As the leader of a small-time garage band, I would LOVE to have a label come along and "exploit" us with a five-year, multi-million dollar record contract, even if it meant seeing every (crappy) song I ever wrote locked down by eeeeeevil DRM layers.
How would you like it if they paid you just enough to get by, demanded full rights to all your songs, and then after raking in substantial profits, they told you that you owed them money? Then they decided not to release any more of your songs but prevented you from signing up with another label?
Why does their choice of platform mean they "don't quite seem to get it"? This is fanatical raving - choosing a closed codec is a perfectly valid thing to do, and ensures at least casual copiers will not be able to pirate this material.
A lot of us aren't going to be interested because it's using a DRM format. People who want to pirate it can do so and will still be able to.
Casual copiers will stil be able to get hold of a pirated copy from bittorrent.
If you were an ATI or nVidia executive, and you could manufacture a video card for a console manufacturer for, let's say, $200. Wouldn't you try to sell the same base components in the PC market for 2x the price? I know I would.
It's all about projected sales. Some big customers can demand a period of exclusivity if they make a large enough order. Guillemot (Hercules) often do this, and I'm sure Sony have the buying power to do the same. PS3 is a much bigger market than hardcore PC gamer.
Some did. Video recorders and satelite decoders use UHF channels 35 and 37. Because of the lack of space, these channels were allocated to channel 5 on some transmitters. This meant that the video recorders in areas covered by these transmitters had to be retuned in order to receive the channel.
We want Mpeg, so we can burn it to a DVD and watch it on TV.
Yes, we may decide to copy it over the internet. Since its sent out as a raw MPEG2 stream once a week anyway, (normal definition Digital TV has been available in the UK since 1998 or so) I fail to see why this would be a problem.
'In California, police will be able in 2008 to take DNA samples from anyone arrested for a felony, whether the person is convicted or not, under a law approved by voters in November.
This bugs me for a different reason. Will they be able to do this whether there was any DNA evidence at the scene of the crime or not. Seems like profiling rather than detection.
So, mipmap it. Create a high detailed version and blend smoothly between them. Or find a way to cut smoothly between the cutscene and the pre-rendered sequence.
As a programmer, I try to avoid declaring things can't be done. I try to ask how things can be done instead. Sometimes this is still not practical given time limitations, but shouldn't be dismissed outright.
It's the acceptable level that the chip makers should target.
anyway, I don't think there's any real bias here. It's likely that achip company asked him to research ways they can improve yield. If they were planning to do this anyway, they'd let their marketting arm find the manufacturers of ultra-cheap equipment, and they'd be happy to buy "good enough" if it meant marginally lower manufacturing costs.
Surely RAM should be easy to re-use. If it has imperfections, it's not hard to add a little logic to route round the imperfections. In a simple case, you halve the capacity and lock one of the address pins to high or low depending on where the fault is.
Nitpick: Changes only have to be contributed to the recipient. The recipeint may then choose to give back to the community, but neither the fixer nor the recipient is obliged to do so.
But back to the point: Sometimes I think people complain far too much about this. Okay, the company should have the decency to stick to the licence, but if they decided not to use the GPL code, the bugs would remain unfixed, and removal of GPL code ius the usualy response of companies when told of a violation, so it seems quite likely that they wouldn't have used it in the first place if they thought they might be olbliged to share their own source.
It wasn't recorded from a broadcast, but from a master. The source would be better than broadcast quality, with no announcer talking over the start, no talking over the end credits.
Yes, it was leaked. But the question is who leaked it? Was it official unofficial policy, or did some video editor at one of the studios that were looking at it decide to burn a copy and send it to friends?
As the other poster pointed out, not it's not taxpayers.
Unfortunately, even if it was paid for by taxpyers, it would be under crown copyright (i.e. copyright owned by the government). Personally, I far prefer the US concept that everything produced by the government is public domain. Seems a much more publicly oriented a policy.
Since this is being used as a legal argument in an ongoing case, and hasn't been dismissed entirely, it's pointless for laymen like us to speculate.
However, from a strictly moral point of view, (and assuming copyright is moral) it does seem reasonable that once all parts of the work that were derived from have been removed, whatever remains is no longer a derivitive work.
It also avoid some thorny problems about my rights regarding code that I might have written independently, and then later incorporated into a GPLed work.
Just stick with the version that's compatible with your requirements. Or stick with a single vendor. Surely having Linux splintering into separate applications is not going to be any worse than having Linux, various types of Unix, and Windows to choose from.
Or you could come up with your own new characters and go from there, with no licenses, no lawyers, no oversight.
Actually, I think that Mickey mouse is a bad example. They're not as heavily ingrained into the culture as Disney would like us to believe. Star Wars would be a better option. There are a lot of fanboys with their own idea of what the Star Wars prequels should have been. Maybe some of them would have done a better job than George Lucas. Sadly, we'll never know.
Before copyright, people regularly raided exisitng stories, and even with copyright, ideas from the public domain are constantly being resurrected and renewed. There are a lot of teen-movies that basically rip off the plot of Cinderella, and a version of The Tempest (Forbidden Planet) is considered a sci-fi classic.
New ideas are good, but new twists on existing ideas can work very well.
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ounds pretty sweet! How much would I get for whining about it ten years later on "Behind the Music" on VH1?
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They wouldn't be interested. Hardly anyone heard of you.
And would PBS broadcast one of our "reunion tour" concerts during their pledge-drive weeks? That would also rock.
They wouldn't be interested. Hardly anyone heard of you.
As the leader of a small-time garage band, I would LOVE to have a label come along and "exploit" us with a five-year, multi-million dollar record contract, even if it meant seeing every (crappy) song I ever wrote locked down by eeeeeevil DRM layers.
