" Firstly, and expensively, there's the issue of actor's repeat fees - since Internet fees weren't negotiated until recently, streaming a lot of old material would involve a staggringly huge job tracking down every single actor named in credits, and coming to a satisfactory deal with each and every one of them before the item they were on could be made available. "
There must be laws ruling these questions cleanly. In Germany that very question came up when CDs were a new medium of distribution. Most contracts before this time held a generic clause that included "other, yet unknown methods of distribution". The court ruling of the highest German court was very clear in stating that the original owner of the rights also had future rights for redistribution.
I'd be surprised if British law were any different.
Apart from that, I believe that this whole BBC-archive thing touches so many points of international law that I am sure the EU will take an interest and make sure that such an activity will be protected by EU law.
" I'm sure other amateurs can come up with other examples. Personally, I'd like to know how many amateur operators run completely SANS windows. I'd lay even money that Bruce Perens doesn't own a windows box, so there's one..."
Here's another one.
Main main interest in ham radio is shortwave DXing, long CW (morse code) plain text chats, contesting and pile-ups.
I am using a regular telnet connection to a DX-cluster, use xplanet as my desktop background to see day/night distribution together with propagation paths and an updated country list (http://www.qsl.net/df5jt/snapshot2.jpg is a screenshot of my desktop). Logging is done with CX, an open source clone of the most widely used contest logger by K1EA.
" Actually, all these systems ain't that bad. They could reduce crime significantly and catch people that are likely to do illegal actions in the future. As long as the benefits are greater to the society, and I'm sure the benefits are greater since they are proposing this, I don't see a problem."
That's what I call *real* trust in no-fuck-up, bugfree software, dealing with gigantic volumes of data, programmed by brainless code monkeys, who certainly would enjoy other ways of living a lot more.
" Why is it so hard to port games from Windows to Linux?? Is it just the connections to interfaces (graphics cards, keyboard, joystick mouse) or does it have more to do with compilers and incompatibilities??"
SCO Group Inc is preparing to invoice customers running or developing with Linux, while broadening its copyright net to include manufacturers of embedded systems.
The company told ComputerWire it would begin sending out invoices to organizations using Linux as a step towards enforcing SCO's claim that UnixWare System V code is used in Linux.
Invoices will be dispatched in the "next weeks or months" a company spokesperson confirmed.
Those being billed will include 1,500 end-users who were earlier this year informed by SCO in writing they should seek legal advice as running Linux violated the company's copyright. Customers running Linux who were not on SCO's original mailing list will also be targeted.
SCO last week announced customers would be charged $699 per server running Linux and $199 for a client.
It has also emerged OEMs developing devices running embedded Linux will be among those charged by SCO, making them so far the first set of industry representatives to be targeted.
OEMs will be asked to pay $32 per device running an embedded Linux operating system. SCO's spokesperson said it made more sense to charge OEMs rather than end users as customers running PDAs or cell phones are unaware their devices run Linux.
That means SCO will potentially chase companies such as Sharp and Tivo, whose respective Zaurus and set-top-box devices, both run Linux.
SCO's price is likely to place a hefty burden on embedded device manufactures, spanning a range of markets but especially in the consumer space, whose margins are extremely tight and whose products must be priced competitively.
Inder Singh, chairman and president of the Embedded Linux Consortium, said prices range between $1 to $100 for an embedded operating system, with low-priced consumer devices at the low end of the scale.
"One reason Linux is used is because it's inexpensive. SCO's action would defeat that objective," Singh said.
Commenting on the development, a spokesperson for Tivo would not say what the company's course of action will be until it received a SCO invoice. The company, though, seems relatively unconcerned by SCO's actions. "From observing what's a priority and what's talked about at Tivo, this has not been one of those things," he said.
Singh called SCO's decision to charge OEMs "attempted extortion, based on fear, uncertainty and doubt" as the company has not disclosed which code as at fault. He noted embedded Linux was also unlikely to contain any UnixWare System V code, as this is used on large systems.
