While I laud your idea, it seems to me that by attempting to encode all possible copyright-able works you would by necessity be encoding works already copyrighted. So the "infinite recording" would actually be infringing on all currently copyrighted works, rendering the entire exercise moot.
Off the top of my head, you'd have to figure out some method of excluding all currently copyrighted works from your algorithm which would almost certainly require more work (and either a huge amount of data or an extremely clever algorithm) than figuring out the actual algorithm would be. Plus, you could never be quite certain that you didn't miss even just one previously copyrighted work, and presuming the capability of this "infinite recording" to me amiable to data mining, the same techniques you would presumably use to find future infringements could also be used to find and infringements of previous works extant in your "infinite recording". Also, assuming you're forced (for whatever reason) to go the "huge amount of data" route, how would the data describing works to be excluded be encoded in such a way that that data set isn't infringing in itself?
Thinking a little more, especially on the excluding of previous works, it's obvious that there is a legal precedent stating that while two encoding of a recording, e.g. CD PCM and MP3, while being technically different formats both represent the same copyrighted recording. IANAL, but it's highly unlikely that very many of the files people have been sued over were actually uncompressed WAV files ripped right off the disc.
Chances are, even if you managed to develop an extremely clever algorithm that somehow had rules defined to exclude previously copyrighted works it would probably be possible to argue that the rules encoding the exclusion are also infringing because it's the same logical format shift as WAV to MP3. Heck, you could probably end up mathematically proving that the difference between the algorithm rules and the previously mentioned data set is the same difference between 1 and 3/3 by way of it simply being a different method of encoding.
As I said, I think the idea of an "infinite recording" encoding all possible works is an awesome idea, it just seems like it creates just as many problems as it (ostensibly) solves.
And for the record, I'm calling it an "infinite recording" because I'm really not sure what else to call it.
Oh, and if you ever get around to making this thing, let me know. I'd love to play with it:)
While it's true that it is against the law to "establish any private express for the conveyance of letters or packets", tell me, when was the last time it cost you 44 cents to send something across the country? Do you really thing that doing away with this law is going to automatically cause UPS to deliver your letter to Aunt Martha for 44 cents? If so, I've got a few bridges I'm looking to sell.
So we're just going to pretend that maybe, had the USPS never been created, that ALM would have provided mail delivery services to even the most remote locations where nary a profit was to be found? And they would do that because...? Well, never mind the details, because the free market fixes everything, amiright?
You have to actually log out since the "Post Anonymously" checkbox only hides your identity. The system still knows it's you (at least when you submit).
Be that as it may, "ObamaCare" isn't the law of the land just yet. Whether or not the health reform legislation, aka "ObamaCare" is worthwhile or not will not be known until you know, it's actually enacted. One thing is certain though, you cannot point to un-enacted legislation as a case-in-point against the OP's claim.
I would even dare to say Linux is truer to original Unix than OS X in spirit, through its cheapness, pervasiveness and divergent implementations.
I would agree with pervasiveness and divergent implementations, but cheapness? When was UNIX ever cheap? Seems to me the whole reason Linux even exists is because UNIX was (is?) anything but cheap.
I played around with that, but the thing I really notice about the MS database API's is that they SEEM simple and easy to use but you quickly run head first into a wall. Hmm, actually that's reminiscent of a lot of MS technologies. The easy things are easy, but once you stray from the beaten path you're in for a world of psychic torment and nights spent guzzling vodka to try and wash your brain clean of the experience.
Personally, once I had my first "Development" job I found myself using a great variety of applications and quickly found the usual mechanisms provided by Windows to be useless at best. I'm stuck with XP at work, so my only options was putting things in that top section of the start menu or using the quick launch bar. Both solutions were unsustainable. Since I was lucky enough to nab two monitors, I ended up using Launchbar Commander and Find and Run Robot to provide rapid access to the apps I need.
