I find that hard to believe... a diamond seller would be able to sell large numbers of diamonds at a slightly lower price; sure, the market would devalue, but DeBeers wouldn't survive if it was paying its suppliers anything near cost price
That would be true if De Beers didn't own most of the diamond mines in the world. They hold a near total monopoly on the diamond industry. If you want a diamond, chances are it came from a De Beers mine.
Now it might be that he is still learning to type, but we can't assume that every college student can type with any proficiency as well.
I can't believe we'd allow our public education system put out students that can't even touch-type. In my district everyone in 6th grade had to pass a mandatory keyboarding class (on IBM Selectric typewriters) which essentially forced you to learn to touch type. That was almost 20 years ago. These days with computers being so commonplace there's really no reason for a college student to not have such a simple skill as touch-typing.
Of course, any "real" Chinese company will need to register BOTH foo.com and foo.(dot-com-character).cn -- just as today,
Especially since nobody outside of Asia would bother to even use those TLDs. They'll be about as successful as AlterNIC was at setting up an alternative root system years ago... meaning not very. The only thing China has going for it is a captive audience.
And people complain about how many Linux distrobutions there are!
The difference being these will all have the same kernel and same set of base libraries I imagine so running a piece of software on Starter will be no different than running it on Ultimate. The came can't be said of trying to get a piece of software packaged for Fedora Core 4 running on Debian Woody for example.
My coworker has a decent idea.. setup a squid proxy and make the kids login to it before surfing a whitelist of sites you've pre-approved. Anything else gets blocked until you update the whitelist. There's no reason for kids to be surfing the net like an adult does so you should be able to reasonably confine them to a set of "safe" sites. At first I thought he was being a Nazi, but I may re-evaluate that as my baby gets older and starts using a computer. There's nothing helpful about just sitting there like an omnipresent overlord next to your kids while they use the computer (unless they request your help of course), it'll just make them paranoid. If you let them free in a pre-approved whitelist of sites then they will be able to gain more independence while still conforming to your rules.
The YP-Z5 plays MP3, WMA, WMA-DRM10, JPEG and OGG Vorbis formats.
Heh, you're right! Not many players out there support OGG Vorbis... I wonder if it'll do FLAC as well. Seems like an iPod killer for open source geeks. It says it supports all the popular music formats, but it doesn't support AAC or AAC-DRM files. I would think DRM'd AAC files are pretty popular with over a billion of them out there from iTunes Music Store.
Well in the next few weeks I'm planning on buying a video projector that has (yes you guessed it) composite input.
So you're justifying the fact that you're pirating HD movies by choosing to buy an obsolete video projector? If you were smart you'd buy one with the new protected video input port if you're going to lay down a large chunk of change. Generally projectors are $1500-$5000 so why waste the money on an obsolete unit that you know will not play HD-DVD content? There's not need to be a chump like the early adopters since you've been warned well ahead of time that this will not work.
Except early adopters are like sheep. They'll bitch and moan, but when HD-DVD comes out most of them will throw in the towel and buy a new 65" plasma HDTV that supports the protected input. Early adopters tend to have tons of disposable cash (or are very stupid with credit card debt) so its not a big deal. They'll just put the old HDTV in their bedroom and use it to watch TV.
Clearly the answer is some kind of implant that uniquely identifies the purchaser^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hlicensee and only allows the disc to be played by that individual.;-)
What about a burnable area on the HD-DVD that gets permanently etched with the ID of your HD-DVD player the first time you put the disc in? That way you can only watch that HD-DVD on that HD-DVD player. If you have multiple rooms then you need multiple copies of the HD-DVD. It's perfect. Just make sure that if the player can't read an ID from the area OR write its ID to the area (to avoid using Sharpies or something to bypass it) then the disc won't play.
Search engines are not illegal in the USA. You can use a search engine to search for anything.
Napster was a search engine, it was shut down. There are tons more illegal BitTorrent files than there are legal files, and the sites mentioned in the articles concentrate on helping you find the illegal files. I don't see anything wrong with getting rid of the bad seeds (no pun intended) in order to promote the legal uses of BitTorrent for downloading your ISO image of Linux, for example. Pirates much of the services out there.. Napster was awesome for finding even legal music because at that time 95% of the people looking for MP3s used it.. now you've got people scattered onto different incompatible networks and need a client that will search all of them.
They are used to bring a boat from a waterway at one elevation to a waterway at another elevation. Usually found in canals and such. If it's going uphill then the boat goes into the lock, the doors shut, and water fills up the lock until it is at a higher elevation, then the other doors open and it floats on its way. The reverse is done for going downhill.
