You forgot to mention excessive copyright terms (Mickey Mouse) and the copyright of binary software without the source code (combination of copyright/trade secret combination).
As for source code being secret in a non-copyright world, we could just decompile.
So MS takes my formerly GPL (now non-copyrighted) work and bundles it into Windows. I take that Windows copy, decompile it, modify it to remove any DRM, activation, and bugginess, and I redistribute the derivative work legally, for a price or not.
Where's the problem again? Sounds like Windows was just GPLed, only better.
IANAL, but I would guess that the scans are copyright Google. When you take a picture of a building, the picture is yours even if you didn't have anything to do with the construction of the building.
Since we're talking about pricing of media, etc., I'd like to bring up the situation I was in in Thailand a few years ago. I'll convert to USD for the readers' convenience.
You might have heard that piracy is rampant in Thailand. You can buy just about any movie you want there on DVD. There are even high-quality pirated TV series that you would guess were legitimate if you didn't know that the series wasn't available for sale in a multi-season format. Pirated movie DVDs typically ran about $5-6 a few years ago (they're significantly cheaper now).
Dual-layer DVDs featuring several Asian languages and extra features would cost $20-30 at the local superstore. These were of good quality, but didn't move much considering the local workers made about $150-200 per month.
Also at the superstore were bins of single-layer DVDs with Thai and English (audio and subs) for about $2.50. These weren't first-run movies -- they were often B movies or older A-level flicks. They weren't on clearance, either. The list price was $2.50.
There were, of course, rental options, too. The one DVD rental place in the area (North Bangkok) only stocked the $20-30 DVDs, and most of the stock was actually ordered internationally and imported. The membership fee was about $50 and rentals were about $5. Blockbuster offered VCDs for rent, and the lower quality (and changing a disk) meant that the rental was only $0.50 or so.
Where am I going with all this? The pirated versions created a new market -- the low-end but legit DVDs for $2.50. When I wanted to watch a first-run movie, I almost always went to a theater if I could. The first-run DVDs were almost always cams and shitty. I rented recent releases several times a month, but not that often. More often, I would just go to the superstore bin and buy 3-4 legit, single-layer DVDs. I never once bought a full-featured DVD, even though my income warranted the purchase. When I wanted a new release but didn't want to travel to the DVD store, I just picked up a rental from Blockbuster.
My wrap-up point? At $2.50, the DVDs were still making enough money for someone to produce them, even for high-budget movies. I realized then how overpriced most media is.
[Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim] Zemlin says the Linux Foundation wants to build a collaborative forum where Linux users can share ideas and get information on the Linux operating system.
Zemlin just torpedoed me. I've been preaching the "Linux is a kernel" and "Distributions are the operating system" platform for quite a while in order to counteract the "Does it run on my Linux?" FUD that appears oh-so-often. Now the NBMers will just counter with "But the Linux Foundation says it's an operating system!"
That was impressive! I've never seen or heard so much gay porn in my life, and the dancing windows were so much fun to watch. Do you have any more of this kind of material? I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter, too.
In this case we confront a lawyer caught between his client and the court. Specifically, we are presented with the question of when counsel should be sanctioned for a client's failure to appear before a magistrate as ordered. We conclude that a lawyer who has used his or her best efforts to secure the compliance of the client ought not be subjected to sanctions in these circumstances. In light of the facts outlined below, we affirm the fine imposed on Tribal Co-Operative Marketing Development Federation of India ("Trifed"), but reverse the magistrate's sanctions against Trifed's counsel, Larry Klayman. ...
On December 4, 1992, a settlement conference of sorts took place. Universal was represented by counsel and an officer with the requisite settlement authority. Appearing for Trifed were two individuals: local counsel William Henney and Sushovan Sengupta, an administrative assistant in the Visa Section of the Indian Consulate in Chicago. In the course of the attempted settlement discussions that day, Sengupta refused to offer any money to settle the case, stating only that Trifed viewed the case as meritless.2 On December 7, 1992, Magistrate Noel issued an Order to Show Cause, directing Klayman to explain why he and Trifed should not be sanctioned for their conduct surrounding the settlement conference. On January 19, 1992, Magistrate Noel ordered that Klayman pay Universal "any costs, including attorney's fees, incurred by the plaintiff in attending the aborted December 4, 1992, settlement conference" and that Trifed be fined $6,708, "which represents the sum of money [Trifed] thought it would save in air fare by reason of [Trifed's] willful violation of the court's order." The district court affirmed the magistrate judge's sanction order on April 2, 1993.
Anything with evolving features is marked "beta" for the free version. The premier version (paid for) gets the stable features and no "beta" tag. Services with stable, well-tested feature sets don't get a "beta" tag, either.
The short answer is "Yes." The long answer is "Not unless you're willing to dd the image to a partition and set up a union with a persistence partition." There's no installer. Too bad, eh?
Mistakes are made, but we're still waiting for the last chip's announced driver, and they're announcing the new chip (also w/ non-existent driver). That's a pretty huge mistake.
