Not that anyone will see this comment this far down and at my posting level, but Ideo did the design for both the Palm V and Handspring Visor products. They both look really good. And the new Palm Tungstens look to me like an evolution of the Palm V design, for the most part subtle improvements. Other than eliminating the ability to put the stylus on either side, and the flip cover on the other, that is.
I represent Monsanto and you are illegaly using our genetically engineered dildo seeds without a proper license. Please cease and decist this illegal behavior.
They are claiming the documents will be viewable in any browser -- which leads me to believe they will be translating them via xsl into something more viewable than the xml they're in. It seems to me that even if they never disclose the xml schemas, that this hypothetical xsl file would be very instrumental in reverse engineering them.
Marketplace on CBC, that's a Canadian station for you Americans
If they had read any American's brain patterns correctly they wouldn't have made a Canadian station for Americans. We don't want your crappy Canuck TV over here, we've got our own crappy TV.
This explains all the nasty problems and issues that Internet Explorer has bringing up.pdfs, especially served up dynamically. Microsoft has been deliberately breaking the Acrobat Reader / Internet Explorer integration. This reminds me of the Wordperfect fiasco. In this case they have started sabotaging the competing product long before theirs exists. I think Adobe should start getting a lawsuit ready.
When my Tivo records a movie transformed for television, with scenes cut, parts fuzzed, words bleeped, commercials added, etc., I would like a service which automatically peforms the inverse of the transformation. Perhaps it would even be legal to run such a service under current copyright law.
Leave it to backwoods redneck tech grads to be surfing the web on a modem. I didn't know you could still get a 300 baud modem these days. Did you graduate in '69 or was that when you quit school 'cause you knocked up your sister?
Of course you can. The article says the're using JBoss and JBoss does exactly that. In fact JavaWorld recently gave JBoss editor's choice over WebLogic and WebSphere.
If you can truly do the equivalent of getting a one-time pad of arbitrary length between client and server without sending (most of) it, why not take the next logical step and send all of your communications this way. That way, you don't even need a connection between the two endpoints, and you've got infinite bandwidth between them.
At least your opionion is informed (at a minimum you clicked on the links and read something) - But your interpretation is wrong. While its 1/12 of his funding, his funding comes from a wide variety of places, each wanting something in return, and there is not much if any overlap. You said it yourself, the 3 groups above #4 have nothing to do with TV/Movies/Music. Therefore no one group out there is contributing more money to Schiff and representing an opposing view. If one had, they would be above #4 on the list and he would be sponsoring a totally different bill and writing a totally different letter to his colleagues.
I had a bad experience with my USB HP burner as well. The drivers that came with mine were routinely blue-screening windows 2000. Plus the ghetto version of sleazy CD creator it came with only worked on '98. It was a pretty expensive paperweight for a while.
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What I said if you read between the lines is it wouldn't really convert to another format. Only to the extent necessary to play it back. Recompressing is not only going to look like shit, but it would be difficult to do in near real-time.
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Here's an idea that may or may not end up being legal under the DMCA, but then again, hopefully that won't be around too long. What could be done is to convert the MPEG-4 stream to another format, and then play it. This would of course be done for compatability/interoperability purposes. And there's nothing stopping the implementation from throwing away the converted file (as it plays). And there's nothing stopping the converted format from being a series of images, and some raw sound...
Even a casual slashdot reader like me knows there are many more than 2 CDs with various forms of copy protection. There is a comprehensive list at www.fatchucks.com. And they don't all have a label telling you its not really a CD. The article also omitts the most valid legal reason these crippled CDs should be made illegal -- The RIAA gets money every time a consumer buys a blank music disk. If I can't go out and buy 'A Movie I Don't Want To See Because it Sucks Soundtrack', and 'Some Country Singer's Tribute to some Guy I've never Heard of Because All I Listen to is N'Sync and Brittney Spears', a $1000 Music CD Burner, and some blank 'Music' CDRs, and then make the worlds worst mix CD from it, why did I just pay all that money to the RIAA?
Microsoft will use this to be the only operating system player. Either legislated directly, or via agreements with the content companies. Think of the linux DVD debacle as a preview of the great things to come. Anway I'll bet a million dollars that the 'standards' that will be mandated by congress and/or agreed upon by the content companies and hardware companies will not be freely implementable.
I expected the article to end with the EFF lawyers saying "We're not going to sit here and listen to you bad-mouth the United States of America! Gentelemen!" And walking out of court humming the Star Spangled Banner...
They could drop a stateful firewall in front of suspected spammers, that behaves much like the technique described, though really just pretending to be the sendmail they're trying to get to. The added benefit is that the only bandwidth used is from spammer to ISP.
What I don't get is why would they go back to Harrison Ford after two two very successful Indiana Jones sequels starring Brendan Fraser? This seems like the whole James Bond thing with Connery and Sellers all over again.
No. I wrote one when I was a teenager. It wasn't very good at chess, but then again I was concentrating more on making the graphics look pretty (on CGA!). It was my first and probably last project in C. I am thinking about writing a decent chess engine in the near future. Stay away from the books and come up with something original. After a few revisions, then look at books for inspiration.
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That's the only letter I can't remember how to write in cursive. Just like the scene in Billy Madison...
