And yet, in the Novell case, it's quite clear they setup a legal construct to specifically get around section 7. Don't you think this is shady unto itself? Why are the Ximian guys not addressing this? The intentions of developers are clearly being avoided. Why is the response, "Well redhat kind of did it too" instead of an explanation why this is moral and upstanding behavior?
I've tried both Netflix and Blockbuster online rentals. I had netflix for a long time and quit them when they raised their prices from 14.95. Later on I signed up with blockbuster because they were cheaper. Blockbuster raised their prices too, but they were slick about it and gave me a free used dvd coupon with it. I stick with blockbuster because I find their selection to be perfectly adequate (I've never had trouble renting something I wanted, maybe I'm just incredibly mainstream), and because I find the two free instore rentals indispensible. It's nice as a movie junkie to have a big queue of movies coming to watch stuff, but sometimes you need a movie for a date or something and having two free in store rentals is awesome. I use them every month. Also you can get video games with them.
I think if blockbuster leveraged it's brick and mortar more, they'd cut into netflix's market share quite a bit.
When user interfaces means that something CANNOT BE DONE, it's not about "usable design" any more. At that point, it's about UNusable design.
Any Gnome people who argue that it's about "usability" have their heads up their asses so far that it's not funny. I've argued with them about this before, and I know others have too, and mostly given up.
"Usability" is an issue only if you can do something at all. But if you can't do the thing at all, it's pointless to talk about usability: the thing is BY DEFINITION not usable if it cannot be used for a specific task.
Then a person that claims that it's usable for something else is a FUCKING IDIOT.
And in that FUCKING IDIOT vein:
> The majority of end-users want a simple printer dialog.
This is a great example of being a F.I.
There is no such thing as a "majority of end users" in general. For example, maybe _I_ am in what you _claim_ to be a majority, in that I want a simple printer dialog - because I have a simple printer, and even simpler printer needs.
So a simple printer dialog doesn't bother me, and as such you can count me in your "majority".
But I can guarantee you one thing: the _vast_ majority of people are part of a specific minority when it comes to something. This is somethign that the F.I. "interface designers" in the Gnome sense seems to continually overlook.
For example, maybe I don't care about printers. But I _do_ care about my mouse. If I can't control the left/middle/right button actions, I get really upset. Again, the "majority" of people may not care, so by your majority argument, the mouse setup should be so simple that the majority of people can never get confused. But I _do_ care.
In other words: your "majority" argument is total and utter BULLSHIT. It can be true for any particular feature, but it's simply not true in general.
To put it in mathematical terms: "The Intersection of all Majorities is the empty set", or its corollary: "The Union of even the smallest minorities is the universal set".
It's a total logical fallacy to think that the intersection of two majorities would still be a majority. It is pretty damn rare, in fact, because these things are absolutely not correlated.
And the technical term for somebody who claims to do user interface design and not understand this fact is a "FUCKING IDIOT".
And this has _nothing_ to do with "technical users". Even totally non-technical users care about something. In fact, it might be their printer, and having a way to set the paper type and resolution by hand.
Another way of saying this: we're _all_ "special" some way. We're damn quirky, even the nontechnical among us.
But hey, just continue to remove all that confusing functionality from Gnome. I don't care. I voted with my feet.
Apparently the Rhapsody music application is a XUL app or something. I just went there and installed it like any other firefox plugin.
It plays audio but it sounds like it's got some sampling issue on my system, because everything sounds very slooooww and the pitch is very low.
You can't burn any songs or put stuff on janus devices on linux.
I'm running ubuntu breezy. I wonder how hard it would be to create some kind of ripper. You could always redirect the audio output to a file I suppose, but you'd have to manually add track data and split the stream. None too much fun.
Pretty slick though, if they work out the bugs I might subscribe if i can figure out a way to play stuff in my car.
Who would want an electronic version of the Enigma machine? You could just code one up in python or even write a bash script. If I was gonna build an enigma, it better have all the gears and knobs that an original one did.
