Theres plenty of +2 thats noise too. To get the additional point you only need to have submitted enough posts that didn't get moderated down (I beleive its > 40 within a few weeks) The guidelines for moderator status seemed to be based more on participation than anything else. Also if you hit the site n+1 times a day, you'll actually become ineligible for moderator status till you slack off.
It's too bad/. is corporate owned now, I'm sure the ACLU would have liked to get involved.
Something I haven't seen (granted I haven't read through all the posts) is this:
Obviously someone at Microsoft is monitoring/. content (they _did_ hire some people to work on linux related issues)
Who's to say those same people didn't post the offending material? It would be non-trivial to prove it either way. IANAL so I don't know when "reasonable doubt" is appropriate WRT court cases other than criminal proceedings, but to my mind, it could be argued that this is a setup.
I got the feeling from _reading_the_article_ that the guy (who has made contributions to the kernel), felt that he and others that have linux skills at his place of employment should be doing _important_ work _not_ maintaining the mailserver. Basically he was palming the job off on the NT admins instead of hiring a dedicated admin for the linux box.
Okay, according to Alan Cox/dev/sndstat is a deprecated interfaced. He suggested that the developers drop support for it.
As far as/dev/sequencer goes, I had started a thread on the mailing list about that and after enough people seemed to want it (and one guy who suggested an easy way to do it) it was added to an experimental branch of the CVS tree less than 2 weeks later. It works with LiveDrive as well as the gameport
There are actually 4 drivers available. I did a feature comparison. Funny how the open stuff has more features.....
when the (presumably fully featured) closed source drivers are released, will your average user care about the open source drivers?
IMHO Creative will _never_ make their delivery date (tentatively "summer 00") especially in light of the fact that they intend to port LiveWare as well as supply a driver. So anybody that _buys_ an SBLive in the meantime will use the vastly superior (today) open driver. With the rate of progress on the open driver will anybody care about anything except the LiveWare apps by that time?
If the FCC issues you a license and you decide on broadcasting music, you need to _arrange_ for a waiver with the appropriate agencies. You may be able to operate without an agreement, as you say, since you are providing free promotion. However that doesn't mean that ASCAP/BMI wouldn't come down hard on you over it, given a reason.
No offense, but "some friends" really doesn't do anything for your case. I was talking to some friends about VD and they told me kerosene and a wire brush would cure it.
magnetic recording. FYI, magnetic recording (on wire) was invented in Germany during WWII. Recording _tape_ was invented by AMPEX in the USA. I'm a little fuzzy on it but IIRC AMPEX founder was an employee of 3M first. FWIW AMPEX also invented the VCR but dropped the ball on that one.
Dude, the DJ isn't the business manager. Commercial radio stations pay royalties. Check with ASCAP or BMI These are the people who (among other things) do the collection of royalties.
After all, the other tunes must be shit... They're not in the MTV rotation! Need more proof? They're not getting airplay on the radio either!!
Please.... You think CD's are expensive now You should have been around when vinyl ruled the earth. $12 would have been a used CD with damage. New CD's were $18-30 depending. Vinyl LP's were about half that. Recorded music has never been so inexpensive
I say make napster freeware....
Phew...Good thing you were here.... Oh, while yer at it answerman, what should we do about famine, disease and pestilence?
Someday the music industry will bring its distribution channels up to date but you'll still pay
Use as in incorporate into their own work? Or use as in use the services the software provides?
I'll have to look around, but 'net wise, BIND, Apache, Sendmail... no GPL here... If I use a website that has cgi done with perl are they shoving GPL down my throat? Face it, there's a _lot_ of free software that _isn't_ GPL'd What is free? It depends who you ask. What's free to Eric Raymond isn't necessarily free to Bruce Perens and what they consider to be free other people consider stifling But you're right to the extent that if you don't like the terms, don't use it. OTOH its a crock of politically correct bullshit to tell anybody else how to license their own stuff.
