This will mean twice as much work for KaZaA, Church of Scientology, et. al. Now they'll have to send twice as many take down notices over things they don't like.
So where is APL now? Does it exist for Windows? I played around with it a bit in my early computer days and was impressed with its compactness and power -- even though I had to use character triplets to specify many of its operators. Given its uniqueness, I'm surprised that it seemed to drop completely out of the scene, along with a few other languages I once used including: Algol, and PL/1.
Back in 1970 I spent some time in a university group that had a desk-sized underpowered oddity called an IBM 1130.
I remember the 1130 16-bit machine and its Fortran, and a very funny feature.
Seems that with this computer that memory accesses created static on an AM radio. Someone (probably a/. geek if there had been/. at the time) determined that based on memory access intervals he could create notes. We got a card deck of the source code and several data decks for various songs, all of which were completely recognizable when the AM radio was placed next to the memory cores.
Interesting Side Note #1: Much of the Fortran program consisted of a DO loop with about thirty CONTINUE statements before the final labeled CONTINUE statement that terminated the loop.
Obvious Observation Derived From Side Note #1: IBM did not employ good optimizing compilers in its 1130 systems.
Interesting Side Note #2: Having had more access to a CDC (Control Data Corporation) 1700 (a 16-bit mini computer with a 1.1us clock rate) at the time that also had a Fortran IV compiler, we tried porting the code over to this seemingly equivalent machine. However when we tried playing the music decks, songs that took 2 minutes on the 1130, completed in 2 seconds on the CDC 1700.
Obvious Observation Derived From Side Note #2: CDC provided good optimization on its Fortran compiler of the time.
Interesting Side Note #3: Another very amusing music program existed for the CDC 3000 series computers (a rather more powerful mid-range 24-bit computer) circa mid 1970's. The CDC 3000 series contained a speaker below the console controlled by the low order bits of (IIRC) the A-Register. Tones could be created the old fashioned way by cycling through the wave form. However the imagination of the programmers was not limited to this single speaker in their quest for the $1M sound system. Up to 4 reel-to-reel high speed tape drives (about the size of your refrigerator each) were incorporated, with their loading doors left open, to provide the bass section for a memorable performance of The Stars and Stripes Forever.
So has anyone actually checked the P2P networks yet to see if this has made it on to them? If a reasonable rip is on there in the first couple of days then this protection system has likely failed.
AFAIK, the prototypical GUI windowing system was the Xerox Star office automation system, ca 1981. As I recall, it's said that Jobs and Woz saw a demo at Xerox PARC, cost cut the design from a $25K office system to a $5K personal system, and begat the Macintosh of 1984.
Don't forget there was a far less than successful $10K Lisa system in-between.
RIAA: We want $150K for every song this reprobate criminal shared, even if nobody ever downloaded it, and even if the guy he downloaded it from also paid $150K per song to cover all downloads. Since he isn't a 12-year-old girl living in the projects, we're entitled to it. There is no non-infringing use.
Defendant: Your Honor, I wasn't illegally distributing music. I was participating in a valuable market research project to help the RIAA member companies and Clear Channel radio networks increase their profits by providing this essential information.
Judge: Case dismissed. Plaintiff will pay all court costs.
Everyone who remembers the strip certainly has a favorite.
Mine is where Opus goes to the fancy restaurant and with a superior air about him requests to sit in the No Smoking section. (Remember this is the 80's.) They then run down a whole laundry list of other restrictions ending up with "Big Noses", to which he finally has to reply yes. He ends up sitting next to a barfly telling him to put his nose out.
And in other comics (since we're listing them), yeah everyone would love to have Calvin and Hobbs back. Watterson never sold out comercially even though he was offered a LOT of money by people like Disney at the time.
If they sue her, then they'll have the PR nightmare of suing a poor 12-year-old girl living with a single mom.
Not that I think the RIAA is right -- or legal -- in this campaign, but...
According to this:
1.The family lives in the projects (i.e. poor).
2. The family has a computer with a large (i.e. modern) hard drive (RIAA is suing those with 1000 songs shared).
3. The family has a broadband connection. (You don't really think she managed this tying up the 56K pipe 24/7).
Given #2 and #3, I have trouble reconciling this with #1.
The family signed up for the Kazaa music-swapping service three months ago, and paid a $29.99 service charge.
As for paying for KaZaA, that is probably their best defense that they are really dumb and weren't intentionally breaking the law.
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The Russian SST died when their test plane crashed horribly at the Paris Air Show.
That isn't what killed the TU-146. It was their inability to get modern digital fuel controls that doomed that plane. The engines were also used on a major Russian bomber and no way in hell did the West plan to help that program.
