This isn't a duplicate story but rather a follow-up, announcing that the Ph??n?x project is no longer "considering" a name change but has, in fact, decided to change its name. Should have been a Slashback.
Most professional songwriters are not willing to do this. For one thing, it costs money to run each song by lawyers to make sure that the songwriter didn't accidentally copy something else.
POTS is nominally 300 Hz to 3600 Hz. But assuming the rolloff of practical analog filters, it's closer to 4 kHz than 3 kHz. Even the phone company samples it 8,000 times per second like it would for a 4 kHz signal.
I can see where time is an issue for those folks that live in countries with whack rate plans just for local calls but in the states its no biggee to be online all day even when I'm not there.
Verizon dial-up Internet access, a large regional ISP, is $20/mo for the first 150 hours and then $1/hr after that. But my family keeps it because it 1) works with PC operating systems other than Windows (unlike AOL, MSN, NetZero, and some other ISPs) and 2) shows up on the phone bill, not a separate bill.
use commands like "ls" and "cd" to find the file you want.
When the file you want is buried four or more levels deep, and you're not familiar with the FTP site's tree? You can't use Archie because it isn't up anymore, and you can't use Google because you are avoiding IE.
Are you going to be able to compete at an action/graphics oriented online game
Not all games are first-person shooters or fighting games. Command & Conquer clones such as Starcraft typically don't depend on data rate and latency nearly as much as first-person shooters or fighting games.
Actually, elvish is mostly based on Irish and other gaelic tongues.
Gaelic? Ecch. Tolkien loved Welsh (p-Celtic) and hated Irish (Gaelic/q-Celtic). He borrowed numerous Irish words for the Black Speech, as a sort of diss.
These take the form VSO.
True, but Tolkien borrowed only the phonology of the Finnish (for Quenya) and Welsh (for Sindarin) languages, with very little borrowed vocabulary or grammar.
Pop up disable feature. Use this
to sell Mozilla to your local Bill Gates fan.
It worked for me.
It worked for you only because your local Bill Gates fan did not have the homepage set to The New York Times, which always finds a way to get around Mozilla's popup blocker.
we have ftp [rather than IE] for [downloading Mozilla]
Then how did you download FTP Explorer or some other graphical FTP client for Windows? Or did you really try to navigate the structure of Mozilla's FTP site with the Windows command-line FTP program?
"Yoda-speak" you can call it, but the technical term is "OSV typology", for "Object Subject Verb".
J.R.R. Tolkien's hobby was building fictional worlds and languages. The Lord of the Rings began as his back-story for a book about Elvish tongues. Some of his languages might have been OSV, but most were SVO like English.
It's not a Disney movie. It's from Studio Ghibli in Japan
Monsters, Inc. is not a Disney movie. It's from Pixar. So is that Nemo movie.
Cents from every dollar you spend on tickets to see this movie are still going to the defense of bad copyright laws such as the DMCA and the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act and to lobbying for their sequels: the CBDTPA, the Broadcast Flag, the two Berman bills, and the Chastity Bono Act of 2018 that adds yet another 20 years to Mickey Mouse's copyright term.
The P2Ps peg my dial-up at 4 kilobytes per second. I don't download enough music to make paying for broadband ($20/mo over what I currently pay for internet access; see my comments in Xbox Live discussions) and downloading albums less expensive than CDNOW. Besides, I just want the singles so I can do my own continuous mixes.
To the producer and recording studio, for the licensed audio engineers who mixed and mastered the album and the makers of the production equipment that they used to produce the album.
To the artists who did the CD's manual.
To the music video studio (if they didn't use somebody cheap like Cicierega or the guys who did "White America" for Eminem).
For more information, ask Courtney Love, who did the math.
Movies cost on average only 10-30% more than their soundtracks
A movie soundtrack containing popular music (that is, not the movie's score or some other music composed specifically for the movie) typically contains music from several artists on several labels, and it costs big $$$ to negotiate with those labels for those tracks.
I looked up 6+ albums, and they were all cheaper to download/burn than to buy the CD from Amazon or Borders.
Cheaper? Did you forget the $350 Wintel tax? If your current computer is a Macintosh, or a Sun, or anything other than an x86 computer[1] running a recent version of Microsoft Windows, you're looking into paying $200 for a Microtel PC and $150 for an OEM Windows license just to get started. Even if UMG's new service does save $5 per CD vs. buying it at CDNOW, you need to buy 70 CDs this way in order to pay for the Wintel terminal that the service requires.
[1] I assume here that Connectix Virtual PC for Mac does not support recording CDs from within emulated Windows.
