I suspect that any quoting that falls under Fair Use (and therefore wouldn't be breaking copyright ordinarily) wouldn't fall foul of copyleft either.
I'm not sure I'd like to be the first person to take that one through the courts tho.
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This is the reason I've decided to have a livejournal account rather than use Radio Userland to roll my own. This allows me to be partof a group, and so far I've had 6 or 7 people comment on my blogs, find people with similar interests who's blog's I subscribe to, etc.
It's not a substitute for newsgroups, but It's pretty fantastic for ranting and getting thoughts out of my head and down on 'paper'.
The Archos MP3 player has a 6Gig hard disk, and you just dump MP3 files onto it. It's also incredibly handy as a portable storage solution, as it mounts as a drive in Windows.
It uses USB, so it's not super fast, but it's fast enough for all my uses.
Who in their right mind would decide that an application should be written in 5 different languages?
The people who have programmers fluent in one language, but want to use libraries written in another language?
I've worked in places before where it was hard to get hold of programmers fluent in the language we wanted. If we could have concentrated our programmers in the areas they were most fluent in and not worried about language interactions, we'd have been a lot better off.
And yes, they don't have everything. But it's a step in the right direction, and it's the kind of service I'll happily pay for because it's the right way to do things.
Windows XP takes more memory than Windows 2000. If the benchmarks were done on a 128MB machine, I wouldn't be surprised by them. On a 256MB machine, I'd be more surprised. On a 512MB machine, I'd be extremely surprised.
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You can believe it's our fault if you wish, but nobody will give a damn about your opinion if you do.
Oh, bloody hell. I don't believe it's your fault.
Fucking hell, thousands of innocent people died in an act of utterly unwarranted agression.
I just don't nevessarily believe that the uncontrolled agression and a 'we will keep on shooting people until there are no people left to shoot' is the best way of solving the situation.
And I don't believe it's possible to 'kill all the terrorists' as the original poster stated. You need to make it clear that you won't put up with unwarranted attacks and then solve the root cause of the attacks (which, in my opinion is grinding poverty, lack of education and tyrannical government in the Arabic region. Educated, rich, democratic societies tend to produce protesters, not terrorists).
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The IRA is the organization that just disarmed itself [newsday.com], right? You were saying?
That would be the organisation that disarmed itself because
A)The Brits stopped shooting and started talking
B)Ireland is no longer in an absolutely terrible economic situation which was blamed largely on the British.
Back when the Brits were shooting the IRA, each one they shot caused 3 more to step up to take their place. Believe it or not, when you kill someone you alienate their friends, family and pretty much everyone in the surrounding area.
Unless you actually don't want to become a country in a permanent state of war, there's no problem with this.
For more information read about the Irish 'troubles'. It's not a problem if you're happy to go in and cause massive civilian death, but if what you want is quick resolution and the resumption of peace with minimum civilian casualties, then you need to persuade both sides that shooting at each other just causes problems.
(A) Neither are they. do you really want to live in a country under siege?
(B) It doesn't take either. Look at the trouble the Irish paramilitary groups caused Britain over the last 30 years.
And yes, we can and will kill all the terrorists.
Actually, you won't. Because killing them will just make their neighbours hate you more and turn them into terrorists.
Without the ability to run its own SuperNodes, giFT is hardly better than Gnutella. The fantastic thing about FastTrack was thw ability to perform extremely quick searches, because your searches didn't need to get distributed to tens of thousands of nodes, just the main supernodes.
Without this, the traffic swamps the network before it can scale well.
Does giFT run under windows?
Does giFT automatically promote clients to supernodes?
does giFT allow multiple downloads of the same file from different sites, to speed downloads and prevent loss of data if a source vanishes?
They've proved that an automatic two tier system can work (with user-node and super-node systems automatically finding the most efficient way of aggregating data).
Now we need a piece of software that will do all of this without the need for a central company. That way the RIAAA _can't_ shut it down.
Come on guys, we're one step away from success here - the power of Napster/FastTrack with the freedom of Gnutella - let's show them it can be done.
People will have to realise that there will be X% of sites run as a public service, X% that will require you to give them money and X% that will find an indirect method of making money from viewers (like adverts).
They have the right to use their servers, including choosing who to serve pages to, as they see fit. You do not have the right to infinite free information. Pay for the information you want. Find a decent information source and take the first paragraph of this post into consideration. Good Luck.
And how are the web site owners supposed to pay for the bandwidth you're using?
If you don't want to give them an income directly and don't want to give them an income indirectly, are they just supposed to pay out of the goodness of their hearts?
I'd rather it was distributed in some way, and my favourite method would be to do it through the governments (my government is more answerable than pretty much any company), but if its a large company offering it to me, I'll take it, and hope that public pressure and oversight will force it to play half-reasonable.
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Futurama has been released on DVD in the UK, as has the first 5 seasons of Buffy, all of Friends, all of B5, all of Trek, lots of Simpsons, etc., etc.
I suspect that any quoting that falls under Fair Use (and therefore wouldn't be breaking copyright ordinarily) wouldn't fall foul of copyleft either.
I'm not sure I'd like to be the first person to take that one through the courts tho.
This is the reason I've decided to have a livejournal account rather than use Radio Userland to roll my own. This allows me to be partof a group, and so far I've had 6 or 7 people comment on my blogs, find people with similar interests who's blog's I subscribe to, etc.
