You people seem to be missing the point that FFmpeg and ilk are completely illegal to a large portion of the Linux-using public How is FFMPEG illegal, and in which jurisdictions?
I haven't scrolled to the bottom yet to see if this is redundant, but FFMPEG has recently added WMV9 and VC1 decoders. http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ It works fine for all of the Legacy content that I have. They also have MPEG/2/4 and a whole bunch of others. The only codec that I seem to be missing is Indeo 5
Who supports what?click Help/About, alternatively, man executable What version is the standard?2.0 Where is the commercial incentive to develop for it?for devs, http://monster.com./ For companies, tucows Who makes it all work together in a nicely integrated packagehttp://distrowatch.com and once that happens, it is still open?Yes
Are you familiar with the concept of "right of way?"
A little bit. I'm not certain how a camera qualifies as an Easement though, which is how the US and UK govs would go about installing them on private land. They can't use "eminent domain" for the cameras without actually taking the land from the landowner (or condemning the land). A utility pole, road, railway, or river is an easement because it has a dominant tenement and servient tenement, but mounting a camera on the pole is a no-no, just like installing a remote-controlled machine-gun on a pole is a no-no. Imagine if the camera in the story had shot the guy committing the crime. At least, that's how I see it.
I agree with your statements with a minor discrepency.
Many "public" street cameras are on privatly owned property. While the lamp post is owned and maintained by the state, I own the sidewalk and 1/2 of the street boardering my property (in many states). The feds should have my permission to install a camera on "my property".
I do not want state owned cameras filming me on my property, or the property of others without their expressed premission. State owned cameras should be placed on state owned land and facilities. Private property owners can install their own cameras, and allow the police to access the footage via warrant, subpoena, or by an extremely complicated legal process called "simply asking" (ie: hey, can we get your tapes from saturday the 14th?), at which time the private property owner can choose to answer yes or no.
In many parts of the US, the citizens own the property under the sidewalk and 1/2 the street. Meaning that lamp posts, while owned by the state, are on private property. I don't really see a problem with the state or feds "asking" a property owners permission to install a camera.
I agreed with most of the tactics of the FSF over the past few years. Then, I started seeing more an more propeganda (like their anti-vista site). I am still terribly troubled by the direction of the FSF and feel that my they no longer are working in my best interest. Just so we are on the same page, here are my opinions on the subjects they are dealing with.
Vista: I do not wish to port my apps to, purchase, or deploy a leacy operating system.
DRM: I do not wish to port my applications to legacy hardware platforms.
Propritary Licenses: I do no wish to relicense my applications using legacy licenses.
Notice the uber-troll passive aggresive use of the word "legacy". I hope other slashdotters here will pick up the word and add it to their everyday vocabulary when dealing with MS sales drones.
More like, is it legal to get a court order to tell Mailboxes etc to give the police accesses to someone elses privately (Ups/Fedex) delivered parcel at Mailboxes etc?
I believe the answer is... Yes! I thought that this is something that was known and accepted for the last bajillion years? I remeber working at a BBS in the 90's. The police called and said that they were investigating one of our susbscribers and wanted his e-mail. I asked the boss, and he said "sure". No court order, no warrnt, we just gave it to them. It was a privately owned business, and the owner said, "sure".
BBH Note to the spelling police, I'm on an iMac keyboard.
My appologies for not being clear on the "believe in" or "believe that he existed" thing. I didn't mean it in an Easter Bunny/Santa Claus kind of way.
Of course many Christians believe Mohammad existed, as much as they believe Joseph Smith existed. Their job is not to believe or disbelieve, it is to follow the teachings of Christ. My understanding of the Koran is that Muslims believe in Moses, Jesus and the whole bible story. Jesus was the son of god and whatever. Then Mohammad came along, and god spoke to him. Big M put the words directly into the Koran. So even though Moses and Jesus had their thing, the big M (or rather god himself) has/had the final word.
My interpretation could be totally out of whack though (the alternate reality that you poing out above).
If Nvidia doesn't release their source because it's not "derived" from the linux kernel (they only use a GPL kernel interface to bridge it to their driver), then why TF do they have a seperate driver download for linux? Why don't they didn't they just build a kernel interface to their windows driver? When their driver stops working with newer kernels and they patch it to work again, isn't that patch "derived" from the linux kernel, otherwise where esle would the patch be derived from?
What Linus is saying may not exclude the possibility of a single kernel dev suing Nvidia for GPL license violations or possible copyright infringent.
Thats right folks. Its OK to kill Muslims because they don't believe in Jesus. Its tons of fun for the whole family. Thats right Little Johny, shoot those non-believers.
