It seems to hit what one imagines to be M$'s attitude towards selling software right on the nail. They even censor themself (d*mn), or is that an Outlook filter or something (Never used M$ on the internet in any way). So if it is fake, nice touch. If not, it just strengthens my resolve never to use any M$ product and to avoid buying them in any kind of bundled offer, unless I can't avoid it.
I am still ROTFLMAO about the confidentiality notice and the threat to anyone who will breach it.
It's already out on DVD in Japan (NTSC, Region2).
It's a 2 DVD pack with the film on the first DVD wit English and Japanese Audio. On the second DVD you have extra features which are not always with an English audio track. Just look at www.amazon.co.jp.
I ordered it from them, but ist was quite expensive and shipping was slow.(Got to know at least Katakana to find it)
You want an example. Well there is the one about NVIDIA having to release their code and having to spend a lot of money because they wouldn't. The only true part abou that is that they copied some code.
Everything else is pure fabrication and FUD against the GPL.
NVIDIA already had released the code only under their license, but they copied some parts of the bttv driver (which they even acknowldged in their code). After they had been told about their mistake, they changed the source (unfortunately not the license) and everything was fine. This may have cost them maybe some hours of discussion and 30 min of work which they should have done in the first place. The whole thing had nothing to do with the GPL, it could have happend with any license. The problem was that NVIDIAs license stated that the code was written by them and their property, which kind of made us mad.
Imagine what M$ would have done to them.
What Microsoft does is not marketing. It's innovating the truth.
There is a program called VDR that uses the Linux drivers for DVB cards (digital TV) and some people on the the video4linux mailing list just started a project on sourceforge that will work with cards supported by video4linux (analog and some digital TV). I forgot the exact name.
But the question I draw from this is: why not relax the GPL restrictions a bit for embedded applications? It seems like this area of the market will never be dominated by Linux until companies can stop fretting about licensing problems and start concentrating on coding instead.
Because this is what you have to pay for using GPL software. You get Linux for free, so if you have to change it to fit your product, you have to distribute the changes, now you are even with the developers. I don't understand people who want to take something for nothing and use it for their own commercial advantage, they really don't appreciate the work that went into Linux. If you don't like the license then don't use it. I think even considering to use it without distributing the changes is sleazy.
Is it possible that scientist like Dr. Felton who are working in areas where they might come in conflict with the DMCA or similar legislature, will choose to work at non-US universities rather than subject themselves to possible lawsuits and imprisonment in the US.
And in the same context might foreign scientist refrain from coming to conferences in the US for the same reason.
Why? He is not reducing the number of titles sold by infogrames. He is probably increasing it. Since you can buy the English version in Germany, which is distributed by Infogrames. So what is the problem?
IANAL, so it is not clear to me how copyright applies in the case of the translation of a book, video game or whatever. It is clear that you cannot copy parts or the whole of the original authors script other than for some special purposes that are covered under fair use. But in the case of a translation, you are not copying anything. You are reformulating and sometimes interpreting the ideas of the original author, which would seem to be covered under fair use.
In the case of civ3 it seems to be even unclearer, since Infogrames probably has the right to distribute the German version, but the translators are not distributing the game. Is there a right of translation? And since Infogrames distributes the English version as well, at least in Europe, what is their financial damage in that case. Isn't it rather a gain, when more people buy the game, especially if it puts the release date of the "German version" before Christmas instead of March?
variing success, but mostly great
on
Firewire and Linux?
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· Score: 2, Informative
Firewire works fine for me on my PC, but I had some problems with my Tibook. Right now I am using a 40GB drive for backup purposes. I also have a 20GB 2.5inch notebook drive which is nice for taking with you and just plugging it in for data transfer. Unfortunately, the Sony ilinks don't provide power so you also need to use the USB cable to get power for it. Both USB and firewire (ilink) work fine with Linux, although there may be some 2.4.x kernels where it doesn't work. Have a look at http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ for the latest information.
Of course, it is a content protection system. The file permissions protect the content of certain files to be read by certain users.
So if you have a copyright protected file on your Linux server and only members of the animator group have permission to access it and then some guest or visitor has an account on that server and uses the information in the kernel changelog to get to that file, copy it and distribute it on the net, you have
a copyright violation case with the breaking of a content protection system covered under the DMCA.
And guess whose fault is was for publishing the
information in the changelog.
