While you may not be loosing any of the "music" you are loosing some of the performance of the music, You could write the music down as dots and lines and keep the music. It is the performance that is what is being lost. "I LOVE DRIVING SPELLING NAZIES CRAZY!"
That is correct. I was using the common usage of Ogg. Ogg can contain Vorbis, Flac, Speex, Theora, and goodness knows what else. Just as a Wave file can have many different compressed and uncompressed formats. However most people when they say Ogg mean Vorbis Ogg. Now if the iPod would just support all of the standard Ogg formats I would be very happy. Speex would be great for podcasts and books.
Oh I do agree but to lay the blame for all bias on corporations is a bit silly. I think people can overcome at least a lot of their own bias. The first step is to understand what your own bias is. Please save me from anyone that claims that they are totally unbiased.
So in other words you are not overwhelmed? Kind of like when I saw the local book store offering a talk by some man that claimed to have irrefutable proof of past lives. At least this is an interesting theory with some basis in science.
Just about every Wikipedia article has a spin to it. People feel that it is unbiased only when it shares their bias. Even if it is 100% factual odds are that the author will present those facts the way that he or she sees them.
I doubt that they would directly produce gasoline but yes I feel that the making of hydrocarbons in the while could be a very bad thing. What if these did get into the wild and started trashing food fresh water supplies. I guess the next step would be to make an algae that could do the same thing. As long as they didn't get loose in the environment it could be a good thing. If they did it could be very bad.
If music is only stored as an MP3 than yes we will be loosing some of the music. Flac would fix that. Now to the question, are MP3s and cheap earbuds ruining music? I would say the lost of dynamic range in modern CDs, the nightmare that is Clearchannel, and the general decline in the quality of music are much greater threats. Let's not forget the draconian tactics of the music industry also seem to come into play. It has gotten to the point that I hate the record companies and just don't want to pay their prices.
I was wondering about that. But since Novell "owns" Unix I just wonder if it could transfer that name to Linux. Probably not but it would be fun for Unix to finally be Linux.
So Novell could make Linux into Unix? Novell has killed most the lawsuit with IBM. Novell has driven a stake into SCOs heart. I have to wonder how long it will be until Novell's deal with Microsoft is forgiven. Frankly to me it always seemed like it was just a way to get money out of Microsoft and it doesn't seem to have hurt Linux. So how long before the zealots get over it?
"It is not their property. Laws can say what they want, lawyers and contracts and twisting of justice aside, it simply isn't theirs." Really? Well the FSF suggests that all GPL software project leaders require the contributers to give them the copyright to the code.. That is how the FSF can take a GPL2 project and make it a GPL3 project without getting every single author to agree to it. The GPL doesn't prevent you from selling software. It just requires that if you sell the software the people buying it get the source code and can make changes and can redistribute or sell it!
That is how the GPL was supposed to work from the start. If you don't like it then. 1. find a new license that you like better. 2. Don't reassign your rights to the project owner.
Of course if you have never contributed any code to MySQL enterprise then I don't see what your problem is at all. If you didn't contribute then even by your logic you have no real right to the code. Under the GPL you have no write to the code unless you have "received" the binaries from someone. If so then you should demand the code from the person you got the binaries from.
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"One where we all respect the concept of "free speech" - not just as a legal construct, but actually not being offended by some trivial bit of text on a computer screen." How really whacked that statement is. I didn't mod the parent down. I didn't demand his post be removed. I didn't demand that he be arrested. So his free speech is protected. I did comment on the statement. Free speech means that you will not face legal reprocusions from making a statement it doesn't mean that you will not be judge by what you say. Freedom of speech doesn't mean that you can say anything you want in any way that you want and others can not do the same!
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But they didn't win. It still isn't worthy of such hate. If Linux had been shot down then BSD would have replaced it. I also doubt it as well but then why say it? Why so much venom. It isn't worth it. As much as I like Linux I must say that there are so many things more important than Linux in this world. SCO failed and Linux will go on. Even the FUD campaign has done no damage. It probably helped in fact. When this Law suit is over odds are very good that Linux's legal standing will be so much stronger than it would have been otherwise. Yes it is a good thing SCO is dead but as I said it isn't worth hate. Yes I am sure he the OP didn't mean it but what kind of a world do we have where someone can make such vile and hateful statements and we just write it off? Like I said I am glad that the beginning of the end is now in sight. I never really thought that would end any other way. But let us not lend our voices to that which doesn't make the world a better place.