RedHat peaked at v4.2 IMHO The 5 series sucked so hard my monitor imploded.. Each version lookeda little slicker and mebbe had a few more bells and whistles but between stability and security issues (remember the hole in BIND in 5.1?) WRT code, RH's own admin tools were sooo good they shit canned them in favor of linuxconf I dunno mebbe 6.* is usable.. but please... Red Hat != Linux
It is my understanding that Linus holds the copyright on the kernel and the Linux name. So someone does indeed own it. All the different bits and pieces of a distro are owned by _somebody_. If I'm not mistaken, Larry Ewing owns the copyright on Tux. You are free to do _almost_ anything (ask a BSD'er) you want with GPL'd stuff because of the license. Mind you I'm not agreeing with Ransom Love (gad that name cracks me up... sounds like a pimp.. how Dickensian...) I'm just being pedantic
I think you need to check yer facts WRT SuSE there, sparky. They have iso's available for download.. There _is_ a cd in the boxed set with non free stuff, so you can't distribute that but they don't hold the copyrights on that stuff. I think the only thing I ever installed off that one was Blender after it went shareware... I stand corrected.. I also have realplayer and star office installed. Hmm I notice xv is on there too... Find me a distro that doesn't come with xv..
The main bone of contention with SuSE among the slash dorks has been the license for Yast, the installer tool.
From the license... The use of YaST, even if a modified version is used, does NOT exempt in particular the Licensee from the duty to take due care with regard to the licence terms of the packages or programmes installed through YaST or works based on it.
You'll note it states "even in a modified form". Not unlike the GPL in that regard....
Furthermore: All programmes derived from YaST and all works derived from it in full or parts thereof are to be filled on the opening screen with the clear information "Modified Version". Moreover the operator give his name on the opening screen, stating that SuSE GmbH is not providing any support for the "Modified Version" and is excluded from any liability whatsoever. Every amendment to the sources which are not conducted by SuSE GmbH are deemed to be a "Modified Version". The Licensee is entitled to change his copy from the sources of YaST...
WRT distribution... All programmes derived from YaST, and all works derived thereof as a whole or parts thereof may only be disseminated with the amended sources and this licence in accordance with 2b). Making YaST or works derived thereof available free of charge together with SuSE Linux on FTP Servers and mailboxes is permitted if the licences on the software are observed
What a bunch of complete bastards, eh? Where do they come off telling people they have to make it obvious if its been modified. And what about that not supporting versions someone else modified? The nerve....
You got that right, I wish everybody bought from local clone builders, then they'd have bigger selection in the inventory. They'd also be a little more attentive when they are trying to blow out the 30 box order that the parts came in for today
I understood about the gubmint allowing corporations to exists, but the way you stated it it implied that it was solely because of them that Microsoft existed.
I'd have to say that a big steaming pile. If there were no IP laws there would still be corporations unless there were laws explicitly forbidding it, and even _then_ there would still be organizations filling these roles. If the world was an anarchy, corporations would still exist, but as governments unto themselves. Let's not get hung up on the nomenclature. Somebodies always gonna be top dog.
The other option is splitting MS into several identical companies.
The inevitable outcome of having Baby Bills would be that eventually one of them would come out on top and either force the others out of business or acquire them. You can see this happening in the telecom industry as we speak.
While yer at it score a _recent_ linux distribution that supports that scanner and compare the performance in that with the driver you get using WinDriver
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Theres plenty of +2 thats noise too.
To get the additional point you only need to have submitted enough posts that didn't get moderated down (I beleive its > 40 within a few weeks)
The guidelines for moderator status seemed to be based more on participation than anything else. Also if you hit the site n+1 times a day, you'll actually become ineligible for moderator status till you slack off.
I also hear he's a great poker player.
You can't be a great poker player till you know how to bluff.
When bluffing, it helps to have the biggest bankroll at the table
It's too bad /. is corporate owned now, I'm sure the ACLU would have liked to get involved.
