Actually, what it's suggesting is that during the night there would be fewer solar neutrinos due to the earth being in the way. Perhaps what is being discovered is that neutrinos are (for the most part anyway) not blocked or slowed down by the earth itself in any significant way, or that solar neutrinos really aren't caused by direct emission from the sun. At any rate though, I am not a theoretical physicist, I just like to think about this kind of stuff a lot, so I could be totally off the wall.
What's even more fun is that Linux has now received some serious television advertising. Up until now (at least in my area) the only "advertising" Linux has received has been the mention of Linux as a possible training route at the computer schools popping up all over the place, as well as being lumped in with all the "UNIX systems that will crash at Y2K because it's so old, but you don't have to worry because nobody uses UNIX any more." -- that was said on one of the news stations here. I sent an e-mail to the channel's producers explaining to them that the use UNIX every day to run their servers (they were running Solaris), produce their graphics (they were running IRIX), and so on. I never heard back from them.
Anyway, this advertising thing is something I've been wishing I could do for a long time. It's one of the few things still really holding Linux back. I've just never had enough money to put together a campaign, and that's the major shortcoming of Linux: lack of awareness due to lack of significant cash flow. This, together with the DoJ statement that Microsoft can no longer use boot loader restrictions to leverage its monopoly position, will lead to a truly competitive desktop OS market in the near future (I say desktop OS because Linux is already taking over the servers, as evidenced by this commercial).
Okay, I can't believe you all missed the Simpsons reference.. Remember the wooden puppet that killed Krusty's show?
Or maybe I'm wrong... But I can't be wrong, because I Am Nitrogen.
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You make a very good argument. However, if there's anything history has shown us, it's that this (the crumble of Big Business, etc.) is not true, or that it would take far too long to happen (i.e. the market and all consumers would be in some way permanently detrimented). Consider, for example, the industrial era in the US in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Railroad companies would charge whatever they wanted to whomever they wanted, based on a totally irregular price schedule. If not for intervention from the government, all small business would have been crushed. Then, later on, Standard Oil, having a monopoly on the oil market in the US, was charging unfair prices. There was no competition, and demand was great, so people suffered and the price didn't adjust itself to compensate. In each situation, the government intervened to help out the little guy. I shudder to think where this country (and perhaps others) would be today if those important decisions to move away (however slightly) from the lassaiz faire (I'm sure that's spelled wrong) policy of allowing business to run itself.
Unfortunately it seems that today, the government doesn't work for the little guy any more. However, without government safety regulations, Joe Schmoe factory workers in the Dow Chemical plants would still have their bones dissolving within them, due to intense (50kppm+) concentrations of Vinyl Chloride (the current regulation is 50ppm).
So, in my opinion, the government must be allowed to intervene, but must always intervene for the good of the people, not the good of the business.
So I suppose that it was Martians who invented the printing press, the Trébuchet, Allegro (a game library designed by a guy from England), and numerous other cool inventions.
"I'm afraid of Americans. It sucks to fear myself."
I have to STRONGLY disagree with your sound card comment. Sure, when I has a SB16 PNP, it picked it up just fine. However, when I tried to use my classic SB16 IDE (non-PNP), it failed to detect it. I tried all freaking day to figure out how to make it work. I must say I hate that jumpered device dialog now. With a passion. That said, I loved how fast it was, and switching resolutions and refresh rates was quite easy. I wish they would've used a more "standard" directory structure, and not crippled the BeOS5PE free version so severely. I also wish (but it's a big wish) that it was Open Source. It's amazing to think what would be possible if someone could actually take the time to hand optimize every single instruction going to every single pathway in say an Athlon XP 1800+ and Nvidia GeForce 3, the way games had to be carefully tweaked and coded in 100% assembly/machine language "back in the day."
You are comparing a CPU to a piece of software. When I buy a CPU, I am buying a physical device. When I buy software, I am buying a license to perform only a few particular acts with that software, not the software itself. Since I actually own my CPU, I can do whatever I want with it: overclock it, paint it, use it as a frisbee, burn it up, freeze it, chew on it, sell it, whatever. All I can do with software is use it as the license dictates, and sell that license to someone else (right of first sale (or something like that) -- no matter what anybody says I can do this, as long as all physical copies of the software are transferred as well).
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3
http://www.suse.com/us/support/download/suse_lin ux/index.html
http://www.redhat.com/apps/download/http://jungl e. metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/
And so on... (remove spaces inserted by/.)
