If consumers are so uncomfortable with their data being on someone else's machine, then how do you explain the popularity of...
1. web-based e-mail (www.hotmail.com)
I don't think people care too much about the dumb jokes and chain letters that they forward to all of their friends.
Financial records might cause them to think a little harder.
Now once Northern Exposure episodes are available on DVD I'll be happy.
I also wouldn't mind seeing original Space:1999 eps on DVD.
And while I'm at it, every Trek Episode.
Of course this sort of thing will truly be fantastic when next generation DVD's are out, and 10 episodes or more will fit onto one DVD. That will make ownership of an entire run of some TV shows not have to take up your entire video cabinet.
No way, Microsoft is FAR from the first. The ones we have to fear are the ones that bury toxic materials and cover it up (*cough* Erin Brokovich *cough*), destroy the environment, fund wars, sell weapons, imprison people, control the food supply, etc.
I think we need to fear them all. The reason why the corporation in the Erin Brockovich case was made accountable was because not even our terrible, emasculated, corporate, pro-government media can cover up stories about kids getting cancers and other incurable diseases at alarming rates within a community only a few thousand yards away from a factory.
The issue with Microsoft is a fairly obscure ideological issue. The Corporate Republic has been around far longer than Microsoft, and has much much scarier players.
What's scary to me in this case is what I think will happen, and that is that the Judicial System (due certainly in large part to corporate-owned media outlets not asking the tough question and presenting facts, and public complacency) will brush this one under the rug. In this case there are no kids getting cancer so it is EASY for the media to ignore this issue which allows the players to claim that no harm is being done by the MS monopoly.
I find it interesting that only a few months away the new ROLLERBAL film will be coming out (I'm sure it will suck) and the original 1975 film predicted all of this very nicely.
Why is it that every Slashdot article posted related to microsoft always talks about how they are stomping on our rights, choking innovation, killing off Linux, etc etc.
Ummmm.... because they are?
So stop bashing and start using Microsoft software because believe me, they are NOT going away anytime soon.
The ends justifies the means. You gotta love it. (until it happens to you, anyway)
I don't know where you come from, but where I come from, my Foie Gras don't come seasoned... BAM!
Yeah, Emeril has about 3 stock lines that he uses over and over again, and yet the people still laugh. Another one of his favorites is, "What's a little (insert food ingrediant here) amongst friends?"
Flay's arrogance is embarrasing to me as an American. He seems completely oblivious to the fact that he made an ass of himself on the first Iron Chef.
I was embarassed as well.
He's also apparently completely oblivious to the fact that 3/4 (maybe more) of the US crowd was cheering for Morimoto. He got his butt kicked and the home crowd wasn't rooting for him. You gotta love it.
this show is great. there's only one mystery - in the american version on the food network, at some interval some japanese person shouts "squizan!" (or something to that degree). Why isn't this translated?
The floor reporter (Ota) is trying to get the announcer's attention, who's name is "Fukui." So what Ota is screaming is "Fukui-San," adding the "san" to be polite.
All he is doing is calling out a person's name.:-)
You can't say though, that most people aren't signing up for the novelty of being in the race. if it weren't for the stats, I wouldn't be participating at all, and neither would 90% of their userbase. I'm contributing for the good of the Halo Seti Marines, and damned proud of it.Get rid of scorekeeping, you get rid of the major motivation.
What you really can't say is that 90% of the people are in it because of the stats. That wouldn't be allowed in a court of law, and won't be allowed here.
I still say get rid of them. Competition brings out the WORST in people, not the best, as evidenced by the cheaters who hacked their clients to download work units, and immediately (after NO analysis) send back a blank results file. These people were "crunching" thousands of units per day and really stinking things up.
If SETI loses any people from having no stats, I can assure you they won't be missed.
The reason people are cheating is because they decided to make a contest out of who procressed more workunits.
I for one wish they would get rid of the scorekeeping entirely. I crunch SETI units because I enjoy the idea of helping them with their science.
Any users they lose because they were to get rid of scorekeeping would be no great loss. They were probably the losers who were compromising the datapool anyway. (talk about having no self esteem, I can see it now, some geek going up to a girl to impress her with his falsified SETI numbers).
I was one of the first 10,000 people to sign up, and I'll help them with their science as loing as they need me to, scorekeeping or no.
