Analog CATV is standardized, cable channel 27 in one town is on the same frequencies as cable channel 27 in another.
Not entirely. It is quite common for systems that even require an analog cable box to remap one or two channels to another channel number. E.g. the public access channel here is on channel 80 when you have one of the cable company's boxes, but on channel 99 for everyone else. Most often such things are done for scrambled channels like Spice so kids can't easily find them and listen in to the moans (now only in the evening hours), but public access here is a basic cable channel.
This frustrates TiVo owners when they want to use their own cable box for their (non-premium) analog channels (poss. because they want to record a better S-Video signal the cableco won't supply on their boxes) but the guide data won't match up to the correct channel numbers for them.
How about the desktop being what your iSight is pointing at at that very moment, scaled up to full screen? Mirrored for rear view or normal for behind-monitor view as if your monitor wasn't in your line of sight (assuming there's anything worth seeing there like out a window or keeping an eye on the kids). Maybe with the contrast reduced to make it less distracting.
But a DVD, even easier is to change your desktop background to the same color Apple DVD Player is color-keyed to replace, with the player in full-screen. Then even the icons on your desktop will be atop the video.
You're going to endanger us. You're going to endanger our application: the nice actuarial program that credited our account in advance before she became a null device.
And unfortunately Seagate admitted they were not planning on including particle accelerators in their hard disks any time soon...
If they did, that would give new meaning to "ghosting" a drive. They'd have to come with a product warning: Don't cross the bitstreams. It would be bad.
Unless Mary was a chimera, having as a fetus absorbed the cells of a fraternal male twin. It happens and frustrates DNA testing. Some human chimeras have mottled skin; it seems to depend upon when the fertilized eggs merged.
Of course, that just makes it even more rare: parthenogenesis of a chimeric human female carrying the suppressed male DNA of her fraternal twin and transferance of the Y chromosome of that twin to the produced fetus.
Of course, some will say such an improbability of events coming about would still be evidence of the hand of God.
I thought "how geeky", but then remembered the guy who paid $22,550 for Joaquin Phoenix's white armor from Gladiator, claiming he was going to wear it at his wedding.
Sounds like he picked the right color to wear for his wedding.
Maybe Vader gets his body lopped off, but the Emperor saves his head to be transplanted onto a completely mechanical body. Now that would tie in nicely to the scene on Degobah where Luke sees himself lopping off Vader's head.
Then again, maybe I'm giving Lucas' vision too much credit.
Unfortunately one can still be convicted of armed robbery instead of just simple robbery if it was committed with an unrealistic toy gun, so I doubt an empty camcorder would be a defense. (Contrary to H.I. McDonnough, it is indeed armed robbery even if the gun ain't loaded.)
And they'd surely allege you'd passed the "missing" tape to an unknown escaped accomplice. And any camcorder batteries as well. Or any electronics inside an empty camcorder casing. Or the entire camcorder out of the empty box they caught you with.
Rules of evidence get in the way of convictions, so they write the laws these days to not require evidence (nor proof of intent).
I never have and never will film a movie with a camcorder.
What if there develops a product like a personal TiVo experience, where everything you perceive is recorded and stored for 30 minutes, and if you missed something you could go back and view it again? No more whispering to the person next to you to ask for an unheard line repeated. If you fell asleep during a portion, you could watch it again delayed. If you must use the restroom, hit pause and place it in the seat to continue recording (or likely with a companion for security). If you haven't seen the end before the movie lets out, you could pause, vacate the venue, and view the rest on a bench outside later.
Legislation like this makes such innovative technology illegal to possess in the very venues where it would be so very useful and fair to use. The law does not care about the nature of the use of the recording device; it just bans them outright. The law is overbroad and unjust.
Oh, that's right; they want technology like TiVo made illegal as well because it's the Boston Strangler on steroids.
If it is legal to record something in your brain, it should be legal to record it outside of your brain as well, until that recording is put to unfair use.
Imagine if extracting accurate memories into shareable recordings becomes possible and legal for personal use. Are they going to ban anyone able to encode new long term memories from seeing the movie like Memento in theaters?
How many people reasonably take the camcorder for purely personal viewing with no intent to distribute the copy?
So you concede that if one has no intent to distribute and are only doing it for personal viewing, that no copyright violation would be involved?
It very well could be only for personal use. It could also be for press coverage, commenting on the content for television, when the studio refuses to provide a copy for that purpose. That would be fair use. As would excerpts for discussion in an educational context.
