What's wrong with Corel Illustrator or Microsoft Illustrator? Surely you don't believe those to be the same product as Adobe Illustrator? I sure didn't believe that Corel Draw was the same as Microsoft's MS-Draw.
I was under the impression that that amount was only to cover the costs of finding out the infringement by expensive lawyers, then to change the name anyway... otherwise they will charge for a million (DM?)
You'd still need a pretty good filter to get from the blurred Van Gogh to a Van Gogh imitation, a simple sharpen or brush-stroke filter won't do. The program can be downloaded from the page so go ahead and try another blurred image as source and see what it comes up with.
Oh, and check out the other examples as well. There's also an example where you draw by hand a very simple picture indicating where the river, city, etc. is located on a photo, then when you have the filter draw the same kind of simple image and create a whole new image of a similar city.
They somehow remind me of the photos from the
Pathfinder mission even though I'm not sure if the original images were RGB seperated. The camera (IMP) did have some filters and they did a fair amount of processing on the images, including combining images for 3D stereo (in color). I remember the first pictures to be greyscale, though.
Obviously they are subdomains. But how do they end up in the whois database? I mean, there are many other subdomains that dont show up in a whois query, e.g. www.aol.com
What's the difference?
Netscape 6 PR3 (Windows) and Opera 5 (Windows)
have no problem with http://www.krezip.com which I recently changed to xHTML 1.0 specification.
Mainly that involved making tags lowercase and ending tags with/> if they didnt have a corresponding end tag. (e.g.
or )
This because xHTML is based on an XML DTD which is more strict than the older non-XML (but nevertheless SGML) HTML DTDs.
In the Netherlands, I dont think there has been much discussion yet although its clear that the industry and the BUMA/STEMRA organisation (who get money from airplay, cd sales and blank tapes/CD-R sales) are watching the developments closely. The BUMA/STEMRA organisation (http://www.buma.nl click on the UK flag for English) have made a temporary arrangement where webmasters can pay a sum of money to legally put online some music. There has also been a campaign (i.e. posters, commercials)against illegal copying of music.
Some time ago the Napster case was on national news and especially the djs of the Dutch public pop/rock radio station 3FM (http://www.3fm.nl) formed opionions. Some djs are clearly supporting mp3s.
note that I didnt have time to verify these claims, so draw your own conclusions:)
Re:www.religioustolerance.org on the Co$
on
FRG on W2K: No CoS
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· Score: 1
The page on http://www.religiousrolerance.org/ actually contains a lot more on CoS. They believe that CoS does not keep people from leaving them, and keep pointing at anti-cult organisations that focus on more cults than the CoS. However they do include evidence that CoS has lost several interesting legal cases, is remarkeably aggressive at keeping their trade secrets (trade secrets? Im sure glad the Bible, Koran, etc. arent trade secrets) and ask a lot of money for those higher religious texts. A few years ago, when the issue of CoS versus some internet free-speech people was at its peak (see Karin Spaink, www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink), I read quite a lot about CoS and it seems to me to be a real threat. Granted, there are good and bad people on both sides but the evidence that the CoS organisation is bad is pretty overwhelming to me. (note: Im talking about the organisation and their policies, not their beliefs which seem rather wacky to me as well but dont really bother me)
I agree with the German government that they should be very careful with CoS, and understand the concerns raised in Germany about the defrag program. Before I read it here on/. I didnt know about the W2K-CoS connection and it does seem to be a convenient way for the CoS to gain some more power. I doubt the security problem (unless very cleverly implemented, I guess by now somebody would have seen evidence of the bad side of the program if it existed) but I wouldnt be very happy funding the CoS by buying their software:(
Still, also Demon had this supposedly illegal post on their servers. As well as many other ISPs and users, I guess. So should the complaining person go around and ask EVERY ISP, not only Demon, to remove the post? At the time of spreading the article, probably non of the ISPs actually knew they were doing so. Any legal action has to be taken on a specific instance of a post on a specific storage medium. Is there any legal obligation for Demon to inform other ISPs that they might have this illegal post coming through Demons servers?
So its definately going to cost providers the money to have skilled people looking at the complaints that will come in (more than they do now).
One question: could the ISP also get sued the other way around, like if I post a perfectly legal message, the ISP removes in on request of someone else, and Im not happy with that?
If you take a point-for-point approach on pre's an con's for some OS'es, we might actually learn something. And there should be factual and realistic web pages on those points. The recent MicroSoft 'Linux myths' and the resulting 'NT myths' pages were a good start. The OS developers can and should learn from eachother.
I know from computer stores here in The Netherlands that most stores keep their prices artificially high in order to keep a buffer for when things like this happens. This means they overcharge you when the price could be low, but they also give a fair price when it temporarily goes up. However, in this case I noticed that one Dutch store, Paradigit has stopped selling DRAMS because they want to use their supply for installing in complete systems.
Existing Amiga 'classic' users are still waiting for something new which outruns current PC architecture.. maybe this is it then? There are people out there who want to pay money for a machine that is just KeWlEr than a PC. One thing they'll need to do (or allow done) is to have amateurs create games and demos which really show the power of the machine. Give out the specs, the hardware addresses, etc.
It's about time we got rid of the old PC architecture. Will it do USB? Firewire?
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Wouldn't you associate that sound with a gas leak, thinking the last place you'd want to be is where the noise is coming from?
What's wrong with Corel Illustrator or Microsoft Illustrator? Surely you don't believe those to be the same product as Adobe Illustrator? I sure didn't believe that Corel Draw was the same as Microsoft's MS-Draw.
