You can statically link, but if you do so and distribute, then you must provide the source of the application you statically linked the libraries in to.
The LGPL only allows for dynamic linking without providing source, and the resulting application must allow the substitution of newer or improved or replacement version of the libraries you link to.
Personally, I'd question the need to use any sort of license if you just want to dynamically link - you're not using any of their code (assuming the header files contain only prototypes and simple constant #defines), so as long as you're not distributing their binary yourself, why should you need to accept a distribution license? It's not an infringement of copyright law to call an API.
Yup, that's pretty much exactly how I had things in the past -
fecthmail -> cyrus IMAP, backed up by bacula. I used Sieve for filtering though, and my email had already passed through spamassassin before the fetchmail stage.
Now I've changed the setup a bit, since I've moved my mail server to my dedicated hosting machine, and run the MTA myself -
I use postfix + spamassassin + amavis, which deliver to Cyrus IMAPd, filtering is done via Sieve again, and I use Squirrelmail for web access, which has an excellent Sieve plugin. I use Webcyradmin to manage users, mailboxes and aliases. And again, it's all backed up by bacula.
With two eyes you can already see the effect - holding a hand in front of your face doesn't stop you seeing what's behind it until you completely cover both eyes, etc.
well, that song I wrote last night is owned by me, as I hold the copyright automatically, from the moment it leaves my head and is set down in tangible form - whether that be notes scribbled on paper, or recorded on tape, or a stream of bits on a computer.
I think the point is that, striving to be rich purely because you think it'll make you happy is a mistake.
But it's equally a mistake to think that posession of more money than average is going to affect your happiness in a negative way - it most likely will make you happier, but not to the degree that it's worth making your life miserable obtaining it. There are other things that will have a greater effect on your happiness that are eaiser to obtain.
I'm not sure anyone would say that a real package management system wasn't something that belonged in the operating system, and in any case, a KDE fan is unlikely to be someone who thinks that every time Microsoft includes an application on the CD it's a gross breach of anti-trust laws;) (Which it's not - it's refusing to let OEMs include alternatives that's the problem)
As to the other points - sure you can get third party software, but then it's not _Windows_ that's improving, it's your experience, and only by tracking down third party software. Even TWM can be a good experience with enough third party software (apologies to those that prefer TWM of course).
A good Linux distribution has already collected the appropriate software to give you what they think is the best experience out of the box - whether it be a KDE based one or a GNOME based one. And in the KDE or GNOME instances, that's pretty much just KDE or GNOME, without much in the way of "third party" software.
Clipboard complaints are valid - though I do miss highlight / middle click copy and paste in windows. But for Linux I also miss being able to rely on something I copy from one application being pasted in to another if they're written in different toolkits. Though lately it's only been Java apps I've had that problem with, and there are actually the occasional cases in Windows where that's a problem too.
BTW, thanks for mentioning DeskWin and VirtuaWin - I'll have to give them a go, Microsoft's crappy Power Toy misses the point so far it's not funny.
Pretty much anything can be improved by not hunching over a screen to do it.
Being able to read on the couch, in a bus, in an aeroplane, in bed, or just about any environment I choose is far more satisfying that lugging a laptop around, worrying about power outlets and battery life, and squinting at a screen.
Also, portability aside, there are other aspects that make reading a real book more satisying - there is the ability to flick backward and forward through the book at will - particularly in Fantasy novels where you want to flick to the front to look at the map, or the pronounciation guide, or even to just zone out and stare at the cover for a while.... Then when you're done, you can put it up on your shelf along with the rest of them - a house full of books is a wonderful thing. It's a far better feeling standing and staring a a full bookshelf deciding what to read next, than simply browsing a list on a screen.
hmm...they must've (must have - that bothers me too;) ) changed their pricing. Part of the reason we switched to Dell years ago, was that for the price of the support on our Sun machine, we could buy a whole new Dell machine every year....
