The library buys one copy and then can lend it out. If it wants to lend the same thing out to 2 people it has to buy 2 copies. If there was just the one central library, that library would have to have hundreds or thousands of copies of each item in order to accommodate all the people that would want to use it. The cost would be astronomical, this is why they choose this model, each library ponies up some cash to buy their members access to some content, the online library service then buys copies of things to accommodate these new members. If you RTFA you'll see that the library mentioned doesn't actually host the content so eventually the "1 huge international digital library" you envision could happen, but it still needs to be funded and paid for at the local level.
So, to you it's confusing if the extension doesn't denote that the ogg contains audio only or a/v? To the rest of the world it's confusing if the extension does denote when the ogg container has audio only or a/v. The precedent is set, audio only files have one extension and audio/video files another, even if the container is the same. MP3 is still an MPEG container after all. The is what people know, this is marketing. I'm not say let random people make shit up, I'm saying make ONE extension to denote audio only the official one so masses don't have to guess what's in the damned files.
Either way, it doesn't matter to me. I won't be adopting OGG until portable players I own adopt it. And you and I both know that players won't adopt it if the consumers might be confused by it.
that may be a side effect, but he stronger motivator may be that they remember the problems going from Office 2 to 97 to 2000 to 2003 and all the file format problems that caused. And while MS does have a converter that is supposed to work as far back as Office 97, we all know how well converters actually work, might as well open them in OOo anyway, it certainly won't be worse than the ooxml converters. But is MS is going to practically give them Office 2007 to "fix" this problem, well, problem solved right? or at least it'll be someone else's problem in a few years anyway.
.avi and.mpg have the same problem. avi and mpeg are also the containers that can contain many different codecs; like XViD, DivX, raw DV, MPEG version 1, 2, and 4, motion JPEG and many others; some are somewhat compatible like XViD, DivX, and Mpeg4, some not. the containers have their own ways of allowing a player to know what codec is in the file so that it can be played.
Hell,.mp3 is an mpeg as well, they(0) just gave it a different extension so as to not confuse people. Why not do the same thing with ogg vorbis? Call it.og3, the masses might even think it's a new version of mp3 and take to it very quickly.
(0) - you know, they, those people that do things.
I have aB0A credit card after they bought Fleet. Loved the Fleet site, was easy to get into (for users, they still required a reasonable password), could view my bills, easily see my balance due as of the last bill, etc. The BoA site originally gave me no option to see the last bill, nor to see the balance due on it. I HAD to refer to my paper bill if I wanted to know, and when i went to sign up for eBill so I could auto-pay via my USBank bill pay, I never got a single email and paper bills stopped, and USBank's side never enabled so i turned it off, back to paper bills. Even worse, USBank says the BoA side is flawed because when I request eBill via USBank, the BoA side says I already have eBills enabled and i have to turn it off, which in the BoA site it says it is off.
And, as of about 6 months ago, I can't even log into the BoA site because their system is so overly complex. I have no idea why they think that using a SSN for the login name is "secure" but they don't give a choice, their password requirement is ridiculous so I rarely remeber it, and the SiteKey probably works great for people with strong visual memories, which I don't have so i can never remember my key either. Maybe if I could upload my own pic to it, then it might work. As is, it's a turd and I no longer use my Bank of America card because if it.
Strong passwords are important, but at some point they become so complex that you have to write them down and then they aren't so strong anymore. I have 2 that are this way on my desk, I'm not worried because the sites/servers they are for aren't written down and since there are only 2 i know which is which, but if I have maybe 10 or 15, or one for every damned site I had to login to, it would be impossible.
Let users choose a login name, and let them choose a password. And mention the password restrictions on the damned login page so memory can be jogged. Why is this so much to ask for? And don't go on about "oh but of the hackers know the requirements then it's easier to brute force" bullshit because they can get the requirements off the sign up page anyway. And it's not hard for a server to detect brute force attempts and ban them. Pretty sure BoA though I was trying to hack my sitekey and locked me out.
what makes you think these are cheaper? I've yet to see a linux based pda/smartphone that's cheaper than any comparable non-linux product. WinCE is damned cheap per license and finding vendors that are linux friendly for the chipsets is not nearly as easy. In most cases, it's a wash monetarily, and in some cases the linux devices cost more if only because the hardware chosen ends up being more robust due to it being from that linux friendy chip maker that isn't simply trying to turn out the cheapest crap they can (it costs them money to make linux drivers too).
