It almost makes me wish that the government spent more money on big publically funded projects like this
What Powers and several others in the group find remarkable...the extraordinary cost of all they items they have found - items the agency discarded.
unless i am wrong here, that was my tax $$, spent for government items that where then discarded/sold for what must have been a pittance.
yeah - let's have some more big, wasteful government...which benefits no one.
half the money invested in the place could have paid for education programs out the ass...but gee, i am so glad that the NSA just basically threw it away.
Or, rather, it makes it seem that way to the user. In reality, when you insert an audio CD and tell Aura to add its songs to your database, it rips raw audio from the CD first, making it immediately and transparently available for playback. Actual encoding to MP3 can then happen in the background later on. As a result, consumers can create a digital database of their CD collections more easily than they would be able to do on their computers. Smart.
What about all the legal mumbo jumbo?
The important lesson here is that Be is not calling the shots on this. Be's OEM customers will decide what kinds of protection mechanisms an Aura device should have, and Be will tailor the technology to that
this worries me...it has been proven that many times it is not the customer (read:ME) who drives the market, but the lawyers (who "know" what problems a device like this could cause - eg litigation from the RIAA) and marketers (who think it'll need to be eXtreme or be some cool green color of thermoplastic.)
this device looks ready for primetime "secure" music methods...send in the lawyers.
other than that...can i have one in all black with orange lights to match my amp??
read it up and let me know if i need to check [my] facts about this....
i particularly like this quote from the article attributing creations to Bob Taylor: Now retired, Taylor says there isn't anything on today's PC that isn't a legacy of the Alto project, from the display to the software to the GUI.
Apple (Jobs and engineer cronies) stealing the entire "look and feel" from the now floundering Xerox (PARC) was OK??
please...the entire concept of "look and feel" is so overblown. a good part of all GUIs borrow from each other in that dept. hell, we'd be using command lines for life if they didn't.
here's a conference paper that has some of the ideas of the study...it is not merely limited to programmers though, but it is relevant and written by one of the authors.
i work for a Fortune 200 company, we're kinda big but not overwhelmingly huge...we just had a whole gaggle of lawyers pour over our license agreements while our internal IT dept had to assess all of our machines to make sure we were compliant...that all cost $$ that could have gone into my profit sharing!
anything that makes it easier for us to do our jobs and saves money - double word score. i feel good that Royal Dutch/Shell had to see this too which will add some relevance to the truth that Linux is not the TCO nightmare the MS purports it to be.
With Linux companies can quickly add or remove computers without worrying about licenses for the operating software.
i know it has been debated that some companies think MS is better for lower TCO b/c of their huge programming staff and vast CS minions, but it appears that Royal Dutch/Shell is leaning towards proving Linux is more cost effective. a step in the right direction for sure.
i hope for the latter. we'll see. i'm leaving late today so it'll be about 6:30 or 7PM CST before i get there...i doubt anyone will be home but i'll be able to see what kinda flim-flam operation he has going.
the comparison chart listed it as available in version 2.0....
this thread on the TiVo forums discuss the dates as to when 2.0 will be out. appears i mis-posted that this was an available feature, but it does appear that it is on the horizon.
TiVo has truely changed the way i watch TV. i used to miss the dual daily simpsons' episodes b/c i was never home from work...now i TiVo a whole week and watch them at my leisure.
TiVo also has done a great job of recording some wonderful shows that i would have never seen and would have never know about, such as Scandalize My Name
i fully recommend picking one of these units up...it is well worth it if you are like me and watch little TV b/c it conflicts with your daily schedule.
Here is a comparison between the two. i have a TiVO and have been going over the details of the unit with interested people at work. IMHO, the TiVo has several features which make it a much better unit than the Replay, such as:
1. Converting the buffering to recording (Replay doesn't support this.)
2. Browse all channels by time (Replay has a truly crappy channel interface compared with TiVo.)
3. Setting a "Season Pass" for a show on any timeslot (Replay doesn't support this.)
there are a bunch more. ReplayTV is failing b/c it's business model was flawed (hmmm - anyone remember the Macintosh from the 80s...yeah, don't license the hardware) and b/c it lacks some great features that TiVo has...30 second skip button be damned.