Next time Alan Cox comes to the US, he is arrested
and prosecuted under the DMCA.
software (sôftwâr, sft-)
n. Computer Science
The programs, routines, and symbolic languages that control the functioning of the hardware and direct its operation.
In that sense the.ifo file is software and
you could even argue that the MPEG2 program stream
is software.
But in the same way you could say that a video
casette is software.
What is the legal definition of software?
Is digital television transmitting software?
So it is, no reason to get insulting. Who cares about NTSC anyway (or video school). The point is, the stream is compressed and the orders of magnitude are about right.
It already is compressed. It's an MPEG2 transport
stream. You have to consider that HDTV is 1920x1024.
So 20 MBit/s is not much if you compare it to
a maximum of 10 MBit/s of a DVD which has only 640x480 (or 720x576 PAL).
that they correct your word documents for
political correctness. Suddenly your physics
paper will be about "mentally challenged" Green's
functions and "african american" body radiation (
not to mention the holes of that variety).
I just wonder what kind of people go through those
programs, search for offensive words, so that they
can complain about them. I guess it's the same kind
that go to movies and count the number of offensive
words.
You can see what happens if you leave those
words out of dictionaries or lexica when
you name a car pajero and don't know what it
means in spanish. Or if your last name is Depp
and you come to Germany.
On cnet.com they quote
"All of our development work for the new MSN.com is...W3C standard," said Bob Visse, the director of MSN marketing, referring to the World Wide Web Consortium, which is developing industry standards for Web technologies. "For browsers that we know don't support those standards or that we can't insure will get a great experience for the customer, we do serve up a page that suggests that they upgrade to an IE browser that does support the" standards.
On the other, if you go to the w3c validator you get 4 errors for www.msn.com
and msn.com.
If the w3c want to use patented technology in
standards, what are they going to do about
patents that only exist in the promiscuous US
patent system and would never be granted in
other countries. Or even the other way around.
Won't that turn the world wide web into a us only
web or at least split it into lots of separate
entities?
Since the disk space is not infinite it must be a circular buffer. Actually any kind of buffer that can be written to and read at the same time, without the read and write areas overlapping would fill the
requirements. So it is trivial in any case.
Isn`t that just a trivial application of a circular
buffer. Or has someone a patent on that too. Any framegrabber uses this in much the same way.
I don`t understand how the American patent office
can grant a patent like that. What kind of people
work for them. Not the likes of Einstein, that`s for
sure.
This frivolous patent policy will certainly not further innovation. Next thing you know they patent the random switching button that clicks through your channels at random so that you can rest your thumb.
You don't change their spin, you measure it and find that it is the same. Usually you measure a quantity that has a fifty fifty chance to give one or the other result. The interesting thing is that it always comes out the same for the entangled particles. No matter how far their separation in time and space.
You can't convey any information that way since you don't know what the result of the measurement will be. But somehow the particles "know".
For more information see their paper at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/quant-ph/0106057
and references therein
Ok, he was really stupid. He should have changed the names. But we found some structures in the BSD bttv driver that were exactly the same as in the linux drivers (which came out a couple of months earlier).
I don't know if they still are, probably not. I don't have any BSD sources. But it's no reason to complain in such a way. The similarity may even help both sides. It's not like adapting it to Linux is no work. The BSD driver just made it a little easier.
And now all the linux user will also test the BSD driver in some way.
At least he didn't put his own copyright on top.
He might have made the effort to at least change the names a little.
But what can else can you do, it looks like the data structure is given by the hardware, so there is really no other way to do this. It doesn't warrant keeping the copyright notice,but he should have mentioned his source.
Marcus
search on slashdot. It was about a year ago.
They just copied a part of bttv that they needed for there kernel driver module. We wouldn't have minded if they hadn't copied it verbatim and put there copyright notice on top. They even had a comment that said they copied it and then they stated in their copyright statement that the following was their intellectual property (whatever that is, IP= I thought this so it's my property).
I don't know if my last reply came through, so here it is again.
The Linux driver came out at least 3 months before the BSD one which had very similar code at least as similar as in this case. We didn't complain much about that since hardware is hardware and after that we exchanged some information about different cards, but there was not a cooperation WITH the BSD maintainers just a some communication. And we didn't put it on slashdot (well was there a slashdot at that time, I guess not). So come on.