I pay a flat rate for my broadband and have plenty of free download bandwidth... 811 GB per month
How much is "plenty"? In other words, how big is your download quota? Assume a CD contains 300 MB of audio after lossless FLAC coding. With a 6 GB/month cap, it costs at least $1.25 to transfer that much audio.
If you have no cap, how can I become as lucky as you to reside in a geographical area where high-speed access with a large download quota is available at consumer prices?
Dude, you need to move over here - no laws regarding encryption
There may be no crypto export controls in the UK (I haven't checked that department), but the UK surely has its own DMCA: section 296 of the copyright law.
(Incidentally, section 301 provides for a statutory perpetual copyright on a particular set of works, something that can never happen under the current constitution of the United States.)
Background: This music sharing service appears to require Microsoft IE for Windows.
This also means that you may not run the Windows version on a Mac, even if you could.
If EULAs presented after the sale are binding, then Microsoft's IE EULA states that you can't run IE for Windows inside WINE inside BSD or Linux inside Bochs or Connectix Virtual PC. I don't think it would prohibit you from running IE inside Windows inside Bochs or VPC, because the x86 platform and Windows operating system are present, just not on an Intel or AMD brand part. Think about it: If the EULA forbids emulation, then it also forbids running the software on a Transmeta processor, which runs x86 software in a sort of emulation.
I reported a compliance bug with a web page whereby the authors used some proprietory tags which are not W3C compliant. I filed the bug under Mozilla too but the official reply was: "It's not a bug, we're following the standard and not accepting propr. tags".
The usual bugzilla.mozilla.org practice in this case is to morph the bug into a Tech Evangelism bug and reopen it.
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This isn't a duplicate story but rather a follow-up, announcing that the Ph??n?x project is no longer "considering" a name change but has, in fact, decided to change its name. Should have been a Slashback.
Moral: Always do a first level trademark search before you decide on a name for your software package.
I've NEVER seen a computer with Phoenix bios.
Heard of the "Award Modular BIOS"? That's a Phoenix BIOS as well.
Not if they release it royalty-free
Most professional songwriters are not willing to do this. For one thing, it costs money to run each song by lawyers to make sure that the songwriter didn't accidentally copy something else.
Stand voice telephony is 3KHz, not 4
POTS is nominally 300 Hz to 3600 Hz. But assuming the rolloff of practical analog filters, it's closer to 4 kHz than 3 kHz. Even the phone company samples it 8,000 times per second like it would for a 4 kHz signal.
I can see where time is an issue for those folks that live in countries with whack rate plans just for local calls but in the states its no biggee to be online all day even when I'm not there.
Verizon dial-up Internet access, a large regional ISP, is $20/mo for the first 150 hours and then $1/hr after that. But my family keeps it because it 1) works with PC operating systems other than Windows (unlike AOL, MSN, NetZero, and some other ISPs) and 2) shows up on the phone bill, not a separate bill.
free music on demand
I don't see how that could ever happen. By U.S. law, the songwriter gets eight cents per download.
use commands like "ls" and "cd" to find the file you want.
When the file you want is buried four or more levels deep, and you're not familiar with the FTP site's tree? You can't use Archie because it isn't up anymore, and you can't use Google because you are avoiding IE.
Are you going to be able to compete at an action/graphics oriented online game
Not all games are first-person shooters or fighting games. Command & Conquer clones such as Starcraft typically don't depend on data rate and latency nearly as much as first-person shooters or fighting games.
Actually, elvish is mostly based on Irish and other gaelic tongues.
Gaelic? Ecch. Tolkien loved Welsh (p-Celtic) and hated Irish (Gaelic/q-Celtic). He borrowed numerous Irish words for the Black Speech, as a sort of diss.
These take the form VSO.
True, but Tolkien borrowed only the phonology of the Finnish (for Quenya) and Welsh (for Sindarin) languages, with very little borrowed vocabulary or grammar.
Pop up disable feature. Use this to sell Mozilla to your local Bill Gates fan. It worked for me.
It worked for you only because your local Bill Gates fan did not have the homepage set to The New York Times, which always finds a way to get around Mozilla's popup blocker.
we have ftp [rather than IE] for [downloading Mozilla]
Then how did you download FTP Explorer or some other graphical FTP client for Windows? Or did you really try to navigate the structure of Mozilla's FTP site with the Windows command-line FTP program?
(You wouldn't happen to know KQ of Wikipedia, would you?)
I want to know how to build my Precious!
Just wait 800,699 years and humans will have evolved to look like Precious Moments people. If H.G. Wells says so, it must be true.
