I use and love SuSE, and I'm glad for their efforts.
But how can you seriously say "Again Linux beats Microsoft" in the hardware realm when, AFAIK, no distros even ship atm with USB in the standard kernel?
I'm all for the love of hacking together a solution, but I'm pretty busy, and don't want to spend weekends anymore hacking together good 3d video support, USB support, etc. (SuSE put ATA/66 into my kernel before it was in the main branch--thanks!) I'm not sure that a source patch tarball counts as 'support' when most of the linux users nowadays wait until their fave distro supports the feature.
Sure, I'd put it in myself if I owned an ATA/100 IBM drive, but it's summer, and I'd resent the time it took:-)
That's rich. Britain is an 'empire' like the Royal Family constitute a 'monarchy'.
And Canada, despite the fact that we're a bunch of weaselly, bleeding-heart altruists, still has more backbone to think that we're somehow subservient to a once-great country whose top export now is tabloids.
Just the fact that the ISO sources are expunged doesn't mean LAME is in the clear.
Exactly. Apparently the compression algorithm is patented, not just a sample implementation of it. Use the implementation, whether it is your code or theirs, and you might be violating the patent.
I'd like to have more info on this. The LAME site doesn't seem to contain any speculation about whether or not the software is encumbered.
in 40 years will we still be able to read the CD-ROMs and computer tapes from today?
Please! We're not talking about throwing the book onto a CD ROM and tossing it into a vault. We're talking about putting it on the internet--where servers are kept up and formats are quite interchangeable. Ascii going out of style? a2ps. Postscript goes the way of the dodo? ps2hmtl.
If the book's paper crumbles, it's game over. On the internet, the text will be copied innumerable times, and put into innumerable formats, perhaps with lots of separate people keeping them up. There's no way for a book with even a slight interest to pass into nothingness.
Let's please leave the lame arguments to the Congresscritter librarian, and keep them off slashdot.
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My PERSONAL fantasy is that, eventually, we will get to a point where you will simply have to THINK a command, and your mind-reading-hat (or goggles, you get the idea) interprets the neurological impulses, and gives your computer the appropriate commands.
I'm typing this [Sandra Bullock's ass] using this new neurological interface. [Salma Hayek's chest]
Everything I think [hot, steamy, pr0n] is going into the computer exactly as it comes to mind [Hemos in a bikini]. Errr....ummm... There are still a few bugs, methinks.
Why the encryption? Who cares. I wanna know: why the export restriction?
Let's say I'm terrorist organization X. Tell me I can't get one single member or sympathizer of my crazy group into the US or Japan (or wherever else has these restrictions). He can then pick up a damned PSX2, stick it in his bag, and walk out.
I'm all for being tough on terrorists--like "waste them and don't think twice about it" tough--but is this export restriction doing any good, or just impeding commerce?
What we don't need are special-interest groups turning the TLDs from a value-neutral categorizing system into a lobby effort with crap like.isnotgreen.
Why, you ask? Well, it sets a really silly precedent. What about when someone lobbies for.isgay? Someone's gonne be up in arms about that.
If this 'Consumer' org gets their wish, I'll be pushing for.isatreehuggingbullshitorganization
the article sortof suggests that they set up the links automatically
It looks like they're setting up hard links, as well as one of those annoying background processes that searches for files to make into hard links.
<rant> Is it just me, or does anyone else have a problem with continually loading up more and more overhead to a system? I don't mind a cron job--I can see it, change it, delete it. But this may be one of those automatic 'features' which just means you'll need a 800MHz processor to get the performance you used to, without the 'feature.' I'm one of those people who hates it when my disk, cpu, or network monitors start showing activity I don't plan myself. </rant>
A friend of mine's son was born today! Although his wife went in to labor at 3am yesterday, we encouraged her to hold off for 24 hours to deliver just for the cool birthday.
I would not advise hardware makers to put out an entire OS based on a single part. If VA needs their own distro due to an entire machine, that's one thing. But getting a distribution to cater to one's choice of motherboard?