/. content (they _did_ hire some people to work on linux related issues)
Something I haven't seen (granted I haven't read through all the posts) is this:
Obviously someone at Microsoft is monitoring
Who's to say those same people didn't post the offending material?
It would be non-trivial to prove it either way.
IANAL so I don't know when "reasonable doubt" is appropriate WRT court cases other than criminal proceedings, but to my mind, it could be argued that this is a setup.
Solid +2 material there.
The cpu's in question are genuine AMD's altered to run at a higher clock speed than AMD sold them as.
True, they are a rip-off but "fake" connotes counterfeit. While you could argue they are counterfeit _700Mhz_ chips they aren't fake Athlons.
Look at it this way... If I add 2 zero's to a dollar bill, it's still a real dollar
I don't think I need to add anything else, but at least you didn't say first post
I got the feeling from _reading_the_article_ that the guy (who has made contributions to the kernel), felt that he and others that have linux skills at his place of employment should be doing _important_ work _not_ maintaining the mailserver. Basically he was palming the job off on the NT admins instead of hiring a dedicated admin for the linux box.
Okay, according to Alan Cox /dev/sndstat is a deprecated interfaced. He suggested that the developers drop support for it.
/dev/sequencer goes, I had started a thread on the mailing list about that and after enough people seemed to want it (and one guy who suggested an easy way to do it) it was added to an experimental branch of the CVS tree less than 2 weeks later. It works with LiveDrive as well as the gameport
As far as
There are actually 4 drivers available. I did a feature comparison. Funny how the open stuff has more features.....
when the (presumably fully featured) closed source drivers are released, will your average user care about the open source drivers?
IMHO Creative will _never_ make their delivery date (tentatively "summer 00") especially in light of the fact that they intend to port LiveWare as well as supply a driver.
So anybody that _buys_ an SBLive in the meantime will use the vastly superior (today) open driver.
With the rate of progress on the open driver will anybody care about anything except the LiveWare apps by that time?
If the FCC issues you a license and you decide
on broadcasting music, you need to _arrange_ for
a waiver with the appropriate agencies.
You may be able to operate without an agreement,
as you say, since you are providing free promotion.
However that doesn't mean that ASCAP/BMI wouldn't come down hard on you over it,
given a reason.
No offense, but "some friends" really doesn't do anything for your case.
I was talking to some friends about VD and
they told me kerosene and a wire brush would cure it.
magnetic recording.
FYI, magnetic recording (on wire) was invented in
Germany during WWII. Recording _tape_ was invented by
AMPEX in the USA. I'm a little fuzzy on it but IIRC AMPEX
founder was an employee of 3M first.
FWIW AMPEX also invented the VCR but dropped the ball on that one.
Dude, the DJ isn't the business manager.
Commercial radio stations pay royalties.
Check with ASCAP or BMI
These are the people who (among other things) do the collection of royalties.
After all, the other tunes must be shit... They're not in the MTV rotation!
Need more proof? They're not getting airplay on the radio either!!
Please....
You think CD's are expensive now
You should have been around when vinyl ruled the earth.
$12 would have been a used CD with damage.
New CD's were $18-30 depending.
Vinyl LP's were about half that.
Recorded music has never been so inexpensive
I say make napster freeware....
Phew...Good thing you were here....
Oh, while yer at it answerman, what should we do about famine, disease and pestilence?
Someday the music industry will bring
its distribution channels up to date
but you'll still pay
Look, nobody forces anyone to use GPL'd code.
Use as in incorporate into their own work?
Or use as in use the services the software provides?
I'll have to look around, but 'net wise, BIND, Apache, Sendmail... no GPL here...
If I use a website that has cgi done with perl are they shoving GPL down my throat?
Face it, there's a _lot_ of free software that _isn't_ GPL'd
What is free? It depends who you ask. What's free to Eric Raymond isn't necessarily free to Bruce Perens and what they consider to be free other people consider stifling
But you're right to the extent that if you don't like the terms, don't use it.
OTOH its a crock of politically correct bullshit to tell anybody else
how to license their own stuff.
