I clearly disagree with the ruling with respect to the doctrine of latches is incorrect for several reasons. To begin, we filed initially on October 1, and not the October 7 date the judge mentioned. The Washington Post reported that Bush did not even agree to debate until September 20. The CPD did not announce who would be excluded until October 6. It takes time for a pattern of illegal spending to occur, and for Libertarians to be able to document the pattern and respond. We did this in the most timely manner possible. Additionally, we filed in enough time that the hearing could have occurred earlier than the day before the debate.
Apparently the American public disagrees with the judge in regard to sufficient public purpose. Depending upon the poll cited, between 57% and 68% believe that the debates should be open, at least to those having a mathematical possibility of obtaining enough electoral votes to win an election.
There wont be "rebuttals" in this "debate". The rules disallow it. Personally, I'll be watching the coverage at Free Market News, which will include rebuttals of the "major" candidate's points- just not by either of them.
While I don't think he was as dodgy as he could have been, I think your praise goes a little far. For instance, he says Harmony is perfectly legal, but when asked whether it would be alright for Apple to create software that deals with Real's DRM without a license, he says that they'd be happy to discuss licensing with Apple. Also he makes Real out to be the advocate of interoperability and open platforms. Why not sell music in.ogg and.mp3 then? No problem playing mp3s in an ipod (or any other DAP for that matter).
The very impressive looking MMORPG Ryzom is set to come out very soon and Nevrax's from-scratch feature-rich engine has been GPL from the beginning. I was involved with a game company that died, in part, because of publisher resistance to our intention of using an F/OSS engine. Since 99.99% of the development of the nevrax toolkit** was done by employees, it has a fairly steep learning curve. If more people got interested in it and wrote some documentation (including me), I could see it being the basis for a sort of Snow-Crashy environment; a new frontier where the geeks rule.
**I called it an engine before, but its really libraries and an example game that makes minimal use of them. Nevrax got around the problems of opensourcing their game by GPLing the parts that are most useful to others and not incorporating other's contributions into their actual client which will be closed-source (AFAIK). This, of course, is not an option for a company looking to use a GPLed engine instead of writing theirs and double-licensing it. But then, such a company is benefitting from the community (nevrax is not, yet are gifting us a huge amount of high quality code).
That would seem to make sense. However, I can see a (rather nasty) reason why any large telecom company would be in favor of INDUCE. In order to enforce it, either the end user's equipment or the ISP's will need to be "enhanced" with DRM/ filtering technology. This technology would either have to be massively limiting, going so far as to ban encryption all together (or require key escrow), or would have to be updated as fast as the community could work around it. It would be far more difficult to get every desktop/server in the US equipped with such hardware/software than to require ISPs to implement it. Obviously this would cost SBC some money and you'd think I'd proven your point. The key, though, is that this additional overhead required of ISPs would further subvert the smaller ISPs and encourage the consolidation of companies and stagnation of innovation that we can see in the history and present of the telecom industry.
works for me with firefox.9.1 on gentoo. I'm using all x86 packages except for firefox.9.1 which is still ~x86. I was having random firefox crashes a few days ago; I synced and -uD'ed world and have had no crashes since.
A company wouldn't have to buy even one copy, either, as the source code must be available upon request for, at most, a nominal fee covering cost of distribution. $10k hardly qualifies as nominal:) On the other hand, as another responder to your post has already pointed out. M$ would do what Caldera did with their Linux distro- mix in some proprietary stuff (metro-x and caldera desktop in caldera's case) so that you can't just copy the cd or install from it to multiple machines.
I don't know of any states with laws draconian enough to send you to prison for any term, much less 10 years for posession of a personal-ish quantity. In some states you might wind up in jail for a few days (I did), but most counties give you a ticket as though you were speeding, which I'd say is the moral equivalent. Actually you might cause an accident by speeding... And, to second the grandparent post- I find that small quantities are very helpful in quieting my anxiety and distaste in doing things I'd rather not, like laundry, dishes, etc. I find it somewhat difficult to code while stoned, though not impossible.
