Do you realize what kind of frame rate you can get in Doom 1 with a 3GHz machine? Hundreds of megabytes of bloated 32-bit OS would only serve to bog things down.
Doom 1, Doom 2, and Heretic have been ported to OpenGL as Doom Legacy. You can use the 3 GHz on your CPU plus whatever 3D acceleration your l33t R4de0n or G3F0rce has. This is true of the Windows port; I don't know whether OpenGL support has been added to the Linux version yet.
I'm currently investigating pitching a move to FreeDOS once I play with it and see if it can allow a program to use more than 640k of RAM
The easiest way to use more than 600 KB of RAM in a program is to use a compiler that supports protected mode. The most popular free compiler targeted for PC DOS protected mode is DJGPP, a port of GCC with a runtime that implements a surprising amount of POSIX. And if you want to put graphics in your program, that's easy too; just install the Allegro library.
you and I both know that an MP3 will never be CD quality (or vinyl quality, to mix flamewars) no matter what bitrate at which it's encoded.
To me, "CD quality" means "stereo sound, with audio fidelity that meets or surpasses 16-bit linear PCM sampled at 44100 Hz." Numerous listening tests have shown that 192-256 kbps VBR MP3 is CD quality by my definition.
No, you should never convert from one lossy format to another. I encode.ogg files from my CDs
Lossless formats such as aiff, wav, flac, and CD audio are still strictly lossy formats compared to the original. They lose everything quieter than the threshold of hearing, and they lose everything above 22 kHz. But they're called "lossless" because they can be converted one to the other and back, matching bit for bit.
My rule is that I never convert from one lossy format to another unless I have a valid reason to lose fidelity. I find recoding for a pocket MP3 device a valid reason. In that environment, the audibility threshold is much higher, with more ambient noise, and I don't need stereo separation either because when out in public, I listen in mono so that stereo effects don't distract me from oncoming motor vehicles when I cross the street.
I can download MusicMatch Jukebox for free, and it encodes to MP3.
Isn't that adware? If not, doesn't it lock up after a couple dozen encodes, forcing users to upgrade to the "Plus" version? I haven't used MusicMatch Jukebox, so I'm just parroting the restrictions that have come with some other MP3 encoding programs. And why does the documentation call 128 kbps "CD quality"?
Mac users get iTunes for free, and it encodes to MP3.
The iTunes MP3 encoder is not free(beer) but rather included in the price of Mac OS X.
There is no reason for Windows Media Player, which is also free, not to encode to MP3.
As with Apple, Microsoft could include an MP3 encoder license in the Windows XP package, but then that would increase the price it has to charge OEMs by a few U.S. dollars per copy.
MP3 is useful only for one purpose: transcoding higher-bitrate.ogg files down to a lower bitrate for use on pocket MP3 players. (Transcoding down doesn't introduce nearly as many extra artifacts as transcoding to similar bitrates.)
You can also install Windows without network support. In this case, I believe (but am not sure) that the flaws in Windows networking will not impact you.
So in this case it is truly a flaw in the network support, not in the OS.
Universal, Sony, and Warner are members of both the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America. (This could change if Vivendi sells Universal Pictures to GE's NBC division while retaining Universal Music Group.) Through which motion picture distributor do BMG and EMI, the two other major U.S. record labels, distribute their music videos?
The Xbox console's security was broken because of a hardware flaw: the key to decrypt the firmware was sent across the bus from the video chip to the CPU. How would a DRM system vendor work around that flaw in firmware?
An original recording, owned and copyrighted to him
How could he be sure that the recording was in fact original? It may have been a cover of a copyrighted song. Even if he wrote the song, how could he be sure enough to prove in court that the song he wrote was
in fact an original musical work?
Compare this to Windows Media Player, which charges additional fees to rip to MP3.
That's because MP3 is patented, and the company that controls the patent rights refuses to license encoders royalty-free. Windows users do have CDex, which does encode to Ogg.
And watch the U.S. federal government block trade with countries that don't have a strong copyright law, strong enforcement thereof, a Bono Act, and a DMCA.
I only listen to independent music, never anything on the radio, so I am not worried. I also don't watch movies or television, since I know popular music might be featured there.
Most people who compose on the side, such as members of independent rock bands, don't have the discipline for this discipline. Besides, have you followed this discipline since you were born? If not, the judge is probably going to assume you copied a song that you had heard before you adopted this discipline. And what if one of your favorite "independent" bands suddenly gets signed by a record label and a music publisher? How are you going to erase access to that music from your mind? You can't.
And I try to avoid shopping in stores that play music, unless it's classical.
