I think the point the parent is trying to make is why would you spend $$10-$15 to download what's basically an Xvid-Rip quality movie thats DRM'ed to hell, when you can just go to Walmart and get the full DVD for the same price or cheaper and rip it yourself? Oh and on top of that for most people you can likely drive there and back in 1/2 the time it takes to download. Even at 5 Mbps it's going to take you about 20 mins to download 700 megs.
These studios really need to lower the price point on these things. We're seeing the same crap that was tried to be pulled whne they first started selling digital music online - way too much $$$. As soon as they hit the magic price point of $1 or less the things started flying. I think the same thing will happen for movies when they hit around $5.
Why so cheap? Because it's not like music where the brick+mortar media is overpriced - DVDs are actually quite cheap for what you get. If you actually think back I remember spending $25 on VHS releases that were crap nowadays I spend $15 and get a DVD with an assload of extra content and way better quality.
Downloads have to be cheaper than DVDs for people to bother.
Everyone pranks. It is part of growing up. Hell - some people never grow up and go on to be Emmy-award winning comedians who prank for a living - OH THE HORROR!
The fact of the matter is some people just a) have no sense of humour, b) take things way too seriously.
Kids will be kids. If you can't deal with that in a logical and sane manner then you shouldn't be principal. I am not saying that these kids should not be punished for what they did - they have to be taught that all actions have consequences. But what happened to good old detention?
When I was a kid and we were caught drawing pictures of the teacher, they didn't cancel art classes for the whole school. How is this any different?
There are all kinds of bad things posted about me on the web. Who cares?
People should be abllowed to post anything they want on the Internet. It is not the same as other printed media.
IMO if it isn't markedly obvious that the source is a cooperation or employed by someone, then everything on the Internet should be assumed to be hearsay and thus immune from libel. You know "freedom of speech" and all???
Seriously - what is the difference between a blog posting and sticking a flyter on a telephone pole? Would you give one more credibility than another? If so - WHY?!?!
People need to be made aware than anyone can, and will, make a face MySpace / Facebook / Whatever claiming to be you. That's Just the plain truth. If you have a problem with that then unplug your PC and go back to your telegraph. I have a metric crapload of derogatory things on me out on the web in various locations. Did I go sue every one of them? Of course not. Cause I have a backbone.
There are KIDS. It doesn't matter if the site is taken down or not cause they're making fun of the principal and teachers 24/7 behind their backs anyways, cause it's the fun thing to do. If this guy is really that sensitive to what a 12 year old thinks about him he is in the wrong job.
When we can make a computer that can tell the difference between a kitten and an adult cat (or hell even another furred mamal) with any kind of accuracy, I think the LEAST of your problems at that point is coming up with captchas. You should be more worried about how you're going to escape from Skynet.
I am using KDE 3.5.6, Kontact 1.2.4, kmail 1.9.6, kaddressbook 3.5.6
Same.
Kmail does not crash with me.
You're obviously not excersizing it with multiple IMAP accounts like me.
Eh? I can use HTML formatting features just fine in kmail? Try Options -> Formatting (HTML)
Try to reply to an HTML email with the formatting intact. WHOOPS! Try to create an HTML formatted signature. WHOOPS! Try to paste an image from your clipboard into the email. WHOOPS!
All these things have been in progress @ bugs.kde.org for years now. The team just has different priorities, they don't care about HTML email. Which is fine, but I still have a right to complain about it too.
I don't have that.
I guarentee you you do. When you first start KMail, click on your IMAP inbox. The whole right hand pane is obscred now with a "Loading" message, and it stays that way until the inbox is done. If you decide to change your mind and click on a local folder, or a faster folder on a different server, tough cookies - YOU ARE SCREWED UNTIL IT IS DONE.
Calender stuff is handled by K Organizer actually.
Not when you run Kontact, it is all part of the same PIM experience. And KMail has to integrate properly with K Organizer in order to handle calendering properly (which it doesn't do so well at right now). Once again - compared to Outlook, it is very far behind in this area, even when it comes to pretty simple things like adding events to outlook calenders,a nd managing presence. Since all the code to do this stuff is now GPL code in Evolution there is really no reason KMail can't make this work properly.
