"Linked to" doesn't mean there's no evidence, and I don't expect the police to tell the media all the evidence they have. In fact, I don't want them saying anything about the evidence they have, as it's deeply unfair to a suspect that is innocent and can be prejudicial to a court case. Unfortunately many police forces and officers seem to like to tell the media about all the terribly serious crimes they're dealing with, while being curiously reluctant to admit any error.
I could be wrong, but I don't think this has any effect on greenhouse gases; the pollutants that are broken down are those that cause acid precipitation and health problems. In fact, replacing concrete will involve producing a lot of CO2.
I don't see that the ongoing cost of updating information on the site is going to go up because there are huge numbers of people mistakenly going to the home page. They don't need any new information beyond a link saying "Looking for video? Try YouTube.com."
If you had a site designed for quick service to 1000 visitors/day that cost perhaps $1000/month, and it ran fine for 10 years, would you be a little pissed when it suddenly got 1,000,000 visitors every hour and fell over?
I'd be pretty pissed at paying that much in the first place. My web sites get about 1700 visitors per day and before I started hosting them at home I was paying $7/month for hosting.
1 million visitors per hour would be difficult to handle on a single server but I'd expect $1000/month to pay for enough hardware and bandwidth to cover it, assuming sensible use of static resources (most of the visitors will only ever see the front page).
utube has a ligitimate problem though, and I don't think this lawsuit is malicious, since they aren't asking for damages, just cost.
That's what "damages" means - the cost of putting things right. ("Punitive damages" are an exception to this, and the phrase is arguably oxymoronic.) But I don't think YouTube has done anything wrong. Shit happens.
According to Wikipedia, Anousheh Ansari "received her Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and computer science at George Mason University and her master's degree at George Washington University." Later, she made a large donation to the X-Prize. Sounds quite geeky to me.
The UN has not gained, and shows no sign of gaining, any kind of control over the US. It's quite the other way round. The US sometimes uses the UN or other international organisations to create some kind of a consensus, or the appearance of one, when making demands of other countries. In general it has a veto on any decision by such organisations that prevents them from making any demand on the US. In the rare occasion that decisions go against the US it is able to ignore them, being the sole superpower; it can also use unilateral economic sanctions to punish smaller countries and discourage them from repeating their disobedience.
In Linux 2.6.7 (?) Linus restricted the SCSI commands that could be sent to ATAPI and SCSI devices by non-root users and the list of allowed commands did not include some odd commands required for CD recording, at least with some recorders. The behaviour was changed over several following releases.
JS can release his own code under any licence he likes, yes. However, not all of cdrtools is his own code; some of it was written by other authors and released under the GNU GPL. Furthermore it is Debian's perogative to choose what will and will not be included in the distribution. Debian's interpretation of the two licences is that a work partly licenced under one and partly under another is not legally undistributable as a whole.
I can't type my passphrases if I'm sitting wrongly, because I'm used to typing fast and if I do that from the wrong position I make errors.
There are several random passwords that I can type quickly but which it can take me some time to recall the individual characters of. This is inconvenient if I have to use a different keyboard layout.
All flash memory has built-in algorithms to statistically spread out those writes over all the cells of the chip,
No it doesn't. Some flash controllers have wear-levelling, as do some filesystems specifically designed for flash memory. But it's not done on-chip. The xD and SmartMedia formats have no controller and thus no wear-levelling.
If Xiph believed Vorbis might infringe on these patents, then that reasoning would make sense. But they claim that it doesn't infringe any patents, in which case explaining the patents that were considered and rejected as not covering Vorbis could not result in wilful infringement. (How can it be wilful if you don't believe it's infringement?)
Only working implementations can be infringing, not specifications (or even source code, I think). So if implementation of Vorbis is covered by US patents (and I'm not saying I'm certain it is) then any company implementing it could be liable in the US for damages for patent infringement. But the amount of the damages might not be worth suing them for, just as it isn't worthwhile for the patent holders to sue non-commercial distributors of unlicenced MP3 encoders.
I'm aware of this claim, but AFAIK Xiph has not published the details of the patents they considered and how the Vorbis format and/or implementation work around them.
CFront never implemented the whole of C++ as described in the Annotated Reference Manual, let alone standard C++. So "Inside the C++ Object Model" is of rather historical interest now.
He also said "If the content consists of sound and motion, show sound and motion." I think what's important is to choose the presentation medium or media to fit the content, not the other way round,. That means not using programs like Powerpoint by default, but not eschewing them completely.
Actually NTFS does use inodes, and Win32 does allow replacement of loaded modules. However, there is a Win32 call (and an underlying NT kernel call) that returns the file name of a loaded module. There may well be applications that test against specific well-known system DLL names, so renaming those DLLs while they're loaded could result in breakage. I imagine this is the reason why reboots are often required at present.
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Oh, but surely using Access will save them money!
