1. If it can be purchased, purchase it. We'll be able to sue someone if we screw up.
What about the Limitation of Liability clauses included with all proprietary software and free software licenses?
If it's free, it's no good. Why would they be giving it away if it was any good?
I was in Best Buy yesterday and saw Red Hat Linux Professional at $160 for a box vs. Windows at $300 for a box. Even counting volume licenses, it's cheaper enough per seat to make a potential dent in TCO, but it isn't cheap enough to trigger "you get what you pay for" syndrome.
just know that the size of your penis increases proportionally with... how many buzzwords are associated with the system you run: HT, DDR, 8x AGP, etc.
So if I can pass "Max 300" on heavy, I can do better in bed? I better practice for an hour a day! Or should I just buy a white box manufactured in former East Germany?
A patent doesn't confer any ability to market something and shut others out of the market. The right to exclude is to exclude others from making, using, or selling only what is claimed in your patent.
What if the claims of a patent are so broad that the patent pretty much covers an entire market?
if worse comes to worse, just pick whatever the reader's default sans-serif font is.
Read what I wrote: "Helvetica for every non-Latin writing system is not installed on every reading device." What if the reader's default sans-serif font has no glyphs for a given language? What if the reader's operating system has no support for a given language?
Yes, I realise this is absolute heresy, and I must be burned at the stake for my sins.. but.. it's a thought, isn't it?.. create a similar-but-different eBook oriented offshoot of ASCII..?
How does one represent pathnames such as/opt/kde/ if/foo/ emphasizes? (Use and you might as well use XHTML.)
How does one represent mathematical formulas such as a*b*c? (Use MathML and you might as well use XHTML.)
I feel sorry for those who 100-years from now will be trying to figure out how to convert FrontPage or MSWord "HTML" documents into a human-readable format
As long as English is readable, the XML, XSLT, and CSS specifications are readable. As long as relevant specifications are readable, documents written to those specifications are readable.
Ogg, used as en encapsulating format, allows you to put ANYTHING (Divx,SVCD,MP3,MP4,WhatTheHell) and have it used as an ogg file.
So does MooV (*.mov), the QuickTime container format that underlies MPEG-4.
That's how men Fansub groups makes releases including a 4 subtitles choice with a nice XVID compressed video stream.
MooV does that too.
Just thatOgg is quite a universal standard.
The Ogg container may be a "widely used format with a public specification", which is just fine by me, but some people reserve "standards" to refer to formats defined by a publication of ISO, IEC, IEEE, ECMA, ANSI, DIN, or some other organization recognized by national governments as a standard-setting body.
Has anybody worked with both Ogg and QuickTime? Which is more capable?
According to this finding and admission [in Bright Tunes v. Harrisongs], the work was not independently developed, but was copied from the original, even if subconsciously.
What specific steps can a songwriter take when writing a song to avoid subconsciously copying a published musical work?
Publishers of novels first published since 1923 are in general not willing to publish in a text format without a digital restrictions management wrapper.
With CSS there's not a lot HTML can't do with layouts.
No free, mature implementation of HTML and CSS can render a font not installed on the user's machine from outline data stored in the document. Mozilla has a bug on this open in bugzilla.mozilla.org (bug 52746), but it doesn't look like it's going anywhere. And no, "just replace with Helvetica, which is installed everywhere" is not an option because Helvetica for every non-Latin writing system is not installed on every reading device.
To get more even harmonics, make the positive side of the distortion curve subtly different from the negative side. For instance, use a push-release amp rather than a push-pull amp.
You can't make a 1280x1024 picture out of 320x200 without making it look worse
Are you thinking only of the stereotypical nearest-neighbor-followed-by-sinc algorithms for enlarging images? There exist algorithms with better subjective results, such as 2xSaI and AdvanceMAME Scale2x to blow up hand-drawn images and fractal algorithms to blow up photographic images. Likewise, there is Spectral Band Replication for audio.
You can blow up a real photograph to almost any size with little loss of quality because the resolution is nearly infinite.
Film has grain too, which is why professional portrait photographers use 127mm "medium-format" film rather than 35mm film.
