Does that mean that you are a criminal for possessing it? Beats me, but it seems to me that it puts you in a dubious position of being able to claim any right of ownership.
See, the thing with that is this: Say, when you can't sell a car, you take the hood off. So, if you buy a car without a hood, the dealer and the manufacturer have not recieved any money for it, because it was reported "unsold and destroyed" What if a car dealership has a car. For whatever reason, no one buys the car, so they drive it to the curb, take off the hood, put a sign in the window that says "trash, please dispose" and leave it there, with the keys in the ignition. Now, assume we're in a state where trash is public domain.
If I get in the car and drive it off, I'm not doing anything illegal (well, except mabey driving a car that wouldn't pass inspection because of the lack of hood).
If they tossed out the car, it doesn't matter what they say. Fuck 'em.
Same goes with books - if they tear the covers off and throw it away, and I snag it, that's their problem, not mine. What if, instead of taking off the covers, they took out page 23? Or shredded it? It doesn't matter what they say about it.
Yeah, I know they were on capitol. I didn't want to get into my rant about less than jake.
But, the rant basically goes like this: the band who swore they would never go back to a major label is on a major label again. Rockview is, honest to god, probably the one CD that has given me more enjoyment than any other CD in the world. But, they were mostly still in control then. I mean, like you said, they kept the price under $10. This is a band who has song lyrics that say "we try to keep the prices low for our records at our shows". Now, however, they're out of the driver's seat. The she's gonna break soon song? Yeah. I went to their site a while back, wanting to check it out. They would let you stream it for free, but they wanted $1.50 to download it. What's up with that? That's not the less than jake I know. Also, recording in multiple studios is pretentious. Like, for anthem, they recorded some here, some there, the drums in louisana, the bass in new york, and the guitars and vocals in california, over like 5 months. That's pretentious. Hello rockview... Does anyone remember when they recorded it? They did it in about two weeks, between tours. Back when LTJ was on the road, playing 345 shows a year, they took their 2 weeks and slammed out one of the greatest albums of ALL TIME, and then hopped back on the bus.
So, there it is. There's my rant. The band who said that the major label expierence was so bad that they would never do it again has done it, and it seems like they've got less control this time than last. But, whatever floats your boat. I mean, I know you can't make enough money for your retirement fund working for FBR or fat or asian man records... mabey they're just gettin old? Whatever.
But, just to add to my snobbiness, I may not buy the record, just because it's on a major.
The music world is moving away from this model. Pop is finally going to be backgrounded for a while. (Who's the last "new" pop artist you remember getting big?)
Pop won't die, it never does, but the completely contrived dance driven bubble gum ass-pop that has been the music industry standbay for the past 5 years is dying. People are sick of it.
I'd rather have 6 Avril Lavigne's than one brittney spears.
But, there are a *lot* of good artists who have been around forever, and have always put out quality work, but are just now being "discovered".
Cases in point: AFI's new CD "Sing the Sorrow" - reached number 5 on the Billboard chart. The CD is amazing, front to back, beginning to end. The band is incredible live. I think the world is taking note of them. Alkaline Trio's "Good Mourning". Very popular, I saw a commercial on MuchMusic (fuse, whatever) from tower records recomending picking the CD up - and they're right, it's absolutely amazing. They recently sold out and packed the 9:30 club in D.C. - and put on a hell of a show. Less than Jake - "Anthem". Less than Jake have been around for 10 years, and they just now made the hop to a major (warner bros.). I kind of have some personal things about them jumping lablels, but, they have been everywhere. Check their discography on their website. LTJ can sell out 5,000 people venues, I've seen it (boat house in va. beach, the Nation in D.C., etc). Thrice is going to release their new album "the artist in the ambulance" july 22nd, and they're going to get big. They're on a major now (island, i think).
So, take heart dear friend. This is only the report from the kind of music I listen to (emo, punk-esque, whatever). I think this kind of music is on the "in", but I'm sure every genre but pop is having similar success stories.
Music will come back. Have faith. Buy CD's on impulse. Listen to college radio.