Huh? Industry rapes the planet? Which industry? How about the recycling industry?
32 SuperFund sites are recycling centers. Seems that recycling rapes the planet
Are you even listening to what you're saying? Doesn't it SORTA go without saying that if they're polluting those sites, then they ARE NOT RECYCLING?
DUH.
You're not going to start saying things like, "Facts are stupid things," and that "trees are the biggest polluters on the planet" now, are you?:-)
"The Industry Will Sort it Out". Of course they will. And then we will all have to go start a new planet just to prevent the the glorious self regulated industry from implanting chips in our asses to know where we are, what we are doing, and with who.
I think it's more likely our government that will plant chips in our asses to keep track of us.
Industry just wants to take our money, and in so doing will end up raping our planet.
That sounds pretty scary. It might even mean that if I created a domain called "xpenhancer.com" to sell a multiple-desktop tool for Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft could legally take the domain away.
Absolutely. I have a friend who works for one of the very popular MS certification emulator program, companies. And a few years ago they had a product called "NT-Cert" or osmething like that, and they were served cease and desist papers to remove NT from their product name or else they'd be sued.
They chose to remove the NT from their product name and rename their two products something like "Workstation-Cert" and "Server-Cert."
Does this mean that MS would have won a long an drawn out legal battle? Who knows.
But in essence they did win since they could afford such a battle, and my friend's company could not.
Sorry, but anyone who thinks programmers of any stripe are "freedom fighters" has more freedom than sense.
Back that statement up. If you're going to make such a claim it requires an argument.
Anyone who provides tools to other people that help enforce their privacy from people who might wish to take it away can be considered freedom fighters in my book, and I'm sure most/. users books.
Since we really don't know what happened with respect to the mid-air collision, (and I suspect both governments are lying to some degree) all that is particularly relevent is the american military people being held, and the apology.
It seems to me the China can only win here. They KNOW that any U.S. president who got elected to office owes U.S. corporations BIG TIME, and in knowing this, they know that Nike and all of the other corporations that manufacture over there, DO NOT WANT TO MOVE. That would hurt their bottom line and screw up their production schedules.
I truly don't think that China benefits much from U.S. corporations manufacturing over there. It's the corporations that benefit the most.
Say nothing of the fact that they still have our guys and gals over there.
Since China knows this, and they know that the corporations would pressure Bush to do whatever it takes, I suspect at the end of the day we will be apologizing.
Maybe PKZ can work on helping out GnuPG to be the PGP replacement across the board. Not just for geeks and cheapskates but really out do PGP. Then again I would like to replace a lot of commerical software with open source.
I was hoping the same thing.
It should also be noted that GnuPG is really coming along, and that the Gnu Privacy Assistant is under heavy development right now and is weeks away from some pretty stable releases.
Werner ported Sylpheed to Windows and will soon release a security suite which will include GPG, GPA (kinda like PGP Keys), WinPT (like PGP Tray), and Sylpheed. These will be all within one install program and will finally make using GnuPG under Windows more accessable to non-geeks.
I don't see why we are comparing home studios to pro studios. Most of the people doing home recordings aren't striving to be as good as a pro studio, they are simply trying to do better than a cassette deck and a radio shack microphone (which is what the band I am currently working with was trying to use until they realized they could do *much* better.) And to me, that's what the home recording technology we have today is all about, just having the ability to do it a *LOT* better than the "old" way. I don't promise my bands a pro-quality recording experience, and they don't expect one. I do promise them an affordable method of recording that is superior to the *old* affordable methods, and they are usually satisfied with the results. I can't make a bad guitar player sound like a good one, but I can record his bad guitar playing quite accurately.
Amen, I couldn't agree more. That's really what it's about.
My pet peeve has always been about the people on here who've never even been near a great recording studio telling me that they get can make a world class recording with their computer and Sound Forge. I've been around enough to know that it just ain't gonna happen.:-)
Keep up the good work and keep working at sharpening your skills.
Remember, the ears are everything. Also remember that MOST (if not all) HOME STUDIOS LIE TO YOU. It's simply not possible to have a flat requency response in a room with parallel surfaces (and that means most homes).
Before you add any drastic EQ to something walk around your control room and see if the frequencies don't change a lot from places that might even be as close as one foot adjacent. If they do the offending frequencies are probably a resonance, and not actually in the mix. So don't try and remove them.
