Well, then the tactic to properly take is to clearly define the difference between kiddie porn and legal expression. The tactic in the case of 'shared' music is to refine a definition that excludes 'bigtime copyright infringers.'
I am sorry. We are NOT all in this together. People who rampantly 'share' the copyrighted works of other people without their permission aren't equal to you and I 'ripping' our own purchased CDs and listening to them on MP3 players.
If the EFF isn't willing to draw a line somewhere in there, they're not on 'our' side as people with Fair Use rights. The EFF's 'anything or nothing' attitude, defending rampant piracy as they appear to, puts our Fair Use rights at risk.
They're just playing self-serving 'civil libertes' games.
Well, then the tactic to properly take is to clearly define the difference between kiddie porn and legal expression. The tactic in the case of 'shared' music is to refine a definition that excludes 'bigtime copyright infringers.'
I am sorry. We are NOT all in this together. People who rampantly 'share' the copyrighted works of other people without their permission aren't equal to you and I 'ripping' our own purchased CDs and listening to them on MP3 players.
If the EFF isn't willing to draw a line somewhere in there, they're not on 'our' side as people with Fair Use rights. The EFF's 'anything or nothing' attitude, defending rampant piracy as they appear to, puts our Fair Use rights at risk.
They're just playing self-serving 'civil libertes' games.
The 'Linux on a floppy' distros often have design aims counter to what a person with an older system wants to do.
If a person has, say, a 386 box with 8 megs of RAM and a 340 meg hard drive, he does NOT want a floppy-based system designed to fit on 1.44 megs. He wants a full-service Linux system with C compiler, a GNU toolchain, etc.
You can get that by installing an older Linux. The 'ancient' Linux distros being archived here are not the same thing, of course. Go for Slackware 3.6 or so for that old 386. At a minimum run kernal 1.2. Kernal 1.2.13 is a damned fine piece of work, one of the 'milestones' of Linux kernal history.
The Yggdrasil distros from that time period had some extremely annoying bugs, though. If you wanted to install 'the whole thing' on a system, which was the only way for a newbie to not end up in dependency hell, you could select 'only the binaries' in the menu. But the script was broken and it would still try to install all the source as well, overfilling the typical hard drive of the day (definitly overfilling the hard drive *I* could afford at the time.
Looking back, it seems like Yggdrasil had early hopes of 'owning' the Linux market. They called their first release 'LGX' (for Linux-Gnu-Xwindow) and probably had 'rights' to that name.
I was much happier when I figured out how to install Slackware from the Infomagic 'Linux Developers Resource' CD set. And the Slackware installation script/method is still my preferred method of installing a Linux system. Not as 'clean' as a base NetBSD install, but still no-muss, no-fuss. I can't abide by any installation method that throws fricking bitmaps up on your screen. Geez, is this Disneyland? I install NetBSD mostly through serial consoles on Sun boxes now anyway.
The XFree86 folks decided awhile ago to start abandoning support of older video hardware. So, what ends up happening is that older video cards, that worked fine, start to quit working. I have a nice expensive (for the time) STB Video card that they abandoned awhile back. It uses the S3Trio64 chip. Most of the early S3 video cards are now abandoned by XFree86. It's ironic, because STB was one of the few PC Graphics card makers who were actual members of the X Consortium.
We used to make fun of Microsoft for abandoning old hardware, and it used to be a pround rallying point for Linux folk that Microsoft 'gave free hardware to Linux' by abandoning support for it.
Nowadays when I mention things like this about, for instance, Xfree86 abandoning old hardware, or the KDE/Gnome bloat making older machines useless, I get the same comments ("get new hardware!") from Linux zealots that we in the Linux community used to expect from the Microsoft zealots.
KDE and Gnome aren't really 'fun' to run on any platform. They're just another Windows-wannabe and nothing cool.
The Tab Window Manager is fun. There's even printed documentation for it, O'Reilly volumes 3 and 8. I've run TWM on a Macintosh SE/30, with a 2-bit (monochrome) 512x342 screen. Even FVWM adds too much 'eye-candy bloat' on such a display.
Hell, I have hardware of that vintage, well, it's Sparc hardware, that still does useful things. You stick your basic stuff on a NFS server on such a box. I do it with NetBSD, though.
Put Slackware on those older machines. Just install the A, AP and D sections if you want a machine that can do basic development and compiling. Also the N section for networking. Be selective in what you install, use the 'menu' selection process to enable just the packages you want, and it will work great. I learned a lot of what I know about TCP/IP networking by having three or four Slackware boxes running on 386sx machines, with wobbly old 3C501 network cards. It was about 30 bucks worth of hardware even back then, and it worked great.
So now all we need is someone to come up with a 'war grabbing' app that runs on some sort of portable bluetooth device with 'smarts' and people will be able to walk by these folks with their blue-tooth reachable 'Address Book' and harvest some email addys for spamming purposes.
