I'm sure others have pointed this out but TV cell phones have already been available in Japan and Korea for over a year
Both the type with a TV tuner in the phone AND the type that stream the TV digitally over the net.
http://www.au.kddi.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?entry=/ ez web/au_dakara&content_id=ez_movie
http://www.au.kddi.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?entry=/ ez web/au_dakara&content_id=ez_channel
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browsers typically send in the encoding they are currently set it. Most browsers will automatically switch to the encoding specified in the page and/or http content header so as long as you set both to the encoding of your choice you'll generally get sent what you need. In their case I suspect that's utf-8
Okay, let me amend that. It is against the law in Japan to sell "new" books below list price. There is a company called Book Off which tried to get around the law by opening the books (they often come wrapped) and then claiming the books were used therefore they could sell them cheaper. They got taken to court though by the book store association or something such thing.
I plug 2 to 10 windows boxes on a net and they network with each other. I put a linux box (FC2) on it and doesn't.
Assuming NO DNS SERVER and NO WINS SERVER, this is a home setup. Can someone point me to how to get Samba to work and work well? What 12 obscure files and options to I have to edit on the FC2 linux box to get it to share correctly. So far I've had no luck.
All I want to do is give the FC2 box a name like I do in Windows but setting the name (which appears to be burried in network->eth0->settings doesn't make it start working.
Even after reading though all hours of samba docks and getting it to basically share there are often delays of 5 to 20 seconds where there are no delays between windows boxes.
Can anyone point me to a faq, document or otherwise that covers HOME windows networking and linux/samba/fc2?
Maybe they are too stupid to realize what they have? It's been in there since XP shipped. It's an extension of the same mechanisim that lets Windows Explorer look inside of.cab files and.zip files as though they are regular folders.
Note that their own Indexing service that is built in since 2000 also has plugins for parsing different kinds of documents and you can add more.
Of course like most MS things its interface sucks so it's not nearly as useful as say the google one but fixing the interface would be very small work since the base system already works.
I agree with you, Apple usually gets it closer to right but expect MS to shoot back since they already have the base tech in there. They just need to get off their asses and give it a useful interface.
Actually the plugin architecture is already in Windows XP. Open a Windows Explorer window, pick details view, right click the column titles, pick "more...". Any one can add a DLL that adds more columns for more types of metadata. All Microsoft has to do is call their already existing system to make this work. In fact, they might be already.
No, California can't trump federal law. Which is why I suggested that it might be nice if there was a similar system for the federal law so regular people could propose new laws. I'm not hopeful it will happen though.
Of course even in California, a new law can be declared un-constitutional by the california supreme court
We can't do anything about it, either. Well, short of lively revolt, we can't. In the USA, citizens can't create law, can't dispense of bad law, and can't vote on created law. Nor can citizens elect anyone who might be able to effect such changes. That's what we get for letting them foist off a republic on us
Hmmm, actually, in California, citizens can create laws and frequently do. All they need to do is get 1 million signatures and it's on the ballot no matter how crazy. Maybe we need something similar at a national level
Here in Japan Yahoo recently announced 1 GIG connections for as little as $40 a month. It's 1 GIG to your building and then your building shares the 1 GIG connection.
Even IF I wanted to download music on the road wouldn't a better solution be from my cell phone? All cell phones in Japan can be used as modems using a cheap cable. The AU phones here do 2.4megabits down.
I agree that the public library thing is a non-issue. There is no reason Google Desktop should be installed on a public computer. The fact that it's public means there should be nothing on it you'd want to search for in the first place.
But, that did make me think, for the paranoid that maybe you don't want to install Google Desktop at work. Before, if a conniving co-working wanted to find dirt on you or they would have most likely manually search your computer either by hand or by using the slow processes of Windows search or Outlook search but now they can find that info nearly instantly if you have the Google Desktop Search installed.
it seems like you missed the some of the posts above. What's the difference between your example and the example above of getting a haircut and not paying?
The people that made photoshop spent time making it. If you want it you need to pay them what they are asking for their time. The fact that they already spent that time has nothing to do with it. The guy already cut your hair so not if you don't pay him he hasn't lost anything in the same sense as you claim the photoshop people haven't lost anything.