And pop will be first up against the wall when the revolution comes.
Like, I know that the 5 disc set from RH includes sources and docs, as well as the kitchen sink.
But, on a serious note, i was kinda shocked when it came out and i saw how many CD's it was. I cooled down when I realized that you only needed the 1st 3.
But, for what I use it for, I need not 3 CD's. More like, a kernel, compiler and libraries, apache+modules, Mysql, postgres, and then mc and zsh. I don't use much else... So, in a way, a minimalistic redhat system with auto dep resolution that was easy and free would be nice. I don't need X, or gnome, or gimp, or anything like that. I appreciate it (especially on RH9 - ahh, pretty!), but I kinda wish I didn't have to download it, especially on RH release day - whew, what a bottlenek!
It seems to me that a website operator that provides an open forum for discussion should be no more at fault for the content of patron conversation than a restaurant owner should when people sit and chat there.
See also: Slashdot vs. Church of Scientology.
(FYI: This was, what?, 5 years ago? Something like that. Slashdot had an article about the Co$, and some one in the comments posted copyrighted material from one of the high level "religious" texts in the "church". The Co$ threatened to sue slashdot, et. al. (come to think of it, there may not have been an et. al. at that point, other than valinux, and this may have been before them), and the slashdot mods took down the comments relating to the copyrighted material. Slashdot was probably safe, but they didn't want to risk it by going to bat for their users and risking legal action as well as all of the stuff the Co$ would have tried to do to them - read xenu.net for info on what the Co$ feels is fair play to people who say bad things about them. End parenthetical explanation.)
I'd rather have a moderately crashy Windows XP box... than the hypothetical alternative: a super-stable Windows95,
It's been my expierence that XP is more stable than win 95, anyway. And the hardware to run it costs less. I mean, not even accounting for current technology vs. old technology - My windows 95 comptuer (back in 96) was a 100 Mhz pentium w/ 16 MB of ram and a 1 GB hard drive. It cost $1700. My girlfriend just built a computer with an athlon 1700+, 256MB of ram, and a geforce 2MX, and it cost about $400, plus monitor.
This is convoluted, of course, since you can't copy something if you can't access it. But legislators never seemed to get that far in their reasoning.
It is equally true that "If we can access something, we can copy it". No one ever seems to make that logic leap, either. Especially as applies to DVD's - If we have to decrypt them to watch them, we can also copy them. Or those copy protected audio CD's - if we can hear them, we can copy them.
simply because it hard to hack into CAT5 physically.
Heh, I thought so too.
Then, I moved into my townhome here.
There are 6 townhouses per block, each with 4 bedrooms. There's a company that has a contract to provide ethernet to the townhomes (college town). So, 6x4=24. There's a 12 port switch at each end townhome, 4 wires going into the first townhouse, and 8 going through the attic wall to the next one. Of those 8, the next townhouse gets 4, and the remaining 4 go to the townhouse in the middle, the 3rd one in.
I have DSL, but it's been oh-so-tempting, since I know my neighbors-toward-the-middle have ethernet, to crawl up into the attic crawl space, cut the cable, put jacks onto both ends of the cut, and install a hub, and end up with free ethernet access.
The reason I don't is because at the beginning of the year, they have a "free trial period" for ethernet. When I plugged into it during the free trial, it was about 22 seconds before there was a virus sitting on one of my windows network neighborhood shares. Plus, they block a *lot* of outbound ports.
Truely, if any one (or any company) deserved to be sued for putting out shitty software, its Micro$oft....But, I think that this is a really bad idea and sets a very bad precedent that could ruin the software industry as we know it (and I'm including Open Source here - especially open source).
Commence conspiracy theory:
Bill gates to South Korea: Hey, you know, you've been pissed off about our software not working? Well, here's 2 billion dollars. Sue us, and don't put up much of a fight. S. Korea: Why would you want us to sue you? Bill: Well, because when we win (which we will), it will set a precident for future lawsuits regarding bad software. This one is over a silly issue, but mabey the next one will really be serious. If that's the case, then we can point to this one and say "it's already been tried", and we have a leg to stand on.