SCO Group Inc is preparing to invoice customers running or developing with Linux, while broadening its copyright net to include manufacturers of embedded systems.
The company told ComputerWire it would begin sending out invoices to organizations using Linux as a step towards enforcing SCO's claim that UnixWare System V code is used in Linux.
Invoices will be dispatched in the "next weeks or months" a company spokesperson confirmed.
Those being billed will include 1,500 end-users who were earlier this year informed by SCO in writing they should seek legal advice as running Linux violated the company's copyright. Customers running Linux who were not on SCO's original mailing list will also be targeted.
SCO last week announced customers would be charged $699 per server running Linux and $199 for a client.
It has also emerged OEMs developing devices running embedded Linux will be among those charged by SCO, making them so far the first set of industry representatives to be targeted.
OEMs will be asked to pay $32 per device running an embedded Linux operating system. SCO's spokesperson said it made more sense to charge OEMs rather than end users as customers running PDAs or cell phones are unaware their devices run Linux.
That means SCO will potentially chase companies such as Sharp and Tivo, whose respective Zaurus and set-top-box devices, both run Linux.
SCO's price is likely to place a hefty burden on embedded device manufactures, spanning a range of markets but especially in the consumer space, whose margins are extremely tight and whose products must be priced competitively.
Inder Singh, chairman and president of the Embedded Linux Consortium, said prices range between $1 to $100 for an embedded operating system, with low-priced consumer devices at the low end of the scale.
"One reason Linux is used is because it's inexpensive. SCO's action would defeat that objective," Singh said.
Commenting on the development, a spokesperson for Tivo would not say what the company's course of action will be until it received a SCO invoice. The company, though, seems relatively unconcerned by SCO's actions. "From observing what's a priority and what's talked about at Tivo, this has not been one of those things," he said.
Singh called SCO's decision to charge OEMs "attempted extortion, based on fear, uncertainty and doubt" as the company has not disclosed which code as at fault. He noted embedded Linux was also unlikely to contain any UnixWare System V code, as this is used on large systems.
> Maybe because they didn't want to stoop to SCO's level (yet).
"Call me cynical, but I think that's just what they are doing. The file effectively implies that SCO developers will not be affected, but may be in the future - this is FUD, which is what SCO is using to try to screw money out of various parties. Not that I'm against it, mind you;-)"
" [...] InterTrust is owned jointly by Sony and Phillips. This is NOT David vs Goliath. It states that Sony/Phillips bought the company with the explicit intention of going after companies armed with the patent portfolio. Call it what you will, but this is not Good vs Evil, this is Evil vs Evil."
That, my friend, is a question of perspective.
Sony and Philips are not exactly monolithic enterprises, but consist of two distinct competitors in anything with regard to entertainment products. However, Sony and Philips have always been interested in establishing firm and open standards, see DAT, see CD.
Them winning a case in DRM would mean nothing but a victory for the user, because they will not use the technique as their salespitch, but distribution of contents with open standards. I prefer that very much more than leaving all mechanisms with regard to DRM in the hand of one company that firmly believes in controlling and selling the patented mechanisms of enforcing DRM.
"Nevermind that social spending far exceeds military spending, but blame the military spending for the deficit. Whatever."
What a load of BS. It would help a *lot*, if you spent some time reading through budget reports in order to come to a sound conclusion with regard to the distribution of the taxpayers' money.
By far and large, the military has the largest single part of the budget and that doesn't even include the various intelligence agencies and the DHS.
The USA is spending a *tiny* *fraction* on social affairs and a *huge* chunk on the "defense".
Take a look at research, *any* research. How much money does Congress assign to non-defense research? And how does it compare to money spent on defense research?
Take a look at education: 50 Billion USD for education vs. 370 Billion for defense. Pretty ridiculous, if you ask me.
The US is spending ONE THIRD of its budget for the military, DHS, intelligence and related areas.
