Meh, that's close enough. It conveys the spirit of GPL, even if it confuses a couple of things. The GPL is generally a difficult thing to explain to others.
Coming soon from Cisco: a combination PVR, wireless access point and home router/firewall, complete with Cisco's legendary support: security patches will be made available only for cold hard cash, regardless of what was paid upfront. (See your support contract for details, some restrictions apply. Must be legal drinking age.)
Ouch. I haven't worked with DC-run equipment yet.. do you know why DC-wiring standards were created that way? Was it a historical accident, or an inherrent physical limitation?
At work, we have a bunch of VoIP phones that are powered inline. In the server room, each phone a wallwart.. which is not particularily pretty. This makes it easy to dream about a DC-powered system.
That sounds like a "homebrew" DC power system. I can only imagine how anoying/dangerous it would be.. imagine if we had homebrew AC distribution systems! As Myself said, to make this work you'd need a new convension for DC plugs and powerbars.
Imagine replacing your computer powersupply with a "stub" that would handle internal wiring, grounding and hopefully a local fuse. On a server system, I'd spring extra cash for a current/voltage metre. Modern BIOSes would probably want some sort of switch.. whimps.. Anyways, the power plug at the back of the computer would be a standard size and shape, which should make them simple and idiot-proof.
Would USB qualify as a power standard? (Forget the multi voltages thing for a second.) I mean, it supplies power, and the specification requires that devices report announce their power requirements ahead of time. Should that mean no more blown fuses? (That's my understanding, anyways. Please do correct me!).. my $0.03
I can't say I've tried iaudio, but I'm happy to report iRiver doesn't [appear] to support any serrious DRM features.. at least not ones that have gotten in my way. We found that renaming mp3 files before downloading gets around the only restriction. In fact, the latest Linux drivers handle this transparently.
It's wonderful to see so many vendors supporting ogg vorbis.. this is a huge change from a few years ago.
Often, the TVs are on but no one's paying attention. What's worse is the responsible people with the 'official remotes' are no where to be found.
The evening of 9/11, I grabbed a beer with a friend of mine.. we had a seat in a small alcove with a TV. He took the time to turn off the TV, after asking permission from the other occupants (of course). When the waitress returned.. she was so grateful. I think everyone was sick of CNN after 9/11.. she was outright nautious.
>You're right about one part. >You don't know the full story behind it.
Well I'm in good company, apparently;)
>We probably import about 60% from the middle east, and as for the remaining 40%, most of that
I'd be interested in seeing the actual numbers. I know the US is still producing some oil, and I know we [Canada] produce more oil than we consume.. the balance of which is exported to the US. (That's not completely true: I believe most of it is exported and oil for consumption is re-important. I still can't believe this happens.
Anyways, my point was the US oil production has passed its peak--something that was unthinkable 50 years ago. (Wasn't there a story on/. about the guy who predicted it and was laughed down?)
>If you want a *big* international anti-trust >case, just try sueing OPEC. >How are they any different?
Um, plenty. They control the world's supply of oil (which is finite) by setting oil-pumping quotas. If they didn't, the situation would quickly become a "race-to-the-bottom": the faster they pump oil, the lower market values and the sooner they'd run out.
On the other hand, Infineon is guilty of more traditional forms of price fixing.
As a side note, I'd like to point out the US has (basically) run out domestic oil. I don't know the full history behind it, but I suspect OPEC is taking notes.
Of course, if we drove smaller cars and built more effecient homes our energy uses would be lower.. but I'm not in charge of the world (yet). The point is I don't have much sympathy for the anti-OPEC crowd.
I think it's fair to say if this bill is
passed, there will be a large black market for non-compliant
devices. And of course, it's
likely the systems will be cracked.
My server lives in a small closet in my
Toronto appartment. I haven't bothered
ventilating yet because it seems OK during the
winter. But last summer, the hard drive died..
(I should probably fix that this summer.:)
I think the easiest solution for you is to make sure the
room is well ventilated with the rest of the house.
In the winter, this will contribute to the heat
in the house (and the furnace won't turn on as much)
and in the summer, the air coniditioner will
eventually pump the heat outside (if you have one).
