This is what I am waiting for hot-swapable, plug and play Serial ATA.
A few years ago, Apple Computer invented the next best thing: a hot-swappable, plug-and-play serial SCSI-protocol connection running at 400 Mbps. It's called a FireWire(tm) brand IEEE 1394 peripheral network.
If you just want hot-swappable ATA, look into PCMCIA and its smaller-form-factor brother CompactFlash.
Learning that you paraphrased a MasterCard commercial thinking it was a Visa one
What makes you think it wasn't intentional? In the hypothetical situation Glonoinha poses, using a MasterCard(tm) credit card to buy this stuff gives a negative result (performance cut).
I could just use a simple cable and connect it directly to the controller I already have?
What if I want to use more than two CD drives (DVD-ROM and CD-RW) and two hard drives (swap and/home)? Most motherboards contain only two ATA connectors, each of which can support up to two drives (id 0 and 1).
I also only specify absolute URLs that don't include the server name (not sure of the correct terminology, but I mean "/foo/bar/" instead of "../bar/" or "http://server/foo/bar/").
What if you don't control the namespace below "http://server/foo/"? For instance, what if your URL is http://server/~username/ as it is on fortunecity, geocities, or your university's web space?
never use client-side redirects
Unless your hosting service doesn't support server-side redirects.
Client-side redirects are a sure sign of someone who can't grok.htaccess.
"Someone" not always being the person responsible for the content.
pop the origional in a mac and copy it while I make dinner/sleep/work.
Not if the original is dual-layer. Some PS2 games and all Xbox and GameCube games are dual-layer, or at least recorded on the second layer if single-layer. (The spiral on the second layer goes inward rather than outward.) DVD-R discs have only a first layer.
Where did [the concept of substantial non-infringing use] go?
Non-infringing use is not always substantial. For instance, Napster had a non-infringing use, but seeing as how over 90% of napster users shared files that they didn't have the right to share, such non-infringing use was not substantial.
Besides, the DMCA that's currently on the books doesn't always allow for even substantial non-infringing uses.
I used to order flash carts from lik-sang so I could write my own GBA/GBC applications.
Game Gizmo still has GBA flash carts. I'm a developer too; unfortunately, my site is down because my ISP seems to have blocked incoming connections to my computer.
The box states that there are conditions defined inside. If you don't want to take the chance, don't buy the box.
If there is a chance involved, that's gambling, and running a gambling establishment without a license is illegal in almost all U.S. states. You may be able to use that theory as part of a case against software stores that don't take returns.
Another possible theory is that when you handed over your cash to the store, the store agreed to the EULA as well, which means that it must take returns of software whose outer box has been opened but whose inner shrinkwrap (the one with the EULA booklet glued to it) has not.
You were given fair warning.
No I wasn't. As far as I know, only the complete terms constitute fair warning under contract law in most states.
You must realise that the "product" is both the software *and* the vendor's terms.
But without having the full terms available before the exchange of consideration (the cash for the copy of the software), do you even have a contract?
"No refunds or returns of open software, music or DVDs. Exchanges Only!"
We've already figured out how to handle this, in the various articles about not-really-CDs: buy, open, find defect, exchange, open, same defect, rinse and repeat, until we deplete the store's stock of that item.
but restricting yourself to just 3 durations will mean you miss quite a lot. Just by adding whole and sixteenth notes
The three durations can be interpreted as whole, half, and quarter or as quarter, eighth, and sixteenth by a trivial change of time signature. The judge is looking for "substantial similarity". For thirty-second notes, the judge will look for the more musically important ones, which fall in phase with the sixteenth-note carrier. Triplets are probably trivial, unless they're a major feature, and then they'd probably cause a shift to something like 6/8 or 12/8.
(since you seem to like to refer to that article)
I tweak the article a bit every time I link to it on Slashdot. Every time I read feedback about my model, I go back to the article and address the complaints. This results in an article that continues to improve.
adding a little something saying the 47000 possible melodies is only correct with some (dubious) assumptions made, not cold hard fact.
