Convert? Our warehouse acts like one already, some of our materials have much better absorbtion than steel and concrete. It really causes trouble when you actaully want to deploy wireless there.
So math is and art, programming is and art, but engineering is Science?
I hate this argument. Computer "Science" could use a whole hell of a lot more Science and a whole lot less art.
I've seen bizzare problems with errors and bugs, with solutions that sometimes resemble the artistic. Upon closer ananlysis the problems can be attributed to exact scientifically provable reasons, its just that on the computer the problems can rapidly become interwoven and very complex. But in the end they can always be approached scientifically.
The art thing is just a learned behavior for working around the bugs, or in the case of a very good design, it is thoughtful scientifically (very logically really) structured organization.
What I find funny is that Jesus used parables loaded with symbolism to get his points across. They aren't meant to be seen as true stories, they are emphasize how Christians should act.
Why is it never thought that much of the Old Testament could in fact be parable like tales to describe the concepts of creation, instead of the actual fact of it?
I think they were criticizing the DRM implementation.
AND.. the program was easy to use until he reinstalled, then it was pure hell to use. It was a mistake because the program became unproductive working with the same files after just a reinstall.
This thing gives me chills. He has to connect to the internet to restore his music? This really points to the disturbing trend (Palladium anyone?) that says you have to connect to the internet to even use your computer. Half of time I'm using my computer at home, I'm not connected to the internet (yes I still have dial up). As much as I would like always on broadband, I really pisses me off that companies are trying to implement technology to force me to check with them to see if its "OK" to do something.
Damn right it was their first mistake, a damn big one at that. Technology like this should be shunned as if it has the plague.
Yes, but your initial post would have been better without the political rhetoric.
The scariest part of your first post is, it doesnt MATTER who is president, Microsoft pays no taxes. This kind of thing is the real reason why it would be better for corporations to pay no tax at all. Because their tax avoidance practices (expensing stock options anyone) are really pushing many of corporations' cook the books policies.
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I think the quote from JC Watts was both enligtening and terribly scary.
"If you're explaining, you're losing."
Trouble is he's right. We need to tell people what they will lose if the MPAA and RIAA get their way. Tell your friends, your relatives, everyone you know what will happen. Things link, you won't be able to tape TV shows anymore, no fast forward, you'll have to buy an new DVD player, TV, stereo, etc. because they're going to break things so your old equpment won't work.
The NRA's basic premise is to fight against any action that could conceivably lead to you losing your right to keep and bear arms. This fight should be the same.
Where in the restrictive rules they want is "Let the market decide." Nowhere the DMCA is a market restriction policy and everything the RIAA wants would limit the market as well. The DMCA and RIAA 's desired rules could basically be described as a twisted type of corporate socialism. Which, unlike true socailism, wanting to try to take care of the needs of the people, is taking care of the needs of the corporation in direct opposition to the needs and desires of the people.
This brings to mind a revelation I had while walking through the checkout at Wal-Mart yesterday.
I wonder how much revenue the recording industry would make if they put CD's with 1-2 songs on them at the checkout counter and sold them for a $1. I thought of this while looking at the bottled water sitting right next to the checkout. If people are willing to pay $1 for water (which they can probably get at home for free in a few minutes) then I would think they could very easily pick up a CD with a good song (not ready for that argument in this post;-) ) everytime they check out of the store.
I bet that the year the RIAA did this they would have record setting revenues. But they won't ever do this will they?
We're talking about changes to UCITA here. But do not forget, UCITA was written by Commercial Software Comapanies for Commercial Software Companies.
They are trying to make shrinkwrap licenses enforcable with UCITA. They are trying to get provisions to provide self-help (read turning off your software) in cases of licensing disputes. Red Hat is just saying that they don't want shrinkwap licenses like everyone else.
UCITA is designed so that Microsoft can pop up a window to charge your credit card every (year, month, week... its all up to them) to continue to use their software. Oh and those audit letters, with self help in UCITA they would just shut everything down first and then force you pay whatever they thought was the right amount.
Even without self help, UCITA will still fully enable enforcement of shrinkwrap licenses (all of which will disavow warranties), and their randomly changable nature.
UCITA is not about consumer protection, its about complete and total abuse of consumers.
Those kind of comparisons aren't silly, they're real world.
In the real world you upgrade pathetic old equipment with powerful new equipment. I upgraded from an old AIX box to a new one and acheived a 500% speed increase.