Oh and while I am on the topic - the one I forgot - Evolution. Gets most of the functionality OK, but the threading sucks, and its a huge bloated hog. Also every operation takes twice as long as it does in KMail or Thunderbird.
Really. all the major mail clients piss me off in different ways.
Thunderbird - where is my ability to point Thunderbird at two or three address books simultaneously? Still way behind the times when it comes to cross-account integration. You can only add ONE remote address book, and it HAS to be LDAP. No remote VCARD address book support. Just starting to get on board with multiple remote calenders.
Also - why the hell is there not a white-list for SSL certs? I KNOW my mail server has an untrusted self-signed cert. Frankly I don't give a fuck -it's my server I trust it, all I care is that it's encrypted. So Why do you have to pop up an annoying SSL cert dialog every freaking time I start up? Every other mail client on the planet allows me to accep tthis dialog once and NOT PROMPT ME AGAIN.
Outlook 2007 - WHY THE HELL DO YOU NOT HAVE PROPER THREADING YET. It's been 6+ years since this feature was available in all the open source clients. You'd think a billion dollar company could pull it off.
However, much better than thunderbird now when it comes to multiple accounts and calenders and address books. Supports a crapload of formats for both. Still not as good as KMail in this area, but a close second.
KMail - Stop crashing on me already. Also get HTML composer support in order, this is 2007 now you're like 4 years behind the times. As well, why can't I work in one folder while another account loading? There is no need to put this stupid wait screen up over the whole message area. However - nice work on the multitiude of calender and address book formats. If only exchange calenders worked properly.
I am starting to think I need to fork my own client off to get the functionality I need.
Wake me up when this thing can display a 1920x1080 picture on my 1920x1080 television, like my cable box, PC, and 360 can do. Until then it's just another piece of craptastic bullshit.
Honestly, I don't know anyone (including myself) who has ever gotten an HD set and then later said "this was not worth the switch".
You can't go around blasting your mouth off about stuff you have not tried. Until you have actually SEEN THE DAY TO DAY DIFFERENCE in shows like CSI and Lost when broadcast in HD vs. non-HD, you're just spouting bullshit.
I won't even go into the difference it makes to have Dolby Digital 5.1 surround on these shows.
It is a totally different viewing experience. It makes you barely even bother watching shows on the SD channels anymore because they are so much worse.
Actually the REAL PROBLEM is Apple TV can't play full-frame HD, regardless of format. It does not have the power to decode and display it. Nowhere on the specs page or anywhere else does Apple say that Apple TV can, or will ever, be able to play HD video. This is because it can't, it only has a general-purpose 1 GHz CPU, which is not enough to play HD video even when you have hardware support for decoding and motion compensation.
Apple TV can upscale to 720p, that's it. It will never ever be able to play 1080p content, or even 1080i content. I would be very surprised if you could coax actual 720p HD video out of the thing.
What does he mean by "doesn't actually seem that well suited to it"? The hard drive is more than enough for H.264 content (requires less space than regular MPEG-4), low power consumption means nothing with dedicated solutions (if the MPEG-4 and H.264 decoding is done by the GPU, you don't need a Quad-Core 3GHz processor).
Read the actual specs on Apple TV. It only has 1 Ghz CPU. You simply can not decode full frame HD video with that kind of power, even when the GPU does the decoding and motion compensation in hardware. Ask anyone who runs MythTV about this. There are just too many pixels shuffling around.
The Apple TV is a device made to play SD video, optionally upscaled to 720p. That is it. It CAN NOT PLAY HD CONTENT, it is NOT DESIGNED TO.
The fact that apple markets it this way is very misleading IMO. It should be marketed as a media player only. The word "HD" should never be in any of it's marketing material. Sure, it "upsamples" to HD resolution, but most consumers have no idea what that means.
First Star-Trek isn't real. I'm sorry, but neither is the easter bunny. If anything can be duplicated cheaply people will only do the stuff they enjoy doing, but no work will be done. Society will stagnate, innovation will come to a halt, and the social consequences will be immense.
