1. Harrassing Aqua-ish theme makers. As Apple should know, you can't patent "look and feel" -- as their failed case against MS demonstrated.
2. Refusing to release a Sorenson codec enabled player or library for Linux, effectively locking Linux users out of an increasing majority of all Internet video content and thus making Linux unviable to end users. Don't bother me with 'it isn't Apple's' fault -- as was covered here months ago, IT IS! See http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/19/ 190248&mode=thread -- Apple SUED Macromedia to keep them from releasing a properly functional Linux player. Also don't bother me with 'but you can buy blah blah blah' or 'you can use unauthorized codec clone blah' -- I don't want nor should have to buy anything or break the law to watch what Mac and Windows users see legally for free.
3. Undercutting development of established Open Source projects, like Mozilla and XFree86, by pushing less open alternatives and thus both cutting their mindshare and draining developer talent. And before someone replies 'but now it supports X11', the point is that they aren't the 'default' systems under MacOS -- which means "native" GUI MacOS X applications are useless to Linux, and pages coded for Safari will probably becoming increasing incompatible with Mozilla.
Apple is a parasite sucking the blood of the Open Source movement, and is actively working to destroy Linux as a viable solution. The "open" solutions Apple endorses (Quicktime, Safari) do not work on Linux and serve only to spur sales of MacOS X.
In short: Apple is not Linux's friend, and these articles that claim otherwise are stupid and tiresome. Jobs may be fooling the moronic majority, but that isn't everyone. FUCK YOU, JOBS.
My comment makes perfect sense. The GnomeMeeting page states that all PC-to-Phone providers require a patented codec. This is stupid and unacceptable. Said providers should be boycotted until they allow the use of an open codec as well. As you say, until this happens, people will have to do without PC-to-Phone and use Speakeasy for PC-to-PC instead. In other words, if people ignore bogus-IP-law-endorsing technologies, the correct solutions will evolve to provide the same function. Of course, I don't expect anyone will be willing to wait and another technology will be locked up by IP law abusers.
The following is why GnomeMeeting or at least the "PC-to-Phone" aspect should be ignored:
"5.2. Why do I currently have to buy a Quicknet card if I want to do PC-To-Phone calls?
All providers need the G.723.1 audio codec to be able to do PC-To-Phone calls. That codec is patented and can't be added directly into the GnomeMeeting code. However, buying a Quicknet card offers you other features that will also be useful if you are not doing PC-To-Phone calls."
I.e.: Using it requires endorsing inherently invalid patents (codecs, like all math, are not patentable under historical patent law and should not be now).
Just what the world needs, another "lie detector". The fact a bunch of college types couldn't keep their faces straight while lying is hardly proof of anything but how stupid they are. I have no doubt a REAL "professional liar" (i.e.: scummy corporate lawyer, CIA goon, etc.) would be able pass the new "lie detector". I also have no doubt this fact will do nothing to stop the sale of this new fraud, given its obvious potential role in harrassing airline passengers and the profit involved:
"Plans are being drawn up to test the machine as part of airport security. Dr Bandar says that by asking passengers simple questions on arrival, customs officers would be able to determine who to search for drugs or other items of contraband."
"The research team have secured a patent application for the system, which they say could bring in billions of pounds for the university and the scientists involved."
The fact that, due to a stupid ruling during the Raygun administration, software patents are now able to exist (they were previously and properly not permitted) does not absolve companies abusing this fact to steal money of being immoral ("villians"). As the US legel system is based on the "whoever has the richest lawyer(s) wins", you'll be waiting until Hell freezes over for "IP law that promotes innovation" -- IP law is not compatible with innovation, it's only compatible with blood-sucking. These IP law slime need a good ass kicking, not coddling by columnists.
Linux users who embrace QuickTime because it can be made to (mostly) work via unauthorized codec clones or using Windows plug-ins will be in for a rude awakening when Jobs and Gates pull the plug on them once QuickTime and Windows Streaming Media achive unstoppable market share.
I haven't seen a movie in the theater since the MPAA began the bullshit that is the anti-DeCSS legal case, and I do not own a DVD player nor any DVDs. I will continue the boycott until they stop trying to stomp on my fair-use Rights, including the removal all Region Code enforcement and "unskippable" content. Unfortunately, as you note, most people can't be bothered to put their long term interests ahead of watching the latest pile of Hollywood bile, so it's largely a pointless act. People are stupid, corporations rule.
