>He did not say that. He said, 'I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone.'
He (tech4) did not say that. Effective use of ellipses there to intentionally misquote someone. He said "Now people will think of Linux geeks as those lunatics who are happy to see people die." He (tech4) KNOWS that he (Stallman) didn't say that, but it's certainly true that "people" are likely to think "... of Linux geeks as those lunatics who are happy to see people die." That's what some people will think *regardless* of what Stallman actually said.
They really don't have access to it. If they did then they'd have to put up with me pausing the movie to go to the bathroom or to the kitchen for a snack. In the former case it could be a long wait.
Alter the question slightly and ask how is "transmitting" the video over the Internet any different than "transmitting" a DVD from the rental store to my house?
As a movie rental consumer, what rights do I have? I've paid my X dollars to Blockbuster, what rights do I now have regarding the DVD? Can I copy it? No, it's not my DVD. Can I watch it? Yes. Legally, what is that actual right?
Whatever that right actually is should apply regardless of where the DVD is or how it the content came to be displayed before my eyes.
Even with rental stores, there is *already* "a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances" potentially have access to it." Anyone can walk in and rent it - unless it's already out.
Pro Tip: The high IP in the subnet is the broadcast address. I.E. in a Class C sized network (256 addresses), the broadcast address would be x.x.x.255, not x.x.x.0. The ".0" is the network address.
This is not broadcast. It's not even "limited broadcast." As mentioned elsewhere, this is unicast - or point to point. From the DVD player to me, and *only* to me, in my house, on my computer.
If you're waiting for precompiled binaries in the form of packages from your distribution's vendor, you're getting them long after the source for those binaries became available. Updating from source is always faster than waiting for a binary package.
Though you are correct about getting the same binaries as everyone else.
No, it's not. You check out the package manager source or the port skeleton files. The latter being analogous to cvsuping your ports in FreeBSD (no coincidence since DarwinPorts is Jordan Hubbard's doing) or "emerge rsync" with Gentoo's Portage.
It wasn't cracked. Jon just records the audio stream after it's decoded by Windows Quicktime but before it goes to the sound card. It's similar to Audio Hijack on OSX. (The other lower quality method is to record the audio from the sound card itself.)
'cracked' implies that the code iitself was cracked.
That's just some guy's supposition. Don't believe what you read, especially on the Internet from an unauthoritative forum poster on Fridays in June. ESPECIALLY in June.
He's just saying something smells fishy. A faint LinuxOne smell. Their flagship product is for Mac OS X and they're using "Lin" in their name to draw attention to themselves. They tout OSS and in particular base their product on GPLd software but do not offer either any links for source or instructions on how to obtain it. They've splattered their site with images of Tux and are a little too enthusiastic about their devotion to The Penguin.
It's not Slashbot induced instant negativity, it's a little common sense and a keen sense of smell. Hell, he wasn't crapping on "LinSpot" the software at all, just advising people to be careful because of the fishyness of the claims and site.
Who are you working for, a potential investor of LinSpot?
I think it's good that Dish fight Viacom on this on principle.
But, I want my Viacom channels back.
The one problem I'm having with Dish as a result of this is their spin:
On Charlie Chat last night he said they weren't afraid of Viacom, yet they blacked out Viacom's marquee scroll to control the story.
They've been exaggerating Viacom's demands (read the news articles. When Charlie made his case last night he was referring to old numbers and not the latest 5% - 7% being asked for)
_All_ subsribers are affected, but Charlie talked more about the smaller set of subscribers in affected CBS markets (the smaller impact IMHO) and less about Nick, Comedy Central, etc (the larger impact IMHO).
In all it seems like Dish is giving their subscribers the same "poker face" they are Viacom. I'd rather be truthfully and completely informed.
I haven't been part of this thread but I stopped while wheeling down the page because of your bold tag. I just want to say that what is someone supposed to do if they reach an epiphany and decide to start caring about something that they previously didn't. It doesn't seem fair for you to get so bent out of shape so easily. Should someone who doesn't care _continue_ not caring just because it'd be less hypocritical? What's the point of changing if you're still going to be treated as you once were? Yes, that's right, it's because it's _the right thing to do_, not so that people will take notice of you.
Note that I'm not talking specifically about this thread. Hell, I didn't even read your parent's post. I'm just wondering if you really find hypocrisy worse than not doing anything at all and questioning the fairness of it.
Assuming that the WMA support to be added works with any WMA based Music Store, the "hPod" will support more than those devices that only do MP3s and WMAs.
