Which, if the artists hurry their asses up, will mean a fortune for the artists. You can't really compare this on a "cost per song" basis. Compare it to the price of CD singles which I've noticed are between $8-$10 now. That's a big savings when most singles are maybe 3 songs.
I hope this does well. I hope that this makes the RIAA pull their head out of their collective arse and learn how to actually listen to customer demand. I know it probably won't, but you have to be a bit optimistic.
Here's a tip... when you want someone to use mirrors for a site and you post on Slashdot saying so, POST THE LINKS TOO! That way we don't have to go the heavily shashdotted servers to find the list of mirrors.;) I figure I'd toss these here in case your main server gets chewed up and spit out.
Is this called karma whoring?
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This page explains a lot. If the proper warrants were obtained, if the person is believe to be a flight risk, then they can be held. Why you might not perceive him as a flight risk, it is obvious to me that IF IN FACT HE IS GUILTY WITH THE CRIMES HE HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH he poses a serious flight risk. You CAN NOT assume such a thing in a case of this nature. From the article:
As a practical matter, persons held as material witnesses are rarely released unless the government is ready to release them. If the detainee challenges their detention, the government has other options, such as filing criminal charges against the detainee. This strategy was used against Terry Nichols. Nichols was originally detained as a material witness in connection with the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Nichols objected to his detention, arguing that there was no evidence that he would flee or otherwise be unavailable. The government then filed criminal charges against Nichols, making it irrelevant whether he would flee as a material witness, and kept him in jail as a criminal suspect.
You know where that lead. I am not sitting here saying whether this man is guilty or not guilty, only that the goverment was well within their legal bounds on this one. There are much worse thing with the legal system than someone being held for 6 weeks, then charged with a crime. That's all I'm saying.
Except for the "never seen again" part, that sounds pretty damn close to "disappeared" to me.
Except for him not being dead, and us knowing where he is, and him currently on the way to the store to get some coffee... someone shot him and dumped the body in an unknown location.
Who cares about businesses? The point of this article, and of this entire discussion, is the desktop. If you can strip out the network part of X and increase the speed, DO IT. It's not like you change the source of every version of X ever released when you do something like that, for fucks sake.
No, it's a very good idea. The overabundance of choices scares the shit out of newbies. They have no clue where to start. The truth of the matter is, SOMEONE needs to come along and do exactly what the author of this article is proposing. To put it in programming language terms, Linux needs less perl (there's more than one way to do things) and more Python (there's one way to do things, and ONLY one way to do things). Choice is good, but not at the expense of possible users.
People have been held as material witnesses for decades. It's nothing new. The only difference here is that he's a techie. End of story. None of you would give two shits about him if he was some random fry cook at McDonalds.
Material witnesses can be held for extended periods of time if it is believed that they pose a flight risk, or if they may be in danger by being without constant protection. There isn't any shady bullshit going on here, material witnesses are held all the time. Learn how the legal system works, THEN post.
Okay, so you have to use the stock heatsink. What's the problem? As long as you're not overclocking, it should be fine. If it blows up, it's covered under warranty. If you're overclocking it, thermal compound or not, YOU HAVE VOIDED YOUR WARRANTY ALREADY. The analogy at the end of that article is fucking stupid.
Look at it this way, if you applied the same criteria to selecting a car, everyone would be driving a low power, fuel efficient station wagon with rain tires and foot-thick rubber bumpers all the way around.
No, you would simply void your warranty by adding non-stock items on the car. Oh, wait, that's right, YOU DO. ANY TIME you heavily modify something, YOU VOID THE FUCKING WARRANTY. When you decide to overclock your chip, YOU DECIDE TO VOID TEH WARRANTY. When you put a V8 in your Hyundai, YOU ARE VOIDING THE WARRANTY. It's not that difficult to understand, people.
This OS is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!!
Maybe I'm just stupid. If someone threatened me with a BS lawsuit like that my response would be three simple words. Bring it on. I have the time to fight crap like this.
The problem isn't one of money. It's one of inclination. Are you willing to put up with a ton of BS for a long time to prove yourself right? Personally, I am. Then again I'm an annoying little bastard that's stupid enough to act as my own lawyer.