Yeah really! Why, it's just like if people could freely duplicate software. There would be no motivation at all to improve it, and innovation would come to a halt! Oh wait.. what about Open Source...
Humans are not wired to behave the way in which you describe. People get bored doing nothing. All you have to look at for am example of this is the number of people who are perfectly financially secure who return to work anyway, because they are bored with retirement.
People's brains needs stimulus. Even if you consider games and other entertainment - if no one makes new entertainment, then the current supply will be quickly exhausted, and the populace will become bored again. At that point, they will start doing creative things they enjoy.
And none of this would "stifle innovation". What about all the dreamers who want to explore space and beyond, or to understand how the physical universe works in more detail? These people will always continue research and innovation - the difference is they will be able to innovate HOW they want and WHEN they want, without being constrained to rules of artificial scarcity or need for essentials, since all their materials would be "free" to them via their replicator.
Really, replicator instantly solve a vast amount of global issues. You no longer have hunger. You no longer have theft since there is no value in stolen objects. You no longer have a "drug problem" since everyone who wants rugs can replicate themselves into a stupor without harming anyone else, and darwinian processes will quickly weed people with those addictive tenancies into oblivion. Likewise, there will be little need for war since there are no resources to argue over, and even if there were you would be assured of mutual destruction since anyone can replicate any weapons they can imagine.
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I find it funny and telling that reading these articles is so reminescent of the ones that came out when XP was released that it's hilarious.
I bet that if I tried hard enough I could even find one titled "XXX spends 30 days with Windows XP", where they decry that it is just "not worth the upgrade from Windows 2000", etc.
Personally I use Ubuntu so I don't care about any of this; I just find it humerous how easily people in IT forget the past. OF COURSE it is not as good right now, but OF COURSE it will be better in 6 months when everyone has upgraded. Change takes time.
...where they expect 5 GB a month to be excessive?
Between outlook constantly talking to the server, downloading worker's 10mb word doc email attachments, copying WHOLE GB WORTH OF VMWARE IMAGES AROUND, I woudl say the traffic my PC uses on my intranet is closer to 100GB a month than it is to 5GB.
WTF is Verizon smoking? 5GB would NOT be enough for me to even consider EVDO for a VPN intranet access solution.
While you can argue that the law itself is unconstitutional (which IMO it is), you can't argue 10th amendment here.
IMO this law should never have been passed in the first place. Like you said, it's a state matter. Of course they're lumping this all under the "internet gambling is inter-state commerce" category, but this is bullshit. The commerce is not inter-state, it's inter-national.
According to the constitution, IMO the fed only has the authority to ban internet gambling *between states*. regulating international gabling would require a federal law - which is be definition bound by federal treaties.
New albums from EMI are $9.99, 256kbps, and DRM free. RTFA.
Now, sure, if you build a MIX AND MATCH album of you're fav singles at 256kbps, it would wind up costing you $20. But name me a music store where I can go in and buy a mix-and-match CD?
There's no obvious solution. You could do it by lottery between the holders of the current.org/.com/.net domain, or start a new registry as a free-for-all or one of several other ways.
I think it would be worth it, but it's never going to happen.
I don't think either of those methods are fair. For example, I own keirstead.org (my last name), and have for over 10 years. I have always had the same email address (my first name at keirstead.org). Keirstead.com and Keirstead.net are also registered by other Keirsteads, and have been for a long time.
Now, who is to say one of us has more of a right to it than the others? How fair would it be that, after owning this domain and using it daily for over 10 years, I lose it because of some lottery drawing?
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I think the point the parent is trying to make is why would you spend $$10-$15 to download what's basically an Xvid-Rip quality movie thats DRM'ed to hell, when you can just go to Walmart and get the full DVD for the same price or cheaper and rip it yourself? Oh and on top of that for most people you can likely drive there and back in 1/2 the time it takes to download. Even at 5 Mbps it's going to take you about 20 mins to download 700 megs.
These studios really need to lower the price point on these things. We're seeing the same crap that was tried to be pulled whne they first started selling digital music online - way too much $$$. As soon as they hit the magic price point of $1 or less the things started flying. I think the same thing will happen for movies when they hit around $5.
