"Non-commercial software developers can license a CDDB/mp3PRO decoding/mp3-encoding package on a royalty-free basis, and commercial applications will have access to royalty-free mp3PRO decoding.
Links"
It always bugged me that everyone got all weird about the licensing thing. Did anyone take the time to ask the licensor? Or at least read all the fine print on the website? Mp3Pro is their big gun right now, its mp3 compatible and it clearly states on the licensors website that non-commercial developers can get a royalty-free CDDB/mp3PRO decoding/mp3-encoding license.
When I was younger the ONLY reason I'd go on IRC would be porn or some other nefarious purpose. But in the past 5 year I've probably spent more time on IRC chatting with developer communities or gaming communities. I've even spent time running my own IRC channel.
There is seediness in every corner of the internet (and guess what, human life too!) but this study is simply BS.
Let me guess..next they'll study USENET? Just wait until they discover the web!!
All the major desktops have theme support of some sort; but what I mean is real, user friendly theme support.
Here is an example of a KDE 3.3 theme using the new theme manager. Its a single-click job, to install, to create your own package, whatever. And its not just basic themes, it'll package your icons, background, styles, system sounds, everything.
Themes even contain previews. Thats skin support and as much time as I spend looking at this computer I really really really appreciate the ability to browse a few themes and freshen up my desktop quickly and easily.
But seriously, Gnome and KDE are so close in functionality that I've honestly only chosen to use KDE because it looks nicer.
They are both great desktops. KDE's latest offering (3.3) even added convenient single-file theme packages (*.kth) which strangely hasn't seemed to generate even a tiny bit of buzz. That means its fully themeable without any complicated packages! Just import your best friends theme and use it.
Which all mean I don't understand the Linux communities relationship with their desktop at all. =)
Maybe Gnome will add something like this and realise how popular theme support is (and push it). Who knows.
Is what I'd consider including every GUI known to man! Drives me nuts.
Superkaramba is one of the most underutilized pieces of functional eye candy around (and so is the theme packaging format in 3.3! You can download single file *complete* themes now!).
Anyhow, I think more really is sometimes less.
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You mean bit-rot like Pac-Man or Doom bit-rot? There are cases where old code can find a financial lease on life. Nintendo would be miserable if they'd released all their old carts and someone else started making a fortune re-releasing them (like for cell phones or those game-in-a-joystick).
And the company *just* announced it was closing down. Real money went into developing that code (unless their programers work for free!) and I bet *someone* is scrambling around trying to figure out how to come out of this with some of what they put into it.
Sure a lot of code gets lost like this, but you've got to understand that thats never going to be the intention of the properties owners (losing money sucks, who's got money to burn?).
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Exactly. Thats what happened with the Blender project.
Free is great, but sometimes freedom costs (someone) real money. I think thats fair too.
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The reason you don't see companies going along with reasoning like yours is because in the IP business code is like buildings and machinery.
If you had a manufacturing business and closed your doors today you probably wouldn't give everything away the very next day (especially if the cost of storing was as minimal as code is). You'd hang onto or try to find a buyer to re-coop some of your costs (developing code costs money too).
Maybe after a long time you'd be willing to give it away, but you probably put a lot of your own money into this stuff and you'd like to get something back out of it.
This is by no means the first wifi phone. Its cool and the price point looks pretty attractive, but if your interesting in existing technology check it out:
There's probably more, but thats what google coughed up for "wifi phone" tonight (in the first couple of pages..I have a life you know. Just kidding!).
Package management is effectively handled by the RPM's them self. Each packaged RPM contains what is essentially a manifesto, including a list of all contents, where they all belong and of course a list of all required files for the package to be installed. The package manager (Yum/Apt-get/RPM) doesn't know anything not listed in the RPM itself, aside from maintaining a long list of RPM's available from the various media you have plugged into it (CD's its scanned, repositories you've entered, etc). If the dependencies are listed incorrectly, trouble, if the archives don't have the packages (with the right dependencies listed) trouble. I've experienced problems on both those ends, and running a distro that requires I essentially rebuild RPM's to be able to do upgrades or installs is not really feasable.
Agreed. As I recall one of the (many) packages I couldn't update because of the initial update failure was Apt (required an updated version of RPM which required something else which required something else that wasn't available..you know the drill). The RPM's (at least for the AMD64) were a mess. Mandrake..they've definately got some things right.:)
I agree that RPM itself isn't to blame, but the dependency issues and how their handled is. Yum is no better then the package managers that build the RPM's and my experience with Red Hat/Fedora is that dependency issues are still very much a thing of the present.
