AT&T Corp. and Fraunhofer agreed in 1989 to develop MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 technology, now called MP3. Scientists from AT&T's Bell Labs collaborated with Fraunhofer before AT&T spun off the unit in 1996. Bell Labs became Lucent Technologies Inc., which Alcatel SA acquired last year.
Microsoft accuses Lucent of deceiving the U.S. Patent & Trademark office by having one of the patents reissued and backdated to 1988, removing it from the scope of the 1989 deal with Fraunhofer.
... who all consider themselves fans of the artist, but who are all too cheap to pay what the artist asks?
So am I still being cheap if I borrow the CD from the library and listen to it and call myself a fan? Is being a fan measured in terms of dollars?
Why? Was that book, sitting on the shelf, stolen? I'm guessing it was bought and donated to the library, or perhaps directly purchased by the library. The author gets paid.
However, the library paid for a single copy. It will get used by over 100 students in the course of a few years. Isn't that effectively the author getting paid 1/100th of the value? Also, the first guy who shares his copy has to buy it. If he shares it to 100 people, then the artist is also being effectively paid 1/100th of the price. I don't see what simultaneous and serial has anything to do with it. Would a sharing system where only 1 person was using the resource at one time and the rest had to queue to use it be satisfactory?
No, I'm saying that the copyright holder gets to say how (and for how much) her work is copied. Every other aspect of this discussion comes from there.
So, you are saying copying is the only thing you have a problem with.
What if a library decided to have a system installed where 100 people could watch a movie at the same time. No copying of data but simultaneous use. Would that be OK?
And, of course, Google is nicely mining your e-mails with the help of all the google searches you do and all the sites you visit with google ads (including slashdot).
Why? The library owns it, and you're using it, and then you put back. Not you and 100 other people at the same time. If you ripped a copy of the CD and used some p2p service to serve it up to 1000 anonymous "friends" online, that would be different. You reading a book from the library isn't any different than you reading a book that I give or lend to you. The copyright isn't violated, because you're not making a copy.
Now you've changed your tune. You're not worried about people using resources without paying for it but rather about "copying" it.
Why? I have as much a vested interest in people reading and learning as I do in protecting the copyrights of authors. Those things are not in any way at odds with each other. I only care about the taxes that support a library when the funding is used in politicized, or idealogically slanted way. But then, I feel the same way about school funding or pretty much any other government spending. Sorry, but badly baiting me with a completely wrong analogy in an attempt to make yourself feel better about actually ripping off content... it's just not working.
Hey, I enjoy my library, and enjoy and get inspired by books that retail for $100s of dollars each (some technical books). From your old post it sounded like you were saying it's me ripping off content since I enjoyed it without paying for each book.
Anyway, you're now saying your arguement isn't that you don't want people to use content without paying for it but you don't want people to copy things. But, that's whole another arguement though.
Is that what they call not paying what your favorite band is asking for their latest studio production these days? If the band just wants to inspire you, they can (and do) give it away. I'd like to be inspired with free subscriptions to the complete, hard work of the thousands of people that cause SciAm, the WSJ, the NYT, and others to exist, myself. Just for inspiration, mind you. No? Fascists! The MAN is controlling me!
Then by your argument, the book and CD I borrowed from the library should be illegal as well. They paid for 1 copy and is being consumed by 100s of people. Your local library probably has a subscription to SciAm, WSJ and NYT.
You've got untold hundreds of millions of consumers (a microscopic fraction of which are inspiration-seeking creators) that don't see the 'net as The Glue Of Freedom, but as The Place Where I Don't Have To Pay For Things Cuz That's What My Friends Do And What Do You Mean Blank CDs Cost Money. Those that are looking to inspire and be inspired have all sorts of venues, and can and do swap their works with each other freely (AIB/S). Inspirers/ees aren't traveling in the same circles as the leeches.
Public libraries who take your (taxpayer's) money and buy these works and make it available to 100s of people should be even more infuriating to you. The public library where you don't have to pay for things you want.
This has to be one of the dumbest submissions to slashdot that I've seen in a while. Looking over the CS section of the problems (the only category I'm really qualified to review), I see 2 problems related to P=NP. Yes, this is a problem I'm going to solve in my spare time this winter. If the other fields problems look anything remotely like this one, good luck.