"44KHz is not enough to go up to even 22KHz"
Nyquist dissagrees with you, i believe.
Really? The Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem states that any signal with bandwidth DC to f/2 Hz can be perfectly reproduced from f Hz samples. However, it's not feasible in reality to produce a signal with flat response from 0 to 22049 Hz that cuts off just before 22050 Hz. For a real signal, engineers must allow about ten percent margin between the high end of flat response and the high end of reproduction. Any improvement in sharpness of a causal filter comes at a cost of phase distortion, which is audible as ringing and chirping in transients.
I'll grant that under the legal definition of "theft" you are correct. But the term "piracy" has come to include infringement on any government-granted monopoly.
The standard for copying under American copyright law is access (the defendant had access to the plaintiff's work even once) plus similarity (the defendant's work is substantially similar to the plaintiff's work). In musical works, substantial similarity can be arrived at by coincidence (about one in 47,000, but compare this to the number of existing musical works), and according to Bright Tunes, a plaintiff can apparently get the court to assume access if the song has been played on commercial radio.
So what steps can a songwriter take when writing a song to avoid accidentally copying a published song?
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Can a program use the the TOC protocol to retrieve away messages? Or buddy icons? Or warn levels? Can it send or retrieve files?
And why doesn't AOL staff seem to care about availability (i.e. non-downtime) of the TOC gateway?
1. If it can be purchased, purchase it. We'll be able to sue someone if we screw up.
What about the Limitation of Liability clauses included with all proprietary software and free software licenses?
If it's free, it's no good. Why would they be giving it away if it was any good?
I was in Best Buy yesterday and saw Red Hat Linux Professional at $160 for a box vs. Windows at $300 for a box. Even counting volume licenses, it's cheaper enough per seat to make a potential dent in TCO, but it isn't cheap enough to trigger "you get what you pay for" syndrome.
But thanks to binaries
What about broadcasting everything but alt.binaries.* ?
Something like 91% of the households in the country can receive digital broadcasts of all their over-the-air TV stations if they have the equipment.
Can working-class American families afford "the equipment"? Can "the equipment" be feasibly shrunk down to handheld size?
A "quasi-copy" is a derivative work, and in general, preparing derivative works beyond fair use is the exclusive right of a copyright owner.
just know that the size of your penis increases proportionally with ... how many buzzwords are associated with the system you run: HT, DDR, 8x AGP, etc.
So if I can pass "Max 300" on heavy, I can do better in bed? I better practice for an hour a day! Or should I just buy a white box manufactured in former East Germany?
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A patent doesn't confer any ability to market something and shut others out of the market. The right to exclude is to exclude others from making, using, or selling only what is claimed in your patent.
What if the claims of a patent are so broad that the patent pretty much covers an entire market?
if worse comes to worse, just pick whatever the reader's default sans-serif font is.
Read what I wrote: "Helvetica for every non-Latin writing system is not installed on every reading device." What if the reader's default sans-serif font has no glyphs for a given language? What if the reader's operating system has no support for a given language?
Yes, I realise this is absolute heresy, and I must be burned at the stake for my sins.. but.. it's a thought, isn't it?.. create a similar-but-different eBook oriented offshoot of ASCII..?
Actually, there is. It's called Wiki markup.
How does one represent pathnames such as /opt/kde/ if /foo/ emphasizes? (Use and you might as well use XHTML.)
How does one represent mathematical formulas such as a*b*c? (Use MathML and you might as well use XHTML.)
I feel sorry for those who 100-years from now will be trying to figure out how to convert FrontPage or MSWord "HTML" documents into a human-readable format
HTML Tidy works for me.
As long as English is readable, the XML, XSLT, and CSS specifications are readable. As long as relevant specifications are readable, documents written to those specifications are readable.
Ogg, used as en encapsulating format, allows you to put ANYTHING (Divx,SVCD,MP3,MP4,WhatTheHell) and have it used as an ogg file.
So does MooV (*.mov), the QuickTime container format that underlies MPEG-4.
That's how men Fansub groups makes releases including a 4 subtitles choice with a nice XVID compressed video stream.
