It may have been around for a long time, but I haven't seen as good an interface as GMail's for keeping the threads straight and clean and easy to keep track of.
let's see, I have 1500 STORE BOUGHT CDs, a handful or two of copied ones, and a few meg (<100) of MP3's. I bought 4 albums and a single from bleep.com when they started, and my wife has bought 2 or 3 CDs worth of music from iTMS (not that we have an iPod, but you can do other things with iTMS music too). You do the math.
A "review" of a technical product that goes way beyond saying "this is not Free" and has extended complaints about how difficult it is to use and whines about why doesn't it work on MY hardware while ignoring the HCLs and how the product is being positioned in the market is hardly about FOSS issues. I'll say one last time: there was a small section about FOSS, and the remainder was an extended rant that basically was "I couldn't get it to work, so obviously Sun and this product suck". The problems PJ had were nothing to with whether it was Free or not, and everything to do with unrealistic expectations of the features of the product.
PJ bitched at length about the length of the license, while ignoring the fact that the GPL is also many pages of legalese gibberish to most people.
I don't recall saying that Groklaw WASN'T on the side of FOSS, however, that is irrelevant to some of their attacks on Sun, and particularly to the attack on JDS. The only thing in that review that was remotely relevant to FOSS was pointing out that Sun's license was not the GPL (big surprise, huh?). That could have been said in one sentence and made the point that JDS was not FOSS without all the petty baggage going along for the ride.
Maybe you need to pay more attention. Groklaw didn't "call people on their statements". They slammed a Linux release from Sun that works just fine on a wide range of equipment because they couldn't get it to work on their own particular equipment and couldn't be bothered to ask for assistance getting it to work. That's not calling someone on their lies, that's saying "Sun can't do Linux because they didn't tailor this corporate-targetted release to my particular non-corporate expectations." Which is like me saying that I'm not going to vote for GWB as my state senator because he's not addressing my local concerns.
Oh, and don't forget them slamming Sun for having a license that's about the same length as the GPL.
If you think that has anything to do with being "on the side of FOSS" then you're either not paying attention, or you're just another zombie zealot who can't call Groklaw on their own abuses of the truth.
Keyes is the Jerry Springer of politics. He's an idiot and he's an asshole. He's stated his intention to make one outrageous statement a day until the election, and I suppose this is one of the more recent ones (to go along with his commentary about Mary Cheney "misusing her genitals", etc).
Why he even agreed to enter this race is amazing, and the fact that the state Republican Party saw fit to pull him instead of the number two Primary winner (after Jack Ryan's campaign imploded over relatively irrelevant allegations from a contentious divorce) is a mystery to those of us who live here. The #2 guy was Jim Oberwies, a well known (in Chicagoland anyway) conservative dairy owner, who was a completely viable candidate--easily with more connection to the residents of Illinois than Keyes, and easily conservative enough to be electable with the more conservative downstate electorate.
All Keyes entry does is prove that all the negative rhetoric about Hillary not really being from NY is just so much hot air on the part of the GOP. He's clearly going to lose, and I can't think of any of the republicans I know here who want to vote for him given his public record as a lunatic and a jerk. Being behind 45 points in the polls is probably accurate given the distaste for the man here, regardless of the accuracy of polls in general.
Nothing wrong with a regular guy getting elected. On the other hand, arbitrarily denying the right to serve to anyone who's actually successful seems pretty foolish as well. I mean, you don't deny college admission to the people who get 800's on the SAT even if they make the rest of the class look bad.
My house is not a nice new house that I can run arbitrary cables through the walls of either. As for the IR remote--easy enough to find a wireless IR keyboard that I can 1) program into my universal remote so I don't have to lug the keyboard around if I don't want to and 2) keep the keyboard around for when I might really want it. Way easier than LIRC, that's for sure.
I stopped reading after the second or third page, where they describe a NEW MythTV system that's cheaper than the one in the first article, but then is followed with "note that all results are from the original system we described".
Why the hell bring it up until after the main article then? Yes, you can make a really cheep MythTV box. It'll be LOUD AS HELL (i.e. not something you want in your living room while you're watching TV) and I doubt the quality would be as good as the originally described system with a hardware encoder.
KnoppMyth rocks. It is the only way to do the MythTV install quickly without either being an expert about how all the moving pieces fit together or having an exact clone of one of the developer's machines. If you want a no-tinkering solution, just buy a Tivo. And as for installing to HD, if you don't have a HD, where were you planning to store all this video data you're generating?
If someone from Sun has conviced you that this is "standard" or "necessary", you need to talk to their management. While many people do it that way, there's absolutely no reason, since you're already paying for Veritas, to just use Veritas and be done with it.
You're right, it'd be nice to see some regularization.
And there's a DFS, and an AFS, and a QFS... I bet you could find a filesystem for every letter of the alphabet. Nobody said that there would never be more than 26 filesystems. Will it be confusing? Yes. Is there a good alternative? I think lots of people would be interested to hear one, but in the debate I've seen on what to call this one I didn't see any good alternatives.
