Even Linus has said that DRM is not inconsistant with Linux and Open Source (at least as Linus sees it) So, the OSS comunity needs to develop the killer DRM solution that respects Fair Use but sufficiently protects content owners.
Small publishers will adopt it first, then large media outlets will find themselves having to adopt it or loose share to the small fast moving media companies.
Mediaone actually has a very liberal policy. While they only support Win & Mac they allow pretty much anything. Their fear with NT server is that some bonehead will run a DHCP server on their wire and they will get a flood of support calls from neighbors - a very real possibility. If you read their terms for this region, nowhere does it ban any particular type of service, but they do reserver the right to cut you off if your use/abuse effects others on the segment. If you're a bad internet citizen they reserve the right to escort you to the edge of town.
I have very good luck with them. In fact, every time I've called tech support I have gotten very knowledgeable people. My friend works for Cisco and help build Mediaone's ATM backbone in Ma. One night I called in for a MAC address change and got to talking with the tech. I keep notching up the level of tech, first packet filtering in the cable modem, network architecture, their ATM backbone, he stayed right with me all the way - I suspect he actually knew more than me ! Now how often does that happen when you call for support ?
Then, get this, the guy says "I only do this nights for extra cash, I'm actually a lawyer." Holy Einstein, Batman ! I went to their web site and filled out an online job app that night.
Lets not forget that this is about the exclusion of many groups, not just geeks and nerds. Additionally, this is not a problem unique to young people - do not forget the postal workers, investment brokers and others that have shot up their workplaces.
We understand how they feel because of who we are, but we must remember that we are probably the most privileged of the disaffected. With that comes some added responsibility.
Actually, playing audio on an old Creative CD-ROM drive mounted in the trunk works pretty well. It take the deepest of New England pot holes to cause the slightest skip. I expect that playing MP3s from the CD would work equally well, if not better, depending on the buffing. I still have 2 gig free on the hard drive so it's not an issue.
Plug for Paul B's car audio juke box that got me started: http://cajun.current.nu
My Town Car mounted Compaq Proliant started life as a 486/66 - with and old 83 mhz Pentium Overdrive chip it plays 320 Kbps encoded MP3 with no trouble at all. I have been using the CAJUN software (http://cajun.current.nu) for several months now with excellent results.
"Other Days, Other Eyes" was the name of the book. As I recall it ended with a scene of crop dusting airplanes seeding the entire countryside with slivers of slow glass, each a different thickness and thus having a different time constant. Talk about invasion of privacy . . .
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That's hard to say - the most recent thing you build like the Steampunk Stratocaster I just finished always seems the coolest right then.
The heaviest thing I ever built was a Schoolbus to RV conversion
and if number of links on the intarweb count toward coolness the Retro Cellphone Handset is the coolest.
Jake von Slatt.
With a little re-working of interior air flow I'll bet that you could dispense with the ionic cooler entirely.
My pumpless thermosiphon water cooled PC works in essentially that way. Jake.
Just the ticket for the navigation computer/mp3 player computer for my school bus rv conversion!
Our branch isn't the fork! the other branch is the fork!
While I tend to agree with the sentiment, yah can't claim it's not a fork if the end result is two development trees.
You assume that Miro will continue developing "their" branch of Mambo? They may simply pour their efforts into Jango, their commercial CMS.
I think the "new" Mambo is most likely to be considered the real Mambo by the user community. I know that's how I'll feel about it.
You can't take the sky from me . . .
Even Linus has said that DRM is not inconsistant with Linux and Open Source (at least as Linus sees it) So, the OSS comunity needs to develop the killer DRM solution that respects Fair Use but sufficiently protects content owners.
Small publishers will adopt it first, then large media outlets will find themselves having to adopt it or loose share to the small fast moving media companies.
So, who's working on OSS DRM?
Mediaone actually has a very liberal policy. While they only support Win & Mac they allow pretty much anything. Their fear with NT server is that some bonehead will run a DHCP server on their wire and they will get a flood of support calls from neighbors - a very real possibility. If you read their terms for this region, nowhere does it ban any particular type of service, but they do reserver the right to cut you off if your use/abuse effects others on the segment. If you're a bad internet citizen they reserve the right to escort you to the edge of town.
I have very good luck with them. In fact, every time I've called tech support I have gotten very knowledgeable people. My friend works for Cisco and help build Mediaone's ATM backbone in Ma. One night I called in for a MAC address change and got to talking with the tech. I keep notching up the level of tech, first packet filtering in the cable modem, network architecture, their ATM backbone, he stayed right with me all the way - I suspect he actually knew more than me ! Now how often does that happen when you call for support ?
Then, get this, the guy says "I only do this nights for extra cash, I'm actually a lawyer." Holy Einstein, Batman ! I went to their web site and filled out an online job app that night.
Jake.
Lets not forget that this is about the exclusion of many groups, not just geeks and nerds. Additionally, this is not a problem unique to young people - do not forget the postal workers, investment brokers and others that have shot up their workplaces.
We understand how they feel because of who we are, but we must remember that we are probably the most privileged of the disaffected. With that comes some added responsibility.
Jake.
Actually, playing audio on an old Creative CD-ROM drive mounted in the trunk works pretty well. It take the deepest of New England pot holes to cause the slightest skip. I expect that playing MP3s from the CD would work equally well, if not better, depending on the buffing. I still have 2 gig free on the hard drive so it's not an issue.
Plug for Paul B's car audio juke box that got me started: http://cajun.current.nu
Jake.
My Town Car mounted Compaq Proliant started life as a 486/66 - with and old 83 mhz Pentium Overdrive chip it plays 320 Kbps encoded MP3 with no trouble at all. I have been using the CAJUN software (http://cajun.current.nu) for several months now with excellent results.
Jake
"Other Days, Other Eyes" was the name of the book. As I recall it ended with a scene of crop dusting airplanes seeding the entire countryside with slivers of slow glass, each a different thickness and thus having a different time constant. Talk about invasion of privacy . . .
VonSlatt