yes but 2 of the characters in google repeat where only one in yahoo does, and you don't have to move your hands at all to type "goog" and you only have to move each hand to a differnt key once, where with yahoo you have to move your right hand 3 times. (I have smallish hands and so "home row" typing still requires some movement for me, especialy to reach "y" way up there in the middle. and no, i'm not giving up my Logitech for some kiddie sized kb)
it's called "unstable" for a reason, if you are running it, you should expect problems anyway.
sarge to ubunutu 5.04 on a server (no ubuntu-desktop package madness) and it was fairly smooth, I think i had to remove a couple oddball things that had new names and reinstall them, but it wasn't a hassle since they weren't "core" packages and it was all manageable from aptitude. I haven't tried going ubuntu->debian, and I'm not sure why anyone would want to for a "stable" version.
hell yes man, I had a killer set of floppies in school where the labs had spankin new 486's with a crazy 4 meg of ram! I'd boot off the first disk in at it would ask if I just wanted DOS or my uber environment, dos got you a basic C:> and the uber created a 3 meg ram disk and unzip'd a more robust DOS install to it and set the PATH to use it, then I'd get a 2nd menu that I choose what app I wanted and it would ask for the appropriate disk to load it. depending on the app, it would also unzip to the ramdisk, with some apps it would load faster by unzip and run from ram than to just run from a floppy. those were the days....
i had no idea people still had these kinds of problems, they are what drove me from RH/Mandrake years ago. I moved to Debian Sarge (before it was "stable" even) and even did a dist-upgrade from sarge to ubuntu on one system. "apt" upgrades are rarely a problem even when the system is "live" and not booted off a CD, and never an issue if done from the console so that when upgrading libs the X server doens't crash on you.
Oldest system I do this with a 486DX2 50Mhz with 32 Meg ram and there's never a problem. It's actualy an HP Network Scanjet 5 with an Ubuntu "command line" install and the Enhanced scripts to run the interface, no idea where else a 486 with linux would be all that usefull to maintain though I'm sure there are some out there.
IP infringment is not a criminal offence, so there is no right to a speedy trial here. Speedy Trial Act only applies to criminal trials.
this case is the equivelent of SCO telling the playground monitor that IBM stole their hacky sack and IBM saying it wasn't SCO's but Novells and they have the right to use it. Even if SCO were to win, IBM did not commit a "crime".
"I'm sorry, but we don't officially support the linux operating system"
And this is differenet from today how? It's different because we would have a driver that at least mostly works, as opposed to nothing at all. I wonder if this effort will include taking over lagging driver development, such as for some cards for which a manufacturer offers a 2.4 kernel driver but not in source and has no 2.6 driver.
maybe you need to increase the refresh rate on your monitor or gte one with a better dot pitch? to me the windows fonts look jaggy and hard, where the anti-aliased linux ones look smooth like print on paper. You can get the same effect in windows though by turnin g on Clear Type, and you can also turn it off in linux.
see, this is why you DO want linux on the desktop. the defaults look better and work better (tell me again why my XP taskbar needs to be smooth and rounded wasting 30% of its screen space?) and it lets you change EVERYTHING.
google already has a system in place to catch cheaters for their ad buisness, the techniques are very similar.
I really doubt that they will make a paypal payment or somethign as soon as the upload happens, it is more likely be a quarterly check and only if the balance is above a certain amount, much like the click-through market. Pretty easy to figure out any copyright infringement in a couple months, and even better because to uplaod and be paid you would have to provide a mailing address. This alone will deter most infringement.
up in arms over Apples 80% share in digital music. I mean c'mon Microsoft get a pass for operating systems 90% for most cases in most countries, but oh, yeah iTunes needs to be illegal because Apple has a large market share.
you missed the point. it's not their market share, it's that the songs purchased can only be played on one kind of device. If Microsoft packaged other people's programs and attached DRM to them so that they only ran on the "Microsoft pcPod" then you'd have something here. lucky for us, MS does't sell other people's programs (unless you count the licenses they have/had for things like defrag and hyperterm) and they also don't attach DRM to the programs they do sell. This allows "windows compatable" systems like WINE and ReactOS to run Microsofts own software legaly and without buying a Windows license. But because of Apples DRM, no 3rd party can legaly make a player for the content sold via iTunes, this is the problem, not the market share.
