WRAL (the Raleigh CBS affliate) recently ran one of those lame human interest stories about a local band. The band (can't remember the name) posted some mp3s and order information on their website. They are now selling all over the world! They guy was talking about how great it was. So you're right, mp3s are hurting artists in about the same way a foam mallet over the head (soaked in beer) might hurt you or I.
I doubt it, the N&O is one of the major papers down here in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapell Hill area. (Durham is bolded because it just happens to be were Red Hat has it's main corparate offices.) It's more likely that this article was first reported to/. because of where the paper is from (the article says the story first broke at ZDNet.)
The Raleigh N&O said that the local users group may try and pick up the slack with a less corparate expo. (More like the old ones, for the True Geeks(tm).)
Damn it! This is the third disaster since I moved down to Raleigh (Floyd, BIG snowstorm, cancelling Linux Expo), it's almost like NC is conspiring against me!:)
Did you know that the Catholic Church doesn't accept salvation through faith alone? Or perhaps, that this was the issue of major debate even within the Apostles life time. Do you honestly think you have a better grasp on Chirst's teachings than someone who actually spent time with him???
Oh, and by the way, just because some one is has leftist tendances (RMS!) doesn't mean they are at "war with the United States." My god, just because I disagree with the US policy on drugs doesn't mean I am "at war" with them. In this country(The US) we are supposed to be free to believe what we want. There is also something called due process one of the original purposes of which was to protect political dissidents.
I wasn't trying to prove you wrong. I honestly don't give a flying duck what you think. I was trying to point out what I feel is a moderation mistake. Your opinion is no more interesting that if I jump up and start shouting how I love dune and I've read the entire series over 30 times.
---Start Parody--- While it's always great when a new fantasy series/film comes out I wish it could have been something other than The Tempest. There are far more worthwhile fantasy series that would make excellent series, but The Tempest is just not one of them.
The Tempest is horribly dull and long-winded, spending 100 pages going into ind-numbing detail about the smallest of details, lending itself to that incredible "eye-glazing factor" that is also shared by much of Tolkien's work. I tried to read it several times and each time I gave up in favour of a better written book by someone who had obviously employed the services of a decent editor.
And let's face it the setting for The Tempest was hardly convincing. There was a lack of background in some places, leaving the reader to guess what was going on a lot of the time, and some truly dire characterisations. I like my books to be full of detailed,convincing characters who engage in wity, sharp conversations that make them sound like real people. I'm sure you can see why I didn't like The Tempest - two-dimensional characters a masterpiece do not make.
There are plenty of worthwhile fantasy series out there which would make for far more intersting, exciting and challenging TV series and/or films. Let's hope that next time they pick one. ---End Parody---
All Delphi does is make programs five times the size they could be if programmers weren't so lazy.
Ok, back to the real world. Have you worked in the industry are you just a student? Do you know the kind of pressures programmers are under out here? I know of one time that my ass was saved by RAD. I was given 48 hours to design, implement and put into production an fairly complex invoicing solution. There is no way I could have gotten it up and running that quickly without RAD help.
I'm sorry, your worship, but RAD does have a place. Yes, VB,Delphi, etc are not perfect, but then again neither is linux. It really nice you want to live in your ivory tower an not be touched by the concerns of the common people, but the things we do effect people.
Sometimes we have to get off our high horse a look at the real world. If you don't like it, don't use it. That's all, it's really not that hard. In the open source world, you are _free_ not to use it, or to _take_ it and port it to a language _you_ think is proper(like jazilla). That's the nature of the beast.
Not to nit-pick, but the Henson family pulled out of the merger talks before the merger was complete. Until now they have been a completely independent (but strategically allied) company.
Jim died in the early 90's (I don't remember the date, but I remember what I was doing when I found out.) of some kind of lung infection. (Varying stories have been aired, however the most common is an advanced strep infection in the lungs). This was right during the aborted Disney/Henson merger. In the end it became a strategic alliance that has produced some pretty cool shows (Bear in The Big Blue House.).
The following is my opinion: While the Muppets are not at the same level that they were when Jim was alive, they have put out some very good movies in the last few years ("Muppet Treasure Island", "Muppet Christmas Carol" and most recently "Muppets From Space" (my fav. one since Jim died).).
