much the same way DSL is still going to have to compete with cable modems
A duopoly can still be anti-competitive. If you don't like the DSL monopoly's service, and you don't like the cable monopoly's service, and you don't have $1,000 per month for a T1, what is your other option?
My web editor is... notepad... Which is the only editor 100% compliant with all standards
No. Try GNU Emacs for Windows. Notepad (at least the version shipped with Windows 3.1 through ME) doesn't support any character encodings other than Windows-1252 (a variant of ISO-8859-1). Heck, it doesn't even allow editing of text files bigger than 32 KB. Emacs, on the other hand, is fully scriptable, allows editing of huge files, and supports many character encodings.
Toki Pona word for "crazy" is "nasa"
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Get a good receiver, no, your 79 dollar Aiwa system with blinky lights galore doesn't count, and some respectable speakers.
These guys did, and they found that LAME 3.92 can encode CD quality sound transparently at an average data rate between 160 and 192 kbps. For more information, read the "quality" section of r3mix.net.
You can definitely tell the mp3 artifacts
What artifacts? You mean the artifacts from the Xing encoder?
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And finally, if you want you can use the KMozilla bindings to replace KHTML with Gecko - well I say replace, actually unlike Windows KHTML is not required per se for KDE to function, rather an HTML Renderer with the correct KParts interface is.
You can do the same thing with Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Internet Explorer. IE is just an ActiveX component, and any other component that implements the same interface will work in 98% of cases. For instance, Mozilla ActiveX Control implements all IE interfaces (except for document.all and VBScript) in terms of Gecko. Heck, it even comes with a program that patches IE to use Gecko!
"all tools that enable circumvention of use restrictions are banned, not merely those use restrictions that prohibit infringement"
1. This has not made its way to the Supreme Court, so it doesn't apply in my district, and 2. the ruling contradicts a statute. If a tool is incapable of decrypting "a work protected under this title" (say it checks each disc against a whitelist of public domain discs), then 17 USC 1201 has no effect.
MP3@192 can equal CD quality
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MP3 quality is a far cry from CD quality, afterall.
Not always. A specific preset in LAME 3.92 will provide transparent reproduction at an average data rate of 192 kbps. Read the "quality" section of r3mix.net to learn more.
Anybody want to pool money for a GCN development kit???;)
Too expensive. You can get a pretty good set of GBA development hardware for under $300 at Lik Sang. Given that you probably already have a Windows computer (and if you don't, get one for $1000 at dell.com), I'll break down what else you need: $110 for a GBA with a pre-installed Afterburner internal light, $40 for an MBV2 cable to test out small (< 128 KB) programs, $100 for a flash cartridge and linker, and in the neighborhood of $30 for S&H from Hong Kong via EMS Speedpost. While you're saving up, you can learn the basics with Devkit Advance (GCC hosted on Windows or Linux and targeted for GBA) and VisualBoyAdvance (emulates the GBA's runtime environment).
If I hand you a draft of my screenplay, copyright is the only thing to prevent you from putting your name on it and selling it before I do.
Unless the disclosure of the screenplay is preceded by a non-disclosure agreement. In fact, a lot of what we currently call "copyright law" could be re-implemented in terms of non-disclosure agreements.
I know of no DRM systems which provide for expriation of protection.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act provides no protection against circumvention for works that have fallen into the public domain. From 17 USC 1201: "No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title" (emphasis by yerricde). Works "protected under this title" include works under a subsisting copyright.
This means it's lawful to sell DeCSS programs designed to decrypt the pre-1923 content on Charlie Chaplin DVDs. And without copyright term extensions, it would also be lawful to sell DeCSS programs designed to decrypt "Mickey's Early Years" and other pre-1946 content. (Actually, Mickey Mouse cartoons have fallen into the public domain due to a copyright notice flub-up.)
Adobe Photoshop, which is a standard program that lots of people need costs $584 at www.buy.com. That's well over what most people can afford.
Lots of people do not need the full version of Adobe Photoshop. There is a "lite" version called Photoshop Elements that has all the features of Photoshop except those related to CMYK separations. Only print artists really need CMYK; those who use Photoshop as a verb are happy with RGB and can use PS Elements, Paint Shop Pro, or (better yet) GIMP for Windows.
but there are a lot of people like me, college students, who can't afford a 500$ program that they need for a class.
