I saw this a few days ago on DSLReports.com: A Speakeasy customer, who was running an anonymous FTP server, with NO MP3s at all, was forwarded a threatening letter from the RIAA by his ISP. The letter actually complained that the site offered "approximately 0 sound files for download. Many of these files contain recordings owned by our member companies," etc. See the whole thread
here.
The Slashdot summary says "Google, search engine of choice for pretty much everyone, has announced that it will begin a seperate index for blogs and remove them from the normal index," but the FA says "It isn't clear if weblogs will be removed from the main search results, but precedent suggests they will be." This is the author, Andrew Orlowski's own interpretation, not a statement from Google; and IMHO, it's a bad misreading of just what the precedent is, since he goes on to talk about their Usenet archive ("Groups"), something which is naturally and fundamentally separate from the web. It would've made more sense to cite the "Images" and "News" tabs, whose results, AFAIK, are not at all filtered out of the main search results.
Personally, I've never run into the alleged problem, either.
Why indeed? I'm guessing it's because the guy who wrote that is a corporate shill. I'm sure this thing has its niche, but it's in no way "the way to go" for most purposes, and especially not the average Slashdot reader's desktop.
"Spheral Solar Power cells produce electricity at considerably lower cost than conventional solar technology, and on a cost-par with fossil-fuel based electricity in many regions of the world."
I hate to post this point redundantly, but we need to stop thinking of this as the "traditional", expensive solar panel in a new form factor -- it's also much cheaper, and that's even more important IMHO.
"And so on" up to a point, of course. If they'll cost half as much in five years, then (assuming your figures) they'll pay for themselves in another ten years. And ten years from now, they'll pay for themselves in only five -- fifteen years total, either way. By then we'll have crossed the line, and rapid adoption should follow.
This new material looks like it could cut the price sharply, altering the equation.
The article doesn't talk about cost in depth, but does refer to the material as "cheap". My guess is that it will be much cheaper than "conventional" panels. And that could do even more for its wide deployment than its convenience will.
Could this be the breakthrough that solar power has been waiting for? I know I want some...
This patch doesn't hurt performance. In fact, it does absolutely nothing to a normal kernel. It's only activated by an option at compile time, to build a special kernel for the "Hardware Abstraction Layer", which won't even run on bare hardware.
Yes, it IS interesting; and no, it won't be confined to Linux hosts. (Nor guests, ultimately -- at the least, *BSD will be available.) I do agree that in a sense it looks like "giving up", though; it's certainly become less ambitious.
You're mistaken -- Slirp can indeed handle listening ports on its own, though you have to set them up explicitly. In fact it works pretty much the same as forwarding through ssh.
One cool thing about Slirp is that you can run an entire network behind it. Before I ever had IP Masquerading built into my Linux kernel, and before I even had a PPP account (they cost more than shell accounts back then), I ran my LAN through Slirp using ordinary IP forwarding.
Stephen, why are you defending them? Anyone who would do this is in no way, shape or form a "nice guy". SDF is already a scapegoat, made so by NWLink. The fact that the DoSers are also villains doesn't excuse NWLink's outrageous reaction. As an ARPA member of SDF myself, I'll be keen to join in any legal action against NWLink -- with or without your endorsement.
Of course I don't condone DoSing NWLink in turn, as someone suggested. But lawsuits, yes; and spreading this story, discouraging others from doing business with them, absolutely. I think those are the kind of threats that need to be made, and carried out.
Google obtained the bulk of it from the former Deja News, which by then had lost clue and become Deja.com. The really old stuff, they seem to have gotten from a variety of sources; the donors are listed here:
I don't understand the negative spin of the article. KHTML is just as deserving of support as Gecko... and we should all be cheering this as a boost to free software in general. If we can have two strong rendering engines, that's far better than one -- and this decision can only help to drive KHTML forward. Gecko, for its part, already has plenty of momentum behind it without Apple.
I've always been impressed with Konqueror. It was my main browser for a long time -- after Netscape 4.7, and before Mozilla 1.0. I moved on to Mozilla for a variety of reasons -- but if Konqueror keeps progressing like this, who knows what I'll use in the future? I like having a choice, anyway.
I was particularly impressed when I saw KHTML ported to AtheOS (which is a lot lighter than KDE).
Overestimate? Nah. Remember that sunlight powers the entire biological world. And it's the difference between an Earth that's mostly at the temperature of liquid water, and one that would be damn near absolute zero.
For your $1000 solar cell, you've left one thing out of the equation: How long does it last? Say that it lasts 1000 years. Does it still seem expensive then?
He certainly is not, though he was a Clinton appointee. (Clinton is no liberal, either.) Bush Jr. made him chairman. I refer you to his official biography:
http://www.fcc.gov/commissioners/powell/mkp_biog ra phy.html
("Mr. Powell, a Republican"). He's SofS Colin Powell's son, by the way. He's probably what passes for a "moderate" these days, which is to say, a hard right-winger.
