I am not sure how a Java APP will help developers if Sun follows the SDK license. And I can't explain exactly why because of the same license. But since that would mean all Java applications would load and play in the "Java APP" space Sun would have to reinvent a lot. The shame is that the Samsung chip used has java support built in. And since the SDK severely limits hardware access and the license precludes it as well if you use the SDK, no BT profiles can easily be added, can't play with the dock connector. The chip also supports USB OTG even though the dock connector is not so wired, software could make the iPhone a USB "master". The chip also supports SD/MMC cards but that requires a mod to the hardware and adding some software. So I am pretty safe in predicting Apple will have to make some subtle mods to the SDK license (it stops to many very useful applications... that there is demand for) and that unofficial development will continue to meet market needs.
Wow.... No programming required. [Command-I] [fan-I] (or the little key with an apple. press that and I at the same time) That brings up the info for the selected item. If you select a file and bring up info for it notice the section that says "Open with"... play there. really... no programming required just mousing. And you can set it for that particular file only, which Windows can't do. Or you can change the default for all files that are the same. Really easy. And again no programming required.
And as far as it is useful yes I am a Premium Apple Dev subscriber, and have done Apple / Mac software development since Lightspeed C days. (Think C's predecessor) So again. Apple is just nicer to play with on the dev side. And For your particular nit, really and truly no programming is required. As far as access to the beta's... Well MS beta program has shafted me more times than not. I'll gladly pay the small amount for a "Select" Apple dev membership if I drop the Premium one sometime. And Apple does have downloads of some beta's for free "online" dev members. So ad hominum attack aside. Apple allows a GUI user to change defaults not just for opening a whole set of files to open with a different program, but allows setting an individual file to open with a program different than the default. All from the GUI in case I have not been clear enough. Oh yes! English is my native language.
Thanks for the use of "dood" over "dude" but I am really not a close friend that that implies. As far as MYOB at launch... I have to laugh. They can't pay the $3500 (and on sale every year for $2500) to be a Apple Premium Developer site... WOW! I get betas much sooner as a paid Apple Dev (even when I was a Select) than MS puts out.
Ummm... The info screen for a file allows you to change what program opens it by default. allows (or allows context menu "open with" options as well. in the info box for a webloc (url, sort of) on my desktop, Finder is listed as default to open it, but I can change it to any of the instances of Camino, Firefox, Opera, a few other web browsers I have for testing, and even, gasp, Safari. And I can change just that document to always use my new selection or the more common behavior where all documents of that type can be directed to the new choice. So... Maybe best to know Mac OS before commenting on what it can and can't do. Also anything that is a framework can be explored. The UI can be exposed pretty easily. It would be as if MS used COM interfaces for everything. You can (if you are knowledgeable) look at COM interfaces and play around to reuse them, or for Apple examine the frameworks and derive the APIs needed and play with them. Are we so far gone these days that we expect the APIs to be fully documented on day one and have no work at all to find out what the behavior of the latest and greatest is? Wow. Back in the very dim mists of Time, Digital Equipment Corporation created the RSX-11 M logic manual. It cost a scandalous amount of money and documented the logic of all the application interfaces, kernel mode common code, and a large amount more. A LARGE amount more. It did not last long as it was impossible to keep accurately up to date. And as the OS shipped as source code that was assembled based on conditionals to include your personally selected functionality and as most all the utilities shipped as source as well... It was a good idea if you wrote applications to be able to read the code anyway and figure out the logic. So cut me some slack. Apple is ahead of the game. Maybe they don't want to support forever some interface they play around with for a OS release or two. Oh, and as the Apple development tools are included on the media with the OS, or can be downloaded even if you have the free Apple developer account (which also gets you a ton of "inside" information for the cost of the downloads), maybe it is best to think who you are comparing Apple's behavior with?
The ISP community is going to be at the forefront of this in the future because they have everything to lose and nothing to gain by not seeing that the content is being properly protected...
A big problem with this is ISPs have, at least in some jurisdictions, common carrier immunities. If they filter anything they could become liable to all issues that filtering could resolve and responsible for the content sourced or passed through their service and equipment, like some pedophile seeking an underage liaison, the parents could find the pedophile's ISP partly responsible, and in many cases even if a fraction of liability is assigned, the whole of the financial responsibility can be sought.
And as it is "costing" MPAA folks 6 billion a year now I assume they are willing to pony up the money for the new equipment needed and staff positions required to meet their needs as well as assume all liability for eventual ancillary lawsuits. Until then don't expect me to risk filtering anything that my customers haven't already agreed to.
We have and market a better solution that is currently used by the MPAA folks. Our prior solution was even vetted by the major motion picture studios as acceptable for protection of "early release" content. They apparently think this bully approach is cheaper. MPAA has never approached technology realistically or with open eyes.
You might have different names for them, "Republican" and "Democrat", and their values are different to our aristocrats but the mechanics are fundamentally the same. I mean, you're on your second aristocrat from the Bush family and you're likely to get your second helping of from the Clinton family. Without wanting to flame-bate: Does that sound like the American dream to you?
