CBDTPA, actually. If he searches for what you said I doubt he'll find anything.
One wonders if they deliberately gave it an impossible-to-remember name.:P
I'm not quite sure what PD has to do with communism, unless you want to equate IP with physical property (which is honestly a kind of dicey proposition, IMO).
Releasing under something like the X/MIT license is probably better than PD, anyway, as PD leaves you legally liable for all sorts of fun things. You'll notice that the bulk of the X/MIT license is a disclaimer of liability.
Yes.. although now that you made me sit down and think about it, a lot of stuff cares about addresses once you have a socket (getsockname, getpeername, send, recv, etc...).
For _most_ network-aware applications, the only thing different is the address format. Once you have the connected socket, the rest of the network code should remain unchanged.
It's the (non-socket-related) code to handle e.g. address parsing which has to change.
Last I read, they were actually doing extremely well. Their targetted advertising system is a pretty sweet deal, and so they're getting a lot of revenue from that and from licensing/supporting other people deploying their search technologies.
The EU will take care of that, though. Currently (for example) there's an EU directive coming through the pipes that will render region-free DVD players illegal in all member states (manufacture, posession, etc etc).
It seems to me that this is an instance of a more general problem -- all software and equipment which end-users can use to create/distribute their own media (music/video/games/whatever) can also be used to create/distribute unauthorized copies of "mainstream" media.
And, in fact, that is indeed invariably their primary use. Artists/writers/programmers are always going to be a minority.
These things are increasingly being legislated and prosecuted accordingly. Independent content/media/software creators are going to get very screwed, and our cultural development will be ceded entirely to corporations.
While this might not be the primary intended effect, I'm sure the aforementioned conglomerates don't really mind it as a side-effect. The only defense I can see is to create a body of "libre" independent content that most people will actually care about, so there would be some outcry when it was threatened. "mainline" indy media is unfortunately too esoteric most of the time.
That would, however, most likely require a source of patronage outside the media conglomerates. I don't see e.g. an animated feature being assembled in the same way as the Linux kernel.
The whole system is generally proprietary; everything from the kernel (well, in some cases... depends on the lineage) up through the core utils, through the (proprietary) X11 server draws from X11/BSD-licensed code.
If you spend some time reading license/copyright notices you'll find that most other (non-Unix) proprietary OS vendors use BSD code as well.
Until MacOS X, Apple probably drew on BSD-eqsue licenced code the least, although obviously that's changed now.:P (although they did release their changes under an only slightly more restrictive license, which is more than 90% of the other vendors do)
Ignore the fact that I used specifically AT&T in the parallel example. It could have just as easily been any Unix vendor for that purpose -- I was just trying to draw a (hypothetical) situation parallel to the Transgaming one.
It's not just a matter of lazy people waiting around for Transgaming to do the work -- it's also the problem of otherwise motivated people thinking:
"Well, crap, what happens if Transgaming releases their superior COM implementation before mine/ours is ready? I'll have wasted a lot of work... never mind. I can spend my time on other things that need solving."
COM is also orders of magnitude more difficult to implement than a vi clone.
A more analagous problem would be if AT&T or whoever starting making noises about (maybe) open-sourcing pieces of UNIX that Linux didn't have yet and contributing them to Linux.
It'd be a major psychologial deterrent to anyone else starting work on those areas in Linux independently.
Maybe that's not a technical or legal problem, but as long as coders are human you have to consider psychological factors too.
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While I'm sure this could substantially enhance the lives of the paralyzed (for example), the widespread use of such systems in e.g. driving or piloting (particularly by healthy individuals) could be a real problem.
If there's one lesson the Internet has taught us, it's that the less separation there is between thought and action, the more people will do stupid things.
The area of the brain mentioned in the article has to do with the early "desire to act", long before many of the normal checks and balances governing our actions come into play.
Has anyone seen the episode of Red Dwarf where Lister gets the prosthetic arm and can't stop it from beating up Kryten?
I've written a fair amount of software that uses the NT security facilities.
The NT4 security APIs are totally useless. (read: they've left them half-_BROKEN_ and pretty much unfixed through all of NT4 through W2K through XP)
If you want to manipulate security objects you have to use the NT3 APIs and build the security structures yourself "by hand".
I realize this sounds kind of incredible, but don't take my word for it. Search comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc, comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32, or even microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel for "EXPLICIT_ACCESS" and/or either "GetNamedSecurityInfo" or "GetSecurityInfo".
In this light it's not surprising most Windows software (Microsoft and otherwise) doesn't take advantage of this security infrastructure. It's a maddening pain to actually use.
Do you have any theories as to what would produce this difference in audio quality (particularly on SB, which is just bog simple -- there really isn't anything that could be different)?
It could just be linear versus logarithmic mixer settings, but that's not a sound quality issue.
If that were the case, you would just need to start turning up the volume at the mixer rather than turning up the pot on your headphone cord or your external speaker amp -- both of which will introduce additional "hiss".
Otherwise, this smacks of "psychosomatic bug" to me.
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Couldn't you just do the test once and set some function pointers which all subsequent code would use?
CBDTPA, actually. If he searches for what you said I doubt he'll find anything. One wonders if they deliberately gave it an impossible-to-remember name. :P
That could be because yEnc breaks the NNTP and MIME standards. Some (many?) NNTP and MIME-compliant servers won't pass yENC correctly.
Microsoft, unlike Sega, could afford to keep the XBox on the market even if they took 100% loss on each unit.
Basically for Microsoft, they can pretty much put prices as far down as they like, and then it's a game of who can keep bleeding money longer.
It runs on 486+ x86 as well as a few other non-intel arches. Your PocketPC, however, is indeed most likely not intel-based.
