The Free iPods site that you promote in your.sig is a scam. It is a pyramid that will work for the first few participants but will ultimately crumble.
I therefore suggest that all postings to slashdot that promote the site be lambasted into oblivion (or moderated, or both).
So, shame on you Mr.-I-Have-A-Low-UID for trying to draw people into this scheme where people are asked to give up their privacy for your unearned gain and their disappointment.
It looks like they are partnering with individual labels and producers to get a (likely meager) cut to the copyright holder so everything is kosher. Otherwise they're probably just banking on Sound Exchange and paying flat royalties for Sound Exchange to distribute later on. This is how most radio stations work (Pay to a big holding group that redistributes based on a variety of factors like album sales). Also, it looks like the P2P part may only be a mechanism to locally cache and distribute content that they've licensed to reduce their overhead. The files are also Windows Media and "tethered" according to the article.
Paul
PS. I wrote the company to complain about the damn auto-playing music on the web site. This is no longer 1996!
You're right on as far as domes being the way to go. Case in point: The German parliament building.
The Reichstag in Berlin was recently renovated to put a huge glass dome on top of the existing structure. The dome doesn't cover it but merely sits on top. Running from the very top of the dome to the parliament floor is a funnel which is optimized to move hot air out via convection.
You can actually go to the top of the dome and stand at the opening to the funnel and feel all the warmth. This is combined with traditionally cooling for a very economic effect.
It's also a really cool looking building and a must see if you ever find yourself in Germany.
Yes, I can honestly say that Apple has embraced open-source.
Apple's Web Kit is the only way that KHTML would have be on millions of Macs and PCs. Additionally, Apple commits changes back to the KHTML project. It's entirely symbiotic. Apple gets to use it in iTunes and Safari, and KDE gets the changes.
Apple's Darwin Streaming Server is the OSS port of their QuickTime Streaming Server. Apple even provides binaries for Red Hat and Solaris. It is trivial to port.
Apple was the first to throw major support behind zeroconf, an open networking standard, and provide libraries under OSS licenses to enable wide adoption.
Apple employs Jordan Hubbard, a major contributer. Apple also puts out Darwin with Jordan's help.
They do more if you're willing to look.
Re:Beos is getting some use... at work.
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and did I mention we have our inventory system running on SCO Unix?
Because MySQL AB (the company) retains copyright on the software they can license it however they please. In this case, the company takes advantage of the fact that some people don't like the terms of the GPL (people wanting to build and distribute closed software that is based on MySQL) and lets a company buy a license that allows for use without the so-called "viral" properties of the GPL.
You can use and distribute MySQL under the GPL as long as you comply with the letter (and spirit:) of the agreement. This does not preclude turning a profit on the distribution. The GPL doesn't require code to be monetarily free (aka 'as in beer'), only that you furnish, for free (or a nominal media cost), the source code of the application to whomever you distribute it.
hrm... maybe not... that isn't the same person that posted the screenshots. For now I'll trust the parent poster's Dutch over my blurred-vision method.
I know German which, as any of you German speakers know, is a great boon for reading Dutch. All I had to do was lower my glasses and the Dutch blurred into what could've been German...
About 4/5 down the page you will see a post by the person who thought they bypassed the safeguards... It turns out he was using Photoshop version 7, not CS.
"ik dacht dat 7.01 de nieuwste was." becomes: "ich dachte dass 7.01 die neueste war." becomes: "I thought that 7.01 was the newest."
So, this person was just confused and got the whole board all excited... The first post in the message board was from a different person who was indeed using photoshop CS and complaining that it couldn't scan banknotes.
Oddly enough it serves as a mere extension of corporate radio's long arm. How do you discover new music on P2P? Geeks may know about things like iRate Radio, but your average P2P user is going to download the trash that the radio tells them to like.
And next, listen to this new Madonna/Britney smash hit!
-Paul
You make a good point about corporate hypocrisy and morality... On the other hand you totally discredit yourself with your conclusion:
You make it sound like selfishness is not a virtue. What drives the world? Certainly not solidarity.
