We don't have that freedom with MP3 - we pretend to, but we can't even roll our own MP3 encoder without writing scripts for people who want it that grab sources from a German ftp site for dist11.zip, so that the authors can legitimately claim they're not shipping MP3 encoders themselves. It's a bad situation. It locks the open and free world out of MP3.
Forgive my ignorance, but isn't LAME compilable without either dist10.zip or dist11.zip? Blurb from the site:
But in May 2000, the last remnants of the ISO source code were replaced, and now LAME is the source code for a fully LGPL'd MP3 encoder...
How am I being "locked" out of MP3s, when there exists free (as in free) software to encode my collection into MP3s?
-Gov. Bill Owens especially has been vocal in his opposition to Internet taxation in general, arguing in part that it would dampen the enthusiasm for the Internet...
The only thing that will "dampen the enthusiasm for the Internet" is if the government started cracking down on internet porn sites.
I could see how something like this could be useful, particularly when building devices which will be used primarily by children: acute asthma sufferers, for example, are told to take daily spirometer readings. The problem with this is that many children will either forget or refuse to take the readings.
Much of the time, children will visit their asthma doctor having "forgotten" to take their daily readings. To make up for it, they take a dozen or so readings right before the appointment: the data is flawed and as a result, treatment suffers. With cutesy GUIs like this integrated into the spirometer, children can look at their daily readings as more of a game than a chore.
I don't disagree; however, isn't much of the cost of cars to recoup R&D and advertising costs? I had also read ago (a couple months, maybe?) about great new advances in solid-state laser technology: I imagine that the cost of the lasers would be expensive, but no so expensive as to warrant the high price.
You're right, though: it is a new product, and given time and competition, the price will drop drastically in the next few years. After R&D is paid off, the rest can go to profit. However, I doubt that this kind of tool will see more widespread use until someone comes up with a new killer application for it.
I'd be more inclined to believe that way if I were convinced that our elected officials took the time to understand the issues they're so intent to regulate.
Spam won't be stopped with just a bill. Either they don't realize that, or they do realize that and want to give the semblance of doing something about it.
The bill, designed to stop unwanted e-mail pitches such as get-rich-quick scams and miracle drugs, would direct the Federal Trade Commission to create a "do-not-spam" registry similar to the recently inaugurated nationwide do-not-call list for telemarketers.
I suppose it'll be just a matter of time before spammers find ways to circumvent this, just like how telemarketers are finding ways to circumvent the DNC List. I'm not holding my breath.
Don't get me wrong--I'd love to be convinced! Personally, I'd like to see the content of the bill itself, but I suppose articles like this will do in the meantime.
I probably am missing something here, but please humor me: if I, the buyer, don't have an iTunes account through the gift certificate, then how do I download my purchased iTunes music?
Section 11.a: Payment for Products. You agree to pay for all Products you purchase through the Service, and that Apple may charge your credit card for any Products purchased, and for any additional amounts (including any taxes and late fees, as applicable) as may be accrued by or in connection with your Account. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE TIMELY PAYMENT OF ALL FEES AND FOR PROVIDING APPLE WITH A VALID CREDIT CARD FOR PAYMENT OF ALL FEES. All fees will be billed to the credit card you designate during the registration process. If you want to designate a different credit card or if there is a change in your credit card status, you must change your credit card information online at the Account Info section of the Service. (There may be a temporary disruption of your access to the Service until Apple can verify the validity of the new credit card information.)
So how would this work when buying initially through a gift certificate bought through a middleman? Would I, as the buyer, pay the middleman to pay my iTunes bill for me?
Since this measure would apply to all developer-provided software dealing with network traffic, I'd be less likely to write my own network-enabled (read: internet-enabled) software.
Perhaps this is the point of the bill: to keep software writing in the hands of those rich enough to hire a group of lawyers who can keep away other lawyers.
The power comes from a core of non-weapons-grade uranium about 30 inches in diameter and 6 feet tall. It would put out a steady stream of 932-degree heat for three decades but can be removed and replaced like a flashlight battery when the power is depleted, he said.
People have enough trouble safely disposing of normal batteries; what makes us think it'd be any easier to dispose of a battery that huge?
Methinks Toshiba's a tad too optimistic (or naive) about the ease of disposing nuclear waste.
