If you legitimately own a copy on some medium, medium-shifting to another one is legal, just like you can rip your own music CDs to mp3s.
Incorrect, at least under U.S. copyright law. RIAA v. Diamond, 98-56727 (9th Cir., June 15, 1999) (http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1054784.html), the seminal case on the issue, found a fair use in "space shifting" music to MP3 players, but did so under the auspices of the Audio Home Recording Act (http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap10.html), which carves out specific exemptions applicable to sound recordings. No such provision(s) exist for video game ROMs, in any jurisdiction I'm aware of.
It's much easier to get evidence of delivery in if it's USPS ("official records" don't need the testimony of a custodian of records in, e.g., California state courts, unlike FedEx/UPS "business records"); that, and statutes requiring USPS (e.g., CCP section 1013), are pretty much the only reason I use the postal service anymore...
That's one decision, and it's also the only 'emulation' decision I can find doing a full text search of Nimmer on Copyright. That's not "many cases," as claimed. Also, there's no real discussion in Connectix with regards to the actual act of emulation; Connectix constrained its analysis to the issue of copying of Sony's BIOS for the purpose of building/testing the emulator. Not saying it's not 'good' law, but it's not very 'strong' law; it may even be dicta.
The current Oracle / Google case could prove interesting, as emulation of especially modern environments to me seems roughly akin to implementing an API (which Oracle is claiming can be copyrighted). Example, to build a vintage Macintosh emulator, it's not enough to implement the 68000-series opcodes, you'd also have to in some way implement QuickDraw and the rest of the Toolbox...
Emulators are legal, regardless of how people may use them to do illegal things. Courts have stated this in many cases in the past.
Got any cites for that? AFAIK there has never been a definitive ruling on the matter; Bleem! ran out of money before they got that far. Haven't researched it though.
I've managed to install to 386-DX chipsets with 4MB of RAM, but not the SX. Very impressive. Especially given the price I can pick up industrial single card 386-SX boards. Not of interest to gamers and such, but very, very useful non-the-less.
Back in the day I had first Slackware (3.x?) and then RedHat (5,x) running on an Am386SX-40, with 4x 1MB 30 pin SIMMs and an ISA SVGA card (Cirrus I believe). Was NBD, just a PITA loading Slack from endless floppies. (RedHat I installed via an ISA NE2000 clone from an FTP server on the LAN...)
In fact, altavista as a search engine was the "google" of yesterday.
Altavista's raging.com was the google of yesterday. Raging stripped out all the 'OMG we're not just a search engine we're a Portal!!' cruft that had accumulated on the major search engines and got back to search basics, circa 1999 or so.
And what penalties is Lockheed Martin going to pay for the shoddy workmanship and untested processes?
Lose contracts to SpaceX? It's funny, I just heard a PHB from Lockheed on NPR (as part of a story on SpaceX) bragging about their QC processes and reliability...
Six of one... You get a lot more stopping power out of a 50cal than a.223 Remington, but the (except in California; stupid "bullet button" requirement) detachable magazine and (semi)automatic operation of the AR15 would certainly have advantages. Still, with proper training, from 250' away, even firing at a moving target, a shooter can get off 3 shots with a bolt-action rifle in only six seconds, and score two hits -- including a head shot.
These are all versions which you have no excuse to still be on, so Google is simply saying that they will no longer test for those browsers or fix bugs found only in those browsers.
Anyone on FF3.5 can move to 3.6...
When they came for the Firefox 3.5 users, I cared not, for I used Firefox 3.6. When they came for me...
I still use FF 3.6, because certain sites (PACER being the number one most important) don't work reliably on FF 4+. (PACER, at least for my district, has all the polish and technical aplomb of a circa-1997 Perl/HTML 3.2 enterprise site, and it's not likely to change much in the future. Hell, the judiciary is still using WordPerfect!)
Yup. I have a cheap iOne Scorpius M10 at the office ($60 IIRC),
"Cheap" for a keyboard is "under ten bucks"
Not for a good keyboard. $60 is about the lowest I've seen a new mechanical keyboard sell for, certainly one with Cherry MX switches.
