics. I'm saddened that this is the state of a standards body. If you have been paying the least bit of attention to how things have happened, I hope you are at least launching an investigation into the irregularities. If you are not aware of what's been going on, you should not be approving standards in the field of computing.
Having enjoyed a lot of the previously excellent work in the field of computing, i sincerely hope that this a lapse of judgment and not a trend.
I have to reiterate: As a professional it saddens me to see this 6000+ page document, which is riddled with inaccuracies approved as a standard. It saddens me to see that one company is able to hijack the voting process in such a horrifying obvious way as MSFT has done It saddens me to see a guild of professionals hijacked by corporation. It saddens me that those who have the option to step in, are doing nothing. It saddens me that ISO standards, which have so far been necessary, are now worthless. It saddens me that while engineers are crying foul, the standard body created by and for engineers is approving. It saddens me to see a standard approved, where the examples do not live up to standards. This seems beyond the scope of idiocy!
While this is only a standard concerning office documents, for which I care relatively little, it sets a precedent which you should be fully aware of. Companies, not professionals control standards now. If this is how you wish it to be, so be it. I won't be adhering to agreements between companies, I hope (and suspect), I am not the only one.
To clarify my views on what a standard should be: Concise. Disambiguous. Serving a purpose and extending no further. Neutral of environment, unless specifying the environment. Created and maintained by people affected by it.
Noone should be able to sign off a standard, they do not understand! Noone are able to understand ISO/IEC 29500 because several key issues have NOT been specified
Madness, Disgrace, Stupidity, Ignorance, Amateurish, Sloppy, Corrupt, Ugly and Sad
I sincerely hope this is not the future, or I'll create my own standards body.
Slashdot Mirror
Or as the khalif of baghdad, when it was taken by mongolian forces.
You should be placed in a tower, with all your gadges, and the the doors should be sealed, and all the windows should be barred, and you would no bread nor water delivered for thirty days, for you are so happy for your gadgets, that i can only conclude you can live on them!
There, i've made a reference to Marco Polo on slashdot, although sort of half-assed but hey...
trolls are pretty annoying too
I live in Copenhagen and bike everywhere, so I do NOT have a car, you insensitive clod!
my settings is set to give trolls +1 and flamebait +2.
It's often some of the most humerous and insightful comments. At other times it's just gay fiction.
Might it be part of the reason they're shutting down and releasing source?
They don't want a judge to release the data to Corporation X.
Besides i can easily host my own browsersettings on my home computer, in fact, i'll be setting it up (or trying to) when i come home
ok, i guess i should've been more specific.
I was thinking of the huge cloth poster hanging in the metro in copenhagen. People get within 1 meter of it, and it's 3 stories high.
Im also fairly certain it was taken with a Hasselblad H1 camera and a Phase One P45+ back, i don't remember the lens, but it wasn't a cheapie.
as long as they provide the source for the tcp/ip stack and bundle it with windows, i don't mind.
Out of curiousity, where would you use runtime gpl instead of lgpl?
They might be full frame, but that's full frame 24mm.
These CCDs are for medium format, which is commonly 35 mm.
Seen those big posters strung to cover a building, 37 mp photos looks better than 15.
This is why high end medium format photography is using 37 mp.
the h3-DII50 won't be available until October (possibly later)
their competitors are coming with 65 mp digital backs.
Hasselblad is a locked down proprietary system, hasselblad cameras only connect to hasselblad backs, and vice versa.
Mamiya and Phase One are using open protocols in their cameras and backs.
btw. Expect an announcement of an even higher pixelcount back at the photokina conference. 23 of september.
3 points.
1 - It's a 1 person car
2 - It's going into limited production
3 - Marketing is talking about it 2 years in advance
It's a gimmick to make the company appear eco-friendly, without actually offering anything for the average consumer.
Apparently they don't want to massproduce this, just enhance their brand, without actually jeopardizing their relationship with Big Oil(TM)
Wrong:
- Poor people won't donating part of what they were gain from this to politicians.
- Music And Film Industry Associations of Anywhere will donate.
