> since Swedish freedom of press law says that you > can't stop anyone from publishing anything
Except child porn. It's per definition illegal to publish child porn in Sweden, by an exception to fundamental law. Another thing is, of course, that it hasn't been legally decided yet whether it's illegal to publish *links* to forbidden material, whether it's copyrighted material or whatever.
> I have 4,244 files consuming 41 gig of space and I find it to be > neither slow nor memory intensive.
Actually, I would say that 4,000+ files is a rather small collection, disregarding the size of the files themselves (it's the number of files that matter, not how much space they occupy). The memory footprint is not very important, as long as everything works OK. The more the OS can keep in memory, the better it works. My impression is that Amarok is quite fast up until 15 - 16,000 songs, but that it gets markably slower the higher you get (at least with SQLite - I haven't tried anything else). My collection is ~ 21,000 songs, and it's starting to feel a bit laggard, especially when I use it from my notebook over w-lan (all my music is located on a server disk, shared via nfs). Having said that, I wouldn't change Amarok for anything else that available today. It's outstanding!
Well, since Salon is a subscription site (you have to pay or accept ads to read all of the content) it's not THAT strange that there is a cookie now and then...
I used the word "soccer" deliberately, to make everything perfectly clear to our American friends:-) But actually, "soccer" is a perfectly valid British word. It's just short for "Association Football" - i.e. the original "football" rules.
When the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich (owner of the British soccer champions Chelsea, among a lot of other things) started his Chukotka project, on the inlet to Bering's Strait, there was some speculation on whether he knew someting that others didn't. Maybe he did? Check out Chukotka on a map and see for yourselves:-)
> If it's okay for me to download music from russian sites at a nickel a track or watch movies from bit torrent trackers (and I do both of these readily and happily), who am I (and most of us) to criticise a little GPL violation here and there?
Did you find GPL'd music on russian sites?? That's really interesting:-)
There is an additional point everyone should be aware of, since it concerns not only Swedish citizens, but most Europeans (more or less the same rules will be law in all EU countries during the coming years):
What really happens under the new law is actually hanging upon two earlier cases; one regarding UPloading (filesharing of one Swedish movie) and one case regarding Swedish law on databases containing personal data.
* The first case (a guy who is charged with uploading a movie) will decide the graveness of the crime. It's not yet decided by court whether he will be fined, or whether he will end up in jail. If he gets the maximum jail sentence of two years (which he may well get, since it will be suspended anyway), the Swedish police authorities will have the right to search the premises of everyone that's suspected of a similar crime. The results of such a search (the content of hard disks, CD's and so on) can be used for further charges against other persons.
* The second case is the charge (from several thousand people) against the Swedish "Anti-Piracy Bureau" (an organisation of large copyright holders, record companies and so on) that their continuing datamining - automatic searching for up- and downloaders - is against Swedish law. The regulatory body, "Datainspektionen", has already decided that this activity is against the law, but of course this decision has been appealed.
In the worst case scenario, filesharing of un-authorized material (and we're not necessarily talking syndicated crime here, but basically the average user!) will be considered a rather grave felony. In the best case scenario (of course, this depends on whether you're a regular user or a record company), filesharing will be considered a misdemeanor, more or less like speeding. Not allowed, but nothing that will destroy your life.
The basic problem - Angloamerican "copyright" vs. Swedish "upphovsrätt" is to complicated to even think about this late at night. This will prove to be a real hornet's nest...
> Wouldn't Windows users have to migrate to Linux first? Unless I missed something, KDE is not a > desktop environment that replaces the Windows GUI on Windows boxen.
Actually, you DID miss something (rather important). KDE is EXACTLY a desktop environment, somewhat comparable with DOS-based Windows. Don't mix it up with X, which is "just" a protocol that makes it possible for the environment to communicate with the kernel.
* Linux tells the computer what to do * X tells Linux what to do * KDE (or other environments) tells X what to do
So, you DON'T have to migrate to Linux first. A reasonable distribtuion will give you everything in one go - whether you choose to use KDE or GNOME (or something else).
I really hope that a lot of people actually READS the paper. It's excellently clear, and very well written. If the case goes to court (which it should) and IBM wins (which it will), then a lot of FUD about Linux and IP actually will be out of the way.
Many (including me) is thinking that Msft is behind this. But what if it's Sun that buys out SCO (or having done so already). Makes complete sense to me, as a reasonable conspiracy theory:-)
Although the above post was moderated as "Funny", I think it might as well be true.
Normally, the descision in the lower court would have been considered as so clear as to be meaningless to appeal. But I wouldn't be at all surprised to see it being overturned in the next instance. There are two main reasons for this:
1) There is a European law on the way which would probably have made DeCSS illegal to start with. 2) There are very powerful interests involved in this. Like Hollywood. And who says they can't influence Norwegian prosecutors?
Slashdot Mirror
...someone put that Solaris nonsense straight. Now we know that it is a Linux fork after all!
> Apple will sue the first person that uses the term 'iBlog'
A quick Google search shows that you're safe, anyway.
> since Swedish freedom of press law says that you
> can't stop anyone from publishing anything
Except child porn. It's per definition illegal to publish child porn in Sweden, by an exception to fundamental law.
Another thing is, of course, that it hasn't been legally decided yet whether it's illegal to publish *links* to forbidden material, whether it's copyrighted material or whatever.
> I have 4,244 files consuming 41 gig of space and I find it to be
> neither slow nor memory intensive.
Actually, I would say that 4,000+ files is a rather small collection, disregarding the size of the files themselves (it's the number of files that matter, not how much space they occupy). The memory footprint is not very important, as long as everything works OK. The more the OS can keep in memory, the better it works.
