Explain something to me. Why is it government agents barging into private individuals homes is considered X-Files material yet immigrants, coming in and stealing jobs, Russians, Iraqis, Cambodians, Chinese, Pakistanis, etc(whover that is? Hello etceteranians here? Hello?) are not.
What's so believable about terrorists, and so unbelievable about domestic violence (double pun intended).
Have we forgotten the Spanish American War, the Western Expansion, the McCarthy Era, Manzanar, Kent State, the gov't spying on Martin Luther King, NIXON.
You've been watching too much television. You have become a racist and a nationalist. You're the danger not the outside world.
"Computers should be... tools... (siglim 120 chars)" Like cars... to the office no more no less.
Nontrivial my ass. A 20 line perl script combined with the bazillion open source cd writees would handle everything.
Get you head out of your ass. They're just files. No different than writing to a hard drive or to floppies.
It's not the fact that only CDNOW might be able to do it, it's the fact that they could give ownership of something that amounts to patenting the use of the color blue.
Excuse me while I puke.
"Computers should be... tools... (siglim 120 chars)" Like cars... to the office no more no less.
When you go to a concert and the band sucks YOU DO NOT GET YOUR MONEY BACK.
When you talk to you school Dean and President and tell them the class you've been paying for isn't teaching you any of what was promised, you can very likely get a refund.
The Application fee IS your admission charge.
Excuse me while I throw up.
"Computers should be... tools... (siglim 120 chars)" Like cars... to the office no more no less.
I really hope you're being sarcastic. War has always been a game of keeping the citizenry busy and distracted though sometimes (very often) every one including the lead players get their hands dirty and everyone is left in fucked up position. "Computers should be... tools... (siglim 120 chars)" Like cars... to the office no more no less.
I don't give a fuck what people know about me. This is about teaching these spooks some fucking manners. In the oldays people would stop and ask PERMISSION before they took a picture of even a little child they thought was cute.
I'm sorry but you've been watching too many episodes of the X-Files.
"Computers should be... tools... (siglim 120 chars)" Like cars... to the office no more no less.
Aside from the privacy issue (my voice/keyboard is hoarse after all the crap that goes on daily.):
It isn't the V4Linux team's fault really. The only way to write a driver in Windows is to play by the rules. So if your card or camera have all kinds of funky features you have to explain those features to Windows or rather rethink those features in terms of Windows' constructs, which, though structure is normally a good thing, means you have to adapt your driver to expect certain information in certain Windows related platform dependent memory ranges.
So at this point Video4Linux is just a collection of video drivers that conform in some ways, but try to be platform independent. (No you'll never see Unix driver work on a Windows box. They're two different Universes.)
Platform independence can get in the way of generic design. Something I've discovered in my own projects. Complexity cannot be created nor destroyed on transformed. (Call me a cynical essentialist if you want.)
I think Video4Linux can mature into Video4Freenix or even Video4Unix. The problem is trying to find a solution that covers the top-down camera end of things and bottom-up video card end of things. Not easy. The risk is that you have to maintain two sets of code one from the Video4Linux camp and one from the Hardware camp. What happens when one camp thinks the video driver interface is more important than the device drivers. But that's the reason the bttv code and the QuickCam code doesn't mesh.
Bttv developers would have to write their code around the quirks of the QuickCam. Which blocks their code from being use with other Cams unless we demand bloat.
There's ways to fix this. It's just not easy.
"Computers should be... tools... (siglim 120 chars)" Like cars... to the office no more no less.
And not have to pass through a million or so filters to get published, mp3 pirating and movie pirating would either disappear or better become a medium for people to get new ideas and possibly be swallowed up in an open media movement.
So what happens when someone can see the effects of purely going after supply and demand. Somewhere it gets to be a pointless transfer of money. People want automation of purchases. Then they automate their process of choosing products. Next we will be automating our enjoyment. And intentionally or unintentionally the flow of money at any moment in time gets to be so high it excludes larger and larger groups of people, which is ridiculous in our age beccause money just goes in circles. Value is something very vague these days. Otherwise you wouldn't see things like domain name squatting.
Frankly, I think it's time some of these companies got used to the idea of change. It isn't so difficult to adapt to a world of piracy and make billions using the piracy vehicle as free advertising. Some companies already do this.
