Why not = interlaced content playing back on a progressive display with a different framerate.
On almost all video cards, 640x480 can run at 60 Hz, which is nearly an integer multiple of the 29.97 Hz that NTSC DVDs are encoded at. Many cards can drive 800x600 at 75 Hz, which fits nicely into the 25 Hz PAL standard. Emulate interlacing by darkening half of the scanlines and changing odd/even every other frame.
The first DVD I ever rented was "Disney's Pinocchio" from Blockbuster, and it was scratched so bad that the winbox I was playing it on (through a card with TV out) crashed in the middle of "Give a Little Whistle".
unless what you had done was explicitly allowed under the laws of that country.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people." -- U.S. Constitution, 10th Amendment. That is, if there's no federal or state law against doing something, you have a 10th Amendment right to do it.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any lobbying groups that work from our perspective.
What about the Electronic Frontier Foundation? I know of several people who, whenever they buy RIAA or MPAA content, pay the retail price to EFF in addition.
But what about people wishing to create derivative works, or use sampling?
They wouldn't need to do anything, as the RIAA labels already have cross-licensing agreements for sampling in place. The labels will advertise this to potential Fatboy Slims as "Yet another advantage of joining" a Big Scary Corporation That Deprives You Of Your Right To Royalties. Besides, de minimis sampling is fair use in USA, and fat chance USA is going to sign the Hague convention.
Now if a web site in Taiwan puts up local legal stuff for downloading on a global internet?
If neither the ISP nor the government of China would give in, the U.S. and all other Butt-WIPO parties would simply drop all packets from *.tw at the border.
at least at some businesses, admins don't even like employees to keep data on their desktops, but only on servers - that way no one loses data when the random desktop goes blooey.
Yes, but there's a difference between working across a LAN and working across the Internet. For one thing, office LANs are 100 megabit/s Ethernet, but as rgmoore pointed out, try getting 100 KILObit/s out of your dial-up PPP connection. The characteristics of telephone lines make it just not possible. Businesses can also afford to maintain a few smb/nfs/ftp/webdav servers and a couple hundred workstations; home users would have a bit more trouble affording $100,000 to move the family to an area where high-speed Internet access is available, $50/mo for the high speed Internet connection that Hailstorm would require to make it even remotely usable, and $25/mo (based on previous retail license price divided by 36 months) for Hailstorm service itself.
According to postgresql.org, "PostgreSQL is a sophisticated Object-Relational DBMS, supporting almost all SQL constructs, including subselects, transactions, and user-defined types and functions. It is the most advanced open-source database available anywhere. Commercial Support is also available."
These are intangable assets. Things like, perhaps, market share, location, reputation. In short, things that no company can go out and buy, and thus do not have a dollar value of their own.
Intangible assets? Yes. But why aren't they included in the value of the trademarks purchased along with the company? Aren't market share and reputation the very things a trademark is supposed to represent?
The "poor guy" you are talking about is a porn-maven. Remember that monthly item you see on your credit card bill to "Starlite Entertainment Group"? Well that is how he pays for *sucks.com
According to GANDI's whois database, cocksucks.com (as in fellatio) is owned by Starlight Communications. But wouldn't cocksucks.com be a free-speech site criticizing the pr0n industry? Apparently, he has thought of this; http://www.cocksucks.com doesn't link to americasucks.com like the rest of them do.
Hippocracy is government by horses; the classical example is that of the Houyhnhnms of Gulliver's Travels. It's "that form of government in which rule is entrusted to the front end of horses, which, come to think of it, might be a significant improvement over what we have now" (source).
Yes! Given that "iglu" is Inuktitut for any "house" not necessarily "temporary snow shelter," that's exactly what the article describes, assuming your house is of the normal, everyday type found in most developed countries such as Canada, UK, and (surprisingly) USA.
A lot of servlets that do 9-table joins in a Sybase database, all on the same box as the web server is quite different from serving only static HTML... For that small number of sites (of the slashdot size, perhaps?;-) that have pipes big enough to keep several server farms busy
Slashdot and similarly-sized sites (such as Everything) generally run their database on a separate server from the web server, on a switched 100baseT or faster Ethernet. Larger sites probably run an Oracle parallel enterprise server anyway.
My car has this little needle that tells me how fast I'm going.
For one thing, it's not perfectly calibrated. Speedometers can and do drift from spec. For another, the speedometer measures only the angular velocity of the wheels, not the "magnitude of the linear velocity of the vehicle with respect to the ground" which is closer to the accepted definition of vehicle speed; the relationship between the two values involves multiplication by a so-called constant, namely the radius of the wheels, which can be changed (e.g. larger or smaller tires).
how many songs on the radio right now will still be performed 180 years from now
RIAA is in bed with MPAA, as the high performance of the Hollywood Soundtracks "artist" shows. This means they likely had a hand in Disney's buying off of Congress to squeeze perpetual copyright through a loophole in the U.S. Constitution. RIAA will probably help buy the 2098 copyright extension to 195 years just so they can use copyright to prevent radio stations that "get it" (if there are still any around) from refusing payola and playing the Real Music that RIAA labels are no longer pushing.
