I was under the impression that the GPL allowed a reasonable fee to be charged to cover distribution costs, so long as it was understood that the charge was for distribution and NOT access to the software.
However it looks like TransGaming has circumvented this by providing the GPL'd portions of the software for free, and charging whatever they want for the non-GPL parts.
Thanks, that is what I remember being there before. Unfortunately it seems that the CVS version is useless since it's missing most of the key components (Like all the DirectX stuff).
What happened to being able to download the source to WineX (Or Cedega) and compiling it yourself? Are TransGaming violating the GPL by not providing the source, or are they claiming that the subscription is to cover distribution costs to get around the GPL?
Or, am I completely wrong, and does Transgaming provide the source on their website, just hidden somewhere?
That's the idea, it's not very distracting, the colour theme can be matched to the site, and it's ads match the site content (Ad about a popular vampire television show on a wiki about vampires).
Though it's placement could be better; centered in that left-hand column, and preferably appearing entirely above the fold (entirely visible without scrolling). There also may be another format of ad that fits better.
ZD isn't objecting to the link, which everybody here has decided they are. Instead, they are simply objecting to their copyrighted content (the "snipper") being posted on another site.
This is much more reasonable than the news post and the responses to it make it out to be. There is no mention in the article about ZD objecting to the link itself.
You could always grab two of them and do software RAID-1, unless I'm mistaken. Even two of those LaCie things are still cheaper than an Apple solution, so if you want the absolute cheapest, maybe this is an option?
Yes, and AdSense (At least the text ads, and I believe you can disable the image ads, though you'll earn less revenue) are very unobtrusive. Wikipedia should seriously consider it as an option, though they don't seem interested.
Could any ad service be better suited for this than Google AdSense? Or any other well targeted ad service for that matter.
Wikipedia has tons of pages of unique and coherant content. Each page could have a simple google ad (There are a variety of different formats... A skyscraper is best). The ads within that google ad would relate directly to the content of the wiki.
Google gives "Premium" service to clients with over 20 million pageviews a month. According to Wikipedia's graphs, they get about 25 million requests per day, or 750 million per month. Now, a lot of those requests are probably for images and such, but I'm pretty sure they're over the 20 million per month needed for premium service:p
Wikipedia could do pretty well on AdSense alone; I'd say they'd be able to stop relying on donations entirely, and still have money left over for charity.
According to the settlement, as a resident of Canada I should still get something (Canada is not in the list of excluded countries), and even though I'm NOT a Dispute Resolution Claimant (I had no problems with my account), I still get money. And yet, both claim forms are for US addresses only, and only for people who are Dispute Resolution Claimants.
I can't make a claim that I'm entitled to based on the forms. I've emailed them to ask what to do.
They're paying for the bloody upgrade by giving you back what you paid for the new console. This is a GOOD thing, it means FREE UPGRADE. Why are people complaining about a free upgrade?
Anyhow, you've missed the point of my post. The issue he was being asked about is irrelevant. My point is that no matter what you ask him, his reply is one hundred percent predictable. If you ask him "What do you think of Skype releasing a Linux binary?" his reply would invariably be along the lines of "It should be avoided at all costs because it's a closed-source product."
Free software is great, I use it whenever I can. But there are certain situations where closed source is neccessary for a variety of reasons. RMS doesn't seem to understand that. He simply preaches that everything should be a hundred percent free no matter what.
With something like VirtualPC or VMware, you can run one OS and simulate the rest.
To test Safari and IE5/mac, you'll need a copy of PearPC ( http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/ ) or some other Mac emulator for PC. Generally they're not fast, but PearPC emulates at a 40th speed, which is more than enough for a web browser.
RSS is very easily cacheable. That is to say, it can be treated as static content that is updated every so often.
A simple solution would be to update a static file every 5 minutes or so. Once that's done, you can write a very small C program that listens on a port, and as soon as it receives a packet, returns a static HTTP response with the RSS file, that is already cached in memory. This small C program would update the cached copy it had in memory every 5 minutes from the updated version. During the udpate, the file could be gzipped to reduce bandwidth consumption; since the file is PRE-gzipped, there is no increase in CPU usage to serve the gzipped file.
That done, the CPU and memory requirements should be minimal. There would remain several possible bottlenecks, which might include bandwidth, and system-wide TCP/IP issues.