Maybe I don't understand WWII fandom, but I understand geekfandom, and if you're going to build something that used to be a gear device, I don't wanna emulate it on my dreamcast.
Now what would be cool is to build the vacuum tube based machine the allies used to crack various codes...
Dreamworks is definitely one of the unnamed studios. I went to siggraph and talked to their booth and they claimed that Disney, Sony, and themselves gave some money to codeweavers to develop crossover photoshop. Amazingly, the guy from Dreamworks claimed that Photoshop ran FASTER in linux under wine than in windows (more responsive).
I think XFree86 needs a good fork. It seems to suffer from a sort of PHP-Nuke meglomania. Vendor support is massively important; if ATI is nice enough to supply patches to add support for their latest cards and latest features, it would help linux and unix in general to be nice enough to check in the patches ASAP. If vendors look upon Xfree86 as worthless to support drivers for because of inability to delegate responsibility, then X and linux in general will never reach the usability levels that we strive for.
That being said, forks are dangerous and should only be done by talented contributing people with people skills. Keith Packard is a good coder, I hope he's as good with politics.
He doesn't mention it because he states quite clearly he's using MacOS X. AutoDesk in all their brilliance refuses to port Max (or Autocad or insert almost all AutoDesk products here) to any non windows operating system. It's not an option for him.
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They have an old saying on Chulak: The do not make them as they once did.
I always thought you were quite the tottie on JYW. In the commercials for Full Metal Challenge, you are now wearing a ton of dark makeup. Did the producers tell you to do this to "Mean up" your look or was this your idea?
1. Fact: Most new business units inside a company lose money in the early days.
Possibly, but HP's division seems to be doing well because of the high number of contracts
2. Fact: One or two large sales will not correct a sick or unprofitable unit for the long term.
They will if the sales are to companies who need constant updating. HP has been named Dreamworks "preferred technology partner" and has stated that they plan on creating a new renderfarm for every movie that PDI/Dreamworks puts out. Thats thousands of computers. Disney has stated they are very happy with their HP Linux systems and plan to continue to purchase more.
3. Fact: There is significant cost incurred in selling, maintaining, developing and testing for Linux.
Less so than the IRIX machines they are competing with. Also effects houses tend to be very tech savy, with ILM, Dreamworks, Rhythm and Hues, Digital Domain and Weta all actually contributing code to the free software community (things like kernel packages, X driver fixes). So you have a HIGHER profit margin with these houses than consumers, and you have more technically savy users than windows machines.
4. Fact: Most people using Linux on systems have never spent a dime on either Linux software or related services.
Hrmm. This doesn't seem very relevant to my comment, as effects houses spend a fortune on Linux software and support contracts. Lets see, thousands of copies of renderman, enough copies of Maya from ILM alone to convince alias wavefront to port, thousands of shake nodes... I don't see how this is relevant though, since HP just sells the systems and makes money there.
5. Fact: Most people using Linux do not have it preinstalled by an OEM.
Effects houses do.
In conclusion, ONE effects house contract would support a linux division at HP, since they have MANY, saying they are probably losing money on their linux division is in fact trolling.
How about this for a try. HPQ makes millions and millions selling Windows only things. MILLIONS. They probably lose money on their Linux divison- but even if they are profitable, its not to the degree (because of scale for sure) of the Windows division.
HP makes loads of money selling linux workstations and rendernodes to the special effects industry. I keep a close eye on the tech of the special effects houses, and HP has almost all of the contracts (accept for one or two by IBM and Rhythm and Hues chose some company I never heard of). Granted, they don't need Bruce Perens for this, but "they probably lose money on their linux division" is just trolling.
For companies to produce portable Vorbis players, they need to be made aware that there is a market for them. Every day, I hear the same thing from Vorbis listeners; 'I'm not buying a hardware portable music player unless it supports Ogg Vorbis.' It's nice to hear, but we can't do anything about it (we're not a hardware company). So, this page is here to let you send that message to people who can. Remember, be polite!
