In Windows, you'd have to click Start->Find->Files, then beat the clippy equivalent into submission, and then type in your search term.
How about "WindowsKey + F"? The first time in, turn off the stupid puppy, and set up the options the correct way, then a search is always just a WindowsKey+F away. No, I don't think the Windows search is all that great, but it's not that complicated or difficult to get to, either. You don't even have to switch to a terminal window. It's easier for people to learn a few keyboard shortcuts than to learn to understand a CLI. I'm not saying the GUI is better, but it's simpler for most people out there. For power users, there's CLI.
"What makes the location so important is that it is permanently lit"
Even during a lunar eclipse?;)
A lunar eclipse is veiwed from the earth when the moon gets between the sun and the earth. From the moon, there are no lunar eclipses. I'm sure they've got "earth eclipses" (terra eclipses?), but they don't have lunar eclipses.
When part of the moon gets in its own shadow, that corresponds with what we call "night" here on earth.
If you really want to research about Mormons, you should not only include the official websites, but also consider other, possibly critical sources
It's like judging about 9/11 by only watching Michael Moore's 9/11
I'm not disagreeing with your point at all, but would like to point out that there is an extreme amount of misinformation out there about the LDS church. There are good, objective non-LDS resources out there, but you have to be careful, because there's a lot of crap out there, too.
Do you have any idea what lengths the LDS church goes to to help the poor and the sick? Not for its own members only, and not in the United States only. The LDS church has a tremendous welfare system set up that a lot of people look to as an example. World leaders meet with church officials to learn about this. The church reaches out to victims of disasters and disease and poverty all around the world.
Furthermore, abortion doesn't have anything to do with censorship or welfare. You may believe it is a person's right. Many people, including myself, believe that it is barbaric and disgusting. It's not like a surgery to remove a tumor, it's a person.
Also, in regards to the grandparent's statements on the plaza the church bought from the city... The church bought the land, made it beautiful, and people can certainly still walk across it as they have always done. Twice a year protestors gather en masses around the gates of Temple Square and say whatever they want to, true or grossly untrue about the church, and they're allowed. That street that has now been turned into a beautiful plaza was never a place for protestors to gather forany reason. It was just a street. If a church buys a lot from the city, builds a church there, and then doesn't want people picketing on that lot, I think that's reasonable. In this case, the church just bought a street thatran between Temple Square, which the church owns, and some of the church's office buildings, and made it beautiful. If anybody wants to walk across it, andin a personal conversation with a friend, talk about how they don't like the church, they are welcome to it. They just can't shout out to all of the people about things that the church deems inappropriate.
According to the AntiSpyware Beta end-user license agreement (EULA), Microsoft will reimburse direct damages up to $5 for problems associated with the new downloadable tool that wards off spyware, adware and any other "potentially unwanted software."
They are talking only about the Beta for the MS Anti-Spyware. Everything in this/. post seems to make it look like it's MS software in general. Sorry, you only get money if the Anit-Spyware program screws up your stuff.
Kaleidescape does store the DVD copies encrypted on the server. It makes a bit-for bit copy. The decryption is done at the player. Everything streamed across the network is encrypted.
And if you can back them up, there goes all the new copies to replace worn, scratched, broken, or misplaced movies.
But the Kaleidescape isn't much of a backup solution. If you lose your original disc, the file on the Kaleidescape server is only good for watching on a Kaleidescape player. There's no way to get back a new copy for the server.
Also, a disk imported now will always have the limitations of the current format, so the motivation is still there to buy "another copy in DVD-purple-ray-extreme-DVD3 format...", or one with newer, *specialer* features. The only way the Kaleidescape is a threat is that the same movie can be watched in multiple locations of a house at once, and I still think that's a weak argument. It's so frustrating to see the MPAA or the DVD-CCA avoid the evolution of the home multimedia experience.
The truth is, that someone that pays over $30,000 for a DVD system (the people that can afford the system are probably going to not settle for the bare minimum $27,000 configuration) are not interested in screwing over the MPAA. Many of these customers are probably music and movie stars anyhow. They buy it for the unique experience of the well-built UI and the convenience of the system. They don't care if a DVD costs $20 or $100.
