That is true for most movies today: Most movies are currently being "released simultaneously in theaters, as HDNet movies, on DVDs, and for download on your local friendly P2P network".
And the main reason people use P2P networks is that
a) it is, to most you people, the preferred distribution method and b) there is no "legal" alternative that is equally good.
People would pay for legal P2P if they were given the option, the adult movie industry realized this years ago and are making billions using the only-for-sale-online movie distribution method. I tried to get this message into the heads of the stupid brain-dead mainstream movie industry, but none of them will even talk to you when you mention that you want to make the content easily available on-line. And that is why Xiando Corp. still only has adult bittorrent movie sites... Of every main-stream movie producer and distributor (and we contacted as good as all of them), only the great legendary foresight-full scientist Carl Sagan was smart enough to understand this and get with the program.
* If you buy a DVD movie then you increase the demand for DVD disc. The production of DVD movies causes pollution and great additional damage to biological diversity on earth.
* If you download a movie from the Internet, legally or not, paid for or not, then you are NOT in any way causing additional damage to the earth and biological diversity on earth.
I do understand that the device used to enjoy the movie casues harm and pollution in both cases, but given that you have a DVD player or a computer already, the first casues additional damage while downloading a movie from the Internet DOES NOT. Sorry, but regardless of Soderberg's alleged new idea of shortening the window, I personally find the whole very evil model it that is a insignificant part of rotten, evil and sickening. Yes, I know I sound like a wacko to some people and if you are one of those, then try to think five or ten generations ahead, and put those thoughts in perspective: Humans have only known how to write for a mere lousy 100 generations. The industrial revolution started only 300 years ago and that is when we, all humans, really started to efficiently destroy the environment we do not own, but are lending from our children, their children and all the other species we are sharing the planet with. Soderberg could easily do what would really show foresight and be revolutionary: ONLY sell his movies on-line. That would be sustainable. DVD discs are NOT sustainable and therefore a very bad thing, even if the DVD is released after a shorter window than normal.
Very well put. It does not confuse me, though, it just annoys me since always have many browsers open and since ctrl-t opens a new tab in all of them, just like ctrl-u views the source and so on, Opera is out of the question since it is the only one who does not work as expected. And I also found the UI for changing keyboard shortcuts trash, but I figured out that the reason you can not change between keyboard schemes like you would expect from that UI is because it uses the last one edited. And yeah, as someone pointed out, you can edit the.ini file - but that is also out of the question since Opera needs to change almost ALL the keyboard shortcuts and that is simply not worth it just to test if the web pages I make look alright or not (Firefox/Mozilla/etc sometimes shows pages different than the Quanta/khtml preview...). I refuse to spend ages making the keyboard shortcuts comply with the standards ALL OTHER linux browsers follow simply because there are plenty of other choices who do follow the standards.
I already looked at tools -> preferences -> advanced -> shortcuts and I found that since all the default shortcuts are totally stupid it would require ages to change them all according to the standards all other Linux browsers support... It almost seems less time-consuming to write a new browser from scratch than changing them all.
Google in the searchbox is, because it is the only search engine I use, almost as good news as it becoming free and bannerless. Now, if Opera can only change the keyboard shortcuts to the standards then I may even consider using it. That is the only reason I find it garbage. For instance, press ctrl-u in Mozilla, Konqueror, Galeon, Firefox, Epiphany or any other Linux browser except for Opera and you are viewing the source code. Press ctrl-t in any of them and you get a new tab. Press ctrl-l and you are in the URL bar. None of those work in Opera, and the same applies to just about everything else - not a single shortcut works as expected. Which is kind of annoying since I do web development and have a lot of browsers open in a tabbed window in fluxbox to make sure the pages look just about the same - but I will not have Opera as part of those tabs until they comply with normal shortcuts.. if I need to view the source I want to be able to do it whatever browser I happen to have open, so something that doesn't support even my basic needs don't get to be among my always-open browsers.
Great software is being developed under the GNU GPL and that proves you wrong. The open source movement generally has the attitude that IP and Copyright is a bad thing, but since Copyright exists in this world then one must comply with that and that is why we have the GNU GPL, to make sure that what should be free and in the commons remains free and in the commons even in a world with IP and Copyright. So your argument is totally stupid. Novell makes money off OpenSuSE even though they are not protecting their IP; they are letting people use it. There would be money in software without IP because people need support, claiming they would not develop software without IP when thousands of small corporations is making money off open source software does not hold water.
