What's wrong with a perfectly nice word like cockpit? Especially with all of those stewardesses..I mean..flight attendants going in and out of it all of the time? And while were at it, who made the guy in the cockpitthe captain? Tell the captain that Air Marshall dmaxwell says go fuck yourself.
Debian's installer has to work across at least 11 different arches. It has to be endian clean and work equally well on 32 and 64 bit architectures. It must also be able to cope with http, ftp, and cdrom installs. Last but not least, there is the multitude of Debian packages and the categories they come in.
It was probably easier to write something from scratch than adapt say RedHat's installer to meet those requirements. It also doesn't sound as crude as your making it out to be. This installer has hardware detection and automatic module configuration. A pretty front-end can be wrapped around it and the article says that experimental gtk installers based on it already exist. A multi-arch installer is Not Easy.
As long as we're hitting all the bitches, here's my biggest one. Enough of the short jokes already! Gimli is supposed to be a badass. Dwarves are short, squat, and extremely strong because they carve up mountains. What we got was short, squat, slow and whiny with pointless sight gags.
Word is also stagnant because there's nothing more to do with a word processor.
I like the frame based look and feel of kword and the the other koffice packages much better than OOO or MS Office. Making complex documents feels very intuitive with it. I don't actually use it for much of anything since it doesn't communicate well with others. I've read the koffice devs are going to embrace the OOO formats in a bigger way so here's hoping. The parent is correct; the need to import/export Office files is a developer timesink. The koffice guys have mostly ignored that up to now and produced something that feels vastly better than any other productivity software I've used. Its a pity that it can't be much more than a proof of concept right now.
They would take things you and ESR said out of context and make you answer yes-or-no questions in such a way that you come off like a file sharing pirate who says "arrrrrrr" all the time. They will basically assassinate your character any way they can....and sharp lawyering would likely stop you from doing anything about it. They are using the legal system to further a smear campaign.
Here's a project for the EEs among you. How about replacing the controller on an IDE drive with an utterly stupid device that is driven entirely through software? The load on the CPU would be somewhat ridiculous as CD-ROMs and audio drives do quite a bit of error correction and so forth. But this drive could not be fooled by anything they do to a CD. These copy protection schemes all hinge on interfering with assumptions that CD-ROM engineers have made. This is not a new idea. In the eighties, there were hardware modifications for diskette drives that basically made them software controlled devices.
The only reason you can't have a rich warezed DVD experience is because it isn't practical. Most people don't have T3s in their homes. The divx warez that float around that you rightly suspect the quality of are barely practical. Copy protection on DVDs has very little to do with it. Actually copy protection has little to do with warezing in any media. It always gets broken irregardless of technical and legal obstacles...maybe even BECAUSE of the technical and legal obstacles.
DRM political issues aside, this will make lots of people put off media purchases. Many consumers will wait for the dust from format wars to settle before they'll buy into anything. Either players that support all formats have to come out or the marketplace has to settle on one or at most two DRM formats. In addition, any player will have to support at least MP3.
What's worse is that content encoded in Marketplace loser DRM will have a very short shelf life. Divx anyone?
Actually, I don't believe you can do that. When using public domain music or books, one must work from urtext. The urtext is the work that originally went into the public domain. It is the urtext that cannot have ownership claimed over it. A cleaned up version of the urtext would be a derived work and the editor can indeed claim copyright over his version.
Music publishing companies are rabid on the subject. They've been known to change a few notes randomly in their printings of things like old classical works to identify their versions if someone else distributes copies. If you want public domain Mozart, you either have to work from the urtext yourself or a liberally licensed version of it.
Think about this way. Imagine all the work it would take to clean up and digitize an old 1920s film. A few will do it for love and others will only do it for money. I would even say charging is reasonable as long as the first editor to do it doesn't prevent anyone else from accessing the original PD work.
This was one of the more bogus arguments for copyright extension. "No one will have any incentive to rescue deteriorating films and music." It's crap. Remastered media is a derived work and subject to copyright.
The thought of taking two sips of that stuff gives me the shakes. It tastes like Natural Light that's been poured through a stewbum's socks to give it extra "character". Sheesh man! How did you manage to choke that shit down? I'd have to shellack my tongue and drink a whole bottle of Pepto first.
