This is a common problem for most people. Because cordless phones are becoming more and more common (e.g., I haven't owned a corded phone for about 8 years), a lot of people caught in the East coast blackout of 2003 couldn't make calls at all. Thus, cell phone circuits became overloaded, meaning you couldn't use you cell phone either. A simple plug in phone would have solved all the problems.
How do you reconcile 'The flag does not restrict copying in any way' with 'required to check for the presence of the flag and apply DRM restrictions to its outputs'?
The theory is that PVR and VCR would be allowed to tape. But, if you attempted to upload it on the Internet, you wouldn't be allowed.
However, no one has ever explained how it works, thus leaving us with a lot of/. FUD about the broadcast flag being the end of the world.
This is why TI Calculator games are the most wonderful thing in the world. No one is going to see anything odd about me pressing buttons on a calculator in a large lecture hall.
For the most part TV is the most mindless, unstimulating, unsocial form of entertainment we have today. If more people play games (still maybe not the best entertainment, but challenging and oftentimes social none the less)
TV is not as unsocial as you make it out to be. A lot of people talk about TV because it is a shared experience. For example, you can make small talk about what happened on 24 this week, or you can even join various mailing lists/message boards to discuss the same. You can't really do that with Counterstrike.
A few years? If I'm not mistaken, you can still get security updates for Windows 95, which is more than 8 years old.
Here is the Windows lifecycle page. Looks like Win 95 became officially unsupported at the beginning of 2002 and reached the official "End of Life" on Decmber 31, 2002. IIRC, Win 95 was released August 95.
Win 98 becomes officially unsupported January 16, 2004, although system builders can still acquire licenses until March 31, 2004. (Looks like I should upgrade my Win 98 system pretty soon.)
Why does anyone need to go from a "junky Celeron" to a "spiffy P4"? Only two mainstream reasons (Open Office, Mozilla, Email, etc., do just fine with "junky Celerons")--video editing and games. How many games and video editing software are available for Linux?
at any time during the enforceability of the patent, any person may request reexamination by the Office of any claim of a patent on the basis of prior patents or printed publications cited under 37 CFR 1.501. In order for the request for reexamination to be granted, a substantial new question of patentability must be present with regard to at least one patent claim. The request must be in writing and must be accompanied by payment of a reexamination request filing fee as set forth in 37 CFR 1.20(c). -- see 37 U.S.C. 302,
MPEP 2209, et seq., for more
My question is simple--why is W3C "urging US Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property James E. Rogan to initiate a re-examination of the patent because the critical prior art was neither considered at the time the patent was initially examined and granted, nor during recent patent infringement litigation."? Under the re-examination laws, any person is allowed to initiate a re-examination procedure (see MPEP 2212. It doesn't need to be started by the PTO.
I never listen to radio by choice (occassionally, I have to listen to radio if in a car with my wife, who always listens to radio in the car). I haven't relied on the radio to find new music for about 10 years now. How? I have a lot of CDs and I listen to a lot of CDs. Early in my music collecting career, that meant that I would know a record like the back of my hand, as I would listen to it hundreds of time. Now, I just have hundreds of different CDs to choose from.
As others have stated here, publication is not a requirement for copyright protection. Moreover, publication is defined in the copyright statutes. Someone has already posted the Canadian law, so here is the US law: 17 U.S.C. 101:
''Publication'' is the distribution of copies or phonorecords of a work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending. The offering to distribute copies or phonorecords to a group of persons for purposes of further distribution, public performance, or public display, constitutes publication. A public performance or display of a work does not of itself constitute publication.
There seems to be no requirement that the works be DRM free, only that the works be distributed to the public.
Re:spend your money in glass and "film..".
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And as for the film vs. digital argument... the other week I had to use my film SLR for something and couldn't figure out why it made all that racket. It finally occurred to me -- that was the film advance.
LOL! I have a film Canon Elan 7. I bought a G2, which is basically a fancy digital P&S camera. I bought it to experiment with digital. I never thought I'd get rid of film. Turns out that I never use the film camera anymore. The only reason I haven't sold it is because I haven't been able to convince my wife is used to dropping film off and getting prints an hour later. She hasn't gotten used to the digital process and making our own prints. Once she does, that camera is on Ebay . . . with the proceeds going to a Digial Rebel.
With digital, I blow through about fifty shots in a half an hour, reviewing each one as I go and, with the LCD review screen, learning a little bit more about how to improve the next shot. Then I end up ditching the thirty or so that didn't work and repeating. By the end of a session, I know I've got shots which really captured the depth of field I was after, that framed the subject well, that had the balance of light across the scene that I wanted, and so on. I've also probably stumbled on a couple of shots I didn't even expect.
If your memory card is big enough, I would recommend not going over photos with the camera's LCD. The screen is very small and it is difficult to determine the subtleties of images. I prefer to download all the pictures to my computer and do the editing there. Even if your goal is to learn, it is still worthwhile to see the images on your 17" monitor as opposed to a 1.5" monitor, just so you can see your mistakes more clearly. That said, it is usually easy to determine if an image is out of focus or the subject's eyes were closed or there was bad cropping. If running out of room, I will look for those types of mistakes, so I can take more photos.
