I've done this a half dozen times in the last year or so. I download an archive from somewhere, click the 'show in finder' option to locate it quickly once downloaded and then double-click the file to expand it. Every once in a while somewhere between the first click and the second OS X scrolls the window and selects a bunch of files, which then all start opening.
I think it has to do with the poor design of the Apple optical mice, it seems to have tracking issues on anything but a perfect surface, and will sometimes jump around. I might just have to get the Bluetooth version of the Mighty Mouse as I hear it has much better tracking; Too bad I'm not a huge fan of their right-click method.
ActiveSync is he absolute worst synchronization software on the planet.
It took me a long time to get it to work on my fathers machine, and after spending a considerable amount of time doing research on the problem it spontaneously started working correctly.
No, I am not kidding. I have never seen a functional piece of software that was as capable of acting flakey and in-determinant as ActiveSync.
And someday someone is going to have to explain to me what ever happened to plug-and-play under windows. If you accidentally plug a usb device in that was never plugged in before and doesn't have drivers installed you spend the next 15 minutes cleaning it up so you can install drivers.
You are aware of course that any location controlled by the U.S. Government is considered U.S. soil, right?
That includes all military bases they operate around the world.
Including Guantanamo Bay.
by the way; do you actually have proof none of them were arrested in the United States? Have you verified each persons account? Have you talked to their lawyers? Have they lawyers talked to them?
Oh yeah, thats right, even with a lawyer then don't necessarily have the right to talk to them.
Never mind. We won't know until long after things are wrapped up what the truth is about Guantanamo.
The first thing done when determining copyright on source code is any code which doesn't constitute a 'creative' work is removed. Anything left over is therefor Copyrighted.
If the same process was applied to the freedb files, and if you are right, you would be left with the 'Genre' and nothing else.
yeah, when you get your lawyer to ask for delay after delay, as well as refuse to comply with requests which would either exonerate, or convict you; really, is it their fault he spent so much time in jail an innocent man?
he wasn't innocent, he knew it and he tried to push any trial off until the charges were dropped.
Oh no, they won't regulate the internet; they will just arrest people operating legal business that they dislike.
The U.S. allows gambling; it bars Internet gambling but allows other domestic gambling. This type of selective treatment of business is actually against international trade agreements. This won't stop the U.S. from prosecuting and sentencing.
I'm waiting for the kidnapping charges; as U.S. law enforcement have taken such steps in the past and I expect they will over this issue.
The code to generate the DiscID is copyrighted. The algorithm cannot be copyrighted, or patented. (inspite of the attempt of Gracenote to enforce a patent they seem to have acquired on it several years after it was public knowledge; publication which makes it unpatentable in any jurisdiction anyway).
The algorithm itself has been well publicized and is required by all client software to make use of the database. Personally I implemented a version of it several years ago in Java.
Had the DiscID been treated as a trade secret and licensed as such it could have been used to restrict distribution of a database using it. It wasn't.
The file format of the freedb may be copyrightable. Some level of determination was used to decide the layout. Anybody that retains, or uses that layout could have license issues with it.
The data, as extracted from the file itself consists of Album name, Track Id, Track Name, and Track Length information. Each of these constitute facts about the disc; while the song name/album are generally copyrighted the copyright for them is not owned by freedb, and merely cataloging the information is well within standard usage by everyone. Libraries, Stores, etc. Easily allowable in any sane interpretation of copyright.
The extended information which may exist within each file from freedb may contain copyrightable information as it contains free-form text submitted by the users with no attempt to represent a fact. (Some contain opinions, and reviews of the disc in question. copyright for that would be retained by the original submitter.)
And then we get into the question of how the GPL actually applies to a database, or a collection of files; personally I don't even want to enter that discussion.
But hey, I could be wrong, and anybody touching the database could get their ass sued off by whoever thinks they own it.
Let me know when somebody figures out who that might actually be.
The trackid is generated based on a particular algorithm. It is merely calculated based on a few attributes of the disc. There is nothing particularly special about it. Given the same disc anyone, using the algorithm can produce exactly the same discid (which is the point of it).
The 'background notes' on copyright protection of databases in Canada is nothing but an opinion piece from a law library; not actually a legal opinion on database copyright.
As for the rest; have you actually looked at what constitutes the freedb database? It is merely a collection of facts; even the few populated fields which may not be considered factual could be readily stripped out of the files without significant loss the the data value.
The main point of this discussion is the fact that it doesn't matter what you believe.
It doesn't matter whether the data is said to be licensed under the GPL or not.
An initial look at it says the data is just that, data, and therefor cannot be copyrighted; if it cannot be copyrighted then the 'license' doesn't actually apply.
Someone around here will probably do the math, but I doubt that even if you push yourself off into the direction of the earth that it will be all that fast.
I suspect you're most likely to die from lack of oxygen than re-entry.
Considering the amount of time batteries last when using Bluetooth (for data transfers, not the occasional click), or WiFi what the heck is the point of having it 'wireless'?