Regarding TLNTIS: Lowercase lambda () is the symbol of the half-life of a radioactive element. It's also the logo for the game HLF-LIFE. Do a Google search for hllf-life to see people using the Symbol font to attempt to approximate the stylized logo.
(I wonder if/. would let a new user register nick CmdrTco.)
Tried to make it look like a PSX video game
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Square head, square ears, square fingers... square everything! Is it a kind of artistic style
The target audience (teens, a bit older than that of previous Di$ney "masterpieces") is used to that style because it's the easiest style to reproduce on PlayStation and Nintendo 64 because the speed limitations of their vertex transformation units force game developers to reduce polygon counts, resulting in boxy characters. (Take a close look at in-game Mario from Super Mario 64 to see what I mean.)
According to Walter Elias Disney's death certificate (source: Big Secrets by William Poundstone), he died of cardiac arrest due to a cancer arising from the passages of the left lung. Disney was cremated at Forest Lawn, Glendale, "and has a perfectly ordinary gravesite."
a work that is not copyrighted (like your classmate's essay).
Your classmate's essay is an original work of authorship and is subject to the same perpetual copyright as anything else original. The contract between the student and the school determines which works belong to the student and which are considered "works for hire."
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Not to mention, I didn't find any easy Windows software to decode Ogg - just encoding
AOL's Winamp, the most popular audio player for Windows, can decode and play Ogg Vorbis content with a plugin. To decode to.wav instead of to the speaker, simply open Preferences, set the output plugin to Disk Writer, tell it where to stash the.wav files, and then play your.ogg/.mp3 playlist. (Set it back to waveOut to play them.) Use an audio editor to touch up the files, and burn away.
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Why not = interlaced content playing back on a progressive display with a different framerate.
On almost all video cards, 640x480 can run at 60 Hz, which is nearly an integer multiple of the 29.97 Hz that NTSC DVDs are encoded at. Many cards can drive 800x600 at 75 Hz, which fits nicely into the 25 Hz PAL standard. Emulate interlacing by darkening half of the scanlines and changing odd/even every other frame.
The first DVD I ever rented was "Disney's Pinocchio" from Blockbuster, and it was scratched so bad that the winbox I was playing it on (through a card with TV out) crashed in the middle of "Give a Little Whistle".
unless what you had done was explicitly allowed under the laws of that country.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people." -- U.S. Constitution, 10th Amendment. That is, if there's no federal or state law against doing something, you have a 10th Amendment right to do it.
Well, that's why the people reserve all rights not granted to the government
Except Article 1 sections 8 and 10 of the Constitution give Congress the exclusive power "To regulate commerce with foreign nations."
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any lobbying groups that work from our perspective.
What about the Electronic Frontier Foundation? I know of several people who, whenever they buy RIAA or MPAA content, pay the retail price to EFF in addition.
But what about people wishing to create derivative works, or use sampling?
They wouldn't need to do anything, as the RIAA labels already have cross-licensing agreements for sampling in place. The labels will advertise this to potential Fatboy Slims as "Yet another advantage of joining" a Big Scary Corporation That Deprives You Of Your Right To Royalties. Besides, de minimis sampling is fair use in USA, and fat chance USA is going to sign the Hague convention.
You forget every congress person has their price...
Now if a web site in Taiwan puts up local legal stuff for downloading on a global internet?
If neither the ISP nor the government of China would give in, the U.S. and all other Butt-WIPO parties would simply drop all packets from *.tw at the border.
What has changed since then is that networking is now ubiquitous and cheap
Unless you have to move house ($100,000+) to be able to even get Internet access faster than dial-up.
at least at some businesses, admins don't even like employees to keep data on their desktops, but only on servers - that way no one loses data when the random desktop goes blooey.
Yes, but there's a difference between working across a LAN and working across the Internet. For one thing, office LANs are 100 megabit/s Ethernet, but as rgmoore pointed out, try getting 100 KILObit/s out of your dial-up PPP connection. The characteristics of telephone lines make it just not possible. Businesses can also afford to maintain a few smb/nfs/ftp/webdav servers and a couple hundred workstations; home users would have a bit more trouble affording $100,000 to move the family to an area where high-speed Internet access is available, $50/mo for the high speed Internet connection that Hailstorm would require to make it even remotely usable, and $25/mo (based on previous retail license price divided by 36 months) for Hailstorm service itself.
Ohhh, an OODB. Sweet, are there any OS ones yet?