Also remember that low end accumulates near walls, and expecially in corners.
I strongly contend that home stuff can sound better that the big boys.
You're certainly welcome to believe that.:-)
The big boys when recording a live gig compress the final output to buggery - just to make it sound better on cheap reproduction equipment.
The compress it to make it LOUD. Nothing more.
I don't care about cheap equipment - I have expensive equipment so I end up with a more natural sounding live recording than any 'professional' live recording I've ever bought because I've not had reams of compression and EQ added to the final mix to beef out the sound.
Well my mastering engineer compresses based on the type of material it is. Which is what all good mastering engineers should do. Obviously you don't squeeze jazz like you squeeze rock.
And EQ is used to only when required. No beefing out allowed.:-)
One thing that audio elitists need to realize is that a "wannabee engineer" doesn't have to be the best. He just has to be good enough, and it's getting cheaper and cheaper to achieve a good-enough sound at home.
The gear is already there. For me the issue is if the home engineer knows how to use it. And not to sound elitist, but the home engineers I've seen aren't even close to where they need to be to get their stuff to sound good. They're definitely not using the gear to the level it can be used.
And not to burst any bubbles, but the role of the engineer is always, always econdary to the material you're recording.
Actually, the engineer should be MORE than secondary, he should be INVISIBLE to the creative process. However in many of the smaller studios I've worked, the engineer was often the defacto producer. So it is then impossible to be invisible.
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He had no time frame.
Rich...
I don't think people care too much about the dumb jokes and chain letters that they forward to all of their friends.
Financial records might cause them to think a little harder.
But we'll have to see.
Rich...
I also wouldn't mind seeing original Space:1999 eps on DVD.
And while I'm at it, every Trek Episode.
Of course this sort of thing will truly be fantastic when next generation DVD's are out, and 10 episodes or more will fit onto one DVD. That will make ownership of an entire run of some TV shows not have to take up your entire video cabinet.
Rich..
I think we need to fear them all. The reason why the corporation in the Erin Brockovich case was made accountable was because not even our terrible, emasculated, corporate, pro-government media can cover up stories about kids getting cancers and other incurable diseases at alarming rates within a community only a few thousand yards away from a factory.
What's scary to me in this case is what I think will happen, and that is that the Judicial System (due certainly in large part to corporate-owned media outlets not asking the tough question and presenting facts, and public complacency) will brush this one under the rug. In this case there are no kids getting cancer so it is EASY for the media to ignore this issue which allows the players to claim that no harm is being done by the MS monopoly.
I find it interesting that only a few months away the new ROLLERBAL film will be coming out (I'm sure it will suck) and the original 1975 film predicted all of this very nicely.
Rich...
Ummmm.... because they are?
The ends justifies the means. You gotta love it. (until it happens to you, anyway)
Rich...
Yeah, Emeril has about 3 stock lines that he uses over and over again, and yet the people still laugh. Another one of his favorites is, "What's a little (insert food ingrediant here) amongst friends?"
Rich...
I was embarassed as well.
He's also apparently completely oblivious to the fact that 3/4 (maybe more) of the US crowd was cheering for Morimoto. He got his butt kicked and the home crowd wasn't rooting for him. You gotta love it.
Rich...
The floor reporter (Ota) is trying to get the announcer's attention, who's name is "Fukui." So what Ota is screaming is "Fukui-San," adding the "san" to be polite.
All he is doing is calling out a person's name. :-)
Rich...
ESA has a launch complex in French Guyana.
Rich...
I think this might even deserve a "!!"
Rich...
What you really can't say is that 90% of the people are in it because of the stats. That wouldn't be allowed in a court of law, and won't be allowed here.
I still say get rid of them. Competition brings out the WORST in people, not the best, as evidenced by the cheaters who hacked their clients to download work units, and immediately (after NO analysis) send back a blank results file. These people were "crunching" thousands of units per day and really stinking things up.
If SETI loses any people from having no stats, I can assure you they won't be missed.
Rich...
I for one wish they would get rid of the scorekeeping entirely. I crunch SETI units because I enjoy the idea of helping them with their science.
