I think all companies have their innovative products alongside the products that just sorta get phoned in. Sure, there's a couple lazy product managers within Microsoft that are willing to ship the same boring crap over and over again. Then there's the people working on Surface that are doing serious R&D into multitouch interfaces. Even the Zune/ZuneHD are pretty innovative products that really had a lot of thought put into the interface.
I get the BMW reference, but is the "all-black carbon fibre reinforced case" a ThinkPad reference? If so, I will agree heartily, though it's only a matter of time before Lenovo completely ruins these things.
It's about time somebody whipped it back into shape.
Seriously. There's a reason google's hiring up all the ex-Bell Labs types.
Sadly, though, changing your name to AT&T won't really bring back Ma Bell unless you're willing to dump the hojillions of dollars into R&D that they used to.
i walked into an interview where i was going to be doing server side scripting (perl/asp/PHP/etc) for this company's intranet in their home town.
they sat me down and asked me to code in fucking javascript. on paper. with a pencil. i don't fucking do javascript to begin with (outside of retarded things like mouseovers, etc.) i know what its like to not be able to code on paper, i've never been able to. i can't really explain it. i just froze up.
i think that truly spoofing P2P network protocols would be much funnier. being that the gnutella protocol is open, it wouldn't be too hard to put together a gnutella client that gave out bogus file information (saying it has files that it really doesn't) and responding to file requests by putting together mp3s that are just a repeating "don't steal music" message for the length of the track.
THEN, you could make your collect song name information (so that it'd have a nice big list of songs to fake, to trap more people) by running searches on some number of requests come through the network.
you could probably fake CRC's too, by having your client just report whatever the other clients are reporting.
hell, if you were the RIAA, you could offer free music in return for people running this spoofing client on their computers based on how much bandwidth you've contributed. i think that people would trade idle computer time for free legit music downloads.
i'm not saying that i'm against p2p networks, or even piracy for that matter. i just think it'd be interesting to see somebody go this far.
seriously. this is not a troll. i'm sick and fucking tired of hearing RMS turn every little issue into a war. so there's a linux distro that's going to charge a per-seat license. let the consumers vote with their wallets on this one. if some company ends up spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on this distro then they deserve to lose that money for not researching the market.
what i'm willing to bet however, is that with UL being marketed towards business use, they are going to have support out the wazoo. tech support isn't free, richard.
and its not like all of the free software distributed with the distro will magically stop being free as soon as you pay for it. you will still be able to freely distribute all of the [GPL/public domain/free license of your choice] software however you feel. that's just the way it works.
next we're going to learn about corporate america, richard. having one business sell its product to another busines and expecting money is not evil. its not like the one company hijacked the other and demanded money or anything. you don't have to buy United Linux. if you can't afford it, if you don't want to buy it, if you know there's a cheaper or better alternative on the market, you don't have to spend dime one on united linux. that takes me back to my last point, let the consumers vote with their wallets. we don't need to start a fight over something as petty as linux. sure, linux is great and all, but there's really no need to get upset over it.
i'm kinda sad i don't have any programs on the UL distro, if for no other reason that to spite RMS, who really needs to drop his "rebel without a cause" act.
the problem with DRM is that it never helps the consumer. it can only make things difficult for them.
take macrovision encoding for example. (i think its macrovision i'm talking about, either way, whatever they use on DVD's)
if you try to run your DVD player through your VCR (for instance, if you don't have enough inputs on your TV, and you just want to use the pass-through on the VCR) at this point you either have to go buy an aux box for your TV, or if you have an older TV, you have to buy an RF modulator.
the part that sucks is that all of this inconvenience doesn't give you, the consumer, anything. in no way does macrovision encoding help you. at all.
this "one copy for archival purposes" doesn't cut it. what happens if you accidentally break your backup? what happens if you lose the original? can you magically make another archival copy to replace the lost one, or are you fucked?
i like high quality audio and all, but i also like being able to make copies of whatever i want, whenever i want.
protools is essentially magic. i don't really know how it works, but damn does it do it well. it's a completely different ballgame compared to cool edit (although, i do use cool edit for simple wav editing on my x86 boxes - i'm also a fan of goldwave, mostly because i've been using both for years)
-c
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if you're in the mood for something different, try this track i just put up on my server:
http://www.geektweaked.com/noise/u020530a.mp3
i've been working on it for the last couple days, still has some work to be done...
