The source is free, its a gift. If you want to leave strictly because you're being a pain in the ass, then thats fine. They have posted what works for them for anybody to use. What is being described is somethink akin to checking a book out from the library, and then calling the author up and demanding he explain his reasoning behind certain parts. They already gave you the code, if you really don't like it then don't use it. But don't for a moment assume you are owed the privilege of support from them. There is a pretty universal equallizer in this universe called "money". If you don't have the knowledge or resources to do something then "money" can get you there. This applies universally among free and non-free software.
Exactly. Also, if people want help for free software, and they are willing to go out and buy a piece of software if they don't get it, then why aren't they willing to buy help for their free software?
Software is not a scalar. You cannot say x>y when x and y are software products. Your attribution of relative goodness is nonsensical and idiotic. Look at problem, find optimal path to solution, implement solution, compare results. Feature count vs. feature count is absolutely irrelevant and misguided (especially when considering free software solutions which are usually several pieces of interrelated software).
I think learning to type: rc-update add [service-name] [runlevel-name] rc-update del [service-name] rc-update show [runlevel-name]
is definetely not anything a competent admin would have any trouble with whatsoever. In fact, by the time a Windows person can go Start->Settings->Control Panel->Administration Tools->Services->*Find Service*->*Right Click on Service*->Properties and set their service to do as they wish I would have already had my service set up and have been posting this reply on slashdot. Command line's are wonderful administrative utillities if you know how to use it correctly (which isn't hard, but does require a basic level of reading to learn).
Just out of curiosity how much time a day do you spend doing each. And are you married. I am a married typically unhealthy nerd. I used to weight train and stair step for an hour and a half a day (pre-GF [now wife] and pre-working full time) and used to be quite healthy. Now, I find in order to keep my nerdly advantages I spend a lot of time reading tons and tons of material on my own time, and I find less and less time to work out/maintiain home/bills/cleaning/relationships. So just wondering what you do.
Creativity can't be bought. All the best music has been produced either for free or as a service -- a performance -- not as a product.
Plenty of music will be produced forever. Quit freakin'.
If you want accurate snapshots of any point in time, you need to understand the mindset of the people at the time. Given that the popular crap will be the DRM'd crap, future historians will have a very hard time reconstructing accurate depictions of our society. I am not saying everything will be DRM'd, BUT corporations exist for profit and only profit. They will always take the most profitable path regardless of its implications in the future. That together with the fact that most content distributed (whether music, writings, or video) has ever growing popular digital representations means that corporate interests will start to DRM as much as they possibly can to maximize profits. Its what they do, and its what will ultimately destroy a large chunk of human knowledge.
You deserve to lose your music if you're trying to do all those things as root.
Eh, what can the 'install' rule in the Makefile not contain misbehaving commands? It just so happens that, being a true expert, this person audited his code before hand to ensure no nefarious deeds are done by the code.:-P
I'm commenting on the trend, not the time in general. I understand there is tons of crap already in the public domain. And tons of crap already on CD, etc. All I am saying is that greed will drive more and more things to be DRM'd. DRM'd content by its very nature of limiting its useful lifetime will disappear over time, taking a nice large chunk of human knowledge, culture, and history with it.
Additionally, about the support. If there is a huge void in the support of Linux for embedded devices, well doesn't that sound like a market segment that somebody should be looking into? Instrumenting companies in setting up their own industry specific embedded devices.
I've just finished making an embedded linux device using the zaurus hardware. Linux is a god send for smaller companies wanting to make embedded applications on the cheap and easily. I went from newly purchased Zaurus to a complete system with a completely new flashed openzaurus with my application and only the supporting libs we needed in under 2 months. The three points mentioned in the article 1) Incompatibility with software, applications, and drivers *complete bullshit, most linux software is C not asm so it compiles just as well in most cases* 2) Performance or real time capability *There are realtime patches you can apply to the kernel, but I never had to use them so I can't comment directly on this* 3) support *free support, you get what you pay for. The source is there if they really need answers*. That has been my experience with it. As far as actual usage goes, I can't imagine why embedded linux uptake would be slow. I know just for a few things: my Dish network DVR's use it, my Linksys router uses it, and I know of lots of cellphones which use it. Its easy to program for. There are copious freely available and powerful software libs. You get great support from the community if you actually contribute patches. Its almost stupid not to use Linux.
I am not pro-DRM at all. I postulate that Digital Restrictions Management will be the downfall of modern civilization. What good is the corpus of human knowledge available now if it will be locked away giving the privileged paid eye the opportunity for momentary enlightenment and depriving all others of the knowledge which their ancestors helped to construct. Companies die, but now what they produce will die with them if they aren't extremely careful. People of ancient times left everything as legible paper trails. We'll leave a bunch of locked digital content (assuming the content even survives hard drive crashes, since it is illegal to copy to more than X number of devices, and assuming its lease does not just expire). Post catastrophic archaeology will simply be attempting to piece together a nice big heaping corpse of meaningless reports and random e-mails, and trying to descramble an ancient mess of human greed.
