I too seem to be lucky. I'm reprocessing a couple of disks from my collection right now to get the subtitles off of them. They gave me no trouble despite having sat around in my own collection for 5 years.
My 20 year old CDs don't seem to be imploding either.
Generally when I see a disk that's gone bad it came that way from the factory or couldn't make it home due to shoddy packaging.
Although I could see constant handling of optical media being a problem. Don't do that myself though.
That's what batch jobs are for. Computers can do more than one thing at a time, even with a storage medium. That's how Tivos can do the voodoo that they do.
Just set it off an wait until it's done.
Same as cloning a 10TB disk array (which I already do now).
Everyone thinks that Apple products are going to displace both PCs and game consoles when in truth the Apple products are very limited. As soon as you want to "get serious", you will likely want a better and more specialized device.
This goes in general for any number of things that phones are supposed to be killing right now.
Yes. Yes I am sure. I built it myself. It even includes a few of my own personal tweaks. It does a couple of things that the normal binary version doesn't do at all.
> No, MS considers copyleft to be like a cancer. And many people seem to agree, which is precisely why you see so many businesses who won't touch GPL software with a 10 foot pole.
Most don't have a problem with the GPL. Many companies are quite happy to exploit the shared resource that is Free Software. All it requires is being civilized.
The main problem with the GPL comes from people that have a pathological need to take the work of others and treat it like their own exclusive property.
THAT is the only thing that the GPL prevents.
It turns out that such an infantile approach to software ownership is not actually required in order to make money building and selling it.
The GPL tries and make you play nice. Of course psychopaths are going to object to that.
The thing about "Enterprise" is that it likely involves actual contracts rather than than click through EULAs.
Oracle managed to sue HP over this very thing because the issue of support was addressed in a contract. Oracle was able to go to court and make HP live up to it's end of the bargain.
If you are whining about how Google can quickly discontinue some consumer product, you either have no clue how "Enterprise" operates or you are being intentionally forgetful.
Moderating his own comments is just basic engineering fail.
If his comments are going to be moderated then it should not be him doing the moderating. It's like testing your own code. You have to be willing to accept feedback that's out of your control or else you'll never know if your stuff is any good.
> I am a civil rights activist. Your right to be free from government sponsored censorship is, IMHO, a fundamental pillar of Liberty. That is not at ALL the same as a non-government entity choosing what comments it wants to display.
If he's trying to badmouth the MythTV developers, I am inclined to believe that whatever grief he got he really brough on himself. They will go out of their way to try and be helpful. Unless you tread on one of their piracy sacred cows, they are a pretty tolerant lot.
You are putting your work out there for the world to examine and criticize. You damn well better have a thick skin. If you expose yourself to the possibility of some harsh remarks, then you should not be surprised when you get some.
It's not unlike choosing to become some sort of Hollywood celebrity. The scale is smaller but the principle is the same. The entire world can see you stripped bare and their response might be negative.
It might not even be with mean intent. The problem with expecting never to be offended is that everyone has a different standard in that regard.
Free Speech is a principle. Suppressing free expression is just as despicable when it is done by corporations and individuals. The principle is a social idea, not merely a limited guideline for governments.
Things like the Bill of Rights are just a manifestion of the idea that the principle is important, important enough to codify. That doesn't mean that the principle should be limited only to government.
That's far too much like the idea that rights of individuals are limited and are to be rationed out bit by bit when the document in question is based on the idea that governments are the entities who's power should be rationed out bit by bit.
You are taking the ideas that are embodied by the Constitution and Bill of Rights and turning them on their head.
Being a "tin plated overbearing dictator with delusions of godhood" is not cool and shouldn't be tolerated generally. Doesn't just have to be government.
Software is. This manpage change appears to be implying that the corresponding software is covered by some license other than some variant of the GPL as the given restrictions are incompatible with that license.
Without x86 legacy applications, there just isn't that much reason to bother with Windows.
On the other hand, pretty much anything available for Linux is available as source and can be rebuilt for alternative platforms. If not by the author than by some interested 3rd party.
Why should I have to seek out a special "it's made to run Linux" piece of kit when such a notion is completely unnecessary and highly artificial. You can run any code on a general purpose computer. It doesn't matter if it was made by Atari, or Sun, or IBM.
The market is currently dominated by what are essentially DOS clones. It's just that they don't have any special locks to interfere with the end user.
While the Apple II was certainly a dud by that time, it was not being sold at a discount comparable to what Microsoft is doing with the surface.
This combination of absurd price and outdated tech was why the Apple II was such a dud if you weren't some sort of government entity spending someone else's money.
> Because of the insane import tax, personal computers are very expensive in Brazil
Except a terminal is generally nothing more than a castrated personal computer. Not only that but they quite often end up being MORE expensive.
By the time you've got good enough display and network hardware, you're already a good deal of the way towards having a complete general purpose machine.
And it's not just terminals. Everything is really a PC these days. Except they are locked down and running something other than the x86 architecture.
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They won't work in a standard drive anyways.
So just desin the new players and media packs so they use caddy's like CD-ROMs did in the old days.
I too seem to be lucky. I'm reprocessing a couple of disks from my collection right now to get the subtitles off of them. They gave me no trouble despite having sat around in my own collection for 5 years.
My 20 year old CDs don't seem to be imploding either.
Generally when I see a disk that's gone bad it came that way from the factory or couldn't make it home due to shoddy packaging.
Although I could see constant handling of optical media being a problem. Don't do that myself though.
...can't say that I've ever encountered problems like that.
It's not been for lack of trying either.
Although I have never been one to use the cheapest crappiest option available. That helps sometimes.
