The problem is deeper than that. What is taken away here is a liberty so obvious that noone has ever though of writing it down: The liberty to do anything with the result of a natural process - thinking. You are not allowed to use an idea that someone has patented. But how can you know? Everyone that has an idea should go to the patent office and look for a similar idea to see if (s)he could do anything with it?
Pathetically ridiculous, I know, and yet, that's the way it is today. How can one defend such a horrendously biaised set of laws is still a mystery to me.
As far as suing is concerned, plenty of **AA consortiums have already answered that question.
And the real question is: Why wasn't all these measures mandatory before? Did noone thought of the potential problem of a user going home with his laptop before?
The problem is that the opposite force (here the majors) are so much better funded that any "public awareness campaigns and lobbying" will be flooded by another campaign so much bigger... We have to act some way where we can be heard and seen. lobbying is their way of doing things, and thay are damn good at it. So we can't compete.
OTOH, "The Pirate Party" doesn't sound that serious either, specifically after the bad view people (not us! others!) have over pirates.
It would also be nice to see full T1 speeds at least (something not accessible to normal DSL or even cable subscribers) I have 20MB/s download and 1MB/s of upload. Granted the upload is somewhat less than a T1, but the download is just 10x faster. So all in all, I wouldn't trade my DSL connection with a T1, but for a pouch of gold.
Actually, the simple fact that you think yourself smarter than someone else just because you know one thing they don't makes me think you're probably not the sharpest tool in the shed either.
I am happy (and proud) to say that only 58% of the visitors to my various websites use IE. Emphasis mine. Of course, nerds.palmdrive.net is one of them;)
I am happy (and proud) to say that only 58% of the visitors to my various websites use IE. That is, in the last 60 days. The various Gecko-based browsers share 32%.
I don't believe 97 percent was ever achieved by IE, but I could be wrong.
I am sure he could sue for another 30 millions Sorry, but due to rampant inflation, the rate today is already $32 millions. -- Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse
Sun is new to Open Sourcing its proprietary products. Solaris is a good step and a few glitches here and there are likely to be minor youth problems. The important thing is to know whether Sun will find in this experience enough incentive to open source other stuff (Java anyone?)
Ok, let's take your definition of JPEG then. There are no implementations available anywhere supporting every type of JPEG image, so it is not a file format, but an RFC of a file format, with no available implementation.
So in that sense, yes, I was wrong. The file format JPEG supports lossless encoding. But I would add that unfortenately enough, there are no implementations of this file format, nor encoding nor decoding.
From your linked document: "If you really need lossless storage, don't try to approximate it with regular JPEG."
When people talk about JPEG, thay talk about the JPEG decoder/encoder pair that can be found in most software: Gimp, Photoshop, IE, Firefox and others. Of all of these programs, not one supports any kind of lossless JPEG.
So, while on the paper there are two or more ways to store lossless images in a JPEG container, none of these can be read by most users. Lossless JPEG is a virtual dream, nothing more.
For as much as I hate MS, Ballmer has a point in this one: Software under the GPL is not public domain, it is more restrictive. Now the government gives what it wants to anyone: GPL, MS, public domain, and Ballmer has hardly anything to say in there.
JPEG can do both lossy and lossless Hmmm, no. JPEG is lossy. It's funny how your tone would indicate that you know what you're talking about and in fact you don't. Sad but unfortunately typical.
There is just about nothing to be done about it. The first ISP that will remove the "UNLIMITED" from its ad campaign will be dead in the water in no time. So they have to put it in. And they can't provide it.
As simple as that.
For a long time now, capitalism has had a firm hold on democracy, and this kind of idiotic behavior is just one side effect of it. The DMCA is another one.
Shouting about it on slashdot isn't gonna change shit. -- Krazy Kat
If you actually begin to think about the three words "Central Processing Unit", then it is clear that the tower is the CPU. From a macro point of view.
It all depends on your scale, but it does definitely makes sense.
Let it be clear for everyone now: Buying a laptop is clearly funding terrorists activities. Such as downloading an MP3 or ripping a CD. I mean come on, ripping a CD !!!! The name says it all!
IF it wasn't meant to be ripping off artists (which is now widely assumed to be equivalent to funding terrorists activities), it would have been called otherwise.
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The problem is deeper than that. What is taken away here is a liberty so obvious that noone has ever though of writing it down: The liberty to do anything with the result of a natural process - thinking. You are not allowed to use an idea that someone has patented. But how can you know? Everyone that has an idea should go to the patent office and look for a similar idea to see if (s)he could do anything with it?
Pathetically ridiculous, I know, and yet, that's the way it is today. How can one defend such a horrendously biaised set of laws is still a mystery to me.
