In Doggiebox, I use routines from libsndfile(an LPGL library C library). Since Doggiebox is written in Objective-C, I've also written a bunch of wrapper code to make libsndfile more convenient to use. I'm bundling this wrapper code into ZygoatAudio, a Mac OS X framework which statically links libsndfile. ZygoatAudio itself is presented as LGPL, and dynamically loaded by Doggiebox at runtime.
I've done it this way because my understanding is that I can't just static link libsndfile into Doggiebox without opening the whole Doggiebox source. On the other hand, I am happy to disburse code for ZygoatAudio (there's no web page yet since it is still too much in flux), and my understanding is that this dynamic loading issue takes care of LGPL requirements. If someone wants to re-engineer ZygoatAudio and drop it into Doggiebox, as required per LGPL, they can.
I guess I should look into this some more, but when this was first announced a few years ago I couldn't understand the big deal -- as I still don't today.
Many companies send me paper invoices, which I like to keep for accounting and records purposes. And I can pay them all online, either by EFT/ACH (online banking) or credit card.
I don't think I've written a cheque for anything except rent in at least a year (well, and to my brother earlier today who just picked up a couple of 10/100baseT switches for me for dirt cheap).
He got work with another company after his startup failed. Ironically, we signed a deal with that company recently, so he'll be selling our products again.
That's not ironic, it's just an amusing coincidence.
He "violated the EULA on the letter"? Since when do letters carry end-user licence agreements? It's a fucking letter.
If you mail me something, it's mine, and I can do whatever I want with it.
-ben
(BTW, I make a point never to use the "EULA" acronym, because it makes me feel like I have been inspired by Microsoft. Didn't they coin the phrase or at least introduce it into common language? Yuck.)
Oh, right, the threat of litigation will stop the spam. Right. Let me guess, the spammers will suddenly be scared of litigation, so they will stop sending spam? I bet they'll instantly stop downloading songs off kazaa, too...
I've decided that effective today, all of you American citizens must pay to me a 20% tax on the value of my time in composing this message. Sweet, now the cash should start rolling in!
Seriously, the EU has no jurisdiction elsewhere in the world, so why should anyone care about doing its work for it?
I am surprised that none of the top-moderated comments have addressed this, and unless I missed it in the article there was nothing there either (beyond an AOL spokesperson convincingly mumbling that "not doing it just really isn't an option").
Why do people spend time trying to do the "first post" thing? Is it a personal ego-boost? Or are there people out there that actually care? Posting as an AC, you even remove our ability to send you any personal congratulations, a glazed ham, or stinky excrement wrapped in old socks.
I swore to myself that I would buy an iPod, despite whatever the cost, as soon as Apple ships one that has a built-in microphone, line-in or at least some support for attaching a sound source to record.
I really really want to be able to throw it in my pocket, go see a live rock show and record it for my personal re-enjoyment at home. Or use it as a dictaphone during a meeting. Or whatever.
If the iPod had a USB connector, it might be conceivable to write software for it which would let me hook up a Griffin iMic or somesuch. But even the new model has no such facility.
Bummer that it didn't happen with this announcement. Am I the only one who would kill for a line-in? Just curious...
Let's say for the sake of argument that by "less than one per cent" he means half a per cent. Of the "millions and millions" of calls that they receive (over what period of time is not stated in the interview), that's still 5000 calls per million, remarking on bugs.
Yes, this is off topic, but I get a personal guffaw out of the ironies of capitalism...:
This Palladium stuff is about big companies ($) trying to control the users under the guise of empowering the users, and squealing like female piggies when things don't work in their favour.
I find it amusing how today, the Ottawa Senators hockey team has filed for bankruptcy protection because they can't afford to pay their players obscene salaries ($). Yet, general NHL institution screams like a female piggy about the lack of attendance and how it's the fans who need to throw in their $ and support to make it all work.
The amusing thing is that the address of the Corel Centre (where the Senators play) is on Palladium Drive in Ottawa.
I detect a similar stench wafting from two corners...
-b
(trivia: as the arena was being built -- prior to Corel's buying out the name -- the facility was called the Palladium, in keeping with the Senators' roman theme. The roadway still retains its original name.)
What is the reason for the prime mark (single quote) following the word "publishers" in both the blurb and the headline for this story? Does it signify something that I'm missing?
