Not only is Amazon charging different prices for the same items, but they're also charging the same price for different items! Unbelievable! Just at look these examples:
Twentieth Century Music; How It Developed, How To Listen To It: $99
Speak 5001 Easy Phrases in Spanish French Italian & German: $99
and
Simone Weil and the Politics of Self-Denial: $34.95
Embrace an Angry Wind : The Confederacy's Last Hurrah Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville: $34.95
These are completely different books, and Amazon has the audacity to charge us the same amount. I have no idea who Simone Weil is, but I am positive she's nowhere near as valuable as some angry wind in Nashville.
My (UK) gov certainly taxes cigarette makers a lot on the basis that it causes (contributes to) a lot of people being ill.
That's a bad example. Bertelsmann wants to levy a tax because some of the CDR users will pirate music. However, everyone who smokes is contibuting to illness and pollution. If it were true that every CDR were only used to pirate music, then Bertelsmann's request would be agreeable. --
This would make a big difference. Even patches that are of the proper form are easy to miss among the hundreds of messages posted daily. The list is just too crazy.
The number of patches posted to the mailing list are significant, and most of them are very small, just a few lines. Since there are so many of them, and since they are quite distinct from the rest of the traffic on the list, they warrant their own mailing list.
Of course, the smart thing would be if everyone created a filter that separated messages with "[PATCH]" in the subject into their own folder, but who does that? --
I have learned that the Motion Picture Association of America wants VCR and HDTV manufacturers to be required to include technology that will prevent me from recording certain digital TV broadcasts for the purpose of watching them later (a.k.a. time-shifting).
I am opposed to such legislation. The law already allows me to "time-shift" any TV program that is displayed on my television. It also lets me watch such recordings over and over again.
The MPAA would like nothing more than to strip me of all such rights. I feel that they are an unethical corporation that cares much more about their bottom line than consumers such as myself.
Therefore, I am writing you this letter to let you know that you should oppose any restrictions to my ability to watch and record TV programs, especially those that the MPAA wants.
Anything could happen in 50,000 years. We've all seen sci-fi movies where future inhabitants have completely forgotten about the beginnings of earth civilation and have no clue how many years have passed.
Then they get this time capsule that opens and says, "It's been 52,001 years since the birth of Jesus Christ!" Of course, if it gets to that, then the response will be, "Jesus who?" --
So you're saying that you're against seat-belt laws? If so, maybe you'll change your mind if someone you care about dies in a car crash because they didn't think seat belts were important. A lot of people didn't wear seat belts until the laws were put in place. --
What makes you think that Ford gave those specs to Firestone? Ford could have told Firestone they needed tires at 34 psi (for example). Then, after they have the tires and found out that underinflating them would help avoid rollovers, Ford simply inflated them to 24 psi (for example) and never bothered to tell Firestone anything. --
But what if the Navy doesn't care? If the Navy is the only recipient of the binaries, and they don't want the source code, is the DOD forced to make the source code available anyway?
This raises an interesting question about the GPL: if person A modifies GPL code and gives the binary to person B only, can person C complain about it? If not, then what's to stop a person taking GPL code, modifying it, and giving the binaries only to people who are willing to sign an agreement where they promise never to ask for the source code? That would effectively let person A distribute binaries without having to distribute the source code.
Imagine buying a piece of hardware with an embedded version of Linux. When you open the box, you inherently agree to a license. Part of that license says you agree not to ask for the source code. --
IBM is throwing developers onto Mozilla. The people who are porting Netscape to OS/2 are also (so I've heard) working on Mozilla, most likely concentrating on the OS/2 stuff. I even remember hearing about how they will be making some variant of Mozilla for OS/2 (aka WarpZilla) the next official OS/2 web browser.
The developers who are working on this will be at Warpstock 2000 on Septmeber 9/10 in Philadelphia to talk about it, if you want to learn more. --
Watcom's inline assembly is better than most. It doesn't allow the level of optimizations that gcc does, but it's much, much easier to use. In addition, it also lets you modify the calling convention of functions, which is extremely useful in device drivers (especially DOS and OS/2), where function calls are register-based. I don't think gcc's inline assembly supports that. --
If you want to talk to Kendall Bennett about Open Watcom, then come to Warpstock 2000 on September 9-10 in Philadelphia. He will be giving a presentation on it. --
All chainmail clothing is hand made, and so there's no surcharge for a custom piece - you'll just end up paying more for parts and labor if it's bigger. --
About 5 years ago, I submitted my Masters Thesis titled "Groupware Developing Using Toolkits" (or something like that). My school, George Washington University, did not require me to have it formally published or printed. They were happy to accept my own printout of the document, a whopping 80 pages.
I can't seem to find my paper on their site. What do I need to do (or what did I need to do) to get it listed? I have no problem with their profiting from the work, since I never really cared for the subject matter that much (what does a device driver programmer care about groupware?!?!), and I doubt they'll make any serious money from it. --
How many of you can tell me what the phone number or street address for Ford Motor Company is? Very few, I would think.