John Adam, John Quincy Adams... Yep seems pretty American to me. Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, yep, cousins that they were, hmmm John F Kennedy, Teddy Kennedy (Teddy just has certain fears, he still weilds huge amounts of power in Washington circles). There are lots more. The American way was originally such that land owners were the preferred class. After 200 years we are finally moving a bit closer to equality, but it is still easier to be rich than poor. And no matter what I can say bad about the US I still like it better than anywhere else. But we pick and choose what freedom we fight for and those rights we are willing to lose around the world. Eventually even the most repressed cultures find the population is the real power. Sometimes it takes quite a few generations. The problem in the US is we started giving up power in exchange for security at the individual level and then discovered the government can't keep an individual secure. Or a border for that matter.
Universities can add a portion to their software licenses that prohibits abuse of process, etc. by users of their software or derivatives by or in benefit of the MPAA organization and members. Seems simple enough to counter the MPAA threat with provision for MPAA paying all the bills if the college is sued. A lot of software comes out of the University system that is used in or the basis of software used in the movie industry. From project planning, special effects, accounting, forecasting, research, etc.
If I win big in a lottery I have a plan. It is diabolical. I will give a nice chunk to charity, set aside enough to be debt free for life and comfortable, then give in excess of $1,000,000 to each of several people who have wronged me. I will give it to them very publicly. Then they will have to live with the consequences as the world knows I am broke and has a new sucker list to prey upon. Bwah ha ha ha ha!
Another reason for vinyl's sonic superiority is that no matter how high a sampling rate is, it can never contain all of the data present in an analog groove, Nyquist's theorem to the contrary.
Of course in a quantum state world analog signals are an illusion. There are a large number but still finite set of states that can be theoretically extended to the frequency and amplitude of audio based on the medium it is passing through. And second, a digitization more than 2x the resolving power in frequency or amplitude of the human ear/brain system would render analog obsolete. I deal with this is the spatial color domain visually and past a certain point increased color depth and increased pixel density are moot. The big trick is to cover the range that can be perceived and so far that is the "hard problem" visually. We come close in several models but not close enough...:) In audio it is a simpler problem for monotone applications the space is pretty well know. What is more interesting are the mixed signals from different resonant and dissonant frequencies. The affect of mixing products of audio has not been as researched in terms of human perception. Think of an audio test where multiple frequencies would be played simultaneously and the observers asked how many distinct frequencies they heard to identify the effect of frequency and amplitude variations on ability to hear the mixing products as well as the original audio tones. If you concentrate you an for example pick out a given instrument or set of instruments in an orchestral performance. Identify the range of sensitivity to the differences and you can then choose a digital information content that based on what sampling rate and dynamic range is required to faithfully reproduce the maximum resolvable differences humans can perceive. Vinyl can stay dead. I love my several direct to disc recording of the Vienna Philharmonic however they have only been played a very few times on very expensive turntables. Already after 4 or so plays even my ears can hear the difference between when they were "fresh". So use a non-contact analog method if you design a new turntable please. And while some cd makers skimp in the volume war, old vinyl producers (think south american country hacienda) recycled old records into new. A good thing except for the pieces of paper that caused skips in the tracks. So any technology can be abused. Better to come up with a new standard that far exceeds human perception ability and is digital. I really like that my white album on CD sounds the same now as it did when purchased, while the vinyl version is infested with noise, pops and hiss from wear after a mere 3 decades or so.
Sony is the same company responsible for the court case that defined video-taping a broadcast as legitimate fair use. This precedent has been used to justify making tapes of music legitimately owned on other media to use in cars and portable players like say Walkmans... Someone at Sony hardware needs to walk over to their music division and have a stern talking to with them... That or remove the monitor and record loops from all the ampliphiers and kill the dual tape deck boxen, and the DVRs with built in DVD recorders, and...
Software keyboards are the way to rule. I have tried to get a russian/english keypad part for my Nokia e61 and it is impossible apparently. Nokia delears in Ukraine say that it is a rare part and they can't get them. The dealers. Nokia in Finland says go through the dealers.
A software keyboard that changes content when I change input context is a much better deal.
Fado, fado ,... When ATT patented the SETUID Bit in the early mists of the middle ages of computer development they explicitly put the invention into the public domain. You can also publish (or get published) an article that details in enough clarity that a person skilled at the state of the art in the field could replicate the invention from your article. And in the article explicitly put the invention into the public domain. If you want to be a little less that free about the use of your invention, then include specific public licensing terms for the use of your invention without fee in the patent / article.
Patent route is safest as some officious staffer of the USPTO has given it a stamp of uniqueness attributed to you. Then never bother to pay additional fees after it grants... Unless you want the invention licensing restrictions you might place on it to remain in force.
Of course you could publish the idea to/. with appropriate detail in a long article and hope it gets published...;)
Simple solution. Use Apache on Mac OS X Server. GUI admin for the simple stuff like turning mods on and off configing sites to map to IP addrs and so on, even aliases and redirects and realm based security... Anything much more intense and there are the config files. Trust me. We used NT servers and were one of the first ISPs to do so, then used IIS when MS intro'ed it. Life was pretty good. Then security and reliability became concerns then more complex management and being forced into using other MS software in conjunction with IIS. Mac OS X Server and Apache beat that hands down. And while our old but still small ISP would love modern dual power supply dual fiber connect xServes from Apple we actually chug along on mac mini bought refurbished from Apple. At 1/2 U apiece, averaged over 8 units in 4U of space, it is a cheap alternative to low end blad servers and very very conservative on power.
