If so, then toss up the liscencing form for linux that SCO so nicely provided for linux users to the pubpat foundation as prior art to this attempt to patent this liscencing method !!!
This is probably the most well informed and insightful comment I've read on the political section of slashdot so far.
It amazes me that this comment has not been modded up yet, but if I had any mod points today, I would definitely be forking them to ya, instead all I've got is props.
"Cheap Labor" is the economic lynch-pin to hold together all of the republican parties' actions as a system of logical thought and not just mindless corruption, greed, and devaluation of America.
By that same token, I sincerely wonder if Carly Fiorina is a republican, and/or whether Dubya has ever spoken to her, He is doing to the country what she is doing to HP on a macro scale.
I was going to mod the correction to this ACs statement as insightful so people would see it, but then I remembered: tis better to explain than to judge.
It is one of the pet peeves of mine that the word COAXIAL is used to refer to so many different types of cables, that it can sometimes be confusing. This is what may have the parent AC confused.
While you CAN convert a normal 1.5mm (hereafter referred to as miniplug) female jack that 99% of people have on their sound cards to a what he refers to as coaxial cables (coaxial in this instance meaning the kind of cable that your cable television and internet use to come into the house, or that older televisions have as their only input), you gain nothing by doing this other than the ability to run the cables a long distance without any degradation. Though those coaxial cables may HAVE a theoretical bandwidth of 900mhz (or higher I'm not entirely sure) you'll never be using more than 22khz of that bandwidth.
What TFA is talking about is the coaxial cables used for digital sound, the format which is used by Sony and Phillips (hence the SPDIF, Sony-Phillips Digital Interface). This carries sound digitally at 44khz inbetween different consumer devices and also allows for different kinds of surround encoding such as DTS. The other format for carrying digital sound inbetween consumer devices is called optical, or more correctly TOSlink, and is supported by the rest of the manufacturers that didn't want to pay royalties to Sony/Phillips for using their patented standard. Optical also carries sound at 44khz and can support the same kinds of encoding as SPDIF can.
now the ON topic part of this post:
It is sad to see that the SoundStorm audio solution may not be carried on, as I thought it was the first real innovation in the computer sound industry in a long time. Even the DECENT onboard sound solutions had always used CPU cycles to encode the sound information provided by games to a theater standard surround setup such as DTS. The fact that Soundstorm can do this without any CPU time was a major boon to me as far as buying an Nforce2 chipset based board. Without the soundstorm, to get correctly positioned audio to my receiver I had to run both analog AND digital cables to my receiver and then switch between inputs on the receiver depending on whether I was gaming or watching a DVD.
That's so bullshit.
Having never really liked creative I didn't really feel like supporting them and purchasing an audigy 2 when I built my new computer to get correctly positional audio, so the Soundstorm enabled Nforce2 boards really fit the bill. I'll be sad to see it go, but I can understand how computer audio for most people is definitely a low priority.
It is my hope that the better class of mainboard makers (asus, abit, etc.) who make higher end boards for people who custom build will continue to provide the hardware required for the SoundStorm audio, and that Nvidia will keep the specification in the Nforce chipset. The best way to get this done is to continue to support manufacturers that realize there definitely IS a subset of people who would NOT like the cheapest quality components for the most important part of their system, and are willing to pay a premium for that.
*sigh* ranting done, when it all comes down to it, I guess it's always money that talks. It seems that the money (vote) of the consumer dollar is less and less powerful against the money (vote) of the corporate dollar. Why should it be any different overseas ?
Quake 3 benchmarks at 1024 (why do they still bench it?):
Athlon 64 3200+ - 322.7 FPS
Athlon 64 3000+ - 321.8 FPS
A large issue when trying to make a comparative benchmark "apples to apples" is that differences in video cards between systems can really inflate the differences between systems much moreso than those differences really apply.
Now you could use something like business winstone or sysmark or something like that, but those benchmarks cost a TON of fscking money ! Or you could use something synthetic and not based on realworld usage (like SiSoft's Sandra) but that also has its downfalls (optimization mostly).
So the general habit is to look at 3d games as an overall system benchmark and not as merely a graphics card benchmark.
This is where Quake 3 comes in, in that almost all modern graphics cards (hehhe maybe not the Parhelia and the Xabre) can overwhelmingly handle any 3d aspects of Quake 3. Oddly enough, it works quite well as a total system benchmark since it seems to do relatively well at using up the entirety of the rest of the system to push frames out, while removing the graphics card from the equation ! Thus giving you a non-synthetic system benchmark that doesn't take a long time to run !