I already did. From the article:
An approximate mathematical model of the legal standard is presented
...
I MAKE NO WARRANTY that my statistical measure of "substantial similarity" will in any way predict how a judge will rule.
if MP3's could have only only achieve a maximum bit rate of 56kbps, do you really think Napster would have been such a big threat?
Easy. Recordings would be pirated as two files, one containing the low frequencies and the other containing the highs. A similar technique (low bitrate MP3 on the low frequencies and something else on the highs) is used by PlusV and mp3PRO.
Actually, mono at 56 kbps, with suitable pre-processing, doesn't sound too bad. Not exactly CD quality, but not AM radio either. It sounds more than good enough to put on a pocket music player.
To an extent, both of the currently lawful attacks you pose are easy to hold off.
seeding P2P with fake files
The nature of P2P file sharing systems that use multi-source downloading is that files with a lot of sources will tend to get downloaded more often, and crappy files won't have a lot of sources because they're either deleted before they're shared, or renamed to "* (Promo).mp3" as happened with the first copies of "Barenaked Ladies - Pinch Me.mp3" that went on the P2P systems.
finding shared files and intiating multiple slow-throughput connections to the host so it accepts no other users
My P2P software already detects this. If less than 67% of the nominal outgoing bandwidth (set in the Throttle box) is used over a 60-second window, it starts another queued upload.
There should be legislation for a compulsory on-demand music license
There already exists a compulsory mechanical license for an underlying musical work that has already been recorded and published, which means you can have your cover band[1] re-perform the work and then sell phonorecords[2] of that. Though this license does not grant access to the original recording, some covers go on to be more popular than the original recording, especially when performed in an original arrangement (which is permitted to a limited extent in the compulsory license law).
[1] cover band n. (Popular music) A musician or team of musicians that primarily performs covers[3].
[2] phonorecord n. (Copyright law) A copy of a sound recording, such as a vinyl record, a tape, a CD, a downloaded compressed audio file, or any other medium on which a sound can be fixed.
[3] cover n. (Popular music) A sound recording of a musical work that had been made popular through another recording. The artist performing a cover generally pays a songwriter's publisher the statutory royalty rate (about eight cents per copy) for the right under copyright law to record and distribute phonorecords of a musical work.
They set the prices (they have settled and been fined a minimal amount) and we have to pay them. There's no real other option for music lovers.
If you can't afford Britney Spears, switch to another band on another label. In addition to the Universal label, Vivendi also offers the mp3.com label, which has mostly new bands, and a CD usually costs less than $10.
Actually, the "by" immediately after the title of a story refers to the editor who posted the story, not to the user who submitted it. Cliff handles Ask Slashdot.
The Senate ALWAYS votes by roll call on legislation.
Are you sure? According to the bottom of this page, the U.S. Senate can voice-vote on a bill just like the House.
The Constitution also provides that one-fifth of the Senators on the floor (assuming that a quorum is present) can demand a rollcall vote... The alternative to a rollcall vote usually is a voice vote in which the Senators favoring the bill or amendment (or whatever question is to be decided) vote "aye" in unison, followed by those voting "no." Although a voice vote does not create a public record of how each Senator voted, it is an equally valid and conclusive way for the Senate to reach a decision.
And because "a voice vote does not create a public record of how each Senator voted," it means that the bill didn't even have enough opposition (20%) to demand a roll call.
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This is what I am waiting for hot-swapable, plug and play Serial ATA.
A few years ago, Apple Computer invented the next best thing: a hot-swappable, plug-and-play serial SCSI-protocol connection running at 400 Mbps. It's called a FireWire(tm) brand IEEE 1394 peripheral network.
If you just want hot-swappable ATA, look into PCMCIA and its smaller-form-factor brother CompactFlash.
everybody wants to talk to a guineapig, but no one wants to be one
Tom's Hardware Guide and similar sites get paid by their advertisers to be a guinea pig.
