Linux isn't for everyone. If they want to use Windows, that's cool with me. I want to use Linux. I hope that's cool with you.
Can't I just like my OS without giving a shit if it becomes the "de facto" OS? My worry is that once Linux becomes useable by the masses, it will cease to be useable by me. If I wanted a consumer UNIX OS that's pretty, I'd use Mac OS X.
But you know what? I don't like Mac OS X. If you do, guess what? That's cool with me.
I am a third type: someone who thinks people should use what OS they want, but doesn't see the point in fucking up the one I like just so other people can like it more.
A: According to the bill's sponsor, the nature of state procurement rules makes open source procurement difficult. Because there is no sponsoring organization that will bid contracts for typical open source alternatives, agencies may be bound by law or regulation to ignore them. (1) changes that.
This is the key. And yet, when I listened to the arguments given in the General Committee, not one person mentioned this! NO ONE! They all talked about how great open source software is and how it works so much better than proprietary software, etc. Which doesn't address why we need this bill AT ALL!
Then I heard the paid lobbyists and watched them trounce all over the proponents. In an argument between geeks and paid lobbyists, I can tell you who is going to win every time.
Oh well. My rep supports it, but she represents what has to be one of the most liberal bodies of people in the country (inner SE Portland), so I guess that's not a surprise.
I'd rather see the company admit that it has no ethical claim to the domain name, and drop the issue.
Are you arguing that this is always the case? While I'd agree with you in the case of, say, generalmotorssucks.com, don't you think it's different if, say, Joe's Tire Shop registered michelin.com, or something?
Or even if they just registered michelin.com to drive traffic to their porn site or something. If the entire goal is obviously to profit off of someone else's fairly trademarked name, don't you think they should have the domain back?
He bought a print of a small artist and counted that? He donated to a radio station and counted that? I buy lots of things from small companies. But small companies don't lobby. They don't actively undo the damage that giving to your local telecom does. That's why Lessig mentioned the EFF.
I mean, I'm a hypocrite by posting this I guess, since I have never given to the EFF, but if I just get to count purchasing things from small companies/artists, I'll clobber my telecom bill every month, guaranteed.
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by socialist, he/she meant communist.
Of course I know that. What's your point?
My only reference to the socialists in my post was about how my county had a lot of support for Nader who ran on a relatively socialist platform.
So, again, what's your point?
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they have initiated violence against people and thus have become a terrorist cause
While I also don't support the tree-spiking types, that's not at all the same as violence against people. Fucking up an abandoned logging truck in the middle of the night is not "violence against people" and is most certainly not terrorism, and I think it's a bit of a sham to use that highly loaded term these days against any cause you don't agree with, no matter how chic that has become.
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And remember, the BIGGEST polluter in the world is the US government, and the worst one in this country is the all the federal and state governments.
Duh. This is as meaningful as the comparison "Nike pollutes more than my local shoe store". Well, FUCKING DUH. They're a lot bigger.
The US government is bigger than the biggest corporation, so it's not really surprising that they would pollute the most. It's still completely meaningless, though, and you quote no source either.
Private and coroporate pollution is almost nil by comparison.
You're saying that the entirety of corporate pollution is less that the pollution of the federal government? I seriously doubt that. Let's see some sources.
Most geeks are actually libertarians, though the geeks on slashdot seem to be mostly socialists
Pure speculation. My experience (a programmer, not a server admin) is that most are socialists with some libertarians, but I live in Multnomah County, Oregon, which is probably one of the most socialist-friendly counties in the country (7% voted Nader in 2000), so my estimates are as useless as yours.
Black Friday is the shopping day after the American Thanksgiving holiday. Biggest shopping day of the year for retailers.
That's actually a common misconception. It's the "official" start of the Christmas shopping season, but the busiest days of the year are almost always the weekend before Christmas.
How hard would it be for the record-store owner to peel that "not for resale" sticker off the packaging?
Uhm, have you ever seen them? The words "promotional copy not for resale" are almost always ON the package, as in printed on the artwork, usually in place of the barcode (that's right... no barcode).
And every place I see them, they sell for the exact same price as any other used CD of the same title.
Then when reviewer returns the walkman with cut wires, Epic Records can ream them for being naughty pirates.
Uhm, generally you don't return promo copies of CDs. That's why can almost always find them (marked "NOT FOR RESALE") at your favorite used CD store. (Not the national chains, who often won't buy them, but at smaller local stores).