"Specifically, the problems with today's networks, says the author, is that their content is not available to everyone."
It is a social network not the augmented expose of my life to everyone including the people that may wish me harm network. Dang social engineers think they know better but this is market and society driven. WE CHOOSE as a Social Network the places we want to expose ourselves and how much and most importantly to whom we will expose our information, and in some sites liked Linked-In some people see more than others. I LIKE IT THAT WAY. (sorry shouting at an ignorant pseudo-pundit, he may be smart but he is still clueless)
So for the libraries under LGPL link them to code you don't distribute source for if that is your desire. It is OKAY by the license terms. For the code under GPLv2 that you don't want under GPLv3 in your development tree. Fork that code.
GPLv2 allows you to do what you want with the code as long as you allow access to the source.
That is the first line of my post. Hence the allow access to the source. Allow access to the source. Allow access to the source. I am well within LGPL to develop a proprietary piece of code that is not open source and link to an LGPL library. Legit. Even warned against on the GNU site. READ BOTH LGPL AND GPL licenses before opening up with the blasters. Lastly I recommended GPLv2. So please. Read the post before flaming. And read the license terms of the TWO licenses being discussed. And don't assume an author contradicts himself. Lastly. I love that the pro-GPL crowd modded the parent down.
It is very common in Europe to have an unlocked GSM phone, unlike the US, and most users will buy a high end phone that has the features they want. Locked phones are uncommon, save Great Britain in my experience, and are considered less worthwhile.
Apple can sell them through the Apple stores and dealers based solely on features and be successful if the phone is really worth it.
GPLv2 allows you to do what you want with the code as long as you allow access to the source. Those items under LGPLv2 and GPLv2 you care to use, just fork them and maintain separate branches of development. For your own developed code, put it under whatever license you want. You want to allow folks to feed back changes to you, fine, add the license terms to the project in whole (maybe editorial copyright is implied here) that allows you and your group et. al. to restrict changes folded back into the main line. The downside is you'll be responsible for future maintenance of the forked code, and you risk someone forking your code. But you can reduce the risk of redistribution by restriction of the work you do, causing the folks who want the source to pull it from you based on your license terms. For a good example of dealing with multiple licenses for the same code take a look at MySQL...
After your research is all done, ask yourself if there is a need to worry at all about GPLv2 versus GPLv3 and use GPLv2 for now. Software that is set free should really be set free. Personally BSD licenses are simpler and have not been restrictive of innovation to BSD or similarly licensed code bases. So look to what your goal is and then apply Occam's Razor... And of course, free advice is worth what you pay for it.
Nothing new here. And it is well known how to remove this information from the tracks. But why bother unless your intent is to actually upload them to a file server for widespread illegal distribution.
This is a dangerous line of thinking. Why complain about DVD encryption if it's a.) well known how to remove the encryption and b.) no one would complain unless you wanted to illegally upload them? Why complain about binding your DNA to a music track so that only you can play them, hmmm? What's wrong with chaining DVDs to their respective players? Only a pirate (hiss!) would object to these perfectly legal constraints!
Well, DVD encryption inhibits my ability for fair use. This is much different than watermarking the media content. This is in the same vein as complaining that a serial number for a computer can be used to trace it back to the registered owner. As Apple embedds the serial number into the system and it is electronically retrievable, does this too cause privacy concerns? DVD encryption that keeps me from making a legitimate and allowable fair use backup copy, or copy for use in my car, or copy in a different medium for use on a portable player, etc. is so far removed from similarity with "your email address and Apple ID are in each copy of a song purchased from the iTMS. Apple has been consistently beat up for Fairplay DRM but Fairplay is the most forward thinking DRM (you can BURN CDs of the content for heaveans sake) And now Apple is getting the major labels to agree to widespread DRM free distribution, one label at a time. The original article was slanted very much to Apple bashing, and while Apple has not done everything "right" in everyones eyes, they come the closest. MSFT DRM protected songs won't even play on both a ZUNE and earlier players, and NO UPGRADE to the catalog of prior MS DRM songs to be compatible with the latest player.
So the short answer is, this is a comparison of Apples and Sour Grapes... And it is not illegal to remove the personal data from the Apple tracks either. AFAIK and IMHO it is not a DMCA violation to edit out my personal data as it is not circumventing any encryption. The only reason I can see to remove the strings is to make the files smaller. (Hey 60 GB iPod and less than 1 percent free space... I could stand to lose the extraneous text and "sob" album/tracks artwork... album art is easy to lose, per track artwork is embedded)
Fairplay was intended to allow you to burn playlists to CDs from beginning. It has a limitation on the number of times a given playlist can be burnt (5 I think), but changing the playlist allows it to be burnt again. It is an advertised feature not a "hack" to the DRM. From the beginning Apple has embedded the Apple ID and email address in the songs downloaded from the iTMS (iTunes Mxxxx Store), back to the protected AAC tracks. Nothing new here. And it is well known how to remove this information from the tracks. But why bother unless your intent is to actually upload them to a file server for widespread illegal distribution. It is not like anyone besides yourself will or should have access to the tracks with this data embedded in it... The author of the original cited article needs a clue by four hit and should be better informed.