Of course, the lawsuit is more about the long term possibilities... that someday this type of system will be available at lower prices, and then the studios will get ripped off. But still, the lawsuit is absurd. Especially since the complaint is that this device permits the "wholsale copying of DVDs, which CSS was designed to prevent." If that were true then any DVD-ROM drive would be in violation. I think CSS is not so much to prevent copying of DVDs, but to prevent unauthorized playback. I wish the DVD-CCA would stop abusing the purpose of their precious CSS.
The Kaleidescape is a great device, I would be very sad to see it get buried by people who see it as the threat that it isn't.
From everybody's stories about which one ran first, second, then third, and there are always things left over after each one, I'd say that's the nature of spyware removal tools.
It's been my experience that with the few tools I've tried, there's always stuff left over. Like someone else said, it may be Microsoft's now, but it was a different brand before. I've never had any real problem with malware on my PC's (home and work), but for my coworkers' and family members' computers, I've never really seen any of the removal tools that were 100% effective.
If I'm driving my car really really fast (and of course, we're talking close to the speed of light), my vehicle actually becomes shorter
What really freaked me out is the fact that since you're in the car, the car doesn't seem shorter to you (your velocity relative to the car is zero), but to you and the car, the rest of the universe is moving really fast, so the rest of the universe gets shorter. From what I understand, it's not just about apperaing smaller, it's actually becoming smaller... so you and your car are smaller according to the universe, and the universe is smaller according to you and the car.
Crazy stuff, that's why I went into electronics instead of Quantum Physics, I guess
If you don't have FOSS apps available for Windows, that means there's more apps that people are going to buy for Windows, putitng money in the pockets of MS and other non-OSS companies.
If every user has to make a determined choice to only use FOSS apps and OS, or only use proprietary apps and OS, then you're going to end up converting less people and making the FOSS community sound like a bunch of whacko zealots to the rest of the world. Why would people risk switching when it's all or nothing? Only the geeks, like us here on/. would.
Sphere didn't work on my work PC until just recently, and it's not too bad, but I like the interface of Spatial Research better. SphereXP has a point of view where you are at the center of a sphere, looking out at your applications, which are anywhere inside the sphere, where Spatial Research's implementation is where you're on the outside, the applications are all on a board at the center, and you can rotate around the outside perimeter. You can't rotate up and down, but you can side to side. There's a few cool effects in there. Of course, I haven't looked at Spatial Research since my trial version expired... SphereXP doesn't have trial or non-trial ware right now, as it's still beta. Not sure what that guy's plan is when it's not Beta.
You're right, if cell phones don't interfere with communications equipment, it's probably not the FAA's job to regulate it. But the airlines should regulate it. But they probably won't. The airlines don't do a whole lot to help make me comfortable when I fly anyway.
In this case, the CAT5 is refering to a standard 100 BaseT IP network. I don't know much about their protocol, but I would think it shouldn't have to be encrypted or anything... the only thing being transmitted is the already encrypted data that's on the DVD. It's not making a copy of the DVD across the network (except when you first import a disc, and even then, it's just going to one place where it can't be shared with any non-Kaleidescape computer).
Playing a movie asynchronously in two locations is possible with the Kaleidescape, and be on the fringes of legality, put that's not what the DVDCCA is up in arms about. Their complaining about the "the wholesale copying of protected DVDs". Wholesale is hardly the word to describe it. This doesn't make DVDs available on a peer to peer network or in any other way to the rest of the Internet. It doesn't even make them available to any non-Kaleidescape devices. The decryption doesn't happen until the data gets to the player unit, just like any other DVD player, so this doesn't make copying a DVD any more feasible than any PC with a DVD-ROM drive. The DVDCCA needs to look at exactly what the Kaleidescape does and what it doesn't do, instead of freaking out because *Oh my gosh!* something gets copied.
If someone wanted to buy one of these to make copies of rented or borrowed movies, It's not going to work... At $27000 (you'd have to spend more to actually get one that would hold the maximum number of DVDs), and at $20/DVD, you'd have to *steal* 1350 DVDs to break even. The system doesn't hold nearly that many DVDs.
