You mean that open source database MySQL pukes everytime it gets a little traffic?
Yes. And every once in a while, Slashdot and Everything really feel it. On the other hand, PostgreSQL (another free DBMS and the basis for Red Hat Database) supports proper ACID transactions and nested select statements and is known to lag quite a bit less in high-load situations.
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Also, the first seven initial caps on its web site spell "Pelt JTT" because he's a wooden actor.
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Licensing for Dance Dance Revolution? They'll have to ask Konami about that.
Oh, you meant "Deutsche Democratic Republic"? Sorry, West Germany bought them out way back in October 1990, even before the Internet had a World Wide Web.
You only have to make the source available to the person you send the binaries.
And if Sony is releasing a DVD containing a Linux kernel and GNU operating environment, it is releasing binaries to everybody who buys the Linux kit, must release source code for all GPL covered software on that DVD, and must make it available for the cost of duplication + S&H to all persons who have received Sony's binaries (GNU GPL, section 3b). In fact, Sony included the source tarballs on the Linux DVD.
This, however, doesn't stop Sony from putting every single driver into proprietary kernel modules, which are treated as "mere aggregation"[?] under the GPL.
If you want to offer services worldwide, you should compy with standards worldwide.
Complying with regulations in (say) Afghanistan will mean "do not use the Internet at all," as Afghanistan has banned the Internet entirely. But three words will Cover Your Ass: "VOID WHERE PROHIBITED."
"If you sue us, we'll sue you."
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Printing it in a license does not exempt them from state and federal laws
Fine Print: "You agree not to hold us liable for any damages. If you do sue us, this license agreement is terminated, you have no rights under this EULA, and we'll sue you for copyright infringement and win because we have billions of dollars of cash on hand to buy out half the law firms in the United States."
not to speak about other countries.
Fine Print: "This agreement is subject to the laws of the United States of America and the State of Washington without respect to conflict of law provisions."
If reckless conduct
What is reckless? "This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY." The GNU GPL says it; most other other EULAs say it too.
Yep. Between Paint Shop Pro for imaging and ABBYY FineReader for.PDF capture, I don't see how Adobe stays in business.
Full version Photoshop (designed for professional work) costs $600; Photoshop eLEments (designed for hobbyist and web use; lacks PANTONE support) costs only $100. GIMP and GIMP for Windows, on the other hand, compare to PSLE and Paint Shop Pro and cost only $2.50 from your friend with DSL for the blank CD, wear on the burner, bandwidth, and eir[0] time.
Kontour (the Illustrator replacement) just isn't that well known and doesn't run on Windows yet (although Cygwin+XFree86 could in theory run KDE), and I haven't seen any printers running a Ghostscript engine.
If it's to be used with digital audio, the watermark must be IN the range of human hearing, since the anti-aliasing filters on the DACs and ADCs eliminate signals above 20 kHz.
Yes, that's true along the frequency axis. But what if the watermark hides 24 dB below the audio signal, where the human ear can't readily detect it, but a 16-bit DAC with a SNR of 90 dB can? Granted, a good audio compression algorithm will probably distort the watermark beyond recognition because lossy audio compression discards what the ear can't hear, so the designers of watermarking methods must tune their watermarks to be inaudible to the human ear but audible to the model of the human ear used by popular lossy codecs such as Ogg Vorbis and MPEG layer 3.
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If it's the first one, doesn't that preclude the possibility of it being the final one?
Both Final Fantasy and Final Fight have had sequels.
Up until milestone M18, both nightly and milestone builds of the Mozilla browser expired 30 days after release. However, milestone releases 0.6 and later (including 0.9.3, which I am using right now) have the nag screen disabled.
OK, so how should "Microsoft" or "proprietary software" or "DMCA" or "RIAA" or "MPAA" be explained by OSSmartTags?
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You can get the infomation the same way the rest of us did, buy buying the text.
But what if the required textbook for a given course at your university is available only on a rental basis? Then you have the situation Richard Stallman describes in his dystopian short story "The Right to Read".
AT&T's residential broadband division (MediaOne) has cut off port 80 across their network
Seeing as how HTTP runs on port 80, how are outgoing HTTP connections (i.e. web page pulls) supposed to proceed across the network? Given that frontends to mail, newsgroups, and file transfers are increasingly HTTP-based, they might as well just schedule total network downtime during Code Red attacks.
Those who play computer games will know that playing against humans is more challenging and interesting any day than playing against the AI. Is this a limitation of the processing power/programs available to PCs or is it a fundamental limitation with computers?