I doubt they'd make them return a CD player that had been glue shut, either. What good would it be to Sony if you can't even get it open? It would just be a lot of work for the reviewers and the label.
can't you see that sampling without permission, and then selling the copies, is illegal for a reason?
I absolutely can not see that. This is our culture we're sampling. I agree that it wouldn't be fair to copy your entire album and sell it, but if I just sample 5 or 10 or 30 seconds of it, how is that impacting the sales of your album?
No one is going to say "Oh, I'm not going to buy that old Beach Boys album because artist Xyzzy used a 12 second sample of it, and those were the only 12 seconds I wanted anyway!" No one chose to buy Plunderphonics because they couldn't afford the original version of the Beatles' "A Day In The Life", so they decided a chopped-up unrecognizable version of the ending would be close enough.
Copyright is there to give the artist incentive to create. Sampling laws don't do that. No one says "I'm going to create a great song so that it can be sampled a lot and I can collect royalties." That's just a happy side benefit to selling albums.
But sampling laws DO encourage people not to create by giving them a limited pallete to work with.
companies are flooding a portion of the radio spectrum that has been set aside for general use and then clamouring for regulation after the fact
No one is clamoring for regulation. Read the article. Starbucks doesn't even know about the Personal Telco link. If anyone is clamoring for regulation it's the Personal Telco people and posters like you.
They don't make those SCSI Data Minidisc drives anymore, do they? I don't think they've made them since like 1996, and they're sorta flaky and don't work very with with modern OSes?
I swear i saw a 4x model at walmart for 140 though.
4x was probably referring to the total play time. It means you can get about 320 minutes on a minidisc instead of 80 or so.
It does that, of course, through compression. Most reviews I've read say the 2x compression is somewhat decent, but that 4x is pretty unusable.
Also keep in mind that MD audio is inherently compressed (you can not put raw PCM audio on an MD), but if we're talking about mp3 players anyway, you probably don't care.
You're wrong. In fact, I seriously doubt there are any Sony desktops with MD drives on them. MD is not a data format; it would make no sense. If you can show me one I'll eat my words and love you forever, but I'm 98% sure you're wrong.
I spent probably 20 hours researching this in disbelief. There is no easy way to directly access minidiscs from a computer. I was looking for a way to dump the raw (compressed) audio from field recordings directly onto a hard drive. It can't be done.
Similarly, there's no simple way to directly record onto MD from a computer aside from that relatively recent USB deal.
Seattle only has about 560,000 people because a lot of people live in suburbs. But that's bullshit. In your friendly neighbor to the south, Portland, we have about 530,000 people in the city, even though the metro area is obviously much, much smaller.
You are guilty of spreading useless statistics yourself.
A more useful measure would be metro areas. Taken from citypopulations.de, Seattle has 3.7 million people and Toronto has 4.9 million people.
That gives them roughly the same ratios (1 in 37,000 for Seattle, 1 in 34,000 for Toronto).
What conclusions can we draw? None really, but if you wanted to you could probably agree that the Seattle area and the Toronto area have roughly similar percentages of socially awkward nerds.
But that is, of course, a rather awkward way to write the program. You end up having to go through the entire program n times, where n is the number of different variables.
Easier is to keep a hashtable of variable names. The first time you encounter 'integer29', you assign it to be, for example, 'var00005' and store that in a hashtable. The second time you encounter it, you check your hashtable and see that it's already been assigned as 'var00005' and replace it as such.
Now when you run into existing variable 'var00023' for the first time, you check your hashtable and see that you don't already have an old variable named 'var00023', so you assign it a new name: 'var00046', for example. From now on, all 'var00023' become 'var00046'.
This way, you rename all the variables in the entire program in one single pass.
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Because they dont know linux they are beneath me.
Who said anything about that??
Linux isn't for everyone. If they want to use Windows, that's cool with me. I want to use Linux. I hope that's cool with you.
Can't I just like my OS without giving a shit if it becomes the "de facto" OS? My worry is that once Linux becomes useable by the masses, it will cease to be useable by me. If I wanted a consumer UNIX OS that's pretty, I'd use Mac OS X.
But you know what? I don't like Mac OS X. If you do, guess what? That's cool with me.
I am a third type: someone who thinks people should use what OS they want, but doesn't see the point in fucking up the one I like just so other people can like it more.
A: According to the bill's sponsor, the nature of state procurement rules makes open source procurement difficult. Because there is no sponsoring organization that will bid contracts for typical open source alternatives, agencies may be bound by law or regulation to ignore them. (1) changes that.