First of all, as some other responders have said- people's physiology varies, I know people who have suffered serious headaches when trying to quit drinking coffee; people who didn't whine and certainly don't think it "makes them cool" to. Secondly, the parent post was pointing out the hypocricy of US drug laws, and they're quite right- marijuana, for one, isn't nearly as addictive and withdraw, even for a very heavy smoker, is typically not bad at all. Also, a vast majority of people who have at some point smoked pot regularly quit by their thirties. Can coffee drinkers say the same?
All your points are valid, but I think its important to realize that there are plenty of reasons to despise the RIAA and similar organizations. I'm not going to go into them; I simply want to emphasize one of your points: If you want to hurt the RIAA, the most effective action is to buy lots of non-RIAA label music! Give indie labels the money to publish new artists so they won't have to sell their souls;)
Listening to and spreading RIAA label music, without paying them directly, is mostly providing ammunition for the pro-DRM crowd and making their music more popular. Some people do buy CDs by artists they've downloaded and if most of whats available is RIAA label....
I choose a lot of what I buy after listening to illegal copies of it. Theres so much out there that I find it necessary if I don't want to buy a lot of CDs I'll never listen to. And I buy a LOT of music: $100+ a month on AVERAGE! So, while I may represent a small segment of the music-downloading, "childish, lifeless nerds", if I were buying RIAA label music, I'd be helping them through the efforts of those who rip/decode and spread the mp3s.
Fortunately for me, and the labels I support, I despise pop and the stuff that's my cup of tea is hardly ever picked up by a major label.
A properly configured firewall will protect you from a lot of things, but there are still ways of getting infected that a secure OS would prevent (ie all the IE holes). An email or popup ad can infect you through IE with a firewall in place and without you doing anything dumb (besides using IE or Outlook). The same thing could conceivably happen to a linux/firefox user (if a firefox hole were targetted with code that executed on linux), but the malicious code would have to also find a local root exploit to do serious damage. Why? Because Linux/Unix properly seperates user space from everything else.
I suppose the "tend to be smarter" bit is silly and provocative, but this is the only post in this discussion I've read that made this post's main point. Which I'd really like to see numbers and references for, but intuitively believe. The world is changing. Unless the US does some drastic, tyrannical things to its people and the world, it will not be the only "superpower" for long. Of course, that does seem to be the way things are headed, but I tend to think that, if we haven't already, we'll soon reach a point beyond which governments will quickly lose control of their citizens and native corporations.
You have a good point. iModel would certainly be a bit of a stretch, but I can see a lot of the people using iMovie enjoying playing with special effects. They probably wouldn't be doing heavy poly-modeling, but they might use it for particle systems or as a Poser-like animation program, if they provided some stock geometry. And amatuer game programmer/modders would dig it for sure!
That is what it looks like after further poking. I just wanted to get my slashdot comment in quick enough to get a response. You know how that goes;) I'm most familiar with the DIY headphone amp scene, but from that limited experience, I would expect that someone interested in these would be taking orders so as to get the volume up in order to reduce pcb printing and part costs even if there is still some DIY involved.
I've poked around the website linked from the story, but I see no mention of how/whether others can aquire these units. In particular, the FAQ is, well, lacking;) I've been looking for something like this for a loooong time! The closest I've seen are serial devices in the $500+ range. These would be perfect for a number of applications I've envisioned.
The music I listen to is too obscure for me to find it by scouring the local clubs (in Milwaukee). That is due to the genres I like (post/art/prog-rock,glitch/idm/experimental-electr onica) and also due to the fact that I'm picky within those genres. A lot of my music cant be found on allmusic.com and good luck finding it at sam goody or even amazon.com.
So, how on earth, do these musical individuals and groups go from desire to make music to a cd on my bookshelf that I paid $10-$35 for? Thats, right, I sometimes pay $35 for a single cd of average length. And I spend an average of $150/month on music.
Well, I make use of allmusic.com, fan websites, chatrooms and my local indie record store (www.atomic-records.com). I buy compilations on the labels of artists I already like. When I like some of the other artists on the disc I look for them, and if I cant find them and like them enough I'll have atomic order them for me.
For their part, since they make such original music, they find listeners across the globe that are looking to explore the same musical space. Many of them SHARE their music online (or it is shared for them). Some of them use online only labels. Check out www.legaltorrents.com! Once they're recognized they'll sometimes do a single track for a compilation on an obscure label that caters to their style. Perhaps they'll remix a labelmates track for their album. Electronic music doesn't always require recording time at a studio, either. Most of the artists start with something like a studio in their bedroom or basement. Recently, many have created their art with nothing more than a portable sampler (say a minidisc player and nice mic) and a computer.