Show me the part of the budget where social spending amounts to anything close to those 370+ Billion USD spent by the DOD.
Can't do that? Stop blathering then.
And read this: http://www.gpo.gov/usbudget/fy2003/pdf/bud34.pdf
"With the aboltion of morse code for HF radio tests there could be a increase of ham radio operators of up to 2 million."
Ain't that cool?
Nope, it's not.
Morse code is the one single thing in ham radio that makes it unique. Anything else, be it packet radio, Digital TV, VOIP etc. can be done without ham radio, if you are of the technically inclined mind.
The constant whining of the no-code fraction in the end is just as lame as the windows whiners (who are in the majority) who want everything and anything everywhere at no cost and no effort.
Why bother with a hobby that doesn't interest you enough to put some effort into learning the one mode that sets it apart from the instantaneous communication world you have already available with a telephone and high speed internet access?
The growth you want has already lead to an AOLization of the airwaves (on the VHF-no-code-bands) and it will get worse once you have people who get their ham ticket as easily as a drivers license.
"Ham radio isn't just about morse code"
Yes it is. Where else would you fid morse code?
Lowering requiremets is a nasty trend that in the end leads to lower standards. What's next? Getting into Harvard and Stanford with a 35 questions multiple choice test?
"We live in a global economy of corporations now. It is irrelevant in what country a corporation resides in. "
That's pure horsemanure. Even though Mickeysoft has local branches all over the world, the pure income after taxes in these places goes to the US, essentially covering the costs in the respective countries and converting the surplus to USD and transfer it to god's own country.
To be quite honest, I don't see any point for any foreign governmemt organization to buy American Software, be dependent upon it and finance corporate America with the money.
They should instead switch to Open Source and spend money within the country in order to support their own infrastructure for IT-Support and software development.
How long will it take until the phrases "fighting terrorism", democracy, homeland security and "defending the constitution" will turn up in any side's argument?
" So the moral of the story is...if you have a tourist visa and the Homeland Security goons ask if you're here to go to Disneyland, you SAY YES!"
Crap. The visa waiver programs for European citizens is for "business and pleasure". As a business man, no one wants to go through a "work visa" application, when all he does is making business with American partners. What's the differenc between physical presence and other means of communication you can conduct your business with, be it telephone, mail or videoconferencing.
If as a business man I don't feel welcome but am regarded as a potential threat to national security, then I'd rather bring my business to places where I feel welcomed and my business is appreciated.
Which is exactly what I did and considering the USA's political development over the last 2 years, I am quite happy with that decision.
*YOU* should have submitted the story a week ago, not waiting for others to catch up.
Yes, it takes an effort to submit the story, to write ligible sentences and hook the corresponding links in there, but that's what *you* expect from others, don't you.
Stop whining about slashdot "being behind". Submit the stories for our entertainment, worries, paranoia, outright laughter and senseless mind-boggling and do it right away when you spot the news.
We now get back to our regular programming after these kind words from our sponsors.
"The $14,000 you spend on ProTools hardware is for the very powerful (and very much worth the money) DSP cards that make ProTools -the- premier audio recording application among serious studios. I know that some people are going to respond with some justification as to why the MOTU 828 or the HammerFall is better then DigiDesign, and that's fine... we all have our preferences... but the DSP's offerred in addition to the audio interface in the ProTools TDM systems make them so much more powerful then CPU bound rigs for large projects."
Correct me if I am wrong: The DSP-cards in a TDM based system have the sole function of delivering cascaded raw CPU-power for audio data processing. They have no hardware specific routines coded, which makes them replaceable.
Compared to today's PC prices, these DSP-boards are ridiculiously overpriced for the deliverage of CPU power.
With a Linux cluster you can easily replace the Pro Tools hardware in terms of processing power.
What we are left with is the quality of the software. While Open Source projects can now equal the sheer performance, they only have one application for audio editing.
And Pro Tools has a shitload of proprietary plug-ins that actually make Pro Tools Systems usable for deployment in a production environment.
