Well, it could be a while actually. Otherwise portable media player manufacturers and owners of older OSes with MediaPlayer 6.4 will gallop to MP3(pro), licensing fees or not. There are few things more damaging than selling a tech gadget that doesn't work.
The whole point of DivX is to have a full-screen, DVD-quality movie on a CD-R. Or I suppose a grainy but tolerable movie for gnutella users with broadband connection. I tried different formats but Real, Windows Media and Quicktime all fail to achive clean, responsive video comparable to a 2-pass DivX. If OpenDivX does any better, it could be a good solution because, as long as movies are around, someone will write a player for any future platform.
That's why real companies have a nice firewall, with internal network being unreachable to RIAA bots. As for audits, well taking those things down beforehand is far cheaper and faster than a paper shredder. Also afterwards RIAA will be getting a nice call from BSA on behalf of that company. They can hardly afford a software audit, with solitary interviews of employees where the EULA is reviewed paragraph by paragraph and their enthusiastic complience is verified. "XP Service Pack 1: Did you send your password and credit card to Microsoft?" Next! "Did you bypass any Windows security mesasures to take down P2P users?" Next...
Well, most new technology only has shitty implementations at first. I don't think the first cell phones, notebooks (PC Portable?) etc were really practical. It's still a good idea and fun to play with:-)
Anyway, the quality of stereo or the quality of my story still doesn't explain the disappearing mod points. A good editor will only react to a bad story by not publishing it.
Well I know I'll get modded down, but I do want to alert other people to something that they may find of interest. Basically, if you submit a story and it gets rejected, you will loose your moderator points, if you had any at that time. I don't know if it's a one time thing or you will never get a chance to moderate again.
Basically, I wrote some program to serve music to an Internet Stereo and thought that it might or might not be of interest to slashdot. (Ok! I am not trying to promote myself here. Only click on this link if you want to see if I really did something unreasonable). So I just decided to let the maintainers decide and submitted a story. It happened that it was rejected and I lost the moderator points that I had at that time, before they were supposed to expire.
I am not saying mod points is something to be taken seriously. Actually I had trouble finding comments that were not already modded fairly. I am just worried that whoever is reviewing the stories is showing a childish/313313 attitude. This is a private site and I guess CmdrTaco and friends can do whatever they want. But I can not imagine anyone publishing news who doesn't want to keep at least some editorial integrity. Meaning that people do not get penalized just for submitting a story.
I guess I don't care that much about being able to moderate. But if you do, you might want to submit your stories as Anonymous Coward or from an alternative account. There is also an off-chance that someone working for slashot will reply to this message and explain their rationale.
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How does it change that niether one of them wrote an operating system that is currently in wide use, in real world?
I don't think "wrote an editor" will look as cool on a resume as "wrote an OS". I guess a good compiler is a different story. But anyway, this thread was about Hurd vs Minix vs Linux. All 3 people involved could have other, non-OS projects, which are cool.
Aren't big websites required to comply with ADA these days? Lynx shouldn't have a slightest problem with web sites designed for reading software!
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Is that s\he wrote some code and got a whole lot of people to use it, while everyone else (like Andy and RMS) were busy lecturing everyone about what is the right thing. In fact there is one in every company that is still alive and I am sure there are a few in Microsoft.
A lot of applications can not be used like this unless they provide a command line language, so that you can access a lot of different functions from the same window. For example, my debugger (CodeWarrior) has to display variables in one window, source in another one, memory in yet another one... To use it with ratpoison you need either a very good memory or very fast fingers. gdb on the other hand will do just fine.
Another efficiency-killer is Acrobat-formatted documentation. It's usually so extensively formatted that even with full screen you need to scroll in order to understand documentation for one function. Forget about looking at you code at the same time. Some send me a program to unformat it. Please...
Well, do you disagree with every senator, representitive, measure, local issue etc? If not, you can still come to election and vote on the ones you think are meaningful. Also, if people keep voting against the incumbant, someone might eventually try to please them and stay for the second term.
As for not caring, most people might not care about DMCA, Microsoft, RIAA and so on. They'd be just as happy to just listen to radio and read paper books. But if there is an unneccessary war and their newphew arrives back in a coffin, they will care very much. So they would be better off doing something before it happens.
I think it's pretty obvious that this article is a parody and a resonably good one at that. Someone at technically literate as the author appears would know there is office on Mac and would already have a religios preference on which platform to use. Also, I doubt Microsoft really cares about miniscule market share of Apple. Besides they can still sell office which must be 10 times more expensive than OEM'ed XP.
I suspect that an owner of a thing, or a patent or a copyright must respond in a timely manner when asked if she/he/it is entitled to any money for the use of that thing/song/etc. I am not a lawyer, but hopefully even courts use common sense.
Let's say that when you first see a file on a peer-to-peer network, you send an e-mail message to RIAA asking if they own this song, with instructions on how to reply and specify price/payment instructions if they do own it. If they don't reply for a couple of weeks, assume the answer is no. If they always reply yes, users can sue them for fraud if it turns out they don't actually own the song.
