First of all this is JUST another Linux distro. The big difference is that it comes with Wine already installed and configured to work WITHOUT a windows partition. They can charge what they want for it, yes it's GPL'ed software. Maybe their installer won't be GPL'ed, maybe they will write or purchase some closed source drivers for unsupported hardware. They already said you can install it on more than one computer per copy, so they are living up to that part of the GPL. (Hey remember that Redhat charges more than $99 for the professional version of THEIR distro.)
Actually little messages like this are probably a GOOD thing. Make the public feel GUILTY about stealing software, music, and video and maybe cowel us into doing the RIGHT thing, buy our own copies! If we all respected the copyrights of others maybe the idea of the government putting hardware and software into our computers to FORCE us into doing the right thing would go away. Also things like MACROVISION and COPY PROTECTED CD's would never have surfaced if people were honest. It's because of greed on the consumers part that our rights to fair use have been take away. Mind you I'm not saying that the media companies greed hasn't played a part in this. (Such as wanting to own a piece of the MP3 market, or rather to CREATE a PAYING market for MP3's instead of letting people create their own via fair use of CD's they already own).
If you purchased an UPGRADE copy of say win98 to replace your win95, you DID NOT get a new license for win98. Your ORIGINAL win95 license was UPGRADED to win98. You therefore CAN NOT legally sell your 'used' win95 software (UNLESS you ALSO give away ALL your copies of win98 as well). Now if you went and bought a FULL version of win98 to replace your win95, then you DO have an 'extra' license and you could (in theory) sell that win95 software, but the EULA proabably prohibits it.
If you have a shrinkwrapped box copy of any ms software that was never opened and the shrinkwrap is still in place around the box, then you should be able to sell it. Since you never opened the box you never invoked the EULA and it can't apply to you!
Ok all you hackers out there. Lets write a script that will detect when someone is trying to hack a computer and then hack them back. What we need is a computer corbomite device.
Oh this already happened! Some car rental company had GPS hooked up to the speedometers and automaticly fined anyone leasing their cars when they caught them speeding! (BTW they lost in court).
My how we have become jaded by techonology! There is absolutly nothing wrong with analog cassette recordings. Combined with dolby or other noise reduction circuits and good metal tapes an analog cassette deck can capture the original with execellent results. True things like flutter & wow, print through, and dynamic range are a notch or two below a good digital recording but there are no problems with aliasing or bit errors. Least we forget that lossy compression tecniques such as MP3 can reduce headroom, frequency response and signal to noise ratios to the point that the recording is now 'only' as good as a high quality analog cassette! Digital has it's advantages in long life storage, size of media, and in quality BUT some digital formats and copy protection methods will trade size for quality. Remember that many people are of the opinion that the older laser disks have better picture quality than DVD's (the video on a laser disk is ANALOG folks!). The compression used on DVD's (along with the weak copy protection) is the problem here.
When this happens, computer users will simply IGNORE the law. Let them TRY and put EVERYONE in jail! Disneyworld will become a GHOST TOWN! CDs and DVD's will be BURNED in the streets! Linus will move back to FINNLAND! Finally the US supreme court will very likely take a shit on the thing in the end. (President un-elected GWB will probably be STUPID enough to SIGN this POS.....btw I do support him in the current crisis, the man is doing somethings right).
>Question 2, how exactly does it prevent the >playability in a computer?? Both the computer >and the CD Player have little CPUs that >interpret 1s and 0s read from a lazer. How could >they design something that would work in one and >not the other??
Guess you're new to this subject. Various ways.
1: insert noise into the data in a form that the cd player will think is a scratched disk. The player will correct the data using the RS correction and the sound will be fine (or nearly so). The computer drive will return the bad data without correction. Some computer drives MIGHT pass the data through RS correction during ripping, but only at 1X speed.
2: screw up the TOC data. The players use this info in a different fasion than digital data drives so again it works in a player but not in a ripper.
only the outlaws will have guns. If US citizens can't have crypto sw, how will this keep terrorists from getting it? This is NOT a solution to a problem! It might help the FBI against the Mafia, but probably not. They are barking up the wrong tree here.
I think that there is no question of Napster's intent. Their logo was / is a cat wearing headphones, IE: Napster was created for the purpose of sharing music. Their picking that logo was their doom IMHO.
Of course Napster could be used for other things, and if you believe that I have this nice bridge in Brooklyn up for sale.....
Maybe this is a time paradox, they have to change the past to insure that the future they are in actually happens.....Remember BTTF part 2?
Same thing happened to Spock in the cartoon series of ST, where he had to go back in time through the guardian of time to keep himself from being killed as a boy.
