Are you a complete idiot? It's a JOKE RFC, for Christ's sake. It's one thing bashing M$ when they deserve it, but to bash them because they made a joke WHICH YOU WERE TOO STUPID TO GET is just silly.
Actually, it's childishly easy to enforce copyright in the information age:
Create technology which marks copies of things (e.g. MP3s) with the ownership rights
Create technology which makes sure copies can only be made with the appropriate rights
Make that technology ubiquitous
Get the government to pass laws making it illegal to circumvent that technology
Prevent users of "open source" systems from ever getting their hands on the decryption code
This is exactly what's happening right now. Slashdot readers fear that in five years this will be a reality. It will be - get used to the idea. As you say, they shoehorn the new ideas into the old economy. These new-fangled computer things are very good at enforcing security policies such as these. Linux users are proud of how secure their systems are. PGP users are proud of how secure their emails are. All this technology can be used to enforce copyright. And as Slashdot readers know, if technology can be used to do something, it will be.
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Jesus, get off your fucking high horse. You're making a generality here about Slashdot readers which doesn't even approximate the truth. If you're so fucking in touch with the political scene, why do you insist on treating a mass of people as a single average point? Fuck you.
There's always an ignorant fuck on Slashdot when you want one. Well done! Please make more posts on topics about which you know nothing. Slashdot will love you for it. After all, you don't really need to understand what "owning" music means, or even what "distribution" means. You can just sit in your little ivory geek tower and talk bullshit about the way you think the world should work, while the rest of us get on with our lives.
This isn't about an interpretation of the law, it's about the law exactly as written. Copyright law forbids the distribution of other people's copyright work without permission. MP3.com distributed other people's work without permission. It's as black and white as it gets. The law isn't about right and wrong, it's about whether or not laws are broken. In this case, they were.
Even Napster has more of a case than MP3.com. At least Napster didn't put those MP3s up their themselves. With Napster, the plaintiffs actually had to use some imagination to find something to sue them for.
Anyway, I'm not writing them off as idiots and crooks, I'm writing them off as idiots or crooks. Either way, they're looking pretty fucking stupid now, aren't they?
Well, let's see. I wonder how rich the guys who started MP3.com are now. If MP3.com has paid out $1 million in fees to their signed artists every month since June, I wonder how much the president has in the bank right now.
They knew, they just knew they could get away with it for long enough to rake in the $$$$s. Do you think they care now whether or not MP3.com lasts another year?
Jesus, so now I have to put "the opinions expressed don't reflect those of my employer" just to stave off dickheads like you? If you want to know Naughty Dog's relationship with Universal why don't you email me and ask, instead of showing your ignorance off to the world? Universal published Crash, they don't own this company, and they certainly don't own my opinions.
Get a fucking life, Mr Whois. We all have to make a living somehow.
Oh, rubbish. When you form a company you get a lawyer. They knew they were breaking the law, they just went ahead and did it anyway. The fact that you and countless others think this law is wrong is irrelevant. You don't break the law as a business unless you're a damned idiot or a plain crook. Either way, MP3.com is hardly coming out of this smelling of roses.
Fair use my arse. We're talking about a company distributing copyright material without permission. You should be thanking MP3.com for knowingly violating copyright law and putting themselves, and you, into this position.
The framebuffer was in the old Linux kernels; Microsoft never exposed it until DirectX because, for 2D work, it's actually faster to use hardware 2D acceleration than to draw everything as pixels. Odd that.
Censorship is when a government won't let you read something it deems unsuitable. Overturning a patent doesn't prevent you from reading the patent documents, it just overturns the patent.
I suggest you read the constitution, this time with a dictionary in the other hand.
I hope you're still reading this thread. I'd email you, but you give no address. (I've been sick since Monday).
I envisage something more like this:
There's a tight microkernel OS which provides GQOS (Guaranteed Quality of Service) for different devices. In particular, the hard-drive and sound cards. It actually times hard-drive and sound-card accesses to give upper limits on the timing of these.
This then interfaces with the standard drive and soundcards - IDE, SCSI and SB16 (to begin with)
Drivers can be added by anyone
Applications can be added by anyone
The system provides a threading system specifically for sound-generating threads
It's all open
Then you can run it on a low-end machine or a high-end machine and it just gives you as many simultaneous tracks as it can handle. The system is open so anyone can go in and write modules or drivers.
By replacing the OS you get to provide the speed and consistency of access that such a system needs.
Thing is, I began designing such an OS five years ago, based on the StrongARM. Now, I wouldn't recommend doing audio on the StrongARM (unless you want to watch your 200 MIPS turn into 40 MFLOPS) but I certainly would recommend a Pentium III (watch your 1300 MIPS turn into 5200 MFLOPS!) But the point is, I have the microkernel design pretty much sketched out.
It'd be sort-of like an open-source BeOS!
So anyway, I'm quite revved up by this. The existence of Linux means I can basically crib drivers before I write my own GCOS drivers and get a system working in a small amount of time. Even V2_OS might be a good place to start (although the kernel is not open-source, it isn't protected either, so V2_OS makes a good bootstrap loader for a real OS;)
40ns is the TRANSFER time, from which you calculate the total BANDWIDTH of the part. HOWEVER, if you're doing a bunch of consecutive transfers from the same bank, the CAS-to-CAS time is 100ns (this is the time from one CAS to when the next CAS can be accepted - nothing to do with the bandwidth of the command channel). Therefore, if you can only do one CAS per bank every 100ns and your transfer time is 40ns you can only achieve 40% utilization unless you have multiple reads outstanding at one time - which you don't on a PIII.
