if you copyright a painting,... the copies, vs. the original... have different values. what's the original worth with music, etc.? books?
If a work can be reduced to a sequence of discrete symbols such as bits, it can be copied. Music is a sequence of notes, which can be reduced to bits in the MIDI standard. A recording is generally distributed to end users as a sequence of bits that represent audio waveform samples. The text of books is a sequence of characters, which can be reduced to bits in the Unicode standard. However, current technology cannot reduce the texture of an original painting to bits; thus, it has a greater value than any copy.
copyright the car
This is why we need shorter copyright terms on creative works. Copyrights on such works last effectively forever because the EU Parliament, the US Congress, and The Walt Disney Company have an unwritten agreement to enact copyright extensions. On the other hand, "copyrights" on inventions such as parts of cars, and on original designs such as their bodies, fall under patent law and last for only 20 years after the invention is filed in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
You can probably find it on the giFT internet File Transfer (OpenFT) network.
Most users behind a Windows operating system are not able to follow installation steps that start with the following: "Because giFT/OpenFT has not yet been released, you must retrieve the sources via CVS to use the program."
You type in the CD Key and voila a new Windows XP system.
Installation of a Windows XP operating system hasn't completed until you've signed up for telephone service from your local telephone monopoly, signed up for MSN Internet Access (or another ISP), and activated Windows XP.
And how long does it take to backup the user's data and restore it after re-installation? Most of the computers that come with Ghost restore disks do not use a separate partition for My Documents; they just wipe out all the user's precious data on re-install.
Sure it takes time to update through the Windows Update crap, but that's not necessary to have a usable system.
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If your idea of "usable" includes "will possibly contract a virus if you merely surf the Web or read e-mail", then I'd guess Windows 2000 without service packs is usable.
</sarcasm>
I REALLY dig the compression feature in NTFS. Suddenly you have 90% more space.
Unless your applications' native data formats are already compressed (staroffice, mp3, jpg, etc). Doesn't Linux have a compressed filesystem?
I agree entirely. Linux is a terrible gaming platform.
Wrong. Linux runs NES and Game Boy Advance games almost perfectly. Just set up your game pad, put your GBA cartridge in a cart reader that you bought for $50 at Lik-Sang.com, start FCE Ultra (for NES) or VisualBoyAdvance (for GBA), and play away.
Besides, why would you install from the CD:s if you can get it on a DVD?
Because I am a student, and I don't have the funds right now to afford a DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive to replace my Plextor CD-RW drive. I would also rather not shut down and open my computer to swap drives every time I want to read a DVD vs. burn a CD for backup.
You -DO- support your Linux-distribution of choice, don't you?
Yes, and that's why I said "DVD-ROM" instead of "DVD-R" or "DVD+RW". However, I do not support the practices of Motion Picture Association members.
With Redhat you get far more software than the win2k installation, it includes a number of editors, office suits, etc. etc.
Double standard. When Red Hat or Mandrake includes applications, people call it a "useful feature that gives Linux a leg up on Windows." However when Windows includes applications, people call it "anti-competitive." What's the key difference?
Bad checksum in Windows 2000 = pop a different disk in and hit retry.
And where do you get that different disk? Are you willing to spend $300 for a new Windows license every time you scratch up your copy? Or are replacement copies of "end-of-lifed" operating systems still available from Microsoft?
Do they fit a working system into 2.8 MB, or do you have to pay hundreds of dollars a month for T1 broadband in areas where neither DSL nor cable is available?
yes, but a cd/disk is all you need to get a full debian system. Network installation.
In some geographical areas, an Internet connection with faster than 5 kilobytes per second throughput costs $900 per month.
So the choice for Linux users is between several discs that can be easily scratched up even if cared for properly, waiting several days (at four hours per day) for the packages to download over dial-up, paying through the nose for a T1 connection, or paying through the nose to move house to where cable or DSL is available.
As far as the 2K install went...since I don't have a spare EEPROM with the unbroken ATI Xpert 2000 code on it, (I have to send it up to Ottawa, CAN) I'm stuck.
