If you think most people are decent, law abiding citizens, why not take a poll and see what percentage of drivers nowingly speed?
I'm going to turn your bad analogy around on you.
That a large number of people knowingly speed is exactly why you are wrong. People don't want to wait, and they don't want to be hassled. If people could get music online quickly and easily for very cheap they would probably choose that over using P2P, because it would save time, and they'd get guaranteed quality. People don't want to wait a long time for a file that may or may not finish downloading and may or may not be what it says it is, but that's the only option available right now. The key is that the price has to be low enough that users won't give a second thought to paying it. If you want to hear that song, and it's $1.50, you might hesitate and not buy it. If it's only $0.20 then you might just buy it and not worry about the price. The upside to that is that it would bring the price of music back down to a reasonable level at the same time.
If I was automatically billed $0.50 for use of the highway on the way home from work I would happily pay it if it meant that I could go 100mph without getting a ticket. (I don't want to slow down for tool booths though.)
I'm surprised that NOBODY has suggested a POST card!
These are invaluable for reparing dead machines. If the machine is dead, you will never have to guess at the problem again. You plug one of these into an expansion slot (PCI in the case of the one listed above), and it displays the POST codes that are generated by the BIOS as it tests each piece of hardware. The one it's displaying when it gets stuck can be looked up in the book and you know what piece of harware is bad. Best $100 you'll ever spend if you fix alot of machines.
I know that if a new G4 was $750, I'd go out and buy one, along with many other people.
The resale value of a new mac is ~$750 after two years!
You have to look at mac prices differently then PC prices, because PCs have no value after 12 months and that has to be taken into account when you buy them. If you spend $1500 on an Mac, and sell it two years later for $750, you've paid $750 for it. If you pay $750 for a PC, and you can't sell it when you get a new one two years later, then how is that cheaper then a mac?
If I had touched any electronics, they would have been toast!
I understand that you are trying to make a point, but you should be honest. If you had touched electronics, they may have been toast.
I know many people who think that ESD is not a problem, and they think that because "i've shocked equipment before, and it still worked later" or something like that. It is quite possible to shock equipment and do no damage. It's the times that you do cause damage that count.
They should be able to use the best product/format whatever for the job.
If the task includes making data available to the public, you could argue that open standards are required for something to be considered the "best for the job." How is it doing it's job if 30% of your audience can't afford the software required to access the data?
Only programming for hire doesn't have to put you in a group against open source if you are thinking on an individual level. For example, lately I've only been programming for hire, but alot of what I work on is still open source. Similarly, there are alot of users that appreciate their software being open because they enjoy the flexibility and the licensing predictability.
Unfortunatly even taking that into account, I'm afraid that you are correct when you say that those people are in the minority.
So what you're saying is that you've "simply decided" to make sweeping generalizations based on the vocal, sensationalized opinions of the few.
You are incorrect. The people you are basing your generalization on aren't people who truly believe in "open source" as a concept. These people are simply looking for free "As in beer" as people like to say. The don't care about what "open source" means or what "free software" is, they just don't want to spend any money. Just because these people spout on about "open source" doesn't mean that they have anything to do with it other then having downloaded and run some programs, either for kicks or because they came with no charge.
There is a difference between "open source people" and people who just want something for nothing. One of those groups is interested in superior technology, and the other wants to "stick it to the man" or something similar. Please don't get us confused just because the second group thinks they represent the first.
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What does that have to do with anything?
He want's google to be non-objective
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in Google the sites that do well are the spammy sites, sites which have Google psyched out, and a lot of big sites, corporate headquarters' sites -- they show up before sites that criticize those companies."
In other words, Brandt recognizes that there has to be some order to Google's results, and that some sites might deserve to come up before others. He just disagrees with the way Google does it. In Brandt's ideal world, if you searched for "United Airlines," you would see untied.com -- a site critical of United -- before you see United's page. And if you searched for Rumsfeld, you'd see NameBase's dossier on him before the Defense Department's site on the "The Honorable Donald Rumsfeld."
He wants google to be a political action site that favors his views. He's a whiny little baby.
Sites that critisize corporations should appear before the corporations main site? Why? Did you search for the company or for criticism? If the company/group in question was something he agreed with, perhaps some environmental organization or the democratic national commitee, would he want criticism of them to come up first too?
A quick stop at google shows that if you search for "United Airlines" you get their site first, and the site he thinks should be first shortly thereafter. If you search for "United Airlines criticism" you get the site he reccommends first. Looks like google is doing it's job correctly to me.