The people that wrote and contributed to this book are obviously NOT newbies. I don't see where anyone gets that idea. Mistakes happen, documentation blows, and UNIX users are uniformly childish assholes when it comes to teaching new users. Combine the three and you have a few damn good reasons for anyone, and I mean ANYONE to hate UNIX.
If someone is so socially retarded that making fun of what TEXT EDITOR someone uses passes for fun then they obviously need to grow the fuck up and go outside (you know, the thing with the bright flaming thing with all the blue around it?). Personally, I hate vi. I'm not even that big on emacs anymore. I use jed on the command line and nedit elsewhere. Both have all the FUNCTIONALITY of vi or emacs without the bullshit like no real file>open dialog and things like that.
But the question is, IS HE REALLY VIOLATING THE GPL? Reselling of GPL'd software by ANYONE is in fact permitted. The question becomes do you have to retain the software title? My thought is YES, if the program itself still uses that title. However, if the guy went through and took out all references to the name of the program, replacing it with "Luxuriosity" then it should be considered a fork since the source was modified and is permissible. A rather WEAK fork, but a fork nonetheless.
Really the only problem that I see is the (possible) covering up of the real name of the program. Selling CD's of free software is permitted, and in fact encouraged.
Slashdot Mirror
Which, if the artists hurry their asses up, will mean a fortune for the artists. You can't really compare this on a "cost per song" basis. Compare it to the price of CD singles which I've noticed are between $8-$10 now. That's a big savings when most singles are maybe 3 songs.
I hope this does well. I hope that this makes the RIAA pull their head out of their collective arse and learn how to actually listen to customer demand. I know it probably won't, but you have to be a bit optimistic.
LOL, I hear you. I could only imagine the panic one must feel when they wake up to find themselves on the front of /..
"Mmmm... coffee... *click click* http://slashdot.org Hmm... wait, that's me. SHIT! *C|N>K* Better start selling blood for bandwidth money..."
Here's a tip... when you want someone to use mirrors for a site and you post on Slashdot saying so, POST THE LINKS TOO! That way we don't have to go the heavily shashdotted servers to find the list of mirrors. ;) I figure I'd toss these here in case your main server gets chewed up and spit out.
m l http://blfs.learnbyexample.com/blfs/intro.shtml http://beyond.lfs.130th.net/blfs/intro.shtml http://beyond.ca.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/intro.s html http://beyond.us.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/intro.s html
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Is this called karma whoring?
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http://beyond.hu.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/intro.
Why not? It's better than searching through the arcane BS that passes for documentation on some of these programs.
http://www.rcfp.org/secretjustice/terrorism/materi alwitness.html
This page explains a lot. If the proper warrants were obtained, if the person is believe to be a flight risk, then they can be held. Why you might not perceive him as a flight risk, it is obvious to me that IF IN FACT HE IS GUILTY WITH THE CRIMES HE HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH he poses a serious flight risk. You CAN NOT assume such a thing in a case of this nature. From the article:
As a practical matter, persons held as material witnesses are rarely released unless the government is ready to release them. If the detainee challenges their detention, the government has other options, such as filing criminal charges against the detainee. This strategy was used against Terry Nichols. Nichols was originally detained as a material witness in connection with the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Nichols objected to his detention, arguing that there was no evidence that he would flee or otherwise be unavailable. The government then filed criminal charges against Nichols, making it irrelevant whether he would flee as a material witness, and kept him in jail as a criminal suspect.
You know where that lead. I am not sitting here saying whether this man is guilty or not guilty, only that the goverment was well within their legal bounds on this one. There are much worse thing with the legal system than someone being held for 6 weeks, then charged with a crime. That's all I'm saying.
Except for the "never seen again" part, that sounds pretty damn close to "disappeared" to me.
Except for him not being dead, and us knowing where he is, and him currently on the way to the store to get some coffee... someone shot him and dumped the body in an unknown location.
Who cares about businesses? The point of this article, and of this entire discussion, is the desktop. If you can strip out the network part of X and increase the speed, DO IT. It's not like you change the source of every version of X ever released when you do something like that, for fucks sake.
No, it's a very good idea. The overabundance of choices scares the shit out of newbies. They have no clue where to start. The truth of the matter is, SOMEONE needs to come along and do exactly what the author of this article is proposing. To put it in programming language terms, Linux needs less perl (there's more than one way to do things) and more Python (there's one way to do things, and ONLY one way to do things). Choice is good, but not at the expense of possible users.