The Companies:
Frontier Labs - URL - has told
a lot of people that they're considering implementing Vorbis support for
the NEX II machine. Here's their information:
Frontier Labs
Unit 2206 - 8, Cyberincubator, Kodak House II
No. 321 Java Road
North Point, Hong Kong
Telephone: 852.2527.3322
Fax: 852.2528.5277
E-mail: techsupport@frontierlabs.com
iRiver - URL - has said they are
planning to support Ogg Vorbis in the future via
firmware upgrade, but the schedule is not yet finalized. Here's their
information:
iRiver America
1716 Ringwood Avenue
San Jose, CA 95131
Telephone: 1-408-452-7940
Fax: 1-408-452-9944
E-mail: contact@iriveramerica.com
UPDATE: Forwarded E-mail from iRiver America
The engineers have Ogg Vorbis under consideration to support. However,
at this time, there is no decision whether it will be supported in the
future or not.
Regards,
Erica L. Briggs
Customer Service Representative
iRiver America, Inc.
Direct: 408.452.7940
Wouldn't you like to see Vorbis on the super-sexy iPod? We would, too.
Here's some contact information for Apple Computer (URL):
Apple
1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
Telephone: 408-996-1010
Evolution Technologies, Inc. is committed to support our consumers music
appetite. We will support the formats that are consistent with both their
desires and good business practices. While we have not ruled out
supporting "open source" formats, we must first evaluate the acceptance
levels with the buying public so that our organization can justify the
expense of developing a new compatible CODEC. When the demand is
sufficient, we will support the technology.
Sonic Blue - URL 2841 Mission College Blvd.
Santa Clara, CA 95054-1838
Telephone: (408) 588-8000
I-Jam Multimedia LLC - URL 1092 National Parkway
Schaumburg, IL 60173
Telephone: 847-839-1233
Fax: 847-839-1277
E-mail: ehamnett@geltzerpr.com
Alaris, Inc. - URL 44061 Nobel Drive
Fremont, CA 94538
Creative Labs, Inc. - URL Developer Relations
1901 McCarthy Blvd.
Milpitas, California 95035
Telephone: 408-546-6425
Fax: 408-432-6717
E-mail: devmusic@creativelabs.com
Daisy Technology, LLC - URL 111 N. Market Street, Suite 624
San Jose, CA 95113
Telephone: 408-286-7697
Fax: 408-351-3330
E-mail: info@daisytech-usa.com
I think we need to promote fullscale deployment of ogg vorbis. Windows Media, Quicktime, all of the major players should be equipped to play it. With Microsoft pushing WMA, Windows Media support is probably going to have to come from third parties. Ogg Vorbis playing hardware should be cheaper than proprietary format playing hardware, but I doubt anyone will release a player that DOESNT play mp3s.
The best way to support ogg is probably to rip your entire cd collection as ogg; pull your mp3s off kazaa and share away. This action might possibly be illegal depending on your cd collection, but if the entirety of Slashdot stopped sharing mp3s and started sharing oggs, I bet the public would take notice and it would take off. Although, the media companies would probably take notice too.
I do fear if ogg vorbis becomes to popular, patent holders will pop up (like the jpeg dilemma) and start wanting money. Ah well.
Showtime split it as well in the states, they just played reruns of the first half for a very long time. This is the reason the UK found out Daniel died before the US
I don't think petitions, letters, nor phone calls will do any good.
As Ben put it, "They're taking a chainsaw to Moya next week" meaning that the sets are scheduled to be destroyed within a matter of days.
Yeah, maybe letters and phone calls will make them spend the money to rebuild the sets, but I probably wouldn't hold my breath. They would have folded the sets if there was a chance the show was going to be picked up again (as they did with "Crusade"'s sets [even though they never did pick up this series]). I think it's best we wish Brian Henson et al the best of luck on their new endeavors instead of spending our energy on such a longshot. The best we could hope for is for a final episode or movie, but I doubt this as well
Its good to see an open standard promoted by the government. I'm half suprised MS didn't push for an MSN contract to help push their.NET intiative.
