The way it tends to work is that out of all the people that might want a piece of software packaged for a particular version, one of them will emerge willing to build a native package for it and maintain it.
That's how Gentoo's portage tree is so well maintained.
VIA's new Esther processors will run at 1 ghz fanless, up to 2 ghz, sport an 800mhz front side bus, and suck up ~3.5w of power. Plus, VIA is going to build dual-core esthers.
Did you actually read his post? Or just quickly assess that he wasn't completely bashing the law like he was supposed to?
He just said that not watching commercials does hurt someone. What's the big deal? He agreed that the revenue model is outdated, and that this law is silly, he only disagreed with the comparison between victimless crime and this law.
Slashdot has no logic and reason. It only has language made to appear like logic and reason. What it really has become is a counterfeit.
I'm not disagreeing with you here, but I know of one person who was drawn into homosexuality because he began viewing pornogrophy with another man, which led to further acts sexual conduct. This is by his own admission--homosexual thoughts didn't cross his brain until he began to experiment with them.
I agree that the major publishers are drafting unfair contracts, but the artists are still signing them.
In the case of music (which is where this discussion has moved to), the cost of building a small home recording studio to record music has gotten really low (under 5,000$) and the cost to distribute the music has gotten even lower. These studios are beginning to be able to produce music of very high quality, providing someone who knows what they're doing is behind the wheel. Take the explosion of Linux as a model--when interested parties can build systems to play with in their houses, they'll learn all they need to learn on their own.
My point is that we're reaching a paradigm shift where we the public can reach out and find truly alternative music. The only real advantage major labels have is marketing. What we're really missing is an itunes-like system for independent musicians to seed their music, together with some kind of "scoring" system to promote music that rises in popularity.
This point cannot be applied to television as well--although the technology to do special effects is going to become available (and in many cases already is) to the broader general market, the acting talent doesn't come free. Unless a decent business model can be made, coupled with a promotion system, independent films just cannot compete with the MPAA.
Which brings me to my next point--why am I on your 'foes' list?
A system of legally-binding contracts that facilitate free enterprise is broken if laws need to be passed because parties cannot be expected to read the terms of the contract before signing it.
Enterprise just seems incredibly tired to me -- like the whole thing is just out of gas.
I dunno...Enterprise began presenting new challenges. I admit that the first two seasons were somewhat formulaic, but season 3 was a *huge* jump. Season 4 is too early on to really tell, but I think season 3 Enterprise was better than DS9 or Voyager.
In Enterprise, the ship gets kicked around a lot more, and you find their wacky solutions often times just not working. It seems more challenging.
Problem with installing from source to/usr/local is that, unlike,/opt, a simple rm -rf will have some undesireable consequences when you go to uninstall it.
That stupid 30 minutes or less crap was done away with a long time ago.
Y'know why? Heh...there were incidents of drivers getting in huge car wrecks and their bosses running up to the scene, taking the pizza, and running to the customer's door to beat the time.
It doesn't have to make sense. This isn't about ensuring the rights of the artist are protected, but ensuring the profits of the corporation.
I don't like this law as much as the next guy, but can you blame them?
There wouldn't be any quality content without millions of dollars being spent. I personally think most of the movies that come out, most of the music I hear on the radio, and most television sucks, but these corporations foot the bill--they take the massive financial risk in creating content in the first place.
Can you really blame them for wanting to protect that risk?
That being said, I think there has to be a way for companies that spend the money creating footage to broadcast to keep everyone from putting in a 250$ box (which is 250$ that will go to someone else) that blocks out the advertisements.
I think the fact that these companies invest all this money in manipulating our government instead of R&D for ways to combat the circumvention of advertisements is a problem, to be sure, but let's not forget that they're the ones that create the content in the first place. Well, no, the artists do, but the artists don't take the risk, so they're not naturally as concerned.
The only effect advertisements have on me is in raising my awareness of the existence of a product, and even then, unless it is something that fills a need that I knew existed -prior- to seeing the ad, I don't buy it.
Advertisements just make mental associations. They define how you perceive products and companies before you even enter into a transaction with them.
I know a lot of so-called intelligent people who scoff at the uninformed, disinterested masses who "fall for" advertising on television. I find the same people laughing at inventive, humorous spots.
Everyone has different kinds of commercials they respond to, but none of us are immune.
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Well, not necessarily. If your system is built against a version of glibc that is built against linux 2.0, then you can use all the versions.
That's how Gentoo's portage tree is so well maintained.
If I write software, all I should release is the source code. Let the distributions package it for their architecture.
If you can't find packages on your distributor's site, it's a risk but you can try googling for it. Be prepared for a complete mess, though.
VIA's new Esther processors will run at 1 ghz fanless, up to 2 ghz, sport an 800mhz front side bus, and suck up ~3.5w of power. Plus, VIA is going to build dual-core esthers.