Much of the difference (at least for the kinds of games I play) results from the fact that human beings have an easier time processing natural language than computers do. Thus, you get the entire psychological game of taunts ("0wn3d!") in addition to the game of chess, q3a, etc.
From any PC vendor. Every 18 months, when Intel introduces a processor that's twice as fast, Dell puts it into new PCs. This doubling of processor speeds every 18 months amounts to an exponential decrease in wall time for apps where memory bandwidth and I/O aren't an issue (such as distributed.net).
However, most users do not notice this because of Gates' Law. Every 18 months or so, Microsoft introduces a point release of Windows that's twice as complex as the last (Win95, osr2, Win98, Win98SE, WinME, WinXP). So just wipe the windoze, please?
On the legal page, "User represents, warrants and covenants that (a) User is 18 years old or older". Curl Corporation does NOT want Curl to be used as a teaching language in high schools or introductory college courses.
the computer can't make new theories and extend the boundaries of mathematics. I could see how in the future a computer could somehow be programmed to make guesses and "intuitive" leaps that would end up defining new mathematical theorems
Your "future" is past. Doug Lenat wrote an automated mathematician that could discover and propose interesting mathematical conjectures. Starting from simple set theory, AM discovered arithmetic, prime numbers, Goldbach's conjecture, and a new area of number theory: maximally divisible numbers.
Here's a link to the full text of the patent. But according to the article, "Microsoft does not have to disclose any patents on.Net technologies, unless it is not willing to license them in a nondiscriminatory fashion." And a "nondiscriminatory fashion" toward Ximian Inc would probably involve a royalty-free license. IOW, Microsoft will probably do its usual routine of "We won't sue you over our patents on this technology if you don't sue us over your patents on this technology" in the white paper, as it has done for the FAT specification.
When you license MP3 encoding rights for $2.50/unit, you get these patents such as 5,742,735, which covers the process of transforming audio into a spectrum, quantizing the amplitude by frequency band so as to minimize audible noise, and allocating any leftover bits to the most powerful frequency bands. (Skillfully engineered VBR may avoid infringement by skipping step 3 altogether.)
and when they expire
Patents expire 20 years after they're filed or 17 years after they're granted, depending on various factors. Because it typically takes three years to get a patent granted, it really doesn't matter. This patent, filed in August 25, 1994, will expire in 2014 or so.
Magazine covers Napster, Metallica, Dr. Dre and every website in the world have all made the word "mp3" part of everyday language.
Slim Shady says: "I say download the audio on Ogg Vorbis and show the whole world how you gave Eminem" uh... MP3 is easier to rhyme with "MTV", "STD", and other bad things, and could be stretched into rhyming with "Jack Valenti".
Most of the second-systems that popped up when Napster was beginning to show signs of weakness support sharing any type of file, including Ogg Vorbis.
Without good support in standard browser and players (winamp)
Winamp.com features both a decoder and an encoder for Ogg Vorbis audio. (Don't try to transcode mp3 to ogg; the underlying audio models are too different for a good conversion.)
Other than banners, what GIF images on popular web sites are animated?
the compression algorithm it uses requires more code (i.e. bigger downloads for its encoder/decoders)
Irrelevant. Opera is small (about 2 MB) and handles PNG. Commercial paint programs such as Photoshop come on CD-ROM; 50 KB for the PNG codec is peanuts compared to the 650 MB CD that the rest of the operating system or paint program comes on or even the 10 MB download of GIMP for Windows. Besides, properly optimized binary code is a very small part of a web browser compared to pre-initialized data such as chrome, skins, themes, or whatever you call appearances.
Sure there's MNG, but it's more of a half-assed Flash implementation than an animated GIF replacement.
MNG has a low-complexity subset with about the same functionality as multiple-image GIF (combine frames, replace frames, wait x milliseconds, loop images).
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why don't you get started on a OpenWindows-3.1-project.
WINE is not an emulator. It's a compatibility layer that lets Win3.1 and Win32 apps run on BSD and Linux systems on x86 processors and X11 displays.
You mean that open source database MySQL pukes everytime it gets a little traffic?
Yes. And every once in a while, Slashdot and Everything really feel it. On the other hand, PostgreSQL (another free DBMS and the basis for Red Hat Database) supports proper ACID transactions and nested select statements and is known to lag quite a bit less in high-load situations.
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Also, the first seven initial caps on its web site spell "Pelt JTT" because he's a wooden actor.
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its more about getting liscensing for DDR
Licensing for Dance Dance Revolution? They'll have to ask Konami about that.
