That's like saying you should be able to remove QT or whatever other windowing toolkit you use from your system, but still be able to run anything that uses that API to produce its windows.
If someone codes to an API, and the modules that comprise that API are removed from the system, the things that made those calls simply won't work any more. This isn't about sloppy programming, this is the dependancy ditch you refer to. Sure, Windows Media Player's libraries could be installed seperately -- and indeed, that's what has to be done now. You have to install wmplayer and get the libraries back. There's no foul play here, except that Microsoft is involved, so they must be up to no good.
This is different from codecs...that's one step above what we're talking about here. The wmplayer API components allow the application developers to play video with a "black box" so to speak. Instead of processing the video file directly, decoding the math, or parsing 4CC codes or headers and then calling the relevant decoder APIs directly, they can call WMPlayerComponent.playVideo(filename) and have it all taken care of for them. That's an important function, and I don't know of very many substitutes to it, especially ones that will work out-of-the-box with those same API calls.
Having to add yet another layer of abstraction, to allow you to pick-and-chose blackbox media rendering APIs to use, would be annoyingly complicated.
It is interesting to note that if Windows didn't ship with these modules that got it in legal trouble in the first place, your PC would be a lot less functional out of the box.
Windows Media Player, for many people, is their preferred music-playing application. Why? It came with their PC, it was there, and it made their PC do stuff right out of the box. It probably came with a dozen or so free MP3s of public domain works (I know some classical music, Jazz, and old MIDIs that date back to Windows 3.0 days come with every install of Windows.)
Windows XP also burns CDs natively (they licensed Roxio's technology for this.) Sure, it's a piece of crap, but it *does something* right out of the box -- and many times that's been just what I needed to get out of a sticky tech-support situation.
The problem is...people would see their computer doing the stuff already, and not see a need for QuickTime, RealPlayer, Winamp, BSplayer, or one of a dozen other third-party media playing applications. Thus, the anticompetative behavior. Microsoft did add value to the PC by including out-of-the-box applications to do what most computer users want to do (play media of one sort or another) but in doing so, drastically eliminated the market for other application providers.
I'm not saying MS is in the right for their tactics, but, the monopolisation effect is a result of their behavior, not vice versa.
I'm planning on making some radio promos using clips from popular animated television shows.
The total length of the promos would be less than 30 seconds, of which maybe 15 seconds of which would be clips from the audio tracks of said television shows.
I'm curious as to what's considered "fair use" in these situations. The amount I'm planning to sample amounts to about 1% of the total duration of a 30-minute episode after commercials are removed. I don't want to get in any legal trouble for doing so, however.
The radio station is non-commercial and possibly non-profit 501(c)3 although I'm not sure about the non-profit part.
(Posted without my +1 bonus because this is offtopic and I know it.)
We really don't need to spend as much on defense as we do.
If we could return a single one of the B-2 bombers which we almost never use, that's $1b right there we could funnel into something else.
National defense is an extremely important idea, but lets not right the DoD a blank check and let them use it as they see fit. There needs to be significantly more accountability on this area of spending. I bet billions could be eliminated from the budget and put towards the national debt, or to other programs, if we could cut down on superflous programs, etc.
People go to movies to be entertained, and a lot of this entertainment comes from watching novel or unrealistic situations which the viewer could never be a part of. It lets your imagination take you away for a while, in a fairly passive sense, you're engaged but can have the "fantasy" played out for you.
Sex in movies isn't generally just plain straight-up sex. It's sex on your lunch break on the production floor of a sheet metal mill (8 Mile), it's sex with a murderer or an alien, in an odd situation, place, time, or way.
The same thing with violence. It's not socially acceptable to take out a gun and start blazing in the middle of Grand Central Station, but I'm sure its something everyone caught in a traffic jam, backlog of passengers, frustrating situation at work, or bad relationship, has considered (even briefly) at one time or another. Portrayed violence lets you vicariously live your tendancies. Watching a disgruntled cube-farmer lay a few PHBs out before being taken out by the cops in a storm of gunfire not only allows the people watching to release stress the same way the character on-screen is doing it, but allows them to have it reinforced that, if you do this, there's something bad that'll happen to you as a result.
For people with a good seperation of fantasy vs reality, such displays are quite healthy and natural. And for those with a less-than-good grasp of the same, well, these people are called sociopaths -- and they tend to be destabilized by the viewing of the same.
