"Well, the key issue here is that the protection scheme under Blu-Ray is very anti-consumer and there's not much visibility of that. The inconvenience is that the [MPAA] got too much protection at the expense of consumers and it won't work well on PCs. You won't be able to play movies and do software in a flexible way."
Damn, if I didn't know who wrote that, I would swear it was someone on our side.
This is the Billy-Bob Gates we're used to:
AN OPEN LETTER TO HOBBYISTS By William Henry Gates III
February 3, 1976
An Open Letter to Hobbyists
To me, the most critical thing in the hobby market right now is the lack of good software courses, books and software itself. Without good software and an owner who understands programming, a hobby computer is wasted. Will quality software be written for the hobby market?
Almost a year ago, Paul Allen and myself, expecting the hobby market to expand, hired Monte Davidoff and developed Altair BASIC. Though the initial work took only two months, the three of us have spent most of the last year documenting, improving and adding features to BASIC. Now we have 4K, 8K, EXTENDED, ROM and DISK BASIC. The value of the computer time we have used exceeds $40,000.
The feedback we have gotten from the hundreds of people who say they are using BASIC has all been positive. Two surprising things are apparent, however, 1) Most of these "users" never bought BASIC (less than 10% of all Altair owners have bought BASIC), and 2) The amount of royalties we have received from sales to hobbyists makes the time spent on Altair BASIC worth less than $2 an hour.
Why is this? As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software. Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share. Who cares if the people who worked on it get paid?
Is this fair? One thing you don't do by stealing software is get back at MITS for some problem you may have had. MITS doesn't make money selling software. The royalty paid to us, the manual, the tape and the overhead make it a break-even operation. One thing you do do is prevent good software from being written. Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software. We have written 6800 BASIC, and are writing 8080 APL and 6800 APL, but there is very little incentive to make this software available to hobbyists. Most directly, the thing you do is theft.
What about the guys who re-sell Altair BASIC, aren't they making money on hobby software? Yes, but those who have been reported to us may lose in the end. They are the ones who give hobbyists a bad name, and should be kicked out of any club meeting they show up at.
I would appreciate letters from any one who wants to pay up, or has a suggestion or comment. Just write to me at 1180 Alvarado SE, #114, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87108. Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software.
Bill Gates
General Partner, Micro-Soft
Between this and MS actively soliciting the help of the Open Source Initiative to make their Shared Source licenses truly Open Source-compliant, it's pretty damn weird. OMG WTF BBQ???
...will also get you onto Google Talk, which is basically Google's Jabber server.
It won't do voice chat, but at least you can do IM chat. This is better than the iChat which comes with Mac OS X Panther, which can only do either AIM or.MAC chat and not Jabber. Yes, the Tiger version adds Jabber functionality, but my clamshell iBook can't run Tiger. (The cutoff is native Firewire which the first version of the iBook didn't have.)
Gaim's good on both Linux *and* Windows. The Windows port is solid. And it's Free Software.
...a great deal of the production art from the classic Warner cartoons aka "Termite Terrace" aka Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies era would be gone. The standard operating procedure at animation studios was to wash and reuse cels...Clampett would sneak out the occasional cel, the occasional sketch, etc. and keep them. It is only since the 1960s that there was any care taken to preserve the ephemeral art that were by-products of animation production.
Who's to say that an original set from Chicken Run or The Wrong Trousers or the Peter Gabriel "Sledgehammer" video isn't art? Who's to say that storyboard sketches aren't art? Damn, I would have loved to have one of the original storyboards from an Aardman production. I have lucked out in that I have some layouts and sketches from some Spumco productions thanks to our family friend Jim Smith.
The sketch really is where the art lives, you know. A cel is pretty and colorful but the artist's soul is in their sketches. It's at the point where I'd rather have a sketch than a cel. And considering that almost everyone scans sketches into a computer for "ink and paint" cels are pretty much made only for collectors by artists who had nothing to do with the original production, the sketch is really the only thing left now. In some cases the sketch doesn't even exist anymore...some animators nowadays like to directly work with a computer tablet instead of paper and pencil.
This is a big loss. Maybe it won't seem like it now, but later on, when animation historians are trying to document what Aardman has been doing over the past 20 years or so they will look at this day as being when the history of a unique animation studio was lost. I grieve with Nick Park and his crew. This is not a lightweight thing.
