I still remember a columnist (with Ziff-Davis, I think) who was considered an ISP by the DOJ. They called him up and wanted him to give them records of who he talked to (some virus author or cracker, IIRC,) since that was his supposed obligation under the law. He told them to go outside and play hide and go f-- uh... f-- um... fetch the subpoena! Yeah.
Sorry, forgot to either put in quotes from the guy I was replying to or "large chunks would be played..."
I've never seen the score, so I don't know what instruments would actually be replaced. I just hope the trend of replacing live musicians doesn't leech down to groups who can't buy realistic-sounding synths; hearing a clarinet solo played on a Yamaha PSR6 or Casiotone would really ruin the show for me.
Actually, I think large chunks of the production are played/on/ synths, rather than/by/ them. So the arrangements can be anything from precise Bach chorales to Alban Berg's 12-tone funkitude, and real live musicians will still be playing along with the conductor, using the Sinfonia thing as an instrument. So those 11 musicians are really being replaced by two musicians, who play a machine.
The thing that concerns me isn't the lack of musicians (even though I'm a musician myself.) It's the non-live sound that a synth gives. As an oboist or flautist or whoever blows, their breath has subtle shifts in it; air pressure, lip tension and so on. Even though those variations are very much in the background, they can be picked up by the audience, even subliminally. Same with the vibrato that strings players use. A keyboardist (and I am one) can't hope to emulate all those nuances with ten fingers, no matter how skilled. You end up with the pre-recorded samples playing out their pre-recorded nuances, with all the feeling of a guy locked in a recording studio playing scales at different volumes.
And heaven help the production if the Sinfonist happens to have emotional problems before he shows up! All those get magnified by however many instruments he's playing, and suddenly you have all the violas and tubas feeling the sadness of breaking up with their girlfriend!
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My mother has a good friend, a school teacher actually, who can dismantle a modern car and put it back together, part by part, so that it runs perfectly. This is the same woman who is scared to try to remove the Xupiter spyware from her school computer. How did she learn so much about cars? She got the Chilton's or Haynes or whatever repair manual, checked out a few library books, and/did it./
Sure, if you're going to be driving at 150 mph you may not be suited to make your own repairs, but for regular road driving there shouldn't be anything that a hacker can't handle. (Except for maybe heavy lifting or walking around for more than 15 minutes carrying exhaust bits or random chunks of metal, if you're anything like/this/ hacker!)
Here's a list (from Sophos) of worms and virii available for GNU/Linux:
Linux/Adore Linux/Cheese Linux/Devnull-A Linu x/Lion Linux/Ramen Linux/Slapper-A, B, C Linux/OSF-A Linux/Rst-A, B
I'd post a list of Windows virii and worms, except that it would take too long to download over a broadband connection.
Suffice it to say, just because GNU/Linux is Open-Source doesn't mean that people are more able to write apps to exploit it. If anything, Open Source is/more/ secure; potential exploits can be discovered, and holes filled more effectively, in much less time. Microsoft took six MONTHS to announce a critical exploit and issue a fix, for their primary product!
Generic tips: Get on archive.org, and start downloading some very high-quality videos related to the fields in which the client works. Create a huge video talking about the benefits of broadband, and stream the whole thing to the slowest computer in the client's office that's still used on a daily basis.
If you feel up to it, you can also suck up a little. If they're in architecture, art, film or music, take some examples of their work (not anything illegal or infringing,) encode them in insanely high resolution or bitrate, and get them off of your own server while you're there. If they're an engineering firm, go over to the US Patent Office site at uspto.gov and grab some high-quality pictures of the patents your client has been awarded. If they're a bank or brokerage or something dealing with numbers, show them databases the size of the entire state of Nebraska, after downloading them in just a few seconds. Lawyers and doctors need to access huge amounts of data (court rulings, medical records, what have you) so you could get online and show them how quickly you can locate obscure references. Educational institutions probably already have a nice big broadband, but access to online publications and research materials, as well as very fast and efficient inter-library catalog software running over the internet, can make the higher-ups in the school submit totally to your every whim.
