The patents might be expiring, but who holds the trademark rights to the CD-DA logo? Whoever holds those rights, controls who can use the logo, regardless of patent status.
Got it on my wall right now. Its altogether too convenient to blame things on random problems in this business. That one pretty much sums it up though.
Not normally. At typical microsoft typefaces, their license would take up anywhere from 4 to 6 full "faces" of the box, which wouldn't leave a whole lot of room for the eye candy on the box; the reason people bought the box in the first place.
The encodings are a temporary fix to a permanent problem, much in the same way that NAT "expands" the IPv4 address space. The real solution is to use a character set that can encompass all the world's characters at the same time
Well, the DMCA only works (theoretically) if they hold the copyright on the information they're encrypting. If it's on my PC, chances are pretty good that Earthlink, or whoever might do what has been suggested, has no copyright on said information, and the DMCA therefore does not apply to their "access control".
Of course, I ain't a lawyer, and given the sad state of affairs in the judicial system, the perpetrator could probably buy their way through it.
I don't know how many consumer (read: cheap, toy-train-esque) models have 3 pole motors anymore. Even the cheap ones have 5-pole motors. At least here in the states and in HO scale anyway. I can't speak too much for N scale, since my dad's had all his trains packed away for some time (15 years or so), waiting to get a bit more space to build a layout in.
And I still don't know how they fit the receivers into some of those powered N scale locos, either.
Anyhow, as others have said, once you start using a command control equipped layout, you'll never want to go back to toggle or rotary switches. I don't.
an IDE bus, which the wire is only 16 bit, makes for a huge bottleneck.
And this is any different from a 16 bit wide Ultra160 SCSI bus, how? It's not the bus width, it's the internals of the protocol that really make the performance difference. A single hard disc on a cable isn't capable of saturating it's bus anyway. The heads can only read the data off the platter so fast. Where SCSI gives its improvement is when multiple discs are in use. As opposed to 2 IDE discs, put 4 Ultra160's on a chain and load them down. The SCSI discs will be able to keep the bus full more often than the 2 IDE's will under constant use. And you can (hypothetically) add 11 more discs to the SCSI chain.
That's not to say that only a fool would put an IDE disc in a Sun machine in the first place.
Actually, this is possibly the best rant I've heard here in ages, and a quite applicable one at that. And let's not stop with the co2 produced complaining about their bs, they benefit from all co2 production. we may all be able to retire:)
As a matter of fact, I've seen MANY EE/CE majors (who had A/B averages) drop out of EE and switch their major to CS because they found out that they loved programming more than designing electronic circuits.
I agree wholeheartedly. I also know several people who have done this, and have determined that it most likely happens when they take that first requisite CS course. I was almost one of them, except I actually started out as a double major, because I couldn't decide which way to go. So, Spring Quarter of my Senior year rolls around and all I've got left is 2 credits worth of EE Senior Design Lab. Of course, I also got myself a severe case of the "aw, f*ck it's", commonly referred to in high school as "senioritis" or the "senior slide". about the same time. The only reason I even finished the degree was to avoid throwing away the nearly 4 years of work I'd put into the courses for it. Unfortunately, there are quite a few people who are of the mindset that people change from EE to CS because they can't handle it, and that simply isn't the case for a large portion of that population.
To whom do you refer about asserting the GPL? I would hold that if the NSA wishes to distribute its modifications, it is bound by the GPL to make the source available for them. However, since the initial source was copyrighted by Linus Torvalds, et. al., they could enforce this. We've already agreed that the NSA modifications are in the public domain, something which is inherently compatible with my reading of the GPL. So, we've really come around full circle from where the/. article started. The NSA is doing what they're obligated to do, both under the licence they received with the software, and according to US copyright laws regarding the US holding copyrights.
