Culture is the public domain. Art is one form of culture, and culture contributes to art. The public has the right to freely enjoy its culture. The US constitution makes it very clear that copyright is only granted, for a limited time, to reward the public for creating and expanding the public domain, and the public's culture. The burden of proof lies with you.
>Just because you are used to one way of >purchasing/enjoying art, doesn't make other >methods 'unfair'.
In the general sense, yes. But when Apple only sells music in a worse (more lossely compressed than CD or Flac), or the Louvre only sells copies of the Mona Lisa on postcards, or Pendant publishing won't even print old liturature, then it's both unfair and unethical to deprive the public of enjoying its culture.
From what I've heard, they hired a former Adobe programmer. Depending on who's telling it, that's why Adobe's video products stagnated until after FCP came out.
The.Net framework is ~22 megs. That's not that big, really. I know the JDK is almost 100 megs, and that's only a 5 min download.
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Uhuh. But the carbon that runs on 8.x has been deprecated. Back when 9.x was cancelled, that carbon was deprecated too. Mach-O carbon has always cut all ties to 9.x, and has changed a lot since 10.0 as well. I doubt you'd find a lot of recent carbon apps that will run on anything before 10.2.
Consent with the management, or the people who did it all? These are the people who invented ethernet, smalltalk, laser printers,...... I doubt they'd've sold it all for a song if they had a choice. In fact, they tried selling Xerox Stars (?) but Apple had already put out the Mac at a lower price.
I think BeOS has plugins for different file types. IIRC it reads the tags in mp3s, so you could do queries on artist, genre, track #, album, etc. that might or might not be in the filename itself.
They bought the parts, so why can't they sell them? It's not like they're stealing them or anything. Trying to fill the value-added used computers market shouldn't be discouraged, even if it does compete with Apple's refurbished sales.
>When I sleep my desktop Mac, I don't have to quit any programs or close any documents
It looks like you want Apple to copy Windows' "Hibernate" feature, where it swaps all ram, current state, etc. to disk and then shuts down. It should also start up a bit faster, possibly, which might make it useful on laptops as well.
I thought Apple's iBooks topped out below 1 GB. I doubt their powerbooks hold much more. Who needs this now, and will Apple even make them able to hold more than 4 GB?
According to their web pages, NetBSD and OpenBSD are "UNIX-like operating system[s]", and FreeBSD is "derived from BSD UNIX". Since parts of OSX are from FreeBSD, I could see why they can say Unix-based.
I commend them for taking it to court instead of settling, but surely they should have known that the *BSDs started because of these same issues with the Unix owners. I wonder why they stepped into this minefield.
Aren't you saying that NeXT did it right the first time? Apple's Classic and OS 9 Carbon APIs must have been pretty flawed for them to have to drop support like that.
I believe the framers of the constitution granted copyrights because they thought the creations should be for the public's benefit. If the creator gets a limited-time monopoly on their works, they are given incentive to create (and create more) and the public domain gets bigger and better. The framers thought that it's the publics right to (eventually) take those creations and do whatever they want with them, possibly with the hope that more creations would be made based on the initial ones. I think the burden of proof rests on you to show how the public isn't owed these works, since the constitution pretty much says that they are.
>If you expect a certain situation to exist, you >can skip lots of the other stuff you do and get >it done faster, easier or with less effort.
That's the definition of efficient/optimized.
>they make many assumptions, ie nobody drives >here, or there isn't anyone around that corner.
Take the example where the backbuffer wasn't cleared and the HOM effect was shown in the stars. This isn't noticed when the camera is on the rail. Quake makes use of a similar optimization where servers won't send info about stuff the clients can't see. Is that so bad? In a perfectly-optimized world, the server would probably send less information. In the end-user version of 3dmark the camera is always on the rail, and in a perfectly-optimized world that backbuffer wouldn't be cleared.
$59 US for a one-button mouse? Even if it had a scroll wheel, forward and back buttons for browsing, and a right mouse button for contextual menus and games, this thing still costs more than my Intellimouse and keyboard combined!
My mom had to replace her iMac's keyboard and get a mouse for her new iBook. They each cost about $70-$90 Canadian. That's very expensive for translucent, but otherwise pretty bare, peripherals. My MS Intellimouse Optical (5 buttons + wheel) costs about $35 Canadian, and my opaque keyboard cost me $20 Canadian, in comparison.
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Well, nVidia have put out some interesting stuff: http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=demo_daw n http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=po3d_downlo ads
>Both actions involve making a copy of a copyrighted work, which is illegal.
Copyright law includes a thing called "fair use". Fair use includes making copies for personal use, making copies for research, and probably quite a few other situations where making copies of copyrighted works is not only legal, but protected by (an amendment to?) the US constitution. Since using software from a cd requires it to be copied to the host computer, copying it must be a fair use.
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>Unix was written to prepare patent applications with roff for Bell Labs
Don't confuse conspicious use with "giving rise" to tech.
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>Art isn't public domain
To paraphrase the US constitution:
Culture is the public domain. Art is one form of culture, and culture contributes to art. The public has the right to freely enjoy its culture. The US constitution makes it very clear that copyright is only granted, for a limited time, to reward the public for creating and expanding the public domain, and the public's culture. The burden of proof lies with you.
>Just because you are used to one way of
>purchasing/enjoying art, doesn't make other
>methods 'unfair'.
