Don't you only pay a royalty to Thomson et al if you make a device/piece of software which can encode MP3s? So MP3 decoders are not subject to a fee-paying license, and neither are the MP3s either.
Since virtually no-one in the world has an OGG portable player (the market I'd imagine that this guy is interested in - would you want to sit at your desk/laptop to hear a book?), it makes sense to stick with MP3.
I was almost correct, but at the same time quite wrong - no fee is payable if the activity is non-commercial. So maybe he has a fee to pay, but maybe that is offset by the sheer number of MP3 players. see here. "However, no license is needed for private, non-commercial activities (e.g., home-entertainment, receiving broadcasts and creating a personal music library), not generating revenue or other consideration of any kind or for entities with associated annual gross revenue less than US$ 100 000.00."
Sorry, not trying to troll.. Just seems there is a lot more of this "proof of exploit" type code being posted these days then say back in 1996.
Perhaps today there are more coders actively looking at current software than there were in 1996. Indeed, there are probably more software apps around. In fact, make that "definitely".
Maybe all these kinds of bugs were in the software from 96, but they weren't used as widely or heavily. If no-one finds it, is it a bug? If a tree falls and no-one is around, does it make a sound?
86 comments and one mention of IRC. Why are they trying to re-invent the wheel? They want open, anh scalable? There it is, IRC. Why not concentrate time on things like video connection, picture sharing, and other fluffy stuff you get in the private IM clients. DCC is there, can't be hard. All it needs is a shift to an "on-line/off-line" style, which could be as easy as logging on to a special channel. This sort of stuff could be built in without breaking previous versions of the protocol.
This is excellent, a very important day in the history of TV on both sides of the Atlantic. But how open can it be made? Can we get our own stuff on there? Once again we hope that the community can come up with a magical solution.
Dude, you miss the point. You will have to keep the unit on and hope that nothing happens for 1.5-2hrs while this thing is dorking away in real time. If you want to use any special features such as pause/rw/ff, then you HAVE to have a hd to keep the thing burning properly (or a large ass memory buffer).
You've never heard of DVD-RAM then? A derided tochnology, which is a pity as it does exactly what you describe, in my living room right now. Though I can't imagine how you'd be able to fast forward something that is broadcast to you - not until video-on-demand takes off.
Plus an hour or two on the PC, and I get those "special features" you mystically refer to. You mean a menu and chapters, right?
And "hope that nothing happens for 1.5-2hrs" - come on, puh-lease... did you used to sit with fingers crossed hoping that the VHS wouldn't chew up? It works, simple as.
Absolutely, I've been thinking this for a long time. In fact, there's your hot business idea - start scooping up all the good but unwanted hardware from today, and get it in storage. In a decade's time, assuming it still works, a lot of people could be very keen to get their hands on this free (as in freedom) hardware.
Why doesn't the submitter just post the Coral Cache link straight off? Then we wouldn't have this problem. Or am I being dense? Surely there's no point pushing a server over if it's obvious to all that it will not survive the slashdotting.
No wikipedia is the reason wikipedia has the problems it does. would you sit $10,000 in unmarked bills in the middle of a crowded shopping mall and expect someone not to fuck with it?
But your rather stretched analogy relies on the information in Wikipedia being of some value - since anyone can come along and edit it, where exactly is the value? Exactly how will you be able to gather "kudos" amongst your peers just because you can edit a freely-editable page? Big deal. No, slipping your own name into Wiki entries must rank as the most pointless, useless "hack" that anyone's conceived. Well done AC for being able to clck "Edit". U R00l
This is a very important topic, has been mentioned for years, and of course it has already been demonstrated in real life... the BBC Domesday Project of the 80s, where kids across the UK were asked to submit their own descriptions and images of their local area, much in the way of the original Domesday Book of 1086. It was collated on the default school computer, the BBC Micro, and packaged up & sold back to schools on huge laser discs. Except as the 21st century arrived, no-one had any readers. A basic example, perhaps, but one that actually happened. As it turned out, they managed to
get to the data, after appeals on the web & in the press, and it can be browsed here.
Strangely the article barely touched on physical degradation. This is a bigger problem. We don't know how long these cheap late 90s CDs will last. However that's the same for any media, from paper and photos. The advantage we have is we can easily run off an exact clean copy on fresh media - this why I've started to date every CD/DVD I burn.
Strange, cos on 1.06/Windows you get an "Add Engines" option which eventually takes you to http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html and more engines to add to the box than you can shake a stick at.
(Meanwhile I'd really appreciate it if the articles on/. were more than ads for one service/program/etc over another these days . ..)