Voila !
PS. for anyone else who is interested, Doom 3 just went on up Suprnova............
It was a bit tinfoil hat, I'll admit, but I think that it is certainly a possibility that Baystar is doing this to tie up their investor's identities in confidentiality agreements.
The only company that could even possibly get at SCO's investors REAL identities now would be IBM, as they are the only ones with valid discovery claims towards their counterclaims.
As for 'instructed', I take it that you've had limited exposure to venture capital?
I'm acquainted with both investment capital and shill companies much more intimately than I would rather be. Both looking for and getting denied VC, and watching undeserving companies get VC money due to large corporate interests.
In Today's tech climate, how many places do you think they could have found with a business plan worthy of their VC ? And they just ACCIDENTILY invested in the worst / most hated / sleaziest tech company that there is ? Or do you think they might have been induced into doing it........
BayStar ABSOLUTELY MUST do this! Otherwise, IBM and the others will be able to get the information about the link to Microsoft (read the Halloween Memos if you don't know what I'm talking about). They ONLY way to keep that information secret (and protect Bill) is to get it wrapped up in a lawsuit with "confidential" terms and a confidentiality agreement.
This has NOTHING to do with getting back the money they were instructed to channel to SCO.
So while we are all sitting around laughing at SCOX Baystar is definitely pulling a fast one to COVER THEIR investor's ASS(ETS).
The Inspiron series is now a joke. I've yet to meet a single customer of those laptops who did not have a problem within the first year (failed hard drive, fried motherboard, you name it).
Hey nice to meet you.
Outsourcing of support has made it impossible to get problems resolved in an efficient/competent manner.
Seriously, how many times has calling support helped you ? Almost every time I try and call support I can never talk to someone who has nearly as much of a clue as me anyway, I'll check for information on the internet, and if I can't figure it out from that I'll call support. They'll be unhelpful, and I'll check the internet again until its fixed.
Like it really matters if you're talking to a dumb Indian or a dumb Indianian (someone from Indiana). A fucking moron is a fucking moron.
Lata
There are definitely a lot of other people who know about non-DRM non-lossless encoding of music, if you check out www.etree.org you can find a lot of good information on other people distributing LEGAL music with the main two different kinds of lossless encoding, FLAC and SHN.
As far as BANDS distributing their own albums in lossless format, I don't know of any, but both Primus and Phish make their live shows available for download pretty shortly after the show (a week or so) in either decent quality mp3 or FLAC.
However, while we're on the topic, I have had a lot of trouble with certain FLAC files, both in my own encoding and in downloading it off of other people on etree and even from livephish.com
There are times when decoding a track to WAV that I end up getting errors in the decompression of the file, yet when listening to the flac file itself (using FUBAR) there is either no distortion at all or possibly a very minor distortion near the beginning or end. I have no idea why it would be located within the first or last 10% of the song instead of anywhere else in the song, nor can I find anyone else who has any explanation/fix.
And using FLAC (but not necessarily mp3) to encode files ripped from a CD, if the machine you're using has spotty ram, can cause all sorts of problems as well, so it is useful in situations like system testing/benchmarking for checking your settings in the bios to see if they are too extreme.
Latz
From that same link, wouldn't it be quite detrimental to Novell (pretty high up there on his contributer's list ?) for this law to be passed ?
A LOT of reverse engineering goes on to make Suse work nicely with Windows and other proprietary programs doesn't it ?
-A
heh, I was complaining to my friend that he couldn't game with the rest of us on his gentoo box, and i said "dammit man you have to get wine to work"
his reply ?
"I don't know man it seems to work fine on me, I'm pretty shitfaced."
Same, most of the random pIII boxen in my house are donations from people whose machines suddenly "became teh suck". They upgrade to a new machine, I move all their stuff over and I get their old boxen.
In that case why is everyone complaining about virii ? As far as I'm concerned it nets me more free computers.
Go virii ! more free comps !!!
I use allofmp3 as well and can't figure out why it doesnt get a higher percentage of the patronage.
The same people who are saying above that we are in the minority when it comes to the music we listen to would think that since we're a MINORITY we could be a bit more discerning shoppers.
Though the RIAA may be raising prices for the online shops because of the theoretical "buy the cd get the bu8lk discount" theory, I doubt that those price hikes will in any way affect anyone not located in the US.