If you were a professional mechanic, you'd have Snap-On, not the cheap crap they sell in 200 piece sets for $19 at the local hardware store.
My accuracy and speed and comfort are vastly improved with a good keyboard, enough so that I paid out of pocket to have the "cheap (for a good quality mechanical keyboard)" iOne at my desk at work. And those keyboards will outlast everything else out there. My Unicomp replaced a PS/2 IBM Model M I've been using since the mid-90s (and I rescued it from a library dumpster when they 'upgraded' their PCs, I have no idea when it was actually put in service), only 'cause my Macs don't like PS/2USB adapters. I expect the Unicomp will outlast several generations of computers (and I tend to hang on to machines for a while; my needs aren't great, and modern computers easily handle what I need 'em to do -- indexed text searches, PDF manipulation, word processing, light programming... my current MacBook Air 1.83GHz (late 2010 model) replaced a 2006-circa first-of-the-Core 2 Duos MacBook Pro that was my daily machine...)
Yup. I have a cheap iOne Scorpius M10 at the office ($60 IIRC), and a Unicomp SpaceSaver M ($80?) at home. (I also spent the extra $5 or so to get keys labeled "Command" and "Option" to replace the Windows and Alt keys, at home.) They're pretty widely available and so, so worth it. A coworker just picked one up to replace the awful flat mushy keyboard that shipped with her HP TouchSmart 600. There's tons of information on the web about currently produced mechanical keyboards (google for "Cherry MX" switches), and they're not preposterously expensive (about what you'd spend for a nice pen or a reasonably nice low-end (e.g., an Invicta with an automatic Miyota movement) watch), and for something you use, a lot, (almost?) every day... http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=%22cherry+mx%22&x=0&y=0http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=mechanical+keyboard&x=0&y=0...
Not everyone can get away with expensing an $19,000+ flight. Hell, the one time I flew first (it was the only opening available) at "only" ~5x the standard coach rate... yes, it was nice, but certainly not nice enough to justify the increase in price.
My experience has been the opposite, at least on American. In coach I can't get any work done, even on my MacBook Air. No room to move / mouse / etc., power plugs aren't guaranteed, etc. By paying the premium (about 3x coast-to-coast, U.S. domestic) for first class, I get enough screen / leg / (critically) elbow room to work throughout the flight, a guaranteed source of 12V power (less important with my newer Macs but back in the day of my first-gen C2D MacBook Pro, critical). At my normal billing rate, the flight more than pays for itself, and I arrive less stressed than if I'd wasted 4-6 hours... (There's a great old Palm Treo ad, it shows a harried professional, almost certainly a lawyer, getting into a cab in Manhattan. The caption reads: "It's 17 minutes to the airport. 17 billable minutes." Yeah.)
Back in those days I was a Linux user (I still am, I suppose, in that I have a VPS running a few websites, email services, etc., for me, CentOS based) and working as a "UNIX Administrator" running Dell PowerEdge / RedHat 6.2, and Sun UltraXXX / Solaris 8 boxen for a living. Now I'm an attorney, and it's all Mac, all the way, though I still have three Terminal.app windows open... I remember seeing one of the very first PowerBook G4 Ti machines running a developer's release of OS X; our "Advanced Platform Group" guys (who basically had an unlimited budget to buy / play with all the newest toys -- March 2001 was still in the midst of the dot-com bubble) had all the cool tech. I fell in love that day, though with law school and ExamSoft requirements, it was a while before I could go back to Mac full time...
The film's production company, Distracted Media, is releasing it on BitTorrent, apparently with the consent of Paramount Home Entertainment Australia, who is handling the DVD distribution. Paramount themselves are not releasing the firm on BitTorrent. RTFA.
Apple did it when they went with OSX. A completely new OS
Completely new... in the mid-80s when it was called NextStep. (Program a NeXT and then transition to OS X -- you'll see what I mean.) It might have been completely new to the Macintosh user/dev communities, but it was actually a pretty old OS (~15 years or so) by the time OS X shipped as the default OS on Macs (2002). And, it still had the "blue box," the Classic layer, and the Carbon APIs. (The NextStep/Sun APIs are Cocoa.)