Learning that you paraphrased a MasterCard commercial thinking it was a Visa one
What makes you think it wasn't intentional? In the hypothetical situation Glonoinha poses, using a MasterCard(tm) credit card to buy this stuff gives a negative result (performance cut).
I could just use a simple cable and connect it directly to the controller I already have?
What if I want to use more than two CD drives (DVD-ROM and CD-RW) and two hard drives (swap and /home)? Most motherboards contain only two ATA connectors, each of which can support up to two drives (id 0 and 1).
I also only specify absolute URLs that don't include the server name (not sure of the correct terminology, but I mean "/foo/bar/" instead of "../bar/" or "http://server/foo/bar/").
What if you don't control the namespace below "http://server/foo/"? For instance, what if your URL is http://server/~username/ as it is on fortunecity, geocities, or your university's web space?
never use client-side redirects
Unless your hosting service doesn't support server-side redirects.
Client-side redirects are a sure sign of someone who can't grok .htaccess.
"Someone" not always being the person responsible for the content.
pop the origional in a mac and copy it while I make dinner/sleep/work.
Not if the original is dual-layer. Some PS2 games and all Xbox and GameCube games are dual-layer, or at least recorded on the second layer if single-layer. (The spiral on the second layer goes inward rather than outward.) DVD-R discs have only a first layer.
Where did [the concept of substantial non-infringing use] go?
Non-infringing use is not always substantial. For instance, Napster had a non-infringing use, but seeing as how over 90% of napster users shared files that they didn't have the right to share, such non-infringing use was not substantial.
Besides, the DMCA that's currently on the books doesn't always allow for even substantial non-infringing uses.
I used to order flash carts from lik-sang so I could write my own GBA/GBC applications.
Game Gizmo still has GBA flash carts. I'm a developer too; unfortunately, my site is down because my ISP seems to have blocked incoming connections to my computer.
The box states that there are conditions defined inside. If you don't want to take the chance, don't buy the box.
If there is a chance involved, that's gambling, and running a gambling establishment without a license is illegal in almost all U.S. states. You may be able to use that theory as part of a case against software stores that don't take returns.
Another possible theory is that when you handed over your cash to the store, the store agreed to the EULA as well, which means that it must take returns of software whose outer box has been opened but whose inner shrinkwrap (the one with the EULA booklet glued to it) has not.
You were given fair warning.
No I wasn't. As far as I know, only the complete terms constitute fair warning under contract law in most states.
You must realise that the "product" is both the software *and* the vendor's terms.
But without having the full terms available before the exchange of consideration (the cash for the copy of the software), do you even have a contract?
"No refunds or returns of open software, music or DVDs. Exchanges Only!"
We've already figured out how to handle this, in the various articles about not-really-CDs: buy, open, find defect, exchange, open, same defect, rinse and repeat, until we deplete the store's stock of that item.
but restricting yourself to just 3 durations will mean you miss quite a lot. Just by adding whole and sixteenth notes
The three durations can be interpreted as whole, half, and quarter or as quarter, eighth, and sixteenth by a trivial change of time signature. The judge is looking for "substantial similarity". For thirty-second notes, the judge will look for the more musically important ones, which fall in phase with the sixteenth-note carrier. Triplets are probably trivial, unless they're a major feature, and then they'd probably cause a shift to something like 6/8 or 12/8.
(since you seem to like to refer to that article)
I tweak the article a bit every time I link to it on Slashdot. Every time I read feedback about my model, I go back to the article and address the complaints. This results in an article that continues to improve.
adding a little something saying the 47000 possible melodies is only correct with some (dubious) assumptions made, not cold hard fact.
I already did. From the article:
There are, however, irrevocable internet currencies out there (I sell one, actually)
Imagine a digital rights management infrastructure that requires you to pay per view using a metal as currency. Not just any metal, a precious metal.