I take it you're one of those libertarian-minded folks who's under the delusion that the Republican party is libertarian.
While I assume (hope!) this was meant as a joke/troll, I'll answer it semi-seriously.
Open Source software is nothing less than an engine of freedom. It's free for everyone; it doesn't work otherwise. That means, yes, that oppressors are free to use it, too. But so are the oppressed -- and they always outnumber the oppressors.
Granted, the oppressed may not have as good hardware. That's a project for the Free Hardware Foundation. But in the aggregate, they have more power, especially when control of their software is in their own hands. Free software helps defeat government censorship and corporate DRM alike.
OK, so the hearing loss theory presented here is dubious; and even if we accept the premise, it would seem to require everything that you hear to be lossily compressed in order for this effect to be manifested. But there was one thing I found very useful in this article: Its clear, simple and coherent explanation of just how lossy audio compression works. I hadn't really understood it myself until now.
Might wanna snip that part out and save it to show to the curious, after cleaning up the grammar a bit.
Moderators, that was NOT off-topic, since the summary talks about the Crossover plug-in. The point is, you don't need to shell out for that, when you can just get MPlayer. (Slashdot editors seem to promote Crossover in every article that mentions QuickTime, even now.)
I don't know what he's on about with the kernel, though... I've never had that problem with MPlayer.
I think you've just answered your own question. All those steps involve time, effort, and money. For many people, much of the time, it's easier just to pay the bill than to fight it.
And don't think the corporations don't know that, and count on it.
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I saw this a few days ago on DSLReports.com: A Speakeasy customer, who was running an anonymous FTP server, with NO MP3s at all, was forwarded a threatening letter from the RIAA by his ISP. The letter actually complained that the site offered "approximately 0 sound files for download. Many of these files contain recordings owned by our member companies," etc. See the whole thread here.
Doesn't it also need a new entry in codecs.conf?
The existing Sorenson 1 entry for ffmpeg in MPlayer's codecs.conf is:
videocodec ffsvq1
info "FFmpeg Sorenson Video v1"
status working
fourcc SVQ1
driver ffmpeg
dll svq1
out YVU9
The Windows DLL entries for Sorenson 1 and 3 are:
videocodec qtsvq3
info "win32/quicktime SVQ3 decoder"
status working
fourcc SVQ3
driver qtvideo
dll "QuickTimeEssentials.qtx"
out YUY2
videocodec qtsvq1
info "win32/quicktime SVQ1 decoder"
status buggy
fourcc SVQ1
driver qtvideo
dll "QuickTime.qts"
out YVU9
By analogy with the above, the new entry should look something like this:
videocodec ffsvq3
info "FFmpeg Sorenson Video v3"
status working
fourcc SVQ3
driver ffmpeg
dll svq3
out YUY2
but I haven't tested it.
The Slashdot summary says "Google, search engine of choice for pretty much everyone, has announced that it will begin a seperate index for blogs and remove them from the normal index," but the FA says "It isn't clear if weblogs will be removed from the main search results, but precedent suggests they will be." This is the author, Andrew Orlowski's own interpretation, not a statement from Google; and IMHO, it's a bad misreading of just what the precedent is, since he goes on to talk about their Usenet archive ("Groups"), something which is naturally and fundamentally separate from the web. It would've made more sense to cite the "Images" and "News" tabs, whose results, AFAIK, are not at all filtered out of the main search results.
Personally, I've never run into the alleged problem, either.
You say "shortest school year" like that's a bad thing.
"What does God need with a starship?" - Kirk, ST V
AFAIK, DirecTV has always had a nationwide rate -- with the exception of those areas that are served through Pegasus, or whatever it's called.
Why indeed? I'm guessing it's because the guy who wrote that is a corporate shill. I'm sure this thing has its niche, but it's in no way "the way to go" for most purposes, and especially not the average Slashdot reader's desktop.
From the company's web site:
"Spheral Solar Power cells produce electricity at considerably lower cost than conventional solar technology, and on a cost-par with fossil-fuel based electricity in many regions of the world."
I hate to post this point redundantly, but we need to stop thinking of this as the "traditional", expensive solar panel in a new form factor -- it's also much cheaper, and that's even more important IMHO.
"And so on" up to a point, of course. If they'll cost half as much in five years, then (assuming your figures) they'll pay for themselves in another ten years. And ten years from now, they'll pay for themselves in only five -- fifteen years total, either way. By then we'll have crossed the line, and rapid adoption should follow.
This new material looks like it could cut the price sharply, altering the equation.
The article doesn't talk about cost in depth, but does refer to the material as "cheap". My guess is that it will be much cheaper than "conventional" panels. And that could do even more for its wide deployment than its convenience will.
Could this be the breakthrough that solar power has been waiting for? I know I want some...
This patch doesn't hurt performance. In fact, it does absolutely nothing to a normal kernel. It's only activated by an option at compile time, to build a special kernel for the "Hardware Abstraction Layer", which won't even run on bare hardware.
