My right to vote is worth the lives of every US politician.
Interesting... I was figuring that the students would gladly give up the right to vote, but would never give up the right to bear arms.... After all, "permanently" giving up the right to vote would only last as long as the current regime.
Actually, this could be interesting... gouge the roads so the music sounds best at the max speed. For added coolness, they could embed harmonics into the road that only show up at different speeds... if you're going 10 over the limit, you hear "sloow doown!" over and over again. This could really help traffic flow (unless someone likes listening to their music a bit slower than others). After all, humans are geared to be able to monitor audible cues really well. Someone would know instantly if their speed was varying.
A likely problem with that (as I understand it) is that since written Hebrew doesn't use vowels, a lot of the interpretation of text is context sensitive, and Babelfish screwed it up.
As I understand it, vowels are indicated by the pointing of the consonants; if the written Hebrew doesn't use points (jots and tiddles), it is Hebrew that is over 2,000 years old. Not a dialect the average journalist is likely to know.
It is more likely that babelfish is designed with English as its core language, and translating from Hebrew to Dutch passes through English along the way. As you have pointed out, using machine translation separated by one or more languages is unlikely to convey the original intent due to a high likelihood of the translator not guessing the correct context two times in a row.
...enter BackupPC. Doesn't work at the FS level, so it's not Time Machine, but you can set it to do daily backups to cut down on the number of traversals needed. Has the added benefit of working over smb, rsync, and/or ssh. Also scales to large collections of PCs, and works better in a multi-PC office. PLUS, it can back up any device that can use smb, rsync, or ssh.
If you look from source to sink then practically everything is zero emissions -- sure, the Earth emits some energy in the form of radiation, and we jettison stuff from time to time as satellites or space-going probes, but on the whole, the Earth is very good at preserving energy.
Seems to me we should be looking not at "zero emissions" technology, but two other factors: environmental impact and global energy use compared to solar input. If we can keep the yearly global energy consumption equal to the amount of energy absorbed from solar radiation each year, we'll be operating net positive in energy. If we then ensure that energy is being stored and converted in ways that do not disrupt environmental variables key to optimal human habitation of our planet, we'll be sitting golden.
"All-in-one" is not for everybody, but it's value is not purely aesthetic. Less stuff to plug in, easier to move around, takes less space, etc.
Indeed... Actually, the reason I buy the all-in-one model is that it costs about the same amount as an equivalent sized screen without a computer. So I can upgrade the entire computer (including monitor) every 3 years for the price of a monitor. Beats paying a $400 premium to upgrade all the components separately.
Apple is the only electronics company who values design and seems to understand that there is more to good design than just looking cool.
I disagree... for instance, some branches of Sony Electronics and LG also understand this. Unfortunately, Sony gets tied up in internal red tape and the "not designed here" mentality, and LG doesn't have a large enough electronics R&D department to actually innovate in these areas -- they just tend to take the best elements innovated by their competitors and put them together in a compelling package.
I'm curious how everyone has turned this into a "Linux not supported" argument -- starting with the BBC. That's like me using a non-standard gage track for a rail system (only works with vendor X's equipment), being called on it, and then saying "well, only a small percent of users use vendor Y, so it's not really an issue.
Their current solution only supports platforms with Microsoft's DRM system built in -- which happens to be their XP and later desktop products (is Windows Mobile compatible?). The vast majority of mobile phones, handheld devices, plus OS X, Linux, BSD, embedded browsing devices, etc. WILL NOT WORK with their current offering. Instead of quoting the Wookie figures, he should have stated what percentage of users to the BBC's web presence originating from the UK use a system CAPABLE of using this software. My guess is that it is somewhere around 80%. That means 20% of those who are actively FUNDING this system and are likely to want to use the system CANNOT use it. That is what is unacceptable.
Unfortunately, Flash 9 on Linux has been the number 1 instability on any version of Ubuntu I have tried it on. Flash is the reason Firefox needs the Force Quit function all the time. Maybe someday they will get it right. In the meantime, how about something that just works?
Added to this, of the 5 standard web browsers for the PalmOS, precisely 0 support Flash; 4 support CSS and all support some degree of javascript/XSLT.
The only Flash player for Palm devices will only play Flash 5 or earlier.
Adobe tends to create open standards and then extend their implementations with junk (sorry, "features") outside the purvue of the original standard. You get PDFs with HTML and Javascript elements, Flash with embedded video codecs and file system hooks, etc. This means that nobody can build a reliable reference implementation, because within 6 months, it will be incompatible with the Adobe offering. This is fine for desktops, but a real headache for embedded devices, handhelds, and other non-desktop applications.