Same thing happened in the ending of Voyager, Janeway goes back in time to get the crew home.
Well we still need to know the MHZ of the chip if only to be able to select the correct MB and Memory to work with the cpu. The mother boards will probably then specify which 'models' they work with, but that would not be as clear as 'any cpu up to xxx mhz'.
Guess we could compare bogomips!
BTW the use of both clock edges (133 vs 266mhz) on the FSB is nothing new. The 1 mhz 6800 chips were as fast as the 2mhz 8080's (bus wise anyway) because the 6800 used both clock edges, while the 8080 worked off only one edge. (actually since both used two phase clocks and the 8080 used an asymetrical clock waveform things are a litte different here but the idea is the same. The 6800 spat out the address on one phase of the clock and grabbed the data off the bus on the other phase. The 8080 took two clock cycles to do the same work).
Thirty years ago I worked for Digital Equipment Corp, as a systems testing engineer. Our department did hardware and software testing of all systems configurations that went out the door, I worked on the LSI-11 based stuff. One of the tests we had to do was for ESD, or static discharge as it was there called. The test consited of drawing an arc from any exposed surface of the equipment, to pass it had to withstand an arc of at least 5000 volts (IIRC). The tester was a high voltage power supply that could be adjusted to as high as 15kv (it was limited to a few MA). The probe was an old VTVM high voltage probe with the tip replaced by a metal sphere about 6-8" in diameter. The tester would crank up the voltage and pass the sphere around the outside of the computer to draw an arc from various locations as the computer was running a systems diagnostic. There had to be no systems failures. Usually we didn't fry anything (I can't remember ever destroying anything), but sometimes the diagnostic would fault or the computer would re-boot when the arc was drawn. I wonder if any of todays PC's could pass such a test? (Not running windows!, probably get the BSOD when you draw an arc!).
There IS a difference in the dyes, wavelength used, etc. The prices of the dvd blanks will be high for a while until mass production kicks in, then they will come down. They WILL be higher than cd's just because they hold more and you will therefore be willing to pay more......
Interesting that the DVD recordable market is skipping the write once units and going directly for the re-writables.
The 4.7gb limit is based on a single sided, single layer disk. I think there are technical problems with dual layer recordable disks at this time so don't expect to see any of them anytime soon. A dual layer pre-recorded disk could hold about 8.5gb. Dual SIDED recordable disks ARE possible (glue two single sided disks together) but you stil have to FLIP 'em over to get to the other side, so what's the point? (are there any dvd players that flip sides?).
4.7 gb is actually GOOD for a recordable, maybe in a few years a dual layer recordable will be possible, but for now I think you HAVE to glue two pre-recorded surfaces together to make one. (4 if double sided).
I. Asimov disliked most of the members of mesna for similar reasons (he became a member, but for a long time never attended because he couldn't stand being with these people).
But not all chess players are like that. I worked with someone who was a member of the chess federation. That is he had a ranking (low as it was).
Some people would say that being able to hack computers takes a special kind of mental skill. I guess any group of people can sink to snoberism, and yet another group of similar people will rise above it. There are assholes in any group.
Well then get rid of ice dancing, figure skating, infact EVERY "sport" where score isn't kept by a real measure of time, distance, or goals scored. If a panel of biased judges decide the winner get rid of it. At least there is a clear winner in chess.
I guess most people think of "sport" as being a physical thing, not mental. I don't see any reason why a mental game couldn't be classified as a sport. Also the original olympic games were designed as a substitute for war. Chess has also been used as a substitute for war.
If chess does make it into the olympics, then that lets the door open for other games such as poker, blackjack, etc.
The only problem I see is who would buy a ticket to watch a chess match? Unless you are a serious chess player yourself the game can be a exciting as watching paint dry. Then again, the matchup with "deep blue" a few years ago raised quite an interest.
If the device used to enable fair use can't tell the difference between fair use and illegal use then the device must be illegal?
Well then we MUST make handguns illegal. A gun can't tell the difference between a legal use, and being used to commit a crime.
It MUST be made legal to SELL any tool that has a LEGAL purpose, even IF it can be used for an illegal one. Otherwise EVERYTHING is illegal. Guns, cars, screwdrivers, etc.
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First of all this is JUST another Linux distro. The big difference is that it comes with Wine already installed and configured to work WITHOUT a windows partition. They can charge what they want for it, yes it's GPL'ed software. Maybe their installer won't be GPL'ed, maybe they will write or purchase some closed source drivers for unsupported hardware. They already said you can install it on more than one computer per copy, so they are living up to that part of the GPL. (Hey remember that Redhat charges more than $99 for the professional version of THEIR distro.)
