well, the point of my post was that this is a go-nowhere "news" article which, as the other responder noted, is likely some college kid wanting his thesis written for him. At best its just a clever troll.
I'm only calling 'em as I see 'em. Not all trolls are as obvious as "so and so is a gay". Karma shmarma, I'll lip off to anyone talking out of the wrong orifice.
Now then, that said..
You can answer your own question by going to the patent office site and seeing whos applying for and being granted patents.
Unless your definition of "large corporation" includes everything bigger than the lemonade stand you ran when you were 6, you'd see your statement is more a knee-jerk reaction than it is an argument based in fact.
The guys looking for anything that makes big business and patent law look bad and opressive. Espescially anything that makes Bill Gates look like the anti-christ.
If you have any evidence to support the notion of software patents, or know of any real world situations where they are called for, then keep it to yourself.
This story is for anti-patent trol^H^H^Hpeople only. Otherwise this guy would be directed to GOOGLE.COM to do his own damn research.
Interrupts do whatever their defined it to do. It has nothing to do with x86 assembly, its a subroutine. An assembly text would teach how to trigger/call an interrupt, not what it does, which is OS/BIOS specific. To reiterate; the interrupt mechanism is hardware specific, what the interrupts do is platform specific.
x86 assembly has no more to do with linux/dos than M68k or Z80 assembly has to do with the Sega Genesis.
By the same token, a good C++ text wouldn't get into the ridiculous details of ioctl.h or windows.h
Not everything need be a pulpit for linux (anti-ms) zealots.
"It's really neat that you can communicate just through the air," Trueblood said in an interview over his cell phone. "Without wires you aren't limited to one specific area. Wherever I go, people can call me. There are a lot of advantages to that."
Alot of advantages, yes. Too bad a rewarding job isn't one of them.
Seriously, I thought highly specialized technical degrees were becoming ever useless. As the dot.com bubble burst, and tech stocks swirl the toilet bowl, aren't employers looking for more versitile, well-rounded employees that can innovate?
The liberal arts background of this program bothers me. I've always believed that the focus in engineering and comp. sci should be in a solid understanding of math and science (esp. physics).
What do they learn? The physics of electromagnitism and how signals propogate? Network topologies? How to calculate Sprints latest cellular payment plan? The article is weak on details.
I'm all for higher education, but this reeks of an industry-bought program designed to churn out tech support seatwarmers.
or is anyone else sick of special interest groups spouting their opinions as though it was factual 'news'? (slashdot included)
to quote the article..
nearly half of Americans now think the constitutional amendment on free speech goes too far in the rights it guarantees, says a poll released Thursday
A poll? Who conducted the poll? Released by who? Half of Americans? That implies they asked every american, and noone asked ME.
And I would doubt, no matter what specially targetted demographic they polled, the question wasnt 'Do you think we should give up our first amendment rights for the war on terror?'
probably closer to 'Do you think its fair that filthy islamic scumbags like Usama Bin Laden should have the same speech priveledges as you?'
But of course, checking the local mosques to see if they're planning anything is 'giving up our freedoms for a false sense of security'. Pure bullshit.
As though there was no room for compromise.
I tire of reading this crap. Post another 23 year old book review, or link to the latest processor to be 1% faster than the one it replaced.
You can put DVD content on a CD, no problem. Just master your 'dvd' and burn it to a CD with a UDF filesystem. Playing it back is another issue.
Most dvd players can playback VCD and SVCD, the latter having the higher bitrate, and being in MPEG-2. Thing is, the max bitrate of SVCD is about 300KB, in keeping with a 2x CD speed. (VCD have a fixed bitrate of 150 - single speed CD)
DVD encoded video has a much higher bitrate (variable, but high), and to stream that data off a CD would require at least a 12x CLV drive.
Most consumer level DVD players are designed to only spin 2x max, and while their decoders could give a crap where the MPEG2 stream comes from, the drive just cant spin a CD fast enough to make it work. There are a few exceptions. And there are such animals as XVCD/XSVCD, which are just VCDS/SVCDS with nonstandard (higher) bitrates. Your PC can handle this stuff, most players cant for the simple reason I outlined above.
Its not a conspiracy. Its a cost thing, theres just no need for a higher-end drive in yer set-top dvd player.
Besides, you're lucky to get 15 minutes of DVD quality video on a CD.. Stick with yer VCD and DivX pirac^H^H^H backups.
