You can get an ODBC driver for PostgreSQL. I can attest that it worked fine on NT 4 when I worked with it. It is here. It's not too difficult; you just install it, then follow the instructions for configuring ODBC on the Windows machine, and create a database account on the Unix machine, which the windows machine can connect to, and you're basically done. It all worked fine for me at work this summer.
Why not MS-DOS? I'm serious, 6.2 was relatively mature by microsoft standards, and god knows there are enough programs that run on it.
IKWYM, though I'd prefer to use freedos to keep the cost down if nothing else. But do you remember how nasty it was writing TSRs, and doing other such nasty, manky kludges and hardware dependent stuff and so on? If ELKS was an option it'd be a lot less grim.
god knows there are enough programs that run on it.
Hmmm but if you exclude the ones which are hardware dependent or need a big screensize, there's probably as much UNIX stuff available.
Now America, like most of the western world has developed a _system of Democracy_ to ensure tha each person gets a say in the running of the nation.
And American democracy is not perfect. Nothing special about America there, none of the other democracies are perfect either. In Greece, someone just got imprisoned for distributing leaflets saying that minority languages exist. In Britain, the government is probably going to pass a law postponing forthcoming elections (for important reasons of course) and nobody will bat an eyelid; also many laws are being blocked which the majority of the population would like, by a few hundred unelected peers who sit in the House of Lords. All democracies are flawed.
In American democracy, one big deviation from democracy is that money can buy a lot of political power. The music cartel has been buying power for years, and weighting the system in their favour.
I humbly suggest to you that it is not morally justifiable to advovate theft when there is reasonable democratic recourse available to you.
I'll leave aside the "illegal copying != theft" thing. Because the American system is flawed in such a way that the music industry has lots of political power, that *reduces* (not eliminates) the extent to which you can effectively take democratic recourse. So I think that should also reduce (not eliminate, per se) the extent to which illegal copying should be regarded as immoral. (You might think it's not immoral for other reasons, but I'm not talking about that right now).
I think you're right that the RIAA people are probably not stupid. However, I think for the last 100 years the way to success in that industry has been to have a mindset that says "control everything as much as possible". I think we're still seeing their instinctive reaction to Napster, which has appeared on their horizons as a threat to their control.
Only if/when they see that will they put together a more rational response. This is typical of how large organisations ("dinosaurs") react to big changes. Only a very few big businesses know how to react to change well. (Microsoft is the most scarily good example I can think of - look how quickly they have embraced XML, and their competitors are only just realising that it wasn't a decoy tactic).
Did you read the article by Eben Moglen? It makes an excellent case as to why the Big Five will have to change in the long run. However, just how far in the future that long run is will depend on lots of stuff.
If you feel it's overpriced, then DON'T BUY IT! Feeling that something is overpriced does not give you the right to steal. This applies to music too. If enough people stood up and refused to buy, then they'd be forced to respond to the market.
If it were a competitive market, I'd agree with you. But the whole point of a cartel is that it reduces consumer power. Sure, if *everyone* stopped buying overpriced CDs then they'd be forced to drop prices. But the whole way a cartel works is because most people don't want to spend their entire life fighting cartels. I wouldn't say that legitimises the cartel. If you think it does, then that's like saying "we don't need any anti-monopoly laws cos people will stop buying things if they're overpriced." History has shown this to be false.
BTW, illegal copying of music is not theft, and it is treated less severely in most juristictions. I think there's a good reason for this.
Can someone explain all these terms flying around to me? I get the feeling that some of them mean different things in American and British English. Specifically these ones: University, College, School, High School, State School, Undergraduate University.
In the UK, "School" is a place that teaches people below 16/18, "University" is a place that can grant degrees (and teaches people mostly above 18), and "College" is less well-defined, but often a place that teaches over-16's but is not a University.
There is a legal issue; Galeon is GPLed and is hence currently incompatible with Mozilla, which is MPLed. But it needs Mozilla to compile so you can't link them and then distribute the result.
However, Mozilla is being relicensed under (the GPL or the MPL at your choice) which should help Galeon. When it finally happens. (Not moaning, just I realise it can sometimes take time to make such things work).
"Lasagna" by Weird Al Yankovic appeared on the album "Even Worse" which is under Bono Act perpetual copyright.
Hmmm, OK, bad example:->
Most parodies came off either some comedy album, SNL, MADtv, Howard Stern, or the like and are copyrighted by their producers.
Dunno, there's lots of stuff out there which is too amateurish (in actual recording quality) to have been done in a studio. And there's freely distributable stuff like Chumbawamba's "Pass It Along", a parody of Metallica ("It's OK when our fans pay to buy our T-shirts. It's OK when our fans pay $40 to go to one of our concerts. But when our fans think they can listen to our music for free... they just crossed the line.")
Making a derived version of someone else's opinion is already legal. There's no need to slap a complicated license on. OTOH chopping bits out of RMS's article, altering the apparent meaning then publishing it as "by RMS", is bad and there's no need to give permission to do it.
