[IIS] costs -nothing- and you -don't- have to have the 'server' version of NT to use it.
If you set up IIS on a Professional version of Windows (rather than a Server version), you'll get 403.9 errors whenever a decent number of people try to access anything on your site. While IIS for Windows Server lets the administrator specify the maximum number of incoming HTTP connections, IIS for Windows Professional hardcodes it to 10 and doesn't let the administrator tweak the keep-alive timeout from its ridiculously-long default, which is the cause of most of the 403.9 errors you get when a site becomes slashdotted.
Wikipedia says: "In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant. In cuisine, when discussing fruit as food, the term usually refers to just those plant fruits that are sweet and fleshy." (If you don't agree with Wikipedia, you can go in and change it.)
The tomato is a berry, homologous and analogous to the fruits of other plants whose fruit is colloquially called "fruit"; as far as I can tell, the colloquial "fruit" is a botanical "fruit" that is sweet.
Or computer salesmen who claim a hard disk drive isn't "Random Access Memory".
Then would you claim that the Dance Dance Revolution Konamix CD for the PlayStation game console is "DDR memory"?
But nobody does it because Windows "already ships with a webserver".
I run WinApache 2.0.recent on my desktop machine so that I can send files to people on networks to which Gaim doesn't support sending files. I don't run IIS because 1. my machine runs Windows 2000 Professional not the more expensive Server, and 2. though Apache is just as written in C as IIS and just as vulnerable to buffer overflows, most web server worms seen in the wild attack IIS on Windows rather than Apache on Windows.
This is why I don't agree with the Windows monopoly concept. We all know there are easily a hundred other free operating systems out there.
Windows is a monopoly until Aunt Tillie can easily find hardware devices at Best Buy with alternative OS drivers on the included CD.
Windows is the operating system most people in the world would choose.
If most people would informedly choose Windows for the OS on their home machines, I'm guessing this is because of the lack of driver support in, say, FreeBSD. That's certainly why I stay on Windows, because I don't have enough money to buy a new scanner that Linux supports nor enough time to spend dozens of hours with my unsupported scanner (a Microtek ScanMaker 4850) trying in vain to reverse-engineer it. Mandrake Linux 9.2 RC1 had problems configuring my inkjet printer as well; it thinks a Canon S520 prints at 360 DPI natively when it actually prints 600 DPI, and everything on the page appears 40 percent smaller than it should be. And though Mandrake advertises support for the latest ATI Radeon video cards, it failed to configure and start accelerated X on my Radeon 9000.
If some labels have imposed a sales moratorium on certain tracks, as (possibly) with Vault Di$ney soundtracks, then iTunes can't offer them, but a jukebox service can.
the system you are describing has little to do with assest management.
A well-paid attorney would be able to argue that the web site is an asset, and repeat readers are assets, and considering which pages are viewed most often is a method of managing them.
Is it an old version of RealAudio? Newer players can play older formats, but older encoders cannot encode in newer formats. Ask your friend to ask the technical staff whether or not it has recently upgraded its codec.
Wrong. AAC is documented in detail as part of the ISO MPEG-4 standard and is no more "proprietary" than MP3. The AAC and MP3 patent holders sell patent-only licenses that allow use of independent encoder implementations; does Microsoft?
Perhaps, but I was speaking of the quality of mp3ed audio made from the stream.
Line out to line in on Napster has a definite advantage over line out to line in on commercial FM radio, namely that the user isn't limited to whatever the major labels are advertising at the moment. You see, quality of audio involves more than the fidelity of reproduction; it also involves the quality of songwriting and the quality of performance. For instance, Nine Inch Nails at a distortion typical of 32 kbps.ogg sounds better to me than Britney Spears at a distortion typical of 160 kbps.ogg.
If you don't sign up for the streaming service, every song that Napster shows you will have a uniform license equivalent to that of iTMS purchased songs. The only reason that the iTMS appears to have uniform licensing is that it lacks a streaming service entirely.
If you only sign up for Napster's a la carte service, you don't have to read nearly as much fine print, as pretty much every song offered to such customers comes with approximately the same permissions that iTMS purchased songs come with.
Fine. Repeal Copyright then. Watch the economy go into a depression for 100 years. Put hundreds of millions of people out of work. Then we can save our $1.
How about a compromise: limiting the maximum copyright term to twenty-eight years. Such a revision to copyright law would get oldies onto P2P legitimately, but would it really have such a deleterious effect on the proprietary software industry and the entertainment industries as you describe?