Come now, a lot of people use the two services mentioned. If a lot of people used PINE, I'd expect to see stories about new versions of that, too. Is this not news? Only been out a week, to selected users only.
nice one... you had to commission a survey to discover that up to half of all blogs are self-indulgent irrelevant crap? Next time, just send me a mail, I can tell you this stuff for free.
I thought of this too. Why are satellites always described in terms of washing machines? Probes too, always seem to be compared to the kitchen appliance. I'm looking forward to the first satellite that's as big as a standard fridge/freezer.
my six presets in my car because I cannot even find six decent stations. That's a sad commentary on the state of radio.
The situation there sounds as dire as it is in the UK. Yet we have a hundredth of the number of stations! And at least we have Radio 4. One day, I thought of American radio as dynamic, fresh, exciting and different (not that I'd heard it, but that's the impression I garnered). Seems like I'll have to modify that view.
But if the beam is going to be strong enough to completely blind a camera, I'd be really concerned about what it could do for the eyes.
Who cares, as long as it stops thieves & hoodlums from capturing poor-quality copies of films. We have an industry to protect, here. It's worth slightly more than your eyes.
AOL is just about to turn the corner and is currently the most undervalued division of Time Warner
What a turnaround, it can't be more than 2 years since I was reading that AOL was the most overvalued business ever sold or bought.
Does this mean that even with the dot-com bubble burst, and with rumours of a new comms 'super-bubble' on the horizon, analysts STILL consider AOL as worth more than the music & the films & the TV?
Acts that incite rebellion or civil disorder against an established government.
thanks,.
In case anyone was wondering. Like me... Is this what Brits call "treason"? Except that treason is against the monarchy, and sedition is against the government (elected by the people who might rise up against them and boot them out)
Which would be extremely useful to breathe, drink, or make fuel in orbital factories/colonies, the moon or even Mars, and much cheaper to bring in, if much slower, than hauling up from Earth.
Are you advocating running round space and stealing stuff?
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Don't you only pay a royalty to Thomson et al if you make a device/piece of software which can encode MP3s? So MP3 decoders are not subject to a fee-paying license, and neither are the MP3s either.
Since virtually no-one in the world has an OGG portable player (the market I'd imagine that this guy is interested in - would you want to sit at your desk/laptop to hear a book?), it makes sense to stick with MP3.
I was almost correct, but at the same time quite wrong - no fee is payable if the activity is non-commercial. So maybe he has a fee to pay, but maybe that is offset by the sheer number of MP3 players. see here. "However, no license is needed for private, non-commercial activities (e.g., home-entertainment, receiving broadcasts and creating a personal music library), not generating revenue or other consideration of any kind or for entities with associated annual gross revenue less than US$ 100 000.00."
Sorry, not trying to troll.. Just seems there is a lot more of this "proof of exploit" type code being posted these days then say back in 1996.
Perhaps today there are more coders actively looking at current software than there were in 1996. Indeed, there are probably more software apps around. In fact, make that "definitely". Maybe all these kinds of bugs were in the software from 96, but they weren't used as widely or heavily. If no-one finds it, is it a bug? If a tree falls and no-one is around, does it make a sound?
Moderators: Parent should be +1 Funny,
Unless of course he really meant it.
86 comments and one mention of IRC. Why are they trying to re-invent the wheel? They want open, anh scalable? There it is, IRC. Why not concentrate time on things like video connection, picture sharing, and other fluffy stuff you get in the private IM clients. DCC is there, can't be hard. All it needs is a shift to an "on-line/off-line" style, which could be as easy as logging on to a special channel. This sort of stuff could be built in without breaking previous versions of the protocol.
This is excellent, a very important day in the history of TV on both sides of the Atlantic. But how open can it be made? Can we get our own stuff on there? Once again we hope that the community can come up with a magical solution.
Wow man, that's like poetry.
Dude, you miss the point. You will have to keep the unit on and hope that nothing happens for 1.5-2hrs while this thing is dorking away in real time. If you want to use any special features such as pause/rw/ff, then you HAVE to have a hd to keep the thing burning properly (or a large ass memory buffer).
You've never heard of DVD-RAM then? A derided tochnology, which is a pity as it does exactly what you describe, in my living room right now. Though I can't imagine how you'd be able to fast forward something that is broadcast to you - not until video-on-demand takes off.
Plus an hour or two on the PC, and I get those "special features" you mystically refer to. You mean a menu and chapters, right?
And "hope that nothing happens for 1.5-2hrs" - come on, puh-lease... did you used to sit with fingers crossed hoping that the VHS wouldn't chew up? It works, simple as.