Why is salon publishing the crap?
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98% of Web users doesn't know/care how to turn off cookies
Yep. 98% of web users won't care about what this guy has to say, and people who care know how to disable the problem. Thanks for the reality check.
I've never seriously listened to the difference between Ogg Vorbis and the other codecs. I followed the link in that letter to the Ogg comparison page, and down at the bottom there were samples made by Microsoft for Media Player 8, and Real, and an Ogg version of the same piece. If you play the 64kbit ogg file, and the 64kbit wma file, you hear a *major* difference. The harpsichord is completely missing from the windows media version! Usually when there is a comparison like that the difference is subtile, and you really can't tell with crappy equipment. I certainly wasn't expecting such a vast difference in quality.
I already have "mount magrathea:/huge/mp3 ~/Desktop/mp3" run when I log in to my 10.2 box. The server is Linux 2.4.17 based. What does Suse do to their kernel that is causing your problem? From what I can see the NFS client implementation in 10.2 works perfectly well.
If I recall Xiph.org did a fairly complete search of existing patents. You won't get any better assurance from anybody else that you won't be subject to royalties in the future. What do you suggest, that we all stop using software in case sombody claims it's patented in the future? Perhaps you think the answer is to send large sums of money to Thompson Multimedia and only use closed/for pay players?
This is all a non issue. MP3 has proliferated so widely that their patent is technically unenforcable, and may as well not exist.
With rambus it was patent applications that they hid, not patents. The PTO is slow, but I doubt that any techniques that were used in Vorbis have pending applications on them that will actully be issued. Vorbis has been around long enough that it would be considered prior art.
You cannot get a patent on something that has been published knowledge for more then 1 year.
Also, the USPTO does not operate at a profit. They spend more then they take in (as of last I looked, anyway)
You're wrong. Patents in the US are publicized by the PTO at the time they are issued. You can't keep a US patent a secret once you've been granted it. It's not possible.
I just want it to desplay the text by default without having to hover over anything or wait for a timeout. Why is that undesireable?
Now that I think about it, I'd rather not have a context menu, I'd rather have hotkeys for things, so I'm not going to make a big issue out of this, I'll just not use it.
The radial menus would be okay if they used text instead of icons. With the iconic menus it takes forever to figure out what to click on when I want to use a feature that I dont use typically.
They should take note from games that use radial menus. They all use text.
Does a sprite bottle filled with butane and sealed with duct tape and a 'C' model rocket engine count? Don't forget to cover the smoke detectors with a plastic bag and a rubber band.
No, I meant what I said (although the version numbers might be a little off). They take new features that change device driver interfaces, filesystems, and whatever else and they keep an old vm and version number. They provide a list of patches, but no decription of what they do or why they needed them. The changelog their kernel maintainer provides is a joke.
What's worse, the vm that they use is tuned poorly by default or just plain broken. It is completely unsuitable for heavy I/O, because it will use all available memory for buffer cache. After a few minutes of I/O, your memory is full, and you processes are suddenly competing with kswapd and kreclaimd for CPU time. (and loosing).
What they do to the kernel wouldn't be so bad if they used appropriate versioning. When I write a module that lives outside of the kernel, I don't want to have to include a table of what features are in which RedHat kernel in my makefile. If it's 2.4.18 with the vm subsystem from 2.4.9, DON'T CALL THE KERNEL 2.4.9! That's not helpful.
Ethernet is designed for relatively long distances, and has high power requirements to support those distances. I've worked building embedded systems that used lower power trancievers on the backplane and on each board to save power. Obviously if you do something like this you won't be standards compliant anymore, but if you're only talking to your own devices it could work for you. If not, there are high speed serial interfaces availble on telecom chips that you could use. Search google for HDLC and you'll find exactly what you're looking for.
That's BS. Domino has been available for linux for years now. It's not that linux doesn't have this functionality, it's that this guy doesn't want to pay for it. What "clinchers" are left keeping people from using linux as a server that "every company uses"? In 90% of companies you could drop a properly configured linux server in place of a Windows server and nobody would notice (except for the administrator).
We're talking about different things then. What I'm saying is that if you create something that violates a patent a year after a patent is issued, you are *not* liable from when the patent was issued, you're liable from when you started infringing.
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If you think most people are decent, law abiding citizens, why not take a poll and see what percentage of drivers nowingly speed?
