but we are not talking about the death of media, we are talking about the death of newspapers, a peculiar and old fashioned way of delivering the news that assumes one organisation with massive overheads needs to be the authoritative source for all of your news and culture and opinion and restaurant reviews for the next day.
I do believe that reporters add value, but the majority of what is in a "newspaper" at this time is just rehashed AP/Reuters stories, perhaps with some banal comment added - there is very little value in that. There is no more value in that than there is in cat videos's on youtube.
If the reason you are licensing your software under the GPL is to produce "free" software - which is the predominant reason people use the GPL then yes, it is currently impossible to produce software that will run on an un-jailbroken iphone without violating either the spirit (GPL v2) or the letter (GPL v3) of the GPL. Sorry!
Your software was released under the GPL v2. According to the FSF compliance officer (http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/131752) - While the new provisions fo the gpl v3 would be violated by the app store code signing the GPL v2 does not contain such a provision and therefore you are not in violation of the license. As pointed out the fact that you are "selling" the software clearly does not place you in violation of the GPL.
However, as the FSF point out - it is not currently possible for you to produce "free" software - according to the FSF definition of the term, for the iphone as it does not meet the 4 requirements of free software - an end user cannot modify your software and run it on their own iphone without also signing up for an apple developer account. because of this you are very much in violation of the spirit if not the letter of the GPL - you must decide whether you want to continue in this regard.
If you wish to continue the project in the spirit of the GPL i would suggest you port it to jailbroken iphones and remove it from the app store
I agree a rolling cart for every department (along with interactive whiteboards) was the solution used at a top private school i used to attend. It was by far the best solution because it meant IT resources were always controlled by the school and rapidly available when needed and tucked away. the cart was also a charging station when not in use which ensured all the laptops were always ready for use. It was pretty cost effective and worked really well. As an aside they used mac's which worked surprisingly well as most of the "geek" kids were not familiar enough with them to bypass the security and install trojans or games)
'We simply cannot accept terms that fail to appropriately and fairly compensate recording artists, songwriters, labels and publishers for the value they provide,' there is the problem. You see only one of those groups deserves compensation for their work from youtube, the rest should at best, be paid for their "work" by the artists at an agreed fee. A business model built around leeching money you don't deserve dose not travel well.
one thing you need to understand about france is that an awfull LOT of things are illegal. France has a huge mollass of breaucratic rules and regulations on multiple levels that semed like good ideas at the time. However, the french attitude is generally to treat the non-classic criminal law as a inconvenience to be ignored or circumvented rather than as something to be respected - and the attitude of the authorities is generally to turn a blind eye
This is a brilliant move, although i would have preferred it to be for any GDFL content for a limited time rather than just wiki's. Still, it will go along way to presenting a unified front for "free" content distribution and all the advantages that holds
"The bill sets up a tussle between France and Brussels. In September, the European Parliament approved by a large majority an amendment outlawing internet cut-off.""
If this does conlfict with the EU amendment/directive then this will be thrown out by the ECJ whe it comes before them, simple.
The B&M foundation is a brilliant and incomparable gesture of philanthropy by someone with nothing to gain and everything to lose by such actions; whatever you say about him here i have no doubt bill g would have been a slashdot reading lovable geek had he been born 10 years later. The ridiculous assertions thus far made are a stupid "everyone is either good or evil" step too far. Those who say otherwise ignore every historical example and basic economics to make a point at the expense of a fundamental social cause.
Like every social leader stallmann finds himself in a position where he essentially has (bizarrely) to lie in order to maintain his media integrity, we saw in with mandela, we are seeing now with obama on fisa, now it seems we are seeing it with stallman. But there is a fundamental difference here, a the issues that the B&G foundation are addressing are some of THE most important that humanity has ever faced, in those examples, the war had been won and we were conceding minor points, here we are conceding the war for the sake of a battle, ( and fsf is undoubtedly a battle not a war, see lessig). We cannot afford this ridiculous and vindictive charade and it we continue it i fear it will tear us apart just as creationism is tearing apart the christians
i think we should be welcoming this, this way novell ibm and the rest of the linux community will get every penny of the money they're owned, which goes back into linux and into opensource, if the bin laden / bush coalition want to pour money effectively into linux to stop MS's dirty laundry from being aired it seems a good thing to me than the far more shady ways they would doubtless otherwise employ.
back when napster was good, and used by 60+ million people, the record industry should have just bought it and charged $15 a month for access, filesharing and mass copyright infringement would never have happened and the record industry would be on a record high, now artists, are proposing a broken version of the same system out of desparation due to the horrible way in which they have been screwed over.
