Maybe some PHP javascript wizardry along with liberal doses of perl could easily turn a page into
Another trick could be a warning to users:
"You are using MS whatever browser. Microsoft's software automatically modifies the presentation of the content of this page without the permission of this content provider. Do you wish to view this page?" Or "please return to this page using Mozilla/Netscape/Opera" etc Wouldn't be anymore difficult than a plugin check.
Hmm perhaps an ActiveX control that asks whether the use wants to "disable Microsoft modifications to the content of this page"...
Not because of a small and possibly shrinking company like zero knowledge - which recently laid off staff however got a largish infusion of new capital - but because proprietary OS specific "shopping extensions" and "wallet protocols" can proliferate when unchecked by alternatives.
It would be nice if IP6 IPsec and standards based security and encryption could prevent this sort of development but it remains potential silent and sneaky "decommodifying" force on open networks. Once everyone needs a certain platform to do relatively mundane things like banking and shopping the game's over.
All it takes is a few big players to adopt an open unecumbered standard to make it so...
Of course to the extent they recognize the legitimacy of streaming Internet content at all the music industry is in bed with Thompson - even though pushing for an open patent free standard would save the industry's partners wads of money and cost the industry nothing (except maybe a court case or two with Thompson about OGG being an MP3 infringement which Thompson would lose).
Of course Thompson would not lose quickly and would use the occasion to FUD the heck out of OGG or any other format.
Funny how it reads when they stick "brobeckid" into those munged together ASP URLs;-)
OT but... Zope - cool name nice URLs
If you need to ask ...
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GIMP And OS X
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Why a source available scriptable and (via gegl) increasingly object-oriented graphics manipulation program might be useful is fairly obvious to me. As a research tool in say medical imagery batch processing or certain kinds of mathematics the GIMP is far more powerful, useful and flexible than something like photoshop. GIMP is useful the same way Unix is useful. Why wouldn't Mac users want to have access to it?
There must be a number of Mac users who feel the same way or the port wouldn't be soliciting as much attention. I'll wager a large number of users of Mac users of the GIMP, who script it, develop odd plugins for studying lens refraction or solar flare data (or lord knows what) will also use PS. It's not an "either or" scenario.
Nor is it proper to consider the GIMP as a "replacement" for PS - though it certainly can be for web related work. The developpers and power users of GIMP have a different understanding of usability than PS developpers/users so naturally it will be a different product: the GIMP was scriptable and had multi-level undo very early in its development - practically from the beginning. This was not a priority for PS until later in its development life cycle.
Pantone is patented method for colorspace matching to printers etc. Unless printer manufacturers all agree to begin working to supporting an open standard (wasn't there something called the International Color Consortium that was doing this) so that developers can support some kind of IEETF style "standard", then applications that want to have a standardized method of defining colors have to pay (possibly a lot) to use Pantone AFAIK.
Who can know for sure but an infringement case might even be pursued if you devised your own system of describing colors and then tried to match or provide a conversion chart to Pantone.
Jussim... stated that if movies or even pieces of them were distributed online or through other means not approved by the movie companies, the entire industry would eventually shut down...
These people don't realize just how unecessary they are to the world;-) Various industries have come and gone through history, why not this overpriced, fat cat infested, tax loop hole subsidized, silly, and uncreative one?
Do they think that 100,000 people with digital editing suites (how many installations of those kinds of programs are out there I wonder), and next generation video cameras can't produce their own entertainment? Rap music performers did as much with less equipment. Now that I think of it why are there 3 or 4 big studios and not 500,000 small ones. Small restaurants seem to be able to cook and prepare food that is often better than many multinational chains; is it impossible that the same conditions might obtain in movie production?
Since the industry is so uncreative that half of its product consists in remaking foreign films in American English, ripping off independent film makers or filming the same story over and over (4 movies about comets destroying the earth; 4 movies about invasions from outer space; 4 movies about *humorous* invasions from outer space... and on and on...) who would really miss it?
At www.wincvs.org (site is down now but it does exist) and www.CVSgui.org for alternatives.
Traditional commandline tools emacs etc all work with the resulting repository so it's really great for group development of HTML projects.
There is also a plugin for Windows Explorer that lets you browse **RCS** controlled files and do simple version control right within your filemanager.
http://www.ComponentSoftware.com/csrcs/... not sure if it could be made to work with CVS but I doubt it.
