Point is, if you just want mvpmc you don't need to compile it.
That's good to know... what about the server-side software? I assume that there is some software running the equivalent of Haupage's MVPStart service to do the back-end stuff; is that pre-packaged?
Go and pay iTunes for its stuff if it gives you a warm and fuzzy feeling, and then download it via bittorrent, so you have a clean copy that you can actually use.
There are some people who might allege that I did exactly that. I, of course, have no comment as to the veracity of such hypothetical allegations.
As an aside about mvpmc, I would really love it if there were actual precompiled packages available for it through yum or rpm or whatever; a README which says "make sure you have this cross-compilation environment, run make this, make that, make so-and-so, oh, and here's how you compile the kernel..." is fairly off-putting, especially when you know that all of the stuff that somes after that in the setup process is going to be just as painful.:-(
The MediaMVP is a wonderful little device (we've got one in our bedroom), but mvpmc is not exactly a solution for everyone (I'm fairly technical, and I still haven't screwed up my courage enough to use any of the various replacement MVP solutions yet), and the native MVP software languished for almost a year before being updated a few times recently.
The big new thing here is the playing of iTunes videos: I still remember how pissed off I was when I discovered that there was no way of streaming the Battlestar Galactica episode I bought from iTunes down to the TV in the living room. I was not about to make my wife and her mother crowd around a computer monitor to watch it. Since, last I checked, VLC won't play iTunes protected videos, using it as a bridge to stream content wouldn't work (if there's a way around that, I'm all ears!).
Yeah, my life became immensely easier once I realized that atrpms, freshrpms, Dag, Dries, and PlanetCCRMA were compatable with each other, but not with livna. GRRRRR!
Which is not to say that everything is peaches and cream now, of course -- right now, yum is complaining about missing dependencies for several packages which I am not trying to install. What use is an error message saying "module spaz is required by package bstflk" when I am trying to install foo and update bar?
I sued a spammer who came to court and claimed he never sent the mails and didn't even know how. When the judge stopped berating me long enough for me to continue, I then produced a tape recording of a conversation between me and the spammer, in which I had pretended to be an interested customer, and he offered to send 5 million e-mails for me for $500, and explained how they were routed through China to hide the origin. The judge got extremely flustered for a minute and then started to accuse me of "entrapment" (even though the recorded phone call took place after I had received the original spam), and she never commented on the fact that the defendant had just been caught lying under oath. I hadn't really expected him to go to jail for that, but I thought I would at least win the case; I didn't.
Unless I'm very much mistaken, what you did is illegal in many jurisdictions (hopefully not yours, of course!), and inadmissable in others, unless you notified the spammer in advance that you were recording the conversation. People interested in doing this should probably make sure for themselves before doing so.
In further news, the RIAA and MPAA have recently decided that everything is, in fact, a greater threat than everything else. "We intend to launch our initial wave of lawsuits against everything very soon," said industry spokesman Blodug Fossergrim. "Everything else will have to wait."
Interestingly, when the Lieberman web site went down and the initial unfounded accusations started flying, his opponent, Ned Lamont, added a prominent link to Google's cached version of Lieberman's site as a public service to the voters of Connecticut.
I dunno -- it seems to that me not just holding opinions with which the overwhelming majority of your constituents disagree (not only about the war, either, of course -- for instance, his statement that Catholic hospitals should be allowed to refuse emergency treatment to rape victims was even disagreed with by something like 3/4 of the Catholics in Connecticut), but loudly and publically announcing those opinions on national television as often as humanly possible, might begin to fall under the umbrella of "cluelessness."
Back when I was in college, twenty-some odd years ago, the Astronomy department, which was located in the basement of the Science building (of course -- where else would you put an Astronomy department?), put a "Comments" box on the wall so that people could make known their complaints. I took one of the sheets of paper they supplied, wrote on it, "I do not like the Fine Structure Constant," folded it, and put it in the box.
Amd now, at last, I have my answer: "Don't like the Fine Structure Constant? Just wait five billion years, and it'll change."
Here in Atlanta, over the long Memorial Day weekend, both of our house's central air conditioning units died, just in time for the first batch of 90F+ degree days of the year. The only thing that made my computer room even slightly habitable was hooking up a pair of 120mm case fans to the external molex connector that Antec thoughtfully added to my computer's PSU (why they no longer offer that as an option is a mystery to me). So you have my complete sympathies, even as I declare victory thanks to the fact that I was able to set up two case fans to your one. Ha!, W00t, pwn3d, etc.
The reason to Ask Slashdot about it is that there might be people here who have first-hand knowledge of the legal issues behind reverse-engineering proprietray products -- not because they are lawyers, but because they have done reverse engineering of their own. It's all well and good to say "consult a lawyer," but what type of lawyer? At the very least, someone who has done this themselves may be able to put them in touch with IP lawyers who specialize in "clean room" reverse enigineering issues.
That's what I was going to say, too, more or less -- that Word 95 or so is just about the last version of Word to be more concerned with being a Word Processor than being a Word Processor/E-Mail Client/Calendar/Juicer/CRM Platform/Floor Wax/Blender/Personal Grooming Accessory. To me, that rough era of Word 95 to Word 97 represents the pinnacle of MS Word, even with the entirely laughable grammar checker.
