There are lots of fonts in this world, and SOMEONE who uses Linux could have designed a 'nice' one.
Then what is an office suite supposed to do when somebody sends you a.doc file that uses Helvetica and Times Roman?
The real reason fonts look shitty is because the font HANDLING is bad.
The good font HANDLING is patented. Without the hinting methods in Apple's patent, the FreeType software can't legibly render TrueType outline fonts at the small point sizes used for screen display. That is, unless FreeType 2's auto-hinter has improved dramatically since I last saw it.
gross negligence in both of the fields you mentioned (law, health care) can result in death. The same cannot (easily) be said about the A/V profession.
Almost every Hollywood movie requires stunt personnel. Gross negligence in stunts can result in death. Imagine if a Big Action Movie Explosion(tm) goes wrong.
some countries also consider copy-protection as a limitation of the users right for a private copy, ie. allow the user to circumvent the copy-protection.
I don't see the purpose of a law restating the fair use rights I already had
U.S. citizens already have a fair use defense to infringement. However, circumvention is completely orthogonal to infringement: you can circumvent copy protection without infringing copyright. This bill would extend the fair use defense to circumvention as well.
Tell me how copyright infringes against what YOU CAN SAY.
Overbroad interpretation of the "derivative works" clause does that. According to this article, there are fewer than 47,000 melodies, and each one has a copyright owner, making it next to impossible for a songwriter to create an "original" musical work.
Who is going to protect my right(I'm a recording artist) to make a living off of my work?
You too should be pushing for shorter copyright terms because underlying musical works do not come cheap. You can't give out free samples of your songs on the Internet because the songwriter wants a dime per copy. You can't write your own music because most of the 47,000 possible melodic hooks are taken.
[Protecting fair use is] what Hollings thought he was doing?
Yes. His CBDTPA bill would impose stiff penalties of up to $2,500 per copy on publishers who encoded copies of copyrighted works so as to prohibit fair use as defined in 17 USC 107.
So Clinton was a republican? He signed [the Digital Millennium Copyright Act] into law
The DMCA and the Bono Act were both enacted by a voice vote of both houses of Congress; the bills had so much bipartisan support that nobody opposed either measure enough to bring it to a full recorded vote. Had then-President Clinton vetoed them, Congress would havejust passed the bills over Clinton's veto with a 2/3 majority of both houses.
what is the significance of "mass market" to a consumer in terms of vinyl records?
Let me express "mass market" quantitatively: Among albums that contain any of the top 40 popular songs for a given week in 2002, are 75 percent available on vinyl?
One thing that I see that might change this is the simple fact that a large percentage of the media that is created and distributed is created and prepared for distribution on Macs. That might make a difference. Video is edited on Macs. Audio is mixed on Macs.
The United States and most European countries have already outlawed practice of medicine or law without a license from the government. They also regulate possession of some pharmaceutical or surgical tools. Then what happens if the United States government and the European Union government decide to outlaw practicing audiovisual engineering without a license? And what if professional audio and video tools are available only to licensed and bonded audiovisual engineers?
The day CD-DA disappears because "everyone" has magically switched to Windows Media, I will eat my hat.
Decades ago, in a letter to the editor of a local newspaper: "The day mass-market vinyl disappears because 'everyone' has magically switched to this new 'Compact Disc Digital Audio', I will eat my hat."
Even Windows 98 managed to get nice looking fonts, so why does Linux have so many problems with it?
Because in addition to having trademarked names, Helvetica and Times Roman are copyrighted. In the USA, you can copyright a program that generates a typeface (i.e. a TTF file), but you can't copyright the look and feel of the typeface itself, as that's considered a "useful object" more suited to a design patent than to a copyright. (Most patents last 20 years.) In the EU, you can copyright both, giving one foundry[1] a monopoly on Helvetica for life plus 70. Most Linux distributors don't have the money to license the official versions of popular fonts, even for use in the "non-free" section.
Damn. U.S. Patent 5,664,080 is a patent on the dithering that paint programs have been doing for as long as I can remember. The first claim covers reserving some entries for the GUI, finding a set of colors that best represent the original image, and dithering the image using a repeating halftone pattern. Most paint programs that I have used use this algorithm.
"hey this sucks it's too slow." Get a clue, dude. Use a real client.
Changing from basic Gnutella clients to better Gnutella clients, to KazaaLite, or to eDonkey won't improve speed if your ISP uses a packet-shaper to throttle all ports but the well-known ports used for ssh, http, mail, news, and the like.
listen to some songs that I made with my guitar and COOL EDIT PRO
How much did you pay for the rights to the underlying musical work? You can't have written them yourself, because you're bound to step on somebody else's copyright on the four-note melodic hook that you used.
