We don't have the right to distribute pirated works online, but do we seriously expect this right in the future? Is anyone SERIOUSLY arguing for the right to disseminate the creations of other people for free?
I know that you can reply with "sales aren't being lost" and "information wants to be free", but we will not have the "rights" being exercised by warez groups until some serious social upheaval occurs. The public may be behind such arguments with respect to music, but I doubt you're going to see your grandmother downloading AutoCAD 2004 and being surprised (or upset) that it is illegal to do so given the opportunity.
That's why I don't think it's even worth examining this issue under "Your Rights Online". Maybe put it in a Black hat/Internet Lawbreakers category, but don't pollute the actual fight for internet rights (privacy, universal access, social justice, etc)
So far this "right" has only been extended to music, and you KNOW it isn't going to last long. Or perhaps they'll hike our CD-R/HDD/Computer tax to compensate....
RSS is completely different from usenet. Usenet is very email centric (each post is akin to an email, and the newsgroup is akin to a mailing list, and this is all served up by a dedicated news daemon), whereas RSS is web centric (you download over http from the site that you're viewing syndication of).
Go read Slashdot's RSS feed if you still don't get it. Basically it's just an XML document that defines story "ITEM"s as having a title, link, description and other fields.
Maybe the imaging of dd'ing a filesystem onto the linux systems wouldn't work with their many disk configurations, but it should be pretty jokes to do some sort of netboot, make an ext3 filesystem and simply copy all the files from a source "image". Might be a little slower than imaging, but I imagine it would be faster than having a script control the Redhat installer...
I'm really confused by the Microsoft Case Study of EV1servers. It talks about how it takes 45 minutes for EV1's to build a RedHat system by hand (although the by hand/scripted automation points are both brought up in the article), and 18 minutes to image a system with Windows. Why not just image the Redhat systems as well?
Also the Windows solution is praised as not requiring techs to physically touch the new systems that they're working on. Does this mean Microsoft has some sort of network booting now?
Perhaps you should RTFA first. The gist of the paragraph I quoted: Stallman's idea was to release things into the public domain, so he created a license to do so; the GPL.
The reality: The GPL is a license placed on copyrighted works (NOT public domain works) that forces derivative works to abide by the GPL. A big difference from what the article was trying to say, and a reflection of a major misconception about the GPL itself.
Stallman developed the idea of distributing free software with its source code and a licence that allowed you to modify the source code as long as the modifications were kept in the public domain.... The licence was known as the GNU General Public Licence (GPL).
A well written article, but it still stumbles on the key point of copyrighted work vs. public domain work. How can we better educate the journalists so they can better educate the general public??
Define "more concentrated". Density of the two materials will not effect the force exerted on them if they have the same mass (unless the feathers are spread between here and low earth orbit.)
If a kilogram of bricks is put on a scale beside a kilogram of feathers on a scale, the readout from the two scales (aka, the weight) will be equal.
The metric system isn't silly with respect to mass and weight, it keeps them seperate. Kilograms are a unit of mass, and get used day to day because they more accurately reflect the common man's need for such a unit. People are generally interested in buying an AMOUNT of a material, instead of an AMOUNT THAT EXERTS A CERTAIN FORCE. Weight, on the other hand, is expressed in Newtons, and is generally used for scientific or engineering applications.
For example, if I bought a kilogram of sugar on the moon, I would be getting the same amount of sugar as if I had bought a kilogram of sugar on Earth. A pound of sugar on the moon would be five to six times as many granules of sugar as a pound of sugar on Earth, however.
I don't mean to sound like I'm flaming here or anything, but the popular confusion of mass and weight, especially in the Imperial unit system, really bothers me.
Wow. Looking at the Haystack site with Mozilla looks awesome! I don't know if it's my version (1.4rc1) or some weird image setting, but the main image on the page stays stationary as I scroll around, but the clipping of the image changes. It's really hard to describe, but looks awesome.
Of course, IE just renders it properly. BOOOORING.
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Maybe once there is a cheap, low power, realtime Ogg Vorbis encoder IC to build into telephone equipment they will switch.
