The Tramiels couldn't market their way out of a wet paper bag. Atari couldn't even promote their own stuff yet they had the savvy to destroy Amiga? Huh?
Puh-leeze. Microsoft and Apple destroyed both the Amiga and ST blindfolded with their hands tied behind their backs.
Yes, the Amiga was vastly superior at the time and should have at least trounced the Mac once and for all. However, everyone here knows that technical merit has very little to do with winning in the marketplace.
Give it to the Konqueror wishlist.
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Konqueror does just that with cookies. There is also a config page where you can change the acceptance or not of cookies per domain. The cookie management in Konq simply rocks.
It seems like a logical extension of that idea to do the same thing with javascript popups. Konq will already let you shut them off completely. For that matter Mozilla will too but a config file has to be edited and the tweak is widely advertised.
I don't mind the idea in general. It's just that Microsoft's cars come with Firestone tires and fail rollover tests. Where can I get the monolithic Toyota or Mercedes?
He wants to be able to pay the ARTIST. The RIAA, at best, only sheds a few crocodile tears for artists. The RIAA is only concerned with filling the coffers of member record companies. Record companies are notorious for not paying artist and behaving like mafia rackets.
Let's look at it from a practical standpoint. There are 1000s of artists in the RIAA stable. How is YOUR favorite artist compensated when a music CD is used to burn those audiogalaxy tracks?
Again, that's not freedom.
What isn't free about it? You are perfectly free to use or not use it. You are also perfectly free to reimplement the ideas embodied in the code under a BSD style or Microsoft style licence. It depends on your idea of freedom.
I'm not free to vandalize a public park. Oh look, that nasty city government has infringed on my freedom. I'm not free to make changes to GPLed software and distribute the result. That nasty software author restricted my freedom. The P in GPL stands for Public not Private. Just as you are not free to add a swingset to the park and put a fence around it, you are not free to distribute a private fork of GPL code.
I don't understand why licence weenies obsess over that small restriction when it also grants the following:
1. The software can be used for any purpose.
2. The software can be modified.
3. The software can be freely distributed.
4. The software can be sold.
That is one HELL of a lot more than a Microsoft style licence allows. Why is it that GPL critics aren't venting against commercial vendors even more?
All that said, I think RMS arguments might work better if he framed them in terms of public ownership (like the park) rather than freedom. To put it broadly, this is because a total anarchist's idea of freedom is far different than what someone from Singapore would consider freedom. Most of us are somewhere inbetween. I think the GPL grants a great deal of freedom but simply because proprietary forks can't be distributed some seem to feel that even a commercial license is more free. Huh?
It is perfectly kosher to sell GPLed software. The YDL people are obligated to provide source to anyone who buys one of their binary cds. There is nothing in the GPL that says one has to provide source to just anybody. However, as long as the cd does not contain any commercial or other non-redistributable software then anyone who legally obtains one of those cd's CAN make it availiable at no cost.
The last point is a major big deal. If a YDL cd contains something like BRU then an iso of that cd CANNOT be freely distributed. Anyone wishing to distribute a YDL iso would have to 'sanitize' it of non-redistributable software first. If I'm not mistaken then these considerations apply to the full version of SUSE because of some commercial packages.
In short, as long as they are providing SRPMS to their customers for the GPL/LGPL stuff then they are breaking no license.
If my wife or child were executed for a crime they were innocent of then would I not be justified in hunting down the judge, prosecutor, executioner,......
After all, "Anyone who deliberately takes another's life deserves no better his or herself."
"I think I'll start releasing software under a license that isn't written to put pressure on anyone, a license that doesn't have a political motive behind it. BSD, here I come..."
Fine, but no one wants to hear any trollistic whinging if your software needs a GPL piece to be easily written. Let's review fundamentals shall we?
1. No one is forcing you to write GPL software.
2. No one is forcing you to use GPL software.
3. No one is forcing you to distribute GPL software.
4. If you want to link against, or redistribute some GPL software but don't like the GPL then refer to the first three fundamentals.
