...I am streaming audio that the RIAA has no control over? Example: I once had set up a small Commodore 64 SID Shoutcast to stream SID music over the Internet. Does this mean that the RIAA would try to charge me to do this? How can they have the right? I used the High Voltage SID Collection, which currently contains well over 10,000 tunes. Many of these tunes are independently authored and released. The RIAA surely can't have any right to take money for this? _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Local stations in particular usually insert their own advert for the evening news etc as the last "commercial" before going back to the show, and they very often insert a transition break before their ad. I don't think that's an accident, they probably do it deliberately to foil VCRs with commercial break detectors.
Not necessarily. This might be true if the station is automated, but if it's like the station I work for, where we have bonafide human operators, it simply takes a small amount of time to roll a break which translates on-air to an extra bit of black. Even with video servers like we use, the operator still has to fire the break and take it on-air. Heaven forbid the station is using a cart machine, or worse manually rolling each spot (believe it or not, some smaller stations still do this).
I say this from experience switching our LPTV station, UPN30 WAPK-LP. I can also say with authority that we don't deliberately insert black in-between spots at any time. Now maybe the op is asleep at the board, or off taking a shit or something, but that's an entirely different story, one which I won't get into (do you wanna hear me rant?:).
You usually have five different types of breaks:
National only - the show tape just rolls, the spots are already in the show
National/local split - generally 1:30-2:30 of national spots, maybe a:05 bumper (<show> will be right back), and 1:30-2:30 of local spots
National/local combined - generally 1:00-1:30 of national spots immediately followed by:30-1:30 of local spots, no bumper
Local only - 2:00-2:30 of local spots
Endbreak -:30-1:30 of local spots and:05 legal ID (this also allows last-second tape cueing or switching tapes if you have to use the same VTR)
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And if I can show that there is a non-infringing use (encoding my original content) then there is not a damn thing they can do, same as MP3. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
I haven't seen a major motion picture (other than what comes on HBO, etc. which is not paid for in this household by me) in three years, well before all this shit started. So I'd say that my position is pretty cemented. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
So how do they act? Are there withdrawal symptoms? Can you tell us some more about it? Is the brain permanently blunted after taking them for a long time?
Well, as a person who was diagnosed with ADD at the age of 7 and took Ritalin until age 14 (at which time I chose on my own to cease dosage), I can say that the only 'withdrawal symptom' I experienced was increased fatigue during the early hours of the morning (7:30am). I tended to fall partially asleep at the beginning of 1st period but I was usually fine shortly into the class after the teacher nudged me a few times. Of course, I have had my doubts as to whether or not I actually have ADD, but this is what I experienced. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
I'm pretty safe then. The only thing related to Sony that I have bought in the last three years is a 17 inch Trinitron monitor (and this was three years ago). Oh yeah, and I also have a Sony AM/FM tuner that my dad bought second-hand and gave to me. That doesn't count, as Sony made no money from either me or my dad. You can bet your ass that Sony won't be getting any of my hard earned money now! Firewall it at my PC? Anyone who tries to force me to install anything will find themselves the receiver of a couple of size 13's in the nads. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
That line of defense makes no sense.. think about it.. if I release poisonous gas in Times Square, then decide, three hours later, that I did the wrong thing and start handing out gas masks.. does that clear me for the 1000's I killed in the first place?.. How can you do something (make a program and release it publicly) then hours later decide nevermind (remove the link) and ever think that clears you of a thing... you still did the damage.. just because you later changed your mind doesn't make a bit of difference (I'm sorry that I killed your family but I relized what I did is wrong and I wont kill anymore so don't punish me okay?)...
Well, AOL itself didn't release the software. IIRC, the software was released by
Nullsoft (the authors of Winamp). AOL found out about the software and had it pulled. Therefore, I reiterate, AOL should be in the clear. If anyone would be liable, it would be Nullsoft in my eyes.
