You are right about that! I've just replaced my Tecra 8000 "Desktop-2-GO!"(TM), which I thought was very a nice Windows/Linux laptop, with an all-singing, all-dancing Dell I8K too, it is quite simply da bomb primarily because of the gorgeous screen.
One piece of advice; I was umming an ahhing about the 1600x1200 res. and whether everything would be legible at 15" diagonal. It most definately is, even small font sizes like 10pt and 8pt, I can even easily read 5pt, but I have very good vision, so your mileage may vary. If you can afford it over 1400x1050; go for it - you can always use a slightly larger font size where it counts.
Besides, whatever happened to those guys who claim they invented the Hyperlink?
If you mean the wonderful British Telecom, they are currently trying to dig themselves out of a £30b debt, and making quite a good job of it; it's down to £15b at present. On paper at least, not all that is final yet.
How much do subscription services actually cost? The information does not appear to be readily available on MAPS' website and if ISPs etc. that do use MAPS are going to have to start paying for it, then they are going to need to get a purchase order raised, despatched and cleared in, let's see, 18 days and counting. That process often can't even start until the bottom line is known.
I think Paul Vixie et al have no experience with the snail like pace of corporate finance if they are expecting to pull this off with this kind of notice. Unless they want MAPS to wither on the vine, of course.
Time to check out the alternatives again, I guess.:-(
Actually, send DM4684 in the smallest denomination of German coin.
I don't know about Germany, but here in the UK giving over 2000 pennies is not 100% legal tender in that you can refuse to accept it as payment... It's annoying, because I've often felt like doing something like this. Paradoxically however it is possible to write a check on anything, like the side of a cow, for a real(!) example.
Regardless of platforms or competing or profits, Adobe owns the name.
Actually, since "illustrator" is a word in the English language, this in my view should make it exempt from being an enforceable trademark. "Kleenex" on the otherhand, is a made up brandname, and therefore should be able to be trademarked as, by that argument, should "KIllustrator", funnily enough. Although I doubt that this is something that would sit well with the ethos of an open source developer.
Now if Adobe illustrated (pun NOT intended) the product name in some particular way, like "Intel" does with the depressed "e", then that logo again should be able to become a trademark.
Also, look at the number of products that include "word" and "draw" in their names that manage to coexist without all this legal crap. This does indeed smack of the very worst breed of lawyers trying to scam a few quick bucks off someone who probably can't stand up for themselves.
The flipside of this for commercial vendors though is that Ogg Vorbis is horribly GPL encumbered. Namely they can't use it in a commercial product without either A) violating the GPL and using the code anyway, or B) GPLing their work where required by the GPL. They don't want the potential legal issues of "A", are uncomfortable with "B", and so they opt instead for "C" and pay a license fee to use proprietary code because that is the devil they know. It's because of Option #C that MP3 has mutated into MP3Pro; technology has moved on and there is a market for updated proprietary code licenses.
This seems to be the prevalent attitude of too many companies these days, they seem quite happy to pay big license fees and ste^H^H^H use BSD licensed code but not the GPL. All it all, it would seem that Richard Stallman et al have some GPL evangelising to go yet...
Both difficult solution (install both library versions)
I'm not so sure about the "difficult". I have an RPM based Linux disto running as a combo "server" and "desktop" (need another box). There are currently just three library glitches I am forced to resolve by installing multiple versions; it's due to drop to two "real soon now". Two of these were solved by running
rpm -Ivh xxx.rpm
on the newer package having installed the older version first. The other was a simple
make install
after a successful compilation.
I suppose if that is classed as "difficult" that says positive things about Linux usability though.;)
The body of watchmen shouldn't need watching if it is set up properly in the first place. That is to say; their members are elected to the post and members can only stand for a fixed number of terms. Candidates should be drawn from the bodies being watched and more importantly any member of the public who cares to stand for election.
Finally, and most importantly, the body should be a none profit organization.
Suck they may, but without domain names we would have run out of IPv4 address space a long time ago. You can't use HTTP v1.1 and host multiple web sites on one IP address without a host header which, as the name implies, has the hostname as an integral part.
why not use one of those IR remote controls connected to the serial port of the laptop?
