I thought that the next Solaris was supposed to have GNOME in it
I guess Ximian couldn't cough up enough money for product placement of Ximian Desktop software.
Or are real-world desktop environments such as the GNOME desktop unsuitable for placement in movies such as Soderbergh's Solaris? Movie operating systems seem to have big, dramatic alert boxes with bold text, bold colors, flashing icons, and sound. The GNOME desktop doesn't seem to do this.
Windows is not aware that it is running on a virtual machine
Unless Microsoft pushes changes to the Windows OS's bootloader through the Windows Update service. Wouldn't it be easy for Windows to just md5sum the BIOS, and then decide that if the BIOS checksum matches that of the BIOS used in a known version of VMware, you're using VMware?
Digital output is for local bands. Digital out is for open or half-open formats like Ogg and MP3.
If i had some high quality tunes on my machine
WMA files, which are most likely to require a Secure Audio Path, are typically supplied in too low a data rate to be considered "high quality" among music enthusiasts. Don't be fooled by the 3 dB boost that some have claimed that the WMA encoder provides by default.
I would certainly like to use my digital out to send it to my high end stereo system, most likely over the digital output
If you can afford high-end audio equipment, you can certainly afford a collection of Compact Discs from which to produce high-quality Ogg files. The music on the discs that aren't Compact Discs probably isn't worth your money.
seriously, what kindof genius came up with this idea?
Bill and Hilary. The ones who didn't live in the White House.
Make that "analog out". Windows ME and Windows XP operating systems have a Secure Audio Path that disables digital outputs and unsigned drivers when playing restrictions-managed audio files.
This research is funded by the American tax payer. Why are they patenting it?
Here's how I understand it: In general, the American citizens pay for the "seed" research, and when a company buys it up, the company pays the American citizens back. Thus, in the end, the company that gets the patents has actually funded the research. Yes, I understand it's more complicated than that (more risks are taken with citizens' money than with patent holder's money, etc).
There are any of a dozen different non-Intel chips that are nearly as fast as a decent P-III (or, at least, from the user's perspective)
The customer is always right. The customer just has to run a favorite proprietary x86-only app or game. In most cases, emulating a recent x86 application on a non-x86 CPU produces poor performance. That's part of why Mac laptops have such a small market share compared to x86 laptops.
USA uses NTSC, a 525-line, 60 Hz television data signal standard set by the National Television Standards Committee.
Japan uses NTSC, but its broadcast signals are on slightly different frequencies than USA NTSC. This is why TVs sometimes have a bit of trouble tuning in signals from old Famicom systems. Baseband video (i.e. video and audio over separate RCA plugs) is not affected.
Europe uses PAL, a 625-line, 50 Hz standard. It achieves better resolution by allocating more bandwidth to color. It corrects for the phase noise endemic in NTSC by changing the baseline phase every scanline (i.e. Phase Alternation by Line).
Brazil uses a 525-line, 60 Hz variation of PAL called PAL/M. Most European TVs can receive PAL/M signals, and many European game consoles have a 50/60 switch that selects between PAL and PAL/M output.
Some small regions of the world use "SECAM", which I have not studied in depth.
The Osa.exe file initializes the shared code that is used by the Office XP programs. When you use the Osa.exe file to initialize shared code, the Office XP programs start faster. If the Office programs, instead of Osa.exe, initialize the shared code, the programs take longer to start.
So in other words, MS Office's preloader is like Mozilla's, right?
but this machine is Internet ready according to the article, with no need to purchase a NIC.
A machine with a NIC and no modem, running a Linux OS, is not Internet ready if any of the following statements are true:
High-speed Internet access is not available in your geographical area ("sorry, there are too few people in your area to justify putting in an access point").
High-speed Internet access is prohibitively expensive in your geographical area ("sure, we have something faster than dial-up, but it's $20 per GB").
The monopoly or duopoly provider(s) of high-speed Internet access use a proprietary network stack which is not available for Linux OS *cough* AOL *cough* ("sorry, there are too few users of your OS to justify supporting it").
Pooh is still under copyright
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So, Mickey Mouse and Winnie The Pooh are no longer copyright protected in Canada?
Wrong. Walt Disney died in December 1966 and was cremated; the copyright on Mickey Mouse does not expire until January 1, 2017, under the copyright term in force in Canada and Australia. If the Supremes cooperate, the USA may get free Mickey before Canada does.
A. A. Milne, author of the Pooh books, died in 1956. E. H. Shepard, who created the original "classic Pooh" drawings, died in 1976.
I also find it useful, although potentially illegal for you Americans, to search the australian, or canadian archives, as both have a shorter copywright timeline (author's life + 50 years).
Illegal? Or just civil disobedience? I'm a US citizen and resident, and I'm mirroring a dozen or so non-US books on my web site. If (like me) you feel that you have little to lose, and you're not afraid to sit in the front of the proverbial bus, come with me and practice some civil disobedience of unjust and possibly unconstitutional laws. But don't try it with your school's name on it, as the school has much more to lose than you have.
(I get the joke, but here's what OP was trying to say: OP meant that St John's College has had the Great Books Program for 70 years, and OP goes to St. John's College.)
