Adobe Photoshop is available only for Microsoft platforms. Apple's Mac OS X is at least partially a Microsoft platform because it comes with bundled IE and because Microsoft owns (or owned?) several million dollars worth of non-voting Apple Computer Inc stock.
Another view: Adobe is the Microsoft of publishing software.
However, if you are happy with the feature set of Adobe Photoshop Elements (a $100 Photoshop package without high-end output capability which should be enough for most of those who do no work in print), you might also be happy with The GIMP, which is also available for Windows.
the free software community doesn't have an equivalent to
Microsoft Access (gui + form builder, not just Jet)
Replace the Jet backend with MySQL, and replace the form builder with any tool for building HTML forms. Stick some PHP glue in the middle, throw it all on an Apache server, and you're set.
ESRI ArcGIS (Grass doesn't count)
In a killer app discussion, it's wise to state whythe Grass package does not perform GIS to your standards.
WinZip
Last time I used GNOME (about 1.2 or so), it had functionality equivalent to Microsoft Windows ME and Windows XP operating systems' Compressed Folders feature.
Also, they are addicted to their palms & blackberries (or is it blackberrys as blackberry is a TM)
Trademarks such as Palm(tm) and Blackberry(tm) are adjectives. To pluralize a trademark, pluralize the generic noun that follows it: Palm device becomes Palm devices; Blackberry device becomes Blackberry device; Microsoft Exchange server becomes Microsoft Exchange servers; Macintosh computer becomes Macintosh computers; Pizza Hut pizza becomes Pizza Hut pizzas; Slim-Fast shake becomes Slim-Fast shakes.
SGI must have done this in the late 80s or early 90s. Haven't they expired.
Utility patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office last for twenty years. Patents on a device that controls access to a copyrighted work fall under copyright law, rather than patent law, and last for the life of the inventor plus 70 years.
Patents are subject to various limited extensions if extension is necessary to get regulatory approval from the FDA or some other agency before selling the product.
If you don't know about it
Then you're still liable for injunction and damages in a patent infringement case. You're just not liable for triple damages and attorney's fees.
Yeah, and the EPA can put you in jail because you emit too much carbon dioxide. Countless companies can sue you because just by sending that message to slashdot, you infringed upon hundreds of patents--many of them invalid.
If you are forced to settle a frivolous lawsuit because you do not have the money to defend yourself in court, <cliche>then the IP terrorists have already won.</cliche>
Yes, there are some stupid judges out there
Not only are copyright owners able to shop for a favorable judge, but other judges often have to follow their precedent under the rules of the common law.
If you are so worried about this issue, then why don't you start your own organization. You can call it "Falsely Usurped Copyright Musician Endowment.";-)
I wonder if the EFF could help out on this.
I also noticed you conveniently cut off my sentance at p2p. The other methods of delivery I mentioned would still have the same risk.
I understand that. I cut off the sentence after the first method you happened to mention. Had you mentioned MP3.com first, I would have cut it off after that.
Should the public get wind of such crap
The American public gets much of its news from television, and all of the major for-profit broadcast television networks except for NBC are owned by motion picture studios, who do not wish to inform the public of the expansions of their monopolies. (AOL owns CNN, the WB Network, and Warner Bros. Pictures; Viacom owns CBS, UPN, and Paramount Pictures; Disney owns ABC and Touchstone Pictures; News Corp. owns Fox Network, Fox News Channel, and Fox Searchlight Pictures. NBC's news operation is a joint venture with Microsoft Corporation.) Note that they ran no stories when the Bono Act or the DMCA was passed.
And your sig about "an 800 pound cartoon elephant" applies beautifully to the asymmetry of power between big corporate copyright owning plaintiffs and small individual coincidentally infringing defendants.
So we can apply this idea to patent law, but my question is can it then be applied to copywrite law as well?
Theoretically, yes. The Betamax decision protects products that have a substantially non-infringing use, such as VCRs.
The DMCA (17 USC 1201), on the other hand, is not concerned with copyright infringement but rather circumvention of access control. It does include an explicit exemption for devices with substantial non-infringing use in 1201(a)(2) and (b)(1), but judges ignore the exemption if they are bought and paid for like the MPAA attorney turned judge who heard the DeCSS case.
but who said anything about PPP? She was complaining about not being able to send/receive e-mail from her boyfriend.
