The cost of a napster subscription isn't the issue here - what interests BMG is the buying information they can gather.
First, making a deal with napster and requiring membership fees makes the whole deal look legit : it's then legally OK for BMG to be involved, because they can claim they're getting royalties. Without this, they daren't touch napster for fear of being called hypocrites.
Second, the information from napster of musical preferences is very valuable: by searching napster, BMG can determine the likes and dislikes of the users. This is paydirt for e-commerce, as we all know.
Third, the membership requirement ensures that the preferences determined in 2) can be tied to a membership account and a real person with real money. This isn't available by simply scanning napster in it's current form and is, I would say, the whole reason for the deal - it's not important whether the subscription funds the music industries' groupy bills, only that there is a tieup between napster shares and real-world people.
First they came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.
Does it have to be X ?
There's a variant of xawtv (TV from PCI framegrabber in an X window) that works direct onto a framebuffer device, i.e. fullscreen.
The PCI grabber will operate with a cliplist, making it possible to have regions of the framebuffer that aren't video : you can use these for titling, popup windows, picture-in-picture from a second framegrabber etc.
There are some zx81 emulation sites with game images, so there must be a way to do it : maybe play the audio tape into a sound card ? The encoding is only FSK, like a 300 baud modem.
So if an attorney murders his client's husband, and claims that she asked him to do it, he gets off scot free ? Not even charged with conspiracy or something ?
No, I don't believe that. An attorney can't break the law on someone else's behalf. And harrassment is breaking the law.
That would be a fair comment for a work of fiction or similar, which is (usually) read from the beginning to the end, in order.
But it's not true for a technical or reference book : what if the very first section you want to look up is in that last 100 pages and turns out to be inadequate or wrong ?
Nobody asked DC to support open source. It would just be nice not to receive legal harrassment for taking a bit of interest in a freebie, handed out with no strings attached.
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Some of those things are available through the civic library system, either as raw materials (SUV maintenance manuals, information on clinics) or as the actual documents that worry you (perhaps the librarian would limit access to some, but the library system as a whole archives much of what is published regardless of value).
So are you going to withhold your taxes on the grounds that an immoral user might misuse those archives, that YOU paid to maintain ?
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Interesting contrast.
At my work, we CAN'T use any mail encryption, because then mimesweeper wouldn't be able to sneak a look in our mail.
Apparently it needs to do this to check for viruses, and whinge pointlessly about words it doesn't like (I got one rejected for having lots of repeats of 'screw'.. I work for an engineering company:-)). Of course, there are less valid reasons too.
from the Grauniad Online. Unfortunately, it's by Jack Schofield - he's only just stopped promoting Atari so it'll be a few months yet before he gives up on Microsoft.
He isn't asking KDE developers to beg him : he's unconditionally stated that all the FSF-owned stuff is OK to use - i.e. he's given the 'forgiveness' without KDE even asking.
By requesting that KDE ask for similar statements from all the other contributors he's ensuring that this flame war is dead, with a stake through the heart : noone can come back and accuse them later of misusing some GPL'd code.
I'm not that happy about installing a closed-source setuid-root program. Anyone know what exactly it needs to do ? How can I keep control of it ?
This isn't only a problem with this particular product - installation managers are generally run as root and may set what permissions they like on the things they install. Is there an installation manager that can do a global install as root, or a local install as an individual user ?
Ogg might have the opposite effect of keeping MP3 alive : by ensuring there's a sensible alternative to MP3 waiting in the wings, Fraunhofer will be unable to assert heavy control. Therefore MP3 fees will not grow, and MP3 will stay.
The SGS-Thomson MP3 decoder is really a VLIW DSP with the MP3 decoder in ROM. Early version (perhaps current versions) actually required a firmware patch loaded into RAM before they'd produce good results.
This DSP is available as a standard supported component, not only as an MP3 decoder. It's therefore quite possible for developers to write a Vorbis decoder for it even without hardware manufacturer support.
