Man, your school must have sucked. I went into school thinking I was a great programmer, and came out knowing I was wrong (at least at that point), and knowing thousands of things I NEVER would have learned just hacking on the job. It's true that not every day hacking on a real-life project I get to pull out the concepts and algorithms that I learned, but they are nonetheless invaluable, and so is my programming maturity for having learned them.
Graduate students in the CS department typically have NTTP feeds right on their local computers. I think SE sucks, too, but some people really like it, and those people REALLY like CMU. It can't be any worse than current practices in industry...
Making music is not that difficult or expensive that you need to recoup costs by selling plastic discs. Put the music online for free, sell CDs at cost to those who prefer that medium, and tour for whatever price you can get (I recommend getting in contact with some colleges with a hip 'indie' concert scene, since they often can pay much more than clubs). More fans will have access to the music, and they might actually believe that you're in it for the love of making music rather than to make a buck.
Oh, yeah, I forgot that Macromedia bought Fontographer, sorry. It seems that adobe is getting in trouble over actually doing embedding of fonts in PDF files. Fontographer is a program that is used to create fonts, so I'll bet that the issues aren't very similar, but since the release is so short on details it's really hard to tell.
Frankly, I don't care much to take sides with corporations like Adobe -- I'm sure they'd have no problem with suing me, too, if it was in their interests.
The original purpose (as far as I know) is the same as it is today: to suggest to programs whether the font should be embedded in a document, and how.
Wrong wrong wrong! That software was written by me, and is an entirely different DMCA complaint by Monotype. I have no clue about the Adobe stuff, though I'd be very interested in hearing about it...
Simple, Acrobat can ignore the bits and embed the font anyway. Oops, that's circumventing a copy protection measure, instant DMCA violation.
Actually, even if you can argue that embedding bits are a DMCA "technological measure," etc., (see my reply to Agfa Monotype for arguments about that) I don't think the issue is that clear cut.
Check out 17 USC 1201(c)(3):
Nothing in this section shall require that the design of, or
design and selection of parts and components for, a consumer
electronics, telecommunications, or computing product provide for a
response to any particular technological measure, so long as such
part or component, or the product in which such part or component
is integrated, does not otherwise fall within the prohibitions of
subsection (a)(2) or (b)(1).
Basically, this says that a consumer device (ie, Acrobat) does NOT need to implement any particular response to a technological measure. In other words, it is free to ignore the measure if it wishes, but it can't CIRCUMVENT it. Circumvention as defined in the DMCA has an active component, check out the definition. Simply ignoring the bit would be hard to argue as circumvention.
However, I think the issue in question has to do with licensing, and that the DMCA is a red herring. But, since the article is so poor on details, we can only guess...
That's actually a press release about My Software. I can't find anything about the Adobe business, but I'd be very interested in hearing Agfa Monotype's complaint, for obvious reasons...
Except the post is about something different -- my own battles with Agfa Monotype and ITC. The Adobe case is (afaik) unrelated, and there doesn't seem to be much information about it around...
Actually, that comment is about my software, not Adobe. However, the similarities are striking. I think Agfa Monotype and ITC just love to send out empty threats...
Yes. It boggles my mind that they would choose to get in a fight with a heavyweight like Adobe rather than a student with no money like myself, but those are the same guys making essentially the same claims!
Well, most of my new plugins are pretty useless without their custom GUI. Some plugins with a few straightforward parameters work fine with no GUI, but for the fancy stuff a GUI is vital. (In fact, one I'm working on right now has so many settings that it doesn't even use host 'parameters' for most stuff!)
Anyway, if you are happy with no custom GUI, then you will almost certainly be able to load VST plugins as audio units. VSTGUI is the biggest obstacle to switching over in my opinion.
Well, this toolkit (and the final AU spec) don't exist yet, so it may be a bit more wishful thinking than reality. In particular, plugins that have GUIs made with VSTGUI will be tricky to port.
Yeah, well, this was not "draw a picture of a future soldier class." Cheating in a class is a lot different from using some cool copyrighted graphics to spice up your grant proposal.
Generally, real world issues are pretty boring! The International Real World Programming Contest is aka A Job.
The problems are not that esoteric, though. One year we did a raytracer, and there have been a few optimization problems that could easily have come up in real software.
Yeah, but you know what? I will probably play through Quake again this weekend, and enjoy seeing it in a new light. I loved Quake when it first came out, and every time I get a new video card or LCD monitor or whatever, I play through it again. Does quake "need" new graphics? No! But it does give me a refreshing excuse to play again...
If you use the keyboard then the problem you describe is a snap -- use alt-tab to get to the mozilla window, then ctrl-pageup and ctrl-pagedn to move between tabs (Mozilla). Then it shouldn't matter that one is your WM and the other an application.
Anyway, I love tabbed browsing. Being able to group all of my "slashdot reading" in one window is excellent, especially since I have them load in the background and so they're all loaded by the time I get around to reading them! In fact, my brother is by no means a computer expert, and I switched him to Mozilla just by showing him tabs. It's not a small minority who like this feature, believe me...
> Also, if all hardware designs were free, there would be no competition or real business > associated with it. How would video card makers compete with each other if they knew all > their competitor's tricks? Prices would rise due to lack of competition.
Most of what you say makes sense, but this doesn't. If video card companies each knew each other's secrets, prices would plummet because all of the cards would be essentially equal and it would merely come down to the price they can be produced at. Of course, an economist would claim that this would then lead to decreased research-and-development and a slowing of technological innovation, which may be true. But it wouldn't lead to higher prices.
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Man, your school must have sucked. I went into school thinking I was a great programmer, and came out knowing I was wrong (at least at that point), and knowing thousands of things I NEVER would have learned just hacking on the job. It's true that not every day hacking on a real-life project I get to pull out the concepts and algorithms that I learned, but they are nonetheless invaluable, and so is my programming maturity for having learned them.