(Granted, a reporter or teacher would view one showing, then record during a second showing only those excerpts needed for the report, not the entire movie. Such a report could be to bring to light how studios are marring their own movies as presented to theater goers by putting big brown dots in bright areas of the screen.)
If it's for personal viewing, they can wait, spent $4 more, buy the DVD, and be legal.
You mean unambiguously legal, don't you? Depending on the intent behind the recording, even recording an entire movie could be fair use. This California law seeks to eliminate a form of fair use copying by eliminating from consideration the intent behind making that recording.
Particularly when theatrical editions are prevented from ever being made available after the initial theatrical run, seeking to enjoy copyright protection in perpetuity by denying any possibility of the works entering the public domain.
IE ignores the MIME type provided it by the server, in violation of RFC 1945 and RFC 2616 ("Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0" and "...-- HTTP/1.1") sections 7.2.1 (reprinted below from the latter), and instead sniffs the content to determine how to render it. Anything served as "text/plain" is treated with suspicion and reinterpreted by IE in violation of this section.
7.2.1 Type
When an entity-body is included with a message, the data type of that body is determined via the header fields Content-Type and Content-Encoding. These define a two-layer, ordered encoding model:
entity-body:= Content-Encoding( Content-Type( data ) )
Content-Type specifies the media type of the underlying data. Content-Encoding may be used to indicate any additional content codings applied to the data, usually for the purpose of data compression, that are a property of the requested resource. There is no default encoding.
Any HTTP/1.1 message containing an entity-body SHOULD include a Content-Type header field defining the media type of that body. If and only if the media type is not given by a Content-Type field, the recipient MAY attempt to guess the media type via inspection of its content and/or the name extension(s) of the URI used to identify the resource. If the media type remains unknown, the recipient SHOULD treat it as type "application/octet-stream".
Microsoft breaks this in that they don't understand what "if and only if" means (i.e. the client MUST NOT guess media type by inspection when any type IS provided by the server).
While this makes their browser work with misconfigured servers that fail to set types correctly, the habit of testing with that and only that browser effectively hides the problem from authors and breaks pages for every browser that follows the RFC.
As this is seen as a benefit for IE over other browsers, Microsoft is uninterested in fixing it. Compare Netscape's unclosed quoted attribute bug which broke other browsers and which Netscape did fix, but then made previously working pages require fixing.
Please test your pages with standards-compliant browsers, including HTTP standards, and fix the problem with the server by assigning the appropriate file extension mapping of ".GIF" to "image/gif" on your server. (And every other case variation while you're at it.) Or rename the file to have a.gif (lowercase) extension, which likely will work.
I didn't rag on him for shooting Digital8, I criticised him for chopping off heads. I wouldn't rag on someone who uses what he can find to produce as good a thing as he, she or it can.
Maybe he's playing it safe by not using identifiable subject footage because he didn't want to pay to have the legal talent contracts drawn up that he'd need to clear for publication on a website (i.e. he doesn't want to be sued).
You need a different level of concentration when talking on the cell phone and driving vs talking to a passenger and driving.
Yes, when not on the phone you can talk with one hand and still have the other on the wheel. Hence the hands-free devices.
I don't talk with my hands, but I have seen others stopped at a light on a cell phone taking the opportunity to accentuate their conversation with another on the phone with hand gestures unaware that it isn't a video cell phone.
True, the link was rather short, connecting The Simpsons to St. Elsewhere by having Homer visit Cheers when Norm attacks Woody with a broken bottle for withholding beer.
Of course though, that means Cheers, Frasier, and Wings are also figments of the same autistic child's imagination. As well as the two Brady Bunch movies (and thus the series?). That's some imagination!
So I discount any crossovers between live action and animated shows. The Simpsons only intends them as cultural references (especially when an episode contradicts itself, such as the connection with The Archies).
Animated spinoffs of live-action shows also occasionally have to be discounted, such as elements of Star Trek: The Animated Series and all of Stargate Infinity; but Highlander: The Animated Series, like the Highlander franchise as a whole, has its own unique approach to continuity issues.
but since Steve was concerned that the apple symbol was seen too often
Thinking about this from a trademark standpoint, this would make sense. Using the corporate logo as a command key makes every program seeking to display this key in menus getting branded with the Apple logo out of functional necessity, but could be misconstrued by the unwashed masses as an official endorsement of the software by Apple. Using something else eliminates such an implied endorsement. And not putting third-party applications underneath the Apple menu in Mac OS X today would be a logical extension of that.
