you have to run Xconfigurator, right? (at least you did when redhat 6.1 was around
Fast forward three years to graphical apps that do the same thing. They add video modes to your X server's config file, and then they tell you which keys to press to change resolutions while the X server is running.
They want a nice little graphical installer, not./configure, make, make install.
If you want to submit a patch to make GNU Autoconf create a graphical installer for applications that encapsulates./configure, make, su, make install into a wizard, go right ahead. You'd be doing users of Linux OS[1] a favor.
[1] "Linux kernel" refers to the monolithic kernel developed by Linus Torvalds. "Linux OS" refers to all Linux distributions. "GNU/Linux" refers to Linux distributions that provide a version composed entirely or almost entirely of free software.
You know why they call it community college? Because anybody in the community can go, crackheads, prostitutes, drug dealers, come on in! Community college is like a disco with books. "Here's ten dollars, gonna get my learn on."
Incandescent lighting typically does not convert AC to DC before sending it to the filament, so you get 100 (Europe) or 120 (America/Japan) blinks per second, one for maximum voltage and one for minimum voltage.
That is, unless you were talking about reading by sunlight? That doesn't help during the winter quarter.
But, my god, how can anyone argue with the economics of the situation. Pay $100 once?
Even though a CD-R costs well under a dollar (except in Canada, which taxes the crap out of them), that still doesn't change the fact that the author of the textbook needs to get paid. Say a textbook costs $10 to replicate (figure pulled out of my behind). Good. Now instead of costing $99.95 per copy, an electronic textbook will cost $90.15 per copy ("please insert the original CD and plug in the USB dongle").
I was reading a book the other night, that's been mostly out of print since the 1800's. Great book, but damn hard to find, even to order a copy online.
Was it on Project Gutenberg? If so, you've just showed the value of a rich public domain. Now go to eldred.cc and donate to a legal fund dedicated to making sure it stays that way.
Though I probably could get this on a P2P, I haven't found one that I like. Napster was good, Morpheus was great until Kaaza shafted them
Like Napster? Like old Morpheus? Try WinMX. Features include decentralized index, multiple source downloading, bandwidth throttles which help to make sure ack packets get through, and no *?&@#$@ spyware.
However, there is really nothing technologically preventing record labels from... providing digital music at a fraction of the current price of singles and CDs.
They have to pay the songwriters a royalty per download, no matter what. The going rate is about 8 cents per track, and it's going up in parallel with the Consumer Price Index. At the commonly quoted 25c/download figure (EUR or USD), what does this leave for the performers, the web developers, and the hosting provider?
a.) providing customized CDs for their target audience (in the same vein as the NOW compilation albums)
This is the only way the RIAA can win back its customers. Pressplay's expansion into unlocked "Portable Downloads" is a step in the right direction. For the price of a single CD at a record store, you can download 20 MP3 files in a month and burn a legit music CD-R with no filler. (Filler is the most commonly quoted reason why $18 for a CD is considered too high.)
Many (most?) of the independent record labels are not the RIAA. Isn't "indie label" defined as "label which is not a member of the RIAA"? Or is it just "label which is not owned by the Big Five"?
I wouldn't want the music in a lossy compression format. I want lossless compression
Do you want lossless compression (impossible), or do you want lossless compression of stereo 16-bit linear PCM audio data (.flac)? It's impossible to compress audio data losslessly, as that would require infinite sample rate and infinite sample resolution. The low-pass filtering to 22 kHz and dithering to 16 bits introduce some loss. It's all a matter of how much loss you will tolerate.
The only format that comes to mind that would give you CD quality is.shn
What about MP3 using LAME --r3mix? It gives 176 kbps average (stereo, 19.5 kHz low pass filter) over a typical CD collection, and it's been judged to reproduce audio transparently by a panel of good listeners.
As for better than CD quality, I'm pretty sure that's not possible...save adding more channels
What about upping the sample rate? A 44.1 kHz sample rate reproduces frequencies to 22 kHz, and even though that's a healthy margin of error for me (my hearing tops out at 17 kHz or so), other people have better ears and can hear a 22 kHz pure tone (although they lose much of that to frequency domain masking in actual music). Sony Super Audio CD runs at 64x CD sample rate, using a 1-bit DAC; the data is dithered to sound better than Red Book.
So you sign your rights over to the record company, they send you on tour, promote your music, get it on the radio, lots of people hear your music, and maybe you succeed and maybe you don't - but it's a chance you wouldn't have without them.
