Yes, really, considering Gonzales is on the short list (one would think that being on the search committee would preclude you from being on the list, but I guess not).
The eminent domain decision doesn't bother me, it merely stated it's the localities decision, not the federal government. In fact, the side effect is that it's raised awareness and caused people to say "Shit, they can't do this, can they?" and has caused state legislatures to work on passing laws to prevent it (such as here in Virginia).
The possibility of having someone who thinks torture is OK on the bench scares me a whole lot more.
... until the unthinkable happens, and a terrorist gains the identity of John Q. Citizen, and buys a plane ticket, enters a nuclear facility, etc.
The reason: it's a victimless crime. Credit card companies write it off, police say "well you didn't really lose anything, since insurance covered it/it was written off", and don't investigate.
I know from personal experience. I even hired a PI to find the guy (which the cops wouldn't do, since he just laid low in another county), and they wouldn't investigate. I even gave them his address, and they wouldn't serve a warrant because he was living in another county. Wasn't worth their time.
And this wasn't a high tech scam, either. Just someone breaking into my house while I was away and stealing a checkbook and reading some mail.
"The president learned of O'Connor's plans Friday morning and spoke to her on the telephone".
Hmm, that's odd, anyone who has listened to WTOP news in DC for the past 2 weeks would have known this then.
And:
"He then met with top advisers who are going to help him in the selection process, including Vice President Dick Cheney; Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby; Attorney General Alberto Gonzales; presidential adviser Karl Rove; counselor Dan Bartlett; and Chief of Staff Andrew Card, the White House said."
And it might be possible to build a linux based cross compiler for cygwin, but then you become dependent on the cygwin DLL (unless you compile with -mno-cygwin, in which case, you're basically compiling for mingw anyway).
Great, now my mom (who lives on Long Island) can tell me how great and super fast Optimum Online is and do I have it? And I get to answer yet again, no mom, I have a cable modem, but Comcast is the service provider.
... and are willing to do some hacking, I've always thought that the Roku Photobridge and Prismiq Media Player would make nice little MythTV front ends due to their hackability, wireless support, hardware decoders and digital outs.
Don't know much about the Roku (except that they're pretty open with developer support), but as administrator for a project that does open source for the Prismiq it should be doable to port mythfrontend to the box. Particularly since Prismiq released the source.
(plus, you can probably get one dirt cheap on eBay).
actually, i can envision terri schiavo's parents getting wind of this and crying on the news "see, we could've saved terri". and the neo-cons spinning it like crazy.
Except for the fact that patents didn't kill pinball machines, the emergence of video games, which were cheaper to produce (since they didn't need as many analog components), more popular, and took less floor space did. The late 1990 pinball machines were more of an attempt at video game/pinball convergence, but by then, the war was pretty much over.
From the GPL FAQ http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html #GPLUSGov, programs produced by employees of the US government (but not contractors) are public domain. You are aware how many drivers in linux have or had maintainers with.gov e-mail addresses?
Also, how many projects have started with DARPA grants? This retaliatory change would be cutting off the nose to spite the face.
IANAL, but IP doesn't relate to physical media. It's more abstract.
GPL it, and see what happens:) If there's a non-profit (with presumably no assets), it would be an interesting case, and the corporation has nothing to lose.
As someone who rarely watches TV or movies, because, as some other poster stated, they're crap, this will not affect me one iota.
This is entertainment, it's not essential, nor is it the only form of entertainment, which is a highly substitutable commodity. Heck, maybe the end result of this might be that people find this incredibly inconvenient and read more books (gasp).
Or better yet, buy 1 share of stock in the company that's doing something you feel is bad, attend the shareholder's meeting, and during the shareholder Q&A with the CEO, ask why your company (you are an owner as a shareholder) is pressuring this bad legislation.
CEO's hate answering questions like that, especially with Wall Street listening. It might get something done, it might not, but you might find other shareholders (possibly with bigger clout) who share you view, and *are* in a position to do something.