I'll grant your main point. Keeping Mac OS X up to date could suck for a poor student. "Cheap" MS software is subsidized through many students fees. Hmmmmmm.
Desktop Linux fits two kinds of users very well. The first kind are like your parents. Once it is set up, they don't mess with it. There's maybe seven icons that get clicked all the time and thats it. You did luck out with the garden design software.
The second type mess with the system constantly but are comfortable doing things like editing text files and resolving dependencies. Whatever comes up technically gets handled.
There is a third type of user thats still a problem. These users want to continually add and remove software and hardware from the machine. The thing is, they don't know a thing about computers and don't want to know. Such users can usually get about two years out of a Windows install before they have someone straighten out the mess the machine is in. Sure the machine is likely hosed by then but they got some varied service out of it before bunging up the registry or the dlls. A MacOS (Classic) install will sometimes last longer under such use although OS X hasn't been out long enough for me to see the full range of brain damage it's users can inflict. I've even seen them buy whole new systems because it is easier than backing up data and reinstalling. These people aren't necessarily gamers.
Those users tend to HATE Linux. Linux will either totally rebuff such users or they'll do everything as root one time too many and completely hose the system. Lindows and Mandrake attempt to cater to them but screw it up by either having them run as root all time (yes, the option is there to create a regular user account. These users WON'T do it.) or being overly flaky. When I used it, Mandrake was crashy enough to make think I was running Windows 98 again.
Others have pointed out that work needs to be done on hardware detection/configuration and software installs. I think it will get there but those are the two things that really screw Linux as a consumer OS.
Perhaps, but I was speaking of the quality of mp3ed audio made from the stream. If the stream is high bitrate to start with then the audio won't suffer too much from being re-encoded. The parent poster wants to decrapulate the music he gets through the service. I just doubt the quality of the decrapped audio will be all that good even though it is just fine for listening as the service intends.
If instead of looping back the audio, it was sent to the line in of another machine then the drm would be for naught. Any macrovision-type tricks they may try on the analog audio should be easy enough to defeat.
The real problem is that others have pointed out that these streams are 96kbps. Why go to the trouble for something that will sound worse than FM radio when you're done?
SCO's ftp site and installation media contains a plethora or GPLed software. I think it would be safe to say that all of the major GPLed projects are represented in their distribution schemes. KDE, SAMBA, the kernel devs, GNOME, you name it. If SCO is violating the GPL then the copyright holders of that code (some of which are deep pocketed corps) can have their asses for lunch.
It was a revenge story. The benign virus didn't spontaneously mutate. The virus was engineered by a molecular biologist whose wife and kids were killed by an IRA car bomb. In his greif, he decided to deprive EVERYONE in Ireland of their wives. So he designed a virus that exclusively killed women. The problem was that it got out of Ireland in a hurry......
...is that SCO may well claim in court that since the GPL is (according to them) invalid, and since the software developed under it is (according to them) developed on, for or with software containing SCO IP, then SCO is the logical successor in ownership of that software.
The corporate contributors to Linux can use the exact same reasoning....against SCO. RedHat for one has patented IP in the kernel. I'd be a little hacked off if SCO destroyed my business too.
is not necessarily my friend. Noorda dislikes MS to point of calling Ballmer "Emballmer" and Bill "Pearly" Gates. He was fond of saying something like "Emballmer gets you ready for the grave and Pearly drops you in it."
I have no doubt he would like to score a win of some kind against MS. But it wouldn't surprise me if Free Software offends him as badly as it does MS. A victory for the GPL isn't necessarily a victory for him. He isn't going to go out of his way for a little schadenfreude.
The other possibility is that he doesn't care what SCO does as long as they're scoring some change from SUN and MS.
I'm sure the judicial community winces when the think of Penfield Jackson shooting his mouth off. Kimball might give an interview when this business is completely finished. Even then, he'll likely keep it to generalities. I can't see any judge wanting the integrity of his rulings questioned.
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What's wrong with a perfectly nice word like cockpit? Especially with all of those stewardesses..I mean..flight attendants going in and out of it all of the time? And while were at it, who made the guy in the cockpit the captain? Tell the captain that Air Marshall dmaxwell says go fuck yourself.
come one FreeBSD people can't use the DRM files either...
