"Before this my girlfriend (who uses a Dell notebook) has never called anything computer related "jawdropping"! "
Maybe now she can call it "computer dropping", when somebody's hands slip as they're waving their Powerbook through three dimensions and a $2500 piece of equipment falls to the floor and gets ruined!
Come on, they're called LAPtops for a reason.
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Gotta agree with others -- where's the "casting" part here?
My guess is that it's the other, entirely unrelated part, which consists of using an RSS plugin for a BitTorrent client to automatically locate and download video content.
I don't think Japan, which has had at least as big a shake up as the US, has seen the rise of a large religiously motivated subculture.
Of course, inherent in that comparison are the cultural differences between Western and Eastern religion.
Shinto, for example, is probably the religion that has the most direct influence on Japanese culture. Yet because it is a religion with no founding figure, sacred texts, or body of religious law, it is much less probable that a Fundamentalist Shinto group would aggregate and attempt to influence society.
They are used to being the underdog in an ideological war.
Wuh the zuh? Christianity has been the dominant religion in Western culture for the past thousand years or so.
Christians, in my experiences, do seem to be a lot more likely to play the persecution card, so perhaps there's a PERCEPTION that they are ideological underdogs, but in my opinion that's not true.
they would just like the teaching of evolution to acknowledge that it is not a proven fact, and that there are other schools of thought, an in particular, the possibility of intelligent design.
Let's not confuse the issues here. On the one hand we have ideas about the origin of life. The preeminent hypothesis of the scientific community is lightning and primordial soup and microbiology begetting macrobiology. There's not much proof that this is how it happened, but there's not much proof that it couldn't have happened that way, either. In that respect it is on roughly equal footing with the idea of intelligent design, which also cannot be proven or disproven.
The scientific theory of evolution addresses a related, but separate matter: have lifeforms changed since the beginning of time, and if so how and why? The observational record suggests that living things most certainly HAVE changed over time, and there is so much supporting evidence and so little contradictory evidence, that Darwin's theories (in slightly modified form) have become generally accepted among the scientific community.
With all due respect, arguing that Evolution is "just a theory" is kind of like arguing that the sky is actually green -- how do we know that the color represented by 475nm-wavelength light isn't REALLY called "blue"?
It's already been established in a court ruling last month that the FCC had overstepped its authority in trying to mandate that future television hardware must respect a "broadcast" flag. Federal judges rejected the claim that the FCC's mandate to regulate transmissions also afforded them the ancillary ability to regulate reception of those transmissions.
Why wouldn't the same precedent also prevent the FCC from mandating that cable companies cannot integrate digital tuners, CableCard authentication, PVRs, or any other technology into a single device?
the whole idea in the first place was to make that info available to everyone.
And Microsoft's proposed license does just that!
They just want to make sure that if you want information about their APIs or protocols, you go directly to the horse's ass^H^H^H mouth to get it. No games of "telephone", where the information passes through several parties and gets just a little more distorted on each hop. No campaigns of deliberate misinformation coming from unofficial sources, no attempt to embrace/extend/extinguish.
Microsoft's license would not benefit the OSS community in the same way that releasing MS source under the GPL would, true. But the EU's directive doesn't exist solely for the benefit of the OSS community. Closed-source developers, even those in direct competition with Microsoft, have a lot to gain from the arrangement.
I don't purchase from iTMS. However, I would strongly consider it if it would let me listen the music I bought on my own equipment without file format conversion hassles.
You'd still be downloading AAC-encoded files, just without DRM included.
I'd be VERY surprised if you owned any hardware that can play AAC, but not DRM'ed AAC, natively. You'd still need to subject yourself to those file conversion hassles.
In other words we access it remotely, and Google decide on the hardware?
Google would decide on THEIR hardware, yeah, but YOUR hardware would still be a wildcard.
Computing terminals can very greatly in features and performance, and therefore need a wide variety of drivers available for them. This is true even of dumb terminals; just check out how many different terminal type definitions a Unix or Linux system ships with.
Orkut - a lot like Friendster or MySpace, except less popular and with a much dumber name
Also, you forgot Poland.
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As for the argument that we should simply allow everyone to choose whether or not they want to share their changes to their code, rather than "enforcing" it through the GPL... either you're naive or a Microsoft et al shill.
Jesus. Why don't you accuse him of being a Communist, member of al Qaeda, and a witch while you're at it???
Can't you counter the parent poster's argument without relying on ad hominem name calling?
