YOU are missing the point also, at least the other point that I and some others were making. We don't demand everybody to free their codecs and open all their source code, just that their codecs shouldn't receive the blessing of being called "a standard" (and less so "an open standard") unless they at least make the specification open for everybody and grant royalty-free usage of the involved patents for free/open source software. They can still require licenses or royalties from proprietary software and they don't have to make any source code available to anybody.
In any case, h.264 and AAC have pretty darn reasonable licenses. The patent owners want wide adoption, not to gouge people.
Then they should make them royalty-free for Free Software. Anything less is not reasonable and is the reason that new, free codecs have to be developed.
You're forgetting that in Europe, 3G is pretty much a requirement for a phone such as this one as it's heavily relying on internet access. Personally I'm waiting until the next generation before getting one, or if the competition has caught up, a competitor.
It seems common for collection enthusiast like these to not understand or care about audio encoding, only the content. Not that I blame them for that though, but it's a bit annoying.
For example the otherwise fscking fantastic SOASC project: "FLAC: Why should I? Better go real WAV instead", followed by "WAV: That would be dream, yes. But it would take 10 times as much space.". Then they provide overkill bitrate CBR MP3s because VBR has problems on some hardware from the mid-90s...
Lossless is lossless is lossless, how hard can it be to grasp the concept that WAV == WAV.gz == FLAC?
Stop complaining about the "anti-americanism". Personally I'm not at all against Americans but very much against American politics (black curtain authorian corporatism and fear mongering). Except for a few nutcases I'm pretty sure that applies to most people you call "anti-american". Putting aside the non-stop war mongering, the biggest reason is that USA (the government, not the people) send armies of lobbyists to Europe trying to close down our freedoms to chase ghosts.
This law proposal is an obvious result of heavy American lobbyism, and it's just an example out of thousands. Yes, I blame European politicians just as much (if not more) for falling into the trap.
Thank you for stopping communism, bla bla bla, in the past. Whatever. That doesn't change what is happening right now.
I know a lot of Americans and they are all fantastic persons. It's all about the government and politics, not the people.
GnuNET is a cool anonymous searchable distributed storage pool but it's nothing like what the article describes. The projects aren't even remotely similar.
If that isn't enough, Trolltech will also provide QGtkStyle which will draw using native GTK widgets in the same way it uses native Cocoa/Carbon on OS X to make all Qt/KDE 4 applications have a Gnome look and feel, including things like the order of the dialog buttons.
Or you could just let it load the file, cd $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/blablabla/Cache/, "ls -lt | head" to find the filename, test it with mplayer and if it's the right one, cp it to somewhere.
[The Pirate Party] were almost ignored at the polls last time
Not very true. It's true that they only got 0,63%, or 34918 of the votes, but that's a HUGE accomplishment for a party that had at the time only existed for a few months and had a budget of practically zero.
I personally know a significant amount of people who considered voting for them but in the end decided to vote for an established party because they still believed that the liberals would practice liberalism and that a vote on the Pirates would be a somewhat wasted vote. Now, after the FRA law has been voted through, by those who call themselves liberals, there are A LOT of people in Sweden who feel politically homeless. Considering that the surveillance craze was initiated by the social democrats before the last election, they aren't an option either.
Next year there is the EU election. The Pirate Party have a great chance to get actual seats in the European parliament. One reason is that there are usually much less voters in that election, and people don't vote there for things like "cheaper kindergartens" and "to save the local hospital". Combine this with the ongoing FRA uproar, that the Pirate party has a little money for campaign this time and that you only need 2% of the votes to get a seat and it's easy to see that a vote on the Pirates is anything but wasted.
If the Pirate Party get a seat in EU 2009 there will be a lot of attention, and this will help getting seats in the Swedish government in the 2010 election easier.
One more thing: The tone about the Pirate Party in media has been very different the last few months. We aren't seen as the just "the rebelling kids" or troublemakers (the negative meaning of it) anymore, but as a political phenomenon which is a bit of fresh air and is to be taken seriously.
I got the "your client is too old" message today, did a manual "check for updates" and found that a new version of Adium (1.2.6) was released and after upgrading ICQ works again.
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How about "free as in free to use something else that has another license, reimplement the functionality yourself or pay someone to reimplement it"? It's not like you are forced to use GPLed software. If you want to just benefit from free code without giving anything back to the community then you are a leech and get treated as such.
Left vs right is only about the distribution of money, where extreme left is "everybody owns everything together" and extreme right is "100% unregulated market, no taxes". Authorian (extreme=fascism) vs libertarian (extreme=anarchism) is a different, separate scale. Those who call themselves "libertarian" in the US are usually also extreme right though, and those who call themselves "anarchists" are also usually extreme left.
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YOU are missing the point also, at least the other point that I and some others were making. We don't demand everybody to free their codecs and open all their source code, just that their codecs shouldn't receive the blessing of being called "a standard" (and less so "an open standard") unless they at least make the specification open for everybody and grant royalty-free usage of the involved patents for free/open source software. They can still require licenses or royalties from proprietary software and they don't have to make any source code available to anybody.
HTML5 guys pushing ogg format really, really doesn't make sense.
Name another patent-free format, then.
Dirac, the CODEC of the future. In the same league or rivaling H.264/VC-1 but completely free from any patents requiring licenses and/or royalties.