Note also that I am not condoning this lawsuit, just pointing out how the wrong defendant was chosen. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
As well as I can tell, since AOL pulled the plug on the program shortly after it was posted (they should be able to prove this) then they should be in the clear. This is just another way for someone to attempt to control the flow of information (granted, gnutella is mainly used to trade music and porn right now, but was it designed for this or for the general sharing of information?). I hope mp3board.com falls flat on their proverbial face here.
Disclaimer: If you take any of this post as any type of legal advice and you get burnt in the buttocks, don't come crying to me. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Of course this makes the die bigger, but as we get to smaller process technologies this isn't so much of a problem.
Doesn't matter to me. I'd rather have a large processor casing with 128MB+ on-chip, running at full processor speed, than a smaller one with only 256KB-2MB. I wonder why nobody has tried this yet. Especially if AMD were to do something like this, it could blow Intel out of the water on performance. Caveat - current cache memory IIAC* is extremely expensive. But just imagine, 128MB of L1 cache:)
* IIAC - If IAm Correct _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Well, my (non-coder) idea would be to have two separate areas of memory - volatile and nonvolatile. The VM would be used to execute programs and to store temporary data, while the NVM would be used more for storage and NOT executable code. While this doesn't help that much (virii can simply load from the NVM) it at least ensures that whatever is currently running isn't when you start back up. Of course, now there is no such thing as instant-on as there would be if the entire memory map was NVM. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
and you won't see the MPAA say MPGs (or DivX;-)) is illegal.
Well, I was reading Time the other day and they had an article about DivX;-), but it only mentioned the unauthorized distribution aspect of things. I see it as an easy way to distribute high-quality original content with a small footprint (put a few 30 minute shows on a CD-R, for example). I've been meaning to fire off a le3 he to them to correct their disinformation. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT Commodore 64 Democoder
...distribute their music for them, sue the RIAA for anticompetitive tactics (antitrust law?). By shutting Napster down, they have removed your avenue of distribution and made it even harder for you to get your music out.
Here's a proposal about how to get back at the RIAA - close them off from the Internet! Detect when a RIAA-allotted IP addy is the source of a request and silently drop the packets. Of course the large ISP's won't do it, but the mom-n-pops out there might just consider it. Or better yet, detonate a very small nuke inside the building. This enrages me. I will never buy a CD again as long as they keep these tactics up.
P.S. : Dick in their ass. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT Commodore 64 Democoder
The problem I have with this personally is that this solution may not abide to the licensing agreement for the SETI@Home project. Especially this portion: "Distribution of this software is prohibited". The company's FAQ sort of diverts this issue saying that this wasn't a patch and only uses an unmodified version of the client, but unless the company has an agreement with the SETI@Home team, they would be distributing the clients against the restrictions mentioned in the licensing agreement. As of this point I don't know if they do have permission to do this. I do not think that they do though. I cannot see the SETI@Home guys (who have a hard time raising fundage for their project) allowing a company to make a profit out of their work. Only time will tell to see how all of this plays out...legal proceedings may be a problem since the company is based in the Ukraine. I'll keep ya posted what I find out
Well, they specify that the client must be downloaded separately due to copyright reasons, so assuming this whole thing isn't a hoax (which I think it is), it's fully legal. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT Commodore 64 Democoder
You accuse WIPO of being unfair, but please then explain this case where a company with a trademark lost against an individual who only used his domain name for e-mail and ftp.
