If it were a propritary system you could be waiting months or years for support that might not come.
I'm not sure quite how to break this to you, but the essential problem is that the architecture of professional sound cards is a propriatary system.
You cannot write a driver worth a crap against a secret spec. If the card manufacturers will not release those specs you are stuck waiting for support that might not come.
It isn't enough for your software to be open source. Your hardware must be open spec as well.
There is one thing that can't be outsourced. Culture.
Tea. Porcelain dinnerware. The oxblood and hunter green drawing room. Lacquerware. Sofas.
All elements of classic British culture.
All Chinese.
And for those about to point out the negative aspect of such tranference of Chinese culture to Europe in the form of opium, I'm afraid that that culture is Greco-Roman and came to China in exchange for tea.
The fact, however, that opium is now so firmly embedded in the Western mind as a distinct aspect of Chinese culture only bolsters the argument that culture can be outsourced.
. . . Yugoslavia was under US sanctions at the time. ..
You will probably find, if you examine your own passport, a notation to the effect that, while you are requested to contact the State Department before visiting certain countries, the American government has no authority to restrict the travel of citizens.
Sanctions, legally, only restrict trade, not travel, so the issue devolves to how much money Fisher left behind or took out of Yugoslavia.
Exactly. Which means the handful of potential terrorists dissappear in the noise while the tens of thousands of perfectly innocent travelers are all equally suspect of being terrorists.
They all end up being treated the same, whether that be well or poorly and you could make 6 months at Guantanamo a prerequitie for getting on a puddle jumper and it wouldn't do anything to prevent terrorism, but would destroy any number of innocent lives.
The violin dates from the 1600s. While it has undergone a certain amount of "support" since then it is essentially the same tool as designed by Amati. Some consider it one of the finest tools ever devised by man. Many of the older ones are considered superior to the newer ones.
I have an automotive body hammer that is nearly identical to a 1500s war hammer, although the upgrade to a fiberglass handle is a nice touch for reducing shock. The basic design goes back some thousands of years with little more than some minor updates in materials.
My 100 year old desk holds up my computer just fine. It is as technologically advanced as what I can get new at Office Max, except I expect it can last another few hundered years due to the quality of its construction.
I'm wearing woven fabric clothing, a technology that reaches back at least 10,000 years. There have been a number of attempts to replace this technology over the past 40 years or so. They've all proven inferior except for certain special applications. Hell, even indigo dye for work clothes has proven to be a durable technology for thousands of years that you can still purchase in nearly any clothing store and the "jeans" that are the most common example of the type are about 400 years old (Jacob Davis added rivets to the existing design. He didn't invent the jeans themselves).
I've been watching a new office building go up in town. It's post and beam, about as old a house building technology as you can get, although the building is considered "modern."
I also have a couple of fires that burn continuously in my home. It proves rather useful, although the technology is a bit long in the tooth.
I fully expect that ASCII will be just as viable a way to represent the Latinate alphabet 200 years from now as it was a few decades ago, and the Latinate alphabet is another example of a multithousand year old technology.
Innovation for innovation's sake often "progresses" to the rear.
Build it right and build it good. Don't be afraid to change it when there's damned fine reason to on solid theoretical and practical grounds, but otherwise leave it the hell alone if it works.
That isn't being a Luddite. That's being an engineer.
Mind you I wasn't answering the question directly in the first place, but responding to your repsonse to the reponses, which is something rather different.
So, anybody actually got anything useful to contribute besides Webmin?
Well, I'd like to help out, but vim really is my primary configuration tool, and I believe, after going back and reading the question a few more times, that that actually does answer it.
The right to drink beer anywhere you want isn't, so you can drink it at home but not at the park or on the beach or in your car.
As I may be held criminally liable for saying certain things in certain situations, and civilly liable if I say certain other things in certain situations without a license.
The right to listen to a CD is granted by the purchase of a license.
No. The right to play a CD is granted by the purchase of the physical object. There is no license attached. My wife may listen to the same CD without purchasing anything and the CD, as my property, can be resold with no transfer of the nonexistant license because I have a right, by law not license, to play and transfer ownership of said CD.