Unless the Open Source community manages to convince plug-in producers to let them use the closed source interface to the plug ins, all efforts to have Linux replace the actual editing and production environment of Pro Tools will fail.
"Guess what? I've traveled abroad a fair deal. And, believe it or not, I've had more than a handful of people (in hotels, at museums, on the street, etc.) say that the Canadians are FAR worse than the Americans -- that their patriotic Maple Leaf wearing is offensive and that their attitudes are annoying."
These seem to have been Americans pretending to be Canadians then;-)
Whether you are talking frigging Gazillions or about one single Dollar, it doesn't matter, because you have already conceded that the student has to pay *something* and is therefore considered guilty as charged.
That precedent, no matter how high the compensation for the RIAA will eventually be, will change the way people are going to use net.
Either you live by the rules set up by the RIAA, MPAA, BSA or you are threatened to lose your complete financial independence, because the rules allow for a "swift punishment".
Welcome to a world in which the consumer is criminalized to an extent that his risks of non-compliance are too high.
"What they are refering to is laptop style suspend-to-memory features. However, with a simple 1 character source patch to the nvidia driver everything works fine."
You are talking about the old 4191 and earlier driver versions.
The new release cannot use the hack you are referring to.
"How did Germany, the main driving force behind WW1 and WW2 suddenly go anti-war? "
Suddenly? Hardly.
Germany has lived in peace for over 50 years now, after two nightmares that left most cities in rubbles, families torn apart, killed 6 million innocent people etc.
Has it occured to you that Germany is fed up with war with all its facettes?
The US has been in the most desirable position of not having a war on their home soil, with two notable exceptions in 1941 and 2001.
I only fear that this overly zealous march into the Middle East will convince terrorists to hit America where it hurts most: at home.
I pray for the American people to be spared what Germany and Japan had to suffer through during the war. Given that backgound, it is hardly difficult to understand that Germany does not want to be part of any active war any more.
I had this 40GB Maxtor drive that was way too noisy with a high frequency (around 12 khz) tone that drove me crazy. Short of throwing it away, I decided to muffle the sound by putting sound absorbing rubber foam around it. Temperature inside rose by 20 C and I expected it to die within 2 days, so I bought an IDM DTLA for the system.
While the totally overheated Maxtor (only used for/home/movies) still works fine, the IBM has already had to have been replaced after 2 months and as of a couple of weeks ago Bad Noises (tm) have started coming out of the iBM drive again.
Oh, and that's in the computer my friend unknowingly had one of the power suppy cables stuck in the processor fan. Compiling a kernel stopped with a bad Ooops after 3 Minutes. We did this 4 or 5 times, thinking it was the video card, only then noticing the lack of processor fan noise. The Athlon 1 Ghz today still works like a charm.
I also have this cheap notebook (Gericom) that sometimes refuses to start at all. Frustrated with it, I gave it a friendly kick, dropping the front from 15 cm on a flat table. I found out that in 60 to 70% of the cases it then decided to start up. Thank god the new Dell is of another class qualitywise.
"I think it's sad that young people are encouraged to kill other people, and the army even sends out computer games to recruit people! Why not spend more money on *preventing* war, in stead of *fighting* war?"
Because that would be unpatriotic, Anti-American, Anti-NRA, which makes you a German (or French) Islamic fundamental terrorist supporter from the old Europe.
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" Firstly, and expensively, there's the issue of actor's repeat fees - since Internet fees weren't negotiated until recently, streaming a lot of old material would involve a staggringly huge job tracking down every single actor named in credits, and coming to a satisfactory deal with each and every one of them before the item they were on could be made available. "
There must be laws ruling these questions cleanly. In Germany that very question came up when CDs were a new medium of distribution. Most contracts before this time held a generic clause that included "other, yet unknown methods of distribution". The court ruling of the highest German court was very clear in stating that the original owner of the rights also had future rights for redistribution.
I'd be surprised if British law were any different.
