You forgot "and cover up." Remember that MPAA studios own all major commercial television news media in the United States (except for MSNBC until NBC merges with Universal). They'll dig up a lot of dirt on SCO and cover up their own faults.
Renderman has a pixel shader language as well. Is there any fundamental design difference that makes Cg shader language theoretically better or worse than Renderman shader language for some applications? Is there a reason why a shader written in Renderman can't be compiled to the same sort of bytecode that Cg implementations use? Last time Cg was discussed on Slashdot, this question went unanswered.
can I keep my song private, but pay to let some people hear it?
Under the current law, yes; you can do this with unpublished-work copyright law plus trade secret law. But under the common interpretation of "information wants to be free", once you set guidelines for your potential clients that that would potentially accept some big percentage of the national population, you've published it.
if I write a song can someone pay me out of appreciation to hear it?
Depends on whether this "someone" is family or social acquaintances, or a stranger. If it's a stranger, it has been performed "publicly" under current law. It has little or nothing to do with whether money was involved but rather who heard it.
Windows doesn't run natively on all hardware. What's the free and legal alternative to piracy of the Microsoft Virtual PC emulation software that interoperates with a free and legal alternative to piracy of sound recordings?
I knew that. It was part of an (admittedly poorly worded) attempt to explain how the cable companies and Internet companies get away with double-dipping, once for access to the network and once for access to works. If the networks stopped advertising, every channel would be as expensive as the Di$ney Channel. Do you really want to pay a monthly cable TV bill in the high three figures USD?
Maybe because SMB3 for the GBA has completely updated graphics and bonus features?
I'll grant you the bonus features of Super Mario Advance 4, but others will claim that the bonus features reduce the game's "purity", as had happened to a great extent with Super Mario Advance's copy of Super Mario Bros. 2 that completely changed the 1-Up mechanism. From what I've played of it on a GBA SP in Best Buy, the graphics and sound haven't been updated since Super Mario All*Stars. Assuming that SMB3 covered half of the 16 Mbit SMA*S cart (given the relative sizes of the corresponding NES ROMs, it seems likely), I wonder where the other 24 Mbits of the 32-Mbit SMA4 cart went.
According to some, it's easier than that to get laid. Just die and be reincarnated as a reptile, bird, or monotreme. According to this page, "[f]ifty million eggs are laid in Britain every day."
On Microsoft Windows 2000, ME, and XP operating systems, only WHQL-signed audio output drivers can play DRM'd audio tracks through the Secure Audio Path. In order to get signed, audio output drivers must not mix the Secure Audio Path into cleartext digital outputs.
Nevertheless, s/Total Recorder/line out, line in/g and your method still works.
you cant make a sequential serial number in the discs as you press them. they can do it in printing, and maybe have the laser read a barcode, but in the pressing process? no way.
Then what's the free and legal alternative to piracy of the Microsoft Windows operating system that interoperates with a free and legal alternative to piracy of sound recordings? I'd claim that Vivendi's MP3.com is a free and legal alternative to piracy.
Two words: Sheep vote. In other words, the way to get regulators to recognize our admittedly complex opinions is to boil them down to catchphrases that the voting sheepulace can understand.
ISPs in Australia, New Zealand, and the less developed world typically charge more for bandwidth than ISPs in Europe, the States, and the east coast of Asia because transoceanic communication is so darn expensive. Getting a relevantly new ISP would require emigrating, and last time I checked, it costs the equivalent of five figures EUR or USD to emigrate.
Here's how to defeat your proposal, for sites that don't have to deal with section 508 of the USA's Rehabilitation Act (or foreign counterparts): For users where the Flash plug-in detect script has found Flash present, make the "click to proceed" button part of the Flash animation, and replace it by "Replay Ad" after ten seconds, so that the user has to stay on the tab that contains the ad or risk "missing the resumption."
I'm already paying $50 or so per month for broadband.
If I were to host my site on residential broadband, I would have to 1. buy a second computer (using one computer as both workstation and server produces unacceptable reliability) and 2. upgrade to business broadband whose TOS does not forbid servers.
If you're coloing your server on residential-priced Internet access, beware of three things: 1. Residential-priced Internet connections typically have more downtime and more unpredictable downtime, 2. the monopoly high-speed Internet access provider (or duopoly providers) may ban servers in the acceptable use policy, and 3. who's going to provide DNS for your dynamic IP address?
Collaborative, voluntary creation works for software, it works on wikis
Who will pay to host the wikis? Who will pay to host the free software once VA Software dies and Savannah becomes too overloaded after the mass migration from SF to be usable?
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SCO has not yet threatened the SEC
Isn't SCO's alleged pump and dump scheme enough of a threat?
Let's see what they dig up.
You forgot "and cover up." Remember that MPAA studios own all major commercial television news media in the United States (except for MSNBC until NBC merges with Universal). They'll dig up a lot of dirt on SCO and cover up their own faults.
Renderman has a pixel shader language as well. Is there any fundamental design difference that makes Cg shader language theoretically better or worse than Renderman shader language for some applications? Is there a reason why a shader written in Renderman can't be compiled to the same sort of bytecode that Cg implementations use? Last time Cg was discussed on Slashdot, this question went unanswered.