You can also get numeric keypads that plug into a serial port; there are only 17 buttons on that, which is a smaller number of controls than on my in-car CD player/radio. The controls would obviously depends on personal taste and back-end player, but it would be quite easy to remove and blank out some keys if you didn't map functions to all of them and wanted a simple control panel.
It would be easier to mount in an accessible place too.
The FTP server is still reasonably quick and has a lot of documentation and promotional material available. It's at ftp://ftp.arlut.utexas.edu/pub/ganymede/ for those of you who want to see if it can walk-the-walk by giving it a go instead of just talk-the-talk by looking at, admittedly impressive, pictures.
This isn't actually a contradiction if put into the right context. What they are claiming in point 1 is that they do not pass their customer details onto third parties, in the context of selling raw customer data for a quick buck.
Point 2 is a little more specific. If they transfer a section of business the associated customer data goes with it, which is fairly standard practice. Let's say they believe the RIAA lies that MP3s have killed CD sales and think that their profits are going to disappear, so decide to get out of that market sector. The company they sell the CD business to would almost certainly want, and get, the customer details of Amazon's (and now their) customers who had bought CDs.
Of course, what a company claims to transfer and what actually gets transferred are not necessarily the same thing. It's also very rare to see the two companies do the right thing ethically and give the customers the option of having their details removed before the transfer takes place.
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We need fewer gTLDs, not more.
Actually, I'd say we do need more gTLDs with a structure of second level stuff underneath as required. Here in the UK we have SLDs of "ltd.uk" and "plc.uk" which are available to anyone who can prove they are the "ltd" or "plc" - a copy of the company registration is required to get the domain. It's not perfect, because it's possible to have "Bloggs Ltd"s in seperate market sectors, but it's a start.
What I think is required is a set of carefully thought out new gTLDs, not necessarily under the control of ICANN (they certainly don't need to be), that cover market sectors. Let's use.MED (in the context of doctors and nurses) as an example since it's used elsewhere here and it is assigned by an authorative body in controlling the gTLD. With the benefit of hindsight it should be fairly easy to examine the domain related legal cases to date and publish a clear cut list of practices that registrants of that gTLD must adhere too before they get their domain. For example:
You must be able to prove you are in the "Medical" sector - ie. a hospital or similar.
If registering more than one domain within the gTLD, you better have a good reason why this is necessary.
In the event of dispute the following procedure will be followed...
Of course, under that gTLD, there is no reason why you couldn't implement structure, with SLDs of, say, ".practice", ".nurse", ".surgeon" and anything else that took the administrative body's fancy. It's not difficult to restrict things and fix many of the legal issues if you use your head before you leap into the fray. Obviously different gTLDs could be more or less restrictive as appropriate; ".person" could only ever be a free for all for people with a given name for example.
I'll bet A*mster's management finds the above absolutely hilarious.
NOT!
This type of thing has already started and, pending appeals, AOL has already set a precedent by winning the legal right to seize control of "aimster.com" because it violates its trademark of "AIM".
Sourceforge really should provide more details about how security was breached.
I'm sure they will - once they are sure that the problem is fixed. Let's say they announce a vulnerability in script "foo.cgi"; the upshot of that is going to be lots of haxxors going after one, potentially buggy, target.
Of course, on the other hand, that is a lot of free debugging too...
Actually, Gracenote do provide a rather critical service for CDDB don't they? Namely hosting the servers that house the data and paying for their consumed bandwidth. Or am I missing something? That aside, I don't think the ownership of the data is going to be an issue in any event, I don't see how anyone with a pulse can fail to come to the conclusion that no one owns the data and it belongs in the public domain.
My take on this is that Roxio was given resources by Gracenote on the understanding that they were going to be paying license fees in return. Gracenote would be quite correct in feeling that a contract had been breached in that case, and obviously feels like they have a case which would indicates that there was more than "an understanding".
This dual boot to a "Tools" section is nothing new; lots of "non-generic" machines have this kind of functionality for things like system recovery, BIOS / hardware control and so on. Normally though it's either proprietary or a cut down version of MS Windows that's used, Compaq for example used (still uses?) the latter on their PCs and servers.
It's nice to see someone using Linux for this though; it's an ideal use for an OS that can get very compact indeed, and the quick boot multimedia player is a nice feature that I suspect some geek at Casio slipped through the PHB net (kudos!)... On the other hand, I've seen a laptop recently that can play CDs without actually booting any OS. It uses a dedicated control panel and just powers up the drive and sound system, which has to be better for battery life.
