What if the corporate "edition" doesn't have Aero? It's already known that they will ship the corporate version before the general public one, and corporate computers (especially business laptops) don't usually have DX10 capable video...
While it is correct that the MP3 does not support "correct" gapless playback without adding explicit information on where the track ends, there are players like the Rio Karma which do a good job of detecting and removing the gap through their firmware.
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Linus is the king, and he's surrounded by a small contingency of advisors who filter what gets through to him.
Yes, but you may want to ask yourself how these people got there... It's because of the quality of their code and commitment to maintaining their stuff. So it's rather a meritocracy than a monarchy and that is perfectly fine with me.
Damn, just look at that guy Marcelo. He's only 18 and he's maintaining the stable Linux kernel tree... I'm in awe.
Too bad they didn't include "Programming the Perl DBI" and maybe even "Programming the Perl DBI" which are both two extremely useful books as introductions to web programming. Since Perl is used a lot in this context, I think those should have been included as well.
One thing I'd love to see is a subscription based service to search and read the whole O'Reilly library online. That would make my life soo much easier...
Oops, sorry (hope this doesn't get you into trouble)!
Maybe I shouldn't have used this example from lkml, but that's the first thing which came to my mind to illustrate my question. I'm genuinely wondering in which areas IBM sees benefits in opening its stuff.
For the record, I do think that among the big players, IBM is the most honest and supportive of OSS. The total turnaround in attitude BigBlue has achieved in the past few years is really impressive.
I've been generally impressed at the level of support IBM has given to various open source project such as Apache. Other areas however have obviuously been neglected, for example the opening of drivers. Witness this recent thread on the linux kernel mailing list in which one Dan Streetman from IBM states plainly:
But management doesn't listen to me when I say it will never get accepted so I had to make a token effort of submitting it to prove it won't get accepted. And I did try hard to convince them to release the actual driver but it didn't work.
This obviously makes linux developers doubtful about the real motivations behind IBMs open source efforts:
I find it very odd indeed with IBM's big voice of open source praise, yada yada, and what Lou has said in the past, that there would be any question at all of wether it would be open source or not. Isn't big blue behind open source? Or is it just for publicity? Makes me wonder now... -- Mike A. Harris
My question is the following:
Will IBMs open source effort in the future be limited to the obvious areas (net/web related stuff, linux ports to IBM hardware) or are there any plans to educate other IBM departments about the benefits of opening the development process? If yes, are there any practical examples (winmodem drivers for thinkpad laptops, etc.)?
How well would a iMac rev B (233MHz) with 96Megs of RAM perform, in your opinion? sluggish but usable? ridiculous?
For reference, I currently have MacOS 9 on it and find the response times pretty good (...websurfing with IE5 and ~4 windows open, mail, some photoshop).
I ask this because I really want to try out OSX but the above is the only piece of Mac hardware at my disposal...
What I want to know is, if I do pay somone when I buy equipment that enables me to copy copyrighted Items, do I gain rights to do so?
Here in Switzerland, yes. Fair Use means that if your copying is among relatives ("friends & family") AND in very limited number, the copyright holder can't sue. This is according to legal usage, but is nowhere written in law (however, IANAL etc., please correct me if you know better). As such the swiss equivalent of the RIAA, the SUISA, uses every occasion it gets to dispute it.
This does not apply to commercial software, which is generally bound by an EULA (which have never really been tested in court however).
Sidenote: Switzerland is not part of the EU (nor the UN for that matter) so there may very well be drastic differences, I hear that the german situation is pretty similar.
I'll have to agree. The only problem I see with the initial post is that it was way to long (copied from a news posting perhaps?) and it had a slightly inflammatory catchline at the end. The fact that the guy stated plainly at the beginning that he was a Rambus investor and the clear marking of his conclusion as OPINION.
First of all, for whatever reason, jeskola.com doesn't resolve (I know it's supposed to be valid).
But more generally, I've been really looking forward to seeing buzz progress, but have been sorely disappointed. Even buzztrack.com is just a coming soon page (soon, how long). Couldn't those guys just open up the source if they don't have time to work on it, like it seems?
Doh, UNTS isn't better, it's the same. 3G is the marketing buzzword commonly used when talking about UMTS.
And the licenses weren't sold for too much money, they where auctioned off, with a minimum entry price. It's the telecom companies who were willing to pay that much, having bought into their own hype.
But I've seen UMTS demos at some Ericsson roadshow, and I must say I'm drooling already (note however that 2mb/sec is the upper limit in next to optmial conditions, which you won't usually have; moreso, some Siemens engineer say there were some _speed_ limitations relative to the fixed antennaes... funny no?)
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Heh, good one ;) Is this the page? Do you have some numbers on how much your spam count went down?
What if the corporate "edition" doesn't have Aero? It's already known that they will ship the corporate version before the general public one, and corporate computers (especially business laptops) don't usually have DX10 capable video...
Of course you can, but then you lose the ability to skip to the track. Useless.
Mod up! Also see this detailed discussion of the gapless MP3 playback issue.
While it is correct that the MP3 does not support "correct" gapless playback without adding explicit information on where the track ends, there are players like the Rio Karma which do a good job of detecting and removing the gap through their firmware.
No gapless playback!
Linus is the king, and he's surrounded by a small contingency of advisors who filter what gets through to him.
Yes, but you may want to ask yourself how these people got there... It's because of the quality of their code and commitment to maintaining their stuff. So it's rather a meritocracy than a monarchy and that is perfectly fine with me.
Damn, just look at that guy Marcelo. He's only 18 and he's maintaining the stable Linux kernel tree... I'm in awe.