Oh, you mean locks in a computer sense? They stop two competing processes from writing to the same area of disk/memory/whatever. A process locks what it is working on and then releases the lock when its done so another process can lock the area and write to it. If two processes were to write to an area at the same time without any kind of flow control they'd just end up overwriting each other.
If waiting 2,5 minutes for a film to start seems unbearable to him, should he even be watching TV?
Do you have any children? My 1 year old was screeeeaaaaaming at 1am a few nights ago because she was sick and had thrown up. Nothing would calm her down so we threw in a DVD with children singing songs and voila, she sniffled up a bit and looked over at the TV and started dancing with the kids on the DVD. Is that wrong to let her watch a DVD to calm her down? I don't think so. Now, thankfully my DVD changer remembers where it left off and will queue up the DVD to the same spot where it left off when you stopped it, but if it hadn't we would've had to sit through 3-4 minutes of commercials and stupid animated logos for the studio. For another example of that, watch a Baby Einstein video sometime. You have to watch all the god damn Disney crap first then the little animated logos, then you get to a menu, THEN you can play it, then you get more logos and so on. I just want to put it in and the content should start playing. I shouldn't have to violate the law to do that with a DVD I purchased.
I'm sick of seeing job postings that want someone to be experts in Cisco, Windows administration, Exchange, AD, Linux, Solaris, Oracle, SAP, and perl scripting experts for $60k.
What, are you saying you're a Cisco certified engineer and don't also have an MCSE? Well hell, who is going to administer our domain controllers and reboot the printer when the jobs get stuck? I'm afraid we're waiting for someone a little more qualified... i.e. even though we're advertising for a network engineer we're really looking for a Windows sys admin to handhold our users and who can reboot the Cisco 2500 router the ISP sold us 10 years ago if it locks up or something.
I don't expect NASA to have developed the Enterprise-E, but you would think that in half-century since the Apollo program, they would have made quantum leaps in spaceflight technology.
Like what exactly? Artificial gravity? Warp drives? Transporters? You've got to be realistic here and work within the laws of physics. NASA's research arm has been crippled over the past 30 years and innovation is virtually non-existant due to piss-poor mismanagement, budget cuts, and unreasonable expectations. I think a baby-step back to the moon is just what we need to get back on track and out of being stuck doing science in Earth's orbit.
The real answer here is to run a real BSD or Linux. New Hampshire has it right, live free or die.
Well, if the choice is between running an open source operating system or running a pirated operating system then the correct answer is to run the open source operating system. Just because you're too cheap to buy a Mac to run MacOS X doesn't give you the right to try to pirate it onto another X86 box. You could always run Darwin if you really want the BSD UNIX underneath the Aqua interface, but you'll be stuck using X11 apps if you want a GUI.
For those of you slightly lacking in geography, UAE stands for the United Arab Emirates, a country located on the Arabian Peninsula just east of Saudi Arabia.
My setup: dvb-t card (nova-t), geforce4 w/tv out, athlon xp 2700, lots of storage etc.
Mythtv, took eternity to setup, had to manually give it the frequencies so it could find the channels. When setup, guide data took a while using xmltv, and following guide after guide to set it up. Even once setup, its nowhere near as complete or stable as Media Center using dvb-t. Getting to this point took hours.
MythTV is primarily focused on American users. If you asked 95% of us what the hell DVB was you'd get a blank stare. We have cable and DirecTV and primarily use Hauppauge WinTV tuner cards. All this shit sets up very easily under MythTV. When you start focusing on obscure technologies like DVB (some european TV thing) then you have to expect less support than in the USA. For example, XMLTV is a thing of the past with American users since Zap2It labs opened up their guide feed for free to open source project users. All you do is find your cable or satellite network on their web site and set it and your MythTV box downloads guide data for free. It's 500 times better than the XMLTV-screen-scraping garbage was and we all owe Zap2it labs a huge thanks for doing this.
Remember folks, try to reduce the stress on the main distribution site by using mirrors when possible, or even better, let's get a BitTorrent tracker going to distribute the load.
I'm sure you realize this, but 99% of that free, open source software you love so much is not Linux-specific. In fact, it compiles and runs just fine on a Mac exactly like it does on any Unix or Unix-like platform.
Right, if you can stand the ugly-ass X11 interface and install all the required libraries to compile it (or use Fink, whatever). The point is, many of the native MacOS X apps that use the Aqua interface are shareware because that's the kind of licensing that the MacOS Classic developers were used to. You could put out some rinky-dink calculator app for MacOS 8 and slap on a $25 shareware fee. I don't know if anyone actually paid the fee, but they sure tried to sell the stuff.
And if MySQL AB stops developing MySQL because they can't sell people a database without transactions, the development organization of MySQL database is gone. It takes a long time and/or a lot of help to get that organization back, and by that time it may be irrelevent.
