>>The usage increases were huge when the nation
>>became industrialized and started needing more >>energy, but it is ludicrous to think that the
>>rate of change will remain constant.
And you need to see past the end of your nose. The USA isn't the only country in the world.
How many BILLIONS of people in India and China don't even own a bicycle let alone a car? These countries (along with dozens more) are very eager to catch up to the 'west' in technology -> which implies a huge grown in energy demand.
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>>they still sing God Save the Queen there
>>for those that don't know
WHAT?? No they don't. Come on.... lets stick to the face please.
(for the record... i AM canadian. The queen is on our money. Other than that nobody really gives a damn about her -- as it should be. A bunch of inbred spoiled social deviants do not role models make).
Galileo wasn't not jailed because of his 'strong evidence'.
He didn't have any evidence. He had a theory. What unequivicable proof did he present that the earth went around the sun? None. He had well reasoned arguments, but nothing that would constitute modern 'proof'.
Look at this another way - what would things look like if the sun went around the earth? From our vantage point - exactly the same.
It's very easy to subscribe to historical revisionism because he *was* right after all. But don't start giving him extra credit where none is deserved.
Galileo wasn't jailed. He was under house arrest because he dared go against the teachings of the church. Thats a whole other argument.....
Have you checked out the prices of cars lately? Some of them can go up to even $30,000!!!! Ouch!!
Not everything is for everybody. The thing is - Qt has developers that actually eat and pay the rent and need a paycheck. And guess what - they deserve it. Qt is KILLER. I work for a small company and we pay for 5 Qt licenses (thats pushing $10,000 a year) - and you know what........ worth every freaking penny. Working with MFC was painful at best, and gtk made me want to go out and kick cars in the parking lot. The increased quality that Qt brings, plus the development time savings is worth the price ten times over. It's a beautiful toolkit.
It's always so sad whenever something is brought up on slashdot, all people do is bitch and whine because it's not free. Well, welcome to the real world. If you want everything to be free, then you lose the right to complain about the quality of what you get.
JWZ got it right - and it proves itself every day:
"linux is free if your time is worthless".
For those of us who's time isn't worthless, finding the tradeoff point is important. And anybody who can improve that deserves their money.
Now excuse me, i need to go start a linux system build of our project - it takes SIX @#$(*#&$ hours using GCC - gee, it's the 21st century, you think they'd discover precompiled headers. Once that build is running i'll go back to my MSDEV machine and get some real work done.
(and debugging with DDD ---------- eeeeshhhhhhh..... god help us all........ yet another way MSDEV kicks serious ass).
I'm a canadian - and you embarass me. Here is an excellent statement made by Gordan Sinclair that sums things up. Yes the US *isn't* perfect..... but they do a hell of a lot more and put up with a hell of a lot more than anybody else out there......
TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
America: The Good Neighbor.
Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator.
What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record:
"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped.
The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans.
I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes?
Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles.
You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon- not once, but several times - and safely home again. You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at.
Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here.
When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke.
I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those."
Stand proud, America!
Wear it proudly!!
Gordon Sinclair
>>Another consideration is how much worse this
>>could have been if the towers had gone OVER >>instead of straight down.
marginally worse, but not as bad as you think.
Why - because it wouldn't happen in the mode that you think.
You're expecting the whole tower to just pivot about it's base and fall over like you pushed a cardboard box - that it would crush an area in length the same as it's standing height. It wouldn't happen that way. It would only be able to lean a small amount before the fracture stresses took over and it broke into pieces and fell straight down (with SOME sideways velocity).
Watch any of those demolition videos where they are destroying big smokestacks - they always fracture multiple times along their length as they start to tip. *LUCKILY*, making a building fall on it's side like tipping over a toy is pretty much impossible.
>>It's just that one of the interfaces is
>>closer to the machine language, and hence
>>_maybe_ more efficient.
*maybe* more efficient. But you'll hate your life every minute you have to deal with it.
How much more productive am I writing code in Lisp/Smalltalk/C++/Perl, etc etc vs. hand coding assembly? I can't even comprehend.
