All the sound cards I own have an option to record "what you hear".
Even with the sound hardware integrated onto many motherboards these days with the regular VIA, etc., 5.1 audio chipsets, the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture pretty much allows you to capture anything the sound card is putting out. So if it can be played on Linux, it can be captured on Linux.
Makes me wonder if they'll preclude open source platforms from listening to Internet radio streams.
Not that Google doesn't already have several massive data centers. Everyone keeps saying "Yeah, but will Google have enough to do that?" and the answer Google always seems to give is to keep expanding its capacity.
Bruce Sterling wrote a similar, but even more imaginative article in Wired, about a concept which he called the hyperlocal web. The dept 'long-way-to-go' on this article is interesting in light of Sterling's piece, because in a sidebar, he basically makes the point that Google is already building all the information necessary for this sort of stuff with Google Earth. Combine that with Google's recent interest in the wireless spectrum and GPS and bam! it sorta hits you: Google's already working on this stuff. How far off are they? I guess only time will tell.
I wouldn't be surprised at all to learn that various circuits in the Mac had their start as Woz designs, but Woz himself never worked directly on the Macintosh. Woz felt that the Macintosh was the wrong direction for the company and that it should focus on the Apple II line. Officially, Woz has always been and continues to be an employee of Apple; unofficially, Woz hasn't done much work for Apple -- the last thing being the design of the IIgs.
Steve Wozniak? Mac designer? Um, that's a big no. Woz had nothing to do with the Mac whatsoever. The Mac was largely designed by other folks like Andy Hertzfeld, Jef Raskin, and Bill Atkinson. Woz designed the Apple I and the Apple II-series computers.
That's because many IT majors I have encountered went into IT because they wanted to be business majors, but didn't want to do as much with accounting or finance. On top of that, many go into IT because they think it can make them a lot of money "working with computers" (ha!) and computer science looked "too geeky".
I've met both UNIX and Windows sys admins in the real world who are products of some of these courses -- and let me tell you, they leave a lot to be desired. Even UNIX admins often fail to understand fundamental UNIX concepts like awk and sed; they find vi confusing; and they can't fathom how pipes work. These are the same ilk who write shell scripts that look like they were written using some poorly-written DOS.bat -> shell script converter, including plenty of UUOCs and UUOEs.
It makes me wonder: how do these people even get these jobs?
haha you the people are responsible for the people in office? Yeah maybe if you assholes got up and voted for a change. Actually the corporations have more of a sway on who they want and since they can't vote in the booth they vote with their money. Sure you can make one guy go away but it will take a lot more to get rid of the establishment sympathetic to corporations. I know exactly what it will take and it will happen -- in its own time. It's called 'revolution'.
Free speech, like world peace, unconditional love, and true happiness in life are misnamed goals. They are symbols, not reality. Of course, some of this could be changed, but it would require getting over the aforementioned taboos. I'm guessing you're a 'glass if half-empty' kinda guy, huh?
True happiness is possible and even easily attainable, but only if you realize the truth: happiness comes from within, not from without. But true happiness takes a lot of work -- on yourself.
World peace? Fsck that. Nobody really wants world peace anyhow, 'cause they don't know what they're asking for.
Unconditional love? Well, I'll just leave that one alone in case my wife is reading...;)
But free speech? It's a goal that we must stive for. Maybe we'll never have totally free speech in the literal sense of the term, but we will always hold it up as an ideal in the United States, precisely because our Founding Fathers did.
"Speaking as a taxpayer, it seems to me that a nationwide open-access spectrum would be a very worthwhile thing to get by forgoing those "billions of dollars" Indeed. It's not like I'm ever going to see any value from those "billions of dollars". Nor will the government.
This is just ridiculous. Everyone has everything to gain by an open-access spectrum and bargain-basement broadband and nothing to lose -- except for AT&T, Verizon and their ilk. Not that Google should own it all, either though.
Hey, AT&T: You don't speak for my interests and you never have. So stop telling people that you are because you are a bunch of liars. It's not like the you have any right to use the government to enforce your business model. If you can't change with the times, then get the hell out of everyone else's way.
Hey, Google: we're on to you. You said you'd do no evil, and it looks like you got your hand caught in the cookie jar on this one.
Hey, government: Don't listen to any of it. Listen to me. We, the people, as voters and taxpayers, are responsible for putting you into power in the first place. We made you and we can make you go away just as easily.
Most authors have no problem with making copyright much shorter. I've heard values as low as 3 years, with 5 to 10 being the usual suggestion. It's only the Disney's and other superstars of the publishing world... that want copyright longer then the normal human lifespan. ... and the Congresscritters who take their money.