I don't think it's the only low-power DSP available that's capable of this sort of job, so some other semi-custom design is quite possible.
Not crazy at all. It's much easier to spot the flaws in a bad design than create from nothing. Always do a throw-away design if you haven't got a good idea that you're happy with
Of course there isn't any film in the cameras. They're CCTV cameras !
What they mean is 'those cameras are recording events that we'll only consider when it suits us, and your break-in is way below the scale of the crimes we bother with'.
There used to be a license like this for home use - it was issued by the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society and compensated artists for loss of royalties when a home recording was made of a commercially recording. It was promoted by organisations such as record libraries in the UK, and cost about £10 per year.
I had one for several years around 1980.. I only stopped buying them when the MCPS stopped issuing them.
Yes, but the tape is cheap : the RIAA wouldn't try to argue that the cost of a CD is related to it's manufacturing cost.
Therefore, if the claim is that the purchase was a licence to listen, you should be able to replace the media without paying the licence fee part again. If you have a scratched recording on vinyl or a worn-out tape, you could have a replacement CD for the $1 it costs to make, or a digital copy for the fractional cost of maintaining the server and internet connection.
The car is different : Ford don't argue that you bought a licence to use it, you actually bought the car and can do what you like with it (including building another just like it - they know that would cost you far more than another Ford).
I think Deja does have a responsibility to carry the archives (or at least store them). Before Dejanews, many groups were archived by individual sites or on behalf of specific groups. Dejanews appeared to offer a reliable replacement for these piecemeal systems, and when administrators moved on or changed policy, the groups depended on dejanews to take over. If Dejanews hadn't existed, or had published today's policy then, other arrangments would have been made : it's deja's existence that has reduced the keeping of other archives.
Is there some reason why you can't just fit those switches to later versions of the motherboard ? Have Abit just fitted links, or removed the holes altogether ?
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That just proves that the only thing worse than having developers in charge is having marketers in charge ..
The cost of a napster subscription isn't the issue here - what interests BMG is the buying information they can gather.
First, making a deal with napster and requiring membership fees makes the whole deal look legit : it's then legally OK for BMG to be involved, because they can claim they're getting royalties. Without this, they daren't touch napster for fear of being called hypocrites.
Second, the information from napster of musical preferences is very valuable: by searching napster, BMG can determine the likes and dislikes of the users. This is paydirt for e-commerce, as we all know.
Third, the membership requirement ensures that the preferences determined in 2) can be tied to a membership account and a real person with real money. This isn't available by simply scanning napster in it's current form and is, I would say, the whole reason for the deal - it's not important whether the subscription funds the music industries' groupy bills, only that there is a tieup between napster shares and real-world people.
First they came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.
--- Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
Penultimate.
The Earth was the ultimate supercomputer.
Does it have to be X ?
There's a variant of xawtv (TV from PCI framegrabber in an X window) that works direct onto a framebuffer device, i.e. fullscreen.
The PCI grabber will operate with a cliplist, making it possible to have regions of the framebuffer that aren't video : you can use these for titling, popup windows, picture-in-picture from a second framegrabber etc.
There are some zx81 emulation sites with game images, so there must be a way to do it : maybe play the audio tape into a sound card ? The encoding is only FSK, like a 300 baud modem.
So if an attorney murders his client's husband, and claims that she asked him to do it, he gets off scot free ? Not even charged with conspiracy or something ?
No, I don't believe that. An attorney can't break the law on someone else's behalf. And harrassment is breaking the law.
That would be a fair comment for a work of fiction or similar, which is (usually) read from the beginning to the end, in order.
But it's not true for a technical or reference book : what if the very first section you want to look up is in that last 100 pages and turns out to be inadequate or wrong ?
Can they do that ? I thought Apple owned that method of address assigmnent in LocalTalk.
Nobody asked DC to support open source. It would just be nice not to receive legal harrassment for taking a bit of interest in a freebie, handed out with no strings attached.