(Okay maybe I just want television stations to die, but supply and demand demands a very large supply of ignorant unconscious organic machines. Some of us feel we're being forced out of the fucking loop.)
Personally, if I have to have a lawyer tell me why something is valuable to me-- other than those things which protect what I already consider valuable-- than I have to say that item is probably not really valuable to me in the first place. Sorry but no lawyer is using me as a get rich quick scheme.
"Computers should be... tools... (siglim 120 chars)" Like cars... to the office no more no less.
I wonder what public opinion will be of Linus if/when Linux takes off and becomes the OS of Choice
Who cares? In the next few years it will be shown that a couple of college students studying BSD, Linux, Hurd, QNX, Solaris, VsTa, Plan 9, Minix, Fluke, L4, Mach, clementine, and EROS can and will rock the boat once again. Dear me I forgot one. Lites.
I'm not a Linux Zealot, but I an proud to be a Unix Zealot. Unix just happens to be a design that is not spit and glue all over.
"Computers should be... tools... (siglim 120 chars)" Like cars... to the office no more no less.
What are you out of your mind!!! Don't you read/.!? Do you want us looking like a bunch of opportunists? Shame on you. "Computers should be... tools... (siglim 120 chars)" Like cars... to the office no more no less.
Since when is ole Goldstein a hacker? Not that I have anything against knowing your shit or doing whatever it takes to learn (sorry but Phrack makes 2600 look like a bunch of babies). Seriously, go copy video tapes if you want to learn about movies and drama theory. But phreaking is old. So you use a recording? So what? That just doesn't seem to reach deep hack mode.
"Computers should be... tools... (siglim 120 chars)" Like cars... to the office no more no less.
And yes, I apply this to myself. My wife and I are keeping an open mind about kids, even though it's not what we want now. Who knows... anything can happen. I just hate to see people who aren't willing to consider that.
Depends. People who eat too much of something one day til it makes them sick tend to hate that for life. Even if it was their favorite food.
Well watching super baby boomers run around with their heads cut off has made me more likely to adopt than add another one to the crowd.
When people have a lot of self-esteem they really don't have much trouble learning because their learning process is just that learning; they know what to ask, they know where to look.
If they don't have that self-esteem, they have to artificially build their confidence by over practicing their field of study past the point of ridiculousness.
While I agree that current technology is clunky as in all the cables that get in the way inside the machine and lack of any sort of owners manual for computers. Even a damned car comes with one.
However, there is one things that raises a red flag.
WTF is wrong with learning? Does it take time away from Jerry Springer or daytime soaps? What the fuck is the problem?
Or is it just hypocrisy?
Why are people worried about a failing education system if they don't want to learn anything in the first place?
Something that covers distributed file systems, encryption technologies, an overview of security concepts (ports, daemons, keeping up with patches) and instructions for popular encryption packages.
I don't give too much of a crap if someone copies a style. I'll call it lame as in little effort. A la Puff laddie. And note I have no problem with sampling, just boredom. However, if someone were to take a style and screw around with it I'd call it communication. Or at least quoting.
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Explain something to me. Why is it government agents barging into private individuals homes is considered X-Files material yet immigrants, coming in and stealing jobs, Russians, Iraqis, Cambodians, Chinese, Pakistanis, etc(whover that is? Hello etceteranians here? Hello?) are not.
... tools... (siglim 120 chars)" Like cars... to the office no more no less.
What's so believable about terrorists, and so unbelievable about domestic violence (double pun intended).
Have we forgotten the Spanish American War, the Western Expansion, the McCarthy Era, Manzanar, Kent State, the gov't spying on Martin Luther King, NIXON.
You've been watching too much television. You have become a racist and a nationalist. You're the danger not the outside world.
"Computers should be
Nontrivial my ass. A 20 line perl script combined with the bazillion open source cd writees would handle everything.
... tools... (siglim 120 chars)" Like cars... to the office no more no less.
Get you head out of your ass. They're just files. No different than writing to a hard drive or to floppies.
It's not the fact that only CDNOW might be able to do it, it's the fact that they could give ownership of something that amounts to patenting the use of the color blue.
Excuse me while I puke.
"Computers should be
When you go to a concert and the band sucks YOU DO NOT GET YOUR MONEY BACK.
... tools... (siglim 120 chars)" Like cars... to the office no more no less.
When you talk to you school Dean and President and tell them the class you've been paying for isn't teaching you any of what was promised, you can very likely get a refund.