Don't many parts of U.S. copyright law have language to the effect: "Notwithstanding any part of the antitrust laws"?
What is the conceptual difference between Cg and Renderman?
Matrix 2 and 3 were shot as a single production, but there was ample time for post production, including CG rendering, to take longer for Revolutions.
The open standards version of RealPlayer is called Helix.
can I keep my song private, but pay to let some people hear it?
Under the current law, yes; you can do this with unpublished-work copyright law plus trade secret law. But under the common interpretation of "information wants to be free", once you set guidelines for your potential clients that that would potentially accept some big percentage of the national population, you've published it.
if I write a song can someone pay me out of appreciation to hear it?
Depends on whether this "someone" is family or social acquaintances, or a stranger. If it's a stranger, it has been performed "publicly" under current law. It has little or nothing to do with whether money was involved but rather who heard it.
Windows doesn't run natively on all hardware. What's the free and legal alternative to piracy of the Microsoft Virtual PC emulation software that interoperates with a free and legal alternative to piracy of sound recordings?
That $15 does NOT go to production.
I knew that. It was part of an (admittedly poorly worded) attempt to explain how the cable companies and Internet companies get away with double-dipping, once for access to the network and once for access to works. If the networks stopped advertising, every channel would be as expensive as the Di$ney Channel. Do you really want to pay a monthly cable TV bill in the high three figures USD?
Maybe because SMB3 for the GBA has completely updated graphics and bonus features?
I'll grant you the bonus features of Super Mario Advance 4, but others will claim that the bonus features reduce the game's "purity", as had happened to a great extent with Super Mario Advance's copy of Super Mario Bros. 2 that completely changed the 1-Up mechanism. From what I've played of it on a GBA SP in Best Buy, the graphics and sound haven't been updated since Super Mario All*Stars. Assuming that SMB3 covered half of the 16 Mbit SMA*S cart (given the relative sizes of the corresponding NES ROMs, it seems likely), I wonder where the other 24 Mbits of the 32-Mbit SMA4 cart went.
they are working on legislation to make free software impossible
Won't fly. The web site of the CEO of the United States runs Apache on Linux.
There are studies that show that music enhances concentration.
By "music" do you mean Mozart or Linkin Park? Which kind of music is more readily available on Napster?
According to some, it's easier than that to get laid. Just die and be reincarnated as a reptile, bird, or monotreme. According to this page, "[f]ifty million eggs are laid in Britain every day."
On Microsoft Windows 2000, ME, and XP operating systems, only WHQL-signed audio output drivers can play DRM'd audio tracks through the Secure Audio Path. In order to get signed, audio output drivers must not mix the Secure Audio Path into cleartext digital outputs.
Nevertheless, s/Total Recorder/line out, line in/g and your method still works.
you cant make a sequential serial number in the discs as you press them. they can do it in printing, and maybe have the laser read a barcode, but in the pressing process? no way.
With DIVX discs, GameCube discs, and some DVD-ROM titles, the barcode is put in between pressing and printing. Learn more about the Burst Cutting Area
Then what's the free and legal alternative to piracy of the Microsoft Windows operating system that interoperates with a free and legal alternative to piracy of sound recordings? I'd claim that Vivendi's MP3.com is a free and legal alternative to piracy.
The understanding here is that once the privilege of viewing a work is offered to the General Public(tm), the work is considered "published."
And just be a sheep?
Two words: Sheep vote. In other words, the way to get regulators to recognize our admittedly complex opinions is to boil them down to catchphrases that the voting sheepulace can understand.
ISPs in Australia, New Zealand, and the less developed world typically charge more for bandwidth than ISPs in Europe, the States, and the east coast of Asia because transoceanic communication is so darn expensive. Getting a relevantly new ISP would require emigrating, and last time I checked, it costs the equivalent of five figures EUR or USD to emigrate.
Here's how to defeat your proposal, for sites that don't have to deal with section 508 of the USA's Rehabilitation Act (or foreign counterparts): For users where the Flash plug-in detect script has found Flash present, make the "click to proceed" button part of the Flash animation, and replace it by "Replay Ad" after ten seconds, so that the user has to stay on the tab that contains the ad or risk "missing the resumption."
they detect content-type="image/gif" or jpg png etc and what the size is and remove them
It's possible to fool 468x60 detectors by removing a few pixels of space from your CSS template and adding it to the image itself.
I'm already paying $50 or so per month for broadband.
If I were to host my site on residential broadband, I would have to 1. buy a second computer (using one computer as both workstation and server produces unacceptable reliability) and 2. upgrade to business broadband whose TOS does not forbid servers.
If you're coloing your server on residential-priced Internet access, beware of three things: 1. Residential-priced Internet connections typically have more downtime and more unpredictable downtime, 2. the monopoly high-speed Internet access provider (or duopoly providers) may ban servers in the acceptable use policy, and 3. who's going to provide DNS for your dynamic IP address?
Collaborative, voluntary creation works for software, it works on wikis
Who will pay to host the wikis? Who will pay to host the free software once VA Software dies and Savannah becomes too overloaded after the mass migration from SF to be usable?