Is to spot the thing as far away from us as possible. That way, besides the obvious time benefit, is the much more significant benefit of only having to deflect it my a much lesser amount. A suitably large nuclear blast, or more likely, a series of them, in proximity, but not in contact with the object, in order to create a sufficient sheer effect to get it to miss.
Of course, goverments assign this long range detection a huge budget to enable us to take these steps. Let's see it's... well, not much more than quite a few people earn in a year actually. What's wrong with this picture?
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You are right about that! I've just replaced my Tecra 8000 "Desktop-2-GO!"(TM), which I thought was very a nice Windows/Linux laptop, with an all-singing, all-dancing Dell I8K too, it is quite simply da bomb primarily because of the gorgeous screen.
One piece of advice; I was umming an ahhing about the 1600x1200 res. and whether everything would be legible at 15" diagonal. It most definately is, even small font sizes like 10pt and 8pt, I can even easily read 5pt, but I have very good vision, so your mileage may vary. If you can afford it over 1400x1050; go for it - you can always use a slightly larger font size where it counts.
If you mean the wonderful British Telecom, they are currently trying to dig themselves out of a £30b debt, and making quite a good job of it; it's down to £15b at present. On paper at least, not all that is final yet.
I've seen that too. I like this. There are some potential regexps in that you can use to file messages in "/dev/null"...
I think Paul Vixie et al have no experience with the snail like pace of corporate finance if they are expecting to pull this off with this kind of notice. Unless they want MAPS to wither on the vine, of course.
Time to check out the alternatives again, I guess. :-(
Why I am reminded of Pricess Leia talking to Moff Tarkin? "The more you tighten your grip, the more schools will slip through your fingers..."
May the Open Source be with you...
Layers.
Would be a "layer" be a lawyer having an extra-maritial affair? If so, I'd say you may have something there.
I don't know about Germany, but here in the UK giving over 2000 pennies is not 100% legal tender in that you can refuse to accept it as payment... It's annoying, because I've often felt like doing something like this. Paradoxically however it is possible to write a check on anything, like the side of a cow, for a real(!) example.
Actually, since "illustrator" is a word in the English language, this in my view should make it exempt from being an enforceable trademark. "Kleenex" on the otherhand, is a made up brandname, and therefore should be able to be trademarked as, by that argument, should "KIllustrator", funnily enough. Although I doubt that this is something that would sit well with the ethos of an open source developer. Now if Adobe illustrated (pun NOT intended) the product name in some particular way, like "Intel" does with the depressed "e", then that logo again should be able to become a trademark.
Also, look at the number of products that include "word" and "draw" in their names that manage to coexist without all this legal crap. This does indeed smack of the very worst breed of lawyers trying to scam a few quick bucks off someone who probably can't stand up for themselves.
I wonder what the E.F.F. would make of this case?
The flipside of this for commercial vendors though is that Ogg Vorbis is horribly GPL encumbered. Namely they can't use it in a commercial product without either A) violating the GPL and using the code anyway, or B) GPLing their work where required by the GPL. They don't want the potential legal issues of "A", are uncomfortable with "B", and so they opt instead for "C" and pay a license fee to use proprietary code because that is the devil they know. It's because of Option #C that MP3 has mutated into MP3Pro; technology has moved on and there is a market for updated proprietary code licenses.
This seems to be the prevalent attitude of too many companies these days, they seem quite happy to pay big license fees and ste^H^H^H use BSD licensed code but not the GPL. All it all, it would seem that Richard Stallman et al have some GPL evangelising to go yet...
Damn clipboard. I meant: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vorbisacm/, sorry.
You mean like this maybe?
I'm not so sure about the "difficult". I have an RPM based Linux disto running as a combo "server" and "desktop" (need another box). There are currently just three library glitches I am forced to resolve by installing multiple versions; it's due to drop to two "real soon now". Two of these were solved by running
- rpm -Ivh xxx.rpm
on the newer package having installed the older version first. The other was a simple- make install
after a successful compilation.I suppose if that is classed as "difficult" that says positive things about Linux usability though. ;)
The body of watchmen shouldn't need watching if it is set up properly in the first place. That is to say; their members are elected to the post and members can only stand for a fixed number of terms. Candidates should be drawn from the bodies being watched and more importantly any member of the public who cares to stand for election.
