Losing Nemo describes three boycotts against The Walt Disney Company: one by the church for gay-friendly policies, one by labor groups for producing merchandise in sweat^H^H^H^H^H substandard labor conditions, and one by concerned geeks for extending both the scope and duration of copyright.
unlike trademarks, patents and copyright do not diminish with disuse.
Though trademarks come with the strongest "use it or lose it" responsibilities, patents and copyrights are still subject to some. If a judge finds that a patent holder or copyright owner has harmed an alleged infringer by delaying legal action, the doctrine of laches states that the monopoly holder cannot collect damages for alleged infringements that occurred prior to the alleged infringement.
In addition, copyrights have fair use limitations. If the owner of copyright in a published work refuses to sell copies of the work and refuses to license the work, it could be argued that the copyright owner thereby denies the existence of any "potential market for or value of the copyrighted work" (17 USC 107) that could be harmed by the alleged infringement.
Reveal codes? What, we're surfing the web with WordPerfect here?
What's the real difference between the meanings of "reveal codes" and "view source" again? Perhaps "view source" and "reveal codes" translate to the same thing in some language other than English. Or perhaps you're right, that WordPerfect's latest office suite includes a customized web browser.
It should be fixed in Mozilla Firebird as well. As far as I know, Mozilla Firebird is built from the same tree as Mozilla Seamonkey (the kitchen sink version).
You don't have to copy anything to infringe on a patent.
However, if the alleged infringement occurs early enough in the patent term, it could be argued that the invention was probably obvious to anybody skilled in the art.
then by redistributing the kernel without a license from SCO
By distributing the Linux kernel under the GNU GPL, SCO granted an implied license to its patents to all recipients of SCO code.
I am used to the concept of once I have data, its mine as long as I want to keep it, not like some VisiCalc program whose data is extinct when it can no longer be read.
VisiCalc spreadsheet files are actually made of the keystrokes that reconstruct the spreadsheet in memory. Most of those keystrokes are in the VisiCalc printed manual; learn about the rest at user groups, most of which have established a web presence. Solution: Just make a program that emulates VisiCalc's keyboard interface, and then have that program export to CSV.
I believe the ASCII file formats,.WAV,.MP3,.OGG,.BMP,.GIF,.JPG,.MPG,.PNG, etc, will be around forever, but proprietary formats will be gone or redefined in a matter of years
What makes you think.MP3 and.GIF aren't proprietary formats? Sure,.GIF will become free in the States in a couple weeks when 4,558,302 expires, but.MP3 still has a few more years before its patent expires.
This implies that you don't need a computer to run Real.
Here's what I think asshat meant:
One track at Rhapsody @ $0.79 + one month of Rhapsody service @ $9.95/mo + one copy of Half-Life @ $19.96 + one Windows PC @ $699 = $729.70
One track at iTMS @ $0.99 + one lifetime Apple ID @ $0 + one Mac @ $999 + one copy of Half-Life @ $19.96 + one Windows PC @ $699 = $1718.95
For the next six months, the Windows route is cheaper because one can re-use the same Windows PC for both Half-Life (or pick any Windows game that hasn't been ported to the Mac) and the music store.
Some people may have been given a PC for free but the chimp seals the deal with "90% of all computer users."
The question is not whether they got their Windows machine for free in the first place but whether they already have a fully-depreciated (est. 3 years) Windows machine in their possession. I'd estimate that there are several times more people with a 3-5 year old PC running Windows than people with a 0-4 year old Mac running Mac OS X.
Can a Windows or Linux machine purchased before iTunes Music Store was announced emulate a Mac running Mac OS X? (No, I can't just recompile iTunes with gnustep because iTunes source code is an Apple trade secret.)
I can pay for it, I do, and if I can't, then it's OK to copy (because they wouldn't have money from me anyway).
In fact, that argument just might have a chance in court. The most important of the fair use factors is "the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work." If the copyright owner refuses to sell more copies of a published work, then the copyright owner may be admitting that the work has no "potential market".
Now, where's did I misplace that HijackAudio2MP3 applet.....