I know this is all about precedence and the "someday there will be cheaper systems that do this", but come on. This system does not INDUCE copyright violation. It does not make copyright violation cost effective. It does not make it possible to share a DVD with other users in different homes. Far from it. The DVDCCA needs to do the math themselves, then realize that the only decryption that ever happens is in the player unit itself, so there's no way to get a copy of the decrypted data.
I don't think the parent understands the market for this device. Products that are engineered for the high-end market don't use off the shelf hardware, and they have major hardware and software engineering that goes into them. Everything from the UI to the Audio and Video Hardware to the network protocols has had many many hours of research, design and testing. This is much more than a Dell PC that shares movies to other Dells. Plus, the people who are willing to buy this kind of system aren't the Slashdot-do-it-yourself types who will spend hours screwing around with kernels and config files and daemons and everything. These people just pay their A/V dealers to take the thing out of the box, plug it into the network, and turn it on. That's all it takes, and it works! I've set this one up before, and it is that easy, because the product is engineered to death at the factory, not in some/.er's basement lab. And don't forget that this is designed to be controlled by super high-end home automation systems, like 15" Crestron touchscreens, that also control everything else in the house.
There's a whole hgh-end electronics world that most of the/. crowd will never understand, who will always say "Why would someone pay for that when I could build it?" The answer is, because it's already built much better, it's easier to use, and they have the $$$.
The Kaleidescape is simply awesome. I've set one up and used it a few times, and it's incredible. The interface is so smooth, easy and fun to use, it's just a really cool DVD system. Paired with a high-end Vantage, Crestron, or AMX touchscreen for control, it has got to be the best movie experience around.
It does skip the ads on the disc, and allows you to go straight to the movie, but it also lets you navigate through the DVD menus.
I think this lawsuit is a load of crap, because the copy made of the disc is an exact copy, it doesn't store a decrypted version, the decryption happens all within the player at the other end of the network, just like a normal DVD player. Also, not that it couldn't be hacked, but the server doesn't provide any way to get into it's file system from the network to get at the stored copies.
This could potentially be used to *steal* copies of a friends DVD or of a rented movie, but, as mentioned by others already, the people that would use this aren't the type to steal movies, or even to borrow or rent movies. It would be a pity and a shame to see the DVD industry come down on such an incredibly well-built and useful product.
IANAEconomics person, but I've noticed that $1 per song for a $12 song album than buying a $15 - 20 physical CD, but it still seems to be working, at least for iTunes. I realize that there are things that aren't the same between the two markets, but they are similar in some ways.
Making shows downloadable doesn't mean that people won't still watch them on TV. If there's a song I have on a CD, I'll still listen to it on the radio if it comes on, if it's a good song. Even if I had a copy of my favorite Seinfeld episode (Bizzarro Jerry) I'd still watch it on TBS or Fox if I see it's on, because I like the show. It's not like the broadcast TV market is necessarily going to lose out. After all, there's so many series that are coming out on DVDs, this is just a new, iTunes-style way to distribute the video.
It's really not that different, IMHO, from the relationship between radio, CDs and iTMS.
Does it still require the MFC to be compiled ?
If this is the case I then fail to see the interest of this especially when it requires an Xbox and then Micorsoft to gain alittle money from the operation.
They're saying that it's a port of the XBox app, which has already been around for a while. The new app is a Windows-based product and does not require an XBox
I'd be okay with a plug-in, but Firefox doesn't need extra bloat, and I don't need another way to search for things on my own computer.
Actually, I'd love a better way to search for files on my computer. XP's file search seems like it's slower than 98's, and sometimes Windows even starts to freeze up if I screw around with files while it's searching. It seems worse with indexing turned on. It's kind of worthless to not be able to use my computer while it takes 5 whole minutes to find a file.
Google's desktop search is better, except that it only searches for certain kinds of files, so any of the source code files I usually have to search for at work won't ever be found by Google.
That said, I think it definitely belongs as an extension, and not a part of the main browser, but the extension should be developed by Mozilla and not a 3rd party developer.
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In Windows, you'd have to click Start->Find->Files, then beat the clippy equivalent into submission, and then type in your search term.