People have been held as material witnesses for decades. It's nothing new. The only difference here is that he's a techie. End of story. None of you would give two shits about him if he was some random fry cook at McDonalds.
Would Benjamin Franklin have been arrested as a terrorist if he were alive today!
No, he'd have moved to another country like the pilgrims did. Duh.
If this keeps going, the Chinies might endup having more freedom that the folks inthe USA.
I severely fucking doubt it.
Material witnesses can be held for extended periods of time if it is believed that they pose a flight risk, or if they may be in danger by being without constant protection. There isn't any shady bullshit going on here, material witnesses are held all the time. Learn how the legal system works, THEN post.
So? Like MP3 or ACC is any better than OGG? All software has a stupid name when you try to fit it into a three letter file extension.
Yeah, it's jsut another 419 scam like the Theory of Relativity. Those damn Nigerians will say anything to screw someone out of millions of dollars.
*It's a joke. Laugh.*
And if you're using your proc to its fullest potential, you're probably upgrading every year or so anyway.
*DING* We have a winner! Shit happens, you have to wait for it to get fixed. End of story. Now quit overclocking. ;)
Oh hell, I need to triple check my spelling from now on. Teh? I sound like a fucking Counterstrike player. *SHUDDER*
Okay, so you have to use the stock heatsink. What's the problem? As long as you're not overclocking, it should be fine. If it blows up, it's covered under warranty. If you're overclocking it, thermal compound or not, YOU HAVE VOIDED YOUR WARRANTY ALREADY. The analogy at the end of that article is fucking stupid.
Look at it this way, if you applied the same criteria to selecting a car, everyone would be driving a low power, fuel efficient station wagon with rain tires and foot-thick rubber bumpers all the way around.
No, you would simply void your warranty by adding non-stock items on the car. Oh, wait, that's right, YOU DO. ANY TIME you heavily modify something, YOU VOID THE FUCKING WARRANTY. When you decide to overclock your chip, YOU DECIDE TO VOID TEH WARRANTY. When you put a V8 in your Hyundai, YOU ARE VOIDING THE WARRANTY. It's not that difficult to understand, people.
This OS is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!!
THIS IS AN EX-OPERATING SYSTEM!!
Maybe I'm just stupid. If someone threatened me with a BS lawsuit like that my response would be three simple words. Bring it on. I have the time to fight crap like this. The problem isn't one of money. It's one of inclination. Are you willing to put up with a ton of BS for a long time to prove yourself right? Personally, I am. Then again I'm an annoying little bastard that's stupid enough to act as my own lawyer.
The people that wrote and contributed to this book are obviously NOT newbies. I don't see where anyone gets that idea. Mistakes happen, documentation blows, and UNIX users are uniformly childish assholes when it comes to teaching new users. Combine the three and you have a few damn good reasons for anyone, and I mean ANYONE to hate UNIX.
That may be very well, but there are editors with staggeringly tiny footprints that are much better suited to recovery disks.
If someone is so socially retarded that making fun of what TEXT EDITOR someone uses passes for fun then they obviously need to grow the fuck up and go outside (you know, the thing with the bright flaming thing with all the blue around it?). Personally, I hate vi. I'm not even that big on emacs anymore. I use jed on the command line and nedit elsewhere. Both have all the FUNCTIONALITY of vi or emacs without the bullshit like no real file>open dialog and things like that.
Obviously, these people had no idea either how to use UNIX or who was using UNIX and why.
Actually, I think they could all use UNIX perfectly and were making a rather humorous point. Or I could be missing something.
But the question is, IS HE REALLY VIOLATING THE GPL? Reselling of GPL'd software by ANYONE is in fact permitted. The question becomes do you have to retain the software title? My thought is YES, if the program itself still uses that title. However, if the guy went through and took out all references to the name of the program, replacing it with "Luxuriosity" then it should be considered a fork since the source was modified and is permissible. A rather WEAK fork, but a fork nonetheless.
Really the only problem that I see is the (possible) covering up of the real name of the program. Selling CD's of free software is permitted, and in fact encouraged.