And, btw, what caused the SST crash at the Paris airshow was the TU-146 pilot having to suddenly dodge a French fighter plane that was playing hide-and-seek in the clouds trying to get some spy photos of the SST. (Why they just didn't go back and use Concorde photos escapes me.) The Russian pilot had been assured that he had clear airspace for 10 miles. Dodging the French plane broke the spine of the TU-146. The French and Russians together covered this up for a long time -- each for their own reasons.
And yes, the French copped to this finally a few years ago.
require P2P developers and distributors to obtain and store users' personal information
Obviously the DirectTV model is in effect here.
1. Get the distributor of (still legal) products to keep a customer list.
2. Raid them for said list under the DMCA.
3. Extort users without a shred of actual proof.
4. Profit!
And what if this woman's machine was only a conduit for a proxie that responded to KaZaA requests? Or her IP was hijacked?
My point is that they have not inspected her hard drive and proven the files are on it. They have likely not even downloaded the files themselves. (Can you imagine a P2P user serving up 900 files to the same queue hog?)
All that the RIAA has going for them so far is the contention that, at the other end of this IP address, were copyrighted files being offered for download that belong to our members. We never downloaded them ourselves -- just the hashes. We trust that her client KaZaA program was telling us the truth. (Hah!) We trust that the IP address we have truely identified this user.
Unless they really did hack into her computer not using the information provided by the KaZaA client. Then she does have a case.
I'm suspicious of this poster. Photoshop 9 doesn't exist. Photoshop 8 is still in beta and probably not available until near the end of this year. A few obvious facts wrong make me suspicious of the rest of the tale, including the speed of running 4Kx4K Photoshop images under an ancient version of the software on an ancient version of the hardware so quickly.
And also that someone would make such a huge leap to a new hardware/os/software platform without testing it on one machine first.
3 Ghz dual XEON machines. It costed us $3000 (725 for each computer
Lastly, where can I buy some dual 3GHz Xeon machines for $725 a pop?
she made all of these MP3s available for download by millions of anonymous strangers
Not true and overblown hype. Nobody could have supported millions of downloads through a home cable or dsl connection. At most a few dozen people might have managed to download any individual song -- probably less.
And making available means very little if no one downloaded them at all. (The RIAA doesn't count.)
This is all marketing. Apple is making comparisons against P4 and Xeon computers instead of the not yet shipping Athlon-64 systems to make people feel good about buying Apples. Too many Apple owners are belittled by their PC (and I don't mean Politically Correct) friends for having underpowered machines. These ads are intended mostly to give Apple owners ammunition to fight back now. The top-end desktop machines are on an even footing again, and that's the reputation Apple needs to re-establish.
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This will mean twice as much work for KaZaA, Church of Scientology, et. al. Now they'll have to send twice as many take down notices over things they don't like.
So where is APL now? Does it exist for Windows? I played around with it a bit in my early computer days and was impressed with its compactness and power -- even though I had to use character triplets to specify many of its operators. Given its uniqueness, I'm surprised that it seemed to drop completely out of the scene, along with a few other languages I once used including: Algol, and PL/1.
I remember the 1130 16-bit machine and its Fortran, and a very funny feature.
Seems that with this computer that memory accesses created static on an AM radio. Someone (probably a /. geek if there had been /. at the time) determined that based on memory access intervals he could create notes. We got a card deck of the source code and several data decks for various songs, all of which were completely recognizable when the AM radio was placed next to the memory cores.
Interesting Side Note #1: Much of the Fortran program consisted of a DO loop with about thirty CONTINUE statements before the final labeled CONTINUE statement that terminated the loop.
Obvious Observation Derived From Side Note #1: IBM did not employ good optimizing compilers in its 1130 systems.
Interesting Side Note #2: Having had more access to a CDC (Control Data Corporation) 1700 (a 16-bit mini computer with a 1.1us clock rate) at the time that also had a Fortran IV compiler, we tried porting the code over to this seemingly equivalent machine. However when we tried playing the music decks, songs that took 2 minutes on the 1130, completed in 2 seconds on the CDC 1700.
Obvious Observation Derived From Side Note #2: CDC provided good optimization on its Fortran compiler of the time.
Interesting Side Note #3: Another very amusing music program existed for the CDC 3000 series computers (a rather more powerful mid-range 24-bit computer) circa mid 1970's. The CDC 3000 series contained a speaker below the console controlled by the low order bits of (IIRC) the A-Register. Tones could be created the old fashioned way by cycling through the wave form. However the imagination of the programmers was not limited to this single speaker in their quest for the $1M sound system. Up to 4 reel-to-reel high speed tape drives (about the size of your refrigerator each) were incorporated, with their loading doors left open, to provide the bass section for a memorable performance of The Stars and Stripes Forever.