It appears to me that instead of "commercializing" the internet, businesses ought to learn how to adapt to the current environment. The problem isn't that the internet isn't safe enough for businesses; the problem is that businesses don't know how to protect themselves properly in the internet.
Besides, it seems that what he wants to privatize the DNS servers (as a first step, perhaps?), yet he doesn't give any justifications for why these courses of action should just be taken. Maybe he should stop some of that hand-waving that he dislikes so much and provide concrete arguments for why he wants to do what he wants to do.
...but at least we can read "commercialize" as "make profitable," right?
This story reminds me of a show on Discovery (or was it TLC) about how attraction affects human relations. The show called to mind how General Custer was a poor general, yet got to his position only by having "the general's look." Similar cases were called upon for other historical figures (whose names escape me at the moment).
I imagine that this alleged bias toward taller people is just something akin to that, if not the same thing (but on a slightly different trait).
The article didn't mention anything really useful (or, at least, anything I haven't heard of before); what would have been better would have been a link to the paper itself. I guess I'll have to wait for the spring issue of that psychology journal.
Contrary to the review given here, I don't see anything about the book "evolving on two levels"; rather, I see a biography.
I mean... I'll still give it a read at the bookstore (and maybe pick it up), but I think it'd be prudent to know that I'm getting myself into a biography, not some veiled reference to today's legal issues.
Let's say that there does come pressure for cable companies to lease their lines out to third parties. What about protections to keep those third parties from being charged exorbitant rates for their leased lines?
It's no silver bullet, but how much spam can we eliminate by preventing forged mail from spoofed domains?
Probably not much; spammers would likely just find/use throwaway accounts with providers who don't mind the spam. Then again, that may make filtering out spammers easier, but as has been mentioned, everyone will have to implement it.
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Forgive my ignorance, but isn't LAME compilable without either dist10.zip or dist11.zip? Blurb from the site: How am I being "locked" out of MP3s, when there exists free (as in free) software to encode my collection into MP3s?
-Gov. Bill Owens especially has been vocal in his opposition to Internet taxation in general, arguing in part that it would dampen the enthusiasm for the Internet...
The only thing that will "dampen the enthusiasm for the Internet" is if the government started cracking down on internet porn sites.
I don't know about you, but I'd like to see powdered water.
If it was open source and GPLed then you wouldn't be able to use the code in your own commercial product.
Isn't this the problem that the LGPL is designed to solve?
I could see how something like this could be useful, particularly when building devices which will be used primarily by children: acute asthma sufferers, for example, are told to take daily spirometer readings. The problem with this is that many children will either forget or refuse to take the readings.
Much of the time, children will visit their asthma doctor having "forgotten" to take their daily readings. To make up for it, they take a dozen or so readings right before the appointment: the data is flawed and as a result, treatment suffers. With cutesy GUIs like this integrated into the spirometer, children can look at their daily readings as more of a game than a chore.
Of course, if by the time you're weak you haven't already eaten or #prayed, you'd better hope that you don't encounter a mumak. (Damned mumaks.)
I don't disagree; however, isn't much of the cost of cars to recoup R&D and advertising costs? I had also read ago (a couple months, maybe?) about great new advances in solid-state laser technology: I imagine that the cost of the lasers would be expensive, but no so expensive as to warrant the high price.
You're right, though: it is a new product, and given time and competition, the price will drop drastically in the next few years. After R&D is paid off, the rest can go to profit. However, I doubt that this kind of tool will see more widespread use until someone comes up with a new killer application for it.
-but here's hoping!
- It's fairly unique.
- It's for a niche market.
- Supplies are limited (as in, one supplier makes it).
I'm sure I missed something.I'd be more inclined to believe that way if I were convinced that our elected officials took the time to understand the issues they're so intent to regulate.
Spam won't be stopped with just a bill. Either they don't realize that, or they do realize that and want to give the semblance of doing something about it.
Call me a pessimist, but I vote for the latter.
The bill, designed to stop unwanted e-mail pitches such as get-rich-quick scams and miracle drugs, would direct the Federal Trade Commission to create a "do-not-spam" registry similar to the recently inaugurated nationwide do-not-call list for telemarketers.
I suppose it'll be just a matter of time before spammers find ways to circumvent this, just like how telemarketers are finding ways to circumvent the DNC List. I'm not holding my breath.
