Other countries have policies to reduce road death that work significantly better than the policies in the US. Some parts of the US live in unfortunate circumstances and have many more road deaths.
The US chooses to have as many road deaths as it does, because it is unwilling to face the consequences of addressing them. The US has fewer deaths due to rampages than other countries (Israel for example). That's because it is willing to face the consequences of addressing them.
It all comes down to priorities. At some point you have to choose to let people die because because saving them costs too much (freedom, money, intelligence in the gene pool, whatever).
s/Students/Publishers/gi, s/TurnItIn/Google Book Search/gi -- so, since the publishers works are the primary resource for Google Book Search to remain viable, how much of a cut should the publishers get for their work? or should Google Book Search be making a profit off others materials with no recompense for those who supply them with the means to do so? And why should the publishers have egg on their face for not wanting others to profit from their works with no compensation? -- See for example: http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003292.shtml
Yes, the student's work provides that backbone of TurnItIn's service, but provided TurnItIn stays within Fair Use, the students are entitled to nothing. To pick another example, I recently generated a thesaurus using (copyright) text by quite a number of authors. I did not pay any of them anything even though my product is essentially useless without their work. Incidentially, I also implemented something almost identical to TurnItIn, but I only applied it to the student's work I was marking. I didn't go the extra step of generalising it and making it work for everyone.
As for egg, my point is the students are being just as greedy as the publishers. A certain amount of greed encourages innovation - if you didn't want more you wouldn't bother to work hard. But excessive greed stifles innovation (such as preventing Google Book Search or TurnItIn).
This is identical to Google Book search. You may copy text for all sorts of protected purposes. I hope it is thrown out while leaving plenty of egg on the students' faces.
It is near silent and all the hardware works (except the front audio ports which sound scratchy). Sure, it sucks as a workstation but that's hardly Dell's fault when we only paid for a desktop. Not like they're going to slip some high speed ram or hard drive with more than 2MB of cache in a machine designed to run solitare and outlook... (at 2.8GHz apparently, and the i945G runs glxgears pretty well).
Okay, I'll give this a go... (Disclamer: I did this to learn unix a bit over a decade ago, so some stuff I'll have simply remembered).
a2p: Awk to perl. Converts an awk script to a perl script that does the same. Creates a poor script really. a2ps used to be ascii2postscript, now anything to postscript. Generic converter. aclocal Part of autoconf, handles checking where things are on the local machine (.pkginfo IIRC) aclocal-1.9 Ditto for 1.9 (the latest version) aconnect Dunno acpi_fakekey Not sure:( acpi_listen Monitor for ACPI events (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface, which I know far too much due to owning a crap MB) acpitool Send ACPI commands, query ACPI state acroread Yeah, I still have acrobat - kpdf doesn't have rotate yet activation-client Dunno adddebug Dunno addftinfo Dunno addr2line Dunno adept Nice gui for apt. adept_batch Backend adept uses to do the commands adept_installer Backend adept uses to install packages, has a gui adept_notifier The little widget that goes on your kicker adept_updater Runs aptitude update afmdiff.awk Adobe Fount Manager no doubt, but dunno afmtodit Used by TeX somewhere, font conversion no doubt akode-config Replacement for ARTS I think akodeplay See above, does the playing akregator Really Simple Syndication for KDE alistat Dunno alsamixer Does both HW and SW mixing, can be compiled to have a GUI but normally curses amarok Great music interface amarokapp The actual binary (don't run gdb against amark, use amarkapp instead...) amarok_daapserver.rb provides data for itunes clients amarok_proxy.rb Dunno, though the name gives a strong hint... amidi From the alsa toolsuite, never needed to use it but no doubt is alsa's interface to MIDI devices amixer See above, I prefer alsamixer amor An Amusing Misuse Of Resources. Hadn't realised this was still installed. Puts a silly smiley on windows animate Dunno annotate-output Dunno ant Apache/Jakata. Build system. Supposed to be quite good anytopnm Convert any image to pnm, uses imagemagick aplay Alsa player aplaymidi See above, for.mid apm Old version of ACPI, this command much like acpitool apm_available As above, check features MB supports. apmount Not sure apmsleep can be sent using apm, but some people might forget the difference between S1 and S3 I suppose apogee_ppi Dunno appletproxy Dunno, probably java appletviewer Ancient java program, not used much since doesn't get used for apps any more. appres Not sure apr-config Apache Portable Runtime? apropos One of the misunderstood and misprounced english words. In this context, much like in LISP, it