The most informative thing about this is the RIAA finally has their web site up again.
For an organization involved with technology, the RIAA is clueless about technolgy. They have had a comedy of errors keeping a website up. They are still using IIS, even though the RIAA web site is a main target for defacement.
Re: Good news, the rip off is almost over!
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Time to Face the Music
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We pay $16 for a CD that costs almost nothing to make. Most artists do not get a cent from CD sales.
The artist have to pay "expenses" first. These include a breakage fee to cover the cost of broken shellack 78 RPM disks!
Music would be better if the big 5 recording companies all went tits up.
We would have a better selection of Music. More artists would actually get paid.
The technology now exists for decentralised music distribution.
The Itanic is not intended as to be a desktop processor. Who needs a >>4 Gig address space for the desktp. (I am using.5 Gig of RAM right now!)
There are some high end workstation apps that really need that address space. But if Apple was to use the Itanic, it would speed it's acceptance. Would Intel give Apple a price break to get the volume up?
It was far from Definitive. For the Unix side there should have been some light weight and middle wieght Window Managers such as: Blackbox or Fluxbox Window Maker Enlightenment
Blackbox will do everything you need -- fast. I am using KDE though because I like the in my face eye candy.
If a desktop is inseperable from the rest of the OS, there sould have been a catagory for baggage. XP destop bring the following baggage that can not be left behind: Spyware Product activation trojan EULA's for service packs
They think they owe their parties and their contributors, but they really owe us the public at large.
But the pols who do the wrong thing get the money. They can put on lots of ads on TV. The "american sheepdom" responds well to advertising and re-elects the wrong people.
I do not think they have this product in production yet. The information is vague and general. I can not get to any information on this from the entree point of the vender's web site. I think the marketing department is trying to create excitement for a product that may be in development.
That said, I think it will be a good product when it is finally out. I hope it has good file sharing ( NFS? SMB? autoconfig?)
>>>They[congress] have an obligation to pass laws for their paying constituents, but the highest law of the land (Constitution) says they can't do it.
WTF
Congress has no obligation to be corrupt and do what "paying constituents" want them to do. Their real obligation is to do what is right for the people of the USA. We have this problem with IP law out of control because congress is being corrupt instead of doing what is right.
>> Support added to the i810 driver for Intel 845G, 852GM, 855GM and 865G integrated graphics chipsets
I installed Mandrake 9.1 RC1. This has the last release candidate for 4.3 before it was released. This works well with the 845G. That part installed without a hitch. ( Mandrake installer wants badly to FUBAR other things -- don't touch the configurator in the installer that runs after it loads most of the packages!)
I now have anti-aliased fonts in Mozilla. They look great! Byte code interpreter is turned on too! (I did not have to rebuild freetype to get this). I imported some fonts from the Windows 2k partition. The NTFS partition was auto-mounted. I just used some KDE GUI tool to install some MickeySoft fonts.
>>eliminate corporate right of ownership of IP, and return it to the hands of the inventors and authors.
This is a great idea. If Record companies could not own copyrights, they would have to actually pay the musicians. Tech companies would have to lease use of patents. The tech industry would be more dynamic.
This could never happen though. Congress would be bribed into keeping the status quo.
I had trouble with drivers for a USB card reader for our camera on a Windows machine. I took the stuff down to my dual boot machine and installed the drivers for windows.
Later without much though I booted Linux and discovered it had automounted the USB card reader with all the pictures on the flash card. This was a shock. I did not do anything to get this to work under Linux! Desktop Linux was easier to use than desktop Windows!
I can see it already. IT sends me an e-mail. It tells me to print these instructions and follow them. But they DRMed the damn thing so I can not print it.
I already see a work around. Take a screen shot and print the image!
The Chinese are better capitalists than us in the US. They do not respect "intellectual property".
When you think about it Intellectual Propery is government interference in the free market. The government says only this one outfit can make this product.
In the case of music we see market distortions caused by this government interference. CDs in the US cost $16 even though they cost pennies to make. (And most artists are not paid by the record companies!)