The interviwee has a flaw in his reasoning. The last time I checked, Muslims do believe in Jesus. It's where the Christians don't believe in Mohammad that the "disconnect" occurs.
By "disconnect", I am reffering to about a thousand years of murder, rape, torture, alienation, and misery caused by both parties.
We're talking about a paradigm. So the name of the subject pops up a lot. Are you charging by the word you read? You don't happen to be in accounting, do you?
Worse, I'm a tax collector. I charge "cliche" tax. Every time someone uses a globe in their corporate logo, I get a buck. A bridge is 50 cents. Two joining hands are 25 cents. Use a bridge embossed over a globe, it's $1.50. I trademarked all the popular logo cliches before the bubble and made a fortune.
having read the article and looked at all the pretty graphs, I cannot help but wonder why the laser mice get such terrible results for "malfunction speed" compared to the non-laser mice.
Looking at the equipment, I would guess that it was a function of the surface that was used. Since he was using a turntable, I assume that he either had a felt or carbon-fiber isolation pad (to avoid deflection and low frequency feedback on albums). I assume that different surface types will produce different results with different types of optics.
That said, I'm on a 3 year old MX-500 at the moment, and it made me proud to know that my "old boy" did well against the competition. I lost my model M last year (one too many times in the dishwasher?), so my collection of reliable hardware is dwindling.
The new GUI might be revolutionary, and useful, and create the new paradigm. We should replace the ancient Mac GUI paradigm. So when we improve the paradigm
You don't happen to be in management, do you? I believe you now hold the slashdot record for number of reoccurring uses of the word "paradigm" in a single non-Babylon-5 related post.
"By releasing our changes, and encouraging others to do the same, you can receive enhancements and bug fixes to those changes at a cost lower than developing them in-house." If it is a piece of software that gives you an edge over a direct competitor using the same software, do a cost/benefit analysis and figure out whether it's worth while to release it. You may even be able to negotiate an agreement with that competitor to "both" release your source.
You could also play the sneaky marketing angle. Release "some" of your source (one or two features) and really "ham it up" in the press. Your competitors may follow suit, releasing "all" of their source. Profit!
So do your best to get the code out there, yet figure out a way to make it profitable to your business.
* Much of the time it is night, and storing that much juice in batteries is impractical. Things like hydroelectric storage and thermal solar plants could help with this problem, but its a whole different research issue.
I'm not going to disagree with you, I would just like to point out that it's "always" daytime somewhere on the planet. With that in mind, things become a grid complexity problem rather than a energy storage problem. Running a low resistance, high capacity cable under the ocean is equally as complex as storing an evenings worth of electricity for a country like the US. Besides, if the cable were ever to snap, hilarity would ensue. Where's the fun in your plan?
I think you are confusing "lied to" with "wasn't (exactly) correct". People read facts and make predictions. They are sometimes wrong, sometimes right, but often somewhere in between. I don't believe there is the huge, evil environmentalist conspiracy that I see in your post.
The problem that I have with most of the people I characterized in my post wasn't that they were wrong, it was that they had an agenda. The only exception was Lovelock/Rowland, who were genuinely freaked out by their discovery and jumped to conclusions. I 'do' however blame them directly for "Highlander II" sucking.
I guess the my point is that the environmentalists are big fat filthy liars. The corporations are big fat filthy liars. The government workers are big fat filthy liars. The college kids repeat the vile lies of the above three. It's sickening, and I am left in a position where I can't believe any of them. I can't even draw my own conclusions because the raw data is so tainted with "agenda stench" that it's useless. Sites like junkscience.com have even cashed in on the entertainment value of the mess.
No need for references, as it was a summary. Specifics would be way too much "actual" work. I could give entertaining little stories though..... like this ones. The ozone hole is very real, and a naturally occurring thing. It comes. It goes. It has done this since the beginning of the Earth. In the 80's, poor dude looked at some atmospheric data somewhere and FREAKED THE FUCK OUT, CAUSE HOLLY SHIT, THERE'S A BIG FRICKING HOLE IN THE OZONE!!!! Now, I don't blame the guy, cause we all did pretty much the same thing.
Was that the kind of reference you wanted, or were you looking to links to 1980's editions of "Science" magazine?
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No way. DRM is conflicting with fair use of digital content?
Not "fair use", rather plain old "use".
BBH
This is Frank. I gave my DC to Tim 3 months ago. Get with the times.
Ah, I see. I didn't realize that this affected source code yet.
BBH
Whats the risk the smell?
It's the odor the driver of the Impala (that the test platform was mounted to) smelled.
BBH
You people seem to be missing the point that FFmpeg and ilk are completely illegal to a large portion of the Linux-using public
How is FFMPEG illegal, and in which jurisdictions?