searches help by keword. apt A Packaging Tool. apt-cache Caches dpkgs and Package.gz apt-cdrom APT method for reading off CDroms (as opposed to normal people, who read off HTTP) apt-config Query apt from a script for how it is installed apt-extracttemplates One of apt's internal tools, puls out the 'what this package does' apt-ftparchive Not sure, probably for reading ftp:// apt-get Get the stuff aptitude Nice replacement for APT apt-key GPG key management for APT. apt-sortpkgs Internal apt tool, I've only seen it used to present lists in alphabetical order but I'm sure it has more features. apu-config Dunno, sounds familiar. ar Arrrrr, tar hasn't taken over the world yet... We still have ranlib! archpath Dunno arecord alsa recording features arecordmidi See above ark KDE archiver. Uses tar rather than ar (I think). arm2hpdl Dunno arping Address resolution protocol, look up a host and check it is online/available artsbuilder clearly ARTS related, but I can't remember exactly what this one does. artscat See above artsc-config For checking arts' install state from a script artscontrol Mute, vol, etc. artsd The main Adaptive Real Time Synthesiser Daemon
I wouldn't punish my kids for getting a B, but I certainly wouldn't reward them for anything less than an A. -- Really? How about tying those grade expectations into their abilities? I remember being very pleased to get a D in German one year - I was a pure science student who hadn't taken a single arts course for five years. I also got a top A for a course on 'this is a linked-list, this sorting algorithm is O(lg n),...' without breaking a slight sweat - I used to start the weekly assignment at the start of the 9AM lecturer and hand it in after the lecture at 10. Similarly, I remember the next year I took philosophy of logic and slept through most of it, but I vividly remember the sweat that those poor art students put into getting their heads around disjunctive normal form and the like. My A in that class reflects that I deeply understood logic long before I went to the first lecture, while some very bright people got a C and are still talking about it now they're so proud of it.
I guess what I'm saying is that the grading system is not helpful It is on an abstract absolute scale rather than having anything to do with a) what you are capable of achieving or b) what is necessary out in the real world. I now rely on my statistics to make a living; would an unadorned 'A' be good enough for me? But I also have to write the odd report and my 'C' grade university English is quite adequate (because we have English specialists to do all the important writing). Conversely, the technical writers can get by with 'C' level statistics.
Finally, I mentioned having 'C' level English, but this is at a university that fails half of its English students in an attempt to set a respectable standard. I'm sure there are institutions I could have cruised to an A with the same effort and others I would have failed miserably at. I was talking to a friend who cruised on the 99th percentile until he started his phd at a pestigious university at which point he found himself to be average and, naturally enough, getting average grades. What it comes down to is that I need a certain level of competence to achieve my goals and the local grading scale is, quite frankly, irrelevant.
To get back on-topic. I haven't been in a situation yet to rationally talk about rewarding my only child for getting a B. But when the time comes, I will reward him for pushing himself and achieving a result he is proud of - whether that is a D or an A. Furthermore, I don't intend to reward him for things he can get as a matter of course - I was on the 99.99th percentile in mathematics as a child - was coming first in the school maths exam really a cause for congratulations? I think praising effortless achievement leads to a fear of real challenges.
I don't think it was serious money. The turning point (IMAO) was a little distro called Knoppix. This distribution threw away the prevalent attitude of the time: "We do things properly (and nothing until we can do it properly)" and replaced it with "We do whatever is necessary to make things work (no matter how ugly)".
This shift in attitude was necessary for Knoppix since they HAD to run on any hardware while RH etc could somewhat claim people bought their computers to run linux. However, it left all the other distros a little red faced with knoppix being the only distro to support many pieces of hardware out of the box. I remember shortly afterwards various packages turning up in debian with names like knoppxix-hw-autodetct... and others were similar.
Ubuntu followed on Knoppix's tradition and was particularly helped by following another idea originally sponsored by Lindows^WLinspire that all laptops would 'just work'. This particularly helped with the extensive ACPI work that DJ did.
The extreme point of this is bring in non-free drivers so that hardware 'just works'. For instance, if Broadcom wasn't supported we could always load it via the windows driver. This has created some tension with people like me who worry it will discourage the creation of free replacements arguing against people who want things to be as painless as possible.
