I was not aware of this license. I checked it out and it sounds like what we're after. Thanks for telling me about it.
By public domain with author copyright, I really meant Public domain except that author credit must be preserved. The GNU FDL goes a little bit beyond that, but is also probably fine for what we're doing.
Well, officially placing a document into the public domain does indeed surrender copyright. The idea with the design documents is to release them into the public domain except that author credit must be kept intact.
Open Source (Open Design) Short Bus
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So for those of you who want to build your own one of these beasts...
A couple months ago some friends of mine and I bought an old super heavy duty school bus to deck out with gear. GPS, wireless lan, satelite transponders, audio gear, radar (marine radar), HUD, etc... basically anything ridiculously gratuitous that you see on the MAXIMOG vehicle. Our vehicle has 450 horses and weighs about 3.5 tons gutted. We got it from a podunk town that was using it as a fire and rescue support vehicle to haul rescue workers and equipment such as the jaws of life, chemical fire extenguishers, etc. It is a beastly machine.
Anyway for our vehicle systems, the design documents are to be public domain (with author copyrights of course) and support software will be GPL'd or BSD licensed. There are the beginnings of a project on sourceforge and photos. Basically the whole project is focused on building a totally insane techno machine from a bunch of junk on the cheap.
Well that's because you need a carrying case for it! Not only does it have four times the capacity. it's four times the size!
If price were the only feature that people based their decisions on, then why are people driving the new VW bugs? This HDD may be 20GB but if I'm carrying around a 20GB HDD, and I find myself needing to take a couple gigs of photoshop files home from the office or vice versa, I sure as hell wouldn't use this to do it! An iPod would be right on task, though.
Someone could produce a portable player with a 160GB Desktop HDD powered by a lawnmower battery with a small color screen that you could carry around in your backpack (included of course) for the same price as the Rio Riot or the iPod. It could make you download all your files via a 115200 baud serial connection, and then I could dish out the same argument you just did to defend it.
Seriously, it's a different product for a different market. It may be a bit pricey, but then again, it's your choice to buy it or not. If apple could price iPod cheaper and it would increase the demand for it enough that it would benefit them to lower the price -- you know what -- they would. They have smart marketing people setting the price on their stuff. It's not like they just make it more expensive because they want to see who's stupid enough to buy it.
Um well let's see, they control the license on Evolution so they can make any exceptions to the GPL that they want including converting it to total proprietary software, as long as they dont link to non LGPL or BSD licensed libraries that they don't control the licenses for.
Re:Not sure if they work under Linux yet, but..
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that's' stuff in the windows drivers. audigy support is coming along nicely for linux thanks in most part to Daniel Bertrand who has been getting things done at a feverish pace. Check out the audigy tag from the emu10k1 cvs at www.opensource.creative.com
I tested a portable mp3 player made by some little company in taiwan about 3 years ago that could record mp3 files. Why is it such big news when someone sticks a hardware CODEC into something instead of some cheezy DSP? Besides, what's the use of recording into MP3 if you are compressing only voice? There are many CODEC's designed to compress voice to data rates much smaller than MP3 can and remain understandable. (4-8kbps)
"Claim" is a bit of a weak description for a mature product. C'mon slashdot. Proxim's 100Mpbs products and technology are well over 1 year in the field. And BTW, not only can they do 100Mbps full duplex in the unlicensed 5.8GHz ISM band, they also run two wireless T1 interfaces on top of that -- between the same pair of radios. It is an absolutely wonderful solution for bringing branch offices up for voice and data. The interfaces fall back to 48Mbps and finally 12Mbps at the maximum range (~15mi with 30dBi antennas) but they always maintain full bandwidth on the T1's.
The newest driver in CVS from opensource.creative.com (CVS tag v0_15) have support (as of a couple days ago) to do PCM passthrough at 48KHz instead of downsampling to 44.1. (Yeah AC3 passthrough has also been supported for a long time too) Actually, the Linux drivers at this point rock the windows ones as far as control over the hardware goes. (Let's see if the windows driver lets you download DSP microcode!) The only feature missing at this point is support for the software synth, which IMHO isn't as big a deal as a lot of people think. Anyone who is seriously using MIDI is probably using external synths anyway. Plus, it's planned...just last on the list
He should have used nano and made a symlink to pico. That's what I do for gripy users. Plus it's also a smaller binary. Sometimes I look at the 3MB binary that is pine (and that's without the editor!) and wonder what functionality I'm missing out on...
And of course your point is totally and completely bogus too since the data rate of DVD is a maximum of 10 Mega*Bits* per second and on average is somewhere between 3.5 and 5.5. That means for 8 streams, your drive needs to provide a MAXIMUM of 10MB/s and on average will need to provide about 4-5MB/s throughput while seeking between 8 files. This is a very impressive number even still for an IDE drive as anyone who has ever worked with nonlinear video systems knows as capture systems adhering to the CCIR-601 digital standard require 167Mb/s datarate. This would mean that the 4.7GB of a single sided DVD could hold about 4 minutes of video.
Hear hear. I started reading this, then closed the shit out of disgust and came back looking for the thread bashing the writing. Thank you, sir for this opportunity to vent!
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I was not aware of this license. I checked it out and it sounds like what we're after. Thanks for telling me about it.
By public domain with author copyright, I really meant Public domain except that author credit must be preserved. The GNU FDL goes a little bit beyond that, but is also probably fine for what we're doing.
Well, officially placing a document into the public domain does indeed surrender copyright. The idea with the design documents is to release them into the public domain except that author credit must be kept intact.
So for those of you who want to build your own one of these beasts...