Actually little messages like this are probably a GOOD thing. Make the public feel GUILTY about stealing software, music, and video and maybe cowel us into doing the RIGHT thing, buy our own copies! If we all respected the copyrights of others maybe the idea of the government putting hardware and software into our computers to FORCE us into doing the right thing would go away. Also things like MACROVISION and COPY PROTECTED CD's would never have surfaced if people were honest. It's because of greed on the consumers part that our rights to fair use have been take away. Mind you I'm not saying that the media companies greed hasn't played a part in this. (Such as wanting to own a piece of the MP3 market, or rather to CREATE a PAYING market for MP3's instead of letting people create their own via fair use of CD's they already own).
If you purchased an UPGRADE copy of say win98 to replace your win95, you DID NOT get a new license for win98. Your ORIGINAL win95 license was UPGRADED to win98. You therefore CAN NOT legally sell your 'used' win95 software (UNLESS you ALSO give away ALL your copies of win98 as well). Now if you went and bought a FULL version of win98 to replace your win95, then you DO have an 'extra' license and you could (in theory) sell that win95 software, but the EULA proabably prohibits it.
If you have a shrinkwrapped box copy of any ms software that was never opened and the shrinkwrap is still in place around the box, then you should be able to sell it. Since you never opened the box you never invoked the EULA and it can't apply to you!
Ok all you hackers out there. Lets write a script that will detect when someone is trying to hack a computer and then hack them back. What we need is a computer corbomite device.
Oh this already happened! Some car rental company had GPS hooked up to the speedometers and automaticly fined anyone leasing their cars when they caught them speeding! (BTW they lost in court).
My how we have become jaded by techonology! There is absolutly nothing wrong with analog cassette recordings. Combined with dolby or other noise reduction circuits and good metal tapes an analog cassette deck can capture the original with execellent results. True things like flutter & wow, print through, and dynamic range are a notch or two below a good digital recording but there are no problems with aliasing or bit errors. Least we forget that lossy compression tecniques such as MP3 can reduce headroom, frequency response and signal to noise ratios to the point that the recording is now 'only' as good as a high quality analog cassette! Digital has it's advantages in long life storage, size of media, and in quality BUT some digital formats and copy protection methods will trade size for quality. Remember that many people are of the opinion that the older laser disks have better picture quality than DVD's (the video on a laser disk is ANALOG folks!). The compression used on DVD's (along with the weak copy protection) is the problem here.
who is this turd and what is he saying?
When this happens, computer users will simply IGNORE the law. Let them TRY and put EVERYONE in jail! Disneyworld will become a GHOST TOWN! CDs and DVD's will be BURNED in the streets! Linus will move back to FINNLAND! Finally the US supreme court will very likely take a shit on the thing in the end. (President un-elected GWB will probably be STUPID enough to SIGN this POS.....btw I do support him in the current crisis, the man is doing somethings right).
>Question 2, how exactly does it prevent the >playability in a computer?? Both the computer >and the CD Player have little CPUs that >interpret 1s and 0s read from a lazer. How could >they design something that would work in one and >not the other??
Guess you're new to this subject. Various ways.
1: insert noise into the data in a form that the cd player will think is a scratched disk. The player will correct the data using the RS correction and the sound will be fine (or nearly so). The computer drive will return the bad data without correction. Some computer drives MIGHT pass the data through RS correction during ripping, but only at 1X speed.
2: screw up the TOC data. The players use this info in a different fasion than digital data drives so again it works in a player but not in a ripper.
First he says you can't rip the cd, next he says you can make copies for your mp3 player.
How do you do that without ripping?
OK Lucus, when are you going to release the FIRST three (OK the MIDDLE three) Star Wars movies on DVD?
only the outlaws will have guns. If US citizens can't have crypto sw, how will this keep terrorists from getting it? This is NOT a solution to a problem! It might help the FBI against the Mafia, but probably not. They are barking up the wrong tree here.
Remember what the Japanese Admiral who led the attack on Pearl habor said....
"I fear that all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
I think that it's telling that a terrorist nuclear attack HASN'T happened yet. I think they know we will exchange kilotons with MEGATONS.
You can't hide a thermonuclear device in a suitcase, it WILL be too big. A small kiloton device (IE: less than those dropped on Japan) yes.
Remember "the taking of Pelham one two three"?
Anyway I'd like to see the US build a network of high speed trains that would rival the airlines.
I think that there is no question of Napster's intent. Their logo was / is a cat wearing headphones, IE: Napster was created for the purpose of sharing music. Their picking that logo was their doom IMHO.