Oh, you meant "Deutsche Democratic Republic"? Sorry, West Germany bought them out way back in October 1990, even before the Internet had a World Wide Web.
Oh, you meant "double pumped SDRAM".
You only have to make the source available to the person you send the binaries.
And if Sony is releasing a DVD containing a Linux kernel and GNU operating environment, it is releasing binaries to everybody who buys the Linux kit, must release source code for all GPL covered software on that DVD, and must make it available for the cost of duplication + S&H to all persons who have received Sony's binaries (GNU GPL, section 3b). In fact, Sony included the source tarballs on the Linux DVD.
This, however, doesn't stop Sony from putting every single driver into proprietary kernel modules, which are treated as "mere aggregation"[?] under the GPL.
If you want to offer services worldwide, you should compy with standards worldwide.
Complying with regulations in (say) Afghanistan will mean "do not use the Internet at all," as Afghanistan has banned the Internet entirely. But three words will Cover Your Ass: "VOID WHERE PROHIBITED."
Printing it in a license does not exempt them from state and federal laws
Fine Print: "You agree not to hold us liable for any damages. If you do sue us, this license agreement is terminated, you have no rights under this EULA, and we'll sue you for copyright infringement and win because we have billions of dollars of cash on hand to buy out half the law firms in the United States."
not to speak about other countries.
Fine Print: "This agreement is subject to the laws of the United States of America and the State of Washington without respect to conflict of law provisions."
If reckless conduct
What is reckless? "This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY." The GNU GPL says it; most other other EULAs say it too.
Yep. Between Paint Shop Pro for imaging and ABBYY FineReader for .PDF capture, I don't see how Adobe stays in business.
Full version Photoshop (designed for professional work) costs $600; Photoshop eLEments (designed for hobbyist and web use; lacks PANTONE support) costs only $100. GIMP and GIMP for Windows, on the other hand, compare to PSLE and Paint Shop Pro and cost only $2.50 from your friend with DSL for the blank CD, wear on the burner, bandwidth, and eir[0] time.
Kontour (the Illustrator replacement) just isn't that well known and doesn't run on Windows yet (although Cygwin+XFree86 could in theory run KDE), and I haven't seen any printers running a Ghostscript engine.
[0] 'eir' is a gender-neutral Spivak pronoun[?].
If it's to be used with digital audio, the watermark must be IN the range of human hearing, since the anti-aliasing filters on the DACs and ADCs eliminate signals above 20 kHz.
Yes, that's true along the frequency axis. But what if the watermark hides 24 dB below the audio signal, where the human ear can't readily detect it, but a 16-bit DAC with a SNR of 90 dB can? Granted, a good audio compression algorithm will probably distort the watermark beyond recognition because lossy audio compression discards what the ear can't hear, so the designers of watermarking methods must tune their watermarks to be inaudible to the human ear but audible to the model of the human ear used by popular lossy codecs such as Ogg Vorbis and MPEG layer 3.
If it's the first one, doesn't that preclude the possibility of it being the final one?
Both Final Fantasy and Final Fight have had sequels.
Up until milestone M18, both nightly and milestone builds of the Mozilla browser expired 30 days after release. However, milestone releases 0.6 and later (including 0.9.3, which I am using right now) have the nag screen disabled.
OK, so how should "Microsoft" or "proprietary software" or "DMCA" or "RIAA" or "MPAA" be explained by OSSmartTags?
E2 nodes contain neutral, pro-individual, and even pro-business writeups. If you're not happy, register (only need name, email, and desired login/password, no personal information) and add your own. (If it's not well written, it will be voted down and deleted.) Here's how they'd look:
- Microsoft[?]
- proprietary software[?]
- DMCA[?] and the politics of copy protection[?]
- RIAA[?]
- MPAA[?] mostly talks about the ratings and doesn't even mention DeCSS[?]
- Napster[?]
- Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act[?]
Here's the rule: http://everything2.com/?node=(URL escaped node title)You can get the infomation the same way the rest of us did, buy buying the text.
But what if the required textbook for a given course at your university is available only on a rental basis? Then you have the situation Richard Stallman describes in his dystopian short story "The Right to Read".
Nothing has entered the public domain by its full term since 1920 or so.
The exact figure is 1923, thanks to a corrupt U.S. Congress that will do anything for a bit of campaign money, even pass a 20-year copyright term extension every 20 years.
AT&T's residential broadband division (MediaOne) has cut off port 80 across their network
Seeing as how HTTP runs on port 80, how are outgoing HTTP connections (i.e. web page pulls) supposed to proceed across the network? Given that frontends to mail, newsgroups, and file transfers are increasingly HTTP-based, they might as well just schedule total network downtime during Code Red attacks.