So in other words, selling your soul to the RIAA is no better than playing your music in a local venue and then blowing the proceeds at a Vegas casino.
the DMCA (BOOO!) makes it illigal for you to convert out of DRM to standard format even after copywrite expires.
Bullshit.
The DMCA's circumvention ban (17 USC 1201) states: " No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title" (my emphasis). A work that has fallen out of copyright is no longer "protected under this title", where "this title" refers to Title 17, United States Code, which contains U.S. copyright law, mask work law, and protections for ships' hulls.
Likewise, the (a)(2) and (b)(1) bans on circumvention devices apply only to devices designed or marketed to circumvent measures that control access to or enforce monopolies on works protected under Title 17. Thus, without copyright term extensions, anybody could say "DeCSS: Watch your Charlie Chaplin and early Mickey Mouse DVDs on Linux" and get away with releasing DeCSS source code into the wild. The DMCA is toothless without the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
I'm not going to be the one to tell them that their music has to be released in format X with tempo Y or any of that.
That is, until you write your own song, and another songwriter claims, "You stole my melody!"
Finally, I don't think you'll find much mention of the IP issues in the [U.S.] Constitution.
From Article 1, Section 8: "The Congress shall have power... to promote the progress of science [i.e. literature] and useful arts [i.e. technology], by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their writings and discoveries."
From Amendment 1: "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press."
You could profile the music and make a "Tolerance Level" where the song would just have to be close
And this is what commercially available audio fingerprinting solutions do.
but would that affect cover bands?
Why would that be a bad thing? When a fellow pirates a song, he breaks two copyrights: the copyright on the recording and the copyright on the underlying song. The original recording and a recording by a cover band are covered under the same copyright on the same musical work by the same songwriter.
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output the video to a low resolution flat panel, and use a very high resolution digital video camera to re-record it.
<speculation> Palladium has that covered too, with subliminal watermarks that survive a conversion to analog and back to digital. In addition, the sale of digital video cameras will be permitted only to those people who have a legitimate reason to own one (scientific research, motion picture production, etc). Just like driving a car or practicing medicine or law, owning or using a digital camcorder will require a license from a government. </speculation>
Unless Americans get the DMCA repealed NOW, who knows how many more restrictions the movie industry is going to demand, some of which fly directly in the face of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
USB was designed for simple, low throughput devices. You should use firewire
That defeats the purpose. Not all PC motherboards have integrated SCSI or FireWire controllers. (Most Macs have one or the other, but this article is about intel PCs.) By the time you've opened the case to install a 1394 or SCSI card, you could have re-arranged the ATA cables to boot from an ATA hard disk. The OP wanted a solution that worked without having to open the case.
In particular, I wonder how well non-conventional households are represented.
<speculation src="FAQ"> Representation in the Nielsen selection process is entirely based on how many land-line telephone numbers you have. They dial random ten-digit U.S. phone numbers, but they exclude mobile phones because of the federal junk fax law. </speculation>
TiVo viewers (along with ReplayTV viewers) DON'T WATCH COMMERCIALS.
Perhaps ReplayTV has a 30 second skip button that blanks the screen, but Tivo's commercial skip is based on a fast-forward mechanism that backs up a bit when disengaged. Thus, if you place your brand name steady on the screen during a whole 30 second spot, the Tivoers will still see it.
You're not trying to impress me with your developer credentials are you?
No, just pointing out an additional example. If both GCN and PS2 do it, and they manage to make good graphics on a budget (a PS2 chipset + a joystick + a DVD-ROM drive + a DVD decoder license < $200), it's only a matter of time before the tech comes to the PC. Expect good things from ATI in the near future.
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Before long, nobody needed buggy whips anymore.
The difference is that while only BDSMers and the Amish need buggy whips in 2002, all computer users still need software.
Software has to be developed, but what economic incentive is there to develop free software?
you have to run Xconfigurator, right? (at least you did when redhat 6.1 was around
Fast forward three years to graphical apps that do the same thing. They add video modes to your X server's config file, and then they tell you which keys to press to change resolutions while the X server is running.
They want a nice little graphical installer, not ./configure, make, make install.
If you want to submit a patch to make GNU Autoconf create a graphical installer for applications that encapsulates ./configure, make, su, make install into a wizard, go right ahead. You'd be doing users of Linux OS[1] a favor.
[1] "Linux kernel" refers to the monolithic kernel developed by Linus Torvalds. "Linux OS" refers to all Linux distributions. "GNU/Linux" refers to Linux distributions that provide a version composed entirely or almost entirely of free software.