-c
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"Bucephalus Bouncing Ball" is one of my favorite aphex twin tracks:)
i would believe that if it weren't for the fact that nothing beats protools with the only possible exception of logic.
while protools is available in an x86 friendly edition, it was originally made for the mac. as a result more people tend to use it with the mac. take me for example. my everyday computers are x86, but my protools machines are macs.
i just spent 4 days in lexington, and let me tell you, its not as bad as it seems. i live out in the middle of nowhere, and we don't get high speed service of any variety (save satellite, but that's kinda retarded).
the girl i was staying with had verizon dsl, and all i could think was "i would kill to have service like this back home"
sure, they're not perfect, but trust me, ISPs do get much, much worse.
calling realnames an "innovation" is a bit of a stretch.
all realnames had was a database that paired together words with webaddresses. this is not innovation. this is novelty at best. save me the sob story about monopolies and start working on real innovation. had it not been for the monopoly of microsoft, realnames would never have gained any kind of recognition in the first place.
rumor around the rumor mill has it that john carmack had showed interest in having trent reznor (of nine inch nails fame, who previously did the music/sound to quake) do the soundtrack to doom 3. any word on that? i haven't heard much about it recently, but as i remember, both parties were interested in working together again.
it depends on whether or not the band in question is really a part of "the machine" or if they are just using "the machine" to fuck "the machine" over.
personally, i would have no problem "selling out" to the industry for millions of dollars. what i'd do though is invest my profits into an independent record label with high production values. it'd be worth it to sell brainless, corporate molded music to the retarded masses if it could later help an honest musician reach his or her goals without sacrificing his values.
just remember, if you ever see a CD of mine selling for 20 bucks at the mall, proceeds benefit SABOTAGE!
-c
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heh. reminds me of part of a song i wrote in college that shows my preference of maruchan over top ramen (which i believe is made by nissin. i don't know because i'm a maruchan loyalist):
buy maruchan/ don't rock the top/ only rock the chan/ coz the chan's got chop
i doubt it's all that difficult. i've never seen nor really paid any particular attention to the zaurus in question, but i'm willing to bet it requires little more than a "make perl"
here's my predictions. Jan 1, 1999- The US economy will be in shambles over Y2K scare. Not the Y2K bug itself, but because every idiot with a bank account will be pulling his money out of the bank.
2/6/00 2600 freaks around america will have their day.
March/April 2000 MCI Worldcom will buy out AT&T, in a deal worth roughly 800 billion dollars. People shout 'monopoly!'
June, 2000 Microsoft Lindows, a combination Linux distro and GUI will be released. It will be of incredibly high quality, alas nobody in the geek community will trust it because, well, it's Microsoft, dammit!
August, 2000 Windows officially becomes 'old school'. Kids get nostalgic over win 3.11. Windows is out of print, Microsoft becomes the Atari of the computer world, and slowly vanishes without a trace. Lindows, however, is sold to an as yet unnamed company which will take it to the level of 'mainstream OS.' people will cheer! 'hooray for lindows'!
Dec. 2000 People will realize that the millenium is only now about to end/begin. Confused, the Backstreet Boys release "Real Millenium."
Jan 1 2001 The world suddenly ends. No, really. It'll be rather unexpected.
the new z-80 is a 'good thing'. here's why: 1) This paves the way for new texas instruments graphing calculators. (many run on z80s. it would be rather simple, according to zilog, to replace them with eZ80's.) 2) i think that there's money to be made in a z80 based business computer. you could make the hardware for real cheap, and then custom tailor an incredibly efficient operating system, and business apps. the Z80 is how many decades old? Z80 programmers know that chip incredibly well by now, so they can get their code as efficient as possible. if all of the hardware was uniform, (like playstations) you wouldn't need to bloat the o/s with support for obscure parts that almost nobody has. also, being that the o/s code is completely new, you wouldn't need legacy support! I'm telling you, Z80 computers, while not perfect for gaming, could be made to outrun a PIII running win98 any day in business apps. for much less!
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512MB is a lot more than 1000x 64KB.
I think all companies have their innovative products alongside the products that just sorta get phoned in. Sure, there's a couple lazy product managers within Microsoft that are willing to ship the same boring crap over and over again. Then there's the people working on Surface that are doing serious R&D into multitouch interfaces. Even the Zune/ZuneHD are pretty innovative products that really had a lot of thought put into the interface.
I get the BMW reference, but is the "all-black carbon fibre reinforced case" a ThinkPad reference? If so, I will agree heartily, though it's only a matter of time before Lenovo completely ruins these things.
It's about time somebody whipped it back into shape.
Seriously. There's a reason google's hiring up all the ex-Bell Labs types.
Sadly, though, changing your name to AT&T won't really bring back Ma Bell unless you're willing to dump the hojillions of dollars into R&D that they used to.
-c
i walked into an interview where i was going to be doing server side scripting (perl/asp/PHP/etc) for this company's intranet in their home town.
they sat me down and asked me to code in fucking javascript. on paper. with a pencil. i don't fucking do javascript to begin with (outside of retarded things like mouseovers, etc.) i know what its like to not be able to code on paper, i've never been able to. i can't really explain it. i just froze up.
i didn't get that job
i'm such a tard
-c
i think that truly spoofing P2P network protocols would be much funnier. being that the gnutella protocol is open, it wouldn't be too hard to put together a gnutella client that gave out bogus file information (saying it has files that it really doesn't) and responding to file requests by putting together mp3s that are just a repeating "don't steal music" message for the length of the track.
THEN, you could make your collect song name information (so that it'd have a nice big list of songs to fake, to trap more people) by running searches on some number of requests come through the network.
you could probably fake CRC's too, by having your client just report whatever the other clients are reporting.
hell, if you were the RIAA, you could offer free music in return for people running this spoofing client on their computers based on how much bandwidth you've contributed. i think that people would trade idle computer time for free legit music downloads.
i'm not saying that i'm against p2p networks, or even piracy for that matter. i just think it'd be interesting to see somebody go this far.
-c
"fuck you."
seriously. this is not a troll. i'm sick and fucking tired of hearing RMS turn every little issue into a war. so there's a linux distro that's going to charge a per-seat license. let the consumers vote with their wallets on this one. if some company ends up spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on this distro then they deserve to lose that money for not researching the market.
what i'm willing to bet however, is that with UL being marketed towards business use, they are going to have support out the wazoo. tech support isn't free, richard.
and its not like all of the free software distributed with the distro will magically stop being free as soon as you pay for it. you will still be able to freely distribute all of the [GPL/public domain/free license of your choice] software however you feel. that's just the way it works.
next we're going to learn about corporate america, richard. having one business sell its product to another busines and expecting money is not evil. its not like the one company hijacked the other and demanded money or anything. you don't have to buy United Linux. if you can't afford it, if you don't want to buy it, if you know there's a cheaper or better alternative on the market, you don't have to spend dime one on united linux. that takes me back to my last point, let the consumers vote with their wallets. we don't need to start a fight over something as petty as linux. sure, linux is great and all, but there's really no need to get upset over it.
i'm kinda sad i don't have any programs on the UL distro, if for no other reason that to spite RMS, who really needs to drop his "rebel without a cause" act.
-c
the problem with DRM is that it never helps the consumer. it can only make things difficult for them.
take macrovision encoding for example. (i think its macrovision i'm talking about, either way, whatever they use on DVD's)
if you try to run your DVD player through your VCR (for instance, if you don't have enough inputs on your TV, and you just want to use the pass-through on the VCR) at this point you either have to go buy an aux box for your TV, or if you have an older TV, you have to buy an RF modulator.
the part that sucks is that all of this inconvenience doesn't give you, the consumer, anything. in no way does macrovision encoding help you. at all.
this "one copy for archival purposes" doesn't cut it. what happens if you accidentally break your backup? what happens if you lose the original? can you magically make another archival copy to replace the lost one, or are you fucked?
i like high quality audio and all, but i also like being able to make copies of whatever i want, whenever i want.
-c
protools is essentially magic. i don't really know how it works, but damn does it do it well. it's a completely different ballgame compared to cool edit (although, i do use cool edit for simple wav editing on my x86 boxes - i'm also a fan of goldwave, mostly because i've been using both for years)
-c
if you're in the mood for something different, try this track i just put up on my server:
http://www.geektweaked.com/noise/u020530a.mp3
i've been working on it for the last couple days, still has some work to be done...
