Programmer Franz Schmid is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.0 - Linux Desktop Publishing. Two years in development and available in 17 languages, Scribus represents the first open source DTP application capable of generating professional "press-ready" results.
Among the major features of Scribus:
A modern user friendly interface developed with Qt. Scribus can run on Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, BSD and soon Mac OSX. An experimental version running on Cygwin and Windows 2000 is in testing.
Unicode support including support for right to left scripts.
Can export CMYK separations and "press-ready" PDF including PDF 1.4 features such as transparency.
The only DTP application to create fully ISO compliant PDF/X-3 files.
A powerful PDF export engine capable of creating fully interactive PDF forms, presentation effects and encrypted PDF.
ICC color management via the littlecms color management engine.
Powerful cross-platform Python Scripting language extending Scribus functions and automating tasks, as well as calling external applications within Scribus.
Uses XML as a native file format. The Scribus XML format has been fully documented.
The Scribus Team: Programming / Original Author Franz Schmid Franz.Schmid at altmuehlnet.de Code Review and API Documentation Paul F. Johnson paulf.johnson at ukonline.co.uk English Documentation and Testing Peter Linnell scribusdocs at atlantictechsolutions.com Many contributions and translations from users.
Scribus Home Page: http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/ and mirrored at: http://scribus.planetmirror.com
On line documentation and specs: http://www.atlantictechsolutions.com/scrib usdocs/ and mirrored at: http://home.comcast.net/~scribusdocs/
Yes, this is it EXACTLY. When every ones mom is doing it, then it is the laws that are wrong, and not the people. Remember, copyright law was not origionaly designed to be applied to the general public, but to *buisnesses* (until recently, when the *IAA's and Disney started pushing for it, but thats for another rant...). IMHO the application of copyright laws to the general public is repugnant, and should fail a constitutional challange under the theroy of Constitutional Repugnancy. See my post on Constitutional Repugnancy, or search google for the term (if you have lots of time and energy)
In constitutional law we occasionally hear reference to the term Constitutional Repugnancy. Under the theory of constitutional repugnancy, laws that are ignored or disregarded by the majority of the US citizenship is repugnant, and they're forth not constitutional.
In your opinion, has copyright law fallen into this area of being constitutionally repugnant, and if not, how far from constitutional repugnancy is current copyright law?
On the otherhand, you're right about pokinh holes into it. He just looked at the fee structure and ignored the other 99.44% of the law. For example the fact that the law forbids listeners the ability to select what they hear or even to know what is coming up. He also completely ignored the $2000 minimum fee per broadcaster. I doubt you could consider the entire system to be one broadcaster.
I was thinking about this. Then it occured to me, digital TV stations can broadcast several chanels within their DTV airwaves and still be considered one broadcaster, so why couldn't such a system be considered the same?
As for not knowing what songs are comming next, thats not hard. One station per song.
I'm sure he trips over several other parts of the law, but those are the first two points to pop to mind.
I think the right thing to do is to have ISP's start redirecting gator. Think about it for a moment, who better to screw with Gator than service provides that will ultimatly loose money?
I got the following press release at 12:18pm this afternoon.
Press Release:
Title: Recording Industry To Sue Music Pirates Subtitle: RIAA to Gather Evidence of Activity For Thousands of Potential Lawsuits Against Individuals
Story Text: June 2003 (Newstream) -- Even though all the major record labels have made their music available on a number of legal sites, illegal downloading is still rampant on the Internet. To combat the problem, the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) announced it will start to gather evidence tomorrow and will begin filing what could amount to thousands of lawsuits against individual computer users.
The creation of legal websites like The Apple Music Store, MusicNet, Pressplay and Rhapsody still haven't deterred some individuals from illegally distributing music. And they're not just sharing with a few friends; in some cases, they're illegally passing copyrighted songs to millions of others. Experts say that illegal file sharing has already cost thousands of jobs in the music industry.
They also warn that while many falsely believe that illegal file sharing is anonymous, it's actually a very public activity. A person's username leads to an IP (Internet Protocol) address, which can then be subpoenaed to locate the individual.