For a long time I sounded exactly like you, impatient with people complaining about a problem I thought long in the past (like Linux sound support or graphics chipset drivers). But I was using Mandrake, the other RPM based distro. With Mandrake (using urpmi) dependency issues really where a snap (adding THAC and PLF repositories you have just about everything you can imagine). Fedora choked on its own updates, adding additional repositories was even worse, but after failing to meet the dependencies of its own updates I quickly wiped it off my hard drive.
Sure, I can't speak for a lot of regions. But a couple of things to remember, #1 Apple products are like the Hello Kitty of the computer world: its like catnip to my wife and young girls, much more so then with men (like say myself, I don't use one; I'd rather buy a more feature rich player for the same price..say one that plays Flac) #2 Apple being an American company is going to understand the American market best. I'm sure they'd love to sell loads of them in Korea, but they'd have to approach things differently to do that (like say..advertising bonanza's like they've done here).
I think that at the very least your wife or your daughter would like the product, assuming it met the regional requirements first off (or maybe not, but I think Koreans and Americans have enough in common to enjoy a good digital music player).
There is enough market for a lot of technology. IPods *certainly* don't suite everyone.
I use a basic CD based Mp3 player. My religion? I don't think so. But if you get past your anti-zealotry maybe you could see that there is something there, hell maybe you can't. Corporate America? You don't know me, my politics or my background. So why don't you take a breather.
The whole attitude that there is no emotion in a product is plainly contradicted in your frothing response. Everything had an impact. The look, the feel, the whole package.
You talk more then you listen. I've used the software (it doesn't take a genius to download it *or* use it) and I've used the iPod. YMMV, as with everything.
You want to talk about brainwashing lets address posts like your own, absolutely chomping at the bit to discredit..what? Some other opinion?
I'm glad you enjoy your Nomad, I would probably even enjoy using one myself. The point is, iPod (and Apple in general) gets something that I've seen very few hardware vendors get. This may be a good product (or may not) but with features it can only compete with 1 of at least three main advantages of using an iPod (and I can tell you from looking at it, its lacking some sex appeal).
If you can't get that or it offends you theres probably a future for you in design (although probably not working with Apple).
Does it include a popular online retail music site built specifically for it? Does it have 'best of breed' management software integrated tightly with both the retail store and the hardware?
Trying to compete with the iPod is a tall order, there is the overall experience which isn't necessarily about built-in features or price.
And whats up with the chrome framing around the touch pad and the display screen? It makes it look like one of those miniature TV's from the 90's. Not something to aspire to. But its pretty hard to know what its like without actually holding it, the iPod has the looks, but it also has a feel thats pretty nice (not that I own one, but they let me touch it at my local Fry's...still).
Clock-radio. Its not even in the Apple ballpark (and I'm a PC user!).
Whats the deal with PC manufacturers anyway? Its like the technology equivalent of the comb-over. Is it really that hard to design smart, elegant hardware? Beige boxes are great for business, but hasn't Apple already proven theres a market for aesthetics?
Hell, go to your local health food store or a GNC and take a look.
I had an English friend once who told me he was surprised by how much your average American knew about pharmaceuticals. I don't think we are particularly bashful about boosting (just about getting caught!).
FTR, I but almost all my music from eMusic, Magnatune and sometimes AllofMP3. eMusic used to be 'all you can download' for a monthly charge (that was very nice) but moved to a more sensible set of caps (I pay $20 a month for 90 downloads per month).
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"Non-commercial software developers can license a CDDB/mp3PRO decoding/mp3-encoding package on a royalty-free basis, and commercial applications will have access to royalty-free mp3PRO decoding. Links"
http://www.mp3licensing.com/mp3/mp3pro.html
It always bugged me that everyone got all weird about the licensing thing. Did anyone take the time to ask the licensor? Or at least read all the fine print on the website? Mp3Pro is their big gun right now, its mp3 compatible and it clearly states on the licensors website that non-commercial developers can get a royalty-free CDDB/mp3PRO decoding/mp3-encoding license.
Can we stop with the disinformation now?
My bad. Clear as mud indeed!
find it annoying how he alway throws fragments of his failed creative writing into technical articles?
I don't know how many articles of his I've tried slogging through only to give up in discust with his French waiter schtick.
