At home. Widescreen displays are hugely priced here.
I haven't bought DVD because of the brain-dead CSS stuff that dosn't prevent copying but does prevent me from viewing the content. I think that you're all pretty sorry for bragging about how good your DVDs look.
I did but TiVo, but the advantages of random access that people bring up in preferring their DVDs over any tape solution is uncompelling to me. 99 and 44/100ths percent of the time I'm watching this stuff sequentially. A tape solution is fine.
I'm concerned about the copy protection, but if it merely prevents dubbing from one unit to another, I don't care because I rarely duplicate tapes (the big exception is when I forget to change the tapes and get my Buffy episode on my wife's Gilmore Girls tape)
I just want fairness. I will time shift. If that means that I continue to use the TiVo (which does let you copy off to VCR, BTW) long into the future, then I will.
I have had my TiVo for a month, and I watch a lot more TV, but see far fewer commercials because I fast forward through them. I expect if TiVo catches on that we're going to start seeing blipverts any day now.
I've had my TiVo for 7 months and while I do watch fewer commercials, I do watch *some* of them. And the ones I watch I tend to notice. NBC has been putting the TiVo Select flag on their promos and I find that I use it even if it's to check that I did have that show scheduled in To Do. I think the value to advertisers is still there.
Then again, I did watch a lot of those Amazon.Com Glee Club commercials that were on last month just for yuks (amazon dot com, say it don't spray it!), but I didn't buy a damn thing from them.
Did anyone else look at some of the other amicus curae briefs?
Theres this one by the "Center for Moral Defense of Capitalism" And this one by "The Association for Objective Law".
Ironically, these two entities were supposed to file a combined brief, but they couldn't agree on what it should say, so they filed briefs even though the court denied their motion to do so. It looks like TAFOL's brief will be considered as it's within the length limit, but
the CMDC has until today to file one about half as long as the one they've alread submitted.
With friends like these, MS dosn't need enemies.
There's mor interesting stuff. The parties have until Jan 5 to decide who will be seated at the table. It looks like the Clinton Administration will be determining who argues this appeal and not he Bush Administration.
The Linux kernel is the heart of the system, but you can't run on the kernel alone. There is a subset of software which is considered required for a Linux system to work correctly, and which could therefore be considered part of the operating system.
Linux is becoming widely used as an OS in embedded applications. If I replace/sbin/init with my own application, I can run a "Linux OS" without bash or X or vi or any of the utilities that come with a typical Linux distribution.
I'm not experienced enough with Linux to be able to say specifically which pieces of software are necessary, and how much software is included depends on the definition of "work." Does "work" mean "a user can log in and manipulate files"? If so, that means everything up to, and including, a shell and a text editor. If you simply define "work" as "can boot, but errors are acceptable" then the subset becomes a great deal smaller.
"Work" neans that the device loads the OS and provides the functions that the system integrator designed into it. A dedicated purpose, Linux-based device may have little of the functionality that you associate with a typical distribution. It may be a point of sale terminal which communicates with local devices (a barcode scanner, a receipt printer, a credit card reader, a cash drawer) and servers (a price database and modem pool for credit card approval) without a shell, keyboard or mouse.
There are lots of things that he can do. None of them can get MS off the hook because of the presence of the State Attorney Generals in the case and the fact that the trial judge would have to approve any settlement.
The worst that the Bush Administration can do is to assign an incompetent lawyer to argue the appeal and lose it through intentional stupidity.
But realistically, the appeal *will* be argued this winter. There isn't enough time for the Justice Department to do an about face.
Right now you get a lot of rights when you receive a GPLed program. You can create derivative works for your own use which means that you can link them to anything you damn well please.
If the user is doing the linking of a non-Free module to other Free Software, I don't see
People make a great deal of the "derivative works" concept in the GPL. But remember that the GPL gets all of it's strength from Copyright law. It is not an EULA -- it is a true License in the legal sense. One of the things that is not copyrightable is a "method of operation". The canonical example of this is the manual transmission shifter pattern. The person who first designed the H which is now universal could not have copyrighted that design decision becuase it was a method of operation.
