It depends upon your local laws and your contract. In the U.S., the default laws tend to vary by state. The last time I checked with my attorney, he told me that here in NY, all work is considered to be work-for-hire unless specified in writing. This means that the source code is automatically the property of the client, unless I get a contract stating otherwise. Which I do sometimes, but not that often.
Things get stickier if you use other people's libraries or even open source software within your project.
I've found that it's easiest to avoid problems if you simply discuss it with your client beforehand, and be as transparent as possible in your methods and expectations.
Those of you claiming that upscaled 480p looks as good as native 1080p have probably never compared them side by side.
That said, I bought an HD-DVD player, and while I'm rather pragmatic about the results of the format war, I'm not going to spend twice as much for a player with half the features.
Remember, when the format war ended, Blu player prices went up. And cheap 2.0 spec players are still a myth.
It's a shame it's going this way. I was an early supporter of Blu-ray, but now I'd be much happier to see HD DVD win (or at least live on for a while).
Reasons to support BD: - Sony & Disney catalogs - More storage
Reasons to support HD DVD: - Universal catalog - Less DRM, no region codes (imports!) - Easier to author your own content - No censorship by factories
I live in NYC. There are no unused frequencies. None. Nada. Zip. Zilch. There were a few before the FCC relaxed rules on small stations a couple of years ago. Now there's nothing left.
I used to use these devices (of all brands), but in the last 2 years or so they have become completely, absolutely, 100% useless in NYC, and I'm sure it's the same in other major cities.
And when I finally broke down and hardwired it, I was amazed at the difference in sound quality, and to this day wonder why I didn't do this years ago.
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My 10-month-old has a few words (or at least sounds), such as Ma for Mommy, Da for Daddy, and Baby when she sees herself in the mirror. (Yes, 2 syllables.)
What I really need, though, is a way to get my 4-year-old to *stop* using words. Like when I saw her playing with a toy at the dinner table.
Me: "Hey! What are you doing!?" Her: "I'm eating my damn dinner!"
Yeah, and the fan is right under the keyboard, so when you wife drops a cup of coffee on the keyboard, it hits the fan and gets sprayed all over the motherboard. Great design!
I recently disassembled my wife's 12" PB to extract a cup of coffee that she deposited in it. Nothing was particularly tricky, although it was very time consuming, but I followed the advice of a friend, and I'm really glad I did --
Use an ice cube tray (or two) for all of the screws, separating them by size, and draw detailed charts and notes as to where each one came from.
If you don't do this, you won't get it back together. Good luck!
If you want a 19" rack, you can buy rails and build them into your own housing. Try Middle Atlantic products from your favorite video supply retailer, such as this one (no affiliation). Buy the screws there too, to make sure you get the right size.
I don't think you understand just how bad things are right now.
I run a small server, and our mail server gets anywhere from 5 to 10 spam messages per second. This, combined with filters and DNS lookups, is extremely overwhelming -- it takes up most of the resources of the server.
In the past, RBL-type lists worked great. These days, about 70-75% of all of our incoming spam comes from *unique dynamic hosts*, mostly from cable modems. The quantity is drastically increasing every day.
It's getting so bad that I'm seriously considering shutting down all mail services on my server, and forcing all of my users to use their ISPs.
I don't like the concept of blocking outgoing 25s, but I don't see any other answers... and if an answer isn't found soon, email will be dead.
I agree that this is absolutely necessary, as I pay the bandwidth bills at my company and know what it's like, but they have to be careful not to stifle innovation, as the security features they will now need become more and more complicated.
The new measures might wind up costing them more than they expected. How about limiting speed by user? That would not get in the way of most legitimate research, but it would render P2P movie sharing useless.
As of this moment, AOL is rejecting everything from (my local) RoadRunner mail server (nycsmtp2out.rdc-nyc.rr.com). It's pretty easy to stop that many messages when you're blocking all mail from one of the biggest ISPs in the country.
About once every two weeks, we seen an article like this one from a fairly respected news organization.
A junior reporter gets a press release from the RIAA about the horrors of piracy and imminent destruction of the music industry, and copies it verboten, with the addition of the contents of a couple of phone calls to round things out, calling it journalism.
Unfortunately, fact checking seems to be a lost art. We should respond by ignoring their transparent ploy.
Hmm.. normal compressed streams from the networks come in at about 19Mb/sec. Even taking it down to 15 hurts the image. It will take an awful lot of disk space to store movies.
That said, I'm greatly looking forward to it -- the only other solution, DVHS is buggy and expensive.
This combined with the new ESPN-HD channel will make my TV purchase worthwhile...
What you have to remember is that the NSA is outside the firewall, so to speak.
They get to monitor everything, then they follow certain rules as to what information they are allowed to report to other agencies.
The FBI, CIA, DOJ and DOD are their biggest customers, and all three have to prove that there is a need to know when they want information on a U.S. national. If proof is not shown, the information is censored -- every name is changed to "U.S. Person".
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How I need a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics.
It depends upon your local laws and your contract. In the U.S., the default laws tend to vary by state. The last time I checked with my attorney, he told me that here in NY, all work is considered to be work-for-hire unless specified in writing. This means that the source code is automatically the property of the client, unless I get a contract stating otherwise. Which I do sometimes, but not that often.
Things get stickier if you use other people's libraries or even open source software within your project.
I've found that it's easiest to avoid problems if you simply discuss it with your client beforehand, and be as transparent as possible in your methods and expectations.
Better drink a whole bunch really fast. Next week, researchers will tell us it's bad again.
Presumably they're doing this because the last Galactica spinoff went so well? Invisible ships and flying motorcycles. How ever can they top that?
