He says maybe they can work out some way to get extorted like they did five years ago, but they aren't confident about it, and probably won't be able to afford it.
When was MP3 ever considered unencumbered? It was always covered by patents. MS is just saying that it got its licence from Fraunhofer like everyone else.
The whole point of the development of Ogg was that MP3 was and has always been encumbered by patents.
Let me put this as a normal user forgetting my Unix roots, users want a software which runs almost flawlessly with minimum fuss. They don't care if its under GPL, under LGPL or any STFU license.What Ubuntu is doing is in the best interests of the consumers.
Yes, that is what users want. But the bigger picture is that Gnu/Linux would not exist if it were not for the GPL. Period. If not for the GPL, Linux would have gone the way of Unix, which is on the way to dead. Gnu/Linux is the best shot for providing people with what they want, "a software which runs almost flawlessly with minimum fuss". But if you screw the GPL, then you don't get Gnu/Linux
Did anyone take a look at the web site for the Zune Store? Someone seemed to be trying just a little too hard to sound hip, and it comes off sounding hilarious. For example, from http://www.zune.net/en-us/meetzune/zunetozuneshari ng.htm
"Mama always said to share. Now you have an opportunity to do it with music and photos. With wireless Zune to Zune sharing you can send your favorite tracks and photos to friends.[1]
Picture this: You're walking down the street. Or you're in a room with a bunch of friends. Or at a concert. Or at the airport. Or on the bus (you get the picture) and then you whip out your Zune and see all these other Zune devices around that you can choose from. Zap! You're connected to your best friend and send the new song your band recorded in the garage last weekend. Another friend gets the hilarious podcast your kid brother made at school, plus that song you just downloaded from the Zune Marketplace and can't get out of your head. And hey, lookee here, your friend wants to send you something that you might like and buy, too."
you gotta love the cool talk complete with a foot note to remind you about the DRM on the sharing
No Shit. RMS may not have the most endearing personnality, but he is a genius (and not just because he got the McArther grant).
Some Open Source people have been dissing the GPL for years, saying it is too much of a burden and gets in the way of some development (for example, the QT kerfuffle before it went GPL), but RMS was visionary enough to see this day coming, and we are all glad that he did.
It's his long-view vision that will not allow just an MS-blessed version of Linux to be distributed.
This wasn't "a statement in the media". If you RTFA, you will see that this is on page 21 in IBM's Amended Redacted Memorandum in Support of its Motion for Summary Judgment on SCO's Interference Claims (SCO's Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Causes of Action). This is a court document, with much of it redacted. Hardly a "statement in the media".
Give me a friggin' break. Reagan didn't defeat the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was running on a bankrupt form of government called communism. Communism just doesn't work, as it sucks all the ambition from its citizens, who learn to just be dependent on the state, and as a results, productivity plummets to nothing. It was only a matter of time before it collapsed under its own weight. That happened to have occurred when Reagan was president.
Actually, in nmy experience (New York State, probably similar to Massachusetts) it is the other way around. Whereas private companies are allowed to selectively bid projects or select contractors who are most advantageous on the whole, public projects require open bidding and selection of the lowest bidder, no ifs ands or buts. This is for construction work, not professional work (like the design itself).
"You also often lose the ability to embed fonts, and it just creates representations of the characters that look crap when zoomed in on, which also tends to make the file much larger."
No it doesn't. PDFCreator and for that matter and print-to-PDF applications generate vector PDFs, not bitmap PDFs.
ALso, nobody has mentioned that Word Perfect has had export to PDF since at least 2000. There is obviously something fishy about this story. Most likely a combination of poor reporting and MS spin to make sure it will look like Adobe's fault if PDF isn't in vista or the new Office.
Radioparadise.com puts it well on their website (http://www.radioparadise.com/content.php?name=FAQ #160):
-----------
How do the artists you play get paid?
We pay fees to the industry groups ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC (who represent songwriters & publishers) in very much the same way that an FM station does. These fees are distributed to songwriters & publishers based on periodic airplay surveys & reports.
In addition, Internet radio stations are subject to additional copyright fees (performace royalties), paid to yet another industry group called SoundExchange. They represent performers and record companies - mostly the latter, since they are a de-facto arm of the infamous Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). RP pays a surprisingly hefty fee to SoundExchange each year, which is distributed to artists and record labels.
FM & AM Broadcast stations in the US are not required to pay performance royalties at all (though they do in Europe & elsewhere). Satellite broadcasters like XM & Sirius pay them, but at a significantly lower rate than Internet stations like RP. Due primarily to our lack of clout with the US Congress and the Copyright Office, legally operated Internet stations like RP pay the highest royalty rates - by far - of any class of broadcaster in the US.
