"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does NOT mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country."
--Theodore Roosevelt
"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government." --Thomas Paine
and it started out on a good foot. I overlooked the obvious inconsistencies in the interest of light entertainment, but over time the plot just seemed to stagnate. They introduce the expanse and the xindi to 'spice' the show up and the new season has been so obviously slutting for ratings. The new uniforms, the close intimate scenes between T'Pol and Tucker, the added combat element, the "ohnoes we're in constant danger" expanse ( with klingons thrown in for good measure ), and the melodramtic revenge motives all add up to something that deserves to be dead and buried and forgotten.
Enterprise tried to be a "star trek for the common viewer" but in doing so it has disenfranchised the Star Trek fanbase while failing to impress on any new potential audience.
Without getting into a comparison between their music ( being a subjective matter I'm sure most of you would rather we not waste each others time on that argument ), I think it should be pointed out that warp and magnatunes have significant differences.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but magnatune is a record label created around an internet business model. From day one it's goal has been to create a successful online music label.
Warp Records is an existing and highly successful independent music label that has chosen to embrace an honourable approach to online music sales. This is very significant the the differences between warp and magnatunes on this are very important. They could have very easily submitted their catalogue to an existing online music service, and complied with their restrictive terms and technologies. Instead they have chosen to implement their own system ( using lame encoder is a serious bonus for me ) that does not have pointless drm etc.
Warp Records has been an active an innovative label for about a decade. They were the first record label that I purchased music from directly on the internet ( around 1996/7 iirc ) and today I have just downloaded a rare AFX EP that I have been trying to get hold of for years.
Europe has a vibrant independent music culture and I hope that warp become an example to the entire scene. I wish them the best of luck with it, and I hope others follow in their footsteps.
I agree that the quality of music coming out on Indepentent lables is very high. I spend quite a lot of money on records and cds. Some of the labels I buy from do vinyl only releases. They often relicense their material to larger labels to handle the international cd distribution.
For example, take skam records ( www.skam.co.uk ) who are 100% independent, but who use Warp records ( www.warprecords.com ) for mass cd distribution. Warp are not fully indepenent. They are part owned by EMI, but have full control of their content. I'd doubt they have the ability to resist directives from EMI to force them to use copy protected cds.
Skam have AFAIK only handled the publishing of one CD ( a compilation ). THis CD is very difficult to get hold of anymore. It's hard for independent labels to manage back catalogues and publish new releases.
If the music industry goes in the direction it appears to be heading, then so be it. There is quite a lot of good music being signed to large record labels. If I have to buy it to own it, so be it. If I have to sample the audio through my soundcard to oggenc it, so be it. I'll still support my favourite independent labels. I'll still be spoilt for choice for good music. I'll still be fruistrated every time I leave a record shop, wishing I had a couple of hundred euros more...
the business heads at the record labels are good at what they do. they'll find ways to make money no matter what the pirates do to make money.
I'll sit between both camps, trying to enjoy the music I buy or aquire... I'll not get too bogged down on the ethics of this one...
So what this chessplayer needs to do is take you up on your bet.
If he bets $400k on the machine.
If he loses, he gets a $800k from you, and $600k from the competition + $400k stake =$1600k
If he draws, he comes out of it with $800k - $400k stake = $400k
If he wins, hecomes out with $1000k - $400k
Take Hindi as an example. There are 300 native Hindi speakers in the world. Most of these are in India. Urdu speakers ( in Pakistan) can communicate with Hindi speakers in Indi. The languages are similiar.
However, in India, English is the language of Education, of Law and of Business. I've spent some time in India, and although Hindi is the official state language, English is the defacto one. People in the south don't learn Hindi, so north and south tend to communicate in English.
Could some Indian's comment on the above?
Id be interested to know which language South American countries communicate in. Spanish or Portugese?
Debian already provides a virtual rms, that periodically informs you of non free packages installed. Surely this is enough.
If Debian want to officially distance themselves from non-free, a market will spring up supplying debian distributions which include non-free. This will take business away from debian.
Perhaps Debian should supply two distinct products for each major release, and let the customers and users decide for themselves.
A modularised driver architecture is the right way forward. The Kernel developers made this decision too.
Sure it's now possible to release binary only drivers for the Linux Kernel. Some people see this as a negative, maybe it is. But the ability to rebuild a module and insert it into a running kernel ( or reboot if the module is critical ) is something I would never give up now that I have it.
We cannot hope to improve Linux by excluding closed software. Closed software and open software will have to coexist until open software becomes more dominant.
