Why don't you thanks the linux hackers trying to play DVDs while your at it?
Well, quite simply because they were trying to use content they legally owned. The whole thing with P2P is that it started with people posting MP3s on websites, then they made search engines for them, then along comes Napster. It all started with people sharing illegal content. Don't be fooled by the guise that these sharing networks were set up for legal content that the music labels just didn't think was good enough. That came a long a bit later.
DeCSS on the other hand came about because there was no way to play legally owned content on Linux. I'm not blind to the fact that people are using to rip DVD's, but that wasn't it's original intent. As for Napster, and the rest of these file swappers, it was their intent.
Somewhere you have to strike a balance between restricting content that people own and do not want distributed, or choose to distribute other ways and allowing free flow of content that people wish to release to anyone who wants it. Unfortunately, P2P networks don't restrtict the flow of non-free copyrighted works, and are used mostly for their distribution.
That is such a crock. First off it's illegal to place the file where someone can get it, because you don't have the rights to do it.
Second of all, how hard is it to put in a CD and use an automated program to hit up CDDB or FreeDB for the song titles and then tell it to rip and encode the files? It's not like there's a lot of work going on here. CD in, *click*. CD out. Is it really that hard? Are we really THAT lazy? I mean, I loaded in 15 CDs yesterday, and it's not that big of a deal.
The idea that because it could (but most likely won't be) used for legal purposes is not a good reason (or an excuse) to place restricted works out for everone to grab. I'm glad they're starting to go after file sharers now instead of the network. The period of illegal mp3s starting around 1997 and the illegals movies online is why in 10 years we're all going to have to use simultaneous DNA, retina, and fingerprint scans to get our computers to boot. Thanks. I hate you all.
It should be pretty apparent that this is going to be 7.4. The beta's number 7.3.92, not 7.9.??. In all the previous beta releases the number immediately prceeds the next release.
For intance Skipjack was 7.2.92, which lead to Valhalla 7.3. Even though everyone was saying it would be 8.0...
If you notice, the Pinstripe beta was 6.9.5, ie: prior to 7.0 release.
I think everyone should expect 7.4... but honestly, what difference does it make? 7.4, 8.0.. who cares. It's sthe same software.
"That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet." -- William Shakespeare
There's no such thing as the time. Remember relativity? That and there is also delay in the network that is random. You can be close, but you can't get it right.
The Area code yes, but the prefix (first three numbers) is never split between land phones and cell phones...
If the phone book can list what's local and what's extended area based on prefix, you can be sure telemarketers could get a list of cell phone prefixes and not call them.
The only thing i'm curious about is this. For all those claiming to have only a cell phone and no home phone, how exactly did you sign up? My cell phone company (SprintPCS) requires you to have a home phone number... and they really mean it.
While this is true... my God... that's just the epitomy of...(there is no word to describe how stupid!) Enough with the frivolous lawsuits...atleast on Slashdot.
By not agreeing to the EULA (whether your click "disagree" or you somehow remove it), you have no rights to use the software. I think that's what everyone keeps missing. Because by not agreeing to the EULA, you have no license at all. As far as the law is concerned you're an unlicensed user (illegal) just as if you'd grabed a CD copy from your buddy.
This is just like GNU software. It tells you that if you refuse the agreement, that's fine, but you have no rights to use the software or distribute it if you don't accept their terms.
I think you're missing it. It says if you do not agree to their EULA, you cannot use their software.
You can agree to any terms you want, but it doesn't give you the right to use the software.
I think this is where Microsoft's attitude comes into play. They wait for someone to exploit something, wait for enough people to complain, then do something about it.
So if a fire was burning in your house, you'd wait until it torched something important and atleast half of you family said something before you called the Fire Department?
I just bought SuSE 8.0 Professional. I have to say it's one of the best Linux packages I've ever owned. Until reading this article, I would have bought SuSE again and again..8.1...8.2...9.0..etc.
But I will not buy from a company that supports anything, including a business model, that goes against the ideals I believe in. Especially one that tries to capitalize off of something that was designed to be free. I'm sorry SuSE, but you just shot yourself in the foot as far as I'm concerned. I'll stick with Red Hat (assuming AOL doesn't buy them) or Debian from now on.