Apart from that, I believe that this whole BBC-archive thing touches so many points of international law that I am sure the EU will take an interest and make sure that such an activity will be protected by EU law.
" I'm sure other amateurs can come up with other examples. Personally, I'd like to know how many amateur operators run completely SANS windows. I'd lay even money that Bruce Perens doesn't own a windows box, so there's one..."
Here's another one.
Main main interest in ham radio is shortwave DXing, long CW (morse code) plain text chats, contesting and pile-ups.
I am using a regular telnet connection to a DX-cluster, use xplanet as my desktop background to see day/night distribution together with propagation paths and an updated country list (http://www.qsl.net/df5jt/snapshot2.jpg is a screenshot of my desktop). Logging is done with CX, an open source clone of the most widely used contest logger by K1EA.
No need to go back to Windows for me.
" Actually, all these systems ain't that bad. They could reduce crime significantly and catch people that are likely to do illegal actions in the future. As long as the benefits are greater to the society, and I'm sure the benefits are greater since they are proposing this, I don't see a problem."
That's what I call *real* trust in no-fuck-up, bugfree software, dealing with gigantic volumes of data, programmed by brainless code monkeys, who certainly would enjoy other ways of living a lot more.
All Mickeysoft based "solutions".
You would *trust* a system like this?
One data fuck-up and your life is *poooof*.
No ploblem, Sir.
The master himself answers your question here:
Well worth reading it if you want to get some background on porting in general and games in particular.
"The tri-band GSM/GPRS J2ME device features
[...] an Intel 386 32-bit chip, [...]"
That gives "backporting" a whole new meaning.
You think that's funny, eh?
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Watch this:
Invoice is in the Mail, Says SCO
By Gavin Clarke
SCO Group Inc is preparing to invoice customers running or developing with Linux, while broadening its copyright net to include manufacturers of embedded systems.
The company told ComputerWire it would begin sending out invoices to organizations using Linux as a step towards enforcing SCO's claim that UnixWare System V code is used in Linux.
Invoices will be dispatched in the "next weeks or months" a company spokesperson confirmed.
Those being billed will include 1,500 end-users who were earlier this year informed by SCO in writing they should seek legal advice as running Linux violated the company's copyright. Customers running Linux who were not on SCO's original mailing list will also be targeted.
SCO last week announced customers would be charged $699 per server running Linux and $199 for a client.
It has also emerged OEMs developing devices running embedded Linux will be among those charged by SCO, making them so far the first set of industry representatives to be targeted.
OEMs will be asked to pay $32 per device running an embedded Linux operating system. SCO's spokesperson said it made more sense to charge OEMs rather than end users as customers running PDAs or cell phones are unaware their devices run Linux.
That means SCO will potentially chase companies such as Sharp and Tivo, whose respective Zaurus and set-top-box devices, both run Linux.
SCO's price is likely to place a hefty burden on embedded device manufactures, spanning a range of markets but especially in the consumer space, whose margins are extremely tight and whose products must be priced competitively.
Inder Singh, chairman and president of the Embedded Linux Consortium, said prices range between $1 to $100 for an embedded operating system, with low-priced consumer devices at the low end of the scale.
"One reason Linux is used is because it's inexpensive. SCO's action would defeat that objective," Singh said.
Commenting on the development, a spokesperson for Tivo would not say what the company's course of action will be until it received a SCO invoice. The company, though, seems relatively unconcerned by SCO's actions. "From observing what's a priority and what's talked about at Tivo, this has not been one of those things," he said.
Singh called SCO's decision to charge OEMs "attempted extortion, based on fear, uncertainty and doubt" as the company has not disclosed which code as at fault. He noted embedded Linux was also unlikely to contain any UnixWare System V code, as this is used on large systems.
http://www.cbronline.com/latestnews/6b61a1cf114
Funny, eh?
Invoice is in the Mail, Says SCO
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By Gavin Clarke
SCO Group Inc is preparing to invoice customers running or developing with Linux, while broadening its copyright net to include manufacturers of embedded systems.
