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Mr Secretary, (cough cough) "Trading partners", not "Empire" - please don't upset the plebs.
(By coincidence "word in this image" was "feudal"... spooky!)
"I'm not a programmer so I don't know that much about this stuff, and the finer points of how to tackle the problem."
It is not a programming issue, but a philosophical issue.
One side says that if you maye it easy to insert non-Open Source drivers into the kernel, then there is no incentive for companies to open the drivers. The other side says essentially what you are saying, to paraphrase, if there are not enough people using their product then why would the company bother?
Personally, I only buy hardware which works with Linux, vendor supported or otherwise. Maybe I have to take a little pain and frustration every now and then, but expecting no inconvenience whilst taking a moral stand is a wee bit silly.
"Is a Linux API or port specifically designed to allow raw Windows drivers to be used, a viable option?"
There is ndiswrapper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ndiswrapper).
However, as Linux is available on many non-intel platforms this only helps for intel PCs. I cannot use this method on my iBook (PowerPC) for instance.
We (me and GF - cue slashdot reader and GF jokes) bought a couple of CDs from a local Aussie singer songwriter type a couple of months ago and I did not notice both had copy protection, one was marked as such the other was not marked.
Anyway... did search on t'interweb and found said artist's managers email address and sent her an email complaining about it.
She replied the next working day, apologised and said that there was nothing she or the artist could do about it as it was a record company decision.
"Are you seriously trying to say that Oracle is in competition with MySQL?"
Yep. I had a customer who currently uses Oracle ask me about our support for using OSS databases (i.e. postgres & MySQL) with one of our products only yesterday (we do not support them at present but enough customer ask...).
Of course lets forget that the US funded and trained Ho Chi Minh & Co during WWII and made it as difficult as possible for the French to reclaim their colony so that Uncle Sam could colo^H^H^H^H gain greater political influence in the area.
"Because of their loss, the country was later divided in 2, North and South."
I'm English/Aussie therefore my natural enemy is the French;o), so I am not taking sides. There really is no moral high ground here, it's just the usual thing of fat rich people f$%king over normal people.
I just purchased a Squeeze Box 3 last week so I have been experimenting.
192kbps MP3s, to me, generally sound boxier (i.e. more middley - as would be expected) than flac or wav (same source) through my hifi (a late 80's low-ish end Rotel amp and B & W speakers which I have had since the early 90's so know how it sounds very well).
I think it does depend on what you are listening to and I am convinced that, in general, electronic music which has remained in the digital domain during the entire production process does not seem to exhibit the boxiness anywhere near as much as acoustic music. Although this may equally be my ears playing tricks on me.
When I was doing music technology at uni, one of my lecturers emphasised "Never think 'The punters won't notice', because they will. They might not know it why it 'sounds funny', but they will know when it does".
With the cost of storage nowadays you may as well rip everything to PC using flac and/or wav and then convert that to mp3 to play on mp3 players because you cannot go backwards.
You are correct - if you read the documentation that comes with it (RTFM 8O) ), or at least did come with mine. Just mirrors your details incl photo.
However, if you have dead chip or the chip contains incorrect data (which you cannot validate yourself) you are going to have to prove that you are not a forger and probably have your trip/holiday f&*ked.
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No advertising of political parties allowed, other than their website, limited numbers of a printed manifesto and public debates between ALL candidates. Instead of your ten advertisements, have ten debates that candidates must attend.
Mr Secretary, (cough cough) "Trading partners", not "Empire" - please don't upset the plebs.
(By coincidence "word in this image" was "feudal"... spooky!)
Poofy Puffin?
Where has someone NOT had freedom and had security?
"I'm not a programmer so I don't know that much about this stuff, and the finer points of how to tackle the problem."
It is not a programming issue, but a philosophical issue.
One side says that if you maye it easy to insert non-Open Source drivers into the kernel, then there is no incentive for companies to open the drivers. The other side says essentially what you are saying, to paraphrase, if there are not enough people using their product then why would the company bother?