And each user can make their own decision about using closed binary only drivers. I'll certainly use them if there's no open source one available.
Quite a lot of people are coming to Ireland from the UK to work at the moment. Salaries are slightly higher here, but tax cripples that down to a lower net income.
I think standard of living and quality of life have to be looked at. Britain is a highly industrialised nation with a huge population.
Ireland is an extremely underpopulated country with lots of cheap land.
Many people come to Ireland to work outside of Dublin. They can buy land a build a house for half the price in the UK and have quite a high 'quality' of life.
But maybe it's only for the tree hugging hippie type.
2006: Intel release Viagrium. A overdrive for the Titanium II that gives more power to the processor, and improves stability, helping it 'stay up' longer....
Perhaps it's not monitary transactions that the crackers threat is based on. Privacy is a large concern of most banks ( especially in Ireland where a couple of large banks have been exposed of stealing from their customers ).
There is a lot of sensitive information in a bank, and more importantly, a bank's financial success depends on it's public image.
Can you imagine the bad press if a cracker group post a/c details of some corporate clients?
Yes. There is a book called 'Seeds of Change', which documents the work ( and motivations ) of such an organisation. It's a highly insightful book, that quite frankly scares a lot of people.
The 'Seeds of Change' is an organic farm somewhere in the midwest of the USA. They are applying modern thinking to traditional native american cultivation techniques, and getting some impressive results.
Here in Ireland, there is quite a large market now for organic food. This reflects the growing paranoia amongst the public about GM and pesticides.
A lot of the pro GM camp see this as hysteria by those who do not understand genetic engineering, but I see it as an unwillingness of the people to trust the sciences on something as basic as food.
There is a theory that the babylonian civilisation was wiped out due to their adoption of metals in their cooking implements. There are strong traces of arsenic and mercury in the veins in the region. Just another example of a technology whose immediate benefits made it seem like a good idea.
Hidden risks. They are inherinent in any new technology. Don't mess with our food. Contrary to popular opinion we do not need GM to feed the population of the earth.
I've got myself a nice A1 poster of chandra from the days before it was even launched. Nasa are quite generous to those who hang out on their website.
The poster was sent to me because I took the time to fill in a suggestion box for a name for Chandra. I can't rember what was picked eventually ( somthing like sofax or something ), but I'm glad the dropped it and went for something with a bit of historical context.
Like most of the 'issues' facing the biotech people today, this one cannot be looked at in such a black and white view.
Sure, we should not be allowed to patent genes. Nature has created them through the long and miraculous process of evolution. Nature owns the patent on them.
However, with genetic engineering this is somewhat more complicated. If I splice a gene from one organism into another, can I patent the new sequence?
Maybe if use the term 'feature' instead of gene, and 'program' instead of sequence/organism, the problem becomes more familiar to us.
If I 'hack' a 'feature' from one program into another, can I patent the new program?
It seems rather silly to us advocates of open source.
Maybe we need a Free Gene Foundation......
maybe we can design a newer and better human called GNH (GNH is Not Human ), pronounce gn-ih.... okay.. maybe not....
I used to work for Digital, and I met some of the compiler team once. They are very smart people, and their compilers are very efficient and standards compliant to a point.
We have to think about why Compaq bought digital. One reason has to be for Digital's services section, which is one of the best in the world.
Another one has to be for the sheer bulk of tech genius that Digital has. Digital's problem has never been lack of innovation, it was an inability to market these innovations. ( Anyone heard any news of the Itsy? ).
Beleive me, I worked on a product 3 years ago, that still hasn't hit the shelves.
Anyway, Compaq now has a lot of specialist expertise, and it's obviously putting it to good use. We have to respect this. They can't simply buy a multi-billion tech company and start to give away the technologies for free.
Remember that the primary reason that slashdotters cclaim that companies should opensource their technologies is to help them innovate and stabalise. If this is unnecessary, then we don't really have another argument.
I think it's a step in the right direction. We have the people who built the alpha releasing compilers for Linux/Alpha. Sorted.
This is going to allow alot of alpha developers to move from Digital Unix to Linux:)
Slashdot Mirror
honest!
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does NOT mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country."
--Theodore Roosevelt
"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government."
--Thomas Paine
TNG: great
DS9: good
STV: poor
ENT: awful
and it started out on a good foot. I overlooked the obvious inconsistencies in the interest of light entertainment, but over time the plot just seemed to stagnate. They introduce the expanse and the xindi to 'spice' the show up and the new season has been so obviously slutting for ratings. The new uniforms, the close intimate scenes between T'Pol and Tucker, the added combat element, the "ohnoes we're in constant danger" expanse ( with klingons thrown in for good measure ), and the melodramtic revenge motives all add up to something that deserves to be dead and buried and forgotten.