Ok, rephrase, other than the plain text transmission, what's wrong with telnet?
Along the same line of thinking, if you want to get rid of telnet, do you want to get rid of FTP? That's essentially what FTP is - unencrypted uname/pass auth. So, what's the difference?
We still support telnet at Netmar, because our users have telnet on their computers. Joe Blow, with his windows 98, can understand "start - run - telnet login.netmar.com". He may not understand "download putty, change to SSH, port 22, type in login.netmar.com, press connect", or be willing to deal with it. We do, of course, provide documentation on how to do both: http://guide.netmar.com/connect/command-line.html
But, seriously, telnet doesn't hurt anything. We don't allow it for root, our dedicated server customers must enable telnet for themselves (most of the time we don't even install it, or install it and leave it disabled).
It's the same kind of compromise as the Lindows article today: Security vs. speed. Telnet is fast, ssh is slow. Telnet is insecure, SSH is safer. FTP is fast, sftp is painfully slow.
Stop and think for a minute - All of this unix/linux/*nix/bsd/etc etc stuff that we all know and love is *old*. I mean, the basic premise is ancient, in computer terms. But, it has evolved with the changing times, and quite nicely. Just let it do it's thing, and phase things out when they are no longer useful. Telnet still has a use. IPv4 still has a use. Sendmail still has a use, regardless of what Bernstein may say.
I say, I don't want to give up 30 years of tradition every time something new comes out. Just go with the flow. Let it happen in it's own time.
Why do movies still cost an arm and a leg to go see when they use Linux clusters rather than SGI machines to do the rendering? Just because a company becomes more efficient doesn't mean they have to pass on the savings. What if the company was losing money until they found a way to shave a few bucks from their costs and make a profit? Are they supposed to cut their prices and continue to lose money?
Agreed.
I don't see why it's a big deal that a company has found a way to cut costs.
I've been very outspoken about my feelings on the MPAA, and the record labels, I'm a strong supporter of indie music (I have a radio show on the local college station), I listen to punk, mostly on smaller labels etc.
However, look at this in a different context: if a company was working on a thin margin, and then they figured out a way to cut costs, so that they were making more money, but the quality of the service stayed the same, would you hate them for it?
I was always taught that there's no such thing as deceleration. There's only negative acceleration. I guess that makes the right hand turn lane a negative acceleration lane?
You are combining unrelated aspects of Intellectual Property law. "Fair use" as a concept applies to copyright, and "confusion in the marketplace" is a concern only for trademarks.
Also reference WWF vs. WWF, i.e. World Wildlife Fund vs. World Wrestling Federation / Entertainment.
The WWF (wrestling) weren't trying to mimic the WWF (wildlife) by using the letters WWF. They just happened to have the same acronym. The WWF (wildlife) sued under trademark, not copyright, concerns, and therefore had to prove that, some how a group of tree-hugging hippies and a group of beer-swilling rednecks could be confused by the average American, that you could easily confuse "Raven" and "California Condor".
I'm not sure exactly what happened in court, but the WWF (wildlife) was able to pursuade a Judge that their marketspace was being intruded on and they were losing name recognition because of the WWF (wrestling). Hence, the WWF (wrestling) had to "get the F out" and change everything WWF->WWE. Now, if you watch wrestling, anything with a WWF on it is blurred out in old footage, there's no mention of the WWF as a past history of the company, and they had to give up www.wwf.com.
Of course, what's at WWF.com now? A site that sells wrestling tickets. Most see it as a bullying act by the WWF (wildlife).
As much as I hate it when other people rant, rave, and flame about open source being the cure for cancer, OGG VORBIS is one open source product that is worth every bit of rant and rave it can get. I use it now exclusively.
Seriously, folks, if you haven't started using OGG, please check it out. If you want to do it for the peace of mind of not using a codec that comes with licences and royalties (MP3), then do that, but I use it because they're better. An ogg of comparable size to the corresponding MP3 sounds better, and at a comparable level of sound quality is smaller.