That's why the United States government (and presumably other governments) provide student financial aid, primarily in the form of low-interest deferred-payment loan programs.
How are you supposed to run "Talking Reader Rabbit" or other K-5 literacy software without a sound card? The latest programs support only DirectX compatible audio hardware, which does not include the PC's internal speaker.
or 17 inch monitors
What? Do you want to back to the Apple II and 10-inch displays? Kids can't very easily read tiny print.
They don't need CDROM burners
Without a CD-RW drive, how are kids supposed to take their work home with them?
My kids like Linux too; if their favorite games ran well on Linux they'd probably use it most of the time.
What do they use? My favorite games don't even run on Windows (except through emulation, and even that doesn't work for GCN). Yes, I'm a console gamer.
[the fact that Word doesn't read StarOffice's native format] could pose a problem for people to cart their files back and forth between school and home using removable media.
And.txt is bad why?
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I don't see how it harms society for, say, Paul McCartney to retain the rights to his work for his life span.
Because he can VETO derivative works. The VETO power over derivative works is the biggest problem with copyright.
is negligible because more than likely they'll pay almost the same price for a Wings album royalties or no
"Well, I'll give a little. You can do what you want with this work, but only for a million dollars per copy."
So it offends common sense to say that they should be able to profit from his work, but he cannot.
Once copyright expires, he can profit off it. His label may still own the trademark on WINGS. Besides, nothing in the United States Constitution gives authors and inventors a right to their creations.
Sometimes an author or musician creates one really popular work and they're never commercially popular again - but it doesn't mean that they don't continue to produce valuable work.
Sometimes an author or musician never creates that popular work. Why should an author or musician be rewarded perpetually for creating only one popular work?
Sometimes an author writes a book that gathers dust for years and then suddenly becomes popular.
Sometimes killing the VETO power over derivative works is more in the public interest.
Many, many books aren't made into movies until after they've been out for ten years.
Many, many books aren't made into movies ever because the author's estate, even sixty years after the author has died, refuses to negotiate a licence.
I can easily see studios just sitting on a book until 10 years have passed and then making the movie, just to avoid paying for the rights to the movie
This will happen with any copyright term. The Walt Disney Company often sits on a book and releases its derivative work within six months after the copyright has expired worldwide. Examples include Pinocchio and The Jungle Book.
I think that the original artist should have the say-so how that character is used as long as they live. No one should have to see their creation abused by someone else if they do not wish it. Gene Roddenberry should be able to deny another party the right to use Star Trek characters as long as he lives.
If so, the right to veto should expire before the right to royalty expires. Even then, it's not even necessary because trademarks on the characters' names can achieve the same effect.
The network operators can kinda identify who they issued the certificate to.
Which means the network operators will have to make deals with notary public offices in every major metropolitan area in all 180-odd independent countries order to be able to certify that people are who they say they are. This can become expensive, and the total cost of maintaining a certificate may rise up to $200 per cert per year, making this situation no better than the SSL cert situation.
if you can't write the user-manual from the spec then the spec is incomplete.
So you're saying the specification should include screen shots of the finished app on all platforms? What about the names of the owners of all trademarks used in the manual?
Not only could you comment out the program structure document so that the compiler would ignore it -- but you ended up with absolutely accurate and comprehensive documentation built into that source.
Unless, when it comes time to maintain the software, some new hire goes in and changes the code without updating the comments in parallel. Then the code and the spec have fallen out of sync. It will happen.
If you're smart and use good tools you can selectively collapse and expand the in-source documentation
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much the same way DSL is still going to have to compete with cable modems
A duopoly can still be anti-competitive. If you don't like the DSL monopoly's service, and you don't like the cable monopoly's service, and you don't have $1,000 per month for a T1, what is your other option?
When I look up "crazy" or "foolish" in the dictionary, I get "NASA"!
proof
My web editor is... notepad... Which is the only editor 100% compliant with all standards
No. Try GNU Emacs for Windows. Notepad (at least the version shipped with Windows 3.1 through ME) doesn't support any character encodings other than Windows-1252 (a variant of ISO-8859-1). Heck, it doesn't even allow editing of text files bigger than 32 KB. Emacs, on the other hand, is fully scriptable, allows editing of huge files, and supports many character encodings.
but NASA isn't known for crazy things like that.