To avoid being sued, the RIAA recommends taking programs that distribute music illegally - like Kazaa and Grokster - off your computer if you have them. At the very least, they advise disabling the software's uploading capacity. This will not only keep strangers out of your hard dive, it will keep you from getting sued.
The promotion and financing functions of the record industry will probably always be necessary
Yes, but do they have to be as intertwined as they are?
As I see it, if the record companies were forced to split the financing off from the rest of what they do (promotion, recording, etc) the artists and the public would end up with a much better deal.
Think about it for a minute. The financial side would have much closer public scruteny as a financial company, and would fall under much tighter federal regulation. Record companies would then face the prospect of having to have its books looked at under more normal accounting. The record industry would no longer be able to claim the loss on the loosers (the financial company would), and would have to bill for the services it provides under normal accounting rules. Food for thought.
In steely-eyed determination to exercise his inalienable right to network access anywhere on his property, MSN author Paul Boutin hired a Wi-Fi engineer to help him bathe his property in 802.11 waves, using only mass-market consumer hardware."
Wait, this is an MICROSOFT guy doing an APPLE ad? Did hell freeze over while I wasn't looking?
Come to think of it, why not try to get a law passed requiering a cost/benifit analisys to the public domain for every copyright extension? At least then congress will have a $$ amount that the public is getting ripped off.
You don't think the public should ever have any right to your copyrighted works? Then why should the public expend resources granting you a temporary monopoly on those works?
You know, I have this weird gut feeling that its going to turn out being as easy as useing a standard CD cleaner or a spray of some common household chemical to stop this reaction.
Okay, so mine's a bad example -- it's a personal blog. But hybrids are out there...
Their are hybirds out their, I agree with you completely on that, and that they make the issue all the harder to quantify. But the question still comes down to where do you draw the line. I don't think their is any way to make everyone happy, but I think it is a start.
I will take a moment to point out that many newspapers, especially smaller ones, are useing the same tools that bloggers use to publish their content.
I think the solution is going to come down to definitions. I see two very general types of blogs:
- News Blogs. These are sites that origionate, agrigate, or both origionate and agrigate news. Examples of News Blogs would be sites like/., greplaw, macslash, circusnews.com, etc (list goes on and on).
- Personal Blogs. These are sites that are primarily one person's comantary.
News blogs, IMHO, should remain in the general search index. The question becomes how to make this work. I don't think their is an easy solution to this. Some form of rating system is going to have to be used by goolge.
1. Blogs that are hosted on their own top level domain tend to indicate more of a news blog than a personal blog.
2. Blogs that hosted on the free blogging services tend to be personal blogs.
3. News blogs tend to be listed in directory services.
4. News blogs tend to be linked to more often by static web pages.
With that said, I hope google uses the Roogle model, and indexes the feeds, maybe even on a daily basis.
Well-known stilt waker Bill "Stretch" Coleman (Stiltwalker.com) has been useing one of these for a while now with great sucess. You can read his review of the T-shirt cannon here.
If you want them to learn about computers you can always try Robocode. While it is a pay site, for my nephews I like Disney Blast. However, for best results I would sugest either (1) finding out what these kids are in to, and focus on find links to that or (2) Finding links to things YOU really like and sharing them with your cousins, along with the excitement and intrest that goes with it.
Unless I am linking to another news site, or one I otherwise know can handle the load I do ask before I post a news link, and I have only a small fraction of the traffic./ has. What good does it do my news site if the story I link to dies after 20 people click on it?
Any slashcode people reading this, think about adding an automatic mirror, or at least a link to the google catch if avalible.
Well, according to the article the software is put into escro with [gasp] a group that advocates free software. That means that once that target is reached, the software is released to the public by the escro holder. I would assume that data from quarterly filings would serve as the benchmark. Companies may play games, but post enron, games with the SEC and IRS are far harder to get away with. This eliminates the vast majority of 'loopholes' that people are quibiling about.
Slashdot Mirror
News Item for Immediate Release
b usdocs/ and mirrored at:
Programmer Franz Schmid is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.0 - Linux Desktop Publishing. Two years in development and available
in 17 languages, Scribus represents the first open source DTP application capable of generating professional "press-ready" results.