That, and anyone who's in bed with Caldera...screw them. Caldera OpenLinux my ass... The only thing it will open is your wallet and try to extract as much money as it can while offering inferior commercial replacements for free staple software. No thank you.
Microsoft has the resources to put behind anything they want. They can afford to keep dumping cash into XBox until it's the only game console available...even if it's going to take a 1000 years.
I would hope that if I were the engineer of a car stereo that was designed to play Ogg/MP3, I would include hardware that would make it a decent player. We're talking stereo here. I'm sure most engineers in the audio field try for quality when they're designing a system, even a low end one.
Do you think Apple uses a 6502 as the heart of the iPod? Or Diamond(SonicBlue) at the heart of their Rio players? If you're designing something for a particular task, I assume you would try to build in hardware that was suited for the task. A car stereo would be one place I would think they would try incorporate decent audio decompression hardware...
Unfortunately it is neither highly optimized nor well-suited for all platforms, particularly embedded systems and other hardware lacking native floating-point support.
'Tremor' is the name of a fixed-point implementation optimized for certain embedded systems. Xiph.Org has recently begun to commercially license this implementation, but it is not otherwise freely available.
I suppose he has a legitamate complaint that the specs aren't complete...but that's really up to the author. They're providing a drop in library that's free. Try getting that from Freuhoffer.
His other point seems silly to me. Honestly...what kind of embedded system would have an Ogg player in it? Your microwave? A candy dispenser? I mean honestly... if you're going to make a player for music, you really should have the hardware support. (They don't rip the computers out of a microwave and try to adapt them to portable MP3 players.
Just pull the plug on China. If they're going to use their network connection to the US to attack us, just cut them off.
When's the last time you looked up a chinese website?
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+1 Informative? What? Becuase he has a spellchecker?
Why don't you thanks the linux hackers trying to play DVDs while your at it?
Well, quite simply because they were trying to use content they legally owned. The whole thing with P2P is that it started with people posting MP3s on websites, then they made search engines for them, then along comes Napster. It all started with people sharing illegal content. Don't be fooled by the guise that these sharing networks were set up for legal content that the music labels just didn't think was good enough. That came a long a bit later.
DeCSS on the other hand came about because there was no way to play legally owned content on Linux. I'm not blind to the fact that people are using to rip DVD's, but that wasn't it's original intent. As for Napster, and the rest of these file swappers, it was their intent.
Somewhere you have to strike a balance between restricting content that people own and do not want distributed, or choose to distribute other ways and allowing free flow of content that people wish to release to anyone who wants it. Unfortunately, P2P networks don't restrtict the flow of non-free copyrighted works, and are used mostly for their distribution.
That is such a crock. First off it's illegal to place the file where someone can get it, because you don't have the rights to do it.
Second of all, how hard is it to put in a CD and use an automated program to hit up CDDB or FreeDB for the song titles and then tell it to rip and encode the files? It's not like there's a lot of work going on here. CD in, *click*. CD out. Is it really that hard? Are we really THAT lazy? I mean, I loaded in 15 CDs yesterday, and it's not that big of a deal.
The idea that because it could (but most likely won't be) used for legal purposes is not a good reason (or an excuse) to place restricted works out for everone to grab. I'm glad they're starting to go after file sharers now instead of the network. The period of illegal mp3s starting around 1997 and the illegals movies online is why in 10 years we're all going to have to use simultaneous DNA, retina, and fingerprint scans to get our computers to boot. Thanks. I hate you all.
It should be pretty apparent that this is going to be 7.4. The beta's number 7.3.92, not 7.9.??. In all the previous beta releases the number immediately prceeds the next release.
For intance Skipjack was 7.2.92, which lead to Valhalla 7.3. Even though everyone was saying it would be 8.0...
If you notice, the Pinstripe beta was 6.9.5, ie: prior to 7.0 release.
I think everyone should expect 7.4... but honestly, what difference does it make? 7.4, 8.0.. who cares. It's sthe same software.
"That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet." -- William Shakespeare
First of all, there are only 24 (roughly) hours in a day, not 25. Second of all, take your metric time and go to hell.
There's no such thing as the time. Remember relativity? That and there is also delay in the network that is random. You can be close, but you can't get it right.
