Mr Moore acknowledged: "It is not and has never been the case that [a] person has the right to make a 'back-up' copy in any digital media of [any] commercially released sound recording."
Oh, dear Ghod! I should immediately delete all my MP3s!!!
(Note: The phrase "my MP3s" in the above sentence refer to the MP3s of the three albums that I have had some or all credit on and were each "commercially released". Didn't know I couldn't make a backup of my own stuff).
Well, MPlayer plays the video just fine on Linux. There's just some question about using the (free as in beer) DLLs from WMP with it. MPlayer plays just about every avi, asf or wmv I've ever thrown at it. Quicktime's a bit dicier, but it's also much more recently supported.
Of course, if you're arguing from a Free as in speech stance, then nothing here is good. It's closed on Windows to closed on Linux. Zero advancement.
Aye, but, IIRC, EULAs can't be applied to physical property. If you want to buy a Ford F150 and chop it down into the shape of a giant shoe, it's yours to do with as you please.
Like, I thought DiVX was either (a) a dll ripped off from microsoft or (b) a group of open source coders tracking a moving target. Who 'certifies' that this works?
Like, ummm, you're wrong. The Gamecube, for one, uses DivX video. DivXNetworks is the company that makes the format. It did start out as a hacked MS DLL, but is now a legal, respectable company with contracts and licensing deals with several big names. See their website at.
To quote from said website:
DivXNetworks is a consumer-focused video technology company positioned at the center of multimedia convergence. The company's core offering is the DivX? video codec, the world's most popular MPEG-4 compatible video compression technology with over 75 million users worldwide. Often called "the MP3 of video," the patent-pending DivX video technology offers DVD-quality at 10 times greater compression than MPEG-2 files, enabling full length films to easily fit on a CD or be delivered over broadband connections. DivX video technology powers a range of applications that span the convergence value chain, from a secure IP-based video-on-demand solution to next-generation consumer electronics products and video software applications. DivXNetworks is headquartered in San Diego, California, with a satellite office in Los Angeles.
Many years ago, Bob Stout's Snippet's was a great resource. I think I got the name right. That, together with Ralf Brown's interrupt list, was a great resource for the PC coder.
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Anybody know where the canon X interface documentation is? I.E., something that someone can use to start their own X server project? I've seldom gone below the toolkit level, so I'm curious - just how baroque is the raw interface, anyway?
So in other words, it will last me between six months to a year.
While I stayed up straight to play the first Final Fantasy, nowadays I play maybe an hour or two a week (and haven't even had a system hooked up in over a year). Even if you play two hours a day (a pretty large amount of time), then you're looking at a month worth of game.
I'm pretty sure that the games aren't intended to be played marathon style. I'm not saying that it doesn't happen. But I've sat through Neon Genesis Evangelion, the full series and the movies from start to finish, a few times. I'm not going to say that it sucked because it was only a days worth of entertainment.
Yes, several. I've only used MetroX, as I'm a multihead user dating back before XFree had the xinerama extension. It was faster and nicer back when I used it (several years ago). I know that there were several other Xs available for Linux.
Yes, and the production release was just made. They have been saying stable release was the 3.x, and the unstable was the Gamma 4.x. The 4.x Gamma is now the stable production release.
How do you figure profit on an idea? A guy has an idea for a show about a female swordswoman dressed in black, yada yada. What is the cost to figure out profit? (And yes, that's Queen of Swords, which a court determined that the original creator still had copyright on after the network stole it).
Or the profit on a painting... a woman I've been seeing takes less than $100 of canvas and paint and sells prints at a few thousand dollars a pop. That's her living... you'd kill her living (and the living of many other artists).
We're Presbyterian, and while neither my father nor I are abstainers, I started drinking well past my 21st birthday and I've only gotten drunk on less than a handful of occasions. I have a Guiness maybe once a month, and only really drink at New Years and X-Day.
My hearing isn't all that great - I think I've suffered damage from listening to music too loud in headphones and later playing in a few bands (the amps went up to 11!). It manifests itself as muddy hearing of words, though - I tend to snap to alertness at a small noise.
As a music lover, it's depressing. As someone who worked with the blind (DOS users might remember txt2b and txt2b2, text to grade 2 braille translators I wrote), I'd rather lose my sight than my hearing.
What's next? People living in feudal monarchies complete with castles, knights, and longbows, where people just happen to have inter-dimensional travel and nanotechnology?
Not necessarily. My grandfather, father and I can all hear it - we can also hear the so called "silent alarms" used in some banks and a few dog whistles (presumably those with lower frequencies that were out of the manufacturer's hearing but not ours). We all have 100% Irish ancestry, to give a genetic background.