In MP3, wouldn't it be possible to do a "smart" re-encode which, say, just doubles the "scalefactors" and halves the MDCT data? Isn't that what DietMP3 does?
Independent artists and labels are free to license their music however they want.
Even if the performer is not with a major label, the songwriter still gets a fixed amount per copy distributed. Performers who write their own music have no easy way to verify that they didn't accidentally infringe the copyright of an existing work, which George Harrison found out the hard way.
but you can download the JRE for free. Its just a hell of a lot to download (10 mb's)
In Ireland, local phone calls, such as the connection to your ISP, may cost nine cents per minute. That translates into nearly 4 euros just to download a 10 MB package such as JRE or Mozilla over v.90.
your math in that article is shows that you are not a musician.
No, it shows that the typical judge is not a musician. Judges are looking for "substantial similarity" not exact identity and will probably ignore some of the "embellishments" that belong to a particular performance rather than to the underlying song.
You have to at least consider whole, half, quarter, eigth, sixteenth, and 32nd notes
In general, a typical melody will make the most use of three note lengths (e.g. half, quarter, eighth or quarter, eighth, sixteenth).
most importantly silence between notes.
To a judge, who is not a musician, eighth note + eighth rest + rest of melody equals quarter note + rest of melody because staccato still does not break "substantial similarity".
You also have to take into consideration the use of eastern scales in popular and modern classical music.
A judge, who is not a musician, has the right to round each note to the closest note in a Western scale. Imagine using that as a defense: "It's not in the same scale; therefore, it's not similar." Plaintiffs: "You probably changed it to a different scale just to avoid plagiarism."
I would also like to see the court decision you refer to.
Unfortunately, this page is the only reference I could find. I am not a lawyer and do not have access to the Westlaw database. Can you give me some hints on looking for information about civil suits?
There are no useful links in that article of yours.
The Everything 2 web site does not permit linking to documents that are not on the Everything 2 web site. It strips explicit <a> elements. Thus, the reader has to copy and paste the URL.
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I thought that the next Solaris was supposed to have GNOME in it
I guess Ximian couldn't cough up enough money for product placement of Ximian Desktop software.
Or are real-world desktop environments such as the GNOME desktop unsuitable for placement in movies such as Soderbergh's Solaris? Movie operating systems seem to have big, dramatic alert boxes with bold text, bold colors, flashing icons, and sound. The GNOME desktop doesn't seem to do this.
Windows is not aware that it is running on a virtual machine
Unless Microsoft pushes changes to the Windows OS's bootloader through the Windows Update service. Wouldn't it be easy for Windows to just md5sum the BIOS, and then decide that if the BIOS checksum matches that of the BIOS used in a known version of VMware, you're using VMware?
I'm feeling too uncreative to lie to them on their form
First name: Pinocchio; last name: Nixon. That should give you some ideas.
But doesn't lying on an application for access to a news database constitute fraud?
The link in the parent comment redirects to "Futetanerifi", better known as "Fecal Japan". Mod parent down if you don't like poop porn.
Whats the purpose of digital out then?
Digital output is for local bands. Digital out is for open or half-open formats like Ogg and MP3.
If i had some high quality tunes on my machine
WMA files, which are most likely to require a Secure Audio Path, are typically supplied in too low a data rate to be considered "high quality" among music enthusiasts. Don't be fooled by the 3 dB boost that some have claimed that the WMA encoder provides by default.
I would certainly like to use my digital out to send it to my high end stereo system, most likely over the digital output
If you can afford high-end audio equipment, you can certainly afford a collection of Compact Discs from which to produce high-quality Ogg files. The music on the discs that aren't Compact Discs probably isn't worth your money.
seriously, what kindof genius came up with this idea?
Bill and Hilary. The ones who didn't live in the White House.
Windows doesn't know it's not running on real hardware
How do you know that the Windows OS does not detect VMware, Connectix Virtual PC, or Plex86 software and consider it an insecure environment?
You caputer the digital out of your sound card
Make that "analog out". Windows ME and Windows XP operating systems have a Secure Audio Path that disables digital outputs and unsigned drivers when playing restrictions-managed audio files.
This research is funded by the American tax payer. Why are they patenting it?
Here's how I understand it: In general, the American citizens pay for the "seed" research, and when a company buys it up, the company pays the American citizens back. Thus, in the end, the company that gets the patents has actually funded the research. Yes, I understand it's more complicated than that (more risks are taken with citizens' money than with patent holder's money, etc).
There are any of a dozen different non-Intel chips that are nearly as fast as a decent P-III (or, at least, from the user's perspective)
The customer is always right. The customer just has to run a favorite proprietary x86-only app or game. In most cases, emulating a recent x86 application on a non-x86 CPU produces poor performance. That's part of why Mac laptops have such a small market share compared to x86 laptops.
USA uses NTSC, a 525-line, 60 Hz television data signal standard set by the National Television Standards Committee.
Japan uses NTSC, but its broadcast signals are on slightly different frequencies than USA NTSC. This is why TVs sometimes have a bit of trouble tuning in signals from old Famicom systems. Baseband video (i.e. video and audio over separate RCA plugs) is not affected.