Only ... algorithms like RSA will be broken. Symmetric-key cryptosystems will be unaffected.
As far as I know, public key crypto based on a discrete logarithm will be unaffected as well.
the college in question is a community college
Chris Rock on community colleges:
That's with cleartype and a refresh rate of 115
Incandescent lighting typically does not convert AC to DC before sending it to the filament, so you get 100 (Europe) or 120 (America/Japan) blinks per second, one for maximum voltage and one for minimum voltage.
That is, unless you were talking about reading by sunlight? That doesn't help during the winter quarter.
and I have to pay (through the ass - tuition) to use [library books].
What about libraries at state colleges? They're quite a bit cheaper than private schools.
And what about public libraries?
But, my god, how can anyone argue with the economics of the situation. Pay $100 once?
Even though a CD-R costs well under a dollar (except in Canada, which taxes the crap out of them), that still doesn't change the fact that the author of the textbook needs to get paid. Say a textbook costs $10 to replicate (figure pulled out of my behind). Good. Now instead of costing $99.95 per copy, an electronic textbook will cost $90.15 per copy ("please insert the original CD and plug in the USB dongle").
I was reading a book the other night, that's been mostly out of print since the 1800's. Great book, but damn hard to find, even to order a copy online.
Was it on Project Gutenberg? If so, you've just showed the value of a rich public domain. Now go to eldred.cc and donate to a legal fund dedicated to making sure it stays that way.
Though I probably could get this on a P2P, I haven't found one that I like. Napster was good, Morpheus was great until Kaaza shafted them
Like Napster? Like old Morpheus? Try WinMX. Features include decentralized index, multiple source downloading, bandwidth throttles which help to make sure ack packets get through, and no *?&@#$@ spyware.
No, I don't work for Frontcode.
However, there is really nothing technologically preventing record labels from ... providing digital music at a fraction of the current price of singles and CDs.
They have to pay the songwriters a royalty per download, no matter what. The going rate is about 8 cents per track, and it's going up in parallel with the Consumer Price Index. At the commonly quoted 25c/download figure (EUR or USD), what does this leave for the performers, the web developers, and the hosting provider?
a.) providing customized CDs for their target audience (in the same vein as the NOW compilation albums)
This is the only way the RIAA can win back its customers. Pressplay's expansion into unlocked "Portable Downloads" is a step in the right direction. For the price of a single CD at a record store, you can download 20 MP3 files in a month and burn a legit music CD-R with no filler. (Filler is the most commonly quoted reason why $18 for a CD is considered too high.)
The record companies are the RIAA.
Many (most?) of the independent record labels are not the RIAA. Isn't "indie label" defined as "label which is not a member of the RIAA"? Or is it just "label which is not owned by the Big Five"?
She is NOT saying that, at least for her experiment, the label STOP making audio CD's.
She doesn't need to say anything to make labels stop selling Compact Discs. Apparently, Universal already has.
I wouldn't want the music in a lossy compression format. I want lossless compression
Do you want lossless compression (impossible), or do you want lossless compression of stereo 16-bit linear PCM audio data (.flac)? It's impossible to compress audio data losslessly, as that would require infinite sample rate and infinite sample resolution. The low-pass filtering to 22 kHz and dithering to 16 bits introduce some loss. It's all a matter of how much loss you will tolerate.
The only format that comes to mind that would give you CD quality is .shn
What about MP3 using LAME --r3mix? It gives 176 kbps average (stereo, 19.5 kHz low pass filter) over a typical CD collection, and it's been judged to reproduce audio transparently by a panel of good listeners.
As for better than CD quality, I'm pretty sure that's not possible...save adding more channels
What about upping the sample rate? A 44.1 kHz sample rate reproduces frequencies to 22 kHz, and even though that's a healthy margin of error for me (my hearing tops out at 17 kHz or so), other people have better ears and can hear a 22 kHz pure tone (although they lose much of that to frequency domain masking in actual music). Sony Super Audio CD runs at 64x CD sample rate, using a 1-bit DAC; the data is dithered to sound better than Red Book.
What if my religion says that I don't have to go to school or do my homework ?
In most US states, the Amish can drop out of school after finishing eighth grade.
So you sign your rights over to the record company, they send you on tour, promote your music, get it on the radio, lots of people hear your music, and maybe you succeed and maybe you don't - but it's a chance you wouldn't have without them.