The ones who hit the bigtime often tour. I love seeing electronic musicians play "live":) Right now I'm listening to Tortoise, which is a 5 member group that plays live instruments and tours. I guess my point is that there are other ways to get noticed and start selling cd's than touring full time.
This is the first PDA I've seen with a usb host port. I've been looking for this feature to use with a usb soundcard (the total bithead at headphone.com for instance). Does anyone know whether this would work? Do the usb audio drivers in the kernel work on non x86 platforms?
To say that all those companies are bankrolling OSS with the hope that they'll hurt M$ is ludicrous. That may be one bonus to the move, but the primary reason for all of them is that their customers appreciate having the source, people contribute fixes and features and they enjoy a PR boost with the OSS crowd. Also, RH still sells a workstation distro, but it is marketed at enterprises, who were paying for desktop as well as server support before and will continue to.
Plaid:
everything by plaid and black dog (members shared) is great, but IMHO "double figure" is best
Luke Vibert (wagon christ) - Yoseph
Nightmares on Wax: a little more trip-hoppy than IDM-y - excellent- particularly carboot soul
Boards of Canada: truly their own sound (melodic, trippy, uplifting) Its hard to say which of their albums or EPs is best- get em all
and of course check out Autechre, Aphex(also polygon window) Twin and Squarepusher
and if you run out of good stuff on warp (good luck)- some of my other fav artists: B. Fleischmann, Freescha, Casino vs Japan, Solvent, Matmos, and Tortoise
Its rather amazing to me that you can just lay these facts out with lots of "it is" and a little you're wrong. Out of what grand unified theory do these facts come? How do they explain the results in the article? Why did galaxies arrise out of the "uniform fireball" in the first place? Actually I'm much more interested in how you combine relativity and quantum mechanics- do you have testable predictions? Then lets hear whether multiple worlds actually exist or whether there are non-subjective collapses. Have you investigated penrose and hammeroff's conjectures about quantum conciousness? Have you ever tried DMT? Try realizing that neither of us have ANY of the answers when it really comes down to it- and if we did, they would be impossible to express to an unenlightened being in english.
Does the concept of a "universe" leave room for anything "outside" of it? Intiution tells me that the universe didn't start with a big bang (at least nothing like big bang theory), but it also tells me that the only possible "God"-like thing that could exist will exist in the future (from our perspective) rather than having been around all along but not doing anything overt since second 0 (or the end of day 6 if you want to get silly). I have had experiences that I took to be confirmations of my previously adhered-to organized faith, but I have had many more since going my own way. What these experiences tell me is that the universe is caused by what we might think of as its eventual end. Causality flows, at the most fundamental level, backwards to our perception. And furthermore, as quantum physics seems (to me) to shout from the rooftops: Our perceptions operate at a very fundamental level of physics, allowing us to perceive time, though it is not really any different from so called spatial dimensions.
This site is THE place to go for headphone info and a really decent place (good prices, great selection) to buy most 'phones too. There is a buying guide for portable 'phones that should tell you what you need.
The great thing about headphones (if you care about sound quality) is that for about $500 you can get a 99th percentile system (say some etymotic er4s's and a total airhead portable headphone amp) whereas that kind of fidelity will cost you tens of thousands in a stereo. And with the right selections you can do proportionaly as well for less.
You can get a 2.2G one by some company called magicstore new off ebay for $180. Since its a standalone product and more of a niche one than an ipod the profit margin is probably considerable. Still it seems too good to be true that I could get an ipod with 2G for $99 anytime real soon. Also- if they used cf sized microdrives I'd hope they'd just use a cf slot so you could expand. Such players exist, but nothing with the looks, interface or sound quality of an ipod. Personally I use an ipaq 2215 (sdio/cf/bluetooth/400mhz) as my portable audio/video player (and pda funcs). Now if only there were a bootloader that worked with it and linux I wouldn't feel dirty every time I use it:)
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Stephen Gordon had this to say:
I clearly disagree with the ruling with respect to the doctrine of latches is incorrect for several reasons. To begin, we filed initially on October 1, and not the October 7 date the judge mentioned. The Washington Post reported that Bush did not even agree to debate until September 20. The CPD did not announce who would be excluded until October 6. It takes time for a pattern of illegal spending to occur, and for Libertarians to be able to document the pattern and respond. We did this in the most timely manner possible. Additionally, we filed in enough time that the hearing could have occurred earlier than the day before the debate.