All over the place. NPR is a network, meaning each of the stations is an affiliate. Each station is allowed and encouraged to webcast their content. Just about every NPR affiliate is broadcasting in MP3... I have about 17-18 in my popup list of internet radio stations. I can pick and choose the time zone I want to listen to and also get regional shows. Plus I get PRI (Public Radio International), MPR (Minnisota Public Radio) and the BBC (British Boring Commune) plus the occasional Pacifica (elitist heavy leftist 'we're more public than public radio' network) show.
The key is that NPR has authorized broadcast of their content for free (unlike Clear Channel, Infinity and whatever Art Bell is on), and activly encouraged their affiliates to use the web (where web=internet). This is a Good Thing for them to be doing. Clear Channel, meanwhile, has anti-mp3 psas in heavy rotation. Me? I'm listening to NPR and donating to two groups in different parts of the country (WUNC and MPR). I figure I just *might* be the leading edge of the New Way of entertainment.
There is also CWNet's DSLBuster. That does the same thing by having a proxy sit upstream on a fat pipe and compress a whole webpage (images, etc) and sending it down to a IE plugin. It works fairly well, and some people swear by it, while others don't really notice a difference. My theory is that it does speed up browsing but the first part of the page appearing takes longer to appear so the percieved time is slower, even though it does finish faster. On the upside, even DSL users say it works for them.
I could disclaim that I work for the same company, but I have squat to do with dial up services, so it's kinda pointless. I just know about it because I walk through tech support every day to my office.
Heck, most PCI wireless cards are a PCMCIA card socketed onto a PCI board.
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No. Starbucks serves disgusting overpriced nasty liquids. I'd rather go elsewhere for coffee. And now you can, even if you live on the west coast (I drive a half hour in the morning for the best joe around).
Conan was published before Lord of the Rings!!! Sheesh - this is like the third time I've had to jump into a Slashdot discussion because people don't know their golden age SF. Phoenix on the Sword, the first Conan story was written by Robert Howard in Wierd Tales in 1932. In the next several years, he wrote seventeen more. The Hobbit didn't appear in print until 1937, and the Lord of the Rings didn't appear until 1954, over twenty years after Conan first appeared in Hyboria.
Note that this reply occurs here due to the following stuff, not directly as a response to this thread, but more as a response to the whole "Lord of the Rings inspired every other fantasy work" theme that pervades replies to this article.
Rock and Rule was great. Debbie Harry, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop set to nifty Bakshiish over the top animation. Fire and Ice had Frazetta doing the character design, which was even better, and was authentic Bakshi. And of course Wizards, a Bakshi classic.
All that energy become heat - and heat often radiates as light. Many types of substances will emit light when excited, even in a vacuum. Look at any lightbulb for an example, or even the classic vacuum tubes.
A metor slamming into rock would easily produce enough energy as heat to produce a flash. (Many other things that produce light without oxygen - I *think* bioluminecence, plus glow sticks, but certainly things like nuclear reactions, which produce quite a bit of light without oxygen being involved. We sophisicated types refer to this as 'daylight'.;) )
I've long since set up a system so that my home system time shifts All Things Considered to when I can listen to it at night. Since I've been busy during weekends, I've been recently doing the same with much of the weekend line up on NPR.
The nice thing is that, for NPR at least and most college stations - the ones you say you're interested in, it's easy - they all broadcast MP3 streams which can be nabbed with a simple mpg123 -s url >file.mp3 &, and then sleep 3720; killall mpg123. At that point, you're a simple cronjob away from being done (I start one minute early, end one minute late).
One amusing sidenote - I moved cross country this year, and I now live in an area with a lousy NPR station. I now listen to WUNC in North Carolina, a few thousand miles away, and gave to them during pledge drive. Hell, they played Heather Alexander on thier local music show. Anybody who plays filk is ok in my book.
If Richard O'Brien had written it. And, dammit, Tom Bombadil should be Columbia, but I think this author, like too too many others, only saw the *#@& movie.
Boromir as Eddie is good stuff, though.
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I'd say the "right" way to do it is something along the lines of popping a brace, at which point the drive reports to the OS that the drive is going bye bye so that your filesystem (whatever it is) can stabalize. Once done, the drive pops a second brace, letting you pull the drive out.
Sure, it sounds error prone, but so does the "tape lacing" mechanism in every VCR. the 3.5" floppy cover and other media protection devices. Hopefully it'll work better than the damn DAT tape ejects that work along a similar principle.
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Oh, dear Ghod! I should immediately delete all my MP3s!!!
(Note: The phrase "my MP3s" in the above sentence refer to the MP3s of the three albums that I have had some or all credit on and were each "commercially released". Didn't know I couldn't make a backup of my own stuff).
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Of course, if you're arguing from a Free as in speech stance, then nothing here is good. It's closed on Windows to closed on Linux. Zero advancement.
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Like, ummm, you're wrong. The Gamecube, for one, uses DivX video. DivXNetworks is the company that makes the format. It did start out as a hacked MS DLL, but is now a legal, respectable company with contracts and licensing deals with several big names. See their website at.