Only complaints: No drag and drop CD burning in whatever nero version came with my TDK burner. Plus, I'd like to use them in divx encoding, but I don't know how.
How do you explain how they got to be excellent products, given your "business model" argument?
It's not terribly hard to make good software. Therefore, it is easy to make good, free software, if your time is worth nothing.
I'm all about open source, but let's also remember that these products got to be excellent because a lot of people sacrificed days of fishing so they could sit at home and not get paid while working.
There are always uses for faster processors. The first that comes to mind is video compression. Spin up gordion knot, and let me know how fast your 500 Mhz compresses a DVD. Probably.... 6 hours-ish? That's probably pretty close.
My 1500 Mhz 1800+ will do it in about 2.
But, then, some people want it done in 10 minutes. Even 3.0 Ghz on 800Mhz bus won't do that.
Things that take orders of minutes, not microseconds, will benifit. Video compression, Audio compression, brute force password cracking, video editing, image filters, distributed.net, etc.
Just keep in mind, we're talking about things that are infinately scaleable, or close enough. Distributed.net is infinitely scaleable, basically. It would benifit from faster proc's.
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~Will
Does that mean that you are a criminal for possessing it? Beats me, but it seems to me that it puts you in a dubious position of being able to claim any right of ownership.
See, the thing with that is this:
Say, when you can't sell a car, you take the hood off. So, if you buy a car without a hood, the dealer and the manufacturer have not recieved any money for it, because it was reported "unsold and destroyed"
What if a car dealership has a car. For whatever reason, no one buys the car, so they drive it to the curb, take off the hood, put a sign in the window that says "trash, please dispose" and leave it there, with the keys in the ignition.
Now, assume we're in a state where trash is public domain.
If I get in the car and drive it off, I'm not doing anything illegal (well, except mabey driving a car that wouldn't pass inspection because of the lack of hood).
If they tossed out the car, it doesn't matter what they say. Fuck 'em.
Same goes with books - if they tear the covers off and throw it away, and I snag it, that's their problem, not mine. What if, instead of taking off the covers, they took out page 23? Or shredded it? It doesn't matter what they say about it.
~Will
Yeah, I know they were on capitol. I didn't want to get into my rant about less than jake.
But, the rant basically goes like this: the band who swore they would never go back to a major label is on a major label again.
Rockview is, honest to god, probably the one CD that has given me more enjoyment than any other CD in the world. But, they were mostly still in control then. I mean, like you said, they kept the price under $10. This is a band who has song lyrics that say "we try to keep the prices low for our records at our shows".
Now, however, they're out of the driver's seat. The she's gonna break soon song? Yeah. I went to their site a while back, wanting to check it out. They would let you stream it for free, but they wanted $1.50 to download it. What's up with that? That's not the less than jake I know. Also, recording in multiple studios is pretentious. Like, for anthem, they recorded some here, some there, the drums in louisana, the bass in new york, and the guitars and vocals in california, over like 5 months. That's pretentious. Hello rockview... Does anyone remember when they recorded it? They did it in about two weeks, between tours. Back when LTJ was on the road, playing 345 shows a year, they took their 2 weeks and slammed out one of the greatest albums of ALL TIME, and then hopped back on the bus.
So, there it is. There's my rant. The band who said that the major label expierence was so bad that they would never do it again has done it, and it seems like they've got less control this time than last. But, whatever floats your boat. I mean, I know you can't make enough money for your retirement fund working for FBR or fat or asian man records... mabey they're just gettin old? Whatever.
But, just to add to my snobbiness, I may not buy the record, just because it's on a major.
~Will
Cheer up, there is hope in sight.
The music world is moving away from this model. Pop is finally going to be backgrounded for a while. (Who's the last "new" pop artist you remember getting big?)
Pop won't die, it never does, but the completely contrived dance driven bubble gum ass-pop that has been the music industry standbay for the past 5 years is dying. People are sick of it.
I'd rather have 6 Avril Lavigne's than one brittney spears.
But, there are a *lot* of good artists who have been around forever, and have always put out quality work, but are just now being "discovered".