There is another sign of this distortion of the free market. The Record companies stubernly cling to old technology and an old business model. In a free market they would have to abandon the old and move on.
I personally favor Intellectual Property but in moderation.
As a business Lindows is doing a lot of things right.
They are getting their Linux pre-installed on PC's. This is a big deal. Most people would not or could not install an OS. Pre-installed Linux is the only way to penetrate the desktop market.
Lindows also getting sued by MSFT to get a lot of publicity.
Is Robertson made of the same stuff as Bill Gates?
I understand Lindows is based on Debian with the apt-get utility. One can just add the packages they want with this utility and forget about the Lindows part.
Otherwise the Lindows software subscription makes Lindows the most expensive distro out there.
If you go the apt-get route, make a contribution to Debian.org and come out ahead.
I use a seperate partition for/boot. I put GRUB (previously LILO) on the boot record of this/boot partition. I leave the MickeySoft stuff on the MBR. I just set the boot flag for the/boot partition. I can even do this part with the windows 2000 GUI tools!
This avoids a host of problems. I did this with my fathers computer. He had to reload Windows 2000. He only had to do a couple mouse clicks to get the GRUB boot menu back.
I could work around the 1 GByte per day restriction. When I download a Linux distro, I can just download one CD iso a day. If I am not downloading a Linux Distro, 1 GByte/day is a huge amount of bandwidth.
But I would have a hard time with no VPN. I use VPN a lot to work from home.
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The most informative thing about this is the RIAA finally has their web site up again.
For an organization involved with technology, the RIAA is clueless about technolgy. They have had a comedy of errors keeping a website up. They are still using IIS, even though the RIAA web site is a main target for defacement.
We pay $16 for a CD that costs almost nothing to make. Most artists do not get a cent from CD sales.
The artist have to pay "expenses" first. These include a breakage fee to cover the cost of broken shellack 78 RPM disks!
Music would be better if the big 5 recording companies all went tits up.
We would have a better selection of Music. More artists would actually get paid.
The technology now exists for decentralised music distribution.
The CDs have to play on most CD players. The copy protection uses quirks of commpn computers.
So just rip the music on a non-standard computer such as a Linux box. If you get into trouble disable automounting.
The Itanic is not intended as to be a desktop processor. Who needs a >>4 Gig address space for the desktp. (I am using .5 Gig of RAM right now!)
There are some high end workstation apps that really need that address space. But if Apple was to use the Itanic, it would speed it's acceptance. Would Intel give Apple a price break to get the volume up?
I thought we can already download Darwin for X86 from Apple! All the Interupt/hardware stuff is already figured out.
It was far from Definitive. For the Unix side there should have been some light weight and middle wieght Window Managers such as:
Blackbox or Fluxbox
Window Maker
Enlightenment
Blackbox will do everything you need -- fast.
I am using KDE though because I like the in my face eye candy.
If a desktop is inseperable from the rest of the OS, there sould have been a catagory for baggage.
XP destop bring the following baggage that can not be left behind:
Spyware
Product activation
trojan EULA's for service packs
Stallman wrote the GNU general puplic licence. That is a great legal invention.
He also writes parts of GCC. The GNU C Compiler is not a trivial thing to write. I use it from time to time.
He can be a pain in the ass, but he is our pain in the ass.
They think they owe their parties and their contributors, but they really owe us the public at large.
But the pols who do the wrong thing get the money. They can put on lots of ads on TV. The "american sheepdom" responds well to advertising and re-elects the wrong people.
I do not think they have this product in production yet. The information is vague and general. I can not get to any information on this from the entree point of the vender's web site. I think the marketing department is trying to create excitement for a product that may be in development.
That said, I think it will be a good product when it is finally out. I hope it has good file sharing ( NFS? SMB? autoconfig?)
>>>They[congress] have an obligation to pass laws for their paying constituents, but the highest law of the land (Constitution) says they can't do it.
