[To enter a network that requires users to share files,] download CDEX (it's free), insert CD, rip to MP3, share folder.
CDex + LAME --r3mix works for my collection of Eminem (who expressed approval of MP3 trading in the lyrics of "The Real Slim Shady"), Nine Inch Nails, Michael Jackson, and Weird Al Yankovic CDs, and recordings of songs that I write and perform, but then how do I get credits for downloading copies of music videos or Japanese animated television series? I don't have both a DVD-ROM drive and a plane ticket to Canada, so I can't rip my own.
I am trying gnunet at the moment. In my opinion, we need more users - my modem light on my server is barely flickering.
You answered your own question:
maybe they all use DOS
Most users of peer-to-peer file sharing software use either an MS-DOS based operating system (Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME) or an NT-based operating system (Windows 2000, Windows XP). Until the developers get such an app running under Cygwin, it'll be nearly impossible to attract Windows users, who might have to buy another hard disk on which to install FNU/Linux because FIPS, the partition shortening tool included with popular Linux distributions, can't shorten NTFS partitions.
I don't like blue screens, I don't like spyware, I don't know how to use CVS, and I don't have the second hard disk to hold a Linux installation. (My current hard disk already dual-boots winme and win2k, and FIPS can't shorten an NTFS partition.) Besides, some of the apps let a server administrator kick off any user who connects to the Internet at ISDN data rate or slower.
Share files.
I share as much as I am able, but if I share files, I will cut off the person downloading from me when I go offline. Because of how I connect to the Internet, whenever somebody else in the household wants to make a voice telephone call, I have to disconnect from the Internet.
Need a link? Check here [gnucleus.net].
Gnucleus is a Gnutella client. I've read rumors that the design of the Gnutella network is not very compatible with connections slower than 64 kbps, which unfortunately is the fastest connection that many users in many geographical areas can afford. To get a faster connection would require either upwards of $500 per month for a T1 or $200,000 to move house. Is it true that Gnucleus will not work well over dial-up?
We suddenly have a supply of credits and a demand for credits! Now we have a way to allocate resources!
In economics, supply and demand state the value of one good in terms of the value of another (usually cash). So what's the other good? It can't be cash because cash transactions will get users in trouble with tax law if not copyright law.
If you are having problems with your connection, then perhaps you should stop trying to get files over a frickin' dialup modem.
I am not willing to pay upwards of $500 per month for what is in many areas the next step up from dial-up and ISDN, namely T1. Some areas don't have cable modem service.
For each byte I download from you, I give you 1 digitally signed credit that raises your possibilities
Then how, late in the game, does a fellow new to the network get "something to share" that others will download? Or are we looking at more elitism than some Direct Connect hubs are notorious for?
don't allow people with 0 files in their library to download
Then what about one file?
Besides, making the network trade-only leads to a chicken-and-egg problem for new users. How are "honest" users (the ones willing to share) supposed to get into the network in the first place? Where does a new network member get her first audio or video file?
[The Open Group's web site lists] Apple as a vendor complaint to the UNIX specification
In that case, the proper adjective is not "UNIX" but "conforming to the Single UNIX Specification". The term "UNIX" means "both conforming to the Single UNIX Specification and having taken the step of licensing the UNIX Mark and paying royalties". I couldn't find Apple's name in the Catalog of Registered Products.
Where you been, son? Mac OS X was released over a year ago!
Yes, but Mac® OS X is not a UNIX® brand system. FreeBSD's not UNIX. NetBSD's not UNIX. GNU's not UNIX. (This trademark confusion almost makes me want to put together a distribution of GNU/Linux software and call it KLEENIX.)
OK, now what UNIX® system has a GUI as pretty as Mac OS X's?
Here's problem number 2: you seem to need IE to create a.NET Passport. It doesn't let me, a user of Mozilla, access the page for creating or updating a.NET Passport.
As far as getting around it by calling them "monitors" -- maybe, but then you can't have any kind of receiver in there.
