"It's just too big, slow, and full of features desktop users don't need. Directfb is more like what desktop users need, but not quite."
If you really would have taken the time to read the previous X stories on/., you would have known by this time, that X is neither big or slow, and the framebuffer approach is not what users really want (and that Windows' model is slowly transforming from the framebuffer to a more X-like approach)
well, I would expect that DL'ers overlap very much with the moviegoers. I mean, I know a lot of people who download stuff and I do not know about a single one who would not go to the movie at least ocassionally.
Well, thanks for speaking up for our the injustice that our TLD (or rather the ISO code) is. Considering that our Finnish brothers had the same injustice happen to them, one must suspect that there's some grand anti-Finno-Ugric conspiracy is going on.
Well, considering that you specify the acoustic setting as "relatively poor", I would doubt the difference between SACD and CD would not be drowned out by the background noise.
JACK and Dmix seems to have entirely different aims. JACK can be a 'pipe' for audio applications - so you can have an mp3 player and an effects processor and you can pipe the audio from one to the other. It allows them to access the sound HW also, but that's not the main feature. Dmix seems to be focused on accessing the sound device, although with nice additions, e.g. sample rate conversion, which is handy if you use the digital I/O of your card and want to play something other than 44.1/48 kHz files.
The patents listed on MS's page all relate to VFAT, more exactly to its dual naming scheme (as you all know, on VFAT a file has a 8+3 "sort" name that the OS uses and a "long" name that you see on the application level) [and at first sight three of the four patents seem identical].
Why should it be that a prosecutor could not appeal? There's a multi-level system because it is acknowledged that mistakes may be made. And it really does not matter to me if that error means that someone is found guilty when he is innocent or that a murderer is let go - that error must be corrected by bringing the case to a higher level court.
Dude, you don't know too much of these so called communist states, do you? It may be very suprising for you, but copyrights and patents were acknowledged in the whole Eastern Bloc (and you can bet that they are acknowledged in China, too). And they had money and even private property - oh, shock and horror! Of course, there are good reasons why China does not enforce Western IP too much: It maximizes the gain of China's economy: basically, they import these goods for free (and besides it creates a market for the local HW manufacturers). And, since it does not harm China, there is no reason to waste police resources on chasing the violator (and I guess it would be hugely unpopular too - and you better keep your people content, no matter what form of government you have).
There will be a time when it will be actually benefical to China (or at least to some powerful ones in China) to have strict IP enforcement - and then it will be enforced; but in the mean time, they still recognize it in their law books.
Well, I - as an engineer that takes pride in his work - would (and in fact, did) stand up against any copy protection scheme because it is my firm belief that it only hurts those who pay for the software (and of course, the engineers doing the developing/testing).
Not that any DRM scheme has earned much trust:) (or there would be any real, hard fact supporting the theory of copy protection bringing increased sales) And it's not about trusting ALL of the people buying the stuff, there will always be some piracy - it's just about the piracy/buying ratio getting better - so that the increased sales offset the lowered prices.
You know, this arrogant, self-centric view does not help the discussion. Anyway, the current infrastructure DOES NO have to be updated and this change is NOT intended to be "some jagoff's playground", but rather for the non-English speaking people - there are quite a few of them.
Well, you MUST be American, otherwise you would have heard that there are two-letter TLDs, which are country specific and mostly used so. So, for example you can count on siemens.de being in German, but that does not hinder the internation expansion of Siemens in any way. And these country-specific domains are the ones that most probably would use localized domain names.
Anyway, if you would use any other language than English you would know how silly it sounds e.g. penzugyminiszterium.hu instead of penzugyminiszterium.hu - and I really don't expect our Ministry of Finance to expand overseas:)
"Why doesn't RedHat's update service offer constand updates to the current version of SpamAssassin?"
What does RH have to do with SA? Nothing. It's a flaw on RH's side and this can not be a real point in evaluating SA. And anyway, how many of the other spam filters were included with an OS? None. So if he could take the time to get those, he could have taken the time to DL a recent SA.rpm, as well.
Actually, we are there. GSM is encrypted and it does frequency-hopping. The only point where it is vulnerable is at the provider's site: and that's exactly where it is tapped:)
Don't forget that in the EU patents can not be abused in this, since the nice people from FFII and others got through an amendment that you are free to use patented technologies for interoperability - and I can't really imagine any other uses for a fileformat besides of interoperability.
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"It's just too big, slow, and full of features desktop users don't need. Directfb is more like what desktop users need, but not quite."
/., you would have known by this time, that X is neither big or slow, and the framebuffer approach is not what users really want (and that Windows' model is slowly transforming from the framebuffer to a more X-like approach)
If you really would have taken the time to read the previous X stories on
Please, let's get off this dead horse.
Cut'n'paste works on X's level.
The problem is (or probably: was) not with X, but with Gnome and/or KDE.
It's called "X Window System" and not "X Window Manager".
It is so mostly because it is not a window manager.
MLDonkey.
You can use www.sharereactor.com to search for known good (and probably widely shared) files and check for fakes.