In the meantime, it sounds like everyone is most interested in keeping latency to a minimum. Pumping data through a CPU do to intensive compression isn't exactly the best way to do this.
Infinity as the result of a divide by zero is mathmatically incorrect, so I don't think this is an ideal solution to the problem. Better to throw an exception.
A) Didn't know how the UK's postal addressing system worked and B) Didn't believe that Steve Linford lived on a private island
then you might think that the whois lookup from joker.com was eronious or intentionally misleading:
DOMAIN spamhaus.org Registrar: JOKER.COM (CSL-GmbH as ICANN registrar) Status: production Handle: 587318 Owner Name: Steve Linford Organization: The Spamhaus Project Address: The Spamhaus Project The Phoenix Postalcode/City: TW12 2HA Taggs Island State: Private Island Country: GB
The problem with calling it a black market is that in the black market, the person making available the material in the black market is earning something for providing it (when it leaves his or her hands.)
By sharing material, you are encouraging others to share. When they do so, you profit by being able to get music off them.
A black market doesn't necessarily have to be about profit when the commodity itself is of value to those partaking in the market.
EM energy will decrease with the square of distance if it is simply emanating from a source and propagating in all directions. The wavefront forms the surface of an expanding sphere, so the energy goes decreases proportionally to the sphere's surface area (4piR^2).
However, they're using a focused beam here. The only loss of energy here is going to be from waves missing the target as a result of imperfections in the focus.
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Perhaps I should rephrase my original statement:
We don't have the right to distribute pirated works online, but do we seriously expect this right in the future? Is anyone SERIOUSLY arguing for the right to disseminate the creations of other people for free?
I know that you can reply with "sales aren't being lost" and "information wants to be free", but we will not have the "rights" being exercised by warez groups until some serious social upheaval occurs. The public may be behind such arguments with respect to music, but I doubt you're going to see your grandmother downloading AutoCAD 2004 and being surprised (or upset) that it is illegal to do so given the opportunity.
That's why I don't think it's even worth examining this issue under "Your Rights Online". Maybe put it in a Black hat/Internet Lawbreakers category, but don't pollute the actual fight for internet rights (privacy, universal access, social justice, etc)
Agreed >:p
So far this "right" has only been extended to music, and you KNOW it isn't going to last long. Or perhaps they'll hike our CD-R/HDD/Computer tax to compensate....
We don't have the right to distributed pirated works online. How does this story fit in this category?
RSS is completely different from usenet. Usenet is very email centric (each post is akin to an email, and the newsgroup is akin to a mailing list, and this is all served up by a dedicated news daemon), whereas RSS is web centric (you download over http from the site that you're viewing syndication of).
Go read Slashdot's RSS feed if you still don't get it. Basically it's just an XML document that defines story "ITEM"s as having a title, link, description and other fields.
Maybe the imaging of dd'ing a filesystem onto the linux systems wouldn't work with their many disk configurations, but it should be pretty jokes to do some sort of netboot, make an ext3 filesystem and simply copy all the files from a source "image". Might be a little slower than imaging, but I imagine it would be faster than having a script control the Redhat installer...
I'm really confused by the Microsoft Case Study of EV1servers. It talks about how it takes 45 minutes for EV1's to build a RedHat system by hand (although the by hand/scripted automation points are both brought up in the article), and 18 minutes to image a system with Windows. Why not just image the Redhat systems as well?
Also the Windows solution is praised as not requiring techs to physically touch the new systems that they're working on. Does this mean Microsoft has some sort of network booting now?
Perhaps you should RTFA first. The gist of the paragraph I quoted: Stallman's idea was to release things into the public domain, so he created a license to do so; the GPL.
The reality: The GPL is a license placed on copyrighted works (NOT public domain works) that forces derivative works to abide by the GPL. A big difference from what the article was trying to say, and a reflection of a major misconception about the GPL itself.
This has been the case throughout the history of fixed storage. You can also erase hard drives, floppy drives and tape with magnets.
Nothing new, move along.