I can appreciate that apple hasn't handled the issue here well, but firstly bootcamp was always a BETA on tiger, i know that word is nearing meaningless in todays internet, but it does mean - "we think there still might be some critical bugs left" for apple even if it didn't for youtube.
Secondly, data is still transferable via firewire of other method, and ofc any sensible person coming from windows has leant long ago to backup because you can never tell what is going to happen. I like to think that in 2007 we are beyond somewhat " there are bugs in software- OMG this sucks"
Finally it is NOT bricking, if the data is still able to be recovered and a re-install is possible that is a serious bug, a bug is not something worth reporting to slash.
Its certainly refreshing to see a google open source presence on slashdot (with 4 digit UID's aswell:P). In marked contrast to Apple and Microsoft stories on Open source where those parents have remained deafeningly silent by comparison.
I can imagine a big market, there Britney spears for one... No better way to improve her album sales than remove her from even having to pretend to sing:)
True, but we would all acknowledge that a) copyright infrignment is wrong b) there is a significant (though in not way necessarily a majority) of people who are sued by the RiAA and know it. In these cases a reasonable judgement (say $300 which is roughly 20cd's worth which is likely to be similar to the amount d/l'ded for most non-musical types) seems a much more fair penalty. If the MAFIAA had proper evidence collected legally and went after people for $300 they would get a lot less complaints about it from me than when they go around with dubious evidence collected in a dubious way to claim thousands of dollars to ruin lives.
what gives you the right to break licensing agreements and perform what is effectivly money laundering while helping to ruin the enjoyment of the vast majority of the players of these games...
also you can get all 4 matrix films ( 3 movies + animatrix) for $15 (USD) on DVD in the bargin bin:P . dumb comparison, not many people are going to buy another copy on HD when they have the orginal / the DVD is so cheap
Oh well i have karma to burn:
I'd much prefer that you'd fight them in the US. I doubt over 100 deaths a day would be tolerated and swept under the rug if it happened in the US as opposed to Iraq.
Fact: America sponsored saddam and we sponsored terrorism, it was US who sold Saddam weapons and made him fabulously wealthy and us who armed Osama. By your logic why on earth do we in the west not deserve to be condemned? you personally didn't do that? well neither did the Iraqi people, it is the foundation of justice that its better to let 10 guilty men go free than to punish 1 innocent, yet this seems to go out the door when we wrap scary words like war and terrorism around our statements
Fact: yeah it is a "war" but not in the common sense of the word, it has simply become another excuse to fuel the vast American commercial war machine, This is not a war that will be won with guns and nukes, any idiot with half a brain can see this,nor it is a war which has any apparent way to win now. You know if you used the department of defense budget for a single day you could provide anti-malaria nest for every child in Africa
Fact: When you say "them" i assume you mean Islamic extremists, who were never in Iraq to start with and only came because we invaded. even if you take this statement as holding any sort of merit ( I don't it seems to imply the idea that afgan/iraqi lives are less valuable than American lives, as well as being based on the misguided idea of a "war on terror"(see above) it seems extraordinary to suggest that this is working in any sense, 9/11, the London tube bombing and the Spanish bombings all happened here,
while its true far more death destruction and violence happens "there" it wasn't until WE sent troops over there, under some misguided idea of liberation and democracy ( which has failed miserably in afgansitan and is a sham in Iraq)
As a caveat i do acknowledge that we have no way of knowing wether the number of attacks HERE has been reduced. As i pointed out above the numbers seem farily constant with the number of western terrorist attacks pre-9/11, especially if we include foiled plots on western soil.
Please note that the following artists revnue is helping to fund their production of music :
Counting Crows
Limp Bizkit
Live
Ocean Color Scene
Puddle of Mudd
Texas
By buying anything from these, you are helping to fund people with no talent in their assault upon our eardrums. Please stop!