Digital signatures work very well for that sort of thing. Plugins could be developed for various P2P clients to automate knowing whether or not you're downloading the "right" one.
So how to you authenticate without downloading the file first? Sign the filename and include the signature in the filename like this:
TellaDDMMYY__signature-of-TellaDDMMYY.mp3. You could it a bit stronger by: TellaDDMMYY__signature-of-TellaDDMMYY+filesize-in- bytes.mp3
http://www.nokia.com/multimedia/mediaterminal.ht ml
I'll quote from the page:
"Imagine the creative potential and flexibility of a product that can swap seamlessly in and out of Internet sites and television channels, while at the same time, recording your favourite television program or playing the latest digital music hits. As a sofa surfer, you can also enjoy interactive gaming, personal emailing and chatting, and via the internal hard drive, the ability to store digital music, movie and photo files. The Nokia Media Terminal offers these exciting choices and much, much more!
The Nokia Media Terminal Offers
Full Internet Access
The Nokia Media Terminal offers sofa surfers full Internet functions such as web browsing, secure on-line shopping or home banking, chat, email, and personal address book storage from the convenience of your TV.
Interactive Digital TV and Multimedia Services
The combination of high-quality digital TV and state-of-the-art Internet technologies enables a wide variety of multimedia services and applications, including: web and interactive games, on-line support portal/web site, electronic program guide and navigation browser.
Personal Video Recorder (PVR) and Multimedia File Storage
Users of the Nokia Media Terminal enjoy the benefits of a personal video recorder, including pause-and-play live TV broadcast, digital video recording, and video-on-demand through streaming video. The Nokia Media Terminal internal hard drive can hold up to approximately 15 hours of recording time or more depending on the streaming video format. Via the internal hard drive, the Nokia Media Terminal can also store digital music, movie and photo files. For additional storage space or file backup capabilities, the Nokia Media Terminal offers local connectivity to an external hard drive."
This isn't meant to be an X-Box killer. This is Tivo meets WebTV. This machine is not even remotely an Indrema and the usual arguments about console gaming economics will not apply. That is not to say there aren't a million reasons why this will turn out to be be vapor but a `lack of games' will not be one of them. Think Trivia as opposed to Quake.
True. The sun's power source is a gravitationally contained fusion reactor in the core. However, this only applies to the solar core. The rest of the body of the sun is heated by radiation and convection of energy from the core. Indeed, the sun's outer layer DOES emit a glow that is excited from radiation coming up from below.
Good luck. School systems love it for some reason that I can't quite fathom. I wonder if they'll notice the difference with the "classic" theme. I bet it's the old "I `learned' this five years ago and don't want it to change!!!." They're just going to LOVE Mac OS X.
Don't say "This isn't a troll..." and then proceed to troll. The practiced trolls will see you as an amateur and lots of another people will be in the least convinced by a short post of generalitiies.
As much as I love the idea of Microsoft getting their just desserts, I doubt that it is happening much. People who are making money don't get their cars repoed. I'll grant that many here don't like some of the ways that Microsoft is making it's money. However, people who are making money by whatever means tend to make their car payments. If you want to see the towtrucks in Redmond's parking lot then lets hope that.NET turns out like BOB.
If that should happen (NOT!...damn it!) then let's hire an elementary school student body to come out to the parking lot in cute little Tux costumes to perform "Ding dong the wicked witch is deeeeaaaaad!"
Now Eazel on the other hand.......
Telecine was more sophisticated than that.
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I had the chance to play with a telecine player when I was in tech school. This was a circa 1975 device and I'm sure they had them in the late sixties as well. It looked a hell of a lot like a VTR but it didn't accept video tape. The top cover opened so that it could be threaded with 35mm film just like a projector. It's output was baseband NTSC video and mono audio.
That's right. You put film in this thing and then you could watch it on an NTSC monitor....or hook it up into a broadcast distribution panel. Flashing 24 fps video into a 30 fps video camera wouldn't work very well anyway. The framerate doesn't match and there is no frame sync. The output of the camera would have these horrid bars running through it. The telecine's video sync was locked to the framerate of the film passing through it. It also used a special shutter on the internal optical pickup that show alternating film frames to it 3 times then 2 times. This caused the video to have some repeating frames that masked the 24/30 fps difference.
