>>What will last longer? Film or digital content? What can you be 100% >>certain to be able to view in the future? CD's get rot, and go bad....
>Sure, CD's and DVD's will eventually need to be replaced, but that's >easier to convert than the thousands of rolls of film I've shot over >the years,
Yes, nothing is 100% percent certain to exist in the future. But digital is much easyer to back up. I download my photos to my desktop and leave them there. Then I upload them to Gallery on webserver. The webserver is backed up on two other computers. Once in a while I burn every photo to a CD/DVD. I keep the old CD's and DVD's.
So the photos are stored on 4 harddisks and about a dozen CD's/DVD og different brands. They are much more likely to make it to the future than the old negatives in my drawers.
Amarok (and i guess iTunes etc) can sort MP3's based on the tags by Album, Genre, Year, Artist in any order you want. That is 24 combinations. To emulate that in a filesystem seems cumbersome. And not easy to keep consistent unless the filesystem is based on a database, which I believe will not be the case in Longhorn after all.
>You do, of course, know that *all* ICANN does is DNS? That's it. Nothing >more nothing less.
And we are not even required by law to use the ICANN DNS. If ICANN was pressured to say remove domains critical of US wars, I am sure we would se a real alternative very soon.
If they start messing with the quality of packets that are not part of a service provided by the ISP, online gamers will be the first to notice. And they are the ones willing to switch ISP's to get quality even if it cost a few dollars more.
No I would not pay 5cents a song if it meant putting taxes on computer equipment.
I am perfectly happy with Magnatune and other free music. I even pay for some of it.
== In addition, a 1 per cent sales tax would be placed on Internet services and new computers -- two industries that many argue have profited enormously from rampant file-sharing, but haven't had to compensate artists. ==
By that logic they should give most of the taxes to the porn industry.
And why should computer users be forced to pay taxes to the industry the promotes DMCA, DRM, eternal copyright etc?
>Your MEP sits in the Parliment, and that has made it perfectly clear it >doesn't like this stuff.
>Your MEP sits in the Parliment, and that has made it perfectly clear it >doesn't like this stuff.
Yes, but they now all have to hate this stuff enough to show up and vote.
>Get you MP to join with other MP's to put pressure on your government >to change it's position in the Commission You mean the counsel.
That was the plan until last friday. It even kind of succeded here in Denmark (The MP's joined and put pressure on the government, but it is not clear how much the government actually changed its position inb the councel).
But unless this last decision gets annulled, it is too late to put pressure on your government.
You better start explaining to your MEP why this is so important.
The second reading will be much more difficult than the first reading because this time they need a majority of all MEP's (not just MEP's present) to change the directive.
I does not work that way. Nothing would stop US companies from developing products violating all kinds of US patents and selling those products in Europe. Likewise european companies could still not sell their products on the US market if they violated US patents.
So US companies would not be shipping jobs out of the country.
But upstart companies in Europe would have the advantage of a better home market.
Let me give an example. I bought some old IBM thinkpads, that I wanted to run from a PCMCIA Flash disk, without a harddisk, floppy or CD-drive.
The TP365XD boots fine from PCMCIA CFlash.
The TP770 BIOS does have a setting for booting from PCMCIA, but it does not boot from my PCMCIA CFlash cards. I do not know if it is a bug, if it only boots from some kinds of PCMCIA drives, and I cannot fix it. The BIOS has a lot of functionaly I do not need (e.g. the animated hummingbird cursor) so if it was OS I could certainly make it boot from my CFlash card.
I made it boot from a floppy with the CFlash as root fs device (http://freshmeat.net/projects/pcmciaroot/ ), but fixing the BIOS would have been much better.
I would also like to make a network boot on my wireless network. But the wlan is encrypted, so I would like to store the key in the BIOS of the laptop.
The Linksys WRT54G is a good example. Before you flash it you can turn on the Boot-Wait functionality. This means that even if you update it with a broken BIOS, you can just reboot and flash a new BIOS with tftp.
Some motherboard can flash the BIOS by booting a floppy disk, and the floppy BIOS code cannot be updated.
So if the motherboard producers play along we do not have to worry about making motherboard unusable.
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>>What will last longer? Film or digital content? What can you be 100% ...
>>certain to be able to view in the future? CD's get rot, and go bad.
>Sure, CD's and DVD's will eventually need to be replaced, but that's
>easier to convert than the thousands of rolls of film I've shot over
>the years,
Yes, nothing is 100% percent certain to exist in the future.
But digital is much easyer to back up.
I download my photos to my desktop and leave them there.
Then I upload them to Gallery on webserver. The webserver is backed up on two other computers. Once in a while I burn every photo to a CD/DVD.
I keep the old CD's and DVD's.
So the photos are stored on 4 harddisks and about a dozen CD's/DVD og different brands. They are much more likely to make it to the future than the old negatives in my drawers.
Amarok (and i guess iTunes etc) can sort MP3's based on the tags by Album, Genre, Year, Artist in any order you want. That is 24 combinations. To emulate that in a filesystem seems cumbersome. And not easy to keep consistent unless the filesystem is based on a database, which I believe will not be the case in Longhorn after all.
CUPS is not based on lpr. It is based on IPP: The Internet Printing Protocol.
> Congress isn't going to do away with region coding, CSS
Maybe not. But producers of DVD-players could still implement CSS and allow their custumers to skip ads, FBI warnings, etc.