I was under the impression that that amount was only to cover the costs of finding out the infringement by expensive lawyers, then to change the name anyway... otherwise they will charge for a million (DM?)
How about if you are a German developer, not American?
You'd still need a pretty good filter to get from the blurred Van Gogh to a Van Gogh imitation, a simple sharpen or brush-stroke filter won't do. The program can be downloaded from the page so go ahead and try another blurred image as source and see what it comes up with.
Oh, and check out the other examples as well. There's also an example where you draw by hand a very simple picture indicating where the river, city, etc. is located on a photo, then when you have the filter draw the same kind of simple image and create a whole new image of a similar city.
They somehow remind me of the photos from the Pathfinder mission even though I'm not sure if the original images were RGB seperated. The camera (IMP) did have some filters and they did a fair amount of processing on the images, including combining images for 3D stereo (in color). I remember the first pictures to be greyscale, though.
Obviously they are subdomains. But how do they end up in the whois database? I mean, there are many other subdomains that dont show up in a whois query, e.g. www.aol.com
What's the difference?
Netscape 6 PR3 (Windows) and Opera 5 (Windows)
have no problem with http://www.krezip.com which I recently changed to xHTML 1.0 specification.
Mainly that involved making tags lowercase and ending tags with
or )
This because xHTML is based on an XML DTD which is more strict than the older non-XML (but nevertheless SGML) HTML DTDs.
Check http://www.w3c.org
The RACE draft says that:
:)
0 2.txt
- Host parts that have no international characters are not changed.
so it should not be possible to RACE-encode a domain name in order to hijack it.
Ofcourse its still possible to describe slash dot in Chinese and register that name
See also
http://www.i-d-n.net/draft/draft-ietf-idn-race-
In the Netherlands, I dont think there has been much discussion yet although its clear that the industry and the BUMA/STEMRA organisation (who get money from airplay, cd sales and blank tapes/CD-R sales) are watching the developments closely. The BUMA/STEMRA organisation (http://www.buma.nl click on the UK flag for English) have made a temporary arrangement where webmasters can pay a sum of money to legally put online some music. There has also been a campaign (i.e. posters, commercials)against illegal copying of music.
Some time ago the Napster case was on national news and especially the djs of the Dutch public pop/rock radio station 3FM (http://www.3fm.nl) formed opionions. Some djs are clearly supporting mp3s.
A quick search found:
l
:)
http://www.scientology-lies.com/crimesindex.htm
note that I didnt have time to verify these claims, so draw your own conclusions
The page on http://www.religiousrolerance.org/ actually contains a lot more on CoS. They believe that CoS does not keep people from leaving them, and keep pointing at anti-cult organisations that focus on more cults than the CoS. However they do include evidence that CoS has lost several interesting legal cases, is remarkeably aggressive at keeping their trade secrets (trade secrets? Im sure glad the Bible, Koran, etc. arent trade secrets) and ask a lot of money for those higher religious texts. A few years ago, when the issue of CoS versus some internet free-speech people was at its peak (see Karin Spaink, www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink), I read quite a lot about CoS and it seems to me to be a real threat. Granted, there are good and bad people on both sides but the evidence that the CoS organisation is bad is pretty overwhelming to me. (note: Im talking about the organisation and their policies, not their beliefs which seem rather wacky to me as well but dont really bother me) I agree with the German government that they should be very careful with CoS, and understand the concerns raised in Germany about the defrag program. Before I read it here on /. I didnt know about the W2K-CoS connection and it does seem to be a convenient way for the CoS to gain some more power. I doubt the security problem (unless very cleverly implemented, I guess by now somebody would have seen evidence of the bad side of the program if it existed) but I wouldnt be very happy funding the CoS by buying their software :(
Still, also Demon had this supposedly illegal post on their servers. As well as many other ISPs and users, I guess. So should the complaining person go around and ask EVERY ISP, not only Demon, to remove the post? At the time of spreading the article, probably non of the ISPs actually knew they were doing so. Any legal action has to be taken on a specific instance of a post on a specific storage medium. Is there any legal obligation for Demon to inform other ISPs that they might have this illegal post coming through Demons servers?
So its definately going to cost providers the money to have skilled people looking at the complaints that will come in (more than they do now).
One question: could the ISP also get sued the other way around, like if I post a perfectly legal message, the ISP removes in on request of someone else, and Im not happy with that?
If you take a point-for-point approach on pre's
an con's for some OS'es, we might actually learn
something. And there should be factual and
realistic web pages on those points. The recent
MicroSoft 'Linux myths' and the resulting 'NT myths' pages were a good start. The OS developers can and should learn from eachother.
I know from computer stores here in The Netherlands that most stores keep their prices
artificially high in order to keep a buffer for
when things like this happens. This means they
overcharge you when the price could be low, but
they also give a fair price when it temporarily
goes up. However, in this case I noticed that
one Dutch store, Paradigit has stopped selling DRAMS because they want to use their supply for installing in complete systems.
Existing Amiga 'classic' users are still waiting
for something new which outruns current PC
architecture.. maybe this is it then? There are
people out there who want to pay money for a machine that is just KeWlEr than a PC.
One thing they'll need to do (or allow done) is
to have amateurs create games and demos which really show the power of the machine. Give out
the specs, the hardware addresses, etc.
It's about time we got rid of the old PC architecture. Will it do USB? Firewire?
Let's just see...