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Rebooting nodes is a parallel operation:) Rebooting 128 nodes, 7 times, would only take the same amount of time as rebooting 1 node 7 times, assuming the restarts were centrally orchestrated by a controlmaster thread. (i.e. the clustering OS.)
The NT line (on which, current OSes such as Windows 2000 and XP are based) has always been a full OS.
The Legacy Windows line (Win3.1, Win95, Win98, Win ME) ran on top of DOS for the most part. Arguably, these were mostly shells at the earliest, up through fairly full-featured API extenders, at the latest.)
There is precedent stating that copies which reside in computer memory or caches, for the facilitation of legally acessing the material, are non-infringing.
If this was not the case, the owner of every router along the way your content traveled through could be liable for "making a copy" of it.
I think that's where eminent domain comes into play. The landowners *are* compensated at market value for their land -- its just that they're compelled by the court to sell it, they don't have a choice.
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Just an aside, I love your sig's quote.
That's like saying you should be able to remove QT or whatever other windowing toolkit you use from your system, but still be able to run anything that uses that API to produce its windows.
If someone codes to an API, and the modules that comprise that API are removed from the system, the things that made those calls simply won't work any more. This isn't about sloppy programming, this is the dependancy ditch you refer to. Sure, Windows Media Player's libraries could be installed seperately -- and indeed, that's what has to be done now. You have to install wmplayer and get the libraries back. There's no foul play here, except that Microsoft is involved, so they must be up to no good.
This is different from codecs...that's one step above what we're talking about here. The wmplayer API components allow the application developers to play video with a "black box" so to speak. Instead of processing the video file directly, decoding the math, or parsing 4CC codes or headers and then calling the relevant decoder APIs directly, they can call WMPlayerComponent.playVideo(filename) and have it all taken care of for them. That's an important function, and I don't know of very many substitutes to it, especially ones that will work out-of-the-box with those same API calls.
Having to add yet another layer of abstraction, to allow you to pick-and-chose blackbox media rendering APIs to use, would be annoyingly complicated.
It is interesting to note that if Windows didn't ship with these modules that got it in legal trouble in the first place, your PC would be a lot less functional out of the box.
Windows Media Player, for many people, is their preferred music-playing application. Why? It came with their PC, it was there, and it made their PC do stuff right out of the box. It probably came with a dozen or so free MP3s of public domain works (I know some classical music, Jazz, and old MIDIs that date back to Windows 3.0 days come with every install of Windows.)
Windows XP also burns CDs natively (they licensed Roxio's technology for this.) Sure, it's a piece of crap, but it *does something* right out of the box -- and many times that's been just what I needed to get out of a sticky tech-support situation.
The problem is...people would see their computer doing the stuff already, and not see a need for QuickTime, RealPlayer, Winamp, BSplayer, or one of a dozen other third-party media playing applications. Thus, the anticompetative behavior. Microsoft did add value to the PC by including out-of-the-box applications to do what most computer users want to do (play media of one sort or another) but in doing so, drastically eliminated the market for other application providers.
I'm not saying MS is in the right for their tactics, but, the monopolisation effect is a result of their behavior, not vice versa.
I'm planning on making some radio promos using clips from popular animated television shows.
The total length of the promos would be less than 30 seconds, of which maybe 15 seconds of which would be clips from the audio tracks of said television shows.
I'm curious as to what's considered "fair use" in these situations. The amount I'm planning to sample amounts to about 1% of the total duration of a 30-minute episode after commercials are removed. I don't want to get in any legal trouble for doing so, however.
The radio station is non-commercial and possibly non-profit 501(c)3 although I'm not sure about the non-profit part.
(Posted without my +1 bonus because this is offtopic and I know it.)
Also bad are swapable batteries...that cost upwards of $100 for extra battery packs.
4.7v LIon isn't exactly a hard-to-produce voltage, either.
Sky Captain wasn't "filmed" much at all.
The entire thing was green-screened in...all the backgrounds were CGI, the actors were real though.
So I don't know if that makes sense...
Generally, most people don't have to fear subpoenas unless they're doing something illegal or nefarious in some way.
Good point, though.
No API calls that modify the registry, or to unlink files?
no filesystem activity at all while scanning?
that sort of thing.
We really don't need to spend as much on defense as we do.
If we could return a single one of the B-2 bombers which we almost never use, that's $1b right there we could funnel into something else.