In any case, h.264 and AAC have pretty darn reasonable licenses. The patent owners want wide adoption, not to gouge people.
Then they should make them royalty-free for Free Software. Anything less is not reasonable and is the reason that new, free codecs have to be developed.
You're forgetting that in Europe, 3G is pretty much a requirement for a phone such as this one as it's heavily relying on internet access. Personally I'm waiting until the next generation before getting one, or if the competition has caught up, a competitor.
It seems common for collection enthusiast like these to not understand or care about audio encoding, only the content. Not that I blame them for that though, but it's a bit annoying.
For example the otherwise fscking fantastic SOASC project: "FLAC: Why should I? Better go real WAV instead", followed by "WAV: That would be dream, yes. But it would take 10 times as much space.". Then they provide overkill bitrate CBR MP3s because VBR has problems on some hardware from the mid-90s...
Lossless is lossless is lossless, how hard can it be to grasp the concept that WAV == WAV.gz == FLAC?
They sure seem to know all about math.
Let's hope these black holes won't kill -9 us all. :(
Matt has posted a very in-depth PDF whitepaper describing the Hammer filesystem. A very interesting read!
WMA, WMV and ASF are the very same container format. The only difference is the filename extension.
Stop complaining about the "anti-americanism". Personally I'm not at all against Americans but very much against American politics (black curtain authorian corporatism and fear mongering). Except for a few nutcases I'm pretty sure that applies to most people you call "anti-american". Putting aside the non-stop war mongering, the biggest reason is that USA (the government, not the people) send armies of lobbyists to Europe trying to close down our freedoms to chase ghosts.
This law proposal is an obvious result of heavy American lobbyism, and it's just an example out of thousands. Yes, I blame European politicians just as much (if not more) for falling into the trap.
Thank you for stopping communism, bla bla bla, in the past. Whatever. That doesn't change what is happening right now.
I know a lot of Americans and they are all fantastic persons. It's all about the government and politics, not the people.
How can one NOT love the taste of salmiac liquorice? It's the best candy ever!
I don't think I'd appreciate salmiac-tasting squid though, or any kind of squid.
We used to tease and say "1-2-many" is how baboons count
Maybe they are good at relational database modeling then!
GnuNET is a cool anonymous searchable distributed storage pool but it's nothing like what the article describes. The projects aren't even remotely similar.
If that isn't enough, Trolltech will also provide QGtkStyle which will draw using native GTK widgets in the same way it uses native Cocoa/Carbon on OS X to make all Qt/KDE 4 applications have a Gnome look and feel, including things like the order of the dialog buttons.
Or you could just let it load the file, cd $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/blablabla/Cache/, "ls -lt | head" to find the filename, test it with mplayer and if it's the right one, cp it to somewhere.
[The Pirate Party] were almost ignored at the polls last time
Not very true. It's true that they only got 0,63%, or 34918 of the votes, but that's a HUGE accomplishment for a party that had at the time only existed for a few months and had a budget of practically zero.
I personally know a significant amount of people who considered voting for them but in the end decided to vote for an established party because they still believed that the liberals would practice liberalism and that a vote on the Pirates would be a somewhat wasted vote. Now, after the FRA law has been voted through, by those who call themselves liberals, there are A LOT of people in Sweden who feel politically homeless. Considering that the surveillance craze was initiated by the social democrats before the last election, they aren't an option either.
Next year there is the EU election. The Pirate Party have a great chance to get actual seats in the European parliament. One reason is that there are usually much less voters in that election, and people don't vote there for things like "cheaper kindergartens" and "to save the local hospital". Combine this with the ongoing FRA uproar, that the Pirate party has a little money for campaign this time and that you only need 2% of the votes to get a seat and it's easy to see that a vote on the Pirates is anything but wasted.
If the Pirate Party get a seat in EU 2009 there will be a lot of attention, and this will help getting seats in the Swedish government in the 2010 election easier.
One more thing: The tone about the Pirate Party in media has been very different the last few months. We aren't seen as the just "the rebelling kids" or troublemakers (the negative meaning of it) anymore, but as a political phenomenon which is a bit of fresh air and is to be taken seriously.
If you want to help make this become reality, please consider donating some money! Every donation is welcome!
Is there some protection for two Swedes in Sweden who use, for example, Slashdot to communicate?
Nope, no protection at all.
Not pure COBOL, though. It's COBOL ON COGS.
Oh yes, this sounds exactly like other totalitarian countries, like China, USA and Sweden.
My ass. Software patents are evil, period.
Fuck you, Nicolas Sarkozy!
I got the "your client is too old" message today, did a manual "check for updates" and found that a new version of Adium (1.2.6) was released and after upgrading ICQ works again.
How about "free as in free to use something else that has another license, reimplement the functionality yourself or pay someone to reimplement it"? It's not like you are forced to use GPLed software. If you want to just benefit from free code without giving anything back to the community then you are a leech and get treated as such.
Earth sounds like a 16 kbps MP3 encoding of /dev/random
Here is the hero!
Left vs right is only about the distribution of money, where extreme left is "everybody owns everything together" and extreme right is "100% unregulated market, no taxes". Authorian (extreme=fascism) vs libertarian (extreme=anarchism) is a different, separate scale. Those who call themselves "libertarian" in the US are usually also extreme right though, and those who call themselves "anarchists" are also usually extreme left.