Isn't that reasonable usage if I generate a low resolution version of a movie I own
There's the key word a lot of you keep misusing: 'generate.' Now if you generate a low resolution movie, certainly you own it. And low and medium quality digital cameras are cheaper all the time. But if you're just duplicating somebody else's movie, it's a different situation altogether.
I always UUENCODE it, then punch it on paper tape and send it to my friend in Columbus, OH in shipping containers. You'd be surprised what an amazing amount of money you can get from the recycler for the quantity of paper tape that, say, a short video like a 22 minute episode of The Simpsons (in standard DVD resolution, encoded with MPEG2) consumes.
The RAID array in my living room is laying on it's side right now because it's heavy, rackmounted, and when I turned it on it sounded like, well, a rack mounted server with hotpluggable raid drives does. I need a separate room for it if I'm going to use it at all. It certainly is only being stored in the living room at present.
This post is (C) 2006 Firehed, and is subject to whatever terms I dictate, and if you violate them, you could be held liable in a court of law. If I wanted to, I could say that merely quoting me, in part or in full, is unauthorized reproduction and thus copyright infringement, and I could file a lawsuit of, IIRC, $30,000 per instance.
Well, that might be true if 'Firehed' was a real name and/or if you had some substancial way to prove who this 'Firehed' is. As it stands, you'd have to somehow get Slashdot to prove who 'Firehed' is to get standing in court, and then convince the judge that the chain-of-proof is valid.
Actually, if you read the OpenBSD mailing lists, and you're not someone who wanders in without reading any of the FAQs or man pages and demands an answer, Theo really *is* an alright guy.
I haven't ever met him, but he comes off like a regular guy who you could go out and have a beer or two with.
You can't download a 'full blown plug and play installer' OpenBSD CD.
You can, however, download an image of a CD that is a bootable installer, and also download the core OS files pretty easily. It's all less than a 150MB download. The 'main' URL to do this for a PeeCee system is here (there are plenty of mirrors, too.)
But the OpenBSD project depends on people buying their CD for some of their financial support. I bought a copy at Frys Electronics about six months ago. It was two versions old when I bought it but I downloaded what I was going to install. At the time it just seemed like a cool thing to buy at Frys because it was the only software in the store they were selling where it said right on the outside of the packaging that I could install it on my MicroVAX 3100 system.
Personally, I prefer NetBSD for my 'desktop' use because the packages collection is bigger, and NetBSD has more 'full' support for all my weird machines than OpenBSD (it's nice being able to run binaries built from the same source tree on my Mac SE/30, my 32 and 64-bit Sparc systems, my Intel Peecees, etc. Once I download the packages build tree 'Pkgsrc' and the source tarballs I can build it everywhere) But from the user standpoint, you can download the OpenBSD core install binaries, and then download all the prebuilt binary packages you could ever need, and have a pretty decent system.
Maybe Tim O'Reilly's next annual hoedown will be marked by Microsoft announcing that more Windows books are sold than O'Reilly sells open source books, so "therefore" O'Reilly must be no good?
The actual query would be 'Is O'Reilly & Associates selling more Windows books or more Unix/Free Software/Open Source(tm) books?'
Because O'Reilly now sells a lot of Windows-oriented books. Not that I think this is great, because my favorite O'Reilly books are the X Window System Guides which define X, but O'Reilly had to sell more of the books that the market wanted, so they started selling Windoze books. They're nearly the only Windoze books worth buying, in many categories, of course. (few O'Reilly books are 'Screenshot Dumps' like many other publisher's tomes)
My point? You picked a bad example. O'Reilly makes a lot of money selling books for Windows, and in fact they publish some of the best books out for Microsoft apps.
You're giving Murdoch and his news organs too much credit. Some of us can think for ourselves.
It's one big stupid bird, by the way. It has big ugly right and left wings, just a flappin' away.
Not everybody fits onto that spectrum. Not everybody wants to comfortably nuzzle into one 'wing' or the other. Nice to know you're keeping warm, though.
donating free labour to Hallibu^H^H^H^H^H^H^HGeorge Bush?
Well, the entire Democratic wing of the US Legislature, along with a good number of the Republicans, donated free labor to Haliburton just over the past few weeks, considering the hubbub and outcry that was raised about the Dubai Port Management fiasco. Haliburton is one of the few US Owned and Operated entities capable of managing that port operation, now they're one of the few possible candidates to take over the job.