How about "WindowsKey + F"? The first time in, turn off the stupid puppy, and set up the options the correct way, then a search is always just a WindowsKey+F away. No, I don't think the Windows search is all that great, but it's not that complicated or difficult to get to, either. You don't even have to switch to a terminal window. It's easier for people to learn a few keyboard shortcuts than to learn to understand a CLI. I'm not saying the GUI is better, but it's simpler for most people out there. For power users, there's CLI.
should I write 'farmonauts'?
Maybe try "agronauts"?
LOL! Yes, it would seem that today there is a "running theme", Slashdot style.
For those of you who still don't get it:
World's Biggest Hacker Held [slashdot.org]
followed immediately by...
World's Fastest Inkjet Printer? [slashdot.org]
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The funnest place on da IntarWeb! [intergalac...sement.com]
Yeah, your sig fits nicely with the theme, too
You didn't think I got rich by writing checks, did you?
"What makes the location so important is that it is permanently lit"
;)
Even during a lunar eclipse?
A lunar eclipse is veiwed from the earth when the moon gets between the sun and the earth. From the moon, there are no lunar eclipses. I'm sure they've got "earth eclipses" (terra eclipses?), but they don't have lunar eclipses.
When part of the moon gets in its own shadow, that corresponds with what we call "night" here on earth.
If you really want to research about Mormons, you should not only include the official websites, but also consider other, possibly critical sources It's like judging about 9/11 by only watching Michael Moore's 9/11
I'm not disagreeing with your point at all, but would like to point out that there is an extreme amount of misinformation out there about the LDS church. There are good, objective non-LDS resources out there, but you have to be careful, because there's a lot of crap out there, too.
Do you have any idea what lengths the LDS church goes to to help the poor and the sick? Not for its own members only, and not in the United States only. The LDS church has a tremendous welfare system set up that a lot of people look to as an example. World leaders meet with church officials to learn about this. The church reaches out to victims of disasters and disease and poverty all around the world.
Furthermore, abortion doesn't have anything to do with censorship or welfare. You may believe it is a person's right. Many people, including myself, believe that it is barbaric and disgusting. It's not like a surgery to remove a tumor, it's a person.
Also, in regards to the grandparent's statements on the plaza the church bought from the city... The church bought the land, made it beautiful, and people can certainly still walk across it as they have always done. Twice a year protestors gather en masses around the gates of Temple Square and say whatever they want to, true or grossly untrue about the church, and they're allowed. That street that has now been turned into a beautiful plaza was never a place for protestors to gather forany reason. It was just a street. If a church buys a lot from the city, builds a church there, and then doesn't want people picketing on that lot, I think that's reasonable. In this case, the church just bought a street thatran between Temple Square, which the church owns, and some of the church's office buildings, and made it beautiful. If anybody wants to walk across it, andin a personal conversation with a friend, talk about how they don't like the church, they are welcome to it. They just can't shout out to all of the people about things that the church deems inappropriate.
Just my $.02
According to the AntiSpyware Beta end-user license agreement (EULA), Microsoft will reimburse direct damages up to $5 for problems associated with the new downloadable tool that wards off spyware, adware and any other "potentially unwanted software."
/. post seems to make it look like it's MS software in general. Sorry, you only get money if the Anit-Spyware program screws up your stuff.
They are talking only about the Beta for the MS Anti-Spyware. Everything in this
Kaleidescape does store the DVD copies encrypted on the server. It makes a bit-for bit copy. The decryption is done at the player. Everything streamed across the network is encrypted.
And if you can back them up, there goes all the new copies to replace worn, scratched, broken, or misplaced movies.
But the Kaleidescape isn't much of a backup solution. If you lose your original disc, the file on the Kaleidescape server is only good for watching on a Kaleidescape player. There's no way to get back a new copy for the server.
Also, a disk imported now will always have the limitations of the current format, so the motivation is still there to buy "another copy in DVD-purple-ray-extreme-DVD3 format...", or one with newer, *specialer* features. The only way the Kaleidescape is a threat is that the same movie can be watched in multiple locations of a house at once, and I still think that's a weak argument. It's so frustrating to see the MPAA or the DVD-CCA avoid the evolution of the home multimedia experience.
The truth is, that someone that pays over $30,000 for a DVD system (the people that can afford the system are probably going to not settle for the bare minimum $27,000 configuration) are not interested in screwing over the MPAA. Many of these customers are probably music and movie stars anyhow. They buy it for the unique experience of the well-built UI and the convenience of the system. They don't care if a DVD costs $20 or $100.
