I was on the mailing list and worked a little bit on Freenet early on. I didn't witness as much ego as you describe. Maybe that's happened since I left.
I think that what the Freenet developers are trying to accomplish is considerably more difficult that what Napster and/or Gnutella have done. We're talking distributed caching, anonymous uploading, encryption of stores (at least there was talk of such). They're certainly not insoluble, but they're not trivial, either.
Mozilla isn't a Linux/Unix application. It's a cross-platform suite of network applications. I don't know why they would or should be subjected to the "do one thing and do it well" dictum.
That's a red herring anyway - look at Emacs. You can get Emacs to wash your dishes for you if you are proficient enough with Lisp. Enlightenment? I think it'll tune your car up if you ask it nicely.
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I'm using Netscape because no one else has roaming profiles. My bookmarks, address book, cookies (the ones I let through Junkbuster, anyway), etc. follow me from work to home to my Brother's house to vacation in the mountains of Wyoming. Great stuff - killer app, IMO.
I hope Netscape adds this to Mozilla since I haven't had the time nor the courage to code it up myself. Especially since Mozilla handles multiple IMAP/SMTP accounts much better than Netscape.
Yeah, when you look at distribution also, then you're probably really screwed. Best to just buy a harmonica to entertain yourself. I wonder who distributes Righteous Babe records.
This is also on the current month's CMJ CD. Not bad for a cover, I suppose. Better than most of the other blather on this month's CMJ. Now last months... that was chock full o' goodies.
Indeed, I'd love to turn it off, but what about the sites that, for example, use it to redirect you based on a choice in a dropdown list. It's an abomination of UI design, but when a site like oracle.com does it, I'm stuck with leaving it on. Can't wait to disable by domain (on various platforms).
Folks, none of the sites on Top9 were Javascript whack-a-mole stuff like the header of this article implies. They're all just pages that use a 0 second redirect. I've even had to do this on sites I've built - not for the effect of locking people in, but to jump database instances in the case of the Oracle Application Server (web server). Now, these other sites may have an ulterior motive, but a 0 second refresh is much lesss onerous, IMO, than javascript popup hell.
Actually, it doesn't appear that Home Deopt "locks you in" with the standard whack-a-mole javascript crap. It appears to have several redirects, but I can hold my back button down (Netscape) and get back to familiar territory -/.
Since all this whack-a-mole stuff is javascript-based, it would cool to have a feature to disable javascript by URL/domain. In fact didn't I hear that Mozilla may have that feature?
You wouldn't mind backing these figures up at all, would you? And mentioning who gave out these "awards?" What else was in the running for "Anthem of the Century?" It's just my nitpicky curiosity.
It would seem to my ears that England & even Germany would certainly be putting more artists on the US charts than Jamaica. You are talking about the Billboard charts, right? It would seem to me that for every Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Bunny Livingston, Ziggy Marley, and Cedella Marley Booker, there are a hundred of The Cure, Rammstein, The Who, The Prodigy, Chumbawamba, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, Chemical Brothers, and whatever pretty boys & girls are being foisted on us this week by the record cartels.
It's good to see some hard figures. I doubt we'll ever see the figures on most recording contracts.
Don't forget that the 28.4B Yen is profits to the shareholders. The salaries of Tony Mottola and all the other fat cats came out of the 706.9B Yen "operating expenses." The fact remains that your average Primus is still driving 10 year old Toyota Corrolas and you'll find your average Sony exec in a Lex. Indeed, this may or may not have happened legally, but I'll be glad when their whole pimping, whoring racket crumbles.
I don't know about $4 CDs, but I did just pick up Frank Zappa's "Cheap Thrills" for about $6. Great stuff at twice the price.
I definately think we need more consistancy in CS Programs.
I would disagree. Your premise would assume a homogeneous computing environment out there, which there isn't. I think there's a place for the point-and-click VB programmer and for the assembler hack and for the Object-pure Smalltalk programmer and for the shove it out the dorm room gcc-user. Each CS program should determine it's own goals and needs, no?
I looked around the website and found little about the file format for.ogg (I suppose I could have downloaded the source...)
Will it support some sort of metadata about the audio, preferrably in a dynamic, flexible style like id3v2?
I'm both excited and nervous about Vorbis. Excited to see a quality format available without any encumbrances and nervous because I'm not sure what I'll do about my nearly-complete 350ish CD mp3 collection and about the software I'm helping write at RIMPS which is a streaming web-based mp3 jukebox.