"There are 1,800 commercial licensees of ours who pay to access our database, including AOL, RealNetworks and MusicMatch," said Dave Marglin, general counsel for Berkeley, Calif.-based Gracenote. "Roxio is trying to get for free what other people pay for. It's our valuable intellectual property that's underlying all this."
Millions of people go to public libraries and borrow books - in fact sometimes people who work for corporations go to public libraries and use their information resources to make profit generating business decisions. But you don't see publishers suing them (well not yet) for not having bought our books and having used free alternatives.
CDDB was created out of the labour of a lot of contributors doing "data entry" of almost all the information. Gracenote seems to contend that the collection of song titles and release titles (not the actual songs and albums themselves) are some kind of "intellectual property".
Are we to the point where there are lawyers and business people who believe that even the information about the **existence** of a product is part of the product?? Perhaps Gracenote needs to rethink it's idiotic licensing scheme instead of suing companies for using alternative sources of **information**.
What about our own names? Are they "intellectual property"? If so then do I get to decide who gets to call me by my name and who has to refer to me using a number or symbol? I'd be sure to pick something unpronounceable like the artist formerly know as Prince once did and reserve it for use of silly greedy corporations.
... destroys the restaurant and commercial packaged food industry.
But as we all know *sometimes* - not always - food that is prepared at home or together with friends is better tasting, better for you, cheaper, and more fun.
The problem with Microsoft is that it is a bit like one big restaurant and it is simply too large for anyone's good (even for Microsoft). It's a company that thinks it can't survive with "only" 60% of the market (instead of it's current 90%) and that is the heart of the problem.
both Microsoft and Ransom Love should get used to the ideas of open source **including the GPL**. The GPL and GCC are a fundamental part of the computer industry (remember not all compilers are distributed let alone distributed with source) and they aren't going to go away.
I don't know what Microsoft thinks they are going to accomplish with public outbursts against open source and the GPL (get it banned? prevent customers from adopting software that uses it? convince developpers to stop writing GPL code for the love of God and country??) but Ransom Love is just being silly calling the GPL a "weak point".
At least in the restaurant industry it is recognized that cooking at home is a fundamental freedom. Sometimes people who cook at home get ideas and create cooking companies catering to others - or even to restaurants. Sometimes they go to work in a restaurant. Sometimes they even start their own restaurants and compete. But that's OK, cooking at home is still a good thing.
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Maybe some PHP javascript wizardry along with liberal doses of perl could easily turn a page into
...
Another trick could be a warning to users:
"You are using MS whatever browser. Microsoft's software automatically modifies the presentation of the content of this page without the permission of this content provider. Do you wish to view this page?" Or "please return to this page using Mozilla/Netscape/Opera" etc Wouldn't be anymore difficult than a plugin check.
Hmm perhaps an ActiveX control that asks whether the use wants to "disable Microsoft modifications to the content of this page"
Not because of a small and possibly shrinking company like zero knowledge - which recently laid off staff however got a largish infusion of new capital - but because proprietary OS specific "shopping extensions" and "wallet protocols" can proliferate when unchecked by alternatives.
It would be nice if IP6 IPsec and standards based security and encryption could prevent this sort of development but it remains potential silent and sneaky "decommodifying" force on open networks. Once everyone needs a certain platform to do relatively mundane things like banking and shopping the game's over.
All it takes is a few big players to adopt an open unecumbered standard to make it so ...
Of course to the extent they recognize the legitimacy of streaming Internet content at all the music industry is in bed with Thompson - even though pushing for an open patent free standard would save the industry's partners wads of money and cost the industry nothing (except maybe a court case or two with Thompson about OGG being an MP3 infringement which Thompson would lose).
Of course Thompson would not lose quickly and would use the occasion to FUD the heck out of OGG or any other format.
http://www.brobeck.com/offices_attorneys/attny_ind ividual.asp?brobeckid=100024
;-)
... Zope - cool name nice URLs
Funny how it reads when they stick "brobeckid" into those munged together ASP URLs
OT but
... then:
Why a source available scriptable and (via gegl) increasingly object-oriented graphics manipulation program might be useful is fairly obvious to me. As a research tool in say medical imagery batch processing or certain kinds of mathematics the GIMP is far more powerful, useful and flexible than something like photoshop. GIMP is useful the same way Unix is useful. Why wouldn't Mac users want to have access to it?
There must be a number of Mac users who feel the same way or the port wouldn't be soliciting as much attention. I'll wager a large number of users of Mac users of the GIMP, who script it, develop odd plugins for studying lens refraction or solar flare data (or lord knows what) will also use PS. It's not an "either or" scenario.