If I wish to make 100 copies to distribute to my neighbors I'll need a license, because someone else holds the copyright.
Doesn't theft usually imply that the legitimate owner no longer has the posession in question?
Yes. What's more it implies that you intended that the legitimate owner no longer have posession.
Saying infringing copyright is theft is like saying taking a Georgia stop sign is theft.
Rights of way are infringed, not stolen. The only way a right to copy can be stolen is by stealing the copyright.
Of course the music industry has made something of science of that last, even going so far as to attach "rights" to works that were previously donated into the public domain by the author, in print.
It means that they're planning on covering the bitter poison pill with a primary colored sugar coating that melts your fair use rights in their approved devices (with attached license fees) instead of remaining in your hands.
So, does this mean we're winning? Or just that we're not losing.
It means that they're planning on covering the bitter poison pill with a primary colored sugar coating that melts in their approved devices (with attached license fees) instead of remaining in your hands.
Well, the first person to design the steering wheel probably didn't think to patent it. ..
Especially since he was a ship builder before the founding of the British patent system. Before the adoption of the steering wheel automobiles used tillers. Philology recapitualates ontology.
Engineering evolution, like biological, is often additive rather than innovative. Sometimes this is a Good Thing.
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If it were a propritary system you could be waiting months or years for support that might not come.
I'm not sure quite how to break this to you, but the essential problem is that the architecture of professional sound cards is a propriatary system.
You cannot write a driver worth a crap against a secret spec. If the card manufacturers will not release those specs you are stuck waiting for support that might not come.
It isn't enough for your software to be open source. Your hardware must be open spec as well.
KFG
There is one thing that can't be outsourced. Culture.
Tea. Porcelain dinnerware. The oxblood and hunter green drawing room. Lacquerware. Sofas.
All elements of classic British culture.
All Chinese.
And for those about to point out the negative aspect of such tranference of Chinese culture to Europe in the form of opium, I'm afraid that that culture is Greco-Roman and came to China in exchange for tea.
The fact, however, that opium is now so firmly embedded in the Western mind as a distinct aspect of Chinese culture only bolsters the argument that culture can be outsourced.
KFG
Oh, irony. We don't get much call for that around here.
KFG
Before everything was stored electronically somehow I doubt people obtained sensitive info just because someone forgot to lock a vault door...
Feynman was once able to crack the only safe at Los Alamos that held the collective classified data of the Manhatten project in a matter of seconds.
The Colonel in charge of the project never changed the safe combination from the default. He didn't even know you could do that.
KFG
What's worse for Fischer is that he isn't exactly a sympathetic figure. . .
No. Not exactly.
KFG
What makes us think we can all the sudden implement three very high order rules in a manner which is completely foolproof?
If the Asimov stories are taken seriously, nothing, as explicating the various flaws with such rigid ethical rules was their point.
Anyone who thinks that he was exploring only robotic rules of ethics wasn't paying very much attention either.
KFG
. . . Yugoslavia was under US sanctions at the time. . .
You will probably find, if you examine your own passport, a notation to the effect that, while you are requested to contact the State Department before visiting certain countries, the American government has no authority to restrict the travel of citizens.
Sanctions, legally, only restrict trade, not travel, so the issue devolves to how much money Fisher left behind or took out of Yugoslavia.
KFG
Exactly. Which means the handful of potential terrorists dissappear in the noise while the tens of thousands of perfectly innocent travelers are all equally suspect of being terrorists.
They all end up being treated the same, whether that be well or poorly and you could make 6 months at Guantanamo a prerequitie for getting on a puddle jumper and it wouldn't do anything to prevent terrorism, but would destroy any number of innocent lives.
KFG
If you push it hard enough it will fall over.
KFG
Yes, with Kip Thorne. You can find a reproduction of the actual bet document here:
Penthouse Bet
Word is that Kip's wife was seriously put out about the payoff. Some people just don't appreciate winning.
KFG
The violin dates from the 1600s. While it has undergone a certain amount of "support" since then it is essentially the same tool as designed by Amati. Some consider it one of the finest tools ever devised by man. Many of the older ones are considered superior to the newer ones.
