At which time the law firm will start working for free? I've yet to see the cap adequately explained. Do Boies and Co start working for free when the cap is reached (highly, highly doubtful)? Do Boies and Co stop all SCO work (meaning IBM just has to wait SCO out)? What exactly does "cap" mean?
Even if rejection of the DMCA violates NAFTA, all Canada has to say is that it will be upholding the ruling in the same manner as the US has upheld the rulings on softwood lumber.
For those that don't know, the US has ignored every, single ruling against it on the softwood lumber issue.
The US seems to only like free trade when it is in the US's favour. Otherwise, f*** it.
What nerve. The US refuses to honor its own laws and international treaties concerning the softwood lumber issue with Canada (yes, I am in BC), yet insists that Canada implement the draconian DMCA or something similar.
I hope the government of the day has the balls to tell the US that we refuse to talk about IP until the US honors the NAFTA rulings re softwood lumber.
Under Canadian law a child under 12 years old is considered too young to be able to discern right from wrong (hey, I didn't write the law) and is thus not liable for any crimes committed. An under 12 kid could literally murder someone and would only be sent home in the custody of his parents. Additionally, there would be a publication ban on his name.
It should be quite interesting to see what happens in any court cases when it turns out that for some strange reason, it's always the under 12 year old in the household that's responsible for the file sharing.
Which does not prevent Hauppauge from releasing closed source drivers a la NVidia graphic drivers. That Hauppauge will not do that speaks volumes of their commitment to Linux.
Now this lack of commitment wouldn't be so bad except Hauppauge has the gall to use Linux in their Media MVP product. And, to further add insult to injury, Hauppauge does not provide Linux server software for this product, only Windows based software.
Hauppauge seems to be very good at taking from the OSS community. It's the giving back part that Hauppauge appears to be unwilling to grasp.
What would be especially interesting would be to compare this sentence to that of people convicted of, say, armed robbery, rape, manslaughter, etc.
I know that up here in Canada violent criminals often seem to get rather light sentences; and a 9 year sentence would seem quite high indeed.
Personally, I am quite happy to lock up violent offenders, especially repeats, for a long time. But, I agree with the parent post - 9 years for spamming is just bizarre.
OTOH, I would love to see those high-level Liberal Party of Canada hacks and politicians who stole taxpayers money rot in jail for a good portion of their lives. Of course it won't happen, but one can dream.
Agreed. I run my 19 inch CRT monitor at 1400x1050. All I want is an 18 or 19 inch LCD monitor that can do the same resolution. I am yet to see such a beast. I cannot, for the life of me, see the point in buying a 19 inch LCD monitor to run at 1280x1024 (not even mentioning the odd aspect ratio) when I can buy a 17 inch LCD to do the same.
Licenses don't kill people; failure to read them kills people.
You'd think it was fscking rocket science to expect the manager of a software project to understand the various licenses of the software he/she was using.
I run debian and I use alien and checkinstall to create my own debs. Both are trivial to use and hide the complexity of debian package building. The one negative is that the created deb does not have dependencies.
At any rate, if you can create a tgz, you can use alien to create a deb out of it.
I'm sure you've thought of this, but why not base UL's releases off of a snapshot of testing or unstable? I believe that's what Knoppix and Mepis do. It does mean more work for you, as you would have to do some kind of QA on the snapshot, but you would get a release.
True. But it seems to me that Web Services is a re-implementation of the functionality of CORBA minus the efficiency of binary encoding of messages.
I really don't see why Web Services was invented rather than fixing the perceived problems of CORBA. Web Services was supposed to be useful because of the simplicity of XML over HTTP as a RPC mechanism. However, by the time other needed add-ons are added on (e.g. WS-Security) I really don't think you're left with a terribly simple mechanism.
Hauppauge could provide what NVidia does and break the driver into two parts - a closed source part that contains the "brains" of the driver, and an open source part that provides the "glue" between the kernel and the closed source code.
Unless there is a valid technical reason for not doing this, I can only assume that Hauppauge does not care about the Linux market. Hence, two thumbs down.
Plextor gets two thumbs up for this. Hauppauge gets thumbs down for not only not providing open source drivers for their PVR-x50 cards, but for not even supplying proprietary drivers. It's due to what can only be described as amazingly valient work on the part of the IVTV developers (and users) that Hauppauge's cards are usable on Linux systems.
Luckily for Hauppauge, there is currently nothing to worry about with the Plextor PVR having a MSRP of $199. But if that price ever comes down...
One would think that the threat of a NASDAQ delisting would send a stock's price down the toilet. Yet SCOX(E)'s price barely noticed it.
Surely there cannot be an explanation other than a concerted effort by interested parties to keep the price at its current level? Shouldn't someone (SEC?) care?
I am not against software patents. I think they are a good thing. However, we seriously need to reconsider what is considered patentable. Some of the approved patents are blatantly absurd, and actually hurt commerce.
