There are many TV cards that aren't mpeg2 hardware encoders.
Right. And, if by "NUV" you mean the Nuppel video format, it can be made without a hardware encoder. The ATI All-in-Wonder 128 cards only seem to record reliably in a somewhat hacked Nuppel format. And last time I tried, I had a hell of a time getting either Xine or mplayer to play them.
Perhaps there's a better principle you could apply, namely that anyone, be it company or person, only has a finite amount of resources (time, money) at their disposal, and choose to dedicate them to specific tasks.
Perhaps unkept diners are more concerned with the quality of their food than the ambiance. Perhaps the IT guy with twelve certifications knows more about getting certifications than about working on computers. Perhaps the vendor that sends you a Christmas card every year is pulling employees off of doing real work in order to make it look to you like they have their shit together. Perhaps the antisocial guy with the unkept hair and the socks-with-sandals is more concerned with proving his latest theory than with what you think of him.
From what I gather it's talking about web services software. Say you use software, perhaps on a machine you own, so you've been given a binary, but you have no source.
Personally I think this is unnecessary as it's already covered by other clauses. Not to mention it's strikingly similar to an EULA and other "use" provisions which have nebulous legal footing, as opposed to "distribution" provisions, which are the basis of the current GPL.
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Same goes for violating it--if you violate the GPL, you've just violated the GPL for each and every work licensed under it.
You know, at some point, all of these fantasy requirements have to at least have a *chance* of standing up in court.
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Runtime linking may not be covered by that interpretation, as it's technically done by the enduser and there is no distribution of copyrighted work, as long as the end product is not considered a "derivative work" of the GPL'd library.
All software born out of the effort will be licensed as open source.
Normally I would attribute minor errors such as these to having a bad day, but this guy needs an editor. You'd expect more from someone who gets paid for their ramblings, as opposed to us slashdotters who nitpick for free;)
Whoa there skippy... there's a *big* difference between committing a crime and failing to fulfill the terms of a contract.
A crime is "theoretically" supposed to adversely affect more than just those involved, as in "the rest of society". That's why, in Civil court, you hire your own-ass lawyers, while, in Criminal court, the State prosecutes.
Now, granted, that line has been (intentionally) blurred lately, so I can't really fault you for not being able to tell the difference.
That's revenue, not profit. Gross revenue, at that. Basically, it's a useless figure that only shows how much money flows through WalMart on it's way to suppliers, employees, and shareholders.
Don't forget that WalMart is also the largest employer in the US, with more than 1 million employees. And, though I have no evidence to back this up, I've heard they operate on profit margins of 10-20%.
Mozilla suite has a higher version number which, for some reason, keeps ignorant IT managers more at ease.
There is a lot of truth to that, but the fact that Thunderbird has a version number less than 1.0 makes me uneasy enough not to convert systems that rely on Mozilla Mail.
For the rest of them, I'm || (this close) to converting them all to Firefox. And, really as the post says, there's no reason not to.
Great points. Not to mention the simple argument that this service has already been developed and is being marketed with or without major name artists.
Yeah, funny that you mention it. Here in the "land of the free", with our "freedom of speech" and all that, somebody tried using an old highschool picture of Ted Kaczinski on their Make-Your-Own-Stamp program. Of course, untold numbers of bureaucrats instantly shat themselves.
Basically, the USPS hoped to capitalize by confusing official sanction for private speech, and (guess what) somebody took them on their offer. So, it was rescinded. Babies.
Reminds me of the bullshit wrangling that goes on over "custom" license plates.
Do you get a commission for every MS user that switches to Linux?
I do, in fact. And a lot of others do as well, if only indirectly. There are tens of thousands of people who would not be able to contribute to Open Source and Linux if there were not actual, *paying* customers supporting them.
And, the fact is, if people stick to Windows, they have more reason to pay Microsoft than to pay for OSS development and support. In the long run, they also have more reason to switch back to Windows if Microsoft (by some miracle) offers application software that is cost and feature-competitive with OSS software.
I'm not counting them out, and neither is Aaron Seigo. Microsoft has shown repeatedly that they have the ability to crush competitors on their own platform, and can sustain negative income for years at a time in order to do so.
Supporting OSS programs on a proprietary OS like Windows eliminates much of the cost savings that contribute to mine and others' salaries and indirectly to Linux and OSS, through donations of time and money.