1. You have to press down on the joystick to bring up the menu and to make selections. However, the joystick is also used to access certain functions. For example if you move the joystick down it will select the call list. If you move it up it will select (at least with AT&T anyway) mMode. This is pretty annoying because often when trying to push the joystick to make a selection, I will instead move it a bit and it won't register a down push and it'll go to the call log or mMode.
Yes it can be tricky to press down instead of in a direction but I think your description is a little off. Only at the main screen will down choose the contact list, right choose the menu, left choose the calendar and up open the browser. It's not like a slip of the joystick in _other_ menus will suddenly take you away to some other area entirely. The worst that happens is you scroll down one menu item instead of selecting the one that was highlighted and have to go back one level and try again.
I'm not trying to be apologetic, but make sure your descriptions are accurate enough so that other people can make good decisions.
2. The phone will not display battery life, messages waiting, calls missed, or signal strength unless you push it a button on it. I know it does this to save battery life, but why can't the screensaver show more useful information than the time? Furthermore if left idle it will go back to the screen saver (again to save battery life), but because the screen saver doesn't show anything useful, I find myself having to hit a button over and over to check signal strength while going places.
I 'm sorry, I found this a little commical. Are you the "Can you hear me now?" guy or something?
I don't know about most people but the only time I'm checking the signal strength is when the quality is poor or I can't make a call. I suppose some people may obssess over their signal strength constantly, or maybe they're graphing it in MRTG or something, I dunno.:)
3. Similar to number 2, when pressing a button on the phone the screen lights up, even if the keys are locked. This means a constant drain on your phone's battery if you carry your phone in your pocket and the buttons get inadvertantly pushed.
The only thing I can say to this is if you have your Light set to Automatic instead of On then what good is a screensaver with lots of information going to do for you anyway? To make a screensaver with info useful would mean setting the Light to On (and doing so gives you a warning about a drain on your standby time.) If your Light is On all the time (so you could see the "Info Saver" (TM) then a bump in your pocket won't make any difference.
4.....sunlight...screen....
Readers see my parent post.
5. This is a minor gripe, but still...why doesn't the phone come with a normal ring by default? I absolutely hate ring tones. I just want the phone to do a normal ring instead of the crappy sounding little tunes it comes with. The closest I could get was an old fashioned phone ring tone.
I've never seen a polyphonic capable phone NOT come with stupid rings by default. I, like you, choose the old fashioned phone ringtone as my default ring.
6. Whenever you miss calls, the phone will not show all the times the person tried to call. It only shows the last time.
I haven't entirely figured out the call log/missed calls features. I should have included this in my parent post but I forgot all about it. This is my only real complaint about the phone. The call log is non-intuitive and poorly designed and sometimes it even seems a little buggy. There doesn't seem to be an actual call history like I was always used to on my Nokias. They merge the missed calls, received calls and the outgoing calls into one list and while the icons are useful it seems that entries on the list mysteriously disappear. Also the timestamps only show the time of the call if it's today. A call from yesterday (etc) simply shows the date (you would think that More would give you an option for additional information but then that would be complaining about what a phone DOESN'T do instead of complaining about what is wrong with what it does do.)
The sunlight problems aren't really a problem. It has to be direct sunlight before there's a problem seeing the screen. Ie, it'll rarely happen unless you're TRYING to see how bad it is. How often are you trying to make a call outdoors in direct sunlight? Besides, you ARE planning on using voice dialing with your Bluetooth headset right?
"What about receiving calls?" you say? Any phone that doesn't have personalized ringtones isn't worth getting anyway. Even if you WERE in direct sunlight you'd still know who it was.
Also, some themes are easier to see than others (yes, the T61* is themeable.)
I have nothing to say about the buttons except that they're fine and I never have a problem with them. I'm not a button masher though so YMMV.
This is a VERY cool phone. You did right by checking Apple's list. Did you also notice Apple's endorsement of a program called Salling Clicker that works via Bluetooth with S-E phones and Palm devices to remote control your Mac using AppleScripts? There's other Bluetooth remote control apps out there but none as good.
The only thing I wish it had was an IM client. Did I mention it was a sexy phone?
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>> Linux geeks ... are happy to see people die.
>He did not say that. He said, 'I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone.'
He (tech4) did not say that. Effective use of ellipses there to intentionally misquote someone. He said "Now people will think of Linux geeks as those lunatics who are happy to see people die." He (tech4) KNOWS that he (Stallman) didn't say that, but it's certainly true that "people" are likely to think "... of Linux geeks as those lunatics who are happy to see people die." That's what some people will think *regardless* of what Stallman actually said.