Was he using it to confuse the public between his site and the 'rightful owner' or was he just using it for FTP and e-mail? As long as there is no actual trademark dilution (i.e. deliberate consumer confusion) then it should be first-come first-served. If there is trademark dilution, then the domain should go to the trademark holder. The problem with DNS is that the namespace is way too small. Individuals should have some protection from large companies that take domain names simply because they have more money and can sue the person out of existence. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT Commodore 64 Democoder
One of the stations in this market (and incidentally, the one I work for:) runs C|net TV.com (interesting show, but it's aimed squarely at the typical user, they run NO tech-oriented stories on it). _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT Commodore 64 Democoder
I use my mobile while I'm driving quite often, however, I also still pay utmost attention to the road (which has caused me many times to ask the person on the other end to repeat a sentence). Just because most of the public doesn't really care doesn't mean that 100% of all mobile phone users don't. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT Commodore 64 Democoder
You've probably never heard of DivX;-) (yes, that's the actual name, including the emoticon). It's a high-quality video codec (actually just MPEG-4 with MP3 audio hacked in). I downloaded a 2 minute trailer for The Matrix the other day, and it weighed in at 640x480, 30fps at a whopping 13MB (and it looked as good as some of the videotape formats I have access to at work, although not quite as good as Betacam SP or 1-inch). It can be used to re-encode a DVD down to more manageable sizes, but it can also be used to encode original content for easy distribution over the net. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT Commodore 64 Democoder
...when they will start installing telescreens in every house (except the proles, we don't care about the proles) and monitoring for Thought Crime (crimethink in Newspeak). _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT Commodore 64 Democoder
What the hell is 'pirate' DNS? You mean to say that running your own root DNS server(s) is in any way similar to pillaging ships on the high seas? You, sir, are on crack. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT Commodore 64 Democoder
On the idea of piracy and Napster being sued, I think it is patetic.
I agree. Napster is simply a file-sharing service that is tuned to MP3 files and designed for peer-to-peer transfer rather than client-server. Peer-to-peer FTP with builtin searching capability.
If you think about it, the Napster software copies bits from one source to another. CD-recordable drives, also copy bits from one source to another. BUT, do you see people trying to sue the makers of the CD recordable drives??? NO.
That's because anytime you buy a CD-R labeled as a music CD-R, you pay the RIAA a tax (I'm not sure the amount, but I think it's about 100%) to 'offset piracy' (read: extort money from the average person who doesn't know that music CD-Rs and data CD-Rs are identical except for the label). Don't buy music CD-Rs, you're just wasting your money. Data CD-Rs are much cheaper and work just as good (I use them all the time to burn audio to disc and have yet to have a problem with them).
Case in point: I went to get a pack of 10 CD-Rs about a month ago. They were selling two different 10-packs manufactured by TDK, one labeled music, the other data. The music pack was over $20, while the data pack was about $12, yet the discs are identical.
Napster is doing the exact same thing that the CD-R industry is doing, but the only reason they are being attacked is because of its more widespread use. If everyone had a CD-R, im sure Metallica would be out whining about those companies too.
Like I said, the RIAA is already getting their 'cut' when you buy music CD-Rs. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT Commodore 64 Democoder
Also, I believe that it is only illegal to export strong crypto programs, not encrypted material itself. Therefore, it's almost a moot point, as strong crypto does exist outside the US, but our wonderful Government (TM) apparently doesn't think so. PGP exists worldwide, so if you encrypt your mail with PGP you're pretty much safe (as long as you use a large keylength).
Disclaimer: I am not a crypto expert, nor am I a lawyer. Don't take my words as absolute truth, or it will probably come back to bite you in the ass. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT Commodore 64 Democoder
Ah. The Interchange File Format. Off the top of my head, it supports graphics (image, palette, animation, color-cycling, etc - ILBM), audio (remember 8SVX?), and countless other things that I don't know about. Truly a versatile format.
And from my experience with Turbo Imploder on the Amiga, binaries are indeed hunk-based, although the similarities to IFF are unknown to me. I've watched an executable with 30+ hunks be trimmed down to 5 or less hunks with Imploder. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT Commodore 64 Democoder
Gates personally wrote most (all?) the code in the TRS-80 Model 100, which is definitely one of the coolest portable computers of all time. I have a Model 100 waiting for me to buy it back from a friend I sold it to. It's a really, really cool machine.
I never had a 100, but I used to have a Model 200 with an external floppy drive. Cool machine, but I didn't have it for long... _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT Commodore 64 Democoder
Well, HDTV is many different formats (both laced and progressive). You can lower the resolution and squeeze more channels into your bandwidth or push it up and have one.
And the transition to HDTV so far has been extremely slow. Only one station in this market (92nd, Tri-Cities TN/VA) is even broadcasting HD, and I'm not sure if they're using any actual HD production equipment or just upconverting their NTSC signals. The reason? HD equipment is extremely expensive (a good HD overhaul can cost $1,000,000 and up, easily).