Does ATI offer a downloadable DOS based utility to upgrade the card's BIOS? If so, install FreeDOS and run it.
Yeah, but if they supersampled it, there would be a lot less jaggies.
Granted. However, some Nintendo 64 games did supersample their video, and the GameCube has a comb filter that kills most of the jaggies.
And I seriously doubt your claim that the next generation consoles will not support HDTV.
Did I claim that? I claimed that there would be no HDTV-ready consoles in the "immediate future" (i.e. the next two or three years). I claimed not that the PS3, YBox, and whatever Nintendo comes out with next would not support HDTV but rather that those consoles would not come out within the next year or two. Heck, the Cube hasn't even been out for a year.
Besides, doesn't a U.S. HDTV encoder cost a lot of money for 1. royalties on all the patents involved, and 2. lack of economies of scale?
Until we get higher res renderings I am sorry but 480 lines of detail is still to little
Except 480 lines of detail is all an NTSC television can do. (NTSC scans 525 lines 30 times a second, and roughly 45 of those lines are the vblank synchronization signals, closed captions, etc.) If you want more, you're going to have to buy a television with an HDTV tuner. The TV makers are fighting the FCC's mandate to bundle HDTV tuners. Or you can use a computer display with your console, but by then, if you've somehow plugged a VGA monitor into an XBox console, you might as well play PC games. You're just going to have to grin and bear the fact that you're not going to get Miyamoto and HDTV on the same console in the immediate future.
I sign the keys of people I know by phone, or
interact with entirely online on an ongoing basis.
I understand how it would work by telephone (read the hex digits of the fingerprint) because the public telephone system is a reasonably secure system, but I don't see how it could work for signing a public key you see on somebody's web site. How do you know the connection over which your online buddy sends her key isn't tampered somewhere between her computer and yours?
A [PGP/GNUPG style] Web-of-Trust is the only way to really have much confidence that you're not being Man in the Middled.
I understand the advantages of PGP's model over SSL's, but under PGP's model, how do I get my key signed by somebody who does not live within a few kilometers of my residence? How do I, an individual who wants to send and receive secrets to another party who lives on another continent, establish a chain of key signatures from myself to the other party?
Would be nice, but not gonna happen. There is a lot of code in the BeOS codebase that Be licenced from third parties- they cannot release that code to the public.
id Software's Doom and SciTech's Watcom C++ had the same problem of proprietary code licensed from third parties, but id solved the problem by releasing a crippled version (without sound) and Sybase plans to solve it by rewriting the third-party parts before releasing the code, but that's still taking a long time.
Have you ever had sex with an actual female human? I think not.
What made you think I was either male or lesbian? And what does my virginity have to do with my opinion of motion pictures?
They really DON'T deserve that much money
According to high school/undergrad economic theory, screen actors deserve whatever a studio is Willing To Pay(tm).
Mr. Football player, you do NOT deserve $5 million a year because you can run and throw a fucking ball.
That's not why professional football players claim to deserve high pay. They claim to deserve high pay because they can run and kick a ball better than anybody else in the country.
on the whole I kind of like actors who are ALIVE! I just don't think computers make good actors...
Acting isn't in appearance but rather in the voice. Have you ever watched a well-voiced anime?
As CG characters become more common, and "voice actor" begins to come close to "screen actor" in the American public's ranking of professions, it's not Hollywood that'll collapse but rather the cosmetic companies, as they won't be able to sell their wares with li(n)es such as "This actress uses this expensive makeup, so you should too!"
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if you copyright a painting, ... the copies, vs. the original ... have different values. what's the original worth with music, etc.? books?
If a work can be reduced to a sequence of discrete symbols such as bits, it can be copied. Music is a sequence of notes, which can be reduced to bits in the MIDI standard. A recording is generally distributed to end users as a sequence of bits that represent audio waveform samples. The text of books is a sequence of characters, which can be reduced to bits in the Unicode standard. However, current technology cannot reduce the texture of an original painting to bits; thus, it has a greater value than any copy.
copyright the car
This is why we need shorter copyright terms on creative works. Copyrights on such works last effectively forever because the EU Parliament, the US Congress, and The Walt Disney Company have an unwritten agreement to enact copyright extensions. On the other hand, "copyrights" on inventions such as parts of cars, and on original designs such as their bodies, fall under patent law and last for only 20 years after the invention is filed in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
You can probably find it on the giFT internet File Transfer (OpenFT) network.