"The file 'David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans' could not be played, because your audio driver is not signed by Microsoft." Of course, this won't stop you if you're tunneling audio through an analog hole.
So you have to download 50 songs a month to break even compared to Apple's service.
Apple's service costs $1,000 for a lifetime subscription, which includes a special "Macintosh" brand Internet terminal used to access the iTunes Music Store. This equals about eight years of Rhapsody service.
Nah, can't do that - they would never get to be +9 dBFS before limiting, 'cause they can't get to that point.
OK, let me rephrase again. What's the term for taking a -3 dBFS input to the ADC and applying a digital limiter that amplifies the signal by 12 dB and then limits the signal at 0 dBFS, then taking a clip restoration filter than undoes the 12 dB amplification and guesses the clipped samples (quite well, I might add, and no, I don't work for Syntrillium)?
that still doesn't bring back the treble information you threw out when you reduced its volume to allow it to be masked. The information is gone.
Gone, but lossy audio codecs are designed to preserve just enough low-level frequencies that those in the Type-R next to you won't notice. This is entirely the point of lossy coding, and this is why lossy coding must be adapted both to the characteristics of the source and to the circumstances of playback.
I heard [Nintendo rejected CD-ROM] because you couldn't save data on CDs
Every disc-based game console from the 3DO on has had a memory card available. Even the N64 had memory cards that plugged into the back of the controller (which the Dreamcast and Xbox shamelessly copied) so that you could keep your save file from a rented copy to a purchased copy of a game.
According to Nintendo Power magazine's announcements of the N64's cartridge medium and the GameCube's disc medium, Nintendo rejected CD-ROM for the N64 console because of 1. the latency and 2. the perceived lack of non-FMV applications of the format. For instance, producer Shigeru Miyamoto hated to sit in front of "now loading" screens.
who wants to break a $30 controller doing the olympics running game?
Ask anybody who plays Dance Dance Revolution.
DID YOU KNOW? The hardware used for arcade DDR from 1st mix through Extreme is based on the PS1 hardware. The only reason that home DDRMAX is a PS2 game is for the larger storage capacity of DVD.
It is impossible for a PCM waveform to hold a +9 dBFS sample value explicitly. However, it is possible for a recording to have peaks that were +9 dBFS before limiting (floating-point can represent values less than -1 and greater than +1) and that the clip restoration filter guesses are at +9 dBFS before it attenuates the signal to fit in [-1..1).
Compact Disc has a 115 dB dynamic range after dithering. Why didn't Warner use it?
audio, complicated audio, has very few repeating sections of data.
However, it does have some sample-to-sample correlation, and this is what FLAC exploits. Lossless coding is not nearly as effective on audio as lossy coding, but that doesn't stop recordings of live performances from being traded in.shn/.flac formats in communities such as etree.org.
turning down the amplitude of the higher frequency stuff doesn't store it at a lower bitrate - it simply throws out a lot of it
Exactly. It uses fewer bits on the treble and more bits on the bass. And because what you'll be playing out of the woofers in the trunk is primarily bass, that's a win.
When you turn up the treble EQ on playback, you end with more noise and high frequency artifacts
No, you're compensating for an overpowered amplifier used on the woofers in the trunk.
However, any discussion of dynamic compression in this story is COMPLETELY offtopic.:)
Part joke on the dual meaning of "compression" and part rant about over-compressed recordings.
You can compress voice down below 20kbits and get a quality comparable with analogue phone lines.
Voice typically runs at 8000 samples per second. Compression of such a signal below about 24 kbps is typically based on a complicated linear-prediction model. Linear prediction, especially at GSM bitrates (13 kbps), has trouble with background noise.
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what is this boycott?
Losing Nemo describes three boycotts against The Walt Disney Company: one by the church for gay-friendly policies, one by labor groups for producing merchandise in sweat^H^H^H^H^H substandard labor conditions, and one by concerned geeks for extending both the scope and duration of copyright.
Losing Nemo. Losing the greed.
unlike trademarks, patents and copyright do not diminish with disuse.