Correct. A monitor is a TV without a tuner.
Questionable if you can even have a speaker.
I saw some NTSC monitors with built-in speakers at a video game shop; they were designed for use with game consoles. Heck, I own a VGA-ish monitor with built-in stereo speakers. It's an Apple 15" display that came with my old Macintosh Performa 6230 from 1996.
More resolution would be a boon to ice hockey fans. TV coverage of ice hockey now is a poor compromise, either zoom in until you can barely see the puck and loose all the peripheral action, or pull back, loose the puck entirely, but see what's going on.
movies are the killer app for HDTV. You realize that this is nearly 7x the resolution of the best DVD, right?
Except American HDTV runs at 18 Mbits/s, which is only double DVD's standard data rate of 9 Mbits/s. Yes, I know that some long movies are stored with a lower data rate, and some movies have stuff like multiple audio tracks (common everywhere) or video angles (most common in adult films) that eat up bandwidth, but DVD titles authored to Superbit standards use the entire bitstream for the primary audio and video at 480p, and apparently, the average viewer can see the difference between 5 Mbits/s (average DVD, or standard 480p DTV) and 9 Mbits/s (Superbit).
But you can bet that for piracy prevention reasons, movies broadcast on American digital terrestrial TV will be downsampled to 480p, which is no better than DVD.
You can't shine shit. You can't recreate information that was orginally lost when shooting on 35mm.
However, you can recognize textures from one frame to the next, or use the fractal transform to create faux detail, or whatever other proprietary techniques this "DMR" system uses.
Who do you assume that everyone who uses Linux is a programmer?
I never tried to imply that. Not every individual has access to programming skill, but most corporations do. If a company wants to sell copies of software to users of free *n?x systems, and it wants to support multiple distributions, it can either 1. package the software for Red Hat, Debian, United Linux, FreeBSD, Darwin, etc., or 2. package the software as a tarball that contains a shell script that compiles and runs a simple install wizard.
But if you use "Re" + "dH" + "at" in your code instead of "RedHat" (or whatever your language of choice uses for string concatenation) it will not be found by joe coder (or sed)
And searching the.o files for the strings "Red" and "Hat" is difficult how?
I just can't believe anybody would consciously name a format DVDA
What's wrong? Do the initials for "Digital Versatile Disc[1] Audio" spell something lewd? Is a "duda"[2] something sexual in some foreign language?
[1] Yes, I know that the DVD standard does not contain an official expansion for "DVD", but this one was commonly used just before the DVD forum decided that there would be no expansion.
[2] U == V in Latin, and many jokes often treat U == V when adding up the Roman numerals in "CVTE PVRPLE DINOSAVR".
It's worth noting that in my state (Arizona), [spamming telephones using automatic dial announcement devices] is illegal.
It's also illegal in the United States for anyone involved in interstate commerce. It was made illegal as part of the same junk fax law (47 USC 227), which I refuse to call the TCPA because of the Palladium implications.
More precisely, 1923-1950 or so. I'll explain the change later in this comment.
Today I'm guessing that the originals are tightly guarded, and well preserved.
No, they're not well preserved. Movie studios would rather see those old films DIE. They sit on the copyrights of old films and do not issue reprints on VHS or DVD because they would compete with box office and rentals of the newest $100 million blockbuster. Film preservation societies often have trouble getting the rights from the studios because of good ol' Sonny Bono.
Now about that 1923 bit: that's Sonny Bono's fault. All works first published in the United States on or after January 1, 1923, are under a perpetual copyright. To go around the Constitution's requirement of "limited Times", the US Congress sets only a limited term at any one time, but there seems to be a tacit agreement between Congress and The Walt Disney Company to pass a 20-year extension law every 20 years. There was a 19-year extension in 1978 and a 20-year extension in 1998; are you beginning to get the picture?
