The Biter Bit
Posted on November 20, 2008 in Corel WordPerfect Office
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Virtually Patent
Posted on November 19, 2008 in Discreet 3D Studio
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Vietnam Eyes Open Source
Posted on November 19, 2008 in Corel Print House
It seems this the WTO's demands are starting to cut among Vietnam: Though copyright sale isn’t very basic achievable the Vietnamese plug, at the finis of 2006, respective major state-owned actions signed copyright contracts with Microsoft. An van was the Ministry of Piece, which bought 15.000 Arena software copyrights. Vietnam Begging Commit (Vietcombank) Also signed agreements to number among 4.000 permits due to Microsoft Favor 2003 enclosed by 3 years. Vietnam’s starting to buy ebook copyrights is in fact a good matronymic writing this the country is starting to respect WTO plans. The fact this the Ministry of Expense, onliest of the most important ministries separating Vietnam, balls the leading role, still helps to prove to the real estate that Vietnam intends to plan good wholly of its ezine copyright pledges to the WTO. Also not surprisingly, humans there are beginning to wonder if there isn't a better type - above all due to a developing country that has better things to do with its financial wealth than giving them to the richest dude interpolated the apple plus his group: At a national conference onward open-source newsletter held among Hanoi at the end of 2006, Vietnam Note Horde cryed whereas the remedy additionally chain of domestic products, encouragement of spring ebook with interdependent points close Because OpenOffice, still request of new technologies conforming while Internet 2.0 which MSN, MSN, Sun, Oracle are currently using. Over the WTO clamps spring forth countries that use unauthorised similitudes of software setup a large dimension, this number of order is bound to be following. Update : Over, here's further country with reasons of its withhold since preferring emancipate ezine to the lot this buzzs from the US.... cheap microsoft office cheap corel draw
Delete AutoCAD layer filters
Posted on November 16, 2008 in Adobe Premiere
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The Nikon RAW Format Rumpus
Posted on November 07, 2008 in Adobe GoLive
There's been considerable noise from many quarters over the Adobe vs. Nikon tiff about Nikon encrypting the white balance data in its model D70 RAW files. Adobe yelled that it wouldn't support Nikon's RAW format in Photoshop. Nikon came back with a not-entirely-satisfactory offer to make the SDK available to some developers. My intent here isn't to recapitulate the debate here--which now appears to be at least somewhat overblown anyway. (For the edification of non-photographers, RAW is a camera (or least sensor)-specific format for the digital data captured by the sensor. Because it hasn't been further manipulated or compressed in a lossy way (a la JPEG), it's the highest quality way to store images on camera that support it.) I do find one aspect of this mess particularly troublesome, however. And it's not Nikon's lack of openness--which is a boneheaded PR move that I can't see benefiting them. (Nor am I convinced that Adobe's motives in taking this public were necessarily pure.) Rather, it's the fact that Adobe could credibly invoke the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) as the reason it couldn't decrypt Nikon's format. I'm not a lawyer, but I'm far from convinced that the DMCA--and specifically its decryption provisions-- would apply here. After all, it's the metadata for the photographer's own data (picture) that's being decrypted. But, the fact that Adobe's can claim concern about violating the DMCA--and people widely accepted that concern as valid--should be concerning. We don't really know what a judge or a jury could decide are the limits of the DMCA. Certainly "DMCA" gts thrown around by the anti-IP crowd as a bogeyman on the order of RIAA--but that doesn't mean it's right either. cheap corel draw cheap microsoft office
Patents, Copyright, DRM vs. Evolution
Posted on November 02, 2008 in Corel Print House
What’s so fundamentally wrong with bogus patents, trivial patents, software patents, term extensions, limiting interpretations of copyright, digital restrictions management and digital copy-protection laws (among other things)? A lot. It limits the evolution of human culture. Lawrence Lessig has explained how and why, several times, in his presentation ‘free culture’. Watch it here (Flash needed): July 24, 2002Loading...100%6,503 KB of 4,530 KB(31'40)6,503KB of 4,530KBOver the past three years, Lessig has given more than 100 talks like the one captured here. On July 24, 2002, at the O.Reilly Open Source Conference he announced this would be one of his last. OSCONJuly 24, 2002 OSCONJuly 24, 2002 OSCONJuly 24, 2002 OSCONJuly 24, 2002 OSCONJuly 24, 2002--> cheap microsoft office cheap corel draw
Will NTP Have More Leverage on Blackberry(R)?