The Area code yes, but the prefix (first three numbers) is never split between land phones and cell phones... If the phone book can list what's local and what's extended area based on prefix, you can be sure telemarketers could get a list of cell phone prefixes and not call them. The only thing i'm curious about is this. For all those claiming to have only a cell phone and no home phone, how exactly did you sign up? My cell phone company (SprintPCS) requires you to have a home phone number... and they really mean it.
Most make you accept the EULA on first boot. Otherwise they won't let you access the OS.
and I will live in a hut in the forest and be done with any damned piece of electronics made after 1985.
While this is true... my God... that's just the epitomy of ...(there is no word to describe how stupid!) Enough with the frivolous lawsuits...atleast on Slashdot.
-1 Troll, -1 Flamebait
By not agreeing to the EULA (whether your click "disagree" or you somehow remove it), you have no rights to use the software. I think that's what everyone keeps missing. Because by not agreeing to the EULA, you have no license at all. As far as the law is concerned you're an unlicensed user (illegal) just as if you'd grabed a CD copy from your buddy.
This is just like GNU software. It tells you that if you refuse the agreement, that's fine, but you have no rights to use the software or distribute it if you don't accept their terms.
I think you're missing it. It says if you do not agree to their EULA, you cannot use their software. You can agree to any terms you want, but it doesn't give you the right to use the software.
The right hand side should have lights on it as well, it only has push buttons. Haven't any of you watched the show?
You can sort of see it in the still from the show. But there several close ups of the right control panel, and that is NOT the real chair.
That might be the one they build for "Relics" (STTNG), but that is not the original chair.
I think this is where Microsoft's attitude comes into play. They wait for someone to exploit something, wait for enough people to complain, then do something about it.
So if a fire was burning in your house, you'd wait until it torched something important and atleast half of you family said something before you called the Fire Department?
I just bought SuSE 8.0 Professional. I have to say it's one of the best Linux packages I've ever owned. Until reading this article, I would have bought SuSE again and again..8.1...8.2...9.0..etc.
But I will not buy from a company that supports anything, including a business model, that goes against the ideals I believe in. Especially one that tries to capitalize off of something that was designed to be free. I'm sorry SuSE, but you just shot yourself in the foot as far as I'm concerned. I'll stick with Red Hat (assuming AOL doesn't buy them) or Debian from now on.
That, and anyone who's in bed with Caldera...screw them. Caldera OpenLinux my ass... The only thing it will open is your wallet and try to extract as much money as it can while offering inferior commercial replacements for free staple software. No thank you.
That shouldn't be too hard a connection to make. Their patent was granted September 11, 2001... {here}
Microsoft has the resources to put behind anything they want. They can afford to keep dumping cash into XBox until it's the only game console available...even if it's going to take a 1000 years.
I would hope that if I were the engineer of a car stereo that was designed to play Ogg/MP3, I would include hardware that would make it a decent player. We're talking stereo here. I'm sure most engineers in the audio field try for quality when they're designing a system, even a low end one. Do you think Apple uses a 6502 as the heart of the iPod? Or Diamond(SonicBlue) at the heart of their Rio players? If you're designing something for a particular task, I assume you would try to build in hardware that was suited for the task. A car stereo would be one place I would think they would try incorporate decent audio decompression hardware...
to go with his whine.
In his article he states:
Unfortunately it is neither highly optimized nor well-suited for all platforms, particularly embedded systems and other hardware lacking native floating-point support.
'Tremor' is the name of a fixed-point implementation optimized for certain embedded systems. Xiph.Org has recently begun to commercially license this implementation, but it is not otherwise freely available.
I suppose he has a legitamate complaint that the specs aren't complete...but that's really up to the author. They're providing a drop in library that's free. Try getting that from Freuhoffer.
His other point seems silly to me. Honestly...what kind of embedded system would have an Ogg player in it? Your microwave? A candy dispenser? I mean honestly... if you're going to make a player for music, you really should have the hardware support. (They don't rip the computers out of a microwave and try to adapt them to portable MP3 players.
Just pull the plug on China. If they're going to use their network connection to the US to attack us, just cut them off. When's the last time you looked up a chinese website?