The name "MP?" refers to MPEG audio codecs
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Is "MP3" trademarked?
Go to TESS and look for trademark serial numbers 78063353 (automobiles and parts, registered to Mazda), 75634171 (clothing), 74126256 (air compressor microcontroller), and 78023779 (a top level domain). MP3+ is 76172490. MP3PRO is 76185872. MP3 CAT (no connection to cuecat) is 75723781 and 75722814. Note that in the registration for the official MP3 Logo (75856706), Thomson makes no claim to "MP3" apart from the logo.
If not, the scope is there to use a confusingly similar name to refer to Ogg Vorbis.
However, the "MP" in MP3 refers to the standardization of it in a Motion Picture codec from MPEG. (The video portion of MPEG is largely JPEG-like with motion compensation at the 16x16 pixel tile level.) The first popular version of MPEG used MPEG layer 2 ("MP2") audio (at 256 kbps, it sounds like a 160 kbps MP3). Because OggVorbis is not an MPEG standard, it shouldn't be called MPEG. The MPEG LA might have something to say in that regard.
Put another way, if you have an error in a shared DLL, fixing that DLL will cause all other executables using that DLL to suddenly work properly
Except for programs that use undocumented behavior in a DLL. Changing undocumented behavior is a large part of why programs that work on one version of an OS crash on the next.
(provided, of course, that you didn't change any APIs).
Which, incidentally, is Microsoft's specialty. Programs compiled with Visual C++ make calls to undocumented parts of Windows that change from release to release, forcing proprietary windows software developers to license and install the new version of the compiler and recompile everything.
and anyone can put together an encoder or decoder for any purpose as long as they're willing to pay the licence fees
From mp3licensing.com: "All agreements with running royalties have an annual minimum of US$ 15,000, creditable against annual royalties." What independent free software developer has $15,000 per year to spend?
which for free decoders is $0.
Only on two brands of proprietary operating systems: Windows and Mac OS.
It be kinda like saying that using gzip to compressed a file before transfering, is offering faster dial-up.
In my experience, using Accept-Encoding: gzip (part of HTTP 1.1, RFC 2068) does gain some download speed over dial-up, but it's less noticeable in Mozilla 0.9.1 because Moz renders tables as they're being downloaded, while IE and older Netscape wait for the last </table> before drawing anything. (This is part of why Slashdot articles seem to take a looooong time to load on IE.) You just have to design your transport and application protocols to move the common types of data (text and pixels) efficiently. That is, send and store XML documents in a compressed form, as compactness of markup was never a design feature of XML.
The only 'horror' that I can imagine is that
people would be paying a little bit more money to
access said works
It's a publisher's right, and in its best interest, NOT to license its still-copyrighted works to preservation societies at ANY price. Publishers want to sell copies of profit-dense new works, not less profitable classic works. Remember, the only morals a corporation has can be found in its bottom line.
although if it results in the existence of cheap hardware with Linux driver support than that'd be a good thing
That is, unless the application interface to those drivers is not V4L but instead a proprietary interface "protected" with DMCA-level (i.e. at least 8-bit XOR) encryption at the syscall level.
I've got to wonder what exactly they're looking to licence...
IIRC, a sheet of common dead-tree printed paper should last ~70 years
And copyright lasts 95. Therefore, the publishers have succeeded in making literature disposable by making the copyright outlive the paper the out-of-print book is printed on. Preservation societies such as Project Gutenberg are having a hard time with this fact.
Write your representatives in your particular federal government and tell them that effectively perpetual copyright has got to go.
I hope you will join the Project Gutenberg
efforts, then.
Project Gutenberg's goal is to place in electronic form every work that was first published on or before January 1, 1923, the effective date of perpetual copyright in the United States. When PG runs out of pre-1923 works, what will happen?
Imagine if Shakespeare's works and the King James Bible were still under copyright. That's what the Bono Act amounts to in the long run, a situation where very few people can understand the language in public domain works because the English vernacular has evolved so far from 1923 to (say) 2400. (Works from before about 1500 are in Middle English, which sounds a bit like Dutch; see also The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.)
We don't need to put more books on these things than we will read between syncs.
Except what if e-books have a bit set to self-destruct after being copied n times? You'll need to buy more expensive Palm memory. And you won't be able to back up that flash memory when it wears out (all flash memory wears out after about 10,000 or so writes to the directory block) because the book won't survive a restore thanks to its copy and access controls.
"Ringing a doorbell" is a single probe on port 80.
