Of course. They definitely have to obey the law and do their absolute best to turn a profit for their share holders, but they still aren't government. Unless it is adverse to the bottom line they can do pretty much anything they want to.
In this particular case I wouldn't be surprised if their lawyers were the ones who suggested that mp3.com doesn't need any more expensive legal hassles and thus should do something about this.
Small-scale non-commercial distribution is clearly legal.
Huh? Where'd you get this from? Just because you aren't selling it and you are only giving it to your friends or family doesn't make it legal. It just makes it less likely that the industry is going to come after you because the benefit of nailing your ass is less than the expense of doing it.
I think we're talking private as opposed to government. Not privately owned as opposed to publicly owned. Even publicly owned companies are private entities and can make their own rules in their own playground.
They haven't released them in any way that I can see...
Then you aren't looking hard enough. I was down at a local book/video/software store yesterday and saw an Atari Arcade pack for windows. Had Asteroids, Centipede, Tempest, Pong, Breakout and something else that I can't remember.
I don't think this particular situation is about selling to loyal customers or selling bulk items. It's about seeing how much they can raise the price for a particular individual before that individual goes somewhere else. For example, I buy a lot of hard core porn from them. So they figure I'm coming back regularily, maybe I'll keep coming back if they up the prices by a buck. But my friend who isn't such a hard core junkie needs a little more incentive to buy so they sell the exact same items to him for say a buck less. Is this right? I don't think so.
Of course now that we know that everybody isn't getting the same prices/treatment we'll just have to start comparison shopping. Amazon just hopes that there is a price we will pay for the "convienience" of buying from them.
No you don't have to give credit under the GPL. When Dick Stallman got all horny over calling Linux, 'GNU/Linux' it was one of his more entertaining about faces. But the fact is that the GPL does not require any kind of credit be given.
Wrong answer buddy. GPL does not require credit only passing along the full work. If your changes are to remove the authors name and you still adhered to the rest of the GPL you'd be fine.
Are you trying to tell us that VA Linux's initial offering price was 100+? Because otherwise they don't get a penny of the money when their stock is traded.
Who ate IBM's lunch? Seriously. IBM is a very strong company and the only reason they even had difficulties was because they had their shit stomped on by the feds. Sure MS is now "bigger" on Wall Street, but IBM is still huge, strong, stable, and not over valuated like certain tech companies (ORCL, MSFT).
It's called "vaporware" dude. And it's long been a feature of the computer industry. It's also a common feature of the open source/free software movement. "Can we say 'Hurd'?" Thought so.
Yeah, this is sorta flamey. But it's a legit comment no the less.
Even if broadcast quality video met the quality standards that are expected from a modern computer (and I'm not talking outrageous numbers here, simple things like 1024x768x32 is high than "broadcast quality") there's still the situation that we need more than what is required to send the framebuffer to our monitors. We need bandwidth for texture transfers, for reads, for writes, etc. Which can be much much higher than what firewire is going to give us.
Read only won't prevent bad FS code from botching the FS. It just prevents writes coming via userland. I won't comment on the quality of the ntfs code since I've never used it.
Its interesting. In the end you die. Would you rather spend your life being making some money and working a job, or having fun and changing the world?
You like dead dude. It doesn't matter if you spent your life rescuing babies or eating them. You're dead. If you can have fun making money and working a job, then go for it. Having assloads of cash isn't exclusionary to having fun.
No,/etc/services does not disable any traffic over a particular port. The most it will do is prevent the getservbyname(3) family of function calls from working./etc/services is just a file that translates between names and numbers. Nothing else is magic about it at all. Are you just trolling for newbies or what?
No, if they post too fast then they will break down the system of generating hits. If readers have nothing interesting to do they may read and respond to each and every article. If a bunch of crappy articles are immediately followed by one that catches everybody's interest then the crappy articles won't generate hits. It's all about the greed.
Sorry, but this guy is out to lunch. First off there are other alternatives, but why would you want what is effectively a proprietary solution? X servers are available for all unix platforms that have frame buffers. Xlib is available for all unix platforms so you can run the apps. Sure it may not have the snappyness in certain areas, but that is being solved as we speak by the DRI architecture (no, it's not just for 3D.)
Besides if the author of the article wants a pared down Linux/BSD/Unix you can pretty much put it on a floppy with X and a few basic tools. Much like the QNX demo disk.
Too bad that the clueless are allowed to stand on soap boxes.
No it means that the various policing and government agencies will have to escalate the level of their prosecution. Rather than sending an email, they will have to break down your door. Instead of sending a letter they will send a swat team. It just doesn't make a lot of sense for the white collar, pseudo-thugs to continue to escalate their efforts if they don't want to the actual physical interactions to correspondingly increase.
I don't think so. The manufacturers of the system in our machine room specifically told us that you get out or you die because there's nothing to breath.
You do. I used to be able to walk into a room full of computers and say how many monitors had been left on. Now I can't.:( Of course modern monitors power of the CRT when they don't have a good signal...
No shit man. The last time I went off 24/7 with a computer in my bedroom it took a week before I could get to sleep comfortably. Something was missing...
First nobody said that there was a music lover who never has and never will buy a CD. I said that there are a lot of people who are perfectly content to download a song off napster and never buy the CD. It doesn't even phase them that they are depriving an artist of the deserved rewards for their work. They don't care that they are not doing their "part" in a free market economy.
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Of course. They definitely have to obey the law and do their absolute best to turn a profit for their share holders, but they still aren't government. Unless it is adverse to the bottom line they can do pretty much anything they want to.