Is that simple enough to understand, or is my crack-addled brain going too fast for you?
You know what? It sounds like there's really a niche for really high-quality sound synthesis and processing software. Maybe someone should write a special-purpose OS just for this? They could fork the Linux tree for the low-level "getting the machine up" stuff and just write basic drivers for SVGA, SB16, IDE and SCSI which would kick the crap out of what can be done on any of Linux, MacOS or Windows.
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Conservative? Sounds like you became an utter Fascist. Shooting liberals isn't on my politcal agenda, but then I'm not governor of Texas.
Are you a complete idiot? It's a JOKE RFC, for Christ's sake. It's one thing bashing M$ when they deserve it, but to bash them because they made a joke WHICH YOU WERE TOO STUPID TO GET is just silly.
Let's all laugh at the funny Microsoft man.
This is exactly what's happening right now. Slashdot readers fear that in five years this will be a reality. It will be - get used to the idea. As you say, they shoehorn the new ideas into the old economy. These new-fangled computer things are very good at enforcing security policies such as these. Linux users are proud of how secure their systems are. PGP users are proud of how secure their emails are. All this technology can be used to enforce copyright. And as Slashdot readers know, if technology can be used to do something, it will be.
Jesus, get off your fucking high horse. You're making a generality here about Slashdot readers which doesn't even approximate the truth. If you're so fucking in touch with the political scene, why do you insist on treating a mass of people as a single average point? Fuck you.
Well said! Someone moderate this up. It's not often someone speaks sense on Slashdot.
Fuck you, too.
Even Napster has more of a case than MP3.com. At least Napster didn't put those MP3s up their themselves. With Napster, the plaintiffs actually had to use some imagination to find something to sue them for.
Anyway, I'm not writing them off as idiots and crooks, I'm writing them off as idiots or crooks. Either way, they're looking pretty fucking stupid now, aren't they?
Well, let's see. I wonder how rich the guys who started MP3.com are now. If MP3.com has paid out $1 million in fees to their signed artists every month since June, I wonder how much the president has in the bank right now.
They knew, they just knew they could get away with it for long enough to rake in the $$$$s. Do you think they care now whether or not MP3.com lasts another year?
Slightly better than SXYZZX too ;)
Get a fucking life, Mr Whois. We all have to make a living somehow.
Yes it did. That's what this whole case is about.
Oh, rubbish. When you form a company you get a lawyer. They knew they were breaking the law, they just went ahead and did it anyway. The fact that you and countless others think this law is wrong is irrelevant. You don't break the law as a business unless you're a damned idiot or a plain crook. Either way, MP3.com is hardly coming out of this smelling of roses.
Honest business? They broke the law. That, in my book, is not "honest business".
Fair use my arse. We're talking about a company distributing copyright material without permission. You should be thanking MP3.com for knowingly violating copyright law and putting themselves, and you, into this position.
Sorry to be OT, but I replied to the SynthesizerOS thread and I'd love for you to take a look. I was sick last week, so it took a while ;)
The framebuffer was in the old Linux kernels; Microsoft never exposed it until DirectX because, for 2D work, it's actually faster to use hardware 2D acceleration than to draw everything as pixels. Odd that.
Thanks for wasting that little bit more ;)
So can you be more specific? Which exact piece of the 1st amendment do you think overturning a patent violates? Freedom of religion?
I suggest you read the constitution, this time with a dictionary in the other hand.
I hope you're still reading this thread. I'd email you, but you give no address. (I've been sick since Monday).
I envisage something more like this:
Then you can run it on a low-end machine or a high-end machine and it just gives you as many simultaneous tracks as it can handle. The system is open so anyone can go in and write modules or drivers.
By replacing the OS you get to provide the speed and consistency of access that such a system needs.
Thing is, I began designing such an OS five years ago, based on the StrongARM. Now, I wouldn't recommend doing audio on the StrongARM (unless you want to watch your 200 MIPS turn into 40 MFLOPS) but I certainly would recommend a Pentium III (watch your 1300 MIPS turn into 5200 MFLOPS!) But the point is, I have the microkernel design pretty much sketched out.
It'd be sort-of like an open-source BeOS!
So anyway, I'm quite revved up by this. The existence of Linux means I can basically crib drivers before I write my own GCOS drivers and get a system working in a small amount of time. Even V2_OS might be a good place to start (although the kernel is not open-source, it isn't protected either, so V2_OS makes a good bootstrap loader for a real OS ;)
So what do you think?
Is that simple enough to understand, or is my crack-addled brain going too fast for you?
You know what? It sounds like there's really a niche for really high-quality sound synthesis and processing software. Maybe someone should write a special-purpose OS just for this? They could fork the Linux tree for the low-level "getting the machine up" stuff and just write basic drivers for SVGA, SB16, IDE and SCSI which would kick the crap out of what can be done on any of Linux, MacOS or Windows.
Glad we finally got there. Whew! ;)
Or perhaps she is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois.