Even taking that into account, i still think its the lamest ask slashdot ever. I actually went and looked back through to Oct and tried to find a lamer one but couldn't find one even close. I was serious when I asked if anyone could find a lamer one.
Generally, I think "ask slashdot" has fared better than the rest of slashdot in signal to noise ratio deterioration. But this question is inane and the discussion is equally inane as a direct result of the question.
I want "news for nerds, stuff that matters" not "inane babbling for nerds, let me speak out my ass for a second".
All the frats I've encountered have seemed to reinforce the sterotypical characteristics associated with their members, those being:
-mba wannbes -date rapists -violent thugs
I'm not saying that the positive experience you didn't happen or that individual frat members are good people. But I think what you describe is the exception, and I think its important to convey that to one newly entering college.
I give this advice to everyone I meet that is entering college.
If this was an essential part of flight operations then the fault would be the FAA's for hooking it up to the Internet. I can't believe it is an essential part of operations so go ahead and look. I mean the FAA may be reliant on vacuum tubes but they aren't stupid.
A machine with wireless networking capabilities would be even more interesting, particularly for networks not attached to the 'net. 802.11 would probably not be best due to its limited range and higher security consciousness around it. Better would be say a pair of old ricochet modems that have range of up to a mile.
Why is a government official stumping for the interests of a single company?... It used to be that the U.S. was known for promoting freedom, in the guise of democracy and free markets, to other countries.
When was this? Maybe before the US backed execution of Allende in Argentina to the great benefit of ITT but after installing a friendly dictator for United Fruit (Chiquita) in Guatemala?
Those are the examples that come to mind that combine both the stumping for single companies and the deaths of thousands of people instead of promoting freedom, the world is littered with more.
I didn't claim otherwise. When real releases helix player they will have a player that has some open code and uses binary only libraries to handle real and M$ codecs, just like mplayer does now.
Perhaps you are unaware that mplayer has suceeded in loading real's libraries? I believe they are the first to do so anywhere outside of Real.
The odds that this subject will make it onto TV at all are slim. The odds that they would interview anyone who would advocate for the position espoused by the ACLU are remote. I would be shocked if they let Jesse Jackson on because he would say something about media consolidation adverserly effecting minorities, but I would be thrilled if they did.
Actually, courts have ruled the first amendment does apply to corporations. They are using this to overturn many of the FCC's regulations on ownership, including limits on the percent of the national market that cable companies can own and the TV/newspaper cross ownership ban.
The GPL allows anyone the freedom to make any use of a work provided derivative works are released under the same terms. The scenario you describe does not provide nearly that degree of freedom. With a GPL'd song, anyone would be able to sell it for any price they like and edit however they like w/o the need for consulting the original author.
"if somebody writes up a draft of it with all the basic problems solved then..."
I laughed my ass off at the vacuousness of this statement. Gee, is that all? Someone just has to solve the basic problems. Why didn't I think of that.
How can you say users should campaign for mpeg4 and ask about the licensing restrictions in the same post? I read what you wrote as "I have no idea what I'm talking about, but do this anyway."
The licensing terms specify a fee per stream, that is, for every user that connects the operator pays a fee. That's completely absurd. Only a few large players will be able to participate, small streaming shops won't.
There is a network of locally based media groups, called Independent Media Centers, that maintain sites of locally oriented news content contributed by users. Content is not limited to just text stories, users are able to contribute any kind of multimedia file. There is a network of approximately 100 such sites located on 6 continents and in over a dozen languages. The network is decentralized with each local group completely autonomous.
The origins of Indymedia are through the anti-corporate globalization movement and that tends to the kind of content on most sites. The audience has been widening gradually so there's more content on a wider range of issues.
There's an umbrella site at www.indymedia.org that pulls content from the local sites.
I should say the Indymedia network is much more than just a bunch of websites. With each site there is a group of people that do media tranings, film showings, public access tv shows, newspapers. Some maintain offices that act as community centers.
We're always looking for people to contribute content and to volunteer, especially geeks. Check out an IMC near you.
I don't agree with Leibowitz's willingness to put fair use in the pre-digital ghetto and the (not mentioned) potential roll back of the public domain. Manually copied text, no pictures, no video, no audio, wonderful. I think this spectacularly undervalues the fair use and the public domain.