Western civilization is the worst thing that have happened to the earth during the last million years. The human species wiped out all the big mammals in all parts of the world except Africa when we spread across the globe 10.000 years ago. Then, when the industrial revolution came about a mere 300 years ago we started wiping out entire habitats and broad ranges of species more effectively and now, today, species are going extinct a thousand times faster than they did before humanity came along. And we are felling trees ten times faster than they are being reproduced. Sorry, but in my humble opinion western civilization was a extremely bad idea and I am, sadly, sure I will be proved right in a mere generation or two. I know this has nothing to do with the US imposing their ridiculous software laws on the free world, but so sorry, it had to be said.
Training is needed outside the US, the (really, in reality) free world does not teach you the apparently most important US Law lesson: Always judge in favor of the side who can afford to give you to the biggest bribe.
I am very glad they can not enforce US law outside the US, even though it seems idiots like BSA does not understand that. Thank heavens we said no to your genetic altered plants. Monsanto and other corporations who can afford to buy US politicians have made sure that if they find that their patented gene-altered weeds has invaded your garden then, in the US, you are responsible for that and they can sue you for damages - which is insanity - in the EU we found that if their weed has infected your garden then they should pay you for the damage their plant has caused to your garden... This can be compared to some company patenting a computer virus and then suing everyone who has been infected by it. I really hope the the equally stupid "best practices" those US delegates mentioned in the article will try to impose on the (in reality) free world are seen as the garbage it is and turned down...
The RIAA and MPAA and their members like Fox are greedy evil assholes. Not news. And they don't like piracy. Not news. And they want to do something about it. Also not news. But the most important non-news is that the Internet's biggest Piracy Distribution Site, The Pirate Bay, IS LEGAL because of the glorious and very clever laws. So there is locally nothing to "crack down" on, because even though they may be breaking US Laws they are NOT breaking any local laws. So the US can complain and wine do what the fuck they want, but fact remains that the people of EU are smarter than the US population (Take songs as a good example, people in EU listen to the lyrics and the music, US people judge by the amount of skin shown in the music video) so we will not change our laws no matter how much the US dislikes them - so this is all just not news.
I think you are missing a vital point: They DO NOT learn. It is just like when people ask you the same thing over and over and over again even though you patiently explain every single time (the joy of being payd by the hour is that you can be patient): They simply use the information then and there and forget it. So obviously they will be looking up the same term over and over and that is why they spend so much time doing it... if those who do that would actually learn and remember the first time they'd signifficantly reduce the time they spend looking things up.
"If they'd simply listen the first time and learn how to do it rather then noding the whole time maybe they'd be able to help themselves once and a while." ?? Please don't encurage people to actually THINK for themselves or to listen or learn. Are you trying to get me unemployed???
I have the humble opinion that some things just should not be localized and this applies very much to computer jargons. Understanding the commonly used English version is one thing, but it is very much harder when someone translates already hard computer terms into the local gibberish and then makes a short term for the local version which, obviously, is completely different from the English equivalent..
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Thank you very much for more great SSH tips, I hope you do not mind I recycled them at http://en.linuxreviews.org/Ssh (it is a wiki, so I can easily remove your work if you mind, or you can do it..):-)
A new version of my favorite Linux tool! How great! I could not live a second without being able to scp file.tar.bz2 user@hostname:/path, or without being able to open files remotely using KDEs fish: fish://username:passord@host.box/some/path works in all the KDE file dialog boxes thanks to SSH. Nor would I be able to login to the box where I have my irssi IRC client running, connected to numerous IRC servers and a BitlBee gateway for MSN/ICQ/AIM/Google Talk. And then there is sftp.. SSH is something completely essential for most experienced Linux-users, used one way or the other constantly when I am in front of my computer. So thank you, SSH developers, for making my life better! And thank you for a new, more secure version.
And in other news, the Australian Court also ruled that it is illegal to drive on the freeway since it should be obvious that some of the other people driving on the freeway are speeding.