She'd have been TOO early. The Turing awards didn't start until about 1970, by which time she had kinda finished 'Pioneering'. Not that the Turing awards avoid giving retrospective awards (Naur for instance) but it seems more common to give it to semi recent research.
You did roughly as well as me. Here were a few I happened to recognise you missed:
1999, brooks is the mythical man 1996, something in compiler (langauge) theory from memory. Program proofs? 1981, You'll curse yourself for forgetting if I tell you - easy one. 1980, was Tony Hoare's Turing award for formalisms? I thought it was more prgamatic. Though of course he does do a lot of formalism stuff too) 1975, didn't he found expert systems in AI? 1974, beautiful description! Though I've almsot stopped using TeX myself. 1968, see 1981
You may well leave fast, but there are plenty of other Canadians who need work and I'm sure that an ethics question will form part of the job offer for your replacement.
You answered your own question: "the name and contents of the original file should be untouched."
something_1.0.orig.tar.gz is the upstream source code, complete with matching MD5SUM. Every single debian specific thing from patches to upstream to debian control files are left out of it. That gives lots of advantages:
1) It makes it really easy to see what changes Debian makes. Either a change is in the official upstream package or it is in a relatively short diff. 2) People can easily replace the orig with a later version and with very little editing create a package with the debian patches for a different upstream. 3) People can easily tweak the diff and create a debian package that has things like different compilation options but is still using the official upstream package.
" any build rules/scripts should be externally defined, and not be required to be put in the original source."
They're not. They're carefully put into the "something...diff" you mention. Use the origional source from the.orig if you want.
"- all the diffs needed should not be required to be combined unnaturally into one. The should be separate diffs, logically."
Oh? And how do you propose to show the differences between the debian package's source and the upstream package EXCEPT with a diff?
"The diffs, build rules and extra build scripts should be archived together. Optionally, the original source two. But two files is manageable."
They are, it's called "something...diff" And it really is a diff, so why shouldn't it be called.diff? As you note, it includes build scripts and DIFFS, so it is a diff containing diffs. You've basically asked for exactly what they already provide except for some reason you want the archive as a.tgz instead of a.diff
It seems then you have two arguments against the deb file format:
1) the orig. file does not have the upstream filename but instead a standardised and consistent name across all packages. I wonder how many upstream packages are called src.tgz? Would you want them in debian with that name? I personally prefer consistant names across packages to consistant name with upstream. 2) the set of diffs should be provided as a.tgz instead of as a.diff. *shrug*, it would be possible but why would you want to? It won't save space since the whole archive is compressed, it won't increase readability since the diff expands out to a series of changed/new files, and in many ways it will reduce ease-of-use since currently you can search the diff which you wouldn't be able to in a binary-only format.
Incidentially, the source based distributions like Gentoo all do it Debian's way rather than RedHat's way. Does that tell you something?
My CEO wears hawaiian shirts, shorts and sandals to business meetings.
I understand that at first it made it a bit of an uphill battle building his startup but now it is just part of the image. *shrug*, works for me. Besides, it means any clients I have to deal with can already deal with him.
I've only used the SVCD format once - when a friend wanted a copy of an anime and I didn't yet on a DVD writer I managed to burn a SVCD which apparently DVD players support. Since then I've only burned DVDs when I've wanted non disk based storage (usually DVDs of AVI rather than DVDs of MPEG).
Yes, a movie could be downsized but I rip once and (try to) play everywhere.
Since my usual way of watching movies is to rent a DVD, rip it, and watch it on a 32" TV shortly afterwards before deleting to clear up space I rip at high quality. That means unless I go to some effort, the movies will have far more resolution than the iPhone can display.
Maybe if I get into the habit of watching movies on the iPhone regularly I will transcode them before putting them on the iPhone. *shrug*, more likely I just won't use it for movies.
Apple is aware of that demand, and created the shuffle to fill it. I bought one for my (blind) grandmother and she's quite happy with it.
Volume on the case would be nice but I guess Jobs considers it would interfere with the smooth lines (though I note the iPhone has it). Anyway, most ipod headphones have a volume control on them to compensate.
I am, so of a sample of two that's a 50% market share...
I'll have to wait for it to come to NZ though... (which'll give me enough time to save up I guess;-)
The 8GB limit is a big pain - Jobs was showing Pirates of the Carribean on the iPhone in his keynote. That'd take like 1/4 of the space on the phone! Not that I have any sensible suggestions of what they should do about it.
