On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 17:24, Andrew Jorgensen wrote:The gist is that WordPerfect and Novell both came out of BYU one way or another and BYU never saw a dime. They have a policy now (I'll have to dig up the actual document some day) that all creative works produced while you're a student or faculty of BYU is property of BYU. Many Universities have policies like this. Most students ignore it, of course, but most professors can't. The Tech. Transfer Office was created to handle sales of technologies created at BYU.
Arthur Moore wrote:
I'll be posting the mp3's of the concert online after the recital.
I dunno about that Art. Your compositions are property of BYU (recall the WordPerfect and Novell debaucles and how BYU reacted).
Do tell.
I'm not really sure to what extent the policy covers art (or Art, for that matter.)
:) (This was all said in fun, except the part about the OGGs.)
I second the OGG thing. The Slashdot crowd's concensus is that you get better quality for fewer bytes (take that for what it's worth). Aside from the ugly patent issue.
Yeah, I saw someone say once that for the same bitrate (128 in this case) the ogg file will be smaller... If you haven't caught my drift yet that means they missed what bitrate meant. (talking to the list readers here, not to you Mike) Bitrate is how many bits of data you take up for a unit time of sound. A one second clip will take up about 128 bits of your HD at 128bps. You can't have a smaller file unless it isn't really 128 bps because the bitrates are used to guage how much bandwidth, network or otherwise, the stream will occupy.
I can testify to better quality though.
Coolest thing I've heard about ogg in a while was that it can (read: will soon be able to) be bitrate downgradable merely by stripping off some of the bits. That means you could send a full quality stream to one guy, and a low bandwidth stream to another off the same file with nearly no processing. Very cool.
Mike
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