It only has to last long enough for people to get it home to their Mac so they can 'Rip Burn and Upload' it to everyone else, as the sales slogan goes.
I guess we can now revoke the legend of how Phish promotes free distribution of concert recordings. One more useful 'example' of 'why music should be free because it's a successful business plan' disappears in a puff of greasy smoke.
I am a little short on cash this week. Would you mind posting the URL to the free mirror of that site? Phish is, of course, one of the groups consistently cited as encouraging free distribution of their concert recordings. ..
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Wow.
Now Clear Channel not only owns every radio station in the country, they now own and control every venue that a performer could possibly play before an audience at.
The Paranoid Brotherhood of Legal Staffers has uncovered a plot to take away all of our rights. Obviously it is a secret plot, and the way to prevent it from coming to fruition is to donate generously to our Political Organization.
Honestly, one has to start wondering. Some people's rationale for music piracy is 'the music industry hasn't embraced the new technology.' Then when they do, the whine is about how they're still not allowing us to traffic in stolen copies of the work.
Well, actually I am now interested in their products. Slashdot just gave them a lot of coverage that they didn't previously have.
But I am not sure how much of a North American market they are trying to develop. I've wanted a StrongArm box for awhile, and the only one I've seen in the past that looked feasible and in the form factor I want was the Chalice CATS board in the ATX form factor, and it is an expensive 'development hardware' product.
You do realize, I hope, that the MPAA and the RIAA are industry associations who hold few copyrights themselves. They are in the business of upholding all of their member's copyrights. And that includes a lot of artists, not just Big Bad Business.
So who are these 'other people's copyrights' you're talking about? The 5% of the people whose are not part of the RIAA?
Well, I don't think Walmart and others are ignoring Microsoft's persecution of places that sell a 'naked PC,' so they put a filler OS, the equivalent of the cardboard computer monitor that office furniture stores use for display purposes, on their 'bare' machines. Besides which that's only a WalMart.com deal. Go into any WalMart store across the country and try to buy a machine with Linux installed on it. They'll look at you funny.
And Apple has always been about making a big noise. Something Shakespeare, about sound and fury....
This is, of course, Slashdot so we need to say it: Linux is winning! Yay Linux!
The Internet is the most important network that I can think of,
There are so many networks more important than 'The Internet' that I can't start to count them.
There are many segments to the IT market. The Internet is actually fairly trivial when it comes down to it. It matters, but it doesn't keep the lights going, it doesn't operate hospital facilitys or power plants. And so on.
In the market place today, why would anyone in the IT field work as a direct employee?
You know, you're right.
People would have to be nuts to work at an IT job for the company they actually work at. So people just plain refuse.
And that's why there are so many open jobs in IT right now. So many that IT people looking for work are sorta developing a prima-donna attitude lately.
(you'd better be able to figure out I am being sarcastic.)
Unfortunately, you have to agree to the new license to download Solaris 9. I downloaded Solaris 8 back before they implemented the new agreement. My license says I can run it on machines with more than one processor. I have two SparcStation 10's that both have two processors in them. The license changed midway through the 'free Solaris 8' campaign and anybody who clicks through the newer license can't run Solaris SMP for free. Even on a little SparcStation 10 with two 50 MHz processors, like mine.
Orange Computer, makers of the 'Orange Peel' Apple II clone machine, for one.
There were numerous companies that attempted to produce Apple II clones. Apple sic'ed their lawyers on them, few of them made more than a few machines.
You can't just lump HP-UX and True64 together like they're the same product. They are completely seperate OSes, even if they (now) come from a single vendor.
Actually, rebuilding what he made 30 years ago would be a simple process of stripping off all the barnacles and croft that has been piled on in the succeeding 30 years.
My favored modern approximation would be installing a core NetBSD system. The approximate 50 MB download of binaries that represents gives you the clean but powerful system Richtie would have used at the time.
Well, to some people that says that Unix isn't usable for much at all unless it's accessed through some proprietary interface. Said proprietary interface can be a VT-220 (who has the source code for the firmware of a VT-220) or it can be a Windows box, or a Sun X-Terminal, or a bleeding ASR-33 teletype.