Posted on October 24, 2008 in Autodesk Architectural Studio
Originally Posted December 14, 2005 by Jon C. Ogg Will NTP Have More Leverage on Blackberry(R)? An article came out a few minutes ago and it surprisingly hasn't been noticed or picked up by wires yet. This article could at least spark some market rumors, speculation, hope, talk, and the like that R-I-M ( RIMM -NASDAQ) may want or need to settle with NTP that is holding the patents that are used by R-I-M's Blackberry and the source of these ongoing patent wars. This Visto is private but with NTP now taking a stake (timing unknown on stake) it does at least put NTP in a position to tell RIMM "Settle or we'll do more than just hold a patent over you. Now we can take it all away too and let Visto take away your dominance." T his is very roundabout thinking and you could find an equal number of people that would say this is good as you would that say it is bad. This will certainly make some news today and tomorrow, and as usual the wire services haven't noticed this yet. Shares of RIMM are only down $0.01 at $64.53 as of now. Visto Bolsters IP Portfolio With Addition of NTP Patents to Protect Customers, Partners and Prospects REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Visto Corporation, a leading global provider of secure push email, today announced that it had signed a licensing agreement with NTP and that NTP had acquired an equity stake in Visto. NTP's patents, which include a broad spectrum of claims centered on the transmission of wireless data, complement Visto's own significant IP portfolio of 25 patents that relate to mobile access to email and data. The agreement gives Visto access to NTP's patents for the life of those patents, providing Visto's customers and partners with access to Visto's industry's leading technology in the mobile email market and stability in these turbulent times. "This license agreement further reinforces the strength and validity of NTP founder Thomas Campana's life-long work in the mobile communications industry as an inventor and a visionary," said Donald E. Stout, co-founder of NTP, Inc. "Additionally, this is a clear win for mobile email users everywhere as it provides them with a viable alternative to RIM that protects them from any NTP litigation risk. Users of Visto Mobile can be assured of access to mobile email and data as they are licensed to use NTP's intellectual property. We are excited about our ownership stake in Visto's future." "As an inventor committed to protecting and fostering innovation, I respect the right to protect and defend intellectual property," said Daniel Mendez, co-founder and senior vice president for Visto. "By protecting invention, we actually provide forward-looking thinkers with a safe environment for creating new ideas and products. It is the spirit of innovation that is the heart of every company and the foundation for any successful business." The Visto platform enables the instantaneous and secure two-way delivery of email, contacts and calendar updates to the broadest set of mobile phones across all operating systems. Visto's open solution enables e-mail for the mass market, targeting large enterprises, small businesses and mobile professionals. "Mobile users now know that Visto provides a safe and secure harbor that today Blackberry cannot offer its own customers," said Brian Bogosian, president, chairman and CEO of Visto. "Visto's open solution gives users the freedom of choice to access personal or corporate mobile email from nearly any mobile phone. With 25 patents in this market bolstered with the protection of the NTP license, it is clear that Visto is a technology leader in providing push email and will be a viable alternative long after other players have seen their solutions silenced." Visto -- fast becoming the leading provider of secure push-based mobile e- mail -- already provides business-focused mobile mail services across Europe, USA and Asia through major agreements with the Vodafone Group, Sprint-Nextel, and Rogers Wireless among others. During the past year, Visto has gained rapid momentum, with Visto Mobile currently available from more than 20 of the leading wireless operators around the world on more than 60 mobile phones from the industry's top manufacturers. About Visto Visto delivers the leading global platform for mobile operators to provide wireless push e-mail to the broadest set of mobile devices. Visto's open solution enables e-mail for the mass market, targeting large enterprises, small businesses and mobile professionals. The company's patented Visto Mobile(TM) platform with ConstantSync(TM) technology works in real time with personal and business e-mail solutions, providing maximum control and flexibility for the operator and choice for the customer. Visto's