Though you would think that instead of raising the price of single tracks online they would just lower the price of the cds in the store to the 7 or 8 dollars that it would take to get ME to buy another fucking cd again.........
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That ought to teach both of those bastards !
Ahhhh delicious irony !
It amazes me that this comment has not been modded up yet, but if I had any mod points today, I would definitely be forking them to ya, instead all I've got is props.
"Cheap Labor" is the economic lynch-pin to hold together all of the republican parties' actions as a system of logical thought and not just mindless corruption, greed, and devaluation of America.
By that same token, I sincerely wonder if Carly Fiorina is a republican, and/or whether Dubya has ever spoken to her, He is doing to the country what she is doing to HP on a macro scale.
Frightening.
It is one of the pet peeves of mine that the word COAXIAL is used to refer to so many different types of cables, that it can sometimes be confusing. This is what may have the parent AC confused.
While you CAN convert a normal 1.5mm (hereafter referred to as miniplug) female jack that 99% of people have on their sound cards to a what he refers to as coaxial cables (coaxial in this instance meaning the kind of cable that your cable television and internet use to come into the house, or that older televisions have as their only input), you gain nothing by doing this other than the ability to run the cables a long distance without any degradation. Though those coaxial cables may HAVE a theoretical bandwidth of 900mhz (or higher I'm not entirely sure) you'll never be using more than 22khz of that bandwidth.
What TFA is talking about is the coaxial cables used for digital sound, the format which is used by Sony and Phillips (hence the SPDIF, Sony-Phillips Digital Interface). This carries sound digitally at 44khz inbetween different consumer devices and also allows for different kinds of surround encoding such as DTS. The other format for carrying digital sound inbetween consumer devices is called optical, or more correctly TOSlink, and is supported by the rest of the manufacturers that didn't want to pay royalties to Sony/Phillips for using their patented standard. Optical also carries sound at 44khz and can support the same kinds of encoding as SPDIF can.
now the ON topic part of this post:
It is sad to see that the SoundStorm audio solution may not be carried on, as I thought it was the first real innovation in the computer sound industry in a long time. Even the DECENT onboard sound solutions had always used CPU cycles to encode the sound information provided by games to a theater standard surround setup such as DTS. The fact that Soundstorm can do this without any CPU time was a major boon to me as far as buying an Nforce2 chipset based board. Without the soundstorm, to get correctly positioned audio to my receiver I had to run both analog AND digital cables to my receiver and then switch between inputs on the receiver depending on whether I was gaming or watching a DVD.
That's so bullshit.
Having never really liked creative I didn't really feel like supporting them and purchasing an audigy 2 when I built my new computer to get correctly positional audio, so the Soundstorm enabled Nforce2 boards really fit the bill. I'll be sad to see it go, but I can understand how computer audio for most people is definitely a low priority.
It is my hope that the better class of mainboard makers (asus, abit, etc.) who make higher end boards for people who custom build will continue to provide the hardware required for the SoundStorm audio, and that Nvidia will keep the specification in the Nforce chipset. The best way to get this done is to continue to support manufacturers that realize there definitely IS a subset of people who would NOT like the cheapest quality components for the most important part of their system, and are willing to pay a premium for that.
*sigh* ranting done, when it all comes down to it, I guess it's always money that talks. It seems that the money (vote) of the consumer dollar is less and less powerful against the money (vote) of the corporate dollar. Why should it be any different overseas ?
Then I have a bridge I want to sell you........In Japan !
A large issue when trying to make a comparative benchmark "apples to apples" is that differences in video cards between systems can really inflate the differences between systems much moreso than those differences really apply.
Now you could use something like business winstone or sysmark or something like that, but those benchmarks cost a TON of fscking money ! Or you could use something synthetic and not based on realworld usage (like SiSoft's Sandra) but that also has its downfalls (optimization mostly).
So the general habit is to look at 3d games as an overall system benchmark and not as merely a graphics card benchmark.
This is where Quake 3 comes in, in that almost all modern graphics cards (hehhe maybe not the Parhelia and the Xabre) can overwhelmingly handle any 3d aspects of Quake 3. Oddly enough, it works quite well as a total system benchmark since it seems to do relatively well at using up the entirety of the rest of the system to push frames out, while removing the graphics card from the equation ! Thus giving you a non-synthetic system benchmark that doesn't take a long time to run !
Voila !
PS. for anyone else who is interested, Doom 3 just went on up Suprnova............
cuz a virus+sexual toys is a serious problem..........
