It is your workstation which ought to have sound hardware. And sole need of sound daemon is to provide programs which run on other machines ability to produce sound at the same place where they show their UI.
If Sony or game authors would starve without getting money for each copy of game out there, let them starve to death.
I should consider NEVER NEVER NEVER buy anything from company that prevent me to do what I pleased with EQUIPMENT (not to mention software and media) I bought.
This is why I buy IBM notebooks, not Sony ones, although Vaio look cooler than Thinkpad.
Sony doesn't publish specs and punish people who reverse engineer their devices (doesn't matter be it PS2 or Vaio).
Considering software, films or music I've found out that the worse the product, the more they care about copyright violation.
Play Nethack and FlightGear and never use those Playstations
Is this for unix geeks? Hamper networking by removing esound - only right architecture decision GNOME ever had?
Typically UNIX geeks work in highly distributed environment and need networking sound server more than anyone else.
If you were about replacing esound with NAS or rplay, there would be something to talk of.
Really we need some project like this - for real unix geeks. There are lot of more or less useful things which are written for GNOME or KDE only. I need to keep GTK and GNOME libs with all associated stuff like gconf only for few useful apps like The Gimp and planner.
I can outline some goals of the project which would make GNOME apps more integratable with traditional Unix desktop
Write X Resources backend to gconf, so GNOME apps would automatically pick up your Xaw and Motif settings
Make drop-in replacements for libesound which would allow to use any of audioservers out there.
Fix ICCCM support to
Make other IPC systems used in GNOME work over ICCCM to allow apps, started from different hosts interoperate via X server.
I've invented following scheme for our appartment block network (about 100 users connected via ethernet to my server, which works as gateway/firewall)
By default, outgoing connections to port 25 are blocked, except to local mail server
There is a web page where user can enter name of SMTP server he wants to be allowed to connect to. This page requires user password.
Local mail server accepts only certain amount of messages per day Say, 100 or 200, which is more than enough for user who have to type them down, but very few for spambot
There is also web page where user can press a button "allow me another 200 messages today". It is also password protected.
All rules with links to control pages are published on local web site (unaccessable from outside) and given to user in printed form.
Use good old UUCP. It requires authentication both sending and recieving mail, allows to download mail for entire family though single connection, and knows how to resume download after connection fails.
Skinning has done more to ruin usability of applications than anything else the last 10 years. Skinning has absolutely nothing to do with usability, it's purely visual customization.
Agree completely. Skinning is about making thing look attractively, not to make it more usable. It is not for people who want to use it is for people who want to show, how cool it is
Anyone from a five-year-old to a WWI veteran can sit behing a Windows PC and be browsing the Internet and checking mails in no-time. (mind you, i'm not arguing the risks of this)
Oh, really?
I have some experience teaching people who are 60-years old. They typically learn vi more quickly than wordpad, because that used to take down paper notes, and it is much easer to write down sequences of vi commands, than to express windows point'n'click things in verbal form.
Also, if you want just to cbeck mail and browse web, there is one-diskette QNX demo with Photon GUI, which could be deployed MU-UCH more quickly.
No, I assume what he means is that if MS, with all its resources, has a hard time in the only area where they seem to make a serious effort, then it must be a difficult task.
Do you think they really made serious effort to achieve usability?
They made serious effort to make system look attractively for newbies, to create impression that no learning needed, and completely succeeded.
Kent Beck wrote once: You are not here to drain the swamp, you are here to kill the alligator.
Commercial software vendors adhere to this maxima. They do not attempt to drain the swamp of unusable UI, they just fight for extracting few bucks from user pocket.
Soyuz is launched using R7 rocket. R7 exists in several configurations, and some of them are able to launch Mars and Venera probes. Just add some extra fuel tank.
Severe legal penalties already do not stop these people. Why would simply knowing someone's whereabouts stop them? At least we'll know where to go to find the body after the event.
Why would simply not knowing someone's whereabouts stop them?
If killer hunts some particular person, say president or somebody like Martin Luter King, such person is public enough to be easily tracked without RFID.
If killer or rapist hunts just a victim, he doesn't need to know who victim is.
If NASA is not sure that shuttle can fly safely, they should by one Soyuz from us, Russians.
