Some day they'll realize that $1>$0. I won't buy a full album to get a single song. And for most artists besides my favorites I'm only interested in a single song. If they were my favorite, I would gladly buy the full albums, but for everyone else all they can hope for is single sales, or no sales.
More greed driven insults and baseless accusations. I don't think they expect to sell any more copies of Unix in the near or distant future. They'll undoubtably retire from the software business if they find a judge crooked enough to give them a win. And if they lose, they'll still retire, just not in style. There's nothing left for them here.
If I ever turn to the dark side and support spam, I'll have to modify my email harvester to discard those. I actually only spent a few hours working on it, but it overcomes some email protection techniques by using a real browser to load the pages (minus images & such), allowing any email descrambling scripts to run. A way to improve it might be to have it "click" all the javascript links on the page, catching attempts to browse to an email link but not actually allowing the browser to go to another page. I suspect that one day pages will use hidden "crash browser" links to stop such email bots.
Notice that only 3 of the computers are running XP. I suspect that he installed it 3 times and couldn't get it activated the 4th time. This reminds me of an article interviewing some Microsoft executive regarding their product activation, which was new and contraversial at the time, where they said that they did not intend for it to prevent casual copying, because that would hurt regular customers, but rather they would only disable a product key after several hundred installs.
One of my bosses is a pilot on the side. Our current and previous offices have both been adjacent to an airport.
Charter is going out of business. Their market value is now slightly above nothing, 1/20th of what it was 2 years ago. So maintaining good customer relations is no longer their primary concern.
I also experienced an hour a day outage like you described. It turned out that my ip address was no longer as static as it was the 6 months before. In addition, all versions of the drivers for the cable modem they rented to me crash xp a couple times a week.
The ISP of the company I work for seems to have an unwritten policy of providing free same day on site support whenever there's a problem with our internet connection.
I was talking about doing some lossy compression though, reducing each tile to less than 256 colors. I suspect you can get as low as 32 colors per 16x16 tile and rarely know the difference. 16 colors would be borderline, but increase the compression further. It should compress better than if you reduced the full image to 256 colors, and allows the possibility of having more than 256 without switching to true color and while still having decent compression.
You're thinking of RLE. LZW involves starting with a list of all possible bytes (lets call the list items words and the list a dictionary). Starting from the beginning of the file, find the longest word that matches the following bytes, output the index of that word to the output file, add a new word to the dictionary consisting of that last word plus the next byte, and repeat until you've compressed the entire file.
It's just one of the many gotchas helping to increase the cash flow from other countries into the United States. We'll be able to compete unfairly against the rest of the world in yet another area, while still retaining our innocence because it's the patent law that's holding everyone else back, not us.
You could have used another format. If you take it, put the outputted codes through an adaptive huffman compressor, and pruned unused codes from the dictionary whenever it reached 4k, would it still violate the patent? It'd compress better.
Are you saying they don't? A lot of companies offer versions of their products with 10% more features for 10x the price. Any customer who does not care about price will buy the more expensive one.
One of the Mozilla developers decided to drop MNG (animated PNG) support against the advice of nearly everyone else involved. Their reasoning was that it took up a whole 200kb of disk space.
But yeah, it'll remain much better than gif, and all the Photoshop users will say it sucks because Internet Explorer displays them too dark when saved from Photoshop.
Yay. Now I can write useless gif utilities without paying those hefty fees ($1500 was it?). One idea would be to break an image into 16x16 tiles, reduce each to 16 colors or less, and piece them together as an animated gif to create a lossy gif for photos that are smaller than 256 color gifs and can break the 256 color barrier. Sure, you can't do much with it that you can't get from using better formats like png, but notice that I said useless.
They really got a lot out of LZW. Such widespread use, while still earning them lots of money.
I imagine myself some day investigating unexpected web server problems and finding 2 warnings and a message saying that all writeable files have been erased because it found an html file containing the word "Metallica."