Yes, Nvidia has NDAs which would be violated if they turned around tomorrow and released a GPL driver. However, those NDAs were negotiated by Nvidia and it would be trivial for them to be renegotiated. I very much doubt the people who developed the components care either way - as illustrated by how quickly intel was able to open-source their driver.
I think the "We'd be breaking our supplier agreements" line is nothing more than a red-herring.
I used to use toast too, but have stopped since the number of things it can do best has shrunk to virtually zero.
As a serious backup program it doesn't work. It doesn't handle backing up open files and I don't even think it has an option to span disks. Backing up the odd file from your home directory is far easier in the Finder than launching a seperate program. Music and Photo backups are meaningless now with the builtin apps doing them better. That leaves movie backup. It does a passable job there, but so do dozens of other apps. Last time I used something called ffmpegX, not as pretty as Toast but did a better job. Besides, how often do you need to backup movies for a DVD player? I can burn DIVX or MOV straight to disk for playing in my 'DVD' player and if I was doing anything serious I would be using iMovie rather than a direct burn.
A few years ago Toast was essential. Now I can go months without using it and wouldn't bother installing it on a new machine despite a site licence.
You don't get a country out of it. The curiosity of Seeland is that at over 3 miles off the cost it was not part of British waters. Since then Britain has extended their waters to 12 miles but Seeland (arguably) gets away due to a grandfathering clause. If you were to build a new platform it would have to be at least twelve miles off the cost, which makes commuting a pain.
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Actually, so are the road victims.
Other countries have policies to reduce road death that work significantly better than the policies in the US. Some parts of the US live in unfortunate circumstances and have many more road deaths.
The US chooses to have as many road deaths as it does, because it is unwilling to face the consequences of addressing them. The US has fewer deaths due to rampages than other countries (Israel for example). That's because it is willing to face the consequences of addressing them.
It all comes down to priorities. At some point you have to choose to let people die because because saving them costs too much (freedom, money, intelligence in the gene pool, whatever).
Actually, spotlight is a service that publishes itself over zeroconf. I'd guess it is more vulnerable than Google Desktop Search.
s/Students/Publishers/gi, s/TurnItIn/Google Book Search/gi
--
so, since the publishers works are the primary resource for Google Book Search to remain viable, how much of a cut should the publishers get for their work? or should Google Book Search be making a profit off others materials with no recompense for those who supply them with the means to do so? And why should the publishers have egg on their face for not wanting others to profit from their works with no compensation?
--
See for example: http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003292.shtml
Yes, the student's work provides that backbone of TurnItIn's service, but provided TurnItIn stays within Fair Use, the students are entitled to nothing. To pick another example, I recently generated a thesaurus using (copyright) text by quite a number of authors. I did not pay any of them anything even though my product is essentially useless without their work. Incidentially, I also implemented something almost identical to TurnItIn, but I only applied it to the student's work I was marking. I didn't go the extra step of generalising it and making it work for everyone.
As for egg, my point is the students are being just as greedy as the publishers. A certain amount of greed encourages innovation - if you didn't want more you wouldn't bother to work hard. But excessive greed stifles innovation (such as preventing Google Book Search or TurnItIn).
This is identical to Google Book search. You may copy text for all sorts of protected purposes.
I hope it is thrown out while leaving plenty of egg on the students' faces.
My Dell runs ubuntu very well.
It is near silent and all the hardware works (except the front audio ports which sound scratchy). Sure, it sucks as a workstation but that's hardly Dell's fault when we only paid for a desktop. Not like they're going to slip some high speed ram or hard drive with more than 2MB of cache in a machine designed to run solitare and outlook... (at 2.8GHz apparently, and the i945G runs glxgears pretty well).
Yeah, amarok is seriously cool.
As soon as the mac port comes out (just a couple months now) I'm going to try and shift my wife away from iTunes to Amarok
Both of those work just fine on codeweaver's version of Wine. I wouldn't be surprised if they both work fine on the trunk version of wine too now...
Okay, I'll give this a go... (Disclamer: I did this to learn unix a bit over a decade ago, so some stuff I'll have simply remembered).