The only viable use of Napster is to illegally obtain copyrighted music
What about live stuff, which is usually freely distributable (including Metallica's)? What about stuff you've already bought on vinyl or cassette? What about the many thousands of parody tracks available? (e.g. "Lasagne", a take-off of "La Bamba") Hell, what about "explicit__groaning__noises.mp3"?
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High intelligence is far rarer than almost any other animal characteristic. [...] From reading your post, I can't tell whether you're the sort who would cry for days upon rubbing your hands and inadvertently killing some bacteria, or the type who would gleefully kill monkeys for fun. In either case, I'm not impressed.
Interesting. Reading between the lines, I take it that you think that intelligence is the important characteristic when deciding if killing is wrong.
So what about the case when it's a human, but with very low intelligence and very low awareness? Say, less than the average chimp. Do you think it's worse to kill them than to kill a chimp? Just to make it easier, assume they do not have any [close] living relatives, so we're not talking about the amount the killing would upset other people.
I believe most people would say "intelligence is the [main] deciding factor when considering if it is acceptable to cause an animal to suffer". But I think most of them would also say "It's wrong to kill a human, no matter how low their intelligence is".
All they have so far are dolphins mimicking sounds- no evidence that the dolphins can understand it at all. Like parrots. Seems vaporous to me.
True. OTOH there's a lot of evidence that dolphins engage in sophisticated conversations with each other (looking at the entropy of the signals they emit and other things). So it's not so unreasonable to think this experiment is worth doing.
In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this License.
See, all of your GPL'd code _already_ falls under GPL 3. Look at how much that power that hippie kid has over you already. My solution? BSDL.
Clever... kinda like cutting your own head off so that nobody else can decapitate you.
Seriously, there's nothing the FSF can do to your software by updating the GPL which you wouldn't already be doing to yourself by using the BSDL.
written into GPL 2 is a clause that states...
This is just pure FUD. When you put the copyright notice on your program, you can *choose* to say "This may be distributed under the terms of the GPL v2 or later at your choice". If you don't like that, you can just say "under the terms of the GPL v2". Your choice.
Opennap is free only until Napster has been dealt with. Once the RIAA [...]
One of the "A"s in "RIAA" is "America". An OpenNap server can run in any juristiction. What's the chances that the music industry has a hard time fighting OpenNap in at least one juristiction?
This is partly in response to people who are talking about the privacy implications of letting students work as admins.
In my secondary school (i.e. high school), they had a teaching network and an office network (Running something crappy from Research Machines. Unfortunately, they were joined together. Even more unfortunately, the drive which contained the school database was publically mountable. As well as the addresses for every pupil and staff member, there was a whole lot of more confidential stuff accessible to anyone - such as "So and so's parents are divorced, but don't make this information available to students *or* staff".
This hole had been open and known to various students for months by the time I got the admin to close it. When I informed him, he turned white and looked like he was going to be sick. He'd obviously had no idea.
My point is this: in a school (i.e. a high school), something which is common knowledge to students may not reach the ears of staff for several months. Wheras students often have a much better idea of what other students are up to. If a student had been involved in running the network, [s]he'd've instantly heard about the hole on the "grapevine", and closed it.
Disclaimer: I'm not saying which school this was; even so, I don't want to get done for libel, so I have to say this: if you think you know the school I'm talking about, you could well be wrong.
If Nike walked away with it's $0.05 an hour jobs, their workers would either go back to begging in the streets from other companies' $0.05 an hour employees, or go back to the local $0.01 an hour jobs.
I'm unsure as to whether I explained myself clearly enough. In some of these factories, the foreman will *physically* threaten workers and/or their families if they do something disagreeable (like, say, complaining that they got paid the wrong amount, or resisting sexual advances, or trying to leave). Safety standards are often abysmally low, and after an accident, if a victim's family try to complain, they will often find themselves being threatened and harrassed in ways which would be completely illegal in developed countries. And don't believe the claims that factory workers get paid highly - sure they start the job thinking they will, but they may get fined for every "mistake" they make, or given unwanted goods of "equivalent" value, or simply not paid the right amount.
Checks and balances on this kind of thing are often inadequate in the developing world. Don't just assume that the rules that work in the US apply in India.
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You can get an ODBC driver for PostgreSQL. I can attest that it worked fine on NT 4 when I worked with it. It is here. It's not too difficult; you just install it, then follow the instructions for configuring ODBC on the Windows machine, and create a database account on the Unix machine, which the windows machine can connect to, and you're basically done. It all worked fine for me at work this summer.
Can you play DVDs on Mac Linux yet? That'd be a good piece of PR.
Wow, that is beautifully obscure :-)
And American democracy is not perfect. Nothing special about America there, none of the other democracies are perfect either. In Greece, someone just got imprisoned for distributing leaflets saying that minority languages exist. In Britain, the government is probably going to pass a law postponing forthcoming elections (for important reasons of course) and nobody will bat an eyelid; also many laws are being blocked which the majority of the population would like, by a few hundred unelected peers who sit in the House of Lords. All democracies are flawed.
In American democracy, one big deviation from democracy is that money can buy a lot of political power. The music cartel has been buying power for years, and weighting the system in their favour.