Color LCDs use significantly more power than monochrome ones.
Perhaps, just for you, they will come out with a color plasma screen version. With a thick cord that tethers it to the big 70 pound lead-acid battery that you wheel around in a cart.
Thank goodness that small children get the 'special effects gee-whiz effect' flushed out of their systems by the time they're six these days.
So that we can get back to watching films for the drama and effect.
Yes, I know there will always be malcontents who mostly rant and rave about the quality of the 'special effects' in a film. There are probably cranks out there who obsess over the quality of the backdrops at a Shakespearean play, also. It's nothing new, profound, or worth dwelling on.
It's a little bit disappointing that on a 'nerd' site like this, someone misappropriates Arthur C. Clarke's work and ascribes it to a mere filmmaker who directed the adaptation.
Kubrick promised (and delivered) a well-made film adaptation of Clarke's work. The 'promise' of the Monolith was made by Clarke.
Anyhow. Disappointing to see this kind of illiteracy about SF on slashdot.
It isn't the 'media' using the term 'graffiti' who have things confused. It apparently is all the business owners who have to pay someone to wipe off all those phone numbers and assorted profane lines off the stalls of their restrooms. The people who have to remove the paint that some urban-ape sprayed on their garage wall out in the alley. The people whose carefully restored Victorian houses get sprayed, etc.
No, it wasn't a 'media fabrication' that gave graffiti a bad name. Please desist in pretending that all claims by people whose property has been vandalized is some sort of fraud.
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Her parent(s) are responsible and will assume the debt, if a lawsuit is successful.
Well, then the tactic to properly take is to clearly define the difference between kiddie porn and legal expression. The tactic in the case of 'shared' music is to refine a definition that excludes 'bigtime copyright infringers.'
I am sorry. We are NOT all in this together. People who rampantly 'share' the copyrighted works of other people without their permission aren't equal to you and I 'ripping' our own purchased CDs and listening to them on MP3 players.
If the EFF isn't willing to draw a line somewhere in there, they're not on 'our' side as people with Fair Use rights. The EFF's 'anything or nothing' attitude, defending rampant piracy as they appear to, puts our Fair Use rights at risk.
They're just playing self-serving 'civil libertes' games.
He's $0.99 behind the guy who heard the song on the radio and decided he didn't like it, so spent nothing.
Apple wants to sell hardware. The iMusic program is about promoting Apple brands and Apple hardware, just like MacOS is about selling Apple hardware.
Anybody who is buying iTunes as a long term investment is a fool. That's like buying bags of Cheetos chips as a long term investment.
iTunes isn't really 'about' selling music.
Apple is using it, and the buzz around it, and this buzz right here, for that matter, to get prominence. They want that prominence to sell hardware.
They'll ditch iTunes if it becomes expensive to maintain. It's probably destined to last another year or so at most before it collapses.
But they'll sell a lot of equipment in that year, and get more market share in the process.
Well, then the tactic to properly take is to clearly define the difference between kiddie porn and legal expression. The tactic in the case of 'shared' music is to refine a definition that excludes 'bigtime copyright infringers.'
I am sorry. We are NOT all in this together. People who rampantly 'share' the copyrighted works of other people without their permission aren't equal to you and I 'ripping' our own purchased CDs and listening to them on MP3 players.
If the EFF isn't willing to draw a line somewhere in there, they're not on 'our' side as people with Fair Use rights. The EFF's 'anything or nothing' attitude, defending rampant piracy as they appear to, puts our Fair Use rights at risk.
They're just playing self-serving 'civil libertes' games.
The 'Linux on a floppy' distros often have design aims counter to what a person with an older system wants to do.
If a person has, say, a 386 box with 8 megs of RAM and a 340 meg hard drive, he does NOT want a floppy-based system designed to fit on 1.44 megs. He wants a full-service Linux system with C compiler, a GNU toolchain, etc.
You can get that by installing an older Linux. The 'ancient' Linux distros being archived here are not the same thing, of course. Go for Slackware 3.6 or so for that old 386. At a minimum run kernal 1.2. Kernal 1.2.13 is a damned fine piece of work, one of the 'milestones' of Linux kernal history.
Whoah! Now you've cheered me up.
The Yggdrasil distros from that time period had some extremely annoying bugs, though. If you wanted to install 'the whole thing' on a system, which was the only way for a newbie to not end up in dependency hell, you could select 'only the binaries' in the menu. But the script was broken and it would still try to install all the source as well, overfilling the typical hard drive of the day (definitly overfilling the hard drive *I* could afford at the time.
Looking back, it seems like Yggdrasil had early hopes of 'owning' the Linux market. They called their first release 'LGX' (for Linux-Gnu-Xwindow) and probably had 'rights' to that name.