If you cannot connect to the Internet because your online service does not use standard PPP to connect, you cannot receive e-mail from your e-mail account at the online service which does not use standard PPP to connect nor standard SMTP/IMAP to access e-mail. (I'm thinking AOL and MSN here.)
In addition, if you're using an online service that doesn't use standard PPP to connect, I'd suggest getting another one.
When you terminate your ISP access, you generally also terminate your e-mail address unless your ISP offers automatic forwarding for honorably terminated accounts (i.e. accounts that were not terminated because of an AUP violation or unpaid bills). For example, AOL does not. Thus, all your e-mail contacts would be unable to contact you. When you forget your password on a web site, it won't be able to send you a new password (which is what happened to Fascdot Killed My Pr[evious User]).
By the tone of your previous comment, you seem to imply that only a text editor can create files under 1.4 MB and that a modern office suite such as AppleWorks will bloat a 30 KB sermon into a 2 MB file.
Not being able to fit a sermon onto a floppy? Please. I don't think even Microsoft Word could bloat a sermon into more than 1.4 MB.
Last time I looked, neither SMTP nor POP gave a rat's ass what OS was running
Unless you are paying $$$ per month for an online service that doesn't use standard PPP to connect. Examples of such services include America Online, NetZero, and possibly MSN. Of those three, only America Online has a client for the Macintosh platform.
(but Salon, published by MSNBC, would NEVER do that, right?)
That's like saying all possible DNA sequences have been created. IDIC: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations.
In melodies, there is not an infinite sequence of notes to choose from. Had you read the article I linked to, you would have discovered that a songwriter can get taken to court for matching four notes of an existing melody, which is fewer than infinity.
No, the real problem is that music artists are getting lazier and less creative.
I have written software to test that hypothesis, by generating random sequences of note intervals, and you know what they sounded like? Copyrighted pop songs from the 1950s through the 1990s.
There's not much difference between "CISC architecture" and "RISC architecture" anymore. Most processors (such as Pentium II/III, Pentium 4, K6, Athlon, Opteron, Crusoe) have an emulator on the front end that translates x86 bytecode to RISC micro-ops, and a regular RISC back end[1]. Some processors from Sun have the same thing for Java(tm) bytecode.
[1] I know Crusoe's RISC is EPIC, but it doesn't change the point of the argument.
I wish there was some kind of P2P network to only offer legal content
Performers not supported by RIAA labels do not have access to RIAA A&R and thus do not have access to songwriters. They must write their own songs. But problem: Just about all possible melodies are taken. So how again can such "legal content" exist?
The copyright on the song "Happy Birthday" is owned by Warner-Chappell, the music publishing division of AOL Time Warner. Because the song was first published on or after January 1, 1923, it falls under perpetual copyright on the installment plan (19-year extension in 1978, 20-year extension in 1998, who knows what in 2018).
If I create a song or movie, it is perfectly legal for me to distribute it on a p2p network
Not necessarily. If a song you wrote is "substantially similar" to an existing song, the copyright owner of the existing song may have grounds for legal action. How does a fellow make sure that the melodies in your song aren't the same as any other song released in the last 95 years?
Don't distribute works you don't own the copyright for.
How is it possible to write a song without infringing on an existing copyright? There exist fewer than 50,000 possible melodies in the Western musical scale. So how do I check that the song I just wrote isn't "substantially similar" to some song that was played on the radio 10 years ago?
Incidentally, are there fast algorithms for converting PWM data to and from the frequency domain
DSD is essentially 1-bit PCM, similar to that used in "1-bit DAC" CD players. It can be window-FFT'd into the frequency domain just like any other PCM; you just have to discard the top 63/64 of the spectrum. Going back from window-FFT to 1-bit PCM is a matter of going to 24-bit PCM, oversampling, and then using heavy dithering. However, most audio coding (MP3 or Vorbis) uses MDCT rather than FFT because MDCT is real and overlapping, better matching the characteristics of audio.
I'm not sure why you claim that I'm wrong when you provide a number of examples of CPU-bound build enviromnents. In fact, your post states fairly clearly that only incremental builds are disk-bound
Only building the whole package is CPU-bound. A developer typically does not sit for x hours a day in front of any of the machines that build the whole package; she mostly sits at her own workstation, which builds the software incrementally. And often, in lower-profile projects, she doesn't run clobber builds except on a branch, right before a release.
