IT IS SONY'S FUCKING FAULT. They are the ones that LOBBIED and PAYED politcians Like Joe Biden and Orin Hatch for the fucking DMCA and basically WROTE THE FUCKING LAW along with MPAA/RIAA. SONY CAN GO FUCK ITSELF. Not purchasing anymore Sony products ever ever ever again and will actively warn EVERYONE I KNOW not to buy ANY Sony products.
Primarily to scare the crap out of the incumbent energy cartel. It seems one could charge up an electric car pretty quickly with such a device. Just need to find a way to convert it into electrons.
You completely missed the point. I am talking about a standard Linux desktop and mac desktop. I did not specifically refer to servers. What I am saying is that I can SSH to a standard Linux desktop and type the name of any GUI program and only the display of the program will show up without having launch an entire desktop through VNC. How do you ssh to a Mac from say another Mac or a Linux desktop and launch Itunes and have it display on the client computer? It will work if you ssh from Mac -> Linux and launch a gui app but not if you ssh from Linux -> Mac and try to launch a Mac app. It won't display on the Linux box.
I can ssh to a Linux box running X, from any other box running X and run any GUI program and have just the display for that program show up on my computer without launching the entire deskop of the remote computer. eg user@remotelinux:~$ rhytmbox I consider that pretty basic. How do you accomplish this on the mac with just a simple ssh connection and typing say... user@remotemac:~$ itunes
The bottom line is nature is nature and resources are limited. I really don't think any creature that would risk traveling here would want to be "friendly" to us inferior creatures on this planet. Just take a look at it on a smaller scale. A planetary scale rather than a galactic scale. Are humans "friendly" to the "inferior" creatures here on earth? Do we try to figure out how to communicate with them before we clear a forest and setup our own habitat? We don't generally try to feel sorry for the things living in the trees we bulldoze and build. That is nature. If we humans had the capacity for interplanetary travel like we do for intercontinental travel then would our ways change? Or would we just bulldoze the forests there too and setup camp? Why would other creatures be different? Why would they care about us earthlings when resources are so scarce? I think people should heed the warnings of Hawkins in this respect. The fantasy that a more advanced entity coming to this planet feeling "sorry for us" and showering us with advanced tech, but they need our resouces? well its just that a fantasy. They would just simply clear and build.
The Axim went the way of PDAs. U know like the Newton did. Like Palm did. PDAs are a dead technology. PDAs were replaced with smartphones.
I understand the point you are making but I think its invalid. Many Many people back in the day said similar things about IBM and the PC. "Is Compaq going to be around?" "Is Wang going to be around for ever." "No one ever got fired for buying IBM" Then in the 90s "Apple is dead" "Apple is dying" "Windows is the future" And now look where we are now. Apple is very very far from dead. Wang and Compaq is but that didn't kill Windows. Even IBM stopped selling desktop PCs and Windows kept on trucking. So the idea that Android has have the backing of only one company does not even apply to the closed vs open argument here.
If the choice was only between 1 handset and Apple the Nexus S is Open and Iphone is closed. Thankfully there are more than one choices to get an open phone. The Dell Streak is also open. No locks. Dell is not going anywere anytime soon either.
Unfortunately for us Linus Torvalds vehemently supports this Tivoisation. That is the main reason the kernel is still GPLv2 along with the effort to get all the developers to agree to switch. Linus Torvalds is on the record for being against the anti-DRM clause in GPLv3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization Torvalds thinks its ok for hardware manufacturers to block you from running custom firmware. And so what with the advent of all these tablets and other things out there are manufacturers going to do? That remains a good question. Many may follow Tivo and now Motorola's lead. Some manufacturers may see an opportunity and market their phones as user upgradeable and may take a jab at Motorola's campaign against user upgrade-ability. Those Manufacturers would need market clout so as to run a marketing campaign worthy of raising the awareness to users about why this issue is important. Which may draw the ire of the cell providers and prove counter-intuitive. Not even Google has been successful at this to date. The cell providers love this feature and actively push for it. Motorola sees this as a great selling point to their customers. That would be the cell companies, not you or me. They also can leverage this as a way to control the lifespan of the device and therefor entice users to upgrade if they would like to enjoy the new features provided by the newer firmware on a slightly updated device.