WTF
Congress has no obligation to be corrupt and do what "paying constituents" want them to do. Their real obligation is to do what is right for the people of the USA.
We have this problem with IP law out of control because congress is being corrupt instead of doing what is right.
The Konqueror web browser that comes with KDE 3.1 plays both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis!
>> Support added to the i810 driver for Intel 845G, 852GM, 855GM and 865G integrated graphics chipsets
I installed Mandrake 9.1 RC1. This has the last release candidate for 4.3 before it was released. This works well with the 845G. That part installed without a hitch. ( Mandrake installer wants badly to FUBAR other things -- don't touch the configurator in the installer that runs after it loads most of the packages!)
I now have anti-aliased fonts in Mozilla. They look great! Byte code interpreter is turned on too! (I did not have to rebuild freetype to get this). I imported some fonts from the Windows 2k partition. The NTFS partition was auto-mounted. I just used some KDE GUI tool to install some MickeySoft fonts.
I have not tried anything that needs openGL yet.
If IP is not a monopoly, then I am free to fabricate say Britney Spears CDs and sell them at a discount! Let the free market begin.
Britney Spears, Oh the horror the horror.
>>eliminate corporate right of ownership of IP, and return it to the hands of the inventors and authors.
This is a great idea. If Record companies could not own copyrights, they would have to actually pay the musicians. Tech companies would have to lease use of patents. The tech industry would be more dynamic.
This could never happen though. Congress would be bribed into keeping the status quo.
I had trouble with drivers for a USB card reader for our camera on a Windows machine. I took the stuff down to my dual boot machine and installed the drivers for windows.
Later without much though I booted Linux and discovered it had automounted the USB card reader with all the pictures on the flash card. This was a shock. I did not do anything to get this to work under Linux! Desktop Linux was easier to use than desktop Windows!
I can see it already. IT sends me an e-mail. It tells me to print these instructions and follow them. But they DRMed the damn thing so I can not print it.
I already see a work around. Take a screen shot and print the image!
The Chinese are better capitalists than us in the US. They do not respect "intellectual property".
When you think about it Intellectual Propery is government interference in the free market. The government says only this one outfit can make this product.
In the case of music we see market distortions caused by this government interference. CDs in the US cost $16 even though they cost pennies to make. (And most artists are not paid by the record companies!)
There is another sign of this distortion of the free market. The Record companies stubernly cling to old technology and an old business model. In a free market they would have to abandon the old and move on.
I personally favor Intellectual Property but in moderation.
As a business Lindows is doing a lot of things right.
They are getting their Linux pre-installed on PC's. This is a big deal. Most people would not or could not install an OS. Pre-installed Linux is the only way to penetrate the desktop market.
Lindows also getting sued by MSFT to get a lot of publicity.
Is Robertson made of the same stuff as Bill Gates?
I understand Lindows is based on Debian with the apt-get utility. One can just add the packages they want with this utility and forget about the Lindows part. Otherwise the Lindows software subscription makes Lindows the most expensive distro out there. If you go the apt-get route, make a contribution to Debian.org and come out ahead.
Check out this clueless response to the interview. This person had similar thoughts.
"The API is too ugly. Who cares? The only people who use it are toolkit authors. We have very nice toolkits that hide all of that "nastiness" away."
A good way to avoid the X-Window API is to use Trolltech's Qt!!!!
I use a seperate partition for /boot. I put GRUB (previously LILO) on the boot record of this /boot partition. I leave the MickeySoft stuff on the MBR. I just set the boot flag for the /boot partition. I can even do this part with the windows 2000 GUI tools!
This avoids a host of problems. I did this with my fathers computer. He had to reload Windows 2000. He only had to do a couple mouse clicks to get the GRUB boot menu back.
I could work around the 1 GByte per day restriction. When I download a Linux distro, I can just download one CD iso a day. If I am not downloading a Linux Distro, 1 GByte/day is a huge amount of bandwidth.
But I would have a hard time with no VPN. I use VPN a lot to work from home.
My Tivo (a Linux appliance) sometimes has mail for me!