Actually, I don't think APEWS really know what they are. The proponents seem to be unable to decide whether its punative or simply a blocking list, but remember, most of the children on NANAE have nothing to do with it. The official statement is just that it's a list to use as you wish.
Tricky to achieve. The Berne convention agrees to at least 50 years.
50 years isn't too bad anyway. It places a decent number of recordings from the 1950s into the public domain. It's an era when there was a decent selection of recorded music of perfectly acceptable quality.
Skype's business doesn't require secret proprietry code It's a service, and they givwe the client software away. They could rewrite from scratch at greater expense, and there may be a valid business reason to do so, but it's not goin to resuolt ina major impact for open source.
Countless businesses use GPL software for all sorts of reasons - whether internally or for bespoke systems. Skype deciding not to isn't going to harm the cause. On the other hand, Skype getting away with not following the terms honourably will harm the free software movement - or at least the FSF's free software movement.
The Atari ST had MIDI ports. That was what made it stand out for musicians. There really wasn't enough development of it to justify its continued existence.
The minidisc suffered from entering a market saturated with a format that was superior in several ways and didn't offer sufficient advantages over the other recordable medium (compact cassette) to justify its price tag.
If Steve Jobs hadn't gone back to Apple, Creative would probably have dominated the mp3 player market.
8-track was abysmal. You could get bleeding from the other tracks, the tapes were unweildy and thre was a break in the music at the tape splice. On the plus side you uhmmmm didn't need to rewind them.
Should we just accept that as a fait accompli? Isn't the FSF meant to be working for us rather than staying in their ivory tower dictating to us what we want?
Yes... and the European camera manufaacturers (all none of them but any company could open a factory) would be able to offer a higher spec camera for the same price.
We have P2P, usenet, friends, and even clever use of google to find illegal music ripped straight from CD. Does the record industry seriously believe thayt stream ripping is seriously affecting their sales?
How does the reasoning work? GPL3 may be adopted by Linux. This may slow adoption of Linux in the workplace (although I have no idea why - very few people will be affected by the licence, except perhaps a few hardware developers). Somehow this lessens their importance.
These people are tech writers. They write about all sorts of technology. The GPL is just one of many subjects of interest.
Granted, you do get some good jokes, but most of the time people who are not remotely funny spend the day playing unfunny jokes on each other. But you're not allowed to complain, because then you get accused of having no sense of humour.
But that's because I never give it to anyone. The only people who ever call me are my parents. I can remember my mobile number. Someone I know with an abysmal memory can remember his. It's about how often this infromation is useful.
Well, it depends. If it's abstract information, then it's useful to know but not essential, as long as you know where to look it up. I'm certainly not going to try to remember where every single element is in the periodic table. On the other hand, I am going to remember what the various groupings are. The vocabulary is useful. You can't discuss something with a peer if they have to look up all the information.
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Actually, I don't think APEWS really know what they are. The proponents seem to be unable to decide whether its punative or simply a blocking list, but remember, most of the children on NANAE have nothing to do with it. The official statement is just that it's a list to use as you wish.
Excellent. We just some feng shui consultants to design the towers and we'll solve virtually all our problems.
The really great thing is this would probably have a positive effect.
Tricky to achieve. The Berne convention agrees to at least 50 years.
50 years isn't too bad anyway. It places a decent number of recordings from the 1950s into the public domain. It's an era when there was a decent selection of recorded music of perfectly acceptable quality.
After seeing the machines, the 6 judges cast their votes electronically. The votes were 2 for Pret-a-voter, 3 for Punchscan and 107,345 for Diebold.
Skype's business doesn't require secret proprietry code It's a service, and they givwe the client software away. They could rewrite from scratch at greater expense, and there may be a valid business reason to do so, but it's not goin to resuolt ina major impact for open source.
Countless businesses use GPL software for all sorts of reasons - whether internally or for bespoke systems. Skype deciding not to isn't going to harm the cause. On the other hand, Skype getting away with not following the terms honourably will harm the free software movement - or at least the FSF's free software movement.
You win today's "Pedant of the day award." Look for your certificate in the mail.
Surely that should be '"Pedant of the Day" award'.
Why? did I have some say in the licence talks? When did they happen? I don't remember receiving an invitation.
The guy who founded Apple and started the wave of personal copmuters is not a nobody.
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The Atari ST had MIDI ports. That was what made it stand out for musicians. There really wasn't enough development of it to justify its continued existence.
The minidisc suffered from entering a market saturated with a format that was superior in several ways and didn't offer sufficient advantages over the other recordable medium (compact cassette) to justify its price tag.
If Steve Jobs hadn't gone back to Apple, Creative would probably have dominated the mp3 player market.
8-track was abysmal. You could get bleeding from the other tracks, the tapes were unweildy and thre was a break in the music at the tape splice. On the plus side you uhmmmm didn't need to rewind them.
Should we just accept that as a fait accompli? Isn't the FSF meant to be working for us rather than staying in their ivory tower dictating to us what we want?
Yes, you do that.
Meanwhile your competitors will build cameras in Europe that record at 1960x1080 at 25fps and sell it for the same price.
Yes... and the European camera manufaacturers (all none of them but any company could open a factory) would be able to offer a higher spec camera for the same price.
Customs duty. Same is if you buy from any overseas retailer, or if you carry stuff back in your luggage after visiting a non-EU country.
Under basic strategy, that's true, but if you're countinf and you know the dealer is very likely to bust, then it's a good tactic.
Ah don't worry. We've still got a couple of rights left over. Somewhere.
I think I left one around here anyway.
We have P2P, usenet, friends, and even clever use of google to find illegal music ripped straight from CD. Does the record industry seriously believe thayt stream ripping is seriously affecting their sales?
How does the reasoning work? GPL3 may be adopted by Linux. This may slow adoption of Linux in the workplace (although I have no idea why - very few people will be affected by the licence, except perhaps a few hardware developers). Somehow this lessens their importance.
These people are tech writers. They write about all sorts of technology. The GPL is just one of many subjects of interest.
Not to mention the fact that it's freakin' July!
Yeah, but I find that aspect of it quite funny so it doesn't fit my rant.
It is a bloody series of tubes. Or at elast it's a perfectly adeqaute metaphor.
Why do people seem to pick up on the most meaningful part of a largely ignorant an ill-informed speech?
This is why I hate April Fools day.
Granted, you do get some good jokes, but most of the time people who are not remotely funny spend the day playing unfunny jokes on each other. But you're not allowed to complain, because then you get accused of having no sense of humour.
But that's because I never give it to anyone. The only people who ever call me are my parents. I can remember my mobile number. Someone I know with an abysmal memory can remember his. It's about how often this infromation is useful.
Well, it depends. If it's abstract information, then it's useful to know but not essential, as long as you know where to look it up. I'm certainly not going to try to remember where every single element is in the periodic table. On the other hand, I am going to remember what the various groupings are. The vocabulary is useful. You can't discuss something with a peer if they have to look up all the information.
someone will crack the DRM and the content will be put up on torrents etc..
Why bother? The content is already going to be available on torrents from off-air rips.
Only because Apple were the first to call it a PDA. It was just an evolutionary step from the previous generation.
Its beasue the company that invented the PDA market has finally returned to it,
Really? When did Psion release a mobile phone?