I gues he is not interested in iTunes, the software, as it does not run on his machine.
Your excuse regarding Ogg is ridiculous.
well, I would expect that DL'ers overlap very much with the moviegoers. I mean, I know a lot of people who download stuff and I do not know about a single one who would not go to the movie at least ocassionally.
Well, thanks for speaking up for our the injustice that our TLD (or rather the ISO code) is. Considering that our Finnish brothers had the same injustice happen to them, one must suspect that there's some grand anti-Finno-Ugric conspiracy is going on.
Well, considering that you specify the acoustic setting as "relatively poor", I would doubt the difference between SACD and CD would not be drowned out by the background noise.
And while you are it, there is an Enterprise model made out of a 3.5" floppy. It's actually fairly easy to do and it's waaaay geeky :)
JACK and Dmix seems to have entirely different aims.
JACK can be a 'pipe' for audio applications - so you can have an mp3 player and an effects processor and you can pipe the audio from one to the other. It allows them to access the sound HW also, but that's not the main feature.
Dmix seems to be focused on accessing the sound device, although with nice additions, e.g. sample rate conversion, which is handy if you use the digital I/O of your card and want to play something other than 44.1/48 kHz files.
The patents listed on MS's page all relate to VFAT, more exactly to its dual naming scheme (as you all know, on VFAT a file has a 8+3 "sort" name that the OS uses and a "long" name that you see on the application level) [and at first sight three of the four patents seem identical].
He did what?
Last time I checked, all that he had to do with DeCCS is to write a lame GUI for it.
They can appeal ONCE.
Get it? ONCE.
And, since it is a criminal case, he gets a free lawyer from the state, if he can not afford one.
"and if that evidence doesn't convict the jury"
There was no jury, his innocence was decided by three judges. They could be wrong, that's why the case is retrialed with an expanded panel of judges.
"could afford to appeal indefinitely"
I guess you missed the part about "two-phase".
That means that it can be appealed ONCE. Not more, ONCE.
Why should it be that a prosecutor could not appeal? There's a multi-level system because it is acknowledged that mistakes may be made. And it really does not matter to me if that error means that someone is found guilty when he is innocent or that a murderer is let go - that error must be corrected by bringing the case to a higher level court.
Dude, you don't know too much of these so called communist states, do you?
It may be very suprising for you, but copyrights and patents were acknowledged in the whole Eastern Bloc (and you can bet that they are acknowledged in China, too). And they had money and even private property - oh, shock and horror!
Of course, there are good reasons why China does not enforce Western IP too much:
It maximizes the gain of China's economy: basically, they import these goods for free (and besides it creates a market for the local HW manufacturers). And, since it does not harm China, there is no reason to waste police resources on chasing the violator (and I guess it would be hugely unpopular too - and you better keep your people content, no matter what form of government you have).
There will be a time when it will be actually benefical to China (or at least to some powerful ones in China) to have strict IP enforcement - and then it will be enforced; but in the mean time, they still recognize it in their law books.
Well, I - as an engineer that takes pride in his work - would (and in fact, did) stand up against any copy protection scheme because it is my firm belief that it only hurts those who pay for the software (and of course, the engineers doing the developing/testing).
Not that any DRM scheme has earned much trust :) (or there would be any real, hard fact supporting the theory of copy protection bringing increased sales)
And it's not about trusting ALL of the people buying the stuff, there will always be some piracy - it's just about the piracy/buying ratio getting better - so that the increased sales offset the lowered prices.
You know, this arrogant, self-centric view does not help the discussion.
Anyway, the current infrastructure DOES NO have to be updated and this change is NOT intended to be "some jagoff's playground", but rather for the non-English speaking people - there are quite a few of them.
Well, you MUST be American, otherwise you would have heard that there are two-letter TLDs, which are country specific and mostly used so. So, for example you can count on siemens.de being in German, but that does not hinder the internation expansion of Siemens in any way. And these country-specific domains are the ones that most probably would use localized domain names.
:)
Anyway, if you would use any other language than English you would know how silly it sounds e.g. penzugyminiszterium.hu instead of penzugyminiszterium.hu - and I really don't expect our Ministry of Finance to expand overseas
"Why doesn't RedHat's update service offer constand updates to the current version of SpamAssassin?"
.rpm, as well.
What does RH have to do with SA? Nothing.
It's a flaw on RH's side and this can not be a real point in evaluating SA.
And anyway, how many of the other spam filters were included with an OS? None. So if he could take the time to get those, he could have taken the time to DL a recent SA
I thought that this was a review of spam filters, not OS distributions. BTW, how scored the spam filter included with WinXP? ;)
And what else could you expect from Eben Moglen, the man who has written the GPL?
Actually, we are there. GSM is encrypted and it does frequency-hopping. The only point where it is vulnerable is at the provider's site: and that's exactly where it is tapped :)
Don't forget that in the EU patents can not be abused in this, since the nice people from FFII and others got through an amendment that you are free to use patented technologies for interoperability - and I can't really imagine any other uses for a fileformat besides of interoperability.