Sure comparing new equipment to old isn't fair, but the speed you gain is real.
Linux just enables you to make these gains at a very low cost.
It will end when the MPAA/RIAA have no customers left and go out of business.
The general discord with the economy now is directly related to the widespread belief that companies (and their execs.) are above the law. Not until corrupt execs. are jailed will the stock market fully recover. Thing like this just serve to make people more skeptical of big business.
I still believe that more corporations are cooking the books and there are more crooked execs. out there than the news has even imagined.
But of course congress is just going to claim to solve the problem with new laws (note not convictions of wrongdoers with currnet laws, but new laws). Then they'll try to pass crap like this to give certain corporations ultimate power. It isn't going to wash, and the market (and thus the economy) will really pay the price.
IIS is turned off on our NT file server and it hasn't been rebooted in months (since its DLT drive ate a tape).
That being said, generally there is a patch, or software chnage, or settings change that requires a reboot 3-4 times a year. Almost all of our unix boxes have uptimes greater that that with the top one having an uptime (wait let me check....) of 559 days.
NT Servers can be stable. Win 2000 servers can be stable, but are they as stable?
Back on topic, when running a jet airplane that requires computers to keep it in the air you need 5 (or 6) nines of uptime. Anything else should be unacceptable. My belief is that this means a hand written "OS" to run the plane. Everything should be built from the groud up with an eye always on the uptime and reliability. And with this being a handmade OS, so to speak, I'm sure they will find the bugs causing the problem and fix them themselves. Something you can't do with NT (I guess you could do it if you bulit off of Linux, though).
Yep, the Holy Grail for the media companies is pay for every use of the copyrighted material.
Too bad it would destroy the economy, but hey, its what they want.
When they figure out that screwing over the consumer will not have the consumer beating down your door to buy your product, it may be too late.
I haven't bought a CD in years, and whether or not I can download songs over the internet, I might not buy a CD ever again. This kind of control is going to turn more and more customers away from the market (nevermind that they seem to only be trying to sell CDs to 11-13 year olds).
I wish the people of Nebraska would vote for Tom Daschle.
Many of us in South Dakota would love to get rid of him. He's South Dakota's senator, not Nebraska's.
Although I, along with many other South Dakotans, just wish he would go away. We'll see if he can continue to dupe people here to continue to vote for him in two years.
Great point. The basic gist is that if you were to make a coaster out of DVD-r media, you could have just as well bought the thing. Two failed burns and you're losing money.
Also the biggest thing about DVDs is... THEY GO ON SALE. Sure they start out at $20, but after 3 months many can be bought for $15 or less. Older movies often go for less than $10 dollars. Old CD's never go on sale. The CD from which I have downloaded the most mp3s is over 20 years old. Sure its a classic, but at the store its STILL $16.
The biggest difference between the Video and Music businesses is that the Music business is run by a price fixing cartel. Screw 'em, if I walk into Walmart with $16, I'll walk out with a DVD and not a CD every time.
The funny part about this is that if Hollywood and Microsoft get what they want, they will be the ones whining in a couple of years that they aren't making enough money.
This is a disabling technology and DRM management laws would be disabling laws. Take a look at prohibition to see what would happen. Most people will begin using computers illegally, black market devices and software will be developed, economic calamaty will eventually ensue due to the brakes being put on free commerce in many arenas, including Hollywood and Microsoft.
It will be one hell of an ecnonmic downturn. I alos predict that all the financial pundits will not key on DRM laws being the cause, but they will be.
Sure open source would go on but I would like to have the operating system on my machine be legal. I'm already pissed about having to use and "illegal" DVD player on my Linux PC to legally view _my_ DVD's.
Also Microsoft had patented DRM-OS, which means that if not-DRM-OS's are against the law, anyone who wants to sell Linux, and probably Linus and other kernel developers would have to pay roalties to MS. This would be super-evil.
I agree with your point about software patentents, it just happens to be tied in fairly directly with Microsoft's current diabolical plans for palladium.
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Convert? Our warehouse acts like one already, some of our materials have much better absorbtion than steel and concrete. It really causes trouble when you actaully want to deploy wireless there.
So math is and art, programming is and art, but engineering is Science?
I hate this argument. Computer "Science" could use a whole hell of a lot more Science and a whole lot less art.
I've seen bizzare problems with errors and bugs, with solutions that sometimes resemble the artistic. Upon closer ananlysis the problems can be attributed to exact scientifically provable reasons, its just that on the computer the problems can rapidly become interwoven and very complex. But in the end they can always be approached scientifically.
