Because the artists for the most part don't have the right to say it due to contracts with the record companies, who are the members/contributers of the RIAA.
Wasn't it Tom Petty that put one of his tracks online and Sony or whoever owned his contract made him take it down.
Why would you need it for Linux, though? I mean, who reboots more than once every major kernel upgrade?
I've been wanting to make a few projects based around linux, such as home mp3 player, car mp3 player, xxxxxx mp3 player - get the idea:)
These components would not always be on. The only thing that has kept me from doing it, other than laziness, is the fact that I don't wanna wait forever to start using the device. I want it to work like my CD and DVD player - turn it on, and a few seconds later it is ready to go.
My Point
Microsoft is forcing you to use their own Win32 Windowing system. You don't have a choice. You can't get it to load up with any other windowing system. Sure you can get shells that do a good job of pretending to be another system, and programs that bend the existing API to look like another system (Windowblinds), but you can't write your own window system to REPLACE win32.
So? Why did I buy windows95/98/ME/whatever? Was it for DOS? nope. Was it for karma? nope. Was it for the Win32 system? Yup.
If I want to replace Win32 (aka Windows) then fine, fdisk and Linux goes on. But why would I complain that I can't what I bought (windows) won't let me replace it. That's like getting pissed because I bought a Chevy but it won't let me put the oil filter and spark plugs from my Ford in it.
Should I also complain that I can't run Linux without running the Linux kernel?
Sure, on X, I can run Gnome/GTK/Xaw/Xlib/KDE/Motif apps, etc... but underneath they all are X windows apps that make calls to the Xlib layer.
The idea of the Windows product is to sell Windows - which *surprise* includes the windowing system built in. Should everthing now provide the ability to morph to something else? Should Word now be forced to let me use ispell? Should vi now support emacs keystokes? Should bash now understand setenv?
When I went from Bind 4 to Bind 8 I had to modify my named.conf. I guess Bind is harming people by having incompatiable file formatis between its products. I even had to make one or two mods to go to Bind 9.
The exploit in BIND was not written by bind, but the existence of the hole combined with the monopoly they have in the DNS "market" are what really caused the problem.
See...it works both ways. As for having to reboot everyday, the only time I rebooted my 2000 machine in the past few months has been to install a video capture card. The only reason I reboot my ME machine at home is because it gets turned off at night so I don't have to listen to the fans.
As for Office 2000, I run it because it works well, is a lot less buggy than any of the half-assed solutions on any other OS and has way too much functionality. Plus I like the little cat that does cute things on the bottom of my screen.
2) System configuration and administration tools and methods
That'd help.
Sounds like they have some pretty high goals that require a lot of cooperation between various groups. I wonder how they intend to solicit that cooperation.
Well, under the old ISP model, you could have 500 users. You would assume, and usage statistics would back this up, that only 10% of them would be on at a given time. So, you buy enough bandwidth to handle 50-60 users. Each user gets their 56k of bandwidth and are happy.
Now, you have 500 users with 300 of them staying on and active all at once. You have to buy more bandwidth to provide the user that 56k of bandwidth that they are used to getting, otherwise you start to lose customers.
This is different from the user saying that they would like 128k of bandwidth and how much extra would that be.
Yes, a large quantity would cost more, but why should they have to pay more for their small quantity just because all these people you wooed over to your service are now using it, cutting into your profit margin.
Or you could be like my cable modem company and just not increase the bandwidth and laugh as the profit margin grows!
Okay...when you're watching TV, reading a magazine or listening to the radio and an ad comes on, you don't jump up and react to it right away (unless you have your handy CueCat by your side:)
However, when you go to the store, you may then remember the add when trying to decide between brands.
So, who is to say that Banner ads don't work the same way? Right now on/. is an add for ThinkGeek. Am I gonna click on it? Nope. For the same reason I don't rush to the store when I see a DiGiornos pizza ad - I'm in the middle of something.
However, later on when my wife asks what I want for my birthday, I may tell her to go the the ThinkGeek site and get me the WTF? t-shirt.
So the ad works, it's just no the constant immediate revenue that is possible because I'm online.
The funniest thing I find about it, is that it causes me to always flush twice!!
Yeah...but you probably take a piss more than a dump, especially if you are like my wife. That way it's 1.5L instead of 6L or whatever each time that you whiz.
Sure, a "killer application" may take a couple of flushes, but overall, it still works out to less water.
People in academia are notorious for bickering for hours on particular wording - marketting is not much better, but at least they mostly have a reason.
Let some committee go nuts something and change a word here, a color there. Put those changes into production - and BLAM...apple must be told.
See...that guy from microsoft is not an idiot just spewing rhetoric - he knew what he was talking about. Linux is a communistic tool, probably jointly written by the GRU and KGB/SVR.
The man program is actually an interface to Mao's Little Red Book.
Two russian's were executed. They were formerly spying the the US, but the US turned them to work against Russia. I believe they were back at the embassy in moscow working.
Russia has never looked kindly upon double agents, and their fate is pretty much standard operating procedure for punishing double agents.