They really don't have access to it. If they did then they'd have to put up with me pausing the movie to go to the bathroom or to the kitchen for a snack. In the former case it could be a long wait.
Alter the question slightly and ask how is "transmitting" the video over the Internet any different than "transmitting" a DVD from the rental store to my house?
As a movie rental consumer, what rights do I have? I've paid my X dollars to Blockbuster, what rights do I now have regarding the DVD? Can I copy it? No, it's not my DVD. Can I watch it? Yes. Legally, what is that actual right?
Whatever that right actually is should apply regardless of where the DVD is or how it the content came to be displayed before my eyes.
Even with rental stores, there is *already* "a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances" potentially have access to it." Anyone can walk in and rent it - unless it's already out.
Pro Tip: The high IP in the subnet is the broadcast address. I.E. in a Class C sized network (256 addresses), the broadcast address would be x.x.x.255, not x.x.x.0. The ".0" is the network address.
See below, but also - this is exactly what Google Music and iCloud are offering now.
The question was meant to argue that the medium over which the content is transmitted (copper vs radio) should be irrelevant.
But to respond to your question.... "people".. or "person?"
Highly not, and no.
Slingbox does this for example.
This is not broadcast. It's not even "limited broadcast." As mentioned elsewhere, this is unicast - or point to point. From the DVD player to me, and *only* to me, in my house, on my computer.
Interesting??? It was supposed to be funny!
Yes!
I am deeply sorry for that. It should have been www.microbeworld.org. Blame my wife.
www.microbeworld.com
My wife (MicroBio Ph.D) tells me this is a nice podcast for laypeople.
If you're waiting for precompiled binaries in the form of packages from your distribution's vendor, you're getting them long after the source for those binaries became available. Updating from source is always faster than waiting for a binary package.
Though you are correct about getting the same binaries as everyone else.
No, it's not. You check out the package manager source or the port skeleton files. The latter being analogous to cvsuping your ports in FreeBSD (no coincidence since DarwinPorts is Jordan Hubbard's doing) or "emerge rsync" with Gentoo's Portage.
http://www.happcontrols.com/midway/Touchmaster/Inf _Countertop/60068_3_cover_pdf.pdf
It wasn't cracked. Jon just records the audio stream after it's decoded by Windows Quicktime but before it goes to the sound card. It's similar to Audio Hijack on OSX. (The other lower quality method is to record the audio from the sound card itself.)
'cracked' implies that the code iitself was cracked.
That's just some guy's supposition. Don't believe what you read, especially on the Internet from an unauthoritative forum poster on Fridays in June. ESPECIALLY in June.
So about the same as any legitimate grass roots based campaign against something huh?
It doesn't have to _look_ slick to _be_ slick. This is the latter.
He's just saying something smells fishy. A faint LinuxOne smell. Their flagship product is for Mac OS X and they're using "Lin" in their name to draw attention to themselves. They tout OSS and in particular base their product on GPLd software but do not offer either any links for source or instructions on how to obtain it. They've splattered their site with images of Tux and are a little too enthusiastic about their devotion to The Penguin.
It's not Slashbot induced instant negativity, it's a little common sense and a keen sense of smell. Hell, he wasn't crapping on "LinSpot" the software at all, just advising people to be careful because of the fishyness of the claims and site.
Who are you working for, a potential investor of LinSpot?
Not only will your bill be $1 less ($2 if you also got one of the affected CBS channels) but it's automatic and has been planned for some time.
I think it's good that Dish fight Viacom on this on principle.
But, I want my Viacom channels back.
The one problem I'm having with Dish as a result of this is their spin:
On Charlie Chat last night he said they weren't afraid of Viacom, yet they blacked out Viacom's marquee scroll to control the story.
They've been exaggerating Viacom's demands (read the news articles. When Charlie made his case last night he was referring to old numbers and not the latest 5% - 7% being asked for)
_All_ subsribers are affected, but Charlie talked more about the smaller set of subscribers in affected CBS markets (the smaller impact IMHO) and less about Nick, Comedy Central, etc (the larger impact IMHO).
In all it seems like Dish is giving their subscribers the same "poker face" they are Viacom. I'd rather be truthfully and completely informed.