Finally, and most importantly, the body should be a none profit organization.
Suck they may, but without domain names we would have run out of IPv4 address space a long time ago. You can't use HTTP v1.1 and host multiple web sites on one IP address without a host header which, as the name implies, has the hostname as an integral part.
You can also get numeric keypads that plug into a serial port; there are only 17 buttons on that, which is a smaller number of controls than on my in-car CD player/radio. The controls would obviously depends on personal taste and back-end player, but it would be quite easy to remove and blank out some keys if you didn't map functions to all of them and wanted a simple control panel.
It would be easier to mount in an accessible place too.
The FTP server is still reasonably quick and has a lot of documentation and promotional material available. It's at ftp://ftp.arlut.utexas.edu/pub/ganymede/ for those of you who want to see if it can walk-the-walk by giving it a go instead of just talk-the-talk by looking at, admittedly impressive, pictures.
I know Yahoo's search index is supposed to suck because it's so far out of date, but eight months news backlog?
Point 2 is a little more specific. If they transfer a section of business the associated customer data goes with it, which is fairly standard practice. Let's say they believe the RIAA lies that MP3s have killed CD sales and think that their profits are going to disappear, so decide to get out of that market sector. The company they sell the CD business to would almost certainly want, and get, the customer details of Amazon's (and now their) customers who had bought CDs.
Of course, what a company claims to transfer and what actually gets transferred are not necessarily the same thing. It's also very rare to see the two companies do the right thing ethically and give the customers the option of having their details removed before the transfer takes place.
Actually, I'd say we do need more gTLDs with a structure of second level stuff underneath as required. Here in the UK we have SLDs of "ltd.uk" and "plc.uk" which are available to anyone who can prove they are the "ltd" or "plc" - a copy of the company registration is required to get the domain. It's not perfect, because it's possible to have "Bloggs Ltd"s in seperate market sectors, but it's a start.
What I think is required is a set of carefully thought out new gTLDs, not necessarily under the control of ICANN (they certainly don't need to be), that cover market sectors. Let's use .MED (in the context of doctors and nurses) as an example since it's used elsewhere here and it is assigned by an authorative body in controlling the gTLD. With the benefit of hindsight it should be fairly easy to examine the domain related legal cases to date and publish a clear cut list of practices that registrants of that gTLD must adhere too before they get their domain. For example:
- You must be able to prove you are in the "Medical" sector - ie. a hospital or similar.
- If registering more than one domain within the gTLD, you better have a good reason why this is necessary.
- In the event of dispute the following procedure will be followed...
Of course, under that gTLD, there is no reason why you couldn't implement structure, with SLDs of, say, ".practice", ".nurse", ".surgeon" and anything else that took the administrative body's fancy. It's not difficult to restrict things and fix many of the legal issues if you use your head before you leap into the fray. Obviously different gTLDs could be more or less restrictive as appropriate; ".person" could only ever be a free for all for people with a given name for example.NOT!
This type of thing has already started and, pending appeals, AOL has already set a precedent by winning the legal right to seize control of "aimster.com" because it violates its trademark of "AIM".
I'm sure they will - once they are sure that the problem is fixed. Let's say they announce a vulnerability in script "foo.cgi"; the upshot of that is going to be lots of haxxors going after one, potentially buggy, target.
Of course, on the other hand, that is a lot of free debugging too...
I thought they did that about a decade ago - something called "Linux" wasn't it? It's obviously working because I still keep hearing about it.
My take on this is that Roxio was given resources by Gracenote on the understanding that they were going to be paying license fees in return. Gracenote would be quite correct in feeling that a contract had been breached in that case, and obviously feels like they have a case which would indicates that there was more than "an understanding".
It's nice to see someone using Linux for this though; it's an ideal use for an OS that can get very compact indeed, and the quick boot multimedia player is a nice feature that I suspect some geek at Casio slipped through the PHB net (kudos!)... On the other hand, I've seen a laptop recently that can play CDs without actually booting any OS. It uses a dedicated control panel and just powers up the drive and sound system, which has to be better for battery life.
Of course, goverments assign this long range detection a huge budget to enable us to take these steps. Let's see it's... well, not much more than quite a few people earn in a year actually. What's wrong with this picture?