Here is a link to the actual patch.
Yes, it IS interesting; and no, it won't be confined to Linux hosts. (Nor guests, ultimately -- at the least, *BSD will be available.) I do agree that in a sense it looks like "giving up", though; it's certainly become less ambitious.
How about OS/2? It seems to be deliberately excluded from running.
The last time I tried them under VMWare, BeOS and QNX were extremely flaky, but improved -- there was a time when they didn't work at all.
You're mistaken -- Slirp can indeed handle listening ports on its own, though you have to set them up explicitly. In fact it works pretty much the same as forwarding through ssh.
One cool thing about Slirp is that you can run an entire network behind it. Before I ever had IP Masquerading built into my Linux kernel, and before I even had a PPP account (they cost more than shell accounts back then), I ran my LAN through Slirp using ordinary IP forwarding.
Stephen, why are you defending them? Anyone who would do this is in no way, shape or form a "nice guy". SDF is already a scapegoat, made so by NWLink. The fact that the DoSers are also villains doesn't excuse NWLink's outrageous reaction. As an ARPA member of SDF myself, I'll be keen to join in any legal action against NWLink -- with or without your endorsement.
Of course I don't condone DoSing NWLink in turn, as someone suggested. But lawsuits, yes; and spreading this story, discouraging others from doing business with them, absolutely. I think those are the kind of threats that need to be made, and carried out.
Yes, you can run something very similar under KDE. It's called Konqueror. (Hint: That's where KHTML came from.)
Google obtained the bulk of it from the former Deja News, which by then had lost clue and become Deja.com. The really old stuff, they seem to have gotten from a variety of sources; the donors are listed here:
u nc e_20.html
http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_anno
I also remember reading more about it at the time, but I can't find the references now.
With all the recent talk about Google becoming a search monopoly, we should welcome this. This will keep the pressure on Google to remain excellent.
Oh, and I know this sounds a lot like the comment I just made under the KHTML story.
I don't understand the negative spin of the article. KHTML is just as deserving of support as Gecko... and we should all be cheering this as a boost to free software in general. If we can have two strong rendering engines, that's far better than one -- and this decision can only help to drive KHTML forward. Gecko, for its part, already has plenty of momentum behind it without Apple.
I've always been impressed with Konqueror. It was my main browser for a long time -- after Netscape 4.7, and before Mozilla 1.0. I moved on to Mozilla for a variety of reasons -- but if Konqueror keeps progressing like this, who knows what I'll use in the future? I like having a choice, anyway.
I was particularly impressed when I saw KHTML ported to AtheOS (which is a lot lighter than KDE).
Overestimate? Nah. Remember that sunlight powers the entire biological world. And it's the difference between an Earth that's mostly at the temperature of liquid water, and one that would be damn near absolute zero.
For your $1000 solar cell, you've left one thing out of the equation: How long does it last? Say that it lasts 1000 years. Does it still seem expensive then?
He certainly is not, though he was a Clinton appointee. (Clinton is no liberal, either.) Bush Jr. made him chairman. I refer you to his official biography:
g ra phy.html
http://www.fcc.gov/commissioners/powell/mkp_bio
("Mr. Powell, a Republican"). He's SofS Colin Powell's son, by the way. He's probably what passes for a "moderate" these days, which is to say, a hard right-winger.
I take it you're one of those libertarian-minded folks who's under the delusion that the Republican party is libertarian.
While I assume (hope!) this was meant as a joke/troll, I'll answer it semi-seriously.
Open Source software is nothing less than an engine of freedom. It's free for everyone; it doesn't work otherwise. That means, yes, that oppressors are free to use it, too. But so are the oppressed -- and they always outnumber the oppressors.
Granted, the oppressed may not have as good hardware. That's a project for the Free Hardware Foundation. But in the aggregate, they have more power, especially when control of their software is in their own hands. Free software helps defeat government censorship and corporate DRM alike.
OK, so the hearing loss theory presented here is dubious; and even if we accept the premise, it would seem to require everything that you hear to be lossily compressed in order for this effect to be manifested. But there was one thing I found very useful in this article: Its clear, simple and coherent explanation of just how lossy audio compression works. I hadn't really understood it myself until now.
Might wanna snip that part out and save it to show to the curious, after cleaning up the grammar a bit.
Moderators, that was NOT off-topic, since the summary talks about the Crossover plug-in. The point is, you don't need to shell out for that, when you can just get MPlayer. (Slashdot editors seem to promote Crossover in every article that mentions QuickTime, even now.)
I don't know what he's on about with the kernel, though... I've never had that problem with MPlayer.
I think you've just answered your own question. All those steps involve time, effort, and money. For many people, much of the time, it's easier just to pay the bill than to fight it.
And don't think the corporations don't know that, and count on it.
You're talking about the satellite service. The article is talking about the DSL service, which is completely separate. The sat. service will remain.