What would you like to see the X folks do about the nvidia driver problems?
Ideally, nvidia would release specs to their cards so support can be added into x.org and the kernel and then detection and setup can be integrated into the system install process.
Honestly, I don't see any other sensible way.
Why not take your concerns to Nvidia and see if they can help?
Pause times below 1/10th of a second are often the case,
That's not even remotely low enough for realtime audio applications. "Human interaction" includes realtime mixing of audio streams etc, not just displaying windows and moving a mouse pointer.
Yeah, nice FUD. Java is slow because it's bytecode
Bytecode is not slow if its jit compiled. Java can be as fast as compiled c in some cases where the jit engine has done a good job. That doesn't reduce GC latency though.
It's quite nice to consider what others would like to do sometimes as well as yourself. If someone offers something that adversely affects a minority I try to avoid it for the sake of that minority.
It's why I don't buy cds with copy protection even though they work in my cd player. I just don't like the idea that those who want to copy the music to their mp3 players can't do it.
Same with iTunes. I don't like the idea that folks can't easily make oggs to play in their iriver ihp120.
Calling the cops _is_ understandable, but what you are really doing is reporting somebody attempting unlawful entry (or whatever law your country has) not reporting lock picking because lock picking is (thankfully) not against the law.
As an aside, the only two times I have seem someone breaking into a property it has been the owner/tenant doing so. That's probably because if it were a burglar they would chose some less visible point of entry, whereas the owner would chose the one that causes least damage.
It's not intended to be an argument against copyright law.
It's an argument against those who seek to confuse the two different things, apparently in an attempt to make copyright infringement sound more harmful.
Also, in this case, they are not enforcing copyright law (if they were this would be a civil matter not a criminal one and would take the form of a lawsuit) they are enforcing a specific _criminal_ law against the possesion of unauthorised recording equipment in a theater.
I would say that the law sees copyright infringement as less wrong than stealing because stealing is a crime (ie, a criminal offence) and copyright infringement is not a crime (it's a civil offence)
However, I can't comment on the specifics of recording with a camcorder in a cinema. Obviously its specifically a crime in some of the more opressive countries/states.
fraud is more like stealing because if I defraud someone, I gain what someone else loses. When copyright is violated, I gain, but the copyright holders don't lose anything.
It's true that they potentially could have gained if I had paid instead of infringing copyright, and so it could be viewed as a lost sale.
However, that assumes that if I didn't infringe I would still want a copy of the work enough to pay for it.
The RIAA and MPAA etc want you to think like that, but the reality is that (as an example) of all the people downloading mp3s and not paying for them, there are huge numbers of people who, if they had no free of charge access to the music would not have bought most of it anyway. They are by far the majority IMO. It's in that majority of cases where nothing is "lost" by the copyright holder and so that's why its nothing like stealing.
As for films and "screener" filming, I don't think there are any reliable figures that convince me either way yet. I can't imagine someone watching the film at home instead of going to the cinema (in the same way that DVDs and home video don't reduce cinema going) Perhaps it could hit DVD sales instead but then maybe they should release the DVDs sooner.
On the murder comparison, I dont think thats stealing a life either. Its destroying one. If i were to do that to some music then by analogy nobody would have a copy of it any more including the copyright holders.
learn what "steal" means. seriously. then learn what "copyright violation" is.
Then compare the two and realise that they are nothing like each other, morally, legally, or otherwise.
It's not that I condone filming movies with camcorders in cinemas, but please don't fall for the "copyright violation == stealing" propaganda.
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99.99% of the population doesnt replace their computer as regularly as some on slashdot do, so they don't have as much of a problem in the first place.
banana martin # emerge xorg-x11 Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 14, in ?
import portage
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6128, in ?
settings.regenerate() # XXX: Regenerate use after we get a vartree -- GLOBAL
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1392, in regenerate
self.configdict["auto"]["USE"]=autouse(db[root]["v artree"],use_cache=use_cache)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1121, in autouse
myresult=dep_check(mydep,myvartree.dbapi,None,use= "no",use_cache=use_cache)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3309, in dep_check
mylist=flatten(dep_listcleanup(dep_zapdeps(mysplit,mysplit2)))
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3052, in dep_zapdeps
myresult=dep_zapdeps(unreduced[x],reduced[x])
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3038, in dep_zapdeps
elif myportapi.match(x): AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'match'
Linux is not a company, so it cannot have a monopoly.