Why so cheap? Because it's not like music where the brick+mortar media is overpriced - DVDs are actually quite cheap for what you get. If you actually think back I remember spending $25 on VHS releases that were crap nowadays I spend $15 and get a DVD with an assload of extra content and way better quality.
Downloads have to be cheaper than DVDs for people to bother.
There is a pretty obvious address bar from what I see
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http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:Sugar_browser_wit
All handhelds have free PDF readers available. Frankly - this is something you could have found out from a 5 second google query.
Are you suggesting that there is some magical force field that prevents kids from taking things they write or draw inside the school outside of it?
ALL KIDS DO THIS STUFF.
GET A BACKBONE OR DON'T BE A TEACHER.
Simple as that.
Everyone pranks. It is part of growing up. Hell - some people never grow up and go on to be Emmy-award winning comedians who prank for a living - OH THE HORROR!
The fact of the matter is some people just a) have no sense of humour, b) take things way too seriously.
Kids will be kids. If you can't deal with that in a logical and sane manner then you shouldn't be principal. I am not saying that these kids should not be punished for what they did - they have to be taught that all actions have consequences. But what happened to good old detention?
When I was a kid and we were caught drawing pictures of the teacher, they didn't cancel art classes for the whole school. How is this any different?
There are all kinds of bad things posted about me on the web. Who cares?
People should be abllowed to post anything they want on the Internet. It is not the same as other printed media.
IMO if it isn't markedly obvious that the source is a cooperation or employed by someone, then everything on the Internet should be assumed to be hearsay and thus immune from libel. You know "freedom of speech" and all???
Seriously - what is the difference between a blog posting and sticking a flyter on a telephone pole? Would you give one more credibility than another? If so - WHY?!?!
People need to be made aware than anyone can, and will, make a face MySpace / Facebook / Whatever claiming to be you. That's Just the plain truth. If you have a problem with that then unplug your PC and go back to your telegraph. I have a metric crapload of derogatory things on me out on the web in various locations. Did I go sue every one of them? Of course not. Cause I have a backbone.
There are KIDS. It doesn't matter if the site is taken down or not cause they're making fun of the principal and teachers 24/7 behind their backs anyways, cause it's the fun thing to do. If this guy is really that sensitive to what a 12 year old thinks about him he is in the wrong job.
When we can make a computer that can tell the difference between a kitten and an adult cat (or hell even another furred mamal) with any kind of accuracy, I think the LEAST of your problems at that point is coming up with captchas. You should be more worried about how you're going to escape from Skynet.
Not in thunderbird
I have heard too many horror stories about D-IMAP deleting people's entire inboxes in KMail to try it.
I don't like the idea of interacting with my inbox disconnected and 'synching' it later. Too much chance for error IMO.
I am using KDE 3.5.6, Kontact 1.2.4, kmail 1.9.6, kaddressbook 3.5.6
Same.
Kmail does not crash with me.
You're obviously not excersizing it with multiple IMAP accounts like me.
Eh? I can use HTML formatting features just fine in kmail? Try Options -> Formatting (HTML)
Try to reply to an HTML email with the formatting intact. WHOOPS! Try to create an HTML formatted signature. WHOOPS! Try to paste an image from your clipboard into the email. WHOOPS!
All these things have been in progress @ bugs.kde.org for years now. The team just has different priorities, they don't care about HTML email. Which is fine, but I still have a right to complain about it too.
I don't have that.
I guarentee you you do. When you first start KMail, click on your IMAP inbox. The whole right hand pane is obscred now with a "Loading" message, and it stays that way until the inbox is done. If you decide to change your mind and click on a local folder, or a faster folder on a different server, tough cookies - YOU ARE SCREWED UNTIL IT IS DONE.
Calender stuff is handled by K Organizer actually.
Not when you run Kontact, it is all part of the same PIM experience. And KMail has to integrate properly with K Organizer in order to handle calendering properly (which it doesn't do so well at right now). Once again - compared to Outlook, it is very far behind in this area, even when it comes to pretty simple things like adding events to outlook calenders,a nd managing presence. Since all the code to do this stuff is now GPL code in Evolution there is really no reason KMail can't make this work properly.
