Get plenty of responses. But I think your argument is a little one sided. My point would be we are all ignorant of the long term effects of rampant and unchecked use of genetic modifacation. And that alone is enough reason to consider moving carefully. Progress, sure but don't deny your own ignorance.
The consequences of a such a young (and cash hungry) industry industry could be exceptional. Thats worth questioning. Look at the pharmacuetical industry and remember that their reach is somewhat limited. I mean do you really trust the pharmaceutical industry?
Genetics as a science may be a little different as a industry.
Because sometimes you need a 98 app and its convenient/better to use it under Linux. Like say web development with Dream Weaver or checking compatibility with Internet Explorer. There are numerous reasons.
I think a better question would be whatâ(TM)s with that OSX spellcheck?
I switched to osx from linux 2 weeks ago, and it is wonderfult o be abel to use..
When I copy a file, I am not depriving anyone of ownership of that file. I might be breaking a law or infringing on a copyright, but there is nothing that the person owned before and does not now still own. This is why digital stuff can not be shoehorned into a legal system designed for meatspace life.
What it is that your denying them is the right to control and control distribution of their material. In essence (by copying and redistributing) you have taken that right away from them. And as with most materials in the marketplace (maybe slightly more with creative content) control and distribution is the most important right.
Even the GPL is designed to protect the rights of the original author(s). In a exchange like this it would be important to me that you respect my rights as the owner of the content and duplicating, redistributing, repackaging or recycling without my express permission certainly would infringe on my rights.
Moreover, in the context of the article: if I own a cd, but leave it at work one night and download an mp3 of a song from that cd from Kazaa, whom have i hurt? Not only am I not depriving anyone of ownership, I am not obtaining any music I did not already purchase. Though illegal, this action would seem to be a rather victimless crime.
I think their point is more that the âhonorâ(TM) system doesnâ(TM)t work. In making that track available for you to download it is to be expected that a number of people will download the same track who have not paid for the original album.
I think he also makes the point that owning a copy of a movie on VHS doesnâ(TM)t give you the right to take a DVD. I understand his logic here too, but I think itâ(TM)s somewhat more murky so Iâ(TM)ll leave it alone.
My point was that he had some well thought out responses and accepting them and understanding his points will only help us in long run. Everything he said wasnâ(TM)t wrong (I donâ(TM)t think you where trying to say that) and some of his distinctions downright lucid.
âSo, if you buy a CD that you keep at home, you should feel free to make a copy that you have in your car. [But] It is not legal, ethical or cool to copy somebody else's CD for your own use.â
That sounds fairly reasonable to me, if only he spoke decisively for his industry.
Just more generalizations, platitudes and unsupported claims.
Good rule to live by: if your going to argue for something you believe in (that *might* even be important) save the knee-jerks for the dining room table.
Rather then posting hysterically, why not listen to what he has to say.
"Sharing involves lending something to somebody, and while it is on loan, the owner no longer has it. "Sharing" in the P2P context has become a euphemism for "copying." That copying is neither legal nor ethical"
"From an ethical perspective, when individuals engage in illegal copying, they are taking money out of the pockets of all of the people who have put their hard work into making the music..."
Maybe you should read the two sentences again. He's saying loaning something is different then duplicating something and giving it away (like say NFL sports jackets or Oakly sunglasses).
"Those companies (including Pressplay, Rhapsody, Listen, etc.) are delivering to consumers high quality music online in a format and form that consumers have demanded."
Actually, a quick look at the subscription numbers of those services shows quite well how that is simply not true. Consumers have not demanded a crippled product that disallows most of the abilities they want.
While I might agree with you in concept, what the hell numbers are you quickly looking at? You got a great reference: sight it. Otherwise as far as I can tell you pulled that out of your ass.
"The goal of copy protection in CDs is not to prevent individuals from making copies that they want to make for personal use, but rather to prevent individuals from distributing the recordings or making copies they don't have a right to make."
Yet it seems they have not discovered the magic way of discerning between those two, so will happily prevent both.
Bingo, this is the business world. They aren't there to protect your rights, just their interests. See the well know industry attempts at more percise crippling attempts: Palladium, Digital Rights Management
"The record industry has been hit very hard in the last few years as a result of illegal downloading and piracy.
In 2002, unit sales were down about 11 percent.
