For the "redistributable license", meaning you use the data for something other than mailing junk mail, the price went from 4K to around 45K per year. FYI, USPS licensed data of the same kind is around 2K. The same phenomenon happened in Australia (it was about 80K IIRC), again asserting bogus copyright claims over public information.
From personal experience, Canada Post increased ten-fold their database licensing costs. My company tried to negotiate, and the best CP proposed is some rebates for the first two years, so of course we had to drop them. So, Geocoder, good luck!
I'm in Canada, and there's a "Call phone" item under the Chat section in Gmail. Installed the plugin, and it works for free for Canadian and US phone numbers. Of course, I don't have a full Google Voice account, but hey free calls are good enough.
They're progressively rolling out that feature to all users. I'm in Canada and I've made a few phone calls to my landline in Canada and it works. All calls were free.
Maybe, just maybe, lots of DRM validation is actually done by Java code itself. The JVM chips in most Blu-ray players are made for "multimedia experience", not massive data crunching to validate the encryption keys. So DRM is still to blame.
I had a similar experience with a first-generation PowerMac G4 and its DVD player. At first the issue was that the general purpose CPU wasn't fast enough to perform real-time MPEG2 decoding, so everything was done in the video card.
As a result, the video card was rendering the DVD "directly" on screen, making it impossible to take screenshots or redirect the decoded stream to the hard drive. That was true even when I rebooted on Yellow Dog Linux.
Also, even today region locking for DVDs is done in the DVD drive's firmware.
Basically, Free/Open Source Software on a general purpose CPU can co-exist with DRM-full closed-source firmware, as long as the firmware doesn't restrict redistribution and modification of the FOSS code (thanks to GPLv3).
Coming from someone that just bought a Nokia N810, that might sound biased, but... I think most posters here completely missed the point.
Nokia sells cellphones, and most of them are sold to carriers that want to use SIM locks and DRM to lock in customers to their plans and those stupid ringtones at $1.
Why do you think they use Linux almost only for "Internet Tablets"? No carriers would never sell a phone that's unlocked out of the box, and the vast majority of cellphones are bought with a plan, not unlocked.
Why do you guys think the iPhone is selling so well? Because it's unlocked? Because it's Open Source? And why do you guys think the iTunes music store grew so big at first? Because it was DRM free?
Nokia, RedHat, Sun are not making the rules. Business, cellphone carriers, and media companies are the ones lobbying governments, and until that changes there is no way Open Source software will grow unless we gradually change those rules.
So you're saying (if you read the article) that Bell can find a way to saturate their bandwidth by the end of the month? I'd be really impressed if Bell can manage to stall the CRTC for much longer.
For those that don't want to load the video, there is two files in Abiword (hash.cpp and tword.cpp) that use the original BSD license (with the "obnoxious" advertising clause) and are incompatible with the project's GPLv2 license. Oops.
I remember doing a "clean install" , which kept the original System Folder, since System 7.1. I'm surprised it took this long for Microsoft to "copy" that feature...
It's coming back on Comedy Central, not Fox. Big difference there, and maybe why it won't suck as much as Family Guy. Remember, it's the Futurama writers and cast that wanted the show back and decided to go to Comedy Central (after negotiations failed with Fox). This is not another case of Fox producers trying to "milk out" the show's fans.
Have you even looked at XPS? It's like the RTF format, but with XML tags instead. Readable my *ss. XML doesn't make *anything* readable until you try to figure out what it means.
Do you happen to know how OS X deals with these problems (particularly the second one) ?
This problem doesn't really exist in Mac OS X. Shared library are "Frameworks" outside the application's directory, so applications can basically be installed anywhere you want without forcing any other application know where it resides.
If there is a "real" install (i.e. stuff installed in/usr/bin and so on), information about what was installed is kept by adding a *.pkg file in/Library/Receipts/. This is needed to "uninstall" and "update" the software, though good Mac OS X apps don't use this feature.
Applications are identified with some names like "com.apple.iTunes" so that setting files don't overwrite each other (all setting files are in ~/Library/Preferences) and to interact with the application with AppleEvents (so only the OS "knows" where the app is installed), but doesn't impose anything about the path of where the binary is placed.
But that's for UNIX stuff on Mac OS X. We usually install with "drag & drop", as applications are self-contained directories that are flagged in the file system to look like files.
isn't a story about a 0.0.1 "enhancement" upgrade that Software Update would have told me about anyway kind of superfluous?
Not totally. If Guinea Pigs, i.e. me, have major problems with it, this is a very good place to tell others to not update to 10.2.3 until the problem is fixed.
And at 50MB, it's a pretty big update anyways.
Otherwise you're right. This story should be rolled back into "weekly updates" or something...
Actually, this "actionification" started with Mario RPG on the SNES, by Square and Nintendo. But it did make sense, since you just can't make a Mario game with some jumping involved, RPG or not...
It had button-bashing and "make rotations like crazy", but no button combos à la Sabin in FF6.
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Having a list of valid addresses, even street names, from the postal code is kind of a big deal for any online retailer.