This is not a monopoly... but an advantage... perhaps in the form of a tax on unauthorized copies sold, some or all of which is passed on to the original creator
For some works (such as a songwriter's work used on a recording), this is already done, in the form of compulsory licensing, but how do you know that Disney won't lobby to have this tax set at $150,000 per copy for motion pictures?
This means that if the artist is unsatisfied with their publisher they can find another, and the right to do so can never be sold away, contractually or otherwise.
What about those people who collaborated on an audiovisual work but contributed less than 1% because there were 300 people working on that work? What rights will they have?
I agree with your modest proposal. Let me phrase it in different, more concise terms that somebody familiar with the law would understand: "Copyright, with guaranteed credit, and with compulsory royalty-based licensing for all exclusive rights of all works, and no permanent contractual assignment of royalty rights." I'd support such a scheme, but good luck getting it past any country that has signed the Berne Convention.
The defendant always has the right to trial by jury for a criminal case.
In the United States, the defendant has a right to trial by jury in a civil case as well. The seventh amendment: "In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved."
What's the advantage gained by the hand-coded stack approach? Smaller stack frame, you say? Why does that affect execution speed in this context?
A smaller stack frame gives your code a better chance of running correctly on an embedded system whose processor architecture specifies a 256 byte stack, such as anything based on a 6502 processor. I've had to program for one of those (the NES). Heck, I've had to program on one of those (the Apple IIe).
In C, for the same function, you are allowed to send it the same array twice (it's called aliasing)
As velco pointed out, ISO fixed the aliasing problem in C99. C99's 'restrict' keyword lets a developer specify in a function's prototype that no two input pointers point to the same area of memory, letting the C compiler do Fortran-esque optimizations. GCC is working toward C99 support.
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[To enter a network that requires users to share files,] download CDEX (it's free), insert CD, rip to MP3, share folder.
CDex + LAME --r3mix works for my collection of Eminem (who expressed approval of MP3 trading in the lyrics of "The Real Slim Shady"), Nine Inch Nails, Michael Jackson, and Weird Al Yankovic CDs, and recordings of songs that I write and perform, but then how do I get credits for downloading copies of music videos or Japanese animated television series? I don't have both a DVD-ROM drive and a plane ticket to Canada, so I can't rip my own.
I am trying gnunet at the moment. In my opinion, we need more users - my modem light on my server is barely flickering.
You answered your own question:
maybe they all use DOS
Most users of peer-to-peer file sharing software use either an MS-DOS based operating system (Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME) or an NT-based operating system (Windows 2000, Windows XP). Until the developers get such an app running under Cygwin, it'll be nearly impossible to attract Windows users, who might have to buy another hard disk on which to install FNU/Linux because FIPS, the partition shortening tool included with popular Linux distributions, can't shorten NTFS partitions.
I want to help, but I've run into snags:
See a new client? Check it out.
I don't like blue screens, I don't like spyware, I don't know how to use CVS, and I don't have the second hard disk to hold a Linux installation. (My current hard disk already dual-boots winme and win2k, and FIPS can't shorten an NTFS partition.) Besides, some of the apps let a server administrator kick off any user who connects to the Internet at ISDN data rate or slower.
Share files.
I share as much as I am able, but if I share files, I will cut off the person downloading from me when I go offline. Because of how I connect to the Internet, whenever somebody else in the household wants to make a voice telephone call, I have to disconnect from the Internet.
Need a link? Check here [gnucleus.net].
Gnucleus is a Gnutella client. I've read rumors that the design of the Gnutella network is not very compatible with connections slower than 64 kbps, which unfortunately is the fastest connection that many users in many geographical areas can afford. To get a faster connection would require either upwards of $500 per month for a T1 or $200,000 to move house. Is it true that Gnucleus will not work well over dial-up?
We suddenly have a supply of credits and a demand for credits! Now we have a way to allocate resources!
In economics, supply and demand state the value of one good in terms of the value of another (usually cash). So what's the other good? It can't be cash because cash transactions will get users in trouble with tax law if not copyright law.