For example, a DVD player that could handle CSS gracefully would be something I would pay money for. LinDVD exists but the folks who wrote WinDVD won't sell it to the Great Unwashed. I'd also pay for a music loop composition program ala ACID or GarageBand for Linux. At this point this doesn't exist. And Win4Lin is a non-free program that I have paid for in the past and am willing to pay for in the future.
Just because I won't pay for my OS (I am a Debian fan, why should I? It's 100% Free!) doesn't mean I won't pay for software.
Just removed Windows from my next to last machine running it, and the last machine running Windows is no longer on the network. Very soon that machine will be running Linux only.
Windows right now is an unacceptable risk to run. The only way I'd run it on the network is in a virtual machine under Linux or Mac OS X.
I run a legitimately licensed copy of Office v.X on my iBook. However, that's almost getting redundant because it seems anytime I submit a paper done in OpenOffice.Org it's 100% readable in MS Office. Gonna have to do some experimentation with OO.o Impress, but anything done in Writer and saved as.DOC is fine.
They had me at download. I'm buying the album as a "thank you." It's actually pretty damn good. Sort of Sparks meets '90s indie pop, with a little XTC thrown in for spice.
You can also say "fsck you, RIAA" here: http://www.richiehass.com/. No full album up yet, but there's four Richie tunes to get you going. Share and enjoy.
"Clone Wars" was easily the best element of all the Prequel releases. I find it interesting that "Animatrix" kicked ass over the two Matrix sequels, "Clone Wars" outclassed the Prequels, and "Dark Fury," a "Chronicles of Riddick" prequel directed by "Aeon Flux" creator Peter Chung, was infinitely better than either "Chronicles" or the original movie "Pitch Black."
What should "The Industry" take from this? Perhaps a great deal of talent can be found in the animation community, and perhaps the medium itself should be reconsidered as fare for adults as well as children. Certainly animation is now about as expensive as live action and possibly less expensive when you consider the cost of elaborate "event" movies that are half CGI anyway.
However, this would mean that "The Industry" should also cast off another assumption: that people will not sit and watch drawn traditional animation anymore. "Clone Wars" was not only drawn animation, it was beautifully stylized and designed drawn animation. "Animatrix" had CGI segments, true, but some of the most striking shorts in the "Animatrix" collection were 2D, like "Kid's Story" and "Detective Story" by Watanabe Shinichiro, and "Beyond" by Morimoto Koji. "Dark Fury" was 2D with 3D elements.
Will "The Industry" ever "get it" about animation? I don't know. It doesn't look so good. "Corpse Bride" was very poorly promoted, and looks like it won't make back its investment. The coming "Wallace and Gromit" movie has recognizable characters going for it, but its essential Britishness might relegate it to a niche audience in the US. And "Chicken Little?" What I saw of it looked good, but Pixar needn't sweat Disney taking its crown as the domestic leader in CGI. The stuff I have heard of several rewrites and story changes makes me think that Disney doesn't "get" the reason why Pixar's movies are so good: they are story-driven, not merchandising-driven.
Retired judges who, by the way, are appointed by the Governor. In this case, Herr Gropenfuhrer.
All Californian Slashdotters should vote NO ON EVERYTHING this November. There are a couple of propositions on the ballot I would have actually gotten behind if they had been on any ballot other than this one. The Special Election is bad, wrong, and a waste of $80 Million US which could have been used in any number of better ways. This is Arnold's vanity election. Just say Nein. And don't forget, he's up for election in 2006.
My complaint is that The Twilight Zone (Original Rod Serling version) was way down the list. That was easily the greatest Speculative Fiction series ever made for TV. Easily. Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: TNG were good series, true, but not as good as Twilight Zone. Some of the greatest SF/Fantasy writers ever wrote for it, and I most emphatically include Rod Serling among their number.
The Twilight Zone will stand the test of time. It already has since it's a creature of the late 1950s to early 1960s. While so much of what is on the list will be forgotten, it will remain a classic.
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Then do what I do: don't use your distro's tools to install Firefox, use their Linux installer and install to a subdir in your user directory.
I had my Firefox 1.0.6. installed in a directory under/home/mydir called firefox106. Last time I installed as root there so I had to remove the directory as root.
Then, as me, I set up a directory called Firefox107. I made a directory under that one called Firefox as the installation area for the install of Firefox 1.0.7. I then downloaded the Linux installer for 1.0.7 directly from mozilla.org. I untarred/gunzipped the installer into the Firefox107 directory. It made a firefox-installer directory under Firefox107 where I then clicked the firefox-installer script to start the install process. Again, I installed as me, not as root. The install was as easy as anything packaged by Vise or InstallShield. I pointed the installer to the Firefox directory. Badabingbadabangbadaboom!
