The Heise article talks about open source in general for the most part... The bigest concern is the no-warranty clauses in most licenses. Under German law people who distribute software under these licenses might be liable for failure to some extent. The article mentions the GPL only at the end and basicly doesn't say anything about it at all... Actually the claims are just as bad against closed-source as well. Every EULA I have ever read had some 'no-warranty' clause somewhere in it.
Well at least they sell it with openoffice installed. Unlike lindows were you can spend some quality time trying to install it through click&run..... It looks like they deliver a pretty usable set of software... (don't know how its setup but if it comes preinstalled not much can be fucked up:)
8GB is not the maximum of a 64 bit address space, it is just the maximum of this particular machine... A 64 bit machine gives an address space of 4G*4G (A lot).
btw those things are hacky solution because you need to do even more dirty tricks to get your programs to work... Programs expect a flat address space...
Tar doesn't have any compression at all:) Neither has AVI... The data you put into the AVI container might be compressed however.
Jeroen
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It doesn't compare against mp3 and ogg very well since FLAC is loseless and the others not.... FLAC files will be way bigger....but won't loose any quality.
If you have a choice out of 24 colors this leads to 24^1 possibilitys which equals 24.......:) So you have a code space of 24 times 2^7.... The article is a bit fuzzy on this point as it mentions 24 times 2^6... Maybe they left a knot out or only have 6 knots.... In any way it is way less then your 39 bits.... If it was 32 colors (2^5) this would lead to a total of 2^(5+7)=4096 (or in the articles case 2^(5+6)=2048)) possibilities. Or 12 (or 11) bits.
I hope his decission to stop has just made him temporaraly insane.... As I didn't have any symphaty for the guy after reading the text.
If he has always been like this I have no trouble understanding why nobody would like to fund his ideas... They might be nice ideas, but untill you can show something that really is better than 20 year old proven techniques you might not get others enthousiastic about it. There are tons of people who think they can do it all better. Then he says his users are idiots because they asked for more, now what company would want to hire a guy which calls his customers idiots???
You can charge for writting it. Most software in use is special purpose. It actually makes sense for a customer to want his program to be gpled, he is not dependant on the original supplier for later upgrades. (Although usually the original supplier is the best place to go for such things as they have the best knowledge of both the product and your setup).
Novell has sent a public reaction to SCO that they have used the letter 'O' for years in their name and are certain they didn't sell it to SCO.
Later today IBM is expected to state that they have a irevokable en perpetual license to use the 'I', 'B' and 'M' letters.
Further Linus has stated that he holds his parents responsible for cut&pasting the letter 'S' into his name shortly after birth: 'You can't blame me I was like a baby at that time!'
It has the same old nonsense: -We have to do all the work for the rest of the world to leach -Compiling with GCC makes program GPLed -GPL is keeping linux back
Wideband outputs are totally useless for drm. These outputs are past the demodulater, so you get a unfiltered basenband signal. You need a IF signal as that still has the properties of the RF signal. Most smallband FM rigs or AM rigs have a second IF of 455 or 473 Khz which can be mixed down to 12Khz rather easily. This can then be sampled with an audio card.
xvid is not a mpeg4 codec, which means you are going to get sued over patent infrigment if you do anything big with it. Theora is a standard on itself (not just an implementation) supposedly free of patents.
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The Heise article talks about open source in general for the most part... The bigest concern is the no-warranty clauses in most licenses. Under German law people who distribute software under these licenses might be liable for failure to some extent.
The article mentions the GPL only at the end and basicly doesn't say anything about it at all...
Actually the claims are just as bad against closed-source as well. Every EULA I have ever read had some 'no-warranty' clause somewhere in it.
Jeroen
I hereby announce that there will be litigation... ....Voting boot closed!!!!
Jeroen
Well at least they sell it with openoffice installed. Unlike lindows were you can spend some quality time trying to install it through click&run..... :)
It looks like they deliver a pretty usable set of software... (don't know how its setup but if it comes preinstalled not much can be fucked up
Jeroen
Point taken....
