Because what Palm wants is the BeIA platform, not the PC desktop
BeIA and BeOS are virtually identical. It would not make sense for Palm to give away one, because they would effectively be giving away the other as well.
Linux has never had cooperative multitasking. Never. Ever.
But the linux kernel is not reentrant and interruptable
(though progress is being made in that direction I believe). Remember this bug reported not too long ago?
This bug would never have occured on BeOS.
Even if you encode at 320Kbps, you are still losing data
Not necessarily. While mpeg makes no guarantee about being lossless, it is very well possible that if the
sound you are encoding is sufficiently "simple", and your bitrate is high enough, you can reconstruct a
bit-identical copy of the original signal. Try encoding a sinewave for example. Any half-decent encoder/decoder pair will allow you to reconstruct the original signal perfectly from the mp3 file.
They will have done due
dilligence and probably obtained a non-infringement opinion
Uhm... why?
Just because they use linux doesn't mean that they are super-human. It is quite possible that they, like everyone in this forum, thought that this was a "trivial" thing, and didn't bother checking if anyone had done, or patented, it before. The fact that Motorola decided to pay the licensing fees should give you some indication as to how "non-infringing" such a system is.
Pausing. Obviously, a new idea, and one worthy of patenting. I think I'm going to patent the
play button.
Of course this thread will degenerate into rants along the lines of "I will patent breathing", but despite the snide remark, back in 1992, pausing LIVE TV was definitely an original idea. Remember, digital VCRs didn't exist back then. Video capture cards were
hideously expensive and reserved for professional video
editors. At that time, the idea that you could pause live TV and then start playing it again while it was
still recording was unheard of.
It is obvious to anyone, including the people in the government, that these backdoors by themselves are useless, since criminals/terrorists will simply use non-crippled crypto. I believe the real reason for requiring a backdoor is so that people can be jailed for using unlicensed crypto, which would give law enforcement an extra weapon in the fight against crime and terrorism. Sort of like how Al Capone (?) was convicted of tax-fraud instead of the real crimes he (had) committed.
If that things works, I'd sure like to get my hands on it. Anyone know where to find this "Code Green" thing?
If everyone runs it, we could have this worm exterminated in no time.
Isn't the Internet illegal in Afghanistan? (just like music and TV are illegal there) If so then there really is no point in staging a "cyberwar" against Afghanistan, because they have to infrastructure to target.
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"writing an operating system" and "being good at assembly" are two different, unrelated things.
To use the every popular car-analogy: someone can be a good driver but a lousy car mechanic.
There is no such thing as an "open source business model". Open source does not make money, support
does (sometimes). The only
reason RedHat is making any money is because some
time ago they took advantage of their hype-inflated stockprice to buy a profitable company (Cygnus).
The implication is that the Milky Way is slowly spiraling down into a giant galactic
drain...
That's not at all the implication, and the article doesn't say that either. It would be nice if the slashdot editors didn't
repeat everything that was submitted literally, since in this
particular case, the bit about the "giant galactic drain", is
simply bullshit, and obviously the brainfart of someone who
doesn't know the least bit about black holes, gravity and orbits.
It's interesting that a person who writes about bad software design will create the HTML using Microsoft Frontpage, which apparently doesn't even know how to generate a bulleted list properly...
He wasn't working on an equation that just happened to summon the devil, he said something to the effect of "I'd sell my soul for the solution to this", at which point the devil appeared.
Blacks were always used by every culture they happened to be in contact with It is obvious that these people lack skills to create any sort of organized society
Racism:
1. The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
2. Discrimination or prejudice based on race.
"reasonable terms" usually means "reasonable terms for a deep-pocketed company". mp3 is also licensed under "reasonable terms", which translates into per-copy royalties ($1 for decoders, $2.50 for encoders), with a US$15000 annual minimum.
Define "standar x86 box". I tried it, many times. It worked every time. I guess your scraped-together-from-Kmart-parts machine isn't as standard as you think it is.
I think his point was to show that the Register has been repeatedly wrong when it comes to Be/BeOS.
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More marketshare == more money, just ask Microsoft
In case you hadn't noticed, Microsoft is selling closed-source software. Now, explain to us again how opensourcing BeOS would have generated a revenuestream for Be, Inc. You seem to have all the answers, so what sort of businessplan do you propose?
Tell that to Congress, who signed the DMCA into law. They apparently didn't think so. This guy was arrested because he
violated the DMCA. Whether that law itself is unconstitutional is a separate issue altogether.
Also note that his first amendment rights (a.k.a. "free speech") are not absolute. Speech can and is regularly restricted (if it wasn't, there wouldn't be laws against libel and slander, for example).
Read the DMCA yourself. It clearly states "No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title".
By giving a public presentation, he is essentially "offering to the public" a "technology" designed to circumvent copy-protection. (note that the form in which this technology is offered does not matter according to the DMCA, so an oral presentation is just as "bad" as offering the sourcecode for download).
I would be suprised if this person didn't have a copy of the software with him, so that would also be "importing", and bingo: two counts of violating the DMCA already.
You are the one who misunderstood, and your comment demonstrates exactly why added the final paragraph to my post. Allow me to repeat:
Don't forget that this is about more than just breaking the encryption.
This person was giving a presentation on how to do so in the US, where
giving such a presentation is (probably) illegal under the DMCA
This person, while in the US, gave a presentation on how to break the encryption scheme on eBooks. This is illegal under the DMCA. Now, the DMCA may be vile and unjust, but the legal fact is that he broke US law while in the US, and got arrested for it.