Gershwin's music is considered "classical" by the laity, but Rhapsody in Blue is one of the oldest works covered by the Bono Act. <joke>How do you plan to explain your action if you have to dart out of the store when something copyrighted comes on the loudspeaker?</joke>
If you happen to write the same lyrics as another songwriter has and you don't realize
Lyrics are not the problem as much as the melody. Please read my analysis of music theory as it relates to copyright law. The gist is that judges have interpreted "substantial similarity" so broadly that chance is almost as likely to produce infringements as flagrant copying.
I believe you have the right to revise your own material to be non-infringing.
The average member of an unsigned band probably doesn't have enough money to hire an expensive attorney to represent him. And without an expensive attorney, how can he assert this alleged right in court? What if the mistake isn't found until CDs have been sold to end listeners?
A casual search around the web has found more bands then I can count. Beatallica, Machinae Supremacy, and Persone are just the ones that I have on my hard drive.
How do unsigned bands pay their songwriters? If they write their own songs, how do they pay the forensic musicologist to testify in
a court of law that the songs they wrote
are
in fact original musical works?
I repeat this because so many other Slashdot users seem to be under a delusion that it's possible to write a song without being sued and without relying on "it's not illegal if you don't get caught". I would write songs, but I'm afraid of being made an example of.
Have you ever thought of producing your own content? I compose songs
A song typically won't be bigger than a megabyte in mid, mod, s3m, or xm format. But the bigger issue here is can you prove in court that the songs you write are
in fact original musical works?
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Do you realize what kind of frame rate you can get in Doom 1 with a 3GHz machine? Hundreds of megabytes of bloated 32-bit OS would only serve to bog things down.
Doom 1, Doom 2, and Heretic have been ported to OpenGL as Doom Legacy. You can use the 3 GHz on your CPU plus whatever 3D acceleration your l33t R4de0n or G3F0rce has. This is true of the Windows port; I don't know whether OpenGL support has been added to the Linux version yet.
I'm currently investigating pitching a move to FreeDOS once I play with it and see if it can allow a program to use more than 640k of RAM
The easiest way to use more than 600 KB of RAM in a program is to use a compiler that supports protected mode. The most popular free compiler targeted for PC DOS protected mode is DJGPP, a port of GCC with a runtime that implements a surprising amount of POSIX. And if you want to put graphics in your program, that's easy too; just install the Allegro library.
If they send you something in Word, you use Word because that is what the customer wants
But can we bill the customer for a Windows license and a Word license? Not always.
Please change your name to Ceser instead!
Cesar Chavez was ahead of you.
If you want a copyleft license that fits within an 80x25 box, try the Qing Public License.
Some countries officially spell the name of that country next to Kuwait differently.
For example, the UNITED STATES CORPORATION (distinct from the united states of America) spells it "New Texas."
you and I both know that an MP3 will never be CD quality (or vinyl quality, to mix flamewars) no matter what bitrate at which it's encoded.
To me, "CD quality" means "stereo sound, with audio fidelity that meets or surpasses 16-bit linear PCM sampled at 44100 Hz." Numerous listening tests have shown that 192-256 kbps VBR MP3 is CD quality by my definition.
No, you should never convert from one lossy format to another. I encode .ogg files from my CDs
Lossless formats such as aiff, wav, flac, and CD audio are still strictly lossy formats compared to the original. They lose everything quieter than the threshold of hearing, and they lose everything above 22 kHz. But they're called "lossless" because they can be converted one to the other and back, matching bit for bit.
My rule is that I never convert from one lossy format to another unless I have a valid reason to lose fidelity. I find recoding for a pocket MP3 device a valid reason. In that environment, the audibility threshold is much higher, with more ambient noise, and I don't need stereo separation either because when out in public, I listen in mono so that stereo effects don't distract me from oncoming motor vehicles when I cross the street.
I'm going to display civil disobedience by commiting an act of copyright infringement.
I already have.
Simple. Movies compete with recorded music for your entertainment dollars.
I can download MusicMatch Jukebox for free, and it encodes to MP3.
Isn't that adware? If not, doesn't it lock up after a couple dozen encodes, forcing users to upgrade to the "Plus" version? I haven't used MusicMatch Jukebox, so I'm just parroting the restrictions that have come with some other MP3 encoding programs. And why does the documentation call 128 kbps "CD quality"?
Mac users get iTunes for free, and it encodes to MP3.
The iTunes MP3 encoder is not free(beer) but rather included in the price of Mac OS X.
There is no reason for Windows Media Player, which is also free, not to encode to MP3.
As with Apple, Microsoft could include an MP3 encoder license in the Windows XP package, but then that would increase the price it has to charge OEMs by a few U.S. dollars per copy.