Until our European Overlords consume us, The United States is still a first to invent rather than first to file country. WizKids is now obligated to either invalidate WotC patent, or show they were first to invent. And under current patent law interpretation by the courts, first to invent may only preclude WotC from actions against them, not invalidate the patent itself as AFAIK WizKids did not similarly file a patent on their take of the invention.
Side note. TSR fell to WotC because TSR was sued over the "tap" playing card patent. And lost. Everything. So WotC is not new to this since Hasbro, it is part of their corporate culture, and defense of intellectual property really is OK.
You can get structured wiring cable pre-bundled with two cat5 or cat 6, dual rg6, and cat3 for telephone. Or get bigger bundled cable that also includes two fibers for future expansion. Leviton wall plates with "keyhole" adpters for fiber, cat5/6 telephone, etc.
Put in a biger than you think you'll ever need structured wiring panel. Put in a wall mount swing out rack mount above it for the rack mount UPS, the rack mount ethernet switch, small shelf for your Vonage adapter(s), video routing equipment, security camera DVR,...
Replace all the wiring and update the electrical service panel. Put in a automatic transfer switch to accomdate a generator (wire the generator junction box outside if not adding the generator now, but put in the transfer switch. In an area with natural gas? Run a line to the same area and have it capped off (and run one to where your outdoor BBQ will be just in case the hi-tech attracts friends frequently)
Determine where your flat panel entertainment device will go, as well as the one for your work, if different. Accomadate a power oulet (clock style that is recessed) and data cables to the location for video to be remotely accessible. Similarly wire the ouside security cameras with siamese cable, even if you don't install any camera yet. Or wire the camera locations with cat5 and low voltage power cable for a future net-cam security system, although normal video to a central location and a video server/dvr is cheaper and almost as flexible or more flexible depending on the money spent.
The importnat thing: Wiring now during the rebuild and leaving wasted wire in the wall is cheaper than doing concealed wiring after the walls are up.
Consider running high voltage and low voltage conduits to the attic and other potentially hard to route to areas or locations where maybe you want something but are not sure yet. Also, consider having some outlets in the house to be battery backud up UPS driven where a BIG UPS sits in the wiring closet. Old "APC Matix" units show up occasionally on eBay.
I can not stress too much that you want, really really want, to put in the wire and access ways and conduits etc. for your wildest dreams while the walls are stripped. Don't forget IR sensors and transmitters as well for whole house AV control. They'll run to your wiring cabinet too.
The European satellite imagery is also for sale and can be had in multi-spectral and.5 meter resolution. There are too many commercial satellite image providers and sources to make limiting access unrealistic. Governments can put up there own and collect the data, state sponsorered para-military can just use what their sponsor obtains and high altitude aerial photography can be purchased for almsot any local on an on-demand basis. The "bad guys" have this info easily no matter what is done, all they prevent is sending a picture of your house captured from above to your friends and family and such. All it takes is money to purchase the imagery and at better resolution than most free sources, as well as IR and various other wavelengths if desired. India and China launch satellites too and make satellites. With current known technology it would not be tough to collect the imagery and resell it just to tweak the NRO/NGIA noses.
T1 circuits are a headache for the phone company and businesses pay for it. We have had as many as 3 plus a provided hot spare at one time and they even temporarily added two more during a cutover (from Sprint to Sprint, but that is really a Sprint oddity that technically was not required). They send a person down every manhole and up every pole where there is a junction of any kind and put little red "flags" on the connector blocks for the T1 pairs. If our line went down it was back up fast. Most every T1 is sold by the local telco as the local loop charge under tarrif, with the network (Internet) connection as a "port charge". Then there are various taxes and fees. Always look at the total cost for each month, the MRC, monthly reoccuring charge. We had several incidents over since 1995 (actually surprisingly few considering the 12.5 years in total). They were almost always fixed in minutes, and 3 went beyond that, one was about 2 hours, another at 5 hours was caused by a cable cut (moving a neighborhood to fiber and they missed the red flagged connections), and the worst when Verizon swapped 2 fiber cables during a routine maintenance and that almost killed us with 20 hours of outage on thiose circuits dependant on the fibers in question. It also took out some Navy resources so I don't think they slouched on the repair time.
Like other posters are saying, you buy the guarantee of full T1 bandwidth (symmetric of course), as well as the uptime guarantee. Sprint escalates periodically the trouble ticket that is created until a Sprint VP is brought in on the issue. They currently have a horrid sales team but great backend support people.
And as to making sense to charge more to a business? Not really. Businesses are competitive and we always shop around for connectivity and bandwidth. Given equal solutions and technical staff ability, etc. we buy the lower cost solution. Consumers just don't spend the same amount of resources to locate the good deals normally, and a consumer buying a T1 is not usually looked at as a prospect for more sales. Businesses are helped to use up all the bandwidth they are sold (hopefully effectively) under the premise they will be able to buy more circuits and bandwidth. Although a T1 is also not an "average Joe" product. So there is little need to push a consumer oriented marketing drive. (And T1 tech does continue to advance, our last T1 was delivered over HSDSL, still looks like a T1 acts like a T1 etc. Just uses a slightly differnt line card, the TSU stayed the same...)