The instant there is a way to use the files in Linux it will work in the BSDs as well. Most sourcecode these days works equally well on either.
Debian's installer has to work across at least 11 different arches. It has to be endian clean and work equally well on 32 and 64 bit architectures. It must also be able to cope with http, ftp, and cdrom installs. Last but not least, there is the multitude of Debian packages and the categories they come in.
It was probably easier to write something from scratch than adapt say RedHat's installer to meet those requirements. It also doesn't sound as crude as your making it out to be. This installer has hardware detection and automatic module configuration. A pretty front-end can be wrapped around it and the article says that experimental gtk installers based on it already exist. A multi-arch installer is Not Easy.
As long as we're hitting all the bitches, here's my biggest one. Enough of the short jokes already! Gimli is supposed to be a badass. Dwarves are short, squat, and extremely strong because they carve up mountains. What we got was short, squat, slow and whiny with pointless sight gags.
Word is also stagnant because there's nothing more to do with a word processor.
I like the frame based look and feel of kword and the the other koffice packages much better than OOO or MS Office. Making complex documents feels very intuitive with it. I don't actually use it for much of anything since it doesn't communicate well with others. I've read the koffice devs are going to embrace the OOO formats in a bigger way so here's hoping. The parent is correct; the need to import/export Office files is a developer timesink. The koffice guys have mostly ignored that up to now and produced something that feels vastly better than any other productivity software I've used. Its a pity that it can't be much more than a proof of concept right now.
They would take things you and ESR said out of context and make you answer yes-or-no questions in such a way that you come off like a file sharing pirate who says "arrrrrrr" all the time. They will basically assassinate your character any way they can....and sharp lawyering would likely stop you from doing anything about it. They are using the legal system to further a smear campaign.
Here's a project for the EEs among you. How about replacing the controller on an IDE drive with an utterly stupid device that is driven entirely through software? The load on the CPU would be somewhat ridiculous as CD-ROMs and audio drives do quite a bit of error correction and so forth. But this drive could not be fooled by anything they do to a CD. These copy protection schemes all hinge on interfering with assumptions that CD-ROM engineers have made. This is not a new idea. In the eighties, there were hardware modifications for diskette drives that basically made them software controlled devices.
The only reason you can't have a rich warezed DVD experience is because it isn't practical. Most people don't have T3s in their homes. The divx warez that float around that you rightly suspect the quality of are barely practical. Copy protection on DVDs has very little to do with it. Actually copy protection has little to do with warezing in any media. It always gets broken irregardless of technical and legal obstacles...maybe even BECAUSE of the technical and legal obstacles.
DRM political issues aside, this will make lots of people put off media purchases. Many consumers will wait for the dust from format wars to settle before they'll buy into anything. Either players that support all formats have to come out or the marketplace has to settle on one or at most two DRM formats. In addition, any player will have to support at least MP3.
What's worse is that content encoded in Marketplace loser DRM will have a very short shelf life. Divx anyone?
Actually, I don't believe you can do that. When using public domain music or books, one must work from urtext. The urtext is the work that originally went into the public domain. It is the urtext that cannot have ownership claimed over it. A cleaned up version of the urtext would be a derived work and the editor can indeed claim copyright over his version.
Music publishing companies are rabid on the subject. They've been known to change a few notes randomly in their printings of things like old classical works to identify their versions if someone else distributes copies. If you want public domain Mozart, you either have to work from the urtext yourself or a liberally licensed version of it.
Think about this way. Imagine all the work it would take to clean up and digitize an old 1920s film. A few will do it for love and others will only do it for money. I would even say charging is reasonable as long as the first editor to do it doesn't prevent anyone else from accessing the original PD work.
This was one of the more bogus arguments for copyright extension. "No one will have any incentive to rescue deteriorating films and music." It's crap. Remastered media is a derived work and subject to copyright.
The thought of taking two sips of that stuff gives me the shakes. It tastes like Natural Light that's been poured through a stewbum's socks to give it extra "character". Sheesh man! How did you manage to choke that shit down? I'd have to shellack my tongue and drink a whole bottle of Pepto first.
I'll grant your main point. Keeping Mac OS X up to date could suck for a poor student. "Cheap" MS software is subsidized through many students fees. Hmmmmmm.