Mind you, if you have AC, you might get away
without ventilation.
It seems to me that when piracy is rampant, a system (or game) flourishes. Examples: Playstation 1 was easier to coax into playing burned games than its competitors, and it won the market. Quake II had almost no copy protection software and it was *very* popular.. even after better games (such as HalfLife) came out. Record CD sales have been observed despite "evilz of mp3z". And finally, IBM-compatible computer beat out the technically supperior Macs..
"Experian has committed to requiring their clients to provide them with lists which contain only those email addresses for which they have obtained the addressee's permission to send them email."
It appears that MAPS hasn't comprimised its values, it's just made them a little more reasonable. So what's the big deal?
Also, Australians don't drink Fosters. We just export the crap to unsuspecting Americans (possibly as revenge for Tom dumping Nicole, opening up the possibility she might actually come back here).
*laugh* It figures. The same company owns `Molson Canadian' and it's not very popular here either. Did you guys get `The Rant' comercial as well? I caught on so well here they thought they'd try it with Fosters.
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A friend of mine designs amps, and he says high-end systems alter the sound on purpose so they sound different. So allthough you're getting a less faithful reproduction you can `hear' the difference.
Got to the love it..
So what exactly are they going to stamp out?
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We have no customers, no company central company, and we are our strongest user base. What can they do?
They can scare their customers into ignoring us--but that would just draw more attention to us.
They can lobby to axe the GPL's powers--but last I checked, the US wasn't a police state. (Or is it? DMCA is a slippery slope.)
They can release another version of Linux called `Billux'.. under the GPL. And we can all have a good laugh.
In the article, James Hong mentioned they used a `State Machine', because it made things simpler. Unfortunately there weren't a lot of details, so I don't quite understand what they've done.
Like every good CS student, I'm familiar with Finite-State Machines (FSA and all that jazz), but I just don't see how that can be used on a website. Anyone have any idea how this works?
Okay, so they seem to have cloned some of the capabilities of KDevelop and others. My question is WHY? So they can sell it to windows users?:
have you fired up KDevelop? It actually uses this tollkit allready. They must have made some improvements--which is good for everyone. I think the big advantage to having a gui builder is being able to play with your UI while you're figuring it out. It's important to get right, and difficult to do from the source.
I agree that http and SQL support don't really belong in QT, and are probably better fit for KDE. However, remember Trolltech's market is people who want to write platform-indepent apps, and since KDE doesn't exist on Windows, this move makes sense for them.
Maybe that's what's really upseting you: Trolltech's trying to make it easy to write cross-platform apps, and they're encroaching on KDE's current territory. But, I don't believe they can port KDE to windows without GPLing QT/windows. To do this the `right way' without duplicating KDE's efforts, they would have to coordinate with KDE, and maybe even GPL some more code.
Remember, KDE doesn't have to use QT 3.0's extra features if it doesn't want them. Also, thanks to the GPL, anyone is free to branch development at any time.
Ideally PHP would be expanded first, then the appropriate XML transformation applied. PHP's current support for XML is a nice tool, but doesn't help move your site toward XML.
As for performance, I see no reason why an effecient XSLT engine can't be written. This is exactly what XML is all about--writing content once, and formatting to taste.. on the fly. I believe confirming this is possible is one of the goals of Apache's XML project. What I'm wondering is what kind of progress have they been making, and when will it be imbedded in apache itself?
After my first post, I hit freshmeat and found an apache xml module. My impression is it's ``not quite there yet'', but it's encouraging.
Does anyone know what the plan with XML is? I noticed this new release has a `filter' system which you could probably use to support XML/XSLT stylesheets. Has anyone tried this? Does Apache has a `bigger plan'?
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Meh, that's close enough. It conveys the spirit of GPL, even if it confuses a couple of things. The GPL is generally a difficult thing to explain to others.
This gives extra time for Fermilab physicists to try to understand the latest interesting hints of the Higgs boson
Um, shouldn't the Fermilab physicists be busy fixing the broken magnet at CERN? Apparently it was their part that failed..