The bandwidth issue can be solved for a reasonable price. If the site involved does not have sufficient bandwidth to handle the load, a very cheap solution is to rent a dedicated server at one of a variety of providers. Generally, looking at the most popular providers, you will pay under 100$ for a server with over 1000GB/mth of transfer on a 100mbit connection.
Assuming that every hour, one hundred thousand users attempt to get an updated RSS feed, and that RSS feed is 10KB gzipped to 5KB, a dedicated server with about 350GB/mth would suffice. Assuming the server had a 100mbit connection, it would take about 40 seconds to serve all those clients. Considering that the clients will not all request the file at exactly the same time, but due to slightly different system clocks, at varying times, this should be sufficient.
If the load is too great for a 100mbit connection to handle, it may be possible to get a gigabit connection from a more professional provider for a reasonable cost, on the assurance that it is only for very short bursts. The cost would be significantly greater, but generally still reasonable for a site large enough to have a hundred thousand RSS requests per hour.
Or, of course, if all the above is too complicated, you could just rent a big-assed server from a dedicated server provider and turn on Apache's server-side cacheing.
So much trouble in the newest one stemmed from the engine... They should simply licence an existing engine (Source perhaps?) and get on with the content making. Licencing an engine (Preferrably a newer one so that you don't need to make any changes to it) really lightens the load of development.
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does anyone know of some place in Canada that will ship them? NewEgg, in their infinite wisdom, doesn't ship to Canada.
;)
BTW, all you Americans, NewEgg is sold out, looks like we slashdotted their stock
Per gigabyte you mean?
Most large datacenters (ServerMatrix, EV1, etc) seem to charge 50 cents to a dollar per gigabyte over your monthly allotment.
Many of the videos appear to be in slow motion. So what looks like 30MPH might be 60, for all we know.
"ITMJ, like Slashdot, is part of OSTG."
What does this have to do with the article or news post?
I was under the impression that the GPL allowed a reasonable fee to be charged to cover distribution costs, so long as it was understood that the charge was for distribution and NOT access to the software.
However it looks like TransGaming has circumvented this by providing the GPL'd portions of the software for free, and charging whatever they want for the non-GPL parts.
Thanks, that is what I remember being there before. Unfortunately it seems that the CVS version is useless since it's missing most of the key components (Like all the DirectX stuff).
What happened to being able to download the source to WineX (Or Cedega) and compiling it yourself? Are TransGaming violating the GPL by not providing the source, or are they claiming that the subscription is to cover distribution costs to get around the GPL?
Or, am I completely wrong, and does Transgaming provide the source on their website, just hidden somewhere?
Office already has hardware accelerated PowerPoint, as of, I think it was, Office XP. This lead to silky smooth fades and transitions.
As for OfficeFX, ATI has been giving away free copies for bloody ages: http://ati.com/buy/promotions/officefx/index.html
So why is it a surprise that the US has 6% of the engineers in the world? That seems about right...
Yes, but that's not the point, the point is everyone is making a huge deal over ZD objecting over the link... Which they didn't!
That's the idea, it's not very distracting, the colour theme can be matched to the site, and it's ads match the site content (Ad about a popular vampire television show on a wiki about vampires).
Though it's placement could be better; centered in that left-hand column, and preferably appearing entirely above the fold (entirely visible without scrolling). There also may be another format of ad that fits better.
ZD isn't objecting to the link, which everybody here has decided they are. Instead, they are simply objecting to their copyrighted content (the "snipper") being posted on another site.
This is much more reasonable than the news post and the responses to it make it out to be. There is no mention in the article about ZD objecting to the link itself.
You could always grab two of them and do software RAID-1, unless I'm mistaken. Even two of those LaCie things are still cheaper than an Apple solution, so if you want the absolute cheapest, maybe this is an option?
Apple is one of the cheapest, at 6000$ (with drives)
See page here.
Yes, and AdSense (At least the text ads, and I believe you can disable the image ads, though you'll earn less revenue) are very unobtrusive. Wikipedia should seriously consider it as an option, though they don't seem interested.
Could any ad service be better suited for this than Google AdSense? Or any other well targeted ad service for that matter.