At home I have Win7, and boy oh boy do I love the new task bar. I have a Launch Bar too, but the most common apps are there, pinned to the task bar. I'd kill my own mother to get Win7 at work. I'm constantly amazed at how clunky WinXP feels.
Too bad their banks are so shit, otherwise those crazy Icelanders would be on track to thumb their collective noses at the rest of the world while Bjork caterwauls counterpoint. Unfortunately they done did messed up and all the "non-fossil using" in the world isn't going to change the fact that they're broke as a joke
You're going to die no matter what, so who cares if you smoke and eat junk food all day? Sounds like a rationalization to do what you want to without regards to the consequences.
Sounds a lot like my personal philosophy. Only replace junk food with alcohol. Twinkies are nasty.
Ok, granted. The energy and internet (i.e ISP) industries are not necessarily run by greedy fat-cats. I do however note that you chose to ignore the third "industry", namely the spoiled shits in Congress. I suppose I could take that as agreement?
Don't forget beating your head against the impenetrable abomination that is ADO.Net. Watch as we write (or magically coerce VS into generating) reams of pointless code just to retreive a few rows from a bloody database. Maybe it's just me, but every time I've wanted to do something simple with a database in C# I ended up getting drunk as hell that night and giving up and rewriting the bloody thing in Python/QT.
Simple indeed. Oh yes, I dragged and dropped some nice widgets on this window. Now I've got to perform various magical incantations and sell my soul to the devil to get the bloody thing to do anything useful.
Nothing can prevent that, short of a complete reworking of the theoretical framework upon which computing is based. As long as there is direct access to memory somewhere (in this case the JVM/CLR) there will be zero-day exploits based on buffer overflows and other such vectors. The only thing APIs like WinRT and.Net buy you is the knowledge that the application code your running isn't going to directly cause any of the classical buffer overrun vulnerabilities.
It's still completely possible that under some specific circumstance the.Net string class might be used to leverage a bug in the underlying implementation, causing an exploit of one kind or another. You're just shifting the trust from "random application developer" to "Microsoft engineers responsible for implementing the various functionality of.Net or WinRT"
Sounds like your box is hosed. There's something else going on there, totally unrelated to Win7. Did you upgrade from WinXP perchance?
Although, the cynical side of me would posit that Win7 knows Linux is there and is making your life miserable until you break down and install only Windows on it.
Well luckily for you, Win-R still does exactly what it used to do in XP. You're complaining that two completely different features don't provide a 1-to-1 mapping to the functionality to each other. IMHO the Win7 search bar is way to slow and practically useless. I replaced it first with Find and Run Robot and then Launchy because Mouser is a silly fuck who likes to annoy is users and make them periodically visit his stupid fucking forums to get a free code, for no obvious reason what so ever.
The problem with the Win7/Vista Start Menu search is that is apparently is incapable of caching results, even though it burns cycles like no-ones business building some (apparently) useless index. It still takes 10-20 seconds for the silly thing to recognize a search string that I use all the time. By contrast, FARR and Launchy are pulling up results as I type, and actually bother to learn that when I type "notepad++" the first result should be the actual application, and not the bloody help file.
Very few are getting rich and there isn't a secret conspiracy of rich people lighting cigars with the money you're paying for your books and entertainment.
No, they're lighting cigars with the money you're paying for energy, internet and taxes. Especially taxes. Hell, the Congress wipes their ass with our money and then pays for booze, blow and bitches with whatever's left.
The entertainment industries are small fries compared to the real fat cats.
CEO vs Author isn't an apples to apples comparison. The CEO is making 35% of the profit from the entire company. The author is making 35% of the profit from his own work. The author poured blood, sweat and tears (presumably) into that book, while chances are the CEO waltzed in, slashed jobs, "raised quarterly revenues" and waltzed out with a fat ass check.
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While I laud your idea, it seems to me that by attempting to encode all possible copyright-able works you would by necessity be encoding works already copyrighted. So the "infinite recording" would actually be infringing on all currently copyrighted works, rendering the entire exercise moot.