The Application fee IS your admission charge.
Excuse me while I throw up.
"Computers should be
I really hope you're being sarcastic. War has always been a game of keeping the citizenry busy and distracted though sometimes (very often) every one including the lead players get their hands dirty and everyone is left in fucked up position. ... tools... (siglim 120 chars)" Like cars... to the office no more no less.
"Computers should be
Come again? Did we forget 300,000 cameras so soon? ... tools... (siglim 120 chars)" Like cars... to the office no more no less.
"Computers should be
How about ask the author?
... tools... (siglim 120 chars)" Like cars... to the office no more no less.
"Computers should be
I don't give a fuck what people know about me. This is about teaching these spooks some fucking manners. In the oldays people would stop and ask PERMISSION before they took a picture of even a little child they thought was cute.
... tools... (siglim 120 chars)" Like cars... to the office no more no less.
I'm sorry but you've been watching too many episodes of the X-Files.
"Computers should be
I'm not even Australian. I live in the US. (By the way you can add Yale to the I'm a number not as student blacklist.)
... tools... (siglim 120 chars)" Like cars... to the office no more no less.
And still I think this is bullshit. Australia is not the Village Idiot. The heads of state make up an organization we call the GVI.org.
Frankly the sooner you can get England off your ass the better. Meaning Australian heads of state have less incentive to follow in England's wake.
Big Brother is alive, well, well loved in England.
"Computers should be
Hmm let's see I've treated quite well by Linux. I've had nothing but gripes about GPF this crash that Exploder this.
... tools... (siglim 120 chars)" Like cars... to the office no more no less.
And I'm the bigot?
And don't give me the show me don't tell me argument. There's 40 distros to choose from. Do it yourself.
"Computers should be
Aside from the privacy issue (my voice/keyboard is hoarse after all the crap that goes on daily.):
... tools... (siglim 120 chars)" Like cars... to the office no more no less.
It isn't the V4Linux team's fault really. The only way to write a driver in Windows is to play by the rules. So if your card or camera have all kinds of funky features you have to explain those features to Windows or rather rethink those features in terms of Windows' constructs, which, though structure is normally a good thing, means you have to adapt your driver to expect certain information in certain Windows related platform dependent memory ranges.
So at this point Video4Linux is just a collection of video drivers that conform in some ways, but try to be platform independent. (No you'll never see Unix driver work on a Windows box. They're two different Universes.)
Platform independence can get in the way of generic design. Something I've discovered in my own projects. Complexity cannot be created nor destroyed on transformed. (Call me a cynical essentialist if you want.)
I think Video4Linux can mature into Video4Freenix or even Video4Unix. The problem is trying to find a solution that covers the top-down camera end of things and bottom-up video card end of things. Not easy. The risk is that you have to maintain two sets of code one from the Video4Linux camp and one from the Hardware camp. What happens when one camp thinks the video driver interface is more important than the device drivers. But that's the reason the bttv code and the QuickCam code doesn't mesh.
Bttv developers would have to write their code around the quirks of the QuickCam. Which blocks their code from being use with other Cams unless we demand bloat.
There's ways to fix this. It's just not easy.
"Computers should be
And not have to pass through a million or so filters to get published, mp3 pirating and movie pirating would either disappear or better become a medium for people to get new ideas and possibly be swallowed up in an open media movement.
... tools... (siglim 120 chars)" Like cars... to the office no more no less.
So what happens when someone can see the effects of purely going after supply and demand. Somewhere it gets to be a pointless transfer of money. People want automation of purchases. Then they automate their process of choosing products. Next we will be automating our enjoyment. And intentionally or unintentionally the flow of money at any moment in time gets to be so high it excludes larger and larger groups of people, which is ridiculous in our age beccause money just goes in circles. Value is something very vague these days. Otherwise you wouldn't see things like domain name squatting.
Frankly, I think it's time some of these companies got used to the idea of change. It isn't so difficult to adapt to a world of piracy and make billions using the piracy vehicle as free advertising. Some companies already do this.
(Okay maybe I just want television stations to die, but supply and demand demands a very large supply of ignorant unconscious organic machines. Some of us feel we're being forced out of the fucking loop.)