Heh, my bad...
Don't drink and post.
I meant the CGI Programming one of course
Wow, I need to check out their website more often. Thanks for the pointer, that's exactly what I was thinking of...
One thing I'd love to see is a subscription based service to search and read the whole O'Reilly library online. That would make my life soo much easier...
here...
Don't forget to read trough the HOWTO if you really want to know what you're doing
Mine is:
PS1="$TITLEBAR\
$GRAY[\
$COLVAR\u$GRAY@$LIGHT_BLUE\h$GRAY:$BROWN\W\
$GRAY]\
$COLVAR\\$ $LIGHT_GRAY"
You have to define the $COLOURS first of course...
Oops, sorry (hope this doesn't get you into trouble)!
Maybe I shouldn't have used this example from lkml, but that's the first thing which came to my mind to illustrate my question. I'm genuinely wondering in which areas IBM sees benefits in opening its stuff.
For the record, I do think that among the big players, IBM is the most honest and supportive of OSS. The total turnaround in attitude BigBlue has achieved in the past few years is really impressive.
Keep up the good work!
Hi,
I've been generally impressed at the level of support IBM has given to various open source project such as Apache. Other areas however have obviuously been neglected, for example the opening of drivers. Witness this recent thread on the linux kernel mailing list in which one Dan Streetman from IBM states plainly:
But management doesn't listen to me when I say it will never get accepted so I had to make a token effort of submitting it to prove it won't get accepted. And I did try hard to convince them to release the actual driver but it didn't work.
This obviously makes linux developers doubtful about the real motivations behind IBMs open source efforts:
I find it very odd indeed with IBM's big voice of open source praise, yada yada, and what Lou has said in the past, that there would be any question at all of wether it would be open source or not. Isn't big blue behind open source? Or is it just for publicity? Makes me wonder now... -- Mike A. Harris
My question is the following:
Will IBMs open source effort in the future be limited to the obvious areas (net/web related stuff, linux ports to IBM hardware) or are there any plans to educate other IBM departments about the benefits of opening the development process? If yes, are there any practical examples (winmodem drivers for thinkpad laptops, etc.)?
Thanks in advance
Yes, I think so.
When I enter us.cddb.com and ~cddb/cddb.cgi, the query always fails (am I doing something wrong?).
even on a machine with 96MB of RAM
How well would a iMac rev B (233MHz) with 96Megs of RAM perform, in your opinion? sluggish but usable? ridiculous?
For reference, I currently have MacOS 9 on it and find the response times pretty good (...websurfing with IE5 and ~4 windows open, mail, some photoshop).
I ask this because I really want to try out OSX but the above is the only piece of Mac hardware at my disposal...
What I want to know is, if I do pay somone when I buy equipment that enables me to copy copyrighted Items, do I gain rights to do so?
Here in Switzerland, yes. Fair Use means that if your copying is among relatives ("friends & family") AND in very limited number, the copyright holder can't sue. This is according to legal usage, but is nowhere written in law (however, IANAL etc., please correct me if you know better). As such the swiss equivalent of the RIAA, the SUISA, uses every occasion it gets to dispute it.
This does not apply to commercial software, which is generally bound by an EULA (which have never really been tested in court however).
Sidenote: Switzerland is not part of the EU (nor the UN for that matter) so there may very well be drastic differences, I hear that the german situation is pretty similar.
I'll have to agree. The only problem I see with the initial post is that it was way to long (copied from a news posting perhaps?) and it had a slightly inflammatory catchline at the end. The fact that the guy stated plainly at the beginning that he was a Rambus investor and the clear marking of his conclusion as OPINION.
This moderation was extremely unfair.
I was inclinde to like the more humour-oriented Anime
Dr. Slump?
I had to notice that there is barely any Anime left.
France3 did some reruns late at night of such gems as Albator, Ulysse 31, Chevaliers du Zodiac, etc.
They got such a huge positive feedback (including from me) that they are considering to do it regularly.
I'm swiss, but 80's children shows on french TV rocked my childhood!
Hey, that's MySQL we're talking about here. Why do you even care about relational integrity?
You're right. The DNS entry is valid again.
First of all, for whatever reason, jeskola.com doesn't resolve (I know it's supposed to be valid).
But more generally, I've been really looking forward to seeing buzz progress, but have been sorely disappointed. Even buzztrack.com is just a coming soon page (soon, how long). Couldn't those guys just open up the source if they don't have time to work on it, like it seems?
Does anyone have some more info?
Doh, UNTS isn't better, it's the same. 3G is the marketing buzzword commonly used when talking about UMTS.
And the licenses weren't sold for too much money, they where auctioned off, with a minimum entry price. It's the telecom companies who were willing to pay that much, having bought into their own hype.
But I've seen UMTS demos at some Ericsson roadshow, and I must say I'm drooling already (note however that 2mb/sec is the upper limit in next to optmial conditions, which you won't usually have; moreso, some Siemens engineer say there were some _speed_ limitations relative to the fixed antennaes... funny no?)
Ha ha, nice one. but it's actually progman.exe, in case anyone wants to do it as well...
Heh, chill down. Nobody is going to take away your beloved /bin/ps, /bin/kill etc.
On the other hand, consider this (taken from one of our servers at work):
load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
... and distributed.net isn't interactive enough for me.
Well something similar has been done with Doom already, so why not Quake?
- ...
- Early Amiga games (Marble Madness) with later ones (Elfmania, Stardust)
- ...
You really want to start an Amiga flamewar, don't you?The Amiga is/was NOT only a game machine dammit!
:)