Stop being such a fucking pendant for a minute and think about it.
Look around you, not just at your peer group, but at your community at large.
I see a hell of a lot more people who have some level of home theater and rent DVDs than I see downloading movies.
No, I haven't done a scientific study that's been published in a refereed journal. So what?
Most people I've ever met couldn't figure out (or remember) how to download and burn a movie unless they had some very explicit, written instructions or a technical person to hold their hand.
Again, I haven't done a scientific study that's been published in a refereed journal. So what?
Occam's razor points to the ubiquity of "good enough" home media systems as the cause of the decline of the traditional movie theater.
Sources to cite? I don't need any citations, it's pretty obvious on the face of it.
Am I making an unfounded claim? Fucking right I am. But that doesn't make me wrong any more than it makes the original poster right.
File sharing is not the primary reason that theater ticket sales are down.
It seems to me that the real reason is that so many people have a "good enough" theater in their own home, and can just wait for movies to come out on DVD.
They've got their DVD player hooked up to the stereo, have a "big enough" screen and all of the comforts of home without all of the hassle and expense of going to the movie theater.
It is dishonest to blame file sharing, it's pretty obvious that recent improvements in consumer-level media technology are the real "culprit" here.
...we'd all just use one button and our handhelds would interpret Morse code...
Rockbox lets you use Morse code to enter text on an mp3 player, I tried it out on my iRiver and it's a surprisingly efficient interface. Learning Morse isn't really that hard, no harder than learning to touch type. And wow, a one (or two) button interface is very cool!
I care because I don't want to be forced to decide to ignore it or switch distros if they were to be next to sign an agreement with MS.
Gee, maybe when you are considering a distribution, you should consider what kind of contract you are entering into when you weigh the pros and cons of the distro.
once he signs the record deal, the music no longer belongs to him. which sucks, but that's the biz.
If anyone understands this, it is Prince. Why do you think he started going under the name/symbol "the Artist formerly known as Prince"? Because of a fucked-up record deal.
This isn't about who owns the music, because he has learned to make sure that he is in a situation where he owns the music.
This is about bypassing the traditional distribution and promotion chain, which is in its death throes.
Really, does the fact that the computers are Russian matter? Broken software is broken software, and broken hardware is broken hardware.
It's not like the Russians would send crappy stuff up to the ISS anyways, they would put all their best into it. And the Russians have a history of having some excellent mathematicians.
This is an interesting read on this subject. The answer to your question is that the fact that the computers are Russian probably does matter.
It's not that the Russian mathematicians aren't excellent, it has more to do with their engineering approach.
Um, the US did bring democracy to Iraq in the form of an Iraqi-elected government that is relatively favorable to US interests.
Iraq's political leaders have failed to reach agreement on nearly every law that the United States has demanded as a benchmark.
The daily body count there is attributable to the insurgents.
Yes, insurgents. And inter-tribal disputes. And intra-tribal disputes. And general lawlessness.
The Baghdad skyline would be an eyesore of construction cranes if it weren't for these fellows.
If foreign troops leave the country, the insurgency loses its relevance. Then you simply deal with the other three problems, and you get your booming skyline. What a wonderful world it would be. They can all hold hands and sing the Coke song.
Maybe these fellows aren't quite the heros that most Slashdotters think they are.
Quite a generalization you're making there.
I would love to see a peaceful, America-loving Iraq, but that train left the station about 4 years ago and nobody was on it.
Re-establishing law and order after it completely breaks down is a whole different thing than maintaining order without letting it completely break down.
I wasn't necessarily condemning the hypothetical, just putting it into recent historical perspective. What you suggested is exactly what the Serbs were doing in Bosnia. Sebrenica, anyone?
The Allies (I believe rightly) didn't systematically slaughter the Germans after they conquered them, even though the Nazis had proven themselves to be willing to do it to the Jews, so I'm not sure I'm following your logic.
I guess the question is, under what circumstances would you consider such a strategy to be appropriate?
The problem has been getting a favorable regime to replace the old one.
Yeah, that's the pesky thing about "bringing democracy" to a place like Iraq, getting the people to elect a government that is "favorable" to US interests.
It seems like the odds of that happening democratically are pretty long, given that the US troops were greeted with IEDs instead of flowers...
