I'm a fan of short copyright periods with renewal, but it seems like there ought to be a cost involved. If you consider, say, The Dark Side of the Moon, you can see that some works are going to generate money till the end of time. For something like this, it would seem fair to let the record company extend the copyright a little, but that would have to be balanced, say, an increasing tax schedule or something. After all, part of the point of copyright is for the work to pass into the public domain.
My boss was going to have us use Puppet, but changed his mind before we got going. Instead, he now wants us to use chef. We haven't gotten to the point of needing either one yet, so I haven't checked out either one, but he definitely knows what he's doing around a computer, so I thought it worth throwing out.
How about a sample? I use Gentoo. My servers do this every night:/usr/bin/emerge --quiet --color n --sync && update-eix --quiet && glsa-check -l affected
I could just as well apply every fix automatically, but I like to see it before it goes in.
You might install Fraps and check your framerate. Rates below about 30 wouldn't be helping anything. If you're not familiar with all of this, I recommend that you fiddle with lowering your resolution and graphical detail settings so that your framerate gets to at -least- the mid 40's.
The CURRENT media being produced depends on VAST STOCKPILES OF MONEY. Copyright provides a means of getting that investment back, plus whatever else you might make (i.e., profit) if you earn more than your investment. That's the incentive to do it: the possibility of profit.
Copyright was invented almost simultaneously with the printing press. Can you not see the obvious parallels here? Someone investing in a press and taking the type to typeset a book (or sheet of music) ought to be able to recoup that investment. I don't see you devoting your life's work for no money (unless I just happen to be talking to a real, honest-to-goodness saint).
If you want one-off pieces of music performed by only the talent you can travel to see, or if your idea of "story time" consists of the town crier giving a recitation of Romeo and Juliet, then, fine, maybe copyright isn't for you. No shame in that at all. But if you watch TV shows, movies, read books, comics, or listen to music, you probably are enjoying the benefits of copyright, all while trying to deny your end of the bargain.
Copyright is what makes the GPL work, so please do NOT "end copyright now." Eliminate software patents, repeal the DMCA, shorten the LIFETIME of copyrights, but don't END them.
If there are no copyrights whatsoever, then people will have a much harder time getting the things that are BEING copied right now, as without the financial incentive, there will be much less interest in making things people WANT to copy.
If ABC can't control the merchandising of the show Lost -- like, if they were to produce it, and someone downloaded it and started selling DVD's of it at Target -- ABC wouldn't produce TV shows, and I happen to like Lost, thank you very much.
I hate DRM and the various media industries' attempt to limit our time and format shifting as much as the next guy, but ethos like "information wants to be free, man" just cheapens the argument for all of us.
I had a lot of crashing problems at first too. I tried Vista, both 32- and 64-bit, to get away from it (thinking it might be driver related), but it got worse in both cases over XP. I finally discovered that my memory wasn't correctly matched with my motherboard. Like me, you seem to have put your computer(s) together yourself. Are you certain that everything works correctly? Have you run memtest to make sure? Like you, my machine didn't have any other consistent problems until I ran FO3. Looking back on it, there were niggling problems every few weeks that I chalked up to "Windows," but now that the memory is sorted, I don't have ANY problems, either in the game, or at the desktop. (I was finally forced to admit this because I normally run Linux for everything non-game-related, and I started getting kernel panics doing software compiles. I knew something had to be physically wrong.)
Disclosure: I've been an RPM and source-based distro fan for the past 14 years. I've never really gotten into Debian or it's decendants. But I'm not waiting for Gentoo to compile on a netbook (and thrash its SSD), and I'm not setting up a cross-compiler for it... at least not yet...;-)
I just bought an Asus Eee 1000. I ditched the Xandros stuff they had on there the very first day and tried EasyPeasy, which was alright. Then I found out that the Ubuntu project already had this end covered with their Netbook Remix. So I installed that the next day. I'll admit it was a little buggy, but then I remembered how to get all the software updated on it, and it's been just great since.
The screen real estate's a little small for normal browsing, but just remember full-screen mode in Firefox and you're golden.
I really thought that such a small device would be slower, but it's not bad. I've got a nice gaming rig, so my comparison may be biased. I also put a 2GB RAM chip in it, so I'm sure that helps a little. But overall, UNR is doing quite nicely on the Atom chipset.
Of course, going back to my first point, there is an itch to see if an optimized version would run noticeably faster. But maybe someone will tell me that UNR is already optimized for the Atom.