In the general sense, yes. But when Apple only sells music in a worse (more lossely compressed than CD or Flac), or the Louvre only sells copies of the Mona Lisa on postcards, or Pendant publishing won't even print old liturature, then it's both unfair and unethical to deprive the public of enjoying its culture.
From what I've heard, they hired a former Adobe programmer. Depending on who's telling it, that's why Adobe's video products stagnated until after FCP came out.
Hotel Carone is a finished mod which features more than one map, a few cutscenes, and also a plot that complements the original game.
http://www.carone1.de/HotelCarone/
You could probably use the equivalent of a regex. Find all the spoken letters that aren't followed by words and are near the end of the sound file.
>is only suitable for small data chunks that
>are 'easy' to duplicate...but who wants to wait
>that long for duplication just to move the damn
>file?)
It makes it easier for me to duplicate, which is all I care about. I don't mind if it's fire-and-forget.
The .Net framework is ~22 megs. That's not that big, really. I know the JDK is almost 100 megs, and that's only a 5 min download.
Uhuh. But the carbon that runs on 8.x has been deprecated. Back when 9.x was cancelled, that carbon was deprecated too. Mach-O carbon has always cut all ties to 9.x, and has changed a lot since 10.0 as well. I doubt you'd find a lot of recent carbon apps that will run on anything before 10.2.
Consent with the management, or the people who did it all? These are the people who invented ethernet, smalltalk, laser printers, ...... I doubt they'd've sold it all for a song if they had a choice. In fact, they tried selling Xerox Stars (?) but Apple had already put out the Mac at a lower price.
>find . -type f -iname "*.mp3
I think BeOS has plugins for different file types. IIRC it reads the tags in mp3s, so you could do queries on artist, genre, track #, album, etc. that might or might not be in the filename itself.
They bought the parts, so why can't they sell them? It's not like they're stealing them or anything. Trying to fill the value-added used computers market shouldn't be discouraged, even if it does compete with Apple's refurbished sales.
>When I sleep my desktop Mac, I don't have to quit any programs or close any documents
It looks like you want Apple to copy Windows' "Hibernate" feature, where it swaps all ram, current state, etc. to disk and then shuts down. It should also start up a bit faster, possibly, which might make it useful on laptops as well.
I thought Apple's iBooks topped out below 1 GB. I doubt their powerbooks hold much more. Who needs this now, and will Apple even make them able to hold more than 4 GB?
According to their web pages, NetBSD and OpenBSD are "UNIX-like operating system[s]", and FreeBSD is "derived from BSD UNIX". Since parts of OSX are from FreeBSD, I could see why they can say Unix-based.
I commend them for taking it to court instead of settling, but surely they should have known that the *BSDs started because of these same issues with the Unix owners. I wonder why they stepped into this minefield.
Aren't you saying that NeXT did it right the first time? Apple's Classic and OS 9 Carbon APIs must have been pretty flawed for them to have to drop support like that.
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For me "Read all messages in plain text" is an option under the Read tab in the options. Putting this in the registry just a bonus.
>an item wasn't copyrighted because it appeared >in volume XXX...while it was copyrighted as part >of volume YYY.
Isn't that like a person re-releasing a public-domain work under the GPL? Why can't the earlier/seperate publication be considered seperately?
I believe the framers of the constitution granted copyrights because they thought the creations should be for the public's benefit. If the creator gets a limited-time monopoly on their works, they are given incentive to create (and create more) and the public domain gets bigger and better. The framers thought that it's the publics right to (eventually) take those creations and do whatever they want with them, possibly with the hope that more creations would be made based on the initial ones. I think the burden of proof rests on you to show how the public isn't owed these works, since the constitution pretty much says that they are.
>If you expect a certain situation to exist, you
>can skip lots of the other stuff you do and get
>it done faster, easier or with less effort.
That's the definition of efficient/optimized.
>they make many assumptions, ie nobody drives
>here, or there isn't anyone around that corner.
Take the example where the backbuffer wasn't cleared and the HOM effect was shown in the stars. This isn't noticed when the camera is on the rail. Quake makes use of a similar optimization where servers won't send info about stuff the clients can't see. Is that so bad? In a perfectly-optimized world, the server would probably send less information. In the end-user version of 3dmark the camera is always on the rail, and in a perfectly-optimized world that backbuffer wouldn't be cleared.
Alloca will reserve space on the stack, but not if you're using MS' CRT.
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/A ppleStore?productLearnMore=M8690G/A
$59 US for a one-button mouse? Even if it had a scroll wheel, forward and back buttons for browsing, and a right mouse button for contextual menus and games, this thing still costs more than my Intellimouse and keyboard combined!
>The cost must be in the neighbourhood of $5
My mom had to replace her iMac's keyboard and get a mouse for her new iBook. They each cost about $70-$90 Canadian. That's very expensive for translucent, but otherwise pretty bare, peripherals. My MS Intellimouse Optical (5 buttons + wheel) costs about $35 Canadian, and my opaque keyboard cost me $20 Canadian, in comparison.
Well, nVidia have put out some interesting stuff:w no ads
http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=demo_da
http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=po3d_downl
>Both actions involve making a copy of a copyrighted work, which is illegal.
Copyright law includes a thing called "fair use". Fair use includes making copies for personal use, making copies for research, and probably quite a few other situations where making copies of copyrighted works is not only legal, but protected by (an amendment to?) the US constitution. Since using software from a cd requires it to be copied to the host computer, copying it must be a fair use.
>Unix was written to prepare patent applications with roff for Bell Labs
Don't confuse conspicious use with "giving rise" to tech.