For those of you who doesn't know, Flexlm is a license management software from Globetrotter.
Many software vendors use it to protect their applications in price range of 1,000 to 1,000,000 USD.
It used to be really easy to crack versions up to 6.0 and create a perpetual license that would work on any host. However, I have never seen any of such licenses on the Internet. Customers remain honest and there is no much demand for such cracked licenses.
I think this is mainly because they value the support and maintenance, not the bits and bytes.
With mass-market software, like M$Office, the picture is different. I am sure any "rental" version of it will be cracked within days, with cracks posted everywhere.
and hypocrisity, not because of TV and Internet.
ALL high-profile school and shooting accidents that happened in Canada in the last couple of years had bullying as their main cause.
Typically it costs few hundreds of dollars. They make money on chips, and sometimes even give software away for free.
Even for ASIC's, there are some low-cost alternatives, like Alliance ( http://www-asim.lip6.fr/alliance.html )
I saw a number of projects on the net where people try to build a pure hardware codec using FPGA. It seems that the better approach is to build a CPU-based, hardware-assisted codec.
Here is a great opportunity to free music from MP3 license payments. If somebody creates an open-source reference hardware/firmware implementation, Far-East companies will start making cheap portable players/recorders in no time.
As for the development costs: many FPGA vendors provide their software for free or for a small price, because they make money on their chips. The only problem is a good Verilog/VHDL simulator. FPGAs themselves are pricey, but there are some one time programmable devices (Atmel, Quicklogic) that cost under 50USD.
I installed Mandrake 7.2 recently. It did not recognize my 256Mb at first, and was swapping in 64Mb like crazy. I looked at RAM usage, and X used 73Mb (defauld install).
How dare you say such things about this respectable senator!
Don't confuse the issue of the ownership on the music, too: music belongs to the copyright owner. Those guys who WORKED FOR HIRE for the copyright owner agreed in their contract that they RELEASE ALL RIGHTS on the recording. Saying that music belongs to them - this is neglect of the contract law, this is pure COMMUNISM!
It is difficult to understand what the technology is from the info available. To me, it looks like they deflect the laser beam instead of physically moving the laser. The problem with this is obviously a very limited area which the beam can scan. This is probably why they alwas say about the density, but never mention the capacity of the whole device. The density may be 86GB/cm^2, but if the area is 1mm^2, this is a 860MB storage device. This is still very interesting, but not revolutionary.
So the DV recorder doesn't have to do any hard work, just store bits. Terrestial HDTV bitrate (20 or 25 Mbit/s?) is comparable with DV bitrate (around 29Mbit/s). Looks like this is possible.
The idea seems to be floating in the air. There are some problems, like DV format is not error-free. I don't know how they would recover from dropping blocks of data because of the wrinkled tape (DV can tolerate this).
The same problem is holding the good folks from the Linux 1394 project from giving us a reliable inexpensive 13Gbytes backup solution.
The question is: if I use my computer to create this text, do I have all rights to it?
I don't know the answer.
If I say "I prohibit you from reading this", it is a noncence, since I made the text available for unrestricted reading by posting it. If I say "I don't want other people use my words without mentioning my name", this sounds ringht.
Music companies make music available for unrestricted (well, easy) copying by releasing CDs. If they tell us that we cannot rip these CDs, it doesn't sound convincing. But I would certainly avoid publishing their music with my name on it. I might not mention the label name, but the artist name is always there when I share something on Napster.
This is approximately where the dividing line is for me on the copyright issue.
In 1987-1994 Russian market was flooded with hobbyist designs of ZX Spectrum and ZX 128 clones. I was in the university back then.
That cheap, small Z80-based thing had HUGE impact on my generation. The parts cost (including blank PCB and keyboard) was about 20USD. Almost every student in every technical school built one of these and played games nights away. Many learned to program using these. Many went to sell them on the black market and earned seed capital for their later, more interesting ventures. This was truly a quiet revolution. Russia owes large part of its technical and enterpreneural talent to ZX Spectrum.
The moral is : a good affordable computer design CAN make a differnce in 3rd world countries.
The situation in Russia is very different. Artists get most of the money from tours and concerts, because it is difficult to collect royalties from CD distribution. For them, distributing stuff online only increases their popularity and, as a result, concert audience.
Also, there is a significant number of well-known groups, who are not signed and distribute their music using services from distribution companies, not giving up copyrights. They usually don't object to their music put online.
When compressed gas expands, it cools down. This is how refrigerators work.
So this engine doesn't need any cooling system. It probably can be used as an air conditioner, like regular engine heat is used to heat the salon.
Honda already markets a combination vehicle: small and efficient internal combustion engine charging a moderate-size battery, and the main motor is electrical.
One can use compressed air as the temporary "buffer" storage as well. The main storage would still be a tank of gas or diesel, and the main engine in this case pneumatic.