Of course, that's assuming there was such logic behind the decision in the first place. Jobs had reportedly referred to it as, "taking the Apple logo in vain!" when he demanded a new symbol be chosen for Command.
Strange then that Microsoft has no problem with keyboards being branded with the Windows trademarked logo, and without an (R) or TM to boot! (At least on this Key Tronic(R) keyboard.)
Anyone sell replacement keycaps to turn Windows keys into Tux keys?
I stand corrected. I still haven't encountered a Lisa and only seen an Apple III in person but briefly.
Another note: the Open Apple and Closed Apple glyphs also lived in the MouseText characters available on the enhanced Apple//e and the IIgs, and likely on the//c+. I suspect they're present on the//c, and they may be available on models of the III. AppleWorks (the original) used them on-screen.
The command / propeller / flower / swedish campground feature symbol AFAIK never made it into MouseText before MouseText ceased to be. (The IIgs replaced the two-character running-man symbol with two other characters, one of which is used for racing stripes for text-window title bars.)
Ah yes, the open- and closed-apple keys. Introduced on the Apple IIe, generated the same signals as button 1 and button 2 on joysticks and paddles. Control-OpenApple-Reset restarted the machine, Control-ClosedApple-Reset put it into self test mode. (Encountered a problem a user had where Control-Reset would always cause a reboot. Turned out to be a stuck button on the joystick.)
Morphed into Command and Option on the Apple IIgs which used an ADB keyboard but with Control next to the A and Caps Lock small and below the Shift key. (Nowadays keyboards for computers are arranged more for typing than for programming; if it weren't for Windows, the Control may have gone away entirely by now.) The Reset key lost its label. Command and Option were still the same game I/O button signals. Forced reboot became Control-Command-Reset.
Macs came to call Reset the Power key, as pressing it would cause the computer to power up unlike the IIgs, but they still had the triangle symbol as the IIgs used. The restart sequence became known as Control-Command-Power. Eventually morphed into a power button with the c- symbol on its back. Then it vanished from the keyboard entirely.
What three-finger-salute does one use to force a reboot from the keyboard now?
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Analog CATV is standardized, cable channel 27 in one town is on the same frequencies as cable channel 27 in another.
Not entirely. It is quite common for systems that even require an analog cable box to remap one or two channels to another channel number. E.g. the public access channel here is on channel 80 when you have one of the cable company's boxes, but on channel 99 for everyone else. Most often such things are done for scrambled channels like Spice so kids can't easily find them and listen in to the moans (now only in the evening hours), but public access here is a basic cable channel.
This frustrates TiVo owners when they want to use their own cable box for their (non-premium) analog channels (poss. because they want to record a better S-Video signal the cableco won't supply on their boxes) but the guide data won't match up to the correct channel numbers for them.
Exactly. This technology is thus nothing more than replacing /dev/eth0 with /dev/null.
How about the desktop being what your iSight is pointing at at that very moment, scaled up to full screen? Mirrored for rear view or normal for behind-monitor view as if your monitor wasn't in your line of sight (assuming there's anything worth seeing there like out a window or keeping an eye on the kids). Maybe with the contrast reduced to make it less distracting.
But a DVD, even easier is to change your desktop background to the same color Apple DVD Player is color-keyed to replace, with the player in full-screen. Then even the icons on your desktop will be atop the video.
You're going to endanger us. You're going to endanger our application: the nice actuarial program that credited our account in advance before she became a null device.
And unfortunately Seagate admitted they were not planning on including particle accelerators in their hard disks any time soon...
If they did, that would give new meaning to "ghosting" a drive. They'd have to come with a product warning: Don't cross the bitstreams. It would be bad.
This baby lacks a Mr. Fusion.
Can you even get a Krups 'Coffina' Coffee Grinder Model 223-A today to build one?
Unless Mary was a chimera, having as a fetus absorbed the cells of a fraternal male twin. It happens and frustrates DNA testing. Some human chimeras have mottled skin; it seems to depend upon when the fertilized eggs merged.
Of course, that just makes it even more rare: parthenogenesis of a chimeric human female carrying the suppressed male DNA of her fraternal twin and transferance of the Y chromosome of that twin to the produced fetus.
Of course, some will say such an improbability of events coming about would still be evidence of the hand of God.