Of course they will not be actually able to read all those e-mail messages. But then they'll either have to provide an automated system for you to use or it will be very hard for them to claim you did anything wrong. You asked everyone around if someone owns a particular beer, heard no answer for a while and consumed it.
Come on, do you really think Taiwanese people want to live in a poor US colony? So poor that they don't even have a say on the length of copyright in their own country? Somehow I suspect even Hong Kong government has more independence. Why should they resist becoming a relatively wealthy part of China then?
On slashdot everyone can have their own opinion, but I really hope nobody in US government shares one in the parent post. It's wrong to bully small countries into submission in exchange for safety. And also, if left alone, the "fight against the PRC" will most likely be limited to grumbling on both sides, because neither of them will benefit from a war. But just think about the times when USSR was going to send missiles to Cuba or when Iraq had a fight with a US ally. And last time I checked, neither Cuba nor Kuwait were recently a part of US.
Because as the wheel makes the first revolution, there is an average of the same number of weights on the right and left sides, so the wheel will not keep rotating in a particular direction.
Hmmm... This latest method that captures physical layout "unique to each CD"... it won't happen to use the same error correction as the standard audio or data, will it? I better find a way to back it up before scratches, thermal warping etc screw up the nice timing information that the game is checking. Also, I wonder how well will it work with my notebook's parallel port CD drive?
I guess someone will just write a "driver" that captures all the non-data requests and replies sent to the regular CD and later replay them with a copy, that has the log stuffed into the extra 50M of 700M CD-R. Like my TotalRecorder "audio driver" that helps me listen to those DRMed WMAs and LQTs under Linux...
Sounds like a nice game of tag. But what are you going to do with my license plate? Did you give me any indication that you don't provide guest access to your network? I can imagine a judge laughing at you spending hundred times more money on your spy equipment that on what it would take to setup a VPN from the wireless gateway to your internal network.
Actually, there are a lot of businesses that let you use their bathroom, water fountain, coffee machine and candy jar and TV just for stopping by. Spare network capacity seams to fit into this category.
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Well, it could be a while actually. Otherwise portable media player manufacturers and owners of older OSes with MediaPlayer 6.4 will gallop to MP3(pro), licensing fees or not. There are few things more damaging than selling a tech gadget that doesn't work.
The whole point of DivX is to have a full-screen, DVD-quality movie on a CD-R. Or I suppose a grainy but tolerable movie for gnutella users with broadband connection. I tried different formats but Real, Windows Media and Quicktime all fail to achive clean, responsive video comparable to a 2-pass DivX. If OpenDivX does any better, it could be a good solution because, as long as movies are around, someone will write a player for any future platform.
That's why real companies have a nice firewall, with internal network being unreachable to RIAA bots. As for audits, well taking those things down beforehand is far cheaper and faster than a paper shredder. Also afterwards RIAA will be getting a nice call from BSA on behalf of that company. They can hardly afford a software audit, with solitary interviews of employees where the EULA is reviewed paragraph by paragraph and their enthusiastic complience is verified. "XP Service Pack 1: Did you send your password and credit card to Microsoft?" Next! "Did you bypass any Windows security mesasures to take down P2P users?" Next...
You mean, there are no 1-byte illegal instructions on 8086 that would cause a reboot. Hmm...
Well, most new technology only has shitty implementations at first. I don't think the first cell phones, notebooks (PC Portable?) etc were really practical. It's still a good idea and fun to play with :-)
Anyway, the quality of stereo or the quality of my story still doesn't explain the disappearing mod points. A good editor will only react to a bad story by not publishing it.
Well I know I'll get modded down, but I do want to alert other people to something that they may find of interest. Basically, if you submit a story and it gets rejected, you will loose your moderator points, if you had any at that time. I don't know if it's a one time thing or you will never get a chance to moderate again.
Basically, I wrote some program to serve music to an Internet Stereo and thought that it might or might not be of interest to slashdot. (Ok! I am not trying to promote myself here. Only click on this link if you want to see if I really did something unreasonable). So I just decided to let the maintainers decide and submitted a story. It happened that it was rejected and I lost the moderator points that I had at that time, before they were supposed to expire.
I am not saying mod points is something to be taken seriously. Actually I had trouble finding comments that were not already modded fairly. I am just worried that whoever is reviewing the stories is showing a childish/313313 attitude. This is a private site and I guess CmdrTaco and friends can do whatever they want. But I can not imagine anyone publishing news who doesn't want to keep at least some editorial integrity. Meaning that people do not get penalized just for submitting a story.
I guess I don't care that much about being able to moderate. But if you do, you might want to submit your stories as Anonymous Coward or from an alternative account. There is also an off-chance that someone working for slashot will reply to this message and explain their rationale.
