Either works are primarily available to the general public for sale at reasonable prices given all the circumstances (the determination will involve judges and juries, surely, but norms will likely emerge), or they are not protected by copyright.
I agree with such "copy-responsibility" and "intellectual property tax" principles, but if a nation were to institute something like that in its copyright law, it would violate the Berne Convention, which is an essential part of the WTO treaties. How do you propose to right the copywrongs without severely jeopardizing a nation's trade status?
There has never been an undo option for changes to file locations on the drive.
There is in Microsoft Windows 2000 Explorer. I can move or copy a file, and when I press Ctrl+Z, Explorer will perform the inverse transaction. Why can't iTunes store the inverse of the file system transactions involved in organizing my audio files and then play back that inverse in response to an Undo command?
Owners of iTunes Music Store purchased tracks can record the tracks to CD-R media free of any digital restrictions management. In what way would Apple's mild restrictions prevent iTMS customers from making non-infringing use of purchased tracks?
It is Microsoft and media industry's stated aim to have remote attestation built into the fabric of the web, so that websites will use DRM for their content, so that communication will only be possible between DRM enabled users, etc etc.
Where do you get this? Microsoft has repeatedly stated that Palladium will be optional, that the owner of the machine can turn it off at will, and that it won't require any changes to the Internet at OSI levels 3 and 4. How do you conceive that Palladium will prevent a GNU/Linux user from communicating with the non-Palladium side of the memory curtain?
What is "fighting for my beliefs in the manner described in said Constitution" in an age when motion picture studios own the news media with the biggest reach (Fox News = Fox Pictures, CNN = Warner Bros. Pictures, ABC News = Walt Disney Pictures, CBS News = Paramount Pictures, and soon NBC News = Universal Pictures)?
I have a concrete answer to this, straight from the U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 3: "No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years."
Do you have the pocket money to finance a campaign?
Do you have enough of a knowledge of political science to know what you're doing once in? And can you convey that to the voters?
nothing like this broadcast bit mechanism exists in private content networks such as cable and satellite.
Many digital cable receivers insert Macrovision copy-protection encoding in the signal of pay-per-view programming, which VCRs are already required by law to recognize.
But what ensures consistency with the principle of fair use?
Under many of the proposals I've read, recordings of transmissions can be played on other players after being downsampled to 480 lines. Fair use does not guarantee pristine fidelity.
the flag does not provide a mechanism for educational use of the material where fair use of copyright would be permitted
Fair use does not guarantee pristine reproduction quality. What prevents showing a 480p downsampled version in schools, as most of the "broadcast flag" proposals seem to permit?
it could actually even be done with analog equipment, just have a negative spike that occurs when the broadcast flag would be transmitted
It wouldn't be that simple if the protocol's Level 1 were more complicated than simple baseband modulation. ATSC is indeed much more complicated than baseband.
have not used the Apple iTMS service, but I wonder--can you back up your hard drive offsite and restore it to your replacement computer? Alternately, can you use their site to revoke permissions on the other computer?
The user can telephone Apple Computer in the case of equipment theft or catastrophic failure to get a computer deauthorized, probably provided that the computer has not accessed apple.com in the past x months.
You had one--and only one--good copy of the disc. Now you're getting three
Some users insist that AAC encoding introduces annoying smearing artifacts and is equivalent to zero "good" copies.
A VCR or DVR can tape a show for you. Most modern VCRs can find PBS and pick up the "don't flash 12:00 anymore" signal automatically.
Who decides what "Crappy-o-vision " is?
Most proposals I've read state that "Crappy-o-vision" is a 480-line signal. Still, it appears that even flagged recordings will play back in full quality on the machine that recorded them.
and w/o the license, there would absolutely be ownership of copies, no argument
The rights preserved for the user under 17 USC 117 apply only to the owner of a copy. Should a major mass-market proprietary software publisher lose a case over section 117 and the enforceability of EULAs, such publishers probably will change their EULAs and packaging to state clearly that what is being sold at Best Buy is NOT A COPY OF THE PROGRAM but rather a ten-year (or so) RENTAL of a copy of the program. (Caps because that's the easiest way under packaging law to make a warning "conspicuous".)
is there some magical threshhold of adoption when the FCC finally says "okay, pull the plug...we have 88% adoption".
