Linux-based, indeed. And that's about all the Linux support one gets with this, apparently (boldface mine):
The bundled QuickSync software in Agenda synchronizes
Outlook from the unit. QuickSync is compatible with any PC operating system that can run Outlook including Windows 95, 98, 2000, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows Millennium. QuickSync requires 2MB of hard drive space and 16MB RAM.
No where do I see information on synchronization support for anyLinux application.
Because RealVideo is not free software, Real is not an open format, and someone using that is not running a pure GNU/Linux system. Just because Real threw a sop to the community by providing a crippled, back version player doesn't mean RMS is going to want to promote its use. I agree with Mr. Stallman's stand on this.
Oh, come on. That's just trolling, fair and simple. There are plenty of legitimate uses of compression and CD-burning
OK, I'll give you CDRWin. But what's something that's distributed in volume in.RAR format besides warez?
. . . they don't have to develop the software . ..
I'll admit that in the extremely unlikely (IMHO) event that Sony really wants to sell PSX emulation (built in ROM in a VAIO laptop, maybe?) that having one already done would be easier. But they're in a position to put a PSX on a chip on a PCI or PCMCIA card, capture the same market, probably for less than the cost of a PSX, with no piracy. I just don't see their motivation for buying the emulator as anything other than "Oh, crap--we might lose, then in a few years, everything, including the PSX2, is fair game! Let's buy it, get it off the market, and save the big guns for the first company to introduce PSX2 compatibility."
I suppose the primary purpose of VGS wasn't to play "backups"? And don't tell me about the easily defeated built-in protection being a barrier to that. They tried to cash in on the PSX's popularity, pure and simple. And their primary market was those with burned PSX games. (I still can't figure out how the authors of WinRAR and CDRWin make any money, either, being that piracy is their primary raison d^etre, as well.)
I don't deny that they're extrordinarily talented programmers (props), but they're lucky to have come out of it with anything but humongous legal bills or worse, a jail term. Of course, Sony's going to kill it--why would the people who developed the PSX need outside help in emulating it?
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The problem with this idea is that the RIAA and those blocking searches at its behest will have access to the same software, and can just run the searches through the same scrambler. This software would have to be updated very often--it would be a war of escalation similar to that associated with the use of any copy inhibiting "technology."
So all you would have to do is ask Gracenote nicely and they'd give you (for actual media, copying, and mailing costs) a stack of DVD-ROMs with the (current, similiar to this 32MB ZIP database on it so you can host it for free to whoever would like to download it? If so, I guess I don't have anything to complain about. But I think that you'll find that if you try that, they'll act as if the information is now their property.
Thus, it isn't only the bandwidth they're charging for. Don't forget that little nastiness about not being able to allow users to point at other (e.g. freecddb) servers, forced ads, etc..
Funny, I don't remember ever being promised anything by gracenote. I got way more from them then they ever got from me. I input the CD's I found that were not there, but most of the time I downloaded from them. I received a service from them in exchange for helping them build up their database. That was the deal.
Your words bely an apparent unfamiliary with the history of CDDB (now Gracenote). At its inception, the CDDB software and database were under the GPL. Thus, it was quite reasonable for submitters to infer that their submissions would remain free.
Where exactly did it say you get access to CDDB for free, forever, because you simply typed out the names of songs that someone else wrote?
I didn't say that anyone should have "access to CDDB free, forever, just because . .." Gracenote should be compelled to release all tracks provided by users to the public domain, however. Not the same thing. This remedy wouldn't require that they run servers "in perpetuity" (as another posted said).
A horrible analogy. What gracenote did was start charging for a useful service in the only way it can -- hitting the application builders that enhance their programs with its functionality.
The analogy is a very good one. Your saying it is horrible doesn't make it so. Had they announced plans to charge up front, no reasonable person would have had an issue with their actions. As in the hypothetical Red Cross example, this wasn't the case.
Please study economics. These "free" alternatives are only free to YOU, not to the person running them. Do you think internet bandwidth and hardware resources grow on trees? Why don't you offer to pay a monthly service fee to FreeDB to help?
Nah, you just want something for nothing.
Thank you for that oh-so-enlightened ad hominem attack and "econ in a nutshell," Dr. Friedman. It dovetails so well with the rest of your completely specious argument. I don't feel the need to wear my education on my sleeve. With regard to your point about free services being unable to exist without revenue, gosh--I can't imagine that there could have been any internet at all before all that commericalization arrived. (That was sarcasm, in case it wasn't readily apparent.)
What right do they have to impose any condition on the use of the information they stole (by taking the information ostensibly to provide a free service) from the Internet community?
Sorry--I hoped that would seem so unlikely that no one would ever think it. The Red Cross has given no indication that it would do such a thing, and I didn't mean to imply that it had!
