If you can look at it, you can save it. Even if the program disables digital screen capture (Print Screen + paste into MS Paint), that doesn't prevent me from video-capturing the signal sent to my display and then OCRing the text on the other machine.
nor will you be able to print screen or screen capture because the portions of the screen containing the DRMed data will be redacted.
Large fonts + TV-out + TV-in + OCR = Plaintext. Or are you claiming that whenever the user is viewing a restrictions-managed document, the OS will turn on Macrovision?
Only on Mac/PPC, Solaris/SPARC, and HP-UX/PA-RISC platforms. Microsoft Internet Explorer for x86 is licensed under a "supplemental EULA" that requires a copy of Microsoft Windows to be present, even if you're running it in Wine.
Ahh, but you forget how few countries accept the idea that code can be patented.
Ahh, but you forget how much of the global gross domestic product is tied up in countries that allow patents on algorithms running on generic computers. For instance, Fraunhofer holds patents on MP3 in Germany, most of the rest of Western Europe, Canada, the USA, Korea, and Japan.
No, more like a Commodore 64. The BASIC interpreter built into the Apple IIGS ROM didn't have a file system driver and thus couldn't save or load programs. (Unlike the Apple IIe, the GS didn't have a line-in connector for tape program storage.) One had to boot to Apple DOS 3.3, Diversi-DOS, or ProDOS to be able to save or load programs. The C=64, on the other hand, did have a file system in ROM.
All three of these use packet writing to write to a CDRW with a UDF filesystem. I don't know why these packages don't have more visibility, because they're the missing link that answers all the arguments as to why CDRW can't replace floppy.
Probably because 1. you have to have a validly licensed copy of DirectCD or some other UDF driver on each machine you read a UDF disc on (file system drivers on Windows are not free software because Microsoft charges $1000 for the file system development header files and documentation), 2. it takes nearly a minute to mount or unmount a UDF disc on my machine with a 10x burner (as opposed to two seconds with a floppy), and 3. you still can't copy files from older computers (made before 1999 or so) that didn't come with a built-in CD recorder.
I don't know about aerial kite photography, but Ariel kite photography is already outlawed in Title 17, United States Code. The Walt Disney Company holds exclusive rights under copyright in The Little Mermaid, accidental dick tower and all.
Nowhere did I mention Microsoft. By "proprietary Linux applications" I was primarily referring to the Waterloo Maple algebra package site-licensed by some universities. There is a Windows version and a Linux/x86 version but no Mac OS X version, Darwin+X11 version, or Linux PPC version.
Sure, it's possible to buy an iBook computer for $200 more than this, but an iBook won't run proprietary Linux applications that the publisher offers only in x86 format. Even if you do put on Connectix Virtual PC and install Linux on that, it still won't run anywhere near full speed because of the emulation overhead.
You're right. Most people who would want to play cutting-edge games on a laptop computer are people who are tired of hauling a heavy box to LAN parties. Such laptops tend to run in the multi-thousand dollar range.
People who buy a laptop like this Lindows machine for LAN parties are buying it more for older Doom and Quake 1 engine games, or possibly RTS games, which (apart from WC3 and the other very latest games) don't demand much from 3D hardware.
Developers would then have a choice of either making xbox games which would only run on an xbox or ps2 games which would run on either system. Any sensible developer would think: I'll make a ps2 game now.
CVGS could never emulate the PlayStation 2 but only the PS1. Once Sony discontinues new PS1 title licensing in about a year or so, potential Microsoft licensees will have no reason to defect to Sony just because CVGS for Xbox can run 9x% of PS1 games.
Is that the hand, the elbow, the shoulder, the neck, the ankle, the knee, or another piece of anatomy that is moving up/down/left/right/forward/backwards?
DDR dance notation represents the approximate location of a body part that touches the ground at any given moment. Like medieval neumatic notation, DDR dance notation makes a suggestion on which the performer improvises, inserting various "freestyle" moves such as handplants, knee drops, and the like.
Yes, I know that more exact notations such as Labanotation exist, but I was just trying to be difficult;-)
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There's no infrasound in the Windows start sound, at least in the versions I use. I just ran "The Microsoft Sound.wav" (Windows 95 boot), "The Microsoft Sound.wav" (Windows 98 boot), "Windows Logon Sound.wav" (Windows 2000/ME boot), and "Windows Logoff Sound.wav" (Windows 2000 shutdown) through a Cool Edit low-pass filter with cutoff frequency 20 Hz, and negligible[1] energy remained. (I did not test Windows XP boot sounds because I don't have immediate access to a Windows XP machine at my location.)
