Since i have a Medion Mim with some proprietry medion chipset, i'm stuck with no wireless for ubuntu..:( the driver doesnt work with NDIS wrapper either... of course... that doesn't stop me using debian stable on my desktop!
I hate to be the one suggesting conspiracy's because it's not usually my sort of thing BUT, what if he WANTED to disappear... he's basically suceeded if thats what he wanted to do.... of course he may be dying of starvation/thirst in the mountains but if a millionaire wanted to go missing, you can be sure he would do it so he wouldn't be found. as I said, total speculation... but i have a funny feeling that might be the case....
Why bother with computers at all?
I've been using something called (snail) mail for the past 200 years or so!!
with that, you get charged through your teeth for bloat. thats what i want to hear!
(i'm not totally disagreeing)
I would suggest that, in the context of this story, the scientist does have the right to licence his work under cc-nc 3.0
That isn't totally the way i though it worked (I live in the UK btw, i think you live in the USA so it may be different). The scientist has to locate funding, whether this is from the university or a commercial entity....
this is breifly discussed here in a hope #6 lecture...
But try to see Solaris from the view of an average user and tell me how you convince him to change his system. What would you tell a friend, who surfs the net, writes emails, uses bittorrent, and perhaps even codes a bit, why he should change? the average computer user as described uses windows....
but yeah you've actually described me pretty accurately...
Well assuming they understand the principles of free software... use that (when/if solaris is gpl3)... I'm not really suggesting persuading the less technical people to switch to it...(im not persuading anyone actually)
but with free software, if the distro teams (very/quite advanced coders) choose to develop on solaris, the user is usually sooner or later, persuaded onto it... [if ubuntu decided tommorow it was switching to solaris then most ubuntu USER level users would switch.]
at the end of the day though, as you point out, it makes very little difference to most people.
if solaris was GPL3, it might have a few more teeth.
if you read tfa you will see he is NOT complaining about access to it to read but them selling its redistribution rights despite the licence explicitly pointing out it is NON-commercial redistribution which is allowed.... his issue isn't getting people to publish his article... his issue is someone selling his work, although the licence does not permit that.
if solaris went gplv3 and nexenta became all Free Software... i would use it without hesitation... Nexenta is the way forward if sun gpl's opensolaris.
to be honest, i hope it does - I, personally, am sick of having to give Linus torvalds respect for his out spoken views on the free software community...
whether we then look at sun as a "icon" of free software remains to be seen.
I'm not anything like an expert in this field... so please dont come down on me with a sack of bricks for *daring* to reply... the argument goes along the lines of solaris is a modern kernel - sun has been making it really really uptodate and that linux has changed that much since when it was designed... there is also the hope that sun will GPL3 it, which would also make no1 kernel in terms of licence to all GNU fundamentalists... also, its a direct challenger to linux... it has previously worked in the same field when closed source.... why can't it whenit is free software...
as i said i dont *claim* to know anything about solaris so please feel free to *politely* correct me.
if solaris went gplv3 and nexenta became all Free Software... i would use it without hesitation...
Nexenta is the way forward if sun gpl's opensolaris.
to be honest, i hope it does - I, personally, am sick of having to give Linus torvalds respect for his out spoken views on the free software community...
whether we then look at sun as a "icon" of free software remains to be seen.
fair enough... i *do* know what you mean - if you are into the beaatles then you are screwed because the beatles had a go at playing pretty much every type of popular music around at the time....
deezer.com is also interesting though personnally i prefer last.fm over everything
its sad to hear last.fm can't recommend you anything.. i have quite obscure & varied music tastes though so i find it better.
but my neighbours have (infact I ended up meeting one of my neighbours and now we've been dating for 5 months:P. Thank you last.fm!) thats the first time i've heard of last.fm being used as a dating service... but well.. why not?! i'm glad its useful for somehting to you even if its not recommending music...