While it was a very sad day for muppets fans, Jim did want the muppets to go one after him. Citing their father's memory, his family pulled out of the merger deal (Disney refused to give them creative control if I remember right, I'm sure someone will correct me). And the muppets have been Jim-less for nearly a decade. But just like Disney with out Walt, or any organization with a dreamer at it's core it is very hard for the organization to carry on with the wild-eyed enthusasism(sp?) the dreamer brings.
(And doing a pretty good job too! Again, just my opinion)
Sorry my thinking is so disorganized, it's been a rough day! RobK "Someday we'll find it...."
mac os rumors is basically...well crap. this isnt a troll, its the truth. ryan (the owner) makes stuff. dont fall for his news....show some integrity I had to respond.
Yes MOSR is a _RUMORS_ site. Sometimes they print the truth, sometimes they don't. Sometimes it is painfully obvious that they don't understand what their sources are saying.
However, I think it is very disingenious to claim that they make stuff up with out proof. Say what you want if you have some proof to back it up, but they are pretty accurate about somethings (earnings reports, they hit some of the recent consumer stuff right on the head and so on).
About this specific rumor:With the recent accounement about VPC, I wouldn't be suprised if you saw a binary-only distibution with in the next year. However, i doubt that connectix is truely cool enough to open source it, especially with all the $$$ they invested to fight of the Empire err... I mean Sony.
CMU claimed they were doing this my sophomore year (1991).
Are you refering to the "Computer Skills Workshop?" _If_ so, it's been in existance at least since 1990. Really basic things like "this is the one switch", and I remember we had an entire 1 -n- 1/2 hour class on the ls command. BOOORING!
I wouldn't worry too much about the unqualified students. From my observation , CMU's Computer department assumes a lot of pre-knowledge. It would be sort of like expecting a physics student(which I was) to come in the door already knowing 3 Dimensional Calculus. Once you know it, it's a piece of cake and it's hard to imagine not knowing it... but their isn't any reason to think that physics students should know it as they come in the door.
And just like any group of CS student (esp. at a school like CMU) the ones that can't hack it, will change their major and the ones with the passion'll hired by the university before they graduate.:)
Also isn't the whole idea that since we(programmers) have the source, we can add the features we need for our(coporate) enterprise. For example, say I need a certain feature ohhhhhhh like super-deduperty ABC support (picking a random TLA). I can add it and then when I have that up and running I can say to Linus, "hey here is my ABC module, do you want it?" If Linus says no, I do a fork for my company until the "official" kernel supporting ABC comes out. A good example of would be TurboLinux's changes to the kernel to support clustering.
While I think that this guy (I've never heard the name before) has some good points, the lax nature of Linux Project Management (LPM) has gotten it where it is today.
I'm a fairly prolific poster (at times my user info will report 50+ postsing usually when there's a whole lot of compiling going on...:))
At anyrate over the last 8 mos, I've gotten a completely undeserved Karma of around 50. (I refuse to use the +1 bonus.) Karma needs to be reworked so that people like me who only contribute something of value once everyother month or so aren't put at the same level as Bruce Perens, Hemos, Signal11, arguably konstant and a few others who constantly post intelligent, well informed or even funny posts.
And can I have a preference to set my No Score +1 Bonus to always be checked, please?
I set my threshold at -1, but my index spill at 1 post. So if there is even 1 post, only the title is displayed for posts lest than 1. This works really well for me, I still get to at least see the titles that slip through the cracks, and usually end up reading three or four per article....
OOPS! I forgot to add, I wasn't disagreeing with you per se about the Marxism. For that part I was more commenting on the entire discussion. This is the third or fourth time I've read Metcalf say the same thing and it's starting to get on my nerves. Those comments would most probably be sent to Metcalf himself. However, I enjoy making an ass of myself in public.:)
Not everyone even accepts that there exists a valid form of property. Those who believe exclusively in weaker notions of "property" are still anti-property, but less so than those who don't acknowledge any concept of property.
Intellectual property is corollary of capitalism. Take away intellectual property and you remove financial incentive to produce intellectual works, including software. It is awfully hard to honestly say "I'm a capitalist", then say in the same breath "I don't believe in intellectual property".
Capitialism existed very well without the concept of intellectual property until the 1800's. The concept of "Copyright" did exist until 1900.