Some of those things are available through the civic library system, either as raw materials (SUV maintenance manuals, information on clinics) or as the actual documents that worry you (perhaps the librarian would limit access to some, but the library system as a whole archives much of what is published regardless of value).
So are you going to withhold your taxes on the grounds that an immoral user might misuse those archives, that YOU paid to maintain ?
Interesting contrast.
.. I work for an engineering company :-)). Of course, there are less valid reasons too.
At my work, we CAN'T use any mail encryption, because then mimesweeper wouldn't be able to sneak a look in our mail.
Apparently it needs to do this to check for viruses, and whinge pointlessly about words it doesn't like (I got one rejected for having lots of repeats of 'screw'
from the Grauniad Online. Unfortunately, it's by Jack Schofield - he's only just stopped promoting Atari so it'll be a few months yet before he gives up on Microsoft.
He isn't asking KDE developers to beg him : he's unconditionally stated that all the FSF-owned stuff is OK to use - i.e. he's given the 'forgiveness' without KDE even asking.
By requesting that KDE ask for similar statements from all the other contributors he's ensuring that this flame war is dead, with a stake through the heart : noone can come back and accuse them later of misusing some GPL'd code.
I'm not that happy about installing a closed-source setuid-root program. Anyone know what exactly it needs to do ? How can I keep control of it ?
This isn't only a problem with this particular product - installation managers are generally run as root and may set what permissions they like on the things they install. Is there an installation manager that can do a global install as root, or a local install as an individual user ?
So what do they use for source management ?
CVS ?
Ogg might have the opposite effect of keeping MP3 alive : by ensuring there's a sensible alternative to MP3 waiting in the wings, Fraunhofer will be unable to assert heavy control. Therefore MP3 fees will not grow, and MP3 will stay.
The SGS-Thomson MP3 decoder is really a VLIW DSP with the MP3 decoder in ROM. Early version (perhaps current versions) actually required a firmware patch loaded into RAM before they'd produce good results.
This DSP is available as a standard supported component, not only as an MP3 decoder. It's therefore quite possible for developers to write a Vorbis decoder for it even without hardware manufacturer support.
I don't think it's the only low-power DSP available that's capable of this sort of job, so some other semi-custom design is quite possible.
Not crazy at all. It's much easier to spot the flaws in a bad design than create from nothing.
Always do a throw-away design if you haven't got a good idea that you're happy with
Of course there isn't any film in the cameras. They're CCTV cameras !
What they mean is 'those cameras are recording events that we'll only consider when it suits us, and your break-in is way below the scale of the crimes we bother with'.
There used to be a license like this for home use - it was issued by the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society and compensated artists for loss of royalties when a home recording was made of a commercially recording. It was promoted by organisations such as record libraries in the UK, and cost about £10 per year.
.. I only stopped buying them when the MCPS stopped issuing them.
I had one for several years around 1980
Yes, but the tape is cheap : the RIAA wouldn't try to argue that the cost of a CD is related to it's manufacturing cost.
Therefore, if the claim is that the purchase was a licence to listen, you should be able to replace the media without paying the licence fee part again. If you have a scratched recording on vinyl or a worn-out tape, you could have a replacement CD for the $1 it costs to make, or a digital copy for the fractional cost of maintaining the server and internet connection.
The car is different : Ford don't argue that you bought a licence to use it, you actually bought the car and can do what you like with it (including building another just like it - they know that would cost you far more than another Ford).
I think Deja does have a responsibility to carry the archives (or at least store them). Before Dejanews, many groups were archived by individual sites or on behalf of specific groups. Dejanews appeared to offer a reliable replacement for these piecemeal systems, and when administrators moved on or changed policy, the groups depended on dejanews to take over. If Dejanews hadn't existed, or had published today's policy then, other arrangments would have been made : it's deja's existence that has reduced the keeping of other archives.
Is there some reason why you can't just fit those switches to later versions of the motherboard ? Have Abit just fitted links, or removed the holes altogether ?
Well, what else can you do with a McDonalds ?
You surely don't EAT at them ?