Besides - With Sun we were paying all that money and never had to make use of it - with Dell, you regularly get to feel like you're getting something for your support money;)
Comments can lie, and code never lies about what it does, but code doesn't tell you anything at all about what the author intended it to do. The comments are more likely to give you a hint, and at the very least if the comments and the code agree, you can probably be sure it's right. When the comments and the code disagree then you know that at least one of them is wrong.
However, the "Any Later Version" simply means that you may license your modified version under a later version if you wish. The version you have now is still GPL2 (or whatever it was when you obtained it) - the existence of newer licenses don't suddenly make you subject to their terms, even with the upgrade clause.
Substitute "lower price" with "More Convenient", "Less advertising" - or whatever motivation would make someone purchase the show from Apple rather than watch it on the affiliate station.
That's not to say that it's a black and white issue of iTMS or Affiliate situation at all, but I think that the stations have a right to be concerned - mostly at the fact that they weren't warned about it.
No, it's like IBM, or HP or some other computer maker that normally sells their PCs through stores like Wallmart or department stores, and has a business relationship with them, and agreements and stuff, suddenly deciding to undercut them by selling direct. The stores _would_ be pissed off, and they'd be right to be.
It's happened before, and usually the response of the store is "well screw you then, we just won't stock your stuff" Because the last thing they want is to be nothing but a big ad for someone else's business (customer walks around department store - sees an IBM computer, thinks "that looks pretty good, I think I'll buy one - but I won't do it here, I'll go home and order one direct from IBM, it's cheaper")
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> Some people grow attached to their pointy sticks and stone hammer tools when building a sub par house. and everyone else uses Vim.
It's very possible to take even a lossy MP3 and via processing make it "sound better" to the average listener than the more accurate reproduction given by the original CD. Just like smoothing can make an image look better even though it loses more information.
Of course there's no reason why the same processing couldn't also be applied to the CD output, so claiming it makes MP3s sound better than the original CD is a little silly, but otherwise I don't see a problem with the claim.
It's still way too simplistic to make that connection.
The reality is that it's depriving the copyright holder of income whilst still allowing the infringer to enjoy the product.
Not viewing a movie due to a bad review means that the copyright holder is deprived of income and the person who didn't see the movie didn't see the movie
It's about receiving something that you should pay for, without paying for it - not about not paying in general.
Compensating someone for goods or services you receive from them is a fundamental part of our society, and has been pretty much for as long as there has been a society, so I don't see why people have such a problem with the concept. Interestingly enough the file sharing community is also based on that principal - ("No Leechers!" "Share or be kicked!", etc).
Not that I'm agreeing with the RIAA's actions here - I support their right to protect their copyright, but I don't agree with their methods. I think that suing someone for downloading is not the way to go - sue them for distributing. A downloader is a potential customer, a sharer (at least one of those with the terrabytes of warez, movies and music on their computer) probably isn't, but is providing the means for many potential customers to obtain the music / movie / software without compensation. The various industry bodies need to understand that people are like water or electricity - they take the path of least resistance, it's human nature. So suing people for downloading stuff that's freely and easily available is like trying to stop a waterfall by catching the individual drops of water.
A tomato is red and a fruit. A stop light is red and not a fruit. The fact that a stop light and a tomato are both red neither means that the stop light is a fruit, nor that a tomato is not a fruit
Copyright infringement is depriving the copyright holder of income, and is illegal. Giving bad reviews that cause people not to buy a movie is depriving the copyright holder of income and is not illegal. The fact that both giving bad reviews and copyright infringement both deprive the copyright holder of income does not mean that bad reviews are illegal, and neither does it mean that copyright infringement is not illegal. It doesn't even imply it - not even a little bit.
Just because two things share a certain property doesn't mean that they have _anything_ else whatsoever in common. I thought that was something that was taught in primary school.
Depriving of income only comes in to things in the mind of the copyright holder when they're deciding whether or not to take action, and possibly when a judge is determining the penalty after someone has been successfully taken to court over it. It has nothing to do with whether or not someone has illegally copied something, so making arguments about what does and does not deprive a copyright holder of income is completely irrelevant.
