You are wrong. Somehow you hsave either overlooked reality or have bought the line that the RIAA feeds you. There is a lot of music that is recorded and released, and the copyright holder has given the public permission to redistribute freely. Ani DiFranco and Righteous Babe Records are a very good example. Their copyright notices wink at CD copying. This is just one example, there are tons of independent music labels and artists.
On the subject of Napster, you are wrong again. Napster is a peer-to-peer file transfer tool, with a centralized directory service. You may be using it to commit crime, but I am not. Please don't project your own moral shortcomings on the rest of us.
I see some legitimate complaints mixed in with some FUD/ignorance. I'll address the latter.
Until Linux has... 72 dpi screen resolution.
Support is already there. In Xfree86, you can either directly configure your screen's DPI, or you can indirectly specify it by using a combination of mode definition and physical screen size (using the DisplaySize declaration).
...output in native Linux format...
Ah, but that's the beauty. Linux doesn't have a native format. A Linux machine can be used to generate just about any openly-defined output format you would like, such as PostScript. Almost any image format is also supported. The genius of open formats is that, by using them, your service bureau can use the platform of its choice and you don't have to care.
Smaller is always a selling story for computers. My current hard disks are big, loud, and hot. I don't like them. Stacking 1 TB of 3.5" rotating disks into the colocation center costs a fortune in space, power, and cooling.
I see one cop with a handgun and another cop with a rifle. Show me your evidence that the British cops don't pack.
I don't buy your other argument, either. Produce official statistics on crime rates in Britain. Thi s article in the Sunday Times claims that more than 3 million illegal guns are held in Britian, leading to over 13,000 armed offences in 1998. It also claims that there are 100 crimes per month involving firearms in Birmingham alone! I don't know what kind of reputation the Sunday Times has, but I've produced hard number and I suspect it is more evidence than you can produce.
You are obviously not clear on the meaning of freedom and natural rights. In a free society, i can own anything I wish, as long as it does not infringe the freedom of anyone else. I can own guns, knives, swords, and explosives in massive quantities. Why is it my right to have these things? Because it requires nothing of anyone else, except the willful manufacture and trade of arms.
You, on the other hand, are anti-freedom. You are trying to take away my natural rights by requiring me to do something. You are requiring me to give up my arms, which I have acquired through peaceful and cooperative trade. It is you who represent the dangerous future in America: the future where spineless lackwits strip away the rights of the people, for the supposed benefit of the children/elderly/infirm/whatever.
Your argument has a key flaw. The DeCSS content hasn't been decalred to be illegal. The only legal ruling that has been made is that 2600 MIGHT do real damage to the MPAA by distributing the DeCSS source code from their site while the legality of said source code is decided. The bar for getting such a preliminary injuntion is much lower than that for getting the source code permanently removed from circulation.
In short, the DeCSS source code is not illegal yet, pending the outcome of a formal trial.
Open source is very efficient. All kernel compilations bugs that I have seen have been reported, usually with a patch, on l-k by the time I ever got around to dealing with it.
The point of my post is that people should beware of the pre-releases. I track them because I will deploy 2.4 in my production environment at some point, and I need to stay current with bugs and quirks. I won't bother checking into how the features work until the sucker can at least compile cleanly on the box.
Aamzingly, the 2.3.99-pre* series generally don't even compile, at least using the settings that my machine needs. Seems to me that a release candidate should at least build, not corrupt the FS, etc.
Yeah, that would be pretty great right up until some joker painted reflective stripes across the road leading into a bridge support. Then you'd be glad that the robot was tracking the reflective lines!
You are making an assumption that is not gauranteed to be true. The assumption is that every DVD is subject to restricted copy and distribution. Some DVDs may not come from a corporate mega-studio, and they may be freely distributable.
Macrovision, OTOH, enforces copy restriction even when that is against the copyright holder's wishes. So you can see that mandatory Macrovision is simply a tool used by the consumer media industry to ensure that no independent source of DVDs becomes popular.
BTW, if you think openly redistributable works of art are not a phenomenon, I present Ani Difranco as an example. Her CDs and tapes are very widely sold, and come with this rather loose copyright notice: "Unauthorized duplication, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing."
You're missing the point. The neato query and node monitoring stuff comes from the filesystem, not the tracker. Doing such things with the ext2 filesystem would be less than straightforward.