It wasn't just the DeMoCrAts; the DMCA had bipartisan support. Heck, it was passed by voice vote, which means it didn't even have enough opposition to bring the bill to a real vote.
we can't let facts get in the way of our bashing of Ashcroft.
Disclaimer: I haven't used a Macintosh computer since Mac OS 8. Then, I could make an "alias" (i.e. what is called a "shortcut" on Windows) to an application and toss it in the Startup Items folder in the System Folder, and the app would start whenever I start the computer. Does an alias to the Terminal app work on Mac OS X?
Or you could install bare-bones Darwin without the Mac OS X desktop environment, and it'll almost feel like FreeBSD.
For one thing, "troll" and "truth" both have the same first letters and the same number of letters: five. The same number of years Slashdot has been up. The same number that appears in Kuro5hin's name.
And you don't even *seem* to have a K5 account.
In fact, I do; it's just not under my usual nicks on Slashcode sites ("yerricde" or "tepples"). Anybody with knowledge of fairy tales in the Spanish language could figure out my K5 nick given the domain of my web site.
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Slashdot doesn't archive -1 posts.
Slashdot has archived comments that had been moderated to -1 since the upgrade to Slashcode 2.x. In fact, the story about the 2.x upgrade is an example of an "archived" discussion with some extant -1 comments. So is Oracle Breakable After All, where more than half of the comments are -1 (due to The Post). It's true that -1 comments before the 2.x upgrade were discarded, but more than half the comments in Slashdot's database have been posted on 2.x. Not even the editors can change that.
And deleting posts, while morally abhorrent, is the only way to keep ourselves from accidentally reading a 3 page long "taco snotting" FAQ.
Slashdot generally does not delete comments. Among over 4 million comments posted after the moderation system began, fewer than a half-dozen have been deleted, mostly for flagrant copyright infringement. Other than that, you can get 99.999% of everything posted, even the trash, by reading at -1.
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There are lots of fonts in this world, and SOMEONE who uses Linux could have designed a 'nice' one.
Then what is an office suite supposed to do when somebody sends you a .doc file that uses Helvetica and Times Roman?
The real reason fonts look shitty is because the font HANDLING is bad.
The good font HANDLING is patented. Without the hinting methods in Apple's patent, the FreeType software can't legibly render TrueType outline fonts at the small point sizes used for screen display. That is, unless FreeType 2's auto-hinter has improved dramatically since I last saw it.
gross negligence in both of the fields you mentioned (law, health care) can result in death. The same cannot (easily) be said about the A/V profession.
Almost every Hollywood movie requires stunt personnel. Gross negligence in stunts can result in death. Imagine if a Big Action Movie Explosion(tm) goes wrong.
some countries also consider copy-protection as a limitation of the users right for a private copy, ie. allow the user to circumvent the copy-protection.
The United Kingdom doesn't. See Section 296 of the copyright act.
I don't see the purpose of a law restating the fair use rights I already had
U.S. citizens already have a fair use defense to infringement. However, circumvention is completely orthogonal to infringement: you can circumvent copy protection without infringing copyright. This bill would extend the fair use defense to circumvention as well.
if this bill passes, pigs will fly.
Given that Jack Valenti already uses air travel, does this bill have more of a chance?
Tell me how copyright infringes against what YOU CAN SAY.
Overbroad interpretation of the "derivative works" clause does that. According to this article, there are fewer than 47,000 melodies, and each one has a copyright owner, making it next to impossible for a songwriter to create an "original" musical work.
Who is going to protect my right(I'm a recording artist) to make a living off of my work?
You too should be pushing for shorter copyright terms because underlying musical works do not come cheap. You can't give out free samples of your songs on the Internet because the songwriter wants a dime per copy. You can't write your own music because most of the 47,000 possible melodic hooks are taken.
[Protecting fair use is] what Hollings thought he was doing?
Yes. His CBDTPA bill would impose stiff penalties of up to $2,500 per copy on publishers who encoded copies of copyrighted works so as to prohibit fair use as defined in 17 USC 107.
So Clinton was a republican? He signed [the Digital Millennium Copyright Act] into law
The DMCA and the Bono Act were both enacted by a voice vote of both houses of Congress; the bills had so much bipartisan support that nobody opposed either measure enough to bring it to a full recorded vote. Had then-President Clinton vetoed them, Congress would havejust passed the bills over Clinton's veto with a 2/3 majority of both houses.
what is the significance of "mass market" to a consumer in terms of vinyl records?
Let me express "mass market" quantitatively: Among albums that contain any of the top 40 popular songs for a given week in 2002, are 75 percent available on vinyl?
One thing that I see that might change this is the simple fact that a large percentage of the media that is created and distributed is created and prepared for distribution on Macs. That might make a difference. Video is edited on Macs. Audio is mixed on Macs.