That's correct. FCC has set the end of analog broadcast TV at either the end of 2006 or at 85 percent adoption of digital TV sets, whatever comes last. Details
Remember that the supported scanner page also lists high-end scanners (which most home users cannot afford) and discontinued scanners (which users afraid of eBay, such as myself, cannot purchase). Is any of the listed scanners available for purchase under $150 at Best Buy or Circuit City stores? The list would prove much more useful if it had cross-references with major electronics chain stores' inventories.
If you buy hardware that is supported under Linux then you have the option to move to Linux in the future.
What if the Linux-compatible hardware consistently costs $100 more than the Windows-only hardware, as was the case for v.90 modems for the longest time? And how many people are supposed to predict a peripheral-lifetime in advance that they will in fact switch to another operating system?
[The difficulty of distribution of your program on a Game Pak] is only a problem if you live in the fantasy world of making money off of your video games.
Ever tried to find a decent flight simulator on a console? Good luck searching for one.
Have you ever played Pilotwings, as others have suggested?
finding a real equivalent of Everquest or even Warcraft III on a PS2/X-Box/GC
I've seen an EverQuest brand MMORPG for PS2 in Best Buy. There also exists a Phantasy Star Online brand MMORPG for GameCube. If those aren't the "real" thing, then how would you define "real" in terms of what earns the contestant a fat cancer stick?
How old is your PC to have come with a round-connector keyboard? Apple hasn't shipped round-connector keyboards since mid-1998 when it introduced the iMac computer.
So how many PS2 games actually let you USE the keyboard
WIAKywbfatw asked about EverQuest. I'm sure there are quite a few others, namely the ones where a keyboard would be the most appropriate input device. Likewise, what PS2 games other than the Dance Dance Revolution series let the player use a dance pad meaningfully?
Only the Xbox has truly brought full-fledged online gaming to the console masses
And only the children with the wealthiest parents can afford subscribing to cable or DSL at the children's request, especially if they have to move house to get it. Until then, play dates will be the norm.
The phones have 40% of the CPU of PDAs and 20x the CPU of GBA. It is sufficient to run most games, especially if compared to the GBA.
Unlike a taco-phone, a GBA system has hardware-accelerated 2D graphics. Taco-phones have Dumb Frame Buffer graphics and have to spend CPU cycles to draw the screen, erasing much of their purported 20-fold advantage. The point here is that it's not always just the CPU but the entire architecture that counts.
Now game console manufacturers are astroturfing the 'Dot. It was bad enough when only Redmond did it.
Among the game console makers with a major U.S. presence (Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft), Sony is the only one whose U.S. headquarters is not located in Redmond, Washington.
Then perhaps you should try mashing some buttons with your feet instead of with your fingers. I don't know about you, but CowboyNeal could certainly use some Dance Dance Revolution. You'll get your "intellectual challenge" figuring out which way to turn your body to pass each part of "Afronova" or "End of the Century".
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what good would an undo do you?
What would prevent iTunes from logging all the hundreds of file moves as one transaction for undo purposes?
Either works are primarily available to the general public for sale at reasonable prices given all the circumstances (the determination will involve judges and juries, surely, but norms will likely emerge), or they are not protected by copyright.
I agree with such "copy-responsibility" and "intellectual property tax" principles, but if a nation were to institute something like that in its copyright law, it would violate the Berne Convention, which is an essential part of the WTO treaties. How do you propose to right the copywrongs without severely jeopardizing a nation's trade status?
There has never been an undo option for changes to file locations on the drive.
