That's why I enjoy living in the City I live in too -- we have no smoking in restaurants unless they're seperately ventilated. Its wonderful for both parties. The restaurant owners complained, of course, about having to build the ventilation systems...
Americans (in general) _want_ the best (to drive a BMW / Ferrari / etc., to own a large home, etc.) but are too greedy to pay for it (and end up getting crap).
Thus the cycle continues... everyone trying to better the other while not realising that everyone else is doing the same to them.
My comment was not that all computers are recording devices, but that many computers do infact have digital audio recording as their primary purpose. I work across the hall from a mid-sized recording studio that uses PCs and Macs as recording devices only (well, recording, mixing and effects processing).
The ironic part is that several of the people who record there never record to CD or DAT at all, but simply sample down to MP3 and publish on mp3.com. I guess that means they're never using a recording device to publish their music.
The only obvious error I found in the appelate court response is contained in this section. The appelate court interprets the home recording act as requiring that the primary or main function of a device be to create digital recordings. Computers, however, become misunderstood because they are, by nature, multifunction devices. A home recording device, such as a VCR, can easily be created out of a PC that only runs one piece of software and can be sold as such. Internet appliance devices are already made out of general purpose components and sold as "Internet only" devices although they can be modified easily to be general purpose computers.
There are many cases of recording studios that use general purpose computers running only recording and audio editing software. These computers must be considered general purpose in nature, although they should not be excluded from consideration as audio recording devices. The inclusion of a sound card capable of both input for recording and output of recorded or generated audio ought to include computers as being as capable of recording digital audio as a primary recording device.
17 U.S.C. ß 1008 (emphases added). Napster contends that MP3 file exchange is the type of "noncommercial use" protected from infringement actions by the statute. Napster asserts it cannot be secondarily liable for users' nonactionable exchange of copyrighted musical recordings.
The district court rejected Napster's argument, stating that the Audio Home Recording Act is "irrelevant" to the action because: (1) plaintiffs did not bring claims under the Audio Home Recording Act; and (2) the Audio Home Recording Act does not cover the downloading of MP3 files. Napster, 114 F. Supp. 2d at 916 n.19.
We agree with the district court that the Audio Home Recording Act does not cover the downloading of MP3 files to computer hard drives. First, "[u]nder the plain meaning of the Act's definition of digital audio recording devices, computers (and their hard drives) are not digital audio recording devices because their 'primary purpose' is not to make digital audio copied recordings." Recording Indus. Ass'n of Am. v. Diamond Multimedia Sys., Inc., 180 F.3d 1072, 1078 (9th Cir. 1999). Second, notwithstanding Napster's claim that computers are "digital audio recording devices," computers do not make "digital music recordings" as defined by the Audio Home Recording Act. Id. at 1077 (citing S. Rep. 102-294) ("There are simply no grounds in either the plain language of the definition or in the legislative history for interpreting the term 'digital musical recording' to include songs fixed on computer hard drives.").
What he may not realise is that distributiors and VARs are the ones who (usually) get the first calls from their clients. If those people (like RedHat) can modify the software (a la GPL) to behave like the rest of their software, they'll find it easier to support themselves. RedHat distributes a version of the Linux kernel with several patches added so that their customers will be happy (based on their own presuppositions). Does the kernel mailing list still get questions from those users? Of course. Does it take much to tell them to contact their distributor instead? No.
If the other manufacturers want to make life easy on themselves, they could always just use rsync to update virus signatures. They couldn't* be sued for the method because of the huge amount of prior art (using rsync to update things... ).
Even with ReiserFS, there is some overhead of space and time involved in managing files. Each file has a directory entry and an
inode or two; while ReiserFS may unambiguously improve the time efficiency, that does not result in the space overhead falling to
zero.
This is very true, although I was more concerned with time than space at the current price of a few hundred GB of disk space.
If he tried to find some places for agreement, his software would probably get used more.
This, and providing "--help" options to his programs I suggested as being helpful... right before the deluge of hate-mail...
He thinks about the notion of proving correct behaviour
He never did reply to my philosophical statement that his famous statement, "profile, don't speculate" was incorrect since speculation is scientifically required for eventual proofs to happen.
Qmail and Dnscache are still personal favorite pieces of software for servers, although there are many things they could do much better than they do. Luckily, Dan seems to attract a large number of patch-writers and individuals who kindly host useful websites like qmail.org and djbdns.org.
mbox is only more efficient in terms of disk space if your file system works that way. If you use ReiserFS, you'd probably get better efficiency out of Maildir since its tuned for lots of small files.
On the DJB note, Dan and I have gotten into our flames on his lists, but some of his software ideas are still very good. The fact that he basically doesn't care what anyone else thinks most of the time seems to me to be why he's succeeded in just writing software that goes against the status quo from the ground up. Anyone else would've crumbled at the criticism.