BBH
I haven't scrolled to the bottom yet to see if this is redundant, but FFMPEG has recently added WMV9 and VC1 decoders. http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ It works fine for all of the Legacy content that I have. They also have MPEG/2/4 and a whole bunch of others. The only codec that I seem to be missing is Indeo 5
BBH
Who supports what? click Help/About, alternatively, man executable
What version is the standard? 2.0
Where is the commercial incentive to develop for it? for devs, http://monster.com./ For companies, tucows
Who makes it all work together in a nicely integrated package http://distrowatch.com
and once that happens, it is still open? Yes
BHH
Kinda changes the definition of a "pre-owned" machine!
BBH
Are you familiar with the concept of "right of way?"
A little bit. I'm not certain how a camera qualifies as an Easement though, which is how the US and UK govs would go about installing them on private land. They can't use "eminent domain" for the cameras without actually taking the land from the landowner (or condemning the land). A utility pole, road, railway, or river is an easement because it has a dominant tenement and servient tenement, but mounting a camera on the pole is a no-no, just like installing a remote-controlled machine-gun on a pole is a no-no. Imagine if the camera in the story had shot the guy committing the crime. At least, that's how I see it.
BBH
I agree with your statements with a minor discrepency.
Many "public" street cameras are on privatly owned property. While the lamp post is owned and maintained by the state, I own the sidewalk and 1/2 of the street boardering my property (in many states). The feds should have my permission to install a camera on "my property".
BBH
Here's my go at this.
I do not want state owned cameras filming me on my property, or the property of others without their expressed premission. State owned cameras should be placed on state owned land and facilities. Private property owners can install their own cameras, and allow the police to access the footage via warrant, subpoena, or by an extremely complicated legal process called "simply asking" (ie: hey, can we get your tapes from saturday the 14th?), at which time the private property owner can choose to answer yes or no.
In many parts of the US, the citizens own the property under the sidewalk and 1/2 the street. Meaning that lamp posts, while owned by the state, are on private property. I don't really see a problem with the state or feds "asking" a property owners permission to install a camera.
Hope that explains it,
BBH
I agreed with most of the tactics of the FSF over the past few years. Then, I started seeing more an more propeganda (like their anti-vista site). I am still terribly troubled by the direction of the FSF and feel that my they no longer are working in my best interest. Just so we are on the same page, here are my opinions on the subjects they are dealing with.
Vista: I do not wish to port my apps to, purchase, or deploy a leacy operating system.
DRM: I do not wish to port my applications to legacy hardware platforms.
Propritary Licenses: I do no wish to relicense my applications using legacy licenses.
Notice the uber-troll passive aggresive use of the word "legacy". I hope other slashdotters here will pick up the word and add it to their everyday vocabulary when dealing with MS sales drones.
BBH
More like, is it legal to get a court order to tell Mailboxes etc to give the police accesses to someone elses privately (Ups/Fedex) delivered parcel at Mailboxes etc?
I believe the answer is... Yes! I thought that this is something that was known and accepted for the last bajillion years? I remeber working at a BBS in the 90's. The police called and said that they were investigating one of our susbscribers and wanted his e-mail. I asked the boss, and he said "sure". No court order, no warrnt, we just gave it to them. It was a privately owned business, and the owner said, "sure".
BBH
Note to the spelling police, I'm on an iMac keyboard.
My appologies for not being clear on the "believe in" or "believe that he existed" thing. I didn't mean it in an Easter Bunny/Santa Claus kind of way.
Of course many Christians believe Mohammad existed, as much as they believe Joseph Smith existed. Their job is not to believe or disbelieve, it is to follow the teachings of Christ. My understanding of the Koran is that Muslims believe in Moses, Jesus and the whole bible story. Jesus was the son of god and whatever. Then Mohammad came along, and god spoke to him. Big M put the words directly into the Koran. So even though Moses and Jesus had their thing, the big M (or rather god himself) has/had the final word.
My interpretation could be totally out of whack though (the alternate reality that you poing out above).
BBH
If Nvidia doesn't release their source because it's not "derived" from the linux kernel (they only use a GPL kernel interface to bridge it to their driver), then why TF do they have a seperate driver download for linux? Why don't they didn't they just build a kernel interface to their windows driver? When their driver stops working with newer kernels and they patch it to work again, isn't that patch "derived" from the linux kernel, otherwise where esle would the patch be derived from?
What Linus is saying may not exclude the possibility of a single kernel dev suing Nvidia for GPL license violations or possible copyright infringent.
Just a thought,
BBH
Thats right folks. Its OK to kill Muslims because they don't believe in Jesus. Its tons of fun for the whole family. Thats right Little Johny, shoot those non-believers.