Well I have to say I got pulled over a lot. Most of the time I was speeding. I can think of only two times I felt that the cop was in the wrong. Also most of the time I actually got off. How did I get off? I was nice. I went out of my way to be apologetic if I was in the wrong and I always assumed that I was in the wrong. Here is an example you get pulled over. Right way. Hello officer was I doing anything wrong? Yes you where going x in an x speed zone. Really I must have not been paying attention I am terribly sorry.
Most of the time I get off with a waring.
How not to do it. WHY DID YOU PULL ME OVER I WASN"T DOING ANYTHING WRONG! You where going 25 in a 20 and it is a school zone. SO WHAT, YOUR GOING TO GIVE ME A TICKET FOR JUST FIVE OVER! WHAT YOU DIDN"T MEET YOUR TICKET QUOTA!
Not all cops are good and some are real PITA. But if you get int screaming and threats odds are that you are at least partly to blame.
"Sorry, I can't call this "sort[ed] out in the end" unless Glen gets to personally pull the trigger with Darl standing against the wall. And every stockholder in SCO, IBM, Novell, Redhat, and every open source developer, and several others, get to piss on the corpse."
Dude have some perspective please. Darl didn't rape or murder anyone. Heck he might have actually believed that Linux was ripping off SCO's IP. I am glad they lost maybe even overjoyed. Wishing that level of physical harm over what is just a business deal is just wrong.
I was wondering if an inexpensive dedicated hosting service might make a good back up system. Build a rackmount NAS with a VPN on it. A few SATA drives in a RAID running Linux with an AMD X2 should do just fine. Send it to the hosting service to stick in there rack and then ssh to it and connect it to your network over the VPN. One of those Dreamhost accounts with rsync or even scp could also be just the ticket.
Step one get their permission. Step two find the website and follow the instructions.
After all if they could do it themselves they would be on Slashdot. So of course they would ask a true geek like one of us to do it for them. If they where on Slashdot not only would they know how to load Linux on their iPod they would know how to make a Beowulf cluster out of them.
JAVA IS GPL now. Tell you what write me an IDE suing ANSI C or ISO C++ that is portable. Do it without using any libraries that are not part of the standard... Then you can get back to me.
Except that that if you statically link with the libraries your application will only load the part of the library needed for the application. Of course that will mean that your code will have to be GPL but for in house programs or programs you plan on releasing as GPL from the start that isn't an issue.
Yes I am aware of GCJ. That is why I am hopping for that native compiler. With Java being GPL now GJC should have no problem with supporting all of the class libraries like Swing. So yea GCJ is my reason for hope.
Simple. They go to a site that doesn't work with Firefox like their bank. "I am not blaming Firefox for that. Some IDIOT coded just for IE". They switch to IE to use that site. IE says IE isn't your default browser. Make IE your default browser. Click Ok.....
1. Hate over software is never really justified. 2. The person you where replying too probably doesn't even use Linux or just duel boots Ubuntu to be "cool". I like OpenSuse and I have been using it for at least 7 or maybe closer to 10 years but it was called Suse back then and frankly I loose track. BTW Ubuntu is pretty nice and I think CentOS great and should bet more attention. I had to throw that in so people wouldn't dismiss me as just a Suse fanboy. BTW I think you left out all the work that SUSE did with X in your list but it is a good list.
"If one day ATI releases another version of their proprietary monster for the card of your choice, you'll have no warranty it'll work the year after. Just because you didn't care." I would like good free ATI drivers. I would take good drivers for ATI. But I have to say your statement is baloney. You have NO warranty that a free driver will work a year or two after. If the person maintaining it decides not to and no picks it up it will die. There are a good number of Linux drivers that have bit rotted over the years from lack of maintenance. Nvidia has done a good job with Linux drivers which is why I use them. Intel has done a good job with Linux drivers and has produced FOSS Linux drivers but they do lack some functionality for DRM reasons. Not that I think that is a very bad thing mind you. From past history the facts are that every accelerated FOSS video driver was written in large part by the company that has produced the GPU. Intel employees are the lead developer for the Intel FOSS video drivers. ATI really does need to FOSS their drivers because there closed drivers SUCK!.
I so want a native Java compiler. I like Java but the loading of the runtime is a bit of a pain. The option of compiling a native version would be very nice.
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While you may not be loosing any of the "music" you are loosing some of the performance of the music, You could write the music down as dots and lines and keep the music. It is the performance that is what is being lost.
