Just because Metallica and a couple handfuls of other megastars are able to demand high rates doesn't change the fact that the VAST majority of artists are only seeing a pittance per track sold. Don't give me this crap about "but they have greater market share" either; if the price is PER TRACK SOLD, then the artists who sell lots make more and those who don't, don't. Giving a few handfuls of bands a premium royalty is just a tactic to lure foolish artists (who in many cases actually have more innovative and interesting music than "established artists" like Metallica) to sell their souls thinking maybe someday they could reach that point, when the fact is it's extremely rare to do so.
If you RTFA, there's a big point about the Ultra V requiring a new technology spin. Given Sun's position and the resistance of customers to completely new tech together, it's less surprising that this cancellation would happen. If Sun were in a stronger position, perhaps it would be possible to muscle through without the customers who don't want to rev their technology, but that's obviously not the case. While the timeline is cancelled, if the proc is taped up, it may be resurrected in the future, at least that's the impression the article left me with.
I don't know what code was created for the first distribution; it looked to me to be a mandrake-style (a la early Mandrake when it was mostly a recompile) redistro of Red Hat, but I wasn't in the responsible group so I don't know that for a fact.
If you knew much about Deaf culture, you'd know that whether or not it's "too" onerous from the outside, it would absolutely be considered too onerous by the majority who would be required to register.
Some variation of this may be workable but I see two big problems as stated: 1) it requires all Deaf to register. Imagine if you were talking about Japanese, or African American, or Gun Owners instead... 2) not all Deaf are going to be able to put the money up front, especially if for some reason they have an especially heavy call volume (say a death in the family, or whatever). Imagine if you had to do this for your phone bill, paying the phone company in advance for what you might use and then getting refunds....
If I don't distribute the results, I can do whatever the hell I want with the code, and be completely within my GPL license. How is this difference from me breaking my Apple files free so I can listen to them on an MP3 player when I jog? My wife buys plenty of music from the iTunes website and we have no iPod for portability, and no desire to spend $200+ to get one. As long as she's not distributing the music once ripped, it IS fair use.
Sun should licence their processor design (at low or no cost) to create competion to create a SPARC-comaptible marketplace.
Where have you been for the last 15 years? SPARC has always been an open, licensable processor architecture, which is why Fujitsu makes a competing SPARC implementation. Just because we don't want to give it away for free doesn't mean it's not licensable.
Given that "Sun's Linux" is currently SuSE, and Sun gave up a previous attempt to create their own distro, I think you're a bit more worried than is really warranted. And who, besides Debian, distributes a completely free as in speech OS anyway? Not SuSE. I don't think RedHat. Who then?
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Oh yes, stating simple facts makes me a troll. I know a lot of people much smarter than I who have had the same types of problems with wireless cards--but all just different enough to not be able to help each other. Gotta love the slashbots.
When I asked for advice on my issues, I was told "what do you expect running unstable". Sorry I don't keep up with stupid names that bear no obvious relationship to the actual reality. Yet another reason why Linux is hard to use; everyone thinks they're clever naming things after other things instead of just calling them what they are.
Last time I did this on a Debian box it blew the hell out of my system. Now, it was "woody", which is unstable, but it was a hard disk image of a knoppix distro so I didn't have any options to change to whatever the stable Debian distro is.
Yeah, apt-get is great when it works....but if it doesn't, the impact is severe. I had to reload.
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You obviously don't use Windows much. 99% of the time I can get a windows driver installed and working right the first (or maybe second) time. Especially if I ignored included CDs and go download directly from the manufacturer.
Ever try to get wireless working on your linux machine? Using PCMCIA on a laptop? Go try that with anything that you just bought off the shelf because it was cheap and tell me how the Linux vs Windows installation is. And I'm not even talking about the driver itself, I'm talking about which #@$! file gets updated (and don't start with "use the gui then" because the gui didn't even recognize the card) and what it needs in it to work.
By the time she was two and a half years old, she was "helping" us by moving the mouse or pressing keys on the keyboard -- generally at the most inopportune moments.
Heck, my son's been doing this since he was about 1.