According to postgresql.org, "PostgreSQL is a sophisticated Object-Relational DBMS, supporting almost all SQL constructs, including subselects, transactions, and user-defined types and functions. It is the most advanced open-source database available anywhere. Commercial Support is also available."
These are intangable assets. Things like, perhaps, market share, location, reputation. In short, things that no company can go out and buy, and thus do not have a dollar value of their own.
Intangible assets? Yes. But why aren't they included in the value of the trademarks purchased along with the company? Aren't market share and reputation the very things a trademark is supposed to represent?
The "poor guy" you are talking about is a porn-maven. Remember that monthly item you see on your credit card bill to "Starlite Entertainment Group"? Well that is how he pays for *sucks.com
According to GANDI's whois database, cocksucks.com (as in fellatio) is owned by Starlight Communications. But wouldn't cocksucks.com be a free-speech site criticizing the pr0n industry? Apparently, he has thought of this; http://www.cocksucks.com doesn't link to americasucks.com like the rest of them do.
this is high hipocracy.
Hippocracy is government by horses; the classical example is that of the Houyhnhnms of Gulliver's Travels. It's "that form of government in which rule is entrusted to the front end of horses, which, come to think of it, might be a significant improvement over what we have now" (source).
> from the can-I-get-DSL-in-my-igloo? dept.
Yes! Given that "iglu" is Inuktitut for any "house" not necessarily "temporary snow shelter," that's exactly what the article describes, assuming your house is of the normal, everyday type found in most developed countries such as Canada, UK, and (surprisingly) USA.
Do you know how many hits per day 4000 per second is? Think anyone will ever get that?
Two words: Slashdot effect.
A lot of servlets that do 9-table joins in a Sybase database, all on the same box as the web server is quite different from serving only static HTML ... For that small number of sites (of the slashdot size, perhaps? ;-) that have pipes big enough to keep several server farms busy
Slashdot and similarly-sized sites (such as Everything) generally run their database on a separate server from the web server, on a switched 100baseT or faster Ethernet. Larger sites probably run an Oracle parallel enterprise server anyway.
My car has this little needle that tells me how fast I'm going.
For one thing, it's not perfectly calibrated. Speedometers can and do drift from spec. For another, the speedometer measures only the angular velocity of the wheels, not the "magnitude of the linear velocity of the vehicle with respect to the ground" which is closer to the accepted definition of vehicle speed; the relationship between the two values involves multiplication by a so-called constant, namely the radius of the wheels, which can be changed (e.g. larger or smaller tires).
I have a friend interning at BMG, and she said the majority of people there really have absolutely nothing against free music distribution
Partially because BMG is owned by Napster's de facto parent company Bertelsmann.
how many songs on the radio right now will still be performed 180 years from now
RIAA is in bed with MPAA, as the high performance of the Hollywood Soundtracks "artist" shows. This means they likely had a hand in Disney's buying off of Congress to squeeze perpetual copyright through a loophole in the U.S. Constitution. RIAA will probably help buy the 2098 copyright extension to 195 years just so they can use copyright to prevent radio stations that "get it" (if there are still any around) from refusing payola and playing the Real Music that RIAA labels are no longer pushing.
difference between capital "Lambda" and "Alpha"
Regarding TLNTIS: Lowercase lambda () is the symbol of the half-life of a radioactive element. It's also the logo for the game HLF-LIFE. Do a Google search for hllf-life to see people using the Symbol font to attempt to approximate the stylized logo.
(I wonder ifSquare head, square ears, square fingers... square everything! Is it a kind of artistic style
The target audience (teens, a bit older than that of previous Di$ney "masterpieces") is used to that style because it's the easiest style to reproduce on PlayStation and Nintendo 64 because the speed limitations of their vertex transformation units force game developers to reduce polygon counts, resulting in boxy characters. (Take a close look at in-game Mario from Super Mario 64 to see what I mean.)
According to Walter Elias Disney's death certificate (source: Big Secrets by William Poundstone), he died of cardiac arrest due to a cancer arising from the passages of the left lung. Disney was cremated at Forest Lawn, Glendale, "and has a perfectly ordinary gravesite."
Eisner, however, should be **** for perverting the Constitution of the United States.a work that is not copyrighted (like your classmate's essay).
Your classmate's essay is an original work of authorship and is subject to the same perpetual copyright as anything else original. The contract between the student and the school determines which works belong to the student and which are considered "works for hire."
Not to mention, I didn't find any easy Windows software to decode Ogg - just encoding
AOL's Winamp, the most popular audio player for Windows, can decode and play Ogg Vorbis content with a plugin. To decode to .wav instead of to the speaker, simply open Preferences, set the output plugin to Disk Writer, tell it where to stash the .wav files, and then play your .ogg/.mp3 playlist. (Set it back to waveOut to play them.) Use an audio editor to touch up the files, and burn away.