Just a reality check for anyone who thinks there is such a thing as "Free SMS services" on the Internet: If you are offered something "free" on the Internet where you have to give away your mobile phone number then you can pretty much be sure that you WILL be paying a price in the form of spam. There is no thing as a free lunch...
It is true that there are close to zero good native Linux games. But there is a way to get a huge number of games running.. What you need is:
znes - Play all the good old Nintendo games
epsxe - Play all the Playstation 1 games
xmame - Play all the classic arcade games
dosemu - Most of the back-in-the-day Dos games work
OK, it is not the same thing as native games, but these four (combined with your local friendly p2p network or USEnet) allows you to play A LOT of games on Linux... And btw, epsxe is extra cool if you use those USB to playstation converters which are supported perfectly (I use them for xmame too)
I already waited 5 minutes for the site to load from the link I followed on slashdot. If that is the time you need to spend waiting between each pixel to update then I think *everyone* who tries to take part in that competition should get the "too much time on their hands" award just for trying... heh, come to think of it, I should get one just for posting this at slashdot!
If I were to buy a car then I would assume the car is mine to do as I please with it - if I want to say change the color on it then I could have it refinished according to my own preferences. The same applies if I buy a electonical device; I assume it is mine to do and modify as I please - anything else sounds unacceptable to me. I would be majorly upset if this car then would automatically report that I had changed the color... But obviously I would never buy the car in the first place if I was asked to sign a contract that said "you can never ever open the motor room and look inside or change the color of the car"
As with all solution created to make it easy to transfer data wireless, I sure hope that they have managed to make a user-friendly security solution for this. More wireless networks are open than closed these days, not because devices generally lacks support, but because it is too hard to setup a proper security solution for the average user. If a non-technically skilled neighbor uses such a camera to take some very private pictures and they left the camera wide open to anyone and anything close enough then you will not even have to go to a website to get your 0 day, almost live entertainment, you can simply download them off the neighbors camera directly as the pictures are taken.. It is hard to make easy to share != inherently insecure.
"You may not make or distribute copies of the Software, or electronically transfer the Software from one computer to another or over a network."
So if I install flash using "emerge netscape-flash" and it downloads flash from a distfiles mirror, then that mirror is in violation. As for me, obviously I am making a copy of the software when it is downloaded, so that would make me in violation..? Up to today I've use flashblock and I rarely see any flash except when those crappy made-in-flash sites and I click the play button. But after reading the news terms, I did "emerge unmerge netscape-flash" and I will keep my computer flash-free until they come up with a license which is not totally stupid..
Apart from Google making Yet Another IM Client (I mean, there is gaim, psi, jabber, kopete, amsn and so on) and setting up a Jabber server like any other, what is really "new" with Google Talk? Nothing. So they crippled the protocol to make it seem like "their own network". Bad, yes, but even so, it is still far better than the competition who make their own non-standards and keep the specs secret. Consider what they would be doing if they were to support XMPP fully: Oh, right, you managed to setup your own Jabber server. Like a zillion others have done and most of them years ago. How exiting.. no, better to cripple it a tad and call it your own thing and get major attention at Slashdot and other sites because of your "new" innovation.
The cost of schoolbooks is a locally a never-ending debate because our glorious goverment pays for parts of the school book cost. But they are still extremely expensive and mothers everywhere naturally have their regular huge outcries. The problem is obviously that all books, also schoolbooks, are subject to Copyright and the copyright holders keep together to gain maximum profit by selling them in what looks like a monopoly. Technology is pushing forward "free" IP licenses like GNU Copyleft and GNU GPL and these are used by a lot of wiki-projects. Books like
http://immortalpoetry.com/The_Art_of_War can now be read on-line, but there are not yet any such projects for schoolbooks. However, it remains or vision to setup a Wiki dedicated wiki for schoolbooks where they can be edited and created collectively like any other Wiki project. Such books would not only be available to anyone, anytime, anywhere at no cost; they would also be free to be printed out and used by students everywhere as a valid alterantive to traditional books. Sadly, we are currently short of the funds required to hire two professors and a teacher to work full-time on such a project; but this will very soon be reality.
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That is true for most movies today: Most movies are currently being "released simultaneously in theaters, as HDNet movies, on DVDs, and for download on your local friendly P2P network".