Now I have a version of Firefox that runs as me instead of running as root, which I'm sure is a lot more secure than the way I had it last time. Next time there is an update, I can just do the same thing. Create a new directory for the new version to live, download the installer from mozilla.org, delete the old one, run the installer. Easy.
I have found that the hard drive is the bigger "heat-up" culprit in G3 iBooks/PowerBooks.
When I upgraded the hard drive on my Clamshell I purposely picked one known for low running temperature. Ergo, no "hot leg syndrome." Maybe "warm leg" but not hot.
However: the CPU starts becoming an issue with G4 lappies. As it does with even the Pentium M. And a P4 lappie does dual duty as a hotplate. Handy for those living on-campus.;-)
Heh, that's the very thing some people say about Oshii-sensei. Miyazaki-sensei and Oshii-sensei are cut from the same cloth. They are both tough, eccentric personalities who each have singular artistic visions -- both quite divergent from each other -- and pursue them with determination.
I didn't get a chance to see Howl yet, but Sen to Chihhiro aka Spirited Away and Innocence: Ghost In The Shell II are both incredible artistic statements.
Probably anyone here posting on this thread has seen Spirited Away, but rent or buy Innocence because it's freakin' incredible. It didn't get enough attention in the theatres, where people actually should have seen it, but DVD will have to do at this point. Try to see it on a big screen...there are some set pieces that will absolutely blow your mind.
To be fair, there *are* a hell of a lot of Linux distros out there, and not every one of them interoperate. Red Hat split their development version, Fedora, off from the main trunk of their "Red Hat Enterprise," and there is a "CentOS" repackaging of "Red Hat Enterprise" because Red Hat will not allow people to use their brand name on a Free release of their product. There are other forks of Red Hat, most famous being Mandriva which was originally called Mandrake.
At least the Debian people are trying to bring together all the distros based on Debian and using apt/dpkg in one way or another. The Debian Common Core Alliance (DCCA)consists of just about every Debian-based distro out there save for Ubuntu. (Ubuntu is quite conspicuous in its absence in the DCCA, in my opinion!)
The idea is not to pull together a single Uber-distro, but make sure that apps packaged for one Debian-based distro will work on all others. Some people like plain old Debian. (like me.) Some people like GNU/LinEx because it's so pure. (like Richard Stallman.) Some people, like MEPIS because it's so easy and because SimplyMEPIS fits on one CD. (like my buddy in SFVLUG, Kurt.) And some people, Goddess help them, like Linspire. It takes all kinds.
It's too bad that Ubuntu won't join the DCCA. Ubuntu right now is pretty hot, they have a big fan base, and Kubuntu allows KDE people to join the fun too. I suppose the reason is that Ubuntu seems bent on forking Debian almost to where it's unrecognizable as Debian. To each their own, I suppose. It would be nice for all the "biggie" Debian-based distros to be able to work together.
However, there is a reason why Mandrake forked from Red Hat, and it wasn't entirely because of Red Hat's insistence on its trademark rights. Mandrake, if I remember correctly, forked over a desire for Pentium-optimized binaries. There is probably a very good reason for Ubuntu to stay out of this. I can't think of one. Only Mark Shuttleworth knows for sure, and I don't think he's made a public comment on his reasons.
Actually the movie industry as we know it came out to Hollywood, CA, US because they wanted to distance themselves from Edison's Patents Trust and their hired goons. Ergo, Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Paramount, United Artists, 20th Century Fox...all founded by "pirates" who didn't want to pay their tithe to the Edison Patents Trust.
Que ironico: Edison's audio recordings wound up in the public domain and are downloadable via http://www.archive.org/ , along with other music and movies which have entered the public domain.
One should take note of the age of most of the public domain documents in the Internet Archive...except for those who specifically give their works a Creative Commons license, the gusher gives out during the '20s. There is a trickle up until 1976, when the US passed the Copyright Act and ratified the Berne Convention. Thanks, Sonny Bono.
...could G4 licensing This Week in Tech be far behind? Since TWiT will be taped live before an audience starting really soon, it's not too far-fetched to see it being videotaped as well as audiotaped.
I hope that if G4 decides to do it, that Leo and company will be savvy enough NOT TO SELL IT TO FSCKN COMCAST, DAMM!T!!! Screw me once, etc. etc.