Patents are desiged to encourage innovation (as ou rightly point out).
I have often wondered how many software "inventions" would not exist today if software wasn't patentable. In other words, has the patentabilty of software resulted in any software "inventions" that otherwise would not have existed? My gut feeling (and that's all it is) is that there aren't many (any?) such "inventions". (inventions in quotes 'cause I find it difficult to think of any software as being an invention).
So, do software patents really encourage innovation? Are there clear examples of this? Or, are software patents just for the use of large corporations limiting competition from small outfits?
The Canadian Government pussyfoots when dealing with the BC softwood lumber issue, for example. However, RIM is based in Ontario, hence the non-pussyfooting.
I used an existing box that I still use as a 2nd desktop machine - here is my cost in Canadian dollars not including sales tax. Currently 1 Canadian dollar is about 0.82 US dollar. This was put together August 2004.
1) $150 Hauppauge PVR-250 2) $170 Seagate 200GB HD and USB 2.0 external enclosure 3) $134 Hauppauge MediaMVP as MythTV frontend.
The PVR-250 does hardware encoding and the MediaMVP does hardware decoding, so the only load on the CPU is serving the mpeg file via NFS during playback.
It works very well and the only way anyone is taking my MythTV box from me is when they pry it out of my cold, dead fingers:-)
I am running 2.6.9 with a 9200SE and I do get 3D acceleration. Particulars are:
Debian kernel: 2.6.9-1-k7
XFree86: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8
0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (Secondary) (rev 01)
ASUS A7V133 m.b.
So it's not the 2.6.9 kernel that's preventing your 9200SE from giving you 3D acceleration.
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3 months ago I put together a MythTV setup with a MediaMVP running mvpmc (http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/). I haven't touched either of my 2 VCRs since, except to unplug one of them to free up a socket.
In Canada we take a piece of paper, mark an X on it, go home, and wait for a bunch of people to count the results. It doesn't get much simpler than that.
Canada does any number of things wrong, but I've got to say, the US fixation on a high-tech solution to a low-tech problem is mind-boggling. There must be lawyers involved somehow.
How did the creator (or intelligent designer, if you prefer) get created? I would imagine that in order for intelligent design to be able to stand up to some reasonable scrutiny that there would have to be a non-mystical answer to this question.
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Is that a threat or a promise?
MS likes to embrace and extend, remember? I do believe that MS could make OpenDocument useless by over-supporting it.
Perhaps creating a business opportunity for an OpenDocument validifier?
At which time the law firm will start working for free? I've yet to see the cap adequately explained. Do Boies and Co start working for free when the cap is reached (highly, highly doubtful)? Do Boies and Co stop all SCO work (meaning IBM just has to wait SCO out)? What exactly does "cap" mean?
Even if rejection of the DMCA violates NAFTA, all Canada has to say is that it will be upholding the ruling in the same manner as the US has upheld the rulings on softwood lumber.
For those that don't know, the US has ignored every, single ruling against it on the softwood lumber issue.
The US seems to only like free trade when it is in the US's favour. Otherwise, f*** it.
What nerve. The US refuses to honor its own laws and international treaties concerning the softwood lumber issue with Canada (yes, I am in BC), yet insists that Canada implement the draconian DMCA or something similar.
I hope the government of the day has the balls to tell the US that we refuse to talk about IP until the US honors the NAFTA rulings re softwood lumber.
Under Canadian law a child under 12 years old is considered too young to be able to discern right from wrong (hey, I didn't write the law) and is thus not liable for any crimes committed. An under 12 kid could literally murder someone and would only be sent home in the custody of his parents. Additionally, there would be a publication ban on his name.
It should be quite interesting to see what happens in any court cases when it turns out that for some strange reason, it's always the under 12 year old in the household that's responsible for the file sharing.
Which does not prevent Hauppauge from releasing closed source drivers a la NVidia graphic drivers. That Hauppauge will not do that speaks volumes of their commitment to Linux.
Now this lack of commitment wouldn't be so bad except Hauppauge has the gall to use Linux in their Media MVP product. And, to further add insult to injury, Hauppauge does not provide Linux server software for this product, only Windows based software.
Hauppauge seems to be very good at taking from the OSS community. It's the giving back part that Hauppauge appears to be unwilling to grasp.
What would be especially interesting would be to compare this sentence to that of people convicted of, say, armed robbery, rape, manslaughter, etc.
I know that up here in Canada violent criminals often seem to get rather light sentences; and a 9 year sentence would seem quite high indeed.
Personally, I am quite happy to lock up violent offenders, especially repeats, for a long time. But, I agree with the parent post - 9 years for spamming is just bizarre.
OTOH, I would love to see those high-level Liberal Party of Canada hacks and politicians who stole taxpayers money rot in jail for a good portion of their lives. Of course it won't happen, but one can dream.