The company told ComputerWire it would begin sending out invoices to organizations using Linux as a step towards enforcing SCO's claim that UnixWare System V code is used in Linux.
Invoices will be dispatched in the "next weeks or months" a company spokesperson confirmed.
Those being billed will include 1,500 end-users who were earlier this year informed by SCO in writing they should seek legal advice as running Linux violated the company's copyright. Customers running Linux who were not on SCO's original mailing list will also be targeted.
SCO last week announced customers would be charged $699 per server running Linux and $199 for a client.
It has also emerged OEMs developing devices running embedded Linux will be among those charged by SCO, making them so far the first set of industry representatives to be targeted.
OEMs will be asked to pay $32 per device running an embedded Linux operating system. SCO's spokesperson said it made more sense to charge OEMs rather than end users as customers running PDAs or cell phones are unaware their devices run Linux.
That means SCO will potentially chase companies such as Sharp and Tivo, whose respective Zaurus and set-top-box devices, both run Linux.
SCO's price is likely to place a hefty burden on embedded device manufactures, spanning a range of markets but especially in the consumer space, whose margins are extremely tight and whose products must be priced competitively.
Inder Singh, chairman and president of the Embedded Linux Consortium, said prices range between $1 to $100 for an embedded operating system, with low-priced consumer devices at the low end of the scale.
"One reason Linux is used is because it's inexpensive. SCO's action would defeat that objective," Singh said.
Commenting on the development, a spokesperson for Tivo would not say what the company's course of action will be until it received a SCO invoice. The company, though, seems relatively unconcerned by SCO's actions. "From observing what's a priority and what's talked about at Tivo, this has not been one of those things," he said.
Singh called SCO's decision to charge OEMs "attempted extortion, based on fear, uncertainty and doubt" as the company has not disclosed which code as at fault. He noted embedded Linux was also unlikely to contain any UnixWare System V code, as this is used on large systems.
[http://www.cbronline.com/latestnews/6b61a1cf11
> Maybe because they didn't want to stoop to SCO's level (yet).
;-)"
"Call me cynical, but I think that's just what they are doing. The file effectively implies that SCO developers will not be affected, but may be in the future - this is FUD, which is what SCO is using to try to screw money out of various parties. Not that I'm against it, mind you
They are simply covering their ass.
" [...] InterTrust is owned jointly by Sony and Phillips. This is NOT David vs Goliath. It states that Sony/Phillips bought the company with the explicit intention of going after companies armed with the patent portfolio. Call it what you will, but this is not Good vs Evil, this is Evil vs Evil."
That, my friend, is a question of perspective.
Sony and Philips are not exactly monolithic enterprises, but consist of two distinct competitors in anything with regard to entertainment products. However, Sony and Philips have always been interested in establishing firm and open standards, see DAT, see CD.
Them winning a case in DRM would mean nothing but a victory for the user, because they will not use the technique as their salespitch, but distribution of contents with open standards. I prefer that very much more than leaving all mechanisms with regard to DRM in the hand of one company that firmly believes in controlling and selling the patented mechanisms of enforcing DRM.
Evil vs. Evil?
Hardly.
"Nevermind that social spending far exceeds military spending, but blame the military spending for the deficit. Whatever."
What a load of BS. It would help a *lot*, if you spent some time reading through budget reports in order to come to a sound conclusion with regard to the distribution of the taxpayers' money.
By far and large, the military has the largest single part of the budget and that doesn't even include the various intelligence agencies and the DHS.
The USA is spending a *tiny* *fraction* on social affairs and a *huge* chunk on the "defense".
Take a look at research, *any* research. How much money does Congress assign to non-defense research? And how does it compare to money spent on defense research?
Take a look at education: 50 Billion USD for education vs. 370 Billion for defense. Pretty ridiculous, if you ask me.
The US is spending ONE THIRD of its budget for the military, DHS, intelligence and related areas.
