If I come up with a new, origional font, yes I do have copyright protection on it.
No, you do not. Wishing doesn't make it so.
See Federal Register Volume 53, Number 189 September 29, 1988 Copyright Office [Docket No. 86-4] Policy Decision on Copyrightability of Digitized Typefaces
That may be true for paintings but it is not true for type faces, at least not in the USA. You can copyright the bits in a font file and trademark the name, but that will not protect you from someone who redigitizes the font and gives it a different name. This has all been thrashed out in the courts. Type faces do not get the same level of protection as other works of art/design. The only other approach is a design patent, as used by Charles Bigelow to protect Lucida.
I saw the movie when it was first released (in a beautiful 70mm version) and was very impressed, even if I didn't understand the ending. It was the first movie that I had ever seen that attempted to show space and space travel in a realistic manner, and the special effects and soundtrack were wonderful. Think of all the crappy 50s and 60s Sci-Fi movies that preceded it. Then there was Star Wars and hundreds of other movies that trade realism for the eye/ear candy of cartoon physics.
It scares me too. They have such a large market share that they can exert a strong influence on content on the Internet. I received the following news clipping in the mail today, whether or not you hate/love guns, think about the implications of corporate political correctness:
AOL Declares Guns Pornography
Sharp G&A readers have noticed that Jim Supica, owner of the Old Town Station Dispatch Ltd., occasionally loans us an antique firearm for our photo layouts. He is a Federal Firearms License holder and runs an honest, above-board business.
It must have come as a complete surprise when America Online summarily removed his Web site from its system and sent the following e-mail to his account address. AOL wrote, "We have become aware of a web page site that is part of your account. This web page violates Hometown AOL's Community Standards, which prohibits sexually explicit graphics, links to other sites which Hometown deems offensive, harassment, the use of vulgar or sexually oriented language, discussion of illegal activities, and/or other activities that may impair the enjoyment of our community's members."
"We have placed a note of this incident on your account history and consider this a first warning. We have removed all the file(s) from your web page/ftp site. A second occurrence will result in termination of your account with no chance of reactivation."
Although AOL has a right to say yes or no to the types of web pages it permits, it seems a bit strong to call gun dealers pornographers. "I've heard from other dealers who got the same form letter and a no-warning boot from AOL," Supica said. "I mainly want to get on with my business with the least possible hassle. AOL's decision to dump gun dealer sites did not bother me as much as the manner in which they did it."
Thanks to Bill Clede of the Shotgun News for the story and to the Hodgdon Powder Co. for forwarding the information.
My favorite case is the cast aluminum case on a Sun SPARC-10 workstation. It is built like a tank, compact and neatly fits underneath the monitor. Internally, it has room for a SCSI hard drive, floppy disk drive, multiple CPU modules, lots of RAM and slots for I/O cards. It uses space very efficiently. Why do PC cases have to be so large?
Another advantage of load/store is that the number of page faults that can be generated by an instruction during execution is small, typically one. Everyone's favorite whipping boy, the VAX, has instructions like:
ADDL @(R1)+,@(R1)+,@(R2)+
Great for an assembly programmer, but a nightmare for a CPU designer. One instruction on a VAX can generate over 30 page faults during execution.
I've been a programmer for a long time, from the machine code days to the present. It isn't stupidity, it's economics.
I could write everything in tight x86 assembly code, but it would be a waste of time and money. For most programs, the total cost is minimized by writing the program in a high level language like Visual Basic or Delphi. The customer wants a user friendly program with a GUI. CPU cycles and RAM are cheap. Programming labor is expensive. We are expected to write more complex programs with tighter schedules and smaller budgets.
The technology is also a problem. How do I keep up with the latest stuff from Redmond? I don't have the time to learn all of the fine details of the Win32 API, OLE, COM, ODBC and all the other buzzwords. The rate of new technology increases every year.
Not everyone who works at home is a high-paid programmer or engineer who can pick and choose jobs.
