It's important to remember where the "burden of proof" is here. The right to "own" ideas is not one of the fundamental human rights with which we are endowed by our Creator. It's an artifical right, created for the specific purpose of furthering progress.
So the default is for ideas and information to be "free". It's up to those who would lock them away to prove, in each case, why a bit of information should NOT be free.
ESX Server also incorporates a service console based on a Linux 2.4 kernel that is used to boot the ESX Server virtualization layer.
I'm reasonably sure this is marketing-speak for "ESX server is an application that runs on the Linux OS". Would it really be reasonable for VMWare to deal with all the low-level hardware driver crud when there's Linux right there?
You could do the transformation on the server side; you'd get the same compliance benefits. If you don't have the cycles to spare, I think it can be done in Javascript on the client end (when required) for browsers like Opera.
If the Star Wars films were in the public domain by now, as it could easily be argued they "should" be, according to the original idea of copyright law, would we ever see releases on new and better formats?
He sure goes to a lot of trouble to do simple things in a more universal way. Is it the case that the more correct you are about word processor usage, the closer you get to HTML/CSS? Should we just skip word processors and use that or LaTex?
And it works great. It hasn't been worth replacing our old Exchange setup yet, so I set up a little box running exim that handles all the incoming connections and runs them through spamassassin and clamav before forwarding to Exchange.
Talking and complaining and petitioning are a lot more likely to prevent this censorship than they are to reverse what's happening in China.
If we allow this to happen and then criticize China, it's "people who live in glass houses". If we try to keep this from happening rather than focus 100% on China, then we get your complaint. Something's got to give.
Wow, that build party sounds like fun! Where I am, we have a lot of flexibility since we're our own taxing district, and can order PCs without all the red tape. I guess that cuts us out of having a nice build party, though, since the librarians are enamored of the three-year warranty. But they came with Windows, so we should be able to run the Windows codecs.
I'm thinking of trying out LTSP, actually, and offloading the heavy lifting to a big server. It should make sense, because it's rare that more than one machine is doing anything too intensive simultaneously, so if we upgraded all the workstations there'd be a lot of CPU going to waste. I'll have to pilot it and see if it's usable. AFTER we finish our catalog conversion, of course!
It would be fun to check out your setup. I don't know if you're anywhere near I-10, but I'm through there not infrequently visiting family in New Orleans and/or Ocean Springs from Austin.
That's a good idea, to come up with some feature they'll really find useful but can't find anywhere else.
Still, I'm wondering about these codecs... Is it any more "legal" to install Quicktime on Crossover than to just take the codec and plug it into mplayer? Also, if the hardware came with Windows, that might be a pretty good defense on running the Windows codecs. It may be against the EULA but it's a lot harder to call it "piracy". Did your machines have OEM Windows or did you avoid the MS tax?
I run a public library's computers also, so this is more than idle curiosity. What do you do about the w32codecs? It sounds like you don't have them installed, so if that's true, do people complain about not being able to watch videos on news sites, or movie trailers, or the online defensive driving course they're taking?
If you're telling these people it doesn't work and to take it up with the publishers, then wow, you're a better man than I.
I really think that DRM and proprietary codecs are completely antithetical to the entire idea of a public library, more so than censorship and law enforcement accessing records. Librarians, on the whole, don't seem to understand that yet. If we could get them, as a group, to denounce DRM and proprietary codecs, we might prevent a Right to Read scenario...
So, following that logic, how is it possible to "redistrubute" your "hacks" to the protocol itself? I think it isn't. I think MySQL is full of baloney.
The inefficiency of a product's development has zero bearing on its value. A case can be made for the value of Vista being $0, because that's the price of a substitute product.
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The real computer literate person would know that once a system has been owned, it should never be trusted again.
So the default is for ideas and information to be "free". It's up to those who would lock them away to prove, in each case, why a bit of information should NOT be free.
I'm reasonably sure this is marketing-speak for "ESX server is an application that runs on the Linux OS". Would it really be reasonable for VMWare to deal with all the low-level hardware driver crud when there's Linux right there?
You could do the transformation on the server side; you'd get the same compliance benefits. If you don't have the cycles to spare, I think it can be done in Javascript on the client end (when required) for browsers like Opera.
They're very good about "oldstable".
Officially supported!
...when I see it.
If the Star Wars films were in the public domain by now, as it could easily be argued they "should" be, according to the original idea of copyright law, would we ever see releases on new and better formats?
He sure goes to a lot of trouble to do simple things in a more universal way. Is it the case that the more correct you are about word processor usage, the closer you get to HTML/CSS? Should we just skip word processors and use that or LaTex?
Yeah... What's with the Flash?
Would ol' Joe Don Baker come back? Oh boy!! They should invite Joel and the bots to the premeire.
Corruption is the cardinal sin of a CPU. If it can't compute a result accurately, it should shut down rather than give a wrong answer.
And it works great. It hasn't been worth replacing our old Exchange setup yet, so I set up a little box running exim that handles all the incoming connections and runs them through spamassassin and clamav before forwarding to Exchange.
There are a number of companies that'll sell you a standalone device that filters spam. I think it's the only thing you might be qualified to use...
AMD beat Intel in that race any way you look at it.
Thanks to Intel, Bumfuckgrad has expandability built in!
If we allow this to happen and then criticize China, it's "people who live in glass houses". If we try to keep this from happening rather than focus 100% on China, then we get your complaint. Something's got to give.
I'm thinking of trying out LTSP, actually, and offloading the heavy lifting to a big server. It should make sense, because it's rare that more than one machine is doing anything too intensive simultaneously, so if we upgraded all the workstations there'd be a lot of CPU going to waste. I'll have to pilot it and see if it's usable. AFTER we finish our catalog conversion, of course!
It would be fun to check out your setup. I don't know if you're anywhere near I-10, but I'm through there not infrequently visiting family in New Orleans and/or Ocean Springs from Austin.
Still, I'm wondering about these codecs... Is it any more "legal" to install Quicktime on Crossover than to just take the codec and plug it into mplayer? Also, if the hardware came with Windows, that might be a pretty good defense on running the Windows codecs. It may be against the EULA but it's a lot harder to call it "piracy". Did your machines have OEM Windows or did you avoid the MS tax?
If you're telling these people it doesn't work and to take it up with the publishers, then wow, you're a better man than I.
I really think that DRM and proprietary codecs are completely antithetical to the entire idea of a public library, more so than censorship and law enforcement accessing records. Librarians, on the whole, don't seem to understand that yet. If we could get them, as a group, to denounce DRM and proprietary codecs, we might prevent a Right to Read scenario...
What else did he do that didn't make any sense?
So, following that logic, how is it possible to "redistrubute" your "hacks" to the protocol itself? I think it isn't. I think MySQL is full of baloney.
Just because they say it is? I'm not trolling, I really want to know.
The inefficiency of a product's development has zero bearing on its value. A case can be made for the value of Vista being $0, because that's the price of a substitute product.
The oh-so-mighty journalists really do seem to think they're above the law.