I thought "how geeky", but then remembered the guy who paid $22,550 for Joaquin Phoenix's white armor from Gladiator, claiming he was going to wear it at his wedding.
Sounds like he picked the right color to wear for his wedding.
Note: that's 1/2^32 (substitute your own favorite exponential syntax), not one in two hundred thirty-two.
Sounds like they need to have penalties for excessive celebration and delay of on-line game.
Maybe Vader gets his body lopped off, but the Emperor saves his head to be transplanted onto a completely mechanical body. Now that would tie in nicely to the scene on Degobah where Luke sees himself lopping off Vader's head.
Then again, maybe I'm giving Lucas' vision too much credit.
Cut off Apple's share of India's outsource jobs.
Assuming that Apple outsources to India of course. I'd be glad to be wrong.
Consider that it's still not strong enough to keep secrets from Bill Gates.
Unfortunately one can still be convicted of armed robbery instead of just simple robbery if it was committed with an unrealistic toy gun, so I doubt an empty camcorder would be a defense. (Contrary to H.I. McDonnough, it is indeed armed robbery even if the gun ain't loaded.)
And they'd surely allege you'd passed the "missing" tape to an unknown escaped accomplice. And any camcorder batteries as well. Or any electronics inside an empty camcorder casing. Or the entire camcorder out of the empty box they caught you with.
Rules of evidence get in the way of convictions, so they write the laws these days to not require evidence (nor proof of intent).
I never have and never will film a movie with a camcorder.
What if there develops a product like a personal TiVo experience, where everything you perceive is recorded and stored for 30 minutes, and if you missed something you could go back and view it again? No more whispering to the person next to you to ask for an unheard line repeated. If you fell asleep during a portion, you could watch it again delayed. If you must use the restroom, hit pause and place it in the seat to continue recording (or likely with a companion for security). If you haven't seen the end before the movie lets out, you could pause, vacate the venue, and view the rest on a bench outside later.
Legislation like this makes such innovative technology illegal to possess in the very venues where it would be so very useful and fair to use. The law does not care about the nature of the use of the recording device; it just bans them outright. The law is overbroad and unjust.
Oh, that's right; they want technology like TiVo made illegal as well because it's the Boston Strangler on steroids.
If it is legal to record something in your brain, it should be legal to record it outside of your brain as well, until that recording is put to unfair use.
Imagine if extracting accurate memories into shareable recordings becomes possible and legal for personal use. Are they going to ban anyone able to encode new long term memories from seeing the movie like Memento in theaters?
How many people reasonably take the camcorder for purely personal viewing with no intent to distribute the copy?
So you concede that if one has no intent to distribute and are only doing it for personal viewing, that no copyright violation would be involved?
It very well could be only for personal use. It could also be for press coverage, commenting on the content for television, when the studio refuses to provide a copy for that purpose. That would be fair use. As would excerpts for discussion in an educational context.
(Granted, a reporter or teacher would view one showing, then record during a second showing only those excerpts needed for the report, not the entire movie. Such a report could be to bring to light how studios are marring their own movies as presented to theater goers by putting big brown dots in bright areas of the screen.)
If it's for personal viewing, they can wait, spent $4 more, buy the DVD, and be legal.
You mean unambiguously legal, don't you? Depending on the intent behind the recording, even recording an entire movie could be fair use. This California law seeks to eliminate a form of fair use copying by eliminating from consideration the intent behind making that recording.
Particularly when theatrical editions are prevented from ever being made available after the initial theatrical run, seeking to enjoy copyright protection in perpetuity by denying any possibility of the works entering the public domain.
Except it isn't. At least, not in sniper rifle form.
Though it does remind me of IMIPAK. The only proposed defense against it was slavery.
IE ignores the MIME type provided it by the server, in violation of RFC 1945 and RFC 2616 ("Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0" and "...-- HTTP/1.1") sections 7.2.1 (reprinted below from the latter), and instead sniffs the content to determine how to render it. Anything served as "text/plain" is treated with suspicion and reinterpreted by IE in violation of this section. Microsoft breaks this in that they don't understand what "if and only if" means (i.e. the client MUST NOT guess media type by inspection when any type IS provided by the server).
While this makes their browser work with misconfigured servers that fail to set types correctly, the habit of testing with that and only that browser effectively hides the problem from authors and breaks pages for every browser that follows the RFC.
As this is seen as a benefit for IE over other browsers, Microsoft is uninterested in fixing it. Compare Netscape's unclosed quoted attribute bug which broke other browsers and which Netscape did fix, but then made previously working pages require fixing.