(Or do your files really take more than 2 seconds to load from disk [during the link phase]?)
Yes. I don't always have the privilege of a RAID 5 array. I often hack on a laptop, and laptop computers' low-wattage hard disk drives are notorious for their slow performance. Opening several dozen.o (object code) and.a (object code library) files requires several dozen seeks across the hard disk. In addition, some cross-compilation target architectures use a post-link tool to add asset data to the finished executable. The disk hits add up.
You have to download crazy 3rd party addons to get what you want.
Mozilla is a "crazy 3rd party addon".
Of course the superior browser, Mozilla, has all this ready for me out of the box.
Out of the box, a home computer ordered from Dell.com (where the OS options are WinXP Home or WinXP Pro) will come with IE 6 installed. Mozilla is nowhere to be found until you download it using IE 6.
(I use Mozilla as my primary browser on my Windows 2000 box, but I feel that somebody has to state the other side of the story.)
Mozilla supports the Java platform, Flash, and QuickTime. What else do you need?
and scripting languages is unparalled.
Mozilla supports the HTML DOM better than IE does.
The image renderer is awesome.
Wrong. Unlike the image renderer in Mozilla, the image renderer in IE 6 doesn't even support alpha-transparent PNG images.
Not to mention that while an open standard is best, you will find most webpages catered to users running I.E.
Netscape Communications, the company that bankrolls the Mozilla Organization, is not being sued for antitrust violations.
And what about Outlook Express, the joke of an e-mail client that comes with IE? Wasn't that single program responsible for most of the e-mail worms that have plagued Windows machines on the Internet in the last three years? Yes, Microsoft eventually posted patches, but Mozilla's open development process (nightly builds from CVS) got them to the public sooner.
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10 LET M$ = "Microsoft"
Since when was Photoshop a Microsoft product?
Adobe Photoshop is available only for Microsoft platforms. Apple's Mac OS X is at least partially a Microsoft platform because it comes with bundled IE and because Microsoft owns (or owned?) several million dollars worth of non-voting Apple Computer Inc stock.
Another view: Adobe is the Microsoft of publishing software.
However, if you are happy with the feature set of Adobe Photoshop Elements (a $100 Photoshop package without high-end output capability which should be enough for most of those who do no work in print), you might also be happy with The GIMP, which is also available for Windows.
the free software community doesn't have an equivalent to
Microsoft Access (gui + form builder, not just Jet)
Replace the Jet backend with MySQL, and replace the form builder with any tool for building HTML forms. Stick some PHP glue in the middle, throw it all on an Apache server, and you're set.
ESRI ArcGIS (Grass doesn't count)
In a killer app discussion, it's wise to state why the Grass package does not perform GIS to your standards.
WinZip
Last time I used GNOME (about 1.2 or so), it had functionality equivalent to Microsoft Windows ME and Windows XP operating systems' Compressed Folders feature.
Also, they are addicted to their palms & blackberries (or is it blackberrys as blackberry is a TM)
Trademarks such as Palm(tm) and Blackberry(tm) are adjectives. To pluralize a trademark, pluralize the generic noun that follows it: Palm device becomes Palm devices; Blackberry device becomes Blackberry device; Microsoft Exchange server becomes Microsoft Exchange servers; Macintosh computer becomes Macintosh computers; Pizza Hut pizza becomes Pizza Hut pizzas; Slim-Fast shake becomes Slim-Fast shakes.
SGI must have done this in the late 80s or early 90s. Haven't they expired.
Utility patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office last for twenty years. Patents on a device that controls access to a copyrighted work fall under copyright law, rather than patent law, and last for the life of the inventor plus 70 years.
Patents are subject to various limited extensions if extension is necessary to get regulatory approval from the FDA or some other agency before selling the product.
If you don't know about it
Then you're still liable for injunction and damages in a patent infringement case. You're just not liable for triple damages and attorney's fees.
Yeah, and the EPA can put you in jail because you emit too much carbon dioxide. Countless companies can sue you because just by sending that message to slashdot, you infringed upon hundreds of patents--many of them invalid.
If you are forced to settle a frivolous lawsuit because you do not have the money to defend yourself in court, <cliche>then the IP terrorists have already won.</cliche>
Yes, there are some stupid judges out there
Not only are copyright owners able to shop for a favorable judge, but other judges often have to follow their precedent under the rules of the common law.