Don't get me wrong--I'd love to be convinced! Personally, I'd like to see the content of the bill itself, but I suppose articles like this will do in the meantime.
Ah-ha.
That answers my other question. I suppose this means that I shouldn't be buying that gift certificate if I don't already have an iTunes account?
I probably am missing something here, but please humor me: if I, the buyer, don't have an iTunes account through the gift certificate, then how do I download my purchased iTunes music?
Section 11.a:
Payment for Products. You agree to pay for all Products you purchase through the Service, and that Apple may charge your credit card for any Products purchased, and for any additional amounts (including any taxes and late fees, as applicable) as may be accrued by or in connection with your Account. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE TIMELY PAYMENT OF ALL FEES AND FOR PROVIDING APPLE WITH A VALID CREDIT CARD FOR PAYMENT OF ALL FEES. All fees will be billed to the credit card you designate during the registration process. If you want to designate a different credit card or if there is a change in your credit card status, you must change your credit card information online at the Account Info section of the Service. (There may be a temporary disruption of your access to the Service until Apple can verify the validity of the new credit card information.)
So how would this work when buying initially through a gift certificate bought through a middleman? Would I, as the buyer, pay the middleman to pay my iTunes bill for me?
Since this measure would apply to all developer-provided software dealing with network traffic, I'd be less likely to write my own network-enabled (read: internet-enabled) software.
Perhaps this is the point of the bill: to keep software writing in the hands of those rich enough to hire a group of lawyers who can keep away other lawyers.
If those new-fangled reactors get more widespread, we can at least defer any pollution concerns for a few decades.
The power comes from a core of non-weapons-grade uranium about 30 inches in diameter and 6 feet tall. It would put out a steady stream of 932-degree heat for three decades but can be removed and replaced like a flashlight battery when the power is depleted, he said.
People have enough trouble safely disposing of normal batteries; what makes us think it'd be any easier to dispose of a battery that huge?
Methinks Toshiba's a tad too optimistic (or naive) about the ease of disposing nuclear waste.
It appears to me that instead of "commercializing" the internet, businesses ought to learn how to adapt to the current environment. The problem isn't that the internet isn't safe enough for businesses; the problem is that businesses don't know how to protect themselves properly in the internet.
...but at least we can read "commercialize" as "make profitable," right?
Besides, it seems that what he wants to privatize the DNS servers (as a first step, perhaps?), yet he doesn't give any justifications for why these courses of action should just be taken. Maybe he should stop some of that hand-waving that he dislikes so much and provide concrete arguments for why he wants to do what he wants to do.
This story reminds me of a show on Discovery (or was it TLC) about how attraction affects human relations. The show called to mind how General Custer was a poor general, yet got to his position only by having "the general's look." Similar cases were called upon for other historical figures (whose names escape me at the moment).
I imagine that this alleged bias toward taller people is just something akin to that, if not the same thing (but on a slightly different trait).
The article didn't mention anything really useful (or, at least, anything I haven't heard of before); what would have been better would have been a link to the paper itself. I guess I'll have to wait for the spring issue of that psychology journal.
Torrents for the two CDs and mini-install.
After reading the bookseller's reviews, I didn't find any references to modern-day piracy.
Contrary to the review given here, I don't see anything about the book "evolving on two levels"; rather, I see a biography.
I mean... I'll still give it a read at the bookstore (and maybe pick it up), but I think it'd be prudent to know that I'm getting myself into a biography, not some veiled reference to today's legal issues.
Let's say that there does come pressure for cable companies to lease their lines out to third parties. What about protections to keep those third parties from being charged exorbitant rates for their leased lines?
For the record, it wasn't meant to be emotional. (Not that it matters now.)
It's no silver bullet, but how much spam can we eliminate by preventing forged mail from spoofed domains?
Probably not much; spammers would likely just find/use throwaway accounts with providers who don't mind the spam. Then again, that may make filtering out spammers easier, but as has been mentioned, everyone will have to implement it.
I'm waiting for that pending RFC.
Wasn't the "I was just doing my job" argument used by Nazi war criminals after WW2?
If I remember my history right, the argument didn't fly too well back then.
Googling for the phone number yielded a few-months-old column against telemarketing regulations.
...on a related note, the home page currently has a poll: "Is The National Do Not Call List Unconstitutional?"
In it, he posts numbers for the ATA and DMA (Direct Marketing Association).