:( .mid
a2p: Awk to perl. Converts an awk script to a perl script that does the same. Creates a poor script really.
a2ps used to be ascii2postscript, now anything to postscript. Generic converter.
aclocal Part of autoconf, handles checking where things are on the local machine (.pkginfo IIRC)
aclocal-1.9 Ditto for 1.9 (the latest version)
aconnect Dunno
acpi_fakekey Not sure
acpi_listen Monitor for ACPI events (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface, which I know far too much due to owning a crap MB)
acpitool Send ACPI commands, query ACPI state
acroread Yeah, I still have acrobat - kpdf doesn't have rotate yet
activation-client Dunno
adddebug Dunno
addftinfo Dunno
addr2line Dunno
adept Nice gui for apt.
adept_batch Backend adept uses to do the commands
adept_installer Backend adept uses to install packages, has a gui
adept_notifier The little widget that goes on your kicker
adept_updater Runs aptitude update
afmdiff.awk Adobe Fount Manager no doubt, but dunno
afmtodit Used by TeX somewhere, font conversion no doubt
akode-config Replacement for ARTS I think
akodeplay See above, does the playing
akregator Really Simple Syndication for KDE
alistat Dunno
alsamixer Does both HW and SW mixing, can be compiled to have a GUI but normally curses
amarok Great music interface
amarokapp The actual binary (don't run gdb against amark, use amarkapp instead...)
amarok_daapserver.rb provides data for itunes clients
amarok_proxy.rb Dunno, though the name gives a strong hint...
amidi From the alsa toolsuite, never needed to use it but no doubt is alsa's interface to MIDI devices
amixer See above, I prefer alsamixer
amor An Amusing Misuse Of Resources. Hadn't realised this was still installed. Puts a silly smiley on windows
animate Dunno
annotate-output Dunno
ant Apache/Jakata. Build system. Supposed to be quite good
anytopnm Convert any image to pnm, uses imagemagick
aplay Alsa player
aplaymidi See above, for
apm Old version of ACPI, this command much like acpitool
apm_available As above, check features MB supports.
apmount Not sure
apmsleep can be sent using apm, but some people might forget the difference between S1 and S3 I suppose
apogee_ppi Dunno
appletproxy Dunno, probably java
appletviewer Ancient java program, not used much since doesn't get used for apps any more.
appres Not sure
apr-config Apache Portable Runtime?
apropos One of the misunderstood and misprounced english words. In this context, much like in LISP, it searches help by keword.
apt A Packaging Tool.
apt-cache Caches dpkgs and Package.gz
apt-cdrom APT method for reading off CDroms (as opposed to normal people, who read off HTTP)
apt-config Query apt from a script for how it is installed
apt-extracttemplates One of apt's internal tools, puls out the 'what this package does'
apt-ftparchive Not sure, probably for reading ftp://
apt-get Get the stuff
aptitude Nice replacement for APT
apt-key GPG key management for APT.
apt-sortpkgs Internal apt tool, I've only seen it used to present lists in alphabetical order but I'm sure it has more features.
apu-config Dunno, sounds familiar.
ar Arrrrr, tar hasn't taken over the world yet... We still have ranlib!
archpath Dunno
arecord alsa recording features
arecordmidi See above
ark KDE archiver. Uses tar rather than ar (I think).
arm2hpdl Dunno
arping Address resolution protocol, look up a host and check it is online/available
artsbuilder clearly ARTS related, but I can't remember exactly what this one does.
artscat See above
artsc-config For checking arts' install state from a script
artscontrol Mute, vol, etc.
artsd The main Adaptive Real Time Synthesiser Daemon
I wouldn't punish my kids for getting a B, but I certainly wouldn't reward them for anything less than an A. ...' without breaking a slight sweat - I used to start the weekly assignment at the start of the 9AM lecturer and hand it in after the lecture at 10. Similarly, I remember the next year I took philosophy of logic and slept through most of it, but I vividly remember the sweat that those poor art students put into getting their heads around disjunctive normal form and the like. My A in that class reflects that I deeply understood logic long before I went to the first lecture, while some very bright people got a C and are still talking about it now they're so proud of it.