Oh and while I am on the topic - the one I forgot - Evolution. Gets most of the functionality OK, but the threading sucks, and its a huge bloated hog. Also every operation takes twice as long as it does in KMail or Thunderbird.
Really. all the major mail clients piss me off in different ways.
Thunderbird - where is my ability to point Thunderbird at two or three address books simultaneously? Still way behind the times when it comes to cross-account integration. You can only add ONE remote address book, and it HAS to be LDAP. No remote VCARD address book support. Just starting to get on board with multiple remote calenders.
Also - why the hell is there not a white-list for SSL certs? I KNOW my mail server has an untrusted self-signed cert. Frankly I don't give a fuck -it's my server I trust it, all I care is that it's encrypted. So Why do you have to pop up an annoying SSL cert dialog every freaking time I start up? Every other mail client on the planet allows me to accep tthis dialog once and NOT PROMPT ME AGAIN.
Outlook 2007 - WHY THE HELL DO YOU NOT HAVE PROPER THREADING YET. It's been 6+ years since this feature was available in all the open source clients. You'd think a billion dollar company could pull it off.
However, much better than thunderbird now when it comes to multiple accounts and calenders and address books. Supports a crapload of formats for both. Still not as good as KMail in this area, but a close second.
KMail - Stop crashing on me already. Also get HTML composer support in order, this is 2007 now you're like 4 years behind the times. As well, why can't I work in one folder while another account loading? There is no need to put this stupid wait screen up over the whole message area. However - nice work on the multitiude of calender and address book formats. If only exchange calenders worked properly.
I am starting to think I need to fork my own client off to get the functionality I need.
720p is not true HD. 1080p is true HD.
Wake me up when this thing can display a 1920x1080 picture on my 1920x1080 television, like my cable box, PC, and 360 can do. Until then it's just another piece of craptastic bullshit.
Honestly, I don't know anyone (including myself) who has ever gotten an HD set and then later said "this was not worth the switch".
You can't go around blasting your mouth off about stuff you have not tried. Until you have actually SEEN THE DAY TO DAY DIFFERENCE in shows like CSI and Lost when broadcast in HD vs. non-HD, you're just spouting bullshit.
I won't even go into the difference it makes to have Dolby Digital 5.1 surround on these shows.
It is a totally different viewing experience. It makes you barely even bother watching shows on the SD channels anymore because they are so much worse.
Actually the REAL PROBLEM is Apple TV can't play full-frame HD, regardless of format. It does not have the power to decode and display it. Nowhere on the specs page or anywhere else does Apple say that Apple TV can, or will ever, be able to play HD video. This is because it can't, it only has a general-purpose 1 GHz CPU, which is not enough to play HD video even when you have hardware support for decoding and motion compensation.
Apple TV can upscale to 720p, that's it. It will never ever be able to play 1080p content, or even 1080i content. I would be very surprised if you could coax actual 720p HD video out of the thing.
What does he mean by "doesn't actually seem that well suited to it"? The hard drive is more than enough for H.264 content (requires less space than regular MPEG-4), low power consumption means nothing with dedicated solutions (if the MPEG-4 and H.264 decoding is done by the GPU, you don't need a Quad-Core 3GHz processor).
Read the actual specs on Apple TV. It only has 1 Ghz CPU. You simply can not decode full frame HD video with that kind of power, even when the GPU does the decoding and motion compensation in hardware. Ask anyone who runs MythTV about this. There are just too many pixels shuffling around.
The Apple TV is a device made to play SD video, optionally upscaled to 720p. That is it. It CAN NOT PLAY HD CONTENT, it is NOT DESIGNED TO.
The fact that apple markets it this way is very misleading IMO. It should be marketed as a media player only. The word "HD" should never be in any of it's marketing material. Sure, it "upsamples" to HD resolution, but most consumers have no idea what that means.
First Star-Trek isn't real. I'm sorry, but neither is the easter bunny. If anything can be duplicated cheaply people will only do the stuff they enjoy doing, but no work will be done. Society will stagnate, innovation will come to a halt, and the social consequences will be immense.