Not that anyone will see this comment this far down and at my posting level, but Ideo did the design for both the Palm V and Handspring Visor products. They both look really good. And the new Palm Tungstens look to me like an evolution of the Palm V design, for the most part subtle improvements. Other than eliminating the ability to put the stylus on either side, and the flip cover on the other, that is.
I represent Monsanto and you are illegaly using our genetically engineered dildo seeds without a proper license. Please cease and decist this illegal behavior.
Don't diss Rob, I met him once and he was very nice.
Dick,
Where are you hiding the fake poop?
-GWB
They are claiming the documents will be viewable in any browser -- which leads me to believe they will be translating them via xsl into something more viewable than the xml they're in. It seems to me that even if they never disclose the xml schemas, that this hypothetical xsl file would be very instrumental in reverse engineering them.
This explains all the nasty problems and issues that Internet Explorer has bringing up .pdfs, especially served up dynamically. Microsoft has been deliberately breaking the Acrobat Reader / Internet Explorer integration. This reminds me of the Wordperfect fiasco. In this case they have started sabotaging the competing product long before theirs exists. I think Adobe should start getting a lawsuit ready.
When my Tivo records a movie transformed for television, with scenes cut, parts fuzzed, words bleeped, commercials added, etc., I would like a service which automatically peforms the inverse of the transformation. Perhaps it would even be legal to run such a service under current copyright law.
Leave it to backwoods redneck tech grads to be surfing the web on a modem. I didn't know you could still get a 300 baud modem these days. Did you graduate in '69 or was that when you quit school 'cause you knocked up your sister?
Of course you can. The article says the're using JBoss and JBoss does exactly that. In fact JavaWorld recently gave JBoss editor's choice over WebLogic and WebSphere.
If you can truly do the equivalent of getting a one-time pad of arbitrary length between client and server without sending (most of) it, why not take the next logical step and send all of your communications this way. That way, you don't even need a connection between the two endpoints, and you've got infinite bandwidth between them.
At least your opionion is informed (at a minimum you clicked on the links and read something) - But your interpretation is wrong. While its 1/12 of his funding, his funding comes from a wide variety of places, each wanting something in return, and there is not much if any overlap. You said it yourself, the 3 groups above #4 have nothing to do with TV/Movies/Music. Therefore no one group out there is contributing more money to Schiff and representing an opposing view. If one had, they would be above #4 on the list and he would be sponsoring a totally different bill and writing a totally different letter to his colleagues.
Built-in protection against Micorosoft's lobbying efforts at the federal level. I wouldn't have thought our government capable of such forsight.
cmdrtaco, jonkatz, etc. would be good names
I had a bad experience with my USB HP burner as well. The drivers that came with mine were routinely blue-screening windows 2000. Plus the ghetto version of sleazy CD creator it came with only worked on '98. It was a pretty expensive paperweight for a while.
What I said if you read between the lines is it wouldn't really convert to another format. Only to the extent necessary to play it back. Recompressing is not only going to look like shit, but it would be difficult to do in near real-time.
Here's an idea that may or may not end up being legal under the DMCA, but then again, hopefully that won't be around too long. What could be done is to convert the MPEG-4 stream to another format, and then play it. This would of course be done for compatability/interoperability purposes. And there's nothing stopping the implementation from throwing away the converted file (as it plays). And there's nothing stopping the converted format from being a series of images, and some raw sound...
Even a casual slashdot reader like me knows there are many more than 2 CDs with various forms of copy protection. There is a comprehensive list at www.fatchucks.com. And they don't all have a label telling you its not really a CD. The article also omitts the most valid legal reason these crippled CDs should be made illegal -- The RIAA gets money every time a consumer buys a blank music disk. If I can't go out and buy 'A Movie I Don't Want To See Because it Sucks Soundtrack', and 'Some Country Singer's Tribute to some Guy I've never Heard of Because All I Listen to is N'Sync and Brittney Spears', a $1000 Music CD Burner, and some blank 'Music' CDRs, and then make the worlds worst mix CD from it, why did I just pay all that money to the RIAA?
Microsoft will use this to be the only operating system player. Either legislated directly, or via agreements with the content companies. Think of the linux DVD debacle as a preview of the great things to come. Anway I'll bet a million dollars that the 'standards' that will be mandated by congress and/or agreed upon by the content companies and hardware companies will not be freely implementable.
I expected the article to end with the EFF lawyers saying "We're not going to sit here and listen to you bad-mouth the United States of America! Gentelemen!" And walking out of court humming the Star Spangled Banner...
They could drop a stateful firewall in front of suspected spammers, that behaves much like the technique described, though really just pretending to be the sendmail they're trying to get to. The added benefit is that the only bandwidth used is from spammer to ISP.
What I don't get is why would they go back to Harrison Ford after two two very successful Indiana Jones sequels starring Brendan Fraser? This seems like the whole James Bond thing with Connery and Sellers all over again.
No. I wrote one when I was a teenager. It wasn't very good at chess, but then again I was concentrating more on making the graphics look pretty (on CGA!). It was my first and probably last project in C. I am thinking about writing a decent chess engine in the near future. Stay away from the books and come up with something original. After a few revisions, then look at books for inspiration.
... just sign up for Passport and MS will let you download it!