Actually if you look at almost every CS presentation in a seminar, it always ends with a page on unsolved problems and such. The problem with computer science is that the open problems are really vague. For example how to make internet throughput faster by using a different routing than IP?
n all honesty, I don't think you're going to see real problems listed on a site like this. the problems are just in such niche areas, and more importantly in many field people don't want to share what the problems are. This is because coming up with what the problem is is half of the work. In computer engineering for instance you might have an idea that looks to speedup application XYZ (or a general class of applications), and then you come up with what problems need to be solved to implement your solution. Then of course you actually solve them. If coming up with the problem was easy than so many PhD students wouldn't have such a difficult time coming up with a thesis topic. When students do have an idea in mind, and potential solutions, they tend not to share them until they are ready to publish. Otherwise others may beat them to it.
IMHO, I think coming up with a thesis topic is difficult because you don't want to tackle a problem that'll take you more than 2 years and not a problem that could be done in a week. You want a publication and problem. Design a protocol for an type of network and you can put enough simulation and analysis stuff to make up a thesis or journal paper.
But, you're also right. Sometimes a new problem to solve seems hard to get. In mathematics, especially, where the professor sort of guides a student through a set of theorems and you don't even see anything that could be done anywhere else partly because the professor wants you to do his problems at the end of the chapter that sort of ingrain his view of the subject.
Finding a good way to come up with what problems need to be solved is a very good problem on it's own. It takes immense knowledge in most fields just to have a good concept of the ideas that are being looked at, and having some idea of the solutions that have been proposed, and what is a reasonable next step. If such problems were easy to solve, we'd like have a lot more PhDs out there.
From mathematical logic and theoretical computer science, there are uncountably infinite problems. Finding a problem and solving it, or publishing an article is easy. The hard part is finding something that will be relevant I think.
Along the same lines, I would like to have all the people who drive above the speed limit ticketed with zero tolerance.
Sure, your wife is giving birth. Sorry, you should have planned your trip properly that you wouldn't have to speed. Had an emergency. Should have used proper planning before getting into a situation that entailed this.
Software is inherently copyable. Sometimes there are reasons when software is copied and used that I used say is OK.
Trying to have your cake and eat it too is what software corps want to make it out to be. But, in reality it's like having a lit candle and offering the flame to someone else. If their candle is lit with your candle, you don't lose your flame.
The aim for both of these giants is to shift people towards non-local computing, that is software and applications that run remotely rather than on someone's own computer.
I don't think the aim is to run Word equivalent on their server. They are probably eyeing applications that use multi-terabyte data on thousands of nodes to run ( e.g. a google search which is only possible with large data centers.) Keyword matching and ranking for web-search is probably only the tip of the iceberg on what could be done with the data.
Early signs of this beyond the obvious google applications that require web access, are aggressive attempts by Microsoft to "activate" everything online. You are going to increasingly need network connections to run standard applications.
Aren't standard apps now web browser and e-mail client?
I don't like that myself, since it hurts reliability and autonomy in computing. From a marketing perspective, there are huge benefits to centralized computing of course. Take gmail for instance, which lets google mine your private communications to gain insight into products and services which might interest you.
Yeah, gmail is scray. But, I'm sure there will be active research on the topics of defeating this sort of mining techniques as a user. I know a lot of people forward their e-mails to gmail and I think Google has a nice tree of who knows who in what capacity thing built up.
Neither do any other book-replacing devices, escept audio books. You need a source of photons to see, for *any* device, whether a book or a screen.
That's being pedantic!
There's a backlight that's usually built into screens that can be turned on when there's insufficient light (in case you didn't know).
And, of course, it is situated such that the LCD screen is between the light and the eye so that that selective photon propagation through the LCD screen can give a visual representation of the data to be represented as a data page!
I lost my Munkres and it cost me $100 to replace it.
Books don't just work. Books don't work where there is no light - e.g. inside a car.
You can store the contents of the entire book in flash memory and not have to worry about internet connectivity. Water related problems also occur with paper books. You can buy AA or AAA batteries almost anywhere. If worst comes to worst, there's always the hand crank. Plus, these new readers don't need power to maintain a page on the display - just to change them or other functions.
The only downside I see is that it seems it's more straining on the eye.
And finally, it's amazing to me how much money can be spend on a massively bad marketing campaign.
I saw the Zune TV ads. It's share, share and happy people. There is a huge board of a happy girl (Joni Mitchell when she was very young looking) at Meijer (grocery store in Midwest). Anyway, you bought one so it worked.
The killer feature, to me, is the unlimited download subscription service. I've been having a lot of fun with that.