In the Toki Pona language, the word for "crazy" is nasa.
Other pages linking "NASA" to "crazy"
Get a good receiver, no, your 79 dollar Aiwa system with blinky lights galore doesn't count, and some respectable speakers.
These guys did, and they found that LAME 3.92 can encode CD quality sound transparently at an average data rate between 160 and 192 kbps. For more information, read the "quality" section of r3mix.net.
You can definitely tell the mp3 artifacts
What artifacts? You mean the artifacts from the Xing encoder?
And finally, if you want you can use the KMozilla bindings to replace KHTML with Gecko - well I say replace, actually unlike Windows KHTML is not required per se for KDE to function, rather an HTML Renderer with the correct KParts interface is.
You can do the same thing with Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Internet Explorer. IE is just an ActiveX component, and any other component that implements the same interface will work in 98% of cases. For instance, Mozilla ActiveX Control implements all IE interfaces (except for document.all and VBScript) in terms of Gecko. Heck, it even comes with a program that patches IE to use Gecko!
"Army of aboot Eight"...
Actually, the Canadian pronunciation of "about" is closer to "a boat" than "a boot". (Read More...)
"all tools that enable circumvention of use restrictions are banned, not merely those use restrictions that prohibit infringement"
1. This has not made its way to the Supreme Court, so it doesn't apply in my district, and 2. the ruling contradicts a statute. If a tool is incapable of decrypting "a work protected under this title" (say it checks each disc against a whitelist of public domain discs), then 17 USC 1201 has no effect.
MP3 quality is a far cry from CD quality, afterall.
Not always. A specific preset in LAME 3.92 will provide transparent reproduction at an average data rate of 192 kbps. Read the "quality" section of r3mix.net to learn more.
Mario Cart? Which IMHO is the best racing game ever!
Except for the dozens of design and implementation bugs in the Mario Kart games. Super Circuit feels the most stable.
Anybody want to pool money for a GCN development kit??? ;)
Too expensive. You can get a pretty good set of GBA development hardware for under $300 at Lik Sang. Given that you probably already have a Windows computer (and if you don't, get one for $1000 at dell.com), I'll break down what else you need: $110 for a GBA with a pre-installed Afterburner internal light, $40 for an MBV2 cable to test out small (< 128 KB) programs, $100 for a flash cartridge and linker, and in the neighborhood of $30 for S&H from Hong Kong via EMS Speedpost. While you're saving up, you can learn the basics with Devkit Advance (GCC hosted on Windows or Linux and targeted for GBA) and VisualBoyAdvance (emulates the GBA's runtime environment).
I used to be a subject of the BSD [Beaverton School District]
So why don't they run... um... BSD?
If I hand you a draft of my screenplay, copyright is the only thing to prevent you from putting your name on it and selling it before I do.
Unless the disclosure of the screenplay is preceded by a non-disclosure agreement. In fact, a lot of what we currently call "copyright law" could be re-implemented in terms of non-disclosure agreements.
I know of no DRM systems which provide for expriation of protection.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act provides no protection against circumvention for works that have fallen into the public domain. From 17 USC 1201: "No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title" (emphasis by yerricde). Works "protected under this title" include works under a subsisting copyright.
This means it's lawful to sell DeCSS programs designed to decrypt the pre-1923 content on Charlie Chaplin DVDs. And without copyright term extensions, it would also be lawful to sell DeCSS programs designed to decrypt "Mickey's Early Years" and other pre-1946 content. (Actually, Mickey Mouse cartoons have fallen into the public domain due to a copyright notice flub-up.)
Of course, if there's a conspiracy among the labels to present only highly unfavorable contracts, then there's a bit of a problem.
In fact, there is such a conspiracy. Courtney Love wrote an article for Salon about it.
We're talking about Sony, Phillips, Toshiba, GE, and so forth here.
So sony with one N is against sonny with two N's? I was almost certain that Sony Music (an RIAA label) would support perpetual copyright.
Adobe Photoshop, which is a standard program that lots of people need costs $584 at www.buy.com. That's well over what most people can afford.
