Obviously you're reading and math retarded. I have MP3 players, Minidisc and Sony's stick player. I've done the comparisons on files sized which you have obviously not done. The SDMI wrapper adds a few hundred bytes.
Here's 10 minidiscs and a player; here's an MP3 player with 64Mb of Ram for the same price. Now,
the minidisc gives 740 minutes of play time, and
the MP3 player, say 90minutes. Now, you can get
more expensive HD MP3 players but watch the price
shoot up. See... *price* *performance*...
So lets get this right... You are watching a low quality actual pirate DVD of a movie, coming out of China, which odds on, your actual criminals *have* made money from and your conscience is *clear*? In what way is it clear? Is this the same clear that has you refusing to pay taxes for the police but paying the mafia protection money?
>And yes, Sony makes mp3 players, but half-heartedly--after all, at least one of their "mp3 players" requires
>that mp3 files be converted to the proprietary Sony "ATRAC" format before downloading them to the
>player.
Not true. You have 2 routes, convert to ATRAC, or wrap the file with a SDMI compliant wrapper which leaves the file in MP3 format but lets the player handle it like any other file.
>This takes time and effort and makes the files almost twice as large as a normal mp3.
Nope. ATRAC is as efficent, if not more so than MP3 than file compression. You are obviously repeating half remembered stuff from other/.'rs. It can be suggested that it will take twice the space because you'd have 2 copies of the file, one wrapped/converted, one unwrapped.
>They obviously want to make it more complicated than necessary to use their mp3 players,
Insert CD. Select autocheckout. Press record. Player loaded. Hey, maybe you should try using the stuff first?
> so that customers will switch back to CDs and MiniDiscs.
You mean them minidiscs which offer better price performance than MP3?
Go to www.bookface.com and read JMS's unproduced scripts for Crusade and realise that the Crusade story was actually a mirror of one of the B5 plots .
Also check out Fiona Avery's scripts including one for a Crusade episode which has Bester in it...
So, first link, no benchmarks and a lot of suppositions.
Second link, benchmarks and a demonstration of
how much faster Hotspot is versus... a native
compiler *given time to profile and optimise*.
And the other link you point to is one which is
out of date and nothing to do with "rigging"
benchmarks, but about benchmark publication,
and refers to a clause that isn't in the license
any more.
Why not read your own links, but try it with a clue installed.
Hypothermia signed a contract, a promotional contract. Maybe they'll learn to read before signing things, maybe even use a lawyer to read a contract first. Or not as he seems to be convinced he was in the right and didn't screw up himself. Hey-ho.
Yup, read the evidence. He signed an exclusive sponsorship deal with NVidia, and complained when they asked for that to be recognised. Want to be independent? Don't sign "promotional agreements" to get free hardware.
I find it somewhat rye that you use the phrase "we're only catching a few percent of the offenders". Consider who else uses that phrasing; repressive law makers trying to bring in heavy handed legeslation... sledgehammers for nuts.
I'm personally all for people being discouraged from writing GPL code. I prefer my licenses without the great taste of RMS.
You said "Just like every other company that rips off GPL code.". So what version of "every" are you using? One that excludes Be (because you came to an arrangement) but includes Nvidia (even though they seem to have come to an arrangement and we don't even know the actual extent of the violation)....
The sooner the GPL gets into court the better IMO.
The real clueless fucking MORONS are the ones who leap to the defence of someone without even bothering to read the linked article which makes it clear that these are ancillary charges in a criminal prosecution for illegal access and theft.
The validation they use can't authorise the card to be charged. It also flags their "Ring in to verify id" process and you need to call from a number which matches the one you gave. Trust me, I went through this recently.
In the end, I signed up for a week and a bit with the nice people at PressRoom in Washington DC who billed me for just the month.
With Roaming arrangements for ISPs now, it's always worth checking if your current ISP has a roaming deal.
Because that's not a business model! It's a hackers model for getting an OS up, and no doubt internally they have a G3 and a G4 running BeOS in some fashion, but that isn't good enough really; you are open to get screwed by hardware vendor changes to the same platforms which the hardware vendor has already allowed for in their release of software.
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Obviously you're reading and math retarded. I have MP3 players, Minidisc and Sony's stick player. I've done the comparisons on files sized which you have obviously not done. The SDMI wrapper adds a few hundred bytes.
Here's 10 minidiscs and a player; here's an MP3 player with 64Mb of Ram for the same price. Now,
the minidisc gives 740 minutes of play time, and
the MP3 player, say 90minutes. Now, you can get
more expensive HD MP3 players but watch the price
shoot up. See... *price* *performance*...