Actually, I don't think the software on the stealth bombers is pd. Quite likely, (in the case of the F117), it is the IP of Lockheed-Martin
But, perhaps we need a bit of clarification. If the United States publicly releases something that you or i would be able to hold a copyright on, the man cannot copyright it. It is public domain because it was paid for with tax dollars, and expended solely government time. No one said they had to release it, save the GPL which obligates them to release the source if they release binaries. Of course, it you read the post to which I originally responded, you would have noticed the poster saying something about the government releasing binaries. Well, if the US government creates, entirely on its own without the use of subcontractors, a piece of software, and allows me to use it, I as a taxpaying American citizen have the right to ask for, and the government has an obligation to produce, the source code for whatever it has given me, because it is already mine in the first place. I don't see them giving me (or selling me for that matter) an F117 anytime soon, though if they did, I'd probably ask to see the source. I don't see myself getting my hands on carnivore, so the same thing applies. However, this "NSALinux", I can acquire. And as long as they're claiming that it was done entirely on government time, their modifications are public domain.
Hmm. Just before Win98 came out, I heard a plethora of commercials for it on the radio, advertising how it would give you more disc space, yadda, yadda, yadda. Both Intel and Microsoft advertise on TV.
Sheesh, most of the on-line radio i've heard (from Minneapolis) is comparable to AM radio or worse, in terms of its quality. Hardly a copy of the original sound. Anyone else get a decent Real webcast comparable to FM?
See, that's the interesting thing about rates; some count of something per some count in something else. Violent crimes are typically measured in #/100,000 people or so. Thus, our population compared to the rest of the world is irrelevant provided that everyone is counting violent crimes per 100,000 people.
You know, my dad has been saying that for years. Being a native of Saint Paul, MN, I offer up the portions of Minneapolis west of the Mississippi River as the "prison" space. Build stadium seating around it, with bulletproof glass so we can make a sporting event of it.
I spent 4 years as a(n underpaid) lifeguard during high school and college. I'll agree with you 100% that everyone should know CPR and First Aid. I haven't worked anywhere where I had a duty to respond in 3 years, yet I've still maintained my CPR at the Cross's PR level. In fact, I won't go off and join our (in the process of being formed for the past year and a half) first responder team just because the blanket of the good samaritan law doesn't apply for that, but I'd sure help. (What I love here is the oxygen cylinder we have that no one can use because technically its considered to be administering a drug, an ability only conferred upon EMT's and higher-ups)
Disclaimer: The following is not legal advise.
In fact, it is not just the First Responder team membership that causes you to have a duty to respond. Everyone, at least in Minnesota, has a duty to respond, and provide care to the level of their training. For most people, that means checking to see if appropriate care has been called, and calling for it if not (which, naturally extends to doing whatever the dispatcher wants you to; think of it as on-the-job training). However, good samaritan protection ends at the same point your training does. (i.e., if a paramedic asks you to assist in hooking up a drip, and you do so, you're not protected).
If it were me, I'd stay and do anything I could even after EMT's showed up, and I'd probably stop if there were only cops there, in the event they were worn out from CPR, etc. Despite the fact that I killed most of my conscience a long time ago (it was getting in the way), there's still a part of it there:).
The fundamental flaw with DC's logic lies in the CueCat's ability to read more than just it's Cues. It's been said before, but when scanning a UPC, C39, or any other non-Cue, the only information that can possibly be covered by a DC copyright is the serial number of the device, unless of course, DC decides to claim a copyright on my novel, which I conveniently wrote in C39. (note: said novel doesn't exist; its just an example) The actual bar-code data, therefore, would not be a protected work (under DC's ownership) under the DMCA.
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And what people seem to be missing here is that last sentence: "...unless the Device has a separate license for the Product.
Which means that as long as you've got an xp license for the linux box that you're running vnc from you can access the xp system however you choose.
The patents might be expiring, but who holds the trademark rights to the CD-DA logo? Whoever holds those rights, controls who can use the logo, regardless of patent status.
Got it on my wall right now. Its altogether too convenient to blame things on random problems in this business. That one pretty much sums it up though.
