In this corner, wearing white and silver, rabid Mac Fan-boys who won't hear a bad word said about the greatest company in the world. And in the other corner, wearing pale yellow with red accent - the Tufte Info-graphic Fan club who won't hear a bad word said about their patron saint.
How about a Nokia 6100? You can get them fairly cheaply these days. They are really small but the screen is quite big. Battery lasts for ages. You might be able to overlook the java given all the other benefits.
That's a very good and subtle point. The conditions of your Sveasoft subscription are not _necessarily_ related to your 'right' to distribute the source.
Just because Sveasoft is responding to someone who redistributes their source code in a tit-for-tat fashion doesn't mean this source code distributer is being prevented (in a legal sense) from releasing the code.
Of course, another question is if pre-release software should even be covered by the GPL. It seems a fair enough assumption that if it isn't ready for general consumption (ie it hasn't be "released" yet) then one shouldn't expect an entitlement to give it away. Of course, you don't want software perpetually in beta or pre-release either. I imagine there must be some break point after which something can be considered a de-facto release.
Put another way, if you sent some modified, half finished code you were working (whose origins were under GPL) to some friends for comment, would you want it released to everyone? Probably not. You'd want their feedback and then an opportunity to fix it up and then release it when it's good and ready.
OpenTV makes a set top box decoder software for interactive television. Basically, they made an STB OS that lets you send programs to it that are encoded in the MPEG brodcast stream.
When working on OpenTV projects, we used to joke that it was anything but open. These guys make you pay for everything and their standard is so closed it is not funny. I believe the 'open' in their name indicates that their OS will run on different set-top boxes (ie STBs made by different manufacturers) but the truth is that this a non-trivial affair.
I remember much cursing and swearing during OpenTV projects. Doesn't surprise me that they are involved in some shifty deal. Details wise, I'd love to learn more about what is being alleged.
Don't get me started on interactive television either...
I think there is a lot guilt associated with work time and productivity. Let's face it, you can goof of all you like so long as you at least 'look' like you are doing work. Part of this is the, "we are all in it together attitude". It kind of sucks if you have a deadline to meet and everyone around is having a good old fashioned frag fest.
Likewise, the last thing most bosses want is to be seen with an unproductive team. So even if you are just posting to Slashdot, it appears much more acceptable. Hell I get jumpy when a website has too many pictures on it! (And lets not even talk about the celebrity photos on imdb.)
Also there is that dangerous line where work is made to feel like home and you just end up hanging around work all the time, being neither really productive or having much of a life.
How times have changed since the dot.com bubble eh? Gone are the days of playing Tony Hawk on the playstation at work... hell we don't even have a stero at work, much less a playstation!
One could argue that The Sims Online is a graphical Mush. I mean it is social... Sadly it seems that while MU* seemed to attract bright people who could communicate, the Sims is just middle america on-line.
Okay, maybe it's just a changing demographic. There seemed to be no shortage of sci-fi muds and mushs (particularly of the fantasy kind). But I do agree with you, where has the role playing gone?
One of my favorite quotes of the pre-web days was how Muds were to IRC what herion is to marijuana.
Try as I can, I can't quite figure out what exactly you mean by "(the top and bottom would be cropped off in theatres)". As I understand it, when you see a tv ratio image in the theatres the left and right sides are not in use rather than the image being enlarged and cropped.
For what it's worth, I debated long and hard, and despite wanting a widescreen tv, really badly, there just aren't enough tv programs in New Zealand that are widescreen (about none I think) - so I'll live with black bands during movies - at least until I can afford a projector...
That's great but how much annonymous house music can you listen to without thinking it all sounds the same? No offense but half way through that 90 minute live set, you are bound to ask yourself: "Self, have I heard this vocal sample before?" Similarly, finding that great section of a live mix is a huge pain in the ass. The granularity of the sliders doesn't seem to hold up when you are dealing with a 150meg mp3 file.
Ahh... the old beige G3s... Tell me, does the desk shake when the cd drive spins up?
Actually, I think of all the macs I've use, the beige G3 was one of my favs. It just worked... and worked, and worked. Dunno. Maybe I got lucky with my model. I even installed mxlinux on it (just as a joke really). There's a perverse thrill about booting a mac up in front of a bunch of designers only to end up with a command line interface. The looks on their faces was worth the effort alone!
But this does highlight an issue raised from a previous post. Is a T1 going to be enough? Oversubscribing is common business practice in the telco world, but even if you had a peak of 10% the residents on-line at the same time you could easily swamp a T1.
[troll bait on] I'm sure you'd want to restrict the ability of the residents to add their own NAT as well... just to save bandwidth(sorry, couldn't resist) [troll bait off]
Isn't that feeling of being pissed at Apple just part of being a Mac fan? I remember that feeling very well:
1) Buying a Plus two weeks befor the Clasic came out.
2) Buying a Powerbook 140 only to have it fixed 4 times before it become "discontinued"
3) Bying a LaserWriter NTR for $2,500 back in'91, cuz it was the cheapest way to print postscript - reliably.
4) Bying a PowerPC 6100 (pizza box) only to watch my dad's Perfoma our perform it 6 months later.