Fair use and the public domain are part of our information commons and cultural heritage. Lessig and Co have written very eloquently about this, I suggest everyone read what they have to say.
Its not surprising that Leibowitz takes this position as Cato is made up of (to use George Soros' term) market fundamentalists. If you can't put a price tag on it it might as well not exist right? Does the market capture the value of Shakespeare, Hollywood films from the beginning of the last century that are rotting in storage, or Bill Gates' picture retouched to look like a Borg?
There are "free market" lunatics (like Sonny Bono, the "music legend" and legislator most responsible for the latest round of copyright extensions) that will seriously propose that copyright should last forever or that there should be no fair use at all. Strong DRM backed up by laws like the DMCA bring us closer to such a world.
I would love to see Cato and their ilk seriously engage on this issue, I think it gets to the heart of what's at stake and is the most principled opposition to their position. Its disappointing to see that they won't engage on this. I tend to see them as fairly hollow idealouges though, so I'm not actually surprised.
Many companies "promise" that they file for patents for defensive purposes only. Please. Maybe Red Hat is really telling the truth, but in general one should never believe what a publicly traded company promises todo. One should assume that the publicly traded company will try to maximize profits for their shareholders.
If a company truly is filing for a patent for only defensive purposes then they would donate it to an intellectual property conservancy, like The Knowledge Conservancy run out of Yale. That way a company won't be tempted to try to cash in on their IP if they have a change of heart about their "promise" or if they get bought by someone else. Hopefully we can learn something from the CDDB debacle.
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Even taking that into account, i still think its the lamest ask slashdot ever. I actually went and looked back through to Oct and tried to find a lamer one but couldn't find one even close. I was serious when I asked if anyone could find a lamer one.
Generally, I think "ask slashdot" has fared better than the rest of slashdot in signal to noise ratio deterioration. But this question is inane and the discussion is equally inane as a direct result of the question.
I want "news for nerds, stuff that matters" not "inane babbling for nerds, let me speak out my ass for a second".
where is that one?
... "can anyone locate an ask slashdot question lamer than this one?"
I think the answer to this question is "no" but I eargerly await a counterexample.
All the frats I've encountered have seemed to reinforce the sterotypical characteristics associated with their members, those being:
-mba wannbes
-date rapists
-violent thugs
I'm not saying that the positive experience you didn't happen or that individual frat members are good people. But I think what you describe is the exception, and I think its important to convey that to one newly entering college.
I give this advice to everyone I meet that is entering college.
i have had problems w/ dhtml on other sites with it, so its probably buggy.
can't drag w/ Mozilla 1.0
If this was an essential part of flight operations then the fault would be the FAA's for hooking it up to the Internet. I can't believe it is an essential part of operations so go ahead and look. I mean the FAA may be reliant on vacuum tubes but they aren't stupid.
My fave collection on ibiblio (besides the geeky stuff) is radio first termer, a collection of audio from a pirate radio guy during the vietnam war.
Oh, and I found a bunch of old time bawdy folk songs today that are pretty cool.
A machine with wireless networking capabilities would be even more interesting, particularly for networks not attached to the 'net. 802.11 would probably not be best due to its limited range and higher security consciousness around it. Better would be say a pair of old ricochet modems that have range of up to a mile.
actually you didn't read closely at all. If you had you would have discovered that this hole has been known for a year.
larger
that's cause it can take up to 4MB of level 3 cache on die
slower
its not really aimed to compete in its current implementation. its released to let system makers, compiler writers, etc have a crack at it.
more expensive
volume and aimed at different markets
Freenet. Maybe someday it'll be ready for that.
thanks for the correction, I meant to say Chile.
Why is a government official stumping for the interests of a single company? ... It used to be that the U.S. was known for promoting freedom, in the guise of democracy and free markets, to other countries.
When was this? Maybe before the US backed execution of Allende in Argentina to the great benefit of ITT but after installing a friendly dictator for United Fruit (Chiquita) in Guatemala?
Those are the examples that come to mind that combine both the stumping for single companies and the deaths of thousands of people instead of promoting freedom, the world is littered with more.
A recent gem in the stumping for individual companies department that comes to mind is the Bush administration putting pressure on India for an Enron power plant.
I think you need to read some more history.
I didn't claim otherwise. When real releases helix player they will have a player that has some open code and uses binary only libraries to handle real and M$ codecs, just like mplayer does now.