I'll leave aside the "illegal copying != theft" thing. Because the American system is flawed in such a way that the music industry has lots of political power, that *reduces* (not eliminates) the extent to which you can effectively take democratic recourse. So I think that should also reduce (not eliminate, per se) the extent to which illegal copying should be regarded as immoral. (You might think it's not immoral for other reasons, but I'm not talking about that right now).I think you're right that the RIAA people are probably not stupid. However, I think for the last 100 years the way to success in that industry has been to have a mindset that says "control everything as much as possible". I think we're still seeing their instinctive reaction to Napster, which has appeared on their horizons as a threat to their control.
Only if/when they see that will they put together a more rational response. This is typical of how large organisations ("dinosaurs") react to big changes. Only a very few big businesses know how to react to change well. (Microsoft is the most scarily good example I can think of - look how quickly they have embraced XML, and their competitors are only just realising that it wasn't a decoy tactic).
If it were a competitive market, I'd agree with you. But the whole point of a cartel is that it reduces consumer power. Sure, if *everyone* stopped buying overpriced CDs then they'd be forced to drop prices. But the whole way a cartel works is because most people don't want to spend their entire life fighting cartels. I wouldn't say that legitimises the cartel. If you think it does, then that's like saying "we don't need any anti-monopoly laws cos people will stop buying things if they're overpriced." History has shown this to be false.
BTW, illegal copying of music is not theft, and it is treated less severely in most juristictions. I think there's a good reason for this.
Can someone explain all these terms flying around to me? I get the feeling that some of them mean different things in American and British English. Specifically these ones: University, College, School, High School, State School, Undergraduate University.
In the UK, "School" is a place that teaches people below 16/18, "University" is a place that can grant degrees (and teaches people mostly above 18), and "College" is less well-defined, but often a place that teaches over-16's but is not a University.
Thanks very much!
There is a legal issue; Galeon is GPLed and is hence currently incompatible with Mozilla, which is MPLed. But it needs Mozilla to compile so you can't link them and then distribute the result.
However, Mozilla is being relicensed under (the GPL or the MPL at your choice) which should help Galeon. When it finally happens. (Not moaning, just I realise it can sometimes take time to make such things work).
Interesting. Reading between the lines, I take it that you think that intelligence is the important characteristic when deciding if killing is wrong.
So what about the case when it's a human, but with very low intelligence and very low awareness? Say, less than the average chimp. Do you think it's worse to kill them than to kill a chimp? Just to make it easier, assume they do not have any [close] living relatives, so we're not talking about the amount the killing would upset other people.
I believe most people would say "intelligence is the [main] deciding factor when considering if it is acceptable to cause an animal to suffer". But I think most of them would also say "It's wrong to kill a human, no matter how low their intelligence is".
Look at the text of the GPL, end of section 2:
Clever ... kinda like cutting your own head off so that nobody else can decapitate you.
Seriously, there's nothing the FSF can do to your software by updating the GPL which you wouldn't already be doing to yourself by using the BSDL.
This is just pure FUD. When you put the copyright notice on your program, you can *choose* to say "This may be distributed under the terms of the GPL v2 or later at your choice". If you don't like that, you can just say "under the terms of the GPL v2". Your choice.Hmmm dunno how you know I went there, but I went to more than one secondary school so "maybe, maybe not".
This is partly in response to people who are talking about the privacy implications of letting students work as admins.
In my secondary school (i.e. high school), they had a teaching network and an office network (Running something crappy from Research Machines. Unfortunately, they were joined together. Even more unfortunately, the drive which contained the school database was publically mountable. As well as the addresses for every pupil and staff member, there was a whole lot of more confidential stuff accessible to anyone - such as "So and so's parents are divorced, but don't make this information available to students *or* staff".
This hole had been open and known to various students for months by the time I got the admin to close it. When I informed him, he turned white and looked like he was going to be sick. He'd obviously had no idea.
My point is this: in a school (i.e. a high school), something which is common knowledge to students may not reach the ears of staff for several months. Wheras students often have a much better idea of what other students are up to. If a student had been involved in running the network, [s]he'd've instantly heard about the hole on the "grapevine", and closed it.
Disclaimer: I'm not saying which school this was; even so, I don't want to get done for libel, so I have to say this: if you think you know the school I'm talking about, you could well be wrong.
How about "Magetagelagicaga_sageek_agand_dagestragoy_thagem. mp3"?
I'm unsure as to whether I explained myself clearly enough. In some of these factories, the foreman will *physically* threaten workers and/or their families if they do something disagreeable (like, say, complaining that they got paid the wrong amount, or resisting sexual advances, or trying to leave). Safety standards are often abysmally low, and after an accident, if a victim's family try to complain, they will often find themselves being threatened and harrassed in ways which would be completely illegal in developed countries. And don't believe the claims that factory workers get paid highly - sure they start the job thinking they will, but they may get fined for every "mistake" they make, or given unwanted goods of "equivalent" value, or simply not paid the right amount.
Checks and balances on this kind of thing are often inadequate in the developing world. Don't just assume that the rules that work in the US apply in India.