Slashdot Mirror
but we are not talking about the death of media, we are talking about the death of newspapers, a peculiar and old fashioned way of delivering the news that assumes one organisation with massive overheads needs to be the authoritative source for all of your news and culture and opinion and restaurant reviews for the next day. I do believe that reporters add value, but the majority of what is in a "newspaper" at this time is just rehashed AP/Reuters stories, perhaps with some banal comment added - there is very little value in that. There is no more value in that than there is in cat videos's on youtube.
If the reason you are licensing your software under the GPL is to produce "free" software - which is the predominant reason people use the GPL then yes, it is currently impossible to produce software that will run on an un-jailbroken iphone without violating either the spirit (GPL v2) or the letter (GPL v3) of the GPL. Sorry!
Your software was released under the GPL v2. According to the FSF compliance officer (http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/131752) - While the new provisions fo the gpl v3 would be violated by the app store code signing the GPL v2 does not contain such a provision and therefore you are not in violation of the license. As pointed out the fact that you are "selling" the software clearly does not place you in violation of the GPL. However, as the FSF point out - it is not currently possible for you to produce "free" software - according to the FSF definition of the term, for the iphone as it does not meet the 4 requirements of free software - an end user cannot modify your software and run it on their own iphone without also signing up for an apple developer account. because of this you are very much in violation of the spirit if not the letter of the GPL - you must decide whether you want to continue in this regard. If you wish to continue the project in the spirit of the GPL i would suggest you port it to jailbroken iphones and remove it from the app store
I agree a rolling cart for every department (along with interactive whiteboards) was the solution used at a top private school i used to attend. It was by far the best solution because it meant IT resources were always controlled by the school and rapidly available when needed and tucked away. the cart was also a charging station when not in use which ensured all the laptops were always ready for use. It was pretty cost effective and worked really well. As an aside they used mac's which worked surprisingly well as most of the "geek" kids were not familiar enough with them to bypass the security and install trojans or games)
'We simply cannot accept terms that fail to appropriately and fairly compensate recording artists, songwriters, labels and publishers for the value they provide,' there is the problem. You see only one of those groups deserves compensation for their work from youtube, the rest should at best, be paid for their "work" by the artists at an agreed fee. A business model built around leeching money you don't deserve dose not travel well.
more to the point, in large doses water has the unenviable effect of drowning you..
exactly this is spec work, plain and simple, anyone entering this kind of competition is selling themselves short
one thing you need to understand about france is that an awfull LOT of things are illegal. France has a huge mollass of breaucratic rules and regulations on multiple levels that semed like good ideas at the time. However, the french attitude is generally to treat the non-classic criminal law as a inconvenience to be ignored or circumvented rather than as something to be respected - and the attitude of the authorities is generally to turn a blind eye
This is a brilliant move, although i would have preferred it to be for any GDFL content for a limited time rather than just wiki's. Still, it will go along way to presenting a unified front for "free" content distribution and all the advantages that holds
"The bill sets up a tussle between France and Brussels. In September, the European Parliament approved by a large majority an amendment outlawing internet cut-off."" If this does conlfict with the EU amendment/directive then this will be thrown out by the ECJ whe it comes before them, simple.
The B&M foundation is a brilliant and incomparable gesture of philanthropy by someone with nothing to gain and everything to lose by such actions; whatever you say about him here i have no doubt bill g would have been a slashdot reading lovable geek had he been born 10 years later. The ridiculous assertions thus far made are a stupid "everyone is either good or evil" step too far. Those who say otherwise ignore every historical example and basic economics to make a point at the expense of a fundamental social cause. Like every social leader stallmann finds himself in a position where he essentially has (bizarrely) to lie in order to maintain his media integrity, we saw in with mandela, we are seeing now with obama on fisa, now it seems we are seeing it with stallman. But there is a fundamental difference here, a the issues that the B&G foundation are addressing are some of THE most important that humanity has ever faced, in those examples, the war had been won and we were conceding minor points, here we are conceding the war for the sake of a battle, ( and fsf is undoubtedly a battle not a war, see lessig). We cannot afford this ridiculous and vindictive charade and it we continue it i fear it will tear us apart just as creationism is tearing apart the christians
i think we should be welcoming this, this way novell ibm and the rest of the linux community will get every penny of the money they're owned, which goes back into linux and into opensource, if the bin laden / bush coalition want to pour money effectively into linux to stop MS's dirty laundry from being aired it seems a good thing to me than the far more shady ways they would doubtless otherwise employ.
for those of us with westlaw and lexis is there an offical report/ trascript available? anyone have a citation?
back when napster was good, and used by 60+ million people, the record industry should have just bought it and charged $15 a month for access, filesharing and mass copyright infringement would never have happened and the record industry would be on a record high, now artists, are proposing a broken version of the same system out of desparation due to the horrible way in which they have been screwed over.