For example, (true story) my great-grandmother wanted a very specific Lennox pattern for her china. Sadly, the family had hit on hard times and couldn't afford the real thing. So in a perfectly _legal_ transaction, my great-grandfather went to the local craftsman and had an exact duplicate made. Today this would be copyright infringement, but at the time (unsure but we do know that the plates date to pre-1900) it was considered to be perfectly normal thing to do. (I have these plates hanging on my wall....)
You are assuming that intellectual property is a valid form of property. Not every one accepts this, nor has the concept existed for the majority of human existance.
The concept that OSS even apporximates Marxism is rediculous. If I contirbute to a GPL project, my contribution is *mine* I have *chosen* to let others use it and modify it freely, provided that they agree to meet certain conditions. There is _NO_ economic or political side effect of that. It is a choice that I and some other developers make, because we feel that it makes our end product better.
In the OSS there programmers who are Libertarians, Comunists, Republicans, Democrats(me, for example), Socialists, Anarchists and so on.
To try and label all OSS as XXXXXX, just really doesn't make anyone in the conversation look real bright.
Most venture capitialists(sp?) really push for the IPO. To a VC that's sort of the finish line, and where they make all the money to invest in the next crop of companies. I'd be very suprised if Transmeta remainded privately held for more than a year.
Ummm, there are several computers on the market now that _are_ bullet proof.
For example: The Apple G4's are. I *believe* the Ibook is (as long as it's closed), and there was a story from a scottish newspaper about the bullet-proff nature of the iMac's shell (not monitor obviously) when they first came out.
I'm sure that it you could find some poly-carbonate PC cases, if you wanted.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh AND I forgot a another disaster:
THE COMING OF THE MOTHER-IN-LAW!
Yep, my wife's parents are moving down
here to be near the baby (due in August).
WRAL (the Raleigh CBS affliate) recently ran one of those lame human interest stories about a local band. The band (can't remember the name) posted some mp3s and order information on their website. They are now selling all over the world! They guy was talking about how great it was. So you're right, mp3s are hurting artists in about the same way a foam mallet over the head (soaked in beer) might hurt you or I.
I doubt it, the N&O is one of the major papers down here in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapell Hill area. (Durham is bolded because it just happens to be were Red Hat has it's main corparate offices.) It's more likely that this article was first reported to /. because of where the paper is from (the article says the story first broke at ZDNet.)
The Raleigh N&O said that the local users group may try and pick up the slack with a less corparate expo. (More like the old ones, for the True Geeks(tm).)
:)
Damn it! This is the third disaster since I moved down to Raleigh (Floyd, BIG snowstorm, cancelling Linux Expo), it's almost like NC is conspiring against me!
You went to Bob Jones University, didn't you?
Did you know that the Catholic Church doesn't accept salvation through faith alone? Or perhaps, that this was the issue of major debate even within the Apostles life time. Do you honestly think you have a better grasp on Chirst's teachings than someone who actually spent time with him???
Oh, and by the way, just because some one is has leftist tendances (RMS!) doesn't mean they are at "war with the United States." My god, just because I disagree with the US policy on drugs doesn't mean I am "at war" with them. In this country(The US) we are supposed to be free to believe what we want. There is also something called due process one of the original purposes of which was to protect political dissidents.
I wasn't trying to prove you wrong. I honestly don't give a flying duck what you think. I was
trying to point out what I feel is a moderation mistake. Your opinion is no more interesting that if I jump up and start shouting how I love dune and I've read the entire series over 30 times.
---Start Parody---
While it's always great when a new fantasy series/film comes out I wish it could have been something other than The Tempest. There are far more worthwhile fantasy series that would make excellent series, but The Tempest is just not one of them.
The Tempest is horribly dull and long-winded, spending 100 pages going into ind-numbing detail about the smallest of details, lending itself to that incredible "eye-glazing factor" that is also shared by much of Tolkien's work. I tried to read it several times and each time I gave up in favour of a better written book by someone who had obviously employed the services of a decent editor.
And let's face it the setting for The Tempest was hardly convincing. There was a lack of background in some places, leaving the reader to guess what was going on a lot of the time, and some truly dire characterisations. I like my books to be full of detailed,convincing characters who engage in wity, sharp conversations that make them sound like real people. I'm sure you can see why I didn't like The Tempest - two-dimensional characters a masterpiece do not make.