I'd add https port 443 to that list, but I personally know a couple sysadmins who consider one request for connection on port 80 or 443 while the web server is temporarily down to be grounds for banning your IP.
After reading through much of the article, I still fail to see how scanning a host's ports is any different from knocking on that host's various doors and windows, seeing if anybody's home, or giving that host's various telephone lines a ring. If you don't want people coming through a doorway, lock the door.
If the right to portscan is overturned, how will a potential customer be able to discover whether or not the owner of a given host has given permission to connect via HTTP, FTP, SMTP, etc.?
for some of the apps on freshmeat you'd need to hack up some of the code.
And there is probably some darwin advocate who has probably done it for many of the popular apps. It'd be a straightforward task for a developer with BSD experience, less work on packages that already work on FreeBSD and NetBSD, more work for packages that use Linuxisms.
All you have to do is find an ftp server for windows
If you think you can write a GUI configuration program for Apache without making it restrictive; then go ahead.
The default settings handle most basic cases of running Apache on a personal workstation, giving you about the same features as the IM clients' built-in file servers have, with the most commonly changed option (at least on the WinApache installations I've done) being which domain name to return to HTTP/1.0 clients.
Personally, I think it'd be nice if people starting archiving classic old shows in the DivX;-) format.
No. The United States copyright on all works first published on or after January 1, 1923 (before the invention of broadcast television), will not expire until The Walt Disney Company does. Congress has an unwritten agreement with Disney to pass a law every 20 years that extends copyright terms by 20 more years, resulting in effectively perpetual copyright that has been upheld by a district court and a court of appeals.
They want fees from people who accept money (directly or indirectly) for streaming
If you stream, you must pay royalties to RIAA, ASCAP, and BMI. If you pay royalties, you must recoup those expenses somehow. If you recoup expenses, you are collecting money and must pay Thomson. (Did my logic miss a step?)
I would trust the original poster to know their own needs. Some of us are old enough to remember working with b/w displays and remember what they're good for. The story submitter described uses that 1-bit displays are perfectly suited for.
You need at least 4 bits of grayscale to get a decent-looking spectral display of audio, that is, the energy at each (time, frequency) pair.
You could use more or less the same process, only with monochrome elements instead of R, G and B -- and have a display with three times the horizontal resolution of a color display.
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Sites like Slashdot, Plastic, and Perl Monks are wonderful to visit because there's always something new from minute to minute
Everything 2 is the same way and isn't limited to technology or political stories. I haven't looked enough at Half-empty to see any difference from E2.
Think how many times you visit Slashdot/Plastic/your-favorite-slashcode-site-here every day.
Clarification: Perl Monks runs Everything not Slashcode.
Region codes have nothing whatsoever to do with copyright
Wrong. Each country has its own copyright laws. If one entity owns the exclusive rights in one country and another owns the rights in another country, you'd need to pay royalties to BOTH on EACH copy to sell region 0 DVDs, but you'd need to pay only one to sell region-crippled DVDs.
Not only that, the movie studios' standard excuse ("so it doesn't come out on DVD before it comes out in theaters") applies here. Before a film comes out in theaters, it enjoys both copyright and trade secret protection as an unpublished work.
I wish that more people would vote with their wallets and not purchase DVDs, digital TV or any of the other overbearing copyright enforcement devices.
Most U.S. consumers would rather have high-quality TV with some restrictions than no TV at all. At the end of 2005, the FCC will pull all analog TV broadcasting licenses. When all your old VHS tapes wear out, what analog programming will you have to feed your analog TV set?
Thanks to the restrictive technology known as "MacOS", there is very little software you can run on that machine
If the PowerBook computer is a G3 Series (not one of the original run of G3 Books), it can with a RAM upgrade run Mac OS X, which can use any software designed for Mac OS 9, Carbon, Cocoa, or POSIX + X11. Check Freshmeat if you're not convinced there are enough OS X-compatible apps to suit your needs. Besides, how many text editors do you need?
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Is "MP3" trademarked?
Go to TESS and look for trademark serial numbers 78063353 (automobiles and parts, registered to Mazda), 75634171 (clothing), 74126256 (air compressor microcontroller), and 78023779 (a top level domain). MP3+ is 76172490. MP3PRO is 76185872. MP3 CAT (no connection to cuecat) is 75723781 and 75722814. Note that in the registration for the official MP3 Logo (75856706), Thomson makes no claim to "MP3" apart from the logo.
If not, the scope is there to use a confusingly similar name to refer to Ogg Vorbis.