I just bought an Asus 1000. (Love it! Throw away the Xandros nonsense, though, and install Ubuntu Netbook Reboot.) Newegg didn't offer anything but basic black and white, but when it showed up, I saw that the box clearly had some other colors, and even some graphics on some of them. That would have been nice. Maybe I could get a replacement cover, but I don't want to risk breaking something. You might not be that risk-averse.
The ladies in my office have called it "cute," and my buddies have called the portable DVD player bag I got to carry it a "man purse." So I was thinking much the same thing about trying to "cool" it up. I was tending to think about stickers, but there's no much space on there, and I worry about removing them later.
I was checking out the standard stuff from J!NX and ThinkGeek, but I've also seen a couple of nice Fallout-related things in other places. I'm still deciding. Maybe some buttons for the bag's strap would be cool too.
There are primarily 3 Democratic senators who blocked attempts by the previous administration to put limits on federal housing subsidies. Instead, they went the other way, and encouraged Fannie and Freddie to give mortgages to people who had no business getting one. Well, once the two biggest lenders in the country start doing this, what do you expect everyone else to do? This is what caused the wholesale inflation of the housing market, and the bursting of this bubble has caused this economic downturn.
Hindsight really is 20/20, if you care to look back there.
Now, instead of recanting the idea of giving people something that they not only have not earned -- but have actually proven themselves unable to handle -- we're giving away the entire budget of the nation. We're spending our grandchildren's money on businesses stuffed to the brim with people who have already proven that they have no idea what to do with it.
Do you not see what's happening here? A handful of Congressional fat cats lined their wallets with money kicked back from the housing bubble. Now they are floating those institutions out of the problem as payback. It's a giant circle of jerking, so to speak. That Democrats are harping on the same people they've been enabling for the past 6 or 7 years about the bonuses they're giving out is the absolute height of hypocrisy.
Water under the bridge now. It's all downhill from here. America voted this into power, and now we have to ride it till it throws us and breaks our back. The only good news in all of this rubbish is that there's just absolutely no way -- even in the mind of the most-socialist-leaning of people -- that we could pay for socialized medicine at this point. So at least we've pushed that off for awhile...
Uh, it -sounds- like you're saying that the economic policies of the 80's did NOT produce the prosperity of the 90's and 00's, but that -can't- be, because we know that's what did it. "Trickle down" economics causes the pie to be larger. Sure, the people who create the wealth keep large portions of it, but since they have more of it to spread around, they do. Complaining that it's a small slice of -their- pie is just jealous whining.
The policies that are going into effect these days are not going to grow the pie. They're just going to slice it into smaller portions. You sound like you like this approach. I don't. We already have lots of history, both in this country and around the world, as to what works and what doesn't. This administration's ideas won't. We know that purely from previous experimentation in the field. I don't understand why so many people can be lulled into thinking that they will. Call it a "feature" of the failed government-based school system, I guess.
I'm just hoping that the economy turns around on its own before most of the plan goes into effect, and that we have the good sense to repeal it before it ruins the economy for the next 50 years. Fat chance, I know.
But if you look over the last 15 years, I believe that there has been more Linux on the desktop than Apple OS's.
I doubt it. I'm a die-hard believer, and there have been stints at my job where even I have run Windows over the past 14 years. Despite knowing some really technical people over this time, I'm the only one who has run Linux on my desktop. Well, except for one current coworker, and he only uses it because he develops for Linux. His home computer runs Windows, on the rare occassion it's even on. The rest who would care (that would be two) have switched to Macs. So my unscientific poll says that Mac is leading Linux on the desktop 2 to 1.
Tin foil hattery aside, your best defense is a combination of reasonable doubt (the foundation of TOR, Freenet, and these new darknets) AND STRONG NON-PROPRIETARY WHOLE HARD DRIVE ENCRYPTION.
I wouldn't put away the TFB just yet. I'm just cynical enough to believe that just about ANY court in the USA would demand you turn over your encryption key under threat of simply being in contempt of court. A judge can basically throw you in jail until you comply, and that doesn't even allow your case to proceed. Even if you somehow worked around this, not giving up your key would be seen as an admission of guilt. Look, I know it's wrong -- fifth amendment and all that -- but this is reality here, and the republicrats don't really care any more.
Just for the record, it works great on my Gentoo amd64 system! (Including NOT having a problem with compiz-fusion, like they suggest in the readme it might.)
Sounds to me like you're running the Windows version at it's default resolution of 800x600. You can change that to whatever you like in the properties/config.txt file, just like in the Linux version. I don't know if the game supports crazy shorted widescreen modes or whatever, but I suspect there's something there for you.