Of course, Soyuz is technology of early 70'th, but it would be newly manufactured, when shuttles are PRODUCTION of eithties. It is also order of magnitude cheaper. We fly space tourishs to ISS for $20millions or so.
> There is no cohesive concept of "IP", as RMS is always keen to point out. So let's look at the thre main areas of IP:
RMS points out that all at least marginally useful copy protection schemes - Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents shouldn't considered an "Intellectual Property".
While someone operates with these terms you can progably do fair bargian with him.
If one uses term "Intellectial property", it means that he wants to rob you of things you've paid for.
BTW, all abovementioned protection schemes overgrow all good which they have.
Everything which can be copied technically should be allowed to be copied legally.
Whole concept of IP, and more specifically, DMCA, is that thing you paid for doesn't belong to you. It still belongs to company who license, not sell it to you. So, if you are breaking into it, you are criminal, even if you very life depends on proper functioning of the device.
Some day later we'll see a medic punished for fixing somebody's heart stimulator without manufacter permission, and thus saving man's life.
Since it is evident than ten years later Russia, India and China would have life conditions good enough and average salaries big enough to prohibit use of their people as cheap offshore programmers, HP takes care of creating new potential pools of inexpensive intellectual labour force.
Does US have enough aircraft carriers to enforce this bill on China or Russia?
And since US effectively bans education with such bills, few years later every Finnish schoolboy would be able to defeat American Naval scquadron using just mobile phone. Of course, mobile phone, manufactured in Finland, and having no DRM functions would be required.
Btw. we Russians should cooperate with Finns and Chinese and stop write English language interfaces for our P2P software. Let Americans read hieroglyphs or Cyrillic.
70lb dog can be quite lethal if his master is going to be hurt. Or can just show his teeth and growl, if properly trained. Typically it is enough to supress riot. But I'd rather use 140lb dog for this. Dogs are quite capable of throwing themselves.
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It is your workstation which ought to have sound hardware. And sole need of sound daemon is to provide programs which run on other machines ability to produce sound at the same place where they show their UI.
I should consider NEVER NEVER NEVER buy anything from company that prevent me to do what I pleased with EQUIPMENT (not to mention software and media) I bought.
This is why I buy IBM notebooks, not Sony ones, although Vaio look cooler than Thinkpad.
Sony doesn't publish specs and punish people who reverse engineer their devices (doesn't matter be it PS2 or Vaio).
Considering software, films or music I've found out that the worse the product, the more they care about copyright violation.
Play Nethack and FlightGear and never use those Playstations
No copyright without copyresponsibility
Typically UNIX geeks work in highly distributed environment and need networking sound server more than anyone else.
If you were about replacing esound with NAS or rplay, there would be something to talk of.
Really we need some project like this - for real unix geeks. There are lot of more or less useful things which are written for GNOME or KDE only. I need to keep GTK and GNOME libs with all associated stuff like gconf only for few useful apps like The Gimp and planner.
I can outline some goals of the project which would make GNOME apps more integratable with traditional Unix desktop
1. How much is "too much" ? How is this decided?
I've invented following scheme for our appartment block network (about 100 users connected via ethernet to my server, which works as gateway/firewall)
but very few for spambot
Use good old UUCP. It requires authentication both sending and recieving mail, allows to download mail for entire family though single connection, and
knows how to resume download after connection fails.
Skinning has done more to ruin usability of applications than anything else the last 10 years. Skinning has absolutely nothing to do with usability, it's purely visual customization.
Agree completely. Skinning is about making thing look attractively, not to make it more usable. It is not for people who want to use it is for people who want to show, how cool it is
Anyone from a five-year-old to a WWI veteran can sit behing a Windows PC and be browsing the Internet and checking mails in no-time. (mind you, i'm not arguing the risks of this)
Oh, really?
I have some experience teaching people who are 60-years old. They typically learn vi more quickly than wordpad, because that used to take down paper notes, and it is much easer to write down sequences of vi commands, than to express windows point'n'click things in verbal form.
Also, if you want just to cbeck mail and browse web, there is one-diskette QNX demo with Photon GUI, which could be deployed MU-UCH more quickly.