However, the "MP" in MP3 refers to the standardization of it in a Motion Picture codec from MPEG. (The video portion of MPEG is largely JPEG-like with motion compensation at the 16x16 pixel tile level.) The first popular version of MPEG used MPEG layer 2 ("MP2") audio (at 256 kbps, it sounds like a 160 kbps MP3). Because OggVorbis is not an MPEG standard, it shouldn't be called MPEG. The MPEG LA might have something to say in that regard.
Put another way, if you have an error in a shared DLL, fixing that DLL will cause all other executables using that DLL to suddenly work properly
Except for programs that use undocumented behavior in a DLL. Changing undocumented behavior is a large part of why programs that work on one version of an OS crash on the next.
(provided, of course, that you didn't change any APIs).
Which, incidentally, is Microsoft's specialty. Programs compiled with Visual C++ make calls to undocumented parts of Windows that change from release to release, forcing proprietary windows software developers to license and install the new version of the compiler and recompile everything.
and anyone can put together an encoder or decoder for any purpose as long as they're willing to pay the licence fees
From mp3licensing.com: "All agreements with running royalties have an annual minimum of US$ 15,000, creditable against annual royalties." What independent free software developer has $15,000 per year to spend?
which for free decoders is $0.
Only on two brands of proprietary operating systems: Windows and Mac OS.
We do not care what censorship laws are passed and things like DeCSS are NOT illegal over here.
Not if you get sued in the US and the Hague Convention forces your UK courts to enforce the US DMCA.
The sound reproduced from a vinyl record seems warmer because the pops and scratches inherent in vinyl remind the subconscious of a warm fireplace.
It be kinda like saying that using gzip to compressed a file before transfering, is offering faster dial-up.
In my experience, using Accept-Encoding: gzip (part of HTTP 1.1, RFC 2068) does gain some download speed over dial-up, but it's less noticeable in Mozilla 0.9.1 because Moz renders tables as they're being downloaded, while IE and older Netscape wait for the last </table> before drawing anything. (This is part of why Slashdot articles seem to take a looooong time to load on IE.) You just have to design your transport and application protocols to move the common types of data (text and pixels) efficiently. That is, send and store XML documents in a compressed form, as compactness of markup was never a design feature of XML.
The only 'horror' that I can imagine is that people would be paying a little bit more money to access said works
It's a publisher's right, and in its best interest, NOT to license its still-copyrighted works to preservation societies at ANY price. Publishers want to sell copies of profit-dense new works, not less profitable classic works. Remember, the only morals a corporation has can be found in its bottom line.
although if it results in the existence of cheap hardware with Linux driver support than that'd be a good thing
That is, unless the application interface to those drivers is not V4L but instead a proprietary interface "protected" with DMCA-level (i.e. at least 8-bit XOR) encryption at the syscall level.
I've got to wonder what exactly they're looking to licence...
DMCA rights to the drivers may be part of it.
IIRC, a sheet of common dead-tree printed paper should last ~70 years
And copyright lasts 95. Therefore, the publishers have succeeded in making literature disposable by making the copyright outlive the paper the out-of-print book is printed on. Preservation societies such as Project Gutenberg are having a hard time with this fact.
Write your representatives in your particular federal government and tell them that effectively perpetual copyright has got to go.
I hope you will join the Project Gutenberg efforts, then.
Project Gutenberg's goal is to place in electronic form every work that was first published on or before January 1, 1923, the effective date of perpetual copyright in the United States. When PG runs out of pre-1923 works, what will happen?
Imagine if Shakespeare's works and the King James Bible were still under copyright. That's what the Bono Act amounts to in the long run, a situation where very few people can understand the language in public domain works because the English vernacular has evolved so far from 1923 to (say) 2400. (Works from before about 1500 are in Middle English, which sounds a bit like Dutch; see also The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.)
We don't need to put more books on these things than we will read between syncs.
Except what if e-books have a bit set to self-destruct after being copied n times? You'll need to buy more expensive Palm memory. And you won't be able to back up that flash memory when it wears out (all flash memory wears out after about 10,000 or so writes to the directory block) because the book won't survive a restore thanks to its copy and access controls.
I mean, it's not like I could just start suing people for trading mp3s, could I?
If you worked for Fraunhofer, you could, as MPEG layer 3 technology is patented. If the pirates were using Ogg Vorbis, on the other hand...
"Ringing a doorbell" is a single probe on port 80.
I'd add https port 443 to that list, but I personally know a couple sysadmins who consider one request for connection on port 80 or 443 while the web server is temporarily down to be grounds for banning your IP.