This is probably less efficient (the pneumatic-only vehicle, too), because air compression is not 100% efficient. A lot of energy is wasted because the air is heated during the compression and then cools down to ambient temperature.
Because it doesn't revolve around the Sun or Earth or any other body. Well, I am not sure if it rotates around the cente of our Galaxy or is able to leave its gravitation field as well.
1. Remove idle loops from the OS software. From my experience, at least AMD K5, K6 and Pentium MMX processors are constantly hot under Windows, but cold under Linux when there are no applications active. Also, ever noticed MS Word using 100% processor time when you just press cursor keys once per second?
2. I don't need 52X CD-ROM. Many people don't. At least, there should be an option to slow it down. Playing MP3's requires 0.1X speed.
3. Same for HDD's. Take this marketing idea, it's a goldmine: ultra-low power HDD with variable transfer rate, down to 20kbytes/s. Imagine 10Gb Nomad Jukebox running for days on AA batteries!
4. 200MHz ought to be enough for everyone (to play MP3's, of course)
5. Make the screen power-up only when I look at it (eye-movement detection).
Ms Rosen's editorial does the same to enrage the public as rigging the presidential vote in Yugoslavia did.
There is a consensus in public opinion about the digital music issue. At least, among the online community. Trying to contradict this consensus only enrages the community and makes it to riot.
I am an EFW in Canada (analog of H1B).
First, there is no limit on the number of EFWs here. The requirements to get the visa are similar to the US, except that for programmers there is no need to get the job validation. The visa is ready in a month, without much paperwork.
Second, I feel that EFWs are _encouraged_ to apply for immigration. If the guy already got a job in hi-tec, there is a good chance he will not go on welfare when granted permanent residence. Typically, there is no interview in such cases and the whole process takes about 5-6 months.
I wouldn't say I have no bargaining power. Maybe, this is because of my specialization (ASIC designer). But also the process of changing the job is relatively simple. I don't need to leave the country and reapply from abroad.
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Napster and MP3 are hugely popular among people who don't even use them just because of the media attention.
However, if the action really brings down mail servers, the context of the coverage will be negative.
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For those of you who doesn't know, Flexlm is a license management software from Globetrotter.
Many software vendors use it to protect their applications in price range of 1,000 to 1,000,000 USD.
It used to be really easy to crack versions up to 6.0 and create a perpetual license that would work on any host. However, I have never seen any of such licenses on the Internet. Customers remain honest and there is no much demand for such cracked licenses.
I think this is mainly because they value the support and maintenance, not the bits and bytes.
With mass-market software, like M$Office, the picture is different. I am sure any "rental" version of it will be cracked within days, with cracks posted everywhere.
i.e. not for kids under 14.
and hypocrisity, not because of TV and Internet. ALL high-profile school and shooting accidents that happened in Canada in the last couple of years had bullying as their main cause.
Typically it costs few hundreds of dollars. They make money on chips, and sometimes even give software away for free. Even for ASIC's, there are some low-cost alternatives, like Alliance ( http://www-asim.lip6.fr/alliance.html )
I saw a number of projects on the net where people try to build a pure hardware codec using FPGA. It seems that the better approach is to build a CPU-based, hardware-assisted codec.
Here is a great opportunity to free music from MP3 license payments. If somebody creates an open-source reference hardware/firmware implementation, Far-East companies will start making cheap portable players/recorders in no time.
As for the development costs: many FPGA vendors provide their software for free or for a small price, because they make money on their chips. The only problem is a good Verilog/VHDL simulator. FPGAs themselves are pricey, but there are some one time programmable devices (Atmel, Quicklogic) that cost under 50USD.
I installed Mandrake 7.2 recently. It did not recognize my 256Mb at first, and was swapping in 64Mb like crazy. I looked at RAM usage, and X used 73Mb (defauld install).
you are not vulnerable. .EXE files don't run (in a staightforward way) under Linux.
So yes, thank GNU and Linus for Open Source!
How dare you say such things about this respectable senator!
Don't confuse the issue of the ownership on the music, too: music belongs to the copyright owner. Those guys who WORKED FOR HIRE for the copyright owner agreed in their contract that they RELEASE ALL RIGHTS on the recording. Saying that music belongs to them - this is neglect of the contract law, this is pure COMMUNISM!
(sarcasm off)
It is difficult to understand what the technology is from the info available. To me, it looks like they deflect the laser beam instead of physically moving the laser. The problem with this is obviously a very limited area which the beam can scan. This is probably why they alwas say about the density, but never mention the capacity of the whole device. The density may be 86GB/cm^2, but if the area is 1mm^2, this is a 860MB storage device. This is still very interesting, but not revolutionary.
Then the information it stores can not be called a recorded music.
So the DV recorder doesn't have to do any hard work, just store bits. Terrestial HDTV bitrate (20 or 25 Mbit/s?) is comparable with DV bitrate (around 29Mbit/s). Looks like this is possible.