MIDI has something to do with Music, but nothing to do with Notation. It does not describe music as notes, but as events, and has no direct representation of most score notations.
Some (most) Notation editors may well have export to MIDI files, and will probably allow playback via a MIDI device. Also, most MIDI sequencing software will probably have some sort of notation view for entry. But that still doesn't change the fact that MIDI is not the answer, software that allows entry of Notation, and playback by some (any) means is what he's asking for.
He most probably wants a notation program, like Finale, Sibelius, or Harmony Assistant / Melody Assistant (There's OSS ones too, but I'm not familiar with them) as MIDI sequencers like Cakewalk, Cubase and Logic tend to have fairly poor notation entry capabilities, and you have to make a tradeoff between accurate playback, or correct notation.
MIDI is a wire protocol and physical interface for communicating between different instruments. (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) It has nothing whatsoever to do with notation.
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ahhh, OK.
I can see I'll have to read it again a few times. The GPL is easy enough to understand, but the LPGL kinda makes my head hurt.
You can statically link, but if you do so and distribute, then you must provide the source of the application you statically linked the libraries in to.
The LGPL only allows for dynamic linking without providing source, and the resulting application must allow the substitution of newer or improved or replacement version of the libraries you link to.
Personally, I'd question the need to use any sort of license if you just want to dynamically link - you're not using any of their code (assuming the header files contain only prototypes and simple constant #defines), so as long as you're not distributing their binary yourself, why should you need to accept a distribution license? It's not an infringement of copyright law to call an API.
Yup, that's pretty much exactly how I had things in the past -
fecthmail -> cyrus IMAP, backed up by bacula.
I used Sieve for filtering though, and my email had already passed through spamassassin before the fetchmail stage.
Now I've changed the setup a bit, since I've moved my mail server to my dedicated hosting machine, and run the MTA myself -
I use postfix + spamassassin + amavis, which deliver to Cyrus IMAPd, filtering is done via Sieve again, and I use Squirrelmail for web access, which has an excellent Sieve plugin. I use Webcyradmin to manage users, mailboxes and aliases.
And again, it's all backed up by bacula.
A good thing it's _not_ a Java exploit then.
More to the point - what we see with one eye.
With two eyes you can already see the effect - holding a hand in front of your face doesn't stop you seeing what's behind it until you completely cover both eyes, etc.
well, that song I wrote last night is owned by me, as I hold the copyright automatically, from the moment it leaves my head and is set down in tangible form - whether that be notes scribbled on paper, or recorded on tape, or a stream of bits on a computer.
I think the point is that, striving to be rich purely because you think it'll make you happy is a mistake.
But it's equally a mistake to think that posession of more money than average is going to affect your happiness in a negative way - it most likely will make you happier, but not to the degree that it's worth making your life miserable obtaining it. There are other things that will have a greater effect on your happiness that are eaiser to obtain.
I'm not sure anyone would say that a real package management system wasn't something that belonged in the operating system, and in any case, a KDE fan is unlikely to be someone who thinks that every time Microsoft includes an application on the CD it's a gross breach of anti-trust laws ;) (Which it's not - it's refusing to let OEMs include alternatives that's the problem)
As to the other points - sure you can get third party software, but then it's not _Windows_ that's improving, it's your experience, and only by tracking down third party software.
Even TWM can be a good experience with enough third party software (apologies to those that prefer TWM of course).
A good Linux distribution has already collected the appropriate software to give you what they
think is the best experience out of the box - whether it be a KDE based one or a GNOME based one. And in the KDE or GNOME instances, that's pretty much just KDE or GNOME, without much in the way of "third party" software.
Clipboard complaints are valid - though I do miss highlight / middle click copy and paste in windows. But for Linux I also miss being able to rely on something I copy from one application being pasted in to another if they're written in different toolkits. Though lately it's only been Java apps I've had that problem with, and there are actually the occasional cases in Windows where that's a problem too.