This is the key. And yet, when I listened to the arguments given in the General Committee, not one person mentioned this! NO ONE! They all talked about how great open source software is and how it works so much better than proprietary software, etc. Which doesn't address why we need this bill AT ALL!
Then I heard the paid lobbyists and watched them trounce all over the proponents. In an argument between geeks and paid lobbyists, I can tell you who is going to win every time.
Oh well. My rep supports it, but she represents what has to be one of the most liberal bodies of people in the country (inner SE Portland), so I guess that's not a surprise.
They are still html in mozilla/phoenix.
Look at ~/.mozilla/profilename/secretdir/bookmarks.html
Actually, if you install this as an apache module, you aren't vulnerable.
Only people who use the CGI interface (which is probably very few apache users).
So posting it under "Apache" was sorta misleading.
Assumin a 16 bit sample rate, That 88,000 * 16 = 1.4 MB/sec.
These are all bits we're talking about here. 1.4Mb/s. Which is still a lot, but 8 times less than the number you quoted... about 176KB/s.
I'd rather see the company admit that it has no ethical claim to the domain name, and drop the issue.
Are you arguing that this is always the case? While I'd agree with you in the case of, say, generalmotorssucks.com, don't you think it's different if, say, Joe's Tire Shop registered michelin.com, or something?
Or even if they just registered michelin.com to drive traffic to their porn site or something. If the entire goal is obviously to profit off of someone else's fairly trademarked name, don't you think they should have the domain back?
Uhm, this is sorta weird.
He bought a print of a small artist and counted that? He donated to a radio station and counted that? I buy lots of things from small companies. But small companies don't lobby. They don't actively undo the damage that giving to your local telecom does. That's why Lessig mentioned the EFF.
I mean, I'm a hypocrite by posting this I guess, since I have never given to the EFF, but if I just get to count purchasing things from small companies/artists, I'll clobber my telecom bill every month, guaranteed.
by socialist, he/she meant communist.
Of course I know that. What's your point?
My only reference to the socialists in my post was about how my county had a lot of support for Nader who ran on a relatively socialist platform.
So, again, what's your point?
they have initiated violence against people and thus have become a terrorist cause
While I also don't support the tree-spiking types, that's not at all the same as violence against people. Fucking up an abandoned logging truck in the middle of the night is not "violence against people" and is most certainly not terrorism, and I think it's a bit of a sham to use that highly loaded term these days against any cause you don't agree with, no matter how chic that has become.
And remember, the BIGGEST polluter in the world is the US government, and the worst one in this country is the all the federal and state governments.
Duh. This is as meaningful as the comparison "Nike pollutes more than my local shoe store". Well, FUCKING DUH. They're a lot bigger.
The US government is bigger than the biggest corporation, so it's not really surprising that they would pollute the most. It's still completely meaningless, though, and you quote no source either.
Private and coroporate pollution is almost nil by comparison.
You're saying that the entirety of corporate pollution is less that the pollution of the federal government? I seriously doubt that. Let's see some sources.
Most geeks are actually libertarians, though the geeks on slashdot seem to be mostly socialists
Pure speculation. My experience (a programmer, not a server admin) is that most are socialists with some libertarians, but I live in Multnomah County, Oregon, which is probably one of the most socialist-friendly counties in the country (7% voted Nader in 2000), so my estimates are as useless as yours.
IMO, young children (10-12), shouldn't be exposed to ridiculous stuff online
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Grab all the porn you can while you're 9 because your time's running out!!! Once you hit 10, the floodgates swing shut
Black Friday is the shopping day after the American Thanksgiving holiday. Biggest shopping day of the year for retailers.
That's actually a common misconception. It's the "official" start of the Christmas shopping season, but the busiest days of the year are almost always the weekend before Christmas.
Every dictionary I checked says "to precede in time" is a correct use of "predate".
In fact, none of them said anything about "predate" being used in the "predator" sense that you tried to.
flexcar does the same thing in different markets than zipcar, and predates zipcar (barely).
How hard would it be for the record-store owner to peel that "not for resale" sticker off the packaging?
Uhm, have you ever seen them? The words "promotional copy not for resale" are almost always ON the package, as in printed on the artwork, usually in place of the barcode (that's right... no barcode).
And every place I see them, they sell for the exact same price as any other used CD of the same title.
Then when reviewer returns the walkman with cut wires, Epic Records can ream them for being naughty pirates.