Off the top of my head, you'd have to figure out some method of excluding all currently copyrighted works from your algorithm which would almost certainly require more work (and either a huge amount of data or an extremely clever algorithm) than figuring out the actual algorithm would be. Plus, you could never be quite certain that you didn't miss even just one previously copyrighted work, and presuming the capability of this "infinite recording" to me amiable to data mining, the same techniques you would presumably use to find future infringements could also be used to find and infringements of previous works extant in your "infinite recording". Also, assuming you're forced (for whatever reason) to go the "huge amount of data" route, how would the data describing works to be excluded be encoded in such a way that that data set isn't infringing in itself?
Thinking a little more, especially on the excluding of previous works, it's obvious that there is a legal precedent stating that while two encoding of a recording, e.g. CD PCM and MP3, while being technically different formats both represent the same copyrighted recording. IANAL, but it's highly unlikely that very many of the files people have been sued over were actually uncompressed WAV files ripped right off the disc.
Chances are, even if you managed to develop an extremely clever algorithm that somehow had rules defined to exclude previously copyrighted works it would probably be possible to argue that the rules encoding the exclusion are also infringing because it's the same logical format shift as WAV to MP3. Heck, you could probably end up mathematically proving that the difference between the algorithm rules and the previously mentioned data set is the same difference between 1 and 3/3 by way of it simply being a different method of encoding.
As I said, I think the idea of an "infinite recording" encoding all possible works is an awesome idea, it just seems like it creates just as many problems as it (ostensibly) solves.
And for the record, I'm calling it an "infinite recording" because I'm really not sure what else to call it.
Oh, and if you ever get around to making this thing, let me know. I'd love to play with it :)
While it's true that it is against the law to "establish any private express for the conveyance of letters or packets", tell me, when was the last time it cost you 44 cents to send something across the country? Do you really thing that doing away with this law is going to automatically cause UPS to deliver your letter to Aunt Martha for 44 cents? If so, I've got a few bridges I'm looking to sell.
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So we're just going to pretend that maybe, had the USPS never been created, that ALM would have provided mail delivery services to even the most remote locations where nary a profit was to be found? And they would do that because...? Well, never mind the details, because the free market fixes everything, amiright?
Somalia is nice for that. No functional government, no services. No taxes. Just protection money to the guy with the bigger gun.
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Well your first mistake was buying a Mac in the first place.
Only fanbois and masochists buy that shite. Or some combination of the two.
Sort of...
YHBT; HAND.
You have to actually log out since the "Post Anonymously" checkbox only hides your identity. The system still knows it's you (at least when you submit).
I would imagine that one is for the video output and the other for sound.
Be that as it may, "ObamaCare" isn't the law of the land just yet. Whether or not the health reform legislation, aka "ObamaCare" is worthwhile or not will not be known until you know, it's actually enacted. One thing is certain though, you cannot point to un-enacted legislation as a case-in-point against the OP's claim.
I would even dare to say Linux is truer to original Unix than OS X in spirit, through its cheapness, pervasiveness and divergent implementations.
I would agree with pervasiveness and divergent implementations, but cheapness? When was UNIX ever cheap? Seems to me the whole reason Linux even exists is because UNIX was (is?) anything but cheap.
I played around with that, but the thing I really notice about the MS database API's is that they SEEM simple and easy to use but you quickly run head first into a wall. Hmm, actually that's reminiscent of a lot of MS technologies. The easy things are easy, but once you stray from the beaten path you're in for a world of psychic torment and nights spent guzzling vodka to try and wash your brain clean of the experience.
Personally, once I had my first "Development" job I found myself using a great variety of applications and quickly found the usual mechanisms provided by Windows to be useless at best. I'm stuck with XP at work, so my only options was putting things in that top section of the start menu or using the quick launch bar. Both solutions were unsustainable. Since I was lucky enough to nab two monitors, I ended up using Launchbar Commander and Find and Run Robot to provide rapid access to the apps I need.