Too bad it wasn't a real link; I middle clicked on it in Mozilla, didn't get anywhere and promptly lost interest.
Define "more concentrated". Density of the two materials will not effect the force exerted on them if they have the same mass (unless the feathers are spread between here and low earth orbit.)
If a kilogram of bricks is put on a scale beside a kilogram of feathers on a scale, the readout from the two scales (aka, the weight) will be equal.
The metric system isn't silly with respect to mass and weight, it keeps them seperate. Kilograms are a unit of mass, and get used day to day because they more accurately reflect the common man's need for such a unit. People are generally interested in buying an AMOUNT of a material, instead of an AMOUNT THAT EXERTS A CERTAIN FORCE. Weight, on the other hand, is expressed in Newtons, and is generally used for scientific or engineering applications.
For example, if I bought a kilogram of sugar on the moon, I would be getting the same amount of sugar as if I had bought a kilogram of sugar on Earth. A pound of sugar on the moon would be five to six times as many granules of sugar as a pound of sugar on Earth, however.
I don't mean to sound like I'm flaming here or anything, but the popular confusion of mass and weight, especially in the Imperial unit system, really bothers me.
A couple of years ago, a friend's mother, Kathy Ahsby, did a short little documentary/opinion piece for Outfront on CBC radio. The archive is here.
This was back when we were really into CS (and we still were, right up until we split up around the time we went to university).
Kinda hilarious, because there's audio takes from the particular party in question (which I sadly missed).
I agree; the only way to see the left side of the image is to resize your browser narrower...
:)
I'm sure this isn't what the site's creator intended, as it makes it hard to look around such a pretty interface.
Wow. Looking at the Haystack site with Mozilla looks awesome! I don't know if it's my version (1.4rc1) or some weird image setting, but the main image on the page stays stationary as I scroll around, but the clipping of the image changes. It's really hard to describe, but looks awesome.
Of course, IE just renders it properly. BOOOORING.
www.sco.com and sco.com are no longer responding to pings.
;-)
Wonder what OS they run their webserver with
Greetings, friends. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you've got the power inside you right now. So use it and send $11001 to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay. Eternal happiness is just a dollar and an unsolicited call fine away.
Maybe once there is a cheap, low power, realtime Ogg Vorbis encoder IC to build into telephone equipment they will switch.
In the meantime, it sounds like everyone is most interested in keeping latency to a minimum. Pumping data through a CPU do to intensive compression isn't exactly the best way to do this.
Infinity as the result of a divide by zero is mathmatically incorrect, so I don't think this is an ideal solution to the problem. Better to throw an exception.
If you were some crazy Yank lawyer who:
A) Didn't know how the UK's postal addressing system worked and
B) Didn't believe that Steve Linford lived on a private island
then you might think that the whois lookup from joker.com was eronious or intentionally misleading:
DOMAIN spamhaus.org
Registrar: JOKER.COM (CSL-GmbH as ICANN registrar)
Status: production
Handle: 587318
Owner Name: Steve Linford
Organization: The Spamhaus Project
Address: The Spamhaus Project
The Phoenix
Postalcode/City: TW12 2HA Taggs Island
State: Private Island
Country: GB
(PS: Holy lameness filter Batman!)
The Internet also produces funky websites about SARS like this.
I laughed my ass off when I stumbled across this by accident.
By sharing material, you are encouraging others to share. When they do so, you profit by being able to get music off them.
A black market doesn't necessarily have to be about profit when the commodity itself is of value to those partaking in the market.
Hey, how dare the PC Games icon be a Microsoft Sidewinder Precision Pro??
What? What do you mean? How do I know what one looks like? Why I own one and.... Don't look at me like that! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA#$(*))*#$NO CARRIER
EM energy will decrease with the square of distance if it is simply emanating from a source and propagating in all directions. The wavefront forms the surface of an expanding sphere, so the energy goes decreases proportionally to the sphere's surface area (4piR^2).
However, they're using a focused beam here. The only loss of energy here is going to be from waves missing the target as a result of imperfections in the focus.