MooV does that too.
Just thatOgg is quite a universal standard.
The Ogg container may be a "widely used format with a public specification", which is just fine by me, but some people reserve "standards" to refer to formats defined by a publication of ISO, IEC, IEEE, ECMA, ANSI, DIN, or some other organization recognized by national governments as a standard-setting body.
Has anybody worked with both Ogg and QuickTime? Which is more capable?
The Court has made clear that patents define the metes and bounds of a piece of property and do not grant monopolies.
I still don't understand. What is the fundamental difference between property and monopoly when the property has no close substitutes?
According to this finding and admission [in Bright Tunes v. Harrisongs], the work was not independently developed, but was copied from the original, even if subconsciously.
What specific steps can a songwriter take when writing a song to avoid subconsciously copying a published musical work?
You want to read the latest best-seller for free? Go to your local Public Library.
If my local library refuses to carry a particular title, then what do I do?
Publishers of novels first published since 1923 are in general not willing to publish in a text format without a digital restrictions management wrapper.
With CSS there's not a lot HTML can't do with layouts.
No free, mature implementation of HTML and CSS can render a font not installed on the user's machine from outline data stored in the document. Mozilla has a bug on this open in bugzilla.mozilla.org (bug 52746), but it doesn't look like it's going anywhere. And no, "just replace with Helvetica, which is installed everywhere" is not an option because Helvetica for every non-Latin writing system is not installed on every reading device.
oops -- I was mistaken about the size of medium format. I am not a photographer, but I am aware of some of the issues such as film grain.
To get more even harmonics, make the positive side of the distortion curve subtly different from the negative side. For instance, use a push-release amp rather than a push-pull amp.
You can't make a 1280x1024 picture out of 320x200 without making it look worse
Are you thinking only of the stereotypical nearest-neighbor-followed-by-sinc algorithms for enlarging images? There exist algorithms with better subjective results, such as 2xSaI and AdvanceMAME Scale2x to blow up hand-drawn images and fractal algorithms to blow up photographic images. Likewise, there is Spectral Band Replication for audio.
You can blow up a real photograph to almost any size with little loss of quality because the resolution is nearly infinite.
Film has grain too, which is why professional portrait photographers use 127mm "medium-format" film rather than 35mm film.
"44KHz is not enough to go up to even 22KHz"
Nyquist dissagrees with you, i believe.
Really? The Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem states that any signal with bandwidth DC to f/2 Hz can be perfectly reproduced from f Hz samples. However, it's not feasible in reality to produce a signal with flat response from 0 to 22049 Hz that cuts off just before 22050 Hz. For a real signal, engineers must allow about ten percent margin between the high end of flat response and the high end of reproduction. Any improvement in sharpness of a causal filter comes at a cost of phase distortion, which is audible as ringing and chirping in transients.
Copyright violation is neither piracy nor theft.
I'll grant that under the legal definition of "theft" you are correct. But the term "piracy" has come to include infringement on any government-granted monopoly.
It is a civil matter, not a criminal one.
Copyright infringement is a crime.
Doesn't matter if violating the DMCA by defeating copy-protection devices is necessary for the work in question to be archived.
Please read 17 USC 1201(d).
I don't think you're going to win many supporters with the anti-gay angle:
I guess I agree. Anything else you think the Losing Nemo page could do without?
Is Apple Corps publicly owned? I'm thinking acquisition.
But copyrights don't prevent others from creating what they would have created independently.
Tell that to (the estate of) George Harrison. He wrote "My Sweet Lord", not knowing that it was a copy of "He's So Fine". Harrison lost Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music to the tune of nearly $1.6 million.
The standard for copying under American copyright law is access (the defendant had access to the plaintiff's work even once) plus similarity (the defendant's work is substantially similar to the plaintiff's work). In musical works, substantial similarity can be arrived at by coincidence (about one in 47,000, but compare this to the number of existing musical works), and according to Bright Tunes, a plaintiff can apparently get the court to assume access if the song has been played on commercial radio.
So what steps can a songwriter take when writing a song to avoid accidentally copying a published song?