RedHat != Linux
RedHat peaked at v4.2 IMHO
The 5 series sucked so hard my
monitor imploded..
Each version lookeda little slicker and
mebbe had a few more bells and whistles
but between stability and security issues (remember the hole in BIND in 5.1?)
WRT code, RH's own admin tools were sooo good
they shit canned them in favor of linuxconf
I dunno mebbe 6.* is usable.. but please...
Red Hat != Linux
nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded
It is my understanding that Linus holds the
copyright on the kernel and the Linux name.
So someone does indeed own it. All the different
bits and pieces of a distro are owned by _somebody_.
If I'm not mistaken, Larry Ewing owns the copyright on Tux.
You are free to do _almost_ anything (ask a BSD'er) you want
with GPL'd stuff because of the license.
Mind you I'm not agreeing with Ransom Love
(gad that name cracks me up... sounds like a pimp.. how Dickensian...)
I'm just being pedantic
I think you need to check yer facts WRT SuSE there, sparky.
They have iso's available for download..
There _is_ a cd in the boxed set with non free
stuff, so you can't distribute that but they don't
hold the copyrights on that stuff. I think the only thing I ever installed
off that one was Blender after it went shareware...
I stand corrected..
I also have realplayer and star office installed.
Hmm I notice xv is on there too... Find me a distro that doesn't come with xv..
The main bone of contention with SuSE among the slash dorks
has been the license for Yast, the installer tool.
From the license...
The use of YaST, even if a modified version is used, does NOT exempt in particular the Licensee from the duty to take due care with regard to the licence terms of the packages or programmes installed through YaST or works based on it.
You'll note it states "even in a modified form".
Not unlike the GPL in that regard....
Furthermore:
All programmes derived from YaST and all works derived from it in full or parts thereof are to be filled on the opening screen with the clear information "Modified Version". Moreover the operator give his name on the opening screen, stating that SuSE GmbH is not providing any support for the "Modified Version" and is excluded from any liability whatsoever. Every amendment to the sources which are not conducted by SuSE GmbH are deemed to be a "Modified Version". The Licensee is entitled to change his copy from the sources of YaST...
WRT distribution...
All programmes derived from YaST, and all works derived thereof as a whole or parts thereof may only be disseminated with the amended sources and this licence in accordance with 2b). Making YaST or works derived thereof available free of charge together with SuSE Linux on FTP Servers and mailboxes is permitted if the licences on the software are observed
What a bunch of complete bastards, eh? Where do they come off telling
people they have to make it obvious if its been modified.
And what about that not supporting versions someone else modified?
The nerve....
nobdy goes there anymore... it's too crowded.
A plot by the Redmond Cabal (tm) (now with ActiveHex) to discredit Eric Raymond!
Eh, who knows/cares, really.
It doesn't affect me either way.
You got that right, I wish everybody bought from local clone builders, then they'd have bigger selection in the inventory. They'd also be a little more attentive when they are trying to blow out the 30 box order that the parts came in for today
I understood about the gubmint allowing corporations to exists, but the way you stated it it implied that it was solely because of them that Microsoft existed.
I'd have to say that a big steaming pile.
If there were no IP laws there would still be corporations unless there were laws explicitly forbidding it, and even _then_ there would still be organizations filling these roles. If the world was an anarchy, corporations would still exist, but as governments unto themselves. Let's not get hung up on the nomenclature. Somebodies always gonna be top dog.
The other option is splitting MS into several identical companies.
The inevitable outcome of having Baby Bills would be that eventually one of them would come out on top and either force the others out of business or acquire them. You can see this happening in the telecom industry as we speak.
Couldn't have said it better myself
Sounds like you got yours
Why? Microsoft only exists because of the government, I don't follow, can you explain?
they've always been free to innovate, but their business model doesn't seem to support it very well.
Good point
Amen to that
While yer at it score a _recent_ linux
distribution that supports that scanner
and compare the performance in that with the
driver you get using WinDriver