I buy CDs. I psy for the RIAA tax, I'm just more choosy now.
Napster isn't any better than bloody IRC channels where it's more effort to get shit than driving to New York.
Sure they have everything... And eveyone queued up behind them.
Nothing more painful than waiting for Debbie Does Dallas (the orginal the new one sucks) while 50 56kers are queued up and you're using the 100Mbit college line at #51.
Now I could buy the original for 20+antiquity tax, which I would since soon enough it's a collectible, but I have no car, no place sells it that I've seen on the net, and I'm not in the mood to keep looking, plus there's no place to keep a vcr and over here EVERYONE WOULD BE TRYING TO BORROW IT. I have a TV card for my amiga 1200 just no place or privacy for the vcr or tapes. I have floormates who type tit in all my IRC windows when I'm in the bathroom.
Napster may do a favor for artists and yes it's a pretty face on half a century old tools (yes there was networking back then).
But do I care much about it? No. I care more about the limits of ownership and how producers have more and consumers have less. As if consumers don't produce, and producers don't make remakes.
Interesting note: People dropped ratios in IRC.
Maybe they got more uploads then?
Networked Economics is not going to fit in a sound byte, that's for sure.
People have no problem getting service. It's a whole other question of getting ripped off. There's more regulations and limits in the auto industry (considering it's a 100 year old invention).
Lack of Libc5 compatibility? Does windows support the 286?
I use blackbox because Desktops are too distracting, but KDE2 is almost indistinguishable except for the fact IE Konqueror.
And this is coming from a devoted Gnome user (hey when you want distraction shoot up some panels.)
Course I like to mix them all. Blackbox w/ Konqueror and Gnome panels. Or uwm (god that looks cool just need to hack it to use menu the way even blackbox does), skipstone/galeon/gzilla(they look the same), and KWord.
If all you're going to post is yack about something you don't use don't bother.
I got tired of it from windows losers who said:
"Microsoft makes the best software don't bother."
(Oh please, I want a nickel for every tim the paper clip suggested I saved my work before crashing office)
or
"Microsoft owns everything don't bother"
(Hah PalmOS runs on almost all devices)
Just save it for someone who gives a shit.
Amiga design made all that pseudo-intellectual masturbation unnecessary. It was an environment. The reason it looks like C is because the hardware itself was structured.
Loading a program literally involved acquiring a pointer to where it was loaded.
Course I know of a system that's going to use Forth. For those who have no idea, FORTH is easier than HTML to program. And it's extendable without even making one flinch at the task.
In the original Amiga there was no low-level. The hardware was built to be a C machine. It was called ASM only because of the funky comma delimited syntax.
As a result coding the lowest level of the machine was accessible to layman unlike these modern "calculators".
1985 Amiga ASM looks like readable C code.
Surprise surprise. Been there done that.
/sarcasm/Modern/sarcasm/ computers are based on trying to fit a solution through the guts of a calculator.
The Amiga design was an environment. Registers had meaning. There's an Amiga like project now that has about 800 of them. You know why? Because people no longer masturbate over complex designs. Just send the signal and get it over with already.
This can be applied to audio, video, databases, 3D, you name it. Just resist the temptation to generalize and you'll make a kick ass machine.
Intel's arch and even RISC force the software to create the environment which causes a ridiculous waste of resources. Transmeta's an exception I'll note. Their software layer seems thin enough to be able to compete with "modern" tech, but it also generalizes beyond the point of no return.
Modern hardware is like botched microkernel. It splits the machine into a thousand components instead of having a basic foundation to support software.
Amiga style is Top-Down which makes a lot of "advances" unnecessary since all they are is hacks.
Oh and say good bye to Megahertz and Gigahertz and High Speed buses. The new (old really) generation of hardware will be labeled "can record 4x better than CD quality" or "can give you smooth graphics or "can quickly find information". Capacity and pure performance based decisions are obsolete.
Linux sites can get cracked thought it's not too likely (depending on the user).
No site will ever be safe from Denial of Service.
Dos: No need to breach security. Just either overwhelm the OS or cause the hardware to melt. FreeBSD is almost immune to OS pressure and soon Linux will be as well since FBSDers and Linuxers do communicate.
Nothing will ever escape a hardware burn-out without some fancy routing.
Scrambling algorithm:
Required for reading
Authentication keys available in "licensed" players
Payment required to make a simple application to play what you own.