But on the other side of the coin, human greed is not limited to those empowered to make things DRM'd. The artists themselves are the ones subscribing to it. They are the ones who's greedy desperation for immortality and fame will in the end destroy their chances of attaining it. Of course, this is just my opinnion, and is very subject to error.
BTW, I was commenting more on the current trends than on the current times in general. Also, records will not last forever and CDs only last as long as they have a willing host to keep them alive (i.e. copy them).
I concur with your statements completely. Find something you need, find code you can use, adapt it, post changes back to open source project, get huge ego boost from the gratitude and fuel for further development and self improvement. You are absolutely right, you must find an application or you will not be motivated. You must take an interest to really learn.
Here let me put your psuedo future into real nerd context here:
# tar -xzvf communism.tar.gz ; cd communism #./configure ; make ; make install # communist-artist-music-search * communist-artist-music-search: This program is just a stub until all those artists start making music for free. # cd.. # tar -xzvf riaa.tar.gz ; cd riaa #./configure ; make ; make install # riaa-artist-music-search "Karl Jenkins" riaa-artist-music-search: Please specify credit card number. # riaa-artist-music-search "Karl Jenkins" 98766542358979 riaa-artist-music-search: All available albums by artist "Karl Jenkins" have been destroyed in the DRM music server fire of 2006. # rm -R ~/.musical_heritage ~/.musical_history # rm -R ~/.human_knowledge
Just because Feed the Children crams you full of images of starving children does not mean that every place over there without power is a desolate hell with no potential for survival. As has been stated many times in previous slashdot stories, the $100 laptop is aimed one level above the people you are talking about. Stable but without power (or questionable power) and without access to computers. They are deprived of opportunity not of food. Furthermore, I personally would love to have a low power wind up computer myself for camping trips and such. Your classification of this as a toy is an uninformed piece of tripe. I have put complete embedded linux system with a lot of functionality on device with only 64MB flash. This has 512MB with a USB port allowing for expansion. It is limited by speed, but that is about as far as that goes. It is still faster than any machine 8 years ago, and they were not considered toys.
MySpace can be pretty obscene itself. On a side note, does it strike anyone else as ludicrous that the source of life and the source of nourishment for a young child are dubbed as "harmful to minors", when they were born of one and suckled on another as a baby?
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The source is free, its a gift. If you want to leave strictly because you're being a pain in the ass, then thats fine. They have posted what works for them for anybody to use. What is being described is somethink akin to checking a book out from the library, and then calling the author up and demanding he explain his reasoning behind certain parts. They already gave you the code, if you really don't like it then don't use it. But don't for a moment assume you are owed the privilege of support from them. There is a pretty universal equallizer in this universe called "money". If you don't have the knowledge or resources to do something then "money" can get you there. This applies universally among free and non-free software.
Exactly. Also, if people want help for free software, and they are willing to go out and buy a piece of software if they don't get it, then why aren't they willing to buy help for their free software?
Software is not a scalar. You cannot say x>y when x and y are software products. Your attribution of relative goodness is nonsensical and idiotic. Look at problem, find optimal path to solution, implement solution, compare results. Feature count vs. feature count is absolutely irrelevant and misguided (especially when considering free software solutions which are usually several pieces of interrelated software).
I think learning to type:
rc-update add [service-name] [runlevel-name]
rc-update del [service-name]
rc-update show [runlevel-name]
is definetely not anything a competent admin would have any trouble with whatsoever. In fact, by the time a Windows person can go Start->Settings->Control Panel->Administration Tools->Services->*Find Service*->*Right Click on Service*->Properties and set their service to do as they wish I would have already had my service set up and have been posting this reply on slashdot. Command line's are wonderful administrative utillities if you know how to use it correctly (which isn't hard, but does require a basic level of reading to learn).
Yeah, personally I wish every distro would just use Gentoo's init system. Out of every Linux system I maintain, it is by far the most beautiful.
I concur.
I would describe my attitude towards Sony as rabid love relative to my attitude toward's Microsoft.
Democracy is, this isn't. This ain't yo daddy's democracy.
You must be referring to Run Length Encoding (RLE).
Just out of curiosity how much time a day do you spend doing each. And are you married. I am a married typically unhealthy nerd. I used to weight train and stair step for an hour and a half a day (pre-GF [now wife] and pre-working full time) and used to be quite healthy. Now, I find in order to keep my nerdly advantages I spend a lot of time reading tons and tons of material on my own time, and I find less and less time to work out/maintiain home/bills/cleaning/relationships. So just wondering what you do.
If you want accurate snapshots of any point in time, you need to understand the mindset of the people at the time. Given that the popular crap will be the DRM'd crap, future historians will have a very hard time reconstructing accurate depictions of our society. I am not saying everything will be DRM'd, BUT corporations exist for profit and only profit. They will always take the most profitable path regardless of its implications in the future. That together with the fact that most content distributed (whether music, writings, or video) has ever growing popular digital representations means that corporate interests will start to DRM as much as they possibly can to maximize profits. Its what they do, and its what will ultimately destroy a large chunk of human knowledge.