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Sure, Palm will pay $11 for BeOS, and then give it away. I'm sure Palm's shareholders won't mind either...
BeIA and BeOS are virtually identical. It would not make sense for Palm to give away one, because they would effectively be giving away the other as well.
But the linux kernel is not reentrant and interruptable (though progress is being made in that direction I believe). Remember this bug reported not too long ago? This bug would never have occured on BeOS.
Not necessarily. While mpeg makes no guarantee about being lossless, it is very well possible that if the sound you are encoding is sufficiently "simple", and your bitrate is high enough, you can reconstruct a bit-identical copy of the original signal. Try encoding a sinewave for example. Any half-decent encoder/decoder pair will allow you to reconstruct the original signal perfectly from the mp3 file.
Uhm... why?
Just because they use linux doesn't mean that they are super-human. It is quite possible that they, like everyone in this forum, thought that this was a "trivial" thing, and didn't bother checking if anyone had done, or patented, it before. The fact that Motorola decided to pay the licensing fees should give you some indication as to how "non-infringing" such a system is.
Of course this thread will degenerate into rants along the lines of "I will patent breathing", but despite the snide remark, back in 1992, pausing LIVE TV was definitely an original idea. Remember, digital VCRs didn't exist back then. Video capture cards were hideously expensive and reserved for professional video editors. At that time, the idea that you could pause live TV and then start playing it again while it was still recording was unheard of.
It is obvious to anyone, including the people in the government, that these backdoors by themselves are useless, since criminals/terrorists will simply use non-crippled crypto. I believe the real reason for requiring a backdoor is so that people can be jailed for using unlicensed crypto, which would give law enforcement an extra weapon in the fight against crime and terrorism. Sort of like how Al Capone (?) was convicted of tax-fraud instead of the real crimes he (had) committed.
If that things works, I'd sure like to get my hands on it. Anyone know where to find this "Code Green" thing?
If everyone runs it, we could have this worm exterminated in no time.
Isn't the Internet illegal in Afghanistan? (just like music and TV are illegal there) If so then there really is no point in staging a "cyberwar" against Afghanistan, because they have to infrastructure to target.
"writing an operating system" and "being good at assembly" are two different, unrelated things.
To use the every popular car-analogy: someone can be a good driver but a lousy car mechanic.
There is no such thing as an "open source business model". Open source does not make money, support does (sometimes). The only reason RedHat is making any money is because some time ago they took advantage of their hype-inflated stockprice to buy a profitable company (Cygnus).
So in other words: it's not portable and a bitch to maintain. Yeah, I'm sure this will be a huge success. Watch out linux...
That's not at all the implication, and the article doesn't say that either. It would be nice if the slashdot editors didn't repeat everything that was submitted literally, since in this particular case, the bit about the "giant galactic drain", is simply bullshit, and obviously the brainfart of someone who doesn't know the least bit about black holes, gravity and orbits.
It's interesting that a person who writes about bad software design will create the HTML using Microsoft Frontpage, which apparently doesn't even know how to generate a bulleted list properly...
He wasn't working on an equation that just happened to summon the devil, he said something to the effect of "I'd sell my soul for the solution to this", at which point the devil appeared.
It is obvious that these people lack skills to create any sort of organized society
Racism:
1. The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
2. Discrimination or prejudice based on race.
Yup, you're a racist alright...
"reasonable terms" usually means "reasonable terms for a deep-pocketed company". mp3 is also licensed under "reasonable terms", which translates into per-copy royalties ($1 for decoders, $2.50 for encoders), with a US$15000 annual minimum.
Publishing unsubstantiated rumors and then blaming someone else for being wrong is a bit of an easy cop-out, don't you think?
A thousand times one hundred dollars is still nine hundred thousand dollars short of a million...
Define "standar x86 box". I tried it, many times. It worked every time. I guess your scraped-together-from-Kmart-parts machine isn't as standard as you think it is.
I think his point was to show that the Register has been repeatedly wrong when it comes to Be/BeOS.
In case you hadn't noticed, Microsoft is selling closed-source software. Now, explain to us again how opensourcing BeOS would have generated a revenuestream for Be, Inc. You seem to have all the answers, so what sort of businessplan do you propose?
Tell that to Congress, who signed the DMCA into law. They apparently didn't think so. This guy was arrested because he violated the DMCA. Whether that law itself is unconstitutional is a separate issue altogether.
Also note that his first amendment rights (a.k.a. "free speech") are not absolute. Speech can and is regularly restricted (if it wasn't, there wouldn't be laws against libel and slander, for example).
Read the DMCA yourself. It clearly states "No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title".
By giving a public presentation, he is essentially "offering to the public" a "technology" designed to circumvent copy-protection. (note that the form in which this technology is offered does not matter according to the DMCA, so an oral presentation is just as "bad" as offering the sourcecode for download). I would be suprised if this person didn't have a copy of the software with him, so that would also be "importing", and bingo: two counts of violating the DMCA already.
Don't forget that this is about more than just breaking the encryption. This person was giving a presentation on how to do so in the US, where giving such a presentation is (probably) illegal under the DMCA
This person, while in the US, gave a presentation on how to break the encryption scheme on eBooks. This is illegal under the DMCA. Now, the DMCA may be vile and unjust, but the legal fact is that he broke US law while in the US, and got arrested for it.