Copyright durations will not be shortened until real, meaningful campaign finance reform gets passed by the Legislative branch. In other words, as long as Congresscritters are on the take, probably never.
Double, triple taxation, whatever. Look at this way: they do it here in the States. You get taxed on the money you make, then you pay your mortgage. You get taxed on the value of your house (and the longer you pay your mortgage, the more your house is generally worth). You then get taxed on everything you buy. Somethings you buy you get taxed on extra because they are either luxury items (excise tax), bad for you ("sin" tax), or are otherwise taxed anyway (gas, oil, communications services, utilities tax).
So if the U.S. were to follow Japan's lead, they'd institute an additional tax on top of the income tax already paid, and on top of the huge taxes you're already paying for the service, the sales tax on the phone itself, sales tax on the service (if any in your state), Universal Service Fee, and any fees already paid to the FCC by the phone manufacturer itself, which are passed on to you, naturally.
Well, they weren't death camps per se, but the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was certainly reprehensible and a violation of basic human rights.
"FBI officials also said at the meeting that some bureau employees have already been granted immunity from prosecution in the investigation."
If this is true, I honestly don't know what to say anymore.
I do. It's high time the American people hold the government accountable for its actions and use its power of the vote to alter the course of American history.
Um, no, actually they couldn't have without licensing CUPS under a separate license.
Which is fine, of course. If that's the author's will, so be it. But Apple bought CUPS expressly for the purpose of changing the license to suit itself. It shows what Apple's intentions are regarding open source -- they pay lip service to it when it serves them. When it doesn't, they throw cash around.
Seriously, why are you defending Apple so vehemently? They're just some company; their goal is no different than that of Microsoft -- to make money. Not that that's bad, mind you, but they aren't anybody to be idolized.
Did you even bother to read the post I was replying to? No, probably not, and neither did the other 3,000 Apple fanbois on this site, all of whom who had mod points and modded me down.
The new license allows Apple to create dervivative works of CUPS linked to Mac OS X without GPLing any of the derivative parts
So put away your Steve Jobs poster and stop jerking off.
but if not not he needs to get the approval of all that contributed code to change the license like this
Easy Software Products required that the copyright to contributed code be assigned to ESP before it would be accepted in the main distribution. So, yes, they can do this.
Pay attention, Apple fanbois -- Apple doesn't give one rat's ass about software freedom -- either the ideas of 'open source' or the ideas of 'free software'. Free/Open Source Software is just used by Apple as a way to outsource development -- for free (as in beer). This proves it. They bought CUPS and hired Michael Sweet just to ensure that they don't have to open-source any portion of Mac OS X that's not already open source.
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Even with the sound hardware integrated onto many motherboards these days with the regular VIA, etc., 5.1 audio chipsets, the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture pretty much allows you to capture anything the sound card is putting out. So if it can be played on Linux, it can be captured on Linux.
Makes me wonder if they'll preclude open source platforms from listening to Internet radio streams.
Not that Google doesn't already have several massive data centers. Everyone keeps saying "Yeah, but will Google have enough to do that?" and the answer Google always seems to give is to keep expanding its capacity.
No kidding! What he needs is a pi in the face!
Bruce Sterling wrote a similar, but even more imaginative article in Wired, about a concept which he called the hyperlocal web. The dept 'long-way-to-go' on this article is interesting in light of Sterling's piece, because in a sidebar, he basically makes the point that Google is already building all the information necessary for this sort of stuff with Google Earth. Combine that with Google's recent interest in the wireless spectrum and GPS and bam! it sorta hits you: Google's already working on this stuff. How far off are they? I guess only time will tell.
...for one welcome our new fearless rodent overlords!
Exactly!
PH33R m3! What? No?
PH33R M3! 1 W1LL H4X0R UR G1BS0N!
Damn it. No one seems afraid of me anymore. Guess I'll have to find a new hobby...
I wouldn't be surprised at all to learn that various circuits in the Mac had their start as Woz designs, but Woz himself never worked directly on the Macintosh. Woz felt that the Macintosh was the wrong direction for the company and that it should focus on the Apple II line. Officially, Woz has always been and continues to be an employee of Apple; unofficially, Woz hasn't done much work for Apple -- the last thing being the design of the IIgs.
Steve Wozniak? Mac designer? Um, that's a big no. Woz had nothing to do with the Mac whatsoever. The Mac was largely designed by other folks like Andy Hertzfeld, Jef Raskin, and Bill Atkinson. Woz designed the Apple I and the Apple II-series computers.
You've got the right idea!
That's because many IT majors I have encountered went into IT because they wanted to be business majors, but didn't want to do as much with accounting or finance. On top of that, many go into IT because they think it can make them a lot of money "working with computers" (ha!) and computer science looked "too geeky".