Any single piece of software that happens to be installed everywhere is not neccesarily a bad thing as long as its not owned and controlled by a single company.
Don't talk to me about food. It's all I've had to eat every single day for as long as I can remember. I just want a little variety; something else for a change but no matter where I go, all they have is food.
Because everyone should benefit from anything whether they have contributed to it or not UNLESS doing so would otherwise have a detrimantal effect on society.
That's why the minor comment about freedom was in brackets and why I admitted it was a digression. It seems your indignance is equalled only by your inability to understand the main point I was making, but I'm not going to make it again here.
And if my "propoganda" is bogus, explain what's bogus about it. "Bullshit. You're as bad as RMS" doesn't help me understand the error in my point.
Not really. It's perfectly natural to many of us for someone to change things to work in the way they want them to. It's a basic freedom that many of us try to protect.
What's unusual in this case is that closed proprietry software has been "changed" without access to the source.
It's not sad that someone other than Microsoft had to do it. It's sad that people other than Microsoft can't do such things a whole lot more.
(in reality, they can of course by not using closed source software, but for some it seems percieved convenience is more important than freedom, but I digress)
copyright infringement is a civil matter, but circumventing a technical protection measure is a criminal matter in the US. CSS is a technical protection measure. This is basic DMCA stuff.
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But he is not involved in actively advocating the use of those makes. As a LUG president, he surely is.
If he were the leader of some Chrysler fan group however, then you might have a point.
Thanks.
Hmm. I wonder if the moderation you voided will still be eligible for meta-moderation or not?
News at 11.
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brittle means it will snap rather than bend when enough force is applied.
strong means that "enough force" is quite a lot.
look here for metal comparisons
What would you like to see the X folks do about the nvidia driver problems?
Ideally, nvidia would release specs to their cards so support can be added into x.org and the kernel and then detection and setup can be integrated into the system install process.
Honestly, I don't see any other sensible way.
Why not take your concerns to Nvidia and see if they can help?
Pause times below 1/10th of a second are often the case,
That's not even remotely low enough for realtime audio applications. "Human interaction" includes realtime mixing of audio streams etc, not just displaying windows and moving a mouse pointer.
Yeah, nice FUD. Java is slow because it's bytecode
Bytecode is not slow if its jit compiled. Java can be as fast as compiled c in some cases where the jit engine has done a good job. That doesn't reduce GC latency though.
It's quite nice to consider what others would like to do sometimes as well as yourself. If someone offers something that adversely affects a minority I try to avoid it for the sake of that minority.
It's why I don't buy cds with copy protection even though they work in my cd player. I just don't like the idea that those who want to copy the music to their mp3 players can't do it.
Same with iTunes. I don't like the idea that folks can't easily make oggs to play in their iriver ihp120.
Calling the cops _is_ understandable, but what you are really doing is reporting somebody attempting unlawful entry (or whatever law your country has) not reporting lock picking because lock picking is (thankfully) not against the law.
As an aside, the only two times I have seem someone breaking into a property it has been the owner/tenant doing so. That's probably because if it were a burglar they would chose some less visible point of entry, whereas the owner would chose the one that causes least damage.
No. But...
In what we call a "free country" the idea is that you can do whatever you want unsess it can be proven to harm others.
The fact that you ask me to give a reason why one should be free by default shows that perhaps you don't care whether your country is free?
It's not intended to be an argument against copyright law.
It's an argument against those who seek to confuse the two different things, apparently in an attempt to make copyright infringement sound more harmful.
Also, in this case, they are not enforcing copyright law (if they were this would be a civil matter not a criminal one and would take the form of a lawsuit)
they are enforcing a specific _criminal_ law against the possesion of unauthorised recording equipment in a theater.