I argue that an API *is* a method of operation and is not copyrightable. As such, anyone can utilize that API without creating an infringing derivative work. The GPL, as a license, can't restrict that becaue it can only restrict derivative works.
An this is a *good* result. What if Microsoft attempted to claim a copyright over their API? Wine could not exist. MS could also demand royalties from anyone who used one their libraries in Free Software. This limitation of Copyright Law is a *good* thing and it protects us.
Now I'm all for encouraging Free and Open Software. But I'm not willing to give up my rights to do so. Turning the GPL into an overreaching EULA is not the way to go.
They had to choose to make it non-clipboardable, non-printable, non-sharable and non-giftable when they used the authoring software. I'm just curious about what legal basis they have to do that and then claim that my bypassing any digital security system that is present is illegal circumvention.
To the extent that the digitizing of a movie is just a mechanical process, it does not add any copyrightable content to the public domain film.
The text of Alice in Wonderland is in the Public Domain. What right do they have to say that I can't copy it to the clipboard? What right do they have to disable printing? What right do they have to prohibit giving it away?
This is the tendancy in digital media. There are also public domain motion pictures which are being distributed with CSS.
You also need to have copper pairs. I'm well within the required distance for DSL. There just isn't enough copper between the CO and my home. The available copper pairs have been multiplexed with filters to stretch the number of available lines.
Check your math. It's much easier to calculate the probablility that no one gets hit and subtract that from 1. 1 - (1 - 1/18405)^74 =.004013 or 1/249.2 which was probably rounded to 1/250 so that the reporters would be too confused.
The lesson: Don't do a hairy sum when a simpler calculation will do.
"And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the skins; but new wine is for fresh skins." Mark 2:22
Thanks to TiVo, I've only watched the first two hours of this.
I have to admit that I haven't read the book since before the '84 Lynch movie. I thought that the movie was awful. The atmosphere was all wrong, the internal dialogues were stupid and confusing, the story was too big for the time alotted.
OTOH, the mini-series (or at least the first 2 hours) was excellent. Paul was as Paul should have been. When the Bene Gesserit woman spoke to Paul, the voice effect was what was needed. All the things that I remembered imagining 20 years ago were *just* as I had remembered them.
I think too many people here were over influenced by the Lynch piece of crap. They wanted a rmake of that, not a filming of the book.
Now that is one sweet looking laptop. That wide screen makes a whole lot more sense than a 4:3 size screen. That is one machine that might wean me from my 2 lb. Mitsubishi Amity.
For those who say that no one wants a small keyboard, phhhhhhht! Since I carry my laptop every day, I want low weight and long battery life over full size and desktop speed. There certainly is a niche market for these things.
This is reminiscent of the Oklahoma land grab. The territory of Oklahoma was off limits to settlement until 12pm on a certain date. The people who wanted a piece of land lined up at the border and raced into the territory to stake their claim before someone else got there.
You haven't read the Virgin contract and I have. There are specific terms in the contract that state what must happen on termination of the agreement. The user, under the termination clauses, must return the equipment or face financial penalties. This possibility was anticipated in the contract.
If you don't return the unit by the date, they will likely put the termination charge on your credit card.
You haven't read the Virgin contract and I have. There are specific terms in the contract that state what must happen on termination of the agreement. The user, under the termination clauses, must return the equipment or face financial penalties. This possibility was anticipated in the contract.
If you don't return the unit by the date, they will likely put the termination charge on your credit card.
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At home. Widescreen displays are hugely priced here.
I haven't bought DVD because of the brain-dead CSS stuff that dosn't prevent copying but does prevent me from viewing the content. I think that you're all pretty sorry for bragging about how good your DVDs look.
I did but TiVo, but the advantages of random access that people bring up in preferring their DVDs over any tape solution is uncompelling to me. 99 and 44/100ths percent of the time I'm watching this stuff sequentially. A tape solution is fine.
I'm concerned about the copy protection, but if it merely prevents dubbing from one unit to another, I don't care because I rarely duplicate tapes (the big exception is when I forget to change the tapes and get my Buffy episode on my wife's Gilmore Girls tape)
I just want fairness. I will time shift. If that means that I continue to use the TiVo (which does let you copy off to VCR, BTW) long into the future, then I will.