Welcome to 2 years ago. Real Rhapsody, Napster already did this. Also, Dell MP3 and other players could be used to put songs from there. But, over $100/year for crappy WMP is kinda rough.
Zune has a bigger screen and Wifi compared to Apple iPod of same price.
It has a stupid firmware OS or whatever that runs on it full of DRM.
If there is a hacked firmware upgrade that disables all the nastiness, would you buy it? If you could upload your entire mp3 collection to your zune and transfer files via wifi to other people without any limitations?
Webspace is now trivially cheap, and so is bandwidth. If you need to share big binary files, setting up an ftp server or a website is trivial.
No, it is not. Most users get 30/Kbs upload rates. So, setting up web servers and ftp servers from the internet access is not practical. If you buy a website, it can cost about $200-$300/year for the most basic package.
The only real market for rapidshare that I can think of is illegal content, and it's no suprise to find so much of it there.
Do you know long it would take to download a 700MB file from Rapidshare? There is a limitation of 100MB per file and 1 file per 90 minutes. It would take over 10 hours! With bitorrent you can get it in less than 30 minutes. It does not make sense for illegal content at all.
I used rapidshare to share music projects - since most musicians will try and e-mail everything to you. So exchanging rapidshare links was good and we didn't care if it died a few days later since we could have updated the song anyway.
To tell you truth, I thought only thing unauthorized that was posted on rapidshare was pr0n clips.
remotely suprised when 99% of the content is illegally shared content?
Where did you get that number? Oh yeah, you just made it up.
The whole internet is based on an artificial statistical model of human usage. The problem of congestion gets exponentially worse with more usage.
I'm not sure but I read somewhere that 30% usage of the bandwidth by some number of users is severe congestion and 10% usage is about the best way to go (provided multiple users and such). Maybe that plays into the fact?
Actually, the relation between money and the environment is very very artificial.
Companies don't dump their waste on the river or in the park because they will be fined. So, someone has to sit down and figure out these things and pass it as laws.
However, there are more subtle cases where it's better for companies to dump into the ocean or into the air and not care (if laws for it haven't been passed - GM in Lansing area releasing the fumes for painting cars into the air right next to a residential area) or pay the fine if it's cheaper to pollute and then pay the fine (in case of inadequate laws, supervision and enforcement).
Gah, you're missing the point. Women can be as good (or even better) at these things. Just look at college classes. Girls almost always top every class and a large percentage of all girls walk away with 4.0 GPA.
Why they don't continue on is because they don't have to. It's up to the men to do jobs where you sit on your ass all day without talking to anyone else and come up with stuff no-one will care to even understand how you did it.
I wish there were some girls in these cesspool IT departments I've seen. They can fucking manage an entire office and all bullshit paperwork and inane regulations by working as secretaries but don't even want to move to IT where it's the same bullshit in a different plane.
Anyway, to all the girls, choose IT. Every change you make will be felt and appreciated by the entire department and you will be helping people all day.
I have tried to keep an open mind about this issue for both sides. Gore's movie certainly swayed me, I'm not ashamed or afraid to admit that.
You probably should be ashamed.
It was emotional and political piece. He shows charts and such without a proper reference. Hell, I could make up a counter-presentation if I could just prove and disprove something by charts and wild hand waving.
U.S. under non-immigrant visa programs such as H-1b
H1B is NOT strictly non-immigrant.
H1B is a 3 year visa. Once the 3 year is up, it can be renewed only once more for additional 3 years. Then, the employee has to be either sponsored as a legal resident of the US or leave the US.
Also, H1B has full provisions for non-competitive salaries but people always argue their effectiveness. So, no comment on that.
Also, H1B and outsourcing are not the same. H1B is bringing the worker to the US while outsourcing is taking the work outside the US.
I know the regulations of immigration are very convoluted and an average American has absolutely no motivation to even comprehend the minutest of the details. But, if you are not 100% sure about something, please don't completely base your argument on it. Or, someone on slashdot will try and correct you:)
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AT&T Corp. and Fraunhofer agreed in 1989 to develop MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 technology, now called MP3. Scientists from AT&T's Bell Labs collaborated with Fraunhofer before AT&T spun off the unit in 1996. Bell Labs became Lucent Technologies Inc., which Alcatel SA acquired last year.
Microsoft accuses Lucent of deceiving the U.S. Patent & Trademark office by having one of the patents reissued and backdated to 1988, removing it from the scope of the 1989 deal with Fraunhofer.