Hello The Daily Show, this will be the first TV show get regular distribution in a Podcast-type manner.
So was mine. No-one uses floppies any more, ergo there is no problem (that's also a joke)
You use floppies?
Absolutely, I've been thinking this for a long time. In fact, there's your hot business idea - start scooping up all the good but unwanted hardware from today, and get it in storage. In a decade's time, assuming it still works, a lot of people could be very keen to get their hands on this free (as in freedom) hardware.
Why doesn't the submitter just post the Coral Cache link straight off? Then we wouldn't have this problem. Or am I being dense? Surely there's no point pushing a server over if it's obvious to all that it will not survive the slashdotting.
One day, I'll read an article by Orlowski which has something positive to say. Wake up when that happens.
No wikipedia is the reason wikipedia has the problems it does. would you sit $10,000 in unmarked bills in the middle of a crowded shopping mall and expect someone not to fuck with it?
But your rather stretched analogy relies on the information in Wikipedia being of some value - since anyone can come along and edit it, where exactly is the value? Exactly how will you be able to gather "kudos" amongst your peers just because you can edit a freely-editable page? Big deal. No, slipping your own name into Wiki entries must rank as the most pointless, useless "hack" that anyone's conceived. Well done AC for being able to clck "Edit". U R00l
This is a very important topic, has been mentioned for years, and of course it has already been demonstrated in real life... the BBC Domesday Project of the 80s, where kids across the UK were asked to submit their own descriptions and images of their local area, much in the way of the original Domesday Book of 1086. It was collated on the default school computer, the BBC Micro, and packaged up & sold back to schools on huge laser discs. Except as the 21st century arrived, no-one had any readers. A basic example, perhaps, but one that actually happened. As it turned out, they managed to get to the data, after appeals on the web & in the press, and it can be browsed here.
Strangely the article barely touched on physical degradation. This is a bigger problem. We don't know how long these cheap late 90s CDs will last. However that's the same for any media, from paper and photos. The advantage we have is we can easily run off an exact clean copy on fresh media - this why I've started to date every CD/DVD I burn.
you can't add new searches to the "googlebox".
Strange, cos on 1.06/Windows you get an "Add Engines" option which eventually takes you to http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html and more engines to add to the box than you can shake a stick at.
(Meanwhile I'd really appreciate it if the articles on /. were more than ads for one service/program/etc over another these days . . .)
Come now, a lot of people use the two services mentioned. If a lot of people used PINE, I'd expect to see stories about new versions of that, too. Is this not news? Only been out a week, to selected users only.
could do a few more things about the content.
Why is there always someone who, when hearing about the completion of some exciting project, says "yeh, all very well, but why didn't you fix THAT?!"
nice one... you had to commission a survey to discover that up to half of all blogs are self-indulgent irrelevant crap? Next time, just send me a mail, I can tell you this stuff for free.
I thought of this too. Why are satellites always described in terms of washing machines? Probes too, always seem to be compared to the kitchen appliance. I'm looking forward to the first satellite that's as big as a standard fridge/freezer.
my six presets in my car because I cannot even find six decent stations. That's a sad commentary on the state of radio.
The situation there sounds as dire as it is in the UK. Yet we have a hundredth of the number of stations! And at least we have Radio 4. One day, I thought of American radio as dynamic, fresh, exciting and different (not that I'd heard it, but that's the impression I garnered). Seems like I'll have to modify that view.
But if the beam is going to be strong enough to completely blind a camera, I'd be really concerned about what it could do for the eyes.
Who cares, as long as it stops thieves & hoodlums from capturing poor-quality copies of films. We have an industry to protect, here. It's worth slightly more than your eyes.
AOL is just about to turn the corner and is currently the most undervalued division of Time Warner
What a turnaround, it can't be more than 2 years since I was reading that AOL was the most overvalued business ever sold or bought.
Does this mean that even with the dot-com bubble burst, and with rumours of a new comms 'super-bubble' on the horizon, analysts STILL consider AOL as worth more than the music & the films & the TV?
sedition
.
Acts that incite rebellion or civil disorder against an established government.
thanks,
In case anyone was wondering. Like me... Is this what Brits call "treason"? Except that treason is against the monarchy, and sedition is against the government (elected by the people who might rise up against them and boot them out)
Which would be extremely useful to breathe, drink, or make fuel in orbital factories/colonies, the moon or even Mars, and much cheaper to bring in, if much slower, than hauling up from Earth.
Are you advocating running round space and stealing stuff?