(For this discussion, please disregard the Berne Convention's guarantee of life plus 50, which sounds to me more like a prison term for double murder than an appropriate copyright term.)
I've read that recent versions of RealPlayer use Real's codec for low bitrates but use Sony's ATRAC3 codec, the codec used on modern MiniDisc, for high bitrates. Is ATRAC3 really worse than WMA?
if you don't like how joe-bob has used said products that's one thing, don't scream at company-X.
Say the "typical" configuration of company-X's censorware product represents a strong opinion on which side of a politically controversial topic should be made available to high school students and public library patrons. If company-X recommends that the government use its product in its "typical" configuration, and its "typical" configuration represents strong political opinions, then company-X recommends that the government market those opinions to its constituency, no?
25. A method for asset management using the World Wide Web, comprising: accessing the World Wide Web through a series of computer-related hardware devices connected to a network;
transferring information regarding each computer-related hardware device in said series of computer-related hardware devices to a remote storage medium;
Web browsers send User-agent: HTTP headers to the web site whenever pulling a file.
compiling information related to said series of computer-related hardware devices derived from said information residing on said remote storage medium;
Apache collects User-agent: information in a log file.
and preparing and disseminating reports compiled from said information.
The web site uses Webalizer to produce reports from the server logs, and the webmaster digests the reports into posts on the site's news page.
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Console games offer most of the advantages that PC games once had: network play, high-resolution graphics, etc.
What about the availability of user-created content? Does Half-Life for consoles have TFC or Counter-Strike or any other mod?
[IIS] costs -nothing- and you -don't- have to have the 'server' version of NT to use it.
If you set up IIS on a Professional version of Windows (rather than a Server version), you'll get 403.9 errors whenever a decent number of people try to access anything on your site. While IIS for Windows Server lets the administrator specify the maximum number of incoming HTTP connections, IIS for Windows Professional hardcodes it to 10 and doesn't let the administrator tweak the keep-alive timeout from its ridiculously-long default, which is the cause of most of the 403.9 errors you get when a site becomes slashdotted.
Why doesn't adjusting the fonts size from the control panel work?
Because many poorly-written but mission-critical vertical-market applications don't handle a system resolution change well.
You[r] body needs carbs anyway
Excess carbs become fat. Remember the recent Atkins article?
Is cannabis a grass? If not, then why do habitual users of MJ call it "grass"?
Anything that you can think of has already been thought of.
This idea, combined with perpetual copyright, gives the entertainment industry entirely too much power over society.
In the English slanguage, a "fruit" is a homosexual man, and a "vegetable" is a person with severe impairment of mobility.
Citing e2 is a laughable form of proof.
Wikipedia says: "In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant. In cuisine, when discussing fruit as food, the term usually refers to just those plant fruits that are sweet and fleshy." (If you don't agree with Wikipedia, you can go in and change it.)
The tomato is a berry, homologous and analogous to the fruits of other plants whose fruit is colloquially called "fruit"; as far as I can tell, the colloquial "fruit" is a botanical "fruit" that is sweet.
Or computer salesmen who claim a hard disk drive isn't "Random Access Memory".
Then would you claim that the Dance Dance Revolution Konamix CD for the PlayStation game console is "DDR memory"?
But nobody does it because Windows "already ships with a webserver".
I run WinApache 2.0.recent on my desktop machine so that I can send files to people on networks to which Gaim doesn't support sending files. I don't run IIS because 1. my machine runs Windows 2000 Professional not the more expensive Server, and 2. though Apache is just as written in C as IIS and just as vulnerable to buffer overflows, most web server worms seen in the wild attack IIS on Windows rather than Apache on Windows.
This is why I don't agree with the Windows monopoly concept. We all know there are easily a hundred other free operating systems out there.
Windows is a monopoly until Aunt Tillie can easily find hardware devices at Best Buy with alternative OS drivers on the included CD.
Windows is the operating system most people in the world would choose.
If most people would informedly choose Windows for the OS on their home machines, I'm guessing this is because of the lack of driver support in, say, FreeBSD. That's certainly why I stay on Windows, because I don't have enough money to buy a new scanner that Linux supports nor enough time to spend dozens of hours with my unsupported scanner (a Microtek ScanMaker 4850) trying in vain to reverse-engineer it. Mandrake Linux 9.2 RC1 had problems configuring my inkjet printer as well; it thinks a Canon S520 prints at 360 DPI natively when it actually prints 600 DPI, and everything on the page appears 40 percent smaller than it should be. And though Mandrake advertises support for the latest ATI Radeon video cards, it failed to configure and start accelerated X on my Radeon 9000.