Plus, bah, neural networks.
Bah, Bristol University. I'll only take it seriously if it is from MIT.
:-)
1950s called and it wants it's "scientific" concerns back.
So am I still being cheap if I borrow the CD from the library and listen to it and call myself a fan? Is being a fan measured in terms of dollars?
However, the library paid for a single copy. It will get used by over 100 students in the course of a few years. Isn't that effectively the author getting paid 1/100th of the value? Also, the first guy who shares his copy has to buy it. If he shares it to 100 people, then the artist is also being effectively paid 1/100th of the price. I don't see what simultaneous and serial has anything to do with it. Would a sharing system where only 1 person was using the resource at one time and the rest had to queue to use it be satisfactory?
So, you are saying copying is the only thing you have a problem with.
What if a library decided to have a system installed where 100 people could watch a movie at the same time. No copying of data but simultaneous use. Would that be OK?
And, of course, Google is nicely mining your e-mails with the help of all the google searches you do and all the sites you visit with google ads (including slashdot).
Now you've changed your tune. You're not worried about people using resources without paying for it but rather about "copying" it.
Hey, I enjoy my library, and enjoy and get inspired by books that retail for $100s of dollars each (some technical books). From your old post it sounded like you were saying it's me ripping off content since I enjoyed it without paying for each book.
Anyway, you're now saying your arguement isn't that you don't want people to use content without paying for it but you don't want people to copy things. But, that's whole another arguement though.
Then by your argument, the book and CD I borrowed from the library should be illegal as well. They paid for 1 copy and is being consumed by 100s of people. Your local library probably has a subscription to SciAm, WSJ and NYT.
Public libraries who take your (taxpayer's) money and buy these works and make it available to 100s of people should be even more infuriating to you. The public library where you don't have to pay for things you want.
Actually if you look at almost every CS presentation in a seminar, it always ends with a page on unsolved problems and such. The problem with computer science is that the open problems are really vague. For example how to make internet throughput faster by using a different routing than IP?
IMHO, I think coming up with a thesis topic is difficult because you don't want to tackle a problem that'll take you more than 2 years and not a problem that could be done in a week. You want a publication and problem. Design a protocol for an type of network and you can put enough simulation and analysis stuff to make up a thesis or journal paper.
But, you're also right. Sometimes a new problem to solve seems hard to get. In mathematics, especially, where the professor sort of guides a student through a set of theorems and you don't even see anything that could be done anywhere else partly because the professor wants you to do his problems at the end of the chapter that sort of ingrain his view of the subject.
From mathematical logic and theoretical computer science, there are uncountably infinite problems. Finding a problem and solving it, or publishing an article is easy. The hard part is finding something that will be relevant I think.
Along the same lines, I would like to have all the people who drive above the speed limit ticketed with zero tolerance.
Sure, your wife is giving birth. Sorry, you should have planned your trip properly that you wouldn't have to speed. Had an emergency. Should have used proper planning before getting into a situation that entailed this.
Software is inherently copyable. Sometimes there are reasons when software is copied and used that I used say is OK.
Trying to have your cake and eat it too is what software corps want to make it out to be. But, in reality it's like having a lit candle and offering the flame to someone else. If their candle is lit with your candle, you don't lose your flame.
Actually, my semester's textbooks total was more than a cost of a low level laptop. Plus, a gadget to read books would cost less than a laptop.
But not in the backseat of a car at night.
It can always have a hand crank for power generation when the batteries die.
I don't think the aim is to run Word equivalent on their server. They are probably eyeing applications that use multi-terabyte data on thousands of nodes to run ( e.g. a google search which is only possible with large data centers.) Keyword matching and ranking for web-search is probably only the tip of the iceberg on what could be done with the data.
Aren't standard apps now web browser and e-mail client?
Yeah, gmail is scray. But, I'm sure there will be active research on the topics of defeating this sort of mining techniques as a user. I know a lot of people forward their e-mails to gmail and I think Google has a nice tree of who knows who in what capacity thing built up.
That's being pedantic!
There's a backlight that's usually built into screens that can be turned on when there's insufficient light (in case you didn't know).
And, of course, it is situated such that the LCD screen is between the light and the eye so that that selective photon propagation through the LCD screen can give a visual representation of the data to be represented as a data page!
I lost my Munkres and it cost me $100 to replace it.
Books don't just work. Books don't work where there is no light - e.g. inside a car.