Lots of people do not need the full version of Adobe Photoshop. There is a "lite" version called Photoshop Elements that has all the features of Photoshop except those related to CMYK separations. Only print artists really need CMYK; those who use Photoshop as a verb are happy with RGB and can use PS Elements, Paint Shop Pro, or (better yet) GIMP for Windows.
but there are a lot of people like me, college students, who can't afford a 500$ program that they need for a class.
That's why the United States government (and presumably other governments) provide student financial aid, primarily in the form of low-interest deferred-payment loan programs.
They don't always need sound cards
How are you supposed to run "Talking Reader Rabbit" or other K-5 literacy software without a sound card? The latest programs support only DirectX compatible audio hardware, which does not include the PC's internal speaker.
or 17 inch monitors
What? Do you want to back to the Apple II and 10-inch displays? Kids can't very easily read tiny print.
They don't need CDROM burners
Without a CD-RW drive, how are kids supposed to take their work home with them?
My kids like Linux too; if their favorite games ran well on Linux they'd probably use it most of the time.
What do they use? My favorite games don't even run on Windows (except through emulation, and even that doesn't work for GCN). Yes, I'm a console gamer.
OSX isnt Linux, but it is UNIX.
Actually, neither Mac OS X nor any popular GNU/Linux distribution is an official UNIX® system. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group.
[the fact that Word doesn't read StarOffice's native format] could pose a problem for people to cart their files back and forth between school and home using removable media.
And .txt is bad why?
I don't see how it harms society for, say, Paul McCartney to retain the rights to his work for his life span.
Because he can VETO derivative works. The VETO power over derivative works is the biggest problem with copyright.
is negligible because more than likely they'll pay almost the same price for a Wings album royalties or no
"Well, I'll give a little. You can do what you want with this work, but only for a million dollars per copy."
So it offends common sense to say that they should be able to profit from his work, but he cannot.
Once copyright expires, he can profit off it. His label may still own the trademark on WINGS. Besides, nothing in the United States Constitution gives authors and inventors a right to their creations.
Sometimes an author or musician creates one really popular work and they're never commercially popular again - but it doesn't mean that they don't continue to produce valuable work.
Sometimes an author or musician never creates that popular work. Why should an author or musician be rewarded perpetually for creating only one popular work?
Sometimes an author writes a book that gathers dust for years and then suddenly becomes popular.
Sometimes killing the VETO power over derivative works is more in the public interest.
Many, many books aren't made into movies until after they've been out for ten years.
Many, many books aren't made into movies ever because the author's estate, even sixty years after the author has died, refuses to negotiate a licence.
I can easily see studios just sitting on a book until 10 years have passed and then making the movie, just to avoid paying for the rights to the movie
This will happen with any copyright term. The Walt Disney Company often sits on a book and releases its derivative work within six months after the copyright has expired worldwide. Examples include Pinocchio and The Jungle Book.
I think that the original artist should have the say-so how that character is used as long as they live. No one should have to see their creation abused by someone else if they do not wish it. Gene Roddenberry should be able to deny another party the right to use Star Trek characters as long as he lives.
If so, the right to veto should expire before the right to royalty expires. Even then, it's not even necessary because trademarks on the characters' names can achieve the same effect.
The network operators can kinda identify who they issued the certificate to.
Which means the network operators will have to make deals with notary public offices in every major metropolitan area in all 180-odd independent countries order to be able to certify that people are who they say they are. This can become expensive, and the total cost of maintaining a certificate may rise up to $200 per cert per year, making this situation no better than the SSL cert situation.
if you can't write the user-manual from the spec then the spec is incomplete.
So you're saying the specification should include screen shots of the finished app on all platforms? What about the names of the owners of all trademarks used in the manual?
Not only could you comment out the program structure document so that the compiler would ignore it -- but you ended up with absolutely accurate and comprehensive documentation built into that source.
Unless, when it comes time to maintain the software, some new hire goes in and changes the code without updating the comments in parallel. Then the code and the spec have fallen out of sync. It will happen.
If you're smart and use good tools you can selectively collapse and expand the in-source documentation
What free editor do you suggest?
do not run strip on generated executable
What policy reason is there not to run strip on generated executable?