Acrobat 4.0 doesn't do OCR. It scans the page and stores it as a bitmap.
If you can still find it, the best software for this would be Acrobat 3.0 which was available with Capture 1.0. Back then the Capture plugin was unlimited use. None of this crap about buying a license for every 1000 pages or spending $7000 for unlimited pages. The data bank at my old office used this setup. It was a shocker when we saw the pricing for Acrobat 4.0 and Capture 3.0, but fortunately we had no need to upgrade.
The Justice Dept is a part of the Executive Branch, and they are the ones arguing the government's case in court. The President doesn't have the power to call off the case, but he can persuade the Justice Dept. lawyers to not argue as well as they could.
Yes, recording studio time costs money, but how expensive is a recording studio compared to a chip fab or a steel mill or a movie set? Studio time is a miniscule percentage of their expenses. Their big expense is pimping their recordings to the mass-media conglomerates.
In general, yes. IE crashes less than Netscape. However because it's hooked so deep into the OS, on the rare occasions that it does crash, it's much more severe. Almost always a BSOD vs. Netscape where just the app crashes.
IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY - Warranty that guarantees that goods are reasonably fit for their ordinary purpose.
Unfortunately most EULAs specifically disclaim this (Win98 EULA):
THE REDISTRIBUTABLE CODE IS PROVIDED TO YOU "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND/OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>I would disagree, bootlegging will continue because there will always be people who want to >pay less or nothing for a product which others think is reasonable.
At some point a product becomes so reasonably priced that bootlegging becomes negligible. For example VHS movies:
If I wanted to copy a VHS movie, I'd need:
2 VCRs (vs. just 1 to watch the movie) extra $150 Macrovision remover $50
and for each movie: blank tape $1 movie rental $3-4
Or I could just spend $10-20 and buy a real copy of the movie.
Does anybody remember the 70's-early 80's when it cost $100 to buy a movie on VHS? Reasonable pricing IS the cure for bootlegging.
I think the point the author misses is that all the research in advanced OS technologies is absolutely useless for production use until it is refined and tested for stability and robustness. The Linux kernel is designed conservatively and that in part gives it its stability. The BSDs are based on an even older codebase, and they are arguably even more stable than Linux.
Concert promoting can be very profitable but the Limp Bizkit tour that they're sponsoring is FREE ADMISSION. So they're not making money off that either.
I think it's like that movie Brewster's Millions. Let's see how fast we can spend $15mil in VC.
Of course. Can you imagine what it would do to their punk band image if they went whining to their lawyers like a bunch of schoolyard crybabies? Can't do that. They'd look like a bunch of over the hill headbangers.
Uhh, Offspring isn't supporting Napster by selling their merchandise. They're selling Napster logo stuff and KEEPING the money. I guess they want to see just how cool Napster is.
Not exactly. The S/390 doesn't run X86 code and wouldn't be emulating a SIS chipset in its virtual machine. You'd need something like Bochs for the X86 emulation, but even then no SIS chipset.
The difference is KDE can be easily removed from Linux, or rather, Linux can be easily installed without KDE. In fact, Redhat is very pushy about installing Gnome, but you can still easily install Linux without Gnome if you want. It's all about choice.
That's not really a fair comparision. Engineers and assembly line workers aren't exactly world-famous celebrities. You have to compare musicians to other entertainers like actors and athletes. Do actors have to sign exclusive 5 movie deals with only one studio? Do movie studios charge actors for sets, cameras and studio time out of their advance? Do musicians get the same percentage of royalties from their work as actors? Do athletes get to be free agents after a certain number of years?
Also the economics of building cars and computers is fundamentally different from music. Building a car factory or a chip fab requires a massive investment with substantial risk. Compared to that a decent recording studio is dirt cheap. Even pressing the CDs is cheap. The only expensive part is wielding enough influence to get MTV and top 40 radio to play your dreck (ie pushing the traditional distribution channels).
The big deal is that he's actually taking responsibility for the software. This stands in stark contrast to the usual EULA disclaimer "this software is provided as is without warranty... you agree to hold harmless and indemnify, blah blah blah".