I doubt that many other Linux users have a Wii or bought the game for another platform they don't use regularly.
I bought it for the Wii for the kids as sort of an impulse buy after I connected the console to the internet. My older son (aged 5) asked if we could put it on his PC, which runs Windows. (Hey, I'm an admitted Linux zealot, but it only goes so far.) I told him no, because I didn't want to buy it again. However, when I saw (through this article) that a Linux version was available, I immediately bought it, and installed it on his computer and mine. All three versions work and play great, thank you very much, and I'm glad to have spent some money with someone making a real, top-shelf game as a native Linux product.
Sorry. I know this was a joke, but this begs a response, because it is a common misconception. My work machine is a low-end Dell business-class computer. It has a Core 2 Duo (E6550, to be precise). I've loaded 4 GB of my own RAM in it, and it has two hard drives in a mirrored configuration.
user@workstation $ time sudo emerge dev-db/mysql real 5m43.320s user 6m25.068s sys 1m31.625s
Admittedly, when I made the switch to Gentoo (from SuSE) a few years ago, this was not the case. It would, literally, take me 3 days to get Gentoo completely installed on my old dual Athlon. Now, on my new main machine at home, if I can keep all the balls in the air while building up the install, I suppose it could be completely done, with both Gnome and KDE environments, in about 12 hours.
The only really stubborn package these days is OpenOffice.;-)
Anybody advanced enough to know what MySQL is (much less how to administrate/operate it) would know how to apt-get install it if they needed it, anyway.
And anybody advanced enough to know how to actually write an application against it would know how to emerge it.
Thanks, folks. I'll be here all week. Try the veal.
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I'm a fan of short copyright periods with renewal, but it seems like there ought to be a cost involved. If you consider, say, The Dark Side of the Moon, you can see that some works are going to generate money till the end of time. For something like this, it would seem fair to let the record company extend the copyright a little, but that would have to be balanced, say, an increasing tax schedule or something. After all, part of the point of copyright is for the work to pass into the public domain.
My boss was going to have us use Puppet, but changed his mind before we got going. Instead, he now wants us to use chef. We haven't gotten to the point of needing either one yet, so I haven't checked out either one, but he definitely knows what he's doing around a computer, so I thought it worth throwing out.
How about a sample? I use Gentoo. My servers do this every night: /usr/bin/emerge --quiet --color n --sync && update-eix --quiet && glsa-check -l affected
I could just as well apply every fix automatically, but I like to see it before it goes in.
Agreed, but isn't this the sort of thing that Google Chrome will supposedly fix?
You might install Fraps and check your framerate. Rates below about 30 wouldn't be helping anything. If you're not familiar with all of this, I recommend that you fiddle with lowering your resolution and graphical detail settings so that your framerate gets to at -least- the mid 40's.
The CURRENT media being produced depends on VAST STOCKPILES OF MONEY. Copyright provides a means of getting that investment back, plus whatever else you might make (i.e., profit) if you earn more than your investment. That's the incentive to do it: the possibility of profit.
Copyright was invented almost simultaneously with the printing press. Can you not see the obvious parallels here? Someone investing in a press and taking the type to typeset a book (or sheet of music) ought to be able to recoup that investment. I don't see you devoting your life's work for no money (unless I just happen to be talking to a real, honest-to-goodness saint).
If you want one-off pieces of music performed by only the talent you can travel to see, or if your idea of "story time" consists of the town crier giving a recitation of Romeo and Juliet, then, fine, maybe copyright isn't for you. No shame in that at all. But if you watch TV shows, movies, read books, comics, or listen to music, you probably are enjoying the benefits of copyright, all while trying to deny your end of the bargain.
I'm making the argument that copyright is a violation of civil rights...
And that's your problem right there. It's just... not.
Copyright is what makes the GPL work, so please do NOT "end copyright now." Eliminate software patents, repeal the DMCA, shorten the LIFETIME of copyrights, but don't END them.
If there are no copyrights whatsoever, then people will have a much harder time getting the things that are BEING copied right now, as without the financial incentive, there will be much less interest in making things people WANT to copy.
If ABC can't control the merchandising of the show Lost -- like, if they were to produce it, and someone downloaded it and started selling DVD's of it at Target -- ABC wouldn't produce TV shows, and I happen to like Lost, thank you very much.
I hate DRM and the various media industries' attempt to limit our time and format shifting as much as the next guy, but ethos like "information wants to be free, man" just cheapens the argument for all of us.
