This includes the forked aoTuv improvements, that gave Vorbis a big hand up in the 128kbps listening tests on the rareware site pointed to in the top. It's a forking good thing that it's all open source, hey?:)
Is Microsoft Software actually certified for safety critical systems? I thought it was not warranted for that use. However, it's not just the software at fault. Whoever implemented the system was sharing a network with other people's machines in some way, without a firewall. There is fault spread out here, between microsoft, the lifegaurds IT people, and the virus writer.
Okay, for/you/ all music may be equal. You might be just as happy listening to anything as long as it's not nothing. I react much more personally to music. Individual pieces, not music as a whole. I like *this* song, and not/that/ song. etc.
. Going to another band of the genre.
So while I could go to another band of whatever *this* song's genre is, I can't get *this* song except through the record companies.
. Blame them, they signed the deal.
As for blaming people, what good is that going to do? Apportioning blame doesn't change the situation in the slightest. I still can't listen to *this* song.
. It's silly to act this way.
So no, there isn't a monopoly on the music I/can/ listen to, but there is a monopoly, or if taken collectively, oligarchy controlling some of the music that I *want* to listen to.
. You can listen to public domain music.
If music is never unique for you that's great. You can surf round and download free music from peoplesound or whatever. In fact, I do that very thing, and have a nice collection of great songs very few people will hear. Doesn't get me a legal copy of *this* song tho.
. You can write your own.
And I do, but it's cost me well over 5000 in equipment to get a decent level of recording gear, instruments and much more than that's worth of time, to learn to play them all. I still have to find other people to play with, that are good enough to record. And I'm nowhere near production quality yet.
. Music music everywhere.
Yep. But not what I want to listen to.
. Car Designers, Leather jackets.
Yep. If I want an avensis-shaped car, I have to buy from Toyota. Why do I winge so? Because the car's function is to get me places. How it looks is secondary. There are thousands of mondeos, and avensises, and merivas and series 3s etc all over the place. All identical. Yet there are thousands upon thousands of songs out there. All different. Cars compete in a marketplace because you take into account the function and the aesthetic seperately. If you do that with music, fine. I can't, don't and won't. A song is a unit all to itself for me. Have I made my point?
There are, and people will always make music, (Whether they're paid to or not. It's art, remember) but they've got harder to find under wave after wave of re-released pop-idol cover moany dross.
Re:Good for the RIAA. This is capitalism at work.
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you can't apply commodity logic to art. There is no way to get the music of signed artists except through the companies they have signed for. If it's just about lifestyle, and not the music, then fair enough. You can choose a different brand. But if it's about the music, then tough. They have a monopoly on that person's / group's music.
A mate of mine does this as a sole trader. He has professional liability insurance which I believe takes him up to a hundred grand's worth of damage.:) He might pop in and comment, he reads slashdot.
I don't know any geeks who describe other people's trades as lowly or pathetic.:S.
In an industry where companies' idea of 'make it easy' is "Redesign the interface so it looks different to everything else out there, AND THEREFOR EASIER" there will be lots of work for people who actually understand the underlying technologies.
Then again, in an industry where people still use windows, there will always be problems that just can't be explained.
Perhaps the computer trade is different because there are no chartered techs. You can find certified plumbers and builders, but if you want a chartered computerguy, well, he's got a degree, and he's only chartered for Top Down Design and Requirements Analysis.
If someone could guarantee me to have my PIII laptop working with the USB-Quattro I bought specifically for it. With Jack/Alsa/FluidSynth/Muse I'd give em 80 (Bear in mind, there's nearly 2$ to the pound now). Similarly if someone could get my 1394 port working in Mandrake instead of just dyne:bolix I'd pay em. It's a time over money thing. I don't have the time to learn how everything works anymore. Working sucks.
They like novell?
Recommend Suse then. Latest version of Novell runs on a linux kernel. Spread the meme: Linux is the future.
Re:Linux will be mainstream competition in a year.
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Woo! Okay, me next
I predict that in 1-2 years every single slashdotter will be dating sexy intelligent tall blonde swedish models who are nearly as good as we are at perl and understand the true nature of Tux (rather than just thinking he is cute)
That's not only a horrible thing to say, but it doesn't follow logically. A person's age does not necessarily determine the value of their opinion whatsoever - for example, one of the kernel maintainers started doing that job at 17 wasn't it? When you have the ability to say what goes in and what stays out of the kernel, your opinion matters.
What about cheesy little pop stars like aaron carter? Their opinion might not matter to you or me, but to a certain section of the population, if they say that they like Haribo instead of Hershey, it can have a significant effect on sales.
Please be nice in future.
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Linux is unique in that its code is open source, meaning anyone can look it and modify it, as long as they agree to share their changes with everyone else.
There are other GPL'd operating systems, and the BSDs are all open source, aren't they?
