I don't think what's in that Orwell essay is the same, no. His essay mentions things like the sloppiness of language leading to sloppiness of thought, but he doesn't bring up things like the commercialization of our thoughts.
I think that if you look at commercialization of thoughts, you will see the basic sloppy thinking Orwell mentions in his essay.
Well, while the two are in bed, it's important to realize that "the Man" and "the companies" are two different entities. "The Man" in this case, is whoever came up with the goofy format. "The companies" are the media companies who sell (or would sell) music in this format. The reason this is important, is that when you fight against The Man, you are probably doing "the companies" a huge favor by legitimizing their format and making it so that their customers will have a way to play the music -- and therefore have a reason to buy it.
Very true, but there's one thing you didn't mention. By cracking the encryption we don't allow free market forces report back to the companies that their shit isn't selling. People just buy it to crack and then do what they want with it.
I think "airgapped" referrs to being physically disconnected from a network. Unfortunately this term came into use before wireless networks became popular, hence the low usage today.
I don't really follow opera, as I'm a complete fanboy of Mozilla & Free Software and plan to submit code for it eventually.
I'm just glad that the "bittorrent in a browswer" feature race has begun, it will be another feature the alternatives will offer that IE won't for a probably very long time, if ever*.
It isn't good for low latency (and dynamic content) transactions only because of the increased number of round trips bittorrent requires, but for anything that can be batched or sent ahead of time it should work well.
I have been thinking how it would be great for streaming media (even live feeds), if you only delay the play cursor 30-60 seconds.
The media players with embedded bittorrent clients would swarm on the feed for the data before the play cursor, and if there are any missing pieces (maybe 5 seconds) before the current play cursor would use the previous (the one used today) protocol to fill in the gaps (if any).
Live feeds typically don't have a large pipe to the event, and connect to a hosting provider to multiplex the stream for them. The beauty of bittorrent is that it allows multiple hosting providers (or anyone with large upstream capacity and forwarded port) to serve the same stream, even a live feed.
Heh, I interviewed at a streaming media hosting company a coulpe months back, so that's what started me thinking in this area... I'm not sure they'd like this idea.;)
I have noticed this between some bittorrent clients.
For instance, I have seen it where there were two Bittorrent 3.4 seeds (and no peers) and ABC would start, but then slowly the seeds would stop sending data.
I fired up Bittorrent 4.0.1 and the torrent downloaded quickly from those two seeds behind the same NAT box.
Also, it is part of the bittorrent protocol spec to retry seeds, peers and the tracker periodocally.
If Indian IT wages increase by 10% while the US dollar decreases in value relative to Indian money, then the net effect is a greater than 10% increase in cost.
Copy a directory to another which contains a directory with the same name. The target directory is removed and replaced with the source directory. How dumb is that?
Rename a directory and accidentally press a key instead of the arrow -- escape doesn't cancel, it acts just like return.
Just about every keyboard interaction is very counter intuitive compared to windows and linux, and I never used MacOS classic enough to learn the quirks of that platform.
I have a K6-2 350 running Win2k with a Rage128 video card, and it uses 100% cpu for a live video feed.
The same video, but with WMP uses about 15% cpu and the video is smoother, though the audio quality is noticably worse.
I like Real player better than WMP, but in this case, WMP uses fewer recources. I haven't checked the data rates between the different feeds, so that could be the issue.
Strange thing is that Real player on Debian Linux with a PII 450 only uses 15% also, so this might be a driver issue.
On another note, if Real wanted their player to be more widespread, they would make it easier to redistribute. Why doesn't every distro play Real's formats on default install?
And the EU should be making MS distribute Real and Quicktime. The each player should be associated with their native formats and the others should be randomly associated with one of the others.
I believe that darwin will be able to pull in the x86 chipset support code from the BSDs, so they really didn't have much to do except for integrating the code into their tree -- asuming that darwin and the BSDs are still similar in that area...
Personally, I see the network effect as a cost of piracy to the market as a whole, rather than a benefit . . . Why buy a copy of Star Office for half the price of Microsoft Office when you can get Microsoft Office for "free"?
I completely agree.
I have worked in the Mail Services business on the IT side for six years. My first company had some pirated software, but was somewhat open to alternatives especially if they were lower cost and the people using them didn't complain. After being laid off having worked there for over 5 years I started doing some consulting in the same industry.
The other companies were *worse*! They even said "we have over $100,000 worth of software to help serve you" on their web site, and it's all unlicensed!
They don't want to make any effort in getting licenses because if they started with one, they would have to get licenses for everything. Even open source on windows isn't free enough because they can get XP Pro and Office 2003 for "free"!
I don't really want to report them because I have so many friends that work there, and this marked is so low margin that getting busted might bring the whole company down.
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Actually, management speak relates to L337 very well.
I doubt that L337 will make it to the board room because most hackers don't enjoy the environment and wannabees usually match up to their title.
It doesn't matter.
Come to the US with light skin and you are the big bad white man.
I don't think what's in that Orwell essay is the same, no. His essay mentions things like the sloppiness of language leading to sloppiness of thought, but he doesn't bring up things like the commercialization of our thoughts.
I think that if you look at commercialization of thoughts, you will see the basic sloppy thinking Orwell mentions in his essay.
Thank you.
Now I don't have to say what you did too.