And the main reason people use P2P networks is that
a) it is, to most you people, the preferred distribution method and
b) there is no "legal" alternative that is equally good.
People would pay for legal P2P if they were given the option, the adult movie industry realized this years ago and are making billions using the only-for-sale-online movie distribution method. I tried to get this message into the heads of the stupid brain-dead mainstream movie industry, but none of them will even talk to you when you mention that you want to make the content easily available on-line. And that is why Xiando Corp. still only has adult bittorrent movie sites... Of every main-stream movie producer and distributor (and we contacted as good as all of them), only the great legendary foresight-full scientist Carl Sagan was smart enough to understand this and get with the program.
* If you buy a DVD movie then you increase the demand for DVD disc. The production of DVD movies causes pollution and great additional damage to biological diversity on earth.
* If you download a movie from the Internet, legally or not, paid for or not, then you are NOT in any way causing additional damage to the earth and biological diversity on earth.
I do understand that the device used to enjoy the movie casues harm and pollution in both cases, but given that you have a DVD player or a computer already, the first casues additional damage while downloading a movie from the Internet DOES NOT. Sorry, but regardless of Soderberg's alleged new idea of shortening the window, I personally find the whole very evil model it that is a insignificant part of rotten, evil and sickening. Yes, I know I sound like a wacko to some people and if you are one of those, then try to think five or ten generations ahead, and put those thoughts in perspective: Humans have only known how to write for a mere lousy 100 generations. The industrial revolution started only 300 years ago and that is when we, all humans, really started to efficiently destroy the environment we do not own, but are lending from our children, their children and all the other species we are sharing the planet with. Soderberg could easily do what would really show foresight and be revolutionary: ONLY sell his movies on-line. That would be sustainable. DVD discs are NOT sustainable and therefore a very bad thing, even if the DVD is released after a shorter window than normal.
Very well put. It does not confuse me, though, it just annoys me since always have many browsers open and since ctrl-t opens a new tab in all of them, just like ctrl-u views the source and so on, Opera is out of the question since it is the only one who does not work as expected. And I also found the UI for changing keyboard shortcuts trash, but I figured out that the reason you can not change between keyboard schemes like you would expect from that UI is because it uses the last one edited. And yeah, as someone pointed out, you can edit the .ini file - but that is also out of the question since Opera needs to change almost ALL the keyboard shortcuts and that is simply not worth it just to test if the web pages I make look alright or not (Firefox/Mozilla/etc sometimes shows pages different than the Quanta/khtml preview...). I refuse to spend ages making the keyboard shortcuts comply with the standards ALL OTHER linux browsers follow simply because there are plenty of other choices who do follow the standards.
I already looked at tools -> preferences -> advanced -> shortcuts and I found that since all the default shortcuts are totally stupid it would require ages to change them all according to the standards all other Linux browsers support... It almost seems less time-consuming to write a new browser from scratch than changing them all.
Google in the searchbox is, because it is the only search engine I use, almost as good news as it becoming free and bannerless. Now, if Opera can only change the keyboard shortcuts to the standards then I may even consider using it. That is the only reason I find it garbage. For instance, press ctrl-u in Mozilla, Konqueror, Galeon, Firefox, Epiphany or any other Linux browser except for Opera and you are viewing the source code. Press ctrl-t in any of them and you get a new tab. Press ctrl-l and you are in the URL bar. None of those work in Opera, and the same applies to just about everything else - not a single shortcut works as expected. Which is kind of annoying since I do web development and have a lot of browsers open in a tabbed window in fluxbox to make sure the pages look just about the same - but I will not have Opera as part of those tabs until they comply with normal shortcuts.. if I need to view the source I want to be able to do it whatever browser I happen to have open, so something that doesn't support even my basic needs don't get to be among my always-open browsers.
Great software is being developed under the GNU GPL and that proves you wrong. The open source movement generally has the attitude that IP and Copyright is a bad thing, but since Copyright exists in this world then one must comply with that and that is why we have the GNU GPL, to make sure that what should be free and in the commons remains free and in the commons even in a world with IP and Copyright. So your argument is totally stupid. Novell makes money off OpenSuSE even though they are not protecting their IP; they are letting people use it. There would be money in software without IP because people need support, claiming they would not develop software without IP when thousands of small corporations is making money off open source software does not hold water.