If it's necessary, I'm sure there are plenty of people here who can build whatever they need to play audio. DA converters are not that hard to build. I don't believe that stripping the electronics from a CD-ROM transport need be terribly difficult either. Let's all get our Digi-Key and Mouser catalogs ordered and whip out those soldering irons. A good electronics hobbyist and good firmware coder should be able to make any piece of open hardware that they want.
Once workable plans are developed, the skills to assemble devices from a kit are even more widespread. We don't absolutely need Circuit Shitty and their ilk. We especially don't need to enrich anybody buying deliberately broken equipment. There is a long history of audiophiles building their own equipment. I think that particular subculture is about to expand.
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The knowledge of the star Sirius does not predate the 20th century (for the Dogon). They incorporated some things Western visitors told them into their beliefs. The source of the Dogon knowledge is perfectly prosaic.
A friend of mine that I hadn't seen for four years became an Amway salesman. We spent about two minutes saying hi and catching up. He then proceeded to spend the next half an hour trying to sell me the catalog and turn me into an Amway salesman. I spent the half hour attempting to explain politely that I had no interest in either.
I never got the jokes about not sitting next to an Amway salesman on the bus until my buddy morphed into one. He could have become a Scientologist and been just as obnoxious. If joining Amway is the solution to all my problems then I'll just learn to live with the problems.
Social institutions are vulnerable to societal problems however. Orwell pointed out that rewriting history is a powerful way to control information.
The Bible hasn't escaped these problems either. I have no less than 8 different versions of the Bible in my book collection. Granted some of these are "readability" editions like the New King James Version. Others however are favored by various sects. Many fundamentalists in the US prefer the New International Version for instance. The Catholics use the Douhy which has books and Apocrypha most other versions don't. I even have the Lost Books of The Bible made from the Dead Sea Scrolls (now wasn't THAT a lucky break!). There is no "one true" Bible. We can only say what is the same in all the versions of the Bible.
At least three societal forces shaped the Bible. Languages dying and coming into being was probably the most important. I doubt even a modern day Orthodox Rabbi would easily understand Ancient Hebrew. Political and schismatic forces also had their effect. The King James came about because England wanted an ENGLISH Bible without any of that Popery. A sort of historical generation fade was also at work. The Dead Sea Scrolls contained material that probably should have been included in earlier Bibles. The Bible is really the remnants of earlier texts and oral passages. To be sure, the Bible preserves much but not all and not always accurately.
At best we can count on institutions to perpetuate data but we can not count on them to perpetuate it unchanged.
Come to think of it. Imperishable media aren't either. The Library at Alexandria was burned after all.
What if the information were stored on the server in an encrypted format? The owner of the information would be the only person who has the key to decrypt the information. Even better, the owner could only decrypt the pieces required for a particular purchase, application or whatever.
From the user's point of view all of the advantages would still be there. He would have nice itemized lists of his bill and purchases. He can quickly zip through credit purchases and applications. But there would be no reselling or evil use of the information as only the owner can authorize spot uses of it.
The LGPL allows you to link against libraries without releasing source to part you wrote. If you use the libraries unchanged then the program you write that is linked against it is yours to license differently. However, if you find it necessary to patch a LGPL library to get it to work with your project then you have to release the changes to the library. Even if you patch a library and release the source to the altered library, you can still license the code you're linking against it separately.
It's just like the GPL in that any change to an LGPLed library obligates you to release source to it when binaries are distributed. It is unlike the GPL in that it allows linking SEPARATE modules under a different license.
Like the other posters, I recommend that you thoroughly read and comprehend the license before you use it.
I believe that the original developer has to be credited. If there were truly no restrictions we wouldn't refer to the BSD LICENSE. We just call such software "public domain".
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The Tramiels couldn't market their way out of a wet paper bag. Atari couldn't even promote their own stuff yet they had the savvy to destroy Amiga? Huh?