Apparently the American public disagrees with the judge in regard to sufficient public purpose. Depending upon the poll cited, between 57% and 68% believe that the debates should be open, at least to those having a mathematical possibility of obtaining enough electoral votes to win an election.
There wont be "rebuttals" in this "debate". The rules disallow it.
Personally, I'll be watching the coverage at Free Market News, which will include rebuttals of the "major" candidate's points- just not by either of them.
While I don't think he was as dodgy as he could have been, I think your praise goes a little far. For instance, he says Harmony is perfectly legal, but when asked whether it would be alright for Apple to create software that deals with Real's DRM without a license, he says that they'd be happy to discuss licensing with Apple. .ogg and .mp3 then? No problem playing mp3s in an ipod (or any other DAP for that matter).
Also he makes Real out to be the advocate of interoperability and open platforms. Why not sell music in
The very impressive looking MMORPG Ryzom is set to come out very soon and Nevrax's from-scratch feature-rich engine has been GPL from the beginning. I was involved with a game company that died, in part, because of publisher resistance to our intention of using an F/OSS engine.
Since 99.99% of the development of the nevrax toolkit** was done by employees, it has a fairly steep learning curve. If more people got interested in it and wrote some documentation (including me), I could see it being the basis for a sort of Snow-Crashy environment; a new frontier where the geeks rule.
**I called it an engine before, but its really libraries and an example game that makes minimal use of them. Nevrax got around the problems of opensourcing their game by GPLing the parts that are most useful to others and not incorporating other's contributions into their actual client which will be closed-source (AFAIK). This, of course, is not an option for a company looking to use a GPLed engine instead of writing theirs and double-licensing it. But then, such a company is benefitting from the community (nevrax is not, yet are gifting us a huge amount of high quality code).
That would seem to make sense. However, I can see a (rather nasty) reason why any large telecom company would be in favor of INDUCE. In order to enforce it, either the end user's equipment or the ISP's will need to be "enhanced" with DRM/ filtering technology. This technology would either have to be massively limiting, going so far as to ban encryption all together (or require key escrow), or would have to be updated as fast as the community could work around it. It would be far more difficult to get every desktop/server in the US equipped with such hardware/software than to require ISPs to implement it. Obviously this would cost SBC some money and you'd think I'd proven your point. The key, though, is that this additional overhead required of ISPs would further subvert the smaller ISPs and encourage the consolidation of companies and stagnation of innovation that we can see in the history and present of the telecom industry.
works for me with firefox .9.1 on gentoo. I'm using all x86 packages except for firefox .9.1 which is still ~x86. I was having random firefox crashes a few days ago; I synced and -uD'ed world and have had no crashes since.
A company wouldn't have to buy even one copy, either, as the source code must be available upon request for, at most, a nominal fee covering cost of distribution. $10k hardly qualifies as nominal:)
On the other hand, as another responder to your post has already pointed out. M$ would do what Caldera did with their Linux distro- mix in some proprietary stuff (metro-x and caldera desktop in caldera's case) so that you can't just copy the cd or install from it to multiple machines.
I don't know of any states with laws draconian enough to send you to prison for any term, much less 10 years for posession of a personal-ish quantity. In some states you might wind up in jail for a few days (I did), but most counties give you a ticket as though you were speeding, which I'd say is the moral equivalent. Actually you might cause an accident by speeding...
And, to second the grandparent post- I find that small quantities are very helpful in quieting my anxiety and distaste in doing things I'd rather not, like laundry, dishes, etc. I find it somewhat difficult to code while stoned, though not impossible.
First of all, as some other responders have said- people's physiology varies, I know people who have suffered serious headaches when trying to quit drinking coffee; people who didn't whine and certainly don't think it "makes them cool" to.
