And these concepts mean what we say they mean. That's the slippery thing about a symbolset, a referent set, and the law. Let's have some sanity for a change. A transcoding is a new work.
That's right. A transcoding is not a "copy." It bears no relation whatever to the sound or video recording alleged to be infringed. At most the misleading title is a trademark violation. A sufficiently engineered codec could take as input the source code to the Linux kernel and produce as output Britney Spears' latest single too. That doesn't mean that linux is a copy of a computer simulated tonally corrected mixture of a woman's voice with bad background music.
They actually put this bill before the state senate in Washington:
A public utility district is authorized to provide telecommunications services. - WA SB 6102 2007
A few days later it was replaced with a substitute bill which calls this a "test" and then lays out a list of restrictions on the counties that qualify to engage in the test. Strangely, not one of the counties in the state qualifies - making the entire thing void.
The first bill was a much better bill. Maybe somebody else can take this up. The prior "test" happened in 1990 and is meeting with some success.
Maybe a bunch of us in my neighborhood could get together and arrange something like this. We could string fiber to all of the homes in an area, like on poles or something... Maybe, since we're putting up poles we could get electricity to the homes as well.
We need a name for something like this that expresses the general usefulness of it for all the customers in the area. I know... let's call it a "public utility district."
Now how to pay for it... since it affects everybody, maybe some sort of property tax.
Finally one of these articles that mentions both panspermia and periodicity of extinction events in TFA.
Before the bookmakers get started let's get this out there: although the odds of an extinction level event occurring today or tomorrow or this year is exceedingly remote astronomers agree that in the fullness of time it's not just likely, it's certain.
When the purpose of your thin client is to play media content on your TV or laptop or other device from your home media server and let you browse the internet from your couch. Maintaining security of a PXEboot client is also much easier as the core operating system files are read-only. It also solves the problem of downloading and installing things like Firefox on all your boxen, since you update the server once and you're done.
It's called PXE boot. It's real popular in some circles. My mythTV boxes all PXE boot from a common system image. It saves custom configuration time and makes certain things easier.
The experience back then was different for members of the network than it was for ordinary folk. For me it was much like my Internet experience is now.
Slashdot is not very unlike a Fido echo. I read and post neither more nor less than I did back then. It still takes an hour to download Linux. I don't chat any more. Subscribing to the Filebone was much like running BearShare or whatever they're using now, except that it was all legal back then. If I had to point to the biggest improvement since then it wouldn't be what you think -- not bandwidth, not graphics. I think the best think that's happened to the online experience is that you can Google stuff now.
We used to get together in real life, though. I miss that. Oh, and it costs about 5 times as much now.
Another worthwhile observation: You can get the Atom motherboard. They're $83 delivered from Newegg. Via has a habit of announcing product and stalling. The are selling this cute little devil though. It's called the "pico-ITX" form factor.
The reviewed item though? Not yet. Until it's available we're comparing what's on the shelf to what's not. Of course the one that comes later is targeted at a slightly higher performance level. It seems likely that when it ships Intel could reply with a machine that has dual Dimms, PCIe X16, dual gigabit nics, and then up the ante with a little DVI goodness and dual core. Everybody knows the chipset supports those features already.
Maybe they'll also do a process shrink on the MCH as well to get the power down.
Personally I'll be getting both. I've played with the Atom board and I like it. These are both good enough boards for some purposes I have in mind and if more better stuff comes along later, well, that's just the way of IT isn't it? If you waited until nothing better was going to come out you might as well go back to pencil and paper.
A MB is 1 1/1024th of a gigabyte, so the memory on a 16MB 80486 processor is about 1/256th of the memory on your 4GB laptop. The 80486 processors maxed out at 0.07GHz and in their day were considered a remarkable improvement.
A P50 was a processor from Intel called the Pentium that was introduce at 0.05GHz. Believe it or not we used to run a windowing operating system on that with office apps and like it. We even managed to do spreadsheets and mail merge and many more functions of our office apps than you will probably ever use.
These days it's almost certain your cellular phone has far more resources than this and yet it works not as well.
I really, really wish this were true. Ever since "Ill be damned if I'll pay for a landslide" it's been considered foolish to pay more than is necessary to buy the election. That elections are always bought is assumed. No 0-budget loser is going to get herself elected no matter how good her term might be for the country.
That means that perverting elections to the highest office in the land are increasingly swayed by individuals who can move the margin by a fraction of a percent. Cheating is getting increasingly easy. If IT makes jobs more efficient then it follows that digital polling booths make exploiting the US election system easier with every innovation.
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And these concepts mean what we say they mean. That's the slippery thing about a symbolset, a referent set, and the law. Let's have some sanity for a change. A transcoding is a new work.
Which do you have? 6 or 20?
How do you like it?
That's right. A transcoding is not a "copy." It bears no relation whatever to the sound or video recording alleged to be infringed. At most the misleading title is a trademark violation. A sufficiently engineered codec could take as input the source code to the Linux kernel and produce as output Britney Spears' latest single too. That doesn't mean that linux is a copy of a computer simulated tonally corrected mixture of a woman's voice with bad background music.