There are plenty of worthwhile fantasy series out there which would make for far more intersting, exciting and challenging TV series and/or films. Let's hope that next time they pick one.
---End Parody---
Hell, I've had that happen on a regular :>
basis with everything from a S3ViRGE to a Matrox.... I don't think it's nescessarily the driver.
All Delphi does is make programs five times the size they could be if programmers weren't so lazy.
Ok, back to the real world. Have you worked in the industry are you just a student? Do you know the kind of pressures programmers are under out here? I know of one time that my ass was saved by RAD. I was given 48 hours to design, implement and put into production an fairly complex invoicing solution. There is no way I could have gotten it up and running that quickly without RAD help.
I'm sorry, your worship, but RAD does have a place. Yes, VB,Delphi, etc are not perfect, but then again neither is linux. It really nice you want to live in your ivory tower an not be touched by the concerns of the common people, but the things we do effect people.
Sometimes we have to get off our high horse a look at the real world. If you don't like it, don't use it. That's all, it's really not that hard. In the open source world, you are _free_ not to use it, or to _take_ it and port it to a language _you_ think is proper(like jazilla). That's the nature of the beast.
VB Does executables... it has since verison 5.0.
Not that I'm saying VB is great, it's a sub-average tool that I've been forced to use _ALOT_!
Not to nit-pick, but the Henson family pulled out of the merger talks before the merger was complete. Until now they have been a completely independent (but strategically allied) company.
Wow! Are you out of it. :)
Jim died in the early 90's (I don't remember the date, but I remember what I was doing when I found out.) of some kind of lung infection. (Varying stories have been aired, however the most common is an advanced strep infection in the lungs). This was right during the aborted Disney/Henson merger. In the end it became a strategic alliance that has produced some pretty cool shows (Bear in The Big Blue House.).
The following is my opinion:
While the Muppets are not at the same level that they were when Jim was alive, they have put out some very good movies in the last few years ("Muppet Treasure Island", "Muppet Christmas Carol" and most recently "Muppets From Space" (my fav. one since Jim died).).
While it was a very sad day for muppets fans, Jim did want the muppets to go one after him. Citing their father's memory, his family pulled out of the merger deal (Disney refused to give them creative control if I remember right, I'm sure someone will correct me). And the muppets have been Jim-less for nearly a decade. But just like Disney with out Walt, or any organization with a dreamer at it's core it is very hard for the organization to carry on with the wild-eyed enthusasism(sp?) the dreamer brings.
(And doing a pretty good job too! Again, just my opinion)
Sorry my thinking is so disorganized, it's been a rough day!
RobK
"Someday we'll find it...."
mac os rumors is basically...well crap. this isnt a troll, its the truth. ryan (the owner) makes stuff. dont fall for his news....show
some integrity
I had to respond.
Yes MOSR is a _RUMORS_ site. Sometimes they print the truth, sometimes they don't. Sometimes it is
painfully obvious that they don't understand what their sources are saying.
However, I think it is very disingenious to claim that they make stuff up with out proof. Say what you want if you have some proof to back it up, but they are pretty accurate about somethings (earnings reports, they hit some of the recent consumer stuff right on the head and so on).
About this specific rumor:With the recent accounement about VPC, I wouldn't be suprised if you saw a binary-only distibution with in the next year. However, i doubt that connectix is truely cool enough to open source it, especially with all the $$$ they invested to fight of the Empire err... I mean Sony.
CMU claimed they were doing this my sophomore year (1991).
:)
Are you refering to the "Computer Skills Workshop?" _If_ so, it's been in existance at least since 1990. Really basic things like "this is the one switch", and I remember we had an entire 1 -n- 1/2 hour class on the ls command. BOOORING!
I wouldn't worry too much about the unqualified students. From my observation , CMU's Computer department assumes a lot of pre-knowledge. It would be sort of like expecting a physics student(which I was) to come in the door already knowing 3 Dimensional Calculus. Once you know it, it's a piece of cake and it's hard to imagine not knowing it... but their isn't any reason to think that physics students should know it as they come in the door.
And just like any group of CS student (esp. at a school like CMU) the ones that can't hack it, will change their major and the ones with the passion'll hired by the university before they graduate.