I have to respectfully disagree that he "does have some sort of grasp on the issues here." I'm only about halfway through so far, but here is my impression of the questioning:
Q: Mr. Valenti, what do you think about someone who wants to watch a movie out of the region it's designed for?
A: The DMCA is clear. That's just plain illegal.
Q: Mr. Valenti, what do you think about someone who wanted to watch a DVD on their Linux box?
A: The DMCA is clear. That's just plain illegal.
Q: What about if it's a school or a library?
A: That's OK then.
Q: What about if the school or library used a Linux box?
A: The DMCA is clear. That's just plain illegal.
Q: Mr. Valenti? What do you think about fair use?
A: The DMCA is clear. That's just plain illegal.
This guy is pretty transparent, IMO. Anyone who prevents me from making $$$=illegal.
If he were to "have some sort of grasp on the issues here," he would know a lot about his defendants, he would understand the distinction between encryption and copy control and would have a *much* better memory. He keeps telling us it's "simple." If it were simple, this case would have been over and done with a long time ago or would never have come up. Of all the things this case is {'harassment', 'corporocratic bullying', 'greedy', 'shortsighted'}, none include {'simple'}
Here's an idea: Read the article, realize that they even tried smacking the thing while shooting photos and were unable to prevent it from writing, post something more informed on Slashdot. Just a thought.
You know, my 2 year old daughter has a lot of VTech toys - the kind that you push the little button-icons and a happy, happy voice says, "Mommy! Ball! Grandma!" I wonder if I can upgrade those to Linux. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of toys screaming "Daddy!"
The Tattoo on the head of the long-tongued woman was the only part I liked. If I ever hear the words "rat brain" again, I may have a reflexive urge to barf.
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Interestingly, we can get MS products here at Purdue for $5. Students get to keep the license for life. Faculty/Staff have to uninstall, shred the CD, grind up the pieces in the blender and flush the slurry down ActiveToilet2000 if they leave/retire.
Sure, I've got WinNT/Win2K/Visual Studio. For US$5 - why not? Beats playing whack-a-mole at warez sites. I need something to run 3D Home Designer on...
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I was on the mailing list and worked a little bit on Freenet early on. I didn't witness as much ego as you describe. Maybe that's happened since I left.
I think that what the Freenet developers are trying to accomplish is considerably more difficult that what Napster and/or Gnutella have done. We're talking distributed caching, anonymous uploading, encryption of stores (at least there was talk of such). They're certainly not insoluble, but they're not trivial, either.
Mozilla isn't a Linux/Unix application. It's a cross-platform suite of network applications. I don't know why they would or should be subjected to the "do one thing and do it well" dictum.
That's a red herring anyway - look at Emacs. You can get Emacs to wash your dishes for you if you are proficient enough with Lisp. Enlightenment? I think it'll tune your car up if you ask it nicely.
I'm using Netscape because no one else has roaming profiles. My bookmarks, address book, cookies (the ones I let through Junkbuster, anyway), etc. follow me from work to home to my Brother's house to vacation in the mountains of Wyoming. Great stuff - killer app, IMO.
I hope Netscape adds this to Mozilla since I haven't had the time nor the courage to code it up myself. Especially since Mozilla handles multiple IMAP/SMTP accounts much better than Netscape.
Yeah, when you look at distribution also, then you're probably really screwed. Best to just buy a harmonica to entertain yourself. I wonder who distributes Righteous Babe records.
I believe Matador is independent. Gotta love Pizzicato Five.
Phil. Phil Zimmerman. PGP's original author.
This is also on the current month's CMJ CD. Not bad for a cover, I suppose. Better than most of the other blather on this month's CMJ. Now last months... that was chock full o' goodies.
While I like CMJ a lot, they are certainly not the island in the RIAA sea. From this months issue "bestnewmusic" page:
Everclear - Capitol Records
Towa Tei - Elektra Records
David S. Ware - Columbia Records
Also, on the cover are major label artists Slipknot, Ice-T, Kid Rock, Phish, and Backstreet Boys.
A great indpendent artist to check out: Ani DiFranco.
Indeed, I'd love to turn it off, but what about the sites that, for example, use it to redirect you based on a choice in a dropdown list. It's an abomination of UI design, but when a site like oracle.com does it, I'm stuck with leaving it on. Can't wait to disable by domain (on various platforms).
Folks, none of the sites on Top9 were Javascript whack-a-mole stuff like the header of this article implies. They're all just pages that use a 0 second redirect. I've even had to do this on sites I've built - not for the effect of locking people in, but to jump database instances in the case of the Oracle Application Server (web server). Now, these other sites may have an ulterior motive, but a 0 second refresh is much lesss onerous, IMO, than javascript popup hell.