I think UW recommends the "mbx" format for most situations - fast, safe in concurrent-access situations, etc. Clearly unlike either UNIX mbox or Qmail maildir.
Does someone want to explain how mbox is better for concurrent access than Maildir? If you do some good coding, they're equal. For Maildir though, you just do read locks on individual files in your Maildir when opening them to present them to the user, and you create new files to write new messages, which doesn't have any effect on (eg 25) other processes accessing that Maildir.
Tune your file system for what its used for. Your/home directories (where the mail will be stored by default) should be set to have a relatively large number of inodes because of a tendancy toward small files in there.
Read the docs on updatedb -- set the execlusions to include "/home/*/Maildir" if you wish.
Maildir also allows for multiple processes accessing a 'mailbox' because it uses per-file locking on per-message files, not a lock on an entire mbox itself. This allows for situations where 6 people all have the same IMAP shared folders for shared incoming mail (like an accounting office, or tech support) without locking problems for the MUA or IMAP server.
You may see it as 'allowance' and not 'pushing', but the reality of the attitude from the inside is definately to push.
How many official FSF people wouldn't push a company to use GPL'd solutions? Not hand it to them and smile, saying "here, isn't it wonderful?" but "you _should_ use this... "
You (along with many others before you) have struck the nail on the head. The problem is the number of people who feel the need for convergence. IMHO, Windows is convergence -- move to it if thats what you want.
OTOH, if you are a bit of a zealot and want all software to be FSF "free", by all means, promote the GPL.
Personally, I choose licenses based on what my goals are for a given project. If I'm writing something that I'd like to give to the community and involve community help in, I make it GPL. If I wanted to release a large commercial project (like, for example, a good TCP/IP stack), I'd probably make it a BSD-style license to encourage all vendors to use it.
The FSF version of that last sentence would probably be "license it under the GPL to force other vendors to use the GPL" but that's not my attitude -- better to convince with evidence than to coerce.
"A man convinced against his will
is of the same opinion still."
I played BRE every morning before leaving for class, then checked in again at night when I got home... for years.
;-)
We were a part of a very large network of gamers -- it was a lot of fun playing that way! That's why I've been playing games like Utopia for a while now.
Catholicism, the religion, is indeed capitalised. The name "Catholic" was chosen by the Catholic Church because it meant "universal". They were thus stating "We are the universal Church".
The word catholic, on the other hand, is just a word that means universal or complete.
CNet hardware has the Raite Player listed with user feedback comments as well. They don't mention some of the more interesting features like region bypassing, of course.
CNet's help.com has a list for user Q&A that mentions the Apex drive.
In case anyone else almost didn't use a search engine, the Raite player's website is raite715.com, although it seems they've replaced the Raite 715 player with another.
In case anyone else almost didn't use a search engine, the Raite player's website is raite715.com, although it seems they've replaced the Raite 715 player with another.
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That's why I enjoy living in the City I live in too -- we have no smoking in restaurants unless they're seperately ventilated. Its wonderful for both parties. The restaurant owners complained, of course, about having to build the ventilation systems ...
Americans (in general) _want_ the best (to drive a BMW / Ferrari / etc., to own a large home, etc.) but are too greedy to pay for it (and end up getting crap).
Thus the cycle continues... everyone trying to better the other while not realising that everyone else is doing the same to them.
It is definately cultural.
My comment was not that all computers are recording devices, but that many computers do infact have digital audio recording as their primary purpose. I work across the hall from a mid-sized recording studio that uses PCs and Macs as recording devices only (well, recording, mixing and effects processing).
The ironic part is that several of the people who record there never record to CD or DAT at all, but simply sample down to MP3 and publish on mp3.com. I guess that means they're never using a recording device to publish their music.
Depends on your pronunciation of pissed or pleased (both of which can sound like a single syllable word).
(See quote below)
The only obvious error I found in the appelate court response is contained in this section. The appelate court interprets the home recording act as requiring that the primary or main function of a device be to create digital recordings. Computers, however, become misunderstood because they are, by nature, multifunction devices. A home recording device, such as a VCR, can easily be created out of a PC that only runs one piece of software and can be sold as such. Internet appliance devices are already made out of general purpose components and sold as "Internet only" devices although they can be modified easily to be general purpose computers.
There are many cases of recording studios that use general purpose computers running only recording and audio editing software. These computers must be considered general purpose in nature, although they should not be excluded from consideration as audio recording devices. The inclusion of a sound card capable of both input for recording and output of recorded or generated audio ought to include computers as being as capable of recording digital audio as a primary recording device.
What he may not realise is that distributiors and VARs are the ones who (usually) get the first calls from their clients. If those people (like RedHat) can modify the software (a la GPL) to behave like the rest of their software, they'll find it easier to support themselves. RedHat distributes a version of the Linux kernel with several patches added so that their customers will be happy (based on their own presuppositions). Does the kernel mailing list still get questions from those users? Of course. Does it take much to tell them to contact their distributor instead? No.