My favorite has been this one (Logitech Trackman Marble FX) for a long time now. Unfortunately, Logitech no longer manufactures them, so good luck finding it. But it has an oversize ball, so you get greater precision and less strain, and the positioning of the ball is such that you can use all your fingers (except maybe the pinkie) on the ball, so you don't have one finger getting all the traffic. It's a little weird to get used to at first, because you have to use your thumb rather than index finger to double/middle click and your ring finger to right click, but it becomes natural enough over time. Any kind of trackball is going to be easier on your wrist than a mouse though....
Actually technically it's SuSE Linux Desktop 1.0 "based on SuSE 8.X technology" that's the base of Sun's Linux Desktop System. There appear to be subtle differences from 8.1. And Sun has put more into it than just logos. I've found the whole SuSE habit of giving you 3 or 4 different ways to run the same program on the same start menu tree confusing and overbusy; Sun picked one for each. There have been a lot of other reviews, mostly pro but some con around the net, they're not hard to find. Read them if you don't believe me.
And not one of them has kissed my ass recently. Unless you count the cell phone company. Of course, cell service is where all the competition is right now, when it comes to phones.
So how do you get into a situation where your kids are hiding dangerous things from you?
I didn't necessarily mean things in the physical objects sense. As for my part, I'm a relatively new parent, so I'm still figuring things out as I go, trying to overcome the bad programming I got from my parents and thankful for the good stuff they gave me. I just think this whole "parents are 100% responsible for everything" attitude comes from people who don't have kids more often than not--which doesn't mean that the polar opposite of "we must make the world safe for our CHILDREN" point of view is any more valid.
As for the other comments, they sounds familiar, I know people who did the same kinds of things. But here's a clue: I was a straight arrow at home, and I had a relatively fucked up family situation (I sure didn't talk to my parents about anything important, or trust them to talk to about controversial issues). Other people I know who had better situations, some of them did much stupider things. So it's not simply a 1 to 1 relationship, as easy as some would paint it. You do the best you can, take responsibility, and things will probably work out right, but there's never a guarantee. That was my main point.
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Just because Metallica and a couple handfuls of other megastars are able to demand high rates doesn't change the fact that the VAST majority of artists are only seeing a pittance per track sold. Don't give me this crap about "but they have greater market share" either; if the price is PER TRACK SOLD, then the artists who sell lots make more and those who don't, don't. Giving a few handfuls of bands a premium royalty is just a tactic to lure foolish artists (who in many cases actually have more innovative and interesting music than "established artists" like Metallica) to sell their souls thinking maybe someday they could reach that point, when the fact is it's extremely rare to do so.
It's the same blinkin' article. If you go to the original, it's now pointing you to the kdenews mirror!
If you RTFA, there's a big point about the Ultra V requiring a new technology spin. Given Sun's position and the resistance of customers to completely new tech together, it's less surprising that this cancellation would happen. If Sun were in a stronger position, perhaps it would be possible to muscle through without the customers who don't want to rev their technology, but that's obviously not the case. While the timeline is cancelled, if the proc is taped up, it may be resurrected in the future, at least that's the impression the article left me with.
I don't know what code was created for the first distribution; it looked to me to be a mandrake-style (a la early Mandrake when it was mostly a recompile) redistro of Red Hat, but I wasn't in the responsible group so I don't know that for a fact.
If you knew much about Deaf culture, you'd know that whether or not it's "too" onerous from the outside, it would absolutely be considered too onerous by the majority who would be required to register.
Some variation of this may be workable but I see two big problems as stated: 1) it requires all Deaf to register. Imagine if you were talking about Japanese, or African American, or Gun Owners instead... 2) not all Deaf are going to be able to put the money up front, especially if for some reason they have an especially heavy call volume (say a death in the family, or whatever). Imagine if you had to do this for your phone bill, paying the phone company in advance for what you might use and then getting refunds....