I'm also glad IBM is smart enough to roll out their own servers rather than use that godawful jabberd that jabber.org provides. I hope they release their jabber server as free software, as the lack of a fs/os production quality jabber server has hurt deployment.
Fair use is not a constitutional right. Read the constitution, inside there is nothing about fair use. Fair use is a legal construct that was created by judge rulings and lawmakers, but congress could create a law that would abolish all fair use TODAY and it wouldn't be unconstitutional.
Well my DVD player is the Xbox, and every so often it gives me a BSOD. This can get really annoying because it makes me watch the FBI warning over and over again. Most of the time all I get to see is the FBI warning. On most windows applications I tend to work as fast as I can saving every 5-10 seconds so that I can get somewhere, but not being able to bypass the FBI warning makes watching DVDs a real drag on a windowz box.
I called the tech support guy, but all he said was to format and reinstall windows, but my Xbox didn't come with a recovery CD so I don't know what to do. Any help would be hot.
Slashdot Mirror
What metric? Desktop drivers.
They care because they want both hd formats to fail just like apple does. They want xbox live to win.
And yet, in the Novell case, it's quite clear they setup a legal construct to specifically get around section 7. Don't you think this is shady unto itself? Why are the Ximian guys not addressing this? The intentions of developers are clearly being avoided. Why is the response, "Well redhat kind of did it too" instead of an explanation why this is moral and upstanding behavior?
I've tried both Netflix and Blockbuster online rentals. I had netflix for a long time and quit them when they raised their prices from 14.95. Later on I signed up with blockbuster because they were cheaper. Blockbuster raised their prices too, but they were slick about it and gave me a free used dvd coupon with it. I stick with blockbuster because I find their selection to be perfectly adequate (I've never had trouble renting something I wanted, maybe I'm just incredibly mainstream), and because I find the two free instore rentals indispensible. It's nice as a movie junkie to have a big queue of movies coming to watch stuff, but sometimes you need a movie for a date or something and having two free in store rentals is awesome. I use them every month. Also you can get video games with them.
I think if blockbuster leveraged it's brick and mortar more, they'd cut into netflix's market share quite a bit.
To Quote Linus:
No.
That's not what I'm talking about at all.
When user interfaces means that something CANNOT BE DONE, it's not about
"usable design" any more. At that point, it's about UNusable design.
Any Gnome people who argue that it's about "usability" have their heads up
their asses so far that it's not funny. I've argued with them about this
before, and I know others have too, and mostly given up.
"Usability" is an issue only if you can do something at all. But if you
can't do the thing at all, it's pointless to talk about usability: the
thing is BY DEFINITION not usable if it cannot be used for a specific
task.
Then a person that claims that it's usable for something else is a FUCKING
IDIOT.
And in that FUCKING IDIOT vein:
> The majority of end-users want a simple printer dialog.
This is a great example of being a F.I.
There is no such thing as a "majority of end users" in general. For
example, maybe _I_ am in what you _claim_ to be a majority, in that I
want a simple printer dialog - because I have a simple printer, and
even simpler printer needs.
So a simple printer dialog doesn't bother me, and as such you can count me
in your "majority".
But I can guarantee you one thing: the _vast_ majority of people are part
of a specific minority when it comes to something. This is somethign that
the F.I. "interface designers" in the Gnome sense seems to continually
overlook.
For example, maybe I don't care about printers. But I _do_ care about my
mouse. If I can't control the left/middle/right button actions, I get
really upset. Again, the "majority" of people may not care, so by your
majority argument, the mouse setup should be so simple that the majority
of people can never get confused. But I _do_ care.
In other words: your "majority" argument is total and utter BULLSHIT. It
can be true for any particular feature, but it's simply not true in
general.