[1] I define "negligible" as anything whose average power is less than -48 dBFS, the absolute noise floor of 8-bit linear PCM.
One out-of-court settlement could be regarded as a slight (but not precedent setting) win for the copyright or patent owner, as it makes the others marginally more likely to settle or face the full wrath of the legal system.
What seems to have ticked off Cage's heirs is the implication that Mr. Bat and Mr. Cage had collaborated on the piece and was thus trading on his reputation without authority.
So would it be wise to think of it as more of a trademark issue than a copyright issue? In that case, Cage's estate would be able to sue Midway, as Midway's Mortal Kombat video game (which features a character named "JOHNNY CAGE") plays an excerpt of "4"33'" (that is, calls the MusicStop() function) during some of the menus.
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I cant save it, I can pretty much only look at it
If you can look at it, you can save it. Even if the program disables digital screen capture (Print Screen + paste into MS Paint), that doesn't prevent me from video-capturing the signal sent to my display and then OCRing the text on the other machine.
nor will you be able to print screen or screen capture because the portions of the screen containing the DRMed data will be redacted.
Large fonts + TV-out + TV-in + OCR = Plaintext. Or are you claiming that whenever the user is viewing a restrictions-managed document, the OS will turn on Macrovision?
But now, with the 2000 versions, include Project/Project Server, Visio, MapPoint, Frontpage, Publisher, and the list goes on and on.
For Project use MrProject.
For Visio use Kivio or Dia.
I'm not familiar with MapPoint, but it seems to be more content[1] than code, unless you count the work being done with GRASS.
I'm not familiar with the full version of FrontPage, but for FrontPage Express use Mozilla Composer.
For desktop publishing use one of those graphical LaTeX editors.
[1] RMS hates the word "content", but I know of no better word to describe copyrighted works other than computer-readable descriptions of algorithms.
And then MS gave [IE] away for free
Only on Mac/PPC, Solaris/SPARC, and HP-UX/PA-RISC platforms. Microsoft Internet Explorer for x86 is licensed under a "supplemental EULA" that requires a copy of Microsoft Windows to be present, even if you're running it in Wine.
You are familiar, I'm sure with some of the efforts such as Portable Net Graphics format?
PNG is not suitable for replacing all uses of GIF because Microsoft Internet Explorer, the web browser used by the vast majority of visitors to Google, does not natively read the animated variant of PNG that would be required under a "burn all GIFs" policy for delivering the animated advertisements that pay for the expenses of a web site.
No OSS developer worth his salt uses patented or copyrighted code.
How can each individual free software developer become acquainted with the scope of six million U.S. patents?
Ahh, but you forget how few countries accept the idea that code can be patented.
Ahh, but you forget how much of the global gross domestic product is tied up in countries that allow patents on algorithms running on generic computers. For instance, Fraunhofer holds patents on MP3 in Germany, most of the rest of Western Europe, Canada, the USA, Korea, and Japan.
Virginia has passed UCITA. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is an exercise for the reader.
No, more like a Commodore 64. The BASIC interpreter built into the Apple IIGS ROM didn't have a file system driver and thus couldn't save or load programs. (Unlike the Apple IIe, the GS didn't have a line-in connector for tape program storage.) One had to boot to Apple DOS 3.3, Diversi-DOS, or ProDOS to be able to save or load programs. The C=64, on the other hand, did have a file system in ROM.
All three of these use packet writing to write to a CDRW with a UDF filesystem. I don't know why these packages don't have more visibility, because they're the missing link that answers all the arguments as to why CDRW can't replace floppy.
Probably because 1. you have to have a validly licensed copy of DirectCD or some other UDF driver on each machine you read a UDF disc on (file system drivers on Windows are not free software because Microsoft charges $1000 for the file system development header files and documentation), 2. it takes nearly a minute to mount or unmount a UDF disc on my machine with a 10x burner (as opposed to two seconds with a floppy), and 3. you still can't copy files from older computers (made before 1999 or so) that didn't come with a built-in CD recorder.
3 second Linux-rom boots on PCs by replacing the BIOS ROM ... I can't seem to find them via google, though
Have you tried just putting Linux and BIOS into a Google query? First two results: The LinuxBIOS Home Page and Slashdot | Linux BIOS.