I can appreciate that apple hasn't handled the issue here well, but firstly bootcamp was always a BETA on tiger, i know that word is nearing meaningless in todays internet, but it does mean - "we think there still might be some critical bugs left" for apple even if it didn't for youtube. Secondly, data is still transferable via firewire of other method, and ofc any sensible person coming from windows has leant long ago to backup because you can never tell what is going to happen. I like to think that in 2007 we are beyond somewhat " there are bugs in software- OMG this sucks" Finally it is NOT bricking, if the data is still able to be recovered and a re-install is possible that is a serious bug, a bug is not something worth reporting to slash.
Its certainly refreshing to see a google open source presence on slashdot (with 4 digit UID's aswell :P). In marked contrast to Apple and Microsoft stories on Open source where those parents have remained deafeningly silent by comparison.
what about bono? imho he's a far more influential champion of Christian morality
I can imagine a big market, there Britney spears for one... No better way to improve her album sales than remove her from even having to pretend to sing :)
True, but we would all acknowledge that a) copyright infrignment is wrong b) there is a significant (though in not way necessarily a majority) of people who are sued by the RiAA and know it. In these cases a reasonable judgement (say $300 which is roughly 20cd's worth which is likely to be similar to the amount d/l'ded for most non-musical types) seems a much more fair penalty. If the MAFIAA had proper evidence collected legally and went after people for $300 they would get a lot less complaints about it from me than when they go around with dubious evidence collected in a dubious way to claim thousands of dollars to ruin lives.
they're illegal for good reason because they block emergency calls aswell :(. If only the ambulance service had a separate frequency
what gives you the right to break licensing agreements and perform what is effectivly money laundering while helping to ruin the enjoyment of the vast majority of the players of these games...
also you can get all 4 matrix films ( 3 movies + animatrix) for $15 (USD) on DVD in the bargin bin :P . dumb comparison, not many people are going to buy another copy on HD when they have the orginal / the DVD is so cheap
go on just say an aide for 1337 HAXOR's - you know you want to
Oh well i have karma to burn: I'd much prefer that you'd fight them in the US. I doubt over 100 deaths a day would be tolerated and swept under the rug if it happened in the US as opposed to Iraq. Fact: America sponsored saddam and we sponsored terrorism, it was US who sold Saddam weapons and made him fabulously wealthy and us who armed Osama. By your logic why on earth do we in the west not deserve to be condemned? you personally didn't do that? well neither did the Iraqi people, it is the foundation of justice that its better to let 10 guilty men go free than to punish 1 innocent, yet this seems to go out the door when we wrap scary words like war and terrorism around our statements Fact: yeah it is a "war" but not in the common sense of the word, it has simply become another excuse to fuel the vast American commercial war machine, This is not a war that will be won with guns and nukes, any idiot with half a brain can see this,nor it is a war which has any apparent way to win now. You know if you used the department of defense budget for a single day you could provide anti-malaria nest for every child in Africa Fact: When you say "them" i assume you mean Islamic extremists, who were never in Iraq to start with and only came because we invaded. even if you take this statement as holding any sort of merit ( I don't it seems to imply the idea that afgan/iraqi lives are less valuable than American lives, as well as being based on the misguided idea of a "war on terror"(see above) it seems extraordinary to suggest that this is working in any sense, 9/11, the London tube bombing and the Spanish bombings all happened here, while its true far more death destruction and violence happens "there" it wasn't until WE sent troops over there, under some misguided idea of liberation and democracy ( which has failed miserably in afgansitan and is a sham in Iraq) As a caveat i do acknowledge that we have no way of knowing wether the number of attacks HERE has been reduced. As i pointed out above the numbers seem farily constant with the number of western terrorist attacks pre-9/11, especially if we include foiled plots on western soil.
Please note that the following artists revnue is helping to fund their production of music : Counting Crows Limp Bizkit Live Ocean Color Scene Puddle of Mudd Texas By buying anything from these, you are helping to fund people with no talent in their assault upon our eardrums. Please stop!