Most users behind a Windows operating system are not able to follow installation steps that start with the following: "Because giFT/OpenFT has not yet been released, you must retrieve the sources via CVS to use the program."
On the other hand, Windows is like a BMW.
BMW. Our hardware runs better without Windows.
You type in the CD Key and voila a new Windows XP system.
Installation of a Windows XP operating system hasn't completed until you've signed up for telephone service from your local telephone monopoly, signed up for MSN Internet Access (or another ISP), and activated Windows XP.
and why only Windows and RedHat, why not lump in MacOS 10.2, to get a broader picture?
The test specified identical computers. Red Hat does not make an OS Product for Macintosh hardware. You want Yellow Dog Linux.
She'd just be pressing keys or maybe clicking on stuff
At least Windows includes a simple tutorial program (the infamous "Welcome To Windows") on first boot.
Installing any operating system and connecting to the internet without installing all the latest patches (yes, that includes linux) is ... stupid.
Without connecting to the Internet, how does a fellow obtain the patches?
his recovery disks are nothing more than hard drive images. He can reinstall Windows and MSOffice in ten minutes.
And how long does it take to install the rest of the applications (virus checker, firewall, compiler, decent RGB image editor, non-bloated media player, etc) that are either obviated in the UNIX architecture or installed with Mandrake?
And how long does it take to backup the user's data and restore it after re-installation? Most of the computers that come with Ghost restore disks do not use a separate partition for My Documents; they just wipe out all the user's precious data on re-install.
Sure it takes time to update through the Windows Update crap, but that's not necessary to have a usable system.
<sarcasm>
If your idea of "usable" includes "will possibly contract a virus if you merely surf the Web or read e-mail", then I'd guess Windows 2000 without service packs is usable.
</sarcasm>
I REALLY dig the compression feature in NTFS. Suddenly you have 90% more space.
Unless your applications' native data formats are already compressed (staroffice, mp3, jpg, etc). Doesn't Linux have a compressed filesystem?
I agree entirely. Linux is a terrible gaming platform.
Wrong. Linux runs NES and Game Boy Advance games almost perfectly. Just set up your game pad, put your GBA cartridge in a cart reader that you bought for $50 at Lik-Sang.com, start FCE Ultra (for NES) or VisualBoyAdvance (for GBA), and play away.
Besides, why would you install from the CD:s if you can get it on a DVD?
Because I am a student, and I don't have the funds right now to afford a DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive to replace my Plextor CD-RW drive. I would also rather not shut down and open my computer to swap drives every time I want to read a DVD vs. burn a CD for backup.
You -DO- support your Linux-distribution of choice, don't you?
Yes, and that's why I said "DVD-ROM" instead of "DVD-R" or "DVD+RW". However, I do not support the practices of Motion Picture Association members.
Umm, if you have another disk available
I already paid $300 for a copy of Windows. Now they want me to pay $300 more for a non-scratched copy?
With Redhat you get far more software than the win2k installation, it includes a number of editors, office suits, etc. etc.
Double standard. When Red Hat or Mandrake includes applications, people call it a "useful feature that gives Linux a leg up on Windows." However when Windows includes applications, people call it "anti-competitive." What's the key difference?
Bad checksum in Windows 2000 = pop a different disk in and hit retry.
And where do you get that different disk? Are you willing to spend $300 for a new Windows license every time you scratch up your copy? Or are replacement copies of "end-of-lifed" operating systems still available from Microsoft?
I've got two floppies for FreeBSD...
Do they fit a working system into 2.8 MB, or do you have to pay hundreds of dollars a month for T1 broadband in areas where neither DSL nor cable is available?
yes, but a cd/disk is all you need to get a full debian system. Network installation.
In some geographical areas, an Internet connection with faster than 5 kilobytes per second throughput costs $900 per month.