Those were the days!
Truth is stranger than fiction.
Fiction has to make sense.
That's currently 259, and falling.
They did. They pack it into never documented FastTrack TCP/IP packets.
Two words:
Adware
Spyware
And it's about time!
So has anyone actually checked the P2P networks yet to see if this has made it on to them? If a reasonable rip is on there in the first couple of days then this protection system has likely failed.
Or just forward what you get from your personal account to your study account.
Don't forget there was a far less than successful $10K Lisa system in-between.
Couldn't find prior art like this again!
Even though you demonstrated the d@mn thing once upon a time!
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Defendant: Your Honor, I wasn't illegally distributing music. I was participating in a valuable market research project to help the RIAA member companies and Clear Channel radio networks increase their profits by providing this essential information.
Judge: Case dismissed. Plaintiff will pay all court costs.
Mine is where Opus goes to the fancy restaurant and with a superior air about him requests to sit in the No Smoking section. (Remember this is the 80's.) They then run down a whole laundry list of other restrictions ending up with "Big Noses", to which he finally has to reply yes. He ends up sitting next to a barfly telling him to put his nose out.
And in other comics (since we're listing them), yeah everyone would love to have Calvin and Hobbs back. Watterson never sold out comercially even though he was offered a LOT of money by people like Disney at the time.
These days, Rhymes with Orange is often good.
Not that I think the RIAA is right -- or legal -- in this campaign, but...
According to this:
1.The family lives in the projects (i.e. poor).
2. The family has a computer with a large (i.e. modern) hard drive (RIAA is suing those with 1000 songs shared).
3. The family has a broadband connection. (You don't really think she managed this tying up the 56K pipe 24/7).
Given #2 and #3, I have trouble reconciling this with #1.
The family signed up for the Kazaa music-swapping service three months ago, and paid a $29.99 service charge.
As for paying for KaZaA, that is probably their best defense that they are really dumb and weren't intentionally breaking the law.
---
SELECT * FROM Users WHERE Clue > 0
0 Records returned
That isn't what killed the TU-146. It was their inability to get modern digital fuel controls that doomed that plane. The engines were also used on a major Russian bomber and no way in hell did the West plan to help that program.
And, btw, what caused the SST crash at the Paris airshow was the TU-146 pilot having to suddenly dodge a French fighter plane that was playing hide-and-seek in the clouds trying to get some spy photos of the SST. (Why they just didn't go back and use Concorde photos escapes me.) The Russian pilot had been assured that he had clear airspace for 10 miles. Dodging the French plane broke the spine of the TU-146. The French and Russians together covered this up for a long time -- each for their own reasons.
And yes, the French copped to this finally a few years ago.
And before B5 there was B4.
Obviously the DirectTV model is in effect here.
1. Get the distributor of (still legal) products to keep a customer list.
2. Raid them for said list under the DMCA.
3. Extort users without a shred of actual proof.
4. Profit!
My point is that they have not inspected her hard drive and proven the files are on it. They have likely not even downloaded the files themselves. (Can you imagine a P2P user serving up 900 files to the same queue hog?)
All that the RIAA has going for them so far is the contention that, at the other end of this IP address, were copyrighted files being offered for download that belong to our members. We never downloaded them ourselves -- just the hashes. We trust that her client KaZaA program was telling us the truth. (Hah!) We trust that the IP address we have truely identified this user.
Unless they really did hack into her computer not using the information provided by the KaZaA client. Then she does have a case.
I'm suspicious of this poster. Photoshop 9 doesn't exist. Photoshop 8 is still in beta and probably not available until near the end of this year. A few obvious facts wrong make me suspicious of the rest of the tale, including the speed of running 4Kx4K Photoshop images under an ancient version of the software on an ancient version of the hardware so quickly.
And also that someone would make such a huge leap to a new hardware/os/software platform without testing it on one machine first.
3 Ghz dual XEON machines. It costed us $3000 (725 for each computer
Lastly, where can I buy some dual 3GHz Xeon machines for $725 a pop?
Can I get one of these to block SCO from tracking my copy of Linux?
Not true and overblown hype. Nobody could have supported millions of downloads through a home cable or dsl connection. At most a few dozen people might have managed to download any individual song -- probably less.
And making available means very little if no one downloaded them at all. (The RIAA doesn't count.)
Marketing, pure and simple -- and effective.
If so, Apple would be wiping the floor with them in terms of price and availability.