Anything else, the constant obsession with having the same software running on all layers between you and the one running your task, is a severe dabbling in metaphysics. The kind of thing college kids do when they get all 'political'.
Unfortunately the 'ours' in that phrase essentially means 'our gang here in the clubhouse.' It's inherently counter-culture, adopts the old 'us and them' mentality from the 'New Left' era. You know, like that old fart handing out leaflets on the campus mall who always capitalizes it when he writes or says 'Big Business.'
That level of idealism is fine while your dad is paying the tuition and kicking in half of the money to pay your room rent.
No, that would be 'opening' in the sense that IBM published and sold openly a 'Technical Reference Manual' for their hardware (the PC, XT, and AT). Said 'Technical Reference Manual' included full schematics, and the commented source code for the BIOS. No obfuscation, no hidden features. They also used only stock off-the-shelf chips for the design.
Many other companies, i.e. Apple, fought 'cloners' tooth and nail. There is a long list of companies that Apple sued out of business. Look whose architecture (in evolved form, of course) is running the world. Look whose architecture has been crowded back into a niche.
That and CS grads who think Visual Basic rocks all over C. That one always leaves me speechless.
Depending on the application it will be used for, Visual Basic can 'rock all over C.' I happen, however, to think Assembly language rocks all over C. For my applications it definitely does.
Slashdot Mirror
It only has to last long enough for people to get it home to their Mac so they can 'Rip Burn and Upload' it to everyone else, as the sales slogan goes.
Phish recently started selling concert downloads
Emphasis on the word selling.
I guess we can now revoke the legend of how Phish promotes free distribution of concert recordings. One more useful 'example' of 'why music should be free because it's a successful business plan' disappears in a puff of greasy smoke.
Jerry Garcia isn't smiling.
I am a little short on cash this week. Would you mind posting the URL to the free mirror of that site? Phish is, of course, one of the groups consistently cited as encouraging free distribution of their concert recordings. . .
Wow.
Now Clear Channel not only owns every radio station in the country, they now own and control every venue that a performer could possibly play before an audience at.
You fellows live in an interesting fantasy world.
That's overstress testing. To accelerate wear, since it doesn't make much sense to test a batch of parts to end of life before using them.
Not that it matters. This is the New Slashdot, where it's more important to tow the party line.
Slag the evil [microsoft|entertainment industry|evile corporations|whatever-else-is-trendy-to-slag]!!
The Paranoid Brotherhood of Legal Staffers has uncovered a plot to take away all of our rights. Obviously it is a secret plot, and the way to prevent it from coming to fruition is to donate generously to our Political Organization.
A press release will follow.
Honestly, one has to start wondering. Some people's rationale for music piracy is 'the music industry hasn't embraced the new technology.' Then when they do, the whine is about how they're still not allowing us to traffic in stolen copies of the work.
I mean, goodness sakes, fellahs.
Well, actually I am now interested in their products. Slashdot just gave them a lot of coverage that they didn't previously have.
But I am not sure how much of a North American market they are trying to develop. I've wanted a StrongArm box for awhile, and the only one I've seen in the past that looked feasible and in the form factor I want was the Chalice CATS board in the ATX form factor, and it is an expensive 'development hardware' product.
You do realize, I hope, that the MPAA and the RIAA are industry associations who hold few copyrights themselves. They are in the business of upholding all of their member's copyrights. And that includes a lot of artists, not just Big Bad Business.
So who are these 'other people's copyrights' you're talking about? The 5% of the people whose are not part of the RIAA?
Linux is a VT-220 time sharing operating system.
On steroids, mind you.
Well, I don't think Walmart and others are ignoring Microsoft's persecution of places that sell a 'naked PC,' so they put a filler OS, the equivalent of the cardboard computer monitor that office furniture stores use for display purposes, on their 'bare' machines. Besides which that's only a WalMart.com deal. Go into any WalMart store across the country and try to buy a machine with Linux installed on it. They'll look at you funny.