Though trademarks come with the strongest "use it or lose it" responsibilities, patents and copyrights are still subject to some. If a judge finds that a patent holder or copyright owner has harmed an alleged infringer by delaying legal action, the doctrine of laches states that the monopoly holder cannot collect damages for alleged infringements that occurred prior to the alleged infringement.
In addition, copyrights have fair use limitations. If the owner of copyright in a published work refuses to sell copies of the work and refuses to license the work, it could be argued that the copyright owner thereby denies the existence of any "potential market for or value of the copyrighted work" (17 USC 107) that could be harmed by the alleged infringement.
What about playing Tetris while pretending to "medicate" yourself?
OK, so a U.S. district court has ruled in favor of some unknown. But has a court of appeals agreed to take a look at the case?
I thought it was already settled that the only thing Blue Planet Software/The Tetris Company actually owned was the trademark on the word TETRIS, not a patent or copyright on the game of falling tetraminoes. If you disagree, and you represent BPS/TTC, please send cease and desist letters to the address listed on this page.
Oh, and Tetris Worlds is shit.
Reveal codes? What, we're surfing the web with WordPerfect here?
What's the real difference between the meanings of "reveal codes" and "view source" again? Perhaps "view source" and "reveal codes" translate to the same thing in some language other than English. Or perhaps you're right, that WordPerfect's latest office suite includes a customized web browser.
It should be fixed in Mozilla Firebird as well. As far as I know, Mozilla Firebird is built from the same tree as Mozilla Seamonkey (the kitchen sink version).
You don't have to copy anything to infringe on a patent.
However, if the alleged infringement occurs early enough in the patent term, it could be argued that the invention was probably obvious to anybody skilled in the art.
then by redistributing the kernel without a license from SCO
By distributing the Linux kernel under the GNU GPL, SCO granted an implied license to its patents to all recipients of SCO code.
I am used to the concept of once I have data, its mine as long as I want to keep it, not like some VisiCalc program whose data is extinct when it can no longer be read.
VisiCalc spreadsheet files are actually made of the keystrokes that reconstruct the spreadsheet in memory. Most of those keystrokes are in the VisiCalc printed manual; learn about the rest at user groups, most of which have established a web presence. Solution: Just make a program that emulates VisiCalc's keyboard interface, and then have that program export to CSV.
I believe the ASCII file formats, .WAV, .MP3, .OGG, .BMP, .GIF, .JPG, .MPG, .PNG, etc, will be around forever, but proprietary formats will be gone or redefined in a matter of years
What makes you think .MP3 and .GIF aren't proprietary formats? Sure, .GIF will become free in the States in a couple weeks when 4,558,302 expires, but .MP3 still has a few more years before its patent expires.
And this is exactly why mickeysoft doesn't like us Linux users running VMware.
And this is exactly why I'm guessing that Windows detects VMware and turns off the Secure Audio Path.
This implies that you don't need a computer to run Real.
Here's what I think asshat meant:
For the next six months, the Windows route is cheaper because one can re-use the same Windows PC for both Half-Life (or pick any Windows game that hasn't been ported to the Mac) and the music store.
Some people may have been given a PC for free but the chimp seals the deal with "90% of all computer users."
The question is not whether they got their Windows machine for free in the first place but whether they already have a fully-depreciated (est. 3 years) Windows machine in their possession. I'd estimate that there are several times more people with a 3-5 year old PC running Windows than people with a 0-4 year old Mac running Mac OS X.
And your PC was free?
Can a Windows or Linux machine purchased before iTunes Music Store was announced emulate a Mac running Mac OS X? (No, I can't just recompile iTunes with gnustep because iTunes source code is an Apple trade secret.)
I can pay for it, I do, and if I can't, then it's OK to copy (because they wouldn't have money from me anyway).
In fact, that argument just might have a chance in court. The most important of the fair use factors is "the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work." If the copyright owner refuses to sell more copies of a published work, then the copyright owner may be admitting that the work has no "potential market".
I use Total Recorder to "creatively cache" the songs to my iPod.
Which may not work because Total Recorder is anything but a signed driver.
Now, where's did I misplace that HijackAudio2MP3 applet.....
"The file 'David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans' could not be played, because your audio driver is not signed by Microsoft." Of course, this won't stop you if you're tunneling audio through an analog hole.