First off, the government pursued the Weathermen in the early 70's, as they didn't exist in the 60's. They gathered intelligence watching MLK in the 60's when he was still alive. It's almost as if you knew your history, and yet you show such ignorance regarding details.
As far as the 'peace activists' today, they can only wish they were important enough for the government to pay much attention to.
The secret agencies aren't operated by a paranoid boob like J. Edgar Hoover anymore, ya know.
DC servo motors like, say, the ones that run the capstain on tape drives, are very refined high quality 'brushed' motors. And very expensive, but you get absolute continuous control of the degree of motion, not the 'steps' of a stepper motor. You're right in your observation than in the RC hobby there probably aren't many motors of that quality being made, brushed or brushless. Let's just say that it's easier to make cheap but good-enough quality 'brushless' motors for the RC hobby than the brush types, now that the necessary additional electronics are cheap to add to the mix.
And really, brushless motors are AC drive, which is the real significant difference. AC motors are only more efficient when you have a readily available AC supply (a big house-sized dynamo somewhere connected by wires) or are willing to invest the expense/bulk of making the AC locally (an oscillator mechanism of some sort).
In the year 2514AD both Mars Rovers will still be functioning. Their function will have been adapted, of course. They'll both be functioning as display items in a glass case in the Hard Roll Cafe, Mars.
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And anybody else can establish 'Firehed' accounts anywhere you haven't.
Anonymnity can easily bite you in the back, and copyrights are generally assigned to real names, or named entities with real names backing them.
There's certainly a legal effort you could make to enforce a copyright but putting 'copyright Firehed' at the bottom of a post likely isn't enough.
Isn't that reasonable usage if I generate a low resolution version of a movie I own
There's the key word a lot of you keep misusing: 'generate.' Now if you generate a low resolution movie, certainly you own it. And low and medium quality digital cameras are cheaper all the time. But if you're just duplicating somebody else's movie, it's a different situation altogether.
My "PC's Generated Key?"
Is that something I set at the command line when I run Bochs?
I always UUENCODE it, then punch it on paper tape and send it to my friend in Columbus, OH in shipping containers. You'd be surprised what an amazing amount of money you can get from the recycler for the quantity of paper tape that, say, a short video like a 22 minute episode of The Simpsons (in standard DVD resolution, encoded with MPEG2) consumes.
The RAID array in my living room is laying on it's side right now because it's heavy, rackmounted, and when I turned it on it sounded like, well, a rack mounted server with hotpluggable raid drives does. I need a separate room for it if I'm going to use it at all. It certainly is only being stored in the living room at present.
You pay $15 for Usenet? Monthly? What's the download limit?
This post is (C) 2006 Firehed, and is subject to whatever terms I dictate, and if you violate them, you could be held liable in a court of law. If I wanted to, I could say that merely quoting me, in part or in full, is unauthorized reproduction and thus copyright infringement, and I could file a lawsuit of, IIRC, $30,000 per instance.
Well, that might be true if 'Firehed' was a real name and/or if you had some substancial way to prove who this 'Firehed' is. As it stands, you'd have to somehow get Slashdot to prove who 'Firehed' is to get standing in court, and then convince the judge that the chain-of-proof is valid.
Not as easy as it sounds.
Vidal would approve, but should be credited.
I am completely and absolutely certain he does not approve of plagiarism. Heck, the man doesn't even approve of word processors.
That is a direct ripoff from Gore Vidal, who said it of Ronald Reagan back in the 80's.
Come up with something new and don't plagarize, okay?
You mean, they're Soylent Green too?
That could be rephrased 'have you stopped beating your wife yet?'
You're kind of a jerk, you know.
Actually, if you read the OpenBSD mailing lists, and you're not someone who wanders in without reading any of the FAQs or man pages and demands an answer, Theo really *is* an alright guy.
I haven't ever met him, but he comes off like a regular guy who you could go out and have a beer or two with.
The 'main' URL to do this for a PeeCee system is here (there are plenty of mirrors, too.)
(oops, don't post an empty set of quotes for your href)
You can't download a 'full blown plug and play installer' OpenBSD CD.
You can, however, download an image of a CD that is a bootable installer, and also download the core OS files pretty easily. It's all less than a 150MB download. The 'main' URL to do this for a PeeCee system is here (there are plenty of mirrors, too.)