So we'll adapt, we've done it before. Remember mSQL? It used to be pretty hot shit in the mid-1990s until MySQL came along. If MySQL dies then people will just switch over to PostgreSQL.
When Oracle bought Innobase (makers of InnoDB), all the MySQL people suggested improving the BerkeleyDB backend to make it their primary transaction-supporting backend. Now, looks like that's owned by Oracle to.
BerkeleyDB is open source. Who cares whether or not Oracle owns SleepyCat? Isn't the worst they can do is force all the employees to stop working on it during work hours? Nothing stops them from developing it on their own time or even letting another group of developers take over.
Do you really want the majority of Linux software to turn into what they have on Windows and Macs? The vast majority of software on those platforms is binary-only shareware. Everytime some pissant little programmer writes a program to do anything of consequence they slap on a registration requirement and it instantly costs $25-$50 for some stupid little utility. With Linux, on the other hand, the vast majority of software is not only completely free, it's open source! Unless we continue to support open source products and shun the closed proprietary binary-only shareware crap the Windows and Mac users are stuck with the Linux platform will lose one of its main rallying points.
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Yea, fire all those stupid engineers and let them go work for Iran designing ICBMs or something.
That would be true if De Beers didn't own most of the diamond mines in the world. They hold a near total monopoly on the diamond industry. If you want a diamond, chances are it came from a De Beers mine.
I can't believe we'd allow our public education system put out students that can't even touch-type. In my district everyone in 6th grade had to pass a mandatory keyboarding class (on IBM Selectric typewriters) which essentially forced you to learn to touch type. That was almost 20 years ago. These days with computers being so commonplace there's really no reason for a college student to not have such a simple skill as touch-typing.
Especially since nobody outside of Asia would bother to even use those TLDs. They'll be about as successful as AlterNIC was at setting up an alternative root system years ago... meaning not very. The only thing China has going for it is a captive audience.
The difference being these will all have the same kernel and same set of base libraries I imagine so running a piece of software on Starter will be no different than running it on Ultimate. The came can't be said of trying to get a piece of software packaged for Fedora Core 4 running on Debian Woody for example.
My coworker has a decent idea.. setup a squid proxy and make the kids login to it before surfing a whitelist of sites you've pre-approved. Anything else gets blocked until you update the whitelist. There's no reason for kids to be surfing the net like an adult does so you should be able to reasonably confine them to a set of "safe" sites. At first I thought he was being a Nazi, but I may re-evaluate that as my baby gets older and starts using a computer. There's nothing helpful about just sitting there like an omnipresent overlord next to your kids while they use the computer (unless they request your help of course), it'll just make them paranoid. If you let them free in a pre-approved whitelist of sites then they will be able to gain more independence while still conforming to your rules.
Heh, you're right! Not many players out there support OGG Vorbis... I wonder if it'll do FLAC as well. Seems like an iPod killer for open source geeks. It says it supports all the popular music formats, but it doesn't support AAC or AAC-DRM files. I would think DRM'd AAC files are pretty popular with over a billion of them out there from iTunes Music Store.
So you're justifying the fact that you're pirating HD movies by choosing to buy an obsolete video projector? If you were smart you'd buy one with the new protected video input port if you're going to lay down a large chunk of change. Generally projectors are $1500-$5000 so why waste the money on an obsolete unit that you know will not play HD-DVD content? There's not need to be a chump like the early adopters since you've been warned well ahead of time that this will not work.
Except early adopters are like sheep. They'll bitch and moan, but when HD-DVD comes out most of them will throw in the towel and buy a new 65" plasma HDTV that supports the protected input. Early adopters tend to have tons of disposable cash (or are very stupid with credit card debt) so its not a big deal. They'll just put the old HDTV in their bedroom and use it to watch TV.
What about a burnable area on the HD-DVD that gets permanently etched with the ID of your HD-DVD player the first time you put the disc in? That way you can only watch that HD-DVD on that HD-DVD player. If you have multiple rooms then you need multiple copies of the HD-DVD. It's perfect. Just make sure that if the player can't read an ID from the area OR write its ID to the area (to avoid using Sharpies or something to bypass it) then the disc won't play.
Err, that should read "Pirates ruin many of the services out there..". I wasn't awake yet. :-)
Napster was a search engine, it was shut down. There are tons more illegal BitTorrent files than there are legal files, and the sites mentioned in the articles concentrate on helping you find the illegal files. I don't see anything wrong with getting rid of the bad seeds (no pun intended) in order to promote the legal uses of BitTorrent for downloading your ISO image of Linux, for example. Pirates much of the services out there.. Napster was awesome for finding even legal music because at that time 95% of the people looking for MP3s used it.. now you've got people scattered onto different incompatible networks and need a client that will search all of them.