So the choice for Linux users is between several discs that can be easily scratched up even if cared for properly, waiting several days (at four hours per day) for the packages to download over dial-up, paying through the nose for a T1 connection, or paying through the nose to move house to where cable or DSL is available.
As far as the 2K install went...since I don't have a spare EEPROM with the unbroken ATI Xpert 2000 code on it, (I have to send it up to Ottawa, CAN) I'm stuck.
Does ATI offer a downloadable DOS based utility to upgrade the card's BIOS? If so, install FreeDOS and run it.
Yeah, but if they supersampled it, there would be a lot less jaggies.
Granted. However, some Nintendo 64 games did supersample their video, and the GameCube has a comb filter that kills most of the jaggies.
And I seriously doubt your claim that the next generation consoles will not support HDTV.
Did I claim that? I claimed that there would be no HDTV-ready consoles in the "immediate future" (i.e. the next two or three years). I claimed not that the PS3, YBox, and whatever Nintendo comes out with next would not support HDTV but rather that those consoles would not come out within the next year or two. Heck, the Cube hasn't even been out for a year.
Besides, doesn't a U.S. HDTV encoder cost a lot of money for 1. royalties on all the patents involved, and 2. lack of economies of scale?
Until we get higher res renderings I am sorry but 480 lines of detail is still to little
Except 480 lines of detail is all an NTSC television can do. (NTSC scans 525 lines 30 times a second, and roughly 45 of those lines are the vblank synchronization signals, closed captions, etc.) If you want more, you're going to have to buy a television with an HDTV tuner. The TV makers are fighting the FCC's mandate to bundle HDTV tuners. Or you can use a computer display with your console, but by then, if you've somehow plugged a VGA monitor into an XBox console, you might as well play PC games. You're just going to have to grin and bear the fact that you're not going to get Miyamoto and HDTV on the same console in the immediate future.
Besides, what's wrong with 240x160 pixels again?
Not a lot [of difference between PC games and Pixar movies]. Toy Story was rendered at [less than 1600x1024]
Yes, but most Renderman shaders are more computationally complex than most Cg shaders.
I sign the keys of people I know by phone, or interact with entirely online on an ongoing basis.
I understand how it would work by telephone (read the hex digits of the fingerprint) because the public telephone system is a reasonably secure system, but I don't see how it could work for signing a public key you see on somebody's web site. How do you know the connection over which your online buddy sends her key isn't tampered somewhere between her computer and yours?
A [PGP/GNUPG style] Web-of-Trust is the only way to really have much confidence that you're not being Man in the Middled.
I understand the advantages of PGP's model over SSL's, but under PGP's model, how do I get my key signed by somebody who does not live within a few kilometers of my residence? How do I, an individual who wants to send and receive secrets to another party who lives on another continent, establish a chain of key signatures from myself to the other party?
Would be nice, but not gonna happen. There is a lot of code in the BeOS codebase that Be licenced from third parties- they cannot release that code to the public.
id Software's Doom and SciTech's Watcom C++ had the same problem of proprietary code licensed from third parties, but id solved the problem by releasing a crippled version (without sound) and Sybase plans to solve it by rewriting the third-party parts before releasing the code, but that's still taking a long time.
Have you ever had sex with an actual female human? I think not.
What made you think I was either male or lesbian? And what does my virginity have to do with my opinion of motion pictures?
They really DON'T deserve that much money
According to high school/undergrad economic theory, screen actors deserve whatever a studio is Willing To Pay(tm).
Mr. Football player, you do NOT deserve $5 million a year because you can run and throw a fucking ball.
That's not why professional football players claim to deserve high pay. They claim to deserve high pay because they can run and kick a ball better than anybody else in the country.
on the whole I kind of like actors who are ALIVE! I just don't think computers make good actors...
Acting isn't in appearance but rather in the voice. Have you ever watched a well-voiced anime?
As CG characters become more common, and "voice actor" begins to come close to "screen actor" in the American public's ranking of professions, it's not Hollywood that'll collapse but rather the cosmetic companies, as they won't be able to sell their wares with li(n)es such as "This actress uses this expensive makeup, so you should too!"