It's full of stars!
I have had my TiVo for a month, and I watch a lot more TV, but see far fewer commercials because I fast forward through them. I expect if TiVo catches on that we're going to start seeing blipverts any day now.
I've had my TiVo for 7 months and while I do watch fewer commercials, I do watch *some* of them. And the ones I watch I tend to notice. NBC has been putting the TiVo Select flag on their promos and I find that I use it even if it's to check that I did have that show scheduled in To Do. I think the value to advertisers is still there.
Then again, I did watch a lot of those Amazon.Com Glee Club commercials that were on last month just for yuks (amazon dot com, say it don't spray it!), but I didn't buy a damn thing from them.
There have been a few polls on Slashdot dealing with gender.
About 5% of the respondents indentify themselves as female.
Yeah, but about 5% of the respondents to Slashdot polls identify themselves as CoyboyNeal as well.
Did anyone else look at some of the other amicus curae briefs?
Theres this one by the "Center for Moral Defense of Capitalism" And this one by "The Association for Objective Law".
Ironically, these two entities were supposed to file a combined brief, but they couldn't agree on what it should say, so they filed briefs even though the court denied their motion to do so. It looks like TAFOL's brief will be considered as it's within the length limit, but
the CMDC has until today to file one about half as long as the one they've alread submitted.
With friends like these, MS dosn't need enemies.
There's mor interesting stuff. The parties have until Jan 5 to decide who will be seated at the table. It looks like the Clinton Administration will be determining who argues this appeal and not he Bush Administration.
The Linux kernel is the heart of the system, but you can't run on the kernel alone. There is a subset of software which is considered required for a Linux system to work correctly, and which could therefore be considered part of the operating system.
/sbin/init with my own application, I can run a "Linux OS" without bash or X or vi or any of the utilities that come with a typical Linux distribution.
Linux is becoming widely used as an OS in embedded applications. If I replace
I'm not experienced enough with Linux to be able to say specifically which pieces of software are necessary, and how much software is included depends on the definition of "work." Does "work" mean "a user can log in and manipulate files"? If so, that means everything up to, and including, a shell and a text editor. If you simply define "work" as "can boot, but errors are acceptable" then the subset becomes a great deal smaller.
"Work" neans that the device loads the OS and provides the functions that the system integrator designed into it. A dedicated purpose, Linux-based device may have little of the functionality that you associate with a typical distribution. It may be a point of sale terminal which communicates with local devices (a barcode scanner, a receipt printer, a credit card reader, a cash drawer) and servers (a price database and modem pool for credit card approval) without a shell, keyboard or mouse.
Fortunately, Bush may not have any say in it yet.
There are lots of things that he can do. None of them can get MS off the hook because of the presence of the State Attorney Generals in the case and the fact that the trial judge would have to approve any settlement.
The worst that the Bush Administration can do is to assign an incompetent lawyer to argue the appeal and lose it through intentional stupidity.
But realistically, the appeal *will* be argued this winter. There isn't enough time for the Justice Department to do an about face.
There are not many free electrons floating around in your brain.
No? There are certainly ions involved in signal propagation down axons. Where do all the electrons go?
Except from the story it appears that he didn't even know that they were on the "secure" 911 network that he was examining.
Right now you get a lot of rights when you receive a GPLed program. You can create derivative works for your own use which means that you can link them to anything you damn well please.
If the user is doing the linking of a non-Free module to other Free Software, I don't see
People make a great deal of the "derivative works" concept in the GPL. But remember that the GPL gets all of it's strength from Copyright law. It is not an EULA -- it is a true License in the legal sense. One of the things that is not copyrightable is a "method of operation". The canonical example of this is the manual transmission shifter pattern. The person who first designed the H which is now universal could not have copyrighted that design decision becuase it was a method of operation.
I argue that an API *is* a method of operation and is not copyrightable. As such, anyone can utilize that API without creating an infringing derivative work. The GPL, as a license, can't restrict that becaue it can only restrict derivative works.
An this is a *good* result. What if Microsoft attempted to claim a copyright over their API? Wine could not exist. MS could also demand royalties from anyone who used one their libraries in Free Software. This limitation of Copyright Law is a *good* thing and it protects us.
