but I honestly don't think any company is going to bother wasting their time and money going after someone who's using their patent for personal use -- there's simply no money to gain from it.
But there is money in going after "contributory infringers" who sell products designed for personal use, such as a combination of parts that when put together (in this case, compiled) infringe a patent.
Second, It is my understanding that patents do not apply to personal, non-distribution use, in the US or abroad.
Not so to my knowledge. The letter of USA patent law is "makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells". Details in this comment (which I'm linking here to get on your Slashdot Message Center radar).
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this title, whoever without authority makes,
uses, offers to sell, or sells any patented invention, within the United States or imports into the United States any patented invention during the term of the patent therefor, infringes the patent.
If you think USA patent law contains a a broad exemption for private home use of a patented invention, please show me where it is "otherwise provided in" Title 35, United States Code.
There are exceptions to every rule, including this one.
Amazon Exec 1: "This customer buys Precious Moments figurines."
Amazon Exec 2: "They must be some middle-aged soccer mom."
I'm in the minority. I'm a 22-year-old man, fresh out of college, and I like PM figurines partly because I liked The Time Machine, a novel by H. G. Wells. (The 2002 movie wasn't even close.) I see too many parallels between the PM characters and the Eloi for it to even be funny.
Amazon Exec 2: Charge them double for new releases, and half price for Disney."
Amazon Exec 1: "What about customers who buy How to Make a Million Dollars a Second?
Amazon Exec 2: "Charge double for everything. They'll be able to afford it eventually..."
Do you imply that Amazon sells books containing offers pitched in spam? Now I remember why Amazon was once called Spamazon.
Section 3 of the GNU General Public License permits linking against proprietary libraries that were bundled with your compiler:
However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.
I'm not a lawyer nor a judge, but I'd think "that component itself" refers to a whole compiler (a "major component[]"), not to a library (which is a component of a component and thus probably not "major"). See also what the GPL FAQ has to say on this issue.
How do you do direct addressing? r0 + immediate offset.
Only useful on a few limited embedded systems. The immediate offset has a range of only +/- 32 KB. An offset like this from zero would reach only the first and last 32 KB of memory, and on virtual-memory systems I've seen, the first and last 32 KB is usually paged out to catch null-pointer dereference bugs. When I took a class on MIPS assembly language for my CS degree, most direct addressing on MIPS was done with 'lui' (load upper 16 bits immediate) followed by a load.
The only people I have sympathy for are people who pirated XP to run on their PII-266 and people whose hardware is limited to 128 or 256 megs total memory (like a crappy old Sony Vaio desktop I have to setup for a relative).
Such as the class of 2003 at my school. Replace "pirated" with "got a site-licensed upgrade to" and "PII-266" with "school-issued PII-333 laptop". Laptops have slow hard drives designed for low current drain rather than for fast performance, and that doesn't help boot times or hibernate/wake times much.
As long as a libraries API doesn't change between major versions (as it should) there is no problem.
Unless the semantics of an API change subtly from one version of the DLL to the next. This is sometimes done to fix bugs, security holes, etc. in one version of the DLL. You wouldn't believe how many proprietary programs in practice rely on undocumented behaviors of specific versions of libraries.
In fact, I do this specifically for StarOffice so I can use my local copy of freetype2 with the bytecode hinter turned on instead of the version which comes with StarOffice.
Do you live in the USA or Canada? It wasn't clear from your web page because your résumé is 404. If you actually live in the USA, or if Canada has software patents, then go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $300 Canadian, because YOU are breaking Apple's patent on bytecode hinting by using LD_PRELOAD.
Or possibly the translation of "Godson" is more idiomatic, along the lines of "a boy I named" which is an important concept for example in Canela culture.
Maybe the could just have used the extra space for a proper move instruction so R0 is freed.
The MIPS architecture already has a proper 'move' instruction without using r0: r12 = r8 | r8, or r12 = r8 | 0 (zero specified as immediate). The r0 is frozen at 0 so you can do negations (for which ARM uses 'rsb' or reverse subtraction) and other things where zero must be the first argument.
Those who don't want spam blocked are Free to change to another ISP.
Free? More like coercion. If your local cable monopoly is Time Warner Cable and your phone company has not yet put in DSL, then changing to another ISP will either cost $200,000 (expenses to move to another house) or result in a 10-fold reduction in data transfer rate (switch from broadband to dial-up).
Of course, this is all moot if instead of deleting spam on the spot, AOL moves spam to a holding zone (much like Hotmail and SpamCop do).
GTK/gtkmm is a fine option if you are intending to develop commercially only for Unix/X11, but how many developers do you know who are willing to do that?
I currently have the Windows versions of GIMP and Gaim running on my Windows 2000 machine, and they both use the Windows port of GTK+.
And at that point, the album's share becomes either very small (if you look at it from a mechanical bandwidth point of view)
Not if you live in an area where the monopoly or duopoly home broadband provider imposes a 3 GB monthly limit on transfer, making the service roughly equivalent to a 14.4 modem burstable to half a T1, and charges $$ per gigabyte or fraction thereof over the limit. Even after noiseless data reduction, an album usually won't get below 400 MB. However, most caps in the United States and the United Kingdom are 10 GB/mo or higher.