MP3 is useful only for one purpose: transcoding higher-bitrate .ogg files down to a lower bitrate for use on pocket MP3 players. (Transcoding down doesn't introduce nearly as many extra artifacts as transcoding to similar bitrates.)
You can also install Windows without network support. In this case, I believe (but am not sure) that the flaws in Windows networking will not impact you.
So in this case it is truly a flaw in the network support, not in the OS.
Universal, Sony, and Warner are members of both the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America. (This could change if Vivendi sells Universal Pictures to GE's NBC division while retaining Universal Music Group.) Through which motion picture distributor do BMG and EMI, the two other major U.S. record labels, distribute their music videos?
Well, to tell you the truth, what this actually means is the end of "Phoenix", and the beginning of AMI's BIOS monopoly.
AMI has DRM BIOS as well.
DRM BIOS ok. Mandatory DRM BIOS not ok. The Microsoft Palladium specification demands that the DRM BIOS not be mandatory.
The Xbox console's security was broken because of a hardware flaw: the key to decrypt the firmware was sent across the bus from the video chip to the CPU. How would a DRM system vendor work around that flaw in firmware?
An original recording, owned and copyrighted to him
How could he be sure that the recording was in fact original? It may have been a cover of a copyrighted song. Even if he wrote the song, how could he be sure enough to prove in court that the song he wrote was in fact an original musical work?
Compare this to Windows Media Player, which charges additional fees to rip to MP3.
That's because MP3 is patented, and the company that controls the patent rights refuses to license encoders royalty-free. Windows users do have CDex, which does encode to Ogg.
And watch the U.S. federal government block trade with countries that don't have a strong copyright law, strong enforcement thereof, a Bono Act, and a DMCA.
There is no government agency that can legislate "only signed OS's can use the internet".
Yet. Does everybody forget the effort to pass the SSSCA aka CBDTPA?
Perhaps they just don't care about vague legal possibilities.
Boy Scouts should "Be Prepared(tm)". What should I do if I do get caught?
if you think of all the bands out there, they are going to pick you to make an example of
Out of all the recording artists making records at the time, they did pick George Harrison to make an example of, and on his first solo album.
Perhaps you have an inflated opinion of your own importance
Or perhaps I just feel a little uncomfortable with "it's not illegal if you don't get caught."
I only listen to independent music, never anything on the radio, so I am not worried. I also don't watch movies or television, since I know popular music might be featured there.
Most people who compose on the side, such as members of independent rock bands, don't have the discipline for this discipline. Besides, have you followed this discipline since you were born? If not, the judge is probably going to assume you copied a song that you had heard before you adopted this discipline. And what if one of your favorite "independent" bands suddenly gets signed by a record label and a music publisher? How are you going to erase access to that music from your mind? You can't.
And I try to avoid shopping in stores that play music, unless it's classical.
Gershwin's music is considered "classical" by the laity, but Rhapsody in Blue is one of the oldest works covered by the Bono Act. <joke>How do you plan to explain your action if you have to dart out of the store when something copyrighted comes on the loudspeaker?</joke>
You wrote it...you own it.
Tell that to the estate of George Harrison.
If you happen to write the same lyrics as another songwriter has and you don't realize
Lyrics are not the problem as much as the melody. Please read my analysis of music theory as it relates to copyright law. The gist is that judges have interpreted "substantial similarity" so broadly that chance is almost as likely to produce infringements as flagrant copying.
I believe you have the right to revise your own material to be non-infringing.
The average member of an unsigned band probably doesn't have enough money to hire an expensive attorney to represent him. And without an expensive attorney, how can he assert this alleged right in court? What if the mistake isn't found until CDs have been sold to end listeners?
Weird Al's latest CD Poodle Hat, has videos on the CD. I can't imagine that you could pull that off with a cassette tape.
Ever heard of VHS? It's a video cassette that contains magnetic tape on which video, audio, and sync information are recorded.
music that's legal to share
If I write a song, how do I determine whether or not it is legal to share?
A casual search around the web has found more bands then I can count. Beatallica, Machinae Supremacy, and Persone are just the ones that I have on my hard drive.
How do unsigned bands pay their songwriters? If they write their own songs, how do they pay the forensic musicologist to testify in a court of law that the songs they wrote are in fact original musical works?
I repeat this because so many other Slashdot users seem to be under a delusion that it's possible to write a song without being sued and without relying on "it's not illegal if you don't get caught". I would write songs, but I'm afraid of being made an example of.
Have you ever thought of producing your own content? I compose songs
A song typically won't be bigger than a megabyte in mid, mod, s3m, or xm format. But the bigger issue here is can you prove in court that the songs you write are in fact original musical works?