To quote from said website:
DivXNetworks is a consumer-focused video technology company positioned at the center of multimedia convergence. The company's core offering is the DivX? video codec, the world's most popular MPEG-4 compatible video compression technology with over 75 million users worldwide. Often called "the MP3 of video," the patent-pending DivX video technology offers DVD-quality at 10 times greater compression than MPEG-2 files, enabling full length films to easily fit on a CD or be delivered over broadband connections. DivX video technology powers a range of applications that span the convergence value chain, from a secure IP-based video-on-demand solution to next-generation consumer electronics products and video software applications. DivXNetworks is headquartered in San Diego, California, with a satellite office in Los Angeles.
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Anybody know where the canon X interface documentation is? I.E., something that someone can use to start their own X server project? I've seldom gone below the toolkit level, so I'm curious - just how baroque is the raw interface, anyway?
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While I stayed up straight to play the first Final Fantasy, nowadays I play maybe an hour or two a week (and haven't even had a system hooked up in over a year). Even if you play two hours a day (a pretty large amount of time), then you're looking at a month worth of game.
I'm pretty sure that the games aren't intended to be played marathon style. I'm not saying that it doesn't happen. But I've sat through Neon Genesis Evangelion, the full series and the movies from start to finish, a few times. I'm not going to say that it sucked because it was only a days worth of entertainment.
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Or the profit on a painting... a woman I've been seeing takes less than $100 of canvas and paint and sells prints at a few thousand dollars a pop. That's her living... you'd kill her living (and the living of many other artists).
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My hearing isn't all that great - I think I've suffered damage from listening to music too loud in headphones and later playing in a few bands (the amps went up to 11!). It manifests itself as muddy hearing of words, though - I tend to snap to alertness at a small noise.
As a music lover, it's depressing. As someone who worked with the blind (DOS users might remember txt2b and txt2b2, text to grade 2 braille translators I wrote), I'd rather lose my sight than my hearing.
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Hey, there are some good Andromeda episodes.
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The key is that NPR has authorized broadcast of their content for free (unlike Clear Channel, Infinity and whatever Art Bell is on), and activly encouraged their affiliates to use the web (where web=internet). This is a Good Thing for them to be doing. Clear Channel, meanwhile, has anti-mp3 psas in heavy rotation. Me? I'm listening to NPR and donating to two groups in different parts of the country (WUNC and MPR). I figure I just *might* be the leading edge of the New Way of entertainment.
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I could disclaim that I work for the same company, but I have squat to do with dial up services, so it's kinda pointless. I just know about it because I walk through tech support every day to my office.
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Conan was published before Lord of the Rings!!! Sheesh - this is like the third time I've had to jump into a Slashdot discussion because people don't know their golden age SF. Phoenix on the Sword, the first Conan story was written by Robert Howard in Wierd Tales in 1932. In the next several years, he wrote seventeen more. The Hobbit didn't appear in print until 1937, and the Lord of the Rings didn't appear until 1954, over twenty years after Conan first appeared in Hyboria.
Note that this reply occurs here due to the following stuff, not directly as a response to this thread, but more as a response to the whole "Lord of the Rings inspired every other fantasy work" theme that pervades replies to this article.
Rock and Rule was great. Debbie Harry, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop set to nifty Bakshiish over the top animation. Fire and Ice had Frazetta doing the character design, which was even better, and was authentic Bakshi. And of course Wizards, a Bakshi classic.
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A metor slamming into rock would easily produce enough energy as heat to produce a flash. (Many other things that produce light without oxygen - I *think* bioluminecence, plus glow sticks, but certainly things like nuclear reactions, which produce quite a bit of light without oxygen being involved. We sophisicated types refer to this as 'daylight'. ;) )
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The nice thing is that, for NPR at least and most college stations - the ones you say you're interested in, it's easy - they all broadcast MP3 streams which can be nabbed with a simple mpg123 -s url >file.mp3 &, and then sleep 3720; killall mpg123. At that point, you're a simple cronjob away from being done (I start one minute early, end one minute late).
One amusing sidenote - I moved cross country this year, and I now live in an area with a lousy NPR station. I now listen to WUNC in North Carolina, a few thousand miles away, and gave to them during pledge drive. Hell, they played Heather Alexander on thier local music show. Anybody who plays filk is ok in my book.
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Boromir as Eddie is good stuff, though.
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Sure, it sounds error prone, but so does the "tape lacing" mechanism in every VCR. the 3.5" floppy cover and other media protection devices. Hopefully it'll work better than the damn DAT tape ejects that work along a similar principle.
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Citizens of the United States have found the source of their extensive freedom. This freedom has allowed them to prosper and pursue the lives they choose as guided by the Constitution and other legislation as interpreted by the judicial branch. The source was unknown until a history book surfaced showing that there have been several invasions of conquest that were repelled by the Navy (and other military portions of the Executive branch).