However the nearest dictionary here is a dutch dictionary.....
Jeroen
8GB is not the maximum of a 64 bit address space, it is just the maximum of this particular machine...
A 64 bit machine gives an address space of 4G*4G (A lot).
btw those things are hacky solution because you need to do even more dirty tricks to get your programs to work... Programs expect a flat address space...
Jeroen
Tar doesn't have any compression at all :)
Neither has AVI... The data you put into the AVI container might be compressed however.
Jeroen
It doesn't compare against mp3 and ogg very well since FLAC is loseless and the others not....
FLAC files will be way bigger....but won't loose any quality.
Jeroen
GIF is not a compression format it is a graphics format that uses compression....
Jeroen
What do you mean with involuntarily? .nu domains???
Is somebody forcing you to register
Jeroen
If you have a choice out of 24 colors this leads to 24^1 possibilitys which equals 24....... :) .... ... Maybe they left a knot out or only have 6 knots....
So you have a code space of 24 times 2^7
The article is a bit fuzzy on this point as it mentions 24 times 2^6
In any way it is way less then your 39 bits....
If it was 32 colors (2^5) this would lead to a total of 2^(5+7)=4096 (or in the articles case 2^(5+6)=2048)) possibilities. Or 12 (or 11) bits.
Jeroen
I hope his decission to stop has just made him temporaraly insane.... As I didn't have any symphaty for the guy after reading the text.
If he has always been like this I have no trouble understanding why nobody would like to fund his ideas... They might be nice ideas, but untill you can show something that really is better than 20 year old proven techniques you might not get others enthousiastic about it. There are tons of people who think they can do it all better.
Then he says his users are idiots because they asked for more, now what company would want to hire a guy which calls his customers idiots???
Jeroen
You can charge for writting it.
Most software in use is special purpose.
It actually makes sense for a customer to want his program to be gpled, he is not dependant on the original supplier for later upgrades.
(Although usually the original supplier is the best place to go for such things as they have the best knowledge of both the product and your setup).
Jeroen
Actually SCO has some legal blurb kissing the current US governments ass on their ftp server (ftp.sco.com).
Don't know how long it has been there....
Jeroen
Best yet: Alan Cox did much of the SMP work that lead to the 2.0.0 kernel on a machine he got from caldera!
Jeroen
Just came in:
Novell has sent a public reaction to SCO that they have used the letter 'O' for years in their name and are certain they didn't sell it to SCO.
Later today IBM is expected to state that they have a irevokable en perpetual license to use the 'I', 'B' and 'M' letters.
Further Linus has stated that he holds his parents responsible for cut&pasting the letter 'S' into his name shortly after birth: 'You can't blame me I was like a baby at that time!'
Jeroen
They even have a new title for him: 'leader of the shared software movement' whatever that means...
Jeroen
Please don't feed the trolls.....
It has the same old nonsense:
-We have to do all the work for the rest of the world to leach
-Compiling with GCC makes program GPLed
-GPL is keeping linux back
Jeroen
Wideband outputs are totally useless for drm.
These outputs are past the demodulater, so you get a unfiltered basenband signal.
You need a IF signal as that still has the properties of the RF signal. Most smallband FM rigs or AM rigs have a second IF of 455 or 473 Khz which can be mixed down to 12Khz rather easily. This can then be sampled with an audio card.
Jeroen
Is Antarctica removed in the US version of the world? I remember six continents....
Jeroen
For those wondering: panacea
Jeroen
You forgot the most important guideline:
No blowing up before, during or after flight
Jeroen
They are using private and public keys for the channels, so only the channels private key owner can transmit.
Jeroen
Lets add 'Anonymous Coward' to the top shall we?
Jeroen
ok, typo: xvid IS an mpeg4 codec.
Jeroen
xvid is not a mpeg4 codec, which means you are going to get sued over patent infrigment if you do anything big with it.
Theora is a standard on itself (not just an implementation) supposedly free of patents.
Jeroen