In this particular case I wouldn't be surprised if their lawyers were the ones who suggested that mp3.com doesn't need any more expensive legal hassles and thus should do something about this.
Huh? Where'd you get this from? Just because you aren't selling it and you are only giving it to your friends or family doesn't make it legal. It just makes it less likely that the industry is going to come after you because the benefit of nailing your ass is less than the expense of doing it.
I think we're talking private as opposed to government. Not privately owned as opposed to publicly owned. Even publicly owned companies are private entities and can make their own rules in their own playground.
Then you aren't looking hard enough. I was down at a local book/video/software store yesterday and saw an Atari Arcade pack for windows. Had Asteroids, Centipede, Tempest, Pong, Breakout and something else that I can't remember.
How did you do that? I looked briefly but didn't see a way to do so after just a minute of looking.
I don't think this particular situation is about selling to loyal customers or selling bulk items. It's about seeing how much they can raise the price for a particular individual before that individual goes somewhere else. For example, I buy a lot of hard core porn from them. So they figure I'm coming back regularily, maybe I'll keep coming back if they up the prices by a buck. But my friend who isn't such a hard core junkie needs a little more incentive to buy so they sell the exact same items to him for say a buck less. Is this right? I don't think so.
Of course now that we know that everybody isn't getting the same prices/treatment we'll just have to start comparison shopping. Amazon just hopes that there is a price we will pay for the "convienience" of buying from them.
No you don't have to give credit under the GPL. When Dick Stallman got all horny over calling Linux, 'GNU/Linux' it was one of his more entertaining about faces. But the fact is that the GPL does not require any kind of credit be given.
If you mod this, well at least mod it right.
Wrong answer buddy. GPL does not require credit only passing along the full work. If your changes are to remove the authors name and you still adhered to the rest of the GPL you'd be fine.
Are you trying to tell us that VA Linux's initial offering price was 100+? Because otherwise they don't get a penny of the money when their stock is traded.
Who ate IBM's lunch? Seriously. IBM is a very strong company and the only reason they even had difficulties was because they had their shit stomped on by the feds. Sure MS is now "bigger" on Wall Street, but IBM is still huge, strong, stable, and not over valuated like certain tech companies (ORCL, MSFT).
It's called "vaporware" dude. And it's long been a feature of the computer industry. It's also a common feature of the open source/free software movement. "Can we say 'Hurd'?" Thought so.
Yeah, this is sorta flamey. But it's a legit comment no the less.
Even if broadcast quality video met the quality standards that are expected from a modern computer (and I'm not talking outrageous numbers here, simple things like 1024x768x32 is high than "broadcast quality") there's still the situation that we need more than what is required to send the framebuffer to our monitors. We need bandwidth for texture transfers, for reads, for writes, etc. Which can be much much higher than what firewire is going to give us.
Read only won't prevent bad FS code from botching the FS. It just prevents writes coming via userland. I won't comment on the quality of the ntfs code since I've never used it.
You like dead dude. It doesn't matter if you spent your life rescuing babies or eating them. You're dead. If you can have fun making money and working a job, then go for it. Having assloads of cash isn't exclusionary to having fun.
No, /etc/services does not disable any traffic over a particular port. The most it will do is prevent the getservbyname(3) family of function calls from working. /etc/services is just a file that translates between names and numbers. Nothing else is magic about it at all. Are you just trolling for newbies or what?
No, if they post too fast then they will break down the system of generating hits. If readers have nothing interesting to do they may read and respond to each and every article. If a bunch of crappy articles are immediately followed by one that catches everybody's interest then the crappy articles won't generate hits. It's all about the greed.
Sorry, but this guy is out to lunch. First off there are other alternatives, but why would you want what is effectively a proprietary solution? X servers are available for all unix platforms that have frame buffers. Xlib is available for all unix platforms so you can run the apps. Sure it may not have the snappyness in certain areas, but that is being solved as we speak by the DRI architecture (no, it's not just for 3D.)
Besides if the author of the article wants a pared down Linux/BSD/Unix you can pretty much put it on a floppy with X and a few basic tools. Much like the QNX demo disk.
Too bad that the clueless are allowed to stand on soap boxes.
No it means that the various policing and government agencies will have to escalate the level of their prosecution. Rather than sending an email, they will have to break down your door. Instead of sending a letter they will send a swat team. It just doesn't make a lot of sense for the white collar, pseudo-thugs to continue to escalate their efforts if they don't want to the actual physical interactions to correspondingly increase.
I don't think so. The manufacturers of the system in our machine room specifically told us that you get out or you die because there's nothing to breath.
True? Shit I'd mark you up if I had mod.
You do. I used to be able to walk into a room full of computers and say how many monitors had been left on. Now I can't. :( Of course modern monitors power of the CRT when they don't have a good signal...
Yes it does work that way. Course you 5v supply might get jacked up a few volts if the fan isn't a 12v (or 9v) load.
Right you are. Halon, and other similar gaseous systems, displace the oxygen in the room. Thus you die if you stay there.
No shit man. The last time I went off 24/7 with a computer in my bedroom it took a week before I could get to sleep comfortably. Something was missing...
First nobody said that there was a music lover who never has and never will buy a CD. I said that there are a lot of people who are perfectly content to download a song off napster and never buy the CD. It doesn't even phase them that they are depriving an artist of the deserved rewards for their work. They don't care that they are not doing their "part" in a free market economy.