...should campuses be buying music subscriptions for their students? Do they buy magazines, etc? Nope. I see things like that and then see the universities plead poverty....
Their preliminary data suggest that a coin will land the same way it started about 51 percent of the time. It would take about 10,000 tosses before a casual observer would become aware of such a small bias
...how on earth did they quantify that "10,000 tosses" number? Methinks they might have pulled that number out of thin air.
Apple has DRM'd extensions to AAC and they haven't affected my use of non-DRM'd.m4a's at all. At least at this stage of the game, the news about what Frauhnhoffer doing is Much Ado About Nothing. They just see the commercial world going AAC and WMV and want in.
I agree your original post didn't deserve a flamebait rating. However, I will say I don't believe that forks will cause fragmentation; in fact, I think different distros contribute to the versatility of linux. That's my own opinion, and you're entitled to your own =)
I agree with you with the caveat that there could be too much of a good thing, especially when different distros do the same things in different manners. Yeah, the LSB tried to address that in part, but we see what's happened with that. Yes, having the One True Distribution wouldn't be a good thing, but I think enough distros to count on one hand wouldn't be too many nor too few (personally, I have Mandrake here).
I'm not so sure incompatibility issues are a problem with forks, because most programmers try to get people to use their fork, and they won't intentionally break stuff. This is true even when you are making a new version of an application.
Of course, there IS a difference between forking and using a different prog for the graphical display; it would upset a lot of things if something other than X was used as a desktop; but if that alternative was close to X, then all it would take is some rewrites and dep changes (OK so it would be more complicated, but not impossible) and then everything would be fine after that change.
To me, that gets to the "well, Redhat uses this, SUSE that, Mandrake this...." etc. That kind of fragmentation is not good. Choice is good. Too much choice isn't. As you point out, some of what happens, re. forking is destructive, but it is also very constructive (i.e. competition) and I don't think it means linux will die.
Ah, I didn't say die; I said "downfall." This a 'neath the hood/administrative commentary along the lines of the CUPS commentary by ESR. Linux ain't gonna make it out of geekdom until people get on the same page. Or at least in the same chapter. It won't die...but it won't mature.
What do you mean? How will it be the downfall of linux? Some people don't like the way a project is going, so they start a fork with the same codebase. People choose the best of the two forks, and then most people go to the new fork.
Sure, it seems bad while it's happening, but in the end you get a better product. Often projects get way too political and forking is a way to bypass that bureaucratic nightmare.
Do you get a better product? Maybe...BUT, and this a big but, what about the products that have to choose which fork to follow when they've diverged far enough to be incompatible? Which version of X am I going to write GeeWhizMaGraph to use? These forks are even worse overall than distro fragmentation looking at linux at a macro level.
Whoever modded my original post as flamebait can bite me. Get a clue.
...consistently crashes Word X on open on my Mac like it's corrupted...but it's not. Any other Mac folk notice anything weird? I've had more Word crashes in the last 5 minutes with it than I have in the past 2 years. Could this be one of the new funky 2003 XML hybrid docs? If so, they're stooooopid for releasing a white paper in it.
So the situation is not working in anybody's favour, neither the american worker's who lost the jobs,nor the indian techies who gained them. I guess the only winner is corporate america.
Short term, 'til they discover that there aren't enough Americans around with high-paying jobs to buy their product...and then they'll discover that India and and China or wherever aren't interested in our products, only our jobs and our $$$.
For better or worse. We don't HAVE a national ID. There is no card that identifies you as a US citizen. Closest thing is a passport, and that is an optional travel document.
Eh? I'd submit that it's your Social Security Card/number. How many attempts are there to make that into the de facto standard for ID? You can make it to a ripe age without a passport, but try doing anything without an SSN.
was coming home from a party in LA thrown by CRAPTV (the folks who brought us 'Orgasmo') and I made the mistake of getting a ride from a fellow party goer who was slightly tipsy. The cops stopped her after she made a right turn from the left lane. At the time, all I had was a Hawaii state ID. The cops couldn't find me in the computer system, so they said, "Well, legally, we can hold you for up to three days while we try to find out who you are." I was in a cell for eight hours. Finally they came in and said, "We found you. You're free to go." No apology, of course. Welcome to Kalifornia, may we see your papers?
You were a passenger? And you were sober? When did this happen?
But in the ideal case, at least going to court gives you a chance to proove your innocence and set a precidence against the RIAA's case.
Yeah, but the problem is that under all US laws they're guilty as charged. That's why the RIAA can be so heavy-handed; they have good cases. All of the sophists talking about "information can't be property" are just fooling themselves. It is now, and now is when the lawsuits are. The money in your bank account is just an intangible amount of bits and bytes. Does that give me the right to transfer those bits and bytes to my account? It's just information, after all....
...will get reported to Spamcop and then badmouthed "Yeah, KerBush said he could make my dick bigger..." Seriously, they have the law on their side, but morally they're no different than any other spammer.