If you are so worried about this issue, then why don't you start your own organization. You can call it "Falsely Usurped Copyright Musician Endowment." ;-)
I wonder if the EFF could help out on this.
I also noticed you conveniently cut off my sentance at p2p. The other methods of delivery I mentioned would still have the same risk.
I understand that. I cut off the sentence after the first method you happened to mention. Had you mentioned MP3.com first, I would have cut it off after that.
Should the public get wind of such crap
The American public gets much of its news from television, and all of the major for-profit broadcast television networks except for NBC are owned by motion picture studios, who do not wish to inform the public of the expansions of their monopolies. (AOL owns CNN, the WB Network, and Warner Bros. Pictures; Viacom owns CBS, UPN, and Paramount Pictures; Disney owns ABC and Touchstone Pictures; News Corp. owns Fox Network, Fox News Channel, and Fox Searchlight Pictures. NBC's news operation is a joint venture with Microsoft Corporation.) Note that they ran no stories when the Bono Act or the DMCA was passed.
And your sig about "an 800 pound cartoon elephant" applies beautifully to the asymmetry of power between big corporate copyright owning plaintiffs and small individual coincidentally infringing defendants.
So we can apply this idea to patent law, but my question is can it then be applied to copywrite law as well?
Theoretically, yes. The Betamax decision protects products that have a substantially non-infringing use, such as VCRs.
The DMCA (17 USC 1201), on the other hand, is not concerned with copyright infringement but rather circumvention of access control. It does include an explicit exemption for devices with substantial non-infringing use in 1201(a)(2) and (b)(1), but judges ignore the exemption if they are bought and paid for like the MPAA attorney turned judge who heard the DeCSS case.
but who said anything about PPP? She was complaining about not being able to send/receive e-mail from her boyfriend.
If you cannot connect to the Internet because your online service does not use standard PPP to connect, you cannot receive e-mail from your e-mail account at the online service which does not use standard PPP to connect nor standard SMTP/IMAP to access e-mail. (I'm thinking AOL and MSN here.)
In addition, if you're using an online service that doesn't use standard PPP to connect, I'd suggest getting another one.
When you terminate your ISP access, you generally also terminate your e-mail address unless your ISP offers automatic forwarding for honorably terminated accounts (i.e. accounts that were not terminated because of an AUP violation or unpaid bills). For example, AOL does not. Thus, all your e-mail contacts would be unable to contact you. When you forget your password on a web site, it won't be able to send you a new password (which is what happened to Fascdot Killed My Pr[evious User]).
I'll move this off-topic discussion to my journal.
AppleWorks is more of her speed.
By the tone of your previous comment, you seem to imply that only a text editor can create files under 1.4 MB and that a modern office suite such as AppleWorks will bloat a 30 KB sermon into a 2 MB file.
Not being able to fit a sermon onto a floppy? Please. I don't think even Microsoft Word could bloat a sermon into more than 1.4 MB.
Last time I looked, neither SMTP nor POP gave a rat's ass what OS was running
Unless you are paying $$$ per month for an online service that doesn't use standard PPP to connect. Examples of such services include America Online, NetZero, and possibly MSN. Of those three, only America Online has a client for the Macintosh platform.
(but Salon, published by MSNBC, would NEVER do that, right?)
You're thinking of Slate, not Salon.
And what program besides a text editor makes a 30k file?
What program besides a text editor is useful for writing a sermon?
That's like saying all possible DNA sequences have been created. IDIC: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations.
In melodies, there is not an infinite sequence of notes to choose from. Had you read the article I linked to, you would have discovered that a songwriter can get taken to court for matching four notes of an existing melody, which is fewer than infinity.
No, the real problem is that music artists are getting lazier and less creative.
I have written software to test that hypothesis, by generating random sequences of note intervals, and you know what they sounded like? Copyrighted pop songs from the 1950s through the 1990s.
CISC architectures are strictly for lightweights.
There's not much difference between "CISC architecture" and "RISC architecture" anymore. Most processors (such as Pentium II/III, Pentium 4, K6, Athlon, Opteron, Crusoe) have an emulator on the front end that translates x86 bytecode to RISC micro-ops, and a regular RISC back end[1]. Some processors from Sun have the same thing for Java(tm) bytecode.
[1] I know Crusoe's RISC is EPIC, but it doesn't change the point of the argument.