There are two things wrong with the idea that come immediately to mind:
maintaining a good distro is a lot of work.
GPLed software means the best part of Gentus is liable to be in the next SuSE and debian (there are other distros?)
Because of this, I think the work/reward ratio for Gentus is more likely to be high.
I would have suggested that they work (and I bet this wouldn't be hard) to get configuration tools and Abit mobo support worked into the major distros, and let other people maintain the rest of the distro. This way they promote the hardware (the revenue point) while incurring the minimum costs (even hacking up a RedHat distro with s/RedHat/Gentus/g every quarter takes time).
I mean, name me one other right that you can legally lose by failing to sue someone?
Property. If you let someone use land you own without raising complaint for x years (depending upon your local laws) then you cannot claim that their presence is a tresspass.
I find it humorous that you're calling the Canadian system over-regulated while arguing that it is in fact under-regulated, and needs additional regulation. (You're saying Canadian broadcasters are currently allowed to do something they shouldn't be able to do and recommending they be denied to ability to do this. By definition, that's an increase in regulation, not a decrease.)
Not at all! The Broadcast Act which I mentions overrides what would be valid property rights in broadcast frequencies or the ability to provide a cable alternative.
Scrap that regulation (which allows some broadcasters to get a freebie and restricts the rights of other broadcasters) and return to the valid property rights which have been obscured by it, and voila! We return to a system of just protecting property rights, rather than trying to build a tower of conflicting public-policy commandments.
I think iCraveTV should go the legitimit (sic) route and pay broadcasters the same way your local cable company does.
But, in Canada, the local cable company does not pay the networks. IANAL, but I read a little about this: the Canadian Broadcasting Act lets you rebroadcast (simultaneously) network air broadcasts without permission.
This clause was written for the cable companies in Canada! The regulation is, of course, crap which will cause all kinds of problems.
I find it funny that the NFL do not sue any cable companies in Canada (who can rebroadcast the network broadcasts of NFL games without permission as well) but are willing to sue ICraveTV. I'm not convinced that ICrave is in a materially distinct position than the cable companies in this regard.
Steve
I say scrap the over-regulated Canadian 'cultural protectionist' bull regulation and re-establish property rights properly!
a monopoly on key pair authorization seems orwellian to me.
But it isn't a monopoly like the USPS. Any competitors are welcome to enter the market. Our capital market is pretty good--if your idea is sound, you should be able to get backing for it.
If Thawte/Verisign start charging an arm and a leg, you'll see a hundred Entrusts pop up in months. Profit margin draws capital like sherry draws Ted Kennedy.
[Apple] simply license[s] [the codec] from Sorenson to include in their QuickTime player.
...and...
...a far easier proposal would be that some company that makes an existing player could license the [Sorenson] codec.
Except that one of the provisions of Apple's license was that they demanded Sorenson not license it to anyone else. (That sounds exactly like what everyone bitches at MSFT for doing.)
This kind of regulation will not achieve its intended purpose.
Spam will not end, it will just come from hacked identities
governments will not stop at illegal child pornography
'micropaying' by this sort of license is risky since it will get cracked within a week, and within a month any script kiddie will probably be able to surf on your dime
The fact of this type of regulation is going to make more people interested in concealing themselves, or 'stealing' identities.
I can't see anything good coming out of this, except one thing: a few actual criminals will be (discouraged|arrested). But this may be a small good compared to the evils of the wave of over-regulation and oppressive government crackdowns on 'enemies of the state' for speaking their minds which is sure to occur afterwards.
I get the impression that Corel is putting out a Linux Distribution, [...] just to thumb their nose at the other companies (i.e.: Microsoft) who can't edge into the market.
I think they are going to linux because they've been soundly whipped by MSFT in the office suite business, and Adobe in the graphics app busniess. Here is a market which:
they can control, somewhat, the configuration of the OS (like MSFT can for its Office suite)
is almost virgin soil for commercial office productivity suites
can't be killed by competition by MSFT or anyone else
already has mindshare against MSFT: if Office was ported, it would find fewer users
All in all, I think they are in this market because they beat out of win32, and this is the only viable alternative.