Yeah really! Why, it's just like if people could freely duplicate software. There would be no motivation at all to improve it, and innovation would come to a halt! Oh wait.. what about Open Source...
Humans are not wired to behave the way in which you describe. People get bored doing nothing. All you have to look at for am example of this is the number of people who are perfectly financially secure who return to work anyway, because they are bored with retirement.
People's brains needs stimulus. Even if you consider games and other entertainment - if no one makes new entertainment, then the current supply will be quickly exhausted, and the populace will become bored again. At that point, they will start doing creative things they enjoy.
And none of this would "stifle innovation". What about all the dreamers who want to explore space and beyond, or to understand how the physical universe works in more detail? These people will always continue research and innovation - the difference is they will be able to innovate HOW they want and WHEN they want, without being constrained to rules of artificial scarcity or need for essentials, since all their materials would be "free" to them via their replicator.
Really, replicator instantly solve a vast amount of global issues. You no longer have hunger. You no longer have theft since there is no value in stolen objects. You no longer have a "drug problem" since everyone who wants rugs can replicate themselves into a stupor without harming anyone else, and darwinian processes will quickly weed people with those addictive tenancies into oblivion. Likewise, there will be little need for war since there are no resources to argue over, and even if there were you would be assured of mutual destruction since anyone can replicate any weapons they can imagine.
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I find it funny and telling that reading these articles is so reminescent of the ones that came out when XP was released that it's hilarious.
I bet that if I tried hard enough I could even find one titled "XXX spends 30 days with Windows XP", where they decry that it is just "not worth the upgrade from Windows 2000", etc.
Personally I use Ubuntu so I don't care about any of this; I just find it humerous how easily people in IT forget the past. OF COURSE it is not as good right now, but OF COURSE it will be better in 6 months when everyone has upgraded. Change takes time.
...where they expect 5 GB a month to be excessive?
Between outlook constantly talking to the server, downloading worker's 10mb word doc email attachments, copying WHOLE GB WORTH OF VMWARE IMAGES AROUND, I woudl say the traffic my PC uses on my intranet is closer to 100GB a month than it is to 5GB.
WTF is Verizon smoking? 5GB would NOT be enough for me to even consider EVDO for a VPN intranet access solution.
Anyone know if you can run MythTV under OSX? This thing would make a great myth frontend.
This is a FEDERAL anti-gambling law.
While you can argue that the law itself is unconstitutional (which IMO it is), you can't argue 10th amendment here.
IMO this law should never have been passed in the first place. Like you said, it's a state matter. Of course they're lumping this all under the "internet gambling is inter-state commerce" category, but this is bullshit. The commerce is not inter-state, it's inter-national.
According to the constitution, IMO the fed only has the authority to ban internet gambling *between states*. regulating international gabling would require a federal law - which is be definition bound by federal treaties.
There are all kinds of players that can play AAC besides the iPod.
And lots of other players are format-upgradeable , and thus will probably support AAC soon now that DRM free tracks will be on the iTunes site.
AAC is an open standard. Sure it is patent encumbered, but so is MP3.
If you bought some WMA/MP3 only player that's not upgradeable, that's your own fault. You locked yourself in.
New albums from EMI are $9.99, 256kbps, and DRM free. RTFA.
Now, sure, if you build a MIX AND MATCH album of you're fav singles at 256kbps, it would wind up costing you $20. But name me a music store where I can go in and buy a mix-and-match CD?
You're comparing apples to oranges there.
By not taking the curvature of the earth into account with these directions, they have made your swim much longer than it needs to be :)
There's no obvious solution. You could do it by lottery between the holders of the current .org/.com/.net domain, or start a new registry as a free-for-all or one of several other ways.
I think it would be worth it, but it's never going to happen.
I don't think either of those methods are fair. For example, I own keirstead.org (my last name), and have for over 10 years. I have always had the same email address (my first name at keirstead.org). Keirstead.com and Keirstead.net are also registered by other Keirsteads, and have been for a long time.
Now, who is to say one of us has more of a right to it than the others? How fair would it be that, after owning this domain and using it daily for over 10 years, I lose it because of some lottery drawing?
It's a complicated issue.