So lets get this right... You are watching a low quality actual pirate DVD of a movie, coming out of China, which odds on, your actual criminals *have* made money from and your conscience is *clear*? In what way is it clear? Is this the same clear that has you refusing to pay taxes for the police but paying the mafia protection money?
It doesn't help when you spread FUD...
/.'rs. It can be suggested that it will take twice the space because you'd have 2 copies of the file, one wrapped/converted, one unwrapped.
>And yes, Sony makes mp3 players, but half-heartedly--after all, at least one of their "mp3 players" requires
>that mp3 files be converted to the proprietary Sony "ATRAC" format before downloading them to the
>player.
Not true. You have 2 routes, convert to ATRAC, or wrap the file with a SDMI compliant wrapper which leaves the file in MP3 format but lets the player handle it like any other file.
>This takes time and effort and makes the files almost twice as large as a normal mp3.
Nope. ATRAC is as efficent, if not more so than MP3 than file compression. You are obviously repeating half remembered stuff from other
>They obviously want to make it more complicated than necessary to use their mp3 players,
Insert CD. Select autocheckout. Press record. Player loaded. Hey, maybe you should try using the stuff first?
> so that customers will switch back to CDs and MiniDiscs.
You mean them minidiscs which offer better price performance than MP3?
Hey, X11 was free from the beginning. Do check your facts eh?
Go to www.bookface.com and read JMS's unproduced scripts for Crusade and realise that the Crusade story was actually a mirror of one of the B5 plots .
Also check out Fiona Avery's scripts including one for a Crusade episode which has Bester in it...
You don't need to rely on Netscape specific classes to make it a Netscape implementation problem.
The real implementation problem is that Netscape have let their Java implementation wither on the
vine.
So, first link, no benchmarks and a lot of suppositions.
Second link, benchmarks and a demonstration of
how much faster Hotspot is versus... a native
compiler *given time to profile and optimise*.
And the other link you point to is one which is
out of date and nothing to do with "rigging"
benchmarks, but about benchmark publication,
and refers to a clause that isn't in the license
any more.
Why not read your own links, but try it with a clue installed.
Yup, read the evidence. He signed an exclusive sponsorship deal with NVidia, and complained when they asked for that to be recognised. Want to be independent? Don't sign "promotional agreements" to get free hardware.
The IBM PC was proprietary. Microsoft had nothing to do with the reverse engineering and cloning of the PC.
But maybe you'd like to also remember the people who've been killed by people using McDonalds as a "symbol". BBC News report from May 2nd on the fatal bombing of a French McDonalds.
Before Solaris 8, there was Solaris 7...
I find it somewhat rye that you use the phrase "we're only catching a few percent of the offenders". Consider who else uses that phrasing;
repressive law makers trying to bring in heavy handed legeslation... sledgehammers for nuts.
I'm personally all for people being discouraged from writing GPL code. I prefer my licenses without the great taste of RMS.
You said "Just like every other company that rips off GPL code.". So what version of "every" are you using? One that excludes Be (because you came to an arrangement) but includes Nvidia (even though they seem to have come to an arrangement and we don't even know the actual extent of the violation)....
The sooner the GPL gets into court the better IMO.
So you accusing Be of lying about "how it happened" now?
Try reading the (C) statement at the bottom of each page of SlashDot.
Moderators mark the parent of this up now...!
That link takes you to the actual speech.
The actual speech is an enlightened document which shows a real vision for the library, for all, not just the nerdelite...
You'll find that ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/LICENSE contains the Sendmail license. It ain't the GPL. It's a BSD-ish license.
So basically you made up a load of BS about a shocked NT administrator.
It must suck having to roll your own FUD.
The real clueless fucking MORONS are the ones who leap to the defence of someone without even bothering to read the linked article which makes it clear that these are ancillary charges in a criminal prosecution for illegal access and theft.
No, it's not a bad thing, and if you read the article linked to you'll see why.
The validation they use can't authorise the card to be charged. It also flags their "Ring in to verify id" process and you need to call from a number which matches the one you gave. Trust me, I went through this recently.
In the end, I signed up for a week and a bit with the nice people at PressRoom in Washington DC who billed me for just the month.
With Roaming arrangements for ISPs now, it's always worth checking if your current ISP has a roaming deal.
Er, that's...
RMS: Source code should be available to everyone.
Translation: Except people who don't want to make their source code available.
Doesn't work. AOL can only accept US credit cards in the US.
Because that's not a business model! It's a hackers model for getting an OS up, and no doubt internally they have a G3 and a G4 running BeOS in some fashion, but that isn't good enough really; you are open to get screwed by hardware vendor changes to the same platforms which the
hardware vendor has already allowed for in their release of software.
It's Apple's loss at the end of the day.