You might also want to point out that when you drag a disc to the trash bin, the icon changes from a trash bin to an eject icon (the same one on the eject key on Apple keyboards) and the "Eject CD" tooltip comes up. Personally, I figure that the only reason Apple didn't re-map this function to "erase CD-RW" is that historically, dragging to the trash bin has always ejected removable devices (it did this 20 years ago with single sided floppies). Even though the original concept is flawed, the concept of writing data to the disc before completing the eject process does make perfect sense.
You seem to think that the battlefield will exist in the same way physical ones do.
The IT battlefield is quite different... it involves infecting Windows PCs with worms a la Storm, creating back doors into databases so that you know what the enemy is doing before they do, etc. It doesn't involve (primarily) using Chinese IP addresses to deface the white house web page.
The Chinese know how to manipulate information to alter reality. They are much better at this than countries like the US (although I think the US government is improving in this area). THIS is the IT battlefield; manipulation of information and perception.
My guess is that Nigeria threatened MS that it would switch to Linux if MS didn't give Nigeria all sorts of extras/provide Windows for free, and MS refused to play ball. Nigeria then called their bluff by actually purchasing the Mandriva systems, and MS responded by capitulating to the original demands (possibly with some "gotcha" ammendments).
Sounds like some people need to start running a site spidering program through TOR using non-windows user agents.
Personally, I've browsed the BBC websites (I don't know that I've ever been to the front page) via Mac OS X, Mac OS 9, various Linux flavours, FreeBSD, PalmOS, and even Windows Mobile. I don't think I've been there once via a Windows-based browser (except maybe some of the news articles).
It would be extremely interesting to see how his metrics are being compiled.
AACS provides for updating of the encryption key; what I'm talking about is the other side of the equation: doing what DirectTV and software publishers do and blocking out the user's key. This is unlikely to happen every 2-3 weeks, as we're talking about blocks of 1000 cards or so being blocked when one of the cards in that range is flagged as being cracked. It is used more as a way of tracking down infringers and providing added services that make the DRM worth the average consumer's while, not protecting the content from being copied like AACS does. The AACS method results in a never-ending arms race that the producers will always just lose, no matter how much time and money they throw at it.
...it's important to understand that the word's actual definition does encompass what you're doing.
No, it actually isn't.
to use or reproduce (a book, an invention, etc.) without authorization or legal right: to pirate hit records.
While downloading or ripping discs might be illegal in some countries, that is not universally true -- in the US ripping is legal for personal use, but downloading is a questionable area; in the UK, both are illegal; in Canada, both are legal.
The accepted definition seems to be copyright infringement = piracy; this is different than copying = piracy. This seems to make sense to me.
Exactly why do people insist on comparing "Piracy" to "Controlled Substances". I don't remember the last time Piracy altered somebody's life, caused physical distress or even death, or even contributed to a fatal car accident.
Sure it will take a while for the new code to be released, but it will subsequently delay those who would pirate these films at least temporarily once the new codes are out.
Hmm... I guess I must not be keeping up with the changing definition of Pirate -- my immediate thought was, "wait a minute, the people mass producing the discs with the old code can still do so; the old code doesn't cease to be valid...." Then I realized you were talking about people ripping a legally purchased video to a DRM-less format, not people mass distributing discs for profit.
Seriously, I think the one thing this format has going for it is that unless the master copy is pirated and distributed in a DRM-less format, the MPAA members will have a window with each release where the market won't be flooded with free versions of their product, so people who want "zero-day" entertainment will be more likely to see it on TV/in the theatre/buy the DVD.
This raises an interesting point... why don't the movie moguls just go to a smart card based system? All hardware players are shipped with a SIM that comes from the distributors, software players require a reader hooked up to the PC. If a key is cracked, the SIM range is blocked on future discs, and a person needs to get their SIM replaced but can keep the same hardware. As with Direct TV, there are multiple ways to beat the system, but the moving target is MUCH easier for the media moguls to keep up with. On the PC side, this SIM card could also be used to provide online content to people with a specific disc in their drive, which would tie the SIM into a service agreement that could be revoked when evidence of tampering is found.
Not that I'm FOR any of this mind you (except for the online streaming content), but this system seems so much more obviously effective than what they're trying to do right now.