In 2001, unit sales were down about 10 percent.
In 2000, unit sales were down seven percent.
During that same period, illegal Internet downloading has skyrocketed. On the FastTrack network alone, there are about 900 million files being distributed at any given moment. The majority of those files are music files. Polls confirm that those individuals who are downloading illegally online are buying less. That illegal downloading is decreasing sales is probably not a surprise to anyone."
Such a common, simple, wrong assumption at work here. A decrease in sales and an increase in music downloading have *not* been shown to be related. The economy as a whole has been hit very hard in the last few years. In fact, studies have suggested this effect can explain nearly all of the riaa members' decreased sales. It is handy to have a scape-goat, but as usual, the scape-goat is likely not the problem at all.
Finally, a reference. Here I'm just curious: does anyone really believe that as P2P becomes more common it wouldn't disrupt sales? The paradigm has shifted, thats the issue here. Does the Recording Industry have the right to limit our rights in order to protect an out moded business model?
"In any event, are you suggesting that a royalty dispute between an artist and a label is justification for stealing from both of them? Would you feel free to shoplift a CD from a record store based on that logic?"
I wish more distro's would do it. I love the idea of supporting my favorite distro by automatically shelling out a very reasonable fee everytime they release. Wish I used Slack.
One of the Linux distros (cough, Mandrake) would cop the subscription system. FreeBSD is right on with this method, the price is reasonable, its a great cause and satisfying as hell to receive the disks as your reading about the new release.
Paying $60/$120/$600 up front is a little steep (at least for some of us) but paying $25 per release (or something similar) is a very nice approach.
Take a look at SVG. It supports vector graphics, PNG motion/animation and sound (at least in 1.2). Looks like Flash has also been opened up so you've got quite a selection. Here are some comparisons (look a little out of date) and a resource website.
Your joking of course. But like it says, your high school friends will just have to send in a verification email before their original will go through. This isn't really a problem.
Thats a great question, but its pretty simple. You going into your 'Pending Verification' box (in options) and click verify. I also forgot to mention that the service also will check your hotmail account and uses the same spam checking feature for it. But I quit using Hotmail when I first got the bogus "doesn't work with Mozilla" message but I'm sure this is still usefull for some of us.
To plug bluebottle.com. Their 'smart' spam filtering system includes a challenge-response type system to verify the legitimacy of the account and an allowed list. I've been using it for about 2 weeks and like it so far (I get over a hundred pieces of crap a day at my old account).
Couple of nits are it is slow as hell to log into (they are in Australia and supposedly upgrading their system to fix this) and it uses Horde as the actual email interface (I'm a much bigger fan of SquirrelMail and always thought Horde needed a serious facelift).
Of course the upside is I haven't had a single piece of spam and I really like logging in and knowing that if I have new mail its from people I want to hear from.
Here's their marketing spiel:
Bluebottle stops spam.
Bluebottle's open-source technology is 100% effective in blocking unwanted email. It is the only system that can effectively protect a user from spam while ensuring all legitimate email is received.
Bluebottle is easy to use. When Bluebottle receives an email from an address or domain not on your âAllowed' list, a verification request is sent asking the sender to verify themselves in one of two ways. The required response to these verification requests automatically places the sender's address on your âAllowed' list, and the email is delivered to you without delay.
Once the sender's address is on this list, they can
email you as they would normally. The advantage
is that you ONLY receive email from allowed
senders.
Effective.
To avoid identification, spammers commonly use forged or fake addresses. Consequently, the verification request is never seen or responded to, so spammers can't infiltrate your allowed list. That means you'll no longer receive annoying, unwanted email.
Manageable.
Bluebottle is easy to manage. Simply add your known contacts to your âAllowed' list so they can avoid verifying themselves. And even if legitimate senders do need to verify themselves, it's quick and easy to do so.
If you're sending an email, Bluebottle automatically adds the recipient's address to your allowed list to avoid a request being sent when they reply.
Protective.
Bluebottle applies the verification process to your existing email, including Hotmail, by checking your accounts through its servers. Email from known senders is delivered to your account without delay. Unknown email is placed in the pending queue to await verification. You can access your spam-free email through Bluebottle's webmail interface or via pop using any email client.
I think the more important point would be why assume they weren't being generous? As long as Polyphemis had a good time and met some cool people it sounds great.
A lot of companies still fear the words open source.