Last quip in general, a DSL line is a digital subscriber line, and covers T1, T3, ISDN, ADSL (which is commonly shortened to just DSL), SDSL, and HSDSL. At least as far as US telcos are concerned...
The T1 I purchased in 1996 was $2000 roughly from Sprint. Of that $600 was GTE/Verizon's charge for the loop (2 pair). In 1999 I upgraded to a pair of T1 circuits (bonded) the cost was $2300 total, with $300 per loop to Verizon roughly. Then we split our connection and the Sprint T1 of 2002 cost $975 with $180 of that for the Verizon local loop. So the T1 cost has been dropping. But now the product is not in as much demand. In 2005 when we were moving our ISP to a place where bandwidth was cheap (10-60 USD per megabit/sec depending on the provider we'd chose, we reneted space plus got bandwidth and lost the overhead for the redundant power and HVAC (bundled with the space)), then Sprint offered $655 for a T1.
So T1s have been steadily dropping in price. The local loop charges however are moving upwards as clean copper is getting scarcer in some regions and the install of the box to take fiber and supply a T1 has to be accounted for in the local loop charges now. I have seen deals for $395 all in on the web however. And in the case of Sprint with had a committed information rate of the full T1. The CIR clause will cost a bit on your contract as well.
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I am not sure how a Java APP will help developers if Sun follows the SDK license. And I can't explain exactly why because of the same license. But since that would mean all Java applications would load and play in the "Java APP" space Sun would have to reinvent a lot. The shame is that the Samsung chip used has java support built in. And since the SDK severely limits hardware access and the license precludes it as well if you use the SDK, no BT profiles can easily be added, can't play with the dock connector. The chip also supports USB OTG even though the dock connector is not so wired, software could make the iPhone a USB "master". The chip also supports SD/MMC cards but that requires a mod to the hardware and adding some software. So I am pretty safe in predicting Apple will have to make some subtle mods to the SDK license (it stops to many very useful applications ... that there is demand for) and that unofficial development will continue to meet market needs.
Wow. ... No programming required. [Command-I] [fan-I] (or the little key with an apple. press that and I at the same time) That brings up the info for the selected item. If you select a file and bring up info for it notice the section that says "Open with" ... play there. really... no programming required just mousing. And you can set it for that particular file only, which Windows can't do. Or you can change the default for all files that are the same. Really easy. And again no programming required.
... Well MS beta program has shafted me more times than not. I'll gladly pay the small amount for a "Select" Apple dev membership if I drop the Premium one sometime. And Apple does have downloads of some beta's for free "online" dev members. So ad hominum attack aside. Apple allows a GUI user to change defaults not just for opening a whole set of files to open with a different program, but allows setting an individual file to open with a program different than the default. All from the GUI in case I have not been clear enough. Oh yes! English is my native language.
... I have to laugh. They can't pay the $3500 (and on sale every year for $2500) to be a Apple Premium Developer site ... WOW! I get betas much sooner as a paid Apple Dev (even when I was a Select) than MS puts out.
And as far as it is useful yes I am a Premium Apple Dev subscriber, and have done Apple / Mac software development since Lightspeed C days. (Think C's predecessor) So again. Apple is just nicer to play with on the dev side. And For your particular nit, really and truly no programming is required. As far as access to the beta's
Thanks for the use of "dood" over "dude" but I am really not a close friend that that implies. As far as MYOB at launch
Ummm... The info screen for a file allows you to change what program opens it by default. allows (or allows context menu "open with" options as well. in the info box for a webloc (url, sort of) on my desktop, Finder is listed as default to open it, but I can change it to any of the instances of Camino, Firefox, Opera, a few other web browsers I have for testing, and even, gasp, Safari. And I can change just that document to always use my new selection or the more common behavior where all documents of that type can be directed to the new choice. So ... Maybe best to know Mac OS before commenting on what it can and can't do. Also anything that is a framework can be explored. The UI can be exposed pretty easily. It would be as if MS used COM interfaces for everything. You can (if you are knowledgeable) look at COM interfaces and play around to reuse them, or for Apple examine the frameworks and derive the APIs needed and play with them. Are we so far gone these days that we expect the APIs to be fully documented on day one and have no work at all to find out what the behavior of the latest and greatest is? Wow. Back in the very dim mists of Time, Digital Equipment Corporation created the RSX-11 M logic manual. It cost a scandalous amount of money and documented the logic of all the application interfaces, kernel mode common code, and a large amount more. A LARGE amount more. It did not last long as it was impossible to keep accurately up to date. And as the OS shipped as source code that was assembled based on conditionals to include your personally selected functionality and as most all the utilities shipped as source as well ... It was a good idea if you wrote applications to be able to read the code anyway and figure out the logic. So cut me some slack. Apple is ahead of the game. Maybe they don't want to support forever some interface they play around with for a OS release or two. Oh, and as the Apple development tools are included on the media with the OS, or can be downloaded even if you have the free Apple developer account (which also gets you a ton of "inside" information for the cost of the downloads), maybe it is best to think who you are comparing Apple's behavior with?