--
Really? How about tying those grade expectations into their abilities? I remember being very pleased to get a D in German one year - I was a pure science student who hadn't taken a single arts course for five years. I also got a top A for a course on 'this is a linked-list, this sorting algorithm is O(lg n),
I guess what I'm saying is that the grading system is not helpful It is on an abstract absolute scale rather than having anything to do with a) what you are capable of achieving or b) what is necessary out in the real world. I now rely on my statistics to make a living; would an unadorned 'A' be good enough for me? But I also have to write the odd report and my 'C' grade university English is quite adequate (because we have English specialists to do all the important writing). Conversely, the technical writers can get by with 'C' level statistics.
Finally, I mentioned having 'C' level English, but this is at a university that fails half of its English students in an attempt to set a respectable standard. I'm sure there are institutions I could have cruised to an A with the same effort and others I would have failed miserably at. I was talking to a friend who cruised on the 99th percentile until he started his phd at a pestigious university at which point he found himself to be average and, naturally enough, getting average grades. What it comes down to is that I need a certain level of competence to achieve my goals and the local grading scale is, quite frankly, irrelevant.
To get back on-topic. I haven't been in a situation yet to rationally talk about rewarding my only child for getting a B. But when the time comes, I will reward him for pushing himself and achieving a result he is proud of - whether that is a D or an A. Furthermore, I don't intend to reward him for things he can get as a matter of course - I was on the 99.99th percentile in mathematics as a child - was coming first in the school maths exam really a cause for congratulations? I think praising effortless achievement leads to a fear of real challenges.
I don't think it was serious money. The turning point (IMAO) was a little distro called Knoppix. This distribution threw away the prevalent attitude of the time: "We do things properly (and nothing until we can do it properly)" and replaced it with "We do whatever is necessary to make things work (no matter how ugly)".
This shift in attitude was necessary for Knoppix since they HAD to run on any hardware while RH etc could somewhat claim people bought their computers to run linux. However, it left all the other distros a little red faced with knoppix being the only distro to support many pieces of hardware out of the box. I remember shortly afterwards various packages turning up in debian with names like knoppxix-hw-autodetct... and others were similar.
Ubuntu followed on Knoppix's tradition and was particularly helped by following another idea originally sponsored by Lindows^WLinspire that all laptops would 'just work'. This particularly helped with the extensive ACPI work that DJ did.
The extreme point of this is bring in non-free drivers so that hardware 'just works'. For instance, if Broadcom wasn't supported we could always load it via the windows driver. This has created some tension with people like me who worry it will discourage the creation of free replacements arguing against people who want things to be as painless as possible.
She'd have been TOO early. The Turing awards didn't start until about 1970, by which time she had kinda finished 'Pioneering'.
Not that the Turing awards avoid giving retrospective awards (Naur for instance) but it seems more common to give it to semi recent research.
You did roughly as well as me. Here were a few I happened to recognise you missed:
1999, brooks is the mythical man
1996, something in compiler (langauge) theory from memory. Program proofs?
1981, You'll curse yourself for forgetting if I tell you - easy one.
1980, was Tony Hoare's Turing award for formalisms? I thought it was more prgamatic. Though of course he does do a lot of formalism stuff too)
1975, didn't he found expert systems in AI?
1974, beautiful description! Though I've almsot stopped using TeX myself.
1968, see 1981
You may well leave fast, but there are plenty of other Canadians who need work and I'm sure that an ethics question will form part of the job offer for your replacement.
You answered your own question:
.orig if you want.
.diff? As you note, it includes build scripts and DIFFS, so it is a diff containing diffs. You've basically asked for exactly what they already provide except for some reason you want the archive as a .tgz instead of a .diff
.tgz instead of as a .diff. *shrug*, it would be possible but why would you want to? It won't save space since the whole archive is compressed, it won't increase readability since the diff expands out to a series of changed/new files, and in many ways it will reduce ease-of-use since currently you can search the diff which you wouldn't be able to in a binary-only format.
"the name and contents of the original file should be untouched."
something_1.0.orig.tar.gz is the upstream source code, complete with matching MD5SUM. Every single debian specific thing from patches to upstream to debian control files are left out of it. That gives lots of advantages:
1) It makes it really easy to see what changes Debian makes. Either a change is in the official upstream package or it is in a relatively short diff.
2) People can easily replace the orig with a later version and with very little editing create a package with the debian patches for a different upstream.
3) People can easily tweak the diff and create a debian package that has things like different compilation options but is still using the official upstream package.
" any build rules/scripts should be externally defined, and not be required to be put in the original source."
They're not. They're carefully put into the "something...diff" you mention. Use the origional source from the
"- all the diffs needed should not be required to be combined unnaturally into one. The should be separate diffs, logically."
