But is the source code Google releases actually the source code from which Google builds Chrome? I'm not sure where, but I got the impression that there's some proprietary closed-source code involved in actual Chrome builds.
Or you could do something along the lines of what the Rio Karma did and have a dock with an ethernet port, a minimal web server, and a java applet for transferring stuff over, except not quite as buggy/slow.
"Copies" are material objects, other than phonorecords, in which a work is fixed by any method now known or later developed, and from which the work can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. The term "copies" includes the material object, other than a phonorecord, in which the work is first fixed.
and
A work is "fixed" in a tangible medium of expression when its embodiment in a copy or phonorecord, by or under the authority of the author, is sufficiently permanent or stable to permit it to be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated for a period of more than transitory duration. A work consisting of sounds, images, or both, that are being transmitted, is "fixed" for purposes of this title if a fixation of the work is being made simultaneously with its transmission.
In the case of copying to a RAM disk to try to circumvent copyright law, I'm thinking that would be considered "fixed" since the period would be more than transitory duration. DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT A LAWYER
DISCLAIMER: not a lawyer And the patents on the 386 instruction set "should" be expired or unenforcable too. The first 386 chips came out in 1986, plus a year after the commercial implementation to file plus 20 years for the patent itself.
Also, instruction sets shouldn't be patentable, IMO.
Not to mention that the legislature still hasn't passed a special elections law, even though Blagojevich was arrested almost three fucking months ago. Hell, they could pass a law declaring Roland Burris's appointment/senate seat purchase temporary and calling for a special election to replace his corrupt senate seat purchasing ass. Or they could spend their time trying to fix the state budget. But they have to waste their time on stupid shit like this. Fuck.
Except I wasn't referring to gold CDRs. I was referring to the gold CDs from labels like Mobile Fidelity that claim that they sound better because the gold reflects better, which is pseudoscience marketing bullshit. In reality, the only differences in sound have to do with the super See Chabo's comment below: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1142351&cid=27006539
Oh, and I think I spelled pseudoscience correctly this time.
Bzzt. First, Amazon's download manager is available for Linux*. Second, and more useful, IMO, http://code.google.com/p/clamz/
It sucks that Amazon hasn't heard of the newfangled.zip format, but saying that you can't buy albums from Amazon on Linux is a lie.
*Admittedly, it wasn't available when they launched the mp3 store, and it's a pain in the ass to get working if you're not running one of the 4 linux distro versions they make packages for, but it is available.
But IMO, this technology is useless as some other ones from Sony.
Reminds me of the pseusoscience marketing bullshit they use for things like gold cds.
However, it wouldn't surprise me if these new CDs sound better, but the blue laser won't have anything to do with it. It'll have to do with higher quality mastering (such as not compressing and clipping the music within inches of its life).
DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer. For what it's worth, I seem to recall reading that opinions cannot be slander/libel. "I think you have sex with farm animals" would be seen as a "fact" and potentially be slander/libel. "I think you're an asshole" or "You're an asshole" would be seen as an opinion and not be slander/libel. Unless a judge decided to interpret that as me saying that someone literally is an anus.
If they didn't spend so much on R&D, they wouldn't have so many patents that they can claim that Linux infringes on. Then again, they do sound a bit like Joseph McCarthy and his list of "Communists" when they play the patent card.
Actually, iTunes (probably) does still have DRM. They're planning to be completely DRM-free by the end of March. And IIRC about 80% of the music on the iTunes store went DRM-free when they announced that they were going DRM-free.
For what it's worth, for properly-optimized decoders on ARM, there isn't really a CPU penalty for Ogg Vorbis, if anything there's a CPU penalty for MP3. Unless you have multiple CPU cores and optimize the MP3 decoder to use both cores but only use 1 core for Vorbis.
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And I don't mean trademarks/artwork like in firefox/seamonkey/thunderbird.
Artwork and trademarks are trivial to replace.
But is the source code Google releases actually the source code from which Google builds Chrome?
I'm not sure where, but I got the impression that there's some proprietary closed-source code involved in actual Chrome builds.
Except Earthlink uses DNS servers that hijack NXDOMAIN requests.
On the other hand, so does TimeWarner.