That's what batch jobs are for. Computers can do more than one thing at a time, even with a storage medium. That's how Tivos can do the voodoo that they do.
Just set it off an wait until it's done.
Same as cloning a 10TB disk array (which I already do now).
No. It's like comparing tablets to PCs.
Everyone thinks that Apple products are going to displace both PCs and game consoles when in truth the Apple products are very limited. As soon as you want to "get serious", you will likely want a better and more specialized device.
This goes in general for any number of things that phones are supposed to be killing right now.
People are forgetting the DS. Kids still play with portable Nintento consoles. If you aren't seeing this then you are choosing to have tunnel vision.
The Apple hype machine (news media included) is trying to hype things into something that they realy aren't.
> Are You Sure This Is the Source Code?
Yes. Yes I am sure. I built it myself. It even includes a few of my own personal tweaks. It does a couple of things that the normal binary version doesn't do at all.
...or just using a binary that you compiled from binary yourself.
For a lot of projects, that's not nearly as hard as some people like to make it sound.
> No, MS considers copyleft to be like a cancer. And many people seem to agree, which is precisely why you see so many businesses who won't touch GPL software with a 10 foot pole.
Most don't have a problem with the GPL. Many companies are quite happy to exploit the shared resource that is Free Software. All it requires is being civilized.
The main problem with the GPL comes from people that have a pathological need to take the work of others and treat it like their own exclusive property.
THAT is the only thing that the GPL prevents.
It turns out that such an infantile approach to software ownership is not actually required in order to make money building and selling it.
The GPL tries and make you play nice. Of course psychopaths are going to object to that.
> Totally an enterprise focused product. Never really supported
The thing about "Enterprise" is that it likely involves actual contracts rather than than click through EULAs.
Oracle managed to sue HP over this very thing because the issue of support was addressed in a contract. Oracle was able to go to court and make HP live up to it's end of the bargain.
If you are whining about how Google can quickly discontinue some consumer product, you either have no clue how "Enterprise" operates or you are being intentionally forgetful.
Her fiction is like that of L Ron Hubbards. It feeds into her stated positions on politics or religion.
This can be especially hilarious in the case of L Ron Hubbard.
Moderating his own comments is just basic engineering fail.
If his comments are going to be moderated then it should not be him doing the moderating. It's like testing your own code. You have to be willing to accept feedback that's out of your control or else you'll never know if your stuff is any good.
> I am a civil rights activist. Your right to be free from government sponsored censorship is, IMHO, a fundamental pillar of Liberty. That is not at ALL the same as a non-government entity choosing what comments it wants to display.
You are a piss poor civil rights activist.
If he's trying to badmouth the MythTV developers, I am inclined to believe that whatever grief he got he really brough on himself. They will go out of their way to try and be helpful. Unless you tread on one of their piracy sacred cows, they are a pretty tolerant lot.
> or to become a free software developer
Are you fucking kidding?
You are putting your work out there for the world to examine and criticize. You damn well better have a thick skin. If you expose yourself to the possibility of some harsh remarks, then you should not be surprised when you get some.
It's not unlike choosing to become some sort of Hollywood celebrity. The scale is smaller but the principle is the same. The entire world can see you stripped bare and their response might be negative.
It might not even be with mean intent. The problem with expecting never to be offended is that everyone has a different standard in that regard.
Free Speech is a principle. Suppressing free expression is just as despicable when it is done by corporations and individuals. The principle is a social idea, not merely a limited guideline for governments.
Things like the Bill of Rights are just a manifestion of the idea that the principle is important, important enough to codify. That doesn't mean that the principle should be limited only to government.
That's far too much like the idea that rights of individuals are limited and are to be rationed out bit by bit when the document in question is based on the idea that governments are the entities who's power should be rationed out bit by bit.
You are taking the ideas that are embodied by the Constitution and Bill of Rights and turning them on their head.
Being a "tin plated overbearing dictator with delusions of godhood" is not cool and shouldn't be tolerated generally. Doesn't just have to be government.
Software is. This manpage change appears to be implying that the corresponding software is covered by some license other than some variant of the GPL as the given restrictions are incompatible with that license.
Without x86 legacy applications, there just isn't that much reason to bother with Windows.
On the other hand, pretty much anything available for Linux is available as source and can be rebuilt for alternative platforms. If not by the author than by some interested 3rd party.
Windows on ARM is a shadow of it's x86 variant.
The funny part of this is that you don't even realize or acknowledge the fact that Macs are in fact a product of the 80s.
Why should I have to seek out a special "it's made to run Linux" piece of kit when such a notion is completely unnecessary and highly artificial. You can run any code on a general purpose computer. It doesn't matter if it was made by Atari, or Sun, or IBM.
The market is currently dominated by what are essentially DOS clones. It's just that they don't have any special locks to interfere with the end user.
Such locks are an Apple innovation.
Your argument is like a McDonald's sign: Billions and Billions sold.
Doesn't say anything about quality.
Doesn't say anything about value.
While the Apple II was certainly a dud by that time, it was not being sold at a discount comparable to what Microsoft is doing with the surface.
This combination of absurd price and outdated tech was why the Apple II was such a dud if you weren't some sort of government entity spending someone else's money.
> Because of the insane import tax, personal computers are very expensive in Brazil
Except a terminal is generally nothing more than a castrated personal computer. Not only that but they quite often end up being MORE expensive.
By the time you've got good enough display and network hardware, you're already a good deal of the way towards having a complete general purpose machine.
And it's not just terminals. Everything is really a PC these days. Except they are locked down and running something other than the x86 architecture.
> You think there are a lot of Americans struggling to get Cheerios?
If you think otherwise you have lived a very sheltered existence for your entire life.