I don't believe _he_ has changed his views on the GPL -- but many of the people writing 'djbware' compatible software use the GPL or BSD licenses.
You know Russ, if I could've remembered your name at the time of posting (yeah, yeah, I could've loaded the sites), I would've credited you.
...
See you on the lists
If the other manufacturers want to make life easy on themselves, they could always just use rsync to update virus signatures. They couldn't* be sued for the method because of the huge amount of prior art (using rsync to update things ... ).
... but ...
* Sure, they could be sued
This is very true, although I was more concerned with time than space at the current price of a few hundred GB of disk space.
This, and providing "--help" options to his programs I suggested as being helpful ... right before the deluge of hate-mail ...
He never did reply to my philosophical statement that his famous statement, "profile, don't speculate" was incorrect since speculation is scientifically required for eventual proofs to happen.
Qmail and Dnscache are still personal favorite pieces of software for servers, although there are many things they could do much better than they do. Luckily, Dan seems to attract a large number of patch-writers and individuals who kindly host useful websites like qmail.org and djbdns.org.
mbox is only more efficient in terms of disk space if your file system works that way. If you use ReiserFS, you'd probably get better efficiency out of Maildir since its tuned for lots of small files.
On the DJB note, Dan and I have gotten into our flames on his lists, but some of his software ideas are still very good. The fact that he basically doesn't care what anyone else thinks most of the time seems to me to be why he's succeeded in just writing software that goes against the status quo from the ground up. Anyone else would've crumbled at the criticism.
Take a look at Courier-IMAP. It handles Maildir quite efficiently.
Does someone want to explain how mbox is better for concurrent access than Maildir? If you do some good coding, they're equal. For Maildir though, you just do read locks on individual files in your Maildir when opening them to present them to the user, and you create new files to write new messages, which doesn't have any effect on (eg 25) other processes accessing that Maildir.
Use rgrep or GNU grep's -r option to do a recursive search:
grep -ri "slashdot" ~/Maildir/*A few points:
Tune your file system for what its used for. Your /home directories (where the mail will be stored by default) should be set to have a relatively large number of inodes because of a tendancy toward small files in there.
Read the docs on updatedb -- set the execlusions to include "/home/*/Maildir" if you wish.
Maildir also allows for multiple processes accessing a 'mailbox' because it uses per-file locking on per-message files, not a lock on an entire mbox itself. This allows for situations where 6 people all have the same IMAP shared folders for shared incoming mail (like an accounting office, or tech support) without locking problems for the MUA or IMAP server.
You may see it as 'allowance' and not 'pushing', but the reality of the attitude from the inside is definately to push.
... "
How many official FSF people wouldn't push a company to use GPL'd solutions? Not hand it to them and smile, saying "here, isn't it wonderful?" but "you _should_ use this
Why not make an internal serial SCSI spec with smaller cables?
You (along with many others before you) have struck the nail on the head. The problem is the number of people who feel the need for convergence. IMHO, Windows is convergence -- move to it if thats what you want.
OTOH, if you are a bit of a zealot and want all software to be FSF "free", by all means, promote the GPL.
Personally, I choose licenses based on what my goals are for a given project. If I'm writing something that I'd like to give to the community and involve community help in, I make it GPL. If I wanted to release a large commercial project (like, for example, a good TCP/IP stack), I'd probably make it a BSD-style license to encourage all vendors to use it.
The FSF version of that last sentence would probably be "license it under the GPL to force other vendors to use the GPL" but that's not my attitude -- better to convince with evidence than to coerce.
"A man convinced against his will
is of the same opinion still."
Interestingly enough, I just realised that Mehul Patel, the author of BRE is also the author of Earth and Utopia, the games now hosted at swirve.com.
Actually, it would be nice to have a forum option for moderation adjectives (hint ;-).
> Confusing / Jumbled / Ignorant
> Concise / Accurate
> Long winded / Bloated / Rambling
etc.
I played BRE every morning before leaving for class, then checked in again at night when I got home ... for years.
We were a part of a very large network of gamers -- it was a lot of fun playing that way! That's why I've been playing games like Utopia for a while now.
Catholicism, the religion, is indeed capitalised. The name "Catholic" was chosen by the Catholic Church because it meant "universal". They were thus stating "We are the universal Church".
The word catholic, on the other hand, is just a word that means universal or complete.
CNet hardware has the Raite Player listed with user feedback comments as well. They don't mention some of the more interesting features like region bypassing, of course.
CNet's help.com has a list for user Q&A that mentions the Apex drive.
In case anyone else almost didn't use a search engine, the Raite player's website is raite715.com, although it seems they've replaced the Raite 715 player with another.
In case anyone else almost didn't use a search engine, the Raite player's website is raite715.com, although it seems they've replaced the Raite 715 player with another.