Think about it: buy the box set to your favourite TV show and get access to bonus features, interviews, and a sampling of later shows not included in the set via an online service via keys stored on your SIM and on the disc. They wouldn't even need user-side DRM, but could use it as device verification for your free subscription account instead.
Also, as another user has done, try running nmap from another machine and see what shows up. For that matter, run it from the target machine as well, to see what ports the firewall is actually blocking.
I think one problem here is that "firewall" means too many things these days. A port blocker, a traffic shaper, a process network actvity monitor, an IP stack network activity monitor, etc.
Regarding degradation due to needles and quality shift due to needle choice: Many modern turntables actually use a laser instead of a needle. Of course, this means that the audio is digitally sampled at the vinyl....
The other issue though is that pretty much all music produced these days (99.99% of studio music, and a large chunk of "live" music as well) has been post-processed with digital effects and adjustments. At this point, you've already converted everything into a digital format; writing it back to vinyl won't gain anything back, and writing it to CD only down-samples the master audio somewhat and merges the tracks. If you write it to one of the DVD Audio formats instead of Red Book, you don't even get the down-sampling.
There are things you can do when using digital recording equipment that you simply can't do with vinyl, and most of the industry uses digital recording equipment nowadays.
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Funny, but it IS a good use; you can angle the grooves so that they don't sound like anything if you drive over them in the right direction.
Actually, this could be interesting... gouge the roads so the music sounds best at the max speed. For added coolness, they could embed harmonics into the road that only show up at different speeds... if you're going 10 over the limit, you hear "sloow doown!" over and over again. This could really help traffic flow (unless someone likes listening to their music a bit slower than others). After all, humans are geared to be able to monitor audible cues really well. Someone would know instantly if their speed was varying.
...enter BackupPC. Doesn't work at the FS level, so it's not Time Machine, but you can set it to do daily backups to cut down on the number of traversals needed. Has the added benefit of working over smb, rsync, and/or ssh. Also scales to large collections of PCs, and works better in a multi-PC office. PLUS, it can back up any device that can use smb, rsync, or ssh.
If you look from source to sink then practically everything is zero emissions -- sure, the Earth emits some energy in the form of radiation, and we jettison stuff from time to time as satellites or space-going probes, but on the whole, the Earth is very good at preserving energy. Seems to me we should be looking not at "zero emissions" technology, but two other factors: environmental impact and global energy use compared to solar input. If we can keep the yearly global energy consumption equal to the amount of energy absorbed from solar radiation each year, we'll be operating net positive in energy. If we then ensure that energy is being stored and converted in ways that do not disrupt environmental variables key to optimal human habitation of our planet, we'll be sitting golden.
I'm curious how everyone has turned this into a "Linux not supported" argument -- starting with the BBC. That's like me using a non-standard gage track for a rail system (only works with vendor X's equipment), being called on it, and then saying "well, only a small percent of users use vendor Y, so it's not really an issue.
Their current solution only supports platforms with Microsoft's DRM system built in -- which happens to be their XP and later desktop products (is Windows Mobile compatible?). The vast majority of mobile phones, handheld devices, plus OS X, Linux, BSD, embedded browsing devices, etc. WILL NOT WORK with their current offering. Instead of quoting the Wookie figures, he should have stated what percentage of users to the BBC's web presence originating from the UK use a system CAPABLE of using this software. My guess is that it is somewhere around 80%. That means 20% of those who are actively FUNDING this system and are likely to want to use the system CANNOT use it. That is what is unacceptable.
Adobe tends to create open standards and then extend their implementations with junk (sorry, "features") outside the purvue of the original standard. You get PDFs with HTML and Javascript elements, Flash with embedded video codecs and file system hooks, etc. This means that nobody can build a reliable reference implementation, because within 6 months, it will be incompatible with the Adobe offering. This is fine for desktops, but a real headache for embedded devices, handhelds, and other non-desktop applications.
You might also want to point out that when you drag a disc to the trash bin, the icon changes from a trash bin to an eject icon (the same one on the eject key on Apple keyboards) and the "Eject CD" tooltip comes up. Personally, I figure that the only reason Apple didn't re-map this function to "erase CD-RW" is that historically, dragging to the trash bin has always ejected removable devices (it did this 20 years ago with single sided floppies). Even though the original concept is flawed, the concept of writing data to the disc before completing the eject process does make perfect sense.
I see... you're from the Misinformation Clinic? Arguments are in 12a.