Many people who work at home are doing data entry or light industrial work such as electronics assembly. This isn't voluntary, and it may be the only job they can get.
Electronics assembly often involves toxic chemicals and materials. They do work in conditions that would give an industrial safety engineer a heart attack. The company is not only outsourcing the work, it is using the off-site nature of the work as an excuse to dodge the costs of providing a safe workplace and a way to ignore labor laws.
Why the hell do we still have the electoral college?
One reason is that it gives political power to the states with small to medium size populations. This is magnified by the "winner take all" rules used by most states.
While the Army and AEC deserve some blame for the sloppy way in which the tests were conducted, it isn't inherently dangerous to be near a nuclear explosion. A good slit trench will protect you from the prompt effects (radiation, thermal, blast) of the weapon. The real danger is radioactive fallout, you don't want to be downwind from the test site. If you are on the upwind side, there isn't much to worry about.
How many people are you willing to kill and how much money are you willing to spend?
Changing road signs is simple. It gets complicated and dangerous when you look at switching to metric for sea and air navigation. This isn't just an American problem.
DVD drives are cheap. Assuming that these systems are going to be around for a few years, it would be cheaper to buy them with DVD drives now instead of buying them with CD-ROM drives and upgrading them to DVD later. Ignoring DVD video, DVD disks with computer data will be more common in the future. Microsoft is offering MSDN on DVD.
Deforestation isn't the problem, at least not in the USA. The number of trees has been increasing, not decreasing.
I am more concerned about the pollution and energy use involved in the manufacture of tens or hundreds of millions of embedded chips or personal computers that have a limited life due to technological obsolescence.
Considering the amount of junk mail and packaging material that is generated every day, a paper ballot is insignificant in its impact.
The only thing I can think of that is as silly is the Fax machine. Send a mammouth bitmap to a piece of paper when in fact you could send 1K of ASCII test in the form of an email and convey the same information.
It isn't that silly. A bitmap, which is compressed before transmission, can transport text, layout and graphics in a standardized format. A fax can also transport copies of existing paper documents. If I want to send someone a copy of a design document or technical paper, including tables, equations and graphics, a fax machine will get the job done with a minimum of fuss.
The leap second is normally inserted at the end of the last day in June or December. The last leap second was added to December, 1998. The sequence was:
Note that there can be 61 seconds in a minute when a leap second is inserted.
Some Unix systems pretend that leap seconds do not exist, others attept to take them into account, using tables of leap seconds. It might be better to run the system clock on TAI and convert to UTC or local time with a leap second table.
Most of these MTBF numbers are based on the failure rate in the middle part of the reliability curve, in between "infant mortality" and "wearout". A 9 year MTBF does not mean that the device will last 9 years, it means if you had 108 (9*12) devices, you would average 1 failure per month.
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It is Williamette, not Willamate, and it is a 32-bit CPU, not 64-bit. The 64-bit chips are the Merced and McKinley.
Stock brokers used to be good for long names. Every merger or acquisition lengthened the company's name. I remember Merril Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith. I think they chopped it to just Merril Lynch.
Reed-Solomon codes or other error correcting codes can be used to prevent a scratch or other minor defect from ruining a disk. This is already done on Audio CDs, CD-ROMs and DVDs. There is a tradeoff between the number/size of errors that can be corrected and the space consumed by error correction checkbits.
The seismographs were lost to science when the ALSEP packages were shut down due to NASA budget cuts. This was a supreme waste, as they were functioning beautifully; Congress axed the funds for data collection and analysis, a pitiful hundred thousand dollars a year I believe.
It was much more than a hundred thousand dollars a year. The ground network of tracking stations spent a large amount of time collecting and recording ALSEP data. This was expensive and used a large percentage of a scarce resource. The story that I heard was that there was a warehouse full of ALSEP tapes, but no money to reduce and analyse the data. There wasn't much of a point in gathering more ALSEP data if it was just going to rot in storage. The laser ranging part of ALSEP continued on to the present day.