Dude, it's not illegal to swap Linux ISO's. It would, however, be illegal to make and distribute photocopies (beyond fair use) of the published manuals which took a long time to write and aren't licensed under the GNU's documentation license.
Notice, the OT in the subject line. Hence, no need to mod this post down for being off-topic.
While that is quite likely true, the EFF is wise for getting involved in this case. A "victory for the masses" in the case of MusicCity vs. RIAA/whoever will set a precedent for future cases brought against other services such as Limewire (Gnutella). They can then use the evidence and arguments presented in this case to further promote their side of other cases. Even if we disagree with MusicCity's reason for being, losing this case will make it significantly easier for the RIAA and MPAA to prosecute companies like Limewire, and individual authors of the other open source clients, not to mention musicians themselves for distributing their own music in a free or low-cost (i.e. non-RIAA) manner.
On a completely unrelated matter, I would like to see a service like MP3.com except more open and less restrivtive (iirc MP3.com takes all distribution rights from the author for all songs placed on their site) for small-time musicians who either are fed up with the big record labels or can't afford to push a demo tape through the system, or can't afford to duplicate 5000 CDs and market and distribute them. I know that I'd put my own music I've written on a service like that. $.20 to $.50 per song at 128kbps (or higher at the author's discretion), with free (low quality or short duration) previews so that you can know if you want a song would be perfect. Then, they could also sell CD's for like $7.50, take a profit from it, give the rest of the money to the authors, and everyone would still be making more than they would if they had gone through a big record label.
Yes, this is true. However, it's still better than an all-out shut down of the site. At least we will be able to access the content. CRC may have totally screwed Eric, and the settlment description is scary to read (for some), at least we can still access Mathworld. The problem now, is, a boycott of the book in particular and CRC press in general will hurt Mathworld rather than help it (unless somehow people managed to create an extensive enough boycott that CRC went under in a few months), and that Eric is paying royalty payments to his publisher, rather than the other way around (that is, if I read that right). I think the biggest screw job, however, is on all the people who ever contributed to the Treasure Trove, because now CRC has a copyright on their writings, and they weren't ever compensated.
As an aside, is there any way for him to continue to pursue more relaxed terms if and when he has the energy to do so? I think it's pretty terrifying when a publisher can literally steal money, time, and information from Eric and his contributors.
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This way the bargain mode is sleighted to the far end of the court's blindside cabbage bushes. Hence, the term, headeus cabbage, is used when describing such an occurance of traffic congestion.
In this time when most of our attention is focused on the little guys being bullied around by the likes of Microsoft and the government (please, no flames - I'm a patriot, just not a blind patriot), it's very refreshing to see a case of this where the "little guy" finally succeeded. I have to say this almost made me literally jump for joy. I've been waiting for this site to return for a long time. Eric's other treasure troves are incredibly useful, but since my focus is in computer science the mathematics section proved particularly useful to me. This should serve as an inspiration to all the little guys out there who are having a hard time with a bully.
But what the heck, knowing my luck, by the time I finish typing this and hit the submit button, there will probably already be 150 posts saying the same exact thing as this and I'll get moderated as redundant... I promise this at least was a unique and original post when I first clicked the Reply button!
Perhaps it is about time to make Vorbis/OGG a video format as well? You propose a very good idea. Why not (for example) make a non-patent-encumbered version of SVG? Why not design our own formats, and give away the standards in a true Open Source fasion? Many of us have spent our time whining about the unfairness of the big business world, and yet doing little to help the cause of free software other than driving away potential users by calling them morons, idiots, and Microslaves. Perhaps it is time to make the switch from passive to active. Let's have less trolling, bashing, and complaining, and more people doing something useful about it. Let us now begin a new revolution in software, where the tables are turned away from the old system in which free software products are tossed about at the whim of large corporations, desparately holding on to every line of code. Let us, for once, make the standards that they have to use (carefully of course, so as to avoid "embrace and extend").
Oh, and to be fair, I use OGG to do all my encoding, but most of my collection is in MP3's since much of my music was encoded by others. I also use PNG for all my graphics interchange.
Oh, I forgot to add -- has anyone yet tried to do any dual booting kind of stuff with Windows XP? Does its boot loader support other OSes by copying the boot sector in? Does it overwrite an existing lilo or grub when you install it? Not that I intend to use XP, I'm just curious if it's got the same boot loader as all previous versions of NT.
Windows 9x/ME has no boot.ini, it uses the old DOS boot loader (start whatever's on the partition marked "active"), so if you install lilo on a/dev/hda1 boot partition, and then mark that partition as active, the Windows 9x/ME boot loader will load lilo (or grub or whatever). By default, though, the Win9x setup program will set the Fat32 partition as active.