If I don't distribute the results, I can do whatever the hell I want with the code, and be completely within my GPL license. How is this difference from me breaking my Apple files free so I can listen to them on an MP3 player when I jog? My wife buys plenty of music from the iTunes website and we have no iPod for portability, and no desire to spend $200+ to get one. As long as she's not distributing the music once ripped, it IS fair use.
Fair nuff :-)
By that definition, "Sun's Linux" qualifies too.
Where have you been for the last 15 years? SPARC has always been an open, licensable processor architecture, which is why Fujitsu makes a competing SPARC implementation. Just because we don't want to give it away for free doesn't mean it's not licensable.
Given that "Sun's Linux" is currently SuSE, and Sun gave up a previous attempt to create their own distro, I think you're a bit more worried than is really warranted. And who, besides Debian, distributes a completely free as in speech OS anyway? Not SuSE. I don't think RedHat. Who then?
Oh yes, stating simple facts makes me a troll. I know a lot of people much smarter than I who have had the same types of problems with wireless cards--but all just different enough to not be able to help each other. Gotta love the slashbots.
When I asked for advice on my issues, I was told "what do you expect running unstable". Sorry I don't keep up with stupid names that bear no obvious relationship to the actual reality. Yet another reason why Linux is hard to use; everyone thinks they're clever naming things after other things instead of just calling them what they are.
Yeah, apt-get is great when it works....but if it doesn't, the impact is severe. I had to reload.
Ever try to get wireless working on your linux machine? Using PCMCIA on a laptop? Go try that with anything that you just bought off the shelf because it was cheap and tell me how the Linux vs Windows installation is. And I'm not even talking about the driver itself, I'm talking about which #@$! file gets updated (and don't start with "use the gui then" because the gui didn't even recognize the card) and what it needs in it to work.
Heck, my son's been doing this since he was about 1.
My favorite has been this one (Logitech Trackman Marble FX) for a long time now. Unfortunately, Logitech no longer manufactures them, so good luck finding it. But it has an oversize ball, so you get greater precision and less strain, and the positioning of the ball is such that you can use all your fingers (except maybe the pinkie) on the ball, so you don't have one finger getting all the traffic. It's a little weird to get used to at first, because you have to use your thumb rather than index finger to double/middle click and your ring finger to right click, but it becomes natural enough over time. Any kind of trackball is going to be easier on your wrist than a mouse though....
Hey, Al Capone supported soup kitchens too. What's your point?
They aren't wheeling Hitler's corpse out for the press conference, are they?
Of course look what good Microsoft has done helping Apple....
"asshole!"
or J4n37
"slut!"
That should be reason enough to pick a different name, now go do.
Actually technically it's SuSE Linux Desktop 1.0 "based on SuSE 8.X technology" that's the base of Sun's Linux Desktop System. There appear to be subtle differences from 8.1. And Sun has put more into it than just logos. I've found the whole SuSE habit of giving you 3 or 4 different ways to run the same program on the same start menu tree confusing and overbusy; Sun picked one for each. There have been a lot of other reviews, mostly pro but some con around the net, they're not hard to find. Read them if you don't believe me.
And not one of them has kissed my ass recently. Unless you count the cell phone company. Of course, cell service is where all the competition is right now, when it comes to phones.
I didn't necessarily mean things in the physical objects sense. As for my part, I'm a relatively new parent, so I'm still figuring things out as I go, trying to overcome the bad programming I got from my parents and thankful for the good stuff they gave me. I just think this whole "parents are 100% responsible for everything" attitude comes from people who don't have kids more often than not--which doesn't mean that the polar opposite of "we must make the world safe for our CHILDREN" point of view is any more valid.
As for the other comments, they sounds familiar, I know people who did the same kinds of things. But here's a clue: I was a straight arrow at home, and I had a relatively fucked up family situation (I sure didn't talk to my parents about anything important, or trust them to talk to about controversial issues). Other people I know who had better situations, some of them did much stupider things. So it's not simply a 1 to 1 relationship, as easy as some would paint it. You do the best you can, take responsibility, and things will probably work out right, but there's never a guarantee. That was my main point.
You don't have to. The local indian reservation, the state next door, and Las Vegas already do it very nicely, thanks.