That's e-Palladium.
Here's happy birthday [...]
Busted. That's a derivative work of a copyrighted song published by AOL. Go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200.
if MP3's could have only only achieve a maximum bit rate of 56kbps, do you really think Napster would have been such a big threat?
Easy. Recordings would be pirated as two files, one containing the low frequencies and the other containing the highs. A similar technique (low bitrate MP3 on the low frequencies and something else on the highs) is used by PlusV and mp3PRO.
Actually, mono at 56 kbps, with suitable pre-processing, doesn't sound too bad. Not exactly CD quality, but not AM radio either. It sounds more than good enough to put on a pocket music player.
the record companies & c. have far more legal manpower and available funds
Than several dozen victims who decide to take class action against labels?
To an extent, both of the currently lawful attacks you pose are easy to hold off.
seeding P2P with fake files
The nature of P2P file sharing systems that use multi-source downloading is that files with a lot of sources will tend to get downloaded more often, and crappy files won't have a lot of sources because they're either deleted before they're shared, or renamed to "* (Promo).mp3" as happened with the first copies of "Barenaked Ladies - Pinch Me.mp3" that went on the P2P systems.
finding shared files and intiating multiple slow-throughput connections to the host so it accepts no other users
My P2P software already detects this. If less than 67% of the nominal outgoing bandwidth (set in the Throttle box) is used over a 60-second window, it starts another queued upload.
There should be legislation for a compulsory on-demand music license
There already exists a compulsory mechanical license for an underlying musical work that has already been recorded and published, which means you can have your cover band[1] re-perform the work and then sell phonorecords[2] of that. Though this license does not grant access to the original recording, some covers go on to be more popular than the original recording, especially when performed in an original arrangement (which is permitted to a limited extent in the compulsory license law).
[1] cover band n. (Popular music) A musician or team of musicians that primarily performs covers[3].
[2] phonorecord n. (Copyright law) A copy of a sound recording, such as a vinyl record, a tape, a CD, a downloaded compressed audio file, or any other medium on which a sound can be fixed.
[3] cover n. (Popular music) A sound recording of a musical work that had been made popular through another recording. The artist performing a cover generally pays a songwriter's publisher the statutory royalty rate (about eight cents per copy) for the right under copyright law to record and distribute phonorecords of a musical work.
Very few animated movies are shown live
That can change, once realtime 3D graphics hardware becomes more powerful.
How hard is it to run a line out to your sound card?
How hard is it for Congress to close the analog hole and criminalize the possession of high-end audio equipment without an audio engineering license?
They set the prices (they have settled and been fined a minimal amount) and we have to pay them. There's no real other option for music lovers.
If you can't afford Britney Spears, switch to another band on another label. In addition to the Universal label, Vivendi also offers the mp3.com label, which has mostly new bands, and a CD usually costs less than $10.
Poor Cliff.
Actually, the "by" immediately after the title of a story refers to the editor who posted the story, not to the user who submitted it. Cliff handles Ask Slashdot.
Microsoft didn't seem to have any trouble with "Arial" and "Times New Roman".
Arial is based on Helvetica font design. Microsoft probably has to pay royalties to the owner of Helvetica for each copy of Windows shipped in Europe.
even if I copy over my Helvetica and Times from my Windows side, the fonts STILL look like ASS on Linux.
Here are the steps to fix fonts on Linux; however, they will require a bit of patience, especially for step 2:
The Senate ALWAYS votes by roll call on legislation.
Are you sure? According to the bottom of this page, the U.S. Senate can voice-vote on a bill just like the House.
And because "a voice vote does not create a public record of how each Senator voted," it means that the bill didn't even have enough opposition (20%) to demand a roll call.
And if someone else names their product Genesis, I'm going to hurt them!
How about Mega Drive?
LUnix is a UNIX clone for Commodore 64 computers, unrelated to GNU/Linux.