A couple months ago some friends of mine and I bought an old super heavy duty school bus to deck out with gear. GPS, wireless lan, satelite transponders, audio gear, radar (marine radar), HUD, etc... basically anything ridiculously gratuitous that you see on the MAXIMOG vehicle. Our vehicle has 450 horses and weighs about 3.5 tons gutted. We got it from a podunk town that was using it as a fire and rescue support vehicle to haul rescue workers and equipment such as the jaws of life, chemical fire extenguishers, etc. It is a beastly machine.
Anyway for our vehicle systems, the design documents are to be public domain (with author copyrights of course) and support software will be GPL'd or BSD licensed. There are the beginnings of a project on sourceforge and photos. Basically the whole project is focused on building a totally insane techno machine from a bunch of junk on the cheap.
Check it out!
Oh yeah, it's already named Richard, III.
Heh :) Exactly
Well that's because you need a carrying case for it! Not only does it have four times the capacity. it's four times the size!
If price were the only feature that people based their decisions on, then why are people driving the new VW bugs? This HDD may be 20GB but if I'm carrying around a 20GB HDD, and I find myself needing to take a couple gigs of photoshop files home from the office or vice versa, I sure as hell wouldn't use this to do it! An iPod would be right on task, though.
Someone could produce a portable player with a 160GB Desktop HDD powered by a lawnmower battery with a small color screen that you could carry around in your backpack (included of course) for the same price as the Rio Riot or the iPod. It could make you download all your files via a 115200 baud serial connection, and then I could dish out the same argument you just did to defend it.
Seriously, it's a different product for a different market. It may be a bit pricey, but then again, it's your choice to buy it or not. If apple could price iPod cheaper and it would increase the demand for it enough that it would benefit them to lower the price -- you know what -- they would. They have smart marketing people setting the price on their stuff. It's not like they just make it more expensive because they want to see who's stupid enough to buy it.
~GoRK
The OS/X AIM client is fully scriptable. It even ships with demo scripts.
>If Apple made space suits, they'd only come in very untasteful, bright colours
Hmm like the intel guys maybe?
Not only that but 802.11b sucks besides!
You, sir, are a genius.
This hits the nail on the head.
Well except that the visors do a phenominal bit on the whole sun problem. It's really not all that bad anymore.
uhhhhhhhh yeah or an amiga which actaully *CAN* play Divx ;-), mpeg, etc.
Hmm kind of makes you wonder about Google's search results....... They couldn't even find the right first post!
So that means that this is currently THE first post!
Welcome to weblogs.
Um well let's see, they control the license on Evolution so they can make any exceptions to the GPL that they want including converting it to total proprietary software, as long as they dont link to non LGPL or BSD licensed libraries that they don't control the licenses for.
such as, say, 'root' ?
that's' stuff in the windows drivers. audigy support is coming along nicely for linux thanks in most part to Daniel Bertrand who has been getting things done at a feverish pace. Check out the audigy tag from the emu10k1 cvs at www.opensource.creative.com
I tested a portable mp3 player made by some little company in taiwan about 3 years ago that could record mp3 files. Why is it such big news when someone sticks a hardware CODEC into something instead of some cheezy DSP? Besides, what's the use of recording into MP3 if you are compressing only voice? There are many CODEC's designed to compress voice to data rates much smaller than MP3 can and remain understandable. (4-8kbps)
~GoRK
I hear "Assalon" a lot too...
"Claim" is a bit of a weak description for a mature product. C'mon slashdot. Proxim's 100Mpbs products and technology are well over 1 year in the field. And BTW, not only can they do 100Mbps full duplex in the unlicensed 5.8GHz ISM band, they also run two wireless T1 interfaces on top of that -- between the same pair of radios. It is an absolutely wonderful solution for bringing branch offices up for voice and data. The interfaces fall back to 48Mbps and finally 12Mbps at the maximum range (~15mi with 30dBi antennas) but they always maintain full bandwidth on the T1's.
~GoRK
Yes, please tell us more about how you did your lamp conversion. I'd be very interested in upgrading my tail lamps and other markers with LED's.
~GoRK
Yeah my lirc interface to the remote is coming along quickly. Probably 1-2 weeks.. Check the emu10k1-devel list for updates.
~GoRK
The newest driver in CVS from opensource.creative.com (CVS tag v0_15) have support (as of a couple days ago) to do PCM passthrough at 48KHz instead of downsampling to 44.1. (Yeah AC3 passthrough has also been supported for a long time too) Actually, the Linux drivers at this point rock the windows ones as far as control over the hardware goes. (Let's see if the windows driver lets you download DSP microcode!) The only feature missing at this point is support for the software synth, which IMHO isn't as big a deal as a lot of people think. Anyone who is seriously using MIDI is probably using external synths anyway. Plus, it's planned...just last on the list
~GoRK
He should have used nano and made a symlink to pico. That's what I do for gripy users. Plus it's also a smaller binary. Sometimes I look at the 3MB binary that is pine (and that's without the editor!) and wonder what functionality I'm missing out on...
~GoRK
And of course your point is totally and completely bogus too since the data rate of DVD is a maximum of 10 Mega*Bits* per second and on average is somewhere between 3.5 and 5.5. That means for 8 streams, your drive needs to provide a MAXIMUM of 10MB/s and on average will need to provide about 4-5MB/s throughput while seeking between 8 files. This is a very impressive number even still for an IDE drive as anyone who has ever worked with nonlinear video systems knows as capture systems adhering to the CCIR-601 digital standard require 167Mb/s datarate. This would mean that the 4.7GB of a single sided DVD could hold about 4 minutes of video.
Stop spewing and start using your brain.
~GoRK
Hear hear. I started reading this, then closed the shit out of disgust and came back looking for the thread bashing the writing. Thank you, sir for this opportunity to vent!