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It's not really that bad. You turn the knob with your index finger for shutter speed, and hold the button with your thumb and turn the knob to change aperture. It becomes second nature very quickly. All the controls are in natural places.
It's even better than that. I specifically bought the Elan over the Rebel for the two control dials (and several other features). Guess what, I never use the Manual mode. Because I don't have a handheld meter, I always rely on the camera for metering. If you're relying on the camera for metering, just use Shutter Priority or Aperture priority mode.
I think the fundamental misconception that MS has about open source is simple--why would anyone program open source?
If you are a good programmer, you program for a living because that is what you're good at. This is something that economists and Ballmer/Gates understand. Might as well get paid to program if you're good at it and enjoy it.
That's what's confusing about open source/free software--what do the developers do for a living? Are they students? Are they unemployed? Are they underemployed (e.g., working McDonalds)? If under/unemployed, why? If you are a good enough programmer to contribute to open source, can't you get a job with MS/IBM/Apple/Adobe/Oracle/etc.? Why would you program for free, in your spare time, instead of getting paid to do so?
Mozilla needs to come up with a clear concise statement as to the differences between Mozilla 1.4, 1.5 and Firebird 0.7 and Thunderbird 0.3. I've seen so many different explanations of the differences between the programs, but nothing definitive. Why not just say, somewhere prominent on the web site--"This is what 1.5 is and what it is for. Firebird 0.7 is for this and Thunderbird 0.3 is for that.
Specifically, what is the difference between installing the Browser of 1.5 only versus installing Firebird 0.7? Are they based on the same components? Or does one use entirely different technology? Can I switch from 1.5 to Firebird? Is the mail component of 1.5 the same of Thunderbird 0.3? I had heard the Firebird was going to replace 1.5. How? Simple questions and I can't find the answer to any of them.
To me the update seems worth it, but then in my previous life I bought Windows 95, Windows 98, and then Windows XP. What were they but new features and no bug fixes?
I know this is an anti-MS site, but those three different OS you listed are completely different. 98 and 98SE added a ton of features that weren't in 95 and XP is based on a completely different architecture than 98 or 95. If you were to say ME was just a bug fix, then maybe. But XP was a significant change from 98. The bug fixes would probably be the Service Packs.
How many of the recordings on Kazaa do you think were recorded from the SPDIF output? Aren't most recordings on P2P made directly from the data on the CD, as read by a CD-ROM drive.
That doesn't seem to be the section at issue. In laymen's terms, it appears that the section you quoted means that MS can't prevent Dell from installing an icon that launches Mozilla.
Something similar happened to me. I was on travel for 2 weeks, and my browser wouldn't work properly on half the sites I visited. Luckily it did work with one site--Mozilla.org. That trip transformed me from a "play around with Mozilla, but use a pop-up blocked IE most of the time" to a "99% Mozilla/Firebird user". Sometimes, a broken IE can be a good thing.
That argument was wrong when the DoJ made it and it is still wrong today. You're mixing up cause and effect. Even if the world is browser based, the actual browser being used is irrelevant. If OS X (or Linux) become the predominant OS, then Safari (or Mozilla) will be the dominant browser. People don't buy Windows because of IE. They use IE because it comes with Windows.
Does it really matter which browser opens up? Yeah, it might be a little annoying, but in the grand scheme of things, it's not preventing anyone from using Mozilla or Opera.
I use Mozilla almost exclusively, but there are some sites that require IE (Yahoo Launch and usair.com until this month). Didn't really effect me.
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This is a common problem for most people. Because cordless phones are becoming more and more common (e.g., I haven't owned a corded phone for about 8 years), a lot of people caught in the East coast blackout of 2003 couldn't make calls at all. Thus, cell phone circuits became overloaded, meaning you couldn't use you cell phone either. A simple plug in phone would have solved all the problems.
And to see a video of a speed cuber, look at Dan Knight's page.
Please let us know where you can get a 200GB hard drive for $50.
The theory is that PVR and VCR would be allowed to tape. But, if you attempted to upload it on the Internet, you wouldn't be allowed.
However, no one has ever explained how it works, thus leaving us with a lot of /. FUD about the broadcast flag being the end of the world.
Unless it's a literature class.
$500 in upgrades? For what? If for hardware, you don't think you will ever have to buy a new graphics card for your Mac?
TV is not as unsocial as you make it out to be. A lot of people talk about TV because it is a shared experience. For example, you can make small talk about what happened on 24 this week, or you can even join various mailing lists/message boards to discuss the same. You can't really do that with Counterstrike.
Here is the Windows lifecycle page. Looks like Win 95 became officially unsupported at the beginning of 2002 and reached the official "End of Life" on Decmber 31, 2002. IIRC, Win 95 was released August 95.