Or you could do something along the lines of what the Rio Karma did and have a dock with an ethernet port, a minimal web server, and a java applet for transferring stuff over, except not quite as buggy/slow.
iPhone OS 3.0 allegedly will have copy/paste.
Not that it shouldn't have been added in one of the first 16 public builds.
Not necessarily.
According to 17 USC 101,
and
In the case of copying to a RAM disk to try to circumvent copyright law, I'm thinking that would be considered "fixed" since the period would be more than transitory duration.
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Fair Use Circumvention Kit?
Acronym's so much better.
"I got FUCKed when Microsoft shut down their FUCK servers."
If they start supporting mp3hd, you mean.
Since when does Texas have a congress? Last I checked, the term was "legislature".
Not really, unless you're running one of Intel's new Core i7 processors that don't work with DDR2.
For what it's worth,
is wrong.
The Adamo uses Intel's GS45 chipset, which has an integrated "Mobile Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD"
If that's true, Sarbanes-Oxley is a horrible law*
I suspect Apple's full of shit on this, though.
*Not that it isn't horrible anyway
And as far as I can tell AMD couldn't ship any particularly useful mainstream processor either.
I mean, even if you run 64 bit Windows, you're probably running a significant quantity of 32 bit only application code.
And I'm not sure how useful the AMD64 instruction set would be if you ripped out all the 32 bit x86 instructions anyway
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And the patents on the 386 instruction set "should" be expired or unenforcable too.
The first 386 chips came out in 1986, plus a year after the commercial implementation to file plus 20 years for the patent itself.
Also, instruction sets shouldn't be patentable, IMO.
Not to mention that the legislature still hasn't passed a special elections law, even though Blagojevich was arrested almost three fucking months ago.
Hell, they could pass a law declaring Roland Burris's appointment/senate seat purchase temporary and calling for a special election to replace his corrupt senate seat purchasing ass.
Or they could spend their time trying to fix the state budget.
But they have to waste their time on stupid shit like this.
Fuck.
Except I wasn't referring to gold CDRs.
I was referring to the gold CDs from labels like Mobile Fidelity that claim that they sound better because the gold reflects better, which is pseudoscience marketing bullshit.
In reality, the only differences in sound have to do with the super
See Chabo's comment below: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1142351&cid=27006539
Oh, and I think I spelled pseudoscience correctly this time.
Bzzt.
First, Amazon's download manager is available for Linux*.
Second, and more useful, IMO, http://code.google.com/p/clamz/
It sucks that Amazon hasn't heard of the newfangled .zip format, but saying that you can't buy albums from Amazon on Linux is a lie.
*Admittedly, it wasn't available when they launched the mp3 store, and it's a pain in the ass to get working if you're not running one of the 4 linux distro versions they make packages for, but it is available.
Reminds me of the pseusoscience marketing bullshit they use for things like gold cds.
However, it wouldn't surprise me if these new CDs sound better, but the blue laser won't have anything to do with it. It'll have to do with higher quality mastering (such as not compressing and clipping the music within inches of its life).
Or, if they implement this how I think they will, a quick DNS server switch should do the trick.
More like suing the hardware store that supplied the car thief with the brick that he used to steal your car.
DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer.
For what it's worth, I seem to recall reading that opinions cannot be slander/libel.
"I think you have sex with farm animals" would be seen as a "fact" and potentially be slander/libel.
"I think you're an asshole" or "You're an asshole" would be seen as an opinion and not be slander/libel.
Unless a judge decided to interpret that as me saying that someone literally is an anus.
If they didn't spend so much on R&D, they wouldn't have so many patents that they can claim that Linux infringes on.
Then again, they do sound a bit like Joseph McCarthy and his list of "Communists" when they play the patent card.
Actually, iTunes (probably) does still have DRM. They're planning to be completely DRM-free by the end of March.
And IIRC about 80% of the music on the iTunes store went DRM-free when they announced that they were going DRM-free.
Probably.
Will it pass?
Probably not, unless they cram it in a popular bill.
For what it's worth, for properly-optimized decoders on ARM, there isn't really a CPU penalty for Ogg Vorbis, if anything there's a CPU penalty for MP3.
Unless you have multiple CPU cores and optimize the MP3 decoder to use both cores but only use 1 core for Vorbis.