Puh-leeze. Microsoft and Apple destroyed both the Amiga and ST blindfolded with their hands tied behind their backs.
Yes, the Amiga was vastly superior at the time and should have at least trounced the Mac once and for all. However, everyone here knows that technical merit has very little to do with winning in the marketplace.
Konqueror does just that with cookies. There is also a config page where you can change the acceptance or not of cookies per domain. The cookie management in Konq simply rocks.
It seems like a logical extension of that idea to do the same thing with javascript popups. Konq will already let you shut them off completely. For that matter Mozilla will too but a config file has to be edited and the tweak is widely advertised.
I don't mind the idea in general. It's just that Microsoft's cars come with Firestone tires and fail rollover tests. Where can I get the monolithic Toyota or Mercedes?
He wants to be able to pay the ARTIST. The RIAA, at best, only sheds a few crocodile tears for artists. The RIAA is only concerned with filling the coffers of member record companies. Record companies are notorious for not paying artist and behaving like mafia rackets.
Let's look at it from a practical standpoint. There are 1000s of artists in the RIAA stable. How is YOUR favorite artist compensated when a music CD is used to burn those audiogalaxy tracks?
Again, that's not freedom. What isn't free about it? You are perfectly free to use or not use it. You are also perfectly free to reimplement the ideas embodied in the code under a BSD style or Microsoft style licence. It depends on your idea of freedom. I'm not free to vandalize a public park. Oh look, that nasty city government has infringed on my freedom. I'm not free to make changes to GPLed software and distribute the result. That nasty software author restricted my freedom. The P in GPL stands for Public not Private. Just as you are not free to add a swingset to the park and put a fence around it, you are not free to distribute a private fork of GPL code. I don't understand why licence weenies obsess over that small restriction when it also grants the following: 1. The software can be used for any purpose. 2. The software can be modified. 3. The software can be freely distributed. 4. The software can be sold. That is one HELL of a lot more than a Microsoft style licence allows. Why is it that GPL critics aren't venting against commercial vendors even more? All that said, I think RMS arguments might work better if he framed them in terms of public ownership (like the park) rather than freedom. To put it broadly, this is because a total anarchist's idea of freedom is far different than what someone from Singapore would consider freedom. Most of us are somewhere inbetween. I think the GPL grants a great deal of freedom but simply because proprietary forks can't be distributed some seem to feel that even a commercial license is more free. Huh?
It is perfectly kosher to sell GPLed software. The YDL people are obligated to provide source to anyone who buys one of their binary cds. There is nothing in the GPL that says one has to provide source to just anybody. However, as long as the cd does not contain any commercial or other non-redistributable software then anyone who legally obtains one of those cd's CAN make it availiable at no cost.
The last point is a major big deal. If a YDL cd contains something like BRU then an iso of that cd CANNOT be freely distributed. Anyone wishing to distribute a YDL iso would have to 'sanitize' it of non-redistributable software first. If I'm not mistaken then these considerations apply to the full version of SUSE because of some commercial packages.
In short, as long as they are providing SRPMS to their customers for the GPL/LGPL stuff then they are breaking no license.
If my wife or child were executed for a crime they were innocent of then would I not be justified in hunting down the judge, prosecutor, executioner,......
After all, "Anyone who deliberately takes another's life deserves no better his or herself."
"I think I'll start releasing software under a license that isn't written to put pressure on anyone, a license that doesn't have a political motive behind it. BSD, here I come..."
Fine, but no one wants to hear any trollistic whinging if your software needs a GPL piece to be easily written. Let's review fundamentals shall we?
1. No one is forcing you to write GPL software.
2. No one is forcing you to use GPL software.
3. No one is forcing you to distribute GPL software.
4. If you want to link against, or redistribute some GPL software but don't like the GPL then refer to the first three fundamentals.
Digital signatures work very well for that sort of thing. Plugins could be developed for various P2P clients to automate knowing whether or not you're downloading the "right" one.