The interviwee has a flaw in his reasoning. The last time I checked, Muslims do believe in Jesus. It's where the Christians don't believe in Mohammad that the "disconnect" occurs.
By "disconnect", I am reffering to about a thousand years of murder, rape, torture, alienation, and misery caused by both parties.
BBH
We're talking about a paradigm. So the name of the subject pops up a lot. Are you charging by the word you read? You don't happen to be in accounting, do you?
Worse, I'm a tax collector. I charge "cliche" tax. Every time someone uses a globe in their corporate logo, I get a buck. A bridge is 50 cents. Two joining hands are 25 cents. Use a bridge embossed over a globe, it's $1.50. I trademarked all the popular logo cliches before the bubble and made a fortune.
BBH
having read the article and looked at all the pretty graphs, I cannot help but wonder why the laser mice get such terrible results for "malfunction speed" compared to the non-laser mice.
Looking at the equipment, I would guess that it was a function of the surface that was used. Since he was using a turntable, I assume that he either had a felt or carbon-fiber isolation pad (to avoid deflection and low frequency feedback on albums). I assume that different surface types will produce different results with different types of optics.
That said, I'm on a 3 year old MX-500 at the moment, and it made me proud to know that my "old boy" did well against the competition. I lost my model M last year (one too many times in the dishwasher?), so my collection of reliable hardware is dwindling.
BBH
The new GUI might be revolutionary, and useful, and create the new paradigm. We should replace the ancient Mac GUI paradigm. So when we improve the paradigm
You don't happen to be in management, do you? I believe you now hold the slashdot record for number of reoccurring uses of the word "paradigm" in a single non-Babylon-5 related post.
BBH
Kudos on the new release. I'm running Vista, so the support will be nice.
Hasn't Vista always run on java/mumps (well, for the last 5 years anyway)?
http://neamh.cns.uni.edu/MedInfo/vista.html
BBH
Translate the following into business speak:
"By releasing our changes, and encouraging others to do the same, you can receive enhancements and bug fixes to those changes at a cost lower than developing them in-house." If it is a piece of software that gives you an edge over a direct competitor using the same software, do a cost/benefit analysis and figure out whether it's worth while to release it. You may even be able to negotiate an agreement with that competitor to "both" release your source.
You could also play the sneaky marketing angle. Release "some" of your source (one or two features) and really "ham it up" in the press. Your competitors may follow suit, releasing "all" of their source. Profit!
So do your best to get the code out there, yet figure out a way to make it profitable to your business.
BBH
* Much of the time it is night, and storing that much juice in batteries is impractical. Things like hydroelectric storage and thermal solar plants could help with this problem, but its a whole different research issue.
I'm not going to disagree with you, I would just like to point out that it's "always" daytime somewhere on the planet. With that in mind, things become a grid complexity problem rather than a energy storage problem. Running a low resistance, high capacity cable under the ocean is equally as complex as storing an evenings worth of electricity for a country like the US. Besides, if the cable were ever to snap, hilarity would ensue. Where's the fun in your plan?
BBH
If he's going too slow, then how'd he get ahead of you in the first place?
BBH
I think you are confusing "lied to" with "wasn't (exactly) correct". People read facts and make predictions. They are sometimes wrong, sometimes right, but often somewhere in between. I don't believe there is the huge, evil environmentalist conspiracy that I see in your post.
The problem that I have with most of the people I characterized in my post wasn't that they were wrong, it was that they had an agenda. The only exception was Lovelock/Rowland, who were genuinely freaked out by their discovery and jumped to conclusions. I 'do' however blame them directly for "Highlander II" sucking.
I guess the my point is that the environmentalists are big fat filthy liars. The corporations are big fat filthy liars. The government workers are big fat filthy liars. The college kids repeat the vile lies of the above three. It's sickening, and I am left in a position where I can't believe any of them. I can't even draw my own conclusions because the raw data is so tainted with "agenda stench" that it's useless. Sites like junkscience.com have even cashed in on the entertainment value of the mess.
Pretty sad actually,
BBH
No need for references, as it was a summary. Specifics would be way too much "actual" work. I could give entertaining little stories though..... like this ones. The ozone hole is very real, and a naturally occurring thing. It comes. It goes. It has done this since the beginning of the Earth. In the 80's, poor dude looked at some atmospheric data somewhere and FREAKED THE FUCK OUT, CAUSE HOLLY SHIT, THERE'S A BIG FRICKING HOLE IN THE OZONE!!!! Now, I don't blame the guy, cause we all did pretty much the same thing.
Was that the kind of reference you wanted, or were you looking to links to 1980's editions of "Science" magazine?
BBH