Once you are committed to the goal of truly winning, of pacifying the region, there are other more targeted and effective methods that can be used besides simple mass slaughter, such as an elimination of all fighting-aged males in the population. The next generation will then be fathered by dying old men, cripples, retards, and inexperienced young boys. They will pose much less of a threat.
or those homes that do not have a back-feed preventer (what ever they are called)
Um, they are called power meters. My understanding is that a power meter will not pass the frequencies that DLAN runs over, so there is no "leakage" beyond the meter.
You don't have to log into each machine: you just set up some policies or put stuff in netlogon.exe. ActiveDirectory, MOM, and stuff just propagates anew each time someone logs in. The interface to all this is point-and-drool as they say.
Unfortunately it doesn't work quite that well in practice even in a well set up environment unless you have everything similar enough that you may as well be using citrix or xterms.
Or if something -doesn't- work exactly as advertised. Then it becomes tear your hair out time. In my experience, AD/GPO/etc. work pretty well -if- you are willing to climb the learning curve. 90% of it is easy, but that last 10% is a mother. And lord help you if more than one person is involved...
Linux is used all over the place already. Linux/Unix is actually preferred from a security accreditation and certification point of view.
Take out the Linux, and you're closer to the truth.
I have done DoD accreditation on both (Linux and Solaris), it is -way- tougher to get Linux accredited than Solaris.
Part of the problem is that the guidelines for accrediting Solaris are more specific and easier to implement than the Linux ones. The Solaris guidelines will give specific steps using specific tools, but the Linux guidelines tend to give generic requirements and the specific implementation is left up to you.
Also, Linux was not designed with a lot of security requirements in mind. Sure, they can be set up to be tough to penetrate externally, but there are a whole lot of auditing and attribution requirements that just aren't addressed by Linux.
There also tends to be flat-out bias against Linux in some of the guidelines. For instance, using Linux as a firewall? Cat I finding, do not pass go, do not collect $200, no matter how you set up the system.
Things are improving, but if I had to choose a *NIX that I had to get accredited for the DoD, I would definitely choose Solaris over Linux. You can only get Linux accredited if you have a sympathetic approving authority.
Have you ever even seen anyone actually have a seizure? There are a whole spectrum of symptoms.
I have seen two in the last 15 years. Both times, it was more like the person was just zoned out rather than what we typically think of (grand mal).
One happened to a girl while she was skiing, and she just froze as she picked up speed and went through a fence at high speed without turning (or twitching or anything else). Scary as fuck to watch anyway.
The other happened as I was talking to a co-worker, trying to get through some bureaucracy, and he just kind of zoned out for a couple of minutes and started drooling. Fortunately I realized what was going on and managed to help minimize his embarrassment when the seizure passed.
It sounds to me that it could certainly have been a seizure, cop or not.
One day when I was in 6th grade, we had a substitute teacher (unconfident young female) for one of our classes, so a bunch of us had a major-league spit-ball fight in her class. When we got back to home room (very confident aggressive male teacher), one of our classmates ratted us out (thank you fucking Anne Boss).
The HR teacher went to the closet and pulled out "Homer", a two foot long, inch-thick wooden paddle with holes drilled in it (to reduce air resistance on the swing).
We got pulled out into the hall, and got two whacks, as hard as he could hit (and he loved to play baseball). I tell you, getting up off of the floor and bending over for the second one was a bit of a "character builder"!
Not only were we deterred from that particular misbehavior, all of the other classes could clearly hear what was going on. Let's just say everyone was pretty motivated not to pull that kind of shit again.
My only regret was thinking I would be noble and volunteering to be the first. If I had it to do over again, I think I would have waited until his arm was a little more tired.
I knew that if my mom heard about what he did, she would raise holy shit with the school, so I kept it quiet. I had learned my lesson, one that I remember to this day.
You've got me wrong, I'm not totally against nuclear power. What I take issue with is people who claim that breeder technology can eliminate all of the waste problems. It just isn't true, since plants do generate a lot of waste that can't be reprocessed.
We have a -huge- mess at Hanford that still can't be effectively dealt with. I think that speaks against your claim that decommissioned plants are "easy to deal with".
Also, I remember WPPS, it was a financial disaster.
We can talk about how nuclear is nice -in theory-, but both Hanford and WPPS are the -real- results of our attempts at nuclear.
Pardon me if I dismiss some of the happy horseshit talk about nuclear, but it hasn't worked out so well so far, and I think the nuclear optimists are as unrealistic as the solar/wind optimists.