There's a tradeoff - efficiency isn't everything. Their is also convenience, extensibility, maintainablity and so on.........
I always kinda shake my head by people who are just obsessed with the command line and "nothing is more powerful". Bull. It's a tool. Personally, everytime i have to deal with GDB i feel like going outside and kicking cars - it's a painful experience ( DDD is slightly better - about as fun as being poked in the eye with a pointed stick). MSDEV/VC6 is a 'GUI' - but man my performance with it is an order of magnitude higher.
(and yes, i DO write linux/unix code. I do everything in VC with a samba share, and just reach over to my linux box and run make. I do all debugging under Win32 unless i absolutely have to touch linux because the tools are MUCH MUCH better).
>>Besides, it's hard to imagine someone (sane) >>using Broadcast 2000 in their medical life
>>support system, or web-based passenger jet
>>liner remote piloting system, or nuclear power
>>plant cooling system:) So it's hard for me to >>swallow that explanation. Even if it were so, >>would it not be possible for someone like FSF
>>or EFF to help them draft a more iron-clad
>>disclaimer of warranty or fitness for any purpose?
You're being very naive.
The problem isn't about somebody losing a life (like you comment on nuclear reactors, life support, etc). It's about money.
I've worked in video and film production. It's very expensive and there is a lot of cash involved (i'm not talking about Timmy making a video of last weeks Show'n'Tell).
The problem is that the authors are afraid (rightly so) that somebody may use this in their post house and it fails (data gets corrupted, screws up their computer, doesn't work as 'advertised') and then they'll get sued.
You've got a client - you've promised a job to be done by Day X. Then your video system crashes and you lose all the work you've done. The client doesn't care. They have a contract with you for work done by a date. If it isn't done they sue you. Just like they are looking for somebody to blame, you will be to.
Now lets be clear, I DON'T agree with the legal issue of somebody producing GPL/free code being sued because of a failure, but lets be pragmatic - it DOES/CAN happen. No matter what you pay for something, there can be 'implied fitness'. And if that level isn't met, somebody may sue you and find a sympathetic judge who is willing to compensate them for their losses, no matter what they actually paid for the tool in the first place.
Yup. It's ugly.
>>I think it's a lot more likely that they got a
>>stern letter from some lawyers retained by
>>parties with large financial interests that are
>>in imminent danger of loss if continued
>>development of Broadcast 2000 proceeds apace.
Provide proof or cut the FUD. These guys are just protecting their own asses.
You're an idiot - LOTS of people came up with fur algorithms before R&H. E.g. Jim Kajiya who WORKS at MSResearch and wrote one of the seminal papers about it:
Kajiya, James T. and Timothy L. Kay, ``Rendering fur with three dimensional textures,'' in Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1989, ACM SIGGRAPH, 1989, pp. 271-280.
Have a clue about the topic before you post. Just look at the list of staff at MSR - it's a 'who's who' of various fields........ CGI included...... Jim Blinn, Hughes Hoppe, Michael Cohen... etc etc etc........
Welcome to Slashdot - blind microsoft bashing. MSResearch is doing some damn good work - look at any set of the conference proceedings from SIGGRAPH for the past 5 years and see the published work.........
>>despite the fact that he knowingly and >>willfully comitted an act of copyright
>>infringement.
Don't be obtuse.
First - the 'crime' occured in another country.
Second - he didn't commit copyright infringement. He developed a tool. If i go down to the library, take a book and photocopy it, does that mean Xerox (and it's engineers) are guilty of 'copyright' infringement. No it doesn't. For the same reason a gun manufacturer isn't guilty of murder if i shoot somebody in the head. For the same reason if i take a hammer and break into your house, Sears isn't guilty of break and enter. If i burn a copy of a friends CD, HP (the manufacturer of my burner) isn't guilty of copyright infringent.
Don't confuse a tool and the use of a tool. Why should this case be treated differently because it deals with bits instead of physical objects. It's EXACTLY the same as the Xerox example.