Western civilization is the worst thing that have happened to the earth during the last million years. The human species wiped out all the big mammals in all parts of the world except Africa when we spread across the globe 10.000 years ago. Then, when the industrial revolution came about a mere 300 years ago we started wiping out entire habitats and broad ranges of species more effectively and now, today, species are going extinct a thousand times faster than they did before humanity came along. And we are felling trees ten times faster than they are being reproduced. Sorry, but in my humble opinion western civilization was a extremely bad idea and I am, sadly, sure I will be proved right in a mere generation or two. I know this has nothing to do with the US imposing their ridiculous software laws on the free world, but so sorry, it had to be said.
Training is needed outside the US, the (really, in reality) free world does not teach you the apparently most important US Law lesson: Always judge in favor of the side who can afford to give you to the biggest bribe.
Don't worry about Katrina relief, the US is doing what they can for the poor and the black people as slow as possible.
I am very glad they can not enforce US law outside the US, even though it seems idiots like BSA does not understand that. Thank heavens we said no to your genetic altered plants. Monsanto and other corporations who can afford to buy US politicians have made sure that if they find that their patented gene-altered weeds has invaded your garden then, in the US, you are responsible for that and they can sue you for damages - which is insanity - in the EU we found that if their weed has infected your garden then they should pay you for the damage their plant has caused to your garden... This can be compared to some company patenting a computer virus and then suing everyone who has been infected by it. I really hope the the equally stupid "best practices" those US delegates mentioned in the article will try to impose on the (in reality) free world are seen as the garbage it is and turned down...
The RIAA and MPAA and their members like Fox are greedy evil assholes. Not news. And they don't like piracy. Not news. And they want to do something about it. Also not news. But the most important non-news is that the Internet's biggest Piracy Distribution Site, The Pirate Bay, IS LEGAL because of the glorious and very clever laws. So there is locally nothing to "crack down" on, because even though they may be breaking US Laws they are NOT breaking any local laws. So the US can complain and wine do what the fuck they want, but fact remains that the people of EU are smarter than the US population (Take songs as a good example, people in EU listen to the lyrics and the music, US people judge by the amount of skin shown in the music video) so we will not change our laws no matter how much the US dislikes them - so this is all just not news.
I think you are missing a vital point: They DO NOT learn. It is just like when people ask you the same thing over and over and over again even though you patiently explain every single time (the joy of being payd by the hour is that you can be patient): They simply use the information then and there and forget it. So obviously they will be looking up the same term over and over and that is why they spend so much time doing it... if those who do that would actually learn and remember the first time they'd signifficantly reduce the time they spend looking things up.
"If they'd simply listen the first time and learn how to do it rather then noding the whole time maybe they'd be able to help themselves once and a while." ?? Please don't encurage people to actually THINK for themselves or to listen or learn. Are you trying to get me unemployed???
I have the humble opinion that some things just should not be localized and this applies very much to computer jargons. Understanding the commonly used English version is one thing, but it is very much harder when someone translates already hard computer terms into the local gibberish and then makes a short term for the local version which, obviously, is completely different from the English equivalent..
..on any given day.
/var/log/messages|wc -l
:-)
Box #1:
grep "authentication failure"
/var/log/messages|wc -l
1362
Box #2:
grep "authentication failure"
1520
Thank you very much for more great SSH tips, I hope you do not mind I recycled them at http://en.linuxreviews.org/Ssh (it is a wiki, so I can easily remove your work if you mind, or you can do it..)
A new version of my favorite Linux tool! How great! I could not live a second without being able to scp file.tar.bz2 user@hostname:/path, or without being able to open files remotely using KDEs fish: fish://username:passord@host.box/some/path works in all the KDE file dialog boxes thanks to SSH. Nor would I be able to login to the box where I have my irssi IRC client running, connected to numerous IRC servers and a BitlBee gateway for MSN/ICQ/AIM/Google Talk. And then there is sftp.. SSH is something completely essential for most experienced Linux-users, used one way or the other constantly when I am in front of my computer. So thank you, SSH developers, for making my life better! And thank you for a new, more secure version.