he's not talking about posting of stories to public forums. read the article and then the paper. he's overwhelmingly talking about items contained on our personal HDDs: email, notes, papers, spreadsheets...ie personal stuff.
the expectation of his paper is to raise the idea of "when does something you deleted die?" his fear is that it doesn't. ever.
but as a general question: what makes email i delete any different that voice tapes i erase, which later can be recovered? are we going to excuse Nixon now? where do we draw the distinction between media types?
take a peek at the back of whatever CD you can find. then look at the info published inside. they lyrics will be published with permission from "Devil in My Gig Bag Music" (that's for the band Caviar.) the company in quotes is registered by the band with ASCAP, not the label. the bands own their own lyrics.
as for my example - Caviar are friends of mine and yes, they own their lyrics.
also, if you run a bar and live music is played, you should pay ASCAP a yearly fee which would cover you for bands playing "cover-tunes." and believe it or not, ASCAP enforces this by sending detectives to bars where bands are playing, seeing if bands cover songs by ASCAP artists (eg Freebird by Lynard Skynard) and then if they have not paid the yearly ASCAP fee, they sue them (or offer them the chance to buy one with a fine attached. ) this happened to my buddy's bar in TX. i never knew that existed.
ASCAP, as i understand, it is an organization that looks out for the well-being of the artists.
RIAA is an organization that looks out for the record labels.
that's not how the DMCA interprets it and it appears the the RIAA is going to attempt to put a system in place that would accept the rules of the DMCA. once set up and functioning, it is, IMHO, much harder to repeal the Act.
i readily agree that radio streamed webcasts are the same as radio broadcasts in the traditional manner, but my fear is that, with the DMCA being so poorly written and implemented and the RIAA holding so much of the power over artists - that this may actually work. how awful!
two of my friends at work both pre-ordered units from EBWorld. they got emails this week saying that people that had not pre-ordered prior to July 1, 2000 would not be receiving their units on the Oct 26th release date.
Looking bad beating that weekend sales record during the Japanese release.
On top of that, in most places in the US, cable and the telcos have an under-the-table non-compete agreement. Most people either get one or the other (or neither). That means that people don't really have choice in the matter and therefore have no interest in trying to promote one tech over the other.
that is the most blantent load of BS i have read in weeks.
in houston, TimeWarner (RoadRunner) and SWBT (SBC) are at each others throats daily. talks of lawsuits and such are a common event in the local fishwrap.
just sos ya knows - i qualified for both DSL and Cable and went with cable. why? well, after getting my cable installed, SWBT called me 6 weeks later to let me know that they could set my appointment for install. six weeks?? plus a year contract. fuggeddaboutit!
see here or here for extra details, including the fact that this will be for American Express consumer and small business cardholders in the United States.
so it's a step, but not a huge one. of course, bill murray said it best in What About Bob - Baby Steps!
i think what is at issue here is the age and maturity. when you were 13 what did you think of your parents? were you fully developed mentally?
sure you knew right from wrong, but in my experience, the older i get i am able to look back, reflect upon myself, my actions, my life and realize my foibles, follies, and failures.
at 13, i thought i was the smartest person on the planet. i didn't need anyone telling me how to make my own decisions. i knew right from wrong, made my decisions based on my set of experiences to that point and was pleased with the good/bad/worst results all along b/c I had made the decision.
was i stupid?
uhhh - i guess. but all the tests i took said i was of above normal intelligence.
did i make some really ignorant mistakes based on hard headedness and lack of experience? yep.
i think it would be morally repugnant to allow a 13 yr old to intermingle with an 18 yr old boy. how do i know? i have one of each as a sibling - 13 yr old female high school freshman, 18 yr old male college freshman.
it's not darwinism - it's a matter of being a parent. parents protect their young in all species - thank god we don't eat ours when they look like they might hamper the litter!!
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It almost makes me wish that the government spent more money on big publically funded projects like this
What Powers and several others in the group find remarkable...the extraordinary cost of all they items they have found - items the agency discarded.
unless i am wrong here, that was my tax $$, spent for government items that where then discarded/sold for what must have been a pittance.
yeah - let's have some more big, wasteful government...which benefits no one.
half the money invested in the place could have paid for education programs out the ass...but gee, i am so glad that the NSA just basically threw it away.