A big problem with this is ISPs have, at least in some jurisdictions, common carrier immunities. If they filter anything they could become liable to all issues that filtering could resolve and responsible for the content sourced or passed through their service and equipment, like some pedophile seeking an underage liaison, the parents could find the pedophile's ISP partly responsible, and in many cases even if a fraction of liability is assigned, the whole of the financial responsibility can be sought.
And as it is "costing" MPAA folks 6 billion a year now I assume they are willing to pony up the money for the new equipment needed and staff positions required to meet their needs as well as assume all liability for eventual ancillary lawsuits. Until then don't expect me to risk filtering anything that my customers haven't already agreed to.
We have and market a better solution that is currently used by the MPAA folks. Our prior solution was even vetted by the major motion picture studios as acceptable for protection of "early release" content. They apparently think this bully approach is cheaper. MPAA has never approached technology realistically or with open eyes.
Universities can add a portion to their software licenses that prohibits abuse of process, etc. by users of their software or derivatives by or in benefit of the MPAA organization and members. Seems simple enough to counter the MPAA threat with provision for MPAA paying all the bills if the college is sued. A lot of software comes out of the University system that is used in or the basis of software used in the movie industry. From project planning, special effects, accounting, forecasting, research, etc.
Not sure of Chi-town but usually there are ways for security guards to get permits. Brinks and Wells Fargo cars might not be so useful otherwise.
If I win big in a lottery I have a plan. It is diabolical. I will give a nice chunk to charity, set aside enough to be debt free for life and comfortable, then give in excess of $1,000,000 to each of several people who have wronged me. I will give it to them very publicly. Then they will have to live with the consequences as the world knows I am broke and has a new sucker list to prey upon. Bwah ha ha ha ha!
Of course in a quantum state world analog signals are an illusion. There are a large number but still finite set of states that can be theoretically extended to the frequency and amplitude of audio based on the medium it is passing through. And second, a digitization more than 2x the resolving power in frequency or amplitude of the human ear/brain system would render analog obsolete. I deal with this is the spatial color domain visually and past a certain point increased color depth and increased pixel density are moot. The big trick is to cover the range that can be perceived and so far that is the "hard problem" visually. We come close in several models but not close enough
Sony is the same company responsible for the court case that defined video-taping a broadcast as legitimate fair use. This precedent has been used to justify making tapes of music legitimately owned on other media to use in cars and portable players like say Walkmans... Someone at Sony hardware needs to walk over to their music division and have a stern talking to with them... That or remove the monitor and record loops from all the ampliphiers and kill the dual tape deck boxen, and the DVRs with built in DVD recorders, and ...
Software keyboards are the way to rule. I have tried to get a russian/english keypad part for my Nokia e61 and it is impossible apparently. Nokia delears in Ukraine say that it is a rare part and they can't get them. The dealers. Nokia in Finland says go through the dealers.
A software keyboard that changes content when I change input context is a much better deal.
Fado, fado , ... When ATT patented the SETUID Bit in the early mists of the middle ages of computer development they explicitly put the invention into the public domain. You can also publish (or get published) an article that details in enough clarity that a person skilled at the state of the art in the field could replicate the invention from your article. And in the article explicitly put the invention into the public domain. If you want to be a little less that free about the use of your invention, then include specific public licensing terms for the use of your invention without fee in the patent / article.
/. with appropriate detail in a long article and hope it gets published ... ;)
Patent route is safest as some officious staffer of the USPTO has given it a stamp of uniqueness attributed to you. Then never bother to pay additional fees after it grants... Unless you want the invention licensing restrictions you might place on it to remain in force.
Of course you could publish the idea to
Simple solution. Use Apache on Mac OS X Server. GUI admin for the simple stuff like turning mods on and off configing sites to map to IP addrs and so on, even aliases and redirects and realm based security... Anything much more intense and there are the config files. Trust me. We used NT servers and were one of the first ISPs to do so, then used IIS when MS intro'ed it. Life was pretty good. Then security and reliability became concerns then more complex management and being forced into using other MS software in conjunction with IIS. Mac OS X Server and Apache beat that hands down. And while our old but still small ISP would love modern dual power supply dual fiber connect xServes from Apple we actually chug along on mac mini bought refurbished from Apple. At 1/2 U apiece, averaged over 8 units in 4U of space, it is a cheap alternative to low end blad servers and very very conservative on power.
"Hmmmm...No Sir, I don't like it."
So for the libraries under LGPL link them to code you don't distribute source for if that is your desire. It is OKAY by the license terms. For the code under GPLv2 that you don't want under GPLv3 in your development tree. Fork that code.
That is the first line of my post. Hence the allow access to the source. Allow access to the source. Allow access to the source. I am well within LGPL to develop a proprietary piece of code that is not open source and link to an LGPL library. Legit. Even warned against on the GNU site. READ BOTH LGPL AND GPL licenses before opening up with the blasters. Lastly I recommended GPLv2. So please. Read the post before flaming. And read the license terms of the TWO licenses being discussed. And don't assume an author contradicts himself. Lastly. I love that the pro-GPL crowd modded the parent down.