At home I have Win7, and boy oh boy do I love the new task bar. I have a Launch Bar too, but the most common apps are there, pinned to the task bar. I'd kill my own mother to get Win7 at work. I'm constantly amazed at how clunky WinXP feels.
Too bad their banks are so shit, otherwise those crazy Icelanders would be on track to thumb their collective noses at the rest of the world while Bjork caterwauls counterpoint. Unfortunately they done did messed up and all the "non-fossil using" in the world isn't going to change the fact that they're broke as a joke
You're going to die no matter what, so who cares if you smoke and eat junk food all day? Sounds like a rationalization to do what you want to without regards to the consequences.
Sounds a lot like my personal philosophy. Only replace junk food with alcohol. Twinkies are nasty.
Ok, granted. The energy and internet (i.e ISP) industries are not necessarily run by greedy fat-cats. I do however note that you chose to ignore the third "industry", namely the spoiled shits in Congress. I suppose I could take that as agreement?
Don't forget beating your head against the impenetrable abomination that is ADO.Net. Watch as we write (or magically coerce VS into generating) reams of pointless code just to retreive a few rows from a bloody database. Maybe it's just me, but every time I've wanted to do something simple with a database in C# I ended up getting drunk as hell that night and giving up and rewriting the bloody thing in Python/QT.
Simple indeed. Oh yes, I dragged and dropped some nice widgets on this window. Now I've got to perform various magical incantations and sell my soul to the devil to get the bloody thing to do anything useful.
Blech.
Nothing can prevent that, short of a complete reworking of the theoretical framework upon which computing is based. As long as there is direct access to memory somewhere (in this case the JVM/CLR) there will be zero-day exploits based on buffer overflows and other such vectors. The only thing APIs like WinRT and .Net buy you is the knowledge that the application code your running isn't going to directly cause any of the classical buffer overrun vulnerabilities.
It's still completely possible that under some specific circumstance the .Net string class might be used to leverage a bug in the underlying implementation, causing an exploit of one kind or another. You're just shifting the trust from "random application developer" to "Microsoft engineers responsible for implementing the various functionality of .Net or WinRT"
Sounds like your box is hosed. There's something else going on there, totally unrelated to Win7. Did you upgrade from WinXP perchance?
Although, the cynical side of me would posit that Win7 knows Linux is there and is making your life miserable until you break down and install only Windows on it.
Well luckily for you, Win-R still does exactly what it used to do in XP. You're complaining that two completely different features don't provide a 1-to-1 mapping to the functionality to each other. IMHO the Win7 search bar is way to slow and practically useless. I replaced it first with Find and Run Robot and then Launchy because Mouser is a silly fuck who likes to annoy is users and make them periodically visit his stupid fucking forums to get a free code, for no obvious reason what so ever.
The problem with the Win7/Vista Start Menu search is that is apparently is incapable of caching results, even though it burns cycles like no-ones business building some (apparently) useless index. It still takes 10-20 seconds for the silly thing to recognize a search string that I use all the time. By contrast, FARR and Launchy are pulling up results as I type, and actually bother to learn that when I type "notepad++" the first result should be the actual application, and not the bloody help file.
Very few are getting rich and there isn't a secret conspiracy of rich people lighting cigars with the money you're paying for your books and entertainment.
No, they're lighting cigars with the money you're paying for energy, internet and taxes. Especially taxes. Hell, the Congress wipes their ass with our money and then pays for booze, blow and bitches with whatever's left.
The entertainment industries are small fries compared to the real fat cats.
CEO vs Author isn't an apples to apples comparison. The CEO is making 35% of the profit from the entire company. The author is making 35% of the profit from his own work. The author poured blood, sweat and tears (presumably) into that book, while chances are the CEO waltzed in, slashed jobs, "raised quarterly revenues" and waltzed out with a fat ass check.
In this context unprofitable probably translates roughly to not enough users
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