Personally, if I have to have a lawyer tell me why something is valuable to me-- other than those things which protect what I already consider valuable-- than I have to say that item is probably not really valuable to me in the first place. Sorry but no lawyer is using me as a get rich quick scheme.
"Computers should be
I wonder what public opinion will be of Linus if/when Linux takes off and becomes the OS of Choice
... tools... (siglim 120 chars)" Like cars... to the office no more no less.
Who cares? In the next few years it will be shown that a couple of college students studying BSD, Linux, Hurd, QNX, Solaris, VsTa, Plan 9, Minix, Fluke, L4, Mach, clementine, and EROS can and will rock the boat once again. Dear me I forgot one. Lites.
I'm not a Linux Zealot, but I an proud to be a Unix Zealot. Unix just happens to be a design that is not spit and glue all over.
"Computers should be
Oh boy, bait.
... tools... (siglim 120 chars)" Like cars... to the office no more no less.
seem to indicate a company practicing good business sense
First of all the second set of quotes are what the first set of quotes reflect on.
Second of all the quotes in the second set of quotes talk about mob practices not business practices.
Isn't this what Linux wants,
It ain't a corporation. There ain't no Linux community. Where'd you get that ZDNet?
"Computers should be
Get your own distro. They're between 1-5 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ a piece.
... tools... (siglim 120 chars)" Like cars... to the office no more no less.
Unless you mean anything without a cloudy splash screen is techy (whatever that means) you'll be quite surprised.
By the way how is it blind faith if you already use it? And how is it blind faith if you want to try something else.
And if you're sick of the cheerleading, how about Microsoft's?
Flame proof undies on.
"Computers should be
I can't wait til they patent thought, trademark foreign accents, and last but not least try that 25 cent per use thing with public toilets again.
... tools... (siglim 120 chars)" Like cars... to the office no more no less.
Then I'll call it quits. Really. But take a looksee and you'llsee coca cola denies this. Hello IDG? please tell that's a misunderstanding.
"Computers should be
What are you out of your mind!!! Don't you read /.!? Do you want us looking like a bunch of opportunists? Shame on you. ... tools... (siglim 120 chars)" Like cars... to the office no more no less.
"Computers should be
Since when is ole Goldstein a hacker? Not that I have anything against knowing your shit or doing whatever it takes to learn (sorry but Phrack makes 2600 look like a bunch of babies). Seriously, go copy video tapes if you want to learn about movies and drama theory. But phreaking is old. So you use a recording? So what? That just doesn't seem to reach deep hack mode.
... tools... (siglim 120 chars)" Like cars... to the office no more no less.
"Computers should be
And yes, I apply this to myself. My wife and I are keeping an open mind about kids, even though it's not what we want now. Who knows... anything can happen. I just hate to see people who aren't willing to consider that.
Depends. People who eat too much of something one day til it makes them sick tend to hate that for life. Even if it was their favorite food.
Well watching super baby boomers run around with their heads cut off has made me more likely to adopt than add another one to the crowd.
I read the fucking article and all I got was:
if (different(student)) expel(student);
Geeks are different from the fucking Jerry Springer watching, Access Hollywood worshipping human herd.
Difference and conformity are opposites. Get a fucking clue asshole.
Something I've noticed;
When people have a lot of self-esteem they really don't have much trouble learning because their learning process is just that learning; they know what to ask, they know where to look.
If they don't have that self-esteem, they have to artificially build their confidence by over practicing their field of study past the point of ridiculousness.
Bouncing blue screens, a trash can filled with monstrous splash screens. Please God Wake Me.
While I agree that current technology is clunky as in all the cables that get in the way inside the machine and lack of any sort of owners manual for computers. Even a damned car comes with one.
However, there is one things that raises a red flag.
WTF is wrong with learning? Does it take time away from Jerry Springer or daytime soaps? What the fuck is the problem?
Or is it just hypocrisy?
Why are people worried about a failing education system if they don't want to learn anything in the first place?
Anyone interested?
Something that covers distributed file systems, encryption technologies, an overview of security concepts (ports, daemons, keeping up with patches) and instructions for popular encryption packages.
yet.
you like your music in Court or in concert.
I don't give too much of a crap if someone copies a style. I'll call it lame as in little effort. A la Puff laddie. And note I have no problem with sampling, just boredom. However, if someone were to take a style and screw around with it I'd call it communication. Or at least quoting.
Besides I'd rather see dadadodo for MIDI instead.