- bytes.mp3
So how to you authenticate without downloading the file first? Sign the filename and include the signature in the filename like this:
TellaDDMMYY__signature-of-TellaDDMMYY.mp3. You could it a bit stronger by: TellaDDMMYY__signature-of-TellaDDMMYY+filesize-in
Nokia's pages on the device can be found here:
t ml
http://www.nokia.com/multimedia/mediaterminal.h
I'll quote from the page:
"Imagine the creative potential and flexibility of a product that can swap seamlessly in and out of Internet sites and television channels, while at the same time, recording your favourite television program or playing the latest digital music hits. As a sofa surfer, you can also enjoy interactive gaming, personal emailing and chatting, and via the internal hard drive, the ability to store digital music, movie and photo files. The Nokia Media Terminal offers these exciting choices and much, much more!
The Nokia Media Terminal Offers
Full Internet Access
The Nokia Media Terminal offers sofa surfers full Internet functions such as web browsing, secure on-line shopping or home banking, chat, email, and personal address book storage from the convenience of your TV.
Interactive Digital TV and Multimedia Services
The combination of high-quality digital TV and state-of-the-art Internet technologies enables a wide variety of multimedia services and applications, including: web and interactive games, on-line support portal/web site, electronic program guide and navigation browser.
Personal Video Recorder (PVR) and Multimedia File Storage
Users of the Nokia Media Terminal enjoy the benefits of a personal video recorder, including pause-and-play live TV broadcast, digital video recording, and video-on-demand through streaming video. The Nokia Media Terminal internal hard drive can hold up to approximately 15 hours of recording time or more depending on the streaming video format. Via the internal hard drive, the Nokia Media Terminal can also store digital music, movie and photo files. For additional storage space or file backup capabilities, the Nokia Media Terminal offers local connectivity to an external hard drive."
This isn't meant to be an X-Box killer. This is Tivo meets WebTV. This machine is not even remotely an Indrema and the usual arguments about console gaming economics will not apply. That is not to say there aren't a million reasons why this will turn out to be be vapor but a `lack of games' will not be one of them. Think Trivia as opposed to Quake.
True. The sun's power source is a gravitationally contained fusion reactor in the core. However, this only applies to the solar core. The rest of the body of the sun is heated by radiation and convection of energy from the core. Indeed, the sun's outer layer DOES emit a glow that is excited from radiation coming up from below.
Good luck. School systems love it for some reason that I can't quite fathom. I wonder if they'll notice the difference with the "classic" theme. I bet it's the old "I `learned' this five years ago and don't want it to change!!!." They're just going to LOVE Mac OS X.
Don't say "This isn't a troll..." and then proceed to troll. The practiced trolls will see you as an amateur and lots of another people will be in the least convinced by a short post of generalitiies.
As much as I love the idea of Microsoft getting their just desserts, I doubt that it is happening much. People who are making money don't get their cars repoed. I'll grant that many here don't like some of the ways that Microsoft is making it's money. However, people who are making money by whatever means tend to make their car payments. If you want to see the towtrucks in Redmond's parking lot then lets hope that .NET turns out like BOB.
If that should happen (NOT!...damn it!) then let's hire an elementary school student body to come out to the parking lot in cute little Tux costumes to perform "Ding dong the wicked witch is deeeeaaaaad!"
Now Eazel on the other hand.......
I had the chance to play with a telecine player when I was in tech school. This was a circa 1975 device and I'm sure they had them in the late sixties as well. It looked a hell of a lot like a VTR but it didn't accept video tape. The top cover opened so that it could be threaded with 35mm film just like a projector. It's output was baseband NTSC video and mono audio.
That's right. You put film in this thing and then you could watch it on an NTSC monitor....or hook it up into a broadcast distribution panel. Flashing 24 fps video into a 30 fps video camera wouldn't work very well anyway. The framerate doesn't match and there is no frame sync. The output of the camera would have these horrid bars running through it. The telecine's video sync was locked to the framerate of the film passing through it. It also used a special shutter on the internal optical pickup that show alternating film frames to it 3 times then 2 times. This caused the video to have some repeating frames that masked the 24/30 fps difference.
