A friend of mine heard about this today and wrote the following:
The waveform-editing patent was filed in 1988. Adrian Freed (now at CNMAT) wrote MacMix, which is doing a lot of what they claim, in 1984 or 1985 at IRCAM.
The original MacMix was running the audio storage, processing, and real-time playback on a huge VAX computer connected via a serial port to Mac Plus, who was running the GUI. Later Adrian sold MacMix to ???? (I forgot the name) who was aquired by Studer and became Studer Editech. The whole system was called Dyaxis.
consider replacing the current (nearly unenforceable) proposed provisions with a law against open SMTP relays
That still wouldn't help so much. I was just writing some spam complaints and gave up when I realized that the relaying mail servers were in Brazil and Japan.
Maybe I just haven't looked long enough, but I have yet to find a terminal that will scroll backwards with the pageup/pagedown and let me select, copy and paste stuff that I already typed or that came out of a program. Like NCSA Telnet.
gEdit seems to work okay, but one of the earlier text editors I tried (the default under KDE, probably) had a totally broken copy/paste implementation.
I've been a Mac user and programmer for 15 years. I recently got an Intel box and put Red Hat Linux on it. I didn't originally think I'd need to bother with X-windows, but when it comes to administering the system, it's nice to have a GUI.
Just getting my video card (i740) and keyboard (backspace key!) to work right in X was a long and painful adventure.
Things that Mac users take for granted, like copy and paste, and consistent key shortccuts across applications, are non-existant.
KDE feels clunky somehow; I can't describe it because I didn't like it and installed GNOME instead. GNOME feels better, but the Midnight Commander crashes, and has some really obvious bugs. KDE's filesystem-browser is pretty nice.
I'll stick to my Mac for most things, for now. But I'm reading slashdot and typing this reply while chasing a bug in my Mac program that's causing me to reboot every five minutes.
> "It's hard to take away something > people are getting for free, so what's > needed is a technical solution, rather than > depending on some sort of behavior modification," > said [RIAA spokesperson] Walsh.
No one has commented yet on what a supremely deceptive statement this is. There is no possible technical solution. The music industry has been releasing freely copiable digital music, in the form of CD's, for 15 years now. It's only becoming a large issue now because bandwidth and MP3's compression have combined to make copying easy.
So, if there is no possible technical solution, why is the RIAA saying there needs to be one? Because they are trying to hold together a fragile coalition of labels and consumer electronics companies to create a format to replace MP3 (SDMI, Secure Digital Music Initiative). I don't see how anyone can believe that this is a solution - no matter how elaborately and cleverly they work to make SDMI uncopiable, the audio data is still present in 44.1 KHz, 16-bit sound when it's passed off to the operating system's sound driver. It's trivial to write a program to capture the audio at this point, and record it into a simple file format like.WAV, or encode it into an MP3. Maybe they think that they can create a closed system where the files can only be exchanged between pieces of Internet-connected propietary hardware? I don't know, they're deluded.
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I visited Chiang Mai and Bangkok for two weeks in early 2002. In perhaps 3 or 4 of 10, the computers were running Linux.
The waveform-editing patent was filed in 1988. Adrian Freed (now at CNMAT) wrote MacMix, which is doing a lot of what they claim, in 1984 or 1985 at IRCAM.
The original MacMix was running the audio storage, processing, and real-time playback on a huge VAX computer connected via a serial port to Mac Plus, who was running the GUI. Later Adrian sold MacMix to ???? (I forgot the name) who was aquired by Studer and became Studer Editech. The whole system was called Dyaxis.
Doug
consider replacing the current (nearly unenforceable) proposed provisions with a law against open SMTP relays
That still wouldn't help so much. I was just writing some spam complaints and gave up when I realized that the relaying mail servers were in Brazil and Japan.
Doug
Maybe I just haven't looked long enough, but I have yet to find a terminal that will scroll backwards with the pageup/pagedown and let me select, copy and paste stuff that I already typed or that came out of a program. Like NCSA Telnet.
gEdit seems to work okay, but one of the earlier text editors I tried (the default under KDE, probably) had a totally broken copy/paste implementation.
Doug
I said I was chasing a fatal bug in my program; I'm not allowed to make really stupid mistakes?
Normally my Mac runs without rebooting for days. Admittedly this was never true before System 8.1.
Doug
I've been a Mac user and programmer for 15 years. I recently got an Intel box and put Red Hat Linux on it. I didn't originally think I'd need to bother with X-windows, but when it comes to administering the system, it's nice to have a GUI.
Just getting my video card (i740) and keyboard (backspace key!) to work right in X was a long and painful adventure.
Things that Mac users take for granted, like copy and paste, and consistent key shortccuts across applications, are non-existant.
KDE feels clunky somehow; I can't describe it because I didn't like it and installed GNOME instead. GNOME feels better, but the Midnight Commander crashes, and has some really obvious bugs. KDE's filesystem-browser is pretty nice.
I'll stick to my Mac for most things, for now. But I'm reading slashdot and typing this reply while chasing a bug in my Mac program that's causing me to reboot every five minutes.
DOug
From the article:
.WAV, or encode it into an MP3. Maybe they think that they can create a closed system where the files can only be exchanged between pieces of Internet-connected propietary hardware? I don't know, they're deluded.
> "It's hard to take away something
> people are getting for free, so what's
> needed is a technical solution, rather than
> depending on some sort of behavior modification,"
> said [RIAA spokesperson] Walsh.
No one has commented yet on what a supremely deceptive statement this is. There is no possible technical solution. The music industry has been releasing freely copiable digital music, in the form of CD's, for 15 years now. It's only becoming a large issue now because bandwidth and MP3's compression have combined to make copying easy.
So, if there is no possible technical solution, why is the RIAA saying there needs to be one? Because they are trying to hold together a fragile coalition of labels and consumer electronics companies to create a format to replace MP3 (SDMI, Secure Digital Music Initiative). I don't see how anyone can believe that this is a solution - no matter how elaborately and cleverly they work to make SDMI uncopiable, the audio data is still present in 44.1 KHz, 16-bit sound when it's passed off to the operating system's sound driver. It's trivial to write a program to capture the audio at this point, and record it into a simple file format like
Doug