It's important that we have female shuttle pilots.
I mean, what if the core of the earth suddenly stopped spinning, and we needed to send a team down to jump start the core? If the core did that they could probably make a movie about the core doing that...
They could call it "The middle of the planet"... or something.
Take Medievia for instance. Doing a trade run basically means running across the entire world map, on horseback, manually typing directions to follow a winding road.
To "fix" this tedium, the coders have been throwing in harder and harder mob factions that attack you on the trade routes.
Now it's like mowing your grass while under attack by archers.
Well, this is 2.4Ghz.. but you have no right to whine anyway.
If you built a business based on Part 15 devices, which have absolutely no precedent over any other transmission, you get what you deserve. You must cease transmission if you interfere with any licensed service, and you must work on equal terms sorting out interference with other Part 15 radiators, including home users.
You're not arguing that air pollution causes no deaths per year, are you?
It seems unlikely to be a cause of any deaths, yes. I challenge you to come up with even one death certificate from anywhere that says "air pollution".
I can buy CDs from allofmp3 for $3. Do I? Yes. Close to $100 worth in the last year. Would I do it if it were $9.99 and DRMed? No.
Same with CDs.. I'm not going to pay $15-$20 for a CD.
Just as the open source attckers often say "only if your time is free" the same applies to piracy.
There's an opportunity cost involved, and if someone wants to sell me a product cheaper than my opportunity cost, then I'll buy it. If they don't then that's their loss. I'll find some other way to get what I want or just do without it.
This is what copy protection has always tried to do, raise the opportunity cost for piracy. It hasn't been very successful, ever. The content producers should give up on trying to raise the opportunity cost and just sell below it. They would see their profits soar (especially the music industry that has literally hundreds of thousands of songs locked away).
So the path is simple. Release your entire library of music online. No DRM. And keep the price very low, 10 cents a song is reasonable. You'll see the music industry become one of the largest industries in the US overnight.
Or keep the blinders on and keep suing your customers. We'll see how that works out.
I agree with you completely, OSS prepress isn't there yet. Ghostscript is making big strides though!
But I was thinking about this the other day...
There should be little legal obstacle to something like gimp adding Pantone support.
Sure Pantone charges to use their library, so don't use it!
I've done some patent research, and Pantone has exactly two patents, hexachrome, and proofing on paper that is the same as the paper on press. No patents relating to their enumeration of colors.
Trademarks... just don't use the Pantone name. Call it Gimptone or whatever you want, and let the end-user define what colorant name prefixes wind up in the file (so if they wanted to change Gimptone to Pantone, no sweat).
Copyright... that's easy, just don't copy anything other than the process build data for each color. They can't copyright a list of facts, and they can't copyright a number, and it's a fact that Pantone 191 is best represented by xx% cyan xx% magenta, etc. That's not a creative work, and not protected by copyright.
If you wanted it even cleaner, take a spectrophotometer to a pantone to process book and sample each color for CMYK (and thus RGB) build values. That would make it blaringly obvious that the data was measurements of facts and not subject to copyright.
So really, we can have Pantone support in Gimp whenever we want it. The only obstacles are technical, not legal.
The FCC has ruled that hobbyist can have up to 5 home-made Part 15 systems that are not intended for commercial sale.
The hobbyist must try to follow all the rules about power limits, and good engineering practices, but the FCC says they don't require you to get any sort of formal testing for your home-made Part 15 device.
If the transmitter you purchased was FCC certified, and you as an individual happened to install a different antenna, what can they do?
If you violate the power limits, and ignore FCC requests to cease transmitting RF interference with someone that complains, they can fine you a lot of money.
That said, there is an exemption for home-built transmitter setups. You still have to follow the power limit rules, and still must cease transmission if you interfere with someone.
Heh, it's still incorrect. The FCC has said that you can have up to 5 "home built" transmitters as long as they are not intended for sale.
These home-built transmitters are only subject the EIRP limits, not to any gain limitations involving the original antenna.
You still must obey good engineering practices and are still required to cease operation if you interfere with any higher priority radio service (i.e. everything, including ham).
It depends on how much gain you really were getting. If some sites are to be believed, you can get 12dBi from a cantenna.