Let's just say I REALLY doubt McAfee was the only one doing this in 1998
And I can prove it. From the patent:
From this ZDNet article: The prior art known as "Windows Update" blows McAfee's patent out of the water by nearly six months.Those who play computer games will know that playing against humans is more challenging and interesting any day than playing against the AI. Is this a limitation of the processing power/programs available to PCs or is it a fundamental limitation with computers?
Much of the difference (at least for the kinds of games I play) results from the fact that human beings have an easier time processing natural language than computers do. Thus, you get the entire psychological game of taunts ("0wn3d!") in addition to the game of chess, q3a, etc.
Sweet, where do you get your hardware?
From any PC vendor. Every 18 months, when Intel introduces a processor that's twice as fast, Dell puts it into new PCs. This doubling of processor speeds every 18 months amounts to an exponential decrease in wall time for apps where memory bandwidth and I/O aren't an issue (such as distributed.net).
However, most users do not notice this because of Gates' Law. Every 18 months or so, Microsoft introduces a point release of Windows that's twice as complex as the last (Win95, osr2, Win98, Win98SE, WinME, WinXP). So just wipe the windoze, please?
On the legal page, "User represents, warrants and covenants that (a) User is 18 years old or older". Curl Corporation does NOT want Curl to be used as a teaching language in high schools or introductory college courses.
the computer can't make new theories and extend the boundaries of mathematics. I could see how in the future a computer could somehow be programmed to make guesses and "intuitive" leaps that would end up defining new mathematical theorems
Your "future" is past. Doug Lenat wrote an automated mathematician that could discover and propose interesting mathematical conjectures. Starting from simple set theory, AM discovered arithmetic, prime numbers, Goldbach's conjecture, and a new area of number theory: maximally divisible numbers.
Here's a link to the full text of the patent. But according to the article, "Microsoft does not have to disclose any patents on .Net technologies, unless it is not willing to license them in a nondiscriminatory fashion." And a "nondiscriminatory fashion" toward Ximian Inc would probably involve a royalty-free license. IOW, Microsoft will probably do its usual routine of "We won't sue you over our patents on this technology if you don't sue us over your patents on this technology" in the white paper, as it has done for the FAT specification.
MP3 patents: http://www.mp3licensing.com/patents/index.html Royalty rates: http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/index.html
Does anyone know what patents are used by MP3
When you license MP3 encoding rights for $2.50/unit, you get these patents such as 5,742,735, which covers the process of transforming audio into a spectrum, quantizing the amplitude by frequency band so as to minimize audible noise, and allocating any leftover bits to the most powerful frequency bands. (Skillfully engineered VBR may avoid infringement by skipping step 3 altogether.)
and when they expire
Patents expire 20 years after they're filed or 17 years after they're granted, depending on various factors. Because it typically takes three years to get a patent granted, it really doesn't matter. This patent, filed in August 25, 1994, will expire in 2014 or so.
Magazine covers Napster, Metallica, Dr. Dre and every website in the world have all made the word "mp3" part of everyday language.
Slim Shady says: "I say download the audio on Ogg Vorbis and show the whole world how you gave Eminem" uh... MP3 is easier to rhyme with "MTV", "STD", and other bad things, and could be stretched into rhyming with "Jack Valenti".
As there is no Napster for .ogg
Most of the second-systems that popped up when Napster was beginning to show signs of weakness support sharing any type of file, including Ogg Vorbis.
Without good support in standard browser and players (winamp)
Winamp.com features both a decoder and an encoder for Ogg Vorbis audio. (Don't try to transcode mp3 to ogg; the underlying audio models are too different for a good conversion.)
PNGs don't support animation
Other than banners, what GIF images on popular web sites are animated?
the compression algorithm it uses requires more code (i.e. bigger downloads for its encoder/decoders)
Irrelevant. Opera is small (about 2 MB) and handles PNG. Commercial paint programs such as Photoshop come on CD-ROM; 50 KB for the PNG codec is peanuts compared to the 650 MB CD that the rest of the operating system or paint program comes on or even the 10 MB download of GIMP for Windows. Besides, properly optimized binary code is a very small part of a web browser compared to pre-initialized data such as chrome, skins, themes, or whatever you call appearances.
Sure there's MNG, but it's more of a half-assed Flash implementation than an animated GIF replacement.
MNG has a low-complexity subset with about the same functionality as multiple-image GIF (combine frames, replace frames, wait x milliseconds, loop images).