I'm not quite sure what PD has to do with communism, unless you want to equate IP with physical property (which is honestly a kind of dicey proposition, IMO).
Releasing under something like the X/MIT license is probably better than PD, anyway, as PD leaves you legally liable for all sorts of fun things. You'll notice that the bulk of the X/MIT license is a disclaimer of liability.
Yes.. although now that you made me sit down and think about it, a lot of stuff cares about addresses once you have a socket (getsockname, getpeername, send, recv, etc...).
For _most_ network-aware applications, the only thing different is the address format. Once you have the connected socket, the rest of the network code should remain unchanged.
It's the (non-socket-related) code to handle e.g. address parsing which has to change.
Last I read, they were actually doing extremely well. Their targetted advertising system is a pretty sweet deal, and so they're getting a lot of revenue from that and from licensing/supporting other people deploying their search technologies.
The EU will take care of that, though. Currently (for example) there's an EU directive coming through the pipes that will render region-free DVD players illegal in all member states (manufacture, posession, etc etc).
No offense, but I wasn't aware bnetd supported war3b...
That's effectively the idea behind Berlin.
Not funny. All of the tools that home users can use to create media can also be used for unauthorized copying.
We're going to start seeing all media creation tools taken from us if we're not careful.
It seems to me that this is an instance of a more general problem -- all software and equipment which end-users can use to create/distribute their own media (music/video/games/whatever) can also be used to create/distribute unauthorized copies of "mainstream" media.
And, in fact, that is indeed invariably their primary use. Artists/writers/programmers are always going to be a minority.
These things are increasingly being legislated and prosecuted accordingly. Independent content/media/software creators are going to get very screwed, and our cultural development will be ceded entirely to corporations.
While this might not be the primary intended effect, I'm sure the aforementioned conglomerates don't really mind it as a side-effect.
The only defense I can see is to create a body of "libre" independent content that most people will actually care about, so there would be some outcry when it was threatened. "mainline" indy media is unfortunately too esoteric most of the time.
That would, however, most likely require a source of patronage outside the media conglomerates. I don't see e.g. an animated feature being assembled in the same way as the Linux kernel.
You must never have used any commercial Unices.
... depends on the lineage) up through the core utils, through the (proprietary) X11 server draws from X11/BSD-licensed code.
:P (although they did release their changes under an only slightly more restrictive license, which is more than 90% of the other vendors do)
The whole system is generally proprietary; everything from the kernel (well, in some cases
If you spend some time reading license/copyright notices you'll find that most other (non-Unix) proprietary OS vendors use BSD code as well.
Until MacOS X, Apple probably drew on BSD-eqsue licenced code the least, although obviously that's changed now.
Relicensing would certainly be one way to overcome the obstacle, at any rate. Political problems have political solutions.
Ignore the fact that I used specifically AT&T in the parallel example. It could have just as easily been any Unix vendor for that purpose -- I was just trying to draw a (hypothetical) situation parallel to the Transgaming one.
... never mind. I can spend my time on other things that need solving."
It's not just a matter of lazy people waiting around for Transgaming to do the work -- it's also the problem of otherwise motivated people thinking:
"Well, crap, what happens if Transgaming releases their superior COM implementation before mine/ours is ready? I'll have wasted a lot of work
COM is also orders of magnitude more difficult to implement than a vi clone.
A more analagous problem would be if AT&T or whoever starting making noises about (maybe) open-sourcing pieces of UNIX that Linux didn't have yet and contributing them to Linux.
It'd be a major psychologial deterrent to anyone else starting work on those areas in Linux independently.
Maybe that's not a technical or legal problem, but as long as coders are human you have to consider psychological factors too.
Actually in scenario 2 we'd still have the .NET tools and so forth. They're useful in their own right whether or not Microsoft continues support.
Between 1 and 2, anyway, it's more or less a win-win proposition.
I suppose this licensing descision will provide more impetus for the development of Ogg Tarkin.
Heh. "banklord". I like that. ^_^
*makes mental note to start using that word*
While I'm sure this could substantially enhance the lives of the paralyzed (for example), the widespread use of such systems in e.g. driving or piloting (particularly by healthy individuals) could be a real problem.
If there's one lesson the Internet has taught us, it's that the less separation there is between thought and action, the more people will do stupid things.
The area of the brain mentioned in the article has to do with the early "desire to act", long before many of the normal checks and balances governing our actions come into play.
Has anyone seen the episode of Red Dwarf where Lister gets the prosthetic arm and can't stop it from beating up Kryten?
"['innovation' is] not successfully selling a product..."
:P
Actually that's how my economics textbook in college defined it. Go figure.
I've written a fair amount of software that uses the NT security facilities.
The NT4 security APIs are totally useless. (read: they've left them half-_BROKEN_ and pretty much unfixed through all of NT4 through W2K through XP)
If you want to manipulate security objects you have to use the NT3 APIs and build the security structures yourself "by hand".
I realize this sounds kind of incredible, but don't take my word for it. Search comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc, comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32, or even microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel for "EXPLICIT_ACCESS" and/or either "GetNamedSecurityInfo" or "GetSecurityInfo".
In this light it's not surprising most Windows software (Microsoft and otherwise) doesn't take advantage of this security infrastructure. It's a maddening pain to actually use.
Do you have any theories as to what would produce this difference in audio quality (particularly on SB, which is just bog simple -- there really isn't anything that could be different)?
It could just be linear versus logarithmic mixer settings, but that's not a sound quality issue.
If that were the case, you would just need to start turning up the volume at the mixer rather than turning up the pot on your headphone cord or your external speaker amp -- both of which will introduce additional "hiss".
Otherwise, this smacks of "psychosomatic bug" to me.