"Linked to" doesn't mean there's no evidence, and I don't expect the police to tell the media all the evidence they have. In fact, I don't want them saying anything about the evidence they have, as it's deeply unfair to a suspect that is innocent and can be prejudicial to a court case. Unfortunately many police forces and officers seem to like to tell the media about all the terribly serious crimes they're dealing with, while being curiously reluctant to admit any error.
I could be wrong, but I don't think this has any effect on greenhouse gases; the pollutants that are broken down are those that cause acid precipitation and health problems. In fact, replacing concrete will involve producing a lot of CO2.
I don't see that the ongoing cost of updating information on the site is going to go up because there are huge numbers of people mistakenly going to the home page. They don't need any new information beyond a link saying "Looking for video? Try YouTube.com."
...and why are Ubuntu's patches acceptable for a branded browser why Debian's very similar patches are not?
I'd be pretty pissed at paying that much in the first place. My web sites get about 1700 visitors per day and before I started hosting them at home I was paying $7/month for hosting.
1 million visitors per hour would be difficult to handle on a single server but I'd expect $1000/month to pay for enough hardware and bandwidth to cover it, assuming sensible use of static resources (most of the visitors will only ever see the front page).
That's what "damages" means - the cost of putting things right. ("Punitive damages" are an exception to this, and the phrase is arguably oxymoronic.) But I don't think YouTube has done anything wrong. Shit happens.
According to Wikipedia, Anousheh Ansari "received her Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and computer science at George Mason University and her master's degree at George Washington University." Later, she made a large donation to the X-Prize. Sounds quite geeky to me.
No, DFSG #4 allows such conditions: "The license may require derived works to carry a different name or version number from the original software."
Recently? I remember, to my shame, that my friends and I would use 'gay' as a taunt back in the 80s, and we didn't mean homosexual.
The UN has not gained, and shows no sign of gaining, any kind of control over the US. It's quite the other way round. The US sometimes uses the UN or other international organisations to create some kind of a consensus, or the appearance of one, when making demands of other countries. In general it has a veto on any decision by such organisations that prevents them from making any demand on the US. In the rare occasion that decisions go against the US it is able to ignore them, being the sole superpower; it can also use unilateral economic sanctions to punish smaller countries and discourage them from repeating their disobedience.
In Linux 2.6.7 (?) Linus restricted the SCSI commands that could be sent to ATAPI and SCSI devices by non-root users and the list of allowed commands did not include some odd commands required for CD recording, at least with some recorders. The behaviour was changed over several following releases.
There are a number of copyright holders; see http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debburn/nonameyet/trunk /debian/copyright?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
JS can release his own code under any licence he likes, yes. However, not all of cdrtools is his own code; some of it was written by other authors and released under the GNU GPL. Furthermore it is Debian's perogative to choose what will and will not be included in the distribution. Debian's interpretation of the two licences is that a work partly licenced under one and partly under another is not legally undistributable as a whole.
I can't type my passphrases if I'm sitting wrongly, because I'm used to typing fast and if I do that from the wrong position I make errors.
There are several random passwords that I can type quickly but which it can take me some time to recall the individual characters of. This is inconvenient if I have to use a different keyboard layout.
No it doesn't. Some flash controllers have wear-levelling, as do some filesystems specifically designed for flash memory. But it's not done on-chip. The xD and SmartMedia formats have no controller and thus no wear-levelling.
If Xiph believed Vorbis might infringe on these patents, then that reasoning would make sense. But they claim that it doesn't infringe any patents, in which case explaining the patents that were considered and rejected as not covering Vorbis could not result in wilful infringement. (How can it be wilful if you don't believe it's infringement?)
Only working implementations can be infringing, not specifications (or even source code, I think). So if implementation of Vorbis is covered by US patents (and I'm not saying I'm certain it is) then any company implementing it could be liable in the US for damages for patent infringement. But the amount of the damages might not be worth suing them for, just as it isn't worthwhile for the patent holders to sue non-commercial distributors of unlicenced MP3 encoders.
I'm aware of this claim, but AFAIK Xiph has not published the details of the patents they considered and how the Vorbis format and/or implementation work around them.
What makes you thing Vorbis encoding isn't covered by (some of) the same patents as MP3 encoding? It uses similar techniques, after all.
Think of the regions as potential price bands, and it'll make more sense.
CFront never implemented the whole of C++ as described in the Annotated Reference Manual, let alone standard C++. So "Inside the C++ Object Model" is of rather historical interest now.
He also said "If the content consists of sound and motion, show sound and motion." I think what's important is to choose the presentation medium or media to fit the content, not the other way round,. That means not using programs like Powerpoint by default, but not eschewing them completely.
Cygwin and eCos (and, I think the majority of GCC 2.0) were developed by Cygnus, which Red Hat subsequently bought.
Indeed. It's just their distributions that suck.
Actually NTFS does use inodes, and Win32 does allow replacement of loaded modules. However, there is a Win32 call (and an underlying NT kernel call) that returns the file name of a loaded module. There may well be applications that test against specific well-known system DLL names, so renaming those DLLs while they're loaded could result in breakage. I imagine this is the reason why reboots are often required at present.