To put it in mathematical terms: "The Intersection of all Majorities is
the empty set", or its corollary: "The Union of even the smallest
minorities is the universal set".
It's a total logical fallacy to think that the intersection of two
majorities would still be a majority. It is pretty damn rare, in fact,
because these things are absolutely not correlated.
And the technical term for somebody who claims to do user interface design
and not understand this fact is a "FUCKING IDIOT".
And this has _nothing_ to do with "technical users". Even totally
non-technical users care about something. In fact, it might be their
printer, and having a way to set the paper type and resolution by hand.
Another way of saying this: we're _all_ "special" some way. We're damn
quirky, even the nontechnical among us.
But hey, just continue to remove all that confusing functionality from
Gnome. I don't care. I voted with my feet.
Linus
Apparently the Rhapsody music application is a XUL app or something. I just went there and installed it like any other firefox plugin.
It plays audio but it sounds like it's got some sampling issue on my system, because everything sounds very slooooww and the pitch is very low.
You can't burn any songs or put stuff on janus devices on linux.
I'm running ubuntu breezy. I wonder how hard it would be to create some kind of ripper. You could always redirect the audio output to a file I suppose, but you'd have to manually add track data and split the stream. None too much fun.
Pretty slick though, if they work out the bugs I might subscribe if i can figure out a way to play stuff in my car.
Who would want an electronic version of the Enigma machine? You could just code one up in python or even write a bash script. If I was gonna build an enigma, it better have all the gears and knobs that an original one did.
Maybe I don't understand WWII fandom, but I understand geekfandom, and if you're going to build something that used to be a gear device, I don't wanna emulate it on my dreamcast.
Now what would be cool is to build the vacuum tube based machine the allies used to crack various codes...
Dreamworks is definitely one of the unnamed studios. I went to siggraph and talked to their booth and they claimed that Disney, Sony, and themselves gave some money to codeweavers to develop crossover photoshop. Amazingly, the guy from Dreamworks claimed that Photoshop ran FASTER in linux under wine than in windows (more responsive).
Falling Down is the only good Joel Schumacher film ever made. Great piece of anticapitalist propaganda
I think XFree86 needs a good fork. It seems to suffer from a sort of PHP-Nuke meglomania. Vendor support is massively important; if ATI is nice enough to supply patches to add support for their latest cards and latest features, it would help linux and unix in general to be nice enough to check in the patches ASAP. If vendors look upon Xfree86 as worthless to support drivers for because of inability to delegate responsibility, then X and linux in general will never reach the usability levels that we strive for.
That being said, forks are dangerous and should only be done by talented contributing people with people skills. Keith Packard is a good coder, I hope he's as good with politics.
Maybe I don't get it, but couldn't you just turn off your GPS unit if you knew a little bit about cars?
He doesn't mention it because he states quite clearly he's using MacOS X. AutoDesk in all their brilliance refuses to port Max (or Autocad or insert almost all AutoDesk products here) to any non windows operating system. It's not an option for him.
They have an old saying on Chulak: The do not make them as they once did.
I always thought you were quite the tottie on JYW. In the commercials for Full Metal Challenge, you are now wearing a ton of dark makeup. Did the producers tell you to do this to "Mean up" your look or was this your idea?
On an aside the whore look isn't becoming...
I'm still bitter they cancelled 7 Days.
I'm bitter about them canceling Nowhere Man.
1. Fact: Most new business units inside a company lose money in the early days.
Possibly, but HP's division seems to be doing well because of the high number of contracts
2. Fact: One or two large sales will not correct a sick or unprofitable unit for the long term.
They will if the sales are to companies who need constant updating. HP has been named Dreamworks "preferred technology partner" and has stated that they plan on creating a new renderfarm for every movie that PDI/Dreamworks puts out. Thats thousands of computers. Disney has stated they are very happy with their HP Linux systems and plan to continue to purchase more.