I see your point but that's only semi true. When you buy an apple pie you are not paying the full cost of the kitchen it was made in or the full cost of all the utensils used to make it or the full cost of the truck used to bring the apples to the guy that made the pie. You are paying some small percentage of those per pie.
Same with software paid for after it's been created. $700 for Photoshop is paying some small percentage of the tens of millions of dollars of labor that went into it's development.
In either case it's not like the day the pie or the software was finished that the entire debt of labor to create them somehow disappeared.
I'm probably wrong but I believe the original palms had a battery rating for 40 hours. The thing is in actual use, a few minutes at a time, the lasted for weeks. While 8 hours does suck, using the same scale it's still a few days and today with all the syncing most people do with their PDAs your PDA is unlikely to go uncharged for all that long.
Not that I don't which they still lasted 40 hours but and original palm didn't browse the net, it didn't have wireless connections and those things make this MORE portable not less.
I can spend the time now and make something hoping to sell it in the future or I can wait until I get someone to pay me to make it before I start. There is no valid difference between the two.
If I make an apple pie and then sell it why is that worth less than waiting until someome orders the apple pie to make it? It's not. Why is software any different? Only because you can easily copy the software? Both took time/labor to make. Whether the labor comes before the customer specifically requests the work or not makes no difference.
When you steal an apple pie are you stealing anything more than when you steal software? The apple pie was made from apples which are free from nature. They are watered with water which is free from nature. They were brought to a store near you with oil which is free from nature in a truck made by products which down the chain of processing were all free. The only thing that made any of them cost anything was the labor required to turn them from base materials to products. So, in essence, when you steal anything tangible the only thing that is really being stolen is all the labor that went into it. It's the same with software. The only difference is that it's easier to steal software since there is no physical manifestation of the labor required to make it.
Your analogy seems to break down to stealing an a single apple from a barrel of apples is lesser crime than stealing the entire barrel.
You missed the point entirely. The guy that copied took someone's time. Whether I do the work before the customer asks for it or after doesn't matter. All that matters is I spent time doing something that I get to choose what compenstation I will ask for for that time. You're choice is to provide that compenstation or not. You're choice is not to take the results of my time for free just because you can.
There are hundreds of thousands of bread makers in the world. Do you really think that if one of them had a bread EULA that people would still by bread from them?
The slippery slope is advocating the government make choices for you instead of chosing yourself. If you don't agree with the EULA or you don't like the fact some companies don't put their EULAs on the outside of their packages then exercize your power and don't buy their product.
The GPL basically says "You can use this software under these terms. (1) You can't hold us liable for problems it causes (2) if you modify it you have to distribute those mods under the same license" If you don't agree to those terms you are not allowed to use the software.
EULAs might be more restrictive but they are basically the a form of the same thing.
It seems to me that if the GPL can be enforced then so can EULAs and if EULAs can't than neither can the GPL.
In both cases they are agreements between the creator of some software (or the creator's representatives) and some consumer (someone who wants to use the software). Both list restrictions on what you can do. You either agree with them or you are not allowed to use the software.
The only technicallity would be that EULAs are sometimes inside the package meaning you can't read them before you open the package but that's just a technicallity. If it was outside the package I doubt any of the people in question would have acted any differently whatsoever.
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I'm sure others have pointed this out but TV cell phones have already been available in Japan and Korea for over a year
/ ez web/au_dakara&content_id=ez_movie
/ ez web/au_dakara&content_id=ez_channel
Both the type with a TV tuner in the phone AND the type that stream the TV digitally over the net.
http://www.au.kddi.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?entry=
http://www.au.kddi.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?entry=
browsers typically send in the encoding they are currently set it. Most browsers will automatically switch to the encoding specified in the page and/or http content header so as long as you set both to the encoding of your choice you'll generally get sent what you need. In their case I suspect that's utf-8
If only IE sites get Ad Revenue soon there will only be IE sites.
Okay, let me amend that. It is against the law in Japan to sell "new" books below list price. There is a company called Book Off which tried to get around the law by opening the books (they often come wrapped) and then claiming the books were used therefore they could sell them cheaper. They got taken to court though by the book store association or something such thing.
I suspect the same will happen to Amazon.
It is against the law in Japan to sell books at under list price so this gimmick is not really going to work for books.
For other things to laws are different so DVDs, games, eletronics and other things Amazon sells this might be useful.