"..Will this technology usher a new type of online piracy when DVD-Audio and surround sound systems become more commonplace?" While this is only audio, it is a good step in the right direction
Yeah, new types of piracy is the 'right' direction, alright. Bet you cant wait to load up yer Gene6 ftps and hop onto irc with yer warez buddies. Too bad it wasnt video too, huh?
I work for a firm that writes and provides record keeping and dispatching software to police agencies, so I have a more intimate knowledge of how this works than your average beat cop.
Anyone can keep a list of anything they want for their own internal use, police included.
Just like I have the right to make a list of people I think are funny looking.
Fact is, if you've ever given a cop your name for any reason at all, they kept it.
Although, while not good PR, this isn't too far off from a list of suspects an officer might generate when investigating a crime, even though he hasn't yet any evidence against any of them.
This has been so for as long as there's been an america, though we all know some would love to hogtie the police completely
There's no story here, just slashdot trying to raise the level of angst..
Every time an announcement is made about movie SFX, the arthouse clique shows up with alot of high and mighty talk about how the important elements are plot and quality acting, etc etc. I guess this makes them feel like they have more culture than the average man, i dunno.. IANAP (psychologist)
The same thing happens in video games. There are those who constantly say 'i dont care how good Doom 3 looks, its still the same crap, i want better gameplay, thats what counts'..
Though these points are valid, you cant ignore the reality that eye candy and the Wow factor sell entertainment. People always want to see the next level.
Now, its safe to bet most/.ers are fans of the original Star Wars.. But take a moment to step back and ask yourself what made that movie a phenomenon..
Was it the story? Hardly.. Simple, archetypal boy-rescues-girl plot thats been repeated since the dawn of time.. Was it the acting? That great moment when Luke lands back at base after destroying the death star, Leia goes 'Luke!', he turns to her and exclaims 'Carrie!'. Or the whining 'But Uncle Owen, I wanted to look at power converters'
Naw, what made that movie was the effects. Noone had seen anything like it before. Dont discount the audio ground lucas broke with THX, either..
Jurassic Park was another.. Dinosaurs are loose, we gotta escape. No plot, nothing to think about here. But those cool looking dinosaurs brought me in.
Most people just want to sit back, turn their minds off, and be impressed.. Always have, always will. Snooty intellectual affairs will always be the exception, never the rule.
If this wasn't true we'd still be happy with black and white film and our Commodore 64s
I'm not sure it works that way. At least not in the tiny lil minds of the industry tyrants.
If you allow a copy downloaded from your PC, then the user who downloaded it allows 2 copies downloaded, which leads to another 2 copies, and so on, and so on, then the 1000$ 'magic' number is reached really quickly.
They just call it a conspiracy to commit infringement, and charge *everyone* on the service as a co-conspirator..
IANAL, but wasn't that the logic behind Metallica naming every napster user as a defendent in their case?
as a matter of fact, it's the very core of the constitution.
America was founded on the premise of SELF-GOVERNMENT.
Not Federal Government, Not State Government, Not Municipal Government.
Self as in me, not you. I control MY life, so long as it doesn't interfere with anothers.
One of the founding fathers said 'The powers that the consitution grants the federal government are few, but sweeping. The powers it grants the individual are immeasurable' (I'm paraphrasing, no doubt, but the point is there)
The Feds mandate is to PROTECT us, from terrorists, our children from kidnappers, our culture and economy from monopolists.
Yet today, it works backwards. It exists to protect monopolists from us.
James Madison flew into a rage when Congress tried to appropriate 12 million to aid some french refugees. He stormed into congress, consitution in hand, and exclaimed 'I cannot lay my finger on the lines that allow the federal government to use tax dollars for the purpose of benevolence'.
What do we have today? multi-billion dollar bailouts for failing corporations, and new laws, along with the beurocracies to enforce them, to prop up failing business models.
but it seems to me the business model revolves around launching lawsuits against spammers.
how can a company sue everyone who sends unacceptable e-mail and stay in business? bribi^H^H^H swaying judges isnt cheap. Do they rely on judgements to stay afloat? Just because you win a default judgement against some chinese kid 1000 miles away doesn't mean you get paid.
ok tired south park joke, i lie
1) copyright haiku
2) sue everyone
3) ?
4) profit?
you can just tie another string and can in the middle, and pull it taught. Its still going to propogate the vibrations. Theoretically there's no limit to the amount of strings and cans, though the more 'string' you have to make vibrate, the louder you have to talk.. Yelling defeauts the purpose..