Among the major features of Scribus:
A modern user friendly interface developed with Qt. Scribus can run on Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, BSD and soon Mac OSX. An experimental version running on Cygwin and Windows 2000 is in testing.
Unicode support including support for right to left scripts.
Can export CMYK separations and "press-ready" PDF including PDF 1.4 features such as transparency.
The only DTP application to create fully ISO compliant PDF/X-3 files.
A powerful PDF export engine capable of creating fully interactive PDF forms, presentation effects and encrypted PDF.
ICC color management via the littlecms color management engine.
Powerful cross-platform Python Scripting language extending Scribus functions and automating tasks, as well as calling external applications within Scribus.
Uses XML as a native file format. The Scribus XML format has been fully documented.
The Scribus Team:
Programming / Original Author Franz Schmid Franz.Schmid at altmuehlnet.de
Code Review and API Documentation Paul F. Johnson paulf.johnson at ukonline.co.uk
English Documentation and Testing Peter Linnell scribusdocs at atlantictechsolutions.com
Many contributions and translations from users.
Scribus Home Page: http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/ and mirrored at:
http://scribus.planetmirror.com
On line documentation and specs:
http://www.atlantictechsolutions.com/scri
http://home.comcast.net/~scribusdocs/
Yes, this is it EXACTLY. When every ones mom is doing it, then it is the laws that are wrong, and not the people. Remember, copyright law was not origionaly designed to be applied to the general public, but to *buisnesses* (until recently, when the *IAA's and Disney started pushing for it, but thats for another rant...). IMHO the application of copyright laws to the general public is repugnant, and should fail a constitutional challange under the theroy of Constitutional Repugnancy. See my post on Constitutional Repugnancy, or search google for the term (if you have lots of time and energy)
In constitutional law we occasionally hear reference to the term Constitutional Repugnancy. Under the theory of constitutional repugnancy, laws that are ignored or disregarded by the majority of the US citizenship is repugnant, and they're forth not constitutional.
In your opinion, has copyright law fallen into this area of being constitutionally repugnant, and if not, how far from constitutional repugnancy is current copyright law?
I was thinking about this. Then it occured to me, digital TV stations can broadcast several chanels within their DTV airwaves and still be considered one broadcaster, so why couldn't such a system be considered the same?
As for not knowing what songs are comming next, thats not hard. One station per song.
I'm sure he trips over several other parts of the law, but those are the first two points to pop to mind.
Correct me if I am wrong, but does this not show that trusted computing will be DOA once some one uses such a method on a trusted system?
I guess my question is not so much "what is the solution", but are we looking at the right problem?
I think the right thing to do is to have ISP's start redirecting gator. Think about it for a moment, who better to screw with Gator than service provides that will ultimatly loose money?
Hey, this sounds like a good application for several hacked xbox's!
Press Release:
Title: Recording Industry To Sue Music Pirates
Subtitle: RIAA to Gather Evidence of Activity For Thousands of Potential Lawsuits Against Individuals
Story Text: June 2003 (Newstream) -- Even though all the major record labels have made their music available on a number of legal sites, illegal downloading is still rampant on the Internet. To combat the problem, the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) announced it will start to gather evidence tomorrow and will begin filing what could amount to thousands of lawsuits against individual computer users.
The creation of legal websites like The Apple Music Store, MusicNet, Pressplay and Rhapsody still haven't deterred some individuals from illegally distributing music. And they're not just sharing with a few friends; in some cases, they're illegally passing copyrighted songs to millions of others. Experts say that illegal file sharing has already cost thousands of jobs in the music industry.
They also warn that while many falsely believe that illegal file sharing is anonymous, it's actually a very public activity. A person's username leads to an IP (Internet Protocol) address, which can then be subpoenaed to locate the individual.
To avoid being sued, the RIAA recommends taking programs that distribute music illegally - like Kazaa and Grokster - off your computer if you have them. At the very least, they advise disabling the software's uploading capacity. This will not only keep strangers out of your hard dive, it will keep you from getting sued.
---------------
Produced for RIAA
Contact:
Tammy Taylor, 310/788-2850
Yes, but do they have to be as intertwined as they are?