The law provides for the collection of personally identifying information that's necessary for the transaction. Online, this includes the billing zip code. This ruling apples to card-present retail transactions. FYI. Here's the entire decision: http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/documents/S178241.PDF
Your computer uses that answer to contact the server and download whatever. If it was given the wrong server, it's too late now.
Why is that too late? See the IP address, issue a redirect to the appropriate server. In HTTP that's as simple as issuing a 302 response and a Location: header. (I haven't Wiresharked iTMS to see how it's connecting, but it would be a dead simple change to the protocol to insert a handshake step that occurs before the substantive transfer begins. Overhead would be negligible.)
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If you legitimately own a copy on some medium, medium-shifting to another one is legal, just like you can rip your own music CDs to mp3s.
Incorrect, at least under U.S. copyright law. RIAA v. Diamond, 98-56727 (9th Cir., June 15, 1999) (http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1054784.html), the seminal case on the issue, found a fair use in "space shifting" music to MP3 players, but did so under the auspices of the Audio Home Recording Act (http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap10.html), which carves out specific exemptions applicable to sound recordings. No such provision(s) exist for video game ROMs, in any jurisdiction I'm aware of.
It's much easier to get evidence of delivery in if it's USPS ("official records" don't need the testimony of a custodian of records in, e.g., California state courts, unlike FedEx/UPS "business records"); that, and statutes requiring USPS (e.g., CCP section 1013), are pretty much the only reason I use the postal service anymore...
Your honor, the defense cites Sony v. Connectix: http://digital-law-online.info/cases/53PQ2D1705.htm
That's one decision, and it's also the only 'emulation' decision I can find doing a full text search of Nimmer on Copyright. That's not "many cases," as claimed. Also, there's no real discussion in Connectix with regards to the actual act of emulation; Connectix constrained its analysis to the issue of copying of Sony's BIOS for the purpose of building/testing the emulator. Not saying it's not 'good' law, but it's not very 'strong' law; it may even be dicta.
The current Oracle / Google case could prove interesting, as emulation of especially modern environments to me seems roughly akin to implementing an API (which Oracle is claiming can be copyrighted). Example, to build a vintage Macintosh emulator, it's not enough to implement the 68000-series opcodes, you'd also have to in some way implement QuickDraw and the rest of the Toolbox...
Oh, and 45000 feet at Mach 1.2 is the beginning of the real stress zone for the frame. Not too surprising it flopped over there.
Anytime you hit or exceed transonic speeds you're getting into all new worlds of potential hurt. (Ask anyone who worked with us on Prospector 8A: http://www.csulb.edu/colleges/coe/mae/views/projects/rocket/background/ :) )
Emulators are legal, regardless of how people may use them to do illegal things. Courts have stated this in many cases in the past.
Got any cites for that? AFAIK there has never been a definitive ruling on the matter; Bleem! ran out of money before they got that far. Haven't researched it though.
And nobody's stopping anyone from doing everything on UTC.
Indeed, every time I go flying I have to convert local time to Zulu (UTC) time for everything - flight plans, ATC communication, log entries...
I've managed to install to 386-DX chipsets with 4MB of RAM, but not the SX. Very impressive. Especially given the price I can pick up industrial single card 386-SX boards. Not of interest to gamers and such, but very, very useful non-the-less.
Back in the day I had first Slackware (3.x?) and then RedHat (5,x) running on an Am386SX-40, with 4x 1MB 30 pin SIMMs and an ISA SVGA card (Cirrus I believe). Was NBD, just a PITA loading Slack from endless floppies. (RedHat I installed via an ISA NE2000 clone from an FTP server on the LAN...)
In fact, altavista as a search engine was the "google" of yesterday.
Altavista's raging.com was the google of yesterday. Raging stripped out all the 'OMG we're not just a search engine we're a Portal!!' cruft that had accumulated on the major search engines and got back to search basics, circa 1999 or so.
And what penalties is Lockheed Martin going to pay for the shoddy workmanship and untested processes?