And Apple has always been about making a big noise. Something Shakespeare, about sound and fury....
This is, of course, Slashdot so we need to say it:
Linux is winning! Yay Linux!
or something.
The Internet is the most important network that I can think of,
There are so many networks more important than 'The Internet' that I can't start to count them.
There are many segments to the IT market. The Internet is actually fairly trivial when it comes down to it. It matters, but it doesn't keep the lights going, it doesn't operate hospital facilitys or power plants. And so on.
You know, you're right.
People would have to be nuts to work at an IT job for the company they actually work at. So people just plain refuse.
And that's why there are so many open jobs in IT right now. So many that IT people looking for work are sorta developing a prima-donna attitude lately.
(you'd better be able to figure out I am being sarcastic.)
I clicked on the link to Blackdown.org and it took me to their site. Then I tried finding those 'cross platform' binaries you talked about.
Where's the binary for my NetBSD RS/6000 box?
Heck, I couldn't even find the binary for that box (PowerPC) if I wanted to switch it to Linux.
Or a source link on the page.
Likely, the total number of 'desktops' is growing, and as it grows, more people are picking (or being assigned) to Microsoft desktops.
Unfortunately, you have to agree to the new license to download Solaris 9. I downloaded Solaris 8 back before they implemented the new agreement. My license says I can run it on machines with more than one processor. I have two SparcStation 10's that both have two processors in them. The license changed midway through the 'free Solaris 8' campaign and anybody who clicks through the newer license can't run Solaris SMP for free. Even on a little SparcStation 10 with two 50 MHz processors, like mine.
Orange Computer, makers of the 'Orange Peel' Apple II clone machine, for one.
There were numerous companies that attempted to produce Apple II clones. Apple sic'ed their lawyers on them, few of them made more than a few machines.
You can't just lump HP-UX and True64 together like they're the same product. They are completely seperate OSes, even if they (now) come from a single vendor.
Actually, rebuilding what he made 30 years ago would be a simple process of stripping off all the barnacles and croft that has been piled on in the succeeding 30 years.
My favored modern approximation would be installing a core NetBSD system. The approximate 50 MB download of binaries that represents gives you the clean but powerful system Richtie would have used at the time.
Ummm....
No, it's not worth bringing up.
Never mind. Carry on.
Well, to some people that says that Unix isn't usable for much at all unless it's accessed through some proprietary interface. Said proprietary interface can be a VT-220 (who has the source code for the firmware of a VT-220) or it can be a Windows box, or a Sun X-Terminal, or a bleeding ASR-33 teletype.
Anything else, the constant obsession with having the same software running on all layers between you and the one running your task, is a severe dabbling in metaphysics. The kind of thing college kids do when they get all 'political'.
Unfortunately the 'ours' in that phrase essentially means 'our gang here in the clubhouse.' It's inherently counter-culture, adopts the old 'us and them' mentality from the 'New Left' era. You know, like that old fart handing out leaflets on the campus mall who always capitalizes it when he writes or says 'Big Business.'
That level of idealism is fine while your dad is paying the tuition and kicking in half of the money to pay your room rent.
No, that would be 'opening' in the sense that IBM published and sold openly a 'Technical Reference Manual' for their hardware (the PC, XT, and AT). Said 'Technical Reference Manual' included full schematics, and the commented source code for the BIOS. No obfuscation, no hidden features. They also used only stock off-the-shelf chips for the design.
Many other companies, i.e. Apple, fought 'cloners' tooth and nail. There is a long list of companies that Apple sued out of business. Look whose architecture (in evolved form, of course) is running the world. Look whose architecture has been crowded back into a niche.
That and CS grads who think Visual Basic rocks all over C. That one always leaves me speechless.
Depending on the application it will be used for, Visual Basic can 'rock all over C.' I happen, however, to think Assembly language rocks all over C. For my applications it definitely does.
'fdisk /mbr' is cool, but you have to be at the DOS prompt.