Here's a stupid question: what if spamhaus moved to a .co.uk domain? Does ICAN still have control over it? Wouldn't it side-step the issue completely?
/confused
Coming soon from Cisco: a combination PVR, wireless access point and home router/firewall, complete with Cisco's legendary support: security patches will be made available only for cold hard cash, regardless of what was paid upfront. (See your support contract for details, some restrictions apply. Must be legal drinking age.)
-g
Thanks SnprBoB86!
Ouch. I haven't worked with DC-run equipment yet.. do you know why DC-wiring standards were created that way? Was it a historical accident, or an inherrent physical limitation?
At work, we have a bunch of VoIP phones that are powered inline. In the server room, each phone a wallwart.. which is not particularily pretty. This makes it easy to dream about a DC-powered system.
-g
That sounds like a "homebrew" DC power system. I can only imagine how anoying/dangerous it would be.. imagine if we had homebrew AC distribution systems! As Myself said, to make this work you'd need a new convension for DC plugs and powerbars.
.. my $0.03
Imagine replacing your computer powersupply with a "stub" that would handle internal wiring, grounding and hopefully a local fuse. On a server system, I'd spring extra cash for a current/voltage metre. Modern BIOSes would probably want some sort of switch.. whimps.. Anyways, the power plug at the back of the computer would be a standard size and shape, which should make them simple and idiot-proof.
Would USB qualify as a power standard? (Forget the multi voltages thing for a second.) I mean, it supplies power, and the specification requires that devices report announce their power requirements ahead of time. Should that mean no more blown fuses? (That's my understanding, anyways. Please do correct me!)
-g
I can't say I've tried iaudio, but I'm happy to report iRiver doesn't [appear] to support any serrious DRM features.. at least not ones that have gotten in my way. We found that renaming mp3 files before downloading gets around the only restriction. In fact, the latest Linux drivers handle this transparently.
It's wonderful to see so many vendors supporting ogg vorbis.. this is a huge change from a few years ago.
Keep on rocking in the Free code,
Geoff
I know.. how about putting both a general-purpose CPU and a dedicated floating-point processor on the same die? No one's done that yet!
Silly me.. attempting to start a mature discussion on /. Bad poster! [self-slap].
Just to clarify, we turned off the TV by pushing the 'off' button. No remote, not permission.. but lots of praise.
"It is easier to beg forgiveness than to ask permission."
Often, the TVs are on but no one's paying attention. What's worse is the responsible people with the 'official remotes' are no where to be found.
The evening of 9/11, I grabbed a beer with a friend of mine.. we had a seat in a small alcove with a TV. He took the time to turn off the TV, after asking permission from the other occupants (of course). When the waitress returned.. she was so grateful. I think everyone was sick of CNN after 9/11.. she was outright nautious.
>You're right about one part.
;)
/. about the guy who predicted it and was laughed down?)
>You don't know the full story behind it.
Well I'm in good company, apparently
>We probably import about 60% from the middle east, and as for the remaining 40%, most of that
I'd be interested in seeing the actual numbers. I know the US is still producing some oil, and I know we [Canada] produce more oil than we consume.. the balance of which is exported to the US. (That's not completely true: I believe most of it is exported and oil for consumption is re-important. I still can't believe this happens.
Anyways, my point was the US oil production has passed its peak--something that was unthinkable 50 years ago. (Wasn't there a story on
-g
>If you want a *big* international anti-trust >case, just try sueing OPEC.
>How are they any different?
Um, plenty. They control the world's supply of oil (which is finite) by setting oil-pumping quotas. If they didn't, the situation would quickly become a "race-to-the-bottom": the faster they pump oil, the lower market values and the sooner they'd run out.
On the other hand, Infineon is guilty of more traditional forms of price fixing.
As a side note, I'd like to point out the US has (basically) run out domestic oil. I don't know the full history behind it, but I suspect OPEC is taking notes.
Of course, if we drove smaller cars and built more effecient homes our energy uses would be lower.. but I'm not in charge of the world (yet). The point is I don't have much sympathy for the anti-OPEC crowd.
-g
.. I knew you could! :)
I think it's fair to say if this bill is passed, there will be a large black market for non-compliant devices. And of course, it's likely the systems will be cracked.