I have an iPod and, except for the anemic battery life, love it. I just don't see the point in adding wireless capabilities to it.
I have a PocketPC, and I at one time wanted to use it to control whatever computer I had which was acting as my music server. To me that makes perfect sense and the connectivity already exists, etc. The problem? Microsoft and their damn OS and.Net issues makes it painful to do ad-hoc development for it as a platform, and none of the existing tools that I looked at (at the time, things may have changed) are very good. So, since they can't take advantage of existing hardware, why should I expect they'll do something right on another new platform????
Considering the first cruise missiles did not use GPS for navigation it's an amusing argument anyway.
Applying currently level of technology to the method used for navigation and targeting in World War II and I would bet you could readily get within a city block with a missile; without using GPS. North Korea could easily do such a thing if there were so inclined; besides, North Korea wants something slightly more sophisticated than terrorists do, but it isn't like a country like North Korea actually thinks they could take over the United States, or Japan, etc. They just need a saber to rattle that's load enough to be heard.
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Having looked at what constitutes freedb I can honestly say there is plenty of opportunity for improvement. Staying compatible with the current protocol isn't difficult, and moving it forward to something more recent would not be difficult. It is an exceptionally easy and straightforward process.
The issue I would have with the cover-art is copyright issues. To resolve that would require licensing arrangements with the music publishers. Not fun, and not going to happen for a free database.
I seriously considered what it would take to run a freedb server in the last few days.
freedb consists of hundreds of thousands of files, it isn't a database per say. (the rock folder contains 574,664 files each only a couple K in size. )
In the end an uncompressed archive is 3,513,815,040 bytes. 3.5Gigs. I don't have easy access to that kind of space on a server on the internet. (ok, I might, but that would require negotiating with my boss. Don't think they are up for it. No clue what the actual bandwidth hit is for freedb)
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I've done this a half dozen times in the last year or so. I download an archive from somewhere, click the 'show in finder' option to locate it quickly once downloaded and then double-click the file to expand it. Every once in a while somewhere between the first click and the second OS X scrolls the window and selects a bunch of files, which then all start opening.
I think it has to do with the poor design of the Apple optical mice, it seems to have tracking issues on anything but a perfect surface, and will sometimes jump around.
I might just have to get the Bluetooth version of the Mighty Mouse as I hear it has much better tracking; Too bad I'm not a huge fan of their right-click method.
Might be useful, of course it might also be the case that a dozen other license plates appear two, or more times in various instances too.
We don't know.
They have a legal responsibility to limit damages to themselves. By this they should have stop providing services to you.
We actually have some strong consumer protection laws here in Canada.
the only problem? They haven't been enforced in years.
Most retailers these days are not even aware of the requirements.
Based on the current trends it will provide just enough power for one person to travel to the corner store.
ActiveSync is he absolute worst synchronization software on the planet.
It took me a long time to get it to work on my fathers machine, and after spending a considerable amount of time doing research on the problem it spontaneously started working correctly.
No, I am not kidding. I have never seen a functional piece of software that was as capable of acting flakey and in-determinant as ActiveSync.
And someday someone is going to have to explain to me what ever happened to plug-and-play under windows. If you accidentally plug a usb device in that was never plugged in before and doesn't have drivers installed you spend the next 15 minutes cleaning it up so you can install drivers.
You are aware of course that any location controlled by the U.S. Government is considered U.S. soil, right?
That includes all military bases they operate around the world.
Including Guantanamo Bay.
by the way; do you actually have proof none of them were arrested in the United States? Have you verified each persons account?
Have you talked to their lawyers? Have they lawyers talked to them?
Oh yeah, thats right, even with a lawyer then don't necessarily have the right to talk to them.
Never mind. We won't know until long after things are wrapped up what the truth is about Guantanamo.
Last time I checked cars don't explode while driving down the street; while it seems laptops might...
(And with over 6 thousand batteries one might expect a failure rate of 1 in 10000 to be a little high...
If Copyright cannot be applied to freedb datafiles then it doesn't actually matter whether the files were submitted to be licensed under the GPL.
GPL is not a contact; it extends copyright by releasing various rights for compliance with various criteria.
The first thing done when determining copyright on source code is any code which doesn't constitute a 'creative' work is removed. Anything left over is therefor Copyrighted.
If the same process was applied to the freedb files, and if you are right, you would be left with the 'Genre' and nothing else.
yeah, when you get your lawyer to ask for delay after delay, as well as refuse to comply with requests which would either exonerate, or convict you; really, is it their fault he spent so much time in jail an innocent man?
he wasn't innocent, he knew it and he tried to push any trial off until the charges were dropped.
Oh no, they won't regulate the internet; they will just arrest people operating legal business that they dislike.
The U.S. allows gambling; it bars Internet gambling but allows other domestic gambling. This type of selective treatment of business is actually against international trade agreements. This won't stop the U.S. from prosecuting and sentencing.