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That was Ashcroft, our esteemed Attorney General, a guy on the right.
Nobody yet has suggested that it's martians performing experiments on the rover.
Don't forget, if you question me in public, you WILL get modded as flamebait.
Look in a mirror lately?
It may have been around for a long time, but I haven't seen as good an interface as GMail's for keeping the threads straight and clean and easy to keep track of.
let's see, I have 1500 STORE BOUGHT CDs, a handful or two of copied ones, and a few meg (<100) of MP3's. I bought 4 albums and a single from bleep.com when they started, and my wife has bought 2 or 3 CDs worth of music from iTMS (not that we have an iPod, but you can do other things with iTMS music too). You do the math.
At least Jackson isn't revising his movies after the fact--he's just putting cut footage back in.
A "review" of a technical product that goes way beyond saying "this is not Free" and has extended complaints about how difficult it is to use and whines about why doesn't it work on MY hardware while ignoring the HCLs and how the product is being positioned in the market is hardly about FOSS issues. I'll say one last time: there was a small section about FOSS, and the remainder was an extended rant that basically was "I couldn't get it to work, so obviously Sun and this product suck". The problems PJ had were nothing to with whether it was Free or not, and everything to do with unrealistic expectations of the features of the product.
I don't recall saying that Groklaw WASN'T on the side of FOSS, however, that is irrelevant to some of their attacks on Sun, and particularly to the attack on JDS. The only thing in that review that was remotely relevant to FOSS was pointing out that Sun's license was not the GPL (big surprise, huh?). That could have been said in one sentence and made the point that JDS was not FOSS without all the petty baggage going along for the ride.
Oh, and don't forget them slamming Sun for having a license that's about the same length as the GPL.
If you think that has anything to do with being "on the side of FOSS" then you're either not paying attention, or you're just another zombie zealot who can't call Groklaw on their own abuses of the truth.
Why he even agreed to enter this race is amazing, and the fact that the state Republican Party saw fit to pull him instead of the number two Primary winner (after Jack Ryan's campaign imploded over relatively irrelevant allegations from a contentious divorce) is a mystery to those of us who live here. The #2 guy was Jim Oberwies, a well known (in Chicagoland anyway) conservative dairy owner, who was a completely viable candidate--easily with more connection to the residents of Illinois than Keyes, and easily conservative enough to be electable with the more conservative downstate electorate.
All Keyes entry does is prove that all the negative rhetoric about Hillary not really being from NY is just so much hot air on the part of the GOP. He's clearly going to lose, and I can't think of any of the republicans I know here who want to vote for him given his public record as a lunatic and a jerk. Being behind 45 points in the polls is probably accurate given the distaste for the man here, regardless of the accuracy of polls in general.
And we all know how objective Groklaw is about Sun. Remember that wonderful negative review of JDS 2, one of only a handful of complete pans?
Sounds good to me. Just don't make one that's right and claim that it's neutral >coff-Fox-coff<
Can we mod an entire article as -1 flamebait? Please? And I don't even like the shrub....
The PLURAL of "800's" meant "800 on all parts of the test".
Nothing wrong with a regular guy getting elected. On the other hand, arbitrarily denying the right to serve to anyone who's actually successful seems pretty foolish as well. I mean, you don't deny college admission to the people who get 800's on the SAT even if they make the rest of the class look bad.
Heh. The good news is, if you didn't like Quicksilver, you didn't have to fund the other two thirds of his longwindedness.
bah. That was supposed to read "there's absolutely no reason, since you're already paying for Veritas, to NOT just use Veritas and be done with it."
My house is not a nice new house that I can run arbitrary cables through the walls of either. As for the IR remote--easy enough to find a wireless IR keyboard that I can 1) program into my universal remote so I don't have to lug the keyboard around if I don't want to and 2) keep the keyboard around for when I might really want it. Way easier than LIRC, that's for sure.
Yes, and a front end is worthless without a backend, at which point you've just spent more money :-)
Why the hell bring it up until after the main article then? Yes, you can make a really cheep MythTV box. It'll be LOUD AS HELL (i.e. not something you want in your living room while you're watching TV) and I doubt the quality would be as good as the originally described system with a hardware encoder.
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KnoppMyth rocks. It is the only way to do the MythTV install quickly without either being an expert about how all the moving pieces fit together or having an exact clone of one of the developer's machines. If you want a no-tinkering solution, just buy a Tivo. And as for installing to HD, if you don't have a HD, where were you planning to store all this video data you're generating?
You're right, it'd be nice to see some regularization.
And there's a DFS, and an AFS, and a QFS ... I bet you could find a filesystem for every letter of the alphabet. Nobody said that there would never be more than 26 filesystems. Will it be confusing? Yes. Is there a good alternative? I think lots of people would be interested to hear one, but in the debate I've seen on what to call this one I didn't see any good alternatives.