I've been waiting for a better format than NTSC ever since I started in this industry. HD sounds good, but it is extremely uncertain in 85% of the country or more. Plus there are a lot of issues with lowpower stations that will be displaced by HD broadcasts that seem to be holding it back somewhat. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT Commodore 64 Democoder
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...I am streaming audio that the RIAA has no control over? Example: I once had set up a small Commodore 64 SID Shoutcast to stream SID music over the Internet. Does this mean that the RIAA would try to charge me to do this? How can they have the right? I used the High Voltage SID Collection, which currently contains well over 10,000 tunes. Many of these tunes are independently authored and released. The RIAA surely can't have any right to take money for this?
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
- Local stations in particular usually insert their own advert for the evening news etc as the last "commercial" before going back to the show, and they very often insert a transition break before their ad. I don't think that's an accident, they probably do it deliberately to foil VCRs with commercial break detectors.
Not necessarily. This might be true if the station is automated, but if it's like the station I work for, where we have bonafide human operators, it simply takes a small amount of time to roll a break which translates on-air to an extra bit of black. Even with video servers like we use, the operator still has to fire the break and take it on-air. Heaven forbid the station is using a cart machine, or worse manually rolling each spot (believe it or not, some smaller stations still do this).I say this from experience switching our LPTV station, UPN30 WAPK-LP. I can also say with authority that we don't deliberately insert black in-between spots at any time. Now maybe the op is asleep at the board, or off taking a shit or something, but that's an entirely different story, one which I won't get into (do you wanna hear me rant?
You usually have five different types of breaks:
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
And if I can show that there is a non-infringing use (encoding my original content) then there is not a damn thing they can do, same as MP3.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
I haven't seen a major motion picture (other than what comes on HBO, etc. which is not paid for in this household by me) in three years, well before all this shit started. So I'd say that my position is pretty cemented.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
- So how do they act? Are there withdrawal symptoms? Can you tell us some more about it? Is the brain permanently blunted after taking them for a long time?
Well, as a person who was diagnosed with ADD at the age of 7 and took Ritalin until age 14 (at which time I chose on my own to cease dosage), I can say that the only 'withdrawal symptom' I experienced was increased fatigue during the early hours of the morning (7:30am). I tended to fall partially asleep at the beginning of 1st period but I was usually fine shortly into the class after the teacher nudged me a few times. Of course, I have had my doubts as to whether or not I actually have ADD, but this is what I experienced._______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
I'm pretty safe then. The only thing related to Sony that I have bought in the last three years is a 17 inch Trinitron monitor (and this was three years ago). Oh yeah, and I also have a Sony AM/FM tuner that my dad bought second-hand and gave to me. That doesn't count, as Sony made no money from either me or my dad. You can bet your ass that Sony won't be getting any of my hard earned money now! Firewall it at my PC? Anyone who tries to force me to install anything will find themselves the receiver of a couple of size 13's in the nads.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
- That line of defense makes no sense.. think about it.. if I release poisonous gas in Times Square, then decide, three hours later, that I did the wrong thing and start handing out gas masks.. does that clear me for the 1000's I killed in the first place?.. How can you do something (make a program and release it publicly) then hours later decide nevermind (remove the link) and ever think that clears you of a thing... you still did the damage.. just because you later changed your mind doesn't make a bit of difference (I'm sorry that I killed your family but I relized what I did is wrong and I wont kill anymore so don't punish me okay?)...
Well, AOL itself didn't release the software. IIRC, the software was released by Nullsoft (the authors of Winamp). AOL found out about the software and had it pulled. Therefore, I reiterate, AOL should be in the clear. If anyone would be liable, it would be Nullsoft in my eyes.Note also that I am not condoning this lawsuit, just pointing out how the wrong defendant was chosen.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
As well as I can tell, since AOL pulled the plug on the program shortly after it was posted (they should be able to prove this) then they should be in the clear. This is just another way for someone to attempt to control the flow of information (granted, gnutella is mainly used to trade music and porn right now, but was it designed for this or for the general sharing of information?). I hope mp3board.com falls flat on their proverbial face here.