From what I've seen, they haven't merely cloned it, they've actually improved on it.
Improved the language design and syntax, perhaps. But has C# improved on the cross-platformability of Java? Do you have a lot of options for the toolkits you use to develop and deploy C# applications, or are you locked into a single vendor? (Okay, a single vendor plus a FOSS project playing catch-up.)
Elegance in the guts of a language does count for something, but it's by no means the sole or primary indicator of quality.
It does get annoying at first, typing in public in front of nearly every class/method and having to type in System.out.println when a simple printf() or cout or print would do suffieiently in another language.
Someone should invent a code editor that has macro function support built into it. That would solve your complaint nicely.
Personally, I would rather look for a replacement software than having to install some sort of 'Classic VB Runtime Environment' just to run some legacy products.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you're NOT the CTO of a large and technologically mature corportation.
Searching for replacement software costs time and money. Migrating from an existing product to a new product costs time and money. Rewriting a product from scratch, which will likely be necessary if there's nothing new on the market that meets your requirements at least as well as the old product, costs a LOT of time and money.
Driving normally, [British motoring journalist] Jeremy Clarkson got 75mpg out of a Volkswagen Lupo diesel.
See, already, it's lost relevance to driving conditions in the US. The Lupo is a subcompact car. For several reasons, both cultural and practical, such cars are not feasible in the United States. We drive bigger cars, and bigger means heavier and heavier means lesser gas mileage.
The hybrid-engine cars of today are a silly fad.
And the motor-coach will never exceed a speed of 10 miles per hour! What with the trouble of having to crank-start the engine, and frequent tyre re-vulcanizations, you might as well stick with your horses or your steam-powered locomotive. The internal-combustion-engine auto cars of today are a silly fad!
Hybrid automotives are still in their young stages. The technology will evolve and improve over time.
Not only that but central power plants can be placed in poor neighborhoods where most of us never have to see the pollution and those that do don't vote.
You're is IN FAVOR of centrally generated power, and one of the arguments you make is that it will cause more poor people to die???
That's awful. You're awful. I'm almost tempted to assume a contrary viewpoint, just on principle. How do we know you're not working undercover for Detroit?
The electric system is only beneficial during acceleration
Are you talking about Honda's hybrid drivetrain, or Toyota's?
IIRC one is a small gas engine that uses an electric motor for assistance when needed, and the other is the opposite. I would expect these systems to excel in different kinds of driving conditions.
(IANAL and am not sure why anybody would come to Slashdot seeking legal advice instead of talking to an attorney, but here we go...)
The flip side of your employer taking all the credit for the code you write on their behalf is that they also have to assume all the legal liability for the code you write. It's them that will be in violation of the GPL, not you.
What are the whistleblower statutes like in your region? I can tell that the idea that your employer is violating the terms of the GPL bothers you, but siccing the EFF on them might or might not be a good idea unless you want to lose your job in retribution.
Just because the quality was perfect doesn't prove that the episode was leaked intentionally.
Many entertainment companies send prerelease "screener" DVDs out to the media, in hopes of getting good advance reviews and bolstering ratings. It's entirely possible that there are DVD copies of the new Dr. Who pilot circulating in the media, and the AVI was ripped by an unscrupulous newspaper columnist (or mailroom attendant, for that matter) without the producers' permission.
If Cohen was looking to *directly* make money on BitTorrent he wouldn't have released the source to it.
If Cohen WASN'T looking to directly make money on BitTorrent he wouldn't have made the official client spawn a beg-for-donations page in your browser for every nth torrent you open.
Well, it's kind of difficult to prove beyond all doubt, what with the source code for the products which are allegedly in violation not being available and all.
For all we know, this could be a scare tactic by MS to worry people back to their side of the fence.
I don't see the benefit to them.
If anything, evidence of high-profile GPL violations would dissuade developers from writing GPL software. It would do anything to convince users not to USE GPL software, in fact it might do the opposite -- if GPL code is good enough for these big-name companies to use in their products, maybe it's good enough that I should use it too!
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Yet it remains the most consumer-friendly DRM around.
Yeah, and China is the most capitalist-friendly of the Communist countries! Let's all move there!
"Before this my girlfriend (who uses a Dell notebook) has never called anything computer related "jawdropping"! "
Maybe now she can call it "computer dropping", when somebody's hands slip as they're waving their Powerbook through three dimensions and a $2500 piece of equipment falls to the floor and gets ruined!