A remarkable proposal... penalize people who provide a service for free by forcing them to continue it in perpetuity.
I see what you're saying, but how is it particularly unfair to require that an entity that collected data in the pretense that it would always be freely available release the data when they it no longer wished to offer the service for free, without condition? That is not the same thing as ordering Hotmail to never shut down or to charge.
I don't think anyone's advocating requiring the former CDDB, aka Gracenote, to provide free access to their servers in perpetuity. While it would be nice if they had done that, I would have been satisfied if they had simply release the database into the public domain, which is where it essentially came from. Whether what they did was legal or not, it sure as heck wasn't even in the same star system as moral.
The problem is that they started out a community-based collection of title information that was painstakingly entered by thousands of users in the belief that they wouldn't pull something like this.
What Gracenote did is essentially the same as the Red Cross declaring itself a for-profit agency and charging for its services, while keeping all the donations made for it while it was a non-profit.
I am looking forward to the day they go out of business and/or are made irrelevant by free alternatives. And I hope the executive scum responsible for the decision die a slow, painful death. But I'm not bitter.
Given current trends of extending copyright (at least in the United States), the copyrights will expire about the same time the Sun burns out. I imagine that then, the ability to make copies of digital music will be a secondary concern to anything living.
I'm worried that you choose to say "legitimately," as if there is something untoward or illegal about running a CPU at greater than its rated speed. CPU's are sold, not licensed. If a person wishes to run his property out of spec, there's nothing not legitimate about it.
Plus, we're also the local POP for most of the regions ISPs
Sounds like UIUC should be giving that bandwidth to the students instead of reselling it. I'm horrified to hear there's a public university using tax money to compete with commercial providers of ISP POPs.
That's a good question. Community colleges generally serve that purpose, along with some state colleges (as opposed to "universities") which have open admission.
When the individual who's not part of that "inbred Bostonian merchant family" (whose members won't be going to any public school) does well for a year or two at one of those, he or she can transfer into a state university.
While incompetence isn't contagious, standards generally fall to the level of the average student in the curriculum, from my (admittedly limited) observation.
This is the easy target, but the Usenet regulation foot is in the door in the U.S. (thanks to that buttlick cockgarler* Laurence Godfrey, the U.K.'s freedom's already gone). First casualty: "premium" NNTP servers based in the US. Think people are signing up for "premium" news service to ensure they get their daily dose of rec.humor.funny and sci.physics? Ha.
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I think that if you can't tell a user's causing a problem without sniffing your network, then he must not be causing that much of a problem. If you notice activity that's suspicious in the "course of normal system maintenance," that's when it's time to get permission to watch that user and start gathering evidence.
Egregious bandwidth consumption on a per-jack basis ought to be pretty obvious without any kind of transport or higher level monitoring tools, and dealt with on a per-luser basis.
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No where do I see information on synchronization support for anyLinux application.
Because RealVideo is not free software, Real is not an open format, and someone using that is not running a pure GNU/Linux system. Just because Real threw a sop to the community by providing a crippled, back version player doesn't mean RMS is going to want to promote its use. I agree with Mr. Stallman's stand on this.
OK, I'll give you CDRWin. But what's something that's distributed in volume in .RAR format besides warez?
. . . they don't have to develop the software . . .
I'll admit that in the extremely unlikely (IMHO) event that Sony really wants to sell PSX emulation (built in ROM in a VAIO laptop, maybe?) that having one already done would be easier. But they're in a position to put a PSX on a chip on a PCI or PCMCIA card, capture the same market, probably for less than the cost of a PSX, with no piracy. I just don't see their motivation for buying the emulator as anything other than "Oh, crap--we might lose, then in a few years, everything, including the PSX2, is fair game! Let's buy it, get it off the market, and save the big guns for the first company to introduce PSX2 compatibility."
I don't deny that they're extrordinarily talented programmers (props), but they're lucky to have come out of it with anything but humongous legal bills or worse, a jail term. Of course, Sony's going to kill it--why would the people who developed the PSX need outside help in emulating it?
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The problem with this idea is that the RIAA and those blocking searches at its behest will have access to the same software, and can just run the searches through the same scrambler. This software would have to be updated very often--it would be a war of escalation similar to that associated with the use of any copy inhibiting "technology."
OK, I know I'm veering a little bit off topic here, but what right does a taxpayer funded agency have to copy protect the maps, anyway?
AdultCheck, here I come!
Interesting quote from one of your links:
"The FBI Laboratory maintains a child pornography reference library that supports investigators in tracing the source of images and materials."
And I suppose their work requires regular viewing of it, to maintain expertise, and all.
