My point is this: if you think CD prices are too high, simply don't by the CDs. The RIAA profits will drop, their economists will crunch the numbers, and prices will fall to the point at which you will buy them again and they will again maximize their profits.
That's the way it would work in a free market economy. Unfortunately, the market does not behave that way when the seller is a cartel, with a monopolistic stranglehold on recorded music.
Do you _really_ think that CD prices would fall if sales declined? Yeah right. More than likely prices would _increase_ as the RIAA member corps. try to find ways to maintain their current revenue stream.
Has anyone considered that this is exactly what the original authors may have wanted? Certainly, they were aware that by releasing their code under such licenses, anyone could take it and build a closed sourced application out of it.
Maybe they WANTED their code to be put to use by anyone who could use it, without the requirement that they release source. Honestly, I don't see the problem here.
At first I thought the article was going to say Apple had used GPL code without releasing source... but it doesn't. It just seems like Apple bashing.
Am I the only one who finds it ironic that companies who are trying to make a name for themselves as "user-friendly" produce a product that is probably too difficult for Joe Sixpack to install, and that product runs on systems that Joe Sixpack would likely never install in the first place because they are too hard?
California ranks 48th in the Union in per capita energy consumption. Compared to the other states, we do an excellent job of conservation, reducing demand, and developing new energy saving technologies.
It is unfortunate that the current "energy crunch" has given others the impression that Californians are "energy hogs" that are somehow using triple the electricity of Oregonians, when that is not the case.
If the rest of the country was as efficient as California, energy prices would not be what they are.
Why does this have the censorship icon? No one was censored.
There may have been threats, or implied threats, yes. But no one stopped them from publishing their material.
They simply made a decision not to publish, given the facts that it might be found illegal. (Regardless of whether the law that makes it so is right or wrong).
It's certainly a crummy choice to have to make, but let's be real. They buckled under financial and legal pressure. They were NOT censored.
Like our music, we should automatically rip, catalog, and store our DVDs.
The MPAA will never let you get away with that. They'll get ISP's to block access to the website where you hype your Box. You'll be sued under the DCMA for providing a "circumvention device", and you'll lose your job when your employer finds out you're a "pirate" in your spare time.
When you call the local news to try to get your story on the air, they will laugh, because they are owned by AOL/TimeWarner/ABC/Disney, Inc.
You'll start a campaign to write your congressman, but will get cut off at the knees, because everytime you try to use the internet to gain interest in your cause, your ISP account is cancelled.
When you get smart and try to run your own website and mail server, your connectivity (cable, DSL, T1, etc. get cancelled because your upstream provider gets a threatening letter and buckles.)
I think people are finally starting to get it - it's all over. America is owned by megacorps, and they aren't letting go.
I don't think a cell phone can provide the bandwidth needed to send the frames of a webcam. (Not to mention, you'd have to leave the cell phone connected all the time? Expensive!)
What about Ricochet? It would give you a nice, high speed connection and you could use any old hardware you have lying around to connect the camera to. When you don't need surveillance, you've got a nice, mobile high speed connection for your laptop or PDA.
You don't mention how far away the remote location is, but there are video transmitters from X10 that can send a video signal a few hundred feet. You could watch on a TV... no computer required.
There is a nice one called 911 that let's you do alot from a browser interface. Web2010.com uses it on their Unix hosting accounts. It's pretty easy... once it's installed you just hit http://www.mydomain.com:911, authenticate, and you can add and delete mail users, forwarding, etc. Sorry, no URL. Maybe someone else can supply it.
2. Tivo, et al, are not, because they make it "too easy".
Content providers shouldn't be additionally compensated just because I'm saving a video to a hard disk instead of analog tape! They've already been paid by advertisers, or, in the case of public TV, donations.
Well, I hate to break it to you, but people get to make up their own minds about what sex is for. You don't get to decide for them.
Only one person can own a persons body - themselves. Other people owning your body is called slavery, and is outlawed where I live. Two people cannot own the same persons body.
By that logic, if I "choose" to take a shower at the gym, and contract athlete's foot, I have no right to try to get rid of the athlete's foot, because my body is owned both by myself, and the fungus.
there isnt even a web server platform that runs on the mac!
+5, informative? More like a troll. There are plenty of web servers that run on the Mac, you know it, I know it, Slashdot knows it, so stop spreading lies.
Next you'll be telling us "Apple stole the GUI from Xerox blah blah blah"
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That's the way it would work in a free market economy. Unfortunately, the market does not behave that way when the seller is a cartel, with a monopolistic stranglehold on recorded music.
Do you _really_ think that CD prices would fall if sales declined? Yeah right. More than likely prices would _increase_ as the RIAA member corps. try to find ways to maintain their current revenue stream.
Maybe they WANTED their code to be put to use by anyone who could use it, without the requirement that they release source. Honestly, I don't see the problem here.