Please test your pages with standards-compliant browsers, including HTTP standards, and fix the problem with the server by assigning the appropriate file extension mapping of ".GIF" to "image/gif" on your server. (And every other case variation while you're at it.) Or rename the file to have a
And it's happen to be called "leveraging monopoly power".
And unlike Microsoft, if someone were to call them on it in court, they might actually be made to feel pain.
I didn't rag on him for shooting Digital8, I criticised him for chopping off heads. I wouldn't rag on someone who uses what he can find to produce as good a thing as he, she or it can.
Maybe he's playing it safe by not using identifiable subject footage because he didn't want to pay to have the legal talent contracts drawn up that he'd need to clear for publication on a website (i.e. he doesn't want to be sued).
You need a different level of concentration when talking on the cell phone and driving vs talking to a passenger and driving.
Yes, when not on the phone you can talk with one hand and still have the other on the wheel. Hence the hands-free devices.
I don't talk with my hands, but I have seen others stopped at a light on a cell phone taking the opportunity to accentuate their conversation with another on the phone with hand gestures unaware that it isn't a video cell phone.
True, the link was rather short, connecting The Simpsons to St. Elsewhere by having Homer visit Cheers when Norm attacks Woody with a broken bottle for withholding beer.
Of course though, that means Cheers, Frasier, and Wings are also figments of the same autistic child's imagination. As well as the two Brady Bunch movies (and thus the series?). That's some imagination!
So I discount any crossovers between live action and animated shows. The Simpsons only intends them as cultural references (especially when an episode contradicts itself, such as the connection with The Archies).
Animated spinoffs of live-action shows also occasionally have to be discounted, such as elements of Star Trek: The Animated Series and all of Stargate Infinity; but Highlander: The Animated Series, like the Highlander franchise as a whole, has its own unique approach to continuity issues.
but since Steve was concerned that the apple symbol was seen too often
Thinking about this from a trademark standpoint, this would make sense. Using the corporate logo as a command key makes every program seeking to display this key in menus getting branded with the Apple logo out of functional necessity, but could be misconstrued by the unwashed masses as an official endorsement of the software by Apple. Using something else eliminates such an implied endorsement. And not putting third-party applications underneath the Apple menu in Mac OS X today would be a logical extension of that.
Of course, that's assuming there was such logic behind the decision in the first place. Jobs had reportedly referred to it as, "taking the Apple logo in vain!" when he demanded a new symbol be chosen for Command.
Strange then that Microsoft has no problem with keyboards being branded with the Windows trademarked logo, and without an (R) or TM to boot! (At least on this Key Tronic(R) keyboard.)
Anyone sell replacement keycaps to turn Windows keys into Tux keys?
I stand corrected. I still haven't encountered a Lisa and only seen an Apple III in person but briefly.
//e and the IIgs, and likely on the //c+. I suspect they're present on the //c, and they may be available on models of the III. AppleWorks (the original) used them on-screen.
Another note: the Open Apple and Closed Apple glyphs also lived in the MouseText characters available on the enhanced Apple
The command / propeller / flower / swedish campground feature symbol AFAIK never made it into MouseText before MouseText ceased to be. (The IIgs replaced the two-character running-man symbol with two other characters, one of which is used for racing stripes for text-window title bars.)
Ah yes, the open- and closed-apple keys. Introduced on the Apple IIe, generated the same signals as button 1 and button 2 on joysticks and paddles. Control-OpenApple-Reset restarted the machine, Control-ClosedApple-Reset put it into self test mode. (Encountered a problem a user had where Control-Reset would always cause a reboot. Turned out to be a stuck button on the joystick.)
Morphed into Command and Option on the Apple IIgs which used an ADB keyboard but with Control next to the A and Caps Lock small and below the Shift key. (Nowadays keyboards for computers are arranged more for typing than for programming; if it weren't for Windows, the Control may have gone away entirely by now.) The Reset key lost its label. Command and Option were still the same game I/O button signals. Forced reboot became Control-Command-Reset.
Macs came to call Reset the Power key, as pressing it would cause the computer to power up unlike the IIgs, but they still had the triangle symbol as the IIgs used. The restart sequence became known as Control-Command-Power. Eventually morphed into a power button with the c- symbol on its back. Then it vanished from the keyboard entirely.
What three-finger-salute does one use to force a reboot from the keyboard now?