Especially since his source code makes ticketing more efficient. Which is bad for the rest of us.
is it bad for us? I mean, you speed, you get a ticket, that's your own fault, but if it takes less time for the ticket to be written this seems good to me, less time at the traffic stop. And with the instances where you think you are in the right, you can actualy read the officers name and violation text in order to prepare a well planned defense. I fail the see the "bad for the rest of us" in this software.
This is pretty easy. A derivative work is a complete work, but somehow different. For instance, for simplicity of concept let pretend that FireFox was BSD licensed. If I take FireFox and optimize the interface to work with a stylus and touchscreen on a QVGA screen, remove bits that are not interesting on a handheld device, like printing and "live bookmarks", added new features of my own that are interesting on a handheld, and release it as a separate project then I have created a derivative. This is more than a modification because the scope of the project is now different enough that the projects don't even have the same target audience. However, since a derivative is a type of modification, I would have to license my new browser as BSD, just like the original.
However, if I take just the prefs screen from it and modify it to fit as a prefs screen on my completely new non-web browsing application, then I have used and modified that code. But, this does not make my new application a modification of the FireFox prefs screen, so I only have to license my modified prefs code as BSD and I can license the rest as whatever I want.
I don't expect a college student to know how to use anything. I expect them to be in a mode of learning and have some general concepts and rules and case studies in their head that they cna use the derive a solution to a similar but different problem. learning a different word processor should be trivial at best for someone fresh out of college who's already used at least 2 different versions of one since middle school anyway.
If i were to hire a college student today, who presumably is "trained in" MS Office 2003 and they can't figure out Office 2000, nor OOo, then I don't think i want them here. the term "simpleton" comes to mind.
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The library buys one copy and then can lend it out. If it wants to lend the same thing out to 2 people it has to buy 2 copies. If there was just the one central library, that library would have to have hundreds or thousands of copies of each item in order to accommodate all the people that would want to use it. The cost would be astronomical, this is why they choose this model, each library ponies up some cash to buy their members access to some content, the online library service then buys copies of things to accommodate these new members. If you RTFA you'll see that the library mentioned doesn't actually host the content so eventually the "1 huge international digital library" you envision could happen, but it still needs to be funded and paid for at the local level.
So, to you it's confusing if the extension doesn't denote that the ogg contains audio only or a/v? To the rest of the world it's confusing if the extension does denote when the ogg container has audio only or a/v. The precedent is set, audio only files have one extension and audio/video files another, even if the container is the same. MP3 is still an MPEG container after all. The is what people know, this is marketing. I'm not say let random people make shit up, I'm saying make ONE extension to denote audio only the official one so masses don't have to guess what's in the damned files.
Either way, it doesn't matter to me. I won't be adopting OGG until portable players I own adopt it. And you and I both know that players won't adopt it if the consumers might be confused by it.
that may be a side effect, but he stronger motivator may be that they remember the problems going from Office 2 to 97 to 2000 to 2003 and all the file format problems that caused. And while MS does have a converter that is supposed to work as far back as Office 97, we all know how well converters actually work, might as well open them in OOo anyway, it certainly won't be worse than the ooxml converters. But is MS is going to practically give them Office 2007 to "fix" this problem, well, problem solved right? or at least it'll be someone else's problem in a few years anyway.
since you can install a different OS on many iPods and play whatever the hell you want, including ogg vorbis.
.avi and .mpg have the same problem. avi and mpeg are also the containers that can contain many different codecs; like XViD, DivX, raw DV, MPEG version 1, 2, and 4, motion JPEG and many others; some are somewhat compatible like XViD, DivX, and Mpeg4, some not. the containers have their own ways of allowing a player to know what codec is in the file so that it can be played.
.mp3 is an mpeg as well, they(0) just gave it a different extension so as to not confuse people. Why not do the same thing with ogg vorbis? Call it .og3, the masses might even think it's a new version of mp3 and take to it very quickly.
Hell,
(0) - you know, they, those people that do things.