And i won't even go into the agument about how the DMCA tramples other established rights.
Please explain how is is guilty of doing work in another country where this activity isn't illegal? When did the US's jurisdiction become international.
There's probably fifty things you've done today that are crimes in other countries (read much about Afghanistan lately) - keep things in perspective.
ALSO - if you plead guilty, then this doesn't go through the courts with the potential result of the DMCA being declared unconstitutional. If everybody pleads guilty there is ZERO chance of the law being struck down.
There were plenty of reasons why DPS was a bad idea. Lets let it drop.
If you want to go with something resolution independant (a la PDF - smart move Apple), then you have my full support. But DPS - no freakin way.
Reason #1) In DPS you don't really have 'descriptions' of graphics - you have a PROGRAM that gets executed - which just happens to produce the graphic you want. So it is totally possibly for a piece of clipart to BE a virus. A graphic description format should be exactly that. It doesn't (nor shoult it) be a turing complete language with all the havoc it would cause. If you think Outlook macros are nasty, just imagine what would happen if every desktop was running DPS..... And going back to your Church/Turing theory, it's impossible for you to write a program that can tell if any given 'image' is a virus or not.
This is coming from somebody with plenty of NeWS expierience, plus owning two of my own NeXT machines............... DPS is pretty, but lets move on - we've learned our lesson
j
>>After reflecting on this result, we think that >>Intel is using both the falling edge and rising >>edge in an attempt to better market their
>>products.
you're a retard.
You haven't proved anything - you've just proven that the code runs in the same time. Intel MAY be running at twice the MHz of the PPC, but the PPC maybe doing twice the work per clock cycle. Go read an elementary book on CPU architecture. Look for words like 'pipeline', 'cache', 'system bus', and anything other remotely technical to educate yourself.
>>Final Conclusions: After doing some scientific
>> analysis that
funny - you haven't done any analysis, and haven't prooved anything. Please let me know what 'scientific' school you graduated from so i can avoid it like the plague.
This reminds me of an old Kids in the Hall sketch: "Having spent 6 months in the merchant marines, and speaking a little conversational french, I THINK I KNOW A THING OR TWO ABOUT THE RECORDING INDUSTRY..."
You are living proof that a LITTLE knowledge is a dangerous thing.........
This should be interesting.....it'll all boil down to who the judge is and who cluefull/less he is.
Lets recap: the service that mp3.com offered required you to prove that you had the CD. They used their special little app that would then be queried by their servers for a number of random pieces from the CD. If all the pieces lined up, then you 'owned' the CD, and they put it in your locker for you. Even Bruce Scheiner (sic? i can't be bothered to look it up) evaluated their protocol and found it cryptographically secure.
So - You can only get access to the mp3's from mp3.com if you already own (or are at least IN POSESSION of) the CD. Therefore you could rip the mp3's for napster yourself. Getting a streamed version from them gave you nothing - except slowing you down.
But with the typical justice system they'll get reamed........ again..........
Please explain in 500 words or less how this guy has any influence, control, or bearing on the decisions that Sony makes about releasing their code (and whatever licenses they use).
Thats right - he doesn't. He's building an application library on their platform - thats it. It's very nice that you're obsessed with the GPL, but not everybody is.....
Good to see the mods are taking this nonsense back down and putting some USEFUL questions up......
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Can u give us an example of where a triangle window would be of _any_ use other than a visual curiosity?
Until then, I'd prefer that KDE and all other developers out there concentrate on work that is actually useful.
>>KDE 3 provides a database-independent API for
>>accessing SQL databases.
This isn't coming from the KDE gang..... it's coming from v3.0 of the Qt toolkit. The latest Qt is seriously kick ass....
>>The usage increases were huge when the nation
>>became industrialized and started needing more >>energy, but it is ludicrous to think that the
>>rate of change will remain constant.
And you need to see past the end of your nose. The USA isn't the only country in the world.
How many BILLIONS of people in India and China don't even own a bicycle let alone a car? These countries (along with dozens more) are very eager to catch up to the 'west' in technology -> which implies a huge grown in energy demand.