How about if I believed ours was the only planet that had produced "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor"? After all with all the "billions and billions" and stars out there with their "obvious" life, surely some other intelligent entity has generated these same tones.
There was something like this in Babylon-5, where all known intelligent species had all produced something, though by different names, that was basically a sweedish meatballs dish.
Okay...Joe's coffee shop has a PC with a mouse and a copy of UT. Now, if sony wanted to do it, they'd have a 50 inch screen, a platform to stand on, and a "real" gun thing to aim and shoot with.
Play Star Wars:Pod Racer on a PC. Then go to Dave & Busters and play it there - as AMC Theaters say - "There is a difference".
Gee...and i submit something about networksolutions selling their database and get rejected. Guess next time I'll turn it into an add and see if it gets past the submission cabal:)
Last week at work I really wanted to listen to a song. I had that song at home, on CD, in a box in the garage that hasn't been cleaned out since we moved.
So in this case I used Napster in the way thay I would have used the my.mp3.com service.
For an author/creator: 50 years after their death - however, during those 50 years, that copyright must be held by an heir/spouse.
This way the people that should benefit from the royalties are the proper people.
For a corp (ie Disney): a use-it-or-lose-it 15-20 years after last use method. Okay...when was the last Mickey Mouse movie? 15 years after that, the mouse becomes public domain. My idea here is that if it is not a valuable enough property for them to use, then let the public have it.
While this would not help too much for something like Mickey, flash-in-the-pan things could benefit - like Roger Rabbit. When was the last thing that featured him (with new content)? IMDB says 1996 - with the Best Of, which I'll guess had some new content. So, in another 10 years he becomes the public's bunny.
However, the problem with this is that every 15 years or some, some obscure or older character will suddenly make a cameo appearance in a new title.
Perhaps the term should be longer though. In 1986, Aliens came out. That is still a very sellable title. Perhaps it should be 15 years from the last release date? At least that'd make it easier to get things on new formats as studios hurry to rush things out so they don't lose them.
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Because the artists for the most part don't have the right to say it due to contracts with the record companies, who are the members/contributers of the RIAA.
Wasn't it Tom Petty that put one of his tracks online and Sony or whoever owned his contract made him take it down.
True - maybe. But if they're on the bleeding edge of profit, using Linux vs. Windows or developing your own is an easy start.
:)
As for the multi-user - does it really matter what is on there. I suppose they could always start it with init 1 and not worry about that.
Besides...I'm not making a consumer device, I'm making something for me, and Linux I understand...eproms and dsp's - I know what they are!
ram access is faster than hd access.
True. But most computers I've seen take a good bit even before they access the hard drive. Checking ram, scanning PCI bus, etc...
Why would you need it for Linux, though? I mean, who reboots more than once every major kernel upgrade?
:)
I've been wanting to make a few projects based around linux, such as home mp3 player, car mp3 player, xxxxxx mp3 player - get the idea
These components would not always be on. The only thing that has kept me from doing it, other than laziness, is the fact that I don't wanna wait forever to start using the device. I want it to work like my CD and DVD player - turn it on, and a few seconds later it is ready to go.
...except that I am currently registering my domains with other registrars, having had it up to the my neck with NSI.
Except that registration eventually gets back to the databases that NSI maintain, which should be seperate from NSI.
This should have been one of the perils in the prior article on over-clocking.
:)
Not only do you risk ruining your CPU, but now if you overclock your video card, you could melt your CPU!
wonder what it'll do for recycling - hitech and lotech plastic recyclables.
Actually, NSI will have your ORG as soon as they, as a wholly unconcerned seperate company, steps into the main database and deletes it :)
My Point
Microsoft is forcing you to use their own Win32 Windowing system. You don't have a choice. You can't get it to load up with any other windowing system. Sure you can get shells that do a good job of pretending to be another system, and programs that bend the existing API to look like another system (Windowblinds), but you can't write your own window system to REPLACE win32.
So? Why did I buy windows95/98/ME/whatever? Was it for DOS? nope. Was it for karma? nope. Was it for the Win32 system? Yup.
If I want to replace Win32 (aka Windows) then fine, fdisk and Linux goes on. But why would I complain that I can't what I bought (windows) won't let me replace it. That's like getting pissed because I bought a Chevy but it won't let me put the oil filter and spark plugs from my Ford in it.
Should I also complain that I can't run Linux without running the Linux kernel?
Sure, on X, I can run Gnome/GTK/Xaw/Xlib/KDE/Motif apps, etc... but underneath they all are X windows apps that make calls to the Xlib layer.
The idea of the Windows product is to sell Windows - which *surprise* includes the windowing system built in. Should everthing now provide the ability to morph to something else? Should Word now be forced to let me use ispell? Should vi now support emacs keystokes? Should bash now understand setenv?
When I went from Bind 4 to Bind 8 I had to modify my named.conf. I guess Bind is harming people by having incompatiable file formatis between its products. I even had to make one or two mods to go to Bind 9.
The exploit in BIND was not written by bind, but the existence of the hole combined with the monopoly they have in the DNS "market" are what really caused the problem.