I have an automotive body hammer that is nearly identical to a 1500s war hammer, although the upgrade to a fiberglass handle is a nice touch for reducing shock. The basic design goes back some thousands of years with little more than some minor updates in materials.
My 100 year old desk holds up my computer just fine. It is as technologically advanced as what I can get new at Office Max, except I expect it can last another few hundered years due to the quality of its construction.
I'm wearing woven fabric clothing, a technology that reaches back at least 10,000 years. There have been a number of attempts to replace this technology over the past 40 years or so. They've all proven inferior except for certain special applications. Hell, even indigo dye for work clothes has proven to be a durable technology for thousands of years that you can still purchase in nearly any clothing store and the "jeans" that are the most common example of the type are about 400 years old (Jacob Davis added rivets to the existing design. He didn't invent the jeans themselves).
I've been watching a new office building go up in town. It's post and beam, about as old a house building technology as you can get, although the building is considered "modern."
I also have a couple of fires that burn continuously in my home. It proves rather useful, although the technology is a bit long in the tooth.
I fully expect that ASCII will be just as viable a way to represent the Latinate alphabet 200 years from now as it was a few decades ago, and the Latinate alphabet is another example of a multithousand year old technology.
Innovation for innovation's sake often "progresses" to the rear.
Build it right and build it good. Don't be afraid to change it when there's damned fine reason to on solid theoretical and practical grounds, but otherwise leave it the hell alone if it works.
That isn't being a Luddite. That's being an engineer.
KFG
Eccentric billionaire with a vision?
That seems to be Rutan's take.
KFG
How can we survive?
Produce something useful, for a start.
KFG
And regexp.
Mind you I wasn't answering the question directly in the first place, but responding to your repsonse to the reponses, which is something rather different.
KFG
What value does this answer add to the discussion? Esecially since so many before you have given the same answer.
Only that so many give that same answer I suppose.
KFG
Actually, I think that's a pretty good idea under most circumstances these days.
KFG
So, anybody actually got anything useful to contribute besides Webmin?
Well, I'd like to help out, but vim really is my primary configuration tool, and I believe, after going back and reading the question a few more times, that that actually does answer it.
KFG
The right to drink beer anywhere you want isn't, so you can drink it at home but not at the park or on the beach or in your car.
As I may be held criminally liable for saying certain things in certain situations, and civilly liable if I say certain other things in certain situations without a license.
The right to listen to a CD is granted by the purchase of a license.
No. The right to play a CD is granted by the purchase of the physical object. There is no license attached. My wife may listen to the same CD without purchasing anything and the CD, as my property, can be resold with no transfer of the nonexistant license because I have a right, by law not license, to play and transfer ownership of said CD.
If I wish to make 100 copies to distribute to my neighbors I'll need a license, because someone else holds the copyright.
KFG
Rights that are so "compromised" cease to be rights.
KFG
Doesn't theft usually imply that the legitimate owner no longer has the posession in question?
Yes. What's more it implies that you intended that the legitimate owner no longer have posession.
Saying infringing copyright is theft is like saying taking a Georgia stop sign is theft.
Rights of way are infringed, not stolen. The only way a right to copy can be stolen is by stealing the copyright.
Of course the music industry has made something of science of that last, even going so far as to attach "rights" to works that were previously donated into the public domain by the author, in print.
KFG
It means that they're planning on covering the bitter poison pill with a primary colored sugar coating that melts your fair use rights in their approved devices (with attached license fees) instead of remaining in your hands.
KFG
So, does this mean we're winning? Or just that we're not losing.
It means that they're planning on covering the bitter poison pill with a primary colored sugar coating that melts in their approved devices (with attached license fees) instead of remaining in your hands.
KFG
Does anyone know what the minimum specs are ?
New box.
KFG
Well, the first person to design the steering wheel probably didn't think to patent it. . .
Especially since he was a ship builder before the founding of the British patent system. Before the adoption of the steering wheel automobiles used tillers. Philology recapitualates ontology.
Engineering evolution, like biological, is often additive rather than innovative. Sometimes this is a Good Thing.
KFG
As well as product placement you now have comarketing, which reduces the entire movie to one big commercial.
Of course the Saturday morning kiddie shows made an art form of this a couple of decades ago.
KFG