No doubt the kernel developers will be quick to rush to D-Link's defence. Surely it's intolerable that the GPL restricts D-Link's freedom to use the kernel in this way, and attempts to force a particular moral code?
Without the guaranteed monopoly, I would probably have 4 fiber lines running to my house providing me with 10-20 service plans. Other countries are getting 100Mb service, what has kept the US free market from doing the same?
You might like to ponder the fact that the other countries you refer to have more heavily regulated telecoms than the US.
That may work great for you, a person who's used to explicity following directions to the letter. But there's other types of people that'd rather have some flexibility in how they do things, aren't good at "to the letter" directions, or just don't like tedium.
Such people shouldn't be installing operating systems of any description.
I mean, come on. "Oh, I had a terrible time performing the surgery... I'm just not good at dealing with the sight of blood." "Stupid car was impossible to repair, I can't bear getting oil on my hands, it's so hard to wash off."
Uncheck the option in iTunes to automatically sync. Now you can plug the iPod in to any of your computers, and it appears as another drive in iTunes. You can drag plain MP3s onto the iPod icon in iTunes, and they copy onto the iPod and are automatically indexed.
Select the advanced options in iTunes and you can choose the file format you prefer for ripped audio. Both MPEG-1 layer 3 (MP3) and MPEG-4 (AAC) are supported, as well as Apple Lossless. I only chose to use LAME because I find it's a better encoder than the one built into iTunes; sometimes when I'm in a hurry I've used iTunes AAC instead as it's way faster.
As to copying files off the iPod, open up a command line and they're all available; they just don't show up in the Finder because the folder's hidden. Copy 'em with the cp command, use the standard ID3 tags to file them away appropriately.
For example, I was away in Germany and bought some CDs. I happened to have an iBook with me. Put the CD in, ripped to AAC in about 5-10 minutes; plugged in the iPod, dragged the files onto it. No problems, even though I had never used the iPod with the iBook before, don't normally use AAC, etc.
That iPod users don't go for it is significant because iPod users have already accepted artificial restrictions in their music but even they refused to be locked in completely.
What a bunch of crap. I'm not accepting any artificial restrictions in my music when I use my iPod. It's all LAME-encoded MP3s ripped from CDs. What restrictions do you think I'm accepting, pray tell?
Expecting the customer to take "reasonable care" is all very well, but when are the banks going to start taking reasonable care and sign their e-mail using S/MIME?
Just about every mail client supports it, from Outlook Express to Exchange to Lotus Notes to Apple Mail to Mozilla Thunderbird. There's really no excuse for the banks not using it.
Yes, the Bush administration has been so successful at bringing peace and democracy to Iraq, and tracking down Bin Laden. Obviously they feared the competence and insight of that administration.
Our callers are all charities, opinion polls, or political; so in a sense, the DNC list has worked.
However, the existence of the list has worked in a wider sense, in that I now feel no guilt about ripping into people who still interrupt me with cold calls asking for money.
e.g.
"Hi, I'm calling on behalf of..."
"We're on the Do Not Call list."
"This isn't a sales call, so it's not covered by..."
"I don't care. The fact that I'm on the do not call list indicates that I don't want to receive unsolicited phone calls from you, yet you chose to ignore the list. That's damn rude and inconsiderate, and the fact that you are legally allowed to be rude and inconsiderate doesn't excuse it." [Hang up]
Or:
"Hello. I'm wondering if you would like to support..."
"I'm on the Do Not Call list, so you know I don't want to receive this call. I have a policy of not giving money to anyone who's rude enough to ignore my stated preferences and call me anyway." [Hang up]
I know all that. (I write both.) However, from an end user functionality point of view, both languages are used for building dynamic web sites, so Ruby (with Rails) is viewed as an alternative to Java (with J2EE).
But how many generations had their kids sitting in front of, essentially, puppet-shows (or some other analog equivalent) all day, every day?
Mine. I clearly remember all the same scaremongering moral panics about kids watching TV. My mother used to have to drag me kicking and screaming into the outside world, or I would literally watch puppet shows any chance I got. Then once I was 10, they couldn't get me away from the computer.
Strangely enough, I didn't grow up intellectually retarded or lacking in imagination.
In a rational society, either the people's law enforcement system would take care of the problem of crack users, prostitutes, and polluteres ruining woody ravines near their homes, or the people would be empowered to take care of the problem themselves using whatever force is necessary.
Yeah, 'cause if someone e-mailed him directly about work rather than using the form, and he posted their e-mail, they'd have no reason to be surprised or upset, right?
Ruby on Rails has got a lot of attention. Many web sites that would have been built using Java are being built using Rails, and people were starting to ask if Ruby on Rails was the new, better Java.
This is an insurance policy for Sun, and a way for them to provide a migration path and say "Oh, OK, you can run your Rails site on our Java platform while you build the next version using J2EE".
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No doubt the kernel developers will be quick to rush to D-Link's defence. Surely it's intolerable that the GPL restricts D-Link's freedom to use the kernel in this way, and attempts to force a particular moral code?
Ah yes, 'cause you'd never get government financial solvency issues or corporate problems in America, would you?