It's actually 44.1khz at 32-bits. 16 bits per channel. So the audio data rate really is 172KBps.
Not normally. At typical microsoft typefaces, their license would take up anywhere from 4 to 6 full "faces" of the box, which wouldn't leave a whole lot of room for the eye candy on the box; the reason people bought the box in the first place.
The encodings are a temporary fix to a permanent problem, much in the same way that NAT "expands" the IPv4 address space. The real solution is to use a character set that can encompass all the world's characters at the same time
Well, the DMCA only works (theoretically) if they hold the copyright on the information they're encrypting. If it's on my PC, chances are pretty good that Earthlink, or whoever might do what has been suggested, has no copyright on said information, and the DMCA therefore does not apply to their "access control".
Of course, I ain't a lawyer, and given the sad state of affairs in the judicial system, the perpetrator could probably buy their way through it.
Quoth the poster:
and we're all going to have servers on our desktop, right?
Nah. My server'll be in the closet somewhere near the demarc.
In particular, SPRint was a creation of the Southern Pacific Railway. All the cabling was laid along the right-of-way of the Espee.
I don't know how many consumer (read: cheap, toy-train-esque) models have 3 pole motors anymore. Even the cheap ones have 5-pole motors. At least here in the states and in HO scale anyway. I can't speak too much for N scale, since my dad's had all his trains packed away for some time (15 years or so), waiting to get a bit more space to build a layout in.
And I still don't know how they fit the receivers into some of those powered N scale locos, either.
Anyhow, as others have said, once you start using a command control equipped layout, you'll never want to go back to toggle or rotary switches. I don't.
Quoth the poster:
an IDE bus, which the wire is only 16 bit, makes for a huge bottleneck.
And this is any different from a 16 bit wide Ultra160 SCSI bus, how? It's not the bus width, it's the internals of the protocol that really make the performance difference. A single hard disc on a cable isn't capable of saturating it's bus anyway. The heads can only read the data off the platter so fast. Where SCSI gives its improvement is when multiple discs are in use. As opposed to 2 IDE discs, put 4 Ultra160's on a chain and load them down. The SCSI discs will be able to keep the bus full more often than the 2 IDE's will under constant use. And you can (hypothetically) add 11 more discs to the SCSI chain.
That's not to say that only a fool would put an IDE disc in a Sun machine in the first place.
Actually, this is possibly the best rant I've heard here in ages, and a quite applicable one at that. And let's not stop with the co2 produced complaining about their bs, they benefit from all co2 production. we may all be able to retire :)
As a matter of fact, I've seen MANY EE/CE majors (who had A/B averages) drop out of EE and switch their major to CS because they found out that they loved programming more than designing electronic circuits.
I agree wholeheartedly. I also know several people who have done this, and have determined that it most likely happens when they take that first requisite CS course. I was almost one of them, except I actually started out as a double major, because I couldn't decide which way to go. So, Spring Quarter of my Senior year rolls around and all I've got left is 2 credits worth of EE Senior Design Lab. Of course, I also got myself a severe case of the "aw, f*ck it's", commonly referred to in high school as "senioritis" or the "senior slide". about the same time. The only reason I even finished the degree was to avoid throwing away the nearly 4 years of work I'd put into the courses for it. Unfortunately, there are quite a few people who are of the mindset that people change from EE to CS because they can't handle it, and that simply isn't the case for a large portion of that population.
To whom do you refer about asserting the GPL? I would hold that if the NSA wishes to distribute its modifications, it is bound by the GPL to make the source available for them. However, since the initial source was copyrighted by Linus Torvalds, et. al., they could enforce this. We've already agreed that the NSA modifications are in the public domain, something which is inherently compatible with my reading of the GPL. So, we've really come around full circle from where the /. article started. The NSA is doing what they're obligated to do, both under the licence they received with the software, and according to US copyright laws regarding the US holding copyrights.