I wish I had bosses like that. Nice to know not everyone in the industry has bought into the threads hype. Threads are great for lazy programmers and bad for everyone else. I'm still waiting for a version of Mozilla that doesn't die when one sub-window dies on a bad page (due to defective flash, Java, whatever). Forked processes are properly isolated from each other, threads are not.
At least as far as the Zaurus is concerned, the easy solution is to replace QT with the standard X environment. Not that I think Mozilla would be a good idea on such a tiny machine -- maybe Phoenix or whatever it's called now.
"I'm having trouble finding a mature CDSA implementation that's ready to go on all of these platforms." This would suggest that usable multi-platform support does not actually exist, despite the "CDSA 2" project page on freshmeat claims to the contrary.
There have been several news articles about HDTV and the fair-use hostile copy prohibition bit. It is unsurprising they would strive to extend this obnoxious concept to existing hardware. Nobody paid attention then, it's probably too late now. I'll be hanging on to my two non-fubar'd VCRs. Whee, another log on the fair-use funeral pyre.
CDSA is another attempt by Apple to drain developers and users from truely open solutions, gaining them free development work on the one hand and lock-in on the other.
by the hi-tech version of Tony Soprano. Unfortunately, there is little you can do beyond complaining to the various groups keeping track of the abuse of the patent system by IP law scumbags. Pulling all the MPEGs, and quietly finding someone to mirror them in a country not fatally fubar'd by assinine patent law is probably the best you can do.
Objectivists may agree with you. Others side with those moral systems that hold the existence of Rights to be separate from the existence of their enforcement or even active suppression. Thank goodness.
The implant would release the hormone progestin to stop production of both sperm and the male hormone testosterone. Injections of a testosterone derivative would replace natural levels of the hormone, necessary for normal sexual functioning.
cd-r/rw represents the most cost effective means of backup coverage for the home/small business user. some good places to store disaster-recovery copies of important backups are OFFSITE locations like a safety deposit box at your local bank, buried in a box in the backyard, etc. as others have pointed out, a "fireproof" safe in the same location as the computer is NOT a good place. important tips: VERIFY important backups -- if you haven't actually tried to read the media, it hasn't been verified. also, burn more than one copy of any important backup and verify all of them.
I'm sure you won't listen, but computing is largely ruined in the US -- basically, Microsoft owns it and it will be doing everything possible to reduce employment and benefit levels, not increase them. Unless you're planning to leave the country after you graduate, I'd strongly suggest changing your major to something more profitable in the long term like biotechnology or furnace repair.
I have no sympathy at all, given how little Apple users care that Apple has conspired with Microsoft to lock Linux users out of streaming media -- can you say Sorenson? I knew you could. Get bent, Apple.
I'm sure it wouldn't take long for someone to figure out how to seal the DVD against exposure to the air. Where do they find the morons that think up this stuff?
The subject sums it up. If you lived in the US (I'm assuming from your email that you live in the UK), you would be best to start/continue your MS education -- get those certifications every year, be sure to be able to regurgitate the latest MS TLAs and official lies. Given the DoJ "settlement", Open Source does not have long to live in the US -- closed ID protocols and software patents are just two routes MS can and will use to crush it. If, however, you live in a country not under the thumb of Gates (anywhere else), you should probably focus on learning Open Source and lobbying your elected officials not to sell out your country to Gates. Good luck in either case.
Well, that'll be what the history books say. But currently there's still some online coverage left. See this link for some documentation. Be sure to save it to disk before it gets sent to the electronic memory hole.
For a good idea of what kinds of interesting things are in those documents, see
The Microsoft File : The Secret Case against Bill Gates by Wendy Goldman Rohm. It will be a travesty of justice if these documents are allowed to be destroyed. These are the documents that prove that Microsoft sabotaged DR-DOS by putting a check in Windows to issue an error if you tried to use it with DR-DOS -- an action Microsoft liked to and probably will again (once these documents are destroyed) call an urban myth -- and many other key illegal actions that made MS a monopoly, such as the activities in Germany alluded to in the article. History is written by the winners, obviously.:-(
SOMEONE NEEDS TO SAVE THESE DOCUMENTS! EFF? ESR? FSF?
If you expect to find work in computing post-90s, you'd better have experience with MS products. Even UNIX admin jobs frequently list MS experience and/or certification as requirements. Frankly, I'd suggest you move to another major as computer science is largely dead outside of academia in the US. That or move to Germany or some other country where technology hasn't been crippled by the combination of MS' monopoly and moronic IP laws.