The only company that could even possibly get at SCO's investors REAL identities now would be IBM, as they are the only ones with valid discovery claims towards their counterclaims.
As for 'instructed', I take it that you've had limited exposure to venture capital?
I'm acquainted with both investment capital and shill companies much more intimately than I would rather be. Both looking for and getting denied VC, and watching undeserving companies get VC money due to large corporate interests.
In Today's tech climate, how many places do you think they could have found with a business plan worthy of their VC ? And they just ACCIDENTILY invested in the worst / most hated / sleaziest tech company that there is ? Or do you think they might have been induced into doing it........
BayStar ABSOLUTELY MUST do this! Otherwise, IBM and the others will be able to get the information about the link to Microsoft (read the Halloween Memos if you don't know what I'm talking about). They ONLY way to keep that information secret (and protect Bill) is to get it wrapped up in a lawsuit with "confidential" terms and a confidentiality agreement.
This has NOTHING to do with getting back the money they were instructed to channel to SCO.
So while we are all sitting around laughing at SCOX Baystar is definitely pulling a fast one to COVER THEIR investor's ASS(ETS).
........ After mashing your small keyboard with your fingers that are too fat too type ? If so I want a drinking bird with my fat fingered keyboard !
I don't know about you but my lower horn is my long horn. If its not for you that's sad :(
The Inspiron series is now a joke. I've yet to meet a single customer of those laptops who did not have a problem within the first year (failed hard drive, fried motherboard, you name it). Hey nice to meet you. Outsourcing of support has made it impossible to get problems resolved in an efficient/competent manner. Seriously, how many times has calling support helped you ? Almost every time I try and call support I can never talk to someone who has nearly as much of a clue as me anyway, I'll check for information on the internet, and if I can't figure it out from that I'll call support. They'll be unhelpful, and I'll check the internet again until its fixed. Like it really matters if you're talking to a dumb Indian or a dumb Indianian (someone from Indiana). A fucking moron is a fucking moron. Lata
There are definitely a lot of other people who know about non-DRM non-lossless encoding of music, if you check out www.etree.org you can find a lot of good information on other people distributing LEGAL music with the main two different kinds of lossless encoding, FLAC and SHN. As far as BANDS distributing their own albums in lossless format, I don't know of any, but both Primus and Phish make their live shows available for download pretty shortly after the show (a week or so) in either decent quality mp3 or FLAC. However, while we're on the topic, I have had a lot of trouble with certain FLAC files, both in my own encoding and in downloading it off of other people on etree and even from livephish.com There are times when decoding a track to WAV that I end up getting errors in the decompression of the file, yet when listening to the flac file itself (using FUBAR) there is either no distortion at all or possibly a very minor distortion near the beginning or end. I have no idea why it would be located within the first or last 10% of the song instead of anywhere else in the song, nor can I find anyone else who has any explanation/fix. And using FLAC (but not necessarily mp3) to encode files ripped from a CD, if the machine you're using has spotty ram, can cause all sorts of problems as well, so it is useful in situations like system testing/benchmarking for checking your settings in the bios to see if they are too extreme. Latz
From that same link, wouldn't it be quite detrimental to Novell (pretty high up there on his contributer's list ?) for this law to be passed ? A LOT of reverse engineering goes on to make Suse work nicely with Windows and other proprietary programs doesn't it ? -A
heh, I was complaining to my friend that he couldn't game with the rest of us on his gentoo box, and i said "dammit man you have to get wine to work" his reply ? "I don't know man it seems to work fine on me, I'm pretty shitfaced."
Same, most of the random pIII boxen in my house are donations from people whose machines suddenly "became teh suck". They upgrade to a new machine, I move all their stuff over and I get their old boxen. In that case why is everyone complaining about virii ? As far as I'm concerned it nets me more free computers. Go virii ! more free comps !!!
I use allofmp3 as well and can't figure out why it doesnt get a higher percentage of the patronage. The same people who are saying above that we are in the minority when it comes to the music we listen to would think that since we're a MINORITY we could be a bit more discerning shoppers. Though the RIAA may be raising prices for the online shops because of the theoretical "buy the cd get the bu8lk discount" theory, I doubt that those price hikes will in any way affect anyone not located in the US. Though you would think that instead of raising the price of single tracks online they would just lower the price of the cds in the store to the 7 or 8 dollars that it would take to get ME to buy another fucking cd again.........