Personally, I only buy hardware which works with Linux, vendor supported or otherwise. Maybe I have to take a little pain and frustration every now and then, but expecting no inconvenience whilst taking a moral stand is a wee bit silly.
"Is a Linux API or port specifically designed to allow raw Windows drivers to be used, a viable option?"
There is ndiswrapper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ndiswrapper).
However, as Linux is available on many non-intel platforms this only helps for intel PCs. I cannot use this method on my iBook (PowerPC) for instance.
I do not think artists have a say in this.
We (me and GF - cue slashdot reader and GF jokes) bought a couple of CDs from a local Aussie singer songwriter type a couple of months ago and I did not notice both had copy protection, one was marked as such the other was not marked.
Anyway... did search on t'interweb and found said artist's managers email address and sent her an email complaining about it.
She replied the next working day, apologised and said that there was nothing she or the artist could do about it as it was a record company decision.
You really DO need to look harder! Just go to the to the arch directory of your choice under the OpenBSD download directory e.g. http://downloads.planetmirror.com/pub/openbsd/3.8/ i386
Notice the floopy*.fs files?
They are floppy images.
Looky here:
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#MkInsMedia
http://www.pantz.org/os/openbsd/makingaopenbsdcd.s html
(and I don't even use BSD... well, does OS X count?)
3287 flac files on my PC.
Avg size 27.6859Mb.
FWIW, using:
find -name *.flac -printf "%s\n" | awk '{c=c+1;s=s+$1} END {print c,s/c/1024/1024}'
Isn't that more or less what happens?
They may as well already be here!
I thought the aim was to get rid of vermin?
"Are you seriously trying to say that Oracle is in competition with MySQL?" Yep. I had a customer who currently uses Oracle ask me about our support for using OSS databases (i.e. postgres & MySQL) with one of our products only yesterday (we do not support them at present but enough customer ask...).
Me too, although my UK passport is valid.
;-/...
OS/400 is not a flavor of *nix.
Of course lets forget that the US funded and trained Ho Chi Minh & Co during WWII and made it as difficult as possible for the French to reclaim their colony so that Uncle Sam could colo^H^H^H^H gain greater political influence in the area.
i shing_the_DMZ
;o), so I am not taking sides. There really is no moral high ground here, it's just the usual thing of fat rich people f$%king over normal people.
"Because of their loss, the country was later divided in 2, North and South."
Due to whom?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMZ_(Vietnam)#Establ
I'm English/Aussie therefore my natural enemy is the French
No no no, God only lets us destroy the Earth to test our faith.
"Jpegs make you blind"
But only indirectly and it may just be an old wives tale.
tsk tsk
;o).
That would be Linux based robtic overlords methinks
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In Kore^H^H^H^Hthe USA, only old people use cryogenics. Sorry.
I just purchased a Squeeze Box 3 last week so I have been experimenting.
192kbps MP3s, to me, generally sound boxier (i.e. more middley - as would be expected) than flac or wav (same source) through my hifi (a late 80's low-ish end Rotel amp and B & W speakers which I have had since the early 90's so know how it sounds very well).
I think it does depend on what you are listening to and I am convinced that, in general, electronic music which has remained in the digital domain during the entire production process does not seem to exhibit the boxiness anywhere near as much as acoustic music. Although this may equally be my ears playing tricks on me.
When I was doing music technology at uni, one of my lecturers emphasised "Never think 'The punters won't notice', because they will. They might not know it why it 'sounds funny', but they will know when it does".
With the cost of storage nowadays you may as well rip everything to PC using flac and/or wav and then convert that to mp3 to play on mp3 players because you cannot go backwards.
What, are you retarded? A lawnmower copier. What else would you use?
Why do you assume that disapproval of your current regime's policies and practices means hatred of every citizen of the USA?
You are correct - if you read the documentation that comes with it (RTFM 8O) ), or at least did come with mine. Just mirrors your details incl photo. However, if you have dead chip or the chip contains incorrect data (which you cannot validate yourself) you are going to have to prove that you are not a forger and probably have your trip/holiday f&*ked.
Whoops: Monkette: "So, it can get damaged?" Should have read: Me: "So, it can get damaged?"