If the number of OSS-on-Linux users increases, the rate of growth of OSS software will increase as well, merely as a function of OSS being more efficiently developed and better able to compete on an open platform. Similarly, if people currently using OSS-on-Linux decide to instead use OSS-on-Windows, the amount and quality of OSS software in general would suffer.
Ha. Did you miss the last ten years or what? Every business in the US has been scrambling to replace competent admins with trained monkeys, based solely on those ridiculous Windows commercials that show a twelve-year-old saving the company millions of dollars with systems that run themselves.
The idea of now paying to train those idiots in Linux would provide more entertainment than value.
Exactly. How do we go from a society that effectively *pays* people to procreate to one in which everybody lives forever, all in the course of a few generations?
Somebody has to work to produce these "I-wanna-live-forever" technologies, and 90% of the time it ain't the 60-year-olds...
Note: now that I look at your profile, you aren't even from the US. Why should I care what you think? In fact, you made my point. This post is abbreviated.
Don't care about foreigners? Check.
Think the foreign grad students can be replaced by domestic students? Yes.
I fail to understand your argument that, since we recruit intelligent foreigners to come and have great ideas here in the US, somehow Americans benefit.
In case you haven't noticed, the idea that the US can monopolize the "information" economy is complete crap. The rest of the world realized that sometime in the late 90's. Foreigners don't pay for the use of American intellectual property, they steal it. Likewise, we probably steal dumptruck loads of intellectual property from other countries. We're not going to occupy all the third-world shitholes that appropriate western technology from us, just as none of them will be marching into the US anytime soon.
So the end result is that Americans bankroll a huge University system so that foreigners can study here and take lots of useful info back to their home countries to build brand new factories that put Americans out of work.
I swear to God, if anything will be our downfall, it's whiny University professors more concerned with their damn "numbers" and "funding" than with the welfare of US citizens.
And, oh, by the way, it's "farther", not "further". Perhaps instead of blustering about everyone elses' lack of scientific education, you should take some humanities courses; try economics, English, and logic.
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Right. And, if by "NUV" you mean the Nuppel video format, it can be made without a hardware encoder. The ATI All-in-Wonder 128 cards only seem to record reliably in a somewhat hacked Nuppel format. And last time I tried, I had a hell of a time getting either Xine or mplayer to play them.
Two words: eminent domain.
Not suprisingly, those two words are found nowhere in the US Constitution.
Perhaps there's a better principle you could apply, namely that anyone, be it company or person, only has a finite amount of resources (time, money) at their disposal, and choose to dedicate them to specific tasks.
Perhaps unkept diners are more concerned with the quality of their food than the ambiance. Perhaps the IT guy with twelve certifications knows more about getting certifications than about working on computers. Perhaps the vendor that sends you a Christmas card every year is pulling employees off of doing real work in order to make it look to you like they have their shit together. Perhaps the antisocial guy with the unkept hair and the socks-with-sandals is more concerned with proving his latest theory than with what you think of him.
Perhaps appearances can be deceiving.
Does it run on Linux?
From what I gather it's talking about web services software. Say you use software, perhaps on a machine you own, so you've been given a binary, but you have no source.
Personally I think this is unnecessary as it's already covered by other clauses. Not to mention it's strikingly similar to an EULA and other "use" provisions which have nebulous legal footing, as opposed to "distribution" provisions, which are the basis of the current GPL.
You know, at some point, all of these fantasy requirements have to at least have a *chance* of standing up in court.
Runtime linking may not be covered by that interpretation, as it's technically done by the enduser and there is no distribution of copyrighted work, as long as the end product is not considered a "derivative work" of the GPL'd library.
Normally I would attribute minor errors such as these to having a bad day, but this guy needs an editor. You'd expect more from someone who gets paid for their ramblings, as opposed to us slashdotters who nitpick for free ;)
Whoa there skippy... there's a *big* difference between committing a crime and failing to fulfill the terms of a contract.
A crime is "theoretically" supposed to adversely affect more than just those involved, as in "the rest of society". That's why, in Civil court, you hire your own-ass lawyers, while, in Criminal court, the State prosecutes.
Now, granted, that line has been (intentionally) blurred lately, so I can't really fault you for not being able to tell the difference.
That's probably because you're just using words without understanding what they mean.
"Deception" probably means something like "lying" to "a person".
Does any of that apply to this case?
That's revenue, not profit. Gross revenue, at that. Basically, it's a useless figure that only shows how much money flows through WalMart on it's way to suppliers, employees, and shareholders.
Don't forget that WalMart is also the largest employer in the US, with more than 1 million employees. And, though I have no evidence to back this up, I've heard they operate on profit margins of 10-20%.