All the same,
As a kid, my friends and I did this all the time. Come to think of it, we may have invented the conference call.
For whatever reason, the guy must be a miserable excuse for an 'actor'. Sounds more like a diva.
I'd think that some jackass on stage swearing at the crowd would ruin my experience alot faster than a cell phone ringing. Sure it's annoying, but I havent payed to see the guy with the cell-phone.. He doesnt owe me, Fishburn et al do.
This cult of celebrity we have going, this idea that we somehow owe worship to these gods of TV, movie and theatre, is utterly ridiculous. If I'd been in that theatre, I'd have gotten up, walked out to the lobby and demanded a refund.
I would be mighty pissed if I payed the price of a broadway ticket to watch some pampered dickweed have a temper-tantrum onstage.
for not blocking access to 'illegal' numbers in other countries?
eg; in Canada, hate speech is illegal. It is illegal to run, for instance, 1-900-KKK-DORK in Canada. The operators of such services (in Canada) have been successfully prosecuted.
In the US, 'free speech' protects everything. Many such phone lines exist. Can a group in Canada sue Ma Bell for allowing Canadian exchanges to reach that line?
Would that not be the same thing?
To avoid comparing apples and oranges, lets say its a phone service that plays MP3s. Dial-a-tune. w/o consent. Can they sue Ma Bell, given that they cant prosecute the actual offender?
On a similar note, can the RIAA sue airlines/travel agents, for allowing people to travel to countries where 'piracy' is rampant?
Slashdot Mirror
The adobe press release doesn't say anything more than "we think they're pulling crap"
The slashdot news-blurb doesn't provide a link, or say much more than "neener neener serves you right"
I'm no DMCA fan, but I appreciate the whole story before I pass judgement on a person/corporation/country/planet.
well, the point of my post was that this is a go-nowhere "news" article which, as the other responder noted, is likely some college kid wanting his thesis written for him. At best its just a clever troll.
I'm only calling 'em as I see 'em. Not all trolls are as obvious as "so and so is a gay". Karma shmarma, I'll lip off to anyone talking out of the wrong orifice.
Now then, that said..
You can answer your own question by going to the patent office site and seeing whos applying for and being granted patents.
Unless your definition of "large corporation" includes everything bigger than the lemonade stand you ran when you were 6, you'd see your statement is more a knee-jerk reaction than it is an argument based in fact.
The guys looking for anything that makes big business and patent law look bad and opressive. Espescially anything that makes Bill Gates look like the anti-christ.
If you have any evidence to support the notion of software patents, or know of any real world situations where they are called for, then keep it to yourself.
This story is for anti-patent trol^H^H^Hpeople only. Otherwise this guy would be directed to GOOGLE.COM to do his own damn research.
btw, what 'small country' is he talking about?
Interrupts do whatever their defined it to do. It has nothing to do with x86 assembly, its a subroutine. An assembly text would teach how to trigger/call an interrupt, not what it does, which is OS/BIOS specific. To reiterate; the interrupt mechanism is hardware specific, what the interrupts do is platform specific.
x86 assembly has no more to do with linux/dos than M68k or Z80 assembly has to do with the Sega Genesis.
By the same token, a good C++ text wouldn't get into the ridiculous details of ioctl.h or windows.h
Not everything need be a pulpit for linux (anti-ms) zealots.
Pathetic linux troll.
the x86 command set doesn't magically change just because you installed linux. There's no such thing as 'OS specific' assembler.
It's just that DOS/Windows makes good use of assembly, and being an x86 platform, is of much more use.
Linux isn't solely an x86 platform, so assembly is of much less use (if any at all) when you want your code to compile on a mac/ARM/MIPS etc;
Bah, why bother
"It's really neat that you can communicate just through the air," Trueblood said in an interview over his cell phone. "Without wires you aren't limited to one specific area. Wherever I go, people can call me. There are a lot of advantages to that."
Alot of advantages, yes. Too bad a rewarding job isn't one of them.
Seriously, I thought highly specialized technical degrees were becoming ever useless. As the dot.com bubble burst, and tech stocks swirl the toilet bowl, aren't employers looking for more versitile, well-rounded employees that can innovate?
The liberal arts background of this program bothers me. I've always believed that the focus in engineering and comp. sci should be in a solid understanding of math and science (esp. physics).