I'm going to turn your bad analogy around on you.
That a large number of people knowingly speed is exactly why you are wrong. People don't want to wait, and they don't want to be hassled. If people could get music online quickly and easily for very cheap they would probably choose that over using P2P, because it would save time, and they'd get guaranteed quality. People don't want to wait a long time for a file that may or may not finish downloading and may or may not be what it says it is, but that's the only option available right now. The key is that the price has to be low enough that users won't give a second thought to paying it. If you want to hear that song, and it's $1.50, you might hesitate and not buy it. If it's only $0.20 then you might just buy it and not worry about the price. The upside to that is that it would bring the price of music back down to a reasonable level at the same time.
If I was automatically billed $0.50 for use of the highway on the way home from work I would happily pay it if it meant that I could go 100mph without getting a ticket. (I don't want to slow down for tool booths though.)
I'm surprised that NOBODY has suggested a POST card!
These are invaluable for reparing dead machines. If the machine is dead, you will never have to guess at the problem again. You plug one of these into an expansion slot (PCI in the case of the one listed above), and it displays the POST codes that are generated by the BIOS as it tests each piece of hardware. The one it's displaying when it gets stuck can be looked up in the book and you know what piece of harware is bad. Best $100 you'll ever spend if you fix alot of machines.
I know that if a new G4 was $750, I'd go out and buy one, along with many other people.
The resale value of a new mac is ~$750 after two years!
You have to look at mac prices differently then PC prices, because PCs have no value after 12 months and that has to be taken into account when you buy them. If you spend $1500 on an Mac, and sell it two years later for $750, you've paid $750 for it. If you pay $750 for a PC, and you can't sell it when you get a new one two years later, then how is that cheaper then a mac?
If I had touched any electronics, they would have been toast!
I understand that you are trying to make a point, but you should be honest. If you had touched electronics, they may have been toast.
I know many people who think that ESD is not a problem, and they think that because "i've shocked equipment before, and it still worked later" or something like that. It is quite possible to shock equipment and do no damage. It's the times that you do cause damage that count.
They should be able to use the best product/format whatever for the job.
If the task includes making data available to the public, you could argue that open standards are required for something to be considered the "best for the job." How is it doing it's job if 30% of your audience can't afford the software required to access the data?
only programming "for hire"
Only programming for hire doesn't have to put you in a group against open source if you are thinking on an individual level. For example, lately I've only been programming for hire, but alot of what I work on is still open source. Similarly, there are alot of users that appreciate their software being open because they enjoy the flexibility and the licensing predictability.
Unfortunatly even taking that into account, I'm afraid that you are correct when you say that those people are in the minority.
The old text was a loophole. If a player was in any way distributed for free via the internet then even for-pay copies would be royalty free.
So what you're saying is that you've "simply decided" to make sweeping generalizations based on the vocal, sensationalized opinions of the few.
You are incorrect. The people you are basing your generalization on aren't people who truly believe in "open source" as a concept. These people are simply looking for free "As in beer" as people like to say. The don't care about what "open source" means or what "free software" is, they just don't want to spend any money. Just because these people spout on about "open source" doesn't mean that they have anything to do with it other then having downloaded and run some programs, either for kicks or because they came with no charge.
There is a difference between "open source people" and people who just want something for nothing. One of those groups is interested in superior technology, and the other wants to "stick it to the man" or something similar. Please don't get us confused just because the second group thinks they represent the first.
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What does that have to do with anything?
in Google the sites that do well are the spammy sites, sites which have Google psyched out, and a lot of big sites, corporate headquarters' sites -- they show up before sites that criticize those companies."
In other words, Brandt recognizes that there has to be some order to Google's results, and that some sites might deserve to come up before others. He just disagrees with the way Google does it. In Brandt's ideal world, if you searched for "United Airlines," you would see untied.com -- a site critical of United -- before you see United's page. And if you searched for Rumsfeld, you'd see NameBase's dossier on him before the Defense Department's site on the "The Honorable Donald Rumsfeld."
He wants google to be a political action site that favors his views. He's a whiny little baby.
Sites that critisize corporations should appear before the corporations main site? Why? Did you search for the company or for criticism? If the company/group in question was something he agreed with, perhaps some environmental organization or the democratic national commitee, would he want criticism of them to come up first too?
A quick stop at google shows that if you search for "United Airlines" you get their site first, and the site he thinks should be first shortly thereafter. If you search for "United Airlines criticism" you get the site he reccommends first. Looks like google is doing it's job correctly to me.
