Broadly agree with what you're saying, but I do have a little faith in the BBC making this more widely available fairly quickly. Their audio stuff is available in WMA & Real formats now. I'd prefer a fully open format like Ogg but it's not really realistic I don't think.
The Beeb are part of a consortium developing an 'open' (apparently, I haven't looked into the details) DRM solution. Who knows it may work.
I'm certainly concerned about the situation, but I have hope that it'll work out ok for BBC viewers, and not give MS that much help.
Here's the trust's full decision (links to PDF and plain text versions on the linked page) here
The BBC are saying they can't guarantee it because of third parties, to which the trust has said they'll be making a 6 monthly check-up to ensure things are going as they should.
In summary, we recognise and share the strength of feeling on platform neutrality. We do
not consider it practicable to offer catch-up television over the internet on a platform
neutral basis immediately. We consider it preferable to allow the BBC to provide value to a
majority of users now rather than to wait until full platform neutrality can be achieved
before providing catch-up television. We still require platform neutrality for seven-day
catch-up television over the internet within a reasonable timeframe, but we have decided
not to specify a deadline for achieving this. To counter-balance this, the Trust will take a
more active role in holding the Executive to account on the issue by auditing its progress
every six months.
They also discuss why they support the BBC's claim that DRM is required (mainly, the BBC doesn't 100% own most of their content and that they're not meant to totally clobber commercial broadcasters) and give more detail about cross-platform support in general and how it ties into the DRM issue.
1. Most of the major companies in a field have cross-licensing agreements stopping them from suing each other. 2. Smaller companies can't afford to enforce patents anyway. 3. Most major patent suits seem to be brought by 'IP licensing' firms that just bulk buy old patents and look around for someone to sue.
Well you'd have to compile it for Windows for a start, in the same way that GTK programs like XChat2 and Gaim are. However the main problem is likely to be that Gedit is a Gnome+GTK app, not just a GTK app. Gnome isn't available for Windows.
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Delphi For PHP Released
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The embedding code in HTML part of PHP is fairly legacy really for anyone doing anything more complex than basic scripts. Any decent larger PHP app will only use that method as part of a templating/view layer (as long as there's no business logic involved it's a useful templating tool), if at all.
Our CMS is MVC (command and controller j2ee pattern specifically), using PHP's embedding in the views only, is fully OO and has an O/RM layer for datastore access. This kind of set-up is increasingly common in PHP now. Just look at the number of application and database frameworks available for it.
Of course there are always going to be kids knocking out horrible scripts, but that doesn't mean there aren't people doing things properly too.
The £600 million quote from the shadow (opposition. ie. not in government) chancellor is unrelated to the green-ness claim, he's just saying OSS is cheaper in general.
They're suggesting that if you make a kid do more exercise during the day, they'll just be more lazy at night. The idea put forward is that each child is pre-disposed to doing a particular amount of exercise, whether it's forced on them at school or optional after school, and will balance out their overall activity to reach that level.
+1 Insightful for the parent... Never have modpoints when I need them...
As the parent points out, AACS was designed with this in mind, it was expected to happen. They're not as stupid as all that. However they are fighting a losing battle.
Well it's a release *candidate* so you certainly shouldn't install it on mission critical systems no. The point of an RC is that it's believed to be 'complete' but should still be tested before use in production.
> 1) I don't believe (for xine at least) that wine is neccessary for asf (wmv) playback (the windows codec dlls are > required, but used by xine without wine's help) > > 2) I guess a native binary blob is slightly better than a MS coded binary blob.... but frankly, it's still just a > binary blob. You have no idea what its really doing.
The MS coded blob is illegal to distribute in the format it usually is (w32 codecs pack) in many (most?) countries. So while this Fluendo deal isn't an ideal solution, it is better than the current one for open source operating systems, at least it means everyone can view these formats without breaking the law or having to buy a Windows license.;)
I believe ffmpeg have experimental wmv3 support though (xine doesn't support them without the windows dlls loaded through lib wine).
If use your toilet without asking you it's not theft or stealing.
Copyright infringement doesn't necessarily deprive someone of income. I know plenty of people with absolutely massive MP3 collections who couldn't afford to buy all that music in a million years. So while *someone probably has been deprived of some income they otherwise would have had*, that is not synonymous with copyright infringement.
If I act like an ass at work, and you get fired because they think it was you, then you have been deprived of income, but I didn't steal from you.
I still think that copyright infringement is generally a bad thing, and its certainly illegal, but it's not theft, it's copyright infringement.
Not in the sense of theft of property though. That requires the victim to be deprived of their property.
Just because the word steal is used in that context doesn't make copyright infringement theft. Or do you refer to baseball players as thieves too?
Also, in this case the legal definition is the most relevant, and copyright infringement is not classified as theft (in the UK and the US, I can't speak for anywhere else). IANAL of course;)
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That's a bit misleading to be honest. Yes that white is your black, but if your actual white is 50 times brighter then your iris will close right down and that white will look a lot blacker. Try turning on your lights on a sunny day. They barely register.
A lot of home cinema projectors are designed for use in a properly prepared room with next no light, those are probably what your friends have. However if you have a higher lumen projector, especially with a grey screen instead of a white one, then you can get pretty good performance with the lights on. Daylight is always going to be pushing it sure, but that's the price you pay for a 150" screen:)
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Broadly agree with what you're saying, but I do have a little faith in the BBC making this more widely available fairly quickly. Their audio stuff is available in WMA & Real formats now. I'd prefer a fully open format like Ogg but it's not really realistic I don't think.
The Beeb are part of a consortium developing an 'open' (apparently, I haven't looked into the details) DRM solution. Who knows it may work.