I have aB0A credit card after they bought Fleet. Loved the Fleet site, was easy to get into (for users, they still required a reasonable password), could view my bills, easily see my balance due as of the last bill, etc. The BoA site originally gave me no option to see the last bill, nor to see the balance due on it. I HAD to refer to my paper bill if I wanted to know, and when i went to sign up for eBill so I could auto-pay via my USBank bill pay, I never got a single email and paper bills stopped, and USBank's side never enabled so i turned it off, back to paper bills. Even worse, USBank says the BoA side is flawed because when I request eBill via USBank, the BoA side says I already have eBills enabled and i have to turn it off, which in the BoA site it says it is off.
And, as of about 6 months ago, I can't even log into the BoA site because their system is so overly complex. I have no idea why they think that using a SSN for the login name is "secure" but they don't give a choice, their password requirement is ridiculous so I rarely remeber it, and the SiteKey probably works great for people with strong visual memories, which I don't have so i can never remember my key either. Maybe if I could upload my own pic to it, then it might work. As is, it's a turd and I no longer use my Bank of America card because if it.
Strong passwords are important, but at some point they become so complex that you have to write them down and then they aren't so strong anymore. I have 2 that are this way on my desk, I'm not worried because the sites/servers they are for aren't written down and since there are only 2 i know which is which, but if I have maybe 10 or 15, or one for every damned site I had to login to, it would be impossible.
Let users choose a login name, and let them choose a password. And mention the password restrictions on the damned login page so memory can be jogged. Why is this so much to ask for? And don't go on about "oh but of the hackers know the requirements then it's easier to brute force" bullshit because they can get the requirements off the sign up page anyway. And it's not hard for a server to detect brute force attempts and ban them. Pretty sure BoA though I was trying to hack my sitekey and locked me out.
what makes you think these are cheaper? I've yet to see a linux based pda/smartphone that's cheaper than any comparable non-linux product. WinCE is damned cheap per license and finding vendors that are linux friendly for the chipsets is not nearly as easy. In most cases, it's a wash monetarily, and in some cases the linux devices cost more if only because the hardware chosen ends up being more robust due to it being from that linux friendy chip maker that isn't simply trying to turn out the cheapest crap they can (it costs them money to make linux drivers too).
yes but 2 of the characters in google repeat where only one in yahoo does, and you don't have to move your hands at all to type "goog" and you only have to move each hand to a differnt key once, where with yahoo you have to move your right hand 3 times. (I have smallish hands and so "home row" typing still requires some movement for me, especialy to reach "y" way up there in the middle. and no, i'm not giving up my Logitech for some kiddie sized kb)
it's called "unstable" for a reason, if you are running it, you should expect problems anyway. sarge to ubunutu 5.04 on a server (no ubuntu-desktop package madness) and it was fairly smooth, I think i had to remove a couple oddball things that had new names and reinstall them, but it wasn't a hassle since they weren't "core" packages and it was all manageable from aptitude. I haven't tried going ubuntu->debian, and I'm not sure why anyone would want to for a "stable" version.
hell yes man, I had a killer set of floppies in school where the labs had spankin new 486's with a crazy 4 meg of ram! I'd boot off the first disk in at it would ask if I just wanted DOS or my uber environment, dos got you a basic C:> and the uber created a 3 meg ram disk and unzip'd a more robust DOS install to it and set the PATH to use it, then I'd get a 2nd menu that I choose what app I wanted and it would ask for the appropriate disk to load it. depending on the app, it would also unzip to the ramdisk, with some apps it would load faster by unzip and run from ram than to just run from a floppy. those were the days....
you mean like nVidia, who has some the best non-libre linux drivers in the entire hardware industry? "support" != "source code"
i had no idea people still had these kinds of problems, they are what drove me from RH/Mandrake years ago. I moved to Debian Sarge (before it was "stable" even) and even did a dist-upgrade from sarge to ubuntu on one system. "apt" upgrades are rarely a problem even when the system is "live" and not booted off a CD, and never an issue if done from the console so that when upgrading libs the X server doens't crash on you.
Oldest system I do this with a 486DX2 50Mhz with 32 Meg ram and there's never a problem. It's actualy an HP Network Scanjet 5 with an Ubuntu "command line" install and the Enhanced scripts to run the interface, no idea where else a 486 with linux would be all that usefull to maintain though I'm sure there are some out there.
we already do, but on Earth we call it Oil.
