How to fix Win QT so you can see the trailer
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because of quicktime's OVERBEARING IDIOTIC Vicious perpensity to sieze control of your OS/Browser file associations
In my copy of QuickTime 5 for Windows, I immediately unchecked the option (Start > Settings > Control Panel > QuickTime > File Type Associations) to associate with Windows file types and Internet file types. Removing the npqtplugin*.dll (the QuickTime plug-ins) from c:/program files/mozilla.org/mozilla/plugins helped as well.
and make your system/browser less stable.
Hasn't happened on my machine running the Windows 2000 (NT 5.0.3) OS. I still haven't got one blue screen since I installed it four months ago.
I maintain that you cannot take a piece of code out of a Windows API, and have it be any use in an emulator on it's own.
The Windows API is defined through publicly available plain-English specifications available on msdn.microsoft.com. Parts have even been submitted to ECMA. I'm still not getting this whole "atomic" thing.
It's like an atom, you can't split it.
Heard of a particle accelerator? Besides, a fellow can split off Passport from the rest, or DirectX from the rest, or the Internet Explorer control from the rest.
So there you have it, I apologise for being wrong, (which I assume I was)
Apology accepted. In the age of the DMCA (which the UK is getting in the form of its EUCD implementation act), it's often hard to tell what's legal and what isn't.
so now please give me at least some credit for intellegence
Credit given. Note that I stayed calm while responding, unlike some other posters.
and mod my original post to something other than troll
I'll see what I can do in metamod.
the Wine team suggest that people, copy files over from their Windows installation to use on the emulator. This also violates the EULA, unless you purchase a second Windows license
United States law, 17 USC 117: "it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program provided: that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other manner". So as long as a fellow uses the extra copy only with Wine, it's OK.
In any event, users are given a bit more leeway through the "fair use" doctrine (17 USC 107).
Flash forms are designed for display on a GUI on a pixel-based screen, such as X11, Quartz/Aqua, or Windows. By contrast, there exist GUI systems for character-cell screens, such as curses, slang, and whatever Emacs uses. Blind people and people who access applications through shell accounts most often use command-line or character-cell apps.
SWF appears to be a Flash-derived protocol
Correct.
I don't know about the effectiveness of Flash's GUI widgets (textboxes, checkboxes, grid screens, tabs, etc.). Anybody want to comment?
GUI form widgets apparently improved greatly from Flash 5 to Flash MX.
What I think is really needed is an HTTP-friendly "remote GUI" protocol for writing client-side GUI's.
We have it. It's called SWF. However, it's primarily designed for graphical GUIs, not the character-cell GUIs preferred by blind people and shell users.
I am talking about the letter of the law, and you are talking about the spirit of the law.
I am talking about the law that the judge will apply to a case, which is the only law that has any force.
17 USC 102 does not apply if you treat the APIs as atomic
I still do not understand what you mean by "atomic". Look up "idea-expression dichotomy" some time.
Why do you think that there are very few Apple Macintosh clones?
Executor, one of the few Mac emulators, contains a complete clone of Classic Mac OS. Were it illegal, its publisher could not sell it. In addition, ARDI sells Carbonless Copies, a PC-based Mac emulator designed to be linked directly into an application.
HTTP really isn't designed for multiple, branched file downloads
Then what's this "pipelining" thing I see in HTTP/1.1? While pulling the HTML page, every time the browser sees an object URL (image, stylesheet, etc), it immediately sends a GET request to the web server, and the web server responds with the object's data as soon as it has finished the previous object. Because one object's header and data immediately follows the previous object's, there's very little back-and-forth latency.
Why not assume that any site unrelated to what you are paid to do is out of bounds?
An IT professional is paid to maintain IT (information technology, not Segway HT). In order to maintain IT, a fellow has to be alive. If a fellow is killed by a terrorist, he is no longer alive. Therefore, a limited amount of discussion of anti-terrorism is on topic in an IT discussion.
I am stretching things, but you may be able to pull this one over on your boss.
VESA? No wonder you're worried about "hardware diversity"
OK, you figure out how to support all video cards made by NVIDIA, ATI, and Matrox in the past, present, and future. You figure out how to support all sound cards made by all manufacturers in the past, present, and future.
does ANYTHING still run on your 486?
Yes. The DOS version of TOD is playable all the way down to a 486.
Wine is a piece of code. No code from any Microsoft implementation of the Windows API has entered the Wine CVS repository.