For them NDA is just how the game is played and *free* isnâ(TM)t really in their business lexicon, I mean who supports it? Does it somehow benefit their competitors? Could it damage their hardware? What if its used in a way not intended? Could this cause liability problems? How can they control it?
I understand your frustration and *really* appreciate your interest in porting it. They'll wake up eventually...(I hope).
OZradio is written by Gary Baker South Australia. The purpose of OZradio is to provide a simple and easy to use application to play and Record FM Radio on BTTV Compatible cards.
This looks like a great option for all you radio fans out there, its open source and it even records to ogg.
OZRadio will now build or execute on a Linux system that has KDE, GNOME, ICEWM, XFCE etc.. with or without GNOME libraries
From the FAQ:
Why OZradio
I am Gary Baker from South Australia, I live in Adelaide and due to my Age/Generation am probably
a bit more of the old fashioned Ozy. Whenever someone has asked me where I am from, for as long
as I can remember I have answered South Oz. Why I dont know. Does it have anything to do
with Dorothy, no not really. Does it Matter. No not really. Anyway Im pretty happy that I can knock together this code and maybe people from all over the world, religeon, colour, sexuality etc..
doesnt matter, can use it.
Overview
OZradio has been written on a Mandrake 9.0 system running KDE 3.0 with a Brooktree BT878 Video/FM
card. It is written in 'C' and the GUI was written using GLADE 1.2 (Excellent GUI Development tool).
OZradio will run in either a Gnome or KDE environment although all of my testing is done in KDE.
Its probably kind of strange, but I prefer to work in the KDE environment but reckon the GLADE tool is
the best GUI development tool for the way I code. One of the drawbacks with supporting both KDE and
GNOME with the same binary is the Library requirements. I am considering building Gnome and KDE
Versions so as that users do not have to install libraries for both environments to run OZradio.
Development Direction
OZradio is being developed as rapidly as I can. Originally I intended to write an application to play FM
radio on BTTV compatible cards and nothing more. But once I did that and realised how simple the base
radio player was to write, I thought I would expand it. There are often radio shows I would like to listen
to but I am at work so I thought I would record them. This has expanded the development of OZradio.
Most of the base structure is now in place. Heaps of cleanup is needed. I am thinking at the moment of
stabilising OZradio at BETA 0.8.2 with full help and Error checking.
I am looking to providing Fast Foward, Rewind functions within the playback section and the ability to
save parts of a recording to a different file. To complement this I will need to look at supporting mpxx,
vorbis, wav etc.. files for export and the ability to replay all these file types which will further expand
the capability of OZradio.
OZradio will continue to support both KDE, GNOME and will be developed on Mandrake Linux. I have
no intention of and will not port it to any Microsoft environments,
Software Requirements
OZradio requires a 2.4xx kernel and Linux. Both the standard Gnome and Kde Libraries are required and
GTK 1.2 or greater is required. No other special libraries or software is needed other than the modules to
support your FM/TV card. OZradio assumes you have already installed your card and loaded the
required modules etc. to make it work.
Hardware Requirements
OZradio requires some form of FM radio card and a sound card in the computer. Many different types
OF FM/TV cards will probably work as I use generic video4linux api calls and access things through/dev/xxxxxxxx . My system is setup with the audio output from the FM/Video card going into the Sound
card input. OZradio expects to be able to access/dev/radioxxxx to tune the radio frequencys,/dev/mixer and/dev/dsp to record and playback radio.
Posted in response to this initially, but this is such a popular misconception.;-)
I think the idea was to test new technologies that haven't been implemented yet in Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament 2003 (like in the upcoming DOOM III).
A quote of a quote in their 10/26/98 press release:
"3DMark sets a long awaited standard for testing actual game performance for titles like Unreal as well as the future technologies. I support it one hundred percent."
-- Tim Sweeney, Unreal Programmer, Epic MegaGames
Posted in response to this initially, but this is such a popular misconception.;-)
I think the idea was to test new technologies that haven't been implemented yet in Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament 2003 (like in the upcoming DOOM III).
A quote of a quote in their 10/26/98 press release:
"3DMark sets a long awaited standard for testing actual game performance for titles like Unreal as well as the future technologies. I support it one hundred percent."