Perhaps you are unaware that mplayer has suceeded in loading real's libraries? I believe they are the first to do so anywhere outside of Real.
mplayer can play any of M$'s codecs and file formats (though not transport) and recently has support for Real's codecs in CVS.
The odds that this subject will make it onto TV at all are slim. The odds that they would interview anyone who would advocate for the position espoused by the ACLU are remote. I would be shocked if they let Jesse Jackson on because he would say something about media consolidation adverserly effecting minorities, but I would be thrilled if they did.
Actually, courts have ruled the first amendment does apply to corporations. They are using this to overturn many of the FCC's regulations on ownership, including limits on the percent of the national market that cable companies can own and the TV/newspaper cross ownership ban.
The GPL allows anyone the freedom to make any use of a work provided derivative works are released under the same terms. The scenario you describe does not provide nearly that degree of freedom. With a GPL'd song, anyone would be able to sell it for any price they like and edit however they like w/o the need for consulting the original author.
..."
"if somebody writes up a draft of it with all the basic problems solved then
I laughed my ass off at the vacuousness of this statement. Gee, is that all? Someone just has to solve the basic problems. Why didn't I think of that.
You fundamentally don't understand the GPL in associating what you said with it. Go read it and become educated before posting.
Tarkin was the name of one of the early kings of Rome, so its not fictional.
How can you say users should campaign for mpeg4 and ask about the licensing restrictions in the same post? I read what you wrote as "I have no idea what I'm talking about, but do this anyway."
The licensing terms specify a fee per stream, that is, for every user that connects the operator pays a fee. That's completely absurd. Only a few large players will be able to participate, small streaming shops won't.
But don't take me word for it, read for yourself.
There is a network of locally based media groups, called Independent Media Centers, that maintain sites of locally oriented news content contributed by users. Content is not limited to just text stories, users are able to contribute any kind of multimedia file. There is a network of approximately 100 such sites located on 6 continents and in over a dozen languages. The network is decentralized with each local group completely autonomous.
The origins of Indymedia are through the anti-corporate globalization movement and that tends to the kind of content on most sites. The audience has been widening gradually so there's more content on a wider range of issues.
There's an umbrella site at www.indymedia.org that pulls content from the local sites.
I should say the Indymedia network is much more than just a bunch of websites. With each site there is a group of people that do media tranings, film showings, public access tv shows, newspapers. Some maintain offices that act as community centers.
We're always looking for people to contribute content and to volunteer, especially geeks. Check out an IMC near you.
I don't agree with Leibowitz's willingness to put fair use in the pre-digital ghetto and the (not mentioned) potential roll back of the public domain. Manually copied text, no pictures, no video, no audio, wonderful. I think this spectacularly undervalues the fair use and the public domain.
Fair use and the public domain are part of our information commons and cultural heritage. Lessig and Co have written very eloquently about this, I suggest everyone read what they have to say.
Its not surprising that Leibowitz takes this position as Cato is made up of (to use George Soros' term) market fundamentalists. If you can't put a price tag on it it might as well not exist right? Does the market capture the value of Shakespeare, Hollywood films from the beginning of the last century that are rotting in storage, or Bill Gates' picture retouched to look like a Borg?
There are "free market" lunatics (like Sonny Bono, the "music legend" and legislator most responsible for the latest round of copyright extensions) that will seriously propose that copyright should last forever or that there should be no fair use at all. Strong DRM backed up by laws like the DMCA bring us closer to such a world.
I would love to see Cato and their ilk seriously engage on this issue, I think it gets to the heart of what's at stake and is the most principled opposition to their position. Its disappointing to see that they won't engage on this. I tend to see them as fairly hollow idealouges though, so I'm not actually surprised.
Many companies "promise" that they file for patents for defensive purposes only. Please. Maybe Red Hat is really telling the truth, but in general one should never believe what a publicly traded company promises todo. One should assume that the publicly traded company will try to maximize profits for their shareholders.
If a company truly is filing for a patent for only defensive purposes then they would donate it to an intellectual property conservancy, like The Knowledge Conservancy run out of Yale. That way a company won't be tempted to try to cash in on their IP if they have a change of heart about their "promise" or if they get bought by someone else. Hopefully we can learn something from the CDDB debacle.