Wine is based upon a preexisting work
Define "based upon". The statute fails to define based upon; can you provide any elaboration in case law that supports your position?
specifically the Windows APIs, which are protected by copyright.
"In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work" (17 USC 102).
If re-implementation of a standard were forbidden by copyright law, then every BIOS publisher would be in violation, all the way back to the first PC clone, and the International Organization for Standardization would control all implementations of its standards.
Or, what about a Linux Distro that just booted from CD, effectively treating your PC like a high powered console when you want to play a game?
A console has the same hardware interface on every unit. The only pretty much guaranteed video interface on a non-XBox PC is VESA, and the only guaranteed sound card is the internal speaker. (Modern sound cards have pretty much abandoned the SB interface.) Or do you want to include drivers for every sound card and video card ever made? It's going to be pretty tough to get either a. drivers, or b. technical specifications necessary to write drivers, out of some manufacturers of video cards or sound cards.
If I write something really, really small in a faint pencil, and your photocopier doesn't copy it, TOUGH LUCK. You have no right to demand that I write it more legibly.
And you have no right to demand that I not build a more sensitive photocopier.
Hint: Under U.S. copyright law, the ideas embodied in a copyrighted work are not protected; only the expression is. Even the DMCA has an explicit exemption for reverse engineering necessary to achieve interoperability.
Better yet, FreeDOS. However, your point about sound cards that have abandoned the GUS and SB hardware interfaces still stands. The only reason why video cards still work is that the BIOS checks for a VGA compatible card during the self-test.
As I understand certainly MPEG 2 (as used in DVD [Video]) uses MP3 to encode the audio.
No, the version of MPEG-2 used in DVD Video uses Dolby's AC3 codec, generally in 2.0 or 5.1 channel configuration. One of the reasons Apple can't license iDVD free of charge to all Macintosh computer owners is that Apple must pay the MPEG-2 patent pool for each DVD encoding or decoding software product shipped.
Distinctive taste; savor: a flavor of smoke in bacon. See Synonyms at taste.
A distinctive yet intangible quality felt to be characteristic of a given thing: "What matters in literature... is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or color of a particular human suffering" (Harold Bloom).
why does everyone here seem to continually support the breaking of federal laws?
Laws are broken (violated) because they're broken (they don't work). Before the mid-1860s, there existed federal laws that regulated slavery, requiring citizens to act as police and return slaves to their owners. Then Congress realized that those laws were unjust and changed the law to ban slavery outright. Once the states signed on, the 13th Amendment became part of the U.S. Constitution.
speeding is selling drugs is murder is stealing copyrighted software and art.
So do you think people should be imprisoned for life just for going 1 mph over the speed limit?
Please try to make sense next time, Mr. Anonymous Coward.
Roughly translated: You are free to reverse-engineer a copyright product (and use the method you develop) for the purposes of interopability
You left off the last part: "Provided, that you have tons of money to hire attorneys to represent you in a court of law."
Meaning of antiGPL notice in the clickwrap license
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However when you actually do the download, check out the new License (not on the download page, the one in the file). It expressly forbids linking with GPL software. Yikes, what happened over there?
Netscape 7 includes proprietary components such as Netscape Instant Messenger and possibly some sort of Sun Java(tm) runtime environment. It is based on the Mozilla source code, which is MPL/GPL/Lesser GPL licensed; Netscape Communications simply chose the MPL option.
The term "Communicator" is dead
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That's the difference between the browser Mozilla and the company Netscape? How do you compare a browser to a company?
The Internet suite distributed by Netscape Communications, a unit of AOL(tw), is called "Netscape". Version 4.x was called "Communicator". It began to be officially known as "Netscape" starting with version 6.
Ooooh! You meant the difference between Mozilla and Navigator, right?
From Mozilla 1.1, I pull down the Window menu, and I see the word "Navigator". I guess both Netscape and Mozilla use the term "Navigator" to refer to the web browser component.
they are *charging* for what they *used to give away*... system software to run on their hardware.
Major Mac OS upgrades (7.1 -> 7.5 -> 8.1 -> 8.6 -> 9.1 -> 10.1 -> 10.2) have not been free of charge since System 7 was released back in mid-1991.
Now they are charging for *any* software needed to add *any* 3rd party hardware to their hardware.