As I see it, if the record companies were forced to split the financing off from the rest of what they do (promotion, recording, etc) the artists and the public would end up with a much better deal.
Think about it for a minute. The financial side would have much closer public scruteny as a financial company, and would fall under much tighter federal regulation. Record companies would then face the prospect of having to have its books looked at under more normal accounting. The record industry would no longer be able to claim the loss on the loosers (the financial company would), and would have to bill for the services it provides under normal accounting rules. Food for thought.
Pol.
Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know,
When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul
Lends the tongue vows: these blazes, daughter,
Giving more light than heat,--extinct in both,
Even in their promise, as it is a-making,--
You must not take for fire. From this time
Be something scanter of your maiden presence;
Set your entreatments at a higher rate
Than a command to parley. For Lord Hamlet,
Believe so much in him, that he is young;
And with a larger tether may he walk
Than may be given you: in few, Ophelia,
Do not believe his vows; for they are brokers,--
Not of that dye which their investments show,
But mere implorators of unholy suits,
Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds,
The better to beguile. This is for all,--
I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth
Have you so slander any moment leisure
As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet.
Look to't, I charge you; come your ways.
The rest of the worlds handwriting will be as bad as my doctors!!
Wait, this is an MICROSOFT guy doing an APPLE ad? Did hell freeze over while I wasn't looking?
Come to think of it, why not try to get a law passed requiering a cost/benifit analisys to the public domain for every copyright extension? At least then congress will have a $$ amount that the public is getting ripped off.
You don't think the public should ever have any right to your copyrighted works? Then why should the public expend resources granting you a temporary monopoly on those works?
You know, I have this weird gut feeling that its going to turn out being as easy as useing a standard CD cleaner or a spray of some common household chemical to stop this reaction.
Their are hybirds out their, I agree with you completely on that, and that they make the issue all the harder to quantify. But the question still comes down to where do you draw the line. I don't think their is any way to make everyone happy, but I think it is a start.
I will take a moment to point out that many newspapers, especially smaller ones, are useing the same tools that bloggers use to publish their content.
/., greplaw, macslash, circusnews.com, etc (list goes on and on).
I think the solution is going to come down to definitions. I see two very general types of blogs:
- News Blogs. These are sites that origionate, agrigate, or both origionate and agrigate news. Examples of News Blogs would be sites like
- Personal Blogs. These are sites that are primarily one person's comantary.
News blogs, IMHO, should remain in the general search index. The question becomes how to make this work. I don't think their is an easy solution to this. Some form of rating system is going to have to be used by goolge.
1. Blogs that are hosted on their own top level domain tend to indicate more of a news blog than a personal blog.
2. Blogs that hosted on the free blogging services tend to be personal blogs.
3. News blogs tend to be listed in directory services.
4. News blogs tend to be linked to more often by static web pages.
With that said, I hope google uses the Roogle model, and indexes the feeds, maybe even on a daily basis.
Well-known stilt waker Bill "Stretch" Coleman (Stiltwalker.com) has been useing one of these for a while now with great sucess. You can read his review of the T-shirt cannon here.
If you want them to learn about computers you can always try Robocode. While it is a pay site, for my nephews I like Disney Blast. However, for best results I would sugest either (1) finding out what these kids are in to, and focus on find links to that or (2) Finding links to things YOU really like and sharing them with your cousins, along with the excitement and intrest that goes with it.
Let me contribute this letter writing guide to the cause. Write. Write often.
Start by reading this, then do something about the problem.
Unless I am linking to another news site, or one I otherwise know can handle the load I do ask before I post a news link, and I have only a small fraction of the traffic ./ has. What good does it do my news site if the story I link to dies after 20 people click on it?
Any slashcode people reading this, think about adding an automatic mirror, or at least a link to the google catch if avalible.
So this MIGHT be a good thing for the US to do?
Wasn't this last weeks episode of The Guardian?
Well, according to the article the software is put into escro with [gasp] a group that advocates free software. That means that once that target is reached, the software is released to the public by the escro holder. I would assume that data from quarterly filings would serve as the benchmark. Companies may play games, but post enron, games with the SEC and IRS are far harder to get away with. This eliminates the vast majority of 'loopholes' that people are quibiling about.