The integrated low-end graphics are OK, unless you're using Linux and the driver leaves horizontal lines across your screen, leaving you with no option but the vesa driver (you can guess who's in this situation with a work computer).
TFA's report seems to show a big gap between what marketing wants to happen and what management is really doing. They're at least six months behind on the drivers. That's too bad.
OO.o3 didn't make it n time for the freeze, which -- if I remember correctly -- was back in July. For people who don't follow Lenny, the packages are generally similar to Ubuntu 8.04, though some are slightly more up to date, and some are behind (e.g. the partial hold on the Gnome 2.22/2.20 mix).
You should be able to find an OO.o3 package for Lenny quite easily in a few weeks.
I like just having the 10 MB disk and downloading only what I need (12Mb/s no cap). Installs take an hours or two, but I never have an unpatched system.
Except that the codec isn't shipped. Moonlight is legal. Moonshine is legal. Mono is already shipped and used in Tomboy and F-Spot. The codecs are authorized downloads directly from MS.
That's probably close to the norm for new machines for the last couple of years. It doesn't count the majority of computers still being used that are more than a couple years old.
I recently did a basic test of Win 7 Beta and found it quite lean and just as fast in 512 MB as 1 GB RAM. It still got destroyed by the Ubu 9.04 Alpha 4, though.
I'll have to replicate it on some real hardware to make the numbers count, though.
Wow. You're a giant ass who's talking about something he doesn't know about. Read some other comments in this discussion (like the ones posted two hours before your comment) and learn something, eh?
The interesting thing is that Moonlight downloads the codecs for you on demand (no need to add other repos) and they are properly licensed (as opposed to w32/w64codecs). I can see a lot of Linux users doing this, actually.
Since Ubuntu and Suse already ship Mono (or have drunk the MS kool-aid, depending on how you feel), they should include this plug-in by default so that it works out of the box.
All hail the <video> tag! Because of the ad money, there's no way it'll ever take over commercial video sites, but it will make video delivery easier for sites which don't embed ads and viewing easier for those without plug-ins (on different arches).
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You forgot to mention excessive copyright terms (Mickey Mouse) and the copyright of binary software without the source code (combination of copyright/trade secret combination).
As for source code being secret in a non-copyright world, we could just decompile.
So MS takes my formerly GPL (now non-copyrighted) work and bundles it into Windows. I take that Windows copy, decompile it, modify it to remove any DRM, activation, and bugginess, and I redistribute the derivative work legally, for a price or not.
Where's the problem again? Sounds like Windows was just GPLed, only better.
IANAL, but I would guess that the scans are copyright Google. When you take a picture of a building, the picture is yours even if you didn't have anything to do with the construction of the building.
Since we're talking about pricing of media, etc., I'd like to bring up the situation I was in in Thailand a few years ago. I'll convert to USD for the readers' convenience.
You might have heard that piracy is rampant in Thailand. You can buy just about any movie you want there on DVD. There are even high-quality pirated TV series that you would guess were legitimate if you didn't know that the series wasn't available for sale in a multi-season format. Pirated movie DVDs typically ran about $5-6 a few years ago (they're significantly cheaper now).
Dual-layer DVDs featuring several Asian languages and extra features would cost $20-30 at the local superstore. These were of good quality, but didn't move much considering the local workers made about $150-200 per month.
Also at the superstore were bins of single-layer DVDs with Thai and English (audio and subs) for about $2.50. These weren't first-run movies -- they were often B movies or older A-level flicks. They weren't on clearance, either. The list price was $2.50.
There were, of course, rental options, too. The one DVD rental place in the area (North Bangkok) only stocked the $20-30 DVDs, and most of the stock was actually ordered internationally and imported. The membership fee was about $50 and rentals were about $5. Blockbuster offered VCDs for rent, and the lower quality (and changing a disk) meant that the rental was only $0.50 or so.
Where am I going with all this? The pirated versions created a new market -- the low-end but legit DVDs for $2.50. When I wanted to watch a first-run movie, I almost always went to a theater if I could. The first-run DVDs were almost always cams and shitty. I rented recent releases several times a month, but not that often. More often, I would just go to the superstore bin and buy 3-4 legit, single-layer DVDs. I never once bought a full-featured DVD, even though my income warranted the purchase. When I wanted a new release but didn't want to travel to the DVD store, I just picked up a rental from Blockbuster.
My wrap-up point? At $2.50, the DVDs were still making enough money for someone to produce them, even for high-budget movies. I realized then how overpriced most media is.
high-volume sites such as /. could support themselves by taxing, say, 10% of a viewer's CPU with an unobtrusive background thread
What happens when I open 15 tabs at 10% each?
I'm not a GNU/Linux kind of guy.
[Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim] Zemlin says the Linux Foundation wants to build a collaborative forum where Linux users can share ideas and get information on the Linux operating system.
Zemlin just torpedoed me. I've been preaching the "Linux is a kernel" and "Distributions are the operating system" platform for quite a while in order to counteract the "Does it run on my Linux?" FUD that appears oh-so-often. Now the NBMers will just counter with "But the Linux Foundation says it's an operating system!"