Disclaimer: If you take any of this post as any type of legal advice and you get burnt in the buttocks, don't come crying to me.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
- Of course this makes the die bigger, but as we get to smaller process technologies this isn't so much of a problem.
Doesn't matter to me. I'd rather have a large processor casing with 128MB+ on-chip, running at full processor speed, than a smaller one with only 256KB-2MB. I wonder why nobody has tried this yet. Especially if AMD were to do something like this, it could blow Intel out of the water on performance. Caveat - current cache memory IIAC* is extremely expensive. But just imagine, 128MB of L1 cache* IIAC - If I Am Correct
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Well, my (non-coder) idea would be to have two separate areas of memory - volatile and nonvolatile. The VM would be used to execute programs and to store temporary data, while the NVM would be used more for storage and NOT executable code. While this doesn't help that much (virii can simply load from the NVM) it at least ensures that whatever is currently running isn't when you start back up. Of course, now there is no such thing as instant-on as there would be if the entire memory map was NVM.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
- and you won't see the MPAA say MPGs (or DivX
;-)) is illegal.
Well, I was reading Time the other day and they had an article about DivX_______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Commodore 64 Democoder
...distribute their music for them, sue the RIAA for anticompetitive tactics (antitrust law?). By shutting Napster down, they have removed your avenue of distribution and made it even harder for you to get your music out.
Here's a proposal about how to get back at the RIAA - close them off from the Internet! Detect when a RIAA-allotted IP addy is the source of a request and silently drop the packets. Of course the large ISP's won't do it, but the mom-n-pops out there might just consider it. Or better yet, detonate a very small nuke inside the building. This enrages me. I will never buy a CD again as long as they keep these tactics up.
P.S. : Dick in their ass.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Commodore 64 Democoder
- The problem I have with this personally is that this solution may not abide to the licensing agreement for the SETI@Home project. Especially this portion: "Distribution of this software is prohibited". The company's FAQ sort of diverts this issue saying that this wasn't a patch and only uses an unmodified version of the client, but unless the company has an agreement with the SETI@Home team, they would be distributing the clients against the restrictions mentioned in the licensing agreement. As of this point I don't know if they do have permission to do this. I do not think that they do though. I cannot see the SETI@Home guys (who have a hard time raising fundage for their project) allowing a company to make a profit out of their work. Only time will tell to see how all of this plays out...legal proceedings may be a problem since the company is based in the Ukraine. I'll keep ya posted what I find out
Well, they specify that the client must be downloaded separately due to copyright reasons, so assuming this whole thing isn't a hoax (which I think it is), it's fully legal._______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Commodore 64 Democoder
- You accuse WIPO of being unfair, but please then explain this case where a company with a trademark lost against an individual who only used his domain name for e-mail and ftp.
Was he using it to confuse the public between his site and the 'rightful owner' or was he just using it for FTP and e-mail? As long as there is no actual trademark dilution (i.e. deliberate consumer confusion) then it should be first-come first-served. If there is trademark dilution, then the domain should go to the trademark holder. The problem with DNS is that the namespace is way too small. Individuals should have some protection from large companies that take domain names simply because they have more money and can sue the person out of existence._______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Commodore 64 Democoder
One of the stations in this market (and incidentally, the one I work for :) runs C|net TV.com (interesting show, but it's aimed squarely at the typical user, they run NO tech-oriented stories on it).
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Commodore 64 Democoder
I use my mobile while I'm driving quite often, however, I also still pay utmost attention to the road (which has caused me many times to ask the person on the other end to repeat a sentence). Just because most of the public doesn't really care doesn't mean that 100% of all mobile phone users don't.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Commodore 64 Democoder
You've probably never heard of DivX ;-) (yes, that's the actual name, including the emoticon). It's a high-quality video codec (actually just MPEG-4 with MP3 audio hacked in). I downloaded a 2 minute trailer for The Matrix the other day, and it weighed in at 640x480, 30fps at a whopping 13MB (and it looked as good as some of the videotape formats I have access to at work, although not quite as good as Betacam SP or 1-inch). It can be used to re-encode a DVD down to more manageable sizes, but it can also be used to encode original content for easy distribution over the net.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Commodore 64 Democoder
...when they will start installing telescreens in every house (except the proles, we don't care about the proles) and monitoring for Thought Crime (crimethink in Newspeak).