There is no royalty fees associated with the ANSI C standard. Nor are there any associated with C++. The ISO standard that is H.264 is not royalty free. That is the problem. royalties royalties royalties.
The fact remains, one is royalty encumbered, one is not. IF I use a camcorder or use x264, Final Cut Pro. or any standard application to encode h264 video, the results can only be used for personal uses only. If i try to make any money offthat video then i must pay MPEG-LA for a license to do so. So anything you create in h264 is for NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY. Any commercial use of your video must be accompanied by royalty fees.
No they don't cover shashdot etal. They cover rallies in washington. And the pundits spew their stuff over the rallies in washington. Tea party, Jon Stewart, etc. So there needs to be some organization, marches, and lots of REAL noise. Not noise on Slashdot.
The only way is to apply pressure. I am sure they don't give a damn about what the few geeks think on slashdot and other sites combined. So what do you do. MAKE NOISE. Get in the news u know like the tea party people did. Organize a rally against it in Washington. Noise and pressure is the best way to get noticed.
That is good for you. But obviously you are not creating commercial content. Or any content that is on an ad supported web page that is legally encoded in h264. Take a look at the MPEG license included with any camcorder or codec or sofware (Final Cut Pro) and you will see that its for NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY and any content you create for any commercial reason requires you to get an additional license for MPEG-LA to distribute that said content. With WebM that is not the case and I for one will not be producing commercial content in h264. The law is the law and if you use that algorithm you must pay for a license or use it illegally so I will use WebM legally and royalty-free for commercial and ad supported content. Thank you very much Google.
I used to be a rabid Sony fanboy. Did the Sony Style thing and every single electronic device I owned was Sony. And luckily for Sony i got into a very influential position when i was doing electronic sales and installation. I pushed over 2 million dollars worth of Sony products. I no longer recommend their products to anyone. I no longer purchase Sony products and actively recommend against Sony products. Sony used to be a good company until they got into content. Once that happened Sony went downhill. They were a company that fought for consumer rights. The ability to home record for instance. Now that Sony is no longer an electronics company but a content company that peddles electronics they do things like infect people's computer with rootkits to damage their CD burners. Lobby for DMCA by lying to congress, lobby to punish colleges and students, Lobby to cripple recording hardware, Sue students, constantly corrupting congress critters for their own goals at the detriment of consumers. Spreading propoganda about how they are losing profits because of piracy when every year the content industry reports record profits. Attempting to proprietize the media marketplace with tech such as memory sticks and other media. dumping royalty encumbered media in the marketplace, And now you Sony are going to sue someone for purchasing your product opening it and telling everyone what they see? In this country we have always been able to take things apart that we purchased with our own money, figure out how they work and teach others. People should know that Sony is a company that actively sues their customers. Purchase Sony products at your own risk. Sony and RIAA/MPAA are interchangeable.
off topic a bit. I see ur sig there mentioning the Fair Tax. You must be a Millionaire. Because anyone who truly understands the Fair Tax knows that the more you make the less of your income you pay in fair taxes. Here's a clue. If the fairtax on a new product is $1 And I make $100 and you make $10 what percentage of my income goes towards the tax as opposed to your income? See? only 1% of my income would go toward the fairtax while 10% of your income would go toward the fair tax on that same product. Not so fair after all is it? its quite a genius idea because you can brainwash the masses into thinking its fair because they wont think beyond what they hear from Neal Boortz and John Linder. Both of whom i like BTW but now i know better. I was once brainwashed by Boortz but i wizened up. How about we all pay the same percentage of our income? I like that idea better.