Also isn't the whole idea that since we(programmers) have the source, we can
add the features we need for our(coporate) enterprise. For example, say I need a certain feature ohhhhhhh like super-deduperty ABC support (picking a random TLA). I can add it and then when I have that up and running I can say to Linus, "hey here is my ABC module, do you want it?" If Linus says no, I do a fork for my company until the "official" kernel supporting ABC comes out. A good example of would be TurboLinux's changes to the kernel to support clustering.
While I think that this guy (I've never heard the name before) has some good points, the lax nature of Linux Project Management (LPM) has gotten it where it is today.
Oh well, everybody makes mistakes.
Oh Am I an idiot!!!
First of all here is the google search
Secondly here is the link from above!
Well, there is a between Blackdown and the PowerPC JDK effort.
Also, I seem to recall (I can't find it now) that LinuxPPC had the IBM VM for download on their site.
Your crap post is my funny post. How do you intend to implement that when there would be so much arguement?
(BTW, it was referring to a post above where someone said that people with karma over 500 must have something to say and should be a "must read.")
Here Here!
:))
I'm a fairly prolific poster (at times my user info will report 50+ postsing usually when there's a whole lot of compiling going on...
At anyrate over the last 8 mos, I've gotten a completely undeserved Karma of around 50. (I refuse to use the +1 bonus.) Karma needs to be reworked so that people like me who only contribute something of value once everyother month or so aren't put at the same level as Bruce Perens, Hemos, Signal11, arguably konstant and a few others who constantly post intelligent, well informed or even funny posts.
And can I have a preference to set my No Score +1 Bonus to always be checked, please?
I set my threshold at -1, but
my index spill at 1 post.
So if there is even 1 post, only the title is displayed for posts lest than 1. This works really well for me, I still get to at least see the titles that slip through the cracks, and usually end up reading three or four per article....
Just an idea,
OOPS! I forgot to add, I wasn't disagreeing with you per se about the Marxism. For that part I was more commenting on the entire discussion. This is the third or fourth time I've read Metcalf say the same thing and it's starting to get on my nerves. Those comments would most probably be sent to Metcalf himself. However, I enjoy making an ass of myself in public. :)
Not everyone even accepts that there exists a valid form of property. Those who believe exclusively in weaker notions of
"property" are still anti-property, but less so than those who don't acknowledge any concept of property.
Intellectual property is corollary of capitalism. Take away intellectual property and you remove financial incentive to produce
intellectual works, including software. It is awfully hard to honestly say "I'm a capitalist", then say in the same breath "I don't
believe in intellectual property".
Capitialism existed very well without the concept
of intellectual property until the 1800's. The concept of "Copyright" did exist until 1900.
For example, (true story) my great-grandmother wanted a very specific Lennox pattern for her china. Sadly, the family had hit on hard times and couldn't afford the real thing. So in a perfectly _legal_ transaction, my great-grandfather went to the local craftsman and had an exact duplicate made. Today this would be copyright infringement, but at the time (unsure but we do know that the plates date to pre-1900) it was considered to be perfectly normal thing to do. (I have these plates hanging on my wall....)
You are assuming that intellectual property is a valid form of property. Not every one accepts this, nor has the concept existed for the majority of human existance.
The concept that OSS even apporximates Marxism is rediculous. If I contirbute to a GPL project, my contribution is *mine* I have *chosen* to let others use it and modify it freely, provided that they agree to meet certain conditions. There is _NO_ economic or political side effect of that. It is a choice that I and some other developers make, because we feel that it makes our end product better.
In the OSS there programmers who are Libertarians, Comunists, Republicans, Democrats(me, for example), Socialists, Anarchists and so on.
To try and label all OSS as XXXXXX, just really doesn't make anyone in the conversation look real bright.
Most venture capitialists(sp?) really push for the IPO. To a VC that's sort of the finish line, and where they make all the money to invest in the next crop of companies.
I'd be very suprised if Transmeta remainded privately held for more than a year.
Ummm, there are several computers on the market now that _are_ bullet proof.
For example:
The Apple G4's are. I *believe* the Ibook is (as long as it's closed), and there was a story from a scottish newspaper about the bullet-proff nature of the iMac's shell (not monitor obviously) when they first came out.
I'm sure that it you could find some poly-carbonate PC cases, if you wanted.