Come on, they're called LAPtops for a reason.
Gotta agree with others -- where's the "casting" part here?
My guess is that it's the other, entirely unrelated part, which consists of using an RSS plugin for a BitTorrent client to automatically locate and download video content.
I don't think Japan, which has had at least as big a shake up as the US, has seen the rise of a large religiously motivated subculture.
Of course, inherent in that comparison are the cultural differences between Western and Eastern religion.
Shinto, for example, is probably the religion that has the most direct influence on Japanese culture. Yet because it is a religion with no founding figure, sacred texts, or body of religious law, it is much less probable that a Fundamentalist Shinto group would aggregate and attempt to influence society.
They are used to being the underdog in an ideological war.
Wuh the zuh? Christianity has been the dominant religion in Western culture for the past thousand years or so.
Christians, in my experiences, do seem to be a lot more likely to play the persecution card, so perhaps there's a PERCEPTION that they are ideological underdogs, but in my opinion that's not true.
they would just like the teaching of evolution to acknowledge that it is not a proven fact, and that there are other schools of thought, an in particular, the possibility of intelligent design.
Let's not confuse the issues here. On the one hand we have ideas about the origin of life. The preeminent hypothesis of the scientific community is lightning and primordial soup and microbiology begetting macrobiology. There's not much proof that this is how it happened, but there's not much proof that it couldn't have happened that way, either. In that respect it is on roughly equal footing with the idea of intelligent design, which also cannot be proven or disproven.
The scientific theory of evolution addresses a related, but separate matter: have lifeforms changed since the beginning of time, and if so how and why? The observational record suggests that living things most certainly HAVE changed over time, and there is so much supporting evidence and so little contradictory evidence, that Darwin's theories (in slightly modified form) have become generally accepted among the scientific community.
With all due respect, arguing that Evolution is "just a theory" is kind of like arguing that the sky is actually green -- how do we know that the color represented by 475nm-wavelength light isn't REALLY called "blue"?
If your TV can go high enough, it shouldn't need the box.
Sure, if your TV is also capable of decoding the digital signal. Enumeration of channel numbers is not the issue here!
It's already been established in a court ruling last month that the FCC had overstepped its authority in trying to mandate that future television hardware must respect a "broadcast" flag. Federal judges rejected the claim that the FCC's mandate to regulate transmissions also afforded them the ancillary ability to regulate reception of those transmissions.
Why wouldn't the same precedent also prevent the FCC from mandating that cable companies cannot integrate digital tuners, CableCard authentication, PVRs, or any other technology into a single device?
the whole idea in the first place was to make that info available to everyone.
And Microsoft's proposed license does just that!
They just want to make sure that if you want information about their APIs or protocols, you go directly to the horse's ass^H^H^H mouth to get it. No games of "telephone", where the information passes through several parties and gets just a little more distorted on each hop. No campaigns of deliberate misinformation coming from unofficial sources, no attempt to embrace/extend/extinguish.
Microsoft's license would not benefit the OSS community in the same way that releasing MS source under the GPL would, true. But the EU's directive doesn't exist solely for the benefit of the OSS community. Closed-source developers, even those in direct competition with Microsoft, have a lot to gain from the arrangement.
I don't purchase from iTMS. However, I would strongly consider it if it would let me listen the music I bought on my own equipment without file format conversion hassles.
You'd still be downloading AAC-encoded files, just without DRM included.
I'd be VERY surprised if you owned any hardware that can play AAC, but not DRM'ed AAC, natively. You'd still need to subject yourself to those file conversion hassles.
In other words we access it remotely, and Google decide on the hardware?
Google would decide on THEIR hardware, yeah, but YOUR hardware would still be a wildcard.
Computing terminals can very greatly in features and performance, and therefore need a wide variety of drivers available for them. This is true even of dumb terminals; just check out how many different terminal type definitions a Unix or Linux system ships with.
You forgot:
Orkut - a lot like Friendster or MySpace, except less popular and with a much dumber name
Also, you forgot Poland.
As for the argument that we should simply allow everyone to choose whether or not they want to share their changes to their code, rather than "enforcing" it through the GPL... either you're naive or a Microsoft et al shill.
Jesus. Why don't you accuse him of being a Communist, member of al Qaeda, and a witch while you're at it???
Can't you counter the parent poster's argument without relying on ad hominem name calling?