You deserve to lose your music if you're trying to do all those things as root.
:-P
Eh, what can the 'install' rule in the Makefile not contain misbehaving commands? It just so happens that, being a true expert, this person audited his code before hand to ensure no nefarious deeds are done by the code.
I'm commenting on the trend, not the time in general. I understand there is tons of crap already in the public domain. And tons of crap already on CD, etc. All I am saying is that greed will drive more and more things to be DRM'd. DRM'd content by its very nature of limiting its useful lifetime will disappear over time, taking a nice large chunk of human knowledge, culture, and history with it.
Additionally, about the support. If there is a huge void in the support of Linux for embedded devices, well doesn't that sound like a market segment that somebody should be looking into? Instrumenting companies in setting up their own industry specific embedded devices.
I've just finished making an embedded linux device using the zaurus hardware. Linux is a god send for smaller companies wanting to make embedded applications on the cheap and easily. I went from newly purchased Zaurus to a complete system with a completely new flashed openzaurus with my application and only the supporting libs we needed in under 2 months. The three points mentioned in the article 1) Incompatibility with software, applications, and drivers *complete bullshit, most linux software is C not asm so it compiles just as well in most cases* 2) Performance or real time capability *There are realtime patches you can apply to the kernel, but I never had to use them so I can't comment directly on this* 3) support *free support, you get what you pay for. The source is there if they really need answers*. That has been my experience with it. As far as actual usage goes, I can't imagine why embedded linux uptake would be slow. I know just for a few things: my Dish network DVR's use it, my Linksys router uses it, and I know of lots of cellphones which use it. Its easy to program for. There are copious freely available and powerful software libs. You get great support from the community if you actually contribute patches. Its almost stupid not to use Linux.
I am not pro-DRM at all. I postulate that Digital Restrictions Management will be the downfall of modern civilization. What good is the corpus of human knowledge available now if it will be locked away giving the privileged paid eye the opportunity for momentary enlightenment and depriving all others of the knowledge which their ancestors helped to construct. Companies die, but now what they produce will die with them if they aren't extremely careful. People of ancient times left everything as legible paper trails. We'll leave a bunch of locked digital content (assuming the content even survives hard drive crashes, since it is illegal to copy to more than X number of devices, and assuming its lease does not just expire). Post catastrophic archaeology will simply be attempting to piece together a nice big heaping corpse of meaningless reports and random e-mails, and trying to descramble an ancient mess of human greed.
But on the other side of the coin, human greed is not limited to those empowered to make things DRM'd. The artists themselves are the ones subscribing to it. They are the ones who's greedy desperation for immortality and fame will in the end destroy their chances of attaining it. Of course, this is just my opinnion, and is very subject to error.
BTW, I was commenting more on the current trends than on the current times in general. Also, records will not last forever and CDs only last as long as they have a willing host to keep them alive (i.e. copy them).
I concur with your statements completely. Find something you need, find code you can use, adapt it, post changes back to open source project, get huge ego boost from the gratitude and fuel for further development and self improvement. You are absolutely right, you must find an application or you will not be motivated. You must take an interest to really learn.
Here let me put your psuedo future into real nerd context here:
./configure ; make ; make install .. ./configure ; make ; make install
# tar -xzvf communism.tar.gz ; cd communism
#
# communist-artist-music-search *
communist-artist-music-search: This program is just a stub until all those artists start making music for free.
# cd
# tar -xzvf riaa.tar.gz ; cd riaa
#
# riaa-artist-music-search "Karl Jenkins"
riaa-artist-music-search: Please specify credit card number.
# riaa-artist-music-search "Karl Jenkins" 98766542358979
riaa-artist-music-search: All available albums by artist "Karl Jenkins" have been destroyed in the DRM music server fire of 2006.
# rm -R ~/.musical_heritage ~/.musical_history
# rm -R ~/.human_knowledge
Just because Feed the Children crams you full of images of starving children does not mean that every place over there without power is a desolate hell with no potential for survival. As has been stated many times in previous slashdot stories, the $100 laptop is aimed one level above the people you are talking about. Stable but without power (or questionable power) and without access to computers. They are deprived of opportunity not of food. Furthermore, I personally would love to have a low power wind up computer myself for camping trips and such. Your classification of this as a toy is an uninformed piece of tripe. I have put complete embedded linux system with a lot of functionality on device with only 64MB flash. This has 512MB with a USB port allowing for expansion. It is limited by speed, but that is about as far as that goes. It is still faster than any machine 8 years ago, and they were not considered toys.
Me likey grammar nazis!!
I live in Norman since I was 8 and married an Ada woman. I've seen 'em all.
And Windows gives birth to most bricks. Think about it.
No it would be more useful to hire independant developers to make the functionality like was previously posted.
MySpace can be pretty obscene itself. On a side note, does it strike anyone else as ludicrous that the source of life and the source of nourishment for a young child are dubbed as "harmful to minors", when they were born of one and suckled on another as a baby?
That domain already exists, except its .cn not .kids .