Not exactly. You can use any Mac platform DVD software with the third-party drives. Apple is charging for its own DVD software. Just buy a SuperDrive and have your Apple dealer install it for cricket's sake. If you misrepresented your SuperDrive ownership in order to obtain a license to Apple's DVD software, that's your problem.
This is an open standard. It's just patented. Patents expire.
Not if Thomson Multimedia and the major pharmaceutical companies get together and lobby Congress for a Cherilyn Lapierre Patent Term Extension Act like Hollywood did back in 1998.
they just want to get paid for (I hope) work that they did in developing the technology
Then why does Thomson Multimedia require an annual minimum royalty of $15,000? That keeps the XMMS people from being able to distribute their product because they cannot charge for every copy that is passed around under the terms of the GPL.
The royalty is quite reasonable. If you had to pay $0.75 for your copy of WinAMP, would that really seem unfair to you?
AOL Time Warner, the parent company of Nullsoft, can afford to pay the minimum royalties that Thomson Multimedia asks for. If I wrote and published an MP3 player, on the other hand, and only 1,000 copies were downloaded in a given year, I would have to pay $15.00 per copy.
I have a large library of audio files that need to get published on the net. They're free, noncommercial, non-revenue-generating.
If your site's space and bandwidth are paid for with advertisements, then it is not non-revenue-generating.
If they are demos for potential employers to look at when evaluating your fitness for employment, then they are not non-revenue-generating.
You may want to argue differently, but Thomson Multimedia most likely has more money to spend on legal representation than you have.
I'll publish them at least in MP3 format, and maybe Ogg if I can get a good encoder
I have a feeling that the parent comment is a repost from the previous article about MP3 patent licensing. In response, I recommended OggDropXPd and noted that users of Winamp 2.80 and later could play Ogg files.
Google sells ranking as well... to a point.
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Actually, most search engines exist to make a profit by selling off the results to the highest bidder.
Google does this as well, except it clearly splits the paid results from the pure link popularity results, placing the "Sponsored Links" in a separate div that's set to float:right.
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because of quicktime's OVERBEARING IDIOTIC Vicious perpensity to sieze control of your OS/Browser file associations
In my copy of QuickTime 5 for Windows, I immediately unchecked the option (Start > Settings > Control Panel > QuickTime > File Type Associations) to associate with Windows file types and Internet file types. Removing the npqtplugin*.dll (the QuickTime plug-ins) from c:/program files/mozilla.org/mozilla/plugins helped as well.
and make your system/browser less stable.
Hasn't happened on my machine running the Windows 2000 (NT 5.0.3) OS. I still haven't got one blue screen since I installed it four months ago.
I maintain that you cannot take a piece of code out of a Windows API, and have it be any use in an emulator on it's own.
The Windows API is defined through publicly available plain-English specifications available on msdn.microsoft.com. Parts have even been submitted to ECMA. I'm still not getting this whole "atomic" thing.
It's like an atom, you can't split it.
Heard of a particle accelerator? Besides, a fellow can split off Passport from the rest, or DirectX from the rest, or the Internet Explorer control from the rest.
So there you have it, I apologise for being wrong, (which I assume I was)
Apology accepted. In the age of the DMCA (which the UK is getting in the form of its EUCD implementation act), it's often hard to tell what's legal and what isn't.
so now please give me at least some credit for intellegence
Credit given. Note that I stayed calm while responding, unlike some other posters.
and mod my original post to something other than troll
I'll see what I can do in metamod.
the Wine team suggest that people, copy files over from their Windows installation to use on the emulator. This also violates the EULA, unless you purchase a second Windows license
United States law, 17 USC 117: "it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program provided: that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other manner". So as long as a fellow uses the extra copy only with Wine, it's OK.
In any event, users are given a bit more leeway through the "fair use" doctrine (17 USC 107).
I am not sure what you mean by this.
Flash forms are designed for display on a GUI on a pixel-based screen, such as X11, Quartz/Aqua, or Windows. By contrast, there exist GUI systems for character-cell screens, such as curses, slang, and whatever Emacs uses. Blind people and people who access applications through shell accounts most often use command-line or character-cell apps.
SWF appears to be a Flash-derived protocol
Correct.
I don't know about the effectiveness of Flash's GUI widgets (textboxes, checkboxes, grid screens, tabs, etc.). Anybody want to comment?
GUI form widgets apparently improved greatly from Flash 5 to Flash MX.
What I think is really needed is an HTTP-friendly "remote GUI" protocol for writing client-side GUI's.