I had a lot of crashing problems at first too. I tried Vista, both 32- and 64-bit, to get away from it (thinking it might be driver related), but it got worse in both cases over XP. I finally discovered that my memory wasn't correctly matched with my motherboard. Like me, you seem to have put your computer(s) together yourself. Are you certain that everything works correctly? Have you run memtest to make sure? Like you, my machine didn't have any other consistent problems until I ran FO3. Looking back on it, there were niggling problems every few weeks that I chalked up to "Windows," but now that the memory is sorted, I don't have ANY problems, either in the game, or at the desktop. (I was finally forced to admit this because I normally run Linux for everything non-game-related, and I started getting kernel panics doing software compiles. I knew something had to be physically wrong.)
Whoops! We got a Penthouse Forum submission dumped into the wrong queue here!
I can vouch for UNR.
Disclosure: I've been an RPM and source-based distro fan for the past 14 years. I've never really gotten into Debian or it's decendants. But I'm not waiting for Gentoo to compile on a netbook (and thrash its SSD), and I'm not setting up a cross-compiler for it... at least not yet... ;-)
I just bought an Asus Eee 1000. I ditched the Xandros stuff they had on there the very first day and tried EasyPeasy, which was alright. Then I found out that the Ubuntu project already had this end covered with their Netbook Remix. So I installed that the next day. I'll admit it was a little buggy, but then I remembered how to get all the software updated on it, and it's been just great since.
The screen real estate's a little small for normal browsing, but just remember full-screen mode in Firefox and you're golden.
I really thought that such a small device would be slower, but it's not bad. I've got a nice gaming rig, so my comparison may be biased. I also put a 2GB RAM chip in it, so I'm sure that helps a little. But overall, UNR is doing quite nicely on the Atom chipset.
Of course, going back to my first point, there is an itch to see if an optimized version would run noticeably faster. But maybe someone will tell me that UNR is already optimized for the Atom.
I'm also keeping an eye on Intel's Moblin...
I just bought an Asus 1000. (Love it! Throw away the Xandros nonsense, though, and install Ubuntu Netbook Reboot.) Newegg didn't offer anything but basic black and white, but when it showed up, I saw that the box clearly had some other colors, and even some graphics on some of them. That would have been nice. Maybe I could get a replacement cover, but I don't want to risk breaking something. You might not be that risk-averse.
The ladies in my office have called it "cute," and my buddies have called the portable DVD player bag I got to carry it a "man purse." So I was thinking much the same thing about trying to "cool" it up. I was tending to think about stickers, but there's no much space on there, and I worry about removing them later.
I was checking out the standard stuff from J!NX and ThinkGeek, but I've also seen a couple of nice Fallout-related things in other places. I'm still deciding. Maybe some buttons for the bag's strap would be cool too.
Have you not been around long enough to see the site that caused Slashdot to start putting the ACTUAL domain name behind the supposed links?...
Gotta love it when the third-year liberal arts majors reply.
Hey, at least I got points for being "smooth."
No, they're not. You're not paying attention.
There are primarily 3 Democratic senators who blocked attempts by the previous administration to put limits on federal housing subsidies. Instead, they went the other way, and encouraged Fannie and Freddie to give mortgages to people who had no business getting one. Well, once the two biggest lenders in the country start doing this, what do you expect everyone else to do? This is what caused the wholesale inflation of the housing market, and the bursting of this bubble has caused this economic downturn.
Hindsight really is 20/20, if you care to look back there.
Now, instead of recanting the idea of giving people something that they not only have not earned -- but have actually proven themselves unable to handle -- we're giving away the entire budget of the nation. We're spending our grandchildren's money on businesses stuffed to the brim with people who have already proven that they have no idea what to do with it.
Do you not see what's happening here? A handful of Congressional fat cats lined their wallets with money kicked back from the housing bubble. Now they are floating those institutions out of the problem as payback. It's a giant circle of jerking, so to speak. That Democrats are harping on the same people they've been enabling for the past 6 or 7 years about the bonuses they're giving out is the absolute height of hypocrisy.
Water under the bridge now. It's all downhill from here. America voted this into power, and now we have to ride it till it throws us and breaks our back. The only good news in all of this rubbish is that there's just absolutely no way -- even in the mind of the most-socialist-leaning of people -- that we could pay for socialized medicine at this point. So at least we've pushed that off for awhile...