-c
"Bucephalus Bouncing Ball" is one of my favorite aphex twin tracks :)
i would believe that if it weren't for the fact that nothing beats protools with the only possible exception of logic.
while protools is available in an x86 friendly edition, it was originally made for the mac. as a result more people tend to use it with the mac. take me for example. my everyday computers are x86, but my protools machines are macs.
-c
i just spent 4 days in lexington, and let me tell you, its not as bad as it seems. i live out in the middle of nowhere, and we don't get high speed service of any variety (save satellite, but that's kinda retarded).
the girl i was staying with had verizon dsl, and all i could think was "i would kill to have service like this back home"
sure, they're not perfect, but trust me, ISPs do get much, much worse.
-c
the real winner in this is the lawyers. they get almost half.
-c
calling realnames an "innovation" is a bit of a stretch.
all realnames had was a database that paired together words with webaddresses. this is not innovation. this is novelty at best. save me the sob story about monopolies and start working on real innovation. had it not been for the monopoly of microsoft, realnames would never have gained any kind of recognition in the first place.
-c
rumor around the rumor mill has it that john carmack had showed interest in having trent reznor (of nine inch nails fame, who previously did the music/sound to quake) do the soundtrack to doom 3. any word on that? i haven't heard much about it recently, but as i remember, both parties were interested in working together again.
-c
how about we just give you a GF2 with the XF86_SVGA server and we'll just RIP THE FAN OFF FOR YOU!
there you go! you're welcome!
oh, you DIDN'T want it to catch on fire...
-c
it depends on whether or not the band in question is really a part of "the machine" or if they are just using "the machine" to fuck "the machine" over.
personally, i would have no problem "selling out" to the industry for millions of dollars. what i'd do though is invest my profits into an independent record label with high production values. it'd be worth it to sell brainless, corporate molded music to the retarded masses if it could later help an honest musician reach his or her goals without sacrificing his values.
just remember, if you ever see a CD of mine selling for 20 bucks at the mall, proceeds benefit SABOTAGE!
-c
heh. reminds me of part of a song i wrote in college that shows my preference of maruchan over top ramen (which i believe is made by nissin. i don't know because i'm a maruchan loyalist):
buy maruchan/
don't rock the top/
only rock the chan/
coz the chan's got chop
i doubt it's all that difficult. i've never seen nor really paid any particular attention to the zaurus in question, but i'm willing to bet it requires little more than a "make perl"
-c
here's my predictions.
Jan 1, 1999- The US economy will be in shambles over Y2K scare. Not the Y2K bug itself, but because every idiot with a bank account will be pulling his money out of the bank.
2/6/00 2600 freaks around america will have their day.
March/April 2000 MCI Worldcom will buy out AT&T, in a deal worth roughly 800 billion dollars. People shout 'monopoly!'
June, 2000 Microsoft Lindows, a combination Linux distro and GUI will be released. It will be of incredibly high quality, alas nobody in the geek community will trust it because, well, it's Microsoft, dammit!
August, 2000 Windows officially becomes 'old school'. Kids get nostalgic over win 3.11. Windows is out of print, Microsoft becomes the Atari of the computer world, and slowly vanishes without a trace. Lindows, however, is sold to an as yet unnamed company which will take it to the level of 'mainstream OS.' people will cheer! 'hooray for lindows'!
Dec. 2000 People will realize that the millenium is only now about to end/begin. Confused, the Backstreet Boys release "Real Millenium."
Jan 1 2001 The world suddenly ends. No, really. It'll be rather unexpected.
Well, that's all folks.
the new z-80 is a 'good thing'. here's why:
1) This paves the way for new texas instruments graphing calculators. (many run on z80s. it would be rather simple, according to zilog, to replace them with eZ80's.)
2) i think that there's money to be made in a z80 based business computer. you could make the hardware for real cheap, and then custom tailor an incredibly efficient operating system, and business apps. the Z80 is how many decades old? Z80 programmers know that chip incredibly well by now, so they can get their code as efficient as possible. if all of the hardware was uniform, (like playstations) you wouldn't need to bloat the o/s with support for obscure parts that almost nobody has. also, being that the o/s code is completely new, you wouldn't need legacy support! I'm telling you, Z80 computers, while not perfect for gaming, could be made to outrun a PIII running win98 any day in business apps. for much less!