BTW, thanks for mentioning DeskWin and VirtuaWin - I'll have to give them a go, Microsoft's crappy Power Toy misses the point so far it's not funny.
I agree with absolutely everything in your post except the last point.
;)
Windows fell behind in 1997 (first alphas of KDE), and has never come close to catching up since
Yes, Yes they are.
Pretty much anything can be improved by not hunching over a screen to do it.
Being able to read on the couch, in a bus, in an aeroplane, in bed, or just about any environment I choose is far more satisfying that lugging a laptop around, worrying about power outlets and battery life, and squinting at a screen.
Also, portability aside, there are other aspects that make reading a real book more satisying - there is the ability to flick backward and forward through the book at will - particularly in Fantasy novels where you want to flick to the front to look at the map, or the pronounciation guide, or even to just zone out and stare at the cover for a while....
Then when you're done, you can put it up on your shelf along with the rest of them - a house full of books is a wonderful thing.
It's a far better feeling standing and staring a a full bookshelf deciding what to read next, than simply browsing a list on a screen.
The scary thing is I'm only 90% sure you're joking.
hmm...they must've (must have - that bothers me too ;) ) changed their pricing. Part of the reason we switched to Dell years ago, was that for the price of the support on our Sun machine, we could buy a whole new Dell machine every year....
;)
Besides - With Sun we were paying all that money and never had to make use of it - with Dell, you regularly get to feel like you're getting something for your support money
The biggest reason I like consoles, is that it's so much more comfortable playing a game on the couch, than it is hunched over a keyboard and mouse.
If a game I'm interested in is coming on on both PC and a console - I'll buy the console version.
I just wish there was a console version of Civ 4....and so does my back....
That depends on what you expect it to tell you.
Comments can lie, and code never lies about what it does, but code doesn't tell you anything at all about what the author intended it to do. The comments are more likely to give you a hint, and at the very least if the comments and the code agree, you can probably be sure it's right. When the comments and the code disagree then you know that at least one of them is wrong.
that doesn't make you a nerd.
That makes you scary
yes, if the only french you've ever learnt is how to count to 10.
... ... nothing too strange in here ... ... 69,
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 10 + 7, 10 + 8, 10 + 9,
20, 21, 22
60 + 10, 60 + 11, 60 + 12, 60 + 13, 60 + 14, 60 + 15, 60 + 16, 60 + 10 + 7, 60 + 10 + 8, 60 + 10 + 9
and now the _real_ fun begins...
4 * 20, 4 * 20 + 1, 4 * 20 + 2, 4 * 20 + 3, 4 * 20 + 4, 4 * 20 + 5, 4 * 20 + 6, 4 * 20 + 7, 4 * 20 + 8, 4 * 20 + 9,
40 * 20 + 10, 4 * 20 + 11, 4 * 20 + 12, 4 * 20 + 13, 4 * 20 + 14, 4 * 20 + 15, 4 * 20 + 16, 4 * 20 + 10 + 7, 4 * 20 + 10 + 8, 4 * 20 + 10 + 9,
and finally.....
100 (cent)
However, the "Any Later Version" simply means that you may license your modified version under a later version if you wish.
The version you have now is still GPL2 (or whatever it was when you obtained it) - the existence of newer licenses don't suddenly make you subject to their terms, even with the upgrade clause.
they're also not selling computers.
Substitute "lower price" with "More Convenient", "Less advertising" - or whatever motivation would make someone purchase the show from Apple rather than watch it on the affiliate station.
That's not to say that it's a black and white issue of iTMS or Affiliate situation at all, but I think that the stations have a right to be concerned - mostly at the fact that they weren't warned about it.
No, it's like IBM, or HP or some other computer maker that normally sells their PCs through stores like Wallmart or department stores, and has a business relationship with them, and agreements and stuff, suddenly deciding to undercut them by selling direct. The stores _would_ be pissed off, and they'd be right to be.