Or, rather, it makes it seem that way to the user. In reality, when you insert an audio CD and tell Aura to add its songs to your database, it rips raw audio from the CD first, making it immediately and transparently available for playback. Actual encoding to MP3 can then happen in the background later on. As a result, consumers can create a digital database of their CD collections more easily than they would be able to do on their computers. Smart.
What about all the legal mumbo jumbo?
The important lesson here is that Be is not calling the shots on this. Be's OEM customers will decide what kinds of protection mechanisms an Aura device should have, and Be will tailor the technology to that
this worries me...it has been proven that many times it is not the customer (read:ME) who drives the market, but the lawyers (who "know" what problems a device like this could cause - eg litigation from the RIAA) and marketers (who think it'll need to be eXtreme or be some cool green color of thermoplastic.)
this device looks ready for primetime "secure" music methods...send in the lawyers.
other than that...can i have one in all black with orange lights to match my amp??
here.
read it up and let me know if i need to check [my] facts about this....
i particularly like this quote from the article attributing creations to Bob Taylor: Now retired, Taylor says there isn't anything on today's PC that isn't a legacy of the Alto project, from the display to the software to the GUI.
oh, but i think he's suing for "look and feel."
once again, whatever.
fine, they "borrowed" it. they certainly didn't create the idea of the GUI and probably wouldn't have if they had never seen Alto.
BTW - i assume that post is factual enough for you...it had the info i remembered except for the stock payment part....
Apple (Jobs and engineer cronies) stealing the entire "look and feel" from the now floundering Xerox (PARC) was OK??
please...the entire concept of "look and feel" is so overblown. a good part of all GUIs borrow from each other in that dept. hell, we'd be using command lines for life if they didn't.
here's a conference paper that has some of the ideas of the study...it is not merely limited to programmers though, but it is relevant and written by one of the authors.
something i didn't consider.
it's optical...the only moving part is the mouse wheel and they make them without those....
if they wanted a good mouse that could handle those things it seems like the KISS method would work best.
KeepItSimpleStupid...their mouse looks like a nightmare...no wonder it cost $300...
IMHO of course!
i work for a Fortune 200 company, we're kinda big but not overwhelmingly huge...we just had a whole gaggle of lawyers pour over our license agreements while our internal IT dept had to assess all of our machines to make sure we were compliant...that all cost $$ that could have gone into my profit sharing!
anything that makes it easier for us to do our jobs and saves money - double word score. i feel good that Royal Dutch/Shell had to see this too which will add some relevance to the truth that Linux is not the TCO nightmare the MS purports it to be.
i use a $25 optical mouse but our pentegon brass needs to look into buying $300 bricks they think will work better??
and no one finds military intelligence an oxymoron?
sheesh!
the one part that stood out to me was this line:
With Linux companies can quickly add or remove computers without worrying about licenses for the operating software.
i know it has been debated that some companies think MS is better for lower TCO b/c of their huge programming staff and vast CS minions, but it appears that Royal Dutch/Shell is leaning towards proving Linux is more cost effective. a step in the right direction for sure.
lol.
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i hope for the latter. we'll see. i'm leaving late today so it'll be about 6:30 or 7PM CST before i get there...i doubt anyone will be home but i'll be able to see what kinda flim-flam operation he has going.
ah, the power of
i called the phone (i live in houston) and got a carrier tone.
i think i'll pop by the address on the way home tonight (wow - it is actually on my way home!) and see what's up.
i hate people who are scammers, esp. ones who live in my town.
the comparison chart listed it as available in version 2.0....
this thread on the TiVo forums discuss the dates as to when 2.0 will be out. appears i mis-posted that this was an available feature, but it does appear that it is on the horizon.
my apologies for the confusion.
TiVo has truely changed the way i watch TV. i used to miss the dual daily simpsons' episodes b/c i was never home from work...now i TiVo a whole week and watch them at my leisure.
TiVo also has done a great job of recording some wonderful shows that i would have never seen and would have never know about, such as Scandalize My Name
i fully recommend picking one of these units up...it is well worth it if you are like me and watch little TV b/c it conflicts with your daily schedule.