Actually, it doesn't appear that Home Deopt "locks you in" with the standard whack-a-mole javascript crap. It appears to have several redirects, but I can hold my back button down (Netscape) and get back to familiar territory - /.
Since all this whack-a-mole stuff is javascript-based, it would cool to have a feature to disable javascript by URL/domain. In fact didn't I hear that Mozilla may have that feature?
I can just see the C|Net headline now...
Polly want a hacker?
You wouldn't mind backing these figures up at all, would you? And mentioning who gave out these "awards?" What else was in the running for "Anthem of the Century?" It's just my nitpicky curiosity.
It would seem to my ears that England & even Germany would certainly be putting more artists on the US charts than Jamaica. You are talking about the Billboard charts, right? It would seem to me that for every Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Bunny Livingston, Ziggy Marley, and Cedella Marley Booker, there are a hundred of The Cure, Rammstein, The Who, The Prodigy, Chumbawamba, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, Chemical Brothers, and whatever pretty boys & girls are being foisted on us this week by the record cartels.
It's good to see some hard figures. I doubt we'll ever see the figures on most recording contracts.
Don't forget that the 28.4B Yen is profits to the shareholders. The salaries of Tony Mottola and all the other fat cats came out of the 706.9B Yen "operating expenses." The fact remains that your average Primus is still driving 10 year old Toyota Corrolas and you'll find your average Sony exec in a Lex. Indeed, this may or may not have happened legally, but I'll be glad when their whole pimping, whoring racket crumbles.
I don't know about $4 CDs, but I did just pick up Frank Zappa's "Cheap Thrills" for about $6. Great stuff at twice the price.
Joseph Campbell
This thing looks pretty spiff. A self-contained component MP3 jukebox with ethernet. Supposedly has Linux & MacOS software coming.
I like the idea behind the Dell thing if it doesn't require its own storage. The last thing I need it a dozen 30GB drives all over the house.
I looked around the website and found little about the file format for .ogg (I suppose I could have downloaded the source...)
Will it support some sort of metadata about the audio, preferrably in a dynamic, flexible style like id3v2?
I'm both excited and nervous about Vorbis. Excited to see a quality format available without any encumbrances and nervous because I'm not sure what I'll do about my nearly-complete 350ish CD mp3 collection and about the software I'm helping write at RIMPS which is a streaming web-based mp3 jukebox.
I have to respectfully disagree that he "does have some sort of grasp on the issues here." I'm only about halfway through so far, but here is my impression of the questioning:
Q: Mr. Valenti, what do you think about someone who wants to watch a movie out of the region it's designed for?
A: The DMCA is clear. That's just plain illegal.
Q: Mr. Valenti, what do you think about someone who wanted to watch a DVD on their Linux box?
A: The DMCA is clear. That's just plain illegal.
Q: What about if it's a school or a library?
A: That's OK then.
Q: What about if the school or library used a Linux box?
A: The DMCA is clear. That's just plain illegal.
Q: Mr. Valenti? What do you think about fair use?
A: The DMCA is clear. That's just plain illegal.
This guy is pretty transparent, IMO. Anyone who prevents me from making $$$=illegal.
If he were to "have some sort of grasp on the issues here," he would know a lot about his defendants, he would understand the distinction between encryption and copy control and would have a *much* better memory. He keeps telling us it's "simple." If it were simple, this case would have been over and done with a long time ago or would never have come up. Of all the things this case is {'harassment', 'corporocratic bullying', 'greedy', 'shortsighted'}, none include {'simple'}
Score:5???
Here's an idea: Read the article, realize that they even tried smacking the thing while shooting photos and were unable to prevent it from writing, post something more informed on Slashdot. Just a thought.
Huh? You did read the article and see that the camera only writes to 77mm CD-R's, right?
You know, my 2 year old daughter has a lot of VTech toys - the kind that you push the little button-icons and a happy, happy voice says, "Mommy! Ball! Grandma!" I wonder if I can upgrade those to Linux. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of toys screaming "Daddy!"
The Tattoo on the head of the long-tongued woman was the only part I liked. If I ever hear the words "rat brain" again, I may have a reflexive urge to barf.
Interestingly, we can get MS products here at Purdue for $5. Students get to keep the license for life. Faculty/Staff have to uninstall, shred the CD, grind up the pieces in the blender and flush the slurry down ActiveToilet2000 if they leave/retire.
Sure, I've got WinNT/Win2K/Visual Studio. For US$5 - why not? Beats playing whack-a-mole at warez sites. I need something to run 3D Home Designer on...