I don't feel so bad about the income polarization in SF, because I feel it is transient. Up until the bottom falls out, money is absolutely pouring into the SF Bay Area. Basically all these high-tech startups are taking money from clueless investors and depositing it right here. When 9/10 of these companies go under, two things will happen. The people who flocked here only for the money will leave, which will alleviate the housing crunch. And, all of the permanent investment that has been made will still be here even after those companies go under. The renovated buildings, fiber installations, new sky scrapers, and the rest aren't going anywhere. So the bottom line is that after everything goes to shit, SF still ends up with a net increase in capital wealth.
What the government (state and local) needs to understand is that they must funnel these huge tax surpluses that the Internet economy is creating into capital improvements for school and transportation. If they do, we'll cruise through the recession with new schools and low taxes that just break even on the operating costs.
I love seeing this stuff around town. San Francisco is the hideous mega-capital of obnoxious real-world advertising. We have flatbed trucks with billboards mounted in the back, whose sole purpose is to drive around town showing a giant ad for some lame web "business". Then there is a giant billboard mounted on a barge that they tow around the bay and position close to major bayshore freeways.
Couple that with the rather annoying fact that a lot of these pointless (and hopeless) businesses are making money for their employees anyway, and you have a pretty silly situation. It's good to see someone publicly decrying this absurdity.
Great! The sooner the better, I say. First let's get rid of TV commercials, then web banners, then billboards, and finally junk mail!
You say that TV will die. I say that BAD TV will die. I'd be much happier to pay a few bucks for quality programming than to have a kilochannel of mindless garbage. Witness NPR, to which I am happy to pay $100/year for the pleasure of quality, commercial-free programming.
Great! The sooner the better, I say. First let's get rid of TV commercials, then web banners, then billboards, and finally junk mail!
You say that TV will die. I say that BAD TV will die. I'd be much happier to pay a few bucks for quality programming than to have a kilochannel of mindless garbage. Witness NPR, to which I am happy to pay $100/year for the pleasure of quality, commercial-free programming.
The sooner the Internet (and Silicon Valley esp.) gets back to economic basics the better. Many Internet companies have attracted investment, but have no hope for profit. Internet stocks (which don't generally cut dividends) are pure pyramid schemes.
When the money runs out, there will be a huge shakeout. Pure content plays are going to really get slammed, along with anything else that relies on ad revenue. What will we learn from this? Perhaps that it is better to start small, building out your business as you gain customers, than to burn huge amounts of money on marketing, hardware, and what amounts to buying customers. IOW, that the good old-fashioned way was better.
I just testes all four of those addresses and waited ten minutes. No bounces, so I suspect either they all work, or they have configured a catch-all address.
You can put down your weapons there, friend. I've been a registered Be developer since January 1998. I have used every release of BeOS x86. And, as far as I know, Be has *always* promised to add multi-user support "any day now." I wouldn't hold your breath.
Unix is an operating system. Its purpose is to operate the hardware inside your computer, and to provide a programmatic and generalized interface to that hardwares' capabilities. As long as Unix continues to operate popular hardware and provide an interface that programmers like, Unix cannot die.
The advent of distributed, collaborative, pure-hype^H^H^H^Hjava, Active System Blaster 2000 will not make Unix obsolete. Even a revolutionary, fully distributed and autonomous network object system still needs to send bytes over the wire, still needs to access system memory, and still needs to accept input and create output. These are the things that Unix provides. This is why Unix will always be around.
I suppose that a newer operating system could supplant Unix. However, I don't seen any in the near future. Be has a bright future, because it has networking and other nice capabilities. But Unix has the trump card over BeOS: the idea of users. In a distributed network environment, the user concept becomes much more important. Information, files, interface configuration, and many other things are associated with a person. Those things must be secured from other people, and the other people must be secured from them. Therefore any OS that wishes to supplant Unix will need to supply the same kind of protection for users' information.
Cheers, jwb
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On the subject of Napster, you are wrong again. Napster is a peer-to-peer file transfer tool, with a centralized directory service. You may be using it to commit crime, but I am not. Please don't project your own moral shortcomings on the rest of us.
-jwb
"The DMCA was never intended for companies like Napster."
So remember kids, the laws are written for the protection of big business, not for the people or small business.
Don't forget to boycott big music labels and movie studios.
-jwb
Support is already there. In Xfree86, you can either directly configure your screen's DPI, or you can indirectly specify it by using a combination of mode definition and physical screen size (using the DisplaySize declaration).
Ah, but that's the beauty. Linux doesn't have a native format. A Linux machine can be used to generate just about any openly-defined output format you would like, such as PostScript. Almost any image format is also supported. The genius of open formats is that, by using them, your service bureau can use the platform of its choice and you don't have to care.