The biggest issues with nuclear power aren't technical, they are political and economic.
these supposed infringements are questionable at best, and can be challenged, at which point prior art will probably be found.
For many of their claims, I think this is the likely scenario.
If not, they can be coded around.
Everyone keeps trotting this one out, but I don't think it's going to be that simple. There are likely going to be claims that don't fail prior art, but cannot easily be "coded around". VFAT and Samba come to mind...
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Stop being such a fucking pendant for a minute and think about it.
Look around you, not just at your peer group, but at your community at large.
I see a hell of a lot more people who have some level of home theater and rent DVDs than I see downloading movies.
No, I haven't done a scientific study that's been published in a refereed journal. So what?
Most people I've ever met couldn't figure out (or remember) how to download and burn a movie unless they had some very explicit, written instructions or a technical person to hold their hand.
Again, I haven't done a scientific study that's been published in a refereed journal. So what?
Occam's razor points to the ubiquity of "good enough" home media systems as the cause of the decline of the traditional movie theater.
Sources to cite? I don't need any citations, it's pretty obvious on the face of it.
Am I making an unfounded claim? Fucking right I am. But that doesn't make me wrong any more than it makes the original poster right.
Fucking pendants....<grumble>
File sharing is not the primary reason that theater ticket sales are down.
It seems to me that the real reason is that so many people have a "good enough" theater in their own home, and can just wait for movies to come out on DVD.
They've got their DVD player hooked up to the stereo, have a "big enough" screen and all of the comforts of home without all of the hassle and expense of going to the movie theater.
It is dishonest to blame file sharing, it's pretty obvious that recent improvements in consumer-level media technology are the real "culprit" here.
File sharing is just a convenient strawman.
Rockbox lets you use Morse code to enter text on an mp3 player, I tried it out on my iRiver and it's a surprisingly efficient interface. Learning Morse isn't really that hard, no harder than learning to touch type. And wow, a one (or two) button interface is very cool!
Turnhalle
I don't think that you can apply a EULA to a standard. The product (MS-Office) yes, but the standard (OOXML) no.
The other day I was in an Edeka, and happened to see the Tux/Linux Inside logo on their cash register display. It made my day...
"Legalize It" is by Peter Tosh. You fail it...
Do you think maybe that's why Prince started his own record label?
It is his content and he does own it.
If anyone understands this, it is Prince. Why do you think he started going under the name/symbol "the Artist formerly known as Prince"? Because of a fucked-up record deal.
This isn't about who owns the music, because he has learned to make sure that he is in a situation where he owns the music.
This is about bypassing the traditional distribution and promotion chain, which is in its death throes.
This is an interesting read on this subject. The answer to your question is that the fact that the computers are Russian probably does matter.
It's not that the Russian mathematicians aren't excellent, it has more to do with their engineering approach.
That, and of course politics on both sides...
Iraq's political leaders have failed to reach agreement on nearly every law that the United States has demanded as a benchmark.
Yes, insurgents. And inter-tribal disputes. And intra-tribal disputes. And general lawlessness.
If foreign troops leave the country, the insurgency loses its relevance. Then you simply deal with the other three problems, and you get your booming skyline. What a wonderful world it would be. They can all hold hands and sing the Coke song.
Quite a generalization you're making there.
I would love to see a peaceful, America-loving Iraq, but that train left the station about 4 years ago and nobody was on it.
Re-establishing law and order after it completely breaks down is a whole different thing than maintaining order without letting it completely break down.
I wasn't necessarily condemning the hypothetical, just putting it into recent historical perspective. What you suggested is exactly what the Serbs were doing in Bosnia. Sebrenica, anyone?
The Allies (I believe rightly) didn't systematically slaughter the Germans after they conquered them, even though the Nazis had proven themselves to be willing to do it to the Jews, so I'm not sure I'm following your logic.
I guess the question is, under what circumstances would you consider such a strategy to be appropriate?
Yeah, that's the pesky thing about "bringing democracy" to a place like Iraq, getting the people to elect a government that is "favorable" to US interests.
It seems like the odds of that happening democratically are pretty long, given that the US troops were greeted with IEDs instead of flowers...
Slobodan, is that you?
At one time, oh about 40 years ago, he was an "important figure" in popular music.
Now? Pretty much completely irrelevant.