No, just the one word was right. Jobs. I have lived in Boston and the San Francisco Bay area and Buffalo is where I prefer... if you can get a good job. Perfect quality of life and climate (the snow is no big deal, not much different from when I grew up in Boston, and besides, it makes for great skiing). And as the article indirectly points out, real estate is very cheap. While only a fool would buy a house sight unseen in the East Side, my half acre lot with a beautiful ranch house and mature trees in an idyllic walkable community is only about $140,000 according to the bank. Of course, the reason things are so cheap is because of the lack of jobs.
I like to have people repeat the snow boogieman line, though. It helps keep the riff raff out!
You're completely missing the point. Nobody is complaining about having the consumer pay more for his broadband than for his dial-up (for example). The issue is charging a company providing content more depending on what the nature of the packets are.
I am quite sure that Google doesn't pay 29.95 a month for it's internet access like I do for my DSL line. They already pay quite a bit more for their bigger pipe. Market forces will surely regulate how much they pay for a given bandwidth, and that is good and should continue.
But one company should not be charged more to get preferential treatment of specific packets. That becomes an issue of controling the content on the internet, not the speed. That is the problem that people are concerned about.
Getting back to consumer-level ISPs, If ISPs are concerned that, say, VOIP will use too much total bandwidth compared to what they expected to provide for an infrstructure built for a 29.95/mo. fee, then they can put a cap on the total number of packets per month. That would suck since I like to listen to streaming audio (am right now), but if that is the alternative to packet-specific speed differences, I'll take it.
It should only perplex you if you thinking of the word free with respect to cost issues. While dictionary.com is hardly authoritative, if you go there, the definition of "free" that has to do with cost of an item is way down the list as the 7th definition listed.
The first definition, related to whether or not you are in jail, doesn't apply here. But the definition numbers 2, 4 and 5 of "free" is what is intended by the term "free software". Specifically, that the software is, for example, "Not affected or restricted by a given condition".
It is a common mistake for people who see the term "free software" to read "free" in the sense that is way down in the No. 7 spot on the definition of this term. However, the term is meant to be used by the more common definitions that refer to freedom.
P.S. I am aware that actually the GPL does in fact impose quite a few restrictions on you if you choose to accept the license, so even it isn't totally free by that definition. But most people tend to think those restrictions (i.e. that you must supply source code, that you can't incorporate into proprietary code) are good in the big picture.
Nobody has it as right as FastMail does. Those guys are incredible. I go with the enhanced account and it is worth every penny and more. I find myself going more and more to their web interface for my mail rather than just using Thunderbird. I never thought that would happen. Why can't every IMAP client have a "delete and [next|mailbox|previous]" set of options.
The word "filter" is used figuratively. If you read the article, they are talking about dissolved U. You can't filter out dissolved materials. What they almost certainly meant by "filtering" is ion exchange. This is where the uranium ions (actually, probably a uranium oxide or other anion, I forget right now) is passed over an ion exchange bed where some innocuous anion (like chloride) gives up its seat and the U-anion sits down. Once equilibrium or physical saturation is reached, the resin is taken off line. Now, either you dispose of this resin in a secure place, or you can regenerate the resin using a regenerant solution that redisolves the U-anion. The goal is that you use *much* less regenerant than you treat in the form of groundwater. Thus you have concentrated the material into a smaller volume for further treatment.
I shouldn't have to state the obvious, but just to remind everyone, you can not *destroy* radionuclides, or nay sort of metals for that matter. You can only move them from one place to another. Typically the effort is to move them out of stuff like groundwater that is being drunk, and into some safe storage place where people aren't going to. If you don't like placing them in a "safe storage area", then all you can do is leave it in the groundwater, then.
Although I never used either of my I-openers as it was intended (both run Linux), I understand that the software they provided included a port of Realplayer that I-Opener ported to QNX themselves. IIRC, they made a deal with Real Networks to start from the Linux code for Realplayer to do the port. So yes, it could do digital internet audio, at least for.ra files (I think it was RA 5, which didn't do MP3s).
What you say is true, but you have to give VA some "pioneer credit". They were on of the first, if not the first actively selling Linux boxes. I first recall them back in 1994 when they were still called Fintronic. I suppose they started earlier than that. OK, sure that isn't 1991. But were you using Linux, or even better, selling, Linux in 1994?