What do they learn? The physics of electromagnitism and how signals propogate? Network topologies? How to calculate Sprints latest cellular payment plan? The article is weak on details.
I'm all for higher education, but this reeks of an industry-bought program designed to churn out tech support seatwarmers.
or is anyone else sick of special interest groups spouting their opinions as though it was factual 'news'? (slashdot included)
to quote the article..
nearly half of Americans now think the constitutional amendment on free speech goes too far in the rights it guarantees, says a poll released Thursday
A poll? Who conducted the poll? Released by who? Half of Americans? That implies they asked every american, and noone asked ME.
And I would doubt, no matter what specially targetted demographic they polled, the question wasnt 'Do you think we should give up our first amendment rights for the war on terror?'
probably closer to 'Do you think its fair that filthy islamic scumbags like Usama Bin Laden should have the same speech priveledges as you?'
But of course, checking the local mosques to see if they're planning anything is 'giving up our freedoms for a false sense of security'. Pure bullshit.
As though there was no room for compromise.
I tire of reading this crap. Post another 23 year old book review, or link to the latest processor to be 1% faster than the one it replaced.
News for nerds? Stuff that matters?
Shorten that to "Nerds.. Stuff"
Theres no news here and nothing posted matters.
You can put DVD content on a CD, no problem. Just master your 'dvd' and burn it to a CD with a UDF filesystem. Playing it back is another issue.
Most dvd players can playback VCD and SVCD, the latter having the higher bitrate, and being in MPEG-2. Thing is, the max bitrate of SVCD is about 300KB, in keeping with a 2x CD speed. (VCD have a fixed bitrate of 150 - single speed CD)
DVD encoded video has a much higher bitrate (variable, but high), and to stream that data off a CD would require at least a 12x CLV drive.
Most consumer level DVD players are designed to only spin 2x max, and while their decoders could give a crap where the MPEG2 stream comes from, the drive just cant spin a CD fast enough to make it work.
There are a few exceptions. And there are such animals as XVCD/XSVCD, which are just VCDS/SVCDS with nonstandard (higher) bitrates. Your PC can handle this stuff, most players cant for the simple reason I outlined above.
Its not a conspiracy. Its a cost thing, theres just no need for a higher-end drive in yer set-top dvd player.
Besides, you're lucky to get 15 minutes of DVD quality video on a CD.. Stick with yer VCD and DivX pirac^H^H^H backups.
"..Will this technology usher a new type of online piracy when DVD-Audio and surround sound systems become more commonplace?" While this is only audio, it is a good step in the right direction
Yeah, new types of piracy is the 'right' direction, alright. Bet you cant wait to load up yer Gene6 ftps and hop onto irc with yer warez buddies. Too bad it wasnt video too, huh?
I'm gonna patent the process of obtaining a patent.
boo-ya
Rich assholes drive the high end car market
screw AC.. mod me down..
I work for a firm that writes and provides record keeping and dispatching software to police agencies, so I have a more intimate knowledge of how this works than your average beat cop.
Anyone can keep a list of anything they want for their own internal use, police included.
Just like I have the right to make a list of people I think are funny looking.
Fact is, if you've ever given a cop your name for any reason at all, they kept it.
Although, while not good PR, this isn't too far off from a list of suspects an officer might generate when investigating a crime, even though he hasn't yet any evidence against any of them.
This has been so for as long as there's been an america, though we all know some would love to hogtie the police completely
There's no story here, just slashdot trying to raise the level of angst..
Every time an announcement is made about movie SFX, the arthouse clique shows up with alot of high and mighty talk about how the important elements are plot and quality acting, etc etc. I guess this makes them feel like they have more culture than the average man, i dunno.. IANAP (psychologist)
/.ers are fans of the original Star Wars.. But take a moment to step back and ask yourself what made that movie a phenomenon..
The same thing happens in video games. There are those who constantly say 'i dont care how good Doom 3 looks, its still the same crap, i want better gameplay, thats what counts'..
Though these points are valid, you cant ignore the reality that eye candy and the Wow factor sell entertainment. People always want to see the next level.
Now, its safe to bet most
Was it the story? Hardly.. Simple, archetypal boy-rescues-girl plot thats been repeated since the dawn of time.. Was it the acting? That great moment when Luke lands back at base after destroying the death star, Leia goes 'Luke!', he turns to her and exclaims 'Carrie!'. Or the whining 'But Uncle Owen, I wanted to look at power converters'
Naw, what made that movie was the effects. Noone had seen anything like it before. Dont discount the audio ground lucas broke with THX, either..