Here is a comparison between the two. i have a TiVO and have been going over the details of the unit with interested people at work. IMHO, the TiVo has several features which make it a much better unit than the Replay, such as:
1. Converting the buffering to recording (Replay doesn't support this.)
2. Browse all channels by time (Replay has a truly crappy channel interface compared with TiVo.)
3. Setting a "Season Pass" for a show on any timeslot (Replay doesn't support this.)
there are a bunch more. ReplayTV is failing b/c it's business model was flawed (hmmm - anyone remember the Macintosh from the 80s...yeah, don't license the hardware) and b/c it lacks some great features that TiVo has...30 second skip button be damned.
he's not talking about posting of stories to public forums. read the article and then the paper. he's overwhelmingly talking about items contained on our personal HDDs: email, notes, papers, spreadsheets...ie personal stuff.
the expectation of his paper is to raise the idea of "when does something you deleted die?" his fear is that it doesn't. ever.
but as a general question: what makes email i delete any different that voice tapes i erase, which later can be recovered? are we going to excuse Nixon now? where do we draw the distinction between media types?
ummm, no.
take a peek at the back of whatever CD you can find. then look at the info published inside. they lyrics will be published with permission from "Devil in My Gig Bag Music" (that's for the band Caviar.) the company in quotes is registered by the band with ASCAP, not the label. the bands own their own lyrics.
as for my example - Caviar are friends of mine and yes, they own their lyrics.
also, if you run a bar and live music is played, you should pay ASCAP a yearly fee which would cover you for bands playing "cover-tunes." and believe it or not, ASCAP enforces this by sending detectives to bars where bands are playing, seeing if bands cover songs by ASCAP artists (eg Freebird by Lynard Skynard) and then if they have not paid the yearly ASCAP fee, they sue them (or offer them the chance to buy one with a fine attached. ) this happened to my buddy's bar in TX. i never knew that existed.
ASCAP, as i understand, it is an organization that looks out for the well-being of the artists.
RIAA is an organization that looks out for the record labels.
that's not how the DMCA interprets it and it appears the the RIAA is going to attempt to put a system in place that would accept the rules of the DMCA. once set up and functioning, it is, IMHO, much harder to repeal the Act.
i readily agree that radio streamed webcasts are the same as radio broadcasts in the traditional manner, but my fear is that, with the DMCA being so poorly written and implemented and the RIAA holding so much of the power over artists - that this may actually work. how awful!
two of my friends at work both pre-ordered units from EBWorld. they got emails this week saying that people that had not pre-ordered prior to July 1, 2000 would not be receiving their units on the Oct 26th release date.
Looking bad beating that weekend sales record during the Japanese release.
On top of that, in most places in the US, cable and the telcos have an under-the-table non-compete agreement. Most people either get one or the other (or neither). That means that people don't really have choice in the matter and therefore have no interest in trying to promote one tech over the other.
that is the most blantent load of BS i have read in weeks.
in houston, TimeWarner (RoadRunner) and SWBT (SBC) are at each others throats daily. talks of lawsuits and such are a common event in the local fishwrap.
just sos ya knows - i qualified for both DSL and Cable and went with cable. why? well, after getting my cable installed, SWBT called me 6 weeks later to let me know that they could set my appointment for install. six weeks?? plus a year contract. fuggeddaboutit!
see here or here for extra details, including the fact that this will be for American Express consumer and small business cardholders in the United States.
so it's a step, but not a huge one. of course, bill murray said it best in What About Bob - Baby Steps!
oh, c'mon....
i think what is at issue here is the age and maturity. when you were 13 what did you think of your parents? were you fully developed mentally?
sure you knew right from wrong, but in my experience, the older i get i am able to look back, reflect upon myself, my actions, my life and realize my foibles, follies, and failures.
at 13, i thought i was the smartest person on the planet. i didn't need anyone telling me how to make my own decisions. i knew right from wrong, made my decisions based on my set of experiences to that point and was pleased with the good/bad/worst results all along b/c I had made the decision.
was i stupid?
uhhh - i guess. but all the tests i took said i was of above normal intelligence.
did i make some really ignorant mistakes based on hard headedness and lack of experience? yep.
i think it would be morally repugnant to allow a 13 yr old to intermingle with an 18 yr old boy. how do i know? i have one of each as a sibling - 13 yr old female high school freshman, 18 yr old male college freshman.
it's not darwinism - it's a matter of being a parent. parents protect their young in all species - thank god we don't eat ours when they look like they might hamper the litter!!