(unrelated, but something else I noticed yesterday... why is the word "by" inserted after each page number in the page-navigation header/footer thingy for the comments? e.g. "(1) | 2 by | 3 by | 4 by | 5 by")
BTW, have you looked at the price that Adobe charges for Acrobat (not the reader, which is free)? If you want to use PDF you are paying more for it than the copy of Windowz you're running it on.
Oh you sorry windoze punks. *shakes head*
WIth Mac OS X, you can create a PDF from any application that can print to a printer, at no extra charge.
It's really hard, too:
1. Choose Print from the File menu 2. Click the button that says Save as PDF 3. Pick a filename
News For Newbies. Stuff that's basic. Would you, or, more importantly, your grandmother prefer that?
Nope! My grandmother doesn't read slashdot, and I am interested in the advanced stuff. However, that's irrelevant.
The news item was about a product aimed at newbies. Therefore, the fact that an advanced user finds the product useless is not only of no surprise, but also no importance.
I suppose you were expressing distaste that the article was deemed relevant for slashdot's audience. In general I would agree with you, but I found it interesting given the socio-political positioning of Apple's target market these days, which arguably includes part of the slashdot crowd.
Well good goat damn, your genius has just saved my grandmother 50 bucks! It's a great thing that she knows how to use command-line ftp and tar, just like most other non-technical users that are the target of this product!
Ogg is not "slightly" better than mp3, it's massively better. In listening tests from heise.de, 64kbps oggs were closer to the original (or better) than 128kbps mp3s. (And it was the best codec of all, better than WMA, AAC and MP3pro.)
Well, it's a good thing that statistic is useless information to me. I don't listen to 128kbps MP3's because they typically sound like shit. 256kbps on the other hand start to sound reasonable, at least with my 'puter speakers.
If you buy such a device would you go for the one that holds 1000 songs or the other that holds 2000 songs if they cost the same?
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In Doggiebox, I use routines from libsndfile(an LPGL library C library). Since Doggiebox is written in Objective-C, I've also written a bunch of wrapper code to make libsndfile more convenient to use. I'm bundling this wrapper code into ZygoatAudio, a Mac OS X framework which statically links libsndfile. ZygoatAudio itself is presented as LGPL, and dynamically loaded by Doggiebox at runtime.
I've done it this way because my understanding is that I can't just static link libsndfile into Doggiebox without opening the whole Doggiebox source. On the other hand, I am happy to disburse code for ZygoatAudio (there's no web page yet since it is still too much in flux), and my understanding is that this dynamic loading issue takes care of LGPL requirements. If someone wants to re-engineer ZygoatAudio and drop it into Doggiebox, as required per LGPL, they can.
Is my approach correct?
-ben
I guess I should look into this some more, but when this was first announced a few years ago I couldn't understand the big deal -- as I still don't today.
Many companies send me paper invoices, which I like to keep for accounting and records purposes. And I can pay them all online, either by EFT/ACH (online banking) or credit card.
I don't think I've written a cheque for anything except rent in at least a year (well, and to my brother earlier today who just picked up a couple of 10/100baseT switches for me for dirt cheap).
-ben
He got work with another company after his startup failed. Ironically, we signed a deal with that company recently, so he'll be selling our products again.
That's not ironic, it's just an amusing coincidence.
...the first RMPT based printer products...
:O
Armpit based printer products?
libsndfile works great on OS X; I use it in my drum machine application Doggiebox for file i/o.
-ben
He "violated the EULA on the letter"? Since when do letters carry end-user licence agreements? It's a fucking letter.
If you mail me something, it's mine, and I can do whatever I want with it.
-ben
(BTW, I make a point never to use the "EULA" acronym, because it makes me feel like I have been inspired by Microsoft. Didn't they coin the phrase or at least introduce it into common language? Yuck.)
Oh, right, the threat of litigation will stop the spam. Right. Let me guess, the spammers will suddenly be scared of litigation, so they will stop sending spam? I bet they'll instantly stop downloading songs off kazaa, too...
-ben
does the USA bend over to other countries' whims?
I've decided that effective today, all of you American citizens must pay to me a 20% tax on the value of my time in composing this message. Sweet, now the cash should start rolling in!
Seriously, the EU has no jurisdiction elsewhere in the world, so why should anyone care about doing its work for it?
I am surprised that none of the top-moderated comments have addressed this, and unless I missed it in the article there was nothing there either (beyond an AOL spokesperson convincingly mumbling that "not doing it just really isn't an option").
-ben
DeCSS is a burglary tool just like how I'm actually growing dildos in my vegetable garden.
Sheep have wings?