The idea seems to be floating in the air. There are some problems, like DV format is not error-free. I don't know how they would recover from dropping blocks of data because of the wrinkled tape (DV can tolerate this).
The same problem is holding the good folks from the Linux 1394 project from giving us a reliable inexpensive 13Gbytes backup solution.
The question is: if I use my computer to create this text, do I have all rights to it? I don't know the answer. If I say "I prohibit you from reading this", it is a noncence, since I made the text available for unrestricted reading by posting it. If I say "I don't want other people use my words without mentioning my name", this sounds ringht. Music companies make music available for unrestricted (well, easy) copying by releasing CDs. If they tell us that we cannot rip these CDs, it doesn't sound convincing. But I would certainly avoid publishing their music with my name on it. I might not mention the label name, but the artist name is always there when I share something on Napster. This is approximately where the dividing line is for me on the copyright issue.
Yes, we did. Consequences were terrible. The nation has been crippled, and will suffer for a long time yet from the snitch mentality.
The practice of anonymous tipping was abolished by Gorbachev around 1987, which is one of his greatest achievements.
On the other hand we had learned the lesson. I wish Americans could learn from other people's mistakes. Well, you had McCarthy...
In 1987-1994 Russian market was flooded with hobbyist designs of ZX Spectrum and ZX 128 clones. I was in the university back then.
That cheap, small Z80-based thing had HUGE impact on my generation. The parts cost (including blank PCB and keyboard) was about 20USD. Almost every student in every technical school built one of these and played games nights away. Many learned to program using these. Many went to sell them on the black market and earned seed capital for their later, more interesting ventures. This was truly a quiet revolution. Russia owes large part of its technical and enterpreneural talent to ZX Spectrum.
The moral is : a good affordable computer design CAN make a differnce in 3rd world countries.
MP Trip, Mambo X or others. I have MP Trip, it works nicely in my car. I can use it everywhere. It runs on 2 AA batteries for 5 hours.
The situation in Russia is very different. Artists get most of the money from tours and concerts, because it is difficult to collect royalties from CD distribution. For them, distributing stuff online only increases their popularity and, as a result, concert audience. Also, there is a significant number of well-known groups, who are not signed and distribute their music using services from distribution companies, not giving up copyrights. They usually don't object to their music put online.
When compressed gas expands, it cools down. This is how refrigerators work. So this engine doesn't need any cooling system. It probably can be used as an air conditioner, like regular engine heat is used to heat the salon.
Honda already markets a combination vehicle: small and efficient internal combustion engine charging a moderate-size battery, and the main motor is electrical. One can use compressed air as the temporary "buffer" storage as well. The main storage would still be a tank of gas or diesel, and the main engine in this case pneumatic. This is probably less efficient (the pneumatic-only vehicle, too), because air compression is not 100% efficient. A lot of energy is wasted because the air is heated during the compression and then cools down to ambient temperature.
Because it doesn't revolve around the Sun or Earth or any other body. Well, I am not sure if it rotates around the cente of our Galaxy or is able to leave its gravitation field as well.
1. Remove idle loops from the OS software. From my experience, at least AMD K5, K6 and Pentium MMX processors are constantly hot under Windows, but cold under Linux when there are no applications active. Also, ever noticed MS Word using 100% processor time when you just press cursor keys once per second?
2. I don't need 52X CD-ROM. Many people don't. At least, there should be an option to slow it down. Playing MP3's requires 0.1X speed.
3. Same for HDD's. Take this marketing idea, it's a goldmine: ultra-low power HDD with variable transfer rate, down to 20kbytes/s. Imagine 10Gb Nomad Jukebox running for days on AA batteries!
4. 200MHz ought to be enough for everyone (to play MP3's, of course)
5. Make the screen power-up only when I look at it (eye-movement detection).
Am I really the first with the idea of training Aibo to chase and destroy CueCats?
Ms Rosen's editorial does the same to enrage the public as rigging the presidential vote in Yugoslavia did. There is a consensus in public opinion about the digital music issue. At least, among the online community. Trying to contradict this consensus only enrages the community and makes it to riot.
I am an EFW in Canada (analog of H1B). First, there is no limit on the number of EFWs here. The requirements to get the visa are similar to the US, except that for programmers there is no need to get the job validation. The visa is ready in a month, without much paperwork. Second, I feel that EFWs are _encouraged_ to apply for immigration. If the guy already got a job in hi-tec, there is a good chance he will not go on welfare when granted permanent residence. Typically, there is no interview in such cases and the whole process takes about 5-6 months. I wouldn't say I have no bargaining power. Maybe, this is because of my specialization (ASIC designer). But also the process of changing the job is relatively simple. I don't need to leave the country and reapply from abroad.
The average person will know about this action from his/her TV, not from /.
Napster and MP3 are hugely popular among people who don't even use them just because of the media attention.
However, if the action really brings down mail servers, the context of the coverage will be negative.