It is very common in Europe to have an unlocked GSM phone, unlike the US, and most users will buy a high end phone that has the features they want. Locked phones are uncommon, save Great Britain in my experience, and are considered less worthwhile.
Apple can sell them through the Apple stores and dealers based solely on features and be successful if the phone is really worth it.
GPLv2 allows you to do what you want with the code as long as you allow access to the source. Those items under LGPLv2 and GPLv2 you care to use, just fork them and maintain separate branches of development. For your own developed code, put it under whatever license you want. You want to allow folks to feed back changes to you, fine, add the license terms to the project in whole (maybe editorial copyright is implied here) that allows you and your group et. al. to restrict changes folded back into the main line. The downside is you'll be responsible for future maintenance of the forked code, and you risk someone forking your code. But you can reduce the risk of redistribution by restriction of the work you do, causing the folks who want the source to pull it from you based on your license terms. For a good example of dealing with multiple licenses for the same code take a look at MySQL...
... And of course, free advice is worth what you pay for it.
After your research is all done, ask yourself if there is a need to worry at all about GPLv2 versus GPLv3 and use GPLv2 for now. Software that is set free should really be set free. Personally BSD licenses are simpler and have not been restrictive of innovation to BSD or similarly licensed code bases. So look to what your goal is and then apply Occam's Razor
This is a dangerous line of thinking. Why complain about DVD encryption if it's a.) well known how to remove the encryption and b.) no one would complain unless you wanted to illegally upload them? Why complain about binding your DNA to a music track so that only you can play them, hmmm? What's wrong with chaining DVDs to their respective players? Only a pirate (hiss!) would object to these perfectly legal constraints!
Well, DVD encryption inhibits my ability for fair use. This is much different than watermarking the media content. This is in the same vein as complaining that a serial number for a computer can be used to trace it back to the registered owner. As Apple embedds the serial number into the system and it is electronically retrievable, does this too cause privacy concerns? DVD encryption that keeps me from making a legitimate and allowable fair use backup copy, or copy for use in my car, or copy in a different medium for use on a portable player, etc. is so far removed from similarity with "your email address and Apple ID are in each copy of a song purchased from the iTMS. Apple has been consistently beat up for Fairplay DRM but Fairplay is the most forward thinking DRM (you can BURN CDs of the content for heaveans sake) And now Apple is getting the major labels to agree to widespread DRM free distribution, one label at a time. The original article was slanted very much to Apple bashing, and while Apple has not done everything "right" in everyones eyes, they come the closest. MSFT DRM protected songs won't even play on both a ZUNE and earlier players, and NO UPGRADE to the catalog of prior MS DRM songs to be compatible with the latest player.
So the short answer is, this is a comparison of Apples and Sour Grapes... And it is not illegal to remove the personal data from the Apple tracks either. AFAIK and IMHO it is not a DMCA violation to edit out my personal data as it is not circumventing any encryption. The only reason I can see to remove the strings is to make the files smaller. (Hey 60 GB iPod and less than 1 percent free space... I could stand to lose the extraneous text and "sob" album/tracks artwork... album art is easy to lose, per track artwork is embedded)
Fairplay was intended to allow you to burn playlists to CDs from beginning. It has a limitation on the number of times a given playlist can be burnt (5 I think), but changing the playlist allows it to be burnt again. It is an advertised feature not a "hack" to the DRM. From the beginning Apple has embedded the Apple ID and email address in the songs downloaded from the iTMS (iTunes Mxxxx Store), back to the protected AAC tracks. Nothing new here. And it is well known how to remove this information from the tracks. But why bother unless your intent is to actually upload them to a file server for widespread illegal distribution. It is not like anyone besides yourself will or should have access to the tracks with this data embedded in it... The author of the original cited article needs a clue by four hit and should be better informed.
Until our European Overlords consume us, The United States is still a first to invent rather than first to file country. WizKids is now obligated to either invalidate WotC patent, or show they were first to invent. And under current patent law interpretation by the courts, first to invent may only preclude WotC from actions against them, not invalidate the patent itself as AFAIK WizKids did not similarly file a patent on their take of the invention.
Side note. TSR fell to WotC because TSR was sued over the "tap" playing card patent. And lost. Everything. So WotC is not new to this since Hasbro, it is part of their corporate culture, and defense of intellectual property really is OK.
You can get structured wiring cable pre-bundled with two cat5 or cat 6, dual rg6, and cat3 for telephone. Or get bigger bundled cable that also includes two fibers for future expansion. Leviton wall plates with "keyhole" adpters for fiber, cat5/6 telephone, etc.
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Put in a biger than you think you'll ever need structured wiring panel. Put in a wall mount swing out rack mount above it for the rack mount UPS, the rack mount ethernet switch, small shelf for your Vonage adapter(s), video routing equipment, security camera DVR,
Replace all the wiring and update the electrical service panel. Put in a automatic transfer switch to accomdate a generator (wire the generator junction box outside if not adding the generator now, but put in the transfer switch. In an area with natural gas? Run a line to the same area and have it capped off (and run one to where your outdoor BBQ will be just in case the hi-tech attracts friends frequently)
Determine where your flat panel entertainment device will go, as well as the one for your work, if different. Accomadate a power oulet (clock style that is recessed) and data cables to the location for video to be remotely accessible. Similarly wire the ouside security cameras with siamese cable, even if you don't install any camera yet. Or wire the camera locations with cat5 and low voltage power cable for a future net-cam security system, although normal video to a central location and a video server/dvr is cheaper and almost as flexible or more flexible depending on the money spent.