I was much happier when I figured out how to install Slackware from the Infomagic 'Linux Developers Resource' CD set. And the Slackware installation script/method is still my preferred method of installing a Linux system. Not as 'clean' as a base NetBSD install, but still no-muss, no-fuss. I can't abide by any installation method that throws fricking bitmaps up on your screen. Geez, is this Disneyland? I install NetBSD mostly through serial consoles on Sun boxes now anyway.
The ten year old Linux system probably has a C compiler on it and other development tools.
The Windows 3.0 machine probably has Solitaire.
I guess it depends on your priorities and what you want to do with the machine.
The XFree86 folks decided awhile ago to start abandoning support of older video hardware. So, what ends up happening is that older video cards, that worked fine, start to quit working. I have a nice expensive (for the time) STB Video card that they abandoned awhile back. It uses the S3Trio64 chip. Most of the early S3 video cards are now abandoned by XFree86. It's ironic, because STB was one of the few PC Graphics card makers who were actual members of the X Consortium.
We used to make fun of Microsoft for abandoning old hardware, and it used to be a pround rallying point for Linux folk that Microsoft 'gave free hardware to Linux' by abandoning support for it.
Nowadays when I mention things like this about, for instance, Xfree86 abandoning old hardware, or the KDE/Gnome bloat making older machines useless, I get the same comments ("get new hardware!") from Linux zealots that we in the Linux community used to expect from the Microsoft zealots.
Times sure change.
KDE and Gnome aren't really 'fun' to run on any platform. They're just another Windows-wannabe and nothing cool.
The Tab Window Manager is fun. There's even printed documentation for it, O'Reilly volumes 3 and 8. I've run TWM on a Macintosh SE/30, with a 2-bit (monochrome) 512x342 screen. Even FVWM adds too much 'eye-candy bloat' on such a display.
The Mac was running NetBSD, of course.
Hell, I have hardware of that vintage, well, it's Sparc hardware, that still does useful things. You stick your basic stuff on a NFS server on such a box. I do it with NetBSD, though.
Put Slackware on those older machines. Just install the A, AP and D sections if you want a machine that can do basic development and compiling. Also the N section for networking. Be selective in what you install, use the 'menu' selection process to enable just the packages you want, and it will work great. I learned a lot of what I know about TCP/IP networking by having three or four Slackware boxes running on 386sx machines, with wobbly old 3C501 network cards. It was about 30 bucks worth of hardware even back then, and it worked great.
It's interesting that you make BuyMusic.com plaintext, but BoycottBuyMusic. com and DontBuyMusic. com hot links.
Gee. That's innovative.
My cheap Chembook 486 laptop has an analog audio in port, and I bought it at auction this summer for $5.
So now all we need is someone to come up with a 'war grabbing' app that runs on some sort of portable bluetooth device with 'smarts' and people will be able to walk by these folks with their blue-tooth reachable 'Address Book' and harvest some email addys for spamming purposes.
It just a couple of minutes to copy it all to an old Pentium 133 box over in the corner that was pried open to shove a cheap 40 gig HD in.
You don't copy your 'nightly really-important-to-me backups on a little bitty iPod, do you? Really?
Do you have the iPod glued to a big piece of plexiglass so it doesn't get knocked around and your 'really-important' backups wiped out?
Why not big internal speakers and a permanently attached subwoofer?
Heck, each unit could ship on it's own pallet.
Color LCDs use significantly more power than monochrome ones.
Perhaps, just for you, they will come out with a color plasma screen version. With a thick cord that tethers it to the big 70 pound lead-acid battery that you wheel around in a cart.
Mercy!
Do the Bostisch Staplers, Canon photocopier, and 'HON' filing cabinets get old, too?
Geez.
It's just office equipment .
It's good that you've mentioned that paving slab in the Dompatz and the big demo, whatnot, etc.
We'd all forgotten about it.
Thank goodness that small children get the 'special effects gee-whiz effect' flushed out of their systems by the time they're six these days.
So that we can get back to watching films for the drama and effect.
Yes, I know there will always be malcontents who mostly rant and rave about the quality of the 'special effects' in a film. There are probably cranks out there who obsess over the quality of the backdrops at a Shakespearean play, also. It's nothing new, profound, or worth dwelling on.
It's a little bit disappointing that on a 'nerd' site like this, someone misappropriates Arthur C. Clarke's work and ascribes it to a mere filmmaker who directed the adaptation.
Kubrick promised (and delivered) a well-made film adaptation of Clarke's work. The 'promise' of the Monolith was made by Clarke.
Anyhow. Disappointing to see this kind of illiteracy about SF on slashdot.
It isn't the 'media' using the term 'graffiti' who have things confused. It apparently is all the business owners who have to pay someone to wipe off all those phone numbers and assorted profane lines off the stalls of their restrooms. The people who have to remove the paint that some urban-ape sprayed on their garage wall out in the alley. The people whose carefully restored Victorian houses get sprayed, etc.
No, it wasn't a 'media fabrication' that gave graffiti a bad name. Please desist in pretending that all claims by people whose property has been vandalized is some sort of fraud.