"I LOVE DRIVING SPELLING NAZIES CRAZY!"
That is correct. I was using the common usage of Ogg. Ogg can contain Vorbis, Flac, Speex, Theora, and goodness knows what else. Just as a Wave file can have many different compressed and uncompressed formats.
However most people when they say Ogg mean Vorbis Ogg. Now if the iPod would just support all of the standard Ogg formats I would be very happy. Speex would be great for podcasts and books.
Oh I do agree but to lay the blame for all bias on corporations is a bit silly. I think people can overcome at least a lot of their own bias. The first step is to understand what your own bias is. Please save me from anyone that claims that they are totally unbiased.
So in other words you are not overwhelmed?
Kind of like when I saw the local book store offering a talk by some man that claimed to have irrefutable proof of past lives.
At least this is an interesting theory with some basis in science.
Just about every Wikipedia article has a spin to it. People feel that it is unbiased only when it shares their bias. Even if it is 100% factual odds are that the author will present those facts the way that he or she sees them.
I doubt that they would directly produce gasoline but yes I feel that the making of hydrocarbons in the while could be a very bad thing. What if these did get into the wild and started trashing food fresh water supplies.
I guess the next step would be to make an algae that could do the same thing.
As long as they didn't get loose in the environment it could be a good thing. If they did it could be very bad.
"Ogg too is better,"
Ogg is still loses some of the data in the recording. Flac loses nothing.
If music is only stored as an MP3 than yes we will be loosing some of the music. Flac would fix that. Now to the question, are MP3s and cheap earbuds ruining music? I would say the lost of dynamic range in modern CDs, the nightmare that is Clearchannel, and the general decline in the quality of music are much greater threats. Let's not forget the draconian tactics of the music industry also seem to come into play. It has gotten to the point that I hate the record companies and just don't want to pay their prices.
I was wondering about that. But since Novell "owns" Unix I just wonder if it could transfer that name to Linux. Probably not but it would be fun for Unix to finally be Linux.
Some devices are already avaliable that plug into extra AMD sockets.
FPGAs are very popular so that you can create custom co-processors.
So Novell could make Linux into Unix?
Novell has killed most the lawsuit with IBM.
Novell has driven a stake into SCOs heart.
I have to wonder how long it will be until Novell's deal with Microsoft is forgiven. Frankly to me it always seemed like it was just a way to get money out of Microsoft and it doesn't seem to have hurt Linux.
So how long before the zealots get over it?
"It is not their property. Laws can say what they want, lawyers and contracts and twisting of justice aside, it simply isn't theirs."
Really? Well the FSF suggests that all GPL software project leaders require the contributers to give them the copyright to the code.. That is how the FSF can take a GPL2 project and make it a GPL3 project without getting every single author to agree to it.
The GPL doesn't prevent you from selling software. It just requires that if you sell the software the people buying it get the source code and can make changes and can redistribute or sell it!
That is how the GPL was supposed to work from the start. If you don't like it then.
1. find a new license that you like better.
2. Don't reassign your rights to the project owner.
Of course if you have never contributed any code to MySQL enterprise then I don't see what your problem is at all. If you didn't contribute then even by your logic you have no real right to the code. Under the GPL you have no write to the code unless you have "received" the binaries from someone. If so then you should demand the code from the person you got the binaries from.
"One where we all respect the concept of "free speech" - not just as a legal construct, but actually not being offended by some trivial bit of text on a computer screen."
How really whacked that statement is. I didn't mod the parent down. I didn't demand his post be removed. I didn't demand that he be arrested. So his free speech is protected. I did comment on the statement. Free speech means that you will not face legal reprocusions from making a statement it doesn't mean that you will not be judge by what you say. Freedom of speech doesn't mean that you can say anything you want in any way that you want and others can not do the same!
But they didn't win. It still isn't worthy of such hate. If Linux had been shot down then BSD would have replaced it. I also doubt it as well but then why say it? Why so much venom. It isn't worth it. As much as I like Linux I must say that there are so many things more important than Linux in this world.
SCO failed and Linux will go on. Even the FUD campaign has done no damage. It probably helped in fact. When this Law suit is over odds are very good that Linux's legal standing will be so much stronger than it would have been otherwise.
Yes it is a good thing SCO is dead but as I said it isn't worth hate.
Yes I am sure he the OP didn't mean it but what kind of a world do we have where someone can make such vile and hateful statements and we just write it off?