I'm waiting for the kidnapping charges; as U.S. law enforcement have taken such steps in the past and I expect they will over this issue.
The code to generate the DiscID is copyrighted. The algorithm cannot be copyrighted, or patented. (inspite of the attempt of Gracenote to enforce a patent they seem to have acquired on it several years after it was public knowledge; publication which makes it unpatentable in any jurisdiction anyway).
The algorithm itself has been well publicized and is required by all client software to make use of the database. Personally I implemented a version of it several years ago in Java.
Had the DiscID been treated as a trade secret and licensed as such it could have been used to restrict distribution of a database using it. It wasn't.
The file format of the freedb may be copyrightable. Some level of determination was used to decide the layout. Anybody that retains, or uses that layout could have license issues with it.
The data, as extracted from the file itself consists of Album name, Track Id, Track Name, and Track Length information. Each of these constitute facts about the disc; while the song name/album are generally copyrighted the copyright for them is not owned by freedb, and merely cataloging the information is well within standard usage by everyone. Libraries, Stores, etc. Easily allowable in any sane interpretation of copyright.
The extended information which may exist within each file from freedb may contain copyrightable information as it contains free-form text submitted by the users with no attempt to represent a fact. (Some contain opinions, and reviews of the disc in question. copyright for that would be retained by the original submitter.)
And then we get into the question of how the GPL actually applies to a database, or a collection of files; personally I don't even want to enter that discussion.
But hey, I could be wrong, and anybody touching the database could get their ass sued off by whoever thinks they own it.
Let me know when somebody figures out who that might actually be.
The trackid is generated based on a particular algorithm. It is merely calculated based on a few attributes of the disc. There is nothing particularly special about it. Given the same disc anyone, using the algorithm can produce exactly the same discid (which is the point of it).
The 'background notes' on copyright protection of databases in Canada is nothing but an opinion piece from a law library; not actually a legal opinion on database copyright.
As for the rest; have you actually looked at what constitutes the freedb database? It is merely a collection of facts; even the few populated fields which may not be considered factual could be readily stripped out of the files without significant loss the the data value.
The main point of this discussion is the fact that it doesn't matter what you believe.
It doesn't matter whether the data is said to be licensed under the GPL or not.
An initial look at it says the data is just that, data, and therefor cannot be copyrighted; if it cannot be copyrighted then the 'license' doesn't actually apply.
Whether you want it to or not.
(I am not a lawyer).
If you're pissing off everybody you're probably doing something right.
No.
They plant false information leading to the unnecessary destruction of several commercial airliners.
ooops.
Due to the Privacy regulations in the U.K. it wouldn't matter if they wanted to provide the data or not.
They are not allowed.
They need a court order.
Do you realize how often valid transactions would get cancelled?
Email can take seconds, or it can take days; and it is supposed to work this way.
Someone around here will probably do the math, but I doubt that even if you push yourself off into the direction of the earth that it will be all that fast.
I suspect you're most likely to die from lack of oxygen than re-entry.
Considering the amount of time batteries last when using Bluetooth (for data transfers, not the occasional click), or WiFi what the heck is the point of having it 'wireless'?
.Net issues makes it painful to do ad-hoc development for it as a platform, and none of the existing tools that I looked at (at the time, things may have changed) are very good. So, since they can't take advantage of existing hardware, why should I expect they'll do something right on another new platform????
I have an iPod and, except for the anemic battery life, love it. I just don't see the point in adding wireless capabilities to it.
I have a PocketPC, and I at one time wanted to use it to control whatever computer I had which was acting as my music server. To me that makes perfect sense and the connectivity already exists, etc. The problem? Microsoft and their damn OS and
Considering the first cruise missiles did not use GPS for navigation it's an amusing argument anyway.
Applying currently level of technology to the method used for navigation and targeting in World War II and I would bet you could readily get within a city block with a missile; without using GPS.
North Korea could easily do such a thing if there were so inclined; besides, North Korea wants something slightly more sophisticated than terrorists do, but it isn't like a country like North Korea actually thinks they could take over the United States, or Japan, etc. They just need a saber to rattle that's load enough to be heard.
I wouldn't worry about it; the report I saw said:
"Nothing to see here, move along".
Having looked at what constitutes freedb I can honestly say there is plenty of opportunity for improvement.
Staying compatible with the current protocol isn't difficult, and moving it forward to something more recent would not be difficult. It is an exceptionally easy and straightforward process.
The issue I would have with the cover-art is copyright issues. To resolve that would require licensing arrangements with the music publishers. Not fun, and not going to happen for a free database.
I seriously considered what it would take to run a freedb server in the last few days.
freedb consists of hundreds of thousands of files, it isn't a database per say. (the rock folder contains 574,664 files each only a couple K in size. )
In the end an uncompressed archive is 3,513,815,040 bytes. 3.5Gigs. I don't have easy access to that kind of space on a server on the internet. (ok, I might, but that would require negotiating with my boss. Don't think they are up for it. No clue what the actual bandwidth hit is for freedb)