The art thing is just a learned behavior for working around the bugs, or in the case of a very good design, it is thoughtful scientifically (very logically really) structured organization.
What I find funny is that Jesus used parables loaded with symbolism to get his points across. They aren't meant to be seen as true stories, they are emphasize how Christians should act.
Why is it never thought that much of the Old Testament could in fact be parable like tales to describe the concepts of creation, instead of the actual fact of it?
I think they were criticizing the DRM implementation.
AND.. the program was easy to use until he reinstalled, then it was pure hell to use. It was a mistake because the program became unproductive working with the same files after just a reinstall.
This thing gives me chills. He has to connect to the internet to restore his music? This really points to the disturbing trend (Palladium anyone?) that says you have to connect to the internet to even use your computer. Half of time I'm using my computer at home, I'm not connected to the internet (yes I still have dial up). As much as I would like always on broadband, I really pisses me off that companies are trying to implement technology to force me to check with them to see if its "OK" to do something.
Damn right it was their first mistake, a damn big one at that. Technology like this should be shunned as if it has the plague.
Doesn't that all depend on which pill you choose to take???
Yes, but your initial post would have been better without the political rhetoric.
The scariest part of your first post is, it doesnt MATTER who is president, Microsoft pays no taxes. This kind of thing is the real reason why it would be better for corporations to pay no tax at all. Because their tax avoidance practices (expensing stock options anyone) are really pushing many of corporations' cook the books policies.
I think the quote from JC Watts was both enligtening and terribly scary.
"If you're explaining, you're losing."
Trouble is he's right. We need to tell people what they will lose if the MPAA and RIAA get their way. Tell your friends, your relatives, everyone you know what will happen. Things link, you won't be able to tape TV shows anymore, no fast forward, you'll have to buy an new DVD player, TV, stereo, etc. because they're going to break things so your old equpment won't work.
The NRA's basic premise is to fight against any action that could conceivably lead to you losing your right to keep and bear arms. This fight should be the same.
DMCA and the RIAA are certainly not capatilist.
Where in the restrictive rules they want is "Let the market decide." Nowhere the DMCA is a market restriction policy and everything the RIAA wants would limit the market as well. The DMCA and RIAA 's desired rules could basically be described as a twisted type of corporate socialism. Which, unlike true socailism, wanting to try to take care of the needs of the people, is taking care of the needs of the corporation in direct opposition to the needs and desires of the people.
A Saturn V would be immense overkill if it were used as an ICBM.
Rockets to take a MAN to the moon, note they're talking unmanned here, are much more complex.
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I think that's because Gore pushed through a bill when he was in congress to add a surcharge for getting internet acess in rural regions.
Now rural areas have internet access, but the surcharge still is going to the government.
This brings to mind a revelation I had while walking through the checkout at Wal-Mart yesterday.
;-) ) everytime they check out of the store.
I wonder how much revenue the recording industry would make if they put CD's with 1-2 songs on them at the checkout counter and sold them for a $1. I thought of this while looking at the bottled water sitting right next to the checkout. If people are willing to pay $1 for water (which they can probably get at home for free in a few minutes) then I would think they could very easily pick up a CD with a good song (not ready for that argument in this post
I bet that the year the RIAA did this they would have record setting revenues. But they won't ever do this will they?
We're talking about changes to UCITA here. But do not forget, UCITA was written by Commercial Software Comapanies for Commercial Software Companies.
... its all up to them) to continue to use their software. Oh and those audit letters, with self help in UCITA they would just shut everything down first and then force you pay whatever they thought was the right amount.
They are trying to make shrinkwrap licenses enforcable with UCITA. They are trying to get provisions to provide self-help (read turning off your software) in cases of licensing disputes. Red Hat is just saying that they don't want shrinkwap licenses like everyone else.
UCITA is designed so that Microsoft can pop up a window to charge your credit card every (year, month, week
Even without self help, UCITA will still fully enable enforcement of shrinkwrap licenses (all of which will disavow warranties), and their randomly changable nature.
UCITA is not about consumer protection, its about complete and total abuse of consumers.
Those kind of comparisons aren't silly, they're real world.
In the real world you upgrade pathetic old equipment with powerful new equipment. I upgraded from an old AIX box to a new one and acheived a 500% speed increase.