I didn't mind starting the download, going to bed, getting up in the morning and going to work, and then coming home that next evening
And having your significant other unable to make or receive telephone calls.
But if payroll taxes go up, earnings go down, and dividends go down.
"So dock the employees' wages by the change in payroll tax!" For one thing, there does exist a minimum wage in the United States. For another, it's harder to reduce an existing employee's wage than it is to increase it.
Yes, the customer does pay for distribution, but only for half of it. The online record store pays for the other half.
That said, I wouldn't buy a whole album through this service. I would buy the songs that have the most Utility to me. If an album with three good songs is just barely worth $12, a compilation album with 12 good songs is worth well over the $22 ($12 for CD plus $10 for this album's share of the marginal cost of home broadband vs. dial-up).
The fact is that I'm stuck in 2003 rather than 2007 which is the standard quoted time when some phone companies and some cable companies plan to make broadband available in some areas. Most people don't have $200,000 to buy a house in an area that gets broadband and pay for other moving expenses.
I'd bet it isn't compatible with the only Mac I have, which is an ancient (1995) Performa 6230CD with a 75 MHz processor and 16 MB of RAM. So tack on an extra $799 for a new Mac.
Another problem: my PC is 866 MHz, but my fastest Mac is a 75 MHz Performa 6230CD manufactured in 1995 or so. I don't buy enough CDs with just a few good singles to make dropping $800 for an [ei]Mac worthwhile.
That's about $7-8 per album, about what I used to pay back at the dawn of CDs for vinyl.
How much money do you earn now vs. when you bought vinyl?
Compact Disc technology is 20 years old. Assuming 3 percent annual inflation of wages, $8 in 1983 dollars is worth $8 * 1.03^20 = about $14.50 in 2003 dollars.
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but I honestly don't think any company is going to bother wasting their time and money going after someone who's using their patent for personal use -- there's simply no money to gain from it.
But there is money in going after "contributory infringers" who sell products designed for personal use, such as a combination of parts that when put together (in this case, compiled) infringe a patent.
Or in other words, it's okay to rob people if they're rich enough to afford it?
Yes.
This video exposes Disney's hypocrisy in enforcing its copyrights.
Second, It is my understanding that patents do not apply to personal, non-distribution use, in the US or abroad.
Not so to my knowledge. The letter of USA patent law is "makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells". Details in this comment (which I'm linking here to get on your Slashdot Message Center radar).
If I want to build something for personal use that someone has a patent on... there isn't a problem with that.
From USA patent law, 35 USC 271 (my emphasis):
If you think USA patent law contains a a broad exemption for private home use of a patented invention, please show me where it is "otherwise provided in" Title 35, United States Code.
There are exceptions to every rule, including this one.
Amazon Exec 1: "This customer buys Precious Moments figurines."
Amazon Exec 2: "They must be some middle-aged soccer mom."
I'm in the minority. I'm a 22-year-old man, fresh out of college, and I like PM figurines partly because I liked The Time Machine, a novel by H. G. Wells. (The 2002 movie wasn't even close.) I see too many parallels between the PM characters and the Eloi for it to even be funny.
Amazon Exec 2: Charge them double for new releases, and half price for Disney."
Pfft. A simple web search on the e-mail address I provided would lead them straight to my anti-Bono Act page and my anti-Finding Nemo page.
Amazon Exec 1: "What about customers who buy How to Make a Million Dollars a Second?
Amazon Exec 2: "Charge double for everything. They'll be able to afford it eventually..."
Do you imply that Amazon sells books containing offers pitched in spam? Now I remember why Amazon was once called Spamazon.
GPL itself forbids linking against closed libs
Section 3 of the GNU General Public License permits linking against proprietary libraries that were bundled with your compiler:
I'm not a lawyer nor a judge, but I'd think "that component itself" refers to a whole compiler (a "major component[]"), not to a library (which is a component of a component and thus probably not "major"). See also what the GPL FAQ has to say on this issue.
If [DLL versioning as in MFC 4.2] works sometimes, why don't they always do it?
Because Microsoft finds out only too late that MFC 4.2.0, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, etc. have subtly different semantics.
How do you do direct addressing? r0 + immediate offset.
Only useful on a few limited embedded systems. The immediate offset has a range of only +/- 32 KB. An offset like this from zero would reach only the first and last 32 KB of memory, and on virtual-memory systems I've seen, the first and last 32 KB is usually paged out to catch null-pointer dereference bugs. When I took a class on MIPS assembly language for my CS degree, most direct addressing on MIPS was done with 'lui' (load upper 16 bits immediate) followed by a load.
The only people I have sympathy for are people who pirated XP to run on their PII-266 and people whose hardware is limited to 128 or 256 megs total memory (like a crappy old Sony Vaio desktop I have to setup for a relative).