Mozilla suite has a higher version number which, for some reason, keeps ignorant IT managers more at ease.
There is a lot of truth to that, but the fact that Thunderbird has a version number less than 1.0 makes me uneasy enough not to convert systems that rely on Mozilla Mail.
For the rest of them, I'm || (this close) to converting them all to Firefox. And, really as the post says, there's no reason not to.
Great points. Not to mention the simple argument that this service has already been developed and is being marketed with or without major name artists.
Who's to say security isn't an additional "feature" ?
Yeah, funny that you mention it. Here in the "land of the free", with our "freedom of speech" and all that, somebody tried using an old highschool picture of Ted Kaczinski on their Make-Your-Own-Stamp program. Of course, untold numbers of bureaucrats instantly shat themselves.
Basically, the USPS hoped to capitalize by confusing official sanction for private speech, and (guess what) somebody took them on their offer. So, it was rescinded. Babies.
Reminds me of the bullshit wrangling that goes on over "custom" license plates.
Satellite works great if you have $10 million to invest in one. Until then, blimps are cheaper.
You'll notice satellite service is quite a bit more expensive and slower than DSL/cable.
As long as IE is available on most desktops, IE-specific sites will continue to exist and even continue to be built.
.doc format until Word is no longer an option on the majority of desktops.
.doc format.
Also, I disagree with your assertion that anyone will be free of the Word
Hell, my clients use Linux exclusively and have to use the
I do, in fact. And a lot of others do as well, if only indirectly. There are tens of thousands of people who would not be able to contribute to Open Source and Linux if there were not actual, *paying* customers supporting them.
And, the fact is, if people stick to Windows, they have more reason to pay Microsoft than to pay for OSS development and support. In the long run, they also have more reason to switch back to Windows if Microsoft (by some miracle) offers application software that is cost and feature-competitive with OSS software.
I'm not counting them out, and neither is Aaron Seigo. Microsoft has shown repeatedly that they have the ability to crush competitors on their own platform, and can sustain negative income for years at a time in order to do so.
Supporting OSS programs on a proprietary OS like Windows eliminates much of the cost savings that contribute to mine and others' salaries and indirectly to Linux and OSS, through donations of time and money.
If the number of OSS-on-Linux users increases, the rate of growth of OSS software will increase as well, merely as a function of OSS being more efficiently developed and better able to compete on an open platform. Similarly, if people currently using OSS-on-Linux decide to instead use OSS-on-Windows, the amount and quality of OSS software in general would suffer.
I hate to break it to you, but none of those are *reasons*.
Ha. Did you miss the last ten years or what? Every business in the US has been scrambling to replace competent admins with trained monkeys, based solely on those ridiculous Windows commercials that show a twelve-year-old saving the company millions of dollars with systems that run themselves.
The idea of now paying to train those idiots in Linux would provide more entertainment than value.
Ask Slashdot needs more answers like this.
Exactly. How do we go from a society that effectively *pays* people to procreate to one in which everybody lives forever, all in the course of a few generations?
Somebody has to work to produce these "I-wanna-live-forever" technologies, and 90% of the time it ain't the 60-year-olds...
For those who don't follow too closely, what necessitated a rewrite of Samba 3 and/or what gains are to be expected?
Note: now that I look at your profile, you aren't even from the US. Why should I care what you think? In fact, you made my point. This post is abbreviated.
Don't care about foreigners?
Check.
Think the foreign grad students can be replaced by domestic students?
Yes.
I fail to understand your argument that, since we recruit intelligent foreigners to come and have great ideas here in the US, somehow Americans benefit.
In case you haven't noticed, the idea that the US can monopolize the "information" economy is complete crap. The rest of the world realized that sometime in the late 90's. Foreigners don't pay for the use of American intellectual property, they steal it. Likewise, we probably steal dumptruck loads of intellectual property from other countries. We're not going to occupy all the third-world shitholes that appropriate western technology from us, just as none of them will be marching into the US anytime soon.
So the end result is that Americans bankroll a huge University system so that foreigners can study here and take lots of useful info back to their home countries to build brand new factories that put Americans out of work.
I swear to God, if anything will be our downfall, it's whiny University professors more concerned with their damn "numbers" and "funding" than with the welfare of US citizens.
And, oh, by the way, it's "farther", not "further". Perhaps instead of blustering about everyone elses' lack of scientific education, you should take some humanities courses; try economics, English, and logic.