I touch-screen voted two weeks ago in the Virginia primary (not a Deibold machine, but the other guys whose names escape me now; I didn't RTFA). It was very easy to use and gave good feedback for when an item was selected. It then presented a summary of what you'd chosen at the final Vote screen. However, since the election was solely for the VA primary (no other votes or referenda), it was hard to see how effective the summary page would be with many votes and issues. That being said, I have no idea if my vote counted, or if someone hacked in and made Kerry the winner.:-)
So if I decide I don't like the terms of the GPL, I can just take their software and violate their copyright?
That's completely incomparable. If something is GPLed, you can take it and combine it with other GPLed code, without violating anything. As it fucking should be.
Yeah, so what if want to take it and stick with something that's not GPL'd and say "fuck you, I'm a code artist, I can do whatever I want. Fuck you and the license you rode in on." That is the analogue of this musical situation.
Anything that helps destroy their hegemony I'm all in favor of; they're worse than Microsoft and Wal-Mart together in my book. Luckily for the me, the wifal unit doesn't hates diamonds so I've never had to buy one.
..nasty reviews made by rivals should be revealable as well. The one author interviewed said that he did it to couteract rivals who he felt were trashing his book.
Cynical me wonders how much of that statement is really truth, and how of of it's trying to mitigate looking like a total butthead. How do they know if the other posters were their rivals...when they were anonymous, too--or at least anonymous at the times of the postings.
Now they can say that any exploits would be due to having access to the source code, and not due to their inherent flaws. Sheer genius. Good PR, and they can now point to how good security through obscurity is, and about those OS's where the source code is available....
For instance, I heard that Giant [the grocery store chain] made more last year selling data about their customers than in profits from items sold in their store. In some ways, this is good to the customers, as it allows them to find an alternate revenue stream, and keep their prices down.
Is that really true? I googled and couldn't find any reference to that.
If it is, I wonder if Safeway does the same thing....
The author of this publication is CPRR.org, a pseudonym. The author, an individual scholar who is not a Counsellor at Law, asserts moral rights And silly me thought that was written by Oliver Wendell Holmes...
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...should campuses be buying music subscriptions for their students? Do they buy magazines, etc? Nope. I see things like that and then see the universities plead poverty....
Their preliminary data suggest that a coin will land the same way it started about 51 percent of the time. It would take about 10,000 tosses before a casual observer would become aware of such a small bias
...how on earth did they quantify that "10,000 tosses" number? Methinks they might have pulled that number out of thin air.
Hey, at least it came with a keyboard template. I'm still looking for my vi template!
:-)
Funny? I was being serious!!! Between vi and emacs, no one can ever complain about WordPerfect (except Mac users, of course).
Apple has DRM'd extensions to AAC and they haven't affected my use of non-DRM'd .m4a's at all.
At least at this stage of the game, the news about what Frauhnhoffer doing is Much Ado About Nothing. They just see the commercial world going AAC and WMV and want in.
They wanna know where they can buy those funky plastic sheets you put over the keyboard to remind you what Ctrl_Shift_Alt_F5 means in WordPerfect.
Hey, at least it came with a keyboard template. I'm still looking for my vi template!
I agree your original post didn't deserve a flamebait rating. However, I will say I don't believe that forks will cause fragmentation; in fact, I think different distros contribute to the versatility of linux. That's my own opinion, and you're entitled to your own =)
I agree with you with the caveat that there could be too much of a good thing, especially when different distros do the same things in different manners. Yeah, the LSB tried to address that in part, but we see what's happened with that. Yes, having the One True Distribution wouldn't be a good thing, but I think enough distros to count on one hand wouldn't be too many nor too few (personally, I have Mandrake here).
I'm not so sure incompatibility issues are a problem with forks, because most programmers try to get people to use their fork, and they won't intentionally break stuff. This is true even when you are making a new version of an application.
Of course, there IS a difference between forking and using a different prog for the graphical display; it would upset a lot of things if something other than X was used as a desktop; but if that alternative was close to X, then all it would take is some rewrites and dep changes (OK so it would be more complicated, but not impossible) and then everything would be fine after that change.
To me, that gets to the "well, Redhat uses this, SUSE that, Mandrake this...." etc. That kind of fragmentation is not good. Choice is good. Too much choice isn't.
As you point out, some of what happens, re. forking is destructive, but it is also very constructive (i.e. competition) and I don't think it means linux will die.
Ah, I didn't say die; I said "downfall." This a 'neath the hood/administrative commentary along the lines of the CUPS commentary by ESR. Linux ain't gonna make it out of geekdom until people get on the same page. Or at least in the same chapter. It won't die...but it won't mature.
What do you mean? How will it be the downfall of linux? Some people don't like the way a project is going, so they start a fork with the same codebase. People choose the best of the two forks, and then most people go to the new fork.