So in other words, selling your soul to the RIAA is no better than playing your music in a local venue and then blowing the proceeds at a Vegas casino.
the DMCA (BOOO!) makes it illigal for you to convert out of DRM to standard format even after copywrite expires.
Bullshit.
The DMCA's circumvention ban (17 USC 1201) states: " No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title" (my emphasis). A work that has fallen out of copyright is no longer "protected under this title", where "this title" refers to Title 17, United States Code, which contains U.S. copyright law, mask work law, and protections for ships' hulls.
Likewise, the (a)(2) and (b)(1) bans on circumvention devices apply only to devices designed or marketed to circumvent measures that control access to or enforce monopolies on works protected under Title 17. Thus, without copyright term extensions, anybody could say "DeCSS: Watch your Charlie Chaplin and early Mickey Mouse DVDs on Linux" and get away with releasing DeCSS source code into the wild. The DMCA is toothless without the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
I'm not going to be the one to tell them that their music has to be released in format X with tempo Y or any of that.
That is, until you write your own song, and another songwriter claims, "You stole my melody!"
Finally, I don't think you'll find much mention of the IP issues in the [U.S.] Constitution.
From Article 1, Section 8: "The Congress shall have power ... to promote the progress of science [i.e. literature] and useful arts [i.e. technology], by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their writings and discoveries."
From Amendment 1: "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press."
Interpret these as you will.
You could profile the music and make a "Tolerance Level" where the song would just have to be close
And this is what commercially available audio fingerprinting solutions do.
but would that affect cover bands?
Why would that be a bad thing? When a fellow pirates a song, he breaks two copyrights: the copyright on the recording and the copyright on the underlying song. The original recording and a recording by a cover band are covered under the same copyright on the same musical work by the same songwriter.
BUT:
Pretty soon, songwriters will have the entire space of Western music covered with copyright. There exist only a limited number of notes in a chromatic scale (namely twelve) and a limited number of possible melodies of a finite length, and sooner or later, they'll all be used up. This is why you must petition your legislators to repeal copyright term extensions.
output the video to a low resolution flat panel, and use a very high resolution digital video camera to re-record it.
<speculation>
Palladium has that covered too, with subliminal watermarks that survive a conversion to analog and back to digital. In addition, the sale of digital video cameras will be permitted only to those people who have a legitimate reason to own one (scientific research, motion picture production, etc). Just like driving a car or practicing medicine or law, owning or using a digital camcorder will require a license from a government.
</speculation>
Unless Americans get the DMCA repealed NOW, who knows how many more restrictions the movie industry is going to demand, some of which fly directly in the face of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
No need to spend $500 each on Photoshop and After Effects
Photoshop Elements for Windows is $100 if you leave out the advanced pre-press functionality, which is useless if you do no pre-press work.
GIMP can't do prepress because of patents in several jurisdictions on CMYK and Pantone.
USB was designed for simple, low throughput devices. You should use firewire
That defeats the purpose. Not all PC motherboards have integrated SCSI or FireWire controllers. (Most Macs have one or the other, but this article is about intel PCs.) By the time you've opened the case to install a 1394 or SCSI card, you could have re-arranged the ATA cables to boot from an ATA hard disk. The OP wanted a solution that worked without having to open the case.
How does XP's hardware signature stuff work with this kind of a machine
At least on a desktop machine, you have to change four internal devices from their state at installation time to trip Windows XP's reactivation.
The devices include the following:
The following are checked only on non-dockable machines:
Source: Study by Fully Licensed GmbH
In particular, I wonder how well non-conventional households are represented.
<speculation src="FAQ">
Representation in the Nielsen selection process is entirely based on how many land-line telephone numbers you have. They dial random ten-digit U.S. phone numbers, but they exclude mobile phones because of the federal junk fax law.
</speculation>
TiVo viewers (along with ReplayTV viewers) DON'T WATCH COMMERCIALS.
Perhaps ReplayTV has a 30 second skip button that blanks the screen, but Tivo's commercial skip is based on a fast-forward mechanism that backs up a bit when disengaged. Thus, if you place your brand name steady on the screen during a whole 30 second spot, the Tivoers will still see it.
You're not trying to impress me with your developer credentials are you?
No, just pointing out an additional example. If both GCN and PS2 do it, and they manage to make good graphics on a budget (a PS2 chipset + a joystick + a DVD-ROM drive + a DVD decoder license < $200), it's only a matter of time before the tech comes to the PC. Expect good things from ATI in the near future.
I'm not even a licensed developer; I'm just a lowly homebrew hacker. Here's what I've done on the GBA.