The United States and most European countries have already outlawed practice of medicine or law without a license from the government. They also regulate possession of some pharmaceutical or surgical tools. Then what happens if the United States government and the European Union government decide to outlaw practicing audiovisual engineering without a license? And what if professional audio and video tools are available only to licensed and bonded audiovisual engineers?
See also: "The Right to Read" by Richard M. Stallman
The day CD-DA disappears because "everyone" has magically switched to Windows Media, I will eat my hat.
Decades ago, in a letter to the editor of a local newspaper: "The day mass-market vinyl disappears because 'everyone' has magically switched to this new 'Compact Disc Digital Audio', I will eat my hat."
[This story was] a few days late.
Slashdot's new policy: don't link to an OS distribution's download site until the major mirrors have caught up. Do you question this policy?
Even Windows 98 managed to get nice looking fonts, so why does Linux have so many problems with it?
Because in addition to having trademarked names, Helvetica and Times Roman are copyrighted. In the USA, you can copyright a program that generates a typeface (i.e. a TTF file), but you can't copyright the look and feel of the typeface itself, as that's considered a "useful object" more suited to a design patent than to a copyright. (Most patents last 20 years.) In the EU, you can copyright both, giving one foundry[1] a monopoly on Helvetica for life plus 70. Most Linux distributors don't have the money to license the official versions of popular fonts, even for use in the "non-free" section.
[1] foundry n. a publisher of typefaces.
Damn. U.S. Patent 5,664,080 is a patent on the dithering that paint programs have been doing for as long as I can remember. The first claim covers reserving some entries for the GUI, finding a set of colors that best represent the original image, and dithering the image using a repeating halftone pattern. Most paint programs that I have used use this algorithm.
"hey this sucks it's too slow." Get a clue, dude. Use a real client.
Changing from basic Gnutella clients to better Gnutella clients, to KazaaLite, or to eDonkey won't improve speed if your ISP uses a packet-shaper to throttle all ports but the well-known ports used for ssh, http, mail, news, and the like.
listen to some songs that I made with my guitar and COOL EDIT PRO
How much did you pay for the rights to the underlying musical work? You can't have written them yourself, because you're bound to step on somebody else's copyright on the four-note melodic hook that you used.
[The Democratic Party was] the party behind DMCA.
It wasn't just the DeMoCrAts; the DMCA had bipartisan support. Heck, it was passed by voice vote, which means it didn't even have enough opposition to bring the bill to a real vote.
we can't let facts get in the way of our bashing of Ashcroft.
The problem with USA copyright law isn't entirely AG John Ashcroft's. It's what the courts did to Richard Ashcroft of the band The Verve.
I want my OS to boot to a command line
Disclaimer: I haven't used a Macintosh computer since Mac OS 8. Then, I could make an "alias" (i.e. what is called a "shortcut" on Windows) to an application and toss it in the Startup Items folder in the System Folder, and the app would start whenever I start the computer. Does an alias to the Terminal app work on Mac OS X?
Or you could install bare-bones Darwin without the Mac OS X desktop environment, and it'll almost feel like FreeBSD.
Apple is the only company that makes Apple computers and Apple software. Ford is the only company that makes Ford automobiles and parts.
Ford Motor Co. doesn't sue anybody for copying the car's user interface.
Perhaps someone with experience in what Sony claims is "an older, well-known approach to generating a stereo display" could give us a better idea.
One such method is called lenticular.
Previous Slashdot articles about different 3D LCDs: here and here.
yerricde, why have you been so trollish lately?
For one thing, "troll" and "truth" both have the same first letters and the same number of letters: five. The same number of years Slashdot has been up. The same number that appears in Kuro5hin's name.
And you don't even *seem* to have a K5 account.
In fact, I do; it's just not under my usual nicks on Slashcode sites ("yerricde" or "tepples"). Anybody with knowledge of fairy tales in the Spanish language could figure out my K5 nick given the domain of my web site.
Slashdot doesn't archive -1 posts.
Slashdot has archived comments that had been moderated to -1 since the upgrade to Slashcode 2.x. In fact, the story about the 2.x upgrade is an example of an "archived" discussion with some extant -1 comments. So is Oracle Breakable After All, where more than half of the comments are -1 (due to The Post). It's true that -1 comments before the 2.x upgrade were discarded, but more than half the comments in Slashdot's database have been posted on 2.x. Not even the editors can change that.
And deleting posts, while morally abhorrent, is the only way to keep ourselves from accidentally reading a 3 page long "taco snotting" FAQ.
Slashdot generally does not delete comments. Among over 4 million comments posted after the moderation system began, fewer than a half-dozen have been deleted, mostly for flagrant copyright infringement. Other than that, you can get 99.999% of everything posted, even the trash, by reading at -1.
Is [substantial debate] in a secret section that I don't have access to? :-)
Here's the section.