-- Tim Sweeney, Unreal Programmer, Epic MegaGames
I think the idea was to test new technologies that haven't been implemented yet in Quake or Unreal Tournament (like the upcoming DOOM III).
A quote of a quote in their 10/26/98 press release:
"3DMark sets a long awaited standard for testing actual game performance
for titles like Unreal
as well as the future technologies. I support it
one hundred percent."
-- Tim Sweeney, Unreal Programmer, Epic MegaGames
OZradio is a Linux FM radio player for KDE and GNOME. It supports BTTV-compatible FM and TV cards. It features the ability to save up to 10 preset stations, a sound mixer, volume control, a mute button, automatic frequency scanning, on-demand recording and replay of radio, and programmable recording.
Looks like OZradio should work and witht he money you save you can get a nice player to listen with.
I think maybe because of their history. Microsoft has gathered the ire of some in the technical community over time. So of course if this was Microsoft there would be a different response, but it has a history.
Thanks. I actually first heard it mentioned by a caller during a pledge drive with Ira Glass. Ira handled the call admirably but this dealt a pretty serious blow to my image of public radio.
As much as I enjoy (some of) their content I think its sometimes better to let something die to give somethingelse the opportunity to fill the vacuum. Or we continue to limp along with the steady Clear Channelization of public radio.
Windows offers a good interface..
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For a lot of people. Thats why there is a little bit of a push to emulate it. I'm not saying its the best, but it's fairly easy to understand and a lot of people have been trained to use it.
Different strokes. The Linux community really seems to get that.
A large part of the reason I switched from using Windows was so I could customize my operating system to better suit me (the explorer shell felt "clunky" to me). Although I did try things like Geoshell and Litestep it still felt "heavy" to me.
Anyhow, I seem to have drifted off. My point is a Windows style desktop manager would be great on Linux and let them complain. You and I know all we really need is a fast menu and a good background (and stuff).;-)
I almost agree about the pop-up blocker, but I think it is possible they would include it as long as there was an agreeable ad serving technology to use in place of the ever popular pop=ups.
As pop-up blocking becomes more common I think its only natural that advertisers will have to find ways to push their media around the technology (like the pop-up blocker detectors, or DHTML on page windows).
Sorry, I'd include links (of course you've probably seen them already) but I'm on my way out the door..
With around 95% of the market it makes sense that Microsoft hasn't really been adding new features to Internet Explorer.
But I'd guess that with the growing dissatisfaction with pop-up advertising and the growing popularity of Mozilla's (or Firebirdpop-up blocking they might have to rethink this soon.
I just wish they would get on with it. They've create a nice media circus, but this challenge is important because its the first 'serious' challenge Linux has faced.
We are pretty smug (and maybe rightfully so) in our premature cavorting but you can count on this just being the first in a series of big business attempts to compete against a operating system that's free.
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Get plenty of responses. But I think your argument is a little one sided. My point would be we are all ignorant of the long term effects of rampant and unchecked use of genetic modifacation. And that alone is enough reason to consider moving carefully. Progress, sure but don't deny your own ignorance.
The consequences of a such a young (and cash hungry) industry industry could be exceptional. Thats worth questioning. Look at the pharmacuetical industry and remember that their reach is somewhat limited. I mean do you really trust the pharmaceutical industry?
Genetics as a science may be a little different as a industry.
Because sometimes you need a 98 app and its convenient/better to use it under Linux. Like say web development with Dream Weaver or checking compatibility with Internet Explorer. There are numerous reasons.
;-)
I think a better question would be whatâ(TM)s with that OSX spellcheck?
I switched to osx from linux 2 weeks ago, and it is wonderfult o be abel to use..
When I copy a file, I am not depriving anyone of ownership of that file. I might be breaking a law or infringing on a copyright, but there is nothing that the person owned before and does not now still own. This is why digital stuff can not be shoehorned into a legal system designed for meatspace life.
What it is that your denying them is the right to control and control distribution of their material. In essence (by copying and redistributing) you have taken that right away from them. And as with most materials in the marketplace (maybe slightly more with creative content) control and distribution is the most important right.
Even the GPL is designed to protect the rights of the original author(s). In a exchange like this it would be important to me that you respect my rights as the owner of the content and duplicating, redistributing, repackaging or recycling without my express permission certainly would infringe on my rights.