Don't be so down on school!
Graduate students in the CS department typically have NTTP feeds right on their local computers. I think SE sucks, too, but some people really like it, and those people REALLY like CMU. It can't be any worse than current practices in industry...
Don't want to sell your soul?
Well, don't sell.
Making music is not that difficult or expensive that you need to recoup costs by selling plastic discs. Put the music online for free, sell CDs at cost to those who prefer that medium, and tour for whatever price you can get (I recommend getting in contact with some colleges with a hip 'indie' concert scene, since they often can pay much more than clubs). More fans will have access to the music, and they might actually believe that you're in it for the love of making music rather than to make a buck.
Oh, yeah, I forgot that Macromedia bought Fontographer, sorry. It seems that adobe is getting in trouble over actually doing embedding of fonts in PDF files. Fontographer is a program that is used to create fonts, so I'll bet that the issues aren't very similar, but since the release is so short on details it's really hard to tell.
Frankly, I don't care much to take sides with corporations like Adobe -- I'm sure they'd have no problem with suing me, too, if it was in their interests.
The original purpose (as far as I know) is the same as it is today: to suggest to programs whether the font should be embedded in a document, and how.
Wrong wrong wrong! That software was written by me, and is an entirely different DMCA complaint by Monotype. I have no clue about the Adobe stuff, though I'd be very interested in hearing about it...
Macromedia??
Simple, Acrobat can ignore the bits and embed the font anyway. Oops, that's circumventing a copy protection measure, instant DMCA violation.
Actually, even if you can argue that embedding bits are a DMCA "technological measure," etc., (see my reply to Agfa Monotype for arguments about that) I don't think the issue is that clear cut.
Check out 17 USC 1201(c)(3):
Basically, this says that a consumer device (ie, Acrobat) does NOT need to implement any particular response to a technological measure. In other words, it is free to ignore the measure if it wishes, but it can't CIRCUMVENT it. Circumvention as defined in the DMCA has an active component, check out the definition. Simply ignoring the bit would be hard to argue as circumvention.
However, I think the issue in question has to do with licensing, and that the DMCA is a red herring. But, since the article is so poor on details, we can only guess...
You copied the Constitution???!? Holy crap! I am calling the founding fathers!
That's actually a press release about My Software . I can't find anything about the Adobe business, but I'd be very interested in hearing Agfa Monotype's complaint, for obvious reasons...
Except the post is about something different -- my own battles with Agfa Monotype and ITC. The Adobe case is (afaik) unrelated, and there doesn't seem to be much information about it around...
Actually, that comment is about my software , not Adobe. However, the similarities are striking. I think Agfa Monotype and ITC just love to send out empty threats...
Yes. It boggles my mind that they would choose to get in a fight with a heavyweight like Adobe rather than a student with no money like myself, but those are the same guys making essentially the same claims!
Well, most of my new plugins are pretty useless without their custom GUI. Some plugins with a few straightforward parameters work fine with no GUI, but for the fancy stuff a GUI is vital. (In fact, one I'm working on right now has so many settings that it doesn't even use host 'parameters' for most stuff!)
Anyway, if you are happy with no custom GUI, then you will almost certainly be able to load VST plugins as audio units. VSTGUI is the biggest obstacle to switching over in my opinion.
Well, this toolkit (and the final AU spec) don't exist yet, so it may be a bit more wishful thinking than reality. In particular, plugins that have GUIs made with VSTGUI will be tricky to port.
Yeah, well, this was not "draw a picture of a future soldier class." Cheating in a class is a lot different from using some cool copyrighted graphics to spice up your grant proposal.
They explain the server, so you can implement one yourself. That's what we're doing. (Also, they plan to have a reference server available.)
Generally, real world issues are pretty boring! The International Real World Programming Contest is aka A Job.
The problems are not that esoteric, though. One year we did a raytracer, and there have been a few optimization problems that could easily have come up in real software.
Yeah, but you know what? I will probably play through Quake again this weekend, and enjoy seeing it in a new light. I loved Quake when it first came out, and every time I get a new video card or LCD monitor or whatever, I play through it again. Does quake "need" new graphics? No! But it does give me a refreshing excuse to play again...
Here's a list of all of them:
y /m ozkeylist.html
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ui/accessibilit
Right on.
If you use the keyboard then the problem you describe is a snap -- use alt-tab to get to the mozilla window, then ctrl-pageup and ctrl-pagedn to move between tabs (Mozilla). Then it shouldn't matter that one is your WM and the other an application.
Anyway, I love tabbed browsing. Being able to group all of my "slashdot reading" in one window is excellent, especially since I have them load in the background and so they're all loaded by the time I get around to reading them! In fact, my brother is by no means a computer expert, and I switched him to Mozilla just by showing him tabs. It's not a small minority who like this feature, believe me...
This is great. Do you think if I collect enough of my body tissue and hair and stuff that I can get one of these made while I'm alive?
What the hell?
Ask a tax attorney, or just make something up and hope they don't catch you doing the wrong thing.
Um, nope! I don't think I'm a troll or an asshole, but I do sometimes have unpopular opinions...
> Also, if all hardware designs were free, there would be no competition or real business
> associated with it. How would video card makers compete with each other if they knew all
> their competitor's tricks? Prices would rise due to lack of competition.
Most of what you say makes sense, but this doesn't. If video card companies each knew each other's secrets, prices would plummet because all of the cards would be essentially equal and it would merely come down to the price they can be produced at. Of course, an economist would claim that this would then lead to decreased research-and-development and a slowing of technological innovation, which may be true. But it wouldn't lead to higher prices.