And in other news, the Australian Court also ruled that it is illegal to drive on the freeway since it should be obvious that some of the other people driving on the freeway are speeding.
Just a reality check for anyone who thinks there is such a thing as "Free SMS services" on the Internet: If you are offered something "free" on the Internet where you have to give away your mobile phone number then you can pretty much be sure that you WILL be paying a price in the form of spam. There is no thing as a free lunch...
It is true that there are close to zero good native Linux games. But there is a way to get a huge number of games running.. What you need is:
znes - Play all the good old Nintendo games
epsxe - Play all the Playstation 1 games
xmame - Play all the classic arcade games
dosemu - Most of the back-in-the-day Dos games work
OK, it is not the same thing as native games, but these four (combined with your local friendly p2p network or USEnet) allows you to play A LOT of games on Linux... And btw, epsxe is extra cool if you use those USB to playstation converters which are supported perfectly (I use them for xmame too)
I already waited 5 minutes for the site to load from the link I followed on slashdot. If that is the time you need to spend waiting between each pixel to update then I think *everyone* who tries to take part in that competition should get the "too much time on their hands" award just for trying... heh, come to think of it, I should get one just for posting this at slashdot!
If I were to buy a car then I would assume the car is mine to do as I please with it - if I want to say change the color on it then I could have it refinished according to my own preferences. The same applies if I buy a electonical device; I assume it is mine to do and modify as I please - anything else sounds unacceptable to me. I would be majorly upset if this car then would automatically report that I had changed the color... But obviously I would never buy the car in the first place if I was asked to sign a contract that said "you can never ever open the motor room and look inside or change the color of the car"
As with all solution created to make it easy to transfer data wireless, I sure hope that they have managed to make a user-friendly security solution for this. More wireless networks are open than closed these days, not because devices generally lacks support, but because it is too hard to setup a proper security solution for the average user. If a non-technically skilled neighbor uses such a camera to take some very private pictures and they left the camera wide open to anyone and anything close enough then you will not even have to go to a website to get your 0 day, almost live entertainment, you can simply download them off the neighbors camera directly as the pictures are taken.. It is hard to make easy to share != inherently insecure.
"You may not make or distribute copies of the Software, or electronically transfer the Software from one computer to another or over a network." So if I install flash using "emerge netscape-flash" and it downloads flash from a distfiles mirror, then that mirror is in violation. As for me, obviously I am making a copy of the software when it is downloaded, so that would make me in violation..? Up to today I've use flashblock and I rarely see any flash except when those crappy made-in-flash sites and I click the play button. But after reading the news terms, I did "emerge unmerge netscape-flash" and I will keep my computer flash-free until they come up with a license which is not totally stupid..
Apart from Google making Yet Another IM Client (I mean, there is gaim, psi, jabber, kopete, amsn and so on) and setting up a Jabber server like any other, what is really "new" with Google Talk? Nothing. So they crippled the protocol to make it seem like "their own network". Bad, yes, but even so, it is still far better than the competition who make their own non-standards and keep the specs secret. Consider what they would be doing if they were to support XMPP fully: Oh, right, you managed to setup your own Jabber server. Like a zillion others have done and most of them years ago. How exiting.. no, better to cripple it a tad and call it your own thing and get major attention at Slashdot and other sites because of your "new" innovation.
The cost of schoolbooks is a locally a never-ending debate because our glorious goverment pays for parts of the school book cost. But they are still extremely expensive and mothers everywhere naturally have their regular huge outcries. The problem is obviously that all books, also schoolbooks, are subject to Copyright and the copyright holders keep together to gain maximum profit by selling them in what looks like a monopoly. Technology is pushing forward "free" IP licenses like GNU Copyleft and GNU GPL and these are used by a lot of wiki-projects. Books like http://immortalpoetry.com/The_Art_of_War can now be read on-line, but there are not yet any such projects for schoolbooks. However, it remains or vision to setup a Wiki dedicated wiki for schoolbooks where they can be edited and created collectively like any other Wiki project. Such books would not only be available to anyone, anytime, anywhere at no cost; they would also be free to be printed out and used by students everywhere as a valid alterantive to traditional books. Sadly, we are currently short of the funds required to hire two professors and a teacher to work full-time on such a project; but this will very soon be reality.