Lose contracts to SpaceX? It's funny, I just heard a PHB from Lockheed on NPR (as part of a story on SpaceX) bragging about their QC processes and reliability...
Facebook is in routine use by various "authorities " to profile people.
OBtheOnion: http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatically-cut-agencys-cos,19753/
The lawsuit was brought in Virginia. http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/06/16/Space.pdf...
Six of one... You get a lot more stopping power out of a 50cal than a .223 Remington, but the (except in California; stupid "bullet button" requirement) detachable magazine and (semi)automatic operation of the AR15 would certainly have advantages. Still, with proper training, from 250' away, even firing at a moving target, a shooter can get off 3 shots with a bolt-action rifle in only six seconds, and score two hits -- including a head shot.
You know sometimes they call that insanity.
No, "they" don't. Albert Einstein never did. Only AA (and maybe Rita Mae Brown, though I think she used it after AA did) makes that claim, and AA is idiotic and full of shit. (http://www.hulu.com/watch/207926/family-guy-friends-of-peter-g :) http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2006/07/alcoholics-anonymous-doesnt-work.html ) http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
You put antimatter in a SuperMax prison with all sorts of hardened criminals and you'll get ANTIHEROs.
Will they shoot first, or will they let Greedo take the first shot while doing a weird head-dance around the blaster bolt?
These are all versions which you have no excuse to still be on, so Google is simply saying that they will no longer test for those browsers or fix bugs found only in those browsers.
Anyone on FF3.5 can move to 3.6...
When they came for the Firefox 3.5 users, I cared not, for I used Firefox 3.6. When they came for me ...
I still use FF 3.6, because certain sites (PACER being the number one most important) don't work reliably on FF 4+. (PACER, at least for my district, has all the polish and technical aplomb of a circa-1997 Perl/HTML 3.2 enterprise site, and it's not likely to change much in the future. Hell, the judiciary is still using WordPerfect!)
Are you a lawyer? Can you cite the case law to backup your claim?
He's not, and he can't. Look up, e.g., trademark dilution, tarnishment, etc.
Yup. I have a cheap iOne Scorpius M10 at the office ($60 IIRC),
"Cheap" for a keyboard is "under ten bucks"
Not for a good keyboard. $60 is about the lowest I've seen a new mechanical keyboard sell for, certainly one with Cherry MX switches.
If you were a professional mechanic, you'd have Snap-On, not the cheap crap they sell in 200 piece sets for $19 at the local hardware store.
My accuracy and speed and comfort are vastly improved with a good keyboard, enough so that I paid out of pocket to have the "cheap (for a good quality mechanical keyboard)" iOne at my desk at work. And those keyboards will outlast everything else out there. My Unicomp replaced a PS/2 IBM Model M I've been using since the mid-90s (and I rescued it from a library dumpster when they 'upgraded' their PCs, I have no idea when it was actually put in service), only 'cause my Macs don't like PS/2USB adapters. I expect the Unicomp will outlast several generations of computers (and I tend to hang on to machines for a while; my needs aren't great, and modern computers easily handle what I need 'em to do -- indexed text searches, PDF manipulation, word processing, light programming... my current MacBook Air 1.83GHz (late 2010 model) replaced a 2006-circa first-of-the-Core 2 Duos MacBook Pro that was my daily machine...)
Yup. I have a cheap iOne Scorpius M10 at the office ($60 IIRC), and a Unicomp SpaceSaver M ($80?) at home. (I also spent the extra $5 or so to get keys labeled "Command" and "Option" to replace the Windows and Alt keys, at home.) They're pretty widely available and so, so worth it. A coworker just picked one up to replace the awful flat mushy keyboard that shipped with her HP TouchSmart 600. There's tons of information on the web about currently produced mechanical keyboards (google for "Cherry MX" switches), and they're not preposterously expensive (about what you'd spend for a nice pen or a reasonably nice low-end (e.g., an Invicta with an automatic Miyota movement) watch), and for something you use, a lot, (almost?) every day... http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=%22cherry+mx%22&x=0&y=0 http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=mechanical+keyboard&x=0&y=0 ...