There's a reason Tivo's and VCRs are so popular. It's to time shift. People have other things to do with their lives than sit around and watch TV. The networks are just shooting themselves in the foot. Network evening news broadcasts are getting creamed because of cable news (which is essentially timeshifted news). The same will occur to their precious copyrighted content. Less people will watch, and advertising revnues/rates will go down.
Forgive me, i'm a new/. poster, and couldn't figure out which thread to put this in (since it replies to multiple threads).
Just some general comments:
1) With all the discussion of direct downloads, has anyone tried Cinemanow and/or Real's movie rentals? With the seeming convergence of media and computers (ie Windows Media Center Edition, Mythtv actually runnable on a $300 PC with realtime transcoding), maybe this actually is an "oh crap, we're screwed, buy us now Amazon".
2) In regards to the shortened release to DVD cycle, it mostly has to do with the fact that margins are higher on DVDs than theatrical releases (remember, cinemas make their money on concessions, not the movie).
3) Another reason why rentals are more popular might have to do with the fact that Hollyweird has released *crap* for years. I mean, come on, the comics that make up the big blockbusters have been around for what, 40-50 years? Try something original/interesting (and, yes, I am a fan of comic books), and stop releasing disposable crap. Why should i pay $10 to see your crap in the theatres when i can rent it for $3 later.
As an aside, this will reduce piracy issues. I (and most other people) have no problems shelling out $$$ for Citizen Kane, The Matrix, etc, on DVD since I/we will watch them over and over again anyway.
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Yes, really, considering Gonzales is on the short list (one would think that being on the search committee would preclude you from being on the list, but I guess not).
The eminent domain decision doesn't bother me, it merely stated it's the localities decision, not the federal government. In fact, the side effect is that it's raised awareness and caused people to say "Shit, they can't do this, can they?" and has caused state legislatures to work on passing laws to prevent it (such as here in Virginia).
The possibility of having someone who thinks torture is OK on the bench scares me a whole lot more.
... until the unthinkable happens, and a terrorist gains the identity of John Q. Citizen, and buys a plane ticket, enters a nuclear facility, etc.
The reason: it's a victimless crime. Credit card companies write it off, police say "well you didn't really lose anything, since insurance covered it/it was written off", and don't investigate.
I know from personal experience. I even hired a PI to find the guy (which the cops wouldn't do, since he just laid low in another county), and they wouldn't investigate. I even gave them his address, and they wouldn't serve a warrant because he was living in another county. Wasn't worth their time.
And this wasn't a high tech scam, either. Just someone breaking into my house while I was away and stealing a checkbook and reading some mail.
from http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/01/resignation .next/index.html?section=cnn_topstories CNN.
... are ... fucked.
"The president learned of O'Connor's plans Friday morning and spoke to her on the telephone".
Hmm, that's odd, anyone who has listened to WTOP news in DC for the past 2 weeks would have known this then.
And:
"He then met with top advisers who are going to help him in the selection process, including Vice President Dick Cheney; Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby; Attorney General Alberto Gonzales; presidential adviser Karl Rove; counselor Dan Bartlett; and Chief of Staff Andrew Card, the White House said."
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According to CNN (and what's been reported in the local news here in DC), her husband is in the early stages of alzheimer's.
and with the pvr-150s being supported via ivytv on linux, it's much cheaper (about $65/card on amazon).
I think the parent was asking how to compile for windows without using an installed version of windows.
In which case, setting up a linux mingw cross compiler might work.
And it might be possible to build a linux based cross compiler for cygwin, but then you become dependent on the cygwin DLL (unless you compile with -mno-cygwin, in which case, you're basically compiling for mingw anyway).
Great, now my mom (who lives on Long Island) can tell me how great and super fast Optimum Online is and do I have it? And I get to answer yet again, no mom, I have a cable modem, but Comcast is the service provider.
And then proceed to watch her fire up AOL.
... and are willing to do some hacking, I've always thought that the Roku Photobridge and Prismiq Media Player would make nice little MythTV front ends due to their hackability, wireless support, hardware decoders and digital outs.