Uh, it -sounds- like you're saying that the economic policies of the 80's did NOT produce the prosperity of the 90's and 00's, but that -can't- be, because we know that's what did it. "Trickle down" economics causes the pie to be larger. Sure, the people who create the wealth keep large portions of it, but since they have more of it to spread around, they do. Complaining that it's a small slice of -their- pie is just jealous whining.
The policies that are going into effect these days are not going to grow the pie. They're just going to slice it into smaller portions. You sound like you like this approach. I don't. We already have lots of history, both in this country and around the world, as to what works and what doesn't. This administration's ideas won't. We know that purely from previous experimentation in the field. I don't understand why so many people can be lulled into thinking that they will. Call it a "feature" of the failed government-based school system, I guess.
I'm just hoping that the economy turns around on its own before most of the plan goes into effect, and that we have the good sense to repeal it before it ruins the economy for the next 50 years. Fat chance, I know.
But if you look over the last 15 years, I believe that there has been more Linux on the desktop than Apple OS's.
I doubt it. I'm a die-hard believer, and there have been stints at my job where even I have run Windows over the past 14 years. Despite knowing some really technical people over this time, I'm the only one who has run Linux on my desktop. Well, except for one current coworker, and he only uses it because he develops for Linux. His home computer runs Windows, on the rare occassion it's even on. The rest who would care (that would be two) have switched to Macs. So my unscientific poll says that Mac is leading Linux on the desktop 2 to 1.
Tin foil hattery aside, your best defense is a combination of reasonable doubt (the foundation of TOR, Freenet, and these new darknets) AND STRONG NON-PROPRIETARY WHOLE HARD DRIVE ENCRYPTION.
I wouldn't put away the TFB just yet. I'm just cynical enough to believe that just about ANY court in the USA would demand you turn over your encryption key under threat of simply being in contempt of court. A judge can basically throw you in jail until you comply, and that doesn't even allow your case to proceed. Even if you somehow worked around this, not giving up your key would be seen as an admission of guilt. Look, I know it's wrong -- fifth amendment and all that -- but this is reality here, and the republicrats don't really care any more.
Wah! I can't read the instructions to find out how to hit Alt-Enter and play in a window!
or...
Wah! I'm just smart enough to run dualhead, but not smart enough to setup an extra metamode to allow me to play on a single screen!
Don't worry your pretty little head. I don't think they -expect- ANYONE to buy the game. Not even all-important "MR LOLALOT".
You had to go and bring them up. Might as well get the full story. Posting to Slashdot for the umpteenth time:
http://www.linux.com/articles/22324
Just for the record, it works great on my Gentoo amd64 system! (Including NOT having a problem with compiz-fusion, like they suggest in the readme it might.)
Sounds to me like you're running the Windows version at it's default resolution of 800x600. You can change that to whatever you like in the properties/config.txt file, just like in the Linux version. I don't know if the game supports crazy shorted widescreen modes or whatever, but I suspect there's something there for you.
I doubt that many other Linux users have a Wii or bought the game for another platform they don't use regularly.
I bought it for the Wii for the kids as sort of an impulse buy after I connected the console to the internet. My older son (aged 5) asked if we could put it on his PC, which runs Windows. (Hey, I'm an admitted Linux zealot, but it only goes so far.) I told him no, because I didn't want to buy it again. However, when I saw (through this article) that a Linux version was available, I immediately bought it, and installed it on his computer and mine. All three versions work and play great, thank you very much, and I'm glad to have spent some money with someone making a real, top-shelf game as a native Linux product.
A+++. Would buy again!
Sorry. I know this was a joke, but this begs a response, because it is a common misconception. My work machine is a low-end Dell business-class computer. It has a Core 2 Duo (E6550, to be precise). I've loaded 4 GB of my own RAM in it, and it has two hard drives in a mirrored configuration.
user@workstation $ time sudo emerge dev-db/mysql
real 5m43.320s
user 6m25.068s
sys 1m31.625s
Admittedly, when I made the switch to Gentoo (from SuSE) a few years ago, this was not the case. It would, literally, take me 3 days to get Gentoo completely installed on my old dual Athlon. Now, on my new main machine at home, if I can keep all the balls in the air while building up the install, I suppose it could be completely done, with both Gnome and KDE environments, in about 12 hours.
The only really stubborn package these days is OpenOffice. ;-)
Anybody advanced enough to know what MySQL is (much less how to administrate/operate it) would know how to apt-get install it if they needed it, anyway.
And anybody advanced enough to know how to actually write an application against it would know how to emerge it.
Thanks, folks. I'll be here all week. Try the veal.