Large companies have been benefiting from Linux for years now. They use it to run large servers and networks.
Small companies have arguably been benefitting more: I know from my experience that it's easier getting Linux into a small company than it is into a large one.
"This is something that a lot of people in developing countries have. It is a natural for them to make do with little, and to produce something of value out of nothing."
This is just patronising.
How about pointing out that people whoever they are all benefit and can run the same software without the discrimination that high prices cause.
Some worry, though, that large corporations may be reluctant to share their Linux-based software with others. And that, say long-time Linux programmers, would violate the tenets of the open source philosophy. More importantly, it would also be copyright infringement if they ever distributed it, and would cause them no end of trouble keeping their version of the code up to date.
But other than that, refreshing to read an article about linux that doesn't mention either Redmond or Utah.
Wee! Free publicity!
According to one of the papers, Microsoft servers are better than linux in 4 out of 5 times.
That means that at least 1 in 5 servers should be running linux by microsoft's own research!
It's nice to see Microsoft finally using their marketing for Good.
We all point out how such studies are biased when Microsoft release them... Surely there's a chance that LinuxDevices has a bit of an interest in this?
Thankyou for your reply. I didn't know of this, but it may come in useful.
unfortunately it doesn't look like it will solve the 'windows won't read my floppy disk' problem that most of our users come to us with all-too frequently, I quote from their site:
You can write to any file or block device which windows will allow you to write to. You can use \\.\ notation for win32 exported devices or \\?\ and the windows native device name.
Will give it a try anyway. If it doesn't work, can still go to the old solution (stick it in a linux box that can magically read any disk)
It's different to cygwin because it can potentially support any distro. So you could run mandrake on windows, or debian, etc etc etc.
What I want to know is, will it let me do 'dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/disk.img' on windows (which cygwin doesn't allow)
Windows 2000's horribly broken floppy support is *really* annoying.
When people drive they accept the laws of the road. Why are they always so upset every time there's an initiative to stop people speeding? So I'm a biased pedestrian, but it does seem to me that given the hundreds of car fatalities that occur *every day*, monitoring what people do so that the drivers who "get away" with dangerous driving are caught is a good thing. You might get away with dangerous driving. But the longer you do, the more dangerous you'll get. And then you're putting people's lives at risk. Maybe you can justify breaking the law when it comes to software. I'm sorry, you can't justify driving dangerously. Ever.
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Just run your X server with no programs. It displays this by default.
This includes the forked aoTuv improvements, that gave Vorbis a big hand up in the 128kbps listening tests on the rareware site pointed to in the top. :)
It's a forking good thing that it's all open source, hey?
Is Microsoft Software actually certified for safety critical systems? I thought it was not warranted for that use.
However, it's not just the software at fault. Whoever implemented the system was sharing a network with other people's machines in some way, without a firewall. There is fault spread out here, between microsoft, the lifegaurds IT people, and the virus writer.
i see a box telling me to install macromedia flash.
Why not! There's a SCO one, and they'll be dead and gone soon.
BBC will still be around for a while.
ahh, the luxury of the first box after the NAT being a linux proxy server that serves my entire internal network.
-- I see your nat box and raise you a proxy server.
. Applying commodity logic to art .
/you/ all music may be equal. You might be just as happy listening to anything as long as it's not nothing. I react much more personally to music. Individual pieces, not music as a whole. I like *this* song, and not /that/ song. etc.
.
.
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/can/ listen to, but there is a monopoly, or if taken collectively, oligarchy controlling some of the music that I *want* to listen to.
.
.
.
.
Okay, for
. Going to another band of the genre
So while I could go to another band of whatever *this* song's genre is, I can't get *this* song except through the record companies.
. Blame them, they signed the deal
As for blaming people, what good is that going to do? Apportioning blame doesn't change the situation in the slightest. I still can't listen to *this* song.
. It's silly to act this way
So no, there isn't a monopoly on the music I
. You can listen to public domain music
If music is never unique for you that's great. You can surf round and download free music from peoplesound or whatever. In fact, I do that very thing, and have a nice collection of great songs very few people will hear. Doesn't get me a legal copy of *this* song tho.
. You can write your own
And I do, but it's cost me well over 5000 in equipment to get a decent level of recording gear, instruments and much more than that's worth of time, to learn to play them all. I still have to find other people to play with, that are good enough to record. And I'm nowhere near production quality yet.
. Music music everywhere
Yep. But not what I want to listen to.
. Car Designers, Leather jackets
Yep. If I want an avensis-shaped car, I have to buy from Toyota. Why do I winge so?
Because the car's function is to get me places. How it looks is secondary. There are thousands of mondeos, and avensises, and merivas and series 3s etc all over the place. All identical.
Yet there are thousands upon thousands of songs out there. All different.