IP infringment is not a criminal offence, so there is no right to a speedy trial here. Speedy Trial Act only applies to criminal trials.
this case is the equivelent of SCO telling the playground monitor that IBM stole their hacky sack and IBM saying it wasn't SCO's but Novells and they have the right to use it. Even if SCO were to win, IBM did not commit a "crime".
"I'm sorry, but we don't officially support the linux operating system"
And this is differenet from today how? It's different because we would have a driver that at least mostly works, as opposed to nothing at all. I wonder if this effort will include taking over lagging driver development, such as for some cards for which a manufacturer offers a 2.4 kernel driver but not in source and has no 2.6 driver.
maybe you need to increase the refresh rate on your monitor or gte one with a better dot pitch? to me the windows fonts look jaggy and hard, where the anti-aliased linux ones look smooth like print on paper. You can get the same effect in windows though by turnin g on Clear Type, and you can also turn it off in linux.
see, this is why you DO want linux on the desktop. the defaults look better and work better (tell me again why my XP taskbar needs to be smooth and rounded wasting 30% of its screen space?) and it lets you change EVERYTHING.
google already has a system in place to catch cheaters for their ad buisness, the techniques are very similar.
I really doubt that they will make a paypal payment or somethign as soon as the upload happens, it is more likely be a quarterly check and only if the balance is above a certain amount, much like the click-through market. Pretty easy to figure out any copyright infringement in a couple months, and even better because to uplaod and be paid you would have to provide a mailing address. This alone will deter most infringement.
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up in arms over Apples 80% share in digital music. I mean c'mon Microsoft get a pass for operating systems 90% for most cases in most countries, but oh, yeah iTunes needs to be illegal because Apple has a large market share.
you missed the point. it's not their market share, it's that the songs purchased can only be played on one kind of device. If Microsoft packaged other people's programs and attached DRM to them so that they only ran on the "Microsoft pcPod" then you'd have something here. lucky for us, MS does't sell other people's programs (unless you count the licenses they have/had for things like defrag and hyperterm) and they also don't attach DRM to the programs they do sell. This allows "windows compatable" systems like WINE and ReactOS to run Microsofts own software legaly and without buying a Windows license. But because of Apples DRM, no 3rd party can legaly make a player for the content sold via iTunes, this is the problem, not the market share.
this is nearly half that http://www.amazon.de/MaxCell-3200mAh-Akku-Digitalk amera-usw/dp/B000MMQTT2
Not exactly, parts of the derivative may still be modifications, and those parts must keep the license.
Especially since his source code makes ticketing more efficient. Which is bad for the rest of us.
is it bad for us? I mean, you speed, you get a ticket, that's your own fault, but if it takes less time for the ticket to be written this seems good to me, less time at the traffic stop. And with the instances where you think you are in the right, you can actualy read the officers name and violation text in order to prepare a well planned defense. I fail the see the "bad for the rest of us" in this software.
This is pretty easy. A derivative work is a complete work, but somehow different. For instance, for simplicity of concept let pretend that FireFox was BSD licensed. If I take FireFox and optimize the interface to work with a stylus and touchscreen on a QVGA screen, remove bits that are not interesting on a handheld device, like printing and "live bookmarks", added new features of my own that are interesting on a handheld, and release it as a separate project then I have created a derivative. This is more than a modification because the scope of the project is now different enough that the projects don't even have the same target audience. However, since a derivative is a type of modification, I would have to license my new browser as BSD, just like the original.
However, if I take just the prefs screen from it and modify it to fit as a prefs screen on my completely new non-web browsing application, then I have used and modified that code. But, this does not make my new application a modification of the FireFox prefs screen, so I only have to license my modified prefs code as BSD and I can license the rest as whatever I want.
I don't expect a college student to know how to use anything. I expect them to be in a mode of learning and have some general concepts and rules and case studies in their head that they cna use the derive a solution to a similar but different problem. learning a different word processor should be trivial at best for someone fresh out of college who's already used at least 2 different versions of one since middle school anyway.
If i were to hire a college student today, who presumably is "trained in" MS Office 2003 and they can't figure out Office 2000, nor OOo, then I don't think i want them here. the term "simpleton" comes to mind.
garbage or not, the RIAA created it and so they hold copyright.