I submitted this monday, so was surprised to see it today. That aside.
This article has a review of the player. Not ready from prime time software buat a great idea though. As another poster pointed it its based on the open source Irate software . It also looks like an ipod shuffle sideways with a screen.
When the page is done with its slashdotting, you can submit your music to the indy page
Apart for the tirade of posts about "it works great as a server.. Don't use Gnome/KDE/"
The poster has a valid point. Windows/Macos ran guis at a decent speed on hardware down to 200 mhz pentiums. Linux, especially desktop linux is getting bloated. There seem to be very very few "lite" desktop linuxes.
I have a old notebook with a fantastic screen I wanted to make a picture frame out of. Unfortunetly its a 150mhz maxed out with 24 megs of ram. I couldn't find a linux that could work with it. Back to Windows 95 it shipped with.
Does is have SVG support?
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I can't get to the page, but I think this is the first browswer with a svg (Scalable vector graphics) renderer. If so, this could be quite the interesting release...
This is a patently BS law suit. Somethings not being explained. Here's why. At first the RIAA used the DMCA to get information from isps. No court, just a letter. Well a court ruled they can't do that anymore (I think some of the DMCA was struck down, lack of due process?). Now the RIAA file lawsuits, send legal documents to isps to compell them to reveal information about customer at ip address x.x.x.x. ISPs don't want to be in contempt of court so they comply.
This behaviour would be very out of character.
I'm betting her kids have something to do with it...
The sites in the post and comments look intereting. Then I realized, while interesting the OS version to run dashboard widgets is only in the hands of apple developers. It will be a while till the rest of us can run them.
This article talks about the demotion of the hardware guy Ken Kutaragi. People thought he might be the next CEO. Instead he was demoted (lost his seat on the board) and one of the reasons is he had the gall to say "Sony also has been hurt by its insistence on making its content proprietary"
See, They (RIAA/MPAA) really really hated napster. Why? Everyone was on Napster, so if you looked for something you found it. easy, illegal, Cool.
Now they want to fragment the file sharing networks. They're not stupid, they know they can't stop pirating completely, the goal is to make it harder, less worthwhile so people who have limited time and a budget (working people) to figure out the p2p method de jour and will just pony up th 99 cents for a sure bet good copy.
If you make a network VPN with 10 of your friends that not a real problem for them, much like the mixed tape of yesteryear. Heck if you put your mp3 on a password protected web site and tell a few of your friends, they'll never find out.
If your "sharing" your files the the hundred of thousands of anonymous strangers, they have a problem.
Make it harder to find what you want, 1 by making people less likely to make content available (more leaches) 2 Making many smaller networks with not enough content.
The problem is mainly that setting up a server or p2p is republishing. Everyone is publishing stuff they don't own the copyright too. Expect the law will catch up at some point.
Its interesting, with the internet it would be relatively cheap to set up a "radio" station, compared with the huge overhead of launching satellites etc.
With wireless internet becoming more prevalant/cheaper over the next 10 years in suburban/urban areas, satelite radio could be obsolete in those areas (bumped by cheaper internet radio), so they need to get the brand and marketing out there. Its also cheap for the satelite radio stations to stream over the internet since they've already paid to "program" each station.
Interestingly enough you can listen to low quality streams already. Actually large difference in quality between an high quality MP3 and satelite radio is convincing enough for me not to subscribe when my XM trial is turned off. (I can tell the distance in a moving car with road noise etc..) Although the selection on satellite radio isn't bad, my collection is better..
If the profs at your school mark grades down because they have a different opinion you should change schools. No offense.
I had a professor that said he would give his opinion but he would grade based on how well the argument was crafted and backed up by facts/references.
ANother professor complained that too many papers where just repeating what he had said in class and he had marked those down for not having enough original thought.
This article is a good look at RnR(ruby) and Hibernate (java). The author is a java developer and doesn't claim to be a ruby expert, but its interesting analysis about each one.Technical pros and cons of each without a lot of flame bait.
linspire strongly encourages you not to run as root. Its target is the easy to instal crowd. I've tried it, recently. I thought it installed easy and worked pretty well. Cohesively even and for a desktop linux thats a strong compliment.
I would consider it if I every get another x86 machine (I gave the last one away)
Ok I use neither gentoo or Debian. I typically use suse or mandrake when I'm using linux, because I'm used to them. I'm pretty much at MacOSX for most of my development.