I'm certainly concerned about the situation, but I have hope that it'll work out ok for BBC viewers, and not give MS that much help.
CFLs aren't meant to go into landfill they're meant to be recycled. This should however be made more clear to consumers when they buy the bulb.
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The BBC are saying they can't guarantee it because of third parties, to which the trust has said they'll be making a 6 monthly check-up to ensure things are going as they should.
They also discuss why they support the BBC's claim that DRM is required (mainly, the BBC doesn't 100% own most of their content and that they're not meant to totally clobber commercial broadcasters) and give more detail about cross-platform support in general and how it ties into the DRM issue.
Er who was ranting about those things exactly? Or are you just trying to reinforce the impression that you're very knowledgable on the subject?
Maybe you should enlighten us as you seem to be the only one who thinks this is important.
Balls.
1. Most of the major companies in a field have cross-licensing agreements stopping them from suing each other.
2. Smaller companies can't afford to enforce patents anyway.
3. Most major patent suits seem to be brought by 'IP licensing' firms that just bulk buy old patents and look around for someone to sue.
It was a joke you moron.
Not a very funny one, but a joke none the less.
Thunderbird supports multiple SMTP servers and sender personalities now.
Well you'd have to compile it for Windows for a start, in the same way that GTK programs like XChat2 and Gaim are. However the main problem is likely to be that Gedit is a Gnome+GTK app, not just a GTK app. Gnome isn't available for Windows.
The embedding code in HTML part of PHP is fairly legacy really for anyone doing anything more complex than basic scripts. Any decent larger PHP app will only use that method as part of a templating/view layer (as long as there's no business logic involved it's a useful templating tool), if at all.
Our CMS is MVC (command and controller j2ee pattern specifically), using PHP's embedding in the views only, is fully OO and has an O/RM layer for datastore access. This kind of set-up is increasingly common in PHP now. Just look at the number of application and database frameworks available for it.
Of course there are always going to be kids knocking out horrible scripts, but that doesn't mean there aren't people doing things properly too.
The £600 million quote from the shadow (opposition. ie. not in government) chancellor is unrelated to the green-ness claim, he's just saying OSS is cheaper in general.
The OP mentioned OGL vs Direct 3D
RTFA.
They're suggesting that if you make a kid do more exercise during the day, they'll just be more lazy at night. The idea put forward is that each child is pre-disposed to doing a particular amount of exercise, whether it's forced on them at school or optional after school, and will balance out their overall activity to reach that level.
That's not entirely true. There are breaking changes in PHP5 for non-deprecated behaviour.
+1 Insightful for the parent... Never have modpoints when I need them...
As the parent points out, AACS was designed with this in mind, it was expected to happen. They're not as stupid as all that. However they are fighting a losing battle.
Yes in terms of native FPS games, Duke Nukem, Doom, Doom 2, Doom 3, Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3, Quake 4, Unreal Tournament, UT2003, UT2004, Wolfenstein:ET, Serious Sam 1, Serious Sam 2, America's Army.
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More *commercial* games here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professional
Though that discounts the increasing number of high quality open source games.
I personally run Counter Strike Source and EVE Online under vanilla Wine. Plain wine is pretty good at games now, beating Cedega in a lot of cases..
Well it's a release *candidate* so you certainly shouldn't install it on mission critical systems no. The point of an RC is that it's believed to be 'complete' but should still be tested before use in production.
o/
Perhaps the GP's use of the title 'dipshit' had something to do with the moderation?
"Convicted monopoly abuser". Monopolies aren't inherently illegal.
> 1) I don't believe (for xine at least) that wine is neccessary for asf (wmv) playback (the windows codec dlls are
;)
> required, but used by xine without wine's help)
>
> 2) I guess a native binary blob is slightly better than a MS coded binary blob.... but frankly, it's still just a
> binary blob. You have no idea what its really doing.
The MS coded blob is illegal to distribute in the format it usually is (w32 codecs pack) in many (most?) countries. So while this Fluendo deal isn't an ideal solution, it is better than the current one for open source operating systems, at least it means everyone can view these formats without breaking the law or having to buy a Windows license.
I believe ffmpeg have experimental wmv3 support though (xine doesn't support them without the windows dlls loaded through lib wine).
If use your toilet without asking you it's not theft or stealing.
Copyright infringement doesn't necessarily deprive someone of income. I know plenty of people with absolutely massive MP3 collections who couldn't afford to buy all that music in a million years. So while *someone probably has been deprived of some income they otherwise would have had*, that is not synonymous with copyright infringement.
If I act like an ass at work, and you get fired because they think it was you, then you have been deprived of income, but I didn't steal from you.
I still think that copyright infringement is generally a bad thing, and its certainly illegal, but it's not theft, it's copyright infringement.
Well at least two people got your joke ;)
Not in the sense of theft of property though. That requires the victim to be deprived of their property.
;)
Just because the word steal is used in that context doesn't make copyright infringement theft. Or do you refer to baseball players as thieves too?
Also, in this case the legal definition is the most relevant, and copyright infringement is not classified as theft (in the UK and the US, I can't speak for anywhere else). IANAL of course
That's a bit misleading to be honest. Yes that white is your black, but if your actual white is 50 times brighter then your iris will close right down and that white will look a lot blacker. Try turning on your lights on a sunny day. They barely register.
:)
A lot of home cinema projectors are designed for use in a properly prepared room with next no light, those are probably what your friends have. However if you have a higher lumen projector, especially with a grey screen instead of a white one, then you can get pretty good performance with the lights on. Daylight is always going to be pushing it sure, but that's the price you pay for a 150" screen