Oh? And how do you propose to show the differences between the debian package's source and the upstream package EXCEPT with a diff?
"The diffs, build rules and extra build scripts should be archived together. Optionally, the original source two. But two files is manageable."
They are, it's called "something...diff" And it really is a diff, so why shouldn't it be called
It seems then you have two arguments against the deb file format:
1) the orig. file does not have the upstream filename but instead a standardised and consistent name across all packages. I wonder how many upstream packages are called src.tgz? Would you want them in debian with that name? I personally prefer consistant names across packages to consistant name with upstream.
2) the set of diffs should be provided as a
Incidentially, the source based distributions like Gentoo all do it Debian's way rather than RedHat's way. Does that tell you something?
My CEO wears hawaiian shirts, shorts and sandals to business meetings.
I understand that at first it made it a bit of an uphill battle building his startup but now it is just part of the image.
*shrug*, works for me. Besides, it means any clients I have to deal with can already deal with him.
Yeah, that was kinda my point.
I think Apple don't want to remove DRM because it is helping them to maintain iPod tie-in, and they can blame the labels for why it is necessary.
So, itunes sells m4b with the big four and m4a with the others. 90% of Users won't notice, and people can choose DRM-free if they like within iTunes.
It wouldn't be hard to do if they wanted to.
Why SVCD? Do you have a SVCD player?
I've only used the SVCD format once - when a friend wanted a copy of an anime and I didn't yet on a DVD writer I managed to burn a SVCD which apparently DVD players support. Since then I've only burned DVDs when I've wanted non disk based storage (usually DVDs of AVI rather than DVDs of MPEG).
Yes, a movie could be downsized but I rip once and (try to) play everywhere.
Since my usual way of watching movies is to rent a DVD, rip it, and watch it on a 32" TV shortly afterwards before deleting to clear up space I rip at high quality. That means unless I go to some effort, the movies will have far more resolution than the iPhone can display.
Maybe if I get into the habit of watching movies on the iPhone regularly I will transcode them before putting them on the iPhone. *shrug*, more likely I just won't use it for movies.
Apple is aware of that demand, and created the shuffle to fill it. I bought one for my (blind) grandmother and she's quite happy with it.
Volume on the case would be nice but I guess Jobs considers it would interfere with the smooth lines (though I note the iPhone has it). Anyway, most ipod headphones have a volume control on them to compensate.
I am, so of a sample of two that's a 50% market share...
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I'll have to wait for it to come to NZ though... (which'll give me enough time to save up I guess
The 8GB limit is a big pain - Jobs was showing Pirates of the Carribean on the iPhone in his keynote. That'd take like 1/4 of the space on the phone!
Not that I have any sensible suggestions of what they should do about it.
I have to disagree with this.
Yes, Nvidia has NDAs which would be violated if they turned around tomorrow and released a GPL driver. However, those NDAs were negotiated by Nvidia and it would be trivial for them to be renegotiated. I very much doubt the people who developed the components care either way - as illustrated by how quickly intel was able to open-source their driver.
I think the "We'd be breaking our supplier agreements" line is nothing more than a red-herring.
I used to use toast too, but have stopped since the number of things it can do best has shrunk to virtually zero.
As a serious backup program it doesn't work. It doesn't handle backing up open files and I don't even think it has an option to span disks.
Backing up the odd file from your home directory is far easier in the Finder than launching a seperate program.
Music and Photo backups are meaningless now with the builtin apps doing them better.
That leaves movie backup. It does a passable job there, but so do dozens of other apps. Last time I used something called ffmpegX, not as pretty as Toast but did a better job. Besides, how often do you need to backup movies for a DVD player? I can burn DIVX or MOV straight to disk for playing in my 'DVD' player and if I was doing anything serious I would be using iMovie rather than a direct burn.
A few years ago Toast was essential. Now I can go months without using it and wouldn't bother installing it on a new machine despite a site licence.
You don't get a country out of it. The curiosity of Seeland is that at over 3 miles off the cost it was not part of British waters. Since then Britain has extended their waters to 12 miles but Seeland (arguably) gets away due to a grandfathering clause. If you were to build a new platform it would have to be at least twelve miles off the cost, which makes commuting a pain.
Why not put itunes on the ipod? Every ipod has a capacity > 35MB.