:p
Wikipedia has tons of pages of unique and coherant content. Each page could have a simple google ad (There are a variety of different formats... A skyscraper is best). The ads within that google ad would relate directly to the content of the wiki.
Google gives "Premium" service to clients with over 20 million pageviews a month. According to Wikipedia's graphs, they get about 25 million requests per day, or 750 million per month. Now, a lot of those requests are probably for images and such, but I'm pretty sure they're over the 20 million per month needed for premium service
Wikipedia could do pretty well on AdSense alone; I'd say they'd be able to stop relying on donations entirely, and still have money left over for charity.
According to the settlement, as a resident of Canada I should still get something (Canada is not in the list of excluded countries), and even though I'm NOT a Dispute Resolution Claimant (I had no problems with my account), I still get money. And yet, both claim forms are for US addresses only, and only for people who are Dispute Resolution Claimants.
I can't make a claim that I'm entitled to based on the forms. I've emailed them to ask what to do.
They're paying for the bloody upgrade by giving you back what you paid for the new console. This is a GOOD thing, it means FREE UPGRADE. Why are people complaining about a free upgrade?
Well, perhaps I am an anti-RMS zealot.
Anyhow, you've missed the point of my post. The issue he was being asked about is irrelevant. My point is that no matter what you ask him, his reply is one hundred percent predictable. If you ask him "What do you think of Skype releasing a Linux binary?" his reply would invariably be along the lines of "It should be avoided at all costs because it's a closed-source product."
Free software is great, I use it whenever I can. But there are certain situations where closed source is neccessary for a variety of reasons. RMS doesn't seem to understand that. He simply preaches that everything should be a hundred percent free no matter what.
He's such a zealot that he's going to trash anything that's not completely open and free, even if it has the potential to improve a serious situation.
Screenshot of IE5/mac running on PearPC (Under Linux, but PearPC runs on Windows too):
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http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/screenshots/macos
With something like VirtualPC or VMware, you can run one OS and simulate the rest.
To test Safari and IE5/mac, you'll need a copy of PearPC ( http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/ ) or some other Mac emulator for PC. Generally they're not fast, but PearPC emulates at a 40th speed, which is more than enough for a web browser.
RSS is very easily cacheable. That is to say, it can be treated as static content that is updated every so often.
A simple solution would be to update a static file every 5 minutes or so. Once that's done, you can write a very small C program that listens on a port, and as soon as it receives a packet, returns a static HTTP response with the RSS file, that is already cached in memory. This small C program would update the cached copy it had in memory every 5 minutes from the updated version. During the udpate, the file could be gzipped to reduce bandwidth consumption; since the file is PRE-gzipped, there is no increase in CPU usage to serve the gzipped file.
That done, the CPU and memory requirements should be minimal. There would remain several possible bottlenecks, which might include bandwidth, and system-wide TCP/IP issues.
The bandwidth issue can be solved for a reasonable price. If the site involved does not have sufficient bandwidth to handle the load, a very cheap solution is to rent a dedicated server at one of a variety of providers. Generally, looking at the most popular providers, you will pay under 100$ for a server with over 1000GB/mth of transfer on a 100mbit connection.
Assuming that every hour, one hundred thousand users attempt to get an updated RSS feed, and that RSS feed is 10KB gzipped to 5KB, a dedicated server with about 350GB/mth would suffice. Assuming the server had a 100mbit connection, it would take about 40 seconds to serve all those clients. Considering that the clients will not all request the file at exactly the same time, but due to slightly different system clocks, at varying times, this should be sufficient.
If the load is too great for a 100mbit connection to handle, it may be possible to get a gigabit connection from a more professional provider for a reasonable cost, on the assurance that it is only for very short bursts. The cost would be significantly greater, but generally still reasonable for a site large enough to have a hundred thousand RSS requests per hour.
Or, of course, if all the above is too complicated, you could just rent a big-assed server from a dedicated server provider and turn on Apache's server-side cacheing.
So much trouble in the newest one stemmed from the engine... They should simply licence an existing engine (Source perhaps?) and get on with the content making. Licencing an engine (Preferrably a newer one so that you don't need to make any changes to it) really lightens the load of development.
Actually, no, you can't get "free state lawyers", that's only for CRIMINAL trials, not civil stuff.
And if you tried to go up against Microsoft without a law degree, no matter how "right" you are, you'd get destroyed.