I only view DVD's on my Linux computer with MPlayer, don't worry about region codes and skip whatever I want.
> So if my solution provider goes out of business, there could be trouble for me.
That is never a good thing.
But do you think you would be better off with a proprietary solution if your solution provider goes out of business?
It might not be that easy to find someone that can immidately work on the code, but it is better than having no source code.
>How do you cite Wikipedia, when the content is always changing?
o ldid=11135846
Like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Person&
Or a Firefox extension that would understand the wikiformat.
Check EPS: http://eps.sourceforge.net
I am project admin on EPS. EPS can handle many maps in different resolutions and sizes, do zooming and scrolling.
But if you _are_ confronted for browsing pages you are not supposed to, you can now blame it on Google prefetching.
Isn't it simpler to set your google preferences to do that?
http://www.google.ca/preferences?hl=en
>You do, of course, know that *all* ICANN does is DNS? That's it. Nothing
>more nothing less.
And we are not even required by law to use the ICANN DNS.
If ICANN was pressured to say remove domains critical of US wars, I am sure we would se a real alternative very soon.
Right, and if you are worried that a publicly accessible unencrypted WiFi will get you in trouble, there is a solutions for that, TOR:
http://www.agol.dk/elgaard/torap/
If they start messing with the quality of packets that are not part of a service provided by the ISP, online gamers will be the first to notice. And they are the ones willing to switch ISP's to get quality even if it cost a few dollars more.
> MOS scores between the lowest quality (G.728: ~3.6) and the highest
>quality (G.711: ~4.1) codecs commonly used for VoIP.
But iLBC is better on bad lines.
No I would not pay 5cents a song if it meant putting taxes on computer equipment.
I am perfectly happy with Magnatune and other free music. I even pay for some of it.
==
In addition, a 1 per cent sales tax would be placed on Internet services and new computers -- two industries that many argue have profited enormously from rampant file-sharing, but haven't had to compensate artists.
==
By that logic they should give most of the taxes to the porn industry.
And why should computer users be forced to pay taxes to the industry the promotes DMCA, DRM, eternal copyright etc?
Except there is a good chance that whatever HW Linus runs will get even better support. Like the time when he had to boot from a PCMCIA floppy disk.
Indeed, see:
http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/
34 TeraByte just for Knoppix 3.7
About 90 TeraBytes in total.
No, I meant MEP.
>Your MEP sits in the Parliment, and that has made it perfectly clear it
>doesn't like this stuff.
>Your MEP sits in the Parliment, and that has made it perfectly clear it
>doesn't like this stuff.
Yes, but they now all have to hate this stuff enough to show up and vote.
>Get you MP to join with other MP's to put pressure on your government
>to change it's position in the Commission
You mean the counsel.
That was the plan until last friday. It even kind of succeded here in Denmark (The MP's joined and put pressure on the government, but it is not clear how much the government actually changed its position inb the councel).
But unless this last decision gets annulled, it is too late to put pressure on your government.
You better start explaining to your MEP why this is so important.
The second reading will be much more difficult than the first reading because this time they need a majority of all MEP's (not just MEP's present) to change the directive.
I was part of a delegation that adressed the parliament today:
Se our press statement:
http://itpol.dk/bpunkt2005
I does not work that way.
Nothing would stop US companies from developing products violating all kinds of US patents and selling those products in Europe. Likewise european companies could still not sell their products on the US market if they violated US patents.
So US companies would not be shipping jobs out of the country.
But upstart companies in Europe would have the advantage of a better home market.
>The answer is simple: The unbridled hunger for the corrupting influence that is Brussels.
I would have said the belgian beer, but you could be right too.
> why is running non-Free Software so bad?
/ ), but fixing the BIOS would have been much better.
One reason is that you cannot fix it.
Let me give an example. I bought some old IBM thinkpads, that I wanted to run from a PCMCIA Flash disk, without a harddisk, floppy or CD-drive.
The TP365XD boots fine from PCMCIA CFlash.
The TP770 BIOS does have a setting for booting from PCMCIA, but it does not boot from my PCMCIA CFlash cards. I do not know if it is a bug, if it only boots from some kinds of PCMCIA drives, and I cannot fix it.
The BIOS has a lot of functionaly I do not need (e.g. the animated hummingbird cursor) so if it was OS I could certainly make it boot from my CFlash card.
I made it boot from a floppy with the CFlash as root fs device
(http://freshmeat.net/projects/pcmciaroot
I would also like to make a network boot on my wireless network. But the wlan is encrypted, so I would like to store the key in the BIOS of the laptop.
The Linksys WRT54G is a good example. Before you flash it you can turn on the Boot-Wait functionality. This means that even if you update it with a broken BIOS, you can just reboot and flash a new BIOS with tftp.
Some motherboard can flash the BIOS by booting a floppy disk, and the floppy BIOS code cannot be updated.
So if the motherboard producers play along we do not have to worry about making motherboard unusable.
>What would happen if the pro-ICANN group and the pro-UN group don't
>come to an agreement and set up separate systems?
Nothing. Nobody would switch from a working system. It would be ISO/OSI vs TCP/IP all over again.
Unless of course some countries would pass laws banning non-UN DNS. Which would be a disaster.
Or if ICAAN started to really abuse their power.