Of course, the lawsuit is more about the long term possibilities... that someday this type of system will be available at lower prices, and then the studios will get ripped off. But still, the lawsuit is absurd. Especially since the complaint is that this device permits the "wholsale copying of DVDs, which CSS was designed to prevent." If that were true then any DVD-ROM drive would be in violation. I think CSS is not so much to prevent copying of DVDs, but to prevent unauthorized playback. I wish the DVD-CCA would stop abusing the purpose of their precious CSS.
The Kaleidescape is a great device, I would be very sad to see it get buried by people who see it as the threat that it isn't.
From everybody's stories about which one ran first, second, then third, and there are always things left over after each one, I'd say that's the nature of spyware removal tools.
It's been my experience that with the few tools I've tried, there's always stuff left over. Like someone else said, it may be Microsoft's now, but it was a different brand before. I've never had any real problem with malware on my PC's (home and work), but for my coworkers' and family members' computers, I've never really seen any of the removal tools that were 100% effective.
Control4 does use Zigbee
But what you are talking about doesn't even have anything to do with quantum physics.
Good Point. I guess that makes it obvious that I don't know anything about quantum physics, eh? How embarassing...
If I'm driving my car really really fast (and of course, we're talking close to the speed of light), my vehicle actually becomes shorter
What really freaked me out is the fact that since you're in the car, the car doesn't seem shorter to you (your velocity relative to the car is zero), but to you and the car, the rest of the universe is moving really fast, so the rest of the universe gets shorter. From what I understand, it's not just about apperaing smaller, it's actually becoming smaller... so you and your car are smaller according to the universe, and the universe is smaller according to you and the car.
Crazy stuff, that's why I went into electronics instead of Quantum Physics, I guess
If you don't have FOSS apps available for Windows, that means there's more apps that people are going to buy for Windows, putitng money in the pockets of MS and other non-OSS companies.
/. would.
If every user has to make a determined choice to only use FOSS apps and OS, or only use proprietary apps and OS, then you're going to end up converting less people and making the FOSS community sound like a bunch of whacko zealots to the rest of the world. Why would people risk switching when it's all or nothing? Only the geeks, like us here on
Sphere didn't work on my work PC until just recently, and it's not too bad, but I like the interface of Spatial Research better. SphereXP has a point of view where you are at the center of a sphere, looking out at your applications, which are anywhere inside the sphere, where Spatial Research's implementation is where you're on the outside, the applications are all on a board at the center, and you can rotate around the outside perimeter. You can't rotate up and down, but you can side to side. There's a few cool effects in there. Of course, I haven't looked at Spatial Research since my trial version expired... SphereXP doesn't have trial or non-trial ware right now, as it's still beta. Not sure what that guy's plan is when it's not Beta.
You're right, if cell phones don't interfere with communications equipment, it's probably not the FAA's job to regulate it. But the airlines should regulate it. But they probably won't. The airlines don't do a whole lot to help make me comfortable when I fly anyway.
In this case, the CAT5 is refering to a standard 100 BaseT IP network. I don't know much about their protocol, but I would think it shouldn't have to be encrypted or anything... the only thing being transmitted is the already encrypted data that's on the DVD. It's not making a copy of the DVD across the network (except when you first import a disc, and even then, it's just going to one place where it can't be shared with any non-Kaleidescape computer).
Playing a movie asynchronously in two locations is possible with the Kaleidescape, and be on the fringes of legality, put that's not what the DVDCCA is up in arms about. Their complaining about the "the wholesale copying of protected DVDs". Wholesale is hardly the word to describe it. This doesn't make DVDs available on a peer to peer network or in any other way to the rest of the Internet. It doesn't even make them available to any non-Kaleidescape devices. The decryption doesn't happen until the data gets to the player unit, just like any other DVD player, so this doesn't make copying a DVD any more feasible than any PC with a DVD-ROM drive. The DVDCCA needs to look at exactly what the Kaleidescape does and what it doesn't do, instead of freaking out because *Oh my gosh!* something gets copied.