Sure, it seems bad while it's happening, but in the end you get a better product. Often projects get way too political and forking is a way to bypass that bureaucratic nightmare.
Do you get a better product? Maybe...BUT, and this a big but, what about the products that have to choose which fork to follow when they've diverged far enough to be incompatible? Which version of X am I going to write GeeWhizMaGraph to use? These forks are even worse overall than distro fragmentation looking at linux at a macro level.
Whoever modded my original post as flamebait can bite me. Get a clue.
These licensing problems and forks will turn out to be the downfall of Linux.
...consistently crashes Word X on open on my Mac like it's corrupted...but it's not. Any other Mac folk notice anything weird? I've had more Word crashes in the last 5 minutes with it than I have in the past 2 years.
Could this be one of the new funky 2003 XML hybrid docs? If so, they're stooooopid for releasing a white paper in it.
So the situation is not working in anybody's favour, neither the american worker's who lost the jobs,nor the indian techies who gained them. I guess the only winner is corporate america.
Short term, 'til they discover that there aren't enough Americans around with high-paying jobs to buy their product...and then they'll discover that India and and China or wherever aren't interested in our products, only our jobs and our $$$.
For better or worse. We don't HAVE a national ID. There is no card that identifies you as a US citizen. Closest thing is a passport, and that is an optional travel document.
Eh? I'd submit that it's your Social Security Card/number. How many attempts are there to make that into the de facto standard for ID? You can make it to a ripe age without a passport, but try doing anything without an SSN.
was coming home from a party in LA thrown by CRAPTV (the folks who brought us 'Orgasmo') and I made the mistake of getting a ride from a fellow party goer who was slightly tipsy. The cops stopped her after she made a right turn from the left lane. At the time, all I had was a Hawaii state ID. The cops couldn't find me in the computer system, so they said, "Well, legally, we can hold you for up to three days while we try to find out who you are." I was in a cell for eight hours. Finally they came in and said, "We found you. You're free to go." No apology, of course. Welcome to Kalifornia, may we see your papers?
You were a passenger? And you were sober? When did this happen?
But in the ideal case, at least going to court gives you a chance to proove your innocence and set a precidence against the RIAA's case.
Yeah, but the problem is that under all US laws they're guilty as charged. That's why the RIAA can be so heavy-handed; they have good cases.
All of the sophists talking about "information can't be property" are just fooling themselves. It is now, and now is when the lawsuits are. The money in your bank account is just an intangible amount of bits and bytes. Does that give me the right to transfer those bits and bytes to my account? It's just information, after all....
...will get reported to Spamcop and then badmouthed "Yeah, KerBush said he could make my dick bigger..."
Seriously, they have the law on their side, but morally they're no different than any other spammer.
I touch-screen voted two weeks ago in the Virginia primary (not a Deibold machine, but the other guys whose names escape me now; I didn't RTFA). It was very easy to use and gave good feedback for when an item was selected. It then presented a summary of what you'd chosen at the final Vote screen. However, since the election was solely for the VA primary (no other votes or referenda), it was hard to see how effective the summary page would be with many votes and issues. :-)
That being said, I have no idea if my vote counted, or if someone hacked in and made Kerry the winner.
So if I decide I don't like the terms of the GPL, I can just take their software and violate their copyright?
That's completely incomparable. If something is GPLed, you can take it and combine it with other GPLed code, without violating anything. As it fucking should be.
Yeah, so what if want to take it and stick with something that's not GPL'd and say "fuck you, I'm a code artist, I can do whatever I want. Fuck you and the license you rode in on." That is the analogue of this musical situation.
Err, the wifal unit hates diamonds...so THAT'S what the preview button is for... :(
Anything that helps destroy their hegemony I'm all in favor of; they're worse than Microsoft and Wal-Mart together in my book.
Luckily for the me, the wifal unit doesn't hates diamonds so I've never had to buy one.
..nasty reviews made by rivals should be revealable as well. The one author interviewed said that he did it to couteract rivals who he felt were trashing his book.
Cynical me wonders how much of that statement is really truth, and how of of it's trying to mitigate looking like a total butthead. How do they know if the other posters were their rivals...when they were anonymous, too--or at least anonymous at the times of the postings.
Serves 'em right. No such as anonymity on the 'net, right John Ashcroft?
Now they can say that any exploits would be due to having access to the source code, and not due to their inherent flaws. Sheer genius. Good PR, and they can now point to how good security through obscurity is, and about those OS's where the source code is available....
Is that really true? I googled and couldn't find any reference to that. If it is, I wonder if Safeway does the same thing....
...says it'll be Apple.
Not Mac compatible (synch wise), I heard.
The author of this publication is CPRR.org, a pseudonym. The author, an individual scholar who is not a Counsellor at Law, asserts moral rights
And silly me thought that was written by Oliver Wendell Holmes...