>>they still sing God Save the Queen there
>>for those that don't know
WHAT?? No they don't. Come on.... lets stick to the face please.
(for the record... i AM canadian. The queen is on our money. Other than that nobody really gives a damn about her -- as it should be. A bunch of inbred spoiled social deviants do not role models make).
Get out of your parents basement........ have you ever even kissed a girl?
Galileo wasn't not jailed because of his 'strong evidence'.
He didn't have any evidence. He had a theory. What unequivicable proof did he present that the earth went around the sun? None. He had well reasoned arguments, but nothing that would constitute modern 'proof'.
Look at this another way - what would things look like if the sun went around the earth? From our vantage point - exactly the same.
It's very easy to subscribe to historical revisionism because he *was* right after all. But don't start giving him extra credit where none is deserved.
Galileo wasn't jailed. He was under house arrest because he dared go against the teachings of the church. Thats a whole other argument.....
I think you're talking about "Reds Dream".
Have you checked out the prices of cars lately? Some of them can go up to even $30,000!!!! Ouch!!
Not everything is for everybody. The thing is - Qt has developers that actually eat and pay the rent and need a paycheck. And guess what - they deserve it. Qt is KILLER. I work for a small company and we pay for 5 Qt licenses (thats pushing $10,000 a year) - and you know what........ worth every freaking penny. Working with MFC was painful at best, and gtk made me want to go out and kick cars in the parking lot. The increased quality that Qt brings, plus the development time savings is worth the price ten times over. It's a beautiful toolkit.
It's always so sad whenever something is brought up on slashdot, all people do is bitch and whine because it's not free. Well, welcome to the real world. If you want everything to be free, then you lose the right to complain about the quality of what you get.
JWZ got it right - and it proves itself every day:
"linux is free if your time is worthless".
For those of us who's time isn't worthless, finding the tradeoff point is important. And anybody who can improve that deserves their money.
Now excuse me, i need to go start a linux system build of our project - it takes SIX @#$(*#&$ hours using GCC - gee, it's the 21st century, you think they'd discover precompiled headers. Once that build is running i'll go back to my MSDEV machine and get some real work done.
(and debugging with DDD ---------- eeeeshhhhhhh..... god help us all........ yet another way MSDEV kicks serious ass).
j
Mike left Zero Knowledge quite some time ago.....
"Me fail English? That's unpossible!"
I'm a canadian - and you embarass me. Here is an excellent statement made by Gordan Sinclair that sums things up. Yes the US *isn't* perfect..... but they do a hell of a lot more and put up with a hell of a lot more than anybody else out there......
TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
America: The Good Neighbor.
Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator.
What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record:
"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped.
The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans.
I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes?
Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles.
You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon- not once, but several times - and safely home again. You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at.
Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here.
When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke.
I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those."
Stand proud, America!
Wear it proudly!!
Gordon Sinclair
>>Another consideration is how much worse this
>>could have been if the towers had gone OVER >>instead of straight down.
marginally worse, but not as bad as you think.
Why - because it wouldn't happen in the mode that you think.
You're expecting the whole tower to just pivot about it's base and fall over like you pushed a cardboard box - that it would crush an area in length the same as it's standing height. It wouldn't happen that way. It would only be able to lean a small amount before the fracture stresses took over and it broke into pieces and fell straight down (with SOME sideways velocity).
Watch any of those demolition videos where they are destroying big smokestacks - they always fracture multiple times along their length as they start to tip. *LUCKILY*, making a building fall on it's side like tipping over a toy is pretty much impossible.
j
>>It's just that one of the interfaces is
>>closer to the machine language, and hence
>>_maybe_ more efficient.
*maybe* more efficient. But you'll hate your life every minute you have to deal with it.
How much more productive am I writing code in Lisp/Smalltalk/C++/Perl, etc etc vs. hand coding assembly? I can't even comprehend.
There's a tradeoff - efficiency isn't everything. Their is also convenience, extensibility, maintainablity and so on.........