Any users they lose because they were to get rid of scorekeeping would be no great loss. They were probably the losers who were compromising the datapool anyway. (talk about having no self esteem, I can see it now, some geek going up to a girl to impress her with his falsified SETI numbers).
I was one of the first 10,000 people to sign up, and I'll help them with their science as loing as they need me to, scorekeeping or no.
Rich...
Are you even listening to what you're saying? Doesn't it SORTA go without saying that if they're polluting those sites, then they ARE NOT RECYCLING?
DUH.
You're not going to start saying things like, "Facts are stupid things," and that "trees are the biggest polluters on the planet" now, are you? :-)
Rich..
If it is true it has no meaning without context.
Your second question (if true) is something that will take a small amount of research to answer.
However, I was not defending the government, only pointing out what I thought was an error in Cmdr. Taco's reasoning. :-)
Rich...
I think it's more likely our government that will plant chips in our asses to keep track of us.
Industry just wants to take our money, and in so doing will end up raping our planet.
Rich...
Absolutely. I have a friend who works for one of the very popular MS certification emulator program, companies. And a few years ago they had a product called "NT-Cert" or osmething like that, and they were served cease and desist papers to remove NT from their product name or else they'd be sued.
They chose to remove the NT from their product name and rename their two products something like "Workstation-Cert" and "Server-Cert."
Does this mean that MS would have won a long an drawn out legal battle? Who knows.
But in essence they did win since they could afford such a battle, and my friend's company could not.
I suggest you look at Ardour .
Rich...
Rich...
Back that statement up. If you're going to make such a claim it requires an argument.
Anyone who provides tools to other people that help enforce their privacy from people who might wish to take it away can be considered freedom fighters in my book, and I'm sure most /. users books.
Rich...
It seems to me the China can only win here. They KNOW that any U.S. president who got elected to office owes U.S. corporations BIG TIME, and in knowing this, they know that Nike and all of the other corporations that manufacture over there, DO NOT WANT TO MOVE. That would hurt their bottom line and screw up their production schedules.
I truly don't think that China benefits much from U.S. corporations manufacturing over there. It's the corporations that benefit the most.
Say nothing of the fact that they still have our guys and gals over there.
Since China knows this, and they know that the corporations would pressure Bush to do whatever it takes, I suspect at the end of the day we will be apologizing.
Rich...
I was hoping the same thing.
It should also be noted that GnuPG is really coming along, and that the Gnu Privacy Assistant is under heavy development right now and is weeks away from some pretty stable releases.
Werner ported Sylpheed to Windows and will soon release a security suite which will include GPG, GPA (kinda like PGP Keys), WinPT (like PGP Tray), and Sylpheed. These will be all within one install program and will finally make using GnuPG under Windows more accessable to non-geeks.
Rich...
This is normally their battle cry when faced with evidence of capitalism being an awful system.
Rich...
Amen, I couldn't agree more. That's really what it's about.
My pet peeve has always been about the people on here who've never even been near a great recording studio telling me that they get can make a world class recording with their computer and Sound Forge. I've been around enough to know that it just ain't gonna happen. :-)
Keep up the good work and keep working at sharpening your skills.
Remember, the ears are everything. Also remember that MOST (if not all) HOME STUDIOS LIE TO YOU. It's simply not possible to have a flat requency response in a room with parallel surfaces (and that means most homes).
Before you add any drastic EQ to something walk around your control room and see if the frequencies don't change a lot from places that might even be as close as one foot adjacent. If they do the offending frequencies are probably a resonance, and not actually in the mix. So don't try and remove them.
Also remember that low end accumulates near walls, and expecially in corners.
Rich...
You're certainly welcome to believe that. :-)
The compress it to make it LOUD. Nothing more.
Well my mastering engineer compresses based on the type of material it is. Which is what all good mastering engineers should do. Obviously you don't squeeze jazz like you squeeze rock.
And EQ is used to only when required. No beefing out allowed. :-)
Rich...
The gear is already there. For me the issue is if the home engineer knows how to use it. And not to sound elitist, but the home engineers I've seen aren't even close to where they need to be to get their stuff to sound good. They're definitely not using the gear to the level it can be used.
Actually, the engineer should be MORE than secondary, he should be INVISIBLE to the creative process. However in many of the smaller studios I've worked, the engineer was often the defacto producer. So it is then impossible to be invisible.
Rich...