If you are having problems with your connection, then perhaps you should stop trying to get files over a frickin' dialup modem.
I am not willing to pay upwards of $500 per month for what is in many areas the next step up from dial-up and ISDN, namely T1. Some areas don't have cable modem service.
For each byte I download from you, I give you 1 digitally signed credit that raises your possibilities
Then how, late in the game, does a fellow new to the network get "something to share" that others will download? Or are we looking at more elitism than some Direct Connect hubs are notorious for?
don't allow people with 0 files in their library to download
Then what about one file?
Besides, making the network trade-only leads to a chicken-and-egg problem for new users. How are "honest" users (the ones willing to share) supposed to get into the network in the first place? Where does a new network member get her first audio or video file?
[The Open Group's web site lists] Apple as a vendor complaint to the UNIX specification
In that case, the proper adjective is not "UNIX" but "conforming to the Single UNIX Specification". The term "UNIX" means "both conforming to the Single UNIX Specification and having taken the step of licensing the UNIX Mark and paying royalties". I couldn't find Apple's name in the Catalog of Registered Products.
Yes, the UNIX Mark requires a royalty. Here's the fee schedule.
Where you been, son? Mac OS X was released over a year ago!
Yes, but Mac® OS X is not a UNIX® brand system. FreeBSD's not UNIX. NetBSD's not UNIX. GNU's not UNIX. (This trademark confusion almost makes me want to put together a distribution of GNU/Linux software and call it KLEENIX.)
OK, now what UNIX® system has a GUI as pretty as Mac OS X's?
Let's all create passports
Here's problem number 2: you seem to need IE to create a .NET Passport. It doesn't let me, a user of Mozilla, access the page for creating or updating a .NET Passport.
TV people curse worse than sailors.
Who curses worse, a stereotypical sailor or Marshall Mathers?
As far as getting around it by calling them "monitors" -- maybe, but then you can't have any kind of receiver in there.
Correct. A monitor is a TV without a tuner.
Questionable if you can even have a speaker.
I saw some NTSC monitors with built-in speakers at a video game shop; they were designed for use with game consoles. Heck, I own a VGA-ish monitor with built-in stereo speakers. It's an Apple 15" display that came with my old Macintosh Performa 6230 from 1996.
More resolution would be a boon to ice hockey fans. TV coverage of ice hockey now is a poor compromise, either zoom in until you can barely see the puck and loose all the peripheral action, or pull back, loose the puck entirely, but see what's going on.
Or do what Fox TV did and put a halo around the puck.
movies are the killer app for HDTV. You realize that this is nearly 7x the resolution of the best DVD, right?
Except American HDTV runs at 18 Mbits/s, which is only double DVD's standard data rate of 9 Mbits/s. Yes, I know that some long movies are stored with a lower data rate, and some movies have stuff like multiple audio tracks (common everywhere) or video angles (most common in adult films) that eat up bandwidth, but DVD titles authored to Superbit standards use the entire bitstream for the primary audio and video at 480p, and apparently, the average viewer can see the difference between 5 Mbits/s (average DVD, or standard 480p DTV) and 9 Mbits/s (Superbit).
But you can bet that for piracy prevention reasons, movies broadcast on American digital terrestrial TV will be downsampled to 480p, which is no better than DVD.
You can't shine shit. You can't recreate information that was orginally lost when shooting on 35mm.
However, you can recognize textures from one frame to the next, or use the fractal transform to create faux detail, or whatever other proprietary techniques this "DMR" system uses.
Who do you assume that everyone who uses Linux is a programmer?
I never tried to imply that. Not every individual has access to programming skill, but most corporations do. If a company wants to sell copies of software to users of free *n?x systems, and it wants to support multiple distributions, it can either 1. package the software for Red Hat, Debian, United Linux, FreeBSD, Darwin, etc., or 2. package the software as a tarball that contains a shell script that compiles and runs a simple install wizard.