According to their press, Corel's distro is based on Debian.
I haven't run Debian since 1.0, and I wondered if they would survive without a firm packaging and selling the distro (of course I blush now, knowing how well they're doing).
Maybe I've got one more drive around here to try it out.
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I use and love SuSE, and I'm glad for their efforts.
But how can you seriously say "Again Linux beats Microsoft" in the hardware realm when, AFAIK, no distros even ship atm with USB in the standard kernel?
I'm all for the love of hacking together a solution, but I'm pretty busy, and don't want to spend weekends anymore hacking together good 3d video support, USB support, etc. (SuSE put ATA/66 into my kernel before it was in the main branch--thanks!) I'm not sure that a source patch tarball counts as 'support' when most of the linux users nowadays wait until their fave distro supports the feature.
Sure, I'd put it in myself if I owned an ATA/100 IBM drive, but it's summer, and I'd resent the time it took :-)
Steve
Canada is still part of the British Empire
That's rich. Britain is an 'empire' like the Royal Family constitute a 'monarchy'.
And Canada, despite the fact that we're a bunch of weaselly, bleeding-heart altruists, still has more backbone to think that we're somehow subservient to a once-great country whose top export now is tabloids.
Exactly. Apparently the compression algorithm is patented, not just a sample implementation of it. Use the implementation, whether it is your code or theirs, and you might be violating the patent.
I'd like to have more info on this. The LAME site doesn't seem to contain any speculation about whether or not the software is encumbered.
Steve
Please! We're not talking about throwing the book onto a CD ROM and tossing it into a vault. We're talking about putting it on the internet--where servers are kept up and formats are quite interchangeable. Ascii going out of style? a2ps. Postscript goes the way of the dodo? ps2hmtl.
If the book's paper crumbles, it's game over. On the internet, the text will be copied innumerable times, and put into innumerable formats, perhaps with lots of separate people keeping them up. There's no way for a book with even a slight interest to pass into nothingness.
Let's please leave the lame arguments to the Congresscritter librarian, and keep them off slashdot.
I'm typing this [Sandra Bullock's ass] using this new neurological interface. [Salma Hayek's chest]
Everything I think [hot, steamy, pr0n] is going into the computer exactly as it comes to mind [Hemos in a bikini]. Errr....ummm... There are still a few bugs, methinks.
Actually, I ilke google's even better than that one.
the mentalplex is king!
Why the encryption? Who cares. I wanna know: why the export restriction?
Let's say I'm terrorist organization X. Tell me I can't get one single member or sympathizer of my crazy group into the US or Japan (or wherever else has these restrictions). He can then pick up a damned PSX2, stick it in his bag, and walk out.
I'm all for being tough on terrorists--like "waste them and don't think twice about it" tough--but is this export restriction doing any good, or just impeding commerce?
Steve
...for TLDs, like .bus, .home. etc.
What we don't need are special-interest groups turning the TLDs from a value-neutral categorizing system into a lobby effort with crap like .isnotgreen.
Why, you ask? Well, it sets a really silly precedent. What about when someone lobbies for .isgay? Someone's gonne be up in arms about that.
If this 'Consumer' org gets their wish, I'll be pushing for .isatreehuggingbullshitorganization
Steve
the article sortof suggests that they set up the links automatically
It looks like they're setting up hard links, as well as one of those annoying background processes that searches for files to make into hard links.
<rant>
Is it just me, or does anyone else have a problem with continually loading up more and more overhead to a system? I don't mind a cron job--I can see it, change it, delete it. But this may be one of those automatic 'features' which just means you'll need a 800MHz processor to get the performance you used to, without the 'feature.' I'm one of those people who hates it when my disk, cpu, or network monitors start showing activity I don't plan myself.
</rant>
Steve
A friend of mine's son was born today! Although his wife went in to labor at 3am yesterday, we encouraged her to hold off for 24 hours to deliver just for the cool birthday.
I don't think she was amused.