The trick is that constants are assigned storage locations, like initialized variables in C. Function and subroutine parameters are passed by reference, so if you pass a constant as a parameter to a function/subroutine, the address of the constant is passed to the function/subroutine. The function/subroutine can assign a new value to the parameter, changing the value of a "constant". It is common for compilers to consolidate references to a constant to a single storage location, for example all references to "4" use a single address containing the value 4. This is compiler/system dependent, but it used to be possible to do this on many systems.
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The pioneers are the guys with the arrows in their backs.
No, you do not. Wishing doesn't make it so.
See Federal Register Volume 53, Number 189
September 29, 1988
Copyright Office [Docket No. 86-4]
Policy Decision on Copyrightability of Digitized Typefaces
That may be true for paintings but it is not true for type faces, at least not in the USA. You can copyright the bits in a font file and trademark the name, but that will not protect you from someone who redigitizes the font and gives it a different name. This has all been thrashed out in the courts. Type faces do not get the same level of protection as other works of art/design. The only other approach is a design patent, as used by Charles Bigelow to protect Lucida.
I saw the movie when it was first released (in a beautiful 70mm version) and was very impressed, even if I didn't understand the ending. It was the first movie that I had ever seen that attempted to show space and space travel in a realistic manner, and the special effects and soundtrack were wonderful. Think of all the crappy 50s and 60s Sci-Fi movies that preceded it. Then there was Star Wars and hundreds of other movies that trade realism for the eye/ear candy of cartoon physics.
AOL Declares Guns Pornography
Sharp G&A readers have noticed that Jim Supica, owner of the Old Town Station Dispatch Ltd., occasionally loans us an antique firearm for our photo layouts. He is a Federal Firearms License holder and runs an honest, above-board business.
It must have come as a complete surprise when America Online summarily removed his Web site from its system and sent the following e-mail to his account address. AOL wrote, "We have become aware of a web page site that is part of your account. This web page violates Hometown AOL's Community Standards, which prohibits sexually explicit graphics, links to other sites which Hometown deems offensive, harassment, the use of vulgar or sexually oriented language, discussion of illegal activities, and/or other activities that may impair the enjoyment of our community's members."
"We have placed a note of this incident on your account history and consider this a first warning. We have removed all the file(s) from your web page/ftp site. A second occurrence will result in termination of your account with no chance of reactivation."
Although AOL has a right to say yes or no to the types of web pages it permits, it seems a bit strong to call gun dealers pornographers. "I've heard from other dealers who got the same form letter and a no-warning boot from AOL," Supica said. "I mainly want to get on with my business with the least possible hassle. AOL's decision to dump gun dealer sites did not bother me as much as the manner in which they did it."
Thanks to Bill Clede of the Shotgun News for the story and to the Hodgdon Powder Co. for forwarding the information.
My favorite case is the cast aluminum case on a Sun SPARC-10 workstation. It is built like a tank, compact and neatly fits underneath the monitor. Internally, it has room for a SCSI hard drive, floppy disk drive, multiple CPU modules, lots of RAM and slots for I/O cards. It uses space very efficiently. Why do PC cases have to be so large?
ADDL @(R1)+,@(R1)+,@(R2)+
Great for an assembly programmer, but a nightmare for a CPU designer. One instruction on a VAX can generate over 30 page faults during execution.
I could write everything in tight x86 assembly code, but it would be a waste of time and money. For most programs, the total cost is minimized by writing the program in a high level language like Visual Basic or Delphi. The customer wants a user friendly program with a GUI. CPU cycles and RAM are cheap. Programming labor is expensive. We are expected to write more complex programs with tighter schedules and smaller budgets.
The technology is also a problem. How do I keep up with the latest stuff from Redmond? I don't have the time to learn all of the fine details of the Win32 API, OLE, COM, ODBC and all the other buzzwords. The rate of new technology increases every year.
The Mercury News did an excellent series on how Silicon Valley farms out assembly work to Asian immigrants and their families.