I agree that the RIAA uses underhanded, evil tactics to this end; I do not condone their actions. In fact, I'm boycotting the RIAA and only buying from indie labels or direct from the artists. (I just bought the new Hot Hot Heat album... 8/10 stars for reminding me of the Clash)
It has been said thousands of times by now I'm sure.
Running Mac OS X does not mean running FreeBSD Mac OS X is a system of frameworks running on top of a Mach Kernel. The only thing that relates Mac OS X to FreeBSD is the userland. In addition to the userland you have: Cocoa, Carbon, Aqua, Java, etc. The FreeBSD portion is minimal.
And yes, if you want you can run this lower level unix without the rest of Mac OS X. It is called Darwin. It runs on Intel and PPC if you're wondering. No, this doesn't mean that Mac OS X runs on both or ever will.
is that people think nothing of the power they give to a third party when they agree to use private and centralized systems such as AIM, or MSN. These systems change often, and with unpublished protocol specifications, interoperability is a mere hack that can be broken at the whim of the company.
What we really need is some sort of Jabber based universal chat system for example. (Or, without trying to start a holy war, maybe we can avoid excessive markup and not use XML).
I use Fire on OS X, and I can interface with both Jabber and AIM. Often I'll set my away message on AIM to: "Download Trillion or Fire to talk to me on the superior Jabber network."
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Oh, dear me! Just note my fairly high UID and shrug off my relativistic aside.
It's the content that matters after all.
-Paul
The Free iPods site that you promote in your .sig is a scam. It is a pyramid that will work for the first few participants but will ultimately crumble.
I therefore suggest that all postings to slashdot that promote the site be lambasted into oblivion (or moderated, or both).
So, shame on you Mr.-I-Have-A-Low-UID for trying to draw people into this scheme where people are asked to give up their privacy for your unearned gain and their disappointment.
-Paul
It looks like they are partnering with individual labels and producers to get a (likely meager) cut to the copyright holder so everything is kosher. Otherwise they're probably just banking on Sound Exchange and paying flat royalties for Sound Exchange to distribute later on. This is how most radio stations work (Pay to a big holding group that redistributes based on a variety of factors like album sales).
Also, it looks like the P2P part may only be a mechanism to locally cache and distribute content that they've licensed to reduce their overhead. The files are also Windows Media and "tethered" according to the article.
Paul
PS. I wrote the company to complain about the damn auto-playing music on the web site. This is no longer 1996!
Perhaps the funnest next to using made-up words.
:P
Nah...
I mean, Linux is just some form of Unixware, no?
-ducks-
You're right on as far as domes being the way to go. Case in point: The German parliament building.
The Reichstag in Berlin was recently renovated to put a huge glass dome on top of the existing structure. The dome doesn't cover it but merely sits on top. Running from the very top of the dome to the parliament floor is a funnel which is optimized to move hot air out via convection.
You can actually go to the top of the dome and stand at the opening to the funnel and feel all the warmth. This is combined with traditionally cooling for a very economic effect.
It's also a really cool looking building and a must see if you ever find yourself in Germany.
Oy!
Don't worry, I'm not that daft. Just enough to make a vague joke that:
a)wasn't funny,
b)was easily misinterpreted.
Regards,
Paul
Can we get those dimensions in something standard, like Libraries of Congress?
-Paul
Yes, I can honestly say that Apple has embraced open-source.
Apple's Web Kit is the only way that KHTML would have be on millions of Macs and PCs. Additionally, Apple commits changes back to the KHTML project. It's entirely symbiotic. Apple gets to use it in iTunes and Safari, and KDE gets the changes.
Apple's Darwin Streaming Server is the OSS port of their QuickTime Streaming Server. Apple even provides binaries for Red Hat and Solaris. It is trivial to port.
Apple was the first to throw major support behind zeroconf, an open networking standard, and provide libraries under OSS licenses to enable wide adoption.
Apple employs Jordan Hubbard, a major contributer. Apple also puts out Darwin with Jordan's help.
They do more if you're willing to look.
Shhh!