My server lives in a small closet in my Toronto appartment. I haven't bothered ventilating yet because it seems OK during the winter. But last summer, the hard drive died.. (I should probably fix that this summer. :)
I think the easiest solution for you is to make sure the room is well ventilated with the rest of the house. In the winter, this will contribute to the heat in the house (and the furnace won't turn on as much) and in the summer, the air coniditioner will eventually pump the heat outside (if you have one). Mind you, if you have AC, you might get away without ventilation.
Good luck, I hope everything goes smoothly!
It seems to me that when piracy is rampant, a system (or game) flourishes. Examples: Playstation 1 was easier to coax into playing burned games than its competitors, and it won the market. Quake II had almost no copy protection software and it was *very* popular.. even after better games (such as HalfLife) came out. Record CD sales have been observed despite "evilz of mp3z". And finally, IBM-compatible computer beat out the technically supperior Macs..
Has anyone stopped to read MAPS' press release? Here's an clip:
"Experian has committed to requiring their clients to provide them with lists which contain only those email addresses for which they have obtained the addressee's permission to send them email."
It appears that MAPS hasn't comprimised its values, it's just made them a little more reasonable. So what's the big deal?
Holy propaganda batman!
-Geoff
This sounds like the kind of case EFF would get involved in. Anyone know what their stance is?
Also, Australians don't drink Fosters. We just export the crap to unsuspecting Americans (possibly as revenge for Tom dumping Nicole, opening up the possibility she might actually come back here).
*laugh* It figures. The same company owns `Molson Canadian' and it's not very popular here either. Did you guys get `The Rant' comercial as well? I caught on so well here they thought they'd try it with Fosters.
A friend of mine designs amps, and he says high-end systems alter the sound on purpose so they sound different. So allthough you're getting a less faithful reproduction you can `hear' the difference.
Got to the love it..
We have no customers, no company central company, and we are our strongest user base. What can they do?
So why should we be scared again?
-gIn the article, James Hong mentioned they used a `State Machine', because it made things simpler. Unfortunately there weren't a lot of details, so I don't quite understand what they've done.
Like every good CS student, I'm familiar with Finite-State Machines (FSA and all that jazz), but I just don't see how that can be used on a website. Anyone have any idea how this works?
Thanks in advance, -g
I'll bite.
Okay, so they seem to have cloned some of the capabilities of KDevelop and others. My question is WHY? So they can sell it to windows users?: have you fired up KDevelop? It actually uses this tollkit allready. They must have made some improvements--which is good for everyone. I think the big advantage to having a gui builder is being able to play with your UI while you're figuring it out. It's important to get right, and difficult to do from the source.
I agree that http and SQL support don't really belong in QT, and are probably better fit for KDE. However, remember Trolltech's market is people who want to write platform-indepent apps, and since KDE doesn't exist on Windows, this move makes sense for them.
Maybe that's what's really upseting you: Trolltech's trying to make it easy to write cross-platform apps, and they're encroaching on KDE's current territory. But, I don't believe they can port KDE to windows without GPLing QT/windows. To do this the `right way' without duplicating KDE's efforts, they would have to coordinate with KDE, and maybe even GPL some more code.
Remember, KDE doesn't have to use QT 3.0's extra features if it doesn't want them. Also, thanks to the GPL, anyone is free to branch development at any time.
Ideally PHP would be expanded first, then the appropriate XML transformation applied. PHP's current support for XML is a nice tool, but doesn't help move your site toward XML.
As for performance, I see no reason why an effecient XSLT engine can't be written. This is exactly what XML is all about--writing content once, and formatting to taste.. on the fly. I believe confirming this is possible is one of the goals of Apache's XML project. What I'm wondering is what kind of progress have they been making, and when will it be imbedded in apache itself?
After my first post, I hit freshmeat and found an apache xml module. My impression is it's ``not quite there yet'', but it's encouraging.
Does anyone know what the plan with XML is? I noticed this new release has a `filter' system which you could probably use to support XML/XSLT stylesheets. Has anyone tried this? Does Apache has a `bigger plan'?