Europe uses PAL, a 625-line, 50 Hz standard. It achieves better resolution by allocating more bandwidth to color. It corrects for the phase noise endemic in NTSC by changing the baseline phase every scanline (i.e. Phase Alternation by Line).
Brazil uses a 525-line, 60 Hz variation of PAL called PAL/M. Most European TVs can receive PAL/M signals, and many European game consoles have a 50/60 switch that selects between PAL and PAL/M output.
Some small regions of the world use "SECAM", which I have not studied in depth.
The Osa.exe file initializes the shared code that is used by the Office XP programs. When you use the Osa.exe file to initialize shared code, the Office XP programs start faster. If the Office programs, instead of Osa.exe, initialize the shared code, the programs take longer to start.
So in other words, MS Office's preloader is like Mozilla's, right?
but this machine is Internet ready according to the article, with no need to purchase a NIC.
A machine with a NIC and no modem, running a Linux OS, is not Internet ready if any of the following statements are true:
So, Mickey Mouse and Winnie The Pooh are no longer copyright protected in Canada?
Wrong. Walt Disney died in December 1966 and was cremated; the copyright on Mickey Mouse does not expire until January 1, 2017, under the copyright term in force in Canada and Australia. If the Supremes cooperate, the USA may get free Mickey before Canada does.
A. A. Milne, author of the Pooh books, died in 1956. E. H. Shepard, who created the original "classic Pooh" drawings, died in 1976.
However, Mickey may have actually fallen out of copyright in the United States due to a faulty copyright notice.
I also find it useful, although potentially illegal for you Americans, to search the australian, or canadian archives, as both have a shorter copywright timeline (author's life + 50 years).
Illegal? Or just civil disobedience? I'm a US citizen and resident, and I'm mirroring a dozen or so non-US books on my web site. If (like me) you feel that you have little to lose, and you're not afraid to sit in the front of the proverbial bus, come with me and practice some civil disobedience of unjust and possibly unconstitutional laws. But don't try it with your school's name on it, as the school has much more to lose than you have.
but the 70-year plan is pretty ridiculous.
The 95-year plan is even worse.
(I get the joke, but here's what OP was trying to say: OP meant that St John's College has had the Great Books Program for 70 years, and OP goes to St. John's College.)
partly because of GCC's inefficiency on non-x86 architectures. Therefore I hate to think what it would be like on a 206MHz StrongARM.
GCC 3.x makes faster code than GCC 2.x on ARM architecture, but it's still not up to the level of Metaware's prohibitively expensive compiler.
BIASED ...towards people with feet!
as opposed to some of these pictures?
<a href=" ">click here</a>
"Sorry, links to this site from Slashdot are disabled."
No, mp3 would have to be reencoded
In MP3, wouldn't it be possible to do a "smart" re-encode which, say, just doubles the "scalefactors" and halves the MDCT data? Isn't that what DietMP3 does?
Independent artists and labels are free to license their music however they want.
Even if the performer is not with a major label, the songwriter still gets a fixed amount per copy distributed. Performers who write their own music have no easy way to verify that they didn't accidentally infringe the copyright of an existing work, which George Harrison found out the hard way.
but you can download the JRE for free. Its just a hell of a lot to download (10 mb's)
In Ireland, local phone calls, such as the connection to your ISP, may cost nine cents per minute. That translates into nearly 4 euros just to download a 10 MB package such as JRE or Mozilla over v.90.
the company with the worst pop-up/under ads ever
Just as MP3.com is only one vendor of MPEG audio files, X10.com is only one vendor of devices that follow the X-10 power-line data communication protocol.
your math in that article is shows that you are not a musician.
No, it shows that the typical judge is not a musician. Judges are looking for "substantial similarity" not exact identity and will probably ignore some of the "embellishments" that belong to a particular performance rather than to the underlying song.
You have to at least consider whole, half, quarter, eigth, sixteenth, and 32nd notes
In general, a typical melody will make the most use of three note lengths (e.g. half, quarter, eighth or quarter, eighth, sixteenth).
most importantly silence between notes.
To a judge, who is not a musician, eighth note + eighth rest + rest of melody equals quarter note + rest of melody because staccato still does not break "substantial similarity".
You also have to take into consideration the use of eastern scales in popular and modern classical music.
A judge, who is not a musician, has the right to round each note to the closest note in a Western scale. Imagine using that as a defense: "It's not in the same scale; therefore, it's not similar." Plaintiffs: "You probably changed it to a different scale just to avoid plagiarism."
I would also like to see the court decision you refer to.
Unfortunately, this page is the only reference I could find. I am not a lawyer and do not have access to the Westlaw database. Can you give me some hints on looking for information about civil suits?
There are no useful links in that article of yours.
The Everything 2 web site does not permit linking to documents that are not on the Everything 2 web site. It strips explicit <a> elements. Thus, the reader has to copy and paste the URL.
fire up your favorite video recording software
"This video source contains gain control copy protection. Recording halted."
Is this real?
It's real. It's not an urban legend.
Link please.
Here you go.