I might have to get cable back. God, I hate giving Adelphia anything but my boot up their @$$ but Leo Laporte returning to US TV is pretty damn compelling. Yes, I'm a fangirl. Leo rules.
The following google apps do not work in anything other than Windows:
Picasa Google Desktop Google Earth Google Toolbar Google Hello
Add this: Google Talk.
Yes, I know I can use Gaim and/or iChat to use talk.google.com, but dammit, I want to try their voice chat and there's no alternative program for that! Oh well, Skype has both Linux and MacOS X clients, and Skype even sounds better on Linux than it does on Windows!
I don't think Google is evil. I just think they are exasperating sometimes.
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Damn, if I didn't know who wrote that, I would swear it was someone on our side.
This is the Billy-Bob Gates we're used to:
Between this and MS actively soliciting the help of the Open Source Initiative to make their Shared Source licenses truly Open Source-compliant, it's pretty damn weird. OMG WTF BBQ???
Develop for Mac OS X, and with only a little tweakage you can take the same code and recompile it for Linux and/or BSD.
I wonder if having Gaim's head developer onboard at Google means that AdiumX and Fire will get similar functionality? That would be way cool.
...the most popular IM client among Slashdotters?
It was an also-ran back in the Classic MacOS days, but it's really nice now. Kind of X-Chat like, but better than X-Chat Aqua. I like it, anyway.
...will also get you onto Google Talk, which is basically Google's Jabber server.
.MAC chat and not Jabber. Yes, the Tiger version adds Jabber functionality, but my clamshell iBook can't run Tiger. (The cutoff is native Firewire which the first version of the iBook didn't have.)
It won't do voice chat, but at least you can do IM chat. This is better than the iChat which comes with Mac OS X Panther, which can only do either AIM or
Gaim's good on both Linux *and* Windows. The Windows port is solid. And it's Free Software.
...a great deal of the production art from the classic Warner cartoons aka "Termite Terrace" aka Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies era would be gone. The standard operating procedure at animation studios was to wash and reuse cels...Clampett would sneak out the occasional cel, the occasional sketch, etc. and keep them. It is only since the 1960s that there was any care taken to preserve the ephemeral art that were by-products of animation production.
Who's to say that an original set from Chicken Run or The Wrong Trousers or the Peter Gabriel "Sledgehammer" video isn't art? Who's to say that storyboard sketches aren't art? Damn, I would have loved to have one of the original storyboards from an Aardman production. I have lucked out in that I have some layouts and sketches from some Spumco productions thanks to our family friend Jim Smith.
The sketch really is where the art lives, you know. A cel is pretty and colorful but the artist's soul is in their sketches. It's at the point where I'd rather have a sketch than a cel. And considering that almost everyone scans sketches into a computer for "ink and paint" cels are pretty much made only for collectors by artists who had nothing to do with the original production, the sketch is really the only thing left now. In some cases the sketch doesn't even exist anymore...some animators nowadays like to directly work with a computer tablet instead of paper and pencil.
This is a big loss. Maybe it won't seem like it now, but later on, when animation historians are trying to document what Aardman has been doing over the past 20 years or so they will look at this day as being when the history of a unique animation studio was lost. I grieve with Nick Park and his crew. This is not a lightweight thing.
For example, a DVD player that could handle CSS gracefully would be something I would pay money for. LinDVD exists but the folks who wrote WinDVD won't sell it to the Great Unwashed. I'd also pay for a music loop composition program ala ACID or GarageBand for Linux. At this point this doesn't exist. And Win4Lin is a non-free program that I have paid for in the past and am willing to pay for in the future.
Just because I won't pay for my OS (I am a Debian fan, why should I? It's 100% Free!) doesn't mean I won't pay for software.
Just removed Windows from my next to last machine running it, and the last machine running Windows is no longer on the network. Very soon that machine will be running Linux only.
.DOC is fine.
Windows right now is an unacceptable risk to run. The only way I'd run it on the network is in a virtual machine under Linux or Mac OS X.
I run a legitimately licensed copy of Office v.X on my iBook. However, that's almost getting redundant because it seems anytime I submit a paper done in OpenOffice.Org it's 100% readable in MS Office. Gonna have to do some experimentation with OO.o Impress, but anything done in Writer and saved as
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!!!
They had me at download. I'm buying the album as a "thank you." It's actually pretty damn good. Sort of Sparks meets '90s indie pop, with a little XTC thrown in for spice.
You can also say "fsck you, RIAA" here: http://www.richiehass.com/. No full album up yet, but there's four Richie tunes to get you going. Share and enjoy.