See...it works both ways. As for having to reboot everyday, the only time I rebooted my 2000 machine in the past few months has been to install a video capture card. The only reason I reboot my ME machine at home is because it gets turned off at night so I don't have to listen to the fans.
As for Office 2000, I run it because it works well, is a lot less buggy than any of the half-assed solutions on any other OS and has way too much functionality. Plus I like the little cat that does cute things on the bottom of my screen.
Oh look...a crescent moon.
Nope...it's actually a full moon, that part was just mined away for resources.
Russia who have more hours in space than any other country?
:)
Only because once they put them up there, they can't afford to get them back down
2) System configuration and administration tools and methods
That'd help.
Sounds like they have some pretty high goals that require a lot of cooperation between various groups. I wonder how they intend to solicit that cooperation.
Sorry...I think that Mother Nature has prior art :)
Well, under the old ISP model, you could have 500 users. You would assume, and usage statistics would back this up, that only 10% of them would be on at a given time. So, you buy enough bandwidth to handle 50-60 users. Each user gets their 56k of bandwidth and are happy.
Now, you have 500 users with 300 of them staying on and active all at once. You have to buy more bandwidth to provide the user that 56k of bandwidth that they are used to getting, otherwise you start to lose customers.
This is different from the user saying that they would like 128k of bandwidth and how much extra would that be.
Yes, a large quantity would cost more, but why should they have to pay more for their small quantity just because all these people you wooed over to your service are now using it, cutting into your profit margin.
Or you could be like my cable modem company and just not increase the bandwidth and laugh as the profit margin grows!
Okay...when you're watching TV, reading a magazine or listening to the radio and an ad comes on, you don't jump up and react to it right away (unless you have your handy CueCat by your side :)
/. is an add for ThinkGeek. Am I gonna click on it? Nope. For the same reason I don't rush to the store when I see a DiGiornos pizza ad - I'm in the middle of something.
However, when you go to the store, you may then remember the add when trying to decide between brands.
So, who is to say that Banner ads don't work the same way? Right now on
However, later on when my wife asks what I want for my birthday, I may tell her to go the the ThinkGeek site and get me the WTF? t-shirt.
So the ad works, it's just no the constant immediate revenue that is possible because I'm online.
The funniest thing I find about it, is that it causes me to always flush twice!!
Yeah...but you probably take a piss more than a dump, especially if you are like my wife. That way it's 1.5L instead of 6L or whatever each time that you whiz.
Sure, a "killer application" may take a couple of flushes, but overall, it still works out to less water.
People in academia are notorious for bickering for hours on particular wording - marketting is not much better, but at least they mostly have a reason.
Let some committee go nuts something and change a word here, a color there. Put those changes into production - and BLAM...apple must be told.
Easy fun!
See...that guy from microsoft is not an idiot just spewing rhetoric - he knew what he was talking about. Linux is a communistic tool, probably jointly written by the GRU and KGB/SVR.
The man program is actually an interface to Mao's Little Red Book.
Two russian's were executed. They were formerly spying the the US, but the US turned them to work against Russia. I believe they were back at the embassy in moscow working.
Russia has never looked kindly upon double agents, and their fate is pretty much standard operating procedure for punishing double agents.
How about if I believed ours was the only planet that had produced "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor"? After all with all the "billions and billions" and stars out there with their "obvious" life, surely some other intelligent entity has generated these same tones.
There was something like this in Babylon-5, where all known intelligent species had all produced something, though by different names, that was basically a sweedish meatballs dish.
Okay...Joe's coffee shop has a PC with a mouse and a copy of UT. Now, if sony wanted to do it, they'd have a 50 inch screen, a platform to stand on, and a "real" gun thing to aim and shoot with.
Play Star Wars:Pod Racer on a PC. Then go to Dave & Busters and play it there - as AMC Theaters say - "There is a difference".
Gee...and i submit something about networksolutions selling their database and get rejected. Guess next time I'll turn it into an add and see if it gets past the submission cabal :)
Last week at work I really wanted to listen to a song. I had that song at home, on CD, in a box in the garage that hasn't been cleaned out since we moved.
So in this case I used Napster in the way thay I would have used the my.mp3.com service.
For an author/creator: 50 years after their death - however, during those 50 years, that copyright must be held by an heir/spouse.
This way the people that should benefit from the royalties are the proper people.
For a corp (ie Disney): a use-it-or-lose-it 15-20 years after last use method. Okay...when was the last Mickey Mouse movie? 15 years after that, the mouse becomes public domain. My idea here is that if it is not a valuable enough property for them to use, then let the public have it.
While this would not help too much for something like Mickey, flash-in-the-pan things could benefit - like Roger Rabbit. When was the last thing that featured him (with new content)? IMDB says 1996 - with the Best Of, which I'll guess had some new content. So, in another 10 years he becomes the public's bunny.
However, the problem with this is that every 15 years or some, some obscure or older character will suddenly make a cameo appearance in a new title.
Perhaps the term should be longer though. In 1986, Aliens came out. That is still a very sellable title. Perhaps it should be 15 years from the last release date? At least that'd make it easier to get things on new formats as studios hurry to rush things out so they don't lose them.
That is also right now - give them some time and that number my go up closer to 100% or more