Yeah, I think it starts to make more sense oftentimes if we read it as "All Rights Reversed"...
-ben
Why do people spend time trying to do the "first post" thing? Is it a personal ego-boost? Or are there people out there that actually care? Posting as an AC, you even remove our ability to send you any personal congratulations, a glazed ham, or stinky excrement wrapped in old socks.
Precisely what I mused here in the earlier iPod thread. Pleased to see that you share my desire!
-ben
I swore to myself that I would buy an iPod, despite whatever the cost, as soon as Apple ships one that has a built-in microphone, line-in or at least some support for attaching a sound source to record.
I really really want to be able to throw it in my pocket, go see a live rock show and record it for my personal re-enjoyment at home. Or use it as a dictaphone during a meeting. Or whatever.
If the iPod had a USB connector, it might be conceivable to write software for it which would let me hook up a Griffin iMic or somesuch. But even the new model has no such facility.
Bummer that it didn't happen with this announcement. Am I the only one who would kill for a line-in? Just curious...
...is still a pretty huge number.
Let's say for the sake of argument that by "less than one per cent" he means half a per cent. Of the "millions and millions" of calls that they receive (over what period of time is not stated in the interview), that's still 5000 calls per million, remarking on bugs.
Yes, this is off topic, but I get a personal guffaw out of the ironies of capitalism...:
This Palladium stuff is about big companies ($) trying to control the users under the guise of empowering the users, and squealing like female piggies when things don't work in their favour.
I find it amusing how today, the Ottawa Senators hockey team has filed for bankruptcy protection because they can't afford to pay their players obscene salaries ($). Yet, general NHL institution screams like a female piggy about the lack of attendance and how it's the fans who need to throw in their $ and support to make it all work.
The amusing thing is that the address of the Corel Centre (where the Senators play) is on Palladium Drive in Ottawa.
I detect a similar stench wafting from two corners...
-b
(trivia: as the arena was being built -- prior to Corel's buying out the name -- the facility was called the Palladium, in keeping with the Senators' roman theme. The roadway still retains its original name.)
...dangit, I wanted to marry the bastard. Oh well, a girl can dream.
What is the reason for the prime mark (single quote) following the word "publishers" in both the blurb and the headline for this story? Does it signify something that I'm missing?
(unrelated, but something else I noticed yesterday... why is the word "by" inserted after each page number in the page-navigation header/footer thingy for the comments? e.g. "(1) | 2 by | 3 by | 4 by | 5 by")
...is this really 50% better than P2P? Cuz I'll abort my limewire download right now.
BTW, have you looked at the price that Adobe charges for Acrobat (not the reader, which is free)? If you want to use PDF you are paying more for it than the copy of Windowz you're running it on.
Oh you sorry windoze punks. *shakes head*
WIth Mac OS X, you can create a PDF from any application that can print to a printer, at no extra charge.
It's really hard, too:
1. Choose Print from the File menu
2. Click the button that says Save as PDF
3. Pick a filename
-b
News For Newbies. Stuff that's basic.
Would you, or, more importantly, your grandmother prefer that?
Nope! My grandmother doesn't read slashdot, and I am interested in the advanced stuff. However, that's irrelevant.
The news item was about a product aimed at newbies. Therefore, the fact that an advanced user finds the product useless is not only of no surprise, but also no importance.
I suppose you were expressing distaste that the article was deemed relevant for slashdot's audience. In general I would agree with you, but I found it interesting given the socio-political positioning of Apple's target market these days, which arguably includes part of the slashdot crowd.
-b
Well good goat damn, your genius has just saved my grandmother 50 bucks! It's a great thing that she knows how to use command-line ftp and tar, just like most other non-technical users that are the target of this product!
Ogg is not "slightly" better than mp3, it's massively better. In listening tests from heise.de, 64kbps oggs were closer to the original (or better) than 128kbps mp3s. (And it was the best codec of all, better than WMA, AAC and MP3pro.)
Well, it's a good thing that statistic is useless information to me. I don't listen to 128kbps MP3's because they typically sound like shit. 256kbps on the other hand start to sound reasonable, at least with my 'puter speakers.
If you buy such a device would you go for the one that holds 1000 songs or the other that holds 2000 songs if they cost the same?
I'd go for the one that sounds better.
-b
Um...
that's not irony, it's sarcasm.
What's a meter?
A meter is a device which measures something (e.g., a light meter, or a volt meter).
A metre is an SI unit of linear measure, a bit longer than three feet or so.
Yuh?