Channel 9? The funny thing is Channel 9 television in Australia merged with MSN to become NineMSN. It seems that Microsoft have this weird nine fetish.
It seems to be a minor technical issue, here's the text from GNU:
This is a free software license but it is incompatible with the GPL.
The Common Public License is incompatible with the GPL because it has various specific requirements that are not in the GPL.
For example, it requires certain patent licenses be given that the GPL does not require. (We don't think those patent license requirements are inherently a bad idea, but nonetheless they are incompatible with the GNU GPL.)
So it "shouldn't" be an issue, but as soon as you actually mix GPL and CPL you start running into trouble. Why else do you think SWT-Qt never got released?
I don't want to buy an expensive system to play music tracks any more than the next non-rich guy. I personally think it's a good idea that I can play bought music on a $400-500 player I already have, instead of having to buy Apple's $800 equivalent or hope that the BIOS for my player one day gets support for the DRM.
It's still a question of "how big is one disk?" because there are multiple sizes. I remember a day when a DVD used to be considered to be two hours, which means a dual layer should be four, right? Or at least three, which still fits something like 10 22-minute shows.
I guess the other way you could go is double-sided disks, and players which can play them without needing to flip over. That would double the available space yet again.
But I suspect the real reason is nothing to do with quality, but more to do with trying to rape every last dollar out of the consumer by splitting up the series as much as possible. If space was the issue you could put all four disks in a slim box, yet what I see all the time is one disk per box for 3-4 normal boxes, to make up a single 13-episode series.
Yeah, I'm still of the firm belief that there shouldn't be income tax deductions either. The business should pay for its employees' business-related stuff IMO.
Who's saying that 4x will be 20 minutes anyway? What if 1x takes two hours to burn? Then 4x would be 30 minutes, right? I'm pretty sure the speed ratings come from the "typical" data which gets written on the disk (e.g. with a CD 1x is the time taken to play the CD in a CD player.)
"Even illegal money (i.e. drug money) is taxed as it is spent"
how is that so? are you telling me you think th drug dealer is going report the business exchange and pay taxes?
They might have been referring to where the money goes after you earn it. If you use it to buy more drugs, I guess it's not being taxed. But if it is used to buy more goods and services, it is taxed.
Of course this is all a very good argument for the legalisation of recreational drugs.
"Get rid of the outmoded IRS and save a whole pile of money right there"
and who is going to ensure that merchants are paying the taxes they're suppose to?
Of course you would need an agency to handle it. But there are an order of magnitude more individuals than there are merchants, so which group do you think would be easier to audit?
Of course, it puts poor people n a worse situation. This is bad, becasue we want poor people to have opportunity to become middle class, and more money = less crime.
You could easily increase welfare payments for the poor or give other benefits, to sort out this sort of thing. Pensioners already get all sorts of benefits for having nearly no money, I see no reason why this couldn't be extended to cover generally disadvantaged people as well as pensioners. Hell, you could have the welfare scale still pay you money all the way up to earning $50K income if you wanted.
When you begin to try to categorise different items people start finding the issues with the categorisation. For instance, clothes includes a $200 pair of boots, and food includes champagne and caviar.
The best thing is we know that would happen because it happened in Australia. They introduced the GST, which takes 10% on "most" items, but I still lose something like 35% of my money every paycheque. Not to mention we still get import duty on electronics. The GST was supposed to replace that sort of thing too. What a farce.
A pure GST would work. You don't even really need the sliding scale. Why? Because you can simply give money back to the poor by increasing their welfare payments.
The only real problem is that people who don't spend their money at all will just continue to get richer. But the thing is, being rich is pointless unless you use the money to buy stuff, at which point you have been taxed.
It can burn music from MP3 to the CD, and not the other way, yeah. But maybe that's because it's a burning program, not a ripping tool. And making playlists... jesus, get a media player!
Yet at the same time Red Hat don't seem to be having any trouble lately. It's been gradually increasing for the last few years. Conclusion: open source is a good business model if you know how to market it. ("Who the hell is VA?")
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Add to that if SCO tried anything here the ACCC would be on them with a bunch of dobermans...
Channel 9? The funny thing is Channel 9 television in Australia merged with MSN to become NineMSN. It seems that Microsoft have this weird nine fetish.
I gather since it uses the CLR, it will run in Mono as well..? Does this mean it could be adapted for Linux? I'm scared. :-)
The difference being the Artistic License is actually compatible with the GPL, so you can make programs which mix the two.
Nobody said it had to be GPL to be acceptable, but the CPL isn't even compatible with the GPL!
It seems to be a minor technical issue, here's the text from GNU:
So it "shouldn't" be an issue, but as soon as you actually mix GPL and CPL you start running into trouble. Why else do you think SWT-Qt never got released?