Remember, if you're talking to managers, use the terms "efficient," "on-demand," "more/most cost-effective," and "the bottom line." Synergize!
November 1 1995 - 5,795,156
May 3 1999 - 6,249,863
March 22 2001 - 6,418,532
June 30 1995 - 5,711,672
The top three are "Host device equipped with means for starting a process in response to detecting insertion of a storage media," and the bottom is "Method for automatically starting execution and ending execution of a process in a host device based on insertion and removal of a storage media into the host device."
Considering that the preview version of Windows 95, which included autoplay features, shipped before June 30 1995, it's safe to say Microsoft has prior art in this case. (Not that Microsoft has the only prior art; Amiga and Apple have both been pointed out.) This case is like myself patenting the idea of a typewriter, then beginning litigation against Underwood and Royal.
"Mining. That's pretty much all there is to it. You mine for materials on the Moon that are pretty (or extremely) rare on Earth. Come up with some form of ablative shield that would be easy to make out of the materials on the Moon. Then send a half ton or so of ore back to Earth, wrapped in the ablative, and let it reenter and land in a big, NASA-owned plot of useless land here in the USA. Once you have enough money, build a big base with a NASA-controlled hotel, right near the Apollo 11 landing site. And once you have enough money after that, build a huge base, and make it the official 51st State of the Union. After that, you can head on to Mars and do the same thing, only use the Moon as your impact target. You refine the ore mined on Mars on the Moon, send it back to Earth via Ablative Air Mail, and use it to make more spacecraft and Earth-orbit stations."
I've lived in Kentucky and West Virginia, and I've seen what mining can do to the land when there aren't any labor laws or environmental regulations. But I've also been to a Material Sciences lab and seen what people can do with ore. The Moon pretty clearly has no life (at least none in the fairly distant past) but plenty of exotic minerals, as well as other minerals we can still find here.
'The will to explore' won't do it for today's money-oriented economy, and we don't have the USSR to compete with now. Looking at it pragmatically, the only way we'll be able to fund space programs is by selling the products of it.
6,618,754 -- System for transmission of embedded applications over a network
Filed October 23, 1995
Issued September 9, 2003
Info from the USPTO, so you don't need to open a new browser window to get the numbers and dates. You can cross-check anything you may have coded with that first date; if you wrote something in 1994 you win..... A NEW CAR!
While you're there, check out this: Patent No. 1,087,186. Socrates Scholfield's "Illustrative Educational Device." What does it do? Hell if I know, but it's/supposed/ to demonstrate the existance of God. As I said, hell if I know, man.
Please webmasters, learn to use the proper code for preventing bots from scanning your page. The Robot meta tag will do that quite effectively. Alternately, you could just/not/ make a webpage with your usernames and passwords, and that would be a lot easier.
"About a decade..." and "in 1991" don't match too well. "More than a decade" would me a more appropriate phrase.
Oh, and BTW, SCO Group actually owns this source code, since Amiga starts with an A, just like AIX, which is actually based on programming practices that SCO claims they own. So by using this source code you are completely violating SCO's IP claims, and you could face 15 to 20 years in jail, as well as fines in excess of five million dollars per byte of data produced. Just so ya know...
I wouldn't be so sure that they're blowing smoke. Notice I didn't say they weren't, simply that we shouldn't be so sure until the code has been analysed.
Personally, I think the volume of smoke being blown can only be expressed by the mathmatical term "Aleph Null." In all fairness, Aleph Null is one of the/smallest/ of infinities, but it is still infinite. Therefore, if the universe were infinite in volume, SCO's smoke would fill half of that infinite space.
All I'm saying is that we need to look at this issue without the "Linux is Right, SCO is Wrong" bias. Then, if SCO actually/does/ point out some IP violation, we can dike it out without having a hissy fit.
This agreement has all the signs of being intended humorously. Little sentences like "If you want permission, we sincerely hope that you don't get scared off by all this legalese and give up!" seem to support that theory. In any case, it wasn't written by lawyers; no shark worth his salt would be so specific as to say " you agree to pay us liquidated damages in the amount of five million U.S. dollars . . .." and if he was worth his salt, he'd still say it "five million (5,000,000) dollars (US.)"