You say that as if it's a bad thing.
That's the devil's advocate's job.
Why should I pay more to hear certain tracks
If some labels have imposed a sales moratorium on certain tracks, as (possibly) with Vault Di$ney soundtracks, then iTunes can't offer them, but a jukebox service can.
the system you are describing has little to do with assest management.
A well-paid attorney would be able to argue that the web site is an asset, and repeat readers are assets, and considering which pages are viewed most often is a method of managing them.
Is it an old version of RealAudio? Newer players can play older formats, but older encoders cannot encode in newer formats. Ask your friend to ask the technical staff whether or not it has recently upgraded its codec.
iTunes has free radio stations. And what do you listen to when you go jogging or driving?
Yeah I guess it saves me the trip into the hated sun world, but are people really finding this worth it?
What if you telephone ten local used CD stores, but none of them have the title you want in stock?
iTunes/AAC is 10x more proprietary than WMA
Wrong. AAC is documented in detail as part of the ISO MPEG-4 standard and is no more "proprietary" than MP3. The AAC and MP3 patent holders sell patent-only licenses that allow use of independent encoder implementations; does Microsoft?
Perhaps, but I was speaking of the quality of mp3ed audio made from the stream.
Line out to line in on Napster has a definite advantage over line out to line in on commercial FM radio, namely that the user isn't limited to whatever the major labels are advertising at the moment. You see, quality of audio involves more than the fidelity of reproduction; it also involves the quality of songwriting and the quality of performance. For instance, Nine Inch Nails at a distortion typical of 32 kbps .ogg sounds better to me than Britney Spears at a distortion typical of 160 kbps .ogg.
If you don't sign up for the streaming service, every song that Napster shows you will have a uniform license equivalent to that of iTMS purchased songs. The only reason that the iTMS appears to have uniform licensing is that it lacks a streaming service entirely.
If you only sign up for Napster's a la carte service, you don't have to read nearly as much fine print, as pretty much every song offered to such customers comes with approximately the same permissions that iTMS purchased songs come with.
Fine. Repeal Copyright then. Watch the economy go into a depression for 100 years. Put hundreds of millions of people out of work. Then we can save our $1.
How about a compromise: limiting the maximum copyright term to twenty-eight years. Such a revision to copyright law would get oldies onto P2P legitimately, but would it really have such a deleterious effect on the proprietary software industry and the entertainment industries as you describe?
(For this discussion, please disregard the Berne Convention's guarantee of life plus 50, which sounds to me more like a prison term for double murder than an appropriate copyright term.)
I've read that recent versions of RealPlayer use Real's codec for low bitrates but use Sony's ATRAC3 codec, the codec used on modern MiniDisc, for high bitrates. Is ATRAC3 really worse than WMA?
if you don't like how joe-bob has used said products that's one thing, don't scream at company-X.
Say the "typical" configuration of company-X's censorware product represents a strong opinion on which side of a politically controversial topic should be made available to high school students and public library patrons. If company-X recommends that the government use its product in its "typical" configuration, and its "typical" configuration represents strong political opinions, then company-X recommends that the government market those opinions to its constituency, no?
The omission of "air" was probably in response to the old "might as well patent breathing" joke repeated endlessly in topic: Patent Pending.
My own web site is prior art to claim 25 of this patent. Here's how access to a web site running on Apache HTTP Server goes:
25. A method for asset management using the World Wide Web, comprising: accessing the World Wide Web through a series of computer-related hardware devices connected to a network;
People visit the web site, looking for a recently released open-source NES game.
transferring information regarding each computer-related hardware device in said series of computer-related hardware devices to a remote storage medium;
Web browsers send User-agent: HTTP headers to the web site whenever pulling a file.
compiling information related to said series of computer-related hardware devices derived from said information residing on said remote storage medium;
Apache collects User-agent: information in a log file.
and preparing and disseminating reports compiled from said information.
The web site uses Webalizer to produce reports from the server logs, and the webmaster digests the reports into posts on the site's news page.
[Patents on earth, fire, wind, water, heart]
By your powers combined, I have patented Captain Planet!