.bat -> shell script converter, including plenty of UUOCs and UUOEs.
I've met both UNIX and Windows sys admins in the real world who are products of some of these courses -- and let me tell you, they leave a lot to be desired. Even UNIX admins often fail to understand fundamental UNIX concepts like awk and sed; they find vi confusing; and they can't fathom how pipes work. These are the same ilk who write shell scripts that look like they were written using some poorly-written DOS
It makes me wonder: how do these people even get these jobs?
True happiness is possible and even easily attainable, but only if you realize the truth: happiness comes from within, not from without. But true happiness takes a lot of work -- on yourself.
World peace? Fsck that. Nobody really wants world peace anyhow, 'cause they don't know what they're asking for.
Unconditional love? Well, I'll just leave that one alone in case my wife is reading...
But free speech? It's a goal that we must stive for. Maybe we'll never have totally free speech in the literal sense of the term, but we will always hold it up as an ideal in the United States, precisely because our Founding Fathers did.
This is just ridiculous. Everyone has everything to gain by an open-access spectrum and bargain-basement broadband and nothing to lose -- except for AT&T, Verizon and their ilk. Not that Google should own it all, either though.
Hey, AT&T: You don't speak for my interests and you never have. So stop telling people that you are because you are a bunch of liars. It's not like the you have any right to use the government to enforce your business model. If you can't change with the times, then get the hell out of everyone else's way.
Hey, Google: we're on to you. You said you'd do no evil, and it looks like you got your hand caught in the cookie jar on this one.
Hey, government: Don't listen to any of it. Listen to me. We, the people, as voters and taxpayers, are responsible for putting you into power in the first place. We made you and we can make you go away just as easily.
The three of you can all go quietly fsck off now.
Copyright durations will not be shortened until real, meaningful campaign finance reform gets passed by the Legislative branch. In other words, as long as Congresscritters are on the take, probably never.
Mod parent up!
Double, triple taxation, whatever. Look at this way: they do it here in the States. You get taxed on the money you make, then you pay your mortgage. You get taxed on the value of your house (and the longer you pay your mortgage, the more your house is generally worth). You then get taxed on everything you buy. Somethings you buy you get taxed on extra because they are either luxury items (excise tax), bad for you ("sin" tax), or are otherwise taxed anyway (gas, oil, communications services, utilities tax).
So if the U.S. were to follow Japan's lead, they'd institute an additional tax on top of the income tax already paid, and on top of the huge taxes you're already paying for the service, the sales tax on the phone itself, sales tax on the service (if any in your state), Universal Service Fee, and any fees already paid to the FCC by the phone manufacturer itself, which are passed on to you, naturally.
AAAAARGGGGGHH!
I am SO moving to Antarctica.
Well, they weren't death camps per se, but the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was certainly reprehensible and a violation of basic human rights.
I do. It's high time the American people hold the government accountable for its actions and use its power of the vote to alter the course of American history.
Pity no one gives a damn enough to do it, though.
dd if=/dev/hdx of=moviename.iso bs=1024
is much quicker.
Errmmm...I don't follow you. Don't Macs run Intel chips?
No one, huh? And no N cards, huh? Technology changes fast. Pay attention.
Um, no, actually they couldn't have without licensing CUPS under a separate license.
Which is fine, of course. If that's the author's will, so be it. But Apple bought CUPS expressly for the purpose of changing the license to suit itself. It shows what Apple's intentions are regarding open source -- they pay lip service to it when it serves them. When it doesn't, they throw cash around.
Seriously, why are you defending Apple so vehemently? They're just some company; their goal is no different than that of Microsoft -- to make money. Not that that's bad, mind you, but they aren't anybody to be idolized.
That's gotta be the most insightful thing I've seen posted in a comment on Slashdot -- EVAR.
Hi, you must new here! Welcome to Slashdot.
Did you even bother to read the post I was replying to? No, probably not, and neither did the other 3,000
Apple fanbois on this site, all of whom who had mod points and modded me down.
The new license allows Apple to create dervivative works of CUPS linked to Mac OS X without GPLing any of the derivative parts
So put away your Steve Jobs poster and stop jerking off.
Easy Software Products required that the copyright to contributed code be assigned to ESP before it would be accepted in the main distribution. So, yes, they can do this.
Pay attention, Apple fanbois -- Apple doesn't give one rat's ass about software freedom -- either the ideas of 'open source' or the ideas of 'free software'. Free/Open Source Software is just used by Apple as a way to outsource development -- for free (as in beer). This proves it. They bought CUPS and hired Michael Sweet just to ensure that they don't have to open-source any portion of Mac OS X that's not already open source.