If someone wanted to buy one of these to make copies of rented or borrowed movies, It's not going to work... At $27000 (you'd have to spend more to actually get one that would hold the maximum number of DVDs), and at $20/DVD, you'd have to *steal* 1350 DVDs to break even. The system doesn't hold nearly that many DVDs.
I know this is all about precedence and the "someday there will be cheaper systems that do this", but come on. This system does not INDUCE copyright violation. It does not make copyright violation cost effective. It does not make it possible to share a DVD with other users in different homes. Far from it. The DVDCCA needs to do the math themselves, then realize that the only decryption that ever happens is in the player unit itself, so there's no way to get a copy of the decrypted data.
I don't think the parent understands the market for this device. Products that are engineered for the high-end market don't use off the shelf hardware, and they have major hardware and software engineering that goes into them. Everything from the UI to the Audio and Video Hardware to the network protocols has had many many hours of research, design and testing. This is much more than a Dell PC that shares movies to other Dells. Plus, the people who are willing to buy this kind of system aren't the Slashdot-do-it-yourself types who will spend hours screwing around with kernels and config files and daemons and everything. These people just pay their A/V dealers to take the thing out of the box, plug it into the network, and turn it on. That's all it takes, and it works! I've set this one up before, and it is that easy, because the product is engineered to death at the factory, not in some /.er's basement lab. And don't forget that this is designed to be controlled by super high-end home automation systems, like 15" Crestron touchscreens, that also control everything else in the house.
/. crowd will never understand, who will always say "Why would someone pay for that when I could build it?" The answer is, because it's already built much better, it's easier to use, and they have the $$$.
There's a whole hgh-end electronics world that most of the
The Kaleidescape is simply awesome. I've set one up and used it a few times, and it's incredible. The interface is so smooth, easy and fun to use, it's just a really cool DVD system. Paired with a high-end Vantage, Crestron, or AMX touchscreen for control, it has got to be the best movie experience around.
It does skip the ads on the disc, and allows you to go straight to the movie, but it also lets you navigate through the DVD menus.
I think this lawsuit is a load of crap, because the copy made of the disc is an exact copy, it doesn't store a decrypted version, the decryption happens all within the player at the other end of the network, just like a normal DVD player. Also, not that it couldn't be hacked, but the server doesn't provide any way to get into it's file system from the network to get at the stored copies.
This could potentially be used to *steal* copies of a friends DVD or of a rented movie, but, as mentioned by others already, the people that would use this aren't the type to steal movies, or even to borrow or rent movies. It would be a pity and a shame to see the DVD industry come down on such an incredibly well-built and useful product.
IANAEconomics person, but I've noticed that $1 per song for a $12 song album than buying a $15 - 20 physical CD, but it still seems to be working, at least for iTunes. I realize that there are things that aren't the same between the two markets, but they are similar in some ways.
Making shows downloadable doesn't mean that people won't still watch them on TV. If there's a song I have on a CD, I'll still listen to it on the radio if it comes on, if it's a good song. Even if I had a copy of my favorite Seinfeld episode (Bizzarro Jerry) I'd still watch it on TBS or Fox if I see it's on, because I like the show. It's not like the broadcast TV market is necessarily going to lose out. After all, there's so many series that are coming out on DVDs, this is just a new, iTunes-style way to distribute the video.
It's really not that different, IMHO, from the relationship between radio, CDs and iTMS.
Does it still require the MFC to be compiled ? If this is the case I then fail to see the interest of this especially when it requires an Xbox and then Micorsoft to gain alittle money from the operation.
They're saying that it's a port of the XBox app, which has already been around for a while. The new app is a Windows-based product and does not require an XBox
I'd be okay with a plug-in, but Firefox doesn't need extra bloat, and I don't need another way to search for things on my own computer.
Actually, I'd love a better way to search for files on my computer. XP's file search seems like it's slower than 98's, and sometimes Windows even starts to freeze up if I screw around with files while it's searching. It seems worse with indexing turned on. It's kind of worthless to not be able to use my computer while it takes 5 whole minutes to find a file.
Google's desktop search is better, except that it only searches for certain kinds of files, so any of the source code files I usually have to search for at work won't ever be found by Google.
That said, I think it definitely belongs as an extension, and not a part of the main browser, but the extension should be developed by Mozilla and not a 3rd party developer.