Show me the part of the budget where social spending amounts to anything close to those 370+ Billion USD spent by the DOD.
Can't do that? Stop blathering then.
And read this: http://www.gpo.gov/usbudget/fy2003/pdf/bud34.pdf
"Ah, ham radio. It hasn't been the same since the old guys retired their Vibroplexes."
True. The old guys use Schurr paddles today.
http://www.mtechnologies.com/schurr/
"With the aboltion of morse code for HF radio tests there could be a increase of ham radio operators of up to 2 million."
Ain't that cool?
Nope, it's not.
Morse code is the one single thing in ham radio that makes it unique. Anything else, be it packet radio, Digital TV, VOIP etc. can be done without ham radio, if you are of the technically inclined mind.
The constant whining of the no-code fraction in the end is just as lame as the windows whiners (who are in the majority) who want everything and anything everywhere at no cost and no effort.
Why bother with a hobby that doesn't interest you enough to put some effort into learning the one mode that sets it apart from the instantaneous communication world you have already available with a telephone and high speed internet access?
The growth you want has already lead to an AOLization of the airwaves (on the VHF-no-code-bands) and it will get worse once you have people who get their ham ticket as easily as a drivers license.
"Ham radio isn't just about morse code"
Yes it is. Where else would you fid morse code?
Lowering requiremets is a nasty trend that in the end leads to lower standards. What's next? Getting into Harvard and Stanford with a 35 questions multiple choice test?
"We live in a global economy of corporations now. It is irrelevant in what country a corporation resides in. "
That's pure horsemanure. Even though Mickeysoft has local branches all over the world, the pure income after taxes in these places goes to the US, essentially covering the costs in the respective countries and converting the surplus to USD and transfer it to god's own country.
To be quite honest, I don't see any point for any foreign governmemt organization to buy American Software, be dependent upon it and finance corporate America with the money.
They should instead switch to Open Source and spend money within the country in order to support their own infrastructure for IT-Support and software development.
"MS has the resources to hire the best, brightest, and most innovative minds in the industry"
Why don't they do it then?
How long will it take until the phrases "fighting terrorism", democracy, homeland security and "defending the constitution" will turn up in any side's argument?
" So the moral of the story is...if you have a tourist visa and the Homeland Security goons ask if you're here to go to Disneyland, you SAY YES!"
Crap. The visa waiver programs for European citizens is for "business and pleasure". As a business man, no one wants to go through a "work visa" application, when all he does is making business with American partners. What's the differenc between physical presence and other means of communication you can conduct your business with, be it telephone, mail or videoconferencing.
If as a business man I don't feel welcome but am regarded as a potential threat to national security, then I'd rather bring my business to places where I feel welcomed and my business is appreciated.
Which is exactly what I did and considering the USA's political development over the last 2 years, I am quite happy with that decision.
> Since it takes /. about a week to catch up [...]
Just in case you haven't noticed:
Slashdot is *YOU*.
*YOU* should have submitted the story a week ago, not waiting for others to catch up.
Yes, it takes an effort to submit the story, to write ligible sentences and hook the corresponding links in there, but that's what *you* expect from others, don't you.
Stop whining about slashdot "being behind". Submit the stories for our entertainment, worries, paranoia, outright laughter and senseless mind-boggling and do it right away when you spot the news.
We now get back to our regular programming after these kind words from our sponsors.
"The $14,000 you spend on ProTools hardware is for the very powerful (and very much worth the money) DSP cards that make ProTools -the- premier audio recording application among serious studios. I know that some people are going to respond with some justification as to why the MOTU 828 or the HammerFall is better then DigiDesign, and that's fine... we all have our preferences... but the DSP's offerred in addition to the audio interface in the ProTools TDM systems make them so much more powerful then CPU bound rigs for large projects."
Correct me if I am wrong: The DSP-cards in a TDM based system have the sole function of delivering cascaded raw CPU-power for audio data processing. They have no hardware specific routines coded, which makes them replaceable.