Not everyone can get away with expensing an $19,000+ flight. Hell, the one time I flew first (it was the only opening available) at "only" ~5x the standard coach rate... yes, it was nice, but certainly not nice enough to justify the increase in price.
My experience has been the opposite, at least on American. In coach I can't get any work done, even on my MacBook Air. No room to move / mouse / etc., power plugs aren't guaranteed, etc. By paying the premium (about 3x coast-to-coast, U.S. domestic) for first class, I get enough screen / leg / (critically) elbow room to work throughout the flight, a guaranteed source of 12V power (less important with my newer Macs but back in the day of my first-gen C2D MacBook Pro, critical). At my normal billing rate, the flight more than pays for itself, and I arrive less stressed than if I'd wasted 4-6 hours... (There's a great old Palm Treo ad, it shows a harried professional, almost certainly a lawyer, getting into a cab in Manhattan. The caption reads: "It's 17 minutes to the airport. 17 billable minutes." Yeah.)
And Slashdot didn't even cover the release of OS X. Seriously. I did a search http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aslashdot.org+2001+OS+X and all I could find was this: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11275&cid=341886! On the other hand, we see a lot less Windows marketing content on /. these days ... http://slashdot.org/story/01/03/28/152227/Windows-Marketing-Executive-Doug-Miller
Around the same time OS X 10.0 was being officially released, Windows XP SP2 was being reviewed... http://slashdot.org/story/01/03/26/002246/CNET-Reviews-Windows-XP-Beta-2
Back in those days I was a Linux user (I still am, I suppose, in that I have a VPS running a few websites, email services, etc., for me, CentOS based) and working as a "UNIX Administrator" running Dell PowerEdge / RedHat 6.2, and Sun UltraXXX / Solaris 8 boxen for a living. Now I'm an attorney, and it's all Mac, all the way, though I still have three Terminal.app windows open... I remember seeing one of the very first PowerBook G4 Ti machines running a developer's release of OS X; our "Advanced Platform Group" guys (who basically had an unlimited budget to buy / play with all the newest toys -- March 2001 was still in the midst of the dot-com bubble) had all the cool tech. I fell in love that day, though with law school and ExamSoft requirements, it was a while before I could go back to Mac full time...
The film's production company, Distracted Media, is releasing it on BitTorrent, apparently with the consent of Paramount Home Entertainment Australia, who is handling the DVD distribution. Paramount themselves are not releasing the firm on BitTorrent. RTFA.
Apple did it when they went with OSX. A completely new OS
Completely new ... in the mid-80s when it was called NextStep. (Program a NeXT and then transition to OS X -- you'll see what I mean.) It might have been completely new to the Macintosh user/dev communities, but it was actually a pretty old OS (~15 years or so) by the time OS X shipped as the default OS on Macs (2002). And, it still had the "blue box," the Classic layer, and the Carbon APIs. (The NextStep/Sun APIs are Cocoa.)
The law provides for the collection of personally identifying information that's necessary for the transaction. Online, this includes the billing zip code. This ruling apples to card-present retail transactions. FYI. Here's the entire decision: http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/documents/S178241.PDF
Your computer uses that answer to contact the server and download whatever. If it was given the wrong server, it's too late now.
Why is that too late? See the IP address, issue a redirect to the appropriate server. In HTTP that's as simple as issuing a 302 response and a Location: header. (I haven't Wiresharked iTMS to see how it's connecting, but it would be a dead simple change to the protocol to insert a handshake step that occurs before the substantive transfer begins. Overhead would be negligible.)
...this has not anything to do with Looking Glass does it?
Um, no. Just as it has nothing to do with the Looking Glass UNIX desktop environment http://books.google.com/books?id=IToEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT32&lpg=PT32&dq=looking+glass+unix+windowing+environment&source=bl&ots=UbkbO-iHYP&sig=KqYl5AMLJDpTjO0KYZsj0Woq1R4&hl=en&ei=XUkaTfaBC4bCsAOnjOGSCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=looking%20glass%20unix%20windowing%20environment&f=false or the DHARMA Initiative station of the same name ...