When I was younger the ONLY reason I'd go on IRC would be porn or some other nefarious purpose. But in the past 5 year I've probably spent more time on IRC chatting with developer communities or gaming communities. I've even spent time running my own IRC channel.
There is seediness in every corner of the internet (and guess what, human life too!) but this study is simply BS.
Let me guess..next they'll study USENET? Just wait until they discover the web!!
All the major desktops have theme support of some sort; but what I mean is real, user friendly theme support.
- themes-0.3.tar.gz
Here is an example of a KDE 3.3 theme using the new theme manager. Its a single-click job, to install, to create your own package, whatever. And its not just basic themes, it'll package your icons, background, styles, system sounds, everything.
http://iglu.org.il/pub/Hebrew/diego/kthememanager
Take a look at that package and your'll see what I mean. There are 6 complete themes in there:
BeOS.kth
Keramik.kth
Nostalgia2.kth
Plastik.kth
Solaris.kth
Windows9X.kth
Themes even contain previews. Thats skin support and as much time as I spend looking at this computer I really really really appreciate the ability to browse a few themes and freshen up my desktop quickly and easily.
But seriously, Gnome and KDE are so close in functionality that I've honestly only chosen to use KDE because it looks nicer.
They are both great desktops. KDE's latest offering (3.3) even added convenient single-file theme packages (*.kth) which strangely hasn't seemed to generate even a tiny bit of buzz. That means its fully themeable without any complicated packages! Just import your best friends theme and use it.
Which all mean I don't understand the Linux communities relationship with their desktop at all. =)
Maybe Gnome will add something like this and realise how popular theme support is (and push it). Who knows.
Is what I'd consider including every GUI known to man! Drives me nuts.
Superkaramba is one of the most underutilized pieces of functional eye candy around (and so is the theme packaging format in 3.3! You can download single file *complete* themes now!).
Anyhow, I think more really is sometimes less.
You mean bit-rot like Pac-Man or Doom bit-rot? There are cases where old code can find a financial lease on life. Nintendo would be miserable if they'd released all their old carts and someone else started making a fortune re-releasing them (like for cell phones or those game-in-a-joystick).
And the company *just* announced it was closing down. Real money went into developing that code (unless their programers work for free!) and I bet *someone* is scrambling around trying to figure out how to come out of this with some of what they put into it.
Sure a lot of code gets lost like this, but you've got to understand that thats never going to be the intention of the properties owners (losing money sucks, who's got money to burn?).
Exactly. Thats what happened with the Blender project.
Free is great, but sometimes freedom costs (someone) real money. I think thats fair too.
The reason you don't see companies going along with reasoning like yours is because in the IP business code is like buildings and machinery.
If you had a manufacturing business and closed your doors today you probably wouldn't give everything away the very next day (especially if the cost of storing was as minimal as code is). You'd hang onto or try to find a buyer to re-coop some of your costs (developing code costs money too).
Maybe after a long time you'd be willing to give it away, but you probably put a lot of your own money into this stuff and you'd like to get something back out of it.
This is by no means the first wifi phone. Its cool and the price point looks pretty attractive, but if your interesting in existing technology check it out:
BroadVoice branded Wisip Phone (standards standards standards)
Pulver Innovations (unbranded) Wisip Phone (for the purists)
Cisco's sexily titled IP Phone 7920 (like they'd be behind the curve!)
and
Zyxel's Prestige 2000W
There's probably more, but thats what google coughed up for "wifi phone" tonight (in the first couple of pages..I have a life you know. Just kidding!).
lol
I missed that, but I did. Happy new year.
Package management is effectively handled by the RPM's them self. Each packaged RPM contains what is essentially a manifesto, including a list of all contents, where they all belong and of course a list of all required files for the package to be installed. The package manager (Yum/Apt-get/RPM) doesn't know anything not listed in the RPM itself, aside from maintaining a long list of RPM's available from the various media you have plugged into it (CD's its scanned, repositories you've entered, etc). If the dependencies are listed incorrectly, trouble, if the archives don't have the packages (with the right dependencies listed) trouble. I've experienced problems on both those ends, and running a distro that requires I essentially rebuild RPM's to be able to do upgrades or installs is not really feasable.
You sir, have too much time on your hands.
Happy holidays.