You seem to think that the battlefield will exist in the same way physical ones do.
The IT battlefield is quite different... it involves infecting Windows PCs with worms a la Storm, creating back doors into databases so that you know what the enemy is doing before they do, etc. It doesn't involve (primarily) using Chinese IP addresses to deface the white house web page.
The Chinese know how to manipulate information to alter reality. They are much better at this than countries like the US (although I think the US government is improving in this area). THIS is the IT battlefield; manipulation of information and perception.
My guess is that Nigeria threatened MS that it would switch to Linux if MS didn't give Nigeria all sorts of extras/provide Windows for free, and MS refused to play ball. Nigeria then called their bluff by actually purchasing the Mandriva systems, and MS responded by capitulating to the original demands (possibly with some "gotcha" ammendments).
Sounds like some people need to start running a site spidering program through TOR using non-windows user agents.
Personally, I've browsed the BBC websites (I don't know that I've ever been to the front page) via Mac OS X, Mac OS 9, various Linux flavours, FreeBSD, PalmOS, and even Windows Mobile. I don't think I've been there once via a Windows-based browser (except maybe some of the news articles).
It would be extremely interesting to see how his metrics are being compiled.
AACS provides for updating of the encryption key; what I'm talking about is the other side of the equation: doing what DirectTV and software publishers do and blocking out the user's key. This is unlikely to happen every 2-3 weeks, as we're talking about blocks of 1000 cards or so being blocked when one of the cards in that range is flagged as being cracked. It is used more as a way of tracking down infringers and providing added services that make the DRM worth the average consumer's while, not protecting the content from being copied like AACS does. The AACS method results in a never-ending arms race that the producers will always just lose, no matter how much time and money they throw at it.
Guess you should have read my post... including the parts where it said that there's no way to prevent DRM cracking.
You've missed the point... please re-read my post.
The accepted definition seems to be copyright infringement = piracy; this is different than copying = piracy. This seems to make sense to me.
Hmm... I guess I must not be keeping up with the changing definition of Pirate -- my immediate thought was, "wait a minute, the people mass producing the discs with the old code can still do so; the old code doesn't cease to be valid...." Then I realized you were talking about people ripping a legally purchased video to a DRM-less format, not people mass distributing discs for profit.
Seriously, I think the one thing this format has going for it is that unless the master copy is pirated and distributed in a DRM-less format, the MPAA members will have a window with each release where the market won't be flooded with free versions of their product, so people who want "zero-day" entertainment will be more likely to see it on TV/in the theatre/buy the DVD.
This raises an interesting point... why don't the movie moguls just go to a smart card based system? All hardware players are shipped with a SIM that comes from the distributors, software players require a reader hooked up to the PC. If a key is cracked, the SIM range is blocked on future discs, and a person needs to get their SIM replaced but can keep the same hardware. As with Direct TV, there are multiple ways to beat the system, but the moving target is MUCH easier for the media moguls to keep up with. On the PC side, this SIM card could also be used to provide online content to people with a specific disc in their drive, which would tie the SIM into a service agreement that could be revoked when evidence of tampering is found. Not that I'm FOR any of this mind you (except for the online streaming content), but this system seems so much more obviously effective than what they're trying to do right now. Think about it: buy the box set to your favourite TV show and get access to bonus features, interviews, and a sampling of later shows not included in the set via an online service via keys stored on your SIM and on the disc. They wouldn't even need user-side DRM, but could use it as device verification for your free subscription account instead.
Also, as another user has done, try running nmap from another machine and see what shows up. For that matter, run it from the target machine as well, to see what ports the firewall is actually blocking. I think one problem here is that "firewall" means too many things these days. A port blocker, a traffic shaper, a process network actvity monitor, an IP stack network activity monitor, etc.
Regarding degradation due to needles and quality shift due to needle choice: Many modern turntables actually use a laser instead of a needle. Of course, this means that the audio is digitally sampled at the vinyl....
The other issue though is that pretty much all music produced these days (99.99% of studio music, and a large chunk of "live" music as well) has been post-processed with digital effects and adjustments. At this point, you've already converted everything into a digital format; writing it back to vinyl won't gain anything back, and writing it to CD only down-samples the master audio somewhat and merges the tracks. If you write it to one of the DVD Audio formats instead of Red Book, you don't even get the down-sampling.
There are things you can do when using digital recording equipment that you simply can't do with vinyl, and most of the industry uses digital recording equipment nowadays.