I always kinda shake my head by people who are just obsessed with the command line and "nothing is more powerful". Bull. It's a tool. Personally, everytime i have to deal with GDB i feel like going outside and kicking cars - it's a painful experience ( DDD is slightly better - about as fun as being poked in the eye with a pointed stick). MSDEV/VC6 is a 'GUI' - but man my performance with it is an order of magnitude higher.
(and yes, i DO write linux/unix code. I do everything in VC with a samba share, and just reach over to my linux box and run make. I do all debugging under Win32 unless i absolutely have to touch linux because the tools are MUCH MUCH better).
j
>>Besides, it's hard to imagine someone (sane) >>using Broadcast 2000 in their medical life
>>support system, or web-based passenger jet
>>liner remote piloting system, or nuclear power
>>plant cooling system:) So it's hard for me to >>swallow that explanation. Even if it were so, >>would it not be possible for someone like FSF
>>or EFF to help them draft a more iron-clad
>>disclaimer of warranty or fitness for any purpose?
You're being very naive.
The problem isn't about somebody losing a life (like you comment on nuclear reactors, life support, etc). It's about money.
I've worked in video and film production. It's very expensive and there is a lot of cash involved (i'm not talking about Timmy making a video of last weeks Show'n'Tell).
The problem is that the authors are afraid (rightly so) that somebody may use this in their post house and it fails (data gets corrupted, screws up their computer, doesn't work as 'advertised') and then they'll get sued.
You've got a client - you've promised a job to be done by Day X. Then your video system crashes and you lose all the work you've done. The client doesn't care. They have a contract with you for work done by a date. If it isn't done they sue you. Just like they are looking for somebody to blame, you will be to.
Now lets be clear, I DON'T agree with the legal issue of somebody producing GPL/free code being sued because of a failure, but lets be pragmatic - it DOES/CAN happen. No matter what you pay for something, there can be 'implied fitness'. And if that level isn't met, somebody may sue you and find a sympathetic judge who is willing to compensate them for their losses, no matter what they actually paid for the tool in the first place.
Yup. It's ugly.
>>I think it's a lot more likely that they got a
>>stern letter from some lawyers retained by
>>parties with large financial interests that are
>>in imminent danger of loss if continued
>>development of Broadcast 2000 proceeds apace.
Provide proof or cut the FUD. These guys are just protecting their own asses.
>>This was his analysis of the situation.
no - read it again. There is no 'my analysis of this'.
He states his FUD and paranoia as facts. Plain and simple.
Aldridge said nothing about MSFT being your true solution for 'legitamate' codecs.
FUD FUD FUD FUD FUD FUD FUD. Gawd - Slashdot has sure gotten lame..............
(at least you didnt' manage to get GPL into the discussion)
>>PARC invented GUIs. They invented bitmapped >>displays. They invented windows. They invented
>>pointers and mice.
wow. thats some impressive historical revisionism. Go read some history. Most of this stuff predates PARC by 10 years in academic research.
Thanks for proving yet again a little knowledge is a dangerous thing..........
You're an idiot - LOTS of people came up with fur algorithms before R&H. E.g. Jim Kajiya who WORKS at MSResearch and wrote one of the seminal papers about it:
Kajiya, James T. and Timothy L. Kay, ``Rendering fur with three dimensional textures,'' in Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1989, ACM SIGGRAPH, 1989, pp. 271-280.
Have a clue about the topic before you post. Just look at the list of staff at MSR - it's a 'who's who' of various fields........ CGI included...... Jim Blinn, Hughes Hoppe, Michael Cohen... etc etc etc........
Welcome to Slashdot - blind microsoft bashing. MSResearch is doing some damn good work - look at any set of the conference proceedings from SIGGRAPH for the past 5 years and see the published work.........
>>despite the fact that he knowingly and >>willfully comitted an act of copyright
>>infringement.
Don't be obtuse.
First - the 'crime' occured in another country.