Agreed. As I recall one of the (many) packages I couldn't update because of the initial update failure was Apt (required an updated version of RPM which required something else which required something else that wasn't available..you know the drill). The RPM's (at least for the AMD64) were a mess. Mandrake..they've definately got some things right. :)
I agree that RPM itself isn't to blame, but the dependency issues and how their handled is. Yum is no better then the package managers that build the RPM's and my experience with Red Hat/Fedora is that dependency issues are still very much a thing of the present.
For a long time I sounded exactly like you, impatient with people complaining about a problem I thought long in the past (like Linux sound support or graphics chipset drivers). But I was using Mandrake, the other RPM based distro. With Mandrake (using urpmi) dependency issues really where a snap (adding THAC and PLF repositories you have just about everything you can imagine). Fedora choked on its own updates, adding additional repositories was even worse, but after failing to meet the dependencies of its own updates I quickly wiped it off my hard drive.
I was expressing my opinion and responding to the parents direct comparison.
Sure, I can't speak for a lot of regions. But a couple of things to remember, #1 Apple products are like the Hello Kitty of the computer world: its like catnip to my wife and young girls, much more so then with men (like say myself, I don't use one; I'd rather buy a more feature rich player for the same price..say one that plays Flac) #2 Apple being an American company is going to understand the American market best. I'm sure they'd love to sell loads of them in Korea, but they'd have to approach things differently to do that (like say..advertising bonanza's like they've done here).
I think that at the very least your wife or your daughter would like the product, assuming it met the regional requirements first off (or maybe not, but I think Koreans and Americans have enough in common to enjoy a good digital music player).
There is enough market for a lot of technology. IPods *certainly* don't suite everyone.
I use a basic CD based Mp3 player. My religion? I don't think so. But if you get past your anti-zealotry maybe you could see that there is something there, hell maybe you can't. Corporate America? You don't know me, my politics or my background. So why don't you take a breather.
The whole attitude that there is no emotion in a product is plainly contradicted in your frothing response. Everything had an impact. The look, the feel, the whole package.
You talk more then you listen. I've used the software (it doesn't take a genius to download it *or* use it) and I've used the iPod. YMMV, as with everything.
You want to talk about brainwashing lets address posts like your own, absolutely chomping at the bit to discredit..what? Some other opinion?
I'm glad you enjoy your Nomad, I would probably even enjoy using one myself. The point is, iPod (and Apple in general) gets something that I've seen very few hardware vendors get. This may be a good product (or may not) but with features it can only compete with 1 of at least three main advantages of using an iPod (and I can tell you from looking at it, its lacking some sex appeal).
If you can't get that or it offends you theres probably a future for you in design (although probably not working with Apple).
Does it include a popular online retail music site built specifically for it? Does it have 'best of breed' management software integrated tightly with both the retail store and the hardware?
Trying to compete with the iPod is a tall order, there is the overall experience which isn't necessarily about built-in features or price.
And whats up with the chrome framing around the touch pad and the display screen? It makes it look like one of those miniature TV's from the 90's. Not something to aspire to. But its pretty hard to know what its like without actually holding it, the iPod has the looks, but it also has a feel thats pretty nice (not that I own one, but they let me touch it at my local Fry's...still).
I still (respectfully) disagree. The manufacturers you've mentioned do make slightly more stylish boxen, but they make boxes for the techno-fetishist.
I personally use aluminum Cool Master "Wave Master". It looks nice, but it looks like it belongs in a German nightclub. I could serve drinks on it.
Clock-radio. Its not even in the Apple ballpark (and I'm a PC user!).
Whats the deal with PC manufacturers anyway? Its like the technology equivalent of the comb-over. Is it really that hard to design smart, elegant hardware? Beige boxes are great for business, but hasn't Apple already proven theres a market for aesthetics?
Did I already mention that its ugly as hell?
The nootropic movement is quite strong in America and I don't know if you've even been to a bulk supplement site, but it might be an eye opener for you:
www.beyond-a-century.com
1fast400
www.smi2le.biz
performancenutritionals.com
Hell, go to your local health food store or a GNC and take a look.
I had an English friend once who told me he was surprised by how much your average American knew about pharmaceuticals. I don't think we are particularly bashful about boosting (just about getting caught!).
FTR, I but almost all my music from eMusic, Magnatune and sometimes AllofMP3. eMusic used to be 'all you can download' for a monthly charge (that was very nice) but moved to a more sensible set of caps (I pay $20 a month for 90 downloads per month).