Is Ariel kite photography now gonna be banned?
I don't know about aerial kite photography, but Ariel kite photography is already outlawed in Title 17, United States Code. The Walt Disney Company holds exclusive rights under copyright in The Little Mermaid, accidental dick tower and all.
Of course its insecure, they programmed their security in basic.
Those of us who wonder what the "basic" in HTTP's "basic authentication" really stands for should read RFC 2617.
Finally the bells can use their *property*
Who bought the initial infrastructure? Was it entirely Bell's investment, or did the local governments pitch in some funds as well?
Convince people your service is beter than Bell they will hound their officials to allow it or risk finding a new job.
How does an upstart convince a first city that it can provide better service, when it doesn't have reputations in other cities to fall back on?
Lay your own damn pipes.
How does one go about getting permission from the municipal government and from all the individual real property owners in the city to do this?
The one that's owned by that one company that we all love to hate
Is such company "AOL Time Warner" for the Bono Act and the DMCA, or is it "Microsoft" for predatory Windows OS licensing practices?
Microsoft
Nowhere did I mention Microsoft. By "proprietary Linux applications" I was primarily referring to the Waterloo Maple algebra package site-licensed by some universities. There is a Windows version and a Linux/x86 version but no Mac OS X version, Darwin+X11 version, or Linux PPC version.
Sure, it's possible to buy an iBook computer for $200 more than this, but an iBook won't run proprietary Linux applications that the publisher offers only in x86 format. Even if you do put on Connectix Virtual PC and install Linux on that, it still won't run anywhere near full speed because of the emulation overhead.
Not quite Doom III territory, is it?
You're right. Most people who would want to play cutting-edge games on a laptop computer are people who are tired of hauling a heavy box to LAN parties. Such laptops tend to run in the multi-thousand dollar range.
People who buy a laptop like this Lindows machine for LAN parties are buying it more for older Doom and Quake 1 engine games, or possibly RTS games, which (apart from WC3 and the other very latest games) don't demand much from 3D hardware.
What happens with GPL-ed code after the copyright on it is expired?
The Bono Act, together with the Eldred v. Ashcroft precedent, seems to make this question a moot point.
Developers would then have a choice of either making xbox games which would only run on an xbox or ps2 games which would run on either system. Any sensible developer would think: I'll make a ps2 game now.
CVGS could never emulate the PlayStation 2 but only the PS1. Once Sony discontinues new PS1 title licensing in about a year or so, potential Microsoft licensees will have no reason to defect to Sony just because CVGS for Xbox can run 9x% of PS1 games.
Is that the hand, the elbow, the shoulder, the neck, the ankle, the knee, or another piece of anatomy that is moving up/down/left/right/forward/backwards?
DDR dance notation represents the approximate location of a body part that touches the ground at any given moment. Like medieval neumatic notation, DDR dance notation makes a suggestion on which the performer improvises, inserting various "freestyle" moves such as handplants, knee drops, and the like.
Yes, I know that more exact notations such as Labanotation exist, but I was just trying to be difficult ;-)
There's no infrasound in the Windows start sound, at least in the versions I use. I just ran "The Microsoft Sound.wav" (Windows 95 boot), "The Microsoft Sound.wav" (Windows 98 boot), "Windows Logon Sound.wav" (Windows 2000/ME boot), and "Windows Logoff Sound.wav" (Windows 2000 shutdown) through a Cool Edit low-pass filter with cutoff frequency 20 Hz, and negligible[1] energy remained. (I did not test Windows XP boot sounds because I don't have immediate access to a Windows XP machine at my location.)
[1] I define "negligible" as anything whose average power is less than -48 dBFS, the absolute noise floor of 8-bit linear PCM.
The parties reached agreement without litigation
One out-of-court settlement could be regarded as a slight (but not precedent setting) win for the copyright or patent owner, as it makes the others marginally more likely to settle or face the full wrath of the legal system.
What seems to have ticked off Cage's heirs is the implication that Mr. Bat and Mr. Cage had collaborated on the piece and was thus trading on his reputation without authority.
So would it be wise to think of it as more of a trademark issue than a copyright issue? In that case, Cage's estate would be able to sue Midway, as Midway's Mortal Kombat video game (which features a character named "JOHNNY CAGE") plays an excerpt of "4"33'" (that is, calls the MusicStop() function) during some of the menus.