They actually put this bill before the state senate in Washington:
A few days later it was replaced with a substitute bill which calls this a "test" and then lays out a list of restrictions on the counties that qualify to engage in the test. Strangely, not one of the counties in the state qualifies - making the entire thing void.
The first bill was a much better bill. Maybe somebody else can take this up. The prior "test" happened in 1990 and is meeting with some success.
You have to have sigs turned on in order for this joke to work. Here, I'll help:
A public utility district is authorized to provide telecommunications services. - WA SB 6102 2007
Maybe a bunch of us in my neighborhood could get together and arrange something like this. We could string fiber to all of the homes in an area, like on poles or something... Maybe, since we're putting up poles we could get electricity to the homes as well.
We need a name for something like this that expresses the general usefulness of it for all the customers in the area. I know... let's call it a "public utility district."
Now how to pay for it... since it affects everybody, maybe some sort of property tax.
Ransom Love happened to Unix.
Teach cats synchronized swimming. I would rather teach helpdesk people to think. It's a tough row to hoe.
If I had modpoints and I hadn't posted in this thread, I'd mod your post +1 informative even though it was just one word.
Finally one of these articles that mentions both panspermia and periodicity of extinction events in TFA.
Before the bookmakers get started let's get this out there: although the odds of an extinction level event occurring today or tomorrow or this year is exceedingly remote astronomers agree that in the fullness of time it's not just likely, it's certain.
Is there an option for "start working?"
When the purpose of your thin client is to play media content on your TV or laptop or other device from your home media server and let you browse the internet from your couch. Maintaining security of a PXEboot client is also much easier as the core operating system files are read-only. It also solves the problem of downloading and installing things like Firefox on all your boxen, since you update the server once and you're done.
Some people really like it.
It's called PXE boot. It's real popular in some circles. My mythTV boxes all PXE boot from a common system image. It saves custom configuration time and makes certain things easier.
It's a linux distro
Going against the standards here but "me too!" We appreciate your efforts, NYCL.
If we could just get more people behind "A transcoding is a new work" I think you could call your quest complete.
Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not...
The experience back then was different for members of the network than it was for ordinary folk. For me it was much like my Internet experience is now.
Slashdot is not very unlike a Fido echo. I read and post neither more nor less than I did back then. It still takes an hour to download Linux. I don't chat any more. Subscribing to the Filebone was much like running BearShare or whatever they're using now, except that it was all legal back then. If I had to point to the biggest improvement since then it wouldn't be what you think -- not bandwidth, not graphics. I think the best think that's happened to the online experience is that you can Google stuff now.
We used to get together in real life, though. I miss that. Oh, and it costs about 5 times as much now.
Another worthwhile observation: You can get the Atom motherboard. They're $83 delivered from Newegg. Via has a habit of announcing product and stalling. The are selling this cute little devil though. It's called the "pico-ITX" form factor.
The reviewed item though? Not yet. Until it's available we're comparing what's on the shelf to what's not. Of course the one that comes later is targeted at a slightly higher performance level. It seems likely that when it ships Intel could reply with a machine that has dual Dimms, PCIe X16, dual gigabit nics, and then up the ante with a little DVI goodness and dual core. Everybody knows the chipset supports those features already.
Maybe they'll also do a process shrink on the MCH as well to get the power down.
Personally I'll be getting both. I've played with the Atom board and I like it. These are both good enough boards for some purposes I have in mind and if more better stuff comes along later, well, that's just the way of IT isn't it? If you waited until nothing better was going to come out you might as well go back to pencil and paper.
Mostly in thin clients where you can't see them unless you pull the thing apart. Wyse has quite a few popular units in their line.
So let me scale this for you...
A MB is 1 1/1024th of a gigabyte, so the memory on a 16MB 80486 processor is about 1/256th of the memory on your 4GB laptop. The 80486 processors maxed out at 0.07GHz and in their day were considered a remarkable improvement.
A P50 was a processor from Intel called the Pentium that was introduce at 0.05GHz. Believe it or not we used to run a windowing operating system on that with office apps and like it. We even managed to do spreadsheets and mail merge and many more functions of our office apps than you will probably ever use.
These days it's almost certain your cellular phone has far more resources than this and yet it works not as well.
I really, really wish this were true. Ever since "Ill be damned if I'll pay for a landslide" it's been considered foolish to pay more than is necessary to buy the election. That elections are always bought is assumed. No 0-budget loser is going to get herself elected no matter how good her term might be for the country.
That means that perverting elections to the highest office in the land are increasingly swayed by individuals who can move the margin by a fraction of a percent. Cheating is getting increasingly easy. If IT makes jobs more efficient then it follows that digital polling booths make exploiting the US election system easier with every innovation.
You're not posting from France.
Censorship is damage.
The Internet is designed to "route around" damage.
So it is, so it always will be.
Thanks for an informative and insightful post. I have nothing to add, so "me, too."
To deal with it in any other way is quite dangerous.