Slashdot Mirror
It seems to hit what one imagines to be M$'s attitude towards selling software right on the nail. They even censor themself (d*mn), or is that an Outlook filter or something (Never used M$ on the internet in any way). So if it is fake, nice touch. If not, it just strengthens my resolve never to use any M$ product and to avoid buying them in any kind of bundled offer, unless I can't avoid it.
I am still ROTFLMAO about the confidentiality notice and the threat to anyone who will breach it.
It's already out on DVD in Japan (NTSC, Region2).
It's a 2 DVD pack with the film on the first DVD wit English and Japanese Audio. On the second DVD you have extra features which are not always with an English audio track. Just look at www.amazon.co.jp.
I ordered it from them, but ist was quite expensive and shipping was slow.(Got to know at least Katakana to find it)
You want an example. Well there is the one about NVIDIA having to release their code and having to spend a lot of money because they wouldn't. The only true part abou that is that they copied some code.
Everything else is pure fabrication and FUD against the GPL.
NVIDIA already had released the code only under their license, but they copied some parts of the bttv driver (which they even acknowldged in their code). After they had been told about their mistake, they changed the source (unfortunately not the license) and everything was fine. This may have cost them maybe some hours of discussion and 30 min of work which they should have done in the first place. The whole thing had nothing to do with the GPL, it could have happend with any license. The problem was that NVIDIAs license stated that the code was written by them and their property, which kind of made us mad.
Imagine what M$ would have done to them.
What Microsoft does is not marketing. It's innovating the truth.
There is a program called VDR that uses the Linux drivers for DVB cards (digital TV) and some people on the the video4linux mailing list just started a project on sourceforge that will work with cards supported by video4linux (analog and some digital TV). I forgot the exact name.
No, but they are playing pong on it.
Because this is what you have to pay for using GPL software. You get Linux for free, so if you have to change it to fit your product, you have to distribute the changes, now you are even with the developers. I don't understand people who want to take something for nothing and use it for their own commercial advantage, they really don't appreciate the work that went into Linux. If you don't like the license then don't use it. I think even considering to use it without distributing the changes is sleazy.
Is it possible that scientist like Dr. Felton who are working in areas where they might come in conflict with the DMCA or similar legislature, will choose to work at non-US universities rather than subject themselves to possible lawsuits and imprisonment in the US.
And in the same context might foreign scientist refrain from coming to conferences in the US for the same reason.
Why? He is not reducing the number of titles sold by infogrames. He is probably increasing it. Since you can buy the English version in Germany, which is distributed by Infogrames. So what is the problem?
IANAL, so it is not clear to me how copyright applies in the case of the translation of a book, video game or whatever. It is clear that you cannot copy parts or the whole of the original authors script other than for some special purposes that are covered under fair use. But in the case of a translation, you are not copying anything. You are reformulating and sometimes interpreting the ideas of the original author, which would seem to be covered under fair use.
In the case of civ3 it seems to be even unclearer, since Infogrames probably has the right to distribute the German version, but the translators are not distributing the game. Is there a right of translation? And since Infogrames distributes the English version as well, at least in Europe, what is their financial damage in that case. Isn't it rather a gain, when more people buy the game, especially if it puts the release date of the "German version" before Christmas instead of March?
Firewire works fine for me on my PC, but I had some problems with my Tibook. Right now I am using a 40GB drive for backup purposes. I also have a 20GB 2.5inch notebook drive which is nice for taking with you and just plugging it in for data transfer. Unfortunately, the Sony ilinks don't provide power so you also need to use the USB cable to get power for it. Both USB and firewire (ilink) work fine with Linux, although there may be some 2.4.x kernels where it doesn't work. Have a look at http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ for the latest information.
Of course, it is a content protection system. The file permissions protect the content of certain files to be read by certain users.
So if you have a copyright protected file on your Linux server and only members of the animator group have permission to access it and then some guest or visitor has an account on that server and uses the information in the kernel changelog to get to that file, copy it and distribute it on the net, you have
a copyright violation case with the breaking of a content protection system covered under the DMCA.
And guess whose fault is was for publishing the
information in the changelog.
Next time Alan Cox comes to the US, he is arrested
and prosecuted under the DMCA.
As ridiculous as the example is, it is possible.
A 100 yen coin is about the same size as a German Mark coin and maybe a little smaller than an
American quater.