You have two choices:
Live in a world where people who have nothing to do with you and have not worked for you extort and control the future of your business through inflexibly and poorly designed algorithms. Sorry I'm not betting my business on software that isn't versatile and on decisions made by these assholes. A world with licensing schemes that make it impossible for you to move into new emerging markets without continually asking these assholes for permission..
WHO THE FUCK DO THEY THINK THEY ARE? I SURE AS HELL AM NOT GOING TO ALLOW SOME RANDOM COMPANY TO HOVER OVER ME.
The second choice is reverse engineer. This means literally doing EQUIVALENT BUT ORIGINAL work. Who gives a fuck about uniqueness? Consumers want features not innovation. Unique work is limited to worthless novelties.
Problem to reverse engineer you need to crack the algorithm.
Therefore thanks somewhat to the DMCA/UCITA and much more to corporate hubris and consumer ignorance, all fucking hell breaks loose.
Please cite where in the DMCA it says you can't reverse engineer?
It in fact provides room for RE which frankly every artist every engineer and every other professional practitioner uses to get through the day.
We call it hacking, they call it improvising.
You con't fix a car without removing parts. You don't paint by having all the right colors available. YOu mix colors. And you don't start operating on someone with out first getting them into state where it's safe to operate. There's no step by step way of doing that. What if the patient is allergic to the usual anaesthetic.
Yet despite these provisions for reverse engineering companies get away with snuffing consumer reports (CPHack), get away with suing people for creating products which these companies didn't even make (CueCat Linux Driver), and almost get away with shutting down products that work like what they made but the actual work was done by the producer of the project (Emulators).
The fact is that this is a test of UCITA regardless what UCITA says. As long as it says something about rights and licenses, companies will try to stretch it beyond the limits of reason. You know why they get away with it?
Name 1 40hr a week working TV addicted 2.3 kids having middle age crisis suffering individual who can even tell you what the acronym UCITA stands for.
Okay I'm getting tired of hearing people talk about internet access as if it were some sort of rich kid's furniture.
I got my last job because I could write about internet technologies.
I was able to eat because of that job.
I was able to get a variety of biased news that had enough substance I could pick apart to get to the truth. Oh right, sorry... taking some responsibility for the content you receive is you know weird... I' always forget that.
I was able to get into a college because I was already involved in a couple of business pursuits.
I did this with a 28.8k modem ($10), Internet access ($20/month), a 4 year old computer ($200 by today's prices), and the knowledge I gained because my parents had the foresight of getting me a TRS-80 when I was 8.
Now which would you choose?
1. Work your ass off for shit
2. Spend it on a TV cigarettes
3. Spend it on a hundred conveniences
4. Never learn a thing
5. Repeat
Or
1. Work your ass off for shit
2. Eat healthy
3. Rent-to-own a cheap computer
4. Get net access
5. Get a newspaper
6. Shoot your neighbor's TV set to appease the Net Gods
7. Learn about the net
8. Get an online education
9. Rip the site using wget and a few scripts
10. Cancel online education
11. Move next door to Borders
12. Read everything
13. Buy nothing
14. Couple of years later send anonymous donations for all the stuff you ripped off
It's all about attitude. The net's no good if all you do is vegetate.
Long winded sentences. Cut it out. I dislike crusades. I'll have to put my support with be-fan though I have to disagree with him on the use of "babe".
I consider the gcc source code a misshapen amorphous difficult to follow incredibly useful wise "babe".
The bit about the italics was a nice try. But I find the small penis bit lame. Too easy, overused, cliched, lame.
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I buy CDs. I psy for the RIAA tax, I'm just more choosy now.
Napster isn't any better than bloody IRC channels where it's more effort to get shit than driving to New York.
Sure they have everything... And eveyone queued up behind them.
Nothing more painful than waiting for Debbie Does Dallas (the orginal the new one sucks) while 50 56kers are queued up and you're using the 100Mbit college line at #51.
Now I could buy the original for 20+antiquity tax, which I would since soon enough it's a collectible, but I have no car, no place sells it that I've seen on the net, and I'm not in the mood to keep looking, plus there's no place to keep a vcr and over here EVERYONE WOULD BE TRYING TO BORROW IT. I have a TV card for my amiga 1200 just no place or privacy for the vcr or tapes. I have floormates who type tit in all my IRC windows when I'm in the bathroom.
Napster may do a favor for artists and yes it's a pretty face on half a century old tools (yes there was networking back then).
But do I care much about it? No. I care more about the limits of ownership and how producers have more and consumers have less. As if consumers don't produce, and producers don't make remakes.
Interesting note: People dropped ratios in IRC.
Maybe they got more uploads then?
Networked Economics is not going to fit in a sound byte, that's for sure.
How many cars are there in the world?
People have no problem getting service. It's a whole other question of getting ripped off. There's more regulations and limits in the auto industry (considering it's a 100 year old invention).
Lack of Libc5 compatibility? Does windows support the 286?
Libc5 is half a decade old.
I love the fact I can install debs rpms etc on any Linux distro.
Just need packagemanger db converter.
I use blackbox because Desktops are too distracting, but KDE2 is almost indistinguishable except for the fact IE Konqueror.
And this is coming from a devoted Gnome user (hey when you want distraction shoot up some panels.)
Course I like to mix them all. Blackbox w/ Konqueror and Gnome panels. Or uwm (god that looks cool just need to hack it to use menu the way even blackbox does), skipstone/galeon/gzilla(they look the same), and KWord.
Public ownership of a corporation is enslavement by daytraders.
Great economy ain't it?
Syntax is beautiful
LINE = 80 SPACE
SCREEN = 25 LINE
SCREEN;
That's Forth syntax
What could be simpler?
If all you're going to post is yack about something you don't use don't bother.
I got tired of it from windows losers who said:
"Microsoft makes the best software don't bother."
(Oh please, I want a nickel for every tim the paper clip suggested I saved my work before crashing office)
or
"Microsoft owns everything don't bother"
(Hah PalmOS runs on almost all devices)
Just save it for someone who gives a shit.
Muck-rakers was what early news reporters called themselves.
60 used to be the leader in muck-raking (investigate reports). Slashdot is a tool for private muck-rakers.
And don't give me that shallow crap about how people make language. People also need language.
It's not a game in a statistics course.
I want games of old. The company sees no demand but hassles people who demand and there are many who demand.
Is there a demand or isn't there?
Never need to write code again?
Write code the way you understand it?
Not the way the computer understands it.
Compact code...
Discipline...
Optimization...
Amiga design made all that pseudo-intellectual masturbation unnecessary. It was an environment. The reason it looks like C is because the hardware itself was structured.
Loading a program literally involved acquiring a pointer to where it was loaded.
Course I know of a system that's going to use Forth. For those who have no idea, FORTH is easier than HTML to program. And it's extendable without even making one flinch at the task.
You can extend Forth directly in Forth code.
No coding on x86 is about compactness and discipline because the x86 is brain dead.
You're not programming a calculator based machine.
Spend the two hundred dollars on an Amiga 1200.
The thing is an environment from the start. Fewer chips than a RISC architecture.
I just bought mine a while ago. I swear it outruns my Athlon 500 because it doesn't waste time on juggling library calls.
In the original Amiga there was no low-level. The hardware was built to be a C machine. It was called ASM only because of the funky comma delimited syntax.
As a result coding the lowest level of the machine was accessible to layman unlike these modern "calculators".
Where you been?
Judge Kaplan already fucked us over.
Hello? You can't remove the encoding. The Discs are Readonly.
However, how in the hell are you going to play the movie without removing the encoding if you choose not to be assraped by the licensing schemers?
1985 Amiga ASM looks like readable C code.
Surprise surprise. Been there done that.
/sarcasm/Modern/sarcasm/ computers are based on trying to fit a solution through the guts of a calculator.
The Amiga design was an environment. Registers had meaning. There's an Amiga like project now that has about 800 of them. You know why? Because people no longer masturbate over complex designs. Just send the signal and get it over with already.
This can be applied to audio, video, databases, 3D, you name it. Just resist the temptation to generalize and you'll make a kick ass machine.
Intel's arch and even RISC force the software to create the environment which causes a ridiculous waste of resources. Transmeta's an exception I'll note. Their software layer seems thin enough to be able to compete with "modern" tech, but it also generalizes beyond the point of no return.
Modern hardware is like botched microkernel. It splits the machine into a thousand components instead of having a basic foundation to support software.
Amiga style is Top-Down which makes a lot of "advances" unnecessary since all they are is hacks.
Oh and say good bye to Megahertz and Gigahertz and High Speed buses. The new (old really) generation of hardware will be labeled "can record 4x better than CD quality" or "can give you smooth graphics or "can quickly find information". Capacity and pure performance based decisions are obsolete.
You can be immune from cracks.
You cannot be immune from Denial of Service.
Linux sites can get cracked thought it's not too likely (depending on the user).
No site will ever be safe from Denial of Service.
Dos: No need to breach security. Just either overwhelm the OS or cause the hardware to melt. FreeBSD is almost immune to OS pressure and soon Linux will be as well since FBSDers and Linuxers do communicate.
Nothing will ever escape a hardware burn-out without some fancy routing.
Let's all drive Pintos, eat TV dinners, and and live in card board boxes.
Nothing is better than anything else.
I can't figure any other reason anyone would make such boneheaded comment.
I get the distinct feeling you believe that if Microsoft has aproblem then everyone has the problem because that's just the way things are.
Thanks for reminding me why I don't do windows users.
Here's how it works.
Scrambling algorithm:
Required for reading
Authentication keys available in "licensed" players
Payment required to make a simple application to play what you own.
You have two choices:
Live in a world where people who have nothing to do with you and have not worked for you extort and control the future of your business through inflexibly and poorly designed algorithms. Sorry I'm not betting my business on software that isn't versatile and on decisions made by these assholes. A world with licensing schemes that make it impossible for you to move into new emerging markets without continually asking these assholes for permission..
WHO THE FUCK DO THEY THINK THEY ARE? I SURE AS HELL AM NOT GOING TO ALLOW SOME RANDOM COMPANY TO HOVER OVER ME.
The second choice is reverse engineer. This means literally doing EQUIVALENT BUT ORIGINAL work. Who gives a fuck about uniqueness? Consumers want features not innovation. Unique work is limited to worthless novelties.
Problem to reverse engineer you need to crack the algorithm.
Therefore thanks somewhat to the DMCA/UCITA and much more to corporate hubris and consumer ignorance, all fucking hell breaks loose.
Please cite where in the DMCA it says you can't reverse engineer?
It in fact provides room for RE which frankly every artist every engineer and every other professional practitioner uses to get through the day.
We call it hacking, they call it improvising.
You con't fix a car without removing parts. You don't paint by having all the right colors available. YOu mix colors. And you don't start operating on someone with out first getting them into state where it's safe to operate. There's no step by step way of doing that. What if the patient is allergic to the usual anaesthetic.
Yet despite these provisions for reverse engineering companies get away with snuffing consumer reports (CPHack), get away with suing people for creating products which these companies didn't even make (CueCat Linux Driver), and almost get away with shutting down products that work like what they made but the actual work was done by the producer of the project (Emulators).
The fact is that this is a test of UCITA regardless what UCITA says. As long as it says something about rights and licenses, companies will try to stretch it beyond the limits of reason. You know why they get away with it?
Name 1 40hr a week working TV addicted 2.3 kids having middle age crisis suffering individual who can even tell you what the acronym UCITA stands for.
Um wouldn't that draw more fire?
No need to reboot
DHCP automatically starts.
Poor can't eat but they can get a TV?
Okay I'm getting tired of hearing people talk about internet access as if it were some sort of rich kid's furniture.
I got my last job because I could write about internet technologies.
I was able to eat because of that job.
I was able to get a variety of biased news that had enough substance I could pick apart to get to the truth. Oh right, sorry... taking some responsibility for the content you receive is you know weird... I' always forget that.
I was able to get into a college because I was already involved in a couple of business pursuits.
I did this with a 28.8k modem ($10), Internet access ($20/month), a 4 year old computer ($200 by today's prices), and the knowledge I gained because my parents had the foresight of getting me a TRS-80 when I was 8.
Now which would you choose?
1. Work your ass off for shit
2. Spend it on a TV cigarettes
3. Spend it on a hundred conveniences
4. Never learn a thing
5. Repeat
Or
1. Work your ass off for shit
2. Eat healthy
3. Rent-to-own a cheap computer
4. Get net access
5. Get a newspaper
6. Shoot your neighbor's TV set to appease the Net Gods
7. Learn about the net
8. Get an online education
9. Rip the site using wget and a few scripts
10. Cancel online education
11. Move next door to Borders
12. Read everything
13. Buy nothing
14. Couple of years later send anonymous donations for all the stuff you ripped off
It's all about attitude. The net's no good if all you do is vegetate.
And why shouldn't Katz do that? He's a psychologist.
Ok read it. You are certifiably off the deep end. Get off the coffee.
Long winded sentences. Cut it out. I dislike crusades. I'll have to put my support with be-fan though I have to disagree with him on the use of "babe".
I consider the gcc source code a misshapen amorphous difficult to follow incredibly useful wise "babe".
The bit about the italics was a nice try. But I find the small penis bit lame. Too easy, overused, cliched, lame.