No, I assume what he means is that if MS, with all its resources, has a hard time in the only area where they seem to make a serious effort, then it must be a difficult task.
Do you think they really made serious effort to achieve usability?
They made serious effort to make system look attractively for newbies, to create impression that no learning needed, and completely succeeded.
Kent Beck wrote once: You are not here to drain the swamp, you are here to kill the alligator.
Commercial software vendors adhere to this maxima.
They do not attempt to drain the swamp of unusable UI, they just fight for extracting few bucks from user pocket.
When microsoft "expands" we all bitch and whine, but then google goes out and devours companies and services, and its suddenly "cute".
It is because:
There was other point - you don't trust your data to Google. But since introduction of GMail this is no more true
Whole point is that software is comprehandable by humans. Anyone can read, fix and imporve.
Porting to new architecture is integral part of fixing and improving.
And it is no side effect, it is quite significal part of RMS's "free as freedom" - independence from any vendor (hardware vendor in this case).
Soyuz is launched using R7 rocket. R7 exists in several configurations, and some of them are able to launch Mars and Venera probes. Just add some extra fuel tank.
Whole point of Open Source software is that you can compile it for any architecture you've ever imagine.
As long as you have some compilers ported to your new hardware and kernel with compatible system calls, you are perfectly safe.
Some years ago there were few significant competitor s to top Microsoft Products:
Word Perfect (to Word)
Quattro Pro (to Excel)
DR-DOS (to MS-DOS)
Once Novell acquired all these product and effectively drive them out of market.
Severe legal penalties already do not stop these people. Why would simply knowing someone's whereabouts stop them? At least we'll know where to go to find the body after the event.
Why would simply not knowing someone's whereabouts stop them?
If killer hunts some particular person, say president or somebody like Martin Luter King, such person is public enough to be easily tracked without RFID.
If killer or rapist hunts just a victim, he doesn't need to know who victim is.
If NASA is not sure that shuttle can fly safely,
they should by one Soyuz from us, Russians.
Of course, Soyuz is technology of early 70'th,
but it would be newly manufactured, when shuttles are PRODUCTION of eithties. It is also order of magnitude cheaper. We fly space tourishs to ISS for $20millions or so.
GPL does remove rights.
It removes from distributor of modified code right to remove any rights provided by GPL from his customer.
> There is no cohesive concept of "IP", as RMS is always keen to point out. So let's look at the thre main areas of IP:
RMS points out that all at least marginally useful copy protection schemes - Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents shouldn't considered an "Intellectual Property".
While someone operates with these terms you can progably do fair bargian with him.
If one uses term "Intellectial property", it means that he wants to rob you of things you've paid for.
BTW, all abovementioned protection schemes overgrow all good which they have.
Everything which can be copied technically should be allowed to be copied legally.
is that thing you paid for doesn't belong to you. It still belongs to company who license, not sell it to you. So, if you are breaking into it, you are criminal, even if you very life depends on proper functioning of the device.
Some day later we'll see a medic punished for fixing somebody's heart stimulator without manufacter permission, and thus saving man's life.
What will these companies do when our memories last longer than the DMCA?
Go bankrupt. And that is where they belong.
So, Wi-Fi would cause more people to use public transport and thus help to copy with traffic jams?
Since it is evident than ten years later Russia, India and China would have life conditions good enough and average salaries big enough to prohibit use of their people as cheap offshore programmers,
HP takes care of creating new potential pools of inexpensive intellectual labour force.
Moscow Industrial University since 2001.
It is called
Zmey Gorynych after three-headed dragon from Russian folklore.
both links are in Russian, of course
Does US have enough aircraft carriers to enforce this bill on China or Russia?
And since US effectively bans education with such bills, few years later every Finnish schoolboy would be able to defeat American Naval scquadron using just mobile phone. Of course, mobile phone, manufactured in Finland, and having no DRM functions would be required.
Btw. we Russians should cooperate with Finns and Chinese and stop write English language interfaces for our P2P software. Let Americans read hieroglyphs or Cyrillic.
70lb dog can be quite lethal if his master is going to be hurt. Or can just show his teeth and growl, if properly trained. Typically it is enough to supress riot. But I'd rather use 140lb dog for this. Dogs are quite capable of throwing themselves.