Agreed. I run my 19 inch CRT monitor at 1400x1050. All I want is an 18 or 19 inch LCD monitor that can do the same resolution. I am yet to see such a beast. I cannot, for the life of me, see the point in buying a 19 inch LCD monitor to run at 1280x1024 (not even mentioning the odd aspect ratio) when I can buy a 17 inch LCD to do the same.
Is this really asking to much?
Licenses don't kill people; failure to read them kills people.
You'd think it was fscking rocket science to expect the manager of a software project to understand the various licenses of the software he/she was using.
I run debian and I use alien and checkinstall to create my own debs. Both are trivial to use and hide the complexity of debian package building. The one negative is that the created deb does not have dependencies.
At any rate, if you can create a tgz, you can use alien to create a deb out of it.
I'm sure you've thought of this, but why not base UL's releases off of a snapshot of testing or unstable? I believe that's what Knoppix and Mepis do. It does mean more work for you, as you would have to do some kind of QA on the snapshot, but you would get a release.
True. But it seems to me that Web Services is a re-implementation of the functionality of CORBA minus the efficiency of binary encoding of messages.
I really don't see why Web Services was invented rather than fixing the perceived problems of CORBA. Web Services was supposed to be useful because of the simplicity of XML over HTTP as a RPC mechanism. However, by the time other needed add-ons are added on (e.g. WS-Security) I really don't think you're left with a terribly simple mechanism.
Hauppauge could provide what NVidia does and break the driver into two parts - a closed source part that contains the "brains" of the driver, and an open source part that provides the "glue" between the kernel and the closed source code.
Unless there is a valid technical reason for not doing this, I can only assume that Hauppauge does not care about the Linux market. Hence, two thumbs down.
Plextor gets two thumbs up for this. Hauppauge gets thumbs down for not only not providing open source drivers for their PVR-x50 cards, but for not even supplying proprietary drivers. It's due to what can only be described as amazingly valient work on the part of the IVTV developers (and users) that Hauppauge's cards are usable on Linux systems.
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Luckily for Hauppauge, there is currently nothing to worry about with the Plextor PVR having a MSRP of $199. But if that price ever comes down
One would think that the threat of a NASDAQ delisting would send a stock's price down the toilet. Yet SCOX(E)'s price barely noticed it.
Surely there cannot be an explanation other than a concerted effort by interested parties to keep the price at its current level? Shouldn't someone (SEC?) care?
The article does not mention a web page for this project and googling did not help me. So, is this a "secret" open source project, or what?
I have often wondered how many software "inventions" would not exist today if software wasn't patentable. In other words, has the patentabilty of software resulted in any software "inventions" that otherwise would not have existed? My gut feeling (and that's all it is) is that there aren't many (any?) such "inventions". (inventions in quotes 'cause I find it difficult to think of any software as being an invention).
So, do software patents really encourage innovation? Are there clear examples of this? Or, are software patents just for the use of large corporations limiting competition from small outfits?
The Canadian Government pussyfoots when dealing with the BC softwood lumber issue, for example. However, RIM is based in Ontario, hence the non-pussyfooting.
It is indeed good to be based in Central Canada.
I used an existing box that I still use as a 2nd desktop machine - here is my cost in Canadian dollars not including sales tax. Currently 1 Canadian dollar is about 0.82 US dollar. This was put together August 2004.
:-)
1) $150 Hauppauge PVR-250
2) $170 Seagate 200GB HD and USB 2.0 external enclosure
3) $134 Hauppauge MediaMVP as MythTV frontend.
The PVR-250 does hardware encoding and the MediaMVP does hardware decoding, so the only load on the CPU is serving the mpeg file via NFS during playback.
It works very well and the only way anyone is taking my MythTV box from me is when they pry it out of my cold, dead fingers
I've got one too, and I love it. Mine is running mvpmc (http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/) so that it acts as a mythtv front-end.
I am running 2.6.9 with a 9200SE and I do get 3D acceleration. Particulars are:
Debian kernel: 2.6.9-1-k7
XFree86: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8
0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (Secondary) (rev 01)
ASUS A7V133 m.b.
So it's not the 2.6.9 kernel that's preventing your 9200SE from giving you 3D acceleration.
3 months ago I put together a MythTV setup with a MediaMVP running mvpmc (http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/). I haven't touched either of my 2 VCRs since, except to unplug one of them to free up a socket.
The VCR is indeed dead - at least in my house.
In Canada we take a piece of paper, mark an X on it, go home, and wait for a bunch of people to count the results. It doesn't get much simpler than that.
Canada does any number of things wrong, but I've got to say, the US fixation on a high-tech solution to a low-tech problem is mind-boggling. There must be lawyers involved somehow.
How did the creator (or intelligent designer, if you prefer) get created? I would imagine that in order for intelligent design to be able to stand up to some reasonable scrutiny that there would have to be a non-mystical answer to this question.