April 11, 2005: SCO and IBM go to trial
April 12, 2005: I get a birthday present when the judge tells SCO to go f*** itself with a rusty shovel.
"We rule in favor of the Defendant, and order SCO to pay an assload of money to everyone affiliated with Linux development in any way, shape or form. Furthermore, SCO sucks, and should, in the Court's opinion, find a suitable location to perform sexual acts upon itself with poorly-maintained garden equipment. And on part 2, subsection B, I find SCO in contempt of court, and therefore must pay damages to the court in the form of either a fully-trained attack monkey, or two nice dress shirts."
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I still remember a columnist (with Ziff-Davis, I think) who was considered an ISP by the DOJ. They called him up and wanted him to give them records of who he talked to (some virus author or cracker, IIRC,) since that was his supposed obligation under the law. He told them to go outside and play hide and go f-- uh... f-- um... fetch the subpoena! Yeah.
I've never seen the score, so I don't know what instruments would actually be replaced. I just hope the trend of replacing live musicians doesn't leech down to groups who can't buy realistic-sounding synths; hearing a clarinet solo played on a Yamaha PSR6 or Casiotone would really ruin the show for me.
The thing that concerns me isn't the lack of musicians (even though I'm a musician myself.) It's the non-live sound that a synth gives. As an oboist or flautist or whoever blows, their breath has subtle shifts in it; air pressure, lip tension and so on. Even though those variations are very much in the background, they can be picked up by the audience, even subliminally. Same with the vibrato that strings players use. A keyboardist (and I am one) can't hope to emulate all those nuances with ten fingers, no matter how skilled. You end up with the pre-recorded samples playing out their pre-recorded nuances, with all the feeling of a guy locked in a recording studio playing scales at different volumes.
And heaven help the production if the Sinfonist happens to have emotional problems before he shows up! All those get magnified by however many instruments he's playing, and suddenly you have all the violas and tubas feeling the sadness of breaking up with their girlfriend!
My mother has a good friend, a school teacher actually, who can dismantle a modern car and put it back together, part by part, so that it runs perfectly. This is the same woman who is scared to try to remove the Xupiter spyware from her school computer. How did she learn so much about cars? She got the Chilton's or Haynes or whatever repair manual, checked out a few library books, and /did it./
/this/ hacker!)
Sure, if you're going to be driving at 150 mph you may not be suited to make your own repairs, but for regular road driving there shouldn't be anything that a hacker can't handle. (Except for maybe heavy lifting or walking around for more than 15 minutes carrying exhaust bits or random chunks of metal, if you're anything like
Here's a list (from Sophos) of worms and virii available for GNU/Linux:
u x/Lion
/more/ secure; potential exploits can be discovered, and holes filled more effectively, in much less time. Microsoft took six MONTHS to announce a critical exploit and issue a fix, for their primary product!
Linux/Adore
Linux/Cheese
Linux/Devnull-A
Lin
Linux/Ramen
Linux/Slapper-A, B, C
Linux/OSF-A
Linux/Rst-A, B
I'd post a list of Windows virii and worms, except that it would take too long to download over a broadband connection.
Suffice it to say, just because GNU/Linux is Open-Source doesn't mean that people are more able to write apps to exploit it. If anything, Open Source is
If you feel up to it, you can also suck up a little. If they're in architecture, art, film or music, take some examples of their work (not anything illegal or infringing,) encode them in insanely high resolution or bitrate, and get them off of your own server while you're there. If they're an engineering firm, go over to the US Patent Office site at uspto.gov and grab some high-quality pictures of the patents your client has been awarded. If they're a bank or brokerage or something dealing with numbers, show them databases the size of the entire state of Nebraska, after downloading them in just a few seconds. Lawyers and doctors need to access huge amounts of data (court rulings, medical records, what have you) so you could get online and show them how quickly you can locate obscure references. Educational institutions probably already have a nice big broadband, but access to online publications and research materials, as well as very fast and efficient inter-library catalog software running over the internet, can make the higher-ups in the school submit totally to your every whim.
