Lets say Ford starts putting the same engine in all of their cars.
In the faster cars they run all 8 cylinders, but in the slower ones they pull the spark plug wires off a few of them.
Maybe they dont even bother to put tapped mounting holes in the block for the spark plugs on those cylinders so enterprising consumers won't go in there and hook the remaining cylinders up.
Should that be illegal? Why?
If you dont want to buy a 4 cylinder that really could have been an 8 cylinder, don't buy it.
The weakest link in the typical reproduction chain is the speakers.
A major reason that you can likely tell the difference between a live trumpet player and a recording, even down the hall, is the failure of the recording process to accurately capture the acoustics at the performance combined with the coloration of the listening environment and the speakers.
Another huge factor with those types of live instruments is dynamic range, something which will be addressed with higher bit depth formats.
Yeah, but if they just paid you a straight $90,000 salary, they'd get to deduct that, which is the whole point.
But my point, pedantic as it may be, was that these large corporations aren't giving away anything. It is merely a different form of compensation than a paycheck.
How many more people need to post something about the high power dissipation of LEDs?
"Diodes have several major advantages over liquid crystals in that they emit their own light so they don't have to be backlighted, thus reducing energy requirements substantially..."
I thought the point of an Ask Slashdot was to put out a question with many possible answers, such as "Is there any way to set up a machine to do X, Y, and Z?".
Then people can respond with a variety of solutions to the problem. This can provide a wealth of information to the person asking the question, as well as other interested parties.
This question (and a few other recent ones) asks something that probably could have easily been answered with a quick web search. Not only that, but the answer isn't really something that requires a community response.
"Where's X?"
"It's over there"
"Oh."
...
It's not that I am bitter that this guy asked this question. I am bitter because we miss out other questions with potentially more interesting answers.
No, of course not, but I thought he was saying that you could dump photoshop, look at the machine code for a given algorithm, and use that in your own program.
I do think that your clean room implementation would be ok, but not if your report contained any machine code from the stuff you looked at.
There is a difference between interacting with a program to understand how it works (or writing a second program to interface with it) and just dumping the binary to look at the machine code.
Almost certainly the latter is illegal, which I believe is what you are talking about.
If you can look at the machine code and make use of it in your own program, just look at ALL the machine code and you can copy ALL of their software! That can't be right.
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"Anyway, why is it the clued in one who dissapears from the scene? "
Dunno. Ask Woz.
Are they absolutely sure it's a real cease and desist?
Seems like this guy would be a prime target for a practical joke...
"They are preventing me from having the ability to make my own decisions"
If you are under 18, you don't have the right to make your own decisions.
1) How the hell are adults rights being hurt by a ratings system so long as nothing is censored, just rated?
2) The point isn't that this relieves the responsibility of the parents to raise their kids, but why make their jobs harder?
Should kids be allowed to buy guns since any decent parent wouldn't let their kid go into a gun shop?
Same goes for drivers license, alcohol, tobacco, and lots of other things kids aren't allowed to do.
There is a serious problem with the memory bandwidth of current cards, but embedded memory promises to alleviate this situation.
I don't think it's a hard wall by any means.
I disagree.
Lets say Ford starts putting the same engine in all of their cars.
In the faster cars they run all 8 cylinders, but in the slower ones they pull the spark plug wires off a few of them.
Maybe they dont even bother to put tapped mounting holes in the block for the spark plugs on those cylinders so enterprising consumers won't go in there and hook the remaining cylinders up.
Should that be illegal? Why?
If you dont want to buy a 4 cylinder that really could have been an 8 cylinder, don't buy it.
Do you really put floppies in your pocket?
I don't think I've ever done that and I've handled a lot of 3.5" floppies (don't take that the wrong way)
Those little doors can slide open and I wouldn't want to get some pocket lint on the exposed media.
They are unreliable enough without being handled carelessly.
I'm guessing these things aren't any more reliable than regular 1.44MB floppies.
That's as much of a reason for me welcoming the demise of floppies as their diminutive size.
We need something that is larger, as cheap, and more reliable. Wait a minute, how about CD-R(W)s?
They are the floppy replacement. Forget this kind of stuff.
Not if you refuse to pay to see the movie under any other circumstances.
Of course, if you are putting this much effort into rationalizing going to see the movie, I'd guess that you would see it regardless.
I live in the Bay Area and I have no idea what 287 is.
There is a 237 but it's in the south bay.
Are you Al Gore'ing this story out of nowhere?
If Doom is jumpy on any kind of modern system then you know that this is one inefficient port.
The weakest link in the typical reproduction chain is the speakers.
A major reason that you can likely tell the difference between a live trumpet player and a recording, even down the hall, is the failure of the recording process to accurately capture the acoustics at the performance combined with the coloration of the listening environment and the speakers.
Another huge factor with those types of live instruments is dynamic range, something which will be addressed with higher bit depth formats.
But my point, pedantic as it may be, was that these large corporations aren't giving away anything. It is merely a different form of compensation than a paycheck.
How many more people need to post something about the high power dissipation of LEDs?
"Diodes have several major advantages over liquid crystals in that they emit their own light so they don't have to be backlighted, thus reducing energy requirements substantially..."
It's all about the backlight.
I don't like the way a lot of people are wording this.
Corporations don't "give you" stock. It is accepted as a form of payment, for services one provides to the company.
Microsoft isn't "losing" $90,000 in your example. They are expecting to recover that through work done by the employee.
You must be thinking of Tribes.
Almost. :)
If by "started" they mean "capitalized on" then I would tend to agree.
I thought the point of an Ask Slashdot was to put out a question with many possible answers, such as "Is there any way to set up a machine to do X, Y, and Z?".
...
Then people can respond with a variety of solutions to the problem. This can provide a wealth of information to the person asking the question, as well as other interested parties.
This question (and a few other recent ones) asks something that probably could have easily been answered with a quick web search. Not only that, but the answer isn't really something that requires a community response.
"Where's X?"
"It's over there"
"Oh."
It's not that I am bitter that this guy asked this question. I am bitter because we miss out other questions with potentially more interesting answers.
I think this would be a tremendous boon for free software.
I know many people who would be much more likely to try out Linux/Star Office/Gimp etc. if they actually had to pay for the software that they use.
If MS's tactic is to allow piracy until they own the market, then try to stop the pirates and soak up the profits, it may just backfire on them.
No, of course not, but I thought he was saying that you could dump photoshop, look at the machine code for a given algorithm, and use that in your own program.
I do think that your clean room implementation would be ok, but not if your report contained any machine code from the stuff you looked at.
There is a difference between interacting with a program to understand how it works (or writing a second program to interface with it) and just dumping the binary to look at the machine code.
Almost certainly the latter is illegal, which I believe is what you are talking about.
If you can look at the machine code and make use of it in your own program, just look at ALL the machine code and you can copy ALL of their software! That can't be right.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/09/06/19142 45&cid=409
Can I sue her once she gets her share?
Wouldn't one rather use a dedicated DSP for MP3 decoding rather than a general purpose CPU?
I would think that the power requirements would be lower.
I believe you are correct, but if they don't maintain some appearance of conforming to their own standards, the government will step in.
And they REALLY don't want that.