It was more a slap on the wrist than a Smackdown. They agreed to stop forbidding stores from advertising CD's below the minimum price set by the record company. No penalties.
"Oh, yes sir FTC, I promise I won't do it again... honest"
Actual reply from Bank of America. I recommended you all use their Contact web page to give them a (intelligently-written) piece of your minds:
Subject: Re:Msg from E-Mail an Expert (Comments and Other Inquiries)
Bank of America did not request that the owner of the domain name rinkworks.com shut down his/her site. Bank of America did, however, request - because of copyright infringement - that the owner not convert the text on its website into dialect.,,
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>imagining a world where one driver can pull over another for speeding. And can they issue a ticket >on the spot, or do they have to wait for a police officer to arrive.
That's the funny thing about traffic laws. For every annoying law you can get me on, there's an equally annoying law I can get you on. For every 71 in a 70 speeding ticket, there will be just as many tickets for this law. I will personally ticket every single moron going 69 in a 70 in the left lane who doesn't move over for traffic behind.
>I guess my fear is that Linux will become -- to the non-techsavvy -- another Windows: slow, >unreliable, frustrating.
The unreliable part is unlikely to happen. There have been a few Unix-based desktop OS's that emphasized ease of use (BeOS, Nextstep, MacOSX), and all the ones I've seen are as stable as Unix should be, and they all gave you a terminal if you wanted to access the the power of the command line. Nextstep had some buggy office apps (remember Lighthouse Software?), but buggy apps still never crashed the OS.
Even though the nontechsavvy MS (or MacOS) user wouldn't know it, a 32bit multitasking desktop OS that crashes all the time is really the exception rather than the rule.
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Acrobat 4.0 doesn't do OCR. It scans the page and stores it as a bitmap.
If you can still find it, the best software for this would be Acrobat 3.0 which was available with Capture 1.0. Back then the Capture plugin was unlimited use. None of this crap about buying a license for every 1000 pages or spending $7000 for unlimited pages. The data bank at my old office used this setup. It was a shocker when we saw the pricing for Acrobat 4.0 and Capture 3.0, but fortunately we had no need to upgrade.
The Justice Dept is a part of the Executive Branch, and they are the ones arguing the government's case in court. The President doesn't have the power to call off the case, but he can persuade the Justice Dept. lawyers to not argue as well as they could.
Yes, recording studio time costs money, but how expensive is a recording studio compared to a chip fab or a steel mill or a movie set? Studio time is a miniscule percentage of their expenses. Their big expense is pimping their recordings to the mass-media conglomerates.
In general, yes. IE crashes less than Netscape. However because it's hooked so deep into the OS, on the rare occasions that it does crash, it's much more severe. Almost always a BSOD vs. Netscape where just the app crashes.
You're talking about this:
IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY - Warranty that guarantees that goods are reasonably fit for their ordinary purpose.
Unfortunately most EULAs specifically disclaim this (Win98 EULA):
THE REDISTRIBUTABLE CODE IS PROVIDED TO YOU "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS
OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND/OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>I would disagree, bootlegging will continue because there will always be people who want to
>pay less or nothing for a product which others think is reasonable.
At some point a product becomes so reasonably priced that bootlegging becomes negligible. For example VHS movies:
If I wanted to copy a VHS movie, I'd need:
2 VCRs (vs. just 1 to watch the movie) extra $150
Macrovision remover $50
and for each movie:
blank tape $1
movie rental $3-4
Or I could just spend $10-20 and buy a real copy of the movie.
Does anybody remember the 70's-early 80's when it cost $100 to buy a movie on VHS? Reasonable pricing IS the cure for bootlegging.
I think the point the author misses is that all the research in advanced OS technologies is absolutely useless for production use until it is refined and tested for stability and robustness. The Linux kernel is designed conservatively and that in part gives it its stability. The BSDs are based on an even older codebase, and they are arguably even more stable than Linux.
I think it's like that movie Brewster's Millions. Let's see how fast we can spend $15mil in VC.
I believe MCI Worldcom owns UUnet, but other than that it's a good example.
In 2001, HAL already had it.