[in Return of the Jedi,] Leia goes 'Luke!', [Luke] turns to her and exclaims 'Carrie!'
Urban legend. Luke actually exclaims 'Hey!'
as far as I know ... there has never been a great porno movie that had all the qualities of the best Hollywood-made film.
Not even Eyes Wide Shut ?
I wish there was some kind of P2P network to only offer legal content
Performers not supported by RIAA labels do not have access to RIAA A&R and thus do not have access to songwriters. They must write their own songs. But problem: Just about all possible melodies are taken. So how again can such "legal content" exist?
The copyright on the song "Happy Birthday" is owned by Warner-Chappell, the music publishing division of AOL Time Warner. Because the song was first published on or after January 1, 1923, it falls under perpetual copyright on the installment plan (19-year extension in 1978, 20-year extension in 1998, who knows what in 2018).
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If I create a song or movie, it is perfectly legal for me to distribute it on a p2p network
Not necessarily. If a song you wrote is "substantially similar" to an existing song, the copyright owner of the existing song may have grounds for legal action. How does a fellow make sure that the melodies in your song aren't the same as any other song released in the last 95 years?
Don't distribute works you don't own the copyright for.
How is it possible to write a song without infringing on an existing copyright? There exist fewer than 50,000 possible melodies in the Western musical scale. So how do I check that the song I just wrote isn't "substantially similar" to some song that was played on the radio 10 years ago?
Incidentally, are there fast algorithms for converting PWM data to and from the frequency domain
DSD is essentially 1-bit PCM, similar to that used in "1-bit DAC" CD players. It can be window-FFT'd into the frequency domain just like any other PCM; you just have to discard the top 63/64 of the spectrum. Going back from window-FFT to 1-bit PCM is a matter of going to 24-bit PCM, oversampling, and then using heavy dithering. However, most audio coding (MP3 or Vorbis) uses MDCT rather than FFT because MDCT is real and overlapping, better matching the characteristics of audio.
I'm not sure why you claim that I'm wrong when you provide a number of examples of CPU-bound build enviromnents. In fact, your post states fairly clearly that only incremental builds are disk-bound
Only building the whole package is CPU-bound. A developer typically does not sit for x hours a day in front of any of the machines that build the whole package; she mostly sits at her own workstation, which builds the software incrementally. And often, in lower-profile projects, she doesn't run clobber builds except on a branch, right before a release.
(Or do your files really take more than 2 seconds to load from disk [during the link phase]?)
Yes. I don't always have the privilege of a RAID 5 array. I often hack on a laptop, and laptop computers' low-wattage hard disk drives are notorious for their slow performance. Opening several dozen .o (object code) and .a (object code library) files requires several dozen seeks across the hard disk. In addition, some cross-compilation target architectures use a post-link tool to add asset data to the finished executable. The disk hits add up.
those researchers probably dont know that napster got shut down.
Napster is dead; long live WinMX, the successor to Napster for Windows and x86 Linux.
You have to download crazy 3rd party addons to get what you want.
Mozilla is a "crazy 3rd party addon".
Of course the superior browser, Mozilla, has all this ready for me out of the box.
Out of the box, a home computer ordered from Dell.com (where the OS options are WinXP Home or WinXP Pro) will come with IE 6 installed. Mozilla is nowhere to be found until you download it using IE 6.
(I use Mozilla as my primary browser on my Windows 2000 box, but I feel that somebody has to state the other side of the story.)
I.E. user: The compatibility with today's plugins
Mozilla supports the Java platform, Flash, and QuickTime. What else do you need?
and scripting languages is unparalled.
Mozilla supports the HTML DOM better than IE does.
The image renderer is awesome.
Wrong. Unlike the image renderer in Mozilla, the image renderer in IE 6 doesn't even support alpha-transparent PNG images.
Not to mention that while an open standard is best, you will find most webpages catered to users running I.E.
Netscape Communications, the company that bankrolls the Mozilla Organization, is not being sued for antitrust violations.
And what about Outlook Express, the joke of an e-mail client that comes with IE? Wasn't that single program responsible for most of the e-mail worms that have plagued Windows machines on the Internet in the last three years? Yes, Microsoft eventually posted patches, but Mozilla's open development process (nightly builds from CVS) got them to the public sooner.
even better: they could deep-link.
dontlink already links directly to sites' linking policies.