Sure comparing new equipment to old isn't fair, but the speed you gain is real.
Linux just enables you to make these gains at a very low cost.
It will end when the MPAA/RIAA have no customers left and go out of business.
The general discord with the economy now is directly related to the widespread belief that companies (and their execs.) are above the law. Not until corrupt execs. are jailed will the stock market fully recover. Thing like this just serve to make people more skeptical of big business.
I still believe that more corporations are cooking the books and there are more crooked execs. out there than the news has even imagined.
But of course congress is just going to claim to solve the problem with new laws (note not convictions of wrongdoers with currnet laws, but new laws). Then they'll try to pass crap like this to give certain corporations ultimate power. It isn't going to wash, and the market (and thus the economy) will really pay the price.
I think that's his point. I break the DMCA all the time with DVD's on my linux box.
IIS is turned off on our NT file server and it hasn't been rebooted in months (since its DLT drive ate a tape).
That being said, generally there is a patch, or software chnage, or settings change that requires a reboot 3-4 times a year. Almost all of our unix boxes have uptimes greater that that with the top one having an uptime (wait let me check....) of 559 days.
NT Servers can be stable. Win 2000 servers can be stable, but are they as stable?
Back on topic, when running a jet airplane that requires computers to keep it in the air you need 5 (or 6) nines of uptime. Anything else should be unacceptable. My belief is that this means a hand written "OS" to run the plane. Everything should be built from the groud up with an eye always on the uptime and reliability. And with this being a handmade OS, so to speak, I'm sure they will find the bugs causing the problem and fix them themselves. Something you can't do with NT (I guess you could do it if you bulit off of Linux, though).
How about product activation? I won't use XP until that is "fixed".
Yep, the Holy Grail for the media companies is pay for every use of the copyrighted material.
Too bad it would destroy the economy, but hey, its what they want.
When they figure out that screwing over the consumer will not have the consumer beating down your door to buy your product, it may be too late.
I haven't bought a CD in years, and whether or not I can download songs over the internet, I might not buy a CD ever again. This kind of control is going to turn more and more customers away from the market (nevermind that they seem to only be trying to sell CDs to 11-13 year olds).
I wish the people of Nebraska would vote for Tom Daschle.
Many of us in South Dakota would love to get rid of him. He's South Dakota's senator, not Nebraska's.
Although I, along with many other South Dakotans, just wish he would go away. We'll see if he can continue to dupe people here to continue to vote for him in two years.
Great point. The basic gist is that if you were to make a coaster out of DVD-r media, you could have just as well bought the thing. Two failed burns and you're losing money.
... THEY GO ON SALE. Sure they start out at $20, but after 3 months many can be bought for $15 or less. Older movies often go for less than $10 dollars. Old CD's never go on sale. The CD from which I have downloaded the most mp3s is over 20 years old. Sure its a classic, but at the store its STILL $16.
Also the biggest thing about DVDs is
The biggest difference between the Video and Music businesses is that the Music business is run by a price fixing cartel. Screw 'em, if I walk into Walmart with $16, I'll walk out with a DVD and not a CD every time.
That's all fine and good until they arrest you for having source code that even has no DRM options in in.
Oh wait, arresting you wouldn't mean much. But arresting Linus would.
Don't think that those bastards that like to call themselves congress aren't going to do something like this.
Come to think of it many of the first sailors to circumnavigate the globe did so following much the same path.
The funny part about this is that if Hollywood and Microsoft get what they want, they will be the ones whining in a couple of years that they aren't making enough money.
This is a disabling technology and DRM management laws would be disabling laws. Take a look at prohibition to see what would happen. Most people will begin using computers illegally, black market devices and software will be developed, economic calamaty will eventually ensue due to the brakes being put on free commerce in many arenas, including Hollywood and Microsoft.
It will be one hell of an ecnonmic downturn. I alos predict that all the financial pundits will not key on DRM laws being the cause, but they will be.
A couple of more ominous things.
Sure open source would go on but I would like to have the operating system on my machine be legal. I'm already pissed about having to use and "illegal" DVD player on my Linux PC to legally view _my_ DVD's.
Also Microsoft had patented DRM-OS, which means that if not-DRM-OS's are against the law, anyone who wants to sell Linux, and probably Linus and other kernel developers would have to pay roalties to MS. This would be super-evil.
I agree with your point about software patentents, it just happens to be tied in fairly directly with Microsoft's current diabolical plans for palladium.