On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 07:28:53AM -0800, Joshua Haberman wrote:
From the comparison:
Sample buffering is the process of loading a small part of each sample
into the installed RAM to play back instantly when a note on a keyboard is
struck. By pre-loading a small amount of the
Didn't we come up with some good ammo in case anyone decided to sue?
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On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 06:44:10 +0900, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
Didn't we come up with some good ammo in case anyone decided to sue?
It looks like the patent is held by Rockwell (yes, that Rockwell). If so,
it's called EndlessWave: http://www.nemesysmusic.com/support/faq.html#q14
It says on the
it's much easier to port from Un*x to OSX
than vice versa. A far greater number of
*nix libraries have been ported from the *nix world to OSX than the
other way around. You can even run X windows
on OSX
I think OroboroSX, or some such name, is an X window manager
for OSX that makes X apps
Steve Harris wrote:
Prior art doesn't seem to be very useful in defending against patents for
some reason (IANAL of course). The recent British Telecom v's W3C fiasco
was won on the grounds that the BT patent's system operated in a different
way to the Web, rather than because of prior art (which
Steve Harris wrote:
Prior art doesn't seem to be very useful in defending against patents for
some reason (IANAL of course). The recent British Telecom v's W3C fiasco
was won on the grounds that the BT patent's system operated in a different
way to the Web, rather than because of prior art (which
[on nemesys patent issues, from Sound On Sound]
Sadly, this [HALion's disk prechaching] has caused rumblings behind the
scenes about possible patent infringement, since Nemesys are the
exclusive MI licensee of Conexant Systems Inc, whose Endless Streaming
technology has US and International
Do we know what Steinberg did about this, if anything?
i asked karl steinberg. he was unwilling to say anything about it.
Paul Davis wrote:
in this light, claiming the patented idea is either original or
new is nonsensical.
this is a misunderstanding of how the patent system works in all
countries that i know anything about. you don't get a patent on an
idea. you get a patent on the application of an idea to a
Do we know what Steinberg did about this, if anything?
i suspect from what i'm learnt from my patent attorney friend that the
amount of data cached issue that the Giga article dismissively
refers to in reference to Halion is actually precisely what Steinberg
did. they changed the parameters of
Forgive me for sounding rather naive, but anyway.
If you come up with an idea, blissfully unaware that there is a patent on
it. How can that patent be valid? For example, as a programmer and audio
enthusiast I have never even heard of Gigasampler or Halion. However, I
have come to the logical
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 09:48:37 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
Do we know what Steinberg did about this, if anything?
i suspect from what i'm learnt from my patent attorney friend that the
amount of data cached issue that the Giga article dismissively
refers to in reference to Halion is actually
If you come up with an idea, blissfully unaware that there is a patent on
it. How can that patent be valid?
because that's how patents work. first-to-file, first-to-publish, all
that stuff. all that's need (in the US at least) is for a patent
examiner is to agree that the patent claims are
I think I allready told the audience here about it but nobody seemed to
listen :-).
A good friend of mine works for steinberg. He worked (and still works) on
Halion. He told me that steinberg only proved previous work with the cubase
audio engine as cubase allready cache audio in ram and is a
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Paul Davis wrote:
Bottom line, screw them and their patent. Let them send their lawyers
after you, who cares.
their lawyers could potentially bankrupt you if what you were doing
represented a threat to the income they expected to derive from the patent.
if thats OK with
Don't worry David, I think we are wasting our precious time with these
talks (but it is interesting anyway :-) )
Regarding source and binary code:
Being or app opensource, we have the advantage that the source code
does not constitute a runnable application and this provides several
legal
Ivica Bukvic wrote:
1.) What is the lowest stable achievable latency with the current stable
(2.4) branch of the kernel (with ll and preempt patches) using Alsa on a
modern system (i.e. at least 1GHz machine)?
1.5ms
2.) What is the lowest stable achievable latency utilizing
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Mark Knecht wrote:
scared the US entertainment industry so much. Our Legislative Branch then
fell prey to US business interests and created law specifically to address
these issues with respect to digitally formatted property. Even though it
might have been 'legally
Bob Ham wrote:
I'm pretty sure gtk 1 and 2 can co-exist. The X session that I'm writing
this in has evolution (gtk 1) and gnome 2 running, so in fact, I'd say
it's a certainty :)
yep, they do coexist nicely. provided you have enough ram to
host both of them ... which i don't think i have. :(
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 10:36:11 +, Lea Anthony wrote:
Hey! Looking good!
I was thinking, I've done a fair amount of GFX coding. Would there be
any benefit in creating some sort of GUI toolkit that was bitmap based,
so apps could look like their windows counterparts and be skinned?
In the spirit of full disclosure, I am not a lawyer, am a multiple
patent
holder in the US and Japan (not sure about the EU) and am only speaking
from
experience. My opinions are my own and do not represent any form of legal
guidance.
Patent holder?? GET HIM! Good thing you didn't post
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:59, Steve Harris wrote:
Its not the app that needs skinning per se, its the plugins, there is a
proposed GUI standard (LCP), but its not really implemented, there are 2
GUIs, but no host to support them.
Where is this standard?
-Lea.
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:59, Steve Harris wrote:
Its not the app that needs skinning per se, its the plugins, there is a
proposed GUI standard (LCP), but its not really implemented, there are 2
GUIs, but no host to support them.
Where is this standard?
this message (uncharacteristically for
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:57:28AM +0100, Tim Goetze wrote:
I'm pretty sure gtk 1 and 2 can co-exist. The X session that I'm writing
yep, they do coexist nicely. provided you have enough ram to
host both of them ... which i don't think i have. :(
bummer :/
Mark Knecht wrote:
Patent holder?? GET HIM! Good thing you didn't post on slashdot.
Taybin
LOL!! Well, my name is on a number of patents, including one (#6,457,152)
accepted by the Patent Office a few weeks ago. (Also post-1996 - #6,356,099,
#6,240,480, Pre-1996 I just don't
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