There is in Microsoft Windows 2000 Explorer. I can move or copy a file, and when I press Ctrl+Z, Explorer will perform the inverse transaction. Why can't iTunes store the inverse of the file system transactions involved in organizing my audio files and then play back that inverse in response to an Undo command?
Owners of iTunes Music Store purchased tracks can record the tracks to CD-R media free of any digital restrictions management. In what way would Apple's mild restrictions prevent iTMS customers from making non-infringing use of purchased tracks?
It is Microsoft and media industry's stated aim to have remote attestation built into the fabric of the web, so that websites will use DRM for their content, so that communication will only be possible between DRM enabled users, etc etc.
Where do you get this? Microsoft has repeatedly stated that Palladium will be optional, that the owner of the machine can turn it off at will, and that it won't require any changes to the Internet at OSI levels 3 and 4. How do you conceive that Palladium will prevent a GNU/Linux user from communicating with the non-Palladium side of the memory curtain?
What is "fighting for my beliefs in the manner described in said Constitution" in an age when motion picture studios own the news media with the biggest reach (Fox News = Fox Pictures, CNN = Warner Bros. Pictures, ABC News = Walt Disney Pictures, CBS News = Paramount Pictures, and soon NBC News = Universal Pictures)?
the state of affairs with many of the audio programs that I've tried working with aren't particularly rhobust.
Care to give details of what you find wrong with Audacity (low-end) or Ardour (high-end)?
If a lawyer is qualified, why aren't you?
I have a concrete answer to this, straight from the U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 3: "No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years."
Do you have the pocket money to finance a campaign?
Do you have enough of a knowledge of political science to know what you're doing once in? And can you convey that to the voters?
nothing like this broadcast bit mechanism exists in private content networks such as cable and satellite.
Many digital cable receivers insert Macrovision copy-protection encoding in the signal of pay-per-view programming, which VCRs are already required by law to recognize.
But what ensures consistency with the principle of fair use?
Under many of the proposals I've read, recordings of transmissions can be played on other players after being downsampled to 480 lines. Fair use does not guarantee pristine fidelity.
It's probably around $1800 now.
When will HDTV sets fall below $500, to where low to middle America would consider buying one?
the flag does not provide a mechanism for educational use of the material where fair use of copyright would be permitted
Fair use does not guarantee pristine reproduction quality. What prevents showing a 480p downsampled version in schools, as most of the "broadcast flag" proposals seem to permit?
it could actually even be done with analog equipment, just have a negative spike that occurs when the broadcast flag would be transmitted
It wouldn't be that simple if the protocol's Level 1 were more complicated than simple baseband modulation. ATSC is indeed much more complicated than baseband.
have not used the Apple iTMS service, but I wonder--can you back up your hard drive offsite and restore it to your replacement computer? Alternately, can you use their site to revoke permissions on the other computer?
The user can telephone Apple Computer in the case of equipment theft or catastrophic failure to get a computer deauthorized, probably provided that the computer has not accessed apple.com in the past x months.
You had one--and only one--good copy of the disc. Now you're getting three
Some users insist that AAC encoding introduces annoying smearing artifacts and is equivalent to zero "good" copies.
you can still go out and buy a physical CD.
So why do some physical CDs cost 32 USD?
I happen to be home to tape a show
A VCR or DVR can tape a show for you. Most modern VCRs can find PBS and pick up the "don't flash 12:00 anymore" signal automatically.
Who decides what "Crappy-o-vision " is?
Most proposals I've read state that "Crappy-o-vision" is a 480-line signal. Still, it appears that even flagged recordings will play back in full quality on the machine that recorded them.
It makes no sense that an archival period should be less than a day, due to the need to time-shift programming around your life.