I think you'll find a pretty large amount of Slashdotters believe that lying to congress about your lost profits, running college extortion schemes, presenting false information about how piracy is killing jobs, corrupting govenrment officials, corrupting DJs with payola, ripping off artists, paying a RIAA/MPAA/CRIAA/IFPI tax on blank media and many more of the practices of the RIAA/MPAA/BSA/CRIAA/IFPI immoral
Right and as patents are for the betterment of the arts and were created to encourage inventors to show how their invention works for the betterment of the arts, the patent filing should include the source code.
You totally miss the point. The point is making SEARCH AND SEIZURE exceptions to the constitution. If this is constitutional so is putting a camera in your house to check if you are breaking laws. The constitution has this in it for a reason. Checkpoints to see if laws are being broken WITHOUT PROBABLE CAUSE is a the primary tool of totalitarian regimes. Putting a camera in your house without probable cause is the same violation of the search and seizure clause in the constitution. You have to have probable cause. Take a look at countries like Zimbabwe if you want to see how this slippery slope works. I guess you approve of the checkpoints to find those gays that are polluting their children. Take a look at China. Checkpoints for dissidents anyone? There are many many examples of Government's desire to justify the setup checkpoints. It seems people just don't understand. Nextup? Checkpoints to enforce ACTA and other copyright contra-ban laws because it saves jobs and the unwashed masses agree that their favorite entertainers are starving.
from TFUSC
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause"
This was put there for a reason folks.
Yep Checkpoints for your email too and all your facebook correspondece. Why not just setup checkpoints on your phone to make sure you are not a terrorist?
What!!!! are you reading my mind? I have been telling my coworkers who are also IT and are buying these Ipads for their kids this same exact thing you wrote here. People do not understand what is happening. The ability to go to your defacto computing device and learn how to create something is slowly going away because the defacto computing device is becoming content consumption devices not content creation devices. And so the masses are slowly losing the ability to learn how to create. This is a very serious problem.
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+1 This comment is dead on.
IT IS SONY'S FUCKING FAULT. They are the ones that LOBBIED and PAYED politcians Like Joe Biden and Orin Hatch for the fucking DMCA and basically WROTE THE FUCKING LAW along with MPAA/RIAA. SONY CAN GO FUCK ITSELF. Not purchasing anymore Sony products ever ever ever again and will actively warn EVERYONE I KNOW not to buy ANY Sony products.
Primarily to scare the crap out of the incumbent energy cartel. It seems one could charge up an electric car pretty quickly with such a device. Just need to find a way to convert it into electrons.
You completely missed the point. I am talking about a standard Linux desktop and mac desktop. I did not specifically refer to servers. What I am saying is that I can SSH to a standard Linux desktop and type the name of any GUI program and only the display of the program will show up without having launch an entire desktop through VNC. How do you ssh to a Mac from say another Mac or a Linux desktop and launch Itunes and have it display on the client computer? It will work if you ssh from Mac -> Linux and launch a gui app but not if you ssh from Linux -> Mac and try to launch a Mac app. It won't display on the Linux box.
I can ssh to a Linux box running X, from any other box running X and run any GUI program and have just the display for that program show up on my computer without launching the entire deskop of the remote computer. eg user@remotelinux:~$ rhytmbox I consider that pretty basic. How do you accomplish this on the mac with just a simple ssh connection and typing say... user@remotemac:~$ itunes
The bottom line is nature is nature and resources are limited. I really don't think any creature that would risk traveling here would want to be "friendly" to us inferior creatures on this planet. Just take a look at it on a smaller scale. A planetary scale rather than a galactic scale. Are humans "friendly" to the "inferior" creatures here on earth? Do we try to figure out how to communicate with them before we clear a forest and setup our own habitat? We don't generally try to feel sorry for the things living in the trees we bulldoze and build. That is nature. If we humans had the capacity for interplanetary travel like we do for intercontinental travel then would our ways change? Or would we just bulldoze the forests there too and setup camp? Why would other creatures be different? Why would they care about us earthlings when resources are so scarce? I think people should heed the warnings of Hawkins in this respect. The fantasy that a more advanced entity coming to this planet feeling "sorry for us" and showering us with advanced tech, but they need our resouces? well its just that a fantasy. They would just simply clear and build.