How does it change that niether one of them wrote an operating system that is currently in wide use, in real world? I don't think "wrote an editor" will look as cool on a resume as "wrote an OS". I guess a good compiler is a different story. But anyway, this thread was about Hurd vs Minix vs Linux. All 3 people involved could have other, non-OS projects, which are cool.
Will he be arested in the middle of a movie conference and tried for copyright infrigement?
Aren't big websites required to comply with ADA these days? Lynx shouldn't have a slightest problem with web sites designed for reading software!
Is that s\he wrote some code and got a whole lot of people to use it, while everyone else (like Andy and RMS) were busy lecturing everyone about what is the right thing. In fact there is one in every company that is still alive and I am sure there are a few in Microsoft.
I thought any orbiting/spinning object slowly emits photons and slows down. Just like energy levels of an electron, on a bigger scale.
A lot of applications can not be used like this unless they provide a command line language, so that you can access a lot of different functions from the same window. For example, my debugger (CodeWarrior) has to display variables in one window, source in another one, memory in yet another one... To use it with ratpoison you need either a very good memory or very fast fingers. gdb on the other hand will do just fine. Another efficiency-killer is Acrobat-formatted documentation. It's usually so extensively formatted that even with full screen you need to scroll in order to understand documentation for one function. Forget about looking at you code at the same time. Some send me a program to unformat it. Please...
Well, do you disagree with every senator, representitive, measure, local issue etc? If not, you can still come to election and vote on the ones you think are meaningful. Also, if people keep voting against the incumbant, someone might eventually try to please them and stay for the second term.
As for not caring, most people might not care about DMCA, Microsoft, RIAA and so on. They'd be just as happy to just listen to radio and read paper books. But if there is an unneccessary war and their newphew arrives back in a coffin, they will care very much. So they would be better off doing something before it happens.
I think it's pretty obvious that this article is a parody and a resonably good one at that. Someone at technically literate as the author appears would know there is office on Mac and would already have a religios preference on which platform to use. Also, I doubt Microsoft really cares about miniscule market share of Apple. Besides they can still sell office which must be 10 times more expensive than OEM'ed XP.
I suspect that an owner of a thing, or a patent or a copyright must respond in a timely manner when asked if she/he/it is entitled to any money for the use of that thing/song/etc. I am not a lawyer, but hopefully even courts use common sense.
Let's say that when you first see a file on a peer-to-peer network, you send an e-mail message to RIAA asking if they own this song, with instructions on how to reply and specify price/payment instructions if they do own it. If they don't reply for a couple of weeks, assume the answer is no. If they always reply yes, users can sue them for fraud if it turns out they don't actually own the song.
Of course they will not be actually able to read all those e-mail messages. But then they'll either have to provide an automated system for you to use or it will be very hard for them to claim you did anything wrong. You asked everyone around if someone owns a particular beer, heard no answer for a while and consumed it.
Come on, do you really think Taiwanese people want to live in a poor US colony? So poor that they don't even have a say on the length of copyright in their own country? Somehow I suspect even Hong Kong government has more independence. Why should they resist becoming a relatively wealthy part of China then? On slashdot everyone can have their own opinion, but I really hope nobody in US government shares one in the parent post. It's wrong to bully small countries into submission in exchange for safety. And also, if left alone, the "fight against the PRC" will most likely be limited to grumbling on both sides, because neither of them will benefit from a war. But just think about the times when USSR was going to send missiles to Cuba or when Iraq had a fight with a US ally. And last time I checked, neither Cuba nor Kuwait were recently a part of US.
Since a human eye can not see the noise, it's not covering the same details all the time. So I suspect it will work as well as deinterlacing filter.
Because as the wheel makes the first revolution, there is an average of the same number of weights on the right and left sides, so the wheel will not keep rotating in a particular direction.
But in the meantime, where do I download a VirtualDub filter to get rid of that stupid noise?
I wouldn't know. My viruses just update themselves every time I read my e-mail.
Yeah, but the parent talked about a camera that would home on my signal. Unless you are compiling a demographic profile of guest users... :-)
Hmmm... This latest method that captures physical layout "unique to each CD"... it won't happen to use the same error correction as the standard audio or data, will it? I better find a way to back it up before scratches, thermal warping etc screw up the nice timing information that the game is checking. Also, I wonder how well will it work with my notebook's parallel port CD drive?
I guess someone will just write a "driver" that captures all the non-data requests and replies sent to the regular CD and later replay them with a copy, that has the log stuffed into the extra 50M of 700M CD-R. Like my TotalRecorder "audio driver" that helps me listen to those DRMed WMAs and LQTs under Linux...
Sounds like a nice game of tag. But what are you going to do with my license plate? Did you give me any indication that you don't provide guest access to your network? I can imagine a judge laughing at you spending hundred times more money on your spy equipment that on what it would take to setup a VPN from the wireless gateway to your internal network.
Actually, there are a lot of businesses that let you use their bathroom, water fountain, coffee machine and candy jar and TV just for stopping by. Spare network capacity seams to fit into this category.