For the "redistributable license", meaning you use the data for something other than mailing junk mail, the price went from 4K to around 45K per year. FYI, USPS licensed data of the same kind is around 2K. The same phenomenon happened in Australia (it was about 80K IIRC), again asserting bogus copyright claims over public information.
From personal experience, Canada Post increased ten-fold their database licensing costs. My company tried to negotiate, and the best CP proposed is some rebates for the first two years, so of course we had to drop them. So, Geocoder, good luck!
I'm in Canada, and there's a "Call phone" item under the Chat section in Gmail. Installed the plugin, and it works for free for Canadian and US phone numbers. Of course, I don't have a full Google Voice account, but hey free calls are good enough.
They're progressively rolling out that feature to all users. I'm in Canada and I've made a few phone calls to my landline in Canada and it works. All calls were free.
You mean naïveté? Your UTF-8 sucks...
Maybe, just maybe, lots of DRM validation is actually done by Java code itself. The JVM chips in most Blu-ray players are made for "multimedia experience", not massive data crunching to validate the encryption keys. So DRM is still to blame.
Uh... Sun did that last summer, and the IcedTea provided the implementation.
What Sun is doing is to re-implement the audio code themselves so that they can dual-license Java.
I had a similar experience with a first-generation PowerMac G4 and its DVD player. At first the issue was that the general purpose CPU wasn't fast enough to perform real-time MPEG2 decoding, so everything was done in the video card.
As a result, the video card was rendering the DVD "directly" on screen, making it impossible to take screenshots or redirect the decoded stream to the hard drive. That was true even when I rebooted on Yellow Dog Linux.
Also, even today region locking for DVDs is done in the DVD drive's firmware.
Basically, Free/Open Source Software on a general purpose CPU can co-exist with DRM-full closed-source firmware, as long as the firmware doesn't restrict redistribution and modification of the FOSS code (thanks to GPLv3).
Coming from someone that just bought a Nokia N810, that might sound biased, but... I think most posters here completely missed the point.
Nokia sells cellphones, and most of them are sold to carriers that want to use SIM locks and DRM to lock in customers to their plans and those stupid ringtones at $1.
Why do you think they use Linux almost only for "Internet Tablets"? No carriers would never sell a phone that's unlocked out of the box, and the vast majority of cellphones are bought with a plan, not unlocked.
Why do you guys think the iPhone is selling so well? Because it's unlocked? Because it's Open Source? And why do you guys think the iTunes music store grew so big at first? Because it was DRM free?
Nokia, RedHat, Sun are not making the rules. Business, cellphone carriers, and media companies are the ones lobbying governments, and until that changes there is no way Open Source software will grow unless we gradually change those rules.
So you're saying (if you read the article) that Bell can find a way to saturate their bandwidth by the end of the month? I'd be really impressed if Bell can manage to stall the CRTC for much longer.
For those that don't want to load the video, there is two files in Abiword (hash.cpp and tword.cpp) that use the original BSD license (with the "obnoxious" advertising clause) and are incompatible with the project's GPLv2 license. Oops.
I remember doing a "clean install" , which kept the original System Folder, since System 7.1. I'm surprised it took this long for Microsoft to "copy" that feature...
It's coming back on Comedy Central, not Fox. Big difference there, and maybe why it won't suck as much as Family Guy. Remember, it's the Futurama writers and cast that wanted the show back and decided to go to Comedy Central (after negotiations failed with Fox). This is not another case of Fox producers trying to "milk out" the show's fans.
Have you even looked at XPS? It's like the RTF format, but with XML tags instead. Readable my *ss. XML doesn't make *anything* readable until you try to figure out what it means.
http://www.meyerweb.com.nyud.net:8090/eric/tools/s 5/
You guys should stop using the google cache and use Coral caches instead.
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Nice joke... You *do* realize what you just said *has* to be a joke, right?
This problem doesn't really exist in Mac OS X. Shared library are "Frameworks" outside the application's directory, so applications can basically be installed anywhere you want without forcing any other application know where it resides.
If there is a "real" install (i.e. stuff installed in /usr/bin and so on), information about what was installed is kept by adding a *.pkg file in /Library/Receipts/. This is needed to "uninstall" and "update" the software, though good Mac OS X apps don't use this feature.
Applications are identified with some names like "com.apple.iTunes" so that setting files don't overwrite each other (all setting files are in ~/Library/Preferences) and to interact with the application with AppleEvents (so only the OS "knows" where the app is installed), but doesn't impose anything about the path of where the binary is placed.
Oops. I guess I just made it more confusing...
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But that's for UNIX stuff on Mac OS X. We usually install with "drag & drop", as applications are self-contained directories that are flagged in the file system to look like files.
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Not totally. If Guinea Pigs, i.e. me, have major problems with it, this is a very good place to tell others to not update to 10.2.3 until the problem is fixed.
And at 50MB, it's a pretty big update anyways.
Otherwise you're right. This story should be rolled back into "weekly updates" or something...
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Nope, I did it. ;-)
Oh... and there's even OpenGL 1.4! No word about Java 1.4 though...
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It had button-bashing and "make rotations like crazy", but no button combos à la Sabin in FF6.
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