I would say that the law sees copyright infringement as less wrong than stealing because stealing is a crime (ie, a criminal offence) and copyright infringement is not a crime (it's a civil offence)
However, I can't comment on the specifics of recording with a camcorder in a cinema. Obviously its specifically a crime in some of the more opressive countries/states.
fraud is more like stealing because if I defraud someone, I gain what someone else loses. When copyright is violated, I gain, but the copyright holders don't lose anything.
It's true that they potentially could have gained if I had paid instead of infringing copyright, and so it could be viewed as a lost sale.
However, that assumes that if I didn't infringe I would still want a copy of the work enough to pay for it.
The RIAA and MPAA etc want you to think like that, but the reality is that (as an example) of all the people downloading mp3s and not paying for them, there are huge numbers of people who, if they had no free of charge access to the music would not have bought most of it anyway. They are by far the majority IMO. It's in that majority of cases where nothing is "lost" by the copyright holder and so that's why its nothing like stealing.
As for films and "screener" filming, I don't think there are any reliable figures that convince me either way yet. I can't imagine someone watching the film at home instead of going to the cinema (in the same way that DVDs and home video don't reduce cinema going)
Perhaps it could hit DVD sales instead but then maybe they should release the DVDs sooner.
On the murder comparison, I dont think thats stealing a life either. Its destroying one. If i were to do that to some music then by analogy nobody would have a copy of it any more including the copyright holders.
learn what "steal" means. seriously.
then learn what "copyright violation" is.
Then compare the two and realise that they are nothing like each other, morally, legally, or otherwise.
It's not that I condone filming movies with camcorders in cinemas, but please don't fall for the "copyright violation == stealing" propaganda.
99.99% of the population doesnt replace their computer as regularly as some on slashdot do, so they don't have as much of a problem in the first place.
its totally fucked:
v artree"],use_cache=use_cache)= "no",use_cache=use_cache)t ,mysplit2)))
banana martin # emerge xorg-x11
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 14, in ?
import portage
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6128, in ?
settings.regenerate() # XXX: Regenerate use after we get a vartree -- GLOBAL
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1392, in regenerate
self.configdict["auto"]["USE"]=autouse(db[root]["
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1121, in autouse
myresult=dep_check(mydep,myvartree.dbapi,None,use
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3309, in dep_check
mylist=flatten(dep_listcleanup(dep_zapdeps(myspli
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3052, in dep_zapdeps
myresult=dep_zapdeps(unreduced[x],reduced[x])
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3038, in dep_zapdeps
elif myportapi.match(x):
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'match'
well, i just typed:
emerge unmerge xfree && emerge xorg-x11
I'll let you know soon if my system is totally fucked or not.
Linux is not a company, so it cannot have a monopoly.
Any single piece of software that happens to be installed everywhere is not neccesarily a bad thing as long as its not owned and controlled by a single company.
"Slashdot editors" "journalistic integrity"
HAHAHAAHAHAHA!!!!
Don't talk to me about food. It's all I've had to eat every single day for as long as I can remember. I just want a little variety; something else for a change but no matter where I go, all they have is food.
Give me something else to eat.
Because everyone should benefit from anything whether they have contributed to it or not UNLESS doing so would otherwise have a detrimantal effect on society.
I wish they would release the old amiga os versions into the public domain.
UAE would benefit from being able to ship the roms with it.
That's why the minor comment about freedom was in brackets and why I admitted it was a digression.
It seems your indignance is equalled only by your inability to understand the main point I was making, but I'm not going to make it again here.
And if my "propoganda" is bogus, explain what's bogus about it. "Bullshit. You're as bad as RMS" doesn't help me understand the error in my point.
Not really. It's perfectly natural to many of us for someone to change things to work in the way they want them to. It's a basic freedom that many of us try to protect.
What's unusual in this case is that closed proprietry software has been "changed" without access to the source.
It's not sad that someone other than Microsoft had to do it. It's sad that people other than Microsoft can't do such things a whole lot more.
(in reality, they can of course by not using closed source software, but for some it seems percieved convenience is more important than freedom, but I digress)
Better than no driver at all...
And I suppose working as a slave is better than not working at all. You might not have any freedom, but at least you get food, right?
copyright infringement is a civil matter, but circumventing a technical protection measure is a criminal matter in the US. CSS is a technical protection measure. This is basic DMCA stuff.