For a while, I was using registrar that, while I had the right data according to the registrar, the "whois" data for my domain showed up as a squatter in California. The registrar claimed there was nothing they could do about. I switched registrars and didn't have the problem again.
Actually, if most people use winamp to stream audio (anyone have any statistics on this), then most people already have a streaming Ogg Vorbis player. I think only Mac users have trouble streaming Ogg Vorbis, and I can't imagine that being the case much longer.
That's not strictly accurate. From the PNG Home Page (the brief history section)...
(By the way, despite the implications in some of CompuServe's old press releases and in occasional trade-press articles, PNG's development was not instigated by either CompuServe or the World Wide Web Consortium, nor was it led by them. Individuals from both organizations contributed to the effort, but the PNG development group exists as a separate, Internet-based entity.)
So what about a company that sells DVRs that don't talk over the internet or collect information? Maybe. It's sounding like the because SonicBlue simply makes these things, they can be forced to monitor them against their users wishes.
What sort of company could one form that would be immune to such a request? Selling kits with a little software? Selling the hardware only? The software only?
[...]the FPU-less codec exists (he says, hacking on ARM7 assembly), now it's mostly the business distribution arrangement that's up in the air. Commodity hardware designs can't quite live in the same open framework as software.
I can almost see that if you're building a custom ASIC codec. There's a Hell of a lot of NRE costs before you get silicon back, and even with all the simulation in the world, some bugs get out.
But why not just do a software non-floating point codec? There are plenty of processors out there with the chops to do that real time, and more than a few general purpose DSP chips that could help out. Even a software one in C would be kinda cool.
Heck, FPGAs are getting cheaper and cheaper, why not do it in Verilog for all sorts of portable players to incorporate (and with the ability to do firmware updates, the consumer would never be left behind).
I take it there's already a contract in place for what's being worked on now. Are there any other folks working on an Open Source version of the same thing (I assume that would be legal, considering all the original work is Open Source)?
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For a while, I was using registrar that, while I had the right data according to the registrar, the "whois" data for my domain showed up as a squatter in California. The registrar claimed there was nothing they could do about. I switched registrars and didn't have the problem again.
Actually, if most people use winamp to stream audio (anyone have any statistics on this), then most people already have a streaming Ogg Vorbis player. I think only Mac users have trouble streaming Ogg Vorbis, and I can't imagine that being the case much longer.
Yeah, but will it do squant?
PowerPC != ARM
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It looks like I could use a copyeditor, too!
It's not "exciting new Linux based operating system"! It should have been "exciting GNU/Linux beased operating system!"
So what about a company that sells DVRs that don't talk over the internet or collect information? Maybe. It's sounding like the because SonicBlue simply makes these things, they can be forced to monitor them against their users wishes.
What sort of company could one form that would be immune to such a request? Selling kits with a little software? Selling the hardware only? The software only?
So, if a computer DVD drive might be used to play DVDs with an unlicensed program, can they stop it at the border?
Are we only shipping pre-installed windows boxes again?
This just gives me one more reason to set up a Linux DVD player; then again, I don't have any DVDs because of all this nonsense.
[...]the FPU-less codec exists (he says, hacking on ARM7 assembly), now it's mostly the business distribution arrangement that's up in the air. Commodity hardware designs can't quite live in the same open framework as software.
I can almost see that if you're building a custom ASIC codec. There's a Hell of a lot of NRE costs before you get silicon back, and even with all the simulation in the world, some bugs get out.
But why not just do a software non-floating point codec? There are plenty of processors out there with the chops to do that real time, and more than a few general purpose DSP chips that could help out. Even a software one in C would be kinda cool.
Heck, FPGAs are getting cheaper and cheaper, why not do it in Verilog for all sorts of portable players to incorporate (and with the ability to do firmware updates, the consumer would never be left behind).
I take it there's already a contract in place for what's being worked on now. Are there any other folks working on an Open Source version of the same thing (I assume that would be legal, considering all the original work is Open Source)?
--Jason "wannabe portable player player"
When typos are outlawed, only outlaws will make typos!
Speaking as someone who has to use Notes every day, I'd like the programmers responsible for Notes to keep their new projects to themselves. :-)
Please.