It's not a substitute for newsgroups, but It's pretty fantastic for ranting and getting thoughts out of my head and down on 'paper'.
Dude, you fill it _once_.
I can happily leave my USB drive working for an hour while I wander off and chat, watch tv, whatever.
After that, I rarely transfer more than 3-4 albums at a time, which isn't more than a couple of minutes.
The Archos MP3 player has a 6Gig hard disk, and you just dump MP3 files onto it. It's also incredibly handy as a portable storage solution, as it mounts as a drive in Windows.
It uses USB, so it's not super fast, but it's fast enough for all my uses.
Who in their right mind would decide that an application should be written in 5 different languages?
The people who have programmers fluent in one language, but want to use libraries written in another language?
I've worked in places before where it was hard to get hold of programmers fluent in the language we wanted. If we could have concentrated our programmers in the areas they were most fluent in and not worried about language interactions, we'd have been a lot better off.
Amazon are renowned for selling items when they don't have an actual release date. If it's not announced at 3Drealms, then nobody knows the ship date.
I got an Archos 6 Gig jukebox.
And DVDs of Bladerunner (Director's Cut, of course) and The Wall
Oh, and I'm hanging with my family, which is pretty damn cool (they're both geeks too!)
If you check the FAQ, they encode at 128Kb.
And yes, they don't have everything. But it's a step in the right direction, and it's the kind of service I'll happily pay for because it's the right way to do things.
www.emusic.com will allow you to download perfectly ordinary MP3 files for $10 a month. you can then do what you like with them.
If you support them, they'll grow and grow...
When one is tired of Counter-Strike, one is tired of life.
Windows XP takes more memory than Windows 2000. If the benchmarks were done on a 128MB machine, I wouldn't be surprised by them. On a 256MB machine, I'd be more surprised. On a 512MB machine, I'd be extremely surprised.
You can believe it's our fault if you wish, but nobody will give a damn about your opinion if you do.
Oh, bloody hell. I don't believe it's your fault.
Fucking hell, thousands of innocent people died in an act of utterly unwarranted agression.
I just don't nevessarily believe that the uncontrolled agression and a 'we will keep on shooting people until there are no people left to shoot' is the best way of solving the situation.
And I don't believe it's possible to 'kill all the terrorists' as the original poster stated. You need to make it clear that you won't put up with unwarranted attacks and then solve the root cause of the attacks (which, in my opinion is grinding poverty, lack of education and tyrannical government in the Arabic region. Educated, rich, democratic societies tend to produce protesters, not terrorists).
The IRA is the organization that just disarmed itself [newsday.com], right? You were saying?
That would be the organisation that disarmed itself because
A)The Brits stopped shooting and started talking
B)Ireland is no longer in an absolutely terrible economic situation which was blamed largely on the British.
Back when the Brits were shooting the IRA, each one they shot caused 3 more to step up to take their place. Believe it or not, when you kill someone you alienate their friends, family and pretty much everyone in the surrounding area.
Unless you actually don't want to become a country in a permanent state of war, there's no problem with this.
For more information read about the Irish 'troubles'. It's not a problem if you're happy to go in and cause massive civilian death, but if what you want is quick resolution and the resumption of peace with minimum civilian casualties, then you need to persuade both sides that shooting at each other just causes problems.
(A) Neither are they. do you really want to live in a country under siege?
(B) It doesn't take either. Look at the trouble the Irish paramilitary groups caused Britain over the last 30 years.
And yes, we can and will kill all the terrorists.
Actually, you won't. Because killing them will just make their neighbours hate you more and turn them into terrorists.
Number of descendants that are _fit_ is the definition of fitness. :->
Having 20 children that all die before having children of their own doesn't make you fit.
Freenet is absolutely fantastic, except that it's not easily searchable.
Without the ability to run its own SuperNodes, giFT is hardly better than Gnutella. The fantastic thing about FastTrack was thw ability to perform extremely quick searches, because your searches didn't need to get distributed to tens of thousands of nodes, just the main supernodes.
Without this, the traffic swamps the network before it can scale well.
Some info I couldn't find on their web page...
Does giFT run under windows?
Does giFT automatically promote clients to supernodes?
does giFT allow multiple downloads of the same file from different sites, to speed downloads and prevent loss of data if a source vanishes?
If it does all three of those, then I'm there!
They've proved that an automatic two tier system can work (with user-node and super-node systems automatically finding the most efficient way of aggregating data).
Now we need a piece of software that will do all of this without the need for a central company. That way the RIAAA _can't_ shut it down.
Come on guys, we're one step away from success here - the power of Napster/FastTrack with the freedom of Gnutella - let's show them it can be done.
People will have to realise that there will be X% of sites run as a public service, X% that will require you to give them money and X% that will find an indirect method of making money from viewers (like adverts).
They have the right to use their servers, including choosing who to serve pages to, as they see fit. You do not have the right to infinite free information. Pay for the information you want. Find a decent information source and take the first paragraph of this post into consideration. Good Luck.
And how are the web site owners supposed to pay for the bandwidth you're using?
If you don't want to give them an income directly and don't want to give them an income indirectly, are they just supposed to pay out of the goodness of their hearts?
I will happily use a single sign-on service.
I'd rather it was distributed in some way, and my favourite method would be to do it through the governments (my government is more answerable than pretty much any company), but if its a large company offering it to me, I'll take it, and hope that public pressure and oversight will force it to play half-reasonable.