I don't want to buy an expensive system to play music tracks any more than the next non-rich guy. I personally think it's a good idea that I can play bought music on a $400-500 player I already have, instead of having to buy Apple's $800 equivalent or hope that the BIOS for my player one day gets support for the DRM.
The CD won't fit in my 40GB MP3 player. Please help..?
"By 2003, IBM and Infineon expect to have test chips in use. Initial chips will only be able to accommodate 256 megabytes of data."
2003, woot. Better go down and buy me some o' that...
It's still a question of "how big is one disk?" because there are multiple sizes. I remember a day when a DVD used to be considered to be two hours, which means a dual layer should be four, right? Or at least three, which still fits something like 10 22-minute shows.
I guess the other way you could go is double-sided disks, and players which can play them without needing to flip over. That would double the available space yet again.
But I suspect the real reason is nothing to do with quality, but more to do with trying to rape every last dollar out of the consumer by splitting up the series as much as possible. If space was the issue you could put all four disks in a slim box, yet what I see all the time is one disk per box for 3-4 normal boxes, to make up a single 13-episode series.
Yeah, I'm still of the firm belief that there shouldn't be income tax deductions either. The business should pay for its employees' business-related stuff IMO.
Who's saying that 4x will be 20 minutes anyway? What if 1x takes two hours to burn? Then 4x would be 30 minutes, right? I'm pretty sure the speed ratings come from the "typical" data which gets written on the disk (e.g. with a CD 1x is the time taken to play the CD in a CD player.)
You can fit something like 12 episodes of a TV series on a single disk already, but that doesn't mean anybody will be nice enough to do it.
Why risk getting caught cheating?
Why risk burning your computer out by overclocking it? :-)
The solution is to simply refuse to even file.
And then risk paying too much. Sounds enticing.
"Even illegal money (i.e. drug money) is taxed as it is spent"
how is that so? are you telling me you think th drug dealer is going report the business exchange and pay taxes?
They might have been referring to where the money goes after you earn it. If you use it to buy more drugs, I guess it's not being taxed. But if it is used to buy more goods and services, it is taxed.
Of course this is all a very good argument for the legalisation of recreational drugs.
"Get rid of the outmoded IRS and save a whole pile of money right there"
and who is going to ensure that merchants are paying the taxes they're suppose to?
Of course you would need an agency to handle it. But there are an order of magnitude more individuals than there are merchants, so which group do you think would be easier to audit?
Of course, it puts poor people n a worse situation. This is bad, becasue we want poor people to have opportunity to become middle class, and more money = less crime.
You could easily increase welfare payments for the poor or give other benefits, to sort out this sort of thing. Pensioners already get all sorts of benefits for having nearly no money, I see no reason why this couldn't be extended to cover generally disadvantaged people as well as pensioners. Hell, you could have the welfare scale still pay you money all the way up to earning $50K income if you wanted.
When you begin to try to categorise different items people start finding the issues with the categorisation. For instance, clothes includes a $200 pair of boots, and food includes champagne and caviar.
The best thing is we know that would happen because it happened in Australia. They introduced the GST, which takes 10% on "most" items, but I still lose something like 35% of my money every paycheque. Not to mention we still get import duty on electronics. The GST was supposed to replace that sort of thing too. What a farce.
A pure GST would work. You don't even really need the sliding scale. Why? Because you can simply give money back to the poor by increasing their welfare payments.
The only real problem is that people who don't spend their money at all will just continue to get richer. But the thing is, being rich is pointless unless you use the money to buy stuff, at which point you have been taxed.
It can burn music from MP3 to the CD, and not the other way, yeah. But maybe that's because it's a burning program, not a ripping tool. And making playlists... jesus, get a media player!
Perhaps. They might be excused for counting in ternary too... who knows. Or they could consider 1.4 is an order of magnitude, or 1.1, or...
They were using a 2.5 linux kernel which AFAIK had trouble with nforce ethernet ports which may have ruled out all the AMD's from working.
Well, all the AMDs except for the ones which weren't running on nforce boards, anyway.
Actually somebody said it two posts earlier. ;-)
I have an article from almost two months ago which is still pending:
2004-02-09 23:31:38 IETF Accepts XMPP-IM as Proposed Standard (articles,internet)
Bloody slackers.
Bah, streaking is still cool (and still happens.)
Perhaps, but not enough to run Duke Nukem Forever!
Such as the idea of a low pressure chamber, I guess.
Yet at the same time Red Hat don't seem to be having any trouble lately. It's been gradually increasing for the last few years. Conclusion: open source is a good business model if you know how to market it. ("Who the hell is VA?")