Years ago, I wrote down what was necessary for software to be Open Source, and OSI uses that Open Source Definition to classify licenses. It is not an arbitrary thing.
Maybe I've missed something, but can you explain exactly where you and the OSI get the authority to define what the words "open source" mean?
I had almost the same thing happen when I started my company. In my case we caught Dell buying direct mailing addresses from another company. My secretary got on the case and demanded that Dell take our details off their database (in the UK we have a law called the Data Protection Act which makes it illegal for a company to keep your details on a database if you request that it be removed). In the face of a DPA request they had to 'fess up and told my secretary that they couldn't remove our address as if they did, they'd only re-buy it again the next month. The only way to get our address permanently off Dell's database was to get in touch with the 3rd party and get them to remove it - which they did, to be fair. But, what Dell is doing is a breach of the DPA as they cannot permanently remove an address from their database thus making it illegal. It is also proof that they are in the bussines of at least buying addresses, and most likely in the business of trading addresses between themselves and other companies.
The last Windows machine I used was my old IBM Thinkpad. It had a restore partition and came with no CD media at all. Guess I'd have been shafted for one, even though my copy was 100% genuine.
No, 90% of my stuff is real instruments. However, in my apartment I have neither the room nor tolerant enough neighbours to record live drums. Programming drums without a MIDI editor is next to impossible. Hence it's a definite dealbreaker.
Now I know you're going to say I can use something like Hydrogen to do the drums and export it as an audio track into Ardour, but I tend to cut stuff up and re-arrange a song after it has been recorded, and it becomes a real PITA if the drums are not in MIDI format (cymbal crashes crossing bar borders for example).
As a musician myself, I really wouldn't bother. Each shows promise, but all of them have fatal flaws that make them useless for anything but the most basic recording - the most obvious being stability in the case of Rosegarden, and the poor quality of the plugins across the board. There's no equivalent of things like guitar amp simulations, or professional grade mastering tools such as Ozone that I could find.
None of this software comes anywhere close to stuff like Cubase, Logic, MOTU Digital Performer and the like. Even Garageband is superior IMO. I have a Linux machine for everyday work, but a Mac for music related stuff.
Its ridiculous to call Democrats anything but on the left when they're trying to advance gay rights and keep abortion legal.
Those are two small points which don't actually affect left or right. Here in the UK, the Conservatives are also pro-abortion and gay rights, but they are most definitely right wing.
To be left wing, the Democrats would have to be advocating free health care for all, promoting unions, calling for national industries like power companies and telephone companies to be nationalised and removed from private ownership, abolishing private schooling for a state only system, etc etc.
The Democrats do no such thing, and are NOT a left-wing party, and the only main policy differences between the two major parties in the US are the small ideological things. The two main parties put in these ideological choices such as abortion and gay rights to give the illusion of choice, when in fact there is none.
If you simply note our last two Presidential elections, you'll see that we are as polarized as it gets...
Not really. From outside the US I see a bunch of right-wingers arguing with another bunch of right-wingers about how far to the right the most acceptable form of government is. Now if you actually had a party that was on the left, then you might be able to call the voting public polarized, but until then...
Either you agree with copyright law or you don't. You can't have it both ways. What you seem to be suggesting is that music and film be excluded from copyright, which is by far the most moronic statement out of the two of us.
I'm not from the US so you'll have to spell out exactly what the references you state mean. However, I think 50 years for copyright is reasonable, as it is here in the UK.
Actually, IMO, it IS good law, just badly and over-aggresively enforced. After all, it's just normal copyright law which I'm sure everyone here supports - otherwise the GPL is out of the window for a start. The problem is the way the RIAA/MPAA are going about enforcing the law, not the law itself.
That's Lexmark's particular problem. If true, it shows how short-sighted they are. Even if you don't like Vista, you have customers who will use it, and if you choose not to support you printers on Vista, you'll see those users go to someone else who will. Not good business strategy.
There seem to be an awful lot of companies that are "short-sighted" as you call them - HP, Lexmark, Apple, NVidia, ATI, etc etc. So many that it can't be a coincidence. So many that they can't all have bad business strategies. So many that Occam's Razor basically says that it's more likely that Vista is very hard to develop drivers for, which ultimately is the fault of the OS.