Now I'm all for encouraging Free and Open Software. But I'm not willing to give up my rights to do so. Turning the GPL into an overreaching EULA is not the way to go.
They had to choose to make it non-clipboardable, non-printable, non-sharable and non-giftable when they used the authoring software. I'm just curious about what legal basis they have to do that and then claim that my bypassing any digital security system that is present is illegal circumvention.
To the extent that the digitizing of a movie is just a mechanical process, it does not add any copyrightable content to the public domain film.
The text of Alice in Wonderland is in the Public Domain. What right do they have to say that I can't copy it to the clipboard? What right do they have to disable printing? What right do they have to prohibit giving it away?
This is the tendancy in digital media. There are also public domain motion pictures which are being distributed with CSS.
When I use a word it means exactly what I want it to mean -- no more, no less. H. Dumpty
You also need to have copper pairs. I'm well within the required distance for DSL. There just isn't enough copper between the CO and my home. The available copper pairs have been multiplexed with filters to stretch the number of available lines.
I wonder if the MIR station can be reinforced to take small amounts of directed thrust? Could it's orbit be changed enough to break away from Earth?
Helm, reroute the Emergency power and life support to thrusters. We need to get the space station out of this planet's gravity well.
But, sir, there are hundereds of genetically mutated fungi onboard. We'd be spreading disease throughout the whole quadrant.
Doctor, what can you tell me about the lifeforms aboard that craft?
Dammit, I'm a doctor, Captain, not a mushroom farmer.
Och, Captain, she's breaking up. She canna take much more of this.
Screw it. Let it burn up on reentry.
Moreover, with the rumblings of eliminating non-free, it may not be distributed through Debian at all, regardless of legal issues.
If Debian dosn't distribute it, that's probably just too bad for Debian. Not everyone shares Debian's philosophy of Free at all costs.
Check your math. It's much easier to calculate the probablility that no one gets hit and subtract that from 1. 1 - (1 - 1/18405)^74 = .004013 or 1/249.2 which was probably rounded to 1/250 so that the reporters would be too confused.
The lesson: Don't do a hairy sum when a simpler calculation will do.
"And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the skins; but new wine is for fresh skins." Mark 2:22
Thanks to TiVo, I've only watched the first two hours of this.
I have to admit that I haven't read the book since before the '84 Lynch movie. I thought that the movie was awful. The atmosphere was all wrong, the internal dialogues were stupid and confusing, the story was too big for the time alotted.
OTOH, the mini-series (or at least the first 2 hours) was excellent. Paul was as Paul should have been. When the Bene Gesserit woman spoke to Paul, the voice effect was what was needed. All the things that I remembered imagining 20 years ago were *just* as I had remembered them.
I think too many people here were over influenced by the Lynch piece of crap. They wanted a rmake of that, not a filming of the book.
Now that is one sweet looking laptop. That wide screen makes a whole lot more sense than a 4:3 size screen. That is one machine that might wean me from my 2 lb. Mitsubishi Amity.
For those who say that no one wants a small keyboard, phhhhhhht! Since I carry my laptop every day, I want low weight and long battery life over full size and desktop speed. There certainly is a niche market for these things.
When they don't mind business interruptions due to wide open security holes.
what's to stop me from using that data to "author" a new movie ostensibly created by me?
Ethics? Illegality?
This is reminiscent of the Oklahoma land grab. The territory of Oklahoma was off limits to settlement until 12pm on a certain date. The people who wanted a piece of land lined up at the border and raced into the territory to stake their claim before someone else got there.
You haven't read the Virgin contract and I have. There are specific terms in the contract that state what must happen on termination of the agreement. The user, under the termination clauses, must return the equipment or face financial penalties. This possibility was anticipated in the contract.
If you don't return the unit by the date, they will likely put the termination charge on your credit card.
You haven't read the Virgin contract and I have. There are specific terms in the contract that state what must happen on termination of the agreement. The user, under the termination clauses, must return the equipment or face financial penalties. This possibility was anticipated in the contract.
If you don't return the unit by the date, they will likely put the termination charge on your credit card.