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That's good to know... what about the server-side software? I assume that there is some software running the equivalent of Haupage's MVPStart service to do the back-end stuff; is that pre-packaged?
In fact, it did.
There are some people who might allege that I did exactly that. I, of course, have no comment as to the veracity of such hypothetical allegations.
As an aside about mvpmc, I would really love it if there were actual precompiled packages available for it through yum or rpm or whatever; a README which says "make sure you have this cross-compilation environment, run make this, make that, make so-and-so, oh, and here's how you compile the kernel..." is fairly off-putting, especially when you know that all of the stuff that somes after that in the setup process is going to be just as painful. :-(
The MediaMVP is a wonderful little device (we've got one in our bedroom), but mvpmc is not exactly a solution for everyone (I'm fairly technical, and I still haven't screwed up my courage enough to use any of the various replacement MVP solutions yet), and the native MVP software languished for almost a year before being updated a few times recently.
The big new thing here is the playing of iTunes videos: I still remember how pissed off I was when I discovered that there was no way of streaming the Battlestar Galactica episode I bought from iTunes down to the TV in the living room. I was not about to make my wife and her mother crowd around a computer monitor to watch it. Since, last I checked, VLC won't play iTunes protected videos, using it as a bridge to stream content wouldn't work (if there's a way around that, I'm all ears!).
Yeah, my life became immensely easier once I realized that atrpms, freshrpms, Dag, Dries, and PlanetCCRMA were compatable with each other, but not with livna. GRRRRR!
Which is not to say that everything is peaches and cream now, of course -- right now, yum is complaining about missing dependencies for several packages which I am not trying to install. What use is an error message saying "module spaz is required by package bstflk" when I am trying to install foo and update bar?
...Now if only they could also roll atrpms into Core/Extras.
</wishful_thinking>
(Yeah, I know why they can't)
TFA does, in fact, mention the Goats experiment, and its fairly conclusive failure, FWIW.
In further news, the RIAA and MPAA have recently decided that everything is, in fact, a greater threat than everything else. "We intend to launch our initial wave of lawsuits against everything very soon," said industry spokesman Blodug Fossergrim. "Everything else will have to wait."
I've done that before with drives that were teetering -- held them in the "just so" position so that they would continue to run.
John Fogarty, who was sued by Saul Zaentz for allegedly plagiarizing himself , might be an even better example.
"Proof" for whom? For the RIAA, I strongly suspect that there is no possible evidence which you could produce which they would deem sufficient.
For a court of law? I don't think that it's ever gotten that far in court yet.
Interestingly, when the Lieberman web site went down and the initial unfounded accusations started flying, his opponent, Ned Lamont, added a prominent link to Google's cached version of Lieberman's site as a public service to the voters of Connecticut.
It's right there in the name: They own the tubes, man. They own the tubes.
I dunno -- it seems to that me not just holding opinions with which the overwhelming majority of your constituents disagree (not only about the war, either, of course -- for instance, his statement that Catholic hospitals should be allowed to refuse emergency treatment to rape victims was even disagreed with by something like 3/4 of the Catholics in Connecticut), but loudly and publically announcing those opinions on national television as often as humanly possible, might begin to fall under the umbrella of "cluelessness."
Back when I was in college, twenty-some odd years ago, the Astronomy department, which was located in the basement of the Science building (of course -- where else would you put an Astronomy department?), put a "Comments" box on the wall so that people could make known their complaints. I took one of the sheets of paper they supplied, wrote on it, "I do not like the Fine Structure Constant," folded it, and put it in the box.
Amd now, at last, I have my answer: "Don't like the Fine Structure Constant? Just wait five billion years, and it'll change."
There was this one time when I was in Thailand, you see, and...
Heck, I can get real intellectual news lots of places. Jessica Alba's bikini, though? Mark me down for some of that.
The rest of the ancient Beowulf cluster of them are still on the bottom of the Mediterranean.
Here in Atlanta, over the long Memorial Day weekend, both of our house's central air conditioning units died, just in time for the first batch of 90F+ degree days of the year. The only thing that made my computer room even slightly habitable was hooking up a pair of 120mm case fans to the external molex connector that Antec thoughtfully added to my computer's PSU (why they no longer offer that as an option is a mystery to me). So you have my complete sympathies, even as I declare victory thanks to the fact that I was able to set up two case fans to your one. Ha!, W00t, pwn3d, etc.
The real>/i> question is, will this Wiki be able to reach its solutions in non-Polynomial time?
Tsk, tsk! Read before you reply! He wasn't talking about cell phones at all; he was talking about CEL phones. Completely different thing.
The reason to Ask Slashdot about it is that there might be people here who have first-hand knowledge of the legal issues behind reverse-engineering proprietray products -- not because they are lawyers, but because they have done reverse engineering of their own. It's all well and good to say "consult a lawyer," but what type of lawyer? At the very least, someone who has done this themselves may be able to put them in touch with IP lawyers who specialize in "clean room" reverse enigineering issues.
That's what I was going to say, too, more or less -- that Word 95 or so is just about the last version of Word to be more concerned with being a Word Processor than being a Word Processor/E-Mail Client/Calendar/Juicer/CRM Platform/Floor Wax/Blender/Personal Grooming Accessory. To me, that rough era of Word 95 to Word 97 represents the pinnacle of MS Word, even with the entirely laughable grammar checker.