So you have to download 50 songs a month to break even compared to Apple's service.
Apple's service costs $1,000 for a lifetime subscription, which includes a special "Macintosh" brand Internet terminal used to access the iTunes Music Store. This equals about eight years of Rhapsody service.
Joke hint: Rhapsody was the code name for Mac OS X.
Nah, can't do that - they would never get to be +9 dBFS before limiting, 'cause they can't get to that point.
OK, let me rephrase again. What's the term for taking a -3 dBFS input to the ADC and applying a digital limiter that amplifies the signal by 12 dB and then limits the signal at 0 dBFS, then taking a clip restoration filter than undoes the 12 dB amplification and guesses the clipped samples (quite well, I might add, and no, I don't work for Syntrillium)?
that still doesn't bring back the treble information you threw out when you reduced its volume to allow it to be masked. The information is gone.
Gone, but lossy audio codecs are designed to preserve just enough low-level frequencies that those in the Type-R next to you won't notice. This is entirely the point of lossy coding, and this is why lossy coding must be adapted both to the characteristics of the source and to the circumstances of playback.
I heard [Nintendo rejected CD-ROM] because you couldn't save data on CDs
Every disc-based game console from the 3DO on has had a memory card available. Even the N64 had memory cards that plugged into the back of the controller (which the Dreamcast and Xbox shamelessly copied) so that you could keep your save file from a rented copy to a purchased copy of a game.
According to Nintendo Power magazine's announcements of the N64's cartridge medium and the GameCube's disc medium, Nintendo rejected CD-ROM for the N64 console because of 1. the latency and 2. the perceived lack of non-FMV applications of the format. For instance, producer Shigeru Miyamoto hated to sit in front of "now loading" screens.
In a single company/school/lab/whatever, sharing small bandwidth costs across many servers & having everything be up-to-date would be great.
Squid does that.
Well then the key/instructions to decrypt them whould have to be available
Not without the threat of sexual assault.
who wants to break a $30 controller doing the olympics running game?
Ask anybody who plays Dance Dance Revolution.
DID YOU KNOW? The hardware used for arcade DDR from 1st mix through Extreme is based on the PS1 hardware. The only reason that home DDRMAX is a PS2 game is for the larger storage capacity of DVD.
it is impossible to have peaks at +9 dBFS
It is impossible for a PCM waveform to hold a +9 dBFS sample value explicitly. However, it is possible for a recording to have peaks that were +9 dBFS before limiting (floating-point can represent values less than -1 and greater than +1) and that the clip restoration filter guesses are at +9 dBFS before it attenuates the signal to fit in [-1..1).
Compact Disc has a 115 dB dynamic range after dithering. Why didn't Warner use it?
audio, complicated audio, has very few repeating sections of data.
However, it does have some sample-to-sample correlation, and this is what FLAC exploits. Lossless coding is not nearly as effective on audio as lossy coding, but that doesn't stop recordings of live performances from being traded in .shn/.flac formats in communities such as etree.org.
turning down the amplitude of the higher frequency stuff doesn't store it at a lower bitrate - it simply throws out a lot of it
Exactly. It uses fewer bits on the treble and more bits on the bass. And because what you'll be playing out of the woofers in the trunk is primarily bass, that's a win.
When you turn up the treble EQ on playback, you end with more noise and high frequency artifacts
No, you're compensating for an overpowered amplifier used on the woofers in the trunk.
However, any discussion of dynamic compression in this story is COMPLETELY offtopic. :)
Part joke on the dual meaning of "compression" and part rant about over-compressed recordings.
At one time or another you must have access to it, to play the file. You can find this key by analysing what the kernel(+signed drivers) code does.
What if the DRM system's binaries themselves are encrypted, and the DRM system shuts down if a running debugger can see kernel space?
You can compress voice down below 20kbits and get a quality comparable with analogue phone lines.
Voice typically runs at 8000 samples per second. Compression of such a signal below about 24 kbps is typically based on a complicated linear-prediction model. Linear prediction, especially at GSM bitrates (13 kbps), has trouble with background noise.