Cases in point:
AFI's new CD "Sing the Sorrow" - reached number 5 on the Billboard chart. The CD is amazing, front to back, beginning to end. The band is incredible live. I think the world is taking note of them.
Alkaline Trio's "Good Mourning". Very popular, I saw a commercial on MuchMusic (fuse, whatever) from tower records recomending picking the CD up - and they're right, it's absolutely amazing. They recently sold out and packed the 9:30 club in D.C. - and put on a hell of a show.
Less than Jake - "Anthem". Less than Jake have been around for 10 years, and they just now made the hop to a major (warner bros.). I kind of have some personal things about them jumping lablels, but, they have been everywhere. Check their discography on their website. LTJ can sell out 5,000 people venues, I've seen it (boat house in va. beach, the Nation in D.C., etc).
Thrice is going to release their new album "the artist in the ambulance" july 22nd, and they're going to get big. They're on a major now (island, i think).
So, take heart dear friend. This is only the report from the kind of music I listen to (emo, punk-esque, whatever). I think this kind of music is on the "in", but I'm sure every genre but pop is having similar success stories.
Music will come back. Have faith. Buy CD's on impulse. Listen to college radio.
And pop will be first up against the wall when the revolution comes.
~Will
it was a joke, mostly. I mean, sort of.
Like, I know that the 5 disc set from RH includes sources and docs, as well as the kitchen sink.
But, on a serious note, i was kinda shocked when it came out and i saw how many CD's it was. I cooled down when I realized that you only needed the 1st 3.
But, for what I use it for, I need not 3 CD's. More like, a kernel, compiler and libraries, apache+modules, Mysql, postgres, and then mc and zsh. I don't use much else... So, in a way, a minimalistic redhat system with auto dep resolution that was easy and free would be nice. I don't need X, or gnome, or gimp, or anything like that. I appreciate it (especially on RH9 - ahh, pretty!), but I kinda wish I didn't have to download it, especially on RH release day - whew, what a bottlenek!
~Will
4.7M for an ISO is a bit small, don't you think?
This is a feature, not a bug. At gentoo, they are trying to make a smaller, leaner OS that you download and build as you go. =)
See Also: Red Hat 9.0 - 5 650MB ISO's. Talk about windows having a huge install footprint! 5CD's??
~Will
It seems to me that a website operator that provides an open forum for discussion should be no more at fault for the content of patron conversation than a restaurant owner should when people sit and chat there.
See also: Slashdot vs. Church of Scientology.
(FYI: This was, what?, 5 years ago? Something like that. Slashdot had an article about the Co$, and some one in the comments posted copyrighted material from one of the high level "religious" texts in the "church". The Co$ threatened to sue slashdot, et. al. (come to think of it, there may not have been an et. al. at that point, other than valinux, and this may have been before them), and the slashdot mods took down the comments relating to the copyrighted material. Slashdot was probably safe, but they didn't want to risk it by going to bat for their users and risking legal action as well as all of the stuff the Co$ would have tried to do to them - read xenu.net for info on what the Co$ feels is fair play to people who say bad things about them. End parenthetical explanation.)
~Will
I'd rather have a moderately crashy Windows XP box ... than the hypothetical alternative: a super-stable Windows95,
It's been my expierence that XP is more stable than win 95, anyway. And the hardware to run it costs less. I mean, not even accounting for current technology vs. old technology - My windows 95 comptuer (back in 96) was a 100 Mhz pentium w/ 16 MB of ram and a 1 GB hard drive. It cost $1700. My girlfriend just built a computer with an athlon 1700+, 256MB of ram, and a geforce 2MX, and it cost about $400, plus monitor.
If an article is $4, it's $4! No change necessary!
We call this magical place Delaware. The land of no sales tax, where you can pay $3.99 with four one-dollar bills and get a penny back.
~Will
This is convoluted, of course, since you can't copy something if you can't access it. But legislators never seemed to get that far in their reasoning.