They are used to bring a boat from a waterway at one elevation to a waterway at another elevation. Usually found in canals and such. If it's going uphill then the boat goes into the lock, the doors shut, and water fills up the lock until it is at a higher elevation, then the other doors open and it floats on its way. The reverse is done for going downhill.
Oh, you mean locks in a computer sense? They stop two competing processes from writing to the same area of disk/memory/whatever. A process locks what it is working on and then releases the lock when its done so another process can lock the area and write to it. If two processes were to write to an area at the same time without any kind of flow control they'd just end up overwriting each other.
Do you have any children? My 1 year old was screeeeaaaaaming at 1am a few nights ago because she was sick and had thrown up. Nothing would calm her down so we threw in a DVD with children singing songs and voila, she sniffled up a bit and looked over at the TV and started dancing with the kids on the DVD. Is that wrong to let her watch a DVD to calm her down? I don't think so. Now, thankfully my DVD changer remembers where it left off and will queue up the DVD to the same spot where it left off when you stopped it, but if it hadn't we would've had to sit through 3-4 minutes of commercials and stupid animated logos for the studio. For another example of that, watch a Baby Einstein video sometime. You have to watch all the god damn Disney crap first then the little animated logos, then you get to a menu, THEN you can play it, then you get more logos and so on. I just want to put it in and the content should start playing. I shouldn't have to violate the law to do that with a DVD I purchased.
What, are you saying you're a Cisco certified engineer and don't also have an MCSE? Well hell, who is going to administer our domain controllers and reboot the printer when the jobs get stuck? I'm afraid we're waiting for someone a little more qualified... i.e. even though we're advertising for a network engineer we're really looking for a Windows sys admin to handhold our users and who can reboot the Cisco 2500 router the ISP sold us 10 years ago if it locks up or something.
Like what exactly? Artificial gravity? Warp drives? Transporters? You've got to be realistic here and work within the laws of physics. NASA's research arm has been crippled over the past 30 years and innovation is virtually non-existant due to piss-poor mismanagement, budget cuts, and unreasonable expectations. I think a baby-step back to the moon is just what we need to get back on track and out of being stuck doing science in Earth's orbit.
Well, if the choice is between running an open source operating system or running a pirated operating system then the correct answer is to run the open source operating system. Just because you're too cheap to buy a Mac to run MacOS X doesn't give you the right to try to pirate it onto another X86 box. You could always run Darwin if you really want the BSD UNIX underneath the Aqua interface, but you'll be stuck using X11 apps if you want a GUI.
I didn't know Ric Romero was a Slashdot reader.
You seem to have answered your own question in the same post.
MythTV is primarily focused on American users. If you asked 95% of us what the hell DVB was you'd get a blank stare. We have cable and DirecTV and primarily use Hauppauge WinTV tuner cards. All this shit sets up very easily under MythTV. When you start focusing on obscure technologies like DVB (some european TV thing) then you have to expect less support than in the USA. For example, XMLTV is a thing of the past with American users since Zap2It labs opened up their guide feed for free to open source project users. All you do is find your cable or satellite network on their web site and set it and your MythTV box downloads guide data for free. It's 500 times better than the XMLTV-screen-scraping garbage was and we all owe Zap2it labs a huge thanks for doing this.
Remember folks, try to reduce the stress on the main distribution site by using mirrors when possible, or even better, let's get a BitTorrent tracker going to distribute the load.
Right, if you can stand the ugly-ass X11 interface and install all the required libraries to compile it (or use Fink, whatever). The point is, many of the native MacOS X apps that use the Aqua interface are shareware because that's the kind of licensing that the MacOS Classic developers were used to. You could put out some rinky-dink calculator app for MacOS 8 and slap on a $25 shareware fee. I don't know if anyone actually paid the fee, but they sure tried to sell the stuff.
So we'll adapt, we've done it before. Remember mSQL? It used to be pretty hot shit in the mid-1990s until MySQL came along. If MySQL dies then people will just switch over to PostgreSQL.
BerkeleyDB is open source. Who cares whether or not Oracle owns SleepyCat? Isn't the worst they can do is force all the employees to stop working on it during work hours? Nothing stops them from developing it on their own time or even letting another group of developers take over.
Do you really want the majority of Linux software to turn into what they have on Windows and Macs? The vast majority of software on those platforms is binary-only shareware. Everytime some pissant little programmer writes a program to do anything of consequence they slap on a registration requirement and it instantly costs $25-$50 for some stupid little utility. With Linux, on the other hand, the vast majority of software is not only completely free, it's open source! Unless we continue to support open source products and shun the closed proprietary binary-only shareware crap the Windows and Mac users are stuck with the Linux platform will lose one of its main rallying points.