Enterprise tried to be a "star trek for the common viewer" but in doing so it has disenfranchised the Star Trek fanbase while failing to impress on any new potential audience.
Without getting into a comparison between their music ( being a subjective matter I'm sure most of you would rather we not waste each others time on that argument ), I think it should be pointed out that warp and magnatunes have significant differences.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but magnatune is a record label created around an internet business model. From day one it's goal has been to create a successful online music label.
Warp Records is an existing and highly successful independent music label that has chosen to embrace an honourable approach to online music sales. This is very significant the the differences between warp and magnatunes on this are very important. They could have very easily submitted their catalogue to an existing online music service, and complied with their restrictive terms and technologies. Instead they have chosen to implement their own system ( using lame encoder is a serious bonus for me ) that does not have pointless drm etc.
Warp Records has been an active an innovative label for about a decade. They were the first record label that I purchased music from directly on the internet ( around 1996/7 iirc ) and today I have just downloaded a rare AFX EP that I have been trying to get hold of for years.
Europe has a vibrant independent music culture and I hope that warp become an example to the entire scene. I wish them the best of luck with it, and I hope others follow in their footsteps.
Someone in the bbc knows about ogg vorbis, so I wouldn't count it out of the running.
http://support.bbc.co.uk/ogg/
if you on the file, select 'open with', select your app and tick 'always open with'.
Very easy to do.
I agree that the quality of music coming out on Indepentent lables is very high. I spend quite a lot of money on records and cds. Some of the labels I buy from do vinyl only releases. They often relicense their material to larger labels to handle the international cd distribution.
For example, take skam records ( www.skam.co.uk ) who are 100% independent, but who use Warp records ( www.warprecords.com ) for mass cd distribution. Warp are not fully indepenent. They are part owned by EMI, but have full control of their content. I'd doubt they have the ability to resist directives from EMI to force them to use copy protected cds.
Skam have AFAIK only handled the publishing of one CD ( a compilation ). THis CD is very difficult to get hold of anymore. It's hard for independent labels to manage back catalogues and publish new releases.
If the music industry goes in the direction it appears to be heading, then so be it. There is quite a lot of good music being signed to large record labels. If I have to buy it to own it, so be it. If I have to sample the audio through my soundcard to oggenc it, so be it. I'll still support my favourite independent labels. I'll still be spoilt for choice for good music. I'll still be fruistrated every time I leave a record shop, wishing I had a couple of hundred euros more...
the business heads at the record labels are good at what they do. they'll find ways to make money no matter what the pirates do to make money.
I'll sit between both camps, trying to enjoy the music I buy or aquire... I'll not get too bogged down on the ethics of this one...
music is too important to me...
So what this chessplayer needs to do is take you up on your bet.
If he bets $400k on the machine.
If he loses, he gets a $800k from you, and $600k from the competition + $400k stake =$1600k
If he draws, he comes out of it with $800k - $400k stake = $400k
If he wins, hecomes out with $1000k - $400k
hmmmm.. what to do???
Take Hindi as an example. There are 300 native Hindi speakers in the world. Most of these are in India. Urdu speakers ( in Pakistan) can communicate with Hindi speakers in Indi. The languages are similiar.
However, in India, English is the language of Education, of Law and of Business. I've spent some time in India, and although Hindi is the official state language, English is the defacto one. People in the south don't learn Hindi, so north and south tend to communicate in English.
Could some Indian's comment on the above?
Id be interested to know which language South American countries communicate in. Spanish or Portugese?
potato cds are available from http://www.cruithne.org
Debian already provides a virtual rms, that periodically informs you of non free packages installed. Surely this is enough.
If Debian want to officially distance themselves from non-free, a market will spring up supplying debian distributions which include non-free. This will take business away from debian.
Perhaps Debian should supply two distinct products for each major release, and let the customers and users decide for themselves.
A modularised driver architecture is the right way forward. The Kernel developers made this decision too.
Sure it's now possible to release binary only drivers for the Linux Kernel. Some people see this as a negative, maybe it is. But the ability to rebuild a module and insert it into a running kernel ( or reboot if the module is critical ) is something I would never give up now that I have it.
We cannot hope to improve Linux by excluding closed software. Closed software and open software will have to coexist until open software becomes more dominant.
And each user can make their own decision about using closed binary only drivers. I'll certainly use them if there's no open source one available.