Of course. Can you imagine what it would do to their punk band image if they went whining to their lawyers like a bunch of schoolyard crybabies? Can't do that. They'd look like a bunch of over the hill headbangers.
Uhh, Offspring isn't supporting Napster by selling their merchandise. They're selling Napster logo stuff and KEEPING the money. I guess they want to see just how cool Napster is.
>And Metallica also said UNDER PERJURY that the individuals were violating copyright
So can they go to jail for filing a false police report or something?
Not exactly. The S/390 doesn't run X86 code and wouldn't be emulating a SIS chipset in its virtual machine. You'd need something like Bochs for the X86 emulation, but even then no SIS chipset.
The difference is KDE can be easily removed from Linux, or rather, Linux can be easily installed without KDE. In fact, Redhat is very pushy about installing Gnome, but you can still easily install Linux without Gnome if you want. It's all about choice.
That's not really a fair comparision. Engineers and assembly line workers aren't exactly world-famous celebrities. You have to compare musicians to other entertainers like actors and athletes. Do actors have to sign exclusive 5 movie deals with only one studio? Do movie studios charge actors for sets, cameras and studio time out of their advance? Do musicians get the same percentage of royalties from their work as actors? Do athletes get to be free agents after a certain number of years?
Also the economics of building cars and computers is fundamentally different from music. Building a car factory or a chip fab requires a massive investment with substantial risk. Compared to that a decent recording studio is dirt cheap. Even pressing the CDs is cheap. The only expensive part is wielding enough influence to get MTV and top 40 radio to play your dreck (ie pushing the traditional distribution channels).
The big deal is that he's actually taking responsibility for the software. This stands in stark contrast to the usual EULA disclaimer "this software is provided as is without warranty... you agree to hold harmless and indemnify, blah blah blah".
No way, a coked up PC is much more dangerous.
It was more a slap on the wrist than a Smackdown. They agreed to stop forbidding stores from advertising CD's below the minimum price set by the record company. No penalties.
"Oh, yes sir FTC, I promise I won't do it again... honest"
Actual reply from Bank of America. I recommended you all use their Contact web page to give them a (intelligently-written) piece of your minds:
- --------------------------------------- c t.cfm?lob=news - -----------------
Subject: Re:Msg from E-Mail an Expert (Comments and Other Inquiries)
Bank of America did not request that the owner of the domain name rinkworks.com
shut down his/her site. Bank of America did, however, request - because
of copyright infringement - that the owner not convert the text on its website into dialect.,,
-----------------------------------------------
The internet response to your inquiry has been initiated from a secure server,
but may not travel on secure lines. For further correspondence with
Bank of America, do not choose reply. We recommend returning to
the Contact Us site at
http://www.bankofamerica.com/contact/data/conta
or newsroom for a secure e-mail transmission.
-----------------------------------------------
>on the spot, or do they have to wait for a police officer to arrive.
That's the funny thing about traffic laws. For every annoying law you can get me on, there's an equally annoying law I can get you on. For every 71 in a 70 speeding ticket, there will be just as many tickets for this law. I will personally ticket every single moron going 69 in a 70 in the left lane who doesn't move over for traffic behind.
I use Brightmail. It catches about 2/3 of the spam in my mail. Better than nothing but still an annoying of spam.
FWIW the best filter I found is to junk all BCC'ed email that's not from people you know or mailing lists you subscribed to.
>I guess my fear is that Linux will become -- to the non-techsavvy -- another Windows: slow,
>unreliable, frustrating.
The unreliable part is unlikely to happen. There have been a few Unix-based desktop OS's that emphasized ease of use (BeOS, Nextstep, MacOSX), and all the ones I've seen are as stable as Unix should be, and they all gave you a terminal if you wanted to access the the power of the command line. Nextstep had some buggy office apps (remember Lighthouse Software?), but buggy apps still never crashed the OS.
Even though the nontechsavvy MS (or MacOS) user wouldn't know it, a 32bit multitasking desktop OS that crashes all the time is really the exception rather than the rule.
Try here:
http://pla-netx.com/linebackn/guis/index.html
If your CD player has anti-skip it copies 40secs of music to a RAM buffer. Do you need a license to listen to a CD on a player with anti-skip?