Nor is it proper to consider the GIMP as a "replacement" for PS - though it certainly can be for web related work. The developpers and power users of GIMP have a different understanding of usability than PS developpers/users so naturally it will be a different product: the GIMP was scriptable and had multi-level undo very early in its development - practically from the beginning. This was not a priority for PS until later in its development life cycle.
Pantone is patented method for colorspace matching to printers etc. Unless printer manufacturers all agree to begin working to supporting an open standard (wasn't there something called the International Color Consortium that was doing this) so that developers can support some kind of IEETF style "standard", then applications that want to have a standardized method of defining colors have to pay (possibly a lot) to use Pantone AFAIK.
Who can know for sure but an infringement case might even be pursued if you devised your own system of describing colors and then tried to match or provide a conversion chart to Pantone.
> Terry asks excellent questions; the show is a
> good intro. to Linus and Linux
True good intro - but I hate the way she pronounces "Linux" Lin-OX
These people don't realize just how unecessary they are to the world ;-) Various industries have come and gone through history, why not this overpriced, fat cat infested, tax loop hole subsidized, silly, and uncreative one?
Do they think that 100,000 people with digital editing suites (how many installations of those kinds of programs are out there I wonder), and next generation video cameras can't produce their own entertainment? Rap music performers did as much with less equipment. Now that I think of it why are there 3 or 4 big studios and not 500,000 small ones. Small restaurants seem to be able to cook and prepare food that is often better than many multinational chains; is it impossible that the same conditions might obtain in movie production?
Since the industry is so uncreative that half of its product consists in remaking foreign films in American English, ripping off independent film makers or filming the same story over and over (4 movies about comets destroying the earth; 4 movies about invasions from outer space; 4 movies about *humorous* invasions from outer space ... and on and on ...) who would really miss it?
(replying to myself ... sigh)
Take a look at:
http://www.cvsgui.org/TortoiseCVS/
you can do more than just RCS from inside Explorer after all ;-)
At www.wincvs.org (site is down now but it does exist) and www.CVSgui.org for alternatives. Traditional commandline tools emacs etc all work with the resulting repository so it's really great for group development of HTML projects. There is also a plugin for Windows Explorer that lets you browse **RCS** controlled files and do simple version control right within your filemanager. http://www.ComponentSoftware.com/csrcs/ ... not sure if it could be made to work with CVS but I doubt it.
Millions of people go to public libraries and borrow books - in fact sometimes people who work for corporations go to public libraries and use their information resources to make profit generating business decisions. But you don't see publishers suing them (well not yet) for not having bought our books and having used free alternatives.
CDDB was created out of the labour of a lot of contributors doing "data entry" of almost all the information. Gracenote seems to contend that the collection of song titles and release titles (not the actual songs and albums themselves) are some kind of "intellectual property".
Are we to the point where there are lawyers and business people who believe that even the information about the **existence** of a product is part of the product?? Perhaps Gracenote needs to rethink it's idiotic licensing scheme instead of suing companies for using alternative sources of **information**.
What about our own names? Are they "intellectual property"? If so then do I get to decide who gets to call me by my name and who has to refer to me using a number or symbol? I'd be sure to pick something unpronounceable like the artist formerly know as Prince once did and reserve it for use of silly greedy corporations.
But as we all know *sometimes* - not always - food that is prepared at home or together with friends is better tasting, better for you, cheaper, and more fun.
The problem with Microsoft is that it is a bit like one big restaurant and it is simply too large for anyone's good (even for Microsoft). It's a company that thinks it can't survive with "only" 60% of the market (instead of it's current 90%) and that is the heart of the problem. both Microsoft and Ransom Love should get used to the ideas of open source **including the GPL**. The GPL and GCC are a fundamental part of the computer industry (remember not all compilers are distributed let alone distributed with source) and they aren't going to go away.
I don't know what Microsoft thinks they are going to accomplish with public outbursts against open source and the GPL (get it banned? prevent customers from adopting software that uses it? convince developpers to stop writing GPL code for the love of God and country??) but Ransom Love is just being silly calling the GPL a "weak point".
At least in the restaurant industry it is recognized that cooking at home is a fundamental freedom. Sometimes people who cook at home get ideas and create cooking companies catering to others - or even to restaurants. Sometimes they go to work in a restaurant. Sometimes they even start their own restaurants and compete. But that's OK, cooking at home is still a good thing.