If it's necessary, I'm sure there are plenty of people here who can build whatever they need to play audio. DA converters are not that hard to build. I don't believe that stripping the electronics from a CD-ROM transport need be terribly difficult either. Let's all get our Digi-Key and Mouser catalogs ordered and whip out those soldering irons. A good electronics hobbyist and good firmware coder should be able to make any piece of open hardware that they want.
Once workable plans are developed, the skills to assemble devices from a kit are even more widespread. We don't absolutely need Circuit Shitty and their ilk. We especially don't need to enrich anybody buying deliberately broken equipment. There is a long history of audiophiles building their own equipment. I think that particular subculture is about to expand.
The knowledge of the star Sirius does not predate the 20th century (for the Dogon). They incorporated some things Western visitors told them into their beliefs. The source of the Dogon knowledge is perfectly prosaic.
A friend of mine that I hadn't seen for four years became an Amway salesman. We spent about two minutes saying hi and catching up. He then proceeded to spend the next half an hour trying to sell me the catalog and turn me into an Amway salesman. I spent the half hour attempting to explain politely that I had no interest in either.
I never got the jokes about not sitting next to an Amway salesman on the bus until my buddy morphed into one. He could have become a Scientologist and been just as obnoxious. If joining Amway is the solution to all my problems then I'll just learn to live with the problems.
Where do I find it on Microsoft's site? I searched microsoft.com for hours and all I could find was:
/ Li nuxMyths.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/news/msnw
Social institutions are vulnerable to societal problems however. Orwell pointed out that rewriting history is a powerful way to control information.
The Bible hasn't escaped these problems either. I have no less than 8 different versions of the Bible in my book collection. Granted some of these are "readability" editions like the New King James Version. Others however are favored by various sects. Many fundamentalists in the US prefer the New International Version for instance. The Catholics use the Douhy which has books and Apocrypha most other versions don't. I even have the Lost Books of The Bible made from the Dead Sea Scrolls (now wasn't THAT a lucky break!). There is no "one true" Bible. We can only say what is the same in all the versions of the Bible.
At least three societal forces shaped the Bible. Languages dying and coming into being was probably the most important. I doubt even a modern day Orthodox Rabbi would easily understand Ancient Hebrew. Political and schismatic forces also had their effect. The King James came about because England wanted an ENGLISH Bible without any of that Popery. A sort of historical generation fade was also at work. The Dead Sea Scrolls contained material that probably should have been included in earlier Bibles. The Bible is really the remnants of earlier texts and oral passages. To be sure, the Bible preserves much but not all and not always accurately.
At best we can count on institutions to perpetuate data but we can not count on them to perpetuate it unchanged.
Come to think of it. Imperishable media aren't either. The Library at Alexandria was burned after all.
What if the information were stored on the server in an encrypted format? The owner of the information would be the only person who has the key to decrypt the information. Even better, the owner could only decrypt the pieces required for a particular purchase, application or whatever.
From the user's point of view all of the advantages would still be there. He would have nice itemized lists of his bill and purchases. He can quickly zip through credit purchases and applications. But there would be no reselling or evil use of the information as only the owner can authorize spot uses of it.
Hail Storm "Now bow down and worship me!!!" dmaxwell "Meet Mr. HERFgun......."
The LGPL allows you to link against libraries without releasing source to part you wrote. If you use the libraries unchanged then the program you write that is linked against it is yours to license differently. However, if you find it necessary to patch a LGPL library to get it to work with your project then you have to release the changes to the library. Even if you patch a library and release the source to the altered library, you can still license the code you're linking against it separately.
It's just like the GPL in that any change to an LGPLed library obligates you to release source to it when binaries are distributed. It is unlike the GPL in that it allows linking SEPARATE modules under a different license.
Like the other posters, I recommend that you thoroughly read and comprehend the license before you use it.
I believe that the original developer has to be credited. If there were truly no restrictions we wouldn't refer to the BSD LICENSE. We just call such software "public domain".
"Not to mention the horrific depictions of ewoks dying by the dozens."
What's the problem with this?