Many people who work at home are doing data entry or light industrial work such as electronics assembly. This isn't voluntary, and it may be the only job they can get.
Electronics assembly often involves toxic chemicals and materials. They do work in conditions that would give an industrial safety engineer a heart attack. The company is not only outsourcing the work, it is using the off-site nature of the work as an excuse to dodge the costs of providing a safe workplace and a way to ignore labor laws.
One reason is that it gives political power to the states with small to medium size populations. This is magnified by the "winner take all" rules used by most states.
Yes, if I had confidence that I was not in the projected fallout footprint.
While the Army and AEC deserve some blame for the sloppy way in which the tests were conducted, it isn't inherently dangerous to be near a nuclear explosion. A good slit trench will protect you from the prompt effects (radiation, thermal, blast) of the weapon. The real danger is radioactive fallout, you don't want to be downwind from the test site. If you are on the upwind side, there isn't much to worry about.
Changing road signs is simple. It gets complicated and dangerous when you look at switching to metric for sea and air navigation. This isn't just an American problem.
DVD drives are cheap. Assuming that these systems are going to be around for a few years, it would be cheaper to buy them with DVD drives now instead of buying them with CD-ROM drives and upgrading them to DVD later. Ignoring DVD video, DVD disks with computer data will be more common in the future. Microsoft is offering MSDN on DVD.
I am more concerned about the pollution and energy use involved in the manufacture of tens or hundreds of millions of embedded chips or personal computers that have a limited life due to technological obsolescence.
Considering the amount of junk mail and packaging material that is generated every day, a paper ballot is insignificant in its impact.
It isn't that silly. A bitmap, which is compressed before transmission, can transport text, layout and graphics in a standardized format. A fax can also transport copies of existing paper documents. If I want to send someone a copy of a design document or technical paper, including tables, equations and graphics, a fax machine will get the job done with a minimum of fuss.
1998-12-31 23:59:59
1998-12-31 23:59:60
1999-01-01 00:00:00
Note that there can be 61 seconds in a minute when a leap second is inserted.
Some Unix systems pretend that leap seconds do not exist, others attept to take them into account, using tables of leap seconds. It might be better to run the system clock on TAI and convert to UTC or local time with a leap second table.
Most of these MTBF numbers are based on the failure rate in the middle part of the reliability curve, in between "infant mortality" and "wearout". A 9 year MTBF does not mean that the device will last 9 years, it means if you had 108 (9*12) devices, you would average 1 failure per month.
It is Williamette, not Willamate, and it is a 32-bit CPU, not 64-bit. The 64-bit chips are the Merced and McKinley.
The files are at ftp://ftp.zedz.net/pub/crypto/ linux/redhat/unsorted/.
Stock brokers used to be good for long names. Every merger or acquisition lengthened the company's name. I remember Merril Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith. I think they chopped it to just Merril Lynch.
Reed-Solomon codes or other error correcting codes can be used to prevent a scratch or other minor defect from ruining a disk. This is already done on Audio CDs, CD-ROMs and DVDs. There is a tradeoff between the number/size of errors that can be corrected and the space consumed by error correction checkbits.
It was much more than a hundred thousand dollars a year. The ground network of tracking stations spent a large amount of time collecting and recording ALSEP data. This was expensive and used a large percentage of a scarce resource. The story that I heard was that there was a warehouse full of ALSEP tapes, but no money to reduce and analyse the data. There wasn't much of a point in gathering more ALSEP data if it was just going to rot in storage. The laser ranging part of ALSEP continued on to the present day.
The trick is that constants are assigned storage locations, like initialized variables in C. Function and subroutine parameters are passed by reference, so if you pass a constant as a parameter to a function/subroutine, the address of the constant is passed to the function/subroutine. The function/subroutine can assign a new value to the parameter, changing the value of a "constant". It is common for compilers to consolidate references to a constant to a single storage location, for example all references to "4" use a single address containing the value 4. This is compiler/system dependent, but it used to be possible to do this on many systems.