(i wish my last.fm would recommend women to me!!)
in the uk we dont have non profit radio or community stations, the best you get towards those are pirate radios in urban areas or internet stations my listenability ratings: music collection > last.fm > specialist genre internet radio > pandora, imeem, deezer, jamendo, opsound > podcasts > shortwave foreign radio > virgin radio [uk commercial] > bbc > uk commercial radio > pop idol, xfactor, any reality tv music contest > music tv channels > any music played from someones mobile (cell) phone
i know i have added in various different mediums that you didnt, but i'm sure you get the idea. personnaly i don't find bbc radio that amazing, not because of the no-adverts bit - thats good - just the content a bit lame. radio 2 is my favorite but last.fm flatterns that in seconds.
fm: radio 1 just plays the same as us commercial radio except with out the adverts, radio 2 plays classic/older rock for older/people with brains radio 3 mainly plays classical, if you are lucky you might get some folk radio 4 is talk only, this is loved my most ex-pats, foreigners, probably you because really, nothing else exists like this.
am: radio 5 live is sports based and has general easy going chats and debates. often covers football (soccer) games with live commentary, has decent travel information
internet only; radio 6 music plays the more modern alternative stuff that radio 1 doesnt, the uk guitar pop stuff that the usa generally doesnt go for. radio 1xtra - more radio 1 like stuff but more of it bbc asian network - you guessed it asian music... i havent listened much so i dont know
also the bbc runs local radio stations all around the uk on fm frequencys... these almost always feature old men doing phone in shows about what in the newspaper wit the occasional 80's b side record being played. these are good for travel information.
the bbc also runs bbc world service on sohrtwave and various other transmission methods... similar to bbc radio four but aimed at a world audience.... radio 1xtra is a
i do laugh when people called the bbc enlightened! and then i shit myself thinking what the rest of the world has to put up with.....
anyway UK radio broadcasters web or not already get much higher rates than US ones... its tough being a UK broadcaster....
i take it you have not heard of www.last.fm - you should check it out - thats london based and its owners REALLy have their heads screwed on. - THEY are enlightened!
pandora IS affected
why are you listening to it anyway? www.last.fm is much more efficient and has a much wider range than pandora.
like you i first found pandora but now i only listen to last.fm
you can be more selective and in general it is better at guessing.
Slashdot Mirror
already crushed!!!
you must be new here!
Since i have a Medion Mim with some proprietry medion chipset, i'm stuck with no wireless for ubuntu.. :(
the driver doesnt work with NDIS wrapper either...
of course...
that doesn't stop me using debian stable on my desktop!
take a look at http://showmypc.googlepages.com/ it is an old mirror it also references sourceforge
take a look at http://showmypc.googlepages.com/ it is an old mirror it has the same thing you mention
e funniest thing bout this comment is that it is moderated "interesting"
I hate to be the one suggesting conspiracy's because it's not usually my sort of thing BUT, what if he WANTED to disappear... he's basically suceeded if thats what he wanted to do....
of course he may be dying of starvation/thirst in the mountains but if a millionaire wanted to go missing, you can be sure he would do it so he wouldn't be found.
as I said, total speculation... but i have a funny feeling that might be the case....
Why bother with computers at all? I've been using something called (snail) mail for the past 200 years or so!! with that, you get charged through your teeth for bloat. thats what i want to hear!
How and why would you use more instead of less?
yeah... it runs a linux kernel....
oh wait...... oops.....!
what about "CEXP"?
(i'm not totally disagreeing) I would suggest that, in the context of this story, the scientist does have the right to licence his work under cc-nc 3.0 That isn't totally the way i though it worked (I live in the UK btw, i think you live in the USA so it may be different). The scientist has to locate funding, whether this is from the university or a commercial entity.... this is breifly discussed here in a hope #6 lecture...
if i paint a picture with your paints and your paper... who owns it...?
with the university its more obvious....
you pay to go to university (in some way) you own it.
especially with current conversion rate... its -very- good for those with £££
but yeah you've actually described me pretty accurately...
Well assuming they understand the principles of free software... use that (when/if solaris is gpl3)...