We have it. It's called SWF. However, it's primarily designed for graphical GUIs, not the character-cell GUIs preferred by blind people and shell users.
Pascal, being as dead in its pure form as a language can be, was bound to be replaced by some OO language.
Then why not object-oriented Pascal?
I am talking about the letter of the law, and you are talking about the spirit of the law.
I am talking about the law that the judge will apply to a case, which is the only law that has any force.
17 USC 102 does not apply if you treat the APIs as atomic
I still do not understand what you mean by "atomic". Look up "idea-expression dichotomy" some time.
Why do you think that there are very few Apple Macintosh clones?
Executor, one of the few Mac emulators, contains a complete clone of Classic Mac OS. Were it illegal, its publisher could not sell it. In addition, ARDI sells Carbonless Copies, a PC-based Mac emulator designed to be linked directly into an application.
HTTP really isn't designed for multiple, branched file downloads
Then what's this "pipelining" thing I see in HTTP/1.1? While pulling the HTML page, every time the browser sees an object URL (image, stylesheet, etc), it immediately sends a GET request to the web server, and the web server responds with the object's data as soon as it has finished the previous object. Because one object's header and data immediately follows the previous object's, there's very little back-and-forth latency.
Why not assume that any site unrelated to what you are paid to do is out of bounds?
An IT professional is paid to maintain IT (information technology, not Segway HT). In order to maintain IT, a fellow has to be alive. If a fellow is killed by a terrorist, he is no longer alive. Therefore, a limited amount of discussion of anti-terrorism is on topic in an IT discussion.
I am stretching things, but you may be able to pull this one over on your boss.
VESA? No wonder you're worried about "hardware diversity"
OK, you figure out how to support all video cards made by NVIDIA, ATI, and Matrox in the past, present, and future. You figure out how to support all sound cards made by all manufacturers in the past, present, and future.
does ANYTHING still run on your 486?
Yes. The DOS version of TOD is playable all the way down to a 486.
i'm still trying to get the jump from popcorn to cd's to dmca.
If Jane sells popcorn and markets it as capable of circumventing access control, then Jane has violated 17 USC 1201.
Wine is based upon a preexisting work
Wine is a piece of code. No code from any Microsoft implementation of the Windows API has entered the Wine CVS repository.
Wine is based upon a preexisting work
Define "based upon". The statute fails to define based upon; can you provide any elaboration in case law that supports your position?
specifically the Windows APIs, which are protected by copyright.
"In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work" (17 USC 102).
If re-implementation of a standard were forbidden by copyright law, then every BIOS publisher would be in violation, all the way back to the first PC clone, and the International Organization for Standardization would control all implementations of its standards.
Or, what about a Linux Distro that just booted from CD, effectively treating your PC like a high powered console when you want to play a game?
A console has the same hardware interface on every unit. The only pretty much guaranteed video interface on a non-XBox PC is VESA, and the only guaranteed sound card is the internal speaker. (Modern sound cards have pretty much abandoned the SB interface.) Or do you want to include drivers for every sound card and video card ever made? It's going to be pretty tough to get either a. drivers, or b. technical specifications necessary to write drivers, out of some manufacturers of video cards or sound cards.
If I write something really, really small in a faint pencil, and your photocopier doesn't copy it, TOUGH LUCK. You have no right to demand that I write it more legibly.
And you have no right to demand that I not build a more sensitive photocopier.
So, you are claiming that Wine doesn't infringe on any of Microsoft's rights?
Correct. If you believe otherwise, please quote title and section from United States Code. Here's U.S. copyright law. Here's U.S. patent law.
Hint: Under U.S. copyright law, the ideas embodied in a copyrighted work are not protected; only the expression is. Even the DMCA has an explicit exemption for reverse engineering necessary to achieve interoperability.
an old Win9x or earlier parition
Better yet, FreeDOS. However, your point about sound cards that have abandoned the GUS and SB hardware interfaces still stands. The only reason why video cards still work is that the BIOS checks for a VGA compatible card during the self-test.
Anything Goes in a Slashback(tm)!
As I understand certainly MPEG 2 (as used in DVD [Video]) uses MP3 to encode the audio.
No, the version of MPEG-2 used in DVD Video uses Dolby's AC3 codec, generally in 2.0 or 5.1 channel configuration. One of the reasons Apple can't license iDVD free of charge to all Macintosh computer owners is that Apple must pay the MPEG-2 patent pool for each DVD encoding or decoding software product shipped.