My impression is that Amarok is quite fast up until 15 - 16,000 songs, but that it gets markably slower the higher you get (at least with SQLite - I haven't tried anything else).
My collection is ~ 21,000 songs, and it's starting to feel a bit laggard, especially when I use it from my notebook over w-lan (all my music is located on a server disk, shared via nfs).
Having said that, I wouldn't change Amarok for anything else that available today. It's outstanding!
> amarok 4 supports album art ;-)
Actually, Amarok has done album art much longer, since version 1.4
(and before that, IIRC)
Very nicely put together!
Yeay, I was really surprised to see Thatcher among those nice people!
Well, since Salon is a subscription site (you have to pay or accept ads to read all of the content) it's not THAT strange that there is a cookie now and then...
It will get faster if you talk to a *lot* of people at the same time - especially at the end of the conversation :-)
I used the word "soccer" deliberately, to make everything perfectly clear to our American friends :-)
But actually, "soccer" is a perfectly valid British word. It's just short for "Association Football" - i.e. the original "football" rules.
When the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich (owner of the British soccer champions Chelsea, among a lot of other things) started his Chukotka project, on the inlet to Bering's Strait, there was some speculation on whether he knew someting that others didn't. :-)
u tions_government/chukotka_3904.jsp
Maybe he did? Check out Chukotka on a map and see for yourselves
http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-instit
I can't understand why Linus would need 6 lines, when it can be said in just 4 words:
"The Gnomelet is Thrown"
> If it's okay for me to download music from russian sites at a nickel a track or watch movies from bit torrent trackers (and I do both of these readily and happily), who am I (and most of us) to criticise a little GPL violation here and there?
:-)
Did you find GPL'd music on russian sites?? That's really interesting
There is an additional point everyone should be aware of, since it concerns not only Swedish citizens, but most Europeans (more or less the same rules will be law in all EU countries during the coming years):
What really happens under the new law is actually hanging upon two earlier cases; one regarding UPloading (filesharing of one Swedish movie) and one case regarding Swedish law on databases containing personal data.
* The first case (a guy who is charged with uploading a movie) will decide the graveness of the crime. It's not yet decided by court whether he will be fined, or whether he will end up in jail.
If he gets the maximum jail sentence of two years (which he may well get, since it will be suspended anyway), the Swedish police authorities will have the right to search the premises of everyone that's suspected of a similar crime.
The results of such a search (the content of hard disks, CD's and so on) can be used for further charges against other persons.
* The second case is the charge (from several thousand people) against the Swedish "Anti-Piracy Bureau" (an organisation of large copyright holders, record companies and so on) that their continuing datamining - automatic searching for up- and downloaders - is against Swedish law.
The regulatory body, "Datainspektionen", has already decided that this activity is against the law, but of course this decision has been appealed.
In the worst case scenario, filesharing of un-authorized material (and we're not necessarily talking syndicated crime here, but basically the average user!) will be considered a rather grave felony.
In the best case scenario (of course, this depends on whether you're a regular user or a record company), filesharing will be considered a misdemeanor, more or less like speeding. Not allowed, but nothing that will destroy your life.
The basic problem - Angloamerican "copyright" vs. Swedish "upphovsrätt" is to complicated to even think about this late at night. This will prove to be a real hornet's nest...
> When all is said and done, there is only one
:-)
> key difference between Linux and BSD, the
> license.
You're forgetting the penguin. The average user is not thinking "GPL", s/he's thinking "Tux"
It seems to run OK on Crossover Office (4.01). :-)
Not a speed demon, though
...you have to be smarter than average to use the quaint Mac interface. I sure never managed it :-/
> Bush's science adviser, John Marburger,
Marburger? Sounds like some kind of Ebolan to me....
> I don't think its the government's responsability to ensure stupid users have
> XYZ Media Player on their computers.
Mod parent down. It's not "insightful" to misread something completely.
> 90% of the office users Think that they need MS Office to be productive.
This is patently false. I've yet to come across a single user that wants to be productive. As long as he/she doesn't have to do anything new, it's OK.
> Wouldn't Windows users have to migrate to Linux first? Unless I missed something, KDE is not a
> desktop environment that replaces the Windows GUI on Windows boxen.
Actually, you DID miss something (rather important).
KDE is EXACTLY a desktop environment, somewhat comparable with DOS-based Windows.
Don't mix it up with X, which is "just" a protocol that makes it possible for the environment to communicate with the kernel.
* Linux tells the computer what to do
* X tells Linux what to do
* KDE (or other environments) tells X what to do
So, you DON'T have to migrate to Linux first. A reasonable distribtuion will give you everything in one go - whether you choose to use KDE or GNOME (or something else).
I really hope that a lot of people actually READS the paper. It's excellently clear, and very well written.
If the case goes to court (which it should) and IBM wins (which it will), then a lot of FUD about Linux and IP actually will be out of the way.
And yet, she's every bit as interesting as Michelangelo or Shakespeare!
Many (including me) is thinking that Msft is behind this. But what if it's Sun that buys out SCO (or having done so already). :-)
Makes complete sense to me, as a reasonable conspiracy theory
Although the above post was moderated as "Funny", I think it might as well be true.
Normally, the descision in the lower court would have been considered as so clear as to be meaningless to appeal.
But I wouldn't be at all surprised to see it being overturned in the next instance. There are two main reasons for this:
1) There is a European law on the way which would probably have made DeCSS illegal to start with.
2) There are very powerful interests involved in this. Like Hollywood. And who says they can't influence Norwegian prosecutors?