I'm not really suggesting persuading the less technical people to switch to it...(im not persuading anyone actually)
but with free software, if the distro teams (very/quite advanced coders) choose to develop on solaris, the user is usually sooner or later,
persuaded onto it... [if ubuntu decided tommorow it was switching to solaris then most ubuntu USER level users would switch.]
at the end of the day though, as you point out, it makes very little difference to most people.
if solaris was GPL3, it might have a few more teeth.
if you read tfa you will see he is NOT complaining about access to it to read but them selling its redistribution rights despite the licence explicitly pointing out it is NON-commercial redistribution which is allowed....
his issue isn't getting people to publish his article...
his issue is someone selling his work, although the licence does not permit that.
if solaris went gplv3 and nexenta became all Free Software... i would use it without hesitation...
Nexenta is the way forward if sun gpl's opensolaris.
to be honest, i hope it does - I, personally, am sick of having to give Linus torvalds respect for his out spoken views on the free software community...
whether we then look at sun as a "icon" of free software remains to be seen.
I'm not anything like an expert in this field... so please dont come down on me with a sack of bricks for *daring* to reply...
the argument goes along the lines of solaris is a modern kernel - sun has been making it really really uptodate and that linux has changed that much since when it was designed...
there is also the hope that sun will GPL3 it, which would also make no1 kernel in terms of licence to all GNU fundamentalists...
also, its a direct challenger to linux... it has previously worked in the same field when closed source.... why can't it whenit is free software...
as i said i dont *claim* to know anything about solaris so please feel free to *politely* correct me.
if solaris went gplv3 and nexenta became all Free Software... i would use it without hesitation... Nexenta is the way forward if sun gpl's opensolaris. to be honest, i hope it does - I, personally, am sick of having to give Linus torvalds respect for his out spoken views on the free software community... whether we then look at sun as a "icon" of free software remains to be seen.
deezer.com is also interesting though personnally i prefer last.fm over everything
its sad to hear last.fm can't recommend you anything.. i have quite obscure & varied music tastes though so i find it better. but my neighbours have (infact I ended up meeting one of my neighbours and now we've been dating for 5 months
(i wish my last.fm would recommend women to me!!)
the words blatent and troll come to mind - not humorous or parody.
in the uk we dont have non profit radio or community stations, the best you get towards those are pirate radios in urban areas or internet stations
my listenability ratings:
music collection > last.fm > specialist genre internet radio > pandora, imeem, deezer, jamendo, opsound > podcasts > shortwave foreign radio > virgin radio [uk commercial] > bbc > uk commercial radio > pop idol, xfactor, any reality tv music contest > music tv channels > any music played from someones mobile (cell) phone
i know i have added in various different mediums that you didnt, but i'm sure you get the idea.
personnaly i don't find bbc radio that amazing, not because of the no-adverts bit - thats good - just the content a bit lame. radio 2 is my favorite but last.fm flatterns that in seconds.
fm:
radio 1 just plays the same as us commercial radio except with out the adverts,
radio 2 plays classic/older rock for older/people with brains
radio 3 mainly plays classical, if you are lucky you might get some folk
radio 4 is talk only, this is loved my most ex-pats, foreigners, probably you because really, nothing else exists like this.
am:
radio 5 live is sports based and has general easy going chats and debates. often covers football (soccer) games with live commentary, has decent travel information
internet only;
radio 6 music plays the more modern alternative stuff that radio 1 doesnt, the uk guitar pop stuff that the usa generally doesnt go for.
radio 1xtra - more radio 1 like stuff but more of it
bbc asian network - you guessed it asian music... i havent listened much so i dont know
also the bbc runs local radio stations all around the uk on fm frequencys... these almost always feature old men doing phone in shows about what in the newspaper wit the occasional 80's b side record being played. these are good for travel information.
the bbc also runs bbc world service on sohrtwave and various other transmission methods... similar to bbc radio four but aimed at a world audience....
radio 1xtra is a
i do laugh when people called the bbc enlightened! and then i shit myself thinking what the rest of the world has to put up with..... anyway UK radio broadcasters web or not already get much higher rates than US ones... its tough being a UK broadcaster.... i take it you have not heard of www.last.fm - you should check it out - thats london based and its owners REALLy have their heads screwed on. - THEY are enlightened!
pandora IS affected why are you listening to it anyway? www.last.fm is much more efficient and has a much wider range than pandora. like you i first found pandora but now i only listen to last.fm you can be more selective and in general it is better at guessing.
you must be british...
the german trains run perfectly, privatised!