That's 62.5mW in to be at the mobile limit, and 630.96mW at the point to point limit!
That's assuming no cable or connector losses either. If there were cable or connector losses (there always are) you can run more transmitter power without violating the limits.
But ISPs already regularly block parts of the net.
Outgoing port 25 for instance. Or maybe they block known spammer blocks from connecting to their net. Or maybe they block some binary newsgroups on their news server.
I agree with what you are saying, but the same people that are bitching about this probably accept "less than full" internet access anyway.
There are some rumors that people that are to be brought into highly classified environments are given disinformation about UFOs and such as a test to see if they will keep quiet or not.
If this is true, it makes stories like Bob Lazar's much easier to understand. I like Lazar and he doesn't strike me as a kook compared to many others that are often lumped in with him.
MS took all that kind of stuff from open source BSDed code anyway. zlib, jpeg, png, etc...
I get the feeling the only reason they don't add transparent png support is because they forked libpng and don't feel like porting forward their changes to a newer OSS release. So they continue to use the modified (and ancient) open source libpng.
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It's important that we have female shuttle pilots.
I mean, what if the core of the earth suddenly stopped spinning, and we needed to send a team down to jump start the core? If the core did that they could probably make a movie about the core doing that...
They could call it "The middle of the planet"... or something.
It puts the URL in brackets if it thinks you are a troll, at least that's the way most people's accounts are set up.
Yes, this is a problem.
Take Medievia for instance. Doing a trade run basically means running across the entire world map, on horseback, manually typing directions to follow a winding road.
To "fix" this tedium, the coders have been throwing in harder and harder mob factions that attack you on the trade routes.
Now it's like mowing your grass while under attack by archers.
Well, this is 2.4Ghz.. but you have no right to whine anyway.
If you built a business based on Part 15 devices, which have absolutely no precedent over any other transmission, you get what you deserve. You must cease transmission if you interfere with any licensed service, and you must work on equal terms sorting out interference with other Part 15 radiators, including home users.
Suck it up, those have always been the rules.
You're not arguing that air pollution causes no deaths per year, are you?
It seems unlikely to be a cause of any deaths, yes. I challenge you to come up with even one death certificate from anywhere that says "air pollution".
My source was the CIA factbook.
1 billion people live in India. Death rate is 8.25/1000.
That's 8.25 million people dying in India each yeah. And you are assering 5 million of them died prematurely from air pollution.
So you are telling me over half the people that died in India last year died from air pollution?
That seems unlikely.
If the owner doesn't want you doing that, it's certainly not permitted by the courts.
If I put up a web server, can I have you charged with unauthorized use if you use it without getting permission?
It's the same damn thing.
I should hunt those books down and read them again. Good stuff.
No need!
The wonders of the Internet. You can watch two hot women read and analyze Lord Foul's Bane topless and in bed.
That won't happen the same way.
You can't payola when it's an on-demand service.
I can buy CDs for $9.99 off of iTunes now. Do I?
I can buy CDs from allofmp3 for $3. Do I? Yes. Close to $100 worth in the last year. Would I do it if it were $9.99 and DRMed? No.
Same with CDs.. I'm not going to pay $15-$20 for a CD.
Just as the open source attckers often say "only if your time is free" the same applies to piracy.
There's an opportunity cost involved, and if someone wants to sell me a product cheaper than my opportunity cost, then I'll buy it. If they don't then that's their loss. I'll find some other way to get what I want or just do without it.
This is what copy protection has always tried to do, raise the opportunity cost for piracy. It hasn't been very successful, ever. The content producers should give up on trying to raise the opportunity cost and just sell below it. They would see their profits soar (especially the music industry that has literally hundreds of thousands of songs locked away).
So the path is simple. Release your entire library of music online. No DRM. And keep the price very low, 10 cents a song is reasonable. You'll see the music industry become one of the largest industries in the US overnight.
Or keep the blinders on and keep suing your customers. We'll see how that works out.
Look at Solaris x86 or Be
Citing two dead OSes as examples might not be the best tack.
I agree with you completely, OSS prepress isn't there yet. Ghostscript is making big strides though!
But I was thinking about this the other day...
There should be little legal obstacle to something like gimp adding Pantone support.