After reading through much of the article, I still fail to see how scanning a host's ports is any different from knocking on that host's various doors and windows, seeing if anybody's home, or giving that host's various telephone lines a ring. If you don't want people coming through a doorway, lock the door.
If the right to portscan is overturned, how will a potential customer be able to discover whether or not the owner of a given host has given permission to connect via HTTP, FTP, SMTP, etc.?
for some of the apps on freshmeat you'd need to hack up some of the code.
And there is probably some darwin advocate who has probably done it for many of the popular apps. It'd be a straightforward task for a developer with BSD experience, less work on packages that already work on FreeBSD and NetBSD, more work for packages that use Linuxisms.
All you have to do is find an ftp server for windows
Easier said than done. I couldn't get anything out of Freshmeat's list of FTP servers or a Google search for open-source windows FTP server, while open-source windows HTTP server turned up Apache as the second result. Not only that, but HTTP has a lower connection setup and teardown cost than FTP.
If you think you can write a GUI configuration program for Apache without making it restrictive; then go ahead.
The default settings handle most basic cases of running Apache on a personal workstation, giving you about the same features as the IM clients' built-in file servers have, with the most commonly changed option (at least on the WinApache installations I've done) being which domain name to return to HTTP/1.0 clients.
Personally, I think it'd be nice if people starting archiving classic old shows in the DivX ;-) format.
No. The United States copyright on all works first published on or after January 1, 1923 (before the invention of broadcast television), will not expire until The Walt Disney Company does. Congress has an unwritten agreement with Disney to pass a law every 20 years that extends copyright terms by 20 more years, resulting in effectively perpetual copyright that has been upheld by a district court and a court of appeals.
They want fees from people who accept money (directly or indirectly) for streaming
If you stream, you must pay royalties to RIAA, ASCAP, and BMI. If you pay royalties, you must recoup those expenses somehow. If you recoup expenses, you are collecting money and must pay Thomson. (Did my logic miss a step?)
Or you could stream Ogg Vorbis instead.
I would trust the original poster to know their own needs. Some of us are old enough to remember working with b/w displays and remember what they're good for. The story submitter described uses that 1-bit displays are perfectly suited for.
You need at least 4 bits of grayscale to get a decent-looking spectral display of audio, that is, the energy at each (time, frequency) pair.
You could use more or less the same process, only with monochrome elements instead of R, G and B -- and have a display with three times the horizontal resolution of a color display.
Microsoft Cleartype uses subpixel text rendering to take advantage of the fact that each LCD pixel is actually three. Apple used a similar technique for text rendering on TV monitors. And you can enable subpixel text in recent XFree86.
Sites like Slashdot, Plastic, and Perl Monks are wonderful to visit because there's always something new from minute to minute
Everything 2 is the same way and isn't limited to technology or political stories. I haven't looked enough at Half-empty to see any difference from E2.
Think how many times you visit Slashdot/Plastic/your-favorite-slashcode-site-here every day.
Clarification: Perl Monks runs Everything not Slashcode.
Region codes have nothing whatsoever to do with copyright
Wrong. Each country has its own copyright laws. If one entity owns the exclusive rights in one country and another owns the rights in another country, you'd need to pay royalties to BOTH on EACH copy to sell region 0 DVDs, but you'd need to pay only one to sell region-crippled DVDs.
Not only that, the movie studios' standard excuse ("so it doesn't come out on DVD before it comes out in theaters") applies here. Before a film comes out in theaters, it enjoys both copyright and trade secret protection as an unpublished work.
I wish that more people would vote with their wallets and not purchase DVDs, digital TV or any of the other overbearing copyright enforcement devices.
Most U.S. consumers would rather have high-quality TV with some restrictions than no TV at all. At the end of 2005, the FCC will pull all analog TV broadcasting licenses. When all your old VHS tapes wear out, what analog programming will you have to feed your analog TV set?
Thanks to the restrictive technology known as "MacOS", there is very little software you can run on that machine
If the PowerBook computer is a G3 Series (not one of the original run of G3 Books), it can with a RAM upgrade run Mac OS X, which can use any software designed for Mac OS 9, Carbon, Cocoa, or POSIX + X11. Check Freshmeat if you're not convinced there are enough OS X-compatible apps to suit your needs. Besides, how many text editors do you need?
Ironically, if the DVDs really are encoded in region 0 this could make playing them easier than it would otherwise be.
No. They're still encrypted with CSS, which has nothing to do (other than being another greed tool on DVDs) with region coding.