Such as the class of 2003 at my school. Replace "pirated" with "got a site-licensed upgrade to" and "PII-266" with "school-issued PII-333 laptop". Laptops have slow hard drives designed for low current drain rather than for fast performance, and that doesn't help boot times or hibernate/wake times much.
As long as a libraries API doesn't change between major versions (as it should) there is no problem.
Unless the semantics of an API change subtly from one version of the DLL to the next. This is sometimes done to fix bugs, security holes, etc. in one version of the DLL. You wouldn't believe how many proprietary programs in practice rely on undocumented behaviors of specific versions of libraries.
In fact, I do this specifically for StarOffice so I can use my local copy of freetype2 with the bytecode hinter turned on instead of the version which comes with StarOffice.
Do you live in the USA or Canada? It wasn't clear from your web page because your résumé is 404. If you actually live in the USA, or if Canada has software patents, then go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $300 Canadian, because YOU are breaking Apple's patent on bytecode hinting by using LD_PRELOAD.
(posted without bonus because it's tangential)
then it really means "Son of Heaven", another term for the emperor.
Yet the West has "Emperor Linux" brand laptops.
Or possibly the translation of "Godson" is more idiomatic, along the lines of "a boy I named" which is an important concept for example in Canela culture.
Maybe the could just have used the extra space for a proper move instruction so R0 is freed.
The MIPS architecture already has a proper 'move' instruction without using r0: r12 = r8 | r8, or r12 = r8 | 0 (zero specified as immediate). The r0 is frozen at 0 so you can do negations (for which ARM uses 'rsb' or reverse subtraction) and other things where zero must be the first argument.
I would still think the /. effect would be better suppressed if slashdot would mirror stories
Actually, the html files of many stories are already mirrored. Of course, this doesn't help for the JPEG-heavy case mod stories, etc.
Those who don't want spam blocked are Free to change to another ISP.
Free? More like coercion. If your local cable monopoly is Time Warner Cable and your phone company has not yet put in DSL, then changing to another ISP will either cost $200,000 (expenses to move to another house) or result in a 10-fold reduction in data transfer rate (switch from broadband to dial-up).
Of course, this is all moot if instead of deleting spam on the spot, AOL moves spam to a holding zone (much like Hotmail and SpamCop do).
GTK/gtkmm is a fine option if you are intending to develop commercially only for Unix/X11, but how many developers do you know who are willing to do that?
I currently have the Windows versions of GIMP and Gaim running on my Windows 2000 machine, and they both use the Windows port of GTK+.
So, total cost to develop a GUI application for Windows: $1378.
Really? I thought MinGW could compile non-MFC GUI applications for Windows.
And at that point, the album's share becomes either very small (if you look at it from a mechanical bandwidth point of view)
Not if you live in an area where the monopoly or duopoly home broadband provider imposes a 3 GB monthly limit on transfer, making the service roughly equivalent to a 14.4 modem burstable to half a T1, and charges $$ per gigabyte or fraction thereof over the limit. Even after noiseless data reduction, an album usually won't get below 400 MB. However, most caps in the United States and the United Kingdom are 10 GB/mo or higher.
I didn't mind starting the download, going to bed, getting up in the morning and going to work, and then coming home that next evening
And having your significant other unable to make or receive telephone calls.
But if payroll taxes go up, earnings go down, and dividends go down.
"So dock the employees' wages by the change in payroll tax!" For one thing, there does exist a minimum wage in the United States. For another, it's harder to reduce an existing employee's wage than it is to increase it.
Yes, the customer does pay for distribution, but only for half of it. The online record store pays for the other half.
That said, I wouldn't buy a whole album through this service. I would buy the songs that have the most Utility to me. If an album with three good songs is just barely worth $12, a compilation album with 12 good songs is worth well over the $22 ($12 for CD plus $10 for this album's share of the marginal cost of home broadband vs. dial-up).
I hope I thought more clearly this time.
I think your stuck in the 90's
The fact is that I'm stuck in 2003 rather than 2007 which is the standard quoted time when some phone companies and some cable companies plan to make broadband available in some areas. Most people don't have $200,000 to buy a house in an area that gets broadband and pay for other moving expenses.
It's also an extra $30 per month vs. dial-up.
You're not paying for duplication, or for distribution.
Then what's that $50 a month you pay to your cable company or to your telephone company?
I'd bet it isn't compatible with the only Mac I have, which is an ancient (1995) Performa 6230CD with a 75 MHz processor and 16 MB of RAM. So tack on an extra $799 for a new Mac.
Another problem: my PC is 866 MHz, but my fastest Mac is a 75 MHz Performa 6230CD manufactured in 1995 or so. I don't buy enough CDs with just a few good singles to make dropping $800 for an [ei]Mac worthwhile.
That's about $7-8 per album, about what I used to pay back at the dawn of CDs for vinyl.
How much money do you earn now vs. when you bought vinyl?
Compact Disc technology is 20 years old. Assuming 3 percent annual inflation of wages, $8 in 1983 dollars is worth $8 * 1.03^20 = about $14.50 in 2003 dollars.