If breaking encryption is illegal, then most of the world's intellegence agency's must be in real trouble. Why even bother encrypting at all if it's illegal to copy it? By encrypting the product your just drawing attention to yourself. Is it not a "good thing" when your encryption is cracked and therefore the weakness is brought to your attention. If the License Agreement says that reverse engineering is illegal, then why when I run a DVD don't I have to agree with the license? Is it another one of those License Agreements that bind's the purchaser without his knowledge? Or do I have to try to hack it to find out that I'm not supposed to? I'd still probably watch DVD's if I had to agree to the license every time. I probably wouldn't even copy them.:) It's a question of your right of ownership, when you buy media is it yours? Are you licensing the use on the media you bought? Are you 'renting' use of the media? Can you make a backup? Can you attempt to transfer the information to another media type? Can you transfer to another media type only if you own the original player and the transfer machine, and the new-media-type player? Basicly what I'm saying is do you own the information, the media, or the use?
I dropped a class that I was taking in windows networking (about a year ago, before I knew better) because of an argument that my instructor and I had over this very topic. He maintained that the gui(shell), kernel, networking, utilities, and other assorted bundled crap were all part of the OS. My argument was that it had to be just enough (kernel, scheduler, maybe a bit more) to run a process, regardless of whether a user could interact with it at all. I now (about 1 year later) define an OS, personally (No, I'm not a computer scientist, just a computer practicalist) as the following:
1. What is needed to run a process (Application) 2. Control over hardware installed in the machine. 3. Some form of basic I/O
I'm probably talking out my ass, but that is about all that I can think of that would be needed.
Again we fall a bit short, the CD player that played MP3 cd's (By pine technologies, I think...) only had 8 hours of battery life. 10 hours is just short of how much you can hold on the drive (100 CD's =~ 700 Mins of music) 10 hours is 600 minutes and that is a bit short, plus you wouldn't want to bother with scaling down the quality of your MP3s to fit more on the drive. That assumes you want to hear all your music between battery changes. Overall I bet you will be gobbling batterys. Talk to the Win CE people... they munch the batteries to power their full-color crash boxes. I listen to music primarily at home and in the car, so a system component for my stereo (Other than an E-machine, or Imac:)) MP3 player or a car deck is much more attractive to my tastes. Especially a car deck, that would play MP3's off CD(-rom).
Got my Visor finally! Need to get the MP3 player springboard module, then output that to the car stereo via one of them tape-player plug in things. Wonder how many batteries that will snarf.
Only fidgety IT managers would care about this, so I guess it's good that this article is aimed toward them. The linux lovers (myself included) will always get a bit edgy when a possible split in the community is possible. The model and basic software they use in this split is still open, however, so even if they go their own way we can still use what they develop in the future, if it passes muster. Concider their work a beta test and keep it at that. Rest assured that if it rocks, it will be included eventually.
"I have an idea, let's give away the code to make us look better" -Steve Jobs on OS 10
"Steve, we have to give the code away." -anon consultant
"I know I just came up with that idea, I'm brilliant!!!" -Steve's reponse
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If breaking encryption is illegal, then most of the world's intellegence agency's must be in real trouble.
Why even bother encrypting at all if it's illegal to copy it? By encrypting the product your just drawing attention to yourself.
Is it not a "good thing" when your encryption is cracked and therefore the weakness is brought to your attention.
If the License Agreement says that reverse engineering is illegal, then why when I run a DVD don't I have to agree with the license? Is it another one of those License Agreements that bind's the purchaser without his knowledge? Or do I have to try to hack it to find out that I'm not supposed to?
I'd still probably watch DVD's if I had to agree to the license every time. I probably wouldn't even copy them.
It's a question of your right of ownership, when you buy media is it yours? Are you licensing the use on the media you bought? Are you 'renting' use of the media? Can you make a backup? Can you attempt to transfer the information to another media type? Can you transfer to another media type only if you own the original player and the transfer machine, and the new-media-type player?
Basicly what I'm saying is do you own the information, the media, or the use?
I dropped a class that I was taking in windows networking (about a year ago, before I knew better) because of an argument that my instructor and I had over this very topic. He maintained that the gui(shell), kernel, networking, utilities, and other assorted bundled crap were all part of the OS. My argument was that it had to be just enough (kernel, scheduler, maybe a bit more) to run a process, regardless of whether a user could interact with it at all.
I now (about 1 year later) define an OS, personally (No, I'm not a computer scientist, just a computer practicalist) as the following:
1. What is needed to run a process (Application)
2. Control over hardware installed in the machine.
3. Some form of basic I/O
I'm probably talking out my ass, but that is about all that I can think of that would be needed.
The rest is icing.
Again we fall a bit short, the CD player that played MP3 cd's (By pine technologies, I think...) only had 8 hours of battery life. 10 hours is just short of how much you can hold on the drive (100 CD's =~ 700 Mins of music) 10 hours is 600 minutes and that is a bit short, plus you wouldn't want to bother with scaling down the quality of your MP3s to fit more on the drive. :)) MP3 player or a car deck is much more attractive to my tastes. Especially a car deck, that would play MP3's off CD(-rom).
That assumes you want to hear all your music between battery changes. Overall I bet you will be gobbling batterys. Talk to the Win CE people... they munch the batteries to power their full-color crash boxes.
I listen to music primarily at home and in the car, so a system component for my stereo (Other than an E-machine, or Imac
Got my Visor finally! Need to get the MP3 player springboard module, then output that to the car stereo via one of them tape-player plug in things.
Wonder how many batteries that will snarf.
"I have an idea, let's give away the code to make us look better" -Steve Jobs on OS 10
"Steve, we have to give the code away." -anon consultant
"I know I just came up with that idea, I'm brilliant!!!" -Steve's reponse