At first I thought the article was going to say Apple had used GPL code without releasing source... but it doesn't. It just seems like Apple bashing.
Am I the only one who finds it ironic that companies who are trying to make a name for themselves as "user-friendly" produce a product that is probably too difficult for Joe Sixpack to install, and that product runs on systems that Joe Sixpack would likely never install in the first place because they are too hard?
There are ways to fake it by using images that are roughly the size of one printed page (browsers usually won't print images across two pages).
But since you're looking for a ready made software package, the odds they've incorporated something like that seem slim.
Finally, I'll get to see all those hockey games I've been missing!
It is unfortunate that the current "energy crunch" has given others the impression that Californians are "energy hogs" that are somehow using triple the electricity of Oregonians, when that is not the case.
If the rest of the country was as efficient as California, energy prices would not be what they are.
There may have been threats, or implied threats, yes. But no one stopped them from publishing their material.
They simply made a decision not to publish, given the facts that it might be found illegal. (Regardless of whether the law that makes it so is right or wrong).
It's certainly a crummy choice to have to make, but let's be real. They buckled under financial and legal pressure. They were NOT censored.
Is that 1000 gigs in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
Once I tried moving the mouse to the left and swapping the buttons, but I just couldn't get the hang of it, even though I'm left handed.
There is a website, the Left Hand, that sells computer junk for lefties, including a keyboard, mouse, and joystick.
Also, In San Francisco, CA, on Pier 39 I believe, there is an entire store that sells stuff for lefthanders. Maybe you can call them.
The MPAA will never let you get away with that. They'll get ISP's to block access to the website where you hype your Box. You'll be sued under the DCMA for providing a "circumvention device", and you'll lose your job when your employer finds out you're a "pirate" in your spare time.
When you call the local news to try to get your story on the air, they will laugh, because they are owned by AOL/TimeWarner/ABC/Disney, Inc.
You'll start a campaign to write your congressman, but will get cut off at the knees, because everytime you try to use the internet to gain interest in your cause, your ISP account is cancelled.
When you get smart and try to run your own website and mail server, your connectivity (cable, DSL, T1, etc. get cancelled because your upstream provider gets a threatening letter and buckles.)
I think people are finally starting to get it - it's all over. America is owned by megacorps, and they aren't letting go.
Because of this, your "box" will never happen.
What about Ricochet? It would give you a nice, high speed connection and you could use any old hardware you have lying around to connect the camera to. When you don't need surveillance, you've got a nice, mobile high speed connection for your laptop or PDA.
You don't mention how far away the remote location is, but there are video transmitters from X10 that can send a video signal a few hundred feet. You could watch on a TV... no computer required.
Oops, you missed the fact that it runs on Windows, Linux, HP/UX, and Solaris. Hardly "locked into a Windows world".
ColdFusion System Requirements
Sure, it's not "free", but is was made for developing web applications and is extremely easy for HTML guys and designers to pick up.
When evaluating a scripting language, ease of use matters. Time is money!
There is a nice one called 911 that let's you do alot from a browser interface. Web2010.com uses it on their Unix hosting accounts. It's pretty easy... once it's installed you just hit http://www.mydomain.com:911, authenticate, and you can add and delete mail users, forwarding, etc. Sorry, no URL. Maybe someone else can supply it.
You need a software modem, like SoftGSM, to make this work.
Now it's happening. I, for one, would not be willing to lose a broadband connection for running Gnutella. I'd shut it down in a heartbeat.
Just so I have this straight:
1. VCR's are okay, but
2. Tivo, et al, are not, because they make it "too easy".
Content providers shouldn't be additionally compensated just because I'm saving a video to a hard disk instead of analog tape! They've already been paid by advertisers, or, in the case of public TV, donations.
Only one person can own a persons body - themselves. Other people owning your body is called slavery, and is outlawed where I live. Two people cannot own the same persons body.
Hint - "other OSs are hard too" is not an answer that will help nontechnical people use Linux.
I tried it under Mandrake, but it was impossible to setup for a clueless newbie.
Try again.
What about people that never want children? By your logic they can never have sex.
Sex has many purposes, one of which happens to be procreation.
I chose to go take a shower at the gym, knowing full well I might get athlete's foot. See?
NO - you cannot use the apple machines to copy DVDs.
1. The media is too small... it only holds 1/2 of the data of an average DVD.
2. You can't make a bit for bit copy because the drive won't write to certain areas of the disk.
By that logic, if I "choose" to take a shower at the gym, and contract athlete's foot, I have no right to try to get rid of the athlete's foot, because my body is owned both by myself, and the fungus.
Get real.
+5, informative? More like a troll. There are plenty of web servers that run on the Mac, you know it, I know it, Slashdot knows it, so stop spreading lies.
Next you'll be telling us "Apple stole the GUI from Xerox blah blah blah"