If you don't like VIA other companies are starting to build mini-itx form factor motherboards.
He just said that not watching commercials does hurt someone. What's the big deal? He agreed that the revenue model is outdated, and that this law is silly, he only disagreed with the comparison between victimless crime and this law.
Slashdot has no logic and reason. It only has language made to appear like logic and reason. What it really has become is a counterfeit.He was young, it was not gay porn, and he didn't know the guy was gay at first.
I'm at the point where my ontopic posts get modded down enough that I just don't care anymore.
I'm not disagreeing with you here, but I know of one person who was drawn into homosexuality because he began viewing pornogrophy with another man, which led to further acts sexual conduct. This is by his own admission--homosexual thoughts didn't cross his brain until he began to experiment with them.
Pornography has not made me into a freak or brain damaged druggie or anything.
If looking at porno is so satisfying to us than I have to say that we're freaks to begin with.
I just want to make sure we're talking about the same thing here--you're talking about masturbating to watching people have sex on film.
In the case of music (which is where this discussion has moved to), the cost of building a small home recording studio to record music has gotten really low (under 5,000$) and the cost to distribute the music has gotten even lower. These studios are beginning to be able to produce music of very high quality, providing someone who knows what they're doing is behind the wheel. Take the explosion of Linux as a model--when interested parties can build systems to play with in their houses, they'll learn all they need to learn on their own.
My point is that we're reaching a paradigm shift where we the public can reach out and find truly alternative music. The only real advantage major labels have is marketing. What we're really missing is an itunes-like system for independent musicians to seed their music, together with some kind of "scoring" system to promote music that rises in popularity.
This point cannot be applied to television as well--although the technology to do special effects is going to become available (and in many cases already is) to the broader general market, the acting talent doesn't come free. Unless a decent business model can be made, coupled with a promotion system, independent films just cannot compete with the MPAA.
Which brings me to my next point--why am I on your 'foes' list?
A system of legally-binding contracts that facilitate free enterprise is broken if laws need to be passed because parties cannot be expected to read the terms of the contract before signing it.
Because if making art costs a lot money, the people footing the bill get to make the rules. Do you find this unjust?
Enterprise just seems incredibly tired to me -- like the whole thing is just out of gas.
I dunno...Enterprise began presenting new challenges. I admit that the first two seasons were somewhat formulaic, but season 3 was a *huge* jump. Season 4 is too early on to really tell, but I think season 3 Enterprise was better than DS9 or Voyager.
In Enterprise, the ship gets kicked around a lot more, and you find their wacky solutions often times just not working. It seems more challenging.
I find it disgusting that to this day we still have people claiming that the exploitation of the natives wasn't as bad as history tells us.
*sigh* If hindsight were 20/20.
That is truly a nightmare of epic proportions. I wish I had "management" in a cold room right now being forced to read this.
There once was a man called Blunkett. Loyalty cards? He debunk'd it. But his views'n privacy? Pure hypocrasy! So Britons all said "Man, you flunk it!"
I agree. It is entirely possible that the same damage that the OJ Simpson trial did to the integrity of mainstream medio is being done to Slashdot?
I dare you.
I tend to use it over /usr/local.
Problem with installing from source to /usr/local is that, unlike, /opt, a simple rm -rf will have some undesireable consequences when you go to uninstall it.
:)
Y'know why? Heh...there were incidents of drivers getting in huge car wrecks and their bosses running up to the scene, taking the pizza, and running to the customer's door to beat the time.
Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
It doesn't have to make sense. This isn't about ensuring the rights of the artist are protected, but ensuring the profits of the corporation.
I don't like this law as much as the next guy, but can you blame them?
There wouldn't be any quality content without millions of dollars being spent. I personally think most of the movies that come out, most of the music I hear on the radio, and most television sucks, but these corporations foot the bill--they take the massive financial risk in creating content in the first place.
Can you really blame them for wanting to protect that risk?
That being said, I think there has to be a way for companies that spend the money creating footage to broadcast to keep everyone from putting in a 250$ box (which is 250$ that will go to someone else) that blocks out the advertisements.
I think the fact that these companies invest all this money in manipulating our government instead of R&D for ways to combat the circumvention of advertisements is a problem, to be sure, but let's not forget that they're the ones that create the content in the first place. Well, no, the artists do, but the artists don't take the risk, so they're not naturally as concerned.
The only effect advertisements have on me is in raising my awareness of the existence of a product, and even then, unless it is something that fills a need that I knew existed -prior- to seeing the ad, I don't buy it.
Advertisements just make mental associations. They define how you perceive products and companies before you even enter into a transaction with them.
I know a lot of so-called intelligent people who scoff at the uninformed, disinterested masses who "fall for" advertising on television. I find the same people laughing at inventive, humorous spots.
Everyone has different kinds of commercials they respond to, but none of us are immune.