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, it's Monday today so It's my turn to be his google.
http://ipaction.org/action/perform/
OK, doesn't actually mandate TPM OS's, but it's a slippery slope from there...
Bill from RP covers that at http://www.saveourinternetradio.com/
He says maybe they can work out some way to get extorted like they did five years ago, but they aren't confident about it, and probably won't be able to afford it.
When was MP3 ever considered unencumbered? It was always covered by patents. MS is just saying that it got its licence from Fraunhofer like everyone else.
The whole point of the development of Ogg was that MP3 was and has always been encumbered by patents.
According to MathFox on Groklaw (sitting in for PJ during her health break - we hope that's all it is),
"These documents are all public domain materials by order of the judge in the case."
Yes, that is what users want. But the bigger picture is that Gnu/Linux would not exist if it were not for the GPL. Period. If not for the GPL, Linux would have gone the way of Unix, which is on the way to dead. Gnu/Linux is the best shot for providing people with what they want, "a software which runs almost flawlessly with minimum fuss". But if you screw the GPL, then you don't get Gnu/Linux
you gotta love the cool talk complete with a foot note to remind you about the DRM on the sharing
No Shit. RMS may not have the most endearing personnality, but he is a genius (and not just because he got the McArther grant).
Some Open Source people have been dissing the GPL for years, saying it is too much of a burden and gets in the way of some development (for example, the QT kerfuffle before it went GPL), but RMS was visionary enough to see this day coming, and we are all glad that he did.
It's his long-view vision that will not allow just an MS-blessed version of Linux to be distributed.
This wasn't "a statement in the media". If you RTFA, you will see that this is on page 21 in IBM's Amended Redacted Memorandum in Support of its Motion for Summary Judgment on SCO's Interference Claims (SCO's Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Causes of Action). This is a court document, with much of it redacted. Hardly a "statement in the media".
Saw this book in a bookstore in the ADKs last summer (not far from the border...): http://www.amazon.com/How-Move-Canada-Primer-Ameri cans/dp/0312349866/sr=1-1/qid=1159893980/ref=pd_bb s_1/102-2225495-4131348?ie=UTF8&s=books
RTFA
Exit polls were pioneered by Mitsofsky (spelling?) in 1967.
Truman was in the 1940s
Give me a friggin' break. Reagan didn't defeat the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was running on a bankrupt form of government called communism. Communism just doesn't work, as it sucks all the ambition from its citizens, who learn to just be dependent on the state, and as a results, productivity plummets to nothing. It was only a matter of time before it collapsed under its own weight. That happened to have occurred when Reagan was president.
Actually, in nmy experience (New York State, probably similar to Massachusetts) it is the other way around. Whereas private companies are allowed to selectively bid projects or select contractors who are most advantageous on the whole, public projects require open bidding and selection of the lowest bidder, no ifs ands or buts. This is for construction work, not professional work (like the design itself).
"You also often lose the ability to embed fonts, and it just creates representations of the characters that look crap when zoomed in on, which also tends to make the file much larger."
No it doesn't. PDFCreator and for that matter and print-to-PDF applications generate vector PDFs, not bitmap PDFs.
ALso, nobody has mentioned that Word Perfect has had export to PDF since at least 2000. There is obviously something fishy about this story. Most likely a combination of poor reporting and MS spin to make sure it will look like Adobe's fault if PDF isn't in vista or the new Office.
Radioparadise.com puts it well on their website (http://www.radioparadise.com/content.php?name=FAQ #160):
-----------
How do the artists you play get paid?
We pay fees to the industry groups ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC (who represent songwriters & publishers) in very much the same way that an FM station does. These fees are distributed to songwriters & publishers based on periodic airplay surveys & reports.
In addition, Internet radio stations are subject to additional copyright fees (performace royalties), paid to yet another industry group called SoundExchange. They represent performers and record companies - mostly the latter, since they are a de-facto arm of the infamous Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). RP pays a surprisingly hefty fee to SoundExchange each year, which is distributed to artists and record labels.
FM & AM Broadcast stations in the US are not required to pay performance royalties at all (though they do in Europe & elsewhere). Satellite broadcasters like XM & Sirius pay them, but at a significantly lower rate than Internet stations like RP. Due primarily to our lack of clout with the US Congress and the Copyright Office, legally operated Internet stations like RP pay the highest royalty rates - by far - of any class of broadcaster in the US.