3. Fact: There is significant cost incurred in selling, maintaining, developing and testing for Linux.
Less so than the IRIX machines they are competing with. Also effects houses tend to be very tech savy, with ILM, Dreamworks, Rhythm and Hues, Digital Domain and Weta all actually contributing code to the free software community (things like kernel packages, X driver fixes). So you have a HIGHER profit margin with these houses than consumers, and you have more technically savy users than windows machines.
4. Fact: Most people using Linux on systems have never spent a dime on either Linux software or related services.
Hrmm. This doesn't seem very relevant to my comment, as effects houses spend a fortune on Linux software and support contracts. Lets see, thousands of copies of renderman, enough copies of Maya from ILM alone to convince alias wavefront to port, thousands of shake nodes... I don't see how this is relevant though, since HP just sells the systems and makes money there.
5. Fact: Most people using Linux do not have it preinstalled by an OEM.
Effects houses do.
In conclusion, ONE effects house contract would support a linux division at HP, since they have MANY, saying they are probably losing money on their linux division is in fact trolling.
Holy crap a bruce perens comment that isn't +5 something
How about this for a try. HPQ makes millions and millions selling Windows only things. MILLIONS. They probably lose money on their Linux divison- but even if they are profitable, its not to the degree (because of scale for sure) of the Windows division.
HP makes loads of money selling linux workstations and rendernodes to the special effects industry. I keep a close eye on the tech of the special effects houses, and HP has almost all of the contracts (accept for one or two by IBM and Rhythm and Hues chose some company I never heard of). Granted, they don't need Bruce Perens for this, but "they probably lose money on their linux division" is just trolling.
For companies to produce portable Vorbis players, they need to be made aware that there is a market for them. Every day, I hear the same thing from Vorbis listeners; 'I'm not buying a hardware portable music player unless it supports Ogg Vorbis.' It's nice to hear, but we can't do anything about it (we're not a hardware company). So, this page is here to let you send that message to people who can. Remember, be polite!
The Companies:
Frontier Labs - URL - has told a lot of people that they're considering implementing Vorbis support for the NEX II machine. Here's their information:
Frontier Labs
Unit 2206 - 8, Cyberincubator, Kodak House II
No. 321 Java Road
North Point, Hong Kong
Telephone: 852.2527.3322
Fax: 852.2528.5277
E-mail: techsupport@frontierlabs.com
iRiver - URL - has said they are planning to support Ogg Vorbis in the future via firmware upgrade, but the schedule is not yet finalized. Here's their information:
iRiver America
1716 Ringwood Avenue
San Jose, CA 95131
Telephone: 1-408-452-7940
Fax: 1-408-452-9944
E-mail: contact@iriveramerica.com
UPDATE: Forwarded E-mail from iRiver America
The engineers have Ogg Vorbis under consideration to support. However, at this time, there is no decision whether it will be supported in the future or not.
Regards,
Erica L. Briggs
Customer Service Representative
iRiver America, Inc.
Direct: 408.452.7940
Wouldn't you like to see Vorbis on the super-sexy iPod? We would, too. Here's some contact information for Apple Computer (URL):
Apple
1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
Telephone: 408-996-1010
UPDATE: Don't forget to drop a note to Apple about the iPod at http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipod.html!
Other companies producing audio hardware:
Archos Technology Inc. - URL
3-A Goodyear
Irvine, CA 92618
Telephone: (949) 609-1400
Fax: (949) 609-1414
ReQuest Multimedia - URL
435 2nd Ave.
Troy, NY 12182
E-mail: bizdev@request.com
Evolution Technologies - URL
118 Kitty Hawk Drive
Morrisville, NC 27560
Telephone: 919-544-3777 / toll-free: 866-848-8070
E-mail: info@nowevolution.com
UPDATE: Note from Evolution Technologies
Evolution Technologies, Inc. is committed to support our consumers music appetite. We will support the formats that are consistent with both their desires and good business practices. While we have not ruled out supporting "open source" formats, we must first evaluate the acceptance levels with the buying public so that our organization can justify the expense of developing a new compatible CODEC. When the demand is sufficient, we will support the technology.