But the OpenBSD project depends on people buying their CD for some of their financial support. I bought a copy at Frys Electronics about six months ago. It was two versions old when I bought it but I downloaded what I was going to install. At the time it just seemed like a cool thing to buy at Frys because it was the only software in the store they were selling where it said right on the outside of the packaging that I could install it on my MicroVAX 3100 system.
Personally, I prefer NetBSD for my 'desktop' use because the packages collection is bigger, and NetBSD has more 'full' support for all my weird machines than OpenBSD (it's nice being able to run binaries built from the same source tree on my Mac SE/30, my 32 and 64-bit Sparc systems, my Intel Peecees, etc. Once I download the packages build tree 'Pkgsrc' and the source tarballs I can build it everywhere) But from the user standpoint, you can download the OpenBSD core install binaries, and then download all the prebuilt binary packages you could ever need, and have a pretty decent system.
Maybe Tim O'Reilly's next annual hoedown will be marked by Microsoft announcing that more Windows books are sold than O'Reilly sells open source books, so "therefore" O'Reilly must be no good?
The actual query would be 'Is O'Reilly & Associates selling more Windows books or more Unix/Free Software/Open Source(tm) books?'
Because O'Reilly now sells a lot of Windows-oriented books. Not that I think this is great, because my favorite O'Reilly books are the X Window System Guides which define X, but O'Reilly had to sell more of the books that the market wanted, so they started selling Windoze books. They're nearly the only Windoze books worth buying, in many categories, of course. (few O'Reilly books are 'Screenshot Dumps' like many other publisher's tomes)
My point? You picked a bad example. O'Reilly makes a lot of money selling books for Windows, and in fact they publish some of the best books out for Microsoft apps.
One big difference is that the the people afraid of Saddam voted for him. The people afraid of Bush voted against him.
That's a more significant difference than some are willing to consider.
You're giving Murdoch and his news organs too much credit. Some of us can think for ourselves.
It's one big stupid bird, by the way. It has big ugly right and left wings, just a flappin' away.
Not everybody fits onto that spectrum. Not everybody wants to comfortably nuzzle into one 'wing' or the other. Nice to know you're keeping warm, though.
donating free labour to Hallibu^H^H^H^H^H^H^HGeorge Bush?
Well, the entire Democratic wing of the US Legislature, along with a good number of the Republicans, donated free labor to Haliburton just over the past few weeks, considering the hubbub and outcry that was raised about the Dubai Port Management fiasco. Haliburton is one of the few US Owned and Operated entities capable of managing that port operation, now they're one of the few possible candidates to take over the job.
First off, the government pursued the Weathermen in the early 70's, as they didn't exist in the 60's. They gathered intelligence watching MLK in the 60's when he was still alive. It's almost as if you knew your history, and yet you show such ignorance regarding details.
As far as the 'peace activists' today, they can only wish they were important enough for the government to pay much attention to.
The secret agencies aren't operated by a paranoid boob like J. Edgar Hoover anymore, ya know.
Bush _will_ be removed. In several more years.
When was Saddam scheduled to be removed, again??
DC servo motors like, say, the ones that run the capstain on tape drives, are very refined high quality 'brushed' motors. And very expensive, but you get absolute continuous control of the degree of motion, not the 'steps' of a stepper motor. You're right in your observation than in the RC hobby there probably aren't many motors of that quality being made, brushed or brushless. Let's just say that it's easier to make cheap but good-enough quality 'brushless' motors for the RC hobby than the brush types, now that the necessary additional electronics are cheap to add to the mix.
And really, brushless motors are AC drive, which is the real significant difference. AC motors are only more efficient when you have a readily available AC supply (a big house-sized dynamo somewhere connected by wires) or are willing to invest the expense/bulk of making the AC locally (an oscillator mechanism of some sort).
Ralph Rene has probably not been fired only because of civil service and union rules.
The lethargy that is a result of labor laws is really the main thing wrong with NASA.
In the year 2514AD both Mars Rovers will still be functioning. Their function will have been adapted, of course. They'll both be functioning as display items in a glass case in the Hard Roll Cafe, Mars .
What the hell are you doing watching television, then?
It's grown more than a bit. The installer binary for the early releases fit on a single floppy diskette.
It has grown more powerful, but also much, much fatter.