How high is the sky? How deep is the sea? Who is John Galt?
Yeah. It's called ncurses.
Because MySQL AB (the company) retains copyright on the software they can license it however they please. In this case, the company takes advantage of the fact that some people don't like the terms of the GPL (people wanting to build and distribute closed software that is based on MySQL) and lets a company buy a license that allows for use without the so-called "viral" properties of the GPL.
:) of the agreement. This does not preclude turning a profit on the distribution. The GPL doesn't require code to be monetarily free (aka 'as in beer'), only that you furnish, for free (or a nominal media cost), the source code of the application to whomever you distribute it.
You can use and distribute MySQL under the GPL as long as you comply with the letter (and spirit
I have seen this "is it good or is it whack" meme all over the place and I've checked google for it too. What does it mean? Where did it come from?
I'm serious... this isn't just a play on the same joke or whatever the hell it is.
hrm... maybe not... that isn't the same person that posted the screenshots. For now I'll trust the parent poster's Dutch over my blurred-vision method.
-Paul
I know German which, as any of you German speakers know, is a great boon for reading Dutch. All I had to do was lower my glasses and the Dutch blurred into what could've been German...
About 4/5 down the page you will see a post by the person who thought they bypassed the safeguards... It turns out he was using Photoshop version 7, not CS.
"ik dacht dat 7.01 de nieuwste was."
becomes: "ich dachte dass 7.01 die neueste war."
becomes: "I thought that 7.01 was the newest."
So, this person was just confused and got the whole board all excited... The first post in the message board was from a different person who was indeed using photoshop CS and complaining that it couldn't scan banknotes.
I hear that to get it to work with XP you need to upgrade to Duke Nukem Forever.
*ducks*
Unless you redefine all of your tags with CSS, I'm pretty sure you meant tags for bold. is used for italics.
-Paul
*cough* inexpensive mountains... You and your newfangled revisionist acronyms.
Arrrr!
Bummer. RIAA-radar said that it was all kosher (and it still says so).
Oh well, so it goes.
Oddly enough it serves as a mere extension of corporate radio's long arm. How do you discover new music on P2P? Geeks may know about things like iRate Radio, but your average P2P user is going to download the trash that the radio tells them to like. And next, listen to this new Madonna/Britney smash hit! -Paul
You make a good point about corporate hypocrisy and morality... On the other hand you totally discredit yourself with your conclusion:
You make it sound like selfishness is not a virtue. What drives the world? Certainly not solidarity.
I agree that the RIAA uses underhanded, evil tactics to this end; I do not condone their actions. In fact, I'm boycotting the RIAA and only buying from indie labels or direct from the artists. (I just bought the new Hot Hot Heat album... 8/10 stars for reminding me of the Clash)
-Paul
Indeed.
But, as I said, the kernel is not of FreeBSD lineage. XNU is the Darwin mach kernel. Not that it really matters.
Ugh.
It has been said thousands of times by now I'm sure.
Running Mac OS X does not mean running FreeBSD Mac OS X is a system of frameworks running on top of a Mach Kernel. The only thing that relates Mac OS X to FreeBSD is the userland. In addition to the userland you have: Cocoa, Carbon, Aqua, Java, etc. The FreeBSD portion is minimal.
And yes, if you want you can run this lower level unix without the rest of Mac OS X. It is called Darwin. It runs on Intel and PPC if you're wondering. No, this doesn't mean that Mac OS X runs on both or ever will.
Here is a short description of the BSD families.
is that people think nothing of the power they give to a third party when they agree to use private and centralized systems such as AIM, or MSN. These systems change often, and with unpublished protocol specifications, interoperability is a mere hack that can be broken at the whim of the company.
What we really need is some sort of Jabber based universal chat system for example. (Or, without trying to start a holy war, maybe we can avoid excessive markup and not use XML).
I use Fire on OS X, and I can interface with both Jabber and AIM. Often I'll set my away message on AIM to: "Download Trillion or Fire to talk to me on the superior Jabber network."
Or... I know! How about a nix `talk` revival!
Give it a go.