Second - he didn't commit copyright infringement. He developed a tool. If i go down to the library, take a book and photocopy it, does that mean Xerox (and it's engineers) are guilty of 'copyright' infringement. No it doesn't. For the same reason a gun manufacturer isn't guilty of murder if i shoot somebody in the head. For the same reason if i take a hammer and break into your house, Sears isn't guilty of break and enter. If i burn a copy of a friends CD, HP (the manufacturer of my burner) isn't guilty of copyright infringent.
Don't confuse a tool and the use of a tool. Why should this case be treated differently because it deals with bits instead of physical objects. It's EXACTLY the same as the Xerox example.
And i won't even go into the agument about how the DMCA tramples other established rights.
Please explain how is is guilty of doing work in another country where this activity isn't illegal? When did the US's jurisdiction become international.
There's probably fifty things you've done today that are crimes in other countries (read much about Afghanistan lately) - keep things in perspective.
ALSO - if you plead guilty, then this doesn't go through the courts with the potential result of the DMCA being declared unconstitutional. If everybody pleads guilty there is ZERO chance of the law being struck down.
Don't be obtuse.
oh god no.
There were plenty of reasons why DPS was a bad idea. Lets let it drop.
If you want to go with something resolution independant (a la PDF - smart move Apple), then you have my full support. But DPS - no freakin way.
Reason #1) In DPS you don't really have 'descriptions' of graphics - you have a PROGRAM that gets executed - which just happens to produce the graphic you want. So it is totally possibly for a piece of clipart to BE a virus. A graphic description format should be exactly that. It doesn't (nor shoult it) be a turing complete language with all the havoc it would cause. If you think Outlook macros are nasty, just imagine what would happen if every desktop was running DPS..... And going back to your Church/Turing theory, it's impossible for you to write a program that can tell if any given 'image' is a virus or not.
This is coming from somebody with plenty of NeWS expierience, plus owning two of my own NeXT machines............... DPS is pretty, but lets move on - we've learned our lesson
j
>>After reflecting on this result, we think that >>Intel is using both the falling edge and rising >>edge in an attempt to better market their
>>products.
you're a retard.
You haven't proved anything - you've just proven that the code runs in the same time. Intel MAY be running at twice the MHz of the PPC, but the PPC maybe doing twice the work per clock cycle. Go read an elementary book on CPU architecture. Look for words like 'pipeline', 'cache', 'system bus', and anything other remotely technical to educate yourself.
>>Final Conclusions: After doing some scientific
>> analysis that
funny - you haven't done any analysis, and haven't prooved anything. Please let me know what 'scientific' school you graduated from so i can avoid it like the plague.
This reminds me of an old Kids in the Hall sketch: "Having spent 6 months in the merchant marines, and speaking a little conversational french, I THINK I KNOW A THING OR TWO ABOUT THE RECORDING INDUSTRY..."
You are living proof that a LITTLE knowledge is a dangerous thing.........
>>There was no way to directly save mp3 files
>>from your locker onto your hard drive,
You didn't try very hard. It is very doable.
This should be interesting.....it'll all boil down to who the judge is and who cluefull/less he is.
Lets recap: the service that mp3.com offered required you to prove that you had the CD. They used their special little app that would then be queried by their servers for a number of random pieces from the CD. If all the pieces lined up, then you 'owned' the CD, and they put it in your locker for you. Even Bruce Scheiner (sic? i can't be bothered to look it up) evaluated their protocol and found it cryptographically secure.
So - You can only get access to the mp3's from mp3.com if you already own (or are at least IN POSESSION of) the CD. Therefore you could rip the mp3's for napster yourself. Getting a streamed version from them gave you nothing - except slowing you down.
But with the typical justice system they'll get reamed........ again..........
How the hell is it off topic? How is it ON topic?
Please explain in 500 words or less how this guy has any influence, control, or bearing on the decisions that Sony makes about releasing their code (and whatever licenses they use).
Thats right - he doesn't. He's building an application library on their platform - thats it. It's very nice that you're obsessed with the GPL, but not everybody is.....
Good to see the mods are taking this nonsense back down and putting some USEFUL questions up......