You can store the contents of the entire book in flash memory and not have to worry about internet connectivity. Water related problems also occur with paper books. You can buy AA or AAA batteries almost anywhere. If worst comes to worst, there's always the hand crank. Plus, these new readers don't need power to maintain a page on the display - just to change them or other functions.
The only downside I see is that it seems it's more straining on the eye.
I saw the Zune TV ads. It's share, share and happy people. There is a huge board of a happy girl (Joni Mitchell when she was very young looking) at Meijer (grocery store in Midwest). Anyway, you bought one so it worked.
Welcome to 2 years ago. Real Rhapsody, Napster already did this. Also, Dell MP3 and other players could be used to put songs from there. But, over $100/year for crappy WMP is kinda rough.
Zune has a bigger screen and Wifi compared to Apple iPod of same price.
It has a stupid firmware OS or whatever that runs on it full of DRM.
If there is a hacked firmware upgrade that disables all the nastiness, would you buy it? If you could upload your entire mp3 collection to your zune and transfer files via wifi to other people without any limitations?
Just look at the Sony PSP.
No, it is not. Most users get 30/Kbs upload rates. So, setting up web servers and ftp servers from the internet access is not practical. If you buy a website, it can cost about $200-$300/year for the most basic package.
Do you know long it would take to download a 700MB file from Rapidshare? There is a limitation of 100MB per file and 1 file per 90 minutes. It would take over 10 hours! With bitorrent you can get it in less than 30 minutes. It does not make sense for illegal content at all.
I used rapidshare to share music projects - since most musicians will try and e-mail everything to you. So exchanging rapidshare links was good and we didn't care if it died a few days later since we could have updated the song anyway.
To tell you truth, I thought only thing unauthorized that was posted on rapidshare was pr0n clips.
Where did you get that number? Oh yeah, you just made it up.
The whole internet is based on an artificial statistical model of human usage. The problem of congestion gets exponentially worse with more usage.
I'm not sure but I read somewhere that 30% usage of the bandwidth by some number of users is severe congestion and 10% usage is about the best way to go (provided multiple users and such). Maybe that plays into the fact?
Actually, the relation between money and the environment is very very artificial.
Companies don't dump their waste on the river or in the park because they will be fined. So, someone has to sit down and figure out these things and pass it as laws.
However, there are more subtle cases where it's better for companies to dump into the ocean or into the air and not care (if laws for it haven't been passed - GM in Lansing area releasing the fumes for painting cars into the air right next to a residential area) or pay the fine if it's cheaper to pollute and then pay the fine (in case of inadequate laws, supervision and enforcement).
I don't know about these things but ...
Hydrogen detectors of some kind?
Hydrogen is lighter and so goes up. Put a chimney in the storage room.
Gah, you're missing the point. Women can be as good (or even better) at these things. Just look at college classes. Girls almost always top every class and a large percentage of all girls walk away with 4.0 GPA.
Why they don't continue on is because they don't have to. It's up to the men to do jobs where you sit on your ass all day without talking to anyone else and come up with stuff no-one will care to even understand how you did it.
I wish there were some girls in these cesspool IT departments I've seen. They can fucking manage an entire office and all bullshit paperwork and inane regulations by working as secretaries but don't even want to move to IT where it's the same bullshit in a different plane.
Anyway, to all the girls, choose IT. Every change you make will be felt and appreciated by the entire department and you will be helping people all day.
Yeah, right. At the CVS store, the bottle of Gatorade was the same price as that of (spring) water.
You probably should be ashamed.
It was emotional and political piece. He shows charts and such without a proper reference. Hell, I could make up a counter-presentation if I could just prove and disprove something by charts and wild hand waving.
H1B is NOT strictly non-immigrant.
H1B is a 3 year visa. Once the 3 year is up, it can be renewed only once more for additional 3 years. Then, the employee has to be either sponsored as a legal resident of the US or leave the US.
Also, H1B has full provisions for non-competitive salaries but people always argue their effectiveness. So, no comment on that.
Also, H1B and outsourcing are not the same. H1B is bringing the worker to the US while outsourcing is taking the work outside the US.
I know the regulations of immigration are very convoluted and an average American has absolutely no motivation to even comprehend the minutest of the details. But, if you are not 100% sure about something, please don't completely base your argument on it. Or, someone on slashdot will try and correct you :)
Sorry not swap as in 1 for 1 worker swap.
I mean just change employers by an H1B.