Don't know much about the Roku (except that they're pretty open with developer support), but as administrator for a project that does open source for the Prismiq it should be doable to port mythfrontend to the box. Particularly since Prismiq released the source.
(plus, you can probably get one dirt cheap on eBay).
actually, i can envision terri schiavo's parents getting wind of this and crying on the news "see, we could've saved terri". and the neo-cons spinning it like crazy.
ugh.
"Hey hoser, what are we gonna do tonight? No Leafs game on Hockey Night in Canada."
"Let's install Gentoo, eh? And pound some Blue while we're waiting".
"Take off, eh!"
checking for alloca ... yes ... what's a Cray?
checking if alloca needs Cray hooks
Except for the fact that patents didn't kill pinball machines, the emergence of video games, which were cheaper to produce (since they didn't need as many analog components), more popular, and took less floor space did. The late 1990 pinball machines were more of an attempt at video game/pinball convergence, but by then, the war was pretty much over.
From the GPL FAQ http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html #GPLUSGov, programs produced by employees of the US government (but not contractors) are public domain. You are aware how many drivers in linux have or had maintainers with .gov e-mail addresses?
Also, how many projects have started with DARPA grants? This retaliatory change would be cutting off the nose to spite the face.
Damn you and your slashdot influenced sesquipedalian bias :)
And, yes, I had to use google to spell sesquipedalian correctly.IANAL, but IP doesn't relate to physical media. It's more abstract.
:) If there's a non-profit (with presumably no assets), it would be an interesting case, and the corporation has nothing to lose.
GPL it, and see what happens
As someone who rarely watches TV or movies, because, as some other poster stated, they're crap, this will not affect me one iota.
This is entertainment, it's not essential, nor is it the only form of entertainment, which is a highly substitutable commodity. Heck, maybe the end result of this might be that people find this incredibly inconvenient and read more books (gasp).
Or better yet, buy 1 share of stock in the company that's doing something you feel is bad, attend the shareholder's meeting, and during the shareholder Q&A with the CEO, ask why your company (you are an owner as a shareholder) is pressuring this bad legislation.
CEO's hate answering questions like that, especially with Wall Street listening. It might get something done, it might not, but you might find other shareholders (possibly with bigger clout) who share you view, and *are* in a position to do something.
There's a reason Tivo's and VCRs are so popular. It's to time shift. People have other things to do with their lives than sit around and watch TV. The networks are just shooting themselves in the foot. Network evening news broadcasts are getting creamed because of cable news (which is essentially timeshifted news). The same will occur to their precious copyrighted content. Less people will watch, and advertising revnues/rates will go down.
Forgive me, i'm a new /. poster, and couldn't figure out which thread to put this in (since it replies to multiple threads).
Just some general comments:
1) With all the discussion of direct downloads, has anyone tried Cinemanow and/or Real's movie rentals? With the seeming convergence of media and computers (ie Windows Media Center Edition, Mythtv actually runnable on a $300 PC with realtime transcoding), maybe this actually is an "oh crap, we're screwed, buy us now Amazon".
2) In regards to the shortened release to DVD cycle, it mostly has to do with the fact that margins are higher on DVDs than theatrical releases (remember, cinemas make their money on concessions, not the movie).
3) Another reason why rentals are more popular might have to do with the fact that Hollyweird has released *crap* for years. I mean, come on, the comics that make up the big blockbusters have been around for what, 40-50 years? Try something original/interesting (and, yes, I am a fan of comic books), and stop releasing disposable crap. Why should i pay $10 to see your crap in the theatres when i can rent it for $3 later.
As an aside, this will reduce piracy issues. I (and most other people) have no problems shelling out $$$ for Citizen Kane, The Matrix, etc, on DVD since I/we will watch them over and over again anyway.
Actually, according to http://www.rpm.org/ RPM stands for RPM Package Manager (sort of like GNU stands for GNU's Not Unix).