I looked into debian.. I have to be honest, its doesn't seem trivial to install. The documentation seemed less polished the gentoos.
The main reason to get debian is apt-get. Its a beautiful thing after living in rpm dependency hell. Now Mac has fink/darwin ports. Gentoo has emerge. There are others as well that do almost as good a job.
Also as more and more linux distros emerge, the mind share of each decreases. Especially since there are easier to install debian based distros out there.
I'm of the mind that it looks worse for debian than it is. People are apt-getting there way to happiness and not thinking much about it, and not having to download completely new distros.
Lending a book or CD to a friend is basically publishing. Why should you be allowed to publish my stuff, if I hold the copyright?
Come on, common sense. There is a big difference between loaning a book for a short duration and allowing anyone with a computer to make copies of the book. BIG difference. Some artists have tried to do just that, only to get bitchslapped by their record company. Turns out the record companies own the rights to everything the artist does, not the "creator".
Contracts between artists and record companies are what the problem is. Unfortunetly some contracts are old and out dated. And most are bad for the artist. Check ASCAP (Artists union) for advice before signing all your rights away and get a lawyer. Many artists are very desparate for money and sign anything without review.
How can Phish, DMB, primus, TMBG sell and give away concerts when record companies don't allow it? It's called "freedom"..........
What if I don't want to give away my photos for free? What about a musicians freedom to do what they want with there music (after years and years of practicing). The pendelum has swung to far and those rights are being trampled.
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I've been on the java.net site.>/a>
.net suffix is either coincidence or very ironic.
Its a good mix of Sun developers and java users. I'm thinking of jumping back into java and been poking around that site to see what is new.
Its not all netbean either, Eclipse is giving good billing to.
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This article has a review of the player. Not ready from prime time software buat a great idea though. As another poster pointed it its based on the open source Irate software .
It also looks like an ipod shuffle sideways with a screen.
When the page is done with its slashdotting, you can submit your music to the indy page
Nintendo and Sony are the only ones making money on consoles. If MS didn't have its Windows/Office $$ bankrolling xbox where would they be?
Apart for the tirade of posts about "it works great as a server.. Don't use Gnome/KDE/"
The poster has a valid point. Windows/Macos ran guis at a decent speed on hardware down to 200 mhz pentiums. Linux, especially desktop linux is getting bloated. There seem to be very very few "lite" desktop linuxes.
I have a old notebook with a fantastic screen I wanted to make a picture frame out of. Unfortunetly its a 150mhz maxed out with 24 megs of ram. I couldn't find a linux that could work with it. Back to Windows 95 it shipped with.
I can't get to the page, but I think this is the first browswer with a svg (Scalable vector graphics) renderer. If so, this could be quite the interesting release...
linsprire during installs now strongly encourages you to set up a root and user account.
So he's just posturing, but back in the day you had to assume anyone who got on your system could get root if they wanted it.
He's right that your data is very important, most important than the OS files..
Oh, wait ... it can..
This is a patently BS law suit. Somethings not being explained. Here's why. At first the RIAA used the DMCA to get information from isps. No court, just a letter. Well a court ruled they can't do that anymore (I think some of the DMCA was struck down, lack of due process?).
Now the RIAA file lawsuits, send legal documents to isps to compell them to reveal information about customer at ip address x.x.x.x. ISPs don't want to be in contempt of court so they comply.
This behaviour would be very out of character.
I'm betting her kids have something to do with it...
The sites in the post and comments look intereting. Then I realized, while interesting the OS version to run dashboard widgets is only in the hands of apple developers. It will be a while till the rest of us can run them.
The sites look good though.
Maybe a VNC client instead ro access the PC from the Mac. Just and idea.??
This article talks about the demotion of the hardware guy Ken Kutaragi. People thought he might be the next CEO. Instead he was demoted (lost his seat on the board) and one of the reasons is he had the gall to say "Sony also has been hurt by its insistence on making its content proprietary"
More links to same story
Very very sad. Explains what happened to the MD which could have been a great format...
The clout of that school, mercy. Granted it was a non-reviewed paper...but still.
I bet papers from Cal-Tech are under more scrutiny.