Win 98 becomes officially unsupported January 16, 2004, although system builders can still acquire licenses until March 31, 2004. (Looks like I should upgrade my Win 98 system pretty soon.)
Why does anyone need to go from a "junky Celeron" to a "spiffy P4"? Only two mainstream reasons (Open Office, Mozilla, Email, etc., do just fine with "junky Celerons")--video editing and games. How many games and video editing software are available for Linux?
Because certain rules are different for non-published works.
I never listen to radio by choice (occassionally, I have to listen to radio if in a car with my wife, who always listens to radio in the car). I haven't relied on the radio to find new music for about 10 years now. How? I have a lot of CDs and I listen to a lot of CDs. Early in my music collecting career, that meant that I would know a record like the back of my hand, as I would listen to it hundreds of time. Now, I just have hundreds of different CDs to choose from.
LOL! I have a film Canon Elan 7. I bought a G2, which is basically a fancy digital P&S camera. I bought it to experiment with digital. I never thought I'd get rid of film. Turns out that I never use the film camera anymore. The only reason I haven't sold it is because I haven't been able to convince my wife is used to dropping film off and getting prints an hour later. She hasn't gotten used to the digital process and making our own prints. Once she does, that camera is on Ebay . . . with the proceeds going to a Digial Rebel.
With digital, I blow through about fifty shots in a half an hour, reviewing each one as I go and, with the LCD review screen, learning a little bit more about how to improve the next shot. Then I end up ditching the thirty or so that didn't work and repeating. By the end of a session, I know I've got shots which really captured the depth of field I was after, that framed the subject well, that had the balance of light across the scene that I wanted, and so on. I've also probably stumbled on a couple of shots I didn't even expect.
If your memory card is big enough, I would recommend not going over photos with the camera's LCD. The screen is very small and it is difficult to determine the subtleties of images. I prefer to download all the pictures to my computer and do the editing there. Even if your goal is to learn, it is still worthwhile to see the images on your 17" monitor as opposed to a 1.5" monitor, just so you can see your mistakes more clearly. That said, it is usually easy to determine if an image is out of focus or the subject's eyes were closed or there was bad cropping. If running out of room, I will look for those types of mistakes, so I can take more photos.
It's even better than that. I specifically bought the Elan over the Rebel for the two control dials (and several other features). Guess what, I never use the Manual mode. Because I don't have a handheld meter, I always rely on the camera for metering. If you're relying on the camera for metering, just use Shutter Priority or Aperture priority mode.
If you are a good programmer, you program for a living because that is what you're good at. This is something that economists and Ballmer/Gates understand. Might as well get paid to program if you're good at it and enjoy it.
That's what's confusing about open source/free software--what do the developers do for a living? Are they students? Are they unemployed? Are they underemployed (e.g., working McDonalds)? If under/unemployed, why? If you are a good enough programmer to contribute to open source, can't you get a job with MS/IBM/Apple/Adobe/Oracle/etc.? Why would you program for free, in your spare time, instead of getting paid to do so?
Specifically, what is the difference between installing the Browser of 1.5 only versus installing Firebird 0.7? Are they based on the same components? Or does one use entirely different technology? Can I switch from 1.5 to Firebird? Is the mail component of 1.5 the same of Thunderbird 0.3? I had heard the Firebird was going to replace 1.5. How? Simple questions and I can't find the answer to any of them.
I know this is an anti-MS site, but those three different OS you listed are completely different. 98 and 98SE added a ton of features that weren't in 95 and XP is based on a completely different architecture than 98 or 95. If you were to say ME was just a bug fix, then maybe. But XP was a significant change from 98. The bug fixes would probably be the Service Packs.
How many of the recordings on Kazaa do you think were recorded from the SPDIF output? Aren't most recordings on P2P made directly from the data on the CD, as read by a CD-ROM drive.
Regarding the DOJ/MS agreement, it appears that paragraph III.H is the one relevant to the present issue. Can't say I understand that paragraph yet.
That doesn't seem to be the section at issue. In laymen's terms, it appears that the section you quoted means that MS can't prevent Dell from installing an icon that launches Mozilla.
Something similar happened to me. I was on travel for 2 weeks, and my browser wouldn't work properly on half the sites I visited. Luckily it did work with one site--Mozilla.org. That trip transformed me from a "play around with Mozilla, but use a pop-up blocked IE most of the time" to a "99% Mozilla/Firebird user". Sometimes, a broken IE can be a good thing.
That argument was wrong when the DoJ made it and it is still wrong today. You're mixing up cause and effect. Even if the world is browser based, the actual browser being used is irrelevant. If OS X (or Linux) become the predominant OS, then Safari (or Mozilla) will be the dominant browser. People don't buy Windows because of IE. They use IE because it comes with Windows.
I use Mozilla almost exclusively, but there are some sites that require IE (Yahoo Launch and usair.com until this month). Didn't really effect me.