Jurassic Park was another.. Dinosaurs are loose, we gotta escape. No plot, nothing to think about here. But those cool looking dinosaurs brought me in.
Most people just want to sit back, turn their minds off, and be impressed.. Always have, always will. Snooty intellectual affairs will always be the exception, never the rule.
If this wasn't true we'd still be happy with black and white film and our Commodore 64s
Now get out there and blow sum stuff up for me
I'm not sure it works that way. At least not in the tiny lil minds of the industry tyrants.
If you allow a copy downloaded from your PC, then the user who downloaded it allows 2 copies downloaded, which leads to another 2 copies, and so on, and so on, then the 1000$ 'magic' number is reached really quickly.
They just call it a conspiracy to commit infringement, and charge *everyone* on the service as a co-conspirator..
IANAL, but wasn't that the logic behind Metallica naming every napster user as a defendent in their case?
doing what you want *is* in the consitution.
as a matter of fact, it's the very core of the constitution.
America was founded on the premise of SELF-GOVERNMENT.
Not Federal Government, Not State Government, Not Municipal Government.
Self as in me, not you. I control MY life, so long as it doesn't interfere with anothers.
One of the founding fathers said 'The powers that the consitution grants the federal government are few, but sweeping. The powers it grants the individual are immeasurable' (I'm paraphrasing, no doubt, but the point is there)
The Feds mandate is to PROTECT us, from terrorists, our children from kidnappers, our culture and economy from monopolists.
Yet today, it works backwards. It exists to protect monopolists from us.
James Madison flew into a rage when Congress tried to appropriate 12 million to aid some french refugees. He stormed into congress, consitution in hand, and exclaimed 'I cannot lay my finger on the lines that allow the federal government to use tax dollars for the purpose of benevolence'.
What do we have today? multi-billion dollar bailouts for failing corporations, and new laws, along with the beurocracies to enforce them, to prop up failing business models.
Can't hippies leave antarctica for us? There are no trees to hug there.
is there any gold in Buckwheat?
I once bought a vcr that came with a video tape containing the instructions to set up the vcr.. marketing doesnt have to make sense
i think thats a totally appropriate comparison to shunning windows in favor of linux as a gaming platform
but it seems to me the business model revolves around launching lawsuits against spammers.
how can a company sue everyone who sends unacceptable e-mail and stay in business? bribi^H^H^H swaying judges isnt cheap. Do they rely on judgements to stay afloat? Just because you win a default judgement against some chinese kid 1000 miles away doesn't mean you get paid.
ok tired south park joke, i lie
1) copyright haiku
2) sue everyone
3) ?
4) profit?
All the same, As a kid, my friends and I did this all the time. Come to think of it, we may have invented the conference call.
Breaking character to cuss at a patron?
For whatever reason, the guy must be a miserable excuse for an 'actor'. Sounds more like a diva.
I'd think that some jackass on stage swearing at the crowd would ruin my experience alot faster than a cell phone ringing. Sure it's annoying, but I havent payed to see the guy with the cell-phone.. He doesnt owe me, Fishburn et al do.
This cult of celebrity we have going, this idea that we somehow owe worship to these gods of TV, movie and theatre, is utterly ridiculous. If I'd been in that theatre, I'd have gotten up, walked out to the lobby and demanded a refund.
I would be mighty pissed if I payed the price of a broadway ticket to watch some pampered dickweed have a temper-tantrum onstage.
The show must go on, you freakin crybaby.
i just want jetpacks and everyone clad in matching silver jumpsuits. isnt that the future we were promised?
is it possible they located themselves in china because they're chinese?
for not blocking access to 'illegal' numbers in other countries?
eg; in Canada, hate speech is illegal. It is illegal to run, for instance, 1-900-KKK-DORK in Canada. The operators of such services (in Canada) have been successfully prosecuted.
In the US, 'free speech' protects everything. Many such phone lines exist. Can a group in Canada sue Ma Bell for allowing Canadian exchanges to reach that line?
Would that not be the same thing?
To avoid comparing apples and oranges, lets say its a phone service that plays MP3s. Dial-a-tune. w/o consent. Can they sue Ma Bell, given that they cant prosecute the actual offender?
On a similar note, can the RIAA sue airlines/travel agents, for allowing people to travel to countries where 'piracy' is rampant?