The Axim went the way of PDAs. U know like the Newton did. Like Palm did. PDAs are a dead technology. PDAs were replaced with smartphones. I understand the point you are making but I think its invalid. Many Many people back in the day said similar things about IBM and the PC. "Is Compaq going to be around?" "Is Wang going to be around for ever." "No one ever got fired for buying IBM" Then in the 90s "Apple is dead" "Apple is dying" "Windows is the future" And now look where we are now. Apple is very very far from dead. Wang and Compaq is but that didn't kill Windows. Even IBM stopped selling desktop PCs and Windows kept on trucking. So the idea that Android has have the backing of only one company does not even apply to the closed vs open argument here.
If the choice was only between 1 handset and Apple the Nexus S is Open and Iphone is closed. Thankfully there are more than one choices to get an open phone. The Dell Streak is also open. No locks. Dell is not going anywere anytime soon either.
Unfortunately for us Linus Torvalds vehemently supports this Tivoisation. That is the main reason the kernel is still GPLv2 along with the effort to get all the developers to agree to switch. Linus Torvalds is on the record for being against the anti-DRM clause in GPLv3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization Torvalds thinks its ok for hardware manufacturers to block you from running custom firmware. And so what with the advent of all these tablets and other things out there are manufacturers going to do? That remains a good question. Many may follow Tivo and now Motorola's lead. Some manufacturers may see an opportunity and market their phones as user upgradeable and may take a jab at Motorola's campaign against user upgrade-ability. Those Manufacturers would need market clout so as to run a marketing campaign worthy of raising the awareness to users about why this issue is important. Which may draw the ire of the cell providers and prove counter-intuitive. Not even Google has been successful at this to date. The cell providers love this feature and actively push for it. Motorola sees this as a great selling point to their customers. That would be the cell companies, not you or me. They also can leverage this as a way to control the lifespan of the device and therefor entice users to upgrade if they would like to enjoy the new features provided by the newer firmware on a slightly updated device.
There is no royalty fees associated with the ANSI C standard. Nor are there any associated with C++. The ISO standard that is H.264 is not royalty free. That is the problem. royalties royalties royalties.
The fact remains, one is royalty encumbered, one is not. IF I use a camcorder or use x264, Final Cut Pro. or any standard application to encode h264 video, the results can only be used for personal uses only. If i try to make any money offthat video then i must pay MPEG-LA for a license to do so. So anything you create in h264 is for NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY. Any commercial use of your video must be accompanied by royalty fees.
No they don't cover shashdot etal. They cover rallies in washington. And the pundits spew their stuff over the rallies in washington. Tea party, Jon Stewart, etc. So there needs to be some organization, marches, and lots of REAL noise. Not noise on Slashdot.
The guy holding the puppets is special interests. Get money out of American politics and the puppet loses his strings.
The only way is to apply pressure. I am sure they don't give a damn about what the few geeks think on slashdot and other sites combined. So what do you do. MAKE NOISE. Get in the news u know like the tea party people did. Organize a rally against it in Washington. Noise and pressure is the best way to get noticed.
That is good for you. But obviously you are not creating commercial content. Or any content that is on an ad supported web page that is legally encoded in h264. Take a look at the MPEG license included with any camcorder or codec or sofware (Final Cut Pro) and you will see that its for NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY and any content you create for any commercial reason requires you to get an additional license for MPEG-LA to distribute that said content. With WebM that is not the case and I for one will not be producing commercial content in h264. The law is the law and if you use that algorithm you must pay for a license or use it illegally so I will use WebM legally and royalty-free for commercial and ad supported content. Thank you very much Google.