It's happened before, and usually the response of the store is "well screw you then, we just won't stock your stuff" Because the last thing they want is to be nothing but a big ad for someone else's business (customer walks around department store - sees an IBM computer, thinks "that looks pretty good, I think I'll buy one - but I won't do it here, I'll go home and order one direct from IBM, it's cheaper")
> Some people grow attached to their pointy sticks and stone hammer tools when building a sub par house.
and everyone else uses Vim.
It said "sound better", not "more accurate".
It's very possible to take even a lossy MP3 and via processing make it "sound better" to the average listener than the more accurate reproduction given by the original CD.
Just like smoothing can make an image look better even though it loses more information.
Of course there's no reason why the same processing couldn't also be applied to the CD output, so claiming it makes MP3s sound better than the original CD is a little silly, but otherwise I don't see a problem with the claim.
It's still way too simplistic to make that connection.
The reality is that it's depriving the copyright holder of income whilst still allowing the infringer to enjoy the product.
Not viewing a movie due to a bad review means that the copyright holder is deprived of income and the person who didn't see the movie didn't see the movie
It's about receiving something that you should pay for, without paying for it - not about not paying in general.
Compensating someone for goods or services you receive from them is a fundamental part of our society, and has been pretty much for as long as there has been a society, so I don't see why people have such a problem with the concept. Interestingly enough the file sharing community is also based on that principal - ("No Leechers!" "Share or be kicked!", etc).
Not that I'm agreeing with the RIAA's actions here - I support their right to protect their copyright, but I don't agree with their methods.
I think that suing someone for downloading is not the way to go - sue them for distributing. A downloader is a potential customer, a sharer (at least one of those with the terrabytes of warez, movies and music on their computer) probably isn't, but is providing the means for many potential customers to obtain the music / movie / software without compensation.
The various industry bodies need to understand that people are like water or electricity - they take the path of least resistance, it's human nature. So suing people for downloading stuff that's freely and easily available is like trying to stop a waterfall by catching the individual drops of water.
that logic is beyond terrible.
A tomato is red and a fruit.
A stop light is red and not a fruit.
The fact that a stop light and a tomato are both red neither means that the stop light is a fruit, nor that a tomato is not a fruit
Copyright infringement is depriving the copyright holder of income, and is illegal.
Giving bad reviews that cause people not to buy a movie is depriving the copyright holder of income and is not illegal.
The fact that both giving bad reviews and copyright infringement both deprive the copyright holder of income does not mean that bad reviews are illegal, and neither does it mean that copyright infringement is not illegal. It doesn't even imply it - not even a little bit.
Just because two things share a certain property doesn't mean that they have _anything_ else whatsoever in common. I thought that was something that was taught in primary school.
Depriving of income only comes in to things in the mind of the copyright holder when they're deciding whether or not to take action, and possibly when a judge is determining the penalty after someone has been successfully taken to court over it. It has nothing to do with whether or not someone has illegally copied something, so making arguments about what does and does not deprive a copyright holder of income is completely irrelevant.
MIDI has something to do with Music, but nothing to do with Notation.
It does not describe music as notes, but as events, and has no direct representation of most score notations.
Some (most) Notation editors may well have export to MIDI files, and will probably allow playback via a MIDI device.
Also, most MIDI sequencing software will probably have some sort of notation view for entry. But that still doesn't change the fact that MIDI is not the answer, software that allows entry of Notation, and playback by some (any) means is what he's asking for.
He most probably wants a notation program, like Finale, Sibelius, or Harmony Assistant / Melody Assistant (There's OSS ones too, but I'm not familiar with them) as MIDI sequencers like Cakewalk, Cubase and Logic tend to have fairly poor notation entry capabilities, and you have to make a tradeoff between accurate playback, or correct notation.
MIDI is a wire protocol and physical interface for communicating between different instruments. (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)
It has nothing whatsoever to do with notation.