Compared to today's PC prices, these DSP-boards are ridiculiously overpriced for the deliverage of CPU power.
With a Linux cluster you can easily replace the Pro Tools hardware in terms of processing power.
What we are left with is the quality of the software. While Open Source projects can now equal the sheer performance, they only have one application for audio editing.
And Pro Tools has a shitload of proprietary plug-ins that actually make Pro Tools Systems usable for deployment in a production environment.
Unless the Open Source community manages to convince plug-in producers to let them use the closed source interface to the plug ins, all efforts to have Linux replace the actual editing and production environment of Pro Tools will fail.
"Guess what? I've traveled abroad a fair deal. And, believe it or not, I've had more than a handful of people (in hotels, at museums, on the street, etc.) say that the Canadians are FAR worse than the Americans -- that their patriotic Maple Leaf wearing is offensive and that their attitudes are annoying."
;-)
These seem to have been Americans pretending to be Canadians then
You are all missing the point here:
Whether you are talking frigging Gazillions or about one single Dollar, it doesn't matter, because you have already conceded that the student has to pay *something* and is therefore considered guilty as charged.
That precedent, no matter how high the compensation for the RIAA will eventually be, will change the way people are going to use net.
Either you live by the rules set up by the RIAA, MPAA, BSA or you are threatened to lose your complete financial independence, because the rules allow for a "swift punishment".
Welcome to a world in which the consumer is criminalized to an extent that his risks of non-compliance are too high.
"What they are refering to is laptop style suspend-to-memory features. However, with a simple 1 character source patch to the nvidia driver everything works fine."
You are talking about the old 4191 and earlier driver versions.
The new release cannot use the hack you are referring to.
"How did Germany, the main driving force behind WW1 and WW2 suddenly go anti-war? "
Suddenly? Hardly.
Germany has lived in peace for over 50 years now, after two nightmares that left most cities in rubbles, families torn apart, killed 6 million innocent people etc.
Has it occured to you that Germany is fed up with war with all its facettes?
The US has been in the most desirable position of not having a war on their home soil, with two notable exceptions in 1941 and 2001.
I only fear that this overly zealous march into the Middle East will convince terrorists to hit America where it hurts most: at home.
I pray for the American people to be spared what Germany and Japan had to suffer through during the war. Given that backgound, it is hardly difficult to understand that Germany does not want to be part of any active war any more.
but won't leave the kitchen either.
/home/movies) still works fine, the IBM has already had to have been replaced after 2 months and as of a couple of weeks ago Bad Noises (tm) have started coming out of the iBM drive again.
I had this 40GB Maxtor drive that was way too noisy with a high frequency (around 12 khz) tone that drove me crazy. Short of throwing it away, I decided to muffle the sound by putting sound absorbing rubber foam around it. Temperature inside rose by 20 C and I expected it to die within 2 days, so I bought an IDM DTLA for the system.
While the totally overheated Maxtor (only used for
Oh, and that's in the computer my friend unknowingly had one of the power suppy cables stuck in the processor fan. Compiling a kernel stopped with a bad Ooops after 3 Minutes. We did this 4 or 5 times, thinking it was the video card, only then noticing the lack of processor fan noise. The Athlon 1 Ghz today still works like a charm.
I also have this cheap notebook (Gericom) that sometimes refuses to start at all. Frustrated with it, I gave it a friendly kick, dropping the front from 15 cm on a flat table. I found out that in 60 to 70% of the cases it then decided to start up. Thank god the new Dell is of another class qualitywise.
"I think it's sad that young people are encouraged to kill other people, and the army even sends out computer games to recruit people!
Why not spend more money on *preventing* war, in stead of *fighting* war?"
Because that would be unpatriotic, Anti-American, Anti-NRA, which makes you a German (or French) Islamic fundamental terrorist supporter from the old Europe.
"I can't think of any mediaplayer that leaves more to be desired"
fsck.
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