I used to be a rabid Sony fanboy. Did the Sony Style thing and every single electronic device I owned was Sony. And luckily for Sony i got into a very influential position when i was doing electronic sales and installation. I pushed over 2 million dollars worth of Sony products. I no longer recommend their products to anyone. I no longer purchase Sony products and actively recommend against Sony products. Sony used to be a good company until they got into content. Once that happened Sony went downhill. They were a company that fought for consumer rights. The ability to home record for instance. Now that Sony is no longer an electronics company but a content company that peddles electronics they do things like infect people's computer with rootkits to damage their CD burners. Lobby for DMCA by lying to congress, lobby to punish colleges and students, Lobby to cripple recording hardware, Sue students, constantly corrupting congress critters for their own goals at the detriment of consumers. Spreading propoganda about how they are losing profits because of piracy when every year the content industry reports record profits. Attempting to proprietize the media marketplace with tech such as memory sticks and other media. dumping royalty encumbered media in the marketplace, And now you Sony are going to sue someone for purchasing your product opening it and telling everyone what they see? In this country we have always been able to take things apart that we purchased with our own money, figure out how they work and teach others. People should know that Sony is a company that actively sues their customers. Purchase Sony products at your own risk. Sony and RIAA/MPAA are interchangeable.
off topic a bit. I see ur sig there mentioning the Fair Tax. You must be a Millionaire. Because anyone who truly understands the Fair Tax knows that the more you make the less of your income you pay in fair taxes. Here's a clue. If the fairtax on a new product is $1 And I make $100 and you make $10 what percentage of my income goes towards the tax as opposed to your income? See? only 1% of my income would go toward the fairtax while 10% of your income would go toward the fair tax on that same product. Not so fair after all is it? its quite a genius idea because you can brainwash the masses into thinking its fair because they wont think beyond what they hear from Neal Boortz and John Linder. Both of whom i like BTW but now i know better. I was once brainwashed by Boortz but i wizened up. How about we all pay the same percentage of our income? I like that idea better.
I think you'll find a pretty large amount of Slashdotters believe that lying to congress about your lost profits, running college extortion schemes, presenting false information about how piracy is killing jobs, corrupting govenrment officials, corrupting DJs with payola, ripping off artists, paying a RIAA/MPAA/CRIAA/IFPI tax on blank media and many more of the practices of the RIAA/MPAA/BSA/CRIAA/IFPI immoral
+1 i like
According to this post This guy has 2 science degrees. Not sure how much of a "random guy" this guy is.
Right and as patents are for the betterment of the arts and were created to encourage inventors to show how their invention works for the betterment of the arts, the patent filing should include the source code.
You totally miss the point. The point is making SEARCH AND SEIZURE exceptions to the constitution. If this is constitutional so is putting a camera in your house to check if you are breaking laws. The constitution has this in it for a reason. Checkpoints to see if laws are being broken WITHOUT PROBABLE CAUSE is a the primary tool of totalitarian regimes. Putting a camera in your house without probable cause is the same violation of the search and seizure clause in the constitution. You have to have probable cause. Take a look at countries like Zimbabwe if you want to see how this slippery slope works. I guess you approve of the checkpoints to find those gays that are polluting their children. Take a look at China. Checkpoints for dissidents anyone? There are many many examples of Government's desire to justify the setup checkpoints. It seems people just don't understand. Nextup? Checkpoints to enforce ACTA and other copyright contra-ban laws because it saves jobs and the unwashed masses agree that their favorite entertainers are starving.
from TFUSC "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause"
This was put there for a reason folks.
Yep Checkpoints for your email too and all your facebook correspondece. Why not just setup checkpoints on your phone to make sure you are not a terrorist?
AMEN
HAHA checkmate good one
What!!!! are you reading my mind? I have been telling my coworkers who are also IT and are buying these Ipads for their kids this same exact thing you wrote here. People do not understand what is happening. The ability to go to your defacto computing device and learn how to create something is slowly going away because the defacto computing device is becoming content consumption devices not content creation devices. And so the masses are slowly losing the ability to learn how to create. This is a very serious problem.