Of course Napster could be used for other things, and if you believe that I have this nice bridge in Brooklyn up for sale.....
Maybe this is a time paradox, they have to change the past to insure that the future they are in actually happens.....Remember BTTF part 2?
Same thing happened to Spock in the cartoon series of ST, where he had to go back in time through the guardian of time to keep himself from being killed as a boy.
Same thing happened in the ending of Voyager, Janeway goes back in time to get the crew home.
Well we still need to know the MHZ of the chip if only to be able to select the correct MB and Memory to work with the cpu. The mother boards will probably then specify which 'models' they work with, but that would not be as clear as 'any cpu up to xxx mhz'.
Guess we could compare bogomips!
BTW the use of both clock edges (133 vs 266mhz) on the FSB is nothing new. The 1 mhz 6800 chips were as fast as the 2mhz 8080's (bus wise anyway) because the 6800 used both clock edges, while the 8080 worked off only one edge. (actually since both used two phase clocks and the 8080 used an asymetrical clock waveform things are a litte different here but the idea is the same. The 6800 spat out the address on one phase of the clock and grabbed the data off the bus on the other phase. The 8080 took two clock cycles to do the same work).
Thirty years ago I worked for Digital Equipment Corp, as a systems testing engineer. Our department did hardware and software testing of all systems configurations that went out the door, I worked on the LSI-11 based stuff. One of the tests we had to do was for ESD, or static discharge as it was there called. The test consited of drawing an arc from any exposed surface of the equipment, to pass it had to withstand an arc of at least 5000 volts (IIRC). The tester was a high voltage power supply that could be adjusted to as high as 15kv (it was limited to a few MA). The probe was an old VTVM high voltage probe with the tip replaced by a metal sphere about 6-8" in diameter. The tester would crank up the voltage and pass the sphere around the outside of the computer to draw an arc from various locations as the computer was running a systems diagnostic. There had to be no systems failures. Usually we didn't fry anything (I can't remember ever destroying anything), but sometimes the diagnostic would fault or the computer would re-boot when the arc was drawn. I wonder if any of todays PC's could pass such a test? (Not running windows!, probably get the BSOD when you draw an arc!).
There IS a difference in the dyes, wavelength used, etc. The prices of the dvd blanks will be high for a while until mass production kicks in, then they will come down. They WILL be higher than cd's just because they hold more and you will therefore be willing to pay more......
Interesting that the DVD recordable market is skipping the write once units and going directly for the re-writables.
The 4.7gb limit is based on a single sided, single layer disk. I think there are technical problems with dual layer recordable disks at this time so don't expect to see any of them anytime soon. A dual layer pre-recorded disk could hold about 8.5gb. Dual SIDED recordable disks ARE possible (glue two single sided disks together) but you stil have to FLIP 'em over to get to the other side, so what's the point? (are there any dvd players that flip sides?).
4.7 gb is actually GOOD for a recordable, maybe in a few years a dual layer recordable will be possible, but for now I think you HAVE to glue two pre-recorded surfaces together to make one. (4 if double sided).
I. Asimov disliked most of the members of mesna for similar reasons (he became a member, but for a long time never attended because he couldn't stand being with these people).
But not all chess players are like that. I worked with someone who was a member of the chess federation. That is he had a ranking (low as it was).
Some people would say that being able to hack computers takes a special kind of mental skill. I guess any group of people can sink to snoberism, and yet another group of similar people will rise above it. There are assholes in any group.
Well then get rid of ice dancing, figure skating, infact EVERY "sport" where score isn't kept by a real measure of time, distance, or goals scored. If a panel of biased judges decide the winner get rid of it. At least there is a clear winner in chess.
I guess most people think of "sport" as being a physical thing, not mental. I don't see any reason why a mental game couldn't be classified as a sport. Also the original olympic games were designed as a substitute for war. Chess has also been used as a substitute for war.
If chess does make it into the olympics, then that lets the door open for other games such as poker, blackjack, etc.
The only problem I see is who would buy a ticket to watch a chess match? Unless you are a serious chess player yourself the game can be a exciting as watching paint dry. Then again, the matchup with "deep blue" a few years ago raised quite an interest.
If the device used to enable fair use can't tell the difference between fair use and illegal use then the device must be illegal?
Well then we MUST make handguns illegal. A gun can't tell the difference between a legal use, and being used to commit a crime.
It MUST be made legal to SELL any tool that has a LEGAL purpose, even IF it can be used for an illegal one. Otherwise EVERYTHING is illegal. Guns, cars, screwdrivers, etc.