Secondly, the parent post was pointing out the hypocricy of US drug laws, and they're quite right- marijuana, for one, isn't nearly as addictive and withdraw, even for a very heavy smoker, is typically not bad at all. Also, a vast majority of people who have at some point smoked pot regularly quit by their thirties. Can coffee drinkers say the same?
All your points are valid, but I think its important to realize that there are plenty of reasons to despise the RIAA and similar organizations. I'm not going to go into them; I simply want to emphasize one of your points: If you want to hurt the RIAA, the most effective action is to buy lots of non-RIAA label music! Give indie labels the money to publish new artists so they won't have to sell their souls ;)
Listening to and spreading RIAA label music, without paying them directly, is mostly providing ammunition for the pro-DRM crowd and making their music more popular. Some people do buy CDs by artists they've downloaded and if most of whats available is RIAA label....
I choose a lot of what I buy after listening to illegal copies of it. Theres so much out there that I find it necessary if I don't want to buy a lot of CDs I'll never listen to. And I buy a LOT of music: $100+ a month on AVERAGE! So, while I may represent a small segment of the music-downloading, "childish, lifeless nerds", if I were buying RIAA label music, I'd be helping them through the efforts of those who rip/decode and spread the mp3s.
Fortunately for me, and the labels I support, I despise pop and the stuff that's my cup of tea is hardly ever picked up by a major label.
A properly configured firewall will protect you from a lot of things, but there are still ways of getting infected that a secure OS would prevent (ie all the IE holes). An email or popup ad can infect you through IE with a firewall in place and without you doing anything dumb (besides using IE or Outlook).
The same thing could conceivably happen to a linux/firefox user (if a firefox hole were targetted with code that executed on linux), but the malicious code would have to also find a local root exploit to do serious damage. Why? Because Linux/Unix properly seperates user space from everything else.
I suppose the "tend to be smarter" bit is silly and provocative, but this is the only post in this discussion I've read that made this post's main point.
Which I'd really like to see numbers and references for, but intuitively believe. The world is changing. Unless the US does some drastic, tyrannical things to its people and the world, it will not be the only "superpower" for long. Of course, that does seem to be the way things are headed, but I tend to think that, if we haven't already, we'll soon reach a point beyond which governments will quickly lose control of their citizens and native corporations.
You have a good point. iModel would certainly be a bit of a stretch, but I can see a lot of the people using iMovie enjoying playing with special effects. They probably wouldn't be doing heavy poly-modeling, but they might use it for particle systems or as a Poser-like animation program, if they provided some stock geometry. And amatuer game programmer/modders would dig it for sure!
That is what it looks like after further poking. I just wanted to get my slashdot comment in quick enough to get a response. You know how that goes;)
I'm most familiar with the DIY headphone amp scene, but from that limited experience, I would expect that someone interested in these would be taking orders so as to get the volume up in order to reduce pcb printing and part costs even if there is still some DIY involved.
I've poked around the website linked from the story, but I see no mention of how/whether others can aquire these units. In particular, the FAQ is, well, lacking ;)
I've been looking for something like this for a loooong time! The closest I've seen are serial devices in the $500+ range. These would be perfect for a number of applications I've envisioned.
The music I listen to is too obscure for me to find it by scouring the local clubs (in Milwaukee). That is due to the genres I like (post/art/prog-rock,glitch/idm/experimental-electr onica) and also due to the fact that I'm picky within those genres. A lot of my music cant be found on allmusic.com and good luck finding it at sam goody or even amazon.com.
:) Right now I'm listening to Tortoise, which is a 5 member group that plays live instruments and tours.
So, how on earth, do these musical individuals and groups go from desire to make music to a cd on my bookshelf that I paid $10-$35 for? Thats, right, I sometimes pay $35 for a single cd of average length. And I spend an average of $150/month on music.
Well, I make use of allmusic.com, fan websites, chatrooms and my local indie record store (www.atomic-records.com). I buy compilations on the labels of artists I already like. When I like some of the other artists on the disc I look for them, and if I cant find them and like them enough I'll have atomic order them for me.
For their part, since they make such original music, they find listeners across the globe that are looking to explore the same musical space. Many of them SHARE their music online (or it is shared for them). Some of them use online only labels. Check out www.legaltorrents.com! Once they're recognized they'll sometimes do a single track for a compilation on an obscure label that caters to their style. Perhaps they'll remix a labelmates track for their album. Electronic music doesn't always require recording time at a studio, either. Most of the artists start with something like a studio in their bedroom or basement. Recently, many have created their art with nothing more than a portable sampler (say a minidisc player and nice mic) and a computer.