The importnat thing: Wiring now during the rebuild and leaving wasted wire in the wall is cheaper than doing concealed wiring after the walls are up.
Consider running high voltage and low voltage conduits to the attic and other potentially hard to route to areas or locations where maybe you want something but are not sure yet. Also, consider having some outlets in the house to be battery backud up UPS driven where a BIG UPS sits in the wiring closet. Old "APC Matix" units show up occasionally on eBay.
I can not stress too much that you want, really really want, to put in the wire and access ways and conduits etc. for your wildest dreams while the walls are stripped. Don't forget IR sensors and transmitters as well for whole house AV control. They'll run to your wiring cabinet too.
The European satellite imagery is also for sale and can be had in multi-spectral and .5 meter resolution. There are too many commercial satellite image providers and sources to make limiting access unrealistic. Governments can put up there own and collect the data, state sponsorered para-military can just use what their sponsor obtains and high altitude aerial photography can be purchased for almsot any local on an on-demand basis. The "bad guys" have this info easily no matter what is done, all they prevent is sending a picture of your house captured from above to your friends and family and such. All it takes is money to purchase the imagery and at better resolution than most free sources, as well as IR and various other wavelengths if desired. India and China launch satellites too and make satellites. With current known technology it would not be tough to collect the imagery and resell it just to tweak the NRO/NGIA noses.
In a word. _NO_
T1 circuits are a headache for the phone company and businesses pay for it. We have had as many as 3 plus a provided hot spare at one time and they even temporarily added two more during a cutover (from Sprint to Sprint, but that is really a Sprint oddity that technically was not required). They send a person down every manhole and up every pole where there is a junction of any kind and put little red "flags" on the connector blocks for the T1 pairs. If our line went down it was back up fast. Most every T1 is sold by the local telco as the local loop charge under tarrif, with the network (Internet) connection as a "port charge". Then there are various taxes and fees. Always look at the total cost for each month, the MRC, monthly reoccuring charge. We had several incidents over since 1995 (actually surprisingly few considering the 12.5 years in total). They were almost always fixed in minutes, and 3 went beyond that, one was about 2 hours, another at 5 hours was caused by a cable cut (moving a neighborhood to fiber and they missed the red flagged connections), and the worst when Verizon swapped 2 fiber cables during a routine maintenance and that almost killed us with 20 hours of outage on thiose circuits dependant on the fibers in question. It also took out some Navy resources so I don't think they slouched on the repair time.
Like other posters are saying, you buy the guarantee of full T1 bandwidth (symmetric of course), as well as the uptime guarantee. Sprint escalates periodically the trouble ticket that is created until a Sprint VP is brought in on the issue. They currently have a horrid sales team but great backend support people.
And as to making sense to charge more to a business? Not really. Businesses are competitive and we always shop around for connectivity and bandwidth. Given equal solutions and technical staff ability, etc. we buy the lower cost solution. Consumers just don't spend the same amount of resources to locate the good deals normally, and a consumer buying a T1 is not usually looked at as a prospect for more sales. Businesses are helped to use up all the bandwidth they are sold (hopefully effectively) under the premise they will be able to buy more circuits and bandwidth. Although a T1 is also not an "average Joe" product. So there is little need to push a consumer oriented marketing drive. (And T1 tech does continue to advance, our last T1 was delivered over HSDSL, still looks like a T1 acts like a T1 etc. Just uses a slightly differnt line card, the TSU stayed the same...)
Last quip in general, a DSL line is a digital subscriber line, and covers T1, T3, ISDN, ADSL (which is commonly shortened to just DSL), SDSL, and HSDSL. At least as far as US telcos are concerned...
The T1 I purchased in 1996 was $2000 roughly from Sprint. Of that $600 was GTE/Verizon's charge for the loop (2 pair). In 1999 I upgraded to a pair of T1 circuits (bonded) the cost was $2300 total, with $300 per loop to Verizon roughly. Then we split our connection and the Sprint T1 of 2002 cost $975 with $180 of that for the Verizon local loop. So the T1 cost has been dropping. But now the product is not in as much demand. In 2005 when we were moving our ISP to a place where bandwidth was cheap (10-60 USD per megabit/sec depending on the provider we'd chose, we reneted space plus got bandwidth and lost the overhead for the redundant power and HVAC (bundled with the space)), then Sprint offered $655 for a T1.
So T1s have been steadily dropping in price. The local loop charges however are moving upwards as clean copper is getting scarcer in some regions and the install of the box to take fiber and supply a T1 has to be accounted for in the local loop charges now. I have seen deals for $395 all in on the web however. And in the case of Sprint with had a committed information rate of the full T1. The CIR clause will cost a bit on your contract as well.