No, just the one word was right. Jobs. I have lived in Boston and the San Francisco Bay area and Buffalo is where I prefer... if you can get a good job. Perfect quality of life and climate (the snow is no big deal, not much different from when I grew up in Boston, and besides, it makes for great skiing). And as the article indirectly points out, real estate is very cheap. While only a fool would buy a house sight unseen in the East Side, my half acre lot with a beautiful ranch house and mature trees in an idyllic walkable community is only about $140,000 according to the bank. Of course, the reason things are so cheap is because of the lack of jobs.
I like to have people repeat the snow boogieman line, though. It helps keep the riff raff out!
You're completely missing the point. Nobody is complaining about having the consumer pay more for his broadband than for his dial-up (for example). The issue is charging a company providing content more depending on what the nature of the packets are.
I am quite sure that Google doesn't pay 29.95 a month for it's internet access like I do for my DSL line. They already pay quite a bit more for their bigger pipe. Market forces will surely regulate how much they pay for a given bandwidth, and that is good and should continue.
But one company should not be charged more to get preferential treatment of specific packets. That becomes an issue of controling the content on the internet, not the speed. That is the problem that people are concerned about.
Getting back to consumer-level ISPs, If ISPs are concerned that, say, VOIP will use too much total bandwidth compared to what they expected to provide for an infrstructure built for a 29.95/mo. fee, then they can put a cap on the total number of packets per month. That would suck since I like to listen to streaming audio (am right now), but if that is the alternative to packet-specific speed differences, I'll take it.
It should only perplex you if you thinking of the word free with respect to cost issues. While dictionary.com is hardly authoritative, if you go there, the definition of "free" that has to do with cost of an item is way down the list as the 7th definition listed.
The first definition, related to whether or not you are in jail, doesn't apply here. But the definition numbers 2, 4 and 5 of "free" is what is intended by the term "free software". Specifically, that the software is, for example, "Not affected or restricted by a given condition".
It is a common mistake for people who see the term "free software" to read "free" in the sense that is way down in the No. 7 spot on the definition of this term. However, the term is meant to be used by the more common definitions that refer to freedom.
P.S. I am aware that actually the GPL does in fact impose quite a few restrictions on you if you choose to accept the license, so even it isn't totally free by that definition. But most people tend to think those restrictions (i.e. that you must supply source code, that you can't incorporate into proprietary code) are good in the big picture.
Word!
Nobody has it as right as FastMail does. Those guys are incredible. I go with the enhanced account and it is worth every penny and more. I find myself going more and more to their web interface for my mail rather than just using Thunderbird. I never thought that would happen. Why can't every IMAP client have a "delete and [next|mailbox|previous]" set of options.
Don't be so confident
http://www.mediastudy.com/cm.html
I take it you haven't read any bylines on NYT recently (ever?). Unlike most papers, the NYT writes virtually all their own articles.
Aren't the tops of the towers of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge 2 inches further apart than at the base? OK, so the VN bridge isn't a house.
The word "filter" is used figuratively. If you read the article, they are talking about dissolved U. You can't filter out dissolved materials. What they almost certainly meant by "filtering" is ion exchange. This is where the uranium ions (actually, probably a uranium oxide or other anion, I forget right now) is passed over an ion exchange bed where some innocuous anion (like chloride) gives up its seat and the U-anion sits down. Once equilibrium or physical saturation is reached, the resin is taken off line. Now, either you dispose of this resin in a secure place, or you can regenerate the resin using a regenerant solution that redisolves the U-anion. The goal is that you use *much* less regenerant than you treat in the form of groundwater. Thus you have concentrated the material into a smaller volume for further treatment.
I shouldn't have to state the obvious, but just to remind everyone, you can not *destroy* radionuclides, or nay sort of metals for that matter. You can only move them from one place to another. Typically the effort is to move them out of stuff like groundwater that is being drunk, and into some safe storage place where people aren't going to. If you don't like placing them in a "safe storage area", then all you can do is leave it in the groundwater, then.
Although I never used either of my I-openers as it was intended (both run Linux), I understand that the software they provided included a port of Realplayer that I-Opener ported to QNX themselves. IIRC, they made a deal with Real Networks to start from the Linux code for Realplayer to do the port. So yes, it could do digital internet audio, at least for .ra files (I think it was RA 5, which didn't do MP3s).
What you say is true, but you have to give VA some "pioneer credit". They were on of the first, if not the first actively selling Linux boxes. I first recall them back in 1994 when they were still called Fintronic. I suppose they started earlier than that. OK, sure that isn't 1991. But were you using Linux, or even better, selling, Linux in 1994?
http://www.trolltech.com/company/announce/gpl.html
Note the date: Sept. 2000