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Commodore 64 Democoder
doublethink.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Commodore 64 Democoder
What the hell is 'pirate' DNS? You mean to say that running your own root DNS server(s) is in any way similar to pillaging ships on the high seas? You, sir, are on crack.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Commodore 64 Democoder
- On the idea of piracy and Napster being sued, I think it is patetic.
I agree. Napster is simply a file-sharing service that is tuned to MP3 files and designed for peer-to-peer transfer rather than client-server. Peer-to-peer FTP with builtin searching capability.- If you think about it, the Napster software copies bits from one source to another. CD-recordable drives, also copy bits from one source to another. BUT, do you see people trying to sue the makers of the CD recordable drives??? NO.
That's because anytime you buy a CD-R labeled as a music CD-R, you pay the RIAA a tax (I'm not sure the amount, but I think it's about 100%) to 'offset piracy' (read: extort money from the average person who doesn't know that music CD-Rs and data CD-Rs are identical except for the label). Don't buy music CD-Rs, you're just wasting your money. Data CD-Rs are much cheaper and work just as good (I use them all the time to burn audio to disc and have yet to have a problem with them).Case in point: I went to get a pack of 10 CD-Rs about a month ago. They were selling two different 10-packs manufactured by TDK, one labeled music, the other data. The music pack was over $20, while the data pack was about $12, yet the discs are identical.
- Napster is doing the exact same thing that the CD-R industry is doing, but the only reason they are being attacked is because of its more widespread use. If everyone had a CD-R, im sure Metallica would be out whining about those companies too.
Like I said, the RIAA is already getting their 'cut' when you buy music CD-Rs._______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Commodore 64 Democoder
Also, I believe that it is only illegal to export strong crypto programs, not encrypted material itself. Therefore, it's almost a moot point, as strong crypto does exist outside the US, but our wonderful Government (TM) apparently doesn't think so. PGP exists worldwide, so if you encrypt your mail with PGP you're pretty much safe (as long as you use a large keylength).
Disclaimer: I am not a crypto expert, nor am I a lawyer. Don't take my words as absolute truth, or it will probably come back to bite you in the ass.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Commodore 64 Democoder
Ah. The Interchange File Format. Off the top of my head, it supports graphics (image, palette, animation, color-cycling, etc - ILBM), audio (remember 8SVX?), and countless other things that I don't know about. Truly a versatile format.
And from my experience with Turbo Imploder on the Amiga, binaries are indeed hunk-based, although the similarities to IFF are unknown to me. I've watched an executable with 30+ hunks be trimmed down to 5 or less hunks with Imploder.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Commodore 64 Democoder
- Gates personally wrote most (all?) the code in the TRS-80 Model 100, which is definitely one of the coolest portable computers of all time. I have a Model 100 waiting for me to buy it back from a friend I sold it to. It's a really, really cool machine.
I never had a 100, but I used to have a Model 200 with an external floppy drive. Cool machine, but I didn't have it for long..._______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Commodore 64 Democoder
Well, HDTV is many different formats (both laced and progressive). You can lower the resolution and squeeze more channels into your bandwidth or push it up and have one.
And the transition to HDTV so far has been extremely slow. Only one station in this market (92nd, Tri-Cities TN/VA) is even broadcasting HD, and I'm not sure if they're using any actual HD production equipment or just upconverting their NTSC signals. The reason? HD equipment is extremely expensive (a good HD overhaul can cost $1,000,000 and up, easily).
I've been waiting for a better format than NTSC ever since I started in this industry. HD sounds good, but it is extremely uncertain in 85% of the country or more. Plus there are a lot of issues with lowpower stations that will be displaced by HD broadcasts that seem to be holding it back somewhat.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Commodore 64 Democoder