What's wrong with him? He's still deluding himself that he's relevant.
Hell, Mick fucking Jagger is a more relevant figure in pop music, and Mick's completely irrelevant....If those old fucks weren't so pathetic, they would almost be funny!
I hope you are using plenum cable for those between-the-floors runs...
Um, they are called power meters. My understanding is that a power meter will not pass the frequencies that DLAN runs over, so there is no "leakage" beyond the meter.
This is definitely not the IBM that I loved (not) in the 80's...
Or if something -doesn't- work exactly as advertised. Then it becomes tear your hair out time. In my experience, AD/GPO/etc. work pretty well -if- you are willing to climb the learning curve. 90% of it is easy, but that last 10% is a mother. And lord help you if more than one person is involved...
Take out the Linux, and you're closer to the truth.
I have done DoD accreditation on both (Linux and Solaris), it is -way- tougher to get Linux accredited than Solaris.
Part of the problem is that the guidelines for accrediting Solaris are more specific and easier to implement than the Linux ones. The Solaris guidelines will give specific steps using specific tools, but the Linux guidelines tend to give generic requirements and the specific implementation is left up to you.
Also, Linux was not designed with a lot of security requirements in mind. Sure, they can be set up to be tough to penetrate externally, but there are a whole lot of auditing and attribution requirements that just aren't addressed by Linux.
There also tends to be flat-out bias against Linux in some of the guidelines. For instance, using Linux as a firewall? Cat I finding, do not pass go, do not collect $200, no matter how you set up the system.
Things are improving, but if I had to choose a *NIX that I had to get accredited for the DoD, I would definitely choose Solaris over Linux. You can only get Linux accredited if you have a sympathetic approving authority.
Have you ever even seen anyone actually have a seizure? There are a whole spectrum of symptoms.
I have seen two in the last 15 years. Both times, it was more like the person was just zoned out rather than what we typically think of (grand mal).
One happened to a girl while she was skiing, and she just froze as she picked up speed and went through a fence at high speed without turning (or twitching or anything else). Scary as fuck to watch anyway.
The other happened as I was talking to a co-worker, trying to get through some bureaucracy, and he just kind of zoned out for a couple of minutes and started drooling. Fortunately I realized what was going on and managed to help minimize his embarrassment when the seizure passed.
It sounds to me that it could certainly have been a seizure, cop or not.
No shit.
One day when I was in 6th grade, we had a substitute teacher (unconfident young female) for one of our classes, so a bunch of us had a major-league spit-ball fight in her class. When we got back to home room (very confident aggressive male teacher), one of our classmates ratted us out (thank you fucking Anne Boss).
The HR teacher went to the closet and pulled out "Homer", a two foot long, inch-thick wooden paddle with holes drilled in it (to reduce air resistance on the swing).
We got pulled out into the hall, and got two whacks, as hard as he could hit (and he loved to play baseball). I tell you, getting up off of the floor and bending over for the second one was a bit of a "character builder"!
Not only were we deterred from that particular misbehavior, all of the other classes could clearly hear what was going on. Let's just say everyone was pretty motivated not to pull that kind of shit again.
My only regret was thinking I would be noble and volunteering to be the first. If I had it to do over again, I think I would have waited until his arm was a little more tired.
I knew that if my mom heard about what he did, she would raise holy shit with the school, so I kept it quiet. I had learned my lesson, one that I remember to this day.
You've got me wrong, I'm not totally against nuclear power. What I take issue with is people who claim that breeder technology can eliminate all of the waste problems. It just isn't true, since plants do generate a lot of waste that can't be reprocessed.
We have a -huge- mess at Hanford that still can't be effectively dealt with. I think that speaks against your claim that decommissioned plants are "easy to deal with".
Also, I remember WPPS, it was a financial disaster.
We can talk about how nuclear is nice -in theory-, but both Hanford and WPPS are the -real- results of our attempts at nuclear.
Pardon me if I dismiss some of the happy horseshit talk about nuclear, but it hasn't worked out so well so far, and I think the nuclear optimists are as unrealistic as the solar/wind optimists.
The biggest issues with nuclear power aren't technical, they are political and economic.
For many of their claims, I think this is the likely scenario.
Everyone keeps trotting this one out, but I don't think it's going to be that simple. There are likely going to be claims that don't fail prior art, but cannot easily be "coded around". VFAT and Samba come to mind...