What about pay-per-view events?
and w/o the license, there would absolutely be ownership of copies, no argument
The rights preserved for the user under 17 USC 117 apply only to the owner of a copy. Should a major mass-market proprietary software publisher lose a case over section 117 and the enforceability of EULAs, such publishers probably will change their EULAs and packaging to state clearly that what is being sold at Best Buy is NOT A COPY OF THE PROGRAM but rather a ten-year (or so) RENTAL of a copy of the program. (Caps because that's the easiest way under packaging law to make a warning "conspicuous".)
is there some magical threshhold of adoption when the FCC finally says "okay, pull the plug...we have 88% adoption".
That's correct. FCC has set the end of analog broadcast TV at either the end of 2006 or at 85 percent adoption of digital TV sets, whatever comes last. Details
The sane list of supported scanners is here:
Remember that the supported scanner page also lists high-end scanners (which most home users cannot afford) and discontinued scanners (which users afraid of eBay, such as myself, cannot purchase). Is any of the listed scanners available for purchase under $150 at Best Buy or Circuit City stores? The list would prove much more useful if it had cross-references with major electronics chain stores' inventories.
If you buy hardware that is supported under Linux then you have the option to move to Linux in the future.
What if the Linux-compatible hardware consistently costs $100 more than the Windows-only hardware, as was the case for v.90 modems for the longest time? And how many people are supposed to predict a peripheral-lifetime in advance that they will in fact switch to another operating system?
How about turn-based strategy?
Plenty. Have you ever tried any games in the Chessmaster, Ogre Battle, Final Fantasy Tactics, or Advance Wars series?
Or non-console-style RPGs
I'm not completely up on things. What exactly determines whether you find an RPG "console style"?
Disclaimer: I am a GBA programmer.
GCC, VisualBoy Advance, (checks wallet) = Free.
GBA flash card = easy to obtain ($112 incl shipping), but not free(beer). GBA multiboot slave cable = also easy to obtain ($26 incl shipping) or build, but not free(beer)
[The difficulty of distribution of your program on a Game Pak] is only a problem if you live in the fantasy world of making money off of your video games.
Otherwise, how would a game programmer eat?
Ever tried to find a decent flight simulator on a console? Good luck searching for one.
Have you ever played Pilotwings, as others have suggested?
finding a real equivalent of Everquest or even Warcraft III on a PS2/X-Box/GC
I've seen an EverQuest brand MMORPG for PS2 in Best Buy. There also exists a Phantasy Star Online brand MMORPG for GameCube. If those aren't the "real" thing, then how would you define "real" in terms of what earns the contestant a fat cancer stick?
No[, I don't have a USB keyboard].
How old is your PC to have come with a round-connector keyboard? Apple hasn't shipped round-connector keyboards since mid-1998 when it introduced the iMac computer.
So how many PS2 games actually let you USE the keyboard
WIAKywbfatw asked about EverQuest. I'm sure there are quite a few others, namely the ones where a keyboard would be the most appropriate input device. Likewise, what PS2 games other than the Dance Dance Revolution series let the player use a dance pad meaningfully?
Only the Xbox has truly brought full-fledged online gaming to the console masses
And only the children with the wealthiest parents can afford subscribing to cable or DSL at the children's request, especially if they have to move house to get it. Until then, play dates will be the norm.
The phones have 40% of the CPU of PDAs and 20x the CPU of GBA. It is sufficient to run most games, especially if compared to the GBA.
Unlike a taco-phone, a GBA system has hardware-accelerated 2D graphics. Taco-phones have Dumb Frame Buffer graphics and have to spend CPU cycles to draw the screen, erasing much of their purported 20-fold advantage. The point here is that it's not always just the CPU but the entire architecture that counts.
Now game console manufacturers are astroturfing the 'Dot. It was bad enough when only Redmond did it.
Among the game console makers with a major U.S. presence (Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft), Sony is the only one whose U.S. headquarters is not located in Redmond, Washington.
Then perhaps you should try mashing some buttons with your feet instead of with your fingers. I don't know about you, but CowboyNeal could certainly use some Dance Dance Revolution. You'll get your "intellectual challenge" figuring out which way to turn your body to pass each part of "Afronova" or "End of the Century".