As far as suing is concerned, plenty of **AA consortiums have already answered that question.
And the real question is: Why wasn't all these measures mandatory before? Did noone thought of the potential problem of a user going home with his laptop before?
Wouldn't any license be a headache for a small distro provider?
To be fair, I think a BSD license is not a very big burden to anyone, small or big.
The problem is that the opposite force (here the majors) are so much better funded that any "public awareness campaigns and lobbying" will be flooded by another campaign so much bigger... We have to act some way where we can be heard and seen. lobbying is their way of doing things, and thay are damn good at it. So we can't compete.
OTOH, "The Pirate Party" doesn't sound that serious either, specifically after the bad view people (not us! others!) have over pirates.
What then?
They should have thought of that before it got posted to slashdot
You must be new here. Have a nice first day.
It would also be nice to see full T1 speeds at least (something not accessible to normal DSL or even cable subscribers)
I have 20MB/s download and 1MB/s of upload. Granted the upload is somewhat less than a T1, but the download is just 10x faster. So all in all, I wouldn't trade my DSL connection with a T1, but for a pouch of gold.
Actually, the simple fact that you think yourself smarter than someone else just because you know one thing they don't makes me think you're probably not the sharpest tool in the shed either.
I am happy (and proud) to say that only 58% of the visitors to my various websites use IE. ;)
Emphasis mine. Of course, nerds.palmdrive.net is one of them
But of course, since they don't suppoprt (for long) Firefox, one doesn't expect many FF hits in their logs...
posted an epic collection of streaming E3 videos
And someone jealous decided to destroy it all by posting it to slashdot. Bye bye bandwidth!
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Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse
I am happy (and proud) to say that only 58% of the visitors to my various websites use IE. That is, in the last 60 days. The various Gecko-based browsers share 32%.
I don't believe 97 percent was ever achieved by IE, but I could be wrong.
I am sure he could sue for another 30 millions
Sorry, but due to rampant inflation, the rate today is already $32 millions.
--
Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse
Sun is new to Open Sourcing its proprietary products. Solaris is a good step and a few glitches here and there are likely to be minor youth problems. The important thing is to know whether Sun will find in this experience enough incentive to open source other stuff (Java anyone?)
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Krazy Kat, George Herriman
Are you 100% certain you posted on the right story?
Yes, but does it run Linux? ;)
See my take on the matter:
I, Pirate (To plagiarize the 'I, Robot', meaning someone rejected by society as a subling)
I don't know about the 80s, but in 1999 Napster sure did this.
Ok, let's take your definition of JPEG then. There are no implementations available anywhere supporting every type of JPEG image, so it is not a file format, but an RFC of a file format, with no available implementation.
So in that sense, yes, I was wrong. The file format JPEG supports lossless encoding. But I would add that unfortenately enough, there are no implementations of this file format, nor encoding nor decoding.
My bad.
From your linked document:
"If you really need lossless storage, don't try to approximate it with regular JPEG."
When people talk about JPEG, thay talk about the JPEG decoder/encoder pair that can be found in most software: Gimp, Photoshop, IE, Firefox and others. Of all of these programs, not one supports any kind of lossless JPEG.
So, while on the paper there are two or more ways to store lossless images in a JPEG container, none of these can be read by most users. Lossless JPEG is a virtual dream, nothing more.
For as much as I hate MS, Ballmer has a point in this one: Software under the GPL is not public domain, it is more restrictive. Now the government gives what it wants to anyone: GPL, MS, public domain, and Ballmer has hardly anything to say in there.
JPEG can do both lossy and lossless
Hmmm, no. JPEG is lossy. It's funny how your tone would indicate that you know what you're talking about and in fact you don't. Sad but unfortunately typical.
There is just about nothing to be done about it. The first ISP that will remove the "UNLIMITED" from its ad campaign will be dead in the water in no time. So they have to put it in. And they can't provide it.
As simple as that.
For a long time now, capitalism has had a firm hold on democracy, and this kind of idiotic behavior is just one side effect of it. The DMCA is another one.
Shouting about it on slashdot isn't gonna change shit.
--
Krazy Kat
If you actually begin to think about the three words "Central Processing Unit", then it is clear that the tower is the CPU. From a macro point of view.
It all depends on your scale, but it does definitely makes sense.
Let it be clear for everyone now: Buying a laptop is clearly funding terrorists activities. Such as downloading an MP3 or ripping a CD. I mean come on, ripping a CD !!!! The name says it all!
IF it wasn't meant to be ripping off artists (which is now widely assumed to be equivalent to funding terrorists activities), it would have been called otherwise.
Isn't the digital revolution a lot of fun?
Just so you know, Sound Blaster is the maker of the worst engineered sound cards on the market. Try other brands, you'll be surprised.