I should just give up.
That was impressive! I've never seen or heard so much gay porn in my life, and the dancing windows were so much fun to watch. Do you have any more of this kind of material? I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter, too.
I couldn't find that exact phrase online, but the closest thing to it is described as:
In this case we confront a lawyer caught between his client and the court. Specifically, we are presented with the question of when counsel should be sanctioned for a client's failure to appear before a magistrate as ordered. We conclude that a lawyer who has used his or her best efforts to secure the compliance of the client ought not be subjected to sanctions in these circumstances. In light of the facts outlined below, we affirm the fine imposed on Tribal Co-Operative Marketing Development Federation of India ("Trifed"), but reverse the magistrate's sanctions against Trifed's counsel, Larry Klayman.
...
On December 4, 1992, a settlement conference of sorts took place. Universal was represented by counsel and an officer with the requisite settlement authority. Appearing for Trifed were two individuals: local counsel William Henney and Sushovan Sengupta, an administrative assistant in the Visa Section of the Indian Consulate in Chicago. In the course of the attempted settlement discussions that day, Sengupta refused to offer any money to settle the case, stating only that Trifed viewed the case as meritless.2 On December 7, 1992, Magistrate Noel issued an Order to Show Cause, directing Klayman to explain why he and Trifed should not be sanctioned for their conduct surrounding the settlement conference. On January 19, 1992, Magistrate Noel ordered that Klayman pay Universal "any costs, including attorney's fees, incurred by the plaintiff in attending the aborted December 4, 1992, settlement conference" and that Trifed be fined $6,708, "which represents the sum of money [Trifed] thought it would save in air fare by reason of [Trifed's] willful violation of the court's order." The district court affirmed the magistrate judge's sanction order on April 2, 1993.
This all sounds quite serious, but then, IANAL. ;)
Except for those pesky "stone" and "pint" measurements, eh?
My welcome? No! Your welcome. I don't want it, thank you very much.
and the cocaine!
Your story is three sentences long:
Anything with evolving features is marked "beta" for the free version. The premier version (paid for) gets the stable features and no "beta" tag. Services with stable, well-tested feature sets don't get a "beta" tag, either.
Hope that cleared it up for you.
The short answer is "Yes." The long answer is "Not unless you're willing to dd the image to a partition and set up a union with a persistence partition." There's no installer. Too bad, eh?
Mistakes are made, but we're still waiting for the last chip's announced driver, and they're announcing the new chip (also w/ non-existent driver). That's a pretty huge mistake.
The integrated low-end graphics are OK, unless you're using Linux and the driver leaves horizontal lines across your screen, leaving you with no option but the vesa driver (you can guess who's in this situation with a work computer).
TFA's report seems to show a big gap between what marketing wants to happen and what management is really doing. They're at least six months behind on the drivers. That's too bad.
OO.o3 didn't make it n time for the freeze, which -- if I remember correctly -- was back in July. For people who don't follow Lenny, the packages are generally similar to Ubuntu 8.04, though some are slightly more up to date, and some are behind (e.g. the partial hold on the Gnome 2.22/2.20 mix).
You should be able to find an OO.o3 package for Lenny quite easily in a few weeks.
I like just having the 10 MB disk and downloading only what I need (12Mb/s no cap). Installs take an hours or two, but I never have an unpatched system.
I'm using Lenny right now (though Gnome), and I see both 3.5 and 4 available in Synaptic.
We shouldn't forget the Debian Live project which has live CDs for Gnome, KDE, XFCE, and LXDE.
Except that the codec isn't shipped. Moonlight is legal. Moonshine is legal. Mono is already shipped and used in Tomboy and F-Spot. The codecs are authorized downloads directly from MS.
That's probably close to the norm for new machines for the last couple of years. It doesn't count the majority of computers still being used that are more than a couple years old.
I recently did a basic test of Win 7 Beta and found it quite lean and just as fast in 512 MB as 1 GB RAM. It still got destroyed by the Ubu 9.04 Alpha 4, though.
I'll have to replicate it on some real hardware to make the numbers count, though.
There's a big question about whether the courts can punish a manufacturer for what businesses in the retail chain sell.
I'd like to see MS taken down several notches, but unless there's some smoking gun, I would expect it.
Wow. You're a giant ass who's talking about something he doesn't know about. Read some other comments in this discussion (like the ones posted two hours before your comment) and learn something, eh?
The interesting thing is that Moonlight downloads the codecs for you on demand (no need to add other repos) and they are properly licensed (as opposed to w32/w64codecs). I can see a lot of Linux users doing this, actually.
Since Ubuntu and Suse already ship Mono (or have drunk the MS kool-aid, depending on how you feel), they should include this plug-in by default so that it works out of the box.
All hail the <video> tag! Because of the ad money, there's no way it'll ever take over commercial video sites, but it will make video delivery easier for sites which don't embed ads and viewing easier for those without plug-ins (on different arches).