IMHO, the real problem is that people expect that domain names should be guessable. No one would ever dream dialing 1-800-FORD-CAR and expect to be able to purchase a Ford car that way, but for some reason, every legal body in this planet thinks that Joe Six Pack is going to sit down at his computer, and instead of looking up the address, he's just going to type ford.com.
This whole problem with domain names would go away if people just stopped expeting them to be obvious, because that's just not going to happen. That's what directories are for. Yahoo is really good at that sort of thing - in addition to being a normal web search engine, they have an index which is manually created, with descriptions and categories. Some web browsers even have this capability built-in.
The courts don't protect phone numbers and street addresses, so why should they protect domain names? I can petition to my street changed to "Ford Lane" if I wanted, and Ford Motor Company can't do squat about it, even if I lived in Detroit. --
Money doesn't have a speed value associated with it.
Actually it does. In economics, there's a concept called the "velocity of money". It's a measure of how much money changes hand in a given time period. The more money that "moves around" (i.e. the more buying and selling that occurs), the stronger the economy, or so I've been told. The more people save money, the less it moves around, and the velocity of money goes down. --
I think the reason that these stories are getting posted is because not everyone thinks that sharing music should be CONSIDERED piracy.
The only way that will happen is if music recordings no longer becomes "copyright-able". The reason why sharing recordings is illegal is because the recordings are copyrighted. It doesn't matter that it's music, the same applies to anything that's copyrighted.
I have no sympathy for Napster or anyone who defends Napster. --
Oh come on, I shouldn't have to explain this. There are a million reasons:
I want to upgrade to a more recent kernel, like 2.2.16
I want to add optimizations for my CPU
ALSA says I need to have some kind of sound kernel module built (or whatever its called), and it appears that the stock kernel doesn't have that enabled, so I need to compile a new kernel with that feature enabled. (Never mind that I already have audio working with the normal drivers, that's still not good enough for ALSA).
Ok, maybe that's only three reasons, but I think others can add some more reasons. --
It would be great if the installation routine could create a.config file in/usr/src/linux that would match the current installation and hardware! I can't build a new kernel because I can't figure out what network card I have (/proc/pci says one thing, conf.modules says something completely different, I can't find the chip on the motherboard, and nothing I've tried works anyway). However, the installation itself knows what hardware I have, but if I try to build another kernel, I have to manually figure it all out. There is no reason for this.
The installation routine should generate a.config based on the hardware it has detected and the options the user chose during the installation. In other words, I should be able to build the kernel from/usr/src/linux without specifying any options, and it should work! --
I'm glad Napster is shut down. I hope they get shut down permanently. Do I love the RIAA? Hell, no! I hate them. I think the RIAA is nothing but a bunch of stuffy old goats who don't care about their customers one bit.
However, Napster's legal argument is absurd. They say that they have the right to promote distribution of copyrighted works. I think that's bullshit.
Imagine the day guns are invented. Then imagine someone saying, "Well, with these guns, it's really easy to kill someone, so we might as well make murder legal, because there's no way to stop it." --
Slashdot Mirror
- Twentieth Century Music; How It Developed, How To Listen To It: $99
- Speak 5001 Easy Phrases in Spanish French Italian & German: $99
and- Simone Weil and the Politics of Self-Denial: $34.95
- Embrace an Angry Wind : The Confederacy's Last Hurrah Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville: $34.95
These are completely different books, and Amazon has the audacity to charge us the same amount. I have no idea who Simone Weil is, but I am positive she's nowhere near as valuable as some angry wind in Nashville.I demand that this practice stop immediately!
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That's a bad example. Bertelsmann wants to levy a tax because some of the CDR users will pirate music. However, everyone who smokes is contibuting to illness and pollution. If it were true that every CDR were only used to pirate music, then Bertelsmann's request would be agreeable.
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This would make a big difference. Even patches that are of the proper form are easy to miss among the hundreds of messages posted daily. The list is just too crazy.
The number of patches posted to the mailing list are significant, and most of them are very small, just a few lines. Since there are so many of them, and since they are quite distinct from the rest of the traffic on the list, they warrant their own mailing list.
Of course, the smart thing would be if everyone created a filter that separated messages with "[PATCH]" in the subject into their own folder, but who does that?
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I have learned that the Motion Picture Association of America wants VCR and HDTV manufacturers to be required to include technology that will prevent me from recording certain digital TV broadcasts for the purpose of watching them later (a.k.a. time-shifting).
I am opposed to such legislation. The law already allows me to "time-shift" any TV program that is displayed on my television. It also lets me watch such recordings over and over again.
The MPAA would like nothing more than to strip me of all such rights. I feel that they are an unethical corporation that cares much more about their bottom line than consumers such as myself.
Therefore, I am writing you this letter to let you know that you should oppose any restrictions to my ability to watch and record TV programs, especially those that the MPAA wants.
I urge you to decide against the MPAA.
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Then they get this time capsule that opens and says, "It's been 52,001 years since the birth of Jesus Christ!" Of course, if it gets to that, then the response will be, "Jesus who?"