See, They (RIAA/MPAA) really really hated napster. Why? Everyone was on Napster, so if you looked for something you found it. easy, illegal, Cool.
Now they want to fragment the file sharing networks. They're not stupid, they know they can't stop pirating completely, the goal is to make it harder, less worthwhile so people who have limited time and a budget (working people) to figure out the p2p method de jour and will just pony up th 99 cents for a sure bet good copy.
If you make a network VPN with 10 of your friends that not a real problem for them, much like the mixed tape of yesteryear. Heck if you put your mp3 on a password protected web site and tell a few of your friends, they'll never find out.
If your "sharing" your files the the hundred of thousands of anonymous strangers, they have a problem.
Make it harder to find what you want,
1 by making people less likely to make content available (more leaches)
2 Making many smaller networks with not enough content.
The problem is mainly that setting up a server or p2p is republishing. Everyone is publishing stuff they don't own the copyright too. Expect the law will catch up at some point.
try
http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net
Wow.
Nice catch.
Especially ironic given the title of the post, and the copyright issues the gpl uses as its core.
Its interesting, with the internet it would be relatively cheap to set up a "radio" station, compared with the huge overhead of launching satellites etc.
With wireless internet becoming more prevalant/cheaper over the next 10 years in suburban/urban areas, satelite radio could be obsolete in those areas (bumped by cheaper internet radio), so they need to get the brand and marketing out there. Its also cheap for the satelite radio stations to stream over the internet since they've already paid to "program" each station.
Interestingly enough you can listen to low quality streams already. Actually large difference in quality between an high quality MP3 and satelite radio is convincing enough for me not to subscribe when my XM trial is turned off. (I can tell the distance in a moving car with road noise etc..) Although the selection on satellite radio isn't bad, my collection is better..
We responded, now explain vegimite...
especially vegimite sandwiches...
I actually did that on porpose (sic)...Glad someone noticed.
If the profs at your school mark grades down because they have a different opinion you should change schools. No offense.
I had a professor that said he would give his opinion but he would grade based on how well the argument was crafted and backed up by facts/references.
ANother professor complained that too many papers where just repeating what he had said in class and he had marked those down for not having enough original thought.
Grammar and spellling are alway important..
This article is a good look at RnR(ruby) and Hibernate (java). The author is a java developer and doesn't claim to be a ruby expert, but its interesting analysis about each one.Technical pros and cons of each without a lot of flame bait.
Really.. The rest is just options...
linspire strongly encourages you not to run as root. Its target is the easy to instal crowd. I've tried it, recently. I thought it installed easy and worked pretty well. Cohesively even and for a desktop linux thats a strong compliment.
I would consider it if I every get another x86 machine (I gave the last one away)
Ok I use neither gentoo or Debian. I typically use suse or mandrake when I'm using linux, because I'm used to them. I'm pretty much at MacOSX for most of my development.
I looked into debian.. I have to be honest, its doesn't seem trivial to install. The documentation seemed less polished the gentoos.
The main reason to get debian is apt-get. Its a beautiful thing after living in rpm dependency hell. Now Mac has fink/darwin ports. Gentoo has emerge. There are others as well that do almost as good a job.
Also as more and more linux distros emerge, the mind share of each decreases. Especially since there are easier to install debian based distros out there.
I'm of the mind that it looks worse for debian than it is. People are apt-getting there way to happiness and not thinking much about it, and not having to download completely new distros.
Lending a book or CD to a friend is basically publishing. Why should you be allowed to publish my stuff, if I hold the copyright?
Come on, common sense. There is a big difference between loaning a book for a short duration and allowing anyone with a computer to make copies of the book. BIG difference.
Some artists have tried to do just that, only to get bitchslapped by their record company. Turns out the record companies own the rights to everything the artist does, not the "creator".
Contracts between artists and record companies are what the problem is. Unfortunetly some contracts are old and out dated. And most are bad for the artist. Check ASCAP (Artists union) for advice before signing all your rights away and get a lawyer. Many artists are very desparate for money and sign anything without review.
How can Phish, DMB, primus, TMBG sell and give away concerts when record companies don't allow it?
It's called "freedom"..........
What if I don't want to give away my photos for free? What about a musicians freedom to do what they want with there music (after years and years of practicing). The pendelum has swung to far and those rights are being trampled.
There is a middle ground.