It's all quite offensive, but something that really offends me is SCO's statement "It is not possible for Linux to rapidly reach Unix performance standards for complete enterprise functionality without the misappropriation of Unix code." You know, because any intelligent programmer would obviously rather pay tens of thousands to be allowed to modify Unix than modify Linux and accept that they must share their changes.
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IRL, I don't need to tell people that there's something different about me. They always assume I'm foreign unless I tell them otherwise.
As a kid I was diagnosed with a whole lot of mental "disorders." They narrowed it down to ADD, Tourette's, Asperger's, and the things they're not sure of. They never prescribed drugs for my mental conditions.
I absolutely cannot think of 2 things at once. If I'm listening, I cannot think. If I'm speaking, I can't think, causing long pauses between sentences. If I'm thinking, I'm deaf and somewhat blind. If I'm lucky, a few words will reach me minutes later. On the other hand, I seem to be very well compensated by my mental strengths.
I'll just have to be extra careful not to drive while talking on the cellphone and listening to the radio with a friend in the passenger seat.
The world needs more imbalanced minds, so long as they aren't evil.
Seeing that movie was just about as exciting as watching other kids play nintendo games, which was pretty exciting since all I had was an Atari 2600. I didn't buy anything as a result. It was fun to watch though. I guess I must have been 7 years old at the time (I'm a little bit drunk).
I don't think I've seen the movie since then. I suppose it was more or less tossed after it had served its purpose.
I don't think Oppenheim answered the questions regarding the DMCA preventing circumvention after the copyright has expired. And how does extending a copyright a full lifetime beyond the death of the owner encourage innovation?
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Some day they'll realize that $1>$0. I won't buy a full album to get a single song. And for most artists besides my favorites I'm only interested in a single song. If they were my favorite, I would gladly buy the full albums, but for everyone else all they can hope for is single sales, or no sales.
Snow can get wet. It either ruins it or makes it better, depending on how you intend to use it.
More greed driven insults and baseless accusations. I don't think they expect to sell any more copies of Unix in the near or distant future. They'll undoubtably retire from the software business if they find a judge crooked enough to give them a win. And if they lose, they'll still retire, just not in style. There's nothing left for them here.
Notice that 12% is much more than the artists get from CD sales, even after considering that the albums sell for half as much as the CD.
That's a great idea.
If I ever turn to the dark side and support spam, I'll have to modify my email harvester to discard those. I actually only spent a few hours working on it, but it overcomes some email protection techniques by using a real browser to load the pages (minus images & such), allowing any email descrambling scripts to run. A way to improve it might be to have it "click" all the javascript links on the page, catching attempts to browse to an email link but not actually allowing the browser to go to another page. I suspect that one day pages will use hidden "crash browser" links to stop such email bots.
Notice that only 3 of the computers are running XP. I suspect that he installed it 3 times and couldn't get it activated the 4th time. This reminds me of an article interviewing some Microsoft executive regarding their product activation, which was new and contraversial at the time, where they said that they did not intend for it to prevent casual copying, because that would hurt regular customers, but rather they would only disable a product key after several hundred installs.
One of my bosses is a pilot on the side. Our current and previous offices have both been adjacent to an airport.
As soon as they're available, I suspect that a lot of people will want to register numeric .iq domains. 180.IQ will probably be the first to go.
Charter is going out of business. Their market value is now slightly above nothing, 1/20th of what it was 2 years ago. So maintaining good customer relations is no longer their primary concern.
I also experienced an hour a day outage like you described. It turned out that my ip address was no longer as static as it was the 6 months before. In addition, all versions of the drivers for the cable modem they rented to me crash xp a couple times a week.
The ISP of the company I work for seems to have an unwritten policy of providing free same day on site support whenever there's a problem with our internet connection.