Cars compete in a marketplace because you take into account the function and the aesthetic seperately. If you do that with music, fine. I can't, don't and won't. A song is a unit all to itself for me.
Have I made my point?
There are, and people will always make music, (Whether they're paid to or not. It's art, remember) but they've got harder to find under wave after wave of re-released pop-idol cover moany dross.
you can't apply commodity logic to art.
There is no way to get the music of signed artists except through the companies they have signed for. If it's just about lifestyle, and not the music, then fair enough. You can choose a different brand. But if it's about the music, then tough. They have a monopoly on that person's / group's music.
You find me a program that can run without accessing any data.
If it's with lustful desire or envy, hey! Let's hope so....
A mate of mine does this as a sole trader. He has professional liability insurance which I believe takes him up to a hundred grand's worth of damage. :) He might pop in and comment, he reads slashdot.
I don't know any geeks who describe other people's trades as lowly or pathetic. :S .
In an industry where companies' idea of 'make it easy' is "Redesign the interface so it looks different to everything else out there, AND THEREFOR EASIER" there will be lots of work for people who actually understand the underlying technologies.
Then again, in an industry where people still use windows, there will always be problems that just can't be explained.
Perhaps the computer trade is different because there are no chartered techs. You can find certified plumbers and builders, but if you want a chartered computerguy, well, he's got a degree, and he's only chartered for Top Down Design and Requirements Analysis.
If someone could guarantee me to have my PIII laptop working with the USB-Quattro I bought specifically for it. With Jack/Alsa/FluidSynth/Muse I'd give em 80 (Bear in mind, there's nearly 2$ to the pound now).
Similarly if someone could get my 1394 port working in Mandrake instead of just dyne:bolix I'd pay em. It's a time over money thing. I don't have the time to learn how everything works anymore. Working sucks.
1) Ad revenue created by page hits
2) Post non-story to slashdot
3) PROFIT!!!
They like novell?
Recommend Suse then. Latest version of Novell runs on a linux kernel.
Spread the meme: Linux is the future.
Woo! Okay, me next
I predict that in 1-2 years every single slashdotter will be dating sexy intelligent tall blonde swedish models who are nearly as good as we are at perl and understand the true nature of Tux (rather than just thinking he is cute)
What about cheesy little pop stars like aaron carter? Their opinion might not matter to you or me, but to a certain section of the population, if they say that they like Haribo instead of Hershey, it can have a significant effect on sales.
Please be nice in future.
There are other GPL'd operating systems, and the BSDs are all open source, aren't they?
Large companies have been benefiting from Linux for years now. They use it to run large servers and networks.
Small companies have arguably been benefitting more: I know from my experience that it's easier getting Linux into a small company than it is into a large one.
"This is something that a lot of people in developing countries have. It is a natural for them to make do with little, and to produce something of value out of nothing."
This is just patronising.
How about pointing out that people whoever they are all benefit and can run the same software without the discrimination that high prices cause.
Some worry, though, that large corporations may be reluctant to share their Linux-based software with others. And that, say long-time Linux programmers, would violate the tenets of the open source philosophy.
More importantly, it would also be copyright infringement if they ever distributed it, and would cause them no end of trouble keeping their version of the code up to date.
But other than that, refreshing to read an article about linux that doesn't mention either Redmond or Utah.
According to one of the papers, Microsoft servers are better than linux in 4 out of 5 times.
That means that at least 1 in 5 servers should be running linux by microsoft's own research!
It's nice to see Microsoft finally using their marketing for Good.
You're quite right, sorry about that.
We all point out how such studies are biased when Microsoft release them...
Surely there's a chance that LinuxDevices has a bit of an interest in this?
I didn't know of this, but it may come in useful.
unfortunately it doesn't look like it will solve the 'windows won't read my floppy disk' problem that most of our users come to us with all-too frequently, I quote from their site:
You can write to any file or block device which windows will allow you to write to. You can use \\.\ notation for win32 exported devices or \\?\ and the windows native device name.
Will give it a try anyway. If it doesn't work, can still go to the old solution (stick it in a linux box that can magically read any disk)
What I want to know is, will it let me do 'dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/disk.img' on windows (which cygwin doesn't allow)
Windows 2000's horribly broken floppy support is *really* annoying.
When people drive they accept the laws of the road. Why are they always so upset every time there's an initiative to stop people speeding?
So I'm a biased pedestrian, but it does seem to me that given the hundreds of car fatalities that occur *every day*, monitoring what people do so that the drivers who "get away" with dangerous driving are caught is a good thing.
You might get away with dangerous driving. But the longer you do, the more dangerous you'll get. And then you're putting people's lives at risk.
Maybe you can justify breaking the law when it comes to software. I'm sorry, you can't justify driving dangerously.
Ever.