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/ 190248&mode=thread -- Apple SUED Macromedia to keep them from releasing a properly functional Linux player. Also don't bother me with 'but you can buy blah blah blah' or 'you can use unauthorized codec clone blah' -- I don't want nor should have to buy anything or break the law to watch what Mac and Windows users see legally for free.
1. Harrassing Aqua-ish theme makers. As Apple should know, you can't patent "look and feel" -- as their failed case against MS demonstrated.
2. Refusing to release a Sorenson codec enabled player or library for Linux, effectively locking Linux users out of an increasing majority of all Internet video content and thus making Linux unviable to end users. Don't bother me with 'it isn't Apple's' fault -- as was covered here months ago, IT IS! See http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/19
3. Undercutting development of established Open Source projects, like Mozilla and XFree86, by pushing less open alternatives and thus both cutting their mindshare and draining developer talent. And before someone replies 'but now it supports X11', the point is that they aren't the 'default' systems under MacOS -- which means "native" GUI MacOS X applications are useless to Linux, and pages coded for Safari will probably becoming increasing incompatible with Mozilla.
Apple is a parasite sucking the blood of the Open Source movement, and is actively working to destroy Linux as a viable solution. The "open" solutions Apple endorses (Quicktime, Safari) do not work on Linux and serve only to spur sales of MacOS X.
In short: Apple is not Linux's friend, and these articles that claim otherwise are stupid and tiresome. Jobs may be fooling the moronic majority, but that isn't everyone. FUCK YOU, JOBS.
My comment makes perfect sense. The GnomeMeeting page states that all PC-to-Phone providers require a patented codec. This is stupid and unacceptable. Said providers should be boycotted until they allow the use of an open codec as well. As you say, until this happens, people will have to do without PC-to-Phone and use Speakeasy for PC-to-PC instead. In other words, if people ignore bogus-IP-law-endorsing technologies, the correct solutions will evolve to provide the same function. Of course, I don't expect anyone will be willing to wait and another technology will be locked up by IP law abusers.
The following is why GnomeMeeting or at least the "PC-to-Phone" aspect should be ignored:
"5.2. Why do I currently have to buy a Quicknet card if I want to do PC-To-Phone calls?
All providers need the G.723.1 audio codec to be able to do PC-To-Phone calls. That codec is patented and can't be added directly into the GnomeMeeting code. However, buying a Quicknet card offers you other features that will also be useful if you are not doing PC-To-Phone calls."
I.e.: Using it requires endorsing inherently invalid patents (codecs, like all math, are not patentable under historical patent law and should not be now).
Just what the world needs, another "lie detector". The fact a bunch of college types couldn't keep their faces straight while lying is hardly proof of anything but how stupid they are. I have no doubt a REAL "professional liar" (i.e.: scummy corporate lawyer, CIA goon, etc.) would be able pass the new "lie detector". I also have no doubt this fact will do nothing to stop the sale of this new fraud, given its obvious potential role in harrassing airline passengers and the profit involved:
"Plans are being drawn up to test the machine as part of airport security. Dr Bandar says that by asking passengers simple questions on arrival, customs officers would be able to determine who to search for drugs or other items of contraband."
"The research team have secured a patent application for the system, which they say could bring in billions of pounds for the university and the scientists involved."
Pathetic.
The fact that, due to a stupid ruling during the Raygun administration, software patents are now able to exist (they were previously and properly not permitted) does not absolve companies abusing this fact to steal money of being immoral ("villians"). As the US legel system is based on the "whoever has the richest lawyer(s) wins", you'll be waiting until Hell freezes over for "IP law that promotes innovation" -- IP law is not compatible with innovation, it's only compatible with blood-sucking. These IP law slime need a good ass kicking, not coddling by columnists.
Linux users who embrace QuickTime because it can be made to (mostly) work via unauthorized codec clones or using Windows plug-ins will be in for a rude awakening when Jobs and Gates pull the plug on them once QuickTime and Windows Streaming Media achive unstoppable market share.
I haven't seen a movie in the theater since the MPAA began the bullshit that is the anti-DeCSS legal case, and I do not own a DVD player nor any DVDs. I will continue the boycott until they stop trying to stomp on my fair-use Rights, including the removal all Region Code enforcement and "unskippable" content. Unfortunately, as you note, most people can't be bothered to put their long term interests ahead of watching the latest pile of Hollywood bile, so it's largely a pointless act. People are stupid, corporations rule.
I wish I had bosses like that. Nice to know not everyone in the industry has bought into the threads hype. Threads are great for lazy programmers and bad for everyone else. I'm still waiting for a version of Mozilla that doesn't die when one sub-window dies on a bad page (due to defective flash, Java, whatever). Forked processes are properly isolated from each other, threads are not.