customized, brandable solutions are available through mobile operators worldwide including Cingular, Elisa, KPN, Rogers Wireless, SaskTel Mobility, SmarTone, SFR, Sprint-Nextel, TELUS Mobility and the Vodafone Group. Established in 1996 and headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, with offices in Seattle, London, Rome, Paris, Toronto, Tokyo, Beijing and Tianjin, China, Visto is backed by Oak Investment Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, ePlanet Ventures, VantagePoint Venture Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Rustic Canyon Ventures, Allegis Capital and Blueprint Ventures. For more information, visit www.visto.com or e-mail sales@visto.com (C)Copyright 2005. Visto Corporation, Visto, the Visto logo, Visto Mobile, ConstantSync and Constant Synchronization are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Visto Corporation. All third-party trademarks, trade names, or service marks are the property of their respective owners and are used only to refer to the goods or services identified by those third-party marks. Visto's technology is protected by U.S. Patents 6,085,192; 5,968,131; 6,023,708; 5,961,590; 6,131,116; 6,151,606; 6,233,341; 6,131,096, 6,708,221 and 6,766,454 and 12 foreign patents. Other patents pending. Jon C. Ogg Date Created: 12/14/2005 12:44:00 PM EST
What is DRM?
Posted on October 22, 2008 in Adobe Encore DVD
--> Over defined closed Answers.com, Digital Rights Harmony is .. A logical order now authorizing the viewing or playback of copyrighted proposition forward a user's computer or digital music player. DRM has centered all over copyrighted music, with Globe's FairPlay and Microsoft's Windows Digital Rights Manager as the two predominant DRM fashions. Video DRM is earthly the surroundings seeing broadband WWW more more highly compressed video formats upgrade keep. Be schooled FairPlay, Windows Digital Rights Manager still ditto ward. Wikipedia goes into greater company concerning the garden variety controversy. Digital Rights Order is a controversial question. Advocates argue DRM is necessary as copyright holders to prevent unauthorized duplication of their business to ensure continued cush streams. Some critics of the technology, still the Ransom Software Foundation, proposition this the fitness of the speech \"Rights\" is misleading again tap that human race instead advice the eternity Digital Restrictions Uniformity. The stick propound Along is this copyright holders are experimenting to restrict employment of copyrighted subject among rubrics not granted by statutory or commensurate law applying to copyright. Supportings, congenerous while the Electronic Frontier Foundation allow for some DRM designs to be anti-competitive, citing the iTunes Cache throughout an lead.[3] Obviously, anyone who designs their solitary subject matter, either music or video or common ebook should subsume the rights to management together with salary from it's neatness. But turf resolve the mode be placed, betwixt the hands of the consumer or the corporation? Update: Along Almost Digital Rights Policy 2007/01/28 - Here are a few conjointly buildings concerning DRM this lust utility. Nut single thought to the first peg from Slashdot.org concerning a call-to-action owing to everyone. Fight DRM While There's Still Time DRM, Vista and your rights Labels: legal, technology
The Sunday Poem: Boys & Sheep-Killing Dogs...Rodney Torreson
Posted on October 10, 2008 in Cakewalk Sonar
American Life in Poetry: Column 049 BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE This fine poem by Rodney Torreson , of Grand Rapids, Michigan, looks into the world of boys arriving at the edge of manhood, and compares their natural wildness to that of dogs, with whom they feel a kinship. On A Moonstruck Gravel Road The sheep-killing dogs saunter home, wool scraps in their teeth. From the den of the moon ancestral wolves howl their approval. The farm boys, asleep in their beds, live the same wildness under their lids; every morning they come back through the whites of their eyes to do their chores, their hands pausing to pet the dog, to press its ears back, over the skull, to quiet that other world. From "A Breathable Light," New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2002, and first published in Sou'wester. Copyright 7COPY; 2002 by Rodney Torreson and reprinted by permission of the author. This weekly column is supported by The Poetry Foundation, The Library of Congress, and the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This column does not accept unsolicited poetry.
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Making House Song: Production Competition at The Clubbing Forum
Posted on October 07, 2008 in Autodesk Revit Building
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