This is an interesting post. Someone please moderate it back up so people can see it. It is not off-topic, see the section "Unorginal Equipment Manufacturers" in the article. It is fully on-topic with that section.
You ask a good question. "Why would they want several hundred megs of unusable crap on their disks?" Windows XP, for example, takes up at least 1GB I've heard, and it doesn't seem much better than Windows 98, which takes up about 300MB, or Windows 95, which I was able to install on a 120MB hard drive and still have room for Duke Nukem 3D.
Quite a troll...
But why not make something good come from it? There isn't huge demand for Linux because there isn't huge awareness. If I could afford to spend 250 million dollars in advertising alone on just one day (Windows XP: Regis, Frasier, Media,... all rented by Microsoft) my OS would be on top too. If Microsoft didn't engage in anti-competitive practices, such as the boot loader "thing," Linux, OS/2, and BeOS all would've been installed on dual-boot systems with Windows a long time ago, and then later people would order Linux-only systems....and I'd hardly call Linux table scraps. What kind of an analogy is that? Think of something better for your next troll, please?
that when I search for linux myths on their webpage, to find a document I remember for some research I'm doing, it should produce a URL as such. Internetbuild14, eh?
Aah, thanks. I had been misinformed. Those blasphemous tubs of lard!!! Insulting Christians thusly...;p I'm sure that these are all just coincidences, not some big CEO (or one of his subordinates) fancying himself the supreme ruler of the universe...
PS. Cyrix CPU? Maybe I should be gentler on you - you already have a lot to put up with;-P
Heh, funny. I had to smile as I read that. You have no idea how much I've had to put up with, regarding computers or otherwise... Car catching on fire, taking 32 days to ship my new 850 duron motherboard, the motherboard was doa, I don't have a car anymore, my sister broke the bulb in my projector by hitting it with a pillow while it was hot,...
Well, I have my sister using Linux... If you use ext3, or xfs, or ReiserFS (I'd recommend xfs, although I haven't used it. I've used reiserfs extensively, and it's pretty nice by now) you don't even have to worry about fsck, except with ext3 sometimes, but not nearly as often. Plus, xfs and ReiserFS are supposed to yield significantly increased access times.
Well obviously... I'd be using Linux right now if not for the fact that my big hard drive is off for RMA and the only computer I have available to me is my parents' Win98SE box.
Fonts look like crap in Linux because the fonts themselves are crappy, as well as the programs that use them.
With freetype2 and anti-aliased rendering, fonts look great, especially in DirectFB. It's mostly Netscape Navigator that has font problems, and nobody in their right mind would use Netscape Navigator now that there's Galeon, Mozilla, Konqueror, etc.
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Actually, what it's suggesting is that during the night there would be fewer solar neutrinos due to the earth being in the way. Perhaps what is being discovered is that neutrinos are (for the most part anyway) not blocked or slowed down by the earth itself in any significant way, or that solar neutrinos really aren't caused by direct emission from the sun. At any rate though, I am not a theoretical physicist, I just like to think about this kind of stuff a lot, so I could be totally off the wall.
What's even more fun is that Linux has now received some serious television advertising. Up until now (at least in my area) the only "advertising" Linux has received has been the mention of Linux as a possible training route at the computer schools popping up all over the place, as well as being lumped in with all the "UNIX systems that will crash at Y2K because it's so old, but you don't have to worry because nobody uses UNIX any more." -- that was said on one of the news stations here. I sent an e-mail to the channel's producers explaining to them that the use UNIX every day to run their servers (they were running Solaris), produce their graphics (they were running IRIX), and so on. I never heard back from them.
Anyway, this advertising thing is something I've been wishing I could do for a long time. It's one of the few things still really holding Linux back. I've just never had enough money to put together a campaign, and that's the major shortcoming of Linux: lack of awareness due to lack of significant cash flow. This, together with the DoJ statement that Microsoft can no longer use boot loader restrictions to leverage its monopoly position, will lead to a truly competitive desktop OS market in the near future (I say desktop OS because Linux is already taking over the servers, as evidenced by this commercial).
Okay, I can't believe you all missed the Simpsons reference.. Remember the wooden puppet that killed Krusty's show?
Or maybe I'm wrong... But I can't be wrong, because I Am Nitrogen.