--
So you're saying that you're against seat-belt laws? If so, maybe you'll change your mind if someone you care about dies in a car crash because they didn't think seat belts were important. A lot of people didn't wear seat belts until the laws were put in place.
--
What makes you think that Ford gave those specs to Firestone? Ford could have told Firestone they needed tires at 34 psi (for example). Then, after they have the tires and found out that underinflating them would help avoid rollovers, Ford simply inflated them to 24 psi (for example) and never bothered to tell Firestone anything.
--
This raises an interesting question about the GPL: if person A modifies GPL code and gives the binary to person B only, can person C complain about it? If not, then what's to stop a person taking GPL code, modifying it, and giving the binaries only to people who are willing to sign an agreement where they promise never to ask for the source code? That would effectively let person A distribute binaries without having to distribute the source code.
Imagine buying a piece of hardware with an embedded version of Linux. When you open the box, you inherently agree to a license. Part of that license says you agree not to ask for the source code.
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The developers who are working on this will be at Warpstock 2000 on Septmeber 9/10 in Philadelphia to talk about it, if you want to learn more.
--
Watcom's inline assembly is better than most. It doesn't allow the level of optimizations that gcc does, but it's much, much easier to use. In addition, it also lets you modify the calling convention of functions, which is extremely useful in device drivers (especially DOS and OS/2), where function calls are register-based. I don't think gcc's inline assembly supports that.
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If you want to talk to Kendall Bennett about Open Watcom, then come to Warpstock 2000 on September 9-10 in Philadelphia. He will be giving a presentation on it.
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All chainmail clothing is hand made, and so there's no surcharge for a custom piece - you'll just end up paying more for parts and labor if it's bigger.
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Just go to your local Renaissance Faire. There are usually hundreds of women like that and better running around.
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I can't seem to find my paper on their site. What do I need to do (or what did I need to do) to get it listed? I have no problem with their profiting from the work, since I never really cared for the subject matter that much (what does a device driver programmer care about groupware?!?!), and I doubt they'll make any serious money from it.
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IMHO, the real problem is that people expect that domain names should be guessable. No one would ever dream dialing 1-800-FORD-CAR and expect to be able to purchase a Ford car that way, but for some reason, every legal body in this planet thinks that Joe Six Pack is going to sit down at his computer, and instead of looking up the address, he's just going to type ford.com.
This whole problem with domain names would go away if people just stopped expeting them to be obvious, because that's just not going to happen. That's what directories are for. Yahoo is really good at that sort of thing - in addition to being a normal web search engine, they have an index which is manually created, with descriptions and categories. Some web browsers even have this capability built-in.
The courts don't protect phone numbers and street addresses, so why should they protect domain names? I can petition to my street changed to "Ford Lane" if I wanted, and Ford Motor Company can't do squat about it, even if I lived in Detroit.
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... called Sledge Hammer. I thought it was hilarious. I wish they had it on video.
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Actually it does. In economics, there's a concept called the "velocity of money". It's a measure of how much money changes hand in a given time period. The more money that "moves around" (i.e. the more buying and selling that occurs), the stronger the economy, or so I've been told. The more people save money, the less it moves around, and the velocity of money goes down.
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The only way that will happen is if music recordings no longer becomes "copyright-able". The reason why sharing recordings is illegal is because the recordings are copyrighted. It doesn't matter that it's music, the same applies to anything that's copyrighted.
I have no sympathy for Napster or anyone who defends Napster.
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No, I'm not.
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On a somewhat related note, lsmod says:
- 3c59x 18980 1 (autoclean)
but- Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 36).
So do I have a 905B or a 59x?--
- I want to upgrade to a more recent kernel, like 2.2.16
- I want to add optimizations for my CPU
- ALSA says I need to have some kind of sound kernel module built (or whatever its called), and it appears that the stock kernel doesn't have that enabled, so I need to compile a new kernel with that feature enabled. (Never mind that I already have audio working with the normal drivers, that's still not good enough for ALSA).
Ok, maybe that's only three reasons, but I think others can add some more reasons.--
It would be great if the installation routine could create a .config file in /usr/src/linux that would match the current installation and hardware! I can't build a new kernel because I can't figure out what network card I have (/proc/pci says one thing, conf.modules says something completely different, I can't find the chip on the motherboard, and nothing I've tried works anyway). However, the installation itself knows what hardware I have, but if I try to build another kernel, I have to manually figure it all out. There is no reason for this.
The installation routine should generate a .config based on the hardware it has detected and the options the user chose during the installation. In other words, I should be able to build the kernel from /usr/src/linux without specifying any options, and it should work!
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However, Napster's legal argument is absurd. They say that they have the right to promote distribution of copyrighted works. I think that's bullshit.
Imagine the day guns are invented. Then imagine someone saying, "Well, with these guns, it's really easy to kill someone, so we might as well make murder legal, because there's no way to stop it."
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Lots of two-button mice are available that work great with a Mac.
In other words, I'm glad to see that you no longer have any reason not to buy a G4 laptop when it comes out. :-)
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Just imagine that long rocket launching up to space with a Trojan logo on it.
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