"Clone Wars" was easily the best element of all the Prequel releases. I find it interesting that "Animatrix" kicked ass over the two Matrix sequels, "Clone Wars" outclassed the Prequels, and "Dark Fury," a "Chronicles of Riddick" prequel directed by "Aeon Flux" creator Peter Chung, was infinitely better than either "Chronicles" or the original movie "Pitch Black."
What should "The Industry" take from this? Perhaps a great deal of talent can be found in the animation community, and perhaps the medium itself should be reconsidered as fare for adults as well as children. Certainly animation is now about as expensive as live action and possibly less expensive when you consider the cost of elaborate "event" movies that are half CGI anyway.
However, this would mean that "The Industry" should also cast off another assumption: that people will not sit and watch drawn traditional animation anymore. "Clone Wars" was not only drawn animation, it was beautifully stylized and designed drawn animation. "Animatrix" had CGI segments, true, but some of the most striking shorts in the "Animatrix" collection were 2D, like "Kid's Story" and "Detective Story" by Watanabe Shinichiro, and "Beyond" by Morimoto Koji. "Dark Fury" was 2D with 3D elements.
Will "The Industry" ever "get it" about animation? I don't know. It doesn't look so good. "Corpse Bride" was very poorly promoted, and looks like it won't make back its investment. The coming "Wallace and Gromit" movie has recognizable characters going for it, but its essential Britishness might relegate it to a niche audience in the US. And "Chicken Little?" What I saw of it looked good, but Pixar needn't sweat Disney taking its crown as the domestic leader in CGI. The stuff I have heard of several rewrites and story changes makes me think that Disney doesn't "get" the reason why Pixar's movies are so good: they are story-driven, not merchandising-driven.
Retired judges who, by the way, are appointed by the Governor. In this case, Herr Gropenfuhrer.
All Californian Slashdotters should vote NO ON EVERYTHING this November. There are a couple of propositions on the ballot I would have actually gotten behind if they had been on any ballot other than this one. The Special Election is bad, wrong, and a waste of $80 Million US which could have been used in any number of better ways. This is Arnold's vanity election. Just say Nein. And don't forget, he's up for election in 2006.
A PDA is as mortal as any electronic device. PDA breaks...you are screwed.
My complaint is that The Twilight Zone (Original Rod Serling version) was way down the list. That was easily the greatest Speculative Fiction series ever made for TV. Easily. Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: TNG were good series, true, but not as good as Twilight Zone. Some of the greatest SF/Fantasy writers ever wrote for it, and I most emphatically include Rod Serling among their number.
The Twilight Zone will stand the test of time. It already has since it's a creature of the late 1950s to early 1960s. While so much of what is on the list will be forgotten, it will remain a classic.
Then do what I do: don't use your distro's tools to install Firefox, use their Linux installer and install to a subdir in your user directory.
/home/mydir called firefox106. Last time I installed as root there so I had to remove the directory as root.
I had my Firefox 1.0.6. installed in a directory under
Then, as me, I set up a directory called Firefox107. I made a directory under that one called Firefox as the installation area for the install of Firefox 1.0.7. I then downloaded the Linux installer for 1.0.7 directly from mozilla.org. I untarred/gunzipped the installer into the Firefox107 directory. It made a firefox-installer directory under Firefox107 where I then clicked the firefox-installer script to start the install process. Again, I installed as me, not as root. The install was as easy as anything packaged by Vise or InstallShield. I pointed the installer to the Firefox directory. Badabingbadabangbadaboom!
Now I have a version of Firefox that runs as me instead of running as root, which I'm sure is a lot more secure than the way I had it last time. Next time there is an update, I can just do the same thing. Create a new directory for the new version to live, download the installer from mozilla.org, delete the old one, run the installer. Easy.
I have found that the hard drive is the bigger "heat-up" culprit in G3 iBooks/PowerBooks.
;-)
When I upgraded the hard drive on my Clamshell I purposely picked one known for low running temperature. Ergo, no "hot leg syndrome." Maybe "warm leg" but not hot.
However: the CPU starts becoming an issue with G4 lappies. As it does with even the Pentium M. And a P4 lappie does dual duty as a hotplate. Handy for those living on-campus.
iRiver 895, plenty on eBay, more functionality than iPod Shuffle for a lower price.
Heh, that's the very thing some people say about Oshii-sensei. Miyazaki-sensei and Oshii-sensei are cut from the same cloth. They are both tough, eccentric personalities who each have singular artistic visions -- both quite divergent from each other -- and pursue them with determination.