Those of you claiming that upscaled 480p looks as good as native 1080p have probably never compared them side by side.
That said, I bought an HD-DVD player, and while I'm rather pragmatic about the results of the format war, I'm not going to spend twice as much for a player with half the features.
Remember, when the format war ended, Blu player prices went up. And cheap 2.0 spec players are still a myth.
Apple can't even commit to Java 1.6 for OS X -- I think you're being a wee bit optimistic.
It's a shame it's going this way. I was an early supporter of Blu-ray, but now I'd be much happier to see HD DVD win (or at least live on for a while).
Reasons to support BD:
- Sony & Disney catalogs
- More storage
Reasons to support HD DVD:
- Universal catalog
- Less DRM, no region codes (imports!)
- Easier to author your own content
- No censorship by factories
Reasons to hope both stay alive:
- Price wars
I live in NYC. There are no unused frequencies. None. Nada. Zip. Zilch. There were a few before the FCC relaxed rules on small stations a couple of years ago. Now there's nothing left.
I used to use these devices (of all brands), but in the last 2 years or so they have become completely, absolutely, 100% useless in NYC, and I'm sure it's the same in other major cities.
And when I finally broke down and hardwired it, I was amazed at the difference in sound quality, and to this day wonder why I didn't do this years ago.
Plasma Pros: Richer color, brighter screen
Plasma Cons: Lower resolution, suffers from burn-in
LCD Pros: Higher resolution, no burn-in, lasts a *lot* longer
LCD Cons: Terrible blacks & contrast, some speed trouble
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My 10-month-old has a few words (or at least sounds), such as Ma for Mommy, Da for Daddy, and Baby when she sees herself in the mirror. (Yes, 2 syllables.)
What I really need, though, is a way to get my 4-year-old to *stop* using words. Like when I saw her playing with a toy at the dinner table.
Me: "Hey! What are you doing!?" Her: "I'm eating my damn dinner!"
Yeah, she learned that from me too.
Oh my. Hypocracy in corporate America. I'm shocked.
Yeah, and the fan is right under the keyboard, so when you wife drops a cup of coffee on the keyboard, it hits the fan and gets sprayed all over the motherboard. Great design!
Use an ice cube tray (or two) for all of the screws, separating them by size, and draw detailed charts and notes as to where each one came from.
If you don't do this, you won't get it back together. Good luck!
No, they don't. I have the v710 and have sent myself midi (and mp3) files.
Man... my mother-in-law got me a SpongeBob shower radio. Wanna trade? (Mothers-in-law, I mean..)
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown was a lot of fun, even if the Priory of Sion has turned out to be a fraud.
I'm looking forward to his next book which will be about Freemasonry.
If you want a 19" rack, you can buy rails and build them into your own housing. Try Middle Atlantic products from your favorite video supply retailer, such as this one (no affiliation). Buy the screws there too, to make sure you get the right size.
Exactly. I'm getting one spam from one address at a time, in extremely large quantities. These addresses are not on the dyn lists.
You should see my logs -- it's a mess out there right now.
I don't think you understand just how bad things are right now.
I run a small server, and our mail server gets anywhere from 5 to 10 spam messages per second. This, combined with filters and DNS lookups, is extremely overwhelming -- it takes up most of the resources of the server.
In the past, RBL-type lists worked great. These days, about 70-75% of all of our incoming spam comes from *unique dynamic hosts*, mostly from cable modems. The quantity is drastically increasing every day.
It's getting so bad that I'm seriously considering shutting down all mail services on my server, and forcing all of my users to use their ISPs.
I don't like the concept of blocking outgoing 25s, but I don't see any other answers... and if an answer isn't found soon, email will be dead.
I agree that this is absolutely necessary, as I pay the bandwidth bills at my company and know what it's like, but they have to be careful not to stifle innovation, as the security features they will now need become more and more complicated.
What will this do to the thousands of students that use 802.11b at the library and other campus buildings? Will the charges be based on MAC address? Since MAC addresses are so easy to spoof, authentication will become necessary. How can that be done easily across multiple platforms?
The new measures might wind up costing them more than they expected. How about limiting speed by user? That would not get in the way of most legitimate research, but it would render P2P movie sharing useless.
As of this moment, AOL is rejecting everything from (my local) RoadRunner mail server (nycsmtp2out.rdc-nyc.rr.com). It's pretty easy to stop that many messages when you're blocking all mail from one of the biggest ISPs in the country.
About once every two weeks, we seen an article like this one from a fairly respected news organization.
A junior reporter gets a press release from the RIAA about the horrors of piracy and imminent destruction of the music industry, and copies it verboten, with the addition of the contents of a couple of phone calls to round things out, calling it journalism.
Unfortunately, fact checking seems to be a lost art. We should respond by ignoring their transparent ploy.
Hmm.. normal compressed streams from the networks come in at about 19Mb/sec. Even taking it down to 15 hurts the image. It will take an awful lot of disk space to store movies.
That said, I'm greatly looking forward to it -- the only other solution, DVHS is buggy and expensive.
This combined with the new ESPN-HD channel will make my TV purchase worthwhile...
What you have to remember is that the NSA is outside the firewall, so to speak.
They get to monitor everything, then they follow certain rules as to what information they are allowed to report to other agencies.
The FBI, CIA, DOJ and DOD are their biggest customers, and all three have to prove that there is a need to know when they want information on a U.S. national. If proof is not shown, the information is censored -- every name is changed to "U.S. Person".
There is a long history of the NSA getting into fights with other agencies over this, hense the formation of the FISC, the main oversight committee.
What the NSA is really saying here is, 'Look, citizens, Ashcroft wants to stomp on your rights -- do something about it before it's too late.'