I don't hang out in clubs or societies, even the maths/comp/sci type ones. This is mainly because I am a grade A loser, but also because I feel kind of silly sitting around listening to people go on and on about stuff you can tell they haven't a clue about.
Sometimes you just want to scream at them "STOP,STOP!! YOUR NOT MAKING ANY SENSE!! BUZZWORDS ARE NOT ENGLISH"But they'd probobly go on anyway. I've found a lot of groups are infected with types who take it too seriously and contaminate the others. And a sycopany new member will always try to bring up Star Trek or Babalyon 5 to impress the alpha geek in charge, who ALWAYS abuses his position. Maybe it's becaue I live in a wet, cold, miserable climate(not seattle).
So now if I want to repair a StorageTek machine I have to get their signed, sealed and delivered permission to do so? What a scam. Another compnay abusing the DMCA to squeeze more money out of us.
Apply this to cars. Your mechanic would have to get permission from Nissan to so much as open the bonnet and change the oil. Come to think of it so would you. You'd also need a court order to fill up your tank, because you need access to maitenence the car.
The third party company 'circumvented' the 'protections' that StorgaTek had put in place? What quailifies as circumvention these days? Turning numbers and letter into binary digits? Simply running code that happens to do something the copyright holder dosen't like? StorageTek placed 'protections' on the code? Does compiling, and maybe obfuscating, count as protection nowadays?
Sen Corruptus:"It's good for old people right?" Educated Individual:"Ummm yeah... I guess so...." Sen Corruptus:"You wouldn't like them to get lost would you?" EI:"No,no... but..." Sen Corruptus:"And what about your kids? Don't you care about them?" EI:"Of course I do! It's just..." Sen Corruptus:"So we'll tag them too. In case of pedophiles. Your not a pedophile are you?" EI:"What?! No I just don't like..." Sen Corruptus:"We'll tag everyone so no one gets lost or tries to be a pedophile." EI:"That's wrong. You can't...." Sen Corruptus:"PEDOPHILE!!! TERRORIST SYMPATHISER!!! COMMUNIST!!! OFFICER TAKE HIM AWAY!!!!" EI:"Wait I......" Sen Corruptus:"Anyone else care to disagree? Good."
That means circa 10 million people who thought that IE was the ONLY way to get on the net, found new browsers and installed the. And that's with no TV or Magazine advertising. That's amazing.
Most 13-16 year olds would have no problem getting in to see the matrix revolutions which shows kung fu kicks to the head and amounts of people getting torn apart on the ends of machine tentacles.
I find it puzzling that video games have much higher standards applied to them in comparison to movies. Consider GTA, 18-cert. For what? Swearing,car-jacking,violence. What about gone in 60 seconds? 15-cert for exactly the same stuff.
That red tape is there for a reason. The Police and other Law enforcement agencies have enormous power, and in a free society that power must be restrained.
Take a look through history, even recent US history. Law enforcement can and do abuse their power. From bashing Vietnam war protestors, to beating up innocent people to extract confessions, Law enforcers are not angels. They are people like everyone else. You consider yourself innocent and that this law will not effect you. You fail to realise that this law and laws like are the exact kinds of restrictions placed on liberties that lead to dictatorships, and that ultimatly will affect you.
If you are one of those people that believe that a dictatorship could never,ever happen in their country, then you should reevaluate your views. Democracies should always remain vigilante against those that would seek to undermine them. Nowhere is immune to the threat of an authoritarian state.
Terrorism presents a threat, only to life and limb. It presents no threat to our freedoms. We have reactionaries and politicians to do that.
Just exactly how committed can a representative be if he can be persuaded to change his mind in 23 minutes? Was he informed about the issue at all, or has he been asleep for the last three years?
I bet they had pictures of most of the switchers in 'comprimising' situations, curtoesy of the unofficial Committee to Reelect.
If these were available widley, I have no doubt that people would link them up to mp3 player and walkmen so an avatar would bop to the music for all to see as they walked around, or the name of the song floated across.
But how long before we see people walking around with T-Shirts displaying scrolling Benneton or Nike logos, animated unpaid advertisements, possibly updated wia the same AP that loads new avatars displaed on the side. We already have logos on our cloths anyway? maybe some would be proud to a 30 second commerical arounf with them
Sooner or later, your shirts will display softcore porn ads as you eat breakfast and wait for the bus. Along with bilboards, TV, radio, signposts and probobly the pavement as well!
But with Sony you have to think about SCEA approval because they don't like 2D games, but SCEE, they accept 2D games for release, but SCEA say 'no, they must be 2 in 1', or something like this, so we must follow for the European release as well, you know, two in a package
Doesn't this just confirm what many of us already knew. The industry has a congenital hatred towards 2D games, despite the fact that a good 2D romp like metal slug has no counterpart in the 3D world. So this means that SCEA think of only one thing first, graphics. Forget about gameplay, innovation, longevity. If it's not pretty we don't want it. Consquently we're all stuck with lovely looking, 'high concept' games which are all bubble and no squeak.
However I suspect SCEE are just as guilty of promoting only soccer and racing games.
If they just allowed everyone to publish every game going, there would be a lot of crap, but you'd get a lot more diamonds in the rough. Increase would not be linear of course!:E
I'm suddenly reminded of the Bastard Operator from Hell Episode where he calls in a technician to fix a broken VAX, whose sole remaining function is to host an old NetHack game or something.
That said the BOFH probobly didn't care what was running on anything.
Migration from older VAX systems is going to be a HUGE pain, not because of hardware, but because of software. Though Maybe old VAX/VMS users could migrate to XP with no noticable difference.:E
Here's a thought though. When it's time for us all to move off x86s and up to whatever eXtremanium processors they have in the future, will any of our apps be able to migrate with us? What about our java and.NET systems? Something tells me we won't have things any easier than the VAX guys when our time comes around
I tried that as well, but yum is on the blink. I just found it unfortunate that mozilla only give linux users a source file, just assumming that everyone wants to compile their apps.
Sometimes I just want a nice dependancy free rpm please.
They make installing plugins easy but installing the program itself on linux requires compliation. The windows version has an installer exe, so where's the linux rpm? They won't get many *nix newbies with this attitude. I want off Konquerer!!
I find it difficult to believ that broadcasters aren't already required to keep records permenently for historical purposes.
Just think of the millions of hours of TV that no one will be able to research. Admittedly most of it isn't of the highest quality, but still, some historian might well be interested in the future. The cost is nowadays minimal anyway. DivX, 400GB HDDs and backup tapes have made it simple to record everything that gets broadcast. Perhaps an archive of broadcasts should be recorded from all stations. I hardly think this affects anyones rights as we could all view it anyway.
While file sharing networks play a part, I don't think they are the primary cause of falling sales and revenue.
I find it more likely that customers are simply discovering FOSS alternatives to retail software, especially the bigger customers. Why should I pay for a DVD player system when I can get Xine? Why should I pay for Oracle or SQLServer when I can get MySQL? Why should I pay for Office if I can get OpenOffice? Why should I pay money for burning software if I can get k3b. Why should I pay for photoshop when I can get GIMP? Audacity? CVS? Firefox?
Admittedly some of these programs may not be for everyone, but are the tribulations of using xine really much worse than searching for warez on the net. For some yes, but I think if people know it's not pirated, they'll be more inclined to download it.
I work for a pretty large company that has offices all over the place, so e-commerce is a pretty big thing. Many sometimes work from home, but when they do it's frequently on dial up. I guess dispite its size the compnay is not going to subsidise people downloading 1000s of mp3s and DivX movies. Some use ISDN but very few have broadband. I think the ridiculous 4GB per month download limit may have something to do with it.
Happily they use company laptops and not home computers to log on. Imagine the malware if they didn't.
If the great and mighty Khan were still with us today, could he patent his Y chromosone and sue Shish for attempting to circumvent its encryption by discovering who his decendants are.
Could he sue his decendants for unauthorised 'copying' of his DNA under the DMCA?
Before you blast me as a Troll yet again this comment is meant to be a satire of the overly broad DMCA. No Mod Parent Down posts please, unless this post is actually crap... which it is.
This reminds me of something I read about digital cameras once. Apparently the product cycle for digital cameras is so rapid that one camera, by the time it was awarded camera of the year, was already out of production.
I suppose with PC assistence, designing and building just about anything has become easier. It used to take forever for ideas and techniques to spread. Nowadays if your stuck at anything, you can google for the answer. Applies more to software design, but at least it's easier for designers to find components now. Didn't it take only 6 months for the iPod designers complete the design from the outside in, using off the shelf parts. That would have been a lot harder if they didn't have the net and emails I'd wager.
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You forget. The music industry would like us all to forget the last 14 years...
Maybe they've got to him to!!
I don't hang out in clubs or societies, even the maths/comp/sci type ones. This is mainly because I am a grade A loser, but also because I feel kind of silly sitting around listening to people go on and on about stuff you can tell they haven't a clue about.
/. really. :E
Sometimes you just want to scream at them "STOP,STOP!! YOUR NOT MAKING ANY SENSE!! BUZZWORDS ARE NOT ENGLISH"But they'd probobly go on anyway. I've found a lot of groups are infected with types who take it too seriously and contaminate the others. And a sycopany new member will always try to bring up Star Trek or Babalyon 5 to impress the alpha geek in charge, who ALWAYS abuses his position. Maybe it's becaue I live in a wet, cold, miserable climate(not seattle).
It's kind of like
So now if I want to repair a StorageTek machine I have to get their signed, sealed and delivered permission to do so? What a scam. Another compnay abusing the DMCA to squeeze more money out of us.
Apply this to cars. Your mechanic would have to get permission from Nissan to so much as open the bonnet and change the oil. Come to think of it so would you. You'd also need a court order to fill up your tank, because you need access to maitenence the car.
The third party company 'circumvented' the 'protections' that StorgaTek had put in place? What quailifies as circumvention these days? Turning numbers and letter into binary digits? Simply running code that happens to do something the copyright holder dosen't like? StorageTek placed 'protections' on the code? Does compiling, and maybe obfuscating, count as protection nowadays?
Sen Corruptus:"It's good for old people right?" ... I guess so...."
Educated Individual:"Ummm yeah
Sen Corruptus:"You wouldn't like them to get lost would you?"
EI:"No,no... but..."
Sen Corruptus:"And what about your kids? Don't you care about them?"
EI:"Of course I do! It's just..."
Sen Corruptus:"So we'll tag them too. In case of pedophiles. Your not a pedophile are you?"
EI:"What?! No I just don't like..."
Sen Corruptus:"We'll tag everyone so no one gets lost or tries to be a pedophile."
EI:"That's wrong. You can't...."
Sen Corruptus:"PEDOPHILE!!! TERRORIST SYMPATHISER!!! COMMUNIST!!! OFFICER TAKE HIM AWAY!!!!"
EI:"Wait I......"
Sen Corruptus:"Anyone else care to disagree? Good."
Man, 1% is like 10 million people.
That's more than the population of most states.
That means circa 10 million people who thought that IE was the ONLY way to get on the net, found new browsers and installed the. And that's with no TV or Magazine advertising. That's amazing.
Most 13-16 year olds would have no problem getting in to see the matrix revolutions which shows kung fu kicks to the head and amounts of people getting torn apart on the ends of machine tentacles.
I find it puzzling that video games have much higher standards applied to them in comparison to movies. Consider GTA, 18-cert. For what? Swearing,car-jacking,violence. What about gone in 60 seconds? 15-cert for exactly the same stuff.
I disagree. Things are bad but at least we have the power to change society.
You might argue that democracy serves no purpose, but just think how much worse leaders would be if they did not have an election hovering over them.
All privacy rights and such aside - what do we have to hide? What do you not want the government to know about you?
Everything.
That red tape is there for a reason. The Police and other Law enforcement agencies have enormous power, and in a free society that power must be restrained.
Take a look through history, even recent US history. Law enforcement can and do abuse their power. From bashing Vietnam war protestors, to beating up innocent people to extract confessions, Law enforcers are not angels. They are people like everyone else. You consider yourself innocent and that this law will not effect you. You fail to realise that this law and laws like are the exact kinds of restrictions placed on liberties that lead to dictatorships, and that ultimatly will affect you.
If you are one of those people that believe that a dictatorship could never,ever happen in their country, then you should reevaluate your views. Democracies should always remain vigilante against those that would seek to undermine them. Nowhere is immune to the threat of an authoritarian state.
Terrorism presents a threat, only to life and limb. It presents no threat to our freedoms. We have reactionaries and politicians to do that.
Just exactly how committed can a representative be if he can be persuaded to change his mind in 23 minutes? Was he informed about the issue at all, or has he been asleep for the last three years?
I bet they had pictures of most of the switchers in 'comprimising' situations, curtoesy of the unofficial Committee to Reelect.
If these were available widley, I have no doubt that people would link them up to mp3 player and walkmen so an avatar would bop to the music for all to see as they walked around, or the name of the song floated across.
But how long before we see people walking around with T-Shirts displaying scrolling Benneton or Nike logos, animated unpaid advertisements, possibly updated wia the same AP that loads new avatars displaed on the side. We already have logos on our cloths anyway? maybe some would be proud to a 30 second commerical arounf with them
Sooner or later, your shirts will display softcore porn ads as you eat breakfast and wait for the bus. Along with bilboards, TV, radio, signposts and probobly the pavement as well!
But with Sony you have to think about SCEA approval because they don't like 2D games, but SCEE, they accept 2D games for release, but SCEA say 'no, they must be 2 in 1', or something like this, so we must follow for the European release as well, you know, two in a package
:E
Doesn't this just confirm what many of us already knew. The industry has a congenital hatred towards 2D games, despite the fact that a good 2D romp like metal slug has no counterpart in the 3D world. So this means that SCEA think of only one thing first, graphics. Forget about gameplay, innovation, longevity. If it's not pretty we don't want it. Consquently we're all stuck with lovely looking, 'high concept' games which are all bubble and no squeak.