How would you like it if they paid you just enough to get by, demanded full rights to all your songs, and then after raking in substantial profits, they told you that you owed them money? Then they decided not to release any more of your songs but prevented you from signing up with another label?
Why does their choice of platform mean they "don't quite seem to get it"? This is fanatical raving - choosing a closed codec is a perfectly valid thing to do, and ensures at least casual copiers will not be able to pirate this material.
A lot of us aren't going to be interested because it's using a DRM format. People who want to pirate it can do so and will still be able to.
Casual copiers will stil be able to get hold of a pirated copy from bittorrent.
Aerial compatibility. Aerials are designed for certain ranges. One range is 21-37, Another is 35-53. Channel 5 was put at the end of these channels.
If you were an ATI or nVidia executive, and you could manufacture a video card for a console manufacturer for, let's say, $200. Wouldn't you try to sell the same base components in the PC market for 2x the price? I know I would.
It's all about projected sales. Some big customers can demand a period of exclusivity if they make a large enough order. Guillemot (Hercules) often do this, and I'm sure Sony have the buying power to do the same. PS3 is a much bigger market than hardcore PC gamer.
Just a clarification. The response to the OP was a little misleading.
Some did. Video recorders and satelite decoders use UHF channels 35 and 37. Because of the lack of space, these channels were allocated to channel 5 on some transmitters. This meant that the video recorders in areas covered by these transmitters had to be retuned in order to receive the channel.
We want Mpeg, so we can burn it to a DVD and watch it on TV.
Yes, we may decide to copy it over the internet. Since its sent out as a raw MPEG2 stream once a week anyway, (normal definition Digital TV has been available in the UK since 1998 or so) I fail to see why this would be a problem.
'In California, police will be able in 2008 to take DNA samples from anyone arrested for a felony, whether the person is convicted or not, under a law approved by voters in November.
This bugs me for a different reason. Will they be able to do this whether there was any DNA evidence at the scene of the crime or not. Seems like profiling rather than detection.
So, mipmap it. Create a high detailed version and blend smoothly between them. Or find a way to cut smoothly between the cutscene and the pre-rendered sequence.
As a programmer, I try to avoid declaring things can't be done. I try to ask how things can be done instead. Sometimes this is still not practical given time limitations, but shouldn't be dismissed outright.
It's the acceptable level that the chip makers should target.
anyway, I don't think there's any real bias here. It's likely that achip company asked him to research ways they can improve yield. If they were planning to do this anyway, they'd let their marketting arm find the manufacturers of ultra-cheap equipment, and they'd be happy to buy "good enough" if it meant marginally lower manufacturing costs.
Most people were using them for Excel and Word. I don't think either of those apps used the FPU at all at the time.
An SX 25 could run Doom in full resolution at almost full speed. What else could you want in 1994?
Surely RAM should be easy to re-use. If it has imperfections, it's not hard to add a little logic to route round the imperfections. In a simple case, you halve the capacity and lock one of the address pins to high or low depending on where the fault is.
Nitpick: Changes only have to be contributed to the recipient. The recipeint may then choose to give back to the community, but neither the fixer nor the recipient is obliged to do so.
But back to the point: Sometimes I think people complain far too much about this. Okay, the company should have the decency to stick to the licence, but if they decided not to use the GPL code, the bugs would remain unfixed, and removal of GPL code ius the usualy response of companies when told of a violation, so it seems quite likely that they wouldn't have used it in the first place if they thought they might be olbliged to share their own source.
It wasn't recorded from a broadcast, but from a master. The source would be better than broadcast quality, with no announcer talking over the start, no talking over the end credits.
Yes, it was leaked. But the question is who leaked it? Was it official unofficial policy, or did some video editor at one of the studios that were looking at it decide to burn a copy and send it to friends?
As the other poster pointed out, not it's not taxpayers.
Unfortunately, even if it was paid for by taxpyers, it would be under crown copyright (i.e. copyright owned by the government). Personally, I far prefer the US concept that everything produced by the government is public domain. Seems a much more publicly oriented a policy.
Is modification prohibited by law though? At least some contries explicitely allow software modifications in the form of patches.
Since this is being used as a legal argument in an ongoing case, and hasn't been dismissed entirely, it's pointless for laymen like us to speculate.
However, from a strictly moral point of view, (and assuming copyright is moral) it does seem reasonable that once all parts of the work that were derived from have been removed, whatever remains is no longer a derivitive work.
It also avoid some thorny problems about my rights regarding code that I might have written independently, and then later incorporated into a GPLed work.
Surely you get the same problems if it's only supported under Windows XP, and you have Windows 2000.
You either upgrade to the supported platform or demand Oracle tests and supports your platform.
Just stick with the version that's compatible with your requirements. Or stick with a single vendor. Surely having Linux splintering into separate applications is not going to be any worse than having Linux, various types of Unix, and Windows to choose from.
Yeah, 'cos the wholeworld is in the same time zone
If most of the data on the drive is raw audio, that could work anyway, apart from choppiness when you get to a file information.
That's pretty good actually. If you can reduce losses by that amount you're doing well.
Or you could come up with your own new characters and go from there, with no licenses, no lawyers, no oversight.
Actually, I think that Mickey mouse is a bad example. They're not as heavily ingrained into the culture as Disney would like us to believe. Star Wars would be a better option. There are a lot of fanboys with their own idea of what the Star Wars prequels should have been. Maybe some of them would have done a better job than George Lucas. Sadly, we'll never know.
Before copyright, people regularly raided exisitng stories, and even with copyright, ideas from the public domain are constantly being resurrected and renewed. There are a lot of teen-movies that basically rip off the plot of Cinderella, and a version of The Tempest (Forbidden Planet) is considered a sci-fi classic.
New ideas are good, but new twists on existing ideas can work very well.