SteveI would not advise hardware makers to put out an entire OS based on a single part. If VA needs their own distro due to an entire machine, that's one thing. But getting a distribution to cater to one's choice of motherboard?
There are two things wrong with the idea that come immediately to mind:
Because of this, I think the work/reward ratio for Gentus is more likely to be high.
I would have suggested that they work (and I bet this wouldn't be hard) to get configuration tools and Abit mobo support worked into the major distros, and let other people maintain the rest of the distro. This way they promote the hardware (the revenue point) while incurring the minimum costs (even hacking up a RedHat distro with s/RedHat/Gentus/g every quarter takes time).
That's my $0.03 Canadian.
Steve
I mean, name me one other right that you can legally lose by failing to sue someone?
Property. If you let someone use land you own without raising complaint for x years (depending upon your local laws) then you cannot claim that their presence is a tresspass.
Steve
Depending upon the channel these bots would inhabit, one wouldn't need to build a turing machine.
For instance, take #teenchat. All you need is this snippet of code to beat the challenge:
while (1) {
print "U wan 2 chat?\n";
sleep(2);
}
Steve
I find it humorous that you're calling the Canadian system over-regulated while arguing that it is in fact under-regulated, and needs additional regulation. (You're saying Canadian broadcasters are currently allowed to do something they shouldn't be able to do and recommending they be denied to ability to do this. By definition, that's an increase in regulation, not a decrease.)
Not at all! The Broadcast Act which I mentions overrides what would be valid property rights in broadcast frequencies or the ability to provide a cable alternative.
Scrap that regulation (which allows some broadcasters to get a freebie and restricts the rights of other broadcasters) and return to the valid property rights which have been obscured by it, and voila! We return to a system of just protecting property rights, rather than trying to build a tower of conflicting public-policy commandments.
Steve
I think iCraveTV should go the legitimit (sic) route and pay broadcasters the same way your local cable company does.
But, in Canada, the local cable company does not pay the networks. IANAL, but I read a little about this: the Canadian Broadcasting Act lets you rebroadcast (simultaneously) network air broadcasts without permission.
This clause was written for the cable companies in Canada! The regulation is, of course, crap which will cause all kinds of problems.
I find it funny that the NFL do not sue any cable companies in Canada (who can rebroadcast the network broadcasts of NFL games without permission as well) but are willing to sue ICraveTV. I'm not convinced that ICrave is in a materially distinct position than the cable companies in this regard.
Steve
I say scrap the over-regulated Canadian 'cultural protectionist' bull regulation and re-establish property rights properly!
a monopoly on key pair authorization seems orwellian to me.
But it isn't a monopoly like the USPS. Any competitors are welcome to enter the market. Our capital market is pretty good--if your idea is sound, you should be able to get backing for it.
If Thawte/Verisign start charging an arm and a leg, you'll see a hundred Entrusts pop up in months. Profit margin draws capital like sherry draws Ted Kennedy.
Steve
...and...
Except that one of the provisions of Apple's license was that they demanded Sorenson not license it to anyone else. (That sounds exactly like what everyone bitches at MSFT for doing.)
Steve
This kind of regulation will not achieve its intended purpose.
The fact of this type of regulation is going to make more people interested in concealing themselves, or 'stealing' identities.
I can't see anything good coming out of this, except one thing: a few actual criminals will be (discouraged|arrested). But this may be a small good compared to the evils of the wave of over-regulation and oppressive government crackdowns on 'enemies of the state' for speaking their minds which is sure to occur afterwards.
Steve
I get the impression that Corel is putting out a Linux Distribution, [...] just to thumb their nose at the other companies (i.e.: Microsoft) who can't edge into the market.
I think they are going to linux because they've been soundly whipped by MSFT in the office suite business, and Adobe in the graphics app busniess. Here is a market which:
All in all, I think they are in this market because they beat out of win32, and this is the only viable alternative.
Steve
According to their press, Corel's distro is based on Debian.
I haven't run Debian since 1.0, and I wondered if they would survive without a firm packaging and selling the distro (of course I blush now, knowing how well they're doing).
Maybe I've got one more drive around here to try it out.
Steve