Laws will be passed and enforced!
the obvious fix to this, is to fill the empty space with zeroes (which encrypted will appear as random noise) to encrypted sockets.
It's not good enough to do only for bittorrent, since the exploit can be potentially be used for similar things against other protocols.
It's a matter of balancing control against efficiency.
Understanding the workings of an entire swarm is is not easy.
With a swarm it is harder to differentiate for "elite" customers who pay to get that extra bandwidth.
Where you are in the swarm will matter just as much as which connection you're paying for.
I fully agree, they admit two doing two things that are not legal.
Unauthorized access and Denial of Service attack.
I'm not quite sure of the details though, were they using a bug to plant the torrents or was the tracker just negligently configured?
The above matters for whether they were hacking(non-geek) or simply using it without authorization.
anyway, "bad boy!" to MediaDefender, surprise surprise.
But will the shit stick all the way to those truly responsible?
I was trying to summarize the two ideas that exist today, my personal opinion is that they're both deeply flawed, but that patronage is of greater use to society.
However...
It is my belief that it's possible to come up with a better idea. I myself have not been capable of doing so. I guess i was just ranting, but i was trying to summarize the problem area, which is done to get some sort of agreement to what the problem is.
I agree with you in many points about the artists opportunity to make good deals with recording companies. Unfortunately history shows that few are able to both create good art and be good businessmen.
( this is a hunch, not indisputable fact! But at least it's based on the few people i know with an artistic bone in their body.)
What a corporation is able to do, that a single person can't do is knowledge management.
The bigger the company, the less extra cost to have someone with the knowledge of what to negotiate, another person on how to negotiate and a third person on what not to negotiate. The induhvidual will never have this opportunity, thus it is not a level playing field.
Corporation will always have the upper hand, when you compare to an individual
I noticed that this was tagged "usa" and it quotes the **AAs.
I'd like to point out to anyone, that this is not a US-only problem, it's a problem for the entire developed world (and affects the rest).
If a new system is to be functional, it has to do two things.
1. Ensure that the creator is compensated for his time, and the uncertainty inherent to creating a new products and works of art.
2. Ensure that the public gets to enjoy this product once the creator has been compensated.
Intellectual property is a concept aimed at balancing the need to boost creativity to the benefit of the public.
Both patronage and intellectual property ensures 1. But intellectual property is starting to fail at 2 in more than one way.
The amount of "compensation" for the creative work, is in many industries currently pushed way beyond reasonable and DRM is an attempt to ensure that 2 will never take place.
One of the interesting aspects, is that most of the music we see today, is still a combination of patronage and intellectual property.
The recording & distribution companies, pay the artist to create works, but now patronage means that the artist loses his or hers rights to the music. I don't think this was the idea envisioned in Intellectual Property.
so what's better?
How on earth would i know, I haven't studied it intensively, and neither has most!
The same day electricity and components become free.
(Hint: When the revolution comes!)
Stuff that matters!
Just buy a coffee mill for starters.
I'm using an electric coffee grinder, that i got for cheap at a supermarket, the result is the same, as long as you do your mash properly
When you make it yourself, it's close to half price of regular beer and often the result is better. For the experienced brewer often becomes almost always.
When you brew beer commercially, it becomes very important to make same beer every time, and to make something which easy to consume.
The consumer beer is lighter (in colour and taste), because that's what you can drink in large quantities.
If you want beer full of flavour, the price goes up, or you have to make it yourself.
are you stupid???
Real men drink ANYTHING!
Real men drink EVERYTHING!
Sure smirnoff ice is sugary, take it like a man, don't whine.
Do remember, that parent also drinks vinegar before going to bed, i suppose to kill the worst part of the smirnoff ice aftertaste...
Comments like these are why i still read at -1!
Vendors having these intentions are are good sign, but until it's more than a third of vendors (rtfa) it's not that hard a push, even though a few of the big ones are in.
To be perfectly honest, this article is much more about what linux foundation wants and needs, than about what vendors demand of suppliers.
I wish there had been some links to the actual story in the headline.
Nothing to see here, move along, and remember to encourage your dog to shit outside!