This isn't an article about Vista so much as the sad state of affairs in China.
Why is it a sad state of affairs? My annual income adds up to over $200,000 which from what I understand would be considered a massive pay rate for a senior developer/software architect in the US. It's all about cost of living. It's cheaper to live in the US hence salaries are lower. It's even cheaper to live in China, hence salaries are even lower.
I just bought a regular Wireless Bridge for mine. Ethernet cable at one end, Wireless at the other. And whilst it didn't cost $7, I didn't have to pay the premium to have an X-Box logo on it either.
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It is a different country now than it was just a few months ago. The pendulum is starting to swing in the other direction. If we can manage not to have another terrorist attack on US soil in the next year and a half, expect some real change out of Washington.
*Tin Foil Hat On*
If, as you say, the pendulum is swinging in the other direction then I'd be inclined to predict another terrorist attack on US soil within the next year and a half is highly likely...
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But no core UTF-8 support makes it useless to large numbers of people. The hacked support doesn't cut it. It needs to be supported right down in the core to make it fully stable and workable.
So would that include the legal fees of my opponent if I lose? Because I guess that would solve it, but could (not would but could) introduce the possibility of poor people suing more because they have nothing to lose.
Under the legal aid system you don't have to pay a penny win or lose. However, you have to have a pretty strong case in order to be able to claim it. It's there for people who have suffered injustice but cannot afford a solicitor - but they will not support you in a frivolous lawsuit,
Here's their website which will give you the information about how you can qualify for it - http://www.legalservices.gov.uk/. It's a bit heavy going, but it is a government site.
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Years ago, I wrote down what was necessary for software to be Open Source, and OSI uses that Open Source Definition to classify licenses. It is not an arbitrary thing.
Maybe I've missed something, but can you explain exactly where you and the OSI get the authority to define what the words "open source" mean?
Bob
How about the Arctic Monkeys?
Bob
This essay by Steve Albini pretty much sums up the situation. It's quite old now but I'm sure it still applies - in fact it's probably worse now.
Bob
4Gb for $278? No thanks.
Bob
I had almost the same thing happen when I started my company. In my case we caught Dell buying direct mailing addresses from another company. My secretary got on the case and demanded that Dell take our details off their database (in the UK we have a law called the Data Protection Act which makes it illegal for a company to keep your details on a database if you request that it be removed). In the face of a DPA request they had to 'fess up and told my secretary that they couldn't remove our address as if they did, they'd only re-buy it again the next month. The only way to get our address permanently off Dell's database was to get in touch with the 3rd party and get them to remove it - which they did, to be fair. But, what Dell is doing is a breach of the DPA as they cannot permanently remove an address from their database thus making it illegal. It is also proof that they are in the bussines of at least buying addresses, and most likely in the business of trading addresses between themselves and other companies.
Bob
And there's also sites like TV Links that link to streaming videos of all your favourite TV shows.
The genie is already out of the bottle, and no-one can put it back in again.
Bob
Where I am in the UK, gas is £0.95 per litre, which (given 1 US gallon = 3.79 litres) = £3.60 per gallon = $7.11 per gallon.
So no, not $10 per gallon, but well over twice the price of the US.
Bob
Exactly. Everytime someone from the US says how high their gas prices are, I just laugh. $3 per gallon is cheap. Very cheap.
Bob
The last Windows machine I used was my old IBM Thinkpad. It had a restore partition and came with no CD media at all. Guess I'd have been shafted for one, even though my copy was 100% genuine.
Bob
The parent post used the word "relative". Compared relatively to the rest of the world, school shootings in the US are common.
Bob
No, 90% of my stuff is real instruments. However, in my apartment I have neither the room nor tolerant enough neighbours to record live drums. Programming drums without a MIDI editor is next to impossible. Hence it's a definite dealbreaker.