Sonic Blue - URL
2841 Mission College Blvd.
Santa Clara, CA 95054-1838
Telephone: (408) 588-8000
I-Jam Multimedia LLC - URL
1092 National Parkway
Schaumburg, IL 60173
Telephone: 847-839-1233
Fax: 847-839-1277
E-mail: ehamnett@geltzerpr.com
Alaris, Inc. - URL
44061 Nobel Drive
Fremont, CA 94538
Creative Labs, Inc. - URL
Developer Relations
1901 McCarthy Blvd.
Milpitas, California 95035
Telephone: 408-546-6425
Fax: 408-432-6717
E-mail: devmusic@creativelabs.com
Daisy Technology, LLC - URL
111 N. Market Street, Suite 624
San Jose, CA 95113
Telephone: 408-286-7697
Fax: 408-351-3330
E-mail: info@daisytech-usa.com
Procell Media - URL
69 Wrexham Road
Whitchurch, Shropshire
SY13 1HT
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 (0)1948 665048
Fax: +44 (0)1948 667099
G-NET Canada Headquarters - URL
11 Sinclair Court
Cambridge, Ontario
N1T 1K2 CANADA
Telephone: 519-623-4901
Fax: 519-623-3229
I think we need to promote fullscale deployment of ogg vorbis. Windows Media, Quicktime, all of the major players should be equipped to play it. With Microsoft pushing WMA, Windows Media support is probably going to have to come from third parties. Ogg Vorbis playing hardware should be cheaper than proprietary format playing hardware, but I doubt anyone will release a player that DOESNT play mp3s.
The best way to support ogg is probably to rip your entire cd collection as ogg; pull your mp3s off kazaa and share away. This action might possibly be illegal depending on your cd collection, but if the entirety of Slashdot stopped sharing mp3s and started sharing oggs, I bet the public would take notice and it would take off. Although, the media companies would probably take notice too.
I do fear if ogg vorbis becomes to popular, patent holders will pop up (like the jpeg dilemma) and start wanting money. Ah well.
Showtime split it as well in the states, they just played reruns of the first half for a very long time. This is the reason the UK found out Daniel died before the US
I don't think petitions, letters, nor phone calls will do any good.
As Ben put it, "They're taking a chainsaw to Moya next week" meaning that the sets are scheduled to be destroyed within a matter of days.
Yeah, maybe letters and phone calls will make them spend the money to rebuild the sets, but I probably wouldn't hold my breath. They would have folded the sets if there was a chance the show was going to be picked up again (as they did with "Crusade"'s sets [even though they never did pick up this series]). I think it's best we wish Brian Henson et al the best of luck on their new endeavors instead of spending our energy on such a longshot. The best we could hope for is for a final episode or movie, but I doubt this as well
Its good to see an open standard promoted by the government. I'm half suprised MS didn't push for an MSN contract to help push their .NET intiative.
I'm also glad IBM is smart enough to roll out their own servers rather than use that godawful jabberd that jabber.org provides. I hope they release their jabber server as free software, as the lack of a fs/os production quality jabber server has hurt deployment.
Fair use is not a constitutional right. Read the constitution, inside there is nothing about fair use. Fair use is a legal construct that was created by judge rulings and lawmakers, but congress could create a law that would abolish all fair use TODAY and it wouldn't be unconstitutional.
Well my DVD player is the Xbox, and every so often it gives me a BSOD. This can get really annoying because it makes me watch the FBI warning over and over again. Most of the time all I get to see is the FBI warning. On most windows applications I tend to work as fast as I can saving every 5-10 seconds so that I can get somewhere, but not being able to bypass the FBI warning makes watching DVDs a real drag on a windowz box.
I called the tech support guy, but all he said was to format and reinstall windows, but my Xbox didn't come with a recovery CD so I don't know what to do. Any help would be hot.