Clearly your friends don't do as much crack as mine do.
Darl? Is that you?
Desktop Linux fits two kinds of users very well. The first kind are like your parents. Once it is set up, they don't mess with it. There's maybe seven icons that get clicked all the time and thats it. You did luck out with the garden design software.
The second type mess with the system constantly but are comfortable doing things like editing text files and resolving dependencies. Whatever comes up technically gets handled.
There is a third type of user thats still a problem. These users want to continually add and remove software and hardware from the machine. The thing is, they don't know a thing about computers and don't want to know. Such users can usually get about two years out of a Windows install before they have someone straighten out the mess the machine is in. Sure the machine is likely hosed by then but they got some varied service out of it before bunging up the registry or the dlls. A MacOS (Classic) install will sometimes last longer under such use although OS X hasn't been out long enough for me to see the full range of brain damage it's users can inflict. I've even seen them buy whole new systems because it is easier than backing up data and reinstalling. These people aren't necessarily gamers.
Those users tend to HATE Linux. Linux will either totally rebuff such users or they'll do everything as root one time too many and completely hose the system. Lindows and Mandrake attempt to cater to them but screw it up by either having them run as root all time (yes, the option is there to create a regular user account. These users WON'T do it.) or being overly flaky. When I used it, Mandrake was crashy enough to make think I was running Windows 98 again.
Others have pointed out that work needs to be done on hardware detection/configuration and software installs. I think it will get there but those are the two things that really screw Linux as a consumer OS.
So you're saying that MS will find out what WINE users and developers already know?
I suppose someone with the original versions on VHS could restore the "Special" editions somewhat. I'd put up with momentary quality losses.
Ooops. My bad.
Re-encoded stream quality: bad.
Re-encoded wma quality: possibly decent.
Perhaps, but I was speaking of the quality of mp3ed audio made from the stream. If the stream is high bitrate to start with then the audio won't suffer too much from being re-encoded. The parent poster wants to decrapulate the music he gets through the service. I just doubt the quality of the decrapped audio will be all that good even though it is just fine for listening as the service intends.
If instead of looping back the audio, it was sent to the line in of another machine then the drm would be for naught. Any macrovision-type tricks they may try on the analog audio should be easy enough to defeat.
The real problem is that others have pointed out that these streams are 96kbps. Why go to the trouble for something that will sound worse than FM radio when you're done?
If the letter comes from joeslashdotsattacklawyer@lawfirm.com then he has to think at least twice.
SCO's ftp site and installation media contains a plethora or GPLed software. I think it would be safe to say that all of the major GPLed projects are represented in their distribution schemes. KDE, SAMBA, the kernel devs, GNOME, you name it. If SCO is violating the GPL then the copyright holders of that code (some of which are deep pocketed corps) can have their asses for lunch.
It was a revenge story. The benign virus didn't spontaneously mutate. The virus was engineered by a molecular biologist whose wife and kids were killed by an IRA car bomb. In his greif, he decided to deprive EVERYONE in Ireland of their wives. So he designed a virus that exclusively killed women. The problem was that it got out of Ireland in a hurry......
And if SCO is the survivor it may still get taken out in the parking lot and beaten to death with tire irons.
It sounds like Gowachin Law. Sounds good to me. Boies and pals can get the iron supplements too.
The corporate contributors to Linux can use the exact same reasoning....against SCO. RedHat for one has patented IP in the kernel. I'd be a little hacked off if SCO destroyed my business too.
is not necessarily my friend. Noorda dislikes MS to point of calling Ballmer "Emballmer" and Bill "Pearly" Gates. He was fond of saying something like "Emballmer gets you ready for the grave and Pearly drops you in it."
I have no doubt he would like to score a win of some kind against MS. But it wouldn't surprise me if Free Software offends him as badly as it does MS. A victory for the GPL isn't necessarily a victory for him. He isn't going to go out of his way for a little schadenfreude.
The other possibility is that he doesn't care what SCO does as long as they're scoring some change from SUN and MS.
I'm sure the judicial community winces when the think of Penfield Jackson shooting his mouth off. Kimball might give an interview when this business is completely finished. Even then, he'll likely keep it to generalities. I can't see any judge wanting the integrity of his rulings questioned.