Oh, that precious. The One Ring. Can't help you there. We don't have a Mount Doom, only a Doom Legacy.
Judging by the Yoda-speak
"Yoda-speak" you can call it, but the technical term is "OSV typology", for "Object Subject Verb".
J.R.R. Tolkien's hobby was building fictional worlds and languages. The Lord of the Rings began as his back-story for a book about Elvish tongues. Some of his languages might have been OSV, but most were SVO like English.
It's not a Disney movie. It's from Studio Ghibli in Japan
Monsters, Inc. is not a Disney movie. It's from Pixar. So is that Nemo movie.
Cents from every dollar you spend on tickets to see this movie are still going to the defense of bad copyright laws such as the DMCA and the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act and to lobbying for their sequels: the CBDTPA, the Broadcast Flag, the two Berman bills, and the Chastity Bono Act of 2018 that adds yet another 20 years to Mickey Mouse's copyright term.
Ok, now since this is the fourth Tuesday this month we like and support Disney?
I buy from the MPAA, but I also give to EFF because I take the Lessig Challenge. But even so, I don't buy from The Walt Disney Company because the company had a hand in not only the DMCA but also the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
The P2Ps are so slow that it's ridiculous.
The P2Ps peg my dial-up at 4 kilobytes per second. I don't download enough music to make paying for broadband ($20/mo over what I currently pay for internet access; see my comments in Xbox Live discussions) and downloading albums less expensive than CDNOW. Besides, I just want the singles so I can do my own continuous mixes.
So for a $15 CD, where's the other $7 going?
For more information, ask Courtney Love, who did the math.
Movies cost on average only 10-30% more than their soundtracks
A movie soundtrack containing popular music (that is, not the movie's score or some other music composed specifically for the movie) typically contains music from several artists on several labels, and it costs big $$$ to negotiate with those labels for those tracks.
I looked up 6+ albums, and they were all cheaper to download/burn than to buy the CD from Amazon or Borders.
Cheaper? Did you forget the $350 Wintel tax? If your current computer is a Macintosh, or a Sun, or anything other than an x86 computer[1] running a recent version of Microsoft Windows, you're looking into paying $200 for a Microtel PC and $150 for an OEM Windows license just to get started. Even if UMG's new service does save $5 per CD vs. buying it at CDNOW, you need to buy 70 CDs this way in order to pay for the Wintel terminal that the service requires.
[1] I assume here that Connectix Virtual PC for Mac does not support recording CDs from within emulated Windows.
Voting is a lousy way to arrive at the truth.
Yes, but voting is a half decent way of deciding what leads to follow first.
and then maybe fifteen or twenty cents (per track) for the artist.
In the United States, the songwriter gets eight cents per track as well.
If a recording artist wants to learn to write his own songs, how can he make sure that he did not unconsciously copy an existing copyrighted song?
I pay a flat rate for my broadband and have plenty of free download bandwidth ... 811 GB per month
How much is "plenty"? In other words, how big is your download quota? Assume a CD contains 300 MB of audio after lossless FLAC coding. With a 6 GB/month cap, it costs at least $1.25 to transfer that much audio.
If you have no cap, how can I become as lucky as you to reside in a geographical area where high-speed access with a large download quota is available at consumer prices?
Dude, you need to move over here - no laws regarding encryption
There may be no crypto export controls in the UK (I haven't checked that department), but the UK surely has its own DMCA: section 296 of the copyright law.
(Incidentally, section 301 provides for a statutory perpetual copyright on a particular set of works, something that can never happen under the current constitution of the United States.)
Background: This music sharing service appears to require Microsoft IE for Windows.
This also means that you may not run the Windows version on a Mac, even if you could.
If EULAs presented after the sale are binding, then Microsoft's IE EULA states that you can't run IE for Windows inside WINE inside BSD or Linux inside Bochs or Connectix Virtual PC. I don't think it would prohibit you from running IE inside Windows inside Bochs or VPC, because the x86 platform and Windows operating system are present, just not on an Intel or AMD brand part. Think about it: If the EULA forbids emulation, then it also forbids running the software on a Transmeta processor, which runs x86 software in a sort of emulation.
It's the quoted opinion of the interviewee, not that of the corporation.
Especially when there are still quite a few bugs preventing Mozilla from loading BBC web sites properly.
I reported a compliance bug with a web page whereby the authors used some proprietory tags which are not W3C compliant. I filed the bug under Mozilla too but the official reply was: "It's not a bug, we're following the standard and not accepting propr. tags".
The usual bugzilla.mozilla.org practice in this case is to morph the bug into a Tech Evangelism bug and reopen it.