However I suspect SCEE are just as guilty of promoting only soccer and racing games.
If they just allowed everyone to publish every game going, there would be a lot of crap, but you'd get a lot more diamonds in the rough. Increase would not be linear of course!
On top of that terrorists are undoubtedly planning to use prayer to increase the output of the sun to burn away all infidels.
We cannot allow a Sun Worship Gap!!!
Considering they make about $300k per line of code, I should think they keep peoples minds firmly on the ground.
I always wondered how fast Metroid prime could be finished in. I wish I had broadband so I could download the files before I'm eighty.
As usual the biggest failing of these First person adventures is that they end. Though in the case of Metroid, there was a lot of extra stuff to do.
I'm suddenly reminded of the Bastard Operator from Hell Episode where he calls in a technician to fix a broken VAX, whose sole remaining function is to host an old NetHack game or something.
:E
.NET systems? Something tells me we won't have things any easier than the VAX guys when our time comes around
That said the BOFH probobly didn't care what was running on anything.
Migration from older VAX systems is going to be a HUGE pain, not because of hardware, but because of software. Though Maybe old VAX/VMS users could migrate to XP with no noticable difference.
Here's a thought though. When it's time for us all to move off x86s and up to whatever eXtremanium processors they have in the future, will any of our apps be able to migrate with us? What about our java and
I tried that as well, but yum is on the blink. I just found it unfortunate that mozilla only give linux users a source file, just assumming that everyone wants to compile their apps.
Sometimes I just want a nice dependancy free rpm please.
They make installing plugins easy but installing the program itself on linux requires compliation. The windows version has an installer exe, so where's the linux rpm? They won't get many *nix newbies with this attitude. I want off Konquerer!!
a man is getting respect for his intelligence, on daytime TV. Awesome
Respect. On Daytime TV?
Interesting.
I find it difficult to believ that broadcasters aren't already required to keep records permenently for historical purposes.
Just think of the millions of hours of TV that no one will be able to research. Admittedly most of it isn't of the highest quality, but still, some historian might well be interested in the future.
The cost is nowadays minimal anyway. DivX, 400GB HDDs and backup tapes have made it simple to record everything that gets broadcast. Perhaps an archive of broadcasts should be recorded from all stations. I hardly think this affects anyones rights as we could all view it anyway.
As an aside it's also very sad when brief exposures of a naked human breast are considered indecent.
While file sharing networks play a part, I don't think they are the primary cause of falling sales and revenue.
I find it more likely that customers are simply discovering FOSS alternatives to retail software, especially the bigger customers.
Why should I pay for a DVD player system when I can get Xine? Why should I pay for Oracle or SQLServer when I can get MySQL? Why should I pay for Office if I can get OpenOffice? Why should I pay money for burning software if I can get k3b. Why should I pay for photoshop when I can get GIMP? Audacity? CVS? Firefox?
Admittedly some of these programs may not be for everyone, but are the tribulations of using xine really much worse than searching for warez on the net. For some yes, but I think if people know it's not pirated, they'll be more inclined to download it.
I work for a pretty large company that has offices all over the place, so e-commerce is a pretty big thing. Many sometimes work from home, but when they do it's frequently on dial up. I guess dispite its size the compnay is not going to subsidise people downloading 1000s of mp3s and DivX movies. Some use ISDN but very few have broadband. I think the ridiculous 4GB per month download limit may have something to do with it.
Happily they use company laptops and not home computers to log on. Imagine the malware if they didn't.
If the great and mighty Khan were still with us today, could he patent his Y chromosone and sue Shish for attempting to circumvent its encryption by discovering who his decendants are.
Could he sue his decendants for unauthorised 'copying' of his DNA under the DMCA?
Before you blast me as a Troll yet again this comment is meant to be a satire of the overly broad DMCA. No Mod Parent Down posts please, unless this post is actually crap... which it is.
Rest assured, whatever the fix is, Cisco or some other company will patent it and then charge us all for using it.
The patent will probobly be so ambiguously worded, that ALL workarounds to the problem will be covered by it.
This reminds me of something I read about digital cameras once. Apparently the product cycle for digital cameras is so rapid that one camera, by the time it was awarded camera of the year, was already out of production.
I suppose with PC assistence, designing and building just about anything has become easier. It used to take forever for ideas and techniques to spread. Nowadays if your stuck at anything, you can google for the answer. Applies more to software design, but at least it's easier for designers to find components now. Didn't it take only 6 months for the iPod designers complete the design from the outside in, using off the shelf parts. That would have been a lot harder if they didn't have the net and emails I'd wager.