You make a very good argument. However, if there's anything history has shown us, it's that this (the crumble of Big Business, etc.) is not true, or that it would take far too long to happen (i.e. the market and all consumers would be in some way permanently detrimented). Consider, for example, the industrial era in the US in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Railroad companies would charge whatever they wanted to whomever they wanted, based on a totally irregular price schedule. If not for intervention from the government, all small business would have been crushed. Then, later on, Standard Oil, having a monopoly on the oil market in the US, was charging unfair prices. There was no competition, and demand was great, so people suffered and the price didn't adjust itself to compensate. In each situation, the government intervened to help out the little guy. I shudder to think where this country (and perhaps others) would be today if those important decisions to move away (however slightly) from the lassaiz faire (I'm sure that's spelled wrong) policy of allowing business to run itself.
Unfortunately it seems that today, the government doesn't work for the little guy any more. However, without government safety regulations, Joe Schmoe factory workers in the Dow Chemical plants would still have their bones dissolving within them, due to intense (50kppm+) concentrations of Vinyl Chloride (the current regulation is 50ppm).
So, in my opinion, the government must be allowed to intervene, but must always intervene for the good of the people, not the good of the business.
So I suppose that it was Martians who invented the printing press, the Trébuchet, Allegro (a game library designed by a guy from England), and numerous other cool inventions. "I'm afraid of Americans. It sucks to fear myself."
I have to STRONGLY disagree with your sound card comment. Sure, when I has a SB16 PNP, it picked it up just fine. However, when I tried to use my classic SB16 IDE (non-PNP), it failed to detect it. I tried all freaking day to figure out how to make it work. I must say I hate that jumpered device dialog now. With a passion. That said, I loved how fast it was, and switching resolutions and refresh rates was quite easy. I wish they would've used a more "standard" directory structure, and not crippled the BeOS5PE free version so severely. I also wish (but it's a big wish) that it was Open Source. It's amazing to think what would be possible if someone could actually take the time to hand optimize every single instruction going to every single pathway in say an Athlon XP 1800+ and Nvidia GeForce 3, the way games had to be carefully tweaked and coded in 100% assembly/machine language "back in the day."
You are comparing a CPU to a piece of software. When I buy a CPU, I am buying a physical device. When I buy software, I am buying a license to perform only a few particular acts with that software, not the software itself. Since I actually own my CPU, I can do whatever I want with it: overclock it, paint it, use it as a frisbee, burn it up, freeze it, chew on it, sell it, whatever. All I can do with software is use it as the license dictates, and sell that license to someone else (right of first sale (or something like that) -- no matter what anybody says I can do this, as long as all physical copies of the software are transferred as well).
Uh.. what?
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http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3
http://www.suse.com/us/support/download/suse_li
http://www.redhat.com/apps/download/http://jung
And so on... (remove spaces inserted by
Dude, it's not illegal to swap Linux ISO's. It would, however, be illegal to make and distribute photocopies (beyond fair use) of the published manuals which took a long time to write and aren't licensed under the GNU's documentation license.
Notice, the OT in the subject line. Hence, no need to mod this post down for being off-topic.
On a completely unrelated matter, I would like to see a service like MP3.com except more open and less restrivtive (iirc MP3.com takes all distribution rights from the author for all songs placed on their site) for small-time musicians who either are fed up with the big record labels or can't afford to push a demo tape through the system, or can't afford to duplicate 5000 CDs and market and distribute them. I know that I'd put my own music I've written on a service like that. $.20 to $.50 per song at 128kbps (or higher at the author's discretion), with free (low quality or short duration) previews so that you can know if you want a song would be perfect. Then, they could also sell CD's for like $7.50, take a profit from it, give the rest of the money to the authors, and everyone would still be making more than they would if they had gone through a big record label.
Yes, this is true. However, it's still better than an all-out shut down of the site. At least we will be able to access the content. CRC may have totally screwed Eric, and the settlment description is scary to read (for some), at least we can still access Mathworld. The problem now, is, a boycott of the book in particular and CRC press in general will hurt Mathworld rather than help it (unless somehow people managed to create an extensive enough boycott that CRC went under in a few months), and that Eric is paying royalty payments to his publisher, rather than the other way around (that is, if I read that right). I think the biggest screw job, however, is on all the people who ever contributed to the Treasure Trove, because now CRC has a copyright on their writings, and they weren't ever compensated.
As an aside, is there any way for him to continue to pursue more relaxed terms if and when he has the energy to do so? I think it's pretty terrifying when a publisher can literally steal money, time, and information from Eric and his contributors.
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This way the bargain mode is sleighted to the far end of the court's blindside cabbage bushes. Hence, the term, headeus cabbage, is used when describing such an occurance of traffic congestion.