Actually, I don't think the software on the stealth bombers is pd. Quite likely, (in the case of the F117), it is the IP of Lockheed-Martin
But, perhaps we need a bit of clarification. If the United States publicly releases something that you or i would be able to hold a copyright on, the man cannot copyright it. It is public domain because it was paid for with tax dollars, and expended solely government time. No one said they had to release it, save the GPL which obligates them to release the source if they release binaries. Of course, it you read the post to which I originally responded, you would have noticed the poster saying something about the government releasing binaries. Well, if the US government creates, entirely on its own without the use of subcontractors, a piece of software, and allows me to use it, I as a taxpaying American citizen have the right to ask for, and the government has an obligation to produce, the source code for whatever it has given me, because it is already mine in the first place. I don't see them giving me (or selling me for that matter) an F117 anytime soon, though if they did, I'd probably ask to see the source. I don't see myself getting my hands on carnivore, so the same thing applies. However, this "NSALinux", I can acquire. And as long as they're claiming that it was done entirely on government time, their modifications are public domain.
No one ever said we had to use their gcc (scc??).
Except that it's from the US Government, which automatically places it in the public domain.
Or so I'm told.
Although there's nothing that says the FAA (in the US) can't mandate the use of incandescent bulbs on aircraft
Hmm. Just before Win98 came out, I heard a plethora of commercials for it on the radio, advertising how it would give you more disc space, yadda, yadda, yadda. Both Intel and Microsoft advertise on TV.
Sheesh, most of the on-line radio i've heard (from Minneapolis) is comparable to AM radio or worse, in terms of its quality. Hardly a copy of the original sound. Anyone else get a decent Real webcast comparable to FM?
D.J. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince (who now goes by the name Will Smith). It's called Parents Just Don't Understand.
See, that's the interesting thing about rates; some count of something per some count in something else. Violent crimes are typically measured in #/100,000 people or so. Thus, our population compared to the rest of the world is irrelevant provided that everyone is counting violent crimes per 100,000 people.
You know, my dad has been saying that for years. Being a native of Saint Paul, MN, I offer up the portions of Minneapolis west of the Mississippi River as the "prison" space. Build stadium seating around it, with bulletproof glass so we can make a sporting event of it.
I spent 4 years as a(n underpaid) lifeguard during high school and college. I'll agree with you 100% that everyone should know CPR and First Aid. I haven't worked anywhere where I had a duty to respond in 3 years, yet I've still maintained my CPR at the Cross's PR level. In fact, I won't go off and join our (in the process of being formed for the past year and a half) first responder team just because the blanket of the good samaritan law doesn't apply for that, but I'd sure help. (What I love here is the oxygen cylinder we have that no one can use because technically its considered to be administering a drug, an ability only conferred upon EMT's and higher-ups)
:).
Disclaimer: The following is not legal advise.
In fact, it is not just the First Responder team membership that causes you to have a duty to respond. Everyone, at least in Minnesota, has a duty to respond, and provide care to the level of their training. For most people, that means checking to see if appropriate care has been called, and calling for it if not (which, naturally extends to doing whatever the dispatcher wants you to; think of it as on-the-job training). However, good samaritan protection ends at the same point your training does. (i.e., if a paramedic asks you to assist in hooking up a drip, and you do so, you're not protected).
If it were me, I'd stay and do anything I could even after EMT's showed up, and I'd probably stop if there were only cops there, in the event they were worn out from CPR, etc. Despite the fact that I killed most of my conscience a long time ago (it was getting in the way), there's still a part of it there
The fundamental flaw with DC's logic lies in the CueCat's ability to read more than just it's Cues. It's been said before, but when scanning a UPC, C39, or any other non-Cue, the only information that can possibly be covered by a DC copyright is the serial number of the device, unless of course, DC decides to claim a copyright on my novel, which I conveniently wrote in C39. (note: said novel doesn't exist; its just an example) The actual bar-code data, therefore, would not be a protected work (under DC's ownership) under the DMCA.