Remember, if you're talking to managers, use the terms "efficient," "on-demand," "more/most cost-effective," and "the bottom line." Synergize!
May 3 1999 - 6,249,863
March 22 2001 - 6,418,532
June 30 1995 - 5,711,672
The top three are "Host device equipped with means for starting a process in response to detecting insertion of a storage media," and the bottom is "Method for automatically starting execution and ending execution of a process in a host device based on insertion and removal of a storage media into the host device."
Considering that the preview version of Windows 95, which included autoplay features, shipped before June 30 1995, it's safe to say Microsoft has prior art in this case. (Not that Microsoft has the only prior art; Amiga and Apple have both been pointed out.) This case is like myself patenting the idea of a typewriter, then beginning litigation against Underwood and Royal.
I've lived in Kentucky and West Virginia, and I've seen what mining can do to the land when there aren't any labor laws or environmental regulations. But I've also been to a Material Sciences lab and seen what people can do with ore. The Moon pretty clearly has no life (at least none in the fairly distant past) but plenty of exotic minerals, as well as other minerals we can still find here.
'The will to explore' won't do it for today's money-oriented economy, and we don't have the USSR to compete with now. Looking at it pragmatically, the only way we'll be able to fund space programs is by selling the products of it.
6,618,754 -- System for transmission of embedded applications over a network Filed October 23, 1995 Issued September 9, 2003 Info from the USPTO, so you don't need to open a new browser window to get the numbers and dates. You can cross-check anything you may have coded with that first date; if you wrote something in 1994 you win..... A NEW CAR! While you're there, check out this: Patent No. 1,087,186. Socrates Scholfield's "Illustrative Educational Device." What does it do? Hell if I know, but it's /supposed/ to demonstrate the existance of God. As I said, hell if I know, man.
Please webmasters, learn to use the proper code for preventing bots from scanning your page. The Robot meta tag will do that quite effectively. Alternately, you could just /not/ make a webpage with your usernames and passwords, and that would be a lot easier.
"About a decade..." and "in 1991" don't match too well. "More than a decade" would me a more appropriate phrase.
Oh, and BTW, SCO Group actually owns this source code, since Amiga starts with an A, just like AIX, which is actually based on programming practices that SCO claims they own. So by using this source code you are completely violating SCO's IP claims, and you could face 15 to 20 years in jail, as well as fines in excess of five million dollars per byte of data produced. Just so ya know...
Personally, I think the volume of smoke being blown can only be expressed by the mathmatical term "Aleph Null." In all fairness, Aleph Null is one of the /smallest/ of infinities, but it is still infinite. Therefore, if the universe were infinite in volume, SCO's smoke would fill half of that infinite space.
All I'm saying is that we need to look at this issue without the "Linux is Right, SCO is Wrong" bias. Then, if SCO actually /does/ point out some IP violation, we can dike it out without having a hissy fit.
He'd also say it "'User' agrees to pay 'Provider,'" or whatever the parties were called, and not the first-person form "us."
This agreement has all the signs of being intended humorously. Little sentences like "If you want permission, we sincerely hope that you don't get scared off by all this legalese and give up!" seem to support that theory. In any case, it wasn't written by lawyers; no shark worth his salt would be so specific as to say " you agree to pay us liquidated damages in the amount of five million U.S. dollars . . . ." and if he was worth his salt, he'd still say it "five million (5,000,000) dollars (US.)"
April 12, 2005: I get a birthday present when the judge tells SCO to go f*** itself with a rusty shovel.
"We rule in favor of the Defendant, and order SCO to pay an assload of money to everyone affiliated with Linux development in any way, shape or form. Furthermore, SCO sucks, and should, in the Court's opinion, find a suitable location to perform sexual acts upon itself with poorly-maintained garden equipment. And on part 2, subsection B, I find SCO in contempt of court, and therefore must pay damages to the court in the form of either a fully-trained attack monkey, or two nice dress shirts."