I had to switch to a PC if for no other reason than to transfer my hostilities to a more worthy villan.
So help me God, I'm desperately wanting to by an ipod - bring on the heartache...
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In this corner, wearing white and silver, rabid Mac Fan-boys who won't hear a bad word said about the greatest company in the world.
And in the other corner, wearing pale yellow with red accent - the Tufte Info-graphic Fan club who won't hear a bad word said about their patron saint.
Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets.
Are you ready to rumble?
How about a Nokia 6100? You can get them fairly cheaply these days. They are really small but the screen is quite big. Battery lasts for ages. You might be able to overlook the java given all the other benefits.
not exactly something you need the great gods of google to answer for you.
Nice joke though. If I had mod points, you would have got some. +5 Bad Pun.
One of the many great Calvin & Hobbes lines. It's really hard to find a good time or a place to use it though.
"What's the point in being cool if you can't wear a sombero" on the other hand is great for just about any occasion....
Just because Sveasoft is responding to someone who redistributes their source code in a tit-for-tat fashion doesn't mean this source code distributer is being prevented (in a legal sense) from releasing the code.
Of course, another question is if pre-release software should even be covered by the GPL. It seems a fair enough assumption that if it isn't ready for general consumption (ie it hasn't be "released" yet) then one shouldn't expect an entitlement to give it away. Of course, you don't want software perpetually in beta or pre-release either. I imagine there must be some break point after which something can be considered a de-facto release.
Put another way, if you sent some modified, half finished code you were working (whose origins were under GPL) to some friends for comment, would you want it released to everyone? Probably not. You'd want their feedback and then an opportunity to fix it up and then release it when it's good and ready.
When working on OpenTV projects, we used to joke that it was anything but open. These guys make you pay for everything and their standard is so closed it is not funny. I believe the 'open' in their name indicates that their OS will run on different set-top boxes (ie STBs made by different manufacturers) but the truth is that this a non-trivial affair.
I remember much cursing and swearing during OpenTV projects. Doesn't surprise me that they are involved in some shifty deal. Details wise, I'd love to learn more about what is being alleged.
Don't get me started on interactive television either...
Likewise, the last thing most bosses want is to be seen with an unproductive team. So even if you are just posting to Slashdot, it appears much more acceptable. Hell I get jumpy when a website has too many pictures on it! (And lets not even talk about the celebrity photos on imdb.)
Also there is that dangerous line where work is made to feel like home and you just end up hanging around work all the time, being neither really productive or having much of a life.
How times have changed since the dot.com bubble eh? Gone are the days of playing Tony Hawk on the playstation at work... hell we don't even have a stero at work, much less a playstation!
that should say "heroin". {Fill in the sentence... "Slashdot needs a spell checker like Bush needs ...."}
Okay, maybe it's just a changing demographic. There seemed to be no shortage of sci-fi muds and mushs (particularly of the fantasy kind). But I do agree with you, where has the role playing gone?
One of my favorite quotes of the pre-web days was how Muds were to IRC what herion is to marijuana.
Could be worse... you could be like janitor with a bucket and a mop cleaning up after the system dumps core all over the place.
For what it's worth, I debated long and hard, and despite wanting a widescreen tv, really badly, there just aren't enough tv programs in New Zealand that are widescreen (about none I think) - so I'll live with black bands during movies - at least until I can afford a projector...
That's great but how much annonymous house music can you listen to without thinking it all sounds the same? No offense but half way through that 90 minute live set, you are bound to ask yourself: "Self, have I heard this vocal sample before?" Similarly, finding that great section of a live mix is a huge pain in the ass. The granularity of the sliders doesn't seem to hold up when you are dealing with a 150meg mp3 file.
...but this could be just me.
Ahh... the old beige G3s... Tell me, does the desk shake when the cd drive spins up?
Actually, I think of all the macs I've use, the beige G3 was one of my favs. It just worked... and worked, and worked. Dunno. Maybe I got lucky with my model. I even installed mxlinux on it (just as a joke really). There's a perverse thrill about booting a mac up in front of a bunch of designers only to end up with a command line interface. The looks on their faces was worth the effort alone!
There's a strange elegance to this plan.
But this does highlight an issue raised from a previous post. Is a T1 going to be enough? Oversubscribing is common business practice in the telco world, but even if you had a peak of 10% the residents on-line at the same time you could easily swamp a T1.
[troll bait on] I'm sure you'd want to restrict the ability of the residents to add their own NAT as well... just to save bandwidth(sorry, couldn't resist) [troll bait off]
Isn't that feeling of being pissed at Apple just part of being a Mac fan? I remember that feeling very well: 1) Buying a Plus two weeks befor the Clasic came out. 2) Buying a Powerbook 140 only to have it fixed 4 times before it become "discontinued" 3) Bying a LaserWriter NTR for $2,500 back in'91, cuz it was the cheapest way to print postscript - reliably. 4) Bying a PowerPC 6100 (pizza box) only to watch my dad's Perfoma our perform it 6 months later. I had to switch to a PC if for no other reason than to transfer my hostilities to a more worthy villan. So help me God, I'm desperately wanting to by an ipod - bring on the heartache...