I didn't get a chance to see Howl yet, but Sen to Chihhiro aka Spirited Away and Innocence: Ghost In The Shell II are both incredible artistic statements.
Probably anyone here posting on this thread has seen Spirited Away, but rent or buy Innocence because it's freakin' incredible. It didn't get enough attention in the theatres, where people actually should have seen it, but DVD will have to do at this point. Try to see it on a big screen...there are some set pieces that will absolutely blow your mind.
To be fair, there *are* a hell of a lot of Linux distros out there, and not every one of them interoperate. Red Hat split their development version, Fedora, off from the main trunk of their "Red Hat Enterprise," and there is a "CentOS" repackaging of "Red Hat Enterprise" because Red Hat will not allow people to use their brand name on a Free release of their product. There are other forks of Red Hat, most famous being Mandriva which was originally called Mandrake.
At least the Debian people are trying to bring together all the distros based on Debian and using apt/dpkg in one way or another. The Debian Common Core Alliance (DCCA)consists of just about every Debian-based distro out there save for Ubuntu. (Ubuntu is quite conspicuous in its absence in the DCCA, in my opinion!)
The idea is not to pull together a single Uber-distro, but make sure that apps packaged for one Debian-based distro will work on all others. Some people like plain old Debian. (like me.) Some people like GNU/LinEx because it's so pure. (like Richard Stallman.) Some people, like MEPIS because it's so easy and because SimplyMEPIS fits on one CD. (like my buddy in SFVLUG, Kurt.) And some people, Goddess help them, like Linspire. It takes all kinds.
It's too bad that Ubuntu won't join the DCCA. Ubuntu right now is pretty hot, they have a big fan base, and Kubuntu allows KDE people to join the fun too. I suppose the reason is that Ubuntu seems bent on forking Debian almost to where it's unrecognizable as Debian. To each their own, I suppose. It would be nice for all the "biggie" Debian-based distros to be able to work together.
However, there is a reason why Mandrake forked from Red Hat, and it wasn't entirely because of Red Hat's insistence on its trademark rights. Mandrake, if I remember correctly, forked over a desire for Pentium-optimized binaries. There is probably a very good reason for Ubuntu to stay out of this. I can't think of one. Only Mark Shuttleworth knows for sure, and I don't think he's made a public comment on his reasons.
Skype works best on Linux, amazingly enough.
For some reason, Skype on Windows cuts out a lot. On Linux, it's as clear and smooth as if I'm in the same room as the person I'm conversing with.
Too bad it's proprietary/closed source. At least it's free as in gratis.
KDE needs to put a stake through the heart of artsd...it's a fsckn disaster.
C'mon...alsa/jack for everything!!!
Actually the movie industry as we know it came out to Hollywood, CA, US because they wanted to distance themselves from Edison's Patents Trust and their hired goons. Ergo, Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Paramount, United Artists, 20th Century Fox...all founded by "pirates" who didn't want to pay their tithe to the Edison Patents Trust.
Que ironico: Edison's audio recordings wound up in the public domain and are downloadable via http://www.archive.org/ , along with other music and movies which have entered the public domain.
One should take note of the age of most of the public domain documents in the Internet Archive...except for those who specifically give their works a Creative Commons license, the gusher gives out during the '20s. There is a trickle up until 1976, when the US passed the Copyright Act and ratified the Berne Convention. Thanks, Sonny Bono.
...could G4 licensing This Week in Tech be far behind? Since TWiT will be taped live before an audience starting really soon, it's not too far-fetched to see it being videotaped as well as audiotaped.
I hope that if G4 decides to do it, that Leo and company will be savvy enough NOT TO SELL IT TO FSCKN COMCAST, DAMM!T!!! Screw me once, etc. etc.
I might have to get cable back. God, I hate giving Adelphia anything but my boot up their @$$ but Leo Laporte returning to US TV is pretty damn compelling. Yes, I'm a fangirl. Leo rules.
Ahem.
The following google apps do not work in anything other than Windows:
Picasa
Google Desktop
Google Earth
Google Toolbar
Google Hello
Add this: Google Talk.
Yes, I know I can use Gaim and/or iChat to use talk.google.com, but dammit, I want to try their voice chat and there's no alternative program for that! Oh well, Skype has both Linux and MacOS X clients, and Skype even sounds better on Linux than it does on Windows!
I don't think Google is evil. I just think they are exasperating sometimes.