When I think of "the scene" I think of the demo scene, as in http://www.scene.org/. What scene is it? The piracy scene?
Surely if you're into the Demoscene you're aware that your scene has origins in the piracy scene.
Microsoft has cloned Java
From what I've seen, they haven't merely cloned it, they've actually improved on it.
Improved the language design and syntax, perhaps. But has C# improved on the cross-platformability of Java? Do you have a lot of options for the toolkits you use to develop and deploy C# applications, or are you locked into a single vendor? (Okay, a single vendor plus a FOSS project playing catch-up.)
Elegance in the guts of a language does count for something, but it's by no means the sole or primary indicator of quality.
It does get annoying at first, typing in public in front of nearly every class/method and having to type in System.out.println when a simple printf() or cout or print would do suffieiently in another language.
Someone should invent a code editor that has macro function support built into it. That would solve your complaint nicely.
Personally, I would rather look for a replacement software than having to install some sort of 'Classic VB Runtime Environment' just to run some legacy products.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you're NOT the CTO of a large and technologically mature corportation.
Searching for replacement software costs time and money. Migrating from an existing product to a new product costs time and money. Rewriting a product from scratch, which will likely be necessary if there's nothing new on the market that meets your requirements at least as well as the old product, costs a LOT of time and money.
Someone's finally invented a notebook computer without an integrated keyboard and LCD panel?
The hell you say!
Driving normally, [British motoring journalist] Jeremy Clarkson got 75mpg out of a Volkswagen Lupo diesel.
See, already, it's lost relevance to driving conditions in the US. The Lupo is a subcompact car. For several reasons, both cultural and practical, such cars are not feasible in the United States. We drive bigger cars, and bigger means heavier and heavier means lesser gas mileage.
The hybrid-engine cars of today are a silly fad.
And the motor-coach will never exceed a speed of 10 miles per hour! What with the trouble of having to crank-start the engine, and frequent tyre re-vulcanizations, you might as well stick with your horses or your steam-powered locomotive. The internal-combustion-engine auto cars of today are a silly fad!
Hybrid automotives are still in their young stages. The technology will evolve and improve over time.
Not only that but central power plants can be placed in poor neighborhoods where most of us never have to see the pollution and those that do don't vote.
You're is IN FAVOR of centrally generated power, and one of the arguments you make is that it will cause more poor people to die???
That's awful. You're awful. I'm almost tempted to assume a contrary viewpoint, just on principle. How do we know you're not working undercover for Detroit?
The electric system is only beneficial during acceleration
Are you talking about Honda's hybrid drivetrain, or Toyota's?
IIRC one is a small gas engine that uses an electric motor for assistance when needed, and the other is the opposite. I would expect these systems to excel in different kinds of driving conditions.
(IANAL and am not sure why anybody would come to Slashdot seeking legal advice instead of talking to an attorney, but here we go...)
The flip side of your employer taking all the credit for the code you write on their behalf is that they also have to assume all the legal liability for the code you write. It's them that will be in violation of the GPL, not you.
What are the whistleblower statutes like in your region? I can tell that the idea that your employer is violating the terms of the GPL bothers you, but siccing the EFF on them might or might not be a good idea unless you want to lose your job in retribution.
Just because the quality was perfect doesn't prove that the episode was leaked intentionally.
Many entertainment companies send prerelease "screener" DVDs out to the media, in hopes of getting good advance reviews and bolstering ratings. It's entirely possible that there are DVD copies of the new Dr. Who pilot circulating in the media, and the AVI was ripped by an unscrupulous newspaper columnist (or mailroom attendant, for that matter) without the producers' permission.
If Cohen was looking to *directly* make money on BitTorrent he wouldn't have released the source to it.
If Cohen WASN'T looking to directly make money on BitTorrent he wouldn't have made the official client spawn a beg-for-donations page in your browser for every nth torrent you open.
It's a good point: WHY does FOSS not have representation in the BSA?
Because they're Not Evil?
We don't know?
Well, it's kind of difficult to prove beyond all doubt, what with the source code for the products which are allegedly in violation not being available and all.
For all we know, this could be a scare tactic by MS to worry people back to their side of the fence.
I don't see the benefit to them.
If anything, evidence of high-profile GPL violations would dissuade developers from writing GPL software. It would do anything to convince users not to USE GPL software, in fact it might do the opposite -- if GPL code is good enough for these big-name companies to use in their products, maybe it's good enough that I should use it too!