National defense is an extremely important idea, but lets not right the DoD a blank check and let them use it as they see fit. There needs to be significantly more accountability on this area of spending. I bet billions could be eliminated from the budget and put towards the national debt, or to other programs, if we could cut down on superflous programs, etc.
Not to be a bastard, but I have never been into a single public library which had CDs.
A few have had some VHS tapes with foreign films, documentaries, and indie films, almost nothing mainstream.
One had a few DVDs tucked in with the VHS.
I've never seen a library with CD-Audio for borrowing, available.
I'm not saying they don't exist, just, they're not as common as people make them out to be I don't think.
People go to movies to be entertained, and a lot of this entertainment comes from watching novel or unrealistic situations which the viewer could never be a part of. It lets your imagination take you away for a while, in a fairly passive sense, you're engaged but can have the "fantasy" played out for you.
Sex in movies isn't generally just plain straight-up sex. It's sex on your lunch break on the production floor of a sheet metal mill (8 Mile), it's sex with a murderer or an alien, in an odd situation, place, time, or way.
The same thing with violence. It's not socially acceptable to take out a gun and start blazing in the middle of Grand Central Station, but I'm sure its something everyone caught in a traffic jam, backlog of passengers, frustrating situation at work, or bad relationship, has considered (even briefly) at one time or another. Portrayed violence lets you vicariously live your tendancies. Watching a disgruntled cube-farmer lay a few PHBs out before being taken out by the cops in a storm of gunfire not only allows the people watching to release stress the same way the character on-screen is doing it, but allows them to have it reinforced that, if you do this, there's something bad that'll happen to you as a result.
For people with a good seperation of fantasy vs reality, such displays are quite healthy and natural. And for those with a less-than-good grasp of the same, well, these people are called sociopaths -- and they tend to be destabilized by the viewing of the same.
Bob's girl is cheating on him?
Wait till this gets out...
Technically, if it conformed to his body regardless of its shape, I'd say that it was an inappropriately tight-fitted shirt.
I wear tighter-fitted clothing on most occasions, although im relatively skinny.
Rebooting nodes is a parallel operation :) Rebooting 128 nodes, 7 times, would only take the same amount of time as rebooting 1 node 7 times, assuming the restarts were centrally orchestrated by a controlmaster thread. (i.e. the clustering OS.)
The NT line (on which, current OSes such as Windows 2000 and XP are based) has always been a full OS.
The Legacy Windows line (Win3.1, Win95, Win98, Win ME) ran on top of DOS for the most part. Arguably, these were mostly shells at the earliest, up through fairly full-featured API extenders, at the latest.)
If I had mod points, you'd get every single one of them:
"one rover was supposed to have a camera and the other some kind of gas meter"
my friend who is by my side just looked at me like she thinks I'm insane for laughing out loud so much.
I'm sorry sir, I'm not the President, you must have me confused with someone else...
No rudeness intended, but I couldn't make heads or tails of what you meant by "uses bugger all CPU time"
That means it uses it all? or does that mean it doesn't use it all? or it depends?
I'm American, some of the international idiom is lost on me without explanation. Thanks in advance for the clarification!
Have they isolated it per-user yet?
I'd install it, but I have another user of my machine, who I don't want to have the ability to index *my* documents.
There is precedent stating that copies which reside in computer memory or caches, for the facilitation of legally acessing the material, are non-infringing.
If this was not the case, the owner of every router along the way your content traveled through could be liable for "making a copy" of it.
Windows XP Remote Desktop.
Assuming the host is a Pro machine, it's simple.
Connect to the machine using the latest version of the MS-RDP client (the one from Windows XP, mstsc.exe)
You have an option to "bring sound to this system", "leave sound at remote system" or "do not play sound"
just bring it to your system. It's recompressed somehow, I think to 128 kbps, but its decent for most listening.
I think that's where eminent domain comes into play. The landowners *are* compensated at market value for their land -- its just that they're compelled by the court to sell it, they don't have a choice.
I hereby move that the number 2 be stricken from the Integers, thus correcting my misstatement.
Primes are odd. Odds * Odds = Odd, + 1 = Even. Even is impossible of being prime.
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Nice try though
Firefox seems not to honor my /etc/hosts file (WinXP) for much of anything.
I added ads.osdn.com to it, and it happily displays everything from there.