But what the heck, knowing my luck, by the time I finish typing this and hit the submit button, there will probably already be 150 posts saying the same exact thing as this and I'll get moderated as redundant... I promise this at least was a unique and original post when I first clicked the Reply button!
Perhaps it is about time to make Vorbis/OGG a video format as well? You propose a very good idea. Why not (for example) make a non-patent-encumbered version of SVG? Why not design our own formats, and give away the standards in a true Open Source fasion? Many of us have spent our time whining about the unfairness of the big business world, and yet doing little to help the cause of free software other than driving away potential users by calling them morons, idiots, and Microslaves. Perhaps it is time to make the switch from passive to active. Let's have less trolling, bashing, and complaining, and more people doing something useful about it. Let us now begin a new revolution in software, where the tables are turned away from the old system in which free software products are tossed about at the whim of large corporations, desparately holding on to every line of code. Let us, for once, make the standards that they have to use (carefully of course, so as to avoid "embrace and extend").
Oh, and to be fair, I use OGG to do all my encoding, but most of my collection is in MP3's since much of my music was encoded by others. I also use PNG for all my graphics interchange.
BTW: Mod parent insightful
Oh, I forgot to add -- has anyone yet tried to do any dual booting kind of stuff with Windows XP? Does its boot loader support other OSes by copying the boot sector in? Does it overwrite an existing lilo or grub when you install it? Not that I intend to use XP, I'm just curious if it's got the same boot loader as all previous versions of NT.
Windows 9x/ME has no boot.ini, it uses the old DOS boot loader (start whatever's on the partition marked "active"), so if you install lilo on a /dev/hda1 boot partition, and then mark that partition as active, the Windows 9x/ME boot loader will load lilo (or grub or whatever). By default, though, the Win9x setup program will set the Fat32 partition as active.
This is an interesting post. Someone please moderate it back up so people can see it. It is not off-topic, see the section "Unorginal Equipment Manufacturers" in the article. It is fully on-topic with that section.
You ask a good question. "Why would they want several hundred megs of unusable crap on their disks?" Windows XP, for example, takes up at least 1GB I've heard, and it doesn't seem much better than Windows 98, which takes up about 300MB, or Windows 95, which I was able to install on a 120MB hard drive and still have room for Duke Nukem 3D.
Quite a troll... But why not make something good come from it? There isn't huge demand for Linux because there isn't huge awareness. If I could afford to spend 250 million dollars in advertising alone on just one day (Windows XP: Regis, Frasier, Media, ... all rented by Microsoft) my OS would be on top too. If Microsoft didn't engage in anti-competitive practices, such as the boot loader "thing," Linux, OS/2, and BeOS all would've been installed on dual-boot systems with Windows a long time ago, and then later people would order Linux-only systems. ...and I'd hardly call Linux table scraps. What kind of an analogy is that? Think of something better for your next troll, please?
I mean decreased access times...
Increased SPEED.
that when I search for linux myths on their webpage, to find a document I remember for some research I'm doing, it should produce a URL as such. Internetbuild14, eh?
Aah, thanks. I had been misinformed. Those blasphemous tubs of lard!!! Insulting Christians thusly... ;p I'm sure that these are all just coincidences, not some big CEO (or one of his subordinates) fancying himself the supreme ruler of the universe...
Heh, funny. I had to smile as I read that. You have no idea how much I've had to put up with, regarding computers or otherwise... Car catching on fire, taking 32 days to ship my new 850 duron motherboard, the motherboard was doa, I don't have a car anymore, my sister broke the bulb in my projector by hitting it with a pillow while it was hot, ...
I'm done with my gripe.
Well, I have my sister using Linux... If you use ext3, or xfs, or ReiserFS (I'd recommend xfs, although I haven't used it. I've used reiserfs extensively, and it's pretty nice by now) you don't even have to worry about fsck, except with ext3 sometimes, but not nearly as often. Plus, xfs and ReiserFS are supposed to yield significantly increased access times.
Indeed. The configuration files are named after the programs themselves, or in categories.
Well obviously ... I'd be using Linux right now if not for the fact that my big hard drive is off for RMA and the only computer I have available to me is my parents' Win98SE box.
Fonts look like crap in Linux because the fonts themselves are crappy, as well as the programs that use them. With freetype2 and anti-aliased rendering, fonts look great, especially in DirectFB. It's mostly Netscape Navigator that has font problems, and nobody in their right mind would use Netscape Navigator now that there's Galeon, Mozilla, Konqueror, etc.