The ones who hit the bigtime often tour. I love seeing electronic musicians play "live"
I guess my point is that there are other ways to get noticed and start selling cd's than touring full time.
This is the first PDA I've seen with a usb host port. I've been looking for this feature to use with a usb soundcard (the total bithead at headphone.com for instance). Does anyone know whether this would work? Do the usb audio drivers in the kernel work on non x86 platforms?
Possibly too comedic, its true, but Eddie Izzard is the funniest man alive. I'd have been happy with any direction the show went with him as the doc.
To say that all those companies are bankrolling OSS with the hope that they'll hurt M$ is ludicrous.
That may be one bonus to the move, but the primary reason for all of them is that their customers appreciate having the source, people contribute fixes and features and they enjoy a PR boost with the OSS crowd.
Also, RH still sells a workstation distro, but it is marketed at enterprises, who were paying for desktop as well as server support before and will continue to.
Good recs-
Here are a few of my own:
Plaid:
everything by plaid and black dog (members shared) is great, but IMHO "double figure" is best
Luke Vibert (wagon christ) - Yoseph
Nightmares on Wax: a little more trip-hoppy than IDM-y - excellent- particularly carboot soul
Boards of Canada: truly their own sound (melodic, trippy, uplifting) Its hard to say which of their albums or EPs is best- get em all
and of course check out Autechre, Aphex(also polygon window) Twin and Squarepusher
and if you run out of good stuff on warp (good luck)- some of my other fav artists: B. Fleischmann, Freescha, Casino vs Japan, Solvent, Matmos, and Tortoise
Its rather amazing to me that you can just lay these facts out with lots of "it is" and a little you're wrong. Out of what grand unified theory do these facts come? How do they explain the results in the article? Why did galaxies arrise out of the "uniform fireball" in the first place?
Actually I'm much more interested in how you combine relativity and quantum mechanics- do you have testable predictions?
Then lets hear whether multiple worlds actually exist or whether there are non-subjective collapses. Have you investigated penrose and hammeroff's conjectures about quantum conciousness?
Have you ever tried DMT?
Try realizing that neither of us have ANY of the answers when it really comes down to it- and if we did, they would be impossible to express to an unenlightened being in english.
Does the concept of a "universe" leave room for anything "outside" of it?
Intiution tells me that the universe didn't start with a big bang (at least nothing like big bang theory), but it also tells me that the only possible "God"-like thing that could exist will exist in the future (from our perspective) rather than having been around all along but not doing anything overt since second 0 (or the end of day 6 if you want to get silly).
I have had experiences that I took to be confirmations of my previously adhered-to organized faith, but I have had many more since going my own way. What these experiences tell me is that the universe is caused by what we might think of as its eventual end. Causality flows, at the most fundamental level, backwards to our perception. And furthermore, as quantum physics seems (to me) to shout from the rooftops: Our perceptions operate at a very fundamental level of physics, allowing us to perceive time, though it is not really any different from so called spatial dimensions.
i said no text:P
This site is THE place to go for headphone info and a really decent place (good prices, great selection) to buy most 'phones too. There is a buying guide for portable 'phones that should tell you what you need.
The great thing about headphones (if you care about sound quality) is that for about $500 you can get a 99th percentile system (say some etymotic er4s's and a total airhead portable headphone amp) whereas that kind of fidelity will cost you tens of thousands in a stereo. And with the right selections you can do proportionaly as well for less.
You can get a 2.2G one by some company called magicstore new off ebay for $180. Since its a standalone product and more of a niche one than an ipod the profit margin is probably considerable. Still it seems too good to be true that I could get an ipod with 2G for $99 anytime real soon. Also- if they used cf sized microdrives I'd hope they'd just use a cf slot so you could expand. Such players exist, but nothing with the looks, interface or sound quality of an ipod.
Personally I use an ipaq 2215 (sdio/cf/bluetooth/400mhz) as my portable audio/video player (and pda funcs). Now if only there were a bootloader that worked with it and linux I wouldn't feel dirty every time I use it:)