But if you use "Re" + "dH" + "at" in your code instead of "RedHat" (or whatever your language of choice uses for string concatenation) it will not be found by joe coder (or sed)
And searching the .o files for the strings "Red" and "Hat" is difficult how?
I just can't believe anybody would consciously name a format DVDA
What's wrong? Do the initials for "Digital Versatile Disc[1] Audio" spell something lewd? Is a "duda"[2] something sexual in some foreign language?
[1] Yes, I know that the DVD standard does not contain an official expansion for "DVD", but this one was commonly used just before the DVD forum decided that there would be no expansion.
[2] U == V in Latin, and many jokes often treat U == V when adding up the Roman numerals in "CVTE PVRPLE DINOSAVR".
It's worth noting that in my state (Arizona), [spamming telephones using automatic dial announcement devices] is illegal.
It's also illegal in the United States for anyone involved in interstate commerce. It was made illegal as part of the same junk fax law (47 USC 227), which I refuse to call the TCPA because of the Palladium implications.
During the "golden age of film" 1920-1950 or so
More precisely, 1923-1950 or so. I'll explain the change later in this comment.
Today I'm guessing that the originals are tightly guarded, and well preserved.
No, they're not well preserved. Movie studios would rather see those old films DIE. They sit on the copyrights of old films and do not issue reprints on VHS or DVD because they would compete with box office and rentals of the newest $100 million blockbuster. Film preservation societies often have trouble getting the rights from the studios because of good ol' Sonny Bono.
Now about that 1923 bit: that's Sonny Bono's fault. All works first published in the United States on or after January 1, 1923, are under a perpetual copyright. To go around the Constitution's requirement of "limited Times", the US Congress sets only a limited term at any one time, but there seems to be a tacit agreement between Congress and The Walt Disney Company to pass a 20-year extension law every 20 years. There was a 19-year extension in 1978 and a 20-year extension in 1998; are you beginning to get the picture?
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This is not a monopoly ... but an advantage ... perhaps in the form of a tax on unauthorized copies sold, some or all of which is passed on to the original creator
For some works (such as a songwriter's work used on a recording), this is already done, in the form of compulsory licensing, but how do you know that Disney won't lobby to have this tax set at $150,000 per copy for motion pictures?
This means that if the artist is unsatisfied with their publisher they can find another, and the right to do so can never be sold away, contractually or otherwise.
What about those people who collaborated on an audiovisual work but contributed less than 1% because there were 300 people working on that work? What rights will they have?
I agree with your modest proposal. Let me phrase it in different, more concise terms that somebody familiar with the law would understand: "Copyright, with guaranteed credit, and with compulsory royalty-based licensing for all exclusive rights of all works, and no permanent contractual assignment of royalty rights." I'd support such a scheme, but good luck getting it past any country that has signed the Berne Convention.
The painter of the Mona Lisa is long dead, and and moral rights went with him.
Are moral rights for life, or for life plus 70?
Pick something a little newer.
How about Sonny Bono, patron saint of excessively long copyright terms, who died in the 1990s?
The defendant always has the right to trial by jury for a criminal case.
In the United States, the defendant has a right to trial by jury in a civil case as well. The seventh amendment: "In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved."
What's the advantage gained by the hand-coded stack approach? Smaller stack frame, you say? Why does that affect execution speed in this context?
A smaller stack frame gives your code a better chance of running correctly on an embedded system whose processor architecture specifies a 256 byte stack, such as anything based on a 6502 processor. I've had to program for one of those (the NES). Heck, I've had to program on one of those (the Apple IIe).
In C, for the same function, you are allowed to send it the same array twice (it's called aliasing)
As velco pointed out, ISO fixed the aliasing problem in C99. C99's 'restrict' keyword lets a developer specify in a function's prototype that no two input pointers point to the same area of memory, letting the C compiler do Fortran-esque optimizations. GCC is working toward C99 support.