At least as far as the Zaurus is concerned, the easy solution is to replace QT with the standard X environment. Not that I think Mozilla would be a good idea on such a tiny machine -- maybe Phoenix or whatever it's called now.
"I'm having trouble finding a mature CDSA implementation that's ready to go on all of these platforms." This would suggest that usable multi-platform support does not actually exist, despite the "CDSA 2" project page on freshmeat claims to the contrary.
There have been several news articles about HDTV and the fair-use hostile copy prohibition bit. It is unsurprising they would strive to extend this obnoxious concept to existing hardware. Nobody paid attention then, it's probably too late now. I'll be hanging on to my two non-fubar'd VCRs. Whee, another log on the fair-use funeral pyre.
CDSA is another attempt by Apple to drain developers and users from truely open solutions, gaining them free development work on the one hand and lock-in on the other.
I recommend this link for a good discussion of prionic proteins and how they relate to CWD and similar illnesses.
by the hi-tech version of Tony Soprano. Unfortunately, there is little you can do beyond complaining to the various groups keeping track of the abuse of the patent system by IP law scumbags. Pulling all the MPEGs, and quietly finding someone to mirror them in a country not fatally fubar'd by assinine patent law is probably the best you can do.
Objectivists may agree with you. Others side with those moral systems that hold the existence of Rights to be separate from the existence of their enforcement or even active suppression. Thank goodness.
When Rights are Outlawed, Only Outlaws will have Rights.
I would recommend this link. The critical data:
The implant would release the hormone progestin to stop production of both sperm and the male hormone testosterone. Injections of a testosterone derivative would replace natural levels of the hormone, necessary for normal sexual functioning.
Um, you first.
cd-r/rw represents the most cost effective means of backup coverage for the home/small business user. some good places to store disaster-recovery copies of important backups are OFFSITE locations like a safety deposit box at your local bank, buried in a box in the backyard, etc. as others have pointed out, a "fireproof" safe in the same location as the computer is NOT a good place. important tips: VERIFY important backups -- if you haven't actually tried to read the media, it hasn't been verified. also, burn more than one copy of any important backup and verify all of them.
I'm sure you won't listen, but computing is largely ruined in the US -- basically, Microsoft owns it and it will be doing everything possible to reduce employment and benefit levels, not increase them. Unless you're planning to leave the country after you graduate, I'd strongly suggest changing your major to something more profitable in the long term like biotechnology or furnace repair.
I have no sympathy at all, given how little Apple users care that Apple has conspired with Microsoft to lock Linux users out of streaming media -- can you say Sorenson? I knew you could. Get bent, Apple.
I'm sure it wouldn't take long for someone to figure out how to seal the DVD against exposure to the air. Where do they find the morons that think up this stuff?
The subject sums it up. If you lived in the US (I'm assuming from your email that you live in the UK), you would be best to start/continue your MS education -- get those certifications every year, be sure to be able to regurgitate the latest MS TLAs and official lies. Given the DoJ "settlement", Open Source does not have long to live in the US -- closed ID protocols and software patents are just two routes MS can and will use to crush it. If, however, you live in a country not under the thumb of Gates (anywhere else), you should probably focus on learning Open Source and lobbying your elected officials not to sell out your country to Gates. Good luck in either case.
Well, that'll be what the history books say. But currently there's still some online coverage left. See this link for some documentation. Be sure to save it to disk before it gets sent to the electronic memory hole.
For a good idea of what kinds of interesting things are in those documents, see The Microsoft File : The Secret Case against Bill Gates by Wendy Goldman Rohm. It will be a travesty of justice if these documents are allowed to be destroyed. These are the documents that prove that Microsoft sabotaged DR-DOS by putting a check in Windows to issue an error if you tried to use it with DR-DOS -- an action Microsoft liked to and probably will again (once these documents are destroyed) call an urban myth -- and many other key illegal actions that made MS a monopoly, such as the activities in Germany alluded to in the article. History is written by the winners, obviously. :-(
SOMEONE NEEDS TO SAVE THESE DOCUMENTS! EFF? ESR? FSF?
If you expect to find work in computing post-90s, you'd better have experience with MS products. Even UNIX admin jobs frequently list MS experience and/or certification as requirements. Frankly, I'd suggest you move to another major as computer science is largely dead outside of academia in the US. That or move to Germany or some other country where technology hasn't been crippled by the combination of MS' monopoly and moronic IP laws.