Wait, what's flava mean?
flavor (flay' v@r), flava (flay' v@), n.
(Source: American Heritage Dictionary)
When spelled flava, the word most often refers to definition 2, especially in a sense of "look and feel".
Either way, the DVD technology is protected by trade secret laws, not by patents
Wrong. DVD uses MPEG-2 video and AC3 audio, which are patented in the United States.
why does everyone here seem to continually support the breaking of federal laws?
Laws are broken (violated) because they're broken (they don't work). Before the mid-1860s, there existed federal laws that regulated slavery, requiring citizens to act as police and return slaves to their owners. Then Congress realized that those laws were unjust and changed the law to ban slavery outright. Once the states signed on, the 13th Amendment became part of the U.S. Constitution.
speeding is selling drugs is murder is stealing copyrighted software and art.
So do you think people should be imprisoned for life just for going 1 mph over the speed limit?
Please try to make sense next time, Mr. Anonymous Coward.
Roughly translated: You are free to reverse-engineer a copyright product (and use the method you develop) for the purposes of interopability
You left off the last part: "Provided, that you have tons of money to hire attorneys to represent you in a court of law."
However when you actually do the download, check out the new License (not on the download page, the one in the file). It expressly forbids linking with GPL software. Yikes, what happened over there?
Netscape 7 includes proprietary components such as Netscape Instant Messenger and possibly some sort of Sun Java(tm) runtime environment. It is based on the Mozilla source code, which is MPL/GPL/Lesser GPL licensed; Netscape Communications simply chose the MPL option.
That's the difference between the browser Mozilla and the company Netscape? How do you compare a browser to a company?
The Internet suite distributed by Netscape Communications, a unit of AOL(tw), is called "Netscape". Version 4.x was called "Communicator". It began to be officially known as "Netscape" starting with version 6.
Ooooh! You meant the difference between Mozilla and Navigator, right?
From Mozilla 1.1, I pull down the Window menu, and I see the word "Navigator". I guess both Netscape and Mozilla use the term "Navigator" to refer to the web browser component.
they are *charging* for what they *used to give away* ... system software to run on their hardware.
Major Mac OS upgrades (7.1 -> 7.5 -> 8.1 -> 8.6 -> 9.1 -> 10.1 -> 10.2) have not been free of charge since System 7 was released back in mid-1991.
Now they are charging for *any* software needed to add *any* 3rd party hardware to their hardware.
Not exactly. You can use any Mac platform DVD software with the third-party drives. Apple is charging for its own DVD software. Just buy a SuperDrive and have your Apple dealer install it for cricket's sake. If you misrepresented your SuperDrive ownership in order to obtain a license to Apple's DVD software, that's your problem.
This is an open standard. It's just patented. Patents expire.
Not if Thomson Multimedia and the major pharmaceutical companies get together and lobby Congress for a Cherilyn Lapierre Patent Term Extension Act like Hollywood did back in 1998.
they just want to get paid for (I hope) work that they did in developing the technology
Then why does Thomson Multimedia require an annual minimum royalty of $15,000? That keeps the XMMS people from being able to distribute their product because they cannot charge for every copy that is passed around under the terms of the GPL.
The royalty is quite reasonable. If you had to pay $0.75 for your copy of WinAMP, would that really seem unfair to you?
AOL Time Warner, the parent company of Nullsoft, can afford to pay the minimum royalties that Thomson Multimedia asks for. If I wrote and published an MP3 player, on the other hand, and only 1,000 copies were downloaded in a given year, I would have to pay $15.00 per copy.
I have a large library of audio files that need to get published on the net. They're free, noncommercial, non-revenue-generating.
If your site's space and bandwidth are paid for with advertisements, then it is not non-revenue-generating. If they are demos for potential employers to look at when evaluating your fitness for employment, then they are not non-revenue-generating. You may want to argue differently, but Thomson Multimedia most likely has more money to spend on legal representation than you have.
I'll publish them at least in MP3 format, and maybe Ogg if I can get a good encoder
I have a feeling that the parent comment is a repost from the previous article about MP3 patent licensing. In response, I recommended OggDropXPd and noted that users of Winamp 2.80 and later could play Ogg files.
Actually, most search engines exist to make a profit by selling off the results to the highest bidder.
Google does this as well, except it clearly splits the paid results from the pure link popularity results, placing the "Sponsored Links" in a separate div that's set to float:right.