Now I know you're going to say I can use something like Hydrogen to do the drums and export it as an audio track into Ardour, but I tend to cut stuff up and re-arrange a song after it has been recorded, and it becomes a real PITA if the drums are not in MIDI format (cymbal crashes crossing bar borders for example).
Bob
Yes I have. And of all the Linux DAWs, Ardour has the biggest flaw of them all - no MIDI editor.
Bob
As a musician myself, I really wouldn't bother. Each shows promise, but all of them have fatal flaws that make them useless for anything but the most basic recording - the most obvious being stability in the case of Rosegarden, and the poor quality of the plugins across the board. There's no equivalent of things like guitar amp simulations, or professional grade mastering tools such as Ozone that I could find.
None of this software comes anywhere close to stuff like Cubase, Logic, MOTU Digital Performer and the like. Even Garageband is superior IMO. I have a Linux machine for everyday work, but a Mac for music related stuff.
Bob
Those are two small points which don't actually affect left or right. Here in the UK, the Conservatives are also pro-abortion and gay rights, but they are most definitely right wing.
To be left wing, the Democrats would have to be advocating free health care for all, promoting unions, calling for national industries like power companies and telephone companies to be nationalised and removed from private ownership, abolishing private schooling for a state only system, etc etc.
The Democrats do no such thing, and are NOT a left-wing party, and the only main policy differences between the two major parties in the US are the small ideological things. The two main parties put in these ideological choices such as abortion and gay rights to give the illusion of choice, when in fact there is none.
Bob
Not really. From outside the US I see a bunch of right-wingers arguing with another bunch of right-wingers about how far to the right the most acceptable form of government is. Now if you actually had a party that was on the left, then you might be able to call the voting public polarized, but until then...
Bob
Either you agree with copyright law or you don't. You can't have it both ways. What you seem to be suggesting is that music and film be excluded from copyright, which is by far the most moronic statement out of the two of us.
Bob
I'm not from the US so you'll have to spell out exactly what the references you state mean. However, I think 50 years for copyright is reasonable, as it is here in the UK.
Bob
Actually, IMO, it IS good law, just badly and over-aggresively enforced. After all, it's just normal copyright law which I'm sure everyone here supports - otherwise the GPL is out of the window for a start. The problem is the way the RIAA/MPAA are going about enforcing the law, not the law itself.
Bob
There seem to be an awful lot of companies that are "short-sighted" as you call them - HP, Lexmark, Apple, NVidia, ATI, etc etc. So many that it can't be a coincidence. So many that they can't all have bad business strategies. So many that Occam's Razor basically says that it's more likely that Vista is very hard to develop drivers for, which ultimately is the fault of the OS.
Bob
This isn't an article about Vista so much as the sad state of affairs in China.
Why is it a sad state of affairs? My annual income adds up to over $200,000 which from what I understand would be considered a massive pay rate for a senior developer/software architect in the US. It's all about cost of living. It's cheaper to live in the US hence salaries are lower. It's even cheaper to live in China, hence salaries are even lower.
Bob
I just bought a regular Wireless Bridge for mine. Ethernet cable at one end, Wireless at the other. And whilst it didn't cost $7, I didn't have to pay the premium to have an X-Box logo on it either.
Bob
*Tin Foil Hat On*
If, as you say, the pendulum is swinging in the other direction then I'd be inclined to predict another terrorist attack on US soil within the next year and a half is highly likely...
br Bob
Ugh, so much FUD.
But no core UTF-8 support makes it useless to large numbers of people. The hacked support doesn't cut it. It needs to be supported right down in the core to make it fully stable and workable.
Bob
So would that include the legal fees of my opponent if I lose? Because I guess that would solve it, but could (not would but could) introduce the possibility of poor people suing more because they have nothing to lose.
Under the legal aid system you don't have to pay a penny win or lose. However, you have to have a pretty strong case in order to be able to claim it. It's there for people who have suffered injustice but cannot afford a solicitor - but they will not support you in a frivolous lawsuit,
Here's their website which will give you the information about how you can qualify for it - http://www.legalservices.gov.uk/. It's a bit heavy going, but it is a government site.
Bob
Had mine for 5 months. No issues so far...
Bob