You're right on the color correction bit, though.
-jwb
Smaller, cooler, more efficient. I'll take some.
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I see one cop with a handgun and another cop with a rifle. Show me your evidence that the British cops don't pack.
I don't buy your other argument, either. Produce official statistics on crime rates in Britain. Thi s article in the Sunday Times claims that more than 3 million illegal guns are held in Britian, leading to over 13,000 armed offences in 1998. It also claims that there are 100 crimes per month involving firearms in Birmingham alone! I don't know what kind of reputation the Sunday Times has, but I've produced hard number and I suspect it is more evidence than you can produce.
-jwb
You are obviously not clear on the meaning of freedom and natural rights. In a free society, i can own anything I wish, as long as it does not infringe the freedom of anyone else. I can own guns, knives, swords, and explosives in massive quantities. Why is it my right to have these things? Because it requires nothing of anyone else, except the willful manufacture and trade of arms.
You, on the other hand, are anti-freedom. You are trying to take away my natural rights by requiring me to do something. You are requiring me to give up my arms, which I have acquired through peaceful and cooperative trade. It is you who represent the dangerous future in America: the future where spineless lackwits strip away the rights of the people, for the supposed benefit of the children/elderly/infirm/whatever.
-jwb
Hi. Let's add a new moderation tag to Slashdot: Gun Control Debate. Oh, and it should be -1.
In short, the DeCSS source code is not illegal yet, pending the outcome of a formal trial.
-jwb
-jwb
-jwb
(FYI: In their Linux distro, the writelcd command twiddles the font panel display)
The point of my post is that people should beware of the pre-releases. I track them because I will deploy 2.4 in my production environment at some point, and I need to stay current with bugs and quirks. I won't bother checking into how the features work until the sucker can at least compile cleanly on the box.
-jwb
Get back to me when 2.4.20 comes out :)
-jwb
Macrovision, OTOH, enforces copy restriction even when that is against the copyright holder's wishes. So you can see that mandatory Macrovision is simply a tool used by the consumer media industry to ensure that no independent source of DVDs becomes popular.
BTW, if you think openly redistributable works of art are not a phenomenon, I present Ani Difranco as an example. Her CDs and tapes are very widely sold, and come with this rather loose copyright notice: "Unauthorized duplication, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing."
-jwb
-jwb
What the government (state and local) needs to understand is that they must funnel these huge tax surpluses that the Internet economy is creating into capital improvements for school and transportation. If they do, we'll cruise through the recession with new schools and low taxes that just break even on the operating costs.
-jwb (-= 0.02)
Couple that with the rather annoying fact that a lot of these pointless (and hopeless) businesses are making money for their employees anyway, and you have a pretty silly situation. It's good to see someone publicly decrying this absurdity.
-jwb
Er, that was supposed to be a reply to another post about Tivo circumventing commercials. Mod me redundant, already.
You say that TV will die. I say that BAD TV will die. I'd be much happier to pay a few bucks for quality programming than to have a kilochannel of mindless garbage. Witness NPR, to which I am happy to pay $100/year for the pleasure of quality, commercial-free programming.
-jwb
You say that TV will die. I say that BAD TV will die. I'd be much happier to pay a few bucks for quality programming than to have a kilochannel of mindless garbage. Witness NPR, to which I am happy to pay $100/year for the pleasure of quality, commercial-free programming.
-jwb
When the money runs out, there will be a huge shakeout. Pure content plays are going to really get slammed, along with anything else that relies on ad revenue. What will we learn from this? Perhaps that it is better to start small, building out your business as you gain customers, than to burn huge amounts of money on marketing, hardware, and what amounts to buying customers. IOW, that the good old-fashioned way was better.
-jwb
Good work!
-jwb
The advent of distributed, collaborative, pure-hype^H^H^H^Hjava, Active System Blaster 2000 will not make Unix obsolete. Even a revolutionary, fully distributed and autonomous network object system still needs to send bytes over the wire, still needs to access system memory, and still needs to accept input and create output. These are the things that Unix provides. This is why Unix will always be around.
I suppose that a newer operating system could supplant Unix. However, I don't seen any in the near future. Be has a bright future, because it has networking and other nice capabilities. But Unix has the trump card over BeOS: the idea of users. In a distributed network environment, the user concept becomes much more important. Information, files, interface configuration, and many other things are associated with a person. Those things must be secured from other people, and the other people must be secured from them. Therefore any OS that wishes to supplant Unix will need to supply the same kind of protection for users' information.
Cheers,
jwb
-jwb