It is equally true that "If we can access something, we can copy it". No one ever seems to make that logic leap, either. Especially as applies to DVD's - If we have to decrypt them to watch them, we can also copy them. Or those copy protected audio CD's - if we can hear them, we can copy them.
~Will.
simply because it hard to hack into CAT5 physically.
Heh, I thought so too.
Then, I moved into my townhome here.
There are 6 townhouses per block, each with 4 bedrooms. There's a company that has a contract to provide ethernet to the townhomes (college town). So, 6x4=24. There's a 12 port switch at each end townhome, 4 wires going into the first townhouse, and 8 going through the attic wall to the next one. Of those 8, the next townhouse gets 4, and the remaining 4 go to the townhouse in the middle, the 3rd one in.
I have DSL, but it's been oh-so-tempting, since I know my neighbors-toward-the-middle have ethernet, to crawl up into the attic crawl space, cut the cable, put jacks onto both ends of the cut, and install a hub, and end up with free ethernet access.
The reason I don't is because at the beginning of the year, they have a "free trial period" for ethernet. When I plugged into it during the free trial, it was about 22 seconds before there was a virus sitting on one of my windows network neighborhood shares. Plus, they block a *lot* of outbound ports.
But, still. Cat5 hacking at it's best.
~Wx
Truely, if any one (or any company) deserved to be sued for putting out shitty software, its Micro$oft. ...But, I think that this is a really bad idea and sets a very bad precedent that could ruin the software industry as we know it (and I'm including Open Source here - especially open source).
Commence conspiracy theory:
Bill gates to South Korea: Hey, you know, you've been pissed off about our software not working? Well, here's 2 billion dollars. Sue us, and don't put up much of a fight.
S. Korea: Why would you want us to sue you?
Bill: Well, because when we win (which we will), it will set a precident for future lawsuits regarding bad software. This one is over a silly issue, but mabey the next one will really be serious. If that's the case, then we can point to this one and say "it's already been tried", and we have a leg to stand on.
~Wx
What's wrong with telnet?
Ok, rephrase, other than the plain text transmission, what's wrong with telnet?
Along the same line of thinking, if you want to get rid of telnet, do you want to get rid of FTP? That's essentially what FTP is - unencrypted uname/pass auth. So, what's the difference?
We still support telnet at Netmar, because our users have telnet on their computers. Joe Blow, with his windows 98, can understand "start - run - telnet login.netmar.com". He may not understand "download putty, change to SSH, port 22, type in login.netmar.com, press connect", or be willing to deal with it.
We do, of course, provide documentation on how to do both:
http://guide.netmar.com/connect/command-line.html
But, seriously, telnet doesn't hurt anything. We don't allow it for root, our dedicated server customers must enable telnet for themselves (most of the time we don't even install it, or install it and leave it disabled).
It's the same kind of compromise as the Lindows article today: Security vs. speed. Telnet is fast, ssh is slow. Telnet is insecure, SSH is safer. FTP is fast, sftp is painfully slow.
Stop and think for a minute - All of this unix/linux/*nix/bsd/etc etc stuff that we all know and love is *old*. I mean, the basic premise is ancient, in computer terms. But, it has evolved with the changing times, and quite nicely. Just let it do it's thing, and phase things out when they are no longer useful. Telnet still has a use. IPv4 still has a use. Sendmail still has a use, regardless of what Bernstein may say.
I say, I don't want to give up 30 years of tradition every time something new comes out. Just go with the flow. Let it happen in it's own time.
~Wx
Why do movies still cost an arm and a leg to go see when they use Linux clusters rather than SGI machines to do the rendering? Just because a company becomes more efficient doesn't mean they have to pass on the savings. What if the company was losing money until they found a way to shave a few bucks from their costs and make a profit? Are they supposed to cut their prices and continue to lose money?
Agreed.
I don't see why it's a big deal that a company has found a way to cut costs.
I've been very outspoken about my feelings on the MPAA, and the record labels, I'm a strong supporter of indie music (I have a radio show on the local college station), I listen to punk, mostly on smaller labels etc.
However, look at this in a different context: if a company was working on a thin margin, and then they figured out a way to cut costs, so that they were making more money, but the quality of the service stayed the same, would you hate them for it?