According to websters
.ifo file is software and
software (sôftwâr, sft-)
n. Computer Science
The programs, routines, and symbolic languages that control the functioning of the hardware and direct its operation.
In that sense the
you could even argue that the MPEG2 program stream
is software.
But in the same way you could say that a video
casette is software.
What is the legal definition of software?
Is digital television transmitting software?
So it is, no reason to get insulting. Who cares about NTSC anyway (or video school). The point is, the stream is compressed and the orders of magnitude are about right.
It already is compressed. It's an MPEG2 transport
stream. You have to consider that HDTV is 1920x1024.
So 20 MBit/s is not much if you compare it to
a maximum of 10 MBit/s of a DVD which has only 640x480 (or 720x576 PAL).
that they correct your word documents for
political correctness. Suddenly your physics
paper will be about "mentally challenged" Green's
functions and "african american" body radiation (
not to mention the holes of that variety).
I just wonder what kind of people go through those
programs, search for offensive words, so that they
can complain about them. I guess it's the same kind
that go to movies and count the number of offensive
words.
You can see what happens if you leave those
words out of dictionaries or lexica when
you name a car pajero and don't know what it
means in spanish. Or if your last name is Depp
and you come to Germany.
On cnet.com they quote
"All of our development work for the new MSN.com is...W3C standard," said Bob Visse, the director of MSN marketing, referring to the World Wide Web Consortium, which is developing industry standards for Web technologies. "For browsers that we know don't support those standards or that we can't insure will get a great experience for the customer, we do serve up a page that suggests that they upgrade to an IE browser that does support the" standards.
On the other, if you go to the w3c validator you get 4 errors for www.msn.com and msn.com.
If the w3c want to use patented technology in
standards, what are they going to do about
patents that only exist in the promiscuous US
patent system and would never be granted in
other countries. Or even the other way around.
Won't that turn the world wide web into a us only
web or at least split it into lots of separate
entities?
Since the disk space is not infinite it must be a circular buffer. Actually any kind of buffer that can be written to and read at the same time, without the read and write areas overlapping would fill the
requirements. So it is trivial in any case.
Isn`t that just a trivial application of a circular
buffer. Or has someone a patent on that too. Any framegrabber uses this in much the same way.
I don`t understand how the American patent office
can grant a patent like that. What kind of people
work for them. Not the likes of Einstein, that`s for
sure.
This frivolous patent policy will certainly not further innovation. Next thing you know they patent the random switching button that clicks through your channels at random so that you can rest your thumb.
You don't change their spin, you measure it and find that it is the same. Usually you measure a quantity that has a fifty fifty chance to give one or the other result. The interesting thing is that it always comes out the same for the entangled particles. No matter how far their separation in time and space.
You can't convey any information that way since you don't know what the result of the measurement will be. But somehow the particles "know".
For more information see their paper at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/quant-ph/0106057
and references therein
Ok, he was really stupid. He should have changed the names. But we found some structures in the BSD bttv driver that were exactly the same as in the linux drivers (which came out a couple of months earlier).
I don't know if they still are, probably not. I don't have any BSD sources. But it's no reason to complain in such a way. The similarity may even help both sides. It's not like adapting it to Linux is no work. The BSD driver just made it a little easier.
And now all the linux user will also test the BSD driver in some way.
Marcus
At least he didn't put his own copyright on top.
He might have made the effort to at least change the names a little.
But what can else can you do, it looks like the data structure is given by the hardware, so there is really no other way to do this. It doesn't warrant keeping the copyright notice,but he should have mentioned his source.
Marcus
search on slashdot. It was about a year ago.
They just copied a part of bttv that they needed for there kernel driver module. We wouldn't have minded if they hadn't copied it verbatim and put there copyright notice on top. They even had a comment that said they copied it and then they stated in their copyright statement that the following was their intellectual property (whatever that is, IP= I thought this so it's my property).
Marcus
I don't know if my last reply came through, so here it is again.
The Linux driver came out at least 3 months before the BSD one which had very similar code at least as similar as in this case. We didn't complain much about that since hardware is hardware and after that we exchanged some information about different cards, but there was not a cooperation WITH the BSD maintainers just a some communication. And we didn't put it on slashdot (well was there a slashdot at that time, I guess not). So come on.
Marcus