Moreover, in the context of the article: if I own a cd, but leave it at work one night and download an mp3 of a song from that cd from Kazaa, whom have i hurt? Not only am I not depriving anyone of ownership, I am not obtaining any music I did not already purchase. Though illegal, this action would seem to be a rather victimless crime.
I think their point is more that the âhonorâ(TM) system doesnâ(TM)t work. In making that track available for you to download it is to be expected that a number of people will download the same track who have not paid for the original album.
I think he also makes the point that owning a copy of a movie on VHS doesnâ(TM)t give you the right to take a DVD. I understand his logic here too, but I think itâ(TM)s somewhat more murky so Iâ(TM)ll leave it alone.
My point was that he had some well thought out responses and accepting them and understanding his points will only help us in long run. Everything he said wasnâ(TM)t wrong (I donâ(TM)t think you where trying to say that) and some of his distinctions downright lucid.
âSo, if you buy a CD that you keep at home, you should feel free to make a copy that you have in your car. [But] It is not legal, ethical or cool to copy somebody else's CD for your own use.â
That sounds fairly reasonable to me, if only he spoke decisively for his industry.
Good rule to live by: if your going to argue for something you believe in (that *might* even be important) save the knee-jerks for the dining room table.
Rather then posting hysterically, why not listen to what he has to say.
"Sharing involves lending something to somebody, and while it is on loan, the owner no longer has it. "Sharing" in the P2P context has become a euphemism for "copying." That copying is neither legal nor ethical"
"From an ethical perspective, when individuals engage in illegal copying, they are taking money out of the pockets of all of the people who have put their hard work into making the music..."
Maybe you should read the two sentences again. He's saying loaning something is different then duplicating something and giving it away (like say NFL sports jackets or Oakly sunglasses).
"Those companies (including Pressplay, Rhapsody, Listen, etc.) are delivering to consumers high quality music online in a format and form that consumers have demanded."
While I might agree with you in concept, what the hell numbers are you quickly looking at? You got a great reference: sight it. Otherwise as far as I can tell you pulled that out of your ass.
"The goal of copy protection in CDs is not to prevent individuals from making copies that they want to make for personal use, but rather to prevent individuals from distributing the recordings or making copies they don't have a right to make."
Bingo, this is the business world. They aren't there to protect your rights, just their interests. See the well know industry attempts at more percise crippling attempts: Palladium, Digital Rights Management
"The record industry has been hit very hard in the last few years as a result of illegal downloading and piracy.
In 2002, unit sales were down about 11 percent.
In 2001, unit sales were down about 10 percent.
In 2000, unit sales were down seven percent.
During that same period, illegal Internet downloading has skyrocketed. On the FastTrack network alone, there are about 900 million files being distributed at any given moment. The majority of those files are music files. Polls confirm that those individuals who are downloading illegally online are buying less. That illegal downloading is decreasing sales is probably not a surprise to anyone."
Finally, a reference. Here I'm just curious: does anyone really believe that as P2P becomes more common it wouldn't disrupt sales? The paradigm has shifted, thats the issue here. Does the Recording Industry have the right to limit our rights in order to protect an out moded business model?
"In any event, are you suggesting that a royalty dispute between an artist and a label is justification for stealing from both of them? Would you feel free to shoplift a CD from a record store based on that logic?"
I wish more distro's would do it. I love the idea of supporting my favorite distro by automatically shelling out a very reasonable fee everytime they release. Wish I used Slack.
One of the Linux distros (cough, Mandrake) would cop the subscription system. FreeBSD is right on with this method, the price is reasonable, its a great cause and satisfying as hell to receive the disks as your reading about the new release.
Paying $60/$120/$600 up front is a little steep (at least for some of us) but paying $25 per release (or something similar) is a very nice approach.
Take a look at SVG. It supports vector graphics, PNG motion/animation and sound (at least in 1.2). Looks like Flash has also been opened up so you've got quite a selection. Here are some comparisons (look a little out of date) and a resource website.
Your joking of course. But like it says, your high school friends will just have to send in a verification email before their original will go through. This isn't really a problem.
Thats a great question, but its pretty simple. You going into your 'Pending Verification' box (in options) and click verify. I also forgot to mention that the service also will check your hotmail account and uses the same spam checking feature for it. But I quit using Hotmail when I first got the bogus "doesn't work with Mozilla" message but I'm sure this is still usefull for some of us.
To plug bluebottle.com. Their 'smart' spam filtering system includes a challenge-response type system to verify the legitimacy of the account and an allowed list. I've been using it for about 2 weeks and like it so far (I get over a hundred pieces of crap a day at my old account).
Couple of nits are it is slow as hell to log into (they are in Australia and supposedly upgrading their system to fix this) and it uses Horde as the actual email interface (I'm a much bigger fan of SquirrelMail and always thought Horde needed a serious facelift).
Of course the upside is I haven't had a single piece of spam and I really like logging in and knowing that if I have new mail its from people I want to hear from.
Here's their marketing spiel:
Bluebottle stops spam.
Bluebottle's open-source technology is 100% effective in blocking unwanted email. It is the only system that can effectively protect a user from spam while ensuring all legitimate email is received.
Bluebottle is easy to use. When Bluebottle receives an email from an address or domain not on your âAllowed' list, a verification request is sent asking the sender to verify themselves in one of two ways. The required response to these verification requests automatically places the sender's address on your âAllowed' list, and the email is delivered to you without delay.
Once the sender's address is on this list, they can email you as they would normally. The advantage is that you ONLY receive email from allowed senders.
Effective.
To avoid identification, spammers commonly use forged or fake addresses. Consequently, the verification request is never seen or responded to, so spammers can't infiltrate your allowed list. That means you'll no longer receive annoying, unwanted email.
Manageable.
Bluebottle is easy to manage. Simply add your known contacts to your âAllowed' list so they can avoid verifying themselves. And even if legitimate senders do need to verify themselves, it's quick and easy to do so.
If you're sending an email, Bluebottle automatically adds the recipient's address to your allowed list to avoid a request being sent when they reply.
Protective.
Bluebottle applies the verification process to your existing email, including Hotmail, by checking your accounts through its servers. Email from known senders is delivered to your account without delay. Unknown email is placed in the pending queue to await verification. You can access your spam-free email through Bluebottle's webmail interface or via pop using any email client.
I think the more important point would be why assume they weren't being generous? As long as Polyphemis had a good time and met some cool people it sounds great.
A lot of companies still fear the words open source.
For them NDA is just how the game is played and *free* isnâ(TM)t really in their business lexicon, I mean who supports it? Does it somehow benefit their competitors? Could it damage their hardware? What if its used in a way not intended? Could this cause liability problems? How can they control it?
I understand your frustration and *really* appreciate your interest in porting it. They'll wake up eventually...(I hope).
OZradio is written by Gary Baker South Australia. The purpose of OZradio is to provide a simple and easy to use application to play and Record FM Radio on BTTV Compatible cards.
/dev/xxxxxxxx . My system is setup with the audio output from the FM/Video card going into the Sound
card input. OZradio expects to be able to access /dev/radioxxxx to tune the radio frequencys, /dev/mixer and /dev/dsp to record and playback radio.
This looks like a great option for all you radio fans out there, its open source and it even records to ogg.
OZRadio will now build or execute on a Linux system that has KDE, GNOME, ICEWM, XFCE etc.. with or without GNOME libraries
From the FAQ:
Why OZradio
I am Gary Baker from South Australia, I live in Adelaide and due to my Age/Generation am probably a bit more of the old fashioned Ozy. Whenever someone has asked me where I am from, for as long as I can remember I have answered South Oz. Why I dont know. Does it have anything to do with Dorothy, no not really. Does it Matter. No not really. Anyway Im pretty happy that I can knock together this code and maybe people from all over the world, religeon, colour, sexuality etc.. doesnt matter, can use it.
Overview
OZradio has been written on a Mandrake 9.0 system running KDE 3.0 with a Brooktree BT878 Video/FM card. It is written in 'C' and the GUI was written using GLADE 1.2 (Excellent GUI Development tool). OZradio will run in either a Gnome or KDE environment although all of my testing is done in KDE. Its probably kind of strange, but I prefer to work in the KDE environment but reckon the GLADE tool is the best GUI development tool for the way I code. One of the drawbacks with supporting both KDE and GNOME with the same binary is the Library requirements. I am considering building Gnome and KDE Versions so as that users do not have to install libraries for both environments to run OZradio.
Development Direction
OZradio is being developed as rapidly as I can. Originally I intended to write an application to play FM radio on BTTV compatible cards and nothing more. But once I did that and realised how simple the base radio player was to write, I thought I would expand it. There are often radio shows I would like to listen to but I am at work so I thought I would record them. This has expanded the development of OZradio.
Most of the base structure is now in place. Heaps of cleanup is needed. I am thinking at the moment of stabilising OZradio at BETA 0.8.2 with full help and Error checking. I am looking to providing Fast Foward, Rewind functions within the playback section and the ability to save parts of a recording to a different file. To complement this I will need to look at supporting mpxx, vorbis, wav etc.. files for export and the ability to replay all these file types which will further expand the capability of OZradio.
OZradio will continue to support both KDE, GNOME and will be developed on Mandrake Linux. I have no intention of and will not port it to any Microsoft environments,
Software Requirements
OZradio requires a 2.4xx kernel and Linux. Both the standard Gnome and Kde Libraries are required and GTK 1.2 or greater is required. No other special libraries or software is needed other than the modules to support your FM/TV card. OZradio assumes you have already installed your card and loaded the required modules etc. to make it work.
Hardware Requirements
OZradio requires some form of FM radio card and a sound card in the computer. Many different types OF FM/TV cards will probably work as I use generic video4linux api calls and access things through
Enjoy!
I think the idea was to test new technologies that haven't been implemented yet in Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament 2003 (like in the upcoming DOOM III).
A quote of a quote in their 10/26/98 press release:
I think the idea was to test new technologies that haven't been implemented yet in Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament 2003 (like in the upcoming DOOM III).
A quote of a quote in their 10/26/98 press release:
A quote of a quote in their 10/26/98 press release:
OZradio is a Linux FM radio player for KDE and GNOME. It supports BTTV-compatible FM and TV cards. It features the ability to save up to 10 preset stations, a sound mixer, volume control, a mute button, automatic frequency scanning, on-demand recording and replay of radio, and programmable recording.
Looks like OZradio should work and witht he money you save you can get a nice player to listen with.
Hmmmmm, maybe what we need is more T&A?
Why is Tivo given the benefit of the doubt?
I think maybe because of their history. Microsoft has gathered the ire of some in the technical community over time. So of course if this was Microsoft there would be a different response, but it has a history.
Thanks. I actually first heard it mentioned by a caller during a pledge drive with Ira Glass. Ira handled the call admirably but this dealt a pretty serious blow to my image of public radio.
Don't forget NPR along with National Association of Broadcasters has vehemently opposed community microbroadcasting. That coupled with the advertising is enough to keep me from supporting them ever.
As much as I enjoy (some of) their content I think its sometimes better to let something die to give something else the opportunity to fill the vacuum. Or we continue to limp along with the steady Clear Channelization of public radio.
For a lot of people. Thats why there is a little bit of a push to emulate it. I'm not saying its the best, but it's fairly easy to understand and a lot of people have been trained to use it.
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Different strokes. The Linux community really seems to get that.
A large part of the reason I switched from using Windows was so I could customize my operating system to better suit me (the explorer shell felt "clunky" to me). Although I did try things like Geoshell and Litestep it still felt "heavy" to me.
I preffer Blackbox (the older sibling of your own Fluxbox).
Anyhow, I seem to have drifted off. My point is a Windows style desktop manager would be great on Linux and let them complain. You and I know all we really need is a fast menu and a good background (and stuff).
I almost agree about the pop-up blocker, but I think it is possible they would include it as long as there was an agreeable ad serving technology to use in place of the ever popular pop=ups.
As pop-up blocking becomes more common I think its only natural that advertisers will have to find ways to push their media around the technology (like the pop-up blocker detectors, or DHTML on page windows).
Sorry, I'd include links (of course you've probably seen them already) but I'm on my way out the door..
With around 95% of the market it makes sense that Microsoft hasn't really been adding new features to Internet Explorer.
But I'd guess that with the growing dissatisfaction with pop-up advertising and the growing popularity of Mozilla's (or Firebird pop-up blocking they might have to rethink this soon.
I just wish they would get on with it. They've create a nice media circus, but this challenge is important because its the first 'serious' challenge Linux has faced.
We are pretty smug (and maybe rightfully so) in our premature cavorting but you can count on this just being the first in a series of big business attempts to compete against a operating system that's free.
Right now a corporation is testing the waters.