Thus, it isn't only the bandwidth they're charging for. Don't forget that little nastiness about not being able to allow users to point at other (e.g. freecddb) servers, forced ads, etc..
No, silly :). Stole, as in (from Webster's Third New International Dictionary): "4 g : to appropriate entirely to oneself or beyond one's proper share".
Your words bely an apparent unfamiliary with the history of CDDB (now Gracenote). At its inception, the CDDB software and database were under the GPL. Thus, it was quite reasonable for submitters to infer that their submissions would remain free.
Where exactly did it say you get access to CDDB for free, forever, because you simply typed out the names of songs that someone else wrote?
I didn't say that anyone should have "access to CDDB free, forever, just because . . ." Gracenote should be compelled to release all tracks provided by users to the public domain, however. Not the same thing. This remedy wouldn't require that they run servers "in perpetuity" (as another posted said).
A horrible analogy. What gracenote did was start charging for a useful service in the only way it can -- hitting the application builders that enhance their programs with its functionality.
The analogy is a very good one. Your saying it is horrible doesn't make it so. Had they announced plans to charge up front, no reasonable person would have had an issue with their actions. As in the hypothetical Red Cross example, this wasn't the case.
Please study economics. These "free" alternatives are only free to YOU, not to the person running them. Do you think internet bandwidth and hardware resources grow on trees? Why don't you offer to pay a monthly service fee to FreeDB to help? Nah, you just want something for nothing.
Thank you for that oh-so-enlightened ad hominem attack and "econ in a nutshell," Dr. Friedman. It dovetails so well with the rest of your completely specious argument. I don't feel the need to wear my education on my sleeve. With regard to your point about free services being unable to exist without revenue, gosh--I can't imagine that there could have been any internet at all before all that commericalization arrived. (That was sarcasm, in case it wasn't readily apparent.)
Nope, you're just SELFISH.
Thanks again.
What right do they have to impose any condition on the use of the information they stole (by taking the information ostensibly to provide a free service) from the Internet community?
Sorry--I hoped that would seem so unlikely that no one would ever think it. The Red Cross has given no indication that it would do such a thing, and I didn't mean to imply that it had!
I see what you're saying, but how is it particularly unfair to require that an entity that collected data in the pretense that it would always be freely available release the data when they it no longer wished to offer the service for free, without condition? That is not the same thing as ordering Hotmail to never shut down or to charge.
I don't think anyone's advocating requiring the former CDDB, aka Gracenote, to provide free access to their servers in perpetuity. While it would be nice if they had done that, I would have been satisfied if they had simply release the database into the public domain, which is where it essentially came from. Whether what they did was legal or not, it sure as heck wasn't even in the same star system as moral.
What Gracenote did is essentially the same as the Red Cross declaring itself a for-profit agency and charging for its services, while keeping all the donations made for it while it was a non-profit.
I am looking forward to the day they go out of business and/or are made irrelevant by free alternatives. And I hope the executive scum responsible for the decision die a slow, painful death. But I'm not bitter.
OK, maybe these guys cheated, maybe they didn't, but there seems to be a pattern here--transfer out already!
Given current trends of extending copyright (at least in the United States), the copyrights will expire about the same time the Sun burns out. I imagine that then, the ability to make copies of digital music will be a secondary concern to anything living.
I'm worried that you choose to say "legitimately," as if there is something untoward or illegal about running a CPU at greater than its rated speed. CPU's are sold, not licensed. If a person wishes to run his property out of spec, there's nothing not legitimate about it.
Sounds like UIUC should be giving that bandwidth to the students instead of reselling it. I'm horrified to hear there's a public university using tax money to compete with commercial providers of ISP POPs.
When the individual who's not part of that "inbred Bostonian merchant family" (whose members won't be going to any public school) does well for a year or two at one of those, he or she can transfer into a state university.
While incompetence isn't contagious, standards generally fall to the level of the average student in the curriculum, from my (admittedly limited) observation.
:s/child porn/mp3/
This is the easy target, but the Usenet regulation foot is in the door in the U.S. (thanks to that buttlick cockgarler* Laurence Godfrey, the U.K.'s freedom's already gone). First casualty: "premium" NNTP servers based in the US. Think people are signing up for "premium" news service to ensure they get their daily dose of rec.humor.funny and sci.physics? Ha.
*the phrase "buttlick cockgargler" is in no way intended to imply that Mr. Godfrey engages in such practices. It is only a satirical term of derision. See Hustler Magazine v. Falwell for more information.
Egregious bandwidth consumption on a per-jack basis ought to be pretty obvious without any kind of transport or higher level monitoring tools, and dealt with on a per-luser basis.
You're asking the /. community to help you throttle users on a college campus and give a lower priority to traffic less liked by the man? Good luck!