I haven't been part of this thread but I stopped while wheeling down the page because of your bold tag. I just want to say that what is someone supposed to do if they reach an epiphany and decide to start caring about something that they previously didn't. It doesn't seem fair for you to get so bent out of shape so easily. Should someone who doesn't care _continue_ not caring just because it'd be less hypocritical? What's the point of changing if you're still going to be treated as you once were? Yes, that's right, it's because it's _the right thing to do_, not so that people will take notice of you.
Note that I'm not talking specifically about this thread. Hell, I didn't even read your parent's post. I'm just wondering if you really find hypocrisy worse than not doing anything at all and questioning the fairness of it.
Assuming that the WMA support to be added works with any WMA based Music Store, the "hPod" will support more than those devices that only do MP3s and WMAs.
Yes it can be tricky to press down instead of in a direction but I think your description is a little off. Only at the main screen will down choose the contact list, right choose the menu, left choose the calendar and up open the browser. It's not like a slip of the joystick in _other_ menus will suddenly take you away to some other area entirely. The worst that happens is you scroll down one menu item instead of selecting the one that was highlighted and have to go back one level and try again.
I'm not trying to be apologetic, but make sure your descriptions are accurate enough so that other people can make good decisions.
2. The phone will not display battery life, messages waiting, calls missed, or signal strength unless you push it a button on it. I know it does this to save battery life, but why can't the screensaver show more useful information than the time? Furthermore if left idle it will go back to the screen saver (again to save battery life), but because the screen saver doesn't show anything useful, I find myself having to hit a button over and over to check signal strength while going places.
I 'm sorry, I found this a little commical. Are you the "Can you hear me now?" guy or something?
I don't know about most people but the only time I'm checking the signal strength is when the quality is poor or I can't make a call. I suppose some people may obssess over their signal strength constantly, or maybe they're graphing it in MRTG or something, I dunno. :)
3. Similar to number 2, when pressing a button on the phone the screen lights up, even if the keys are locked. This means a constant drain on your phone's battery if you carry your phone in your pocket and the buttons get inadvertantly pushed.
The only thing I can say to this is if you have your Light set to Automatic instead of On then what good is a screensaver with lots of information going to do for you anyway? To make a screensaver with info useful would mean setting the Light to On (and doing so gives you a warning about a drain on your standby time.) If your Light is On all the time (so you could see the "Info Saver" (TM) then a bump in your pocket won't make any difference.
4. ....sunlight...screen....
Readers see my parent post.
5. This is a minor gripe, but still...why doesn't the phone come with a normal ring by default? I absolutely hate ring tones. I just want the phone to do a normal ring instead of the crappy sounding little tunes it comes with. The closest I could get was an old fashioned phone ring tone.
I've never seen a polyphonic capable phone NOT come with stupid rings by default. I, like you, choose the old fashioned phone ringtone as my default ring.
6. Whenever you miss calls, the phone will not show all the times the person tried to call. It only shows the last time.
I haven't entirely figured out the call log/missed calls features. I should have included this in my parent post but I forgot all about it. This is my only real complaint about the phone. The call log is non-intuitive and poorly designed and sometimes it even seems a little buggy. There doesn't seem to be an actual call history like I was always used to on my Nokias. They merge the missed calls, received calls and the outgoing calls into one list and while the icons are useful it seems that entries on the list mysteriously disappear. Also the timestamps only show the time of the call if it's today. A call from yesterday (etc) simply shows the date (you would think that More would give you an option for additional information but then that would be complaining about what a phone DOESN'T do instead of complaining about what is wrong with what it does do.)
Anyway, enjoy your Nokia.
The sunlight problems aren't really a problem. It has to be direct sunlight before there's a problem seeing the screen. Ie, it'll rarely happen unless you're TRYING to see how bad it is. How often are you trying to make a call outdoors in direct sunlight? Besides, you ARE planning on using voice dialing with your Bluetooth headset right?
"What about receiving calls?" you say? Any phone that doesn't have personalized ringtones isn't worth getting anyway. Even if you WERE in direct sunlight you'd still know who it was.
Also, some themes are easier to see than others (yes, the T61* is themeable.)
I have nothing to say about the buttons except that they're fine and I never have a problem with them. I'm not a button masher though so YMMV.
This is a VERY cool phone. You did right by checking Apple's list. Did you also notice Apple's endorsement of a program called Salling Clicker that works via Bluetooth with S-E phones and Palm devices to remote control your Mac using AppleScripts? There's other Bluetooth remote control apps out there but none as good.
The only thing I wish it had was an IM client. Did I mention it was a sexy phone?
"For sale" means it's available for purchase.