Like I said I am glad that the beginning of the end is now in sight. I never really thought that would end any other way.
But let us not lend our voices to that which doesn't make the world a better place.
Well I have to say I got pulled over a lot. Most of the time I was speeding. I can think of only two times I felt that the cop was in the wrong. Also most of the time I actually got off.
How did I get off?
I was nice. I went out of my way to be apologetic if I was in the wrong and I always assumed that I was in the wrong.
Here is an example you get pulled over.
Right way.
Hello officer was I doing anything wrong?
Yes you where going x in an x speed zone.
Really I must have not been paying attention I am terribly sorry.
Most of the time I get off with a waring.
How not to do it.
WHY DID YOU PULL ME OVER I WASN"T DOING ANYTHING WRONG!
You where going 25 in a 20 and it is a school zone.
SO WHAT, YOUR GOING TO GIVE ME A TICKET FOR JUST FIVE OVER! WHAT YOU DIDN"T MEET YOUR TICKET QUOTA!
Not all cops are good and some are real PITA. But if you get int screaming and threats odds are that you are at least partly to blame.
"Sorry, I can't call this "sort[ed] out in the end" unless Glen gets to personally pull the trigger with Darl standing against the wall. And every stockholder in SCO, IBM, Novell, Redhat, and every open source developer, and several others, get to piss on the corpse."
Dude have some perspective please. Darl didn't rape or murder anyone. Heck he might have actually believed that Linux was ripping off SCO's IP. I am glad they lost maybe even overjoyed. Wishing that level of physical harm over what is just a business deal is just wrong.
I was wondering if an inexpensive dedicated hosting service might make a good back up system. Build a rackmount NAS with a VPN on it. A few SATA drives in a RAID running Linux with an AMD X2 should do just fine. Send it to the hosting service to stick in there rack and then ssh to it and connect it to your network over the VPN.
One of those Dreamhost accounts with rsync or even scp could also be just the ticket.
Step one get their permission.
Step two find the website and follow the instructions.
After all if they could do it themselves they would be on Slashdot. So of course they would ask a true geek like one of us to do it for them. If they where on Slashdot not only would they know how to load Linux on their iPod they would know how to make a Beowulf cluster out of them.
JAVA IS GPL now.
Tell you what write me an IDE suing ANSI C or ISO C++ that is portable. Do it without using any libraries that are not part of the standard... Then you can get back to me.
Except that that if you statically link with the libraries your application will only load the part of the library needed for the application. Of course that will mean that your code will have to be GPL but for in house programs or programs you plan on releasing as GPL from the start that isn't an issue.
Yes I am aware of GCJ. That is why I am hopping for that native compiler. With Java being GPL now GJC should have no problem with supporting all of the class libraries like Swing. So yea GCJ is my reason for hope.
Simple. They go to a site that doesn't work with Firefox like their bank. "I am not blaming Firefox for that. Some IDIOT coded just for IE".
They switch to IE to use that site.
IE says IE isn't your default browser. Make IE your default browser.
Click Ok.....
1. Hate over software is never really justified.
2. The person you where replying too probably doesn't even use Linux or just duel boots Ubuntu to be "cool".
I like OpenSuse and I have been using it for at least 7 or maybe closer to 10 years but it was called Suse back then and frankly I loose track. BTW Ubuntu is pretty nice and I think CentOS great and should bet more attention. I had to throw that in so people wouldn't dismiss me as just a Suse fanboy.
BTW I think you left out all the work that SUSE did with X in your list but it is a good list.
"If one day ATI releases another version of their proprietary monster for the card of your choice, you'll have no warranty it'll work the year after. Just because you didn't care."
I would like good free ATI drivers. I would take good drivers for ATI.
But I have to say your statement is baloney. You have NO warranty that a free driver will work a year or two after. If the person maintaining it decides not to and no picks it up it will die. There are a good number of Linux drivers that have bit rotted over the years from lack of maintenance. Nvidia has done a good job with Linux drivers which is why I use them. Intel has done a good job with Linux drivers and has produced FOSS Linux drivers but they do lack some functionality for DRM reasons. Not that I think that is a very bad thing mind you.
From past history the facts are that every accelerated FOSS video driver was written in large part by the company that has produced the GPU. Intel employees are the lead developer for the Intel FOSS video drivers.
ATI really does need to FOSS their drivers because there closed drivers SUCK!.
I so want a native Java compiler. I like Java but the loading of the runtime is a bit of a pain. The option of compiling a native version would be very nice.