Sure Pantone charges to use their library, so don't use it!
I've done some patent research, and Pantone has exactly two patents, hexachrome, and proofing on paper that is the same as the paper on press. No patents relating to their enumeration of colors.
Trademarks... just don't use the Pantone name. Call it Gimptone or whatever you want, and let the end-user define what colorant name prefixes wind up in the file (so if they wanted to change Gimptone to Pantone, no sweat).
Copyright... that's easy, just don't copy anything other than the process build data for each color. They can't copyright a list of facts, and they can't copyright a number, and it's a fact that Pantone 191 is best represented by xx% cyan xx% magenta, etc. That's not a creative work, and not protected by copyright.
If you wanted it even cleaner, take a spectrophotometer to a pantone to process book and sample each color for CMYK (and thus RGB) build values. That would make it blaringly obvious that the data was measurements of facts and not subject to copyright.
So really, we can have Pantone support in Gimp whenever we want it. The only obstacles are technical, not legal.
Sorry, but that is irrelevant here.
The FCC has ruled that hobbyist can have up to 5 home-made Part 15 systems that are not intended for commercial sale.
The hobbyist must try to follow all the rules about power limits, and good engineering practices, but the FCC says they don't require you to get any sort of formal testing for your home-made Part 15 device.
It is an unlawful violation of the FCC regs to USE a cantenna
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This too is incorrect, see the hundreds of other posts.
If the transmitter you purchased was FCC certified, and you as an individual happened to install a different antenna, what can they do?
If you violate the power limits, and ignore FCC requests to cease transmitting RF interference with someone that complains, they can fine you a lot of money.
That said, there is an exemption for home-built transmitter setups. You still have to follow the power limit rules, and still must cease transmission if you interfere with someone.
Depends, the limit for mobile operation is 1 watt EIRP... that's after antenna gain.
Fixed station operation has much looser limits. 4 watts EIRP or higher (the formula is kinda complex, just read this URL).
Heh, it's still incorrect. The FCC has said that you can have up to 5 "home built" transmitters as long as they are not intended for sale.
These home-built transmitters are only subject the EIRP limits, not to any gain limitations involving the original antenna.
You still must obey good engineering practices and are still required to cease operation if you interfere with any higher priority radio service (i.e. everything, including ham).
It depends on how much gain you really were getting. If some sites are to be believed, you can get 12dBi from a cantenna.
That's 62.5mW in to be at the mobile limit, and 630.96mW at the point to point limit!
That's assuming no cable or connector losses either. If there were cable or connector losses (there always are) you can run more transmitter power without violating the limits.
Yes, in theory.
But ISPs already regularly block parts of the net.
Outgoing port 25 for instance. Or maybe they block known spammer blocks from connecting to their net. Or maybe they block some binary newsgroups on their news server.
I agree with what you are saying, but the same people that are bitching about this probably accept "less than full" internet access anyway.
There are some rumors that people that are to be brought into highly classified environments are given disinformation about UFOs and such as a test to see if they will keep quiet or not.
If this is true, it makes stories like Bob Lazar's much easier to understand. I like Lazar and he doesn't strike me as a kook compared to many others that are often lumped in with him.
Well you produce 3 million death certificates that say "air pollution" that are dated 2003 and I'll believe you.
The main problem with BS statistics like yours is that these deaths can be recycled for whatever the cause du jure.
Suppose someone dies of pneumonia. Due to poor health caused by a brain tumor. And they smoked cigarettes. And used to work as a asbestos remover.
Died from pollution: Check
Died from using a cell phone: Check
Died from asbestos: Check
Died from cigarettes: Check
This person died 4 times for your statistics!
Just a tip, xpdf can copy text from a PDF.
MS took all that kind of stuff from open source BSDed code anyway. zlib, jpeg, png, etc...
I get the feeling the only reason they don't add transparent png support is because they forked libpng and don't feel like porting forward their changes to a newer OSS release. So they continue to use the modified (and ancient) open source libpng.
"One small step..." was brilliant
Hopefully the next astronaut can manage to not flub the line and say crap that doesn't make sense.
It always bothered me that what he said made no sense. It wasn't until the web came around that I could confirm he meant to say something else though.
In what ways is bash lacking?