Talk is Cheap!
Insulation is cheaper.
Quite a lot of people are coming to Ireland from the UK to work at the moment. Salaries are slightly higher here, but tax cripples that down to a lower net income.
I think standard of living and quality of life
have to be looked at. Britain is a highly industrialised nation with a huge population.
Ireland is an extremely underpopulated country with lots of cheap land.
Many people come to Ireland to work outside of Dublin. They can buy land a build a house for half the price in the UK and have quite a high 'quality' of life.
But maybe it's only for the tree hugging hippie type.
Do you know someone who is *severely* disabled?
Stop and think about this for a while.
Think Hellen Keller too.
I guess he's not saying that parents *should*, but that parents should have the right.
It's a tough one really.
Do we start to intervene in natural selection with
a species refinement process. That's what this boils down to.
There are two issues here though.
If society accepts this, are we moving towards perhaps defining what the humane genome should always be?
2006: Intel release Viagrium. A overdrive for the Titanium II that gives more power to the processor, and improves stability, helping it 'stay up' longer....
Perhaps it's not monitary transactions that the crackers threat is based on. Privacy is a large concern of most banks ( especially in Ireland where a couple of large banks have been exposed of stealing from their customers ).
There is a lot of sensitive information in a bank, and more importantly, a bank's financial success depends on it's public image.
Can you imagine the bad press if a cracker group post a/c details of some corporate clients?
mmmmm... bad medicine....
Yes. There is a book called 'Seeds of Change', which documents the work ( and motivations ) of
such an organisation. It's a highly insightful book, that quite frankly scares a lot of people.
The 'Seeds of Change' is an organic farm somewhere in the midwest of the USA. They are applying modern thinking to traditional native american cultivation techniques, and getting some impressive results.
Here in Ireland, there is quite a large market now for organic food. This reflects the growing paranoia amongst the public about GM and pesticides.
A lot of the pro GM camp see this as hysteria by those who do not understand genetic engineering, but I see it as an unwillingness of the people to trust the sciences on something as basic as food.
There is a theory that the babylonian civilisation was wiped out due to their adoption of metals in their cooking implements. There are strong traces of arsenic and mercury in the veins in the region.
Just another example of a technology whose immediate benefits made it seem like a good idea.
Hidden risks. They are inherinent in any new technology. Don't mess with our food. Contrary to popular opinion we do not need GM to feed the population of the earth.
I've got myself a nice A1 poster of chandra from the days before
it was even launched. Nasa are quite generous to those who
hang out on their website.
The poster was sent to me because I took the time to fill in
a suggestion box for a name for Chandra. I can't rember what
was picked eventually ( somthing like sofax or something ), but
I'm glad the dropped it and went for something with a bit of
historical context.
Like most of the 'issues' facing the biotech people today, this
one cannot be looked at in such a black and white view.
Sure, we should not be allowed to patent genes. Nature has
created them through the long and miraculous process of
evolution. Nature owns the patent on them.
However, with genetic engineering this is somewhat
more complicated. If I splice a gene from one organism into
another, can I patent the new sequence?
Maybe if use the term 'feature' instead of gene, and 'program'
instead of sequence/organism, the problem becomes more familiar to us.
If I 'hack' a 'feature' from one program into another, can I patent the new
program?
It seems rather silly to us advocates of open source.
Maybe we need a Free Gene Foundation......
maybe we can design a newer and better human called GNH
(GNH is Not Human ), pronounce gn-ih....
okay.. maybe not....
I used to work for Digital, and I met some of
:)
the compiler team once. They are very smart people, and their compilers are very efficient and standards compliant to a point.
We have to think about why Compaq bought digital. One reason has to be for Digital's services section, which is one of the best in the world.
Another one has to be for the sheer bulk of tech genius that Digital has. Digital's problem has never been lack of innovation, it was an inability to market these innovations. ( Anyone heard any news of the Itsy? ).
Beleive me, I worked on a product 3 years ago, that still hasn't hit the shelves.
Anyway, Compaq now has a lot of specialist expertise, and it's obviously putting it to good use. We have to respect this. They can't simply buy a multi-billion tech company and start to give away the technologies for free.
Remember that the primary reason that slashdotters cclaim that companies should opensource their technologies is to help them innovate and stabalise. If this is unnecessary, then we don't really have another argument.
I think it's a step in the right direction. We have the people who built the alpha releasing compilers for Linux/Alpha. Sorted.
This is going to allow alot of alpha developers to move from Digital Unix to Linux