Why is salon publishing the crap?
98% of Web users doesn't know/care how to turn off cookies
Yep. 98% of web users won't care about what this guy has to say, and people who care know how to disable the problem. Thanks for the reality check.
I've never seriously listened to the difference between Ogg Vorbis and the other codecs. I followed the link in that letter to the Ogg comparison page, and down at the bottom there were samples made by Microsoft for Media Player 8, and Real, and an Ogg version of the same piece. If you play the 64kbit ogg file, and the 64kbit wma file, you hear a *major* difference. The harpsichord is completely missing from the windows media version! Usually when there is a comparison like that the difference is subtile, and you really can't tell with crappy equipment. I certainly wasn't expecting such a vast difference in quality.
I'm impressed.
I already have "mount magrathea:/huge/mp3 ~/Desktop/mp3" run when I log in to my 10.2 box. The server is Linux 2.4.17 based. What does Suse do to their kernel that is causing your problem? From what I can see the NFS client implementation in 10.2 works perfectly well.
If I recall Xiph.org did a fairly complete search of existing patents. You won't get any better assurance from anybody else that you won't be subject to royalties in the future. What do you suggest, that we all stop using software in case sombody claims it's patented in the future? Perhaps you think the answer is to send large sums of money to Thompson Multimedia and only use closed/for pay players?
This is all a non issue. MP3 has proliferated so widely that their patent is technically unenforcable, and may as well not exist.
With rambus it was patent applications that they hid, not patents. The PTO is slow, but I doubt that any techniques that were used in Vorbis have pending applications on them that will actully be issued. Vorbis has been around long enough that it would be considered prior art.
You cannot get a patent on something that has been published knowledge for more then 1 year.
Also, the USPTO does not operate at a profit. They spend more then they take in (as of last I looked, anyway)
You're wrong. Patents in the US are publicized by the PTO at the time they are issued. You can't keep a US patent a secret once you've been granted it. It's not possible.
I just want it to desplay the text by default without having to hover over anything or wait for a timeout. Why is that undesireable?
Now that I think about it, I'd rather not have a context menu, I'd rather have hotkeys for things, so I'm not going to make a big issue out of this, I'll just not use it.
The radial menus would be okay if they used text instead of icons. With the iconic menus it takes forever to figure out what to click on when I want to use a feature that I dont use typically.
They should take note from games that use radial menus. They all use text.
Does a sprite bottle filled with butane and sealed with duct tape and a 'C' model rocket engine count? Don't forget to cover the smoke detectors with a plastic bag and a rubber band.
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Those were the days
No, I meant what I said (although the version numbers might be a little off). They take new features that change device driver interfaces, filesystems, and whatever else and they keep an old vm and version number. They provide a list of patches, but no decription of what they do or why they needed them. The changelog their kernel maintainer provides is a joke.
What's worse, the vm that they use is tuned poorly by default or just plain broken. It is completely unsuitable for heavy I/O, because it will use all available memory for buffer cache. After a few minutes of I/O, your memory is full, and you processes are suddenly competing with kswapd and kreclaimd for CPU time. (and loosing).
What they do to the kernel wouldn't be so bad if they used appropriate versioning. When I write a module that lives outside of the kernel, I don't want to have to include a table of what features are in which RedHat kernel in my makefile. If it's 2.4.18 with the vm subsystem from 2.4.9, DON'T CALL THE KERNEL 2.4.9! That's not helpful.
Ethernet is designed for relatively long distances, and has high power requirements to support those distances. I've worked building embedded systems that used lower power trancievers on the backplane and on each board to save power. Obviously if you do something like this you won't be standards compliant anymore, but if you're only talking to your own devices it could work for you. If not, there are high speed serial interfaces availble on telecom chips that you could use. Search google for HDLC and you'll find exactly what you're looking for.
How do you enable this 'quirks' mode you speak of?
That's BS. Domino has been available for linux for years now. It's not that linux doesn't have this functionality, it's that this guy doesn't want to pay for it. What "clinchers" are left keeping people from using linux as a server that "every company uses"? In 90% of companies you could drop a properly configured linux server in place of a Windows server and nobody would notice (except for the administrator).
We're talking about different things then. What I'm saying is that if you create something that violates a patent a year after a patent is issued, you are *not* liable from when the patent was issued, you're liable from when you started infringing.