Well, while the two are in bed, it's important to realize that "the Man" and "the companies" are two different entities. "The Man" in this case, is whoever came up with the goofy format. "The companies" are the media companies who sell (or would sell) music in this format. The reason this is important, is that when you fight against The Man, you are probably doing "the companies" a huge favor by legitimizing their format and making it so that their customers will have a way to play the music -- and therefore have a reason to buy it.
Very true, but there's one thing you didn't mention. By cracking the encryption we don't allow free market forces report back to the companies that their shit isn't selling. People just buy it to crack and then do what they want with it.
I think "airgapped" referrs to being physically disconnected from a network. Unfortunately this term came into use before wireless networks became popular, hence the low usage today.
Hehe yes, you are right.
I don't really follow opera, as I'm a complete fanboy of Mozilla & Free Software and plan to submit code for it eventually.
I'm just glad that the "bittorrent in a browswer" feature race has begun, it will be another feature the alternatives will offer that IE won't for a probably very long time, if ever*.
* Not counting addons.
Ohh! I broke a nail!
It looks like Opera is just listening to the mozilla community, and implementing faster.
It isn't good for low latency (and dynamic content) transactions only because of the increased number of round trips bittorrent requires, but for anything that can be batched or sent ahead of time it should work well.
;)
I have been thinking how it would be great for streaming media (even live feeds), if you only delay the play cursor 30-60 seconds.
The media players with embedded bittorrent clients would swarm on the feed for the data before the play cursor, and if there are any missing pieces (maybe 5 seconds) before the current play cursor would use the previous (the one used today) protocol to fill in the gaps (if any).
Live feeds typically don't have a large pipe to the event, and connect to a hosting provider to multiplex the stream for them. The beauty of bittorrent is that it allows multiple hosting providers (or anyone with large upstream capacity and forwarded port) to serve the same stream, even a live feed.
Heh, I interviewed at a streaming media hosting company a coulpe months back, so that's what started me thinking in this area... I'm not sure they'd like this idea.
I have noticed this between some bittorrent clients.
For instance, I have seen it where there were two Bittorrent 3.4 seeds (and no peers) and ABC would start, but then slowly the seeds would stop sending data.
I fired up Bittorrent 4.0.1 and the torrent downloaded quickly from those two seeds behind the same NAT box.
Also, it is part of the bittorrent protocol spec to retry seeds, peers and the tracker periodocally.
If Indian IT wages increase by 10% while the US dollar decreases in value relative to Indian money, then the net effect is a greater than 10% increase in cost.
What counts as a job in this statistic?
IOW, what is *not* a job? It's hard to believe nearly 40% have not been working for the past few decades.
It is my day, and we still do.
You settle for moist when good 'ol Mr Wayne gets them dripping wet.
I din't make it clear, but I'm saying that MacOS X is better than Classic from what I have seen.
You settle for moist when good 'ol Mr Wayne get them dripping wet.
I have had the exact opposite experience.
Copy a directory to another which contains a directory with the same name. The target directory is removed and replaced with the source directory. How dumb is that?
Rename a directory and accidentally press a key instead of the arrow -- escape doesn't cancel, it acts just like return.
Just about every keyboard interaction is very counter intuitive compared to windows and linux, and I never used MacOS classic enough to learn the quirks of that platform.
Not to mention that "Cracker" in the US has an entirely different meaning to many people.
Many minorities (not just black people) use it as a pejorative reference to white people...
Have you been looking at goatse again?
Please die now, if you actually think that is funny.
Actually, that is just the start if OSS is going to ever become mainstream.
The mailing lists can be a great revenue stream. Just ask, "Do you want me to fix it for you or do you want to learn how to fix it?"
If they say "You fix it.", then you just say "Now send $ to foo@bar.com with paypal, and we'll get started..."
I have a K6-2 350 running Win2k with a Rage128 video card, and it uses 100% cpu for a live video feed.
The same video, but with WMP uses about 15% cpu and the video is smoother, though the audio quality is noticably worse.
I like Real player better than WMP, but in this case, WMP uses fewer recources. I haven't checked the data rates between the different feeds, so that could be the issue.
Strange thing is that Real player on Debian Linux with a PII 450 only uses 15% also, so this might be a driver issue.
On another note, if Real wanted their player to be more widespread, they would make it easier to redistribute. Why doesn't every distro play Real's formats on default install?
And the EU should be making MS distribute Real and Quicktime. The each player should be associated with their native formats and the others should be randomly associated with one of the others.
"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer"
Surprised no-one else quoted that one first....
How about "MS is now paying OSS developers"?
I believe that darwin will be able to pull in the x86 chipset support code from the BSDs, so they really didn't have much to do except for integrating the code into their tree -- asuming that darwin and the BSDs are still similar in that area...
Personally, I see the network effect as a cost of piracy to the market as a whole, rather than a benefit . . . Why buy a copy of Star Office for half the price of Microsoft Office when you can get Microsoft Office for "free"?
I completely agree.
I have worked in the Mail Services business on the IT side for six years. My first company had some pirated software, but was somewhat open to alternatives especially if they were lower cost and the people using them didn't complain. After being laid off having worked there for over 5 years I started doing some consulting in the same industry.
The other companies were *worse*! They even said "we have over $100,000 worth of software to help serve you" on their web site, and it's all unlicensed!
They don't want to make any effort in getting licenses because if they started with one, they would have to get licenses for everything. Even open source on windows isn't free enough because they can get XP Pro and Office 2003 for "free"!
I don't really want to report them because I have so many friends that work there, and this marked is so low margin that getting busted might bring the whole company down.
So what can I do?