I was talking about doing some lossy compression though, reducing each tile to less than 256 colors. I suspect you can get as low as 32 colors per 16x16 tile and rarely know the difference. 16 colors would be borderline, but increase the compression further. It should compress better than if you reduced the full image to 256 colors, and allows the possibility of having more than 256 without switching to true color and while still having decent compression.
You're thinking of RLE. LZW involves starting with a list of all possible bytes (lets call the list items words and the list a dictionary). Starting from the beginning of the file, find the longest word that matches the following bytes, output the index of that word to the output file, add a new word to the dictionary consisting of that last word plus the next byte, and repeat until you've compressed the entire file.
It's just one of the many gotchas helping to increase the cash flow from other countries into the United States. We'll be able to compete unfairly against the rest of the world in yet another area, while still retaining our innocence because it's the patent law that's holding everyone else back, not us.
You could have used another format. If you take it, put the outputted codes through an adaptive huffman compressor, and pruned unused codes from the dictionary whenever it reached 4k, would it still violate the patent? It'd compress better.
Are you saying they don't? A lot of companies offer versions of their products with 10% more features for 10x the price. Any customer who does not care about price will buy the more expensive one.
One of the Mozilla developers decided to drop MNG (animated PNG) support against the advice of nearly everyone else involved. Their reasoning was that it took up a whole 200kb of disk space.
But yeah, it'll remain much better than gif, and all the Photoshop users will say it sucks because Internet Explorer displays them too dark when saved from Photoshop.
That's not nice you know.
Yay. Now I can write useless gif utilities without paying those hefty fees ($1500 was it?). One idea would be to break an image into 16x16 tiles, reduce each to 16 colors or less, and piece them together as an animated gif to create a lossy gif for photos that are smaller than 256 color gifs and can break the 256 color barrier. Sure, you can't do much with it that you can't get from using better formats like png, but notice that I said useless.
They really got a lot out of LZW. Such widespread use, while still earning them lots of money.
I imagine myself some day investigating unexpected web server problems and finding 2 warnings and a message saying that all writeable files have been erased because it found an html file containing the word "Metallica."
It's all quite offensive, but something that really offends me is SCO's statement "It is not possible for Linux to rapidly reach Unix performance standards for complete enterprise functionality without the misappropriation of Unix code." You know, because any intelligent programmer would obviously rather pay tens of thousands to be allowed to modify Unix than modify Linux and accept that they must share their changes.
IRL, I don't need to tell people that there's something different about me. They always assume I'm foreign unless I tell them otherwise.
As a kid I was diagnosed with a whole lot of mental "disorders." They narrowed it down to ADD, Tourette's, Asperger's, and the things they're not sure of. They never prescribed drugs for my mental conditions.
I absolutely cannot think of 2 things at once. If I'm listening, I cannot think. If I'm speaking, I can't think, causing long pauses between sentences. If I'm thinking, I'm deaf and somewhat blind. If I'm lucky, a few words will reach me minutes later. On the other hand, I seem to be very well compensated by my mental strengths.
I'll just have to be extra careful not to drive while talking on the cellphone and listening to the radio with a friend in the passenger seat.
The world needs more imbalanced minds, so long as they aren't evil.
The company I work for is doing great, mainly because I'm underpaid.
I actually typed about 1000 words describing what I do there, but decided to scrap it. Now I feel bad for spending an hour on this post.
Seeing that movie was just about as exciting as watching other kids play nintendo games, which was pretty exciting since all I had was an Atari 2600. I didn't buy anything as a result. It was fun to watch though. I guess I must have been 7 years old at the time (I'm a little bit drunk).
I don't think I've seen the movie since then. I suppose it was more or less tossed after it had served its purpose.
I don't think Oppenheim answered the questions regarding the DMCA preventing circumvention after the copyright has expired. And how does extending a copyright a full lifetime beyond the death of the owner encourage innovation?
I guess they just won't get to see it then will they? I bet it sucks to be them. I wonder if any suicide bombings will result from this.