You might like to ponder the fact that the other countries you refer to have more heavily regulated telecoms than the US.
Such people shouldn't be installing operating systems of any description.
I mean, come on. "Oh, I had a terrible time performing the surgery... I'm just not good at dealing with the sight of blood." "Stupid car was impossible to repair, I can't bear getting oil on my hands, it's so hard to wash off."
If you really think all programmers are like that, take a look at a few open source projects. (Ruby springs to mind.)
Uncheck the option in iTunes to automatically sync. Now you can plug the iPod in to any of your computers, and it appears as another drive in iTunes. You can drag plain MP3s onto the iPod icon in iTunes, and they copy onto the iPod and are automatically indexed.
Select the advanced options in iTunes and you can choose the file format you prefer for ripped audio. Both MPEG-1 layer 3 (MP3) and MPEG-4 (AAC) are supported, as well as Apple Lossless. I only chose to use LAME because I find it's a better encoder than the one built into iTunes; sometimes when I'm in a hurry I've used iTunes AAC instead as it's way faster.
As to copying files off the iPod, open up a command line and they're all available; they just don't show up in the Finder because the folder's hidden. Copy 'em with the cp command, use the standard ID3 tags to file them away appropriately.
For example, I was away in Germany and bought some CDs. I happened to have an iBook with me. Put the CD in, ripped to AAC in about 5-10 minutes; plugged in the iPod, dragged the files onto it. No problems, even though I had never used the iPod with the iBook before, don't normally use AAC, etc.
What a bunch of crap. I'm not accepting any artificial restrictions in my music when I use my iPod. It's all LAME-encoded MP3s ripped from CDs. What restrictions do you think I'm accepting, pray tell?
Yet I bet you don't take even the elementary step of S/MIME signing the legitimate e-mail you send out, so clearly it isn't a big enough problem yet.
Expecting the customer to take "reasonable care" is all very well, but when are the banks going to start taking reasonable care and sign their e-mail using S/MIME?
Just about every mail client supports it, from Outlook Express to Exchange to Lotus Notes to Apple Mail to Mozilla Thunderbird. There's really no excuse for the banks not using it.
Yes, the Bush administration has been so successful at bringing peace and democracy to Iraq, and tracking down Bin Laden. Obviously they feared the competence and insight of that administration.
We played right into their hands. Al Qaeda even endorsed Bush for the 2004 elections.
Our callers are all charities, opinion polls, or political; so in a sense, the DNC list has worked.
However, the existence of the list has worked in a wider sense, in that I now feel no guilt about ripping into people who still interrupt me with cold calls asking for money.
e.g.
"Hi, I'm calling on behalf of..."
"We're on the Do Not Call list."
"This isn't a sales call, so it's not covered by..."
"I don't care. The fact that I'm on the do not call list indicates that I don't want to receive unsolicited phone calls from you, yet you chose to ignore the list. That's damn rude and inconsiderate, and the fact that you are legally allowed to be rude and inconsiderate doesn't excuse it." [Hang up]
Or:
"Hello. I'm wondering if you would like to support..."
"I'm on the Do Not Call list, so you know I don't want to receive this call. I have a policy of not giving money to anyone who's rude enough to ignore my stated preferences and call me anyway." [Hang up]
Am I the only one who thought of Doctor Theophilus and the computer council of judges on Buck Rogers in the 25th Century?
I was?
I am so very ashamed.
I know all that. (I write both.) However, from an end user functionality point of view, both languages are used for building dynamic web sites, so Ruby (with Rails) is viewed as an alternative to Java (with J2EE).
School reports, exam grades, that kind of thing? One thing my teachers never complained about was lack of imagination...
Mine. I clearly remember all the same scaremongering moral panics about kids watching TV. My mother used to have to drag me kicking and screaming into the outside world, or I would literally watch puppet shows any chance I got. Then once I was 10, they couldn't get me away from the computer.
Strangely enough, I didn't grow up intellectually retarded or lacking in imagination.
No, in a rational society the government wouldn't have created the crack problem in the first place by introducing the drug and starting a war on drugs to pump the price up, and a healthcare system would take care of the problem by providing drug treatment to addicts.
Yeah, 'cause if someone e-mailed him directly about work rather than using the form, and he posted their e-mail, they'd have no reason to be surprised or upset, right?
Ruby on Rails has got a lot of attention. Many web sites that would have been built using Java are being built using Rails, and people were starting to ask if Ruby on Rails was the new, better Java.
This is an insurance policy for Sun, and a way for them to provide a migration path and say "Oh, OK, you can run your Rails site on our Java platform while you build the next version using J2EE".
The little shit did have a stated privacy policy, ironically enough.
If employees checked up on businesses before going to work for them or buying products from them, we might not have so many ENRONs.
With all due respect to YouTube, I think that MySpace is the site that's more analogous to cancer.
...so I'm never going to correct incorrect information about me or my company that they have online.
And this is a good thing how, exactly?
I just finally gave in and switched from KDE to GNOME.
If Mono is really going to be a requirement for GNOME in the future, I'll switch back to KDE.
And no, I'm not joking.
Imagine you're a web developer and you need to check a client's web site for broken links.