~Will
Or somethign like that. Need to update the serial, too.
~Will
Hey, can anyone reccomend a good BBS software package?
I'm not sure if anyone is still reading this page, but..
I'm looking for Linux x86, preferably reasonably mature, and supporting telephone and telnet. I'd like to hook it up with some of the BBS games.
~Will
You forgot:
BERNSTEIN: BAD
BERNSTEIN'S SOFTWARE: GOOD
Or, in more explanatory terms:
Bernstein: Arrogant, believes he is god's gift to the greater world of programming.
Bernstein's software: Extremely secure. Not very configurable past compile time.
I was always taught that there's no such thing as deceleration. There's only negative acceleration. I guess that makes the right hand turn lane a negative acceleration lane?
You are combining unrelated aspects of Intellectual Property law. "Fair use" as a concept applies to copyright, and "confusion in the marketplace" is a concern only for trademarks.
Also reference WWF vs. WWF, i.e. World Wildlife Fund vs. World Wrestling Federation / Entertainment.
The WWF (wrestling) weren't trying to mimic the WWF (wildlife) by using the letters WWF. They just happened to have the same acronym. The WWF (wildlife) sued under trademark, not copyright, concerns, and therefore had to prove that, some how a group of tree-hugging hippies and a group of beer-swilling rednecks could be confused by the average American, that you could easily confuse "Raven" and "California Condor".
I'm not sure exactly what happened in court, but the WWF (wildlife) was able to pursuade a Judge that their marketspace was being intruded on and they were losing name recognition because of the WWF (wrestling). Hence, the WWF (wrestling) had to "get the F out" and change everything WWF->WWE. Now, if you watch wrestling, anything with a WWF on it is blurred out in old footage, there's no mention of the WWF as a past history of the company, and they had to give up www.wwf.com.
Of course, what's at WWF.com now? A site that sells wrestling tickets. Most see it as a bullying act by the WWF (wildlife).
I'm one of the beer-swilling rednecks, I guess.
~Wx
sheesh, note to self, slashdot readers have no humor in the mornings.
It was intended to be funny.
Right now, it's +1 funny, -3 overrated. Holy crap.
Story mirror is up here.
~wx
It's almost official then, go OGG! Can't wait!
As much as I hate it when other people rant, rave, and flame about open source being the cure for cancer, OGG VORBIS is one open source product that is worth every bit of rant and rave it can get. I use it now exclusively.
Seriously, folks, if you haven't started using OGG, please check it out. If you want to do it for the peace of mind of not using a codec that comes with licences and royalties (MP3), then do that, but I use it because they're better.
An ogg of comparable size to the corresponding MP3 sounds better, and at a comparable level of sound quality is smaller.
Only complaints: No drag and drop CD burning in whatever nero version came with my TDK burner. Plus, I'd like to use them in divx encoding, but I don't know how.
But, vorbis is where it's at now folks.
~Will
The Metal band GWAR produced a movie called
Phallus in Wonderland.
How do you explain how they got to be excellent products, given your "business model" argument?
It's not terribly hard to make good software. Therefore, it is easy to make good, free software, if your time is worth nothing.
I'm all about open source, but let's also remember that these products got to be excellent because a lot of people sacrificed days of fishing so they could sit at home and not get paid while working.
That's the difference in the business model.
~Will
There are always uses for faster processors. The first that comes to mind is video compression. Spin up gordion knot, and let me know how fast your 500 Mhz compresses a DVD. Probably.... 6 hours-ish? That's probably pretty close.
My 1500 Mhz 1800+ will do it in about 2.
But, then, some people want it done in 10 minutes. Even 3.0 Ghz on 800Mhz bus won't do that.
Things that take orders of minutes, not microseconds, will benifit. Video compression, Audio compression, brute force password cracking, video editing, image filters, distributed.net, etc.
Just keep in mind, we're talking about things that are infinately scaleable, or close enough. Distributed.net is infinitely scaleable, basically. It would benifit from faster proc's.
~Will