Uhm, generally you don't return promo copies of CDs. That's why can almost always find them (marked "NOT FOR RESALE") at your favorite used CD store. (Not the national chains, who often won't buy them, but at smaller local stores).
I doubt they'd make them return a CD player that had been glue shut, either. What good would it be to Sony if you can't even get it open? It would just be a lot of work for the reviewers and the label.
can't you see that sampling without permission, and then selling the copies, is illegal for a reason?
I absolutely can not see that. This is our culture we're sampling. I agree that it wouldn't be fair to copy your entire album and sell it, but if I just sample 5 or 10 or 30 seconds of it, how is that impacting the sales of your album?
No one is going to say "Oh, I'm not going to buy that old Beach Boys album because artist Xyzzy used a 12 second sample of it, and those were the only 12 seconds I wanted anyway!" No one chose to buy Plunderphonics because they couldn't afford the original version of the Beatles' "A Day In The Life", so they decided a chopped-up unrecognizable version of the ending would be close enough.
Copyright is there to give the artist incentive to create. Sampling laws don't do that. No one says "I'm going to create a great song so that it can be sampled a lot and I can collect royalties." That's just a happy side benefit to selling albums.
But sampling laws DO encourage people not to create by giving them a limited pallete to work with.
companies are flooding a portion of the radio spectrum that has been set aside for general use and then clamouring for regulation after the fact
No one is clamoring for regulation. Read the article. Starbucks doesn't even know about the Personal Telco link. If anyone is clamoring for regulation it's the Personal Telco people and posters like you.
Also, does Flash work with Netscape 7? I know it didn't work with Netscape 6 or Mozilla.
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I don't know about Netscape 6, but I've been using Flash in Mozilla for years,
They don't make those SCSI Data Minidisc drives anymore, do they? I don't think they've made them since like 1996, and they're sorta flaky and don't work very with with modern OSes?
At least that's what I've heard...?
I swear i saw a 4x model at walmart for 140 though.
4x was probably referring to the total play time. It means you can get about 320 minutes on a minidisc instead of 80 or so.
It does that, of course, through compression. Most reviews I've read say the 2x compression is somewhat decent, but that 4x is pretty unusable.
Also keep in mind that MD audio is inherently compressed (you can not put raw PCM audio on an MD), but if we're talking about mp3 players anyway, you probably don't care.
You're wrong. In fact, I seriously doubt there are any Sony desktops with MD drives on them. MD is not a data format; it would make no sense. If you can show me one I'll eat my words and love you forever, but I'm 98% sure you're wrong.
I spent probably 20 hours researching this in disbelief. There is no easy way to directly access minidiscs from a computer. I was looking for a way to dump the raw (compressed) audio from field recordings directly onto a hard drive. It can't be done.
Similarly, there's no simple way to directly record onto MD from a computer aside from that relatively recent USB deal.
Fucking lame.
what i still dont understand is why people think they can justify copying their games as "backups".
Backup copies fall under fair use in copyright law and have been successfully many, many times in the courts.
You are allowed to make one and only one copy for backup purposes.
Read around. I did a ten second google query and found many pages (even on the BSA's site) supporting this claim.
Seattle only has about 560,000 people because a lot of people live in suburbs. But that's bullshit. In your friendly neighbor to the south, Portland, we have about 530,000 people in the city, even though the metro area is obviously much, much smaller.
You are guilty of spreading useless statistics yourself.
A more useful measure would be metro areas. Taken from citypopulations.de, Seattle has 3.7 million people and Toronto has 4.9 million people.
That gives them roughly the same ratios (1 in 37,000 for Seattle, 1 in 34,000 for Toronto).
What conclusions can we draw? None really, but if you wanted to you could probably agree that the Seattle area and the Toronto area have roughly similar percentages of socially awkward nerds.
But that is, of course, a rather awkward way to write the program. You end up having to go through the entire program n times, where n is the number of different variables.
Easier is to keep a hashtable of variable names. The first time you encounter 'integer29', you assign it to be, for example, 'var00005' and store that in a hashtable. The second time you encounter it, you check your hashtable and see that it's already been assigned as 'var00005' and replace it as such.
Now when you run into existing variable 'var00023' for the first time, you check your hashtable and see that you don't already have an old variable named 'var00023', so you assign it a new name: 'var00046', for example. From now on, all 'var00023' become 'var00046'.
This way, you rename all the variables in the entire program in one single pass.