I plug 2 to 10 windows boxes on a net and they network with each other. I put a linux box (FC2) on it and doesn't.
Assuming NO DNS SERVER and NO WINS SERVER, this is a home setup. Can someone point me to how to get Samba to work and work well? What 12 obscure files and options to I have to edit on the FC2 linux box to get it to share correctly. So far I've had no luck.
All I want to do is give the FC2 box a name like I do in Windows but setting the name (which appears to be burried in network->eth0->settings doesn't make it start working.
Even after reading though all hours of samba docks and getting it to basically share there are often delays of 5 to 20 seconds where there are no delays between windows boxes.
Can anyone point me to a faq, document or otherwise that covers HOME windows networking and linux/samba/fc2?
Maybe they are too stupid to realize what they have? It's been in there since XP shipped. It's an extension of the same mechanisim that lets Windows Explorer look inside of .cab files and .zip files as though they are regular folders.
r l= /library/en-us/indexsrv/html/ixufilt_912d.asp
Note that their own Indexing service that is built in since 2000 also has plugins for parsing different kinds of documents and you can add more.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?u
Of course like most MS things its interface sucks so it's not nearly as useful as say the google one but fixing the interface would be very small work since the base system already works.
I agree with you, Apple usually gets it closer to right but expect MS to shoot back since they already have the base tech in there. They just need to get off their asses and give it a useful interface.
Actually the plugin architecture is already in Windows XP. Open a Windows Explorer window, pick details view, right click the column titles, pick "more...". Any one can add a DLL that adds more columns for more types of metadata. All Microsoft has to do is call their already existing system to make this work. In fact, they might be already.
No, California can't trump federal law. Which is why I suggested that it might be nice if there was a similar system for the federal law so regular people could propose new laws. I'm not hopeful it will happen though.
Of course even in California, a new law can be declared un-constitutional by the california supreme court
Hmmm, actually, in California, citizens can create laws and frequently do. All they need to do is get 1 million signatures and it's on the ballot no matter how crazy. Maybe we need something similar at a national level
Here in Japan Yahoo recently announced 1 GIG connections for as little as $40 a month. It's 1 GIG to your building and then your building shares the 1 GIG connection.
e r/ web_home/08.html
http://bbpromo.yahoo.co.jp/promotion/hikari/ord
Even IF I wanted to download music on the road wouldn't a better solution be from my cell phone? All cell phones in Japan can be used as modems using a cheap cable. The AU phones here do 2.4megabits down.
I agree that the public library thing is a non-issue. There is no reason Google Desktop should be installed on a public computer. The fact that it's public means there should be nothing on it you'd want to search for in the first place.
But, that did make me think, for the paranoid that maybe you don't want to install Google Desktop at work. Before, if a conniving co-working wanted to find dirt on you or they would have most likely manually search your computer either by hand or by using the slow processes of Windows search or Outlook search but now they can find that info nearly instantly if you have the Google Desktop Search installed.
it seems like you missed the some of the posts above. What's the difference between your example and the example above of getting a haircut and not paying?
The people that made photoshop spent time making it. If you want it you need to pay them what they are asking for their time. The fact that they already spent that time has nothing to do with it. The guy already cut your hair so not if you don't pay him he hasn't lost anything in the same sense as you claim the photoshop people haven't lost anything.
Of course in both cases they lost time.
I see your point but that's only semi true. When you buy an apple pie you are not paying the full cost of the kitchen it was made in or the full cost of all the utensils used to make it or the full cost of the truck used to bring the apples to the guy that made the pie. You are paying some small percentage of those per pie.
Same with software paid for after it's been created. $700 for Photoshop is paying some small percentage of the tens of millions of dollars of labor that went into it's development.
In either case it's not like the day the pie or the software was finished that the entire debt of labor to create them somehow disappeared.
I'm probably wrong but I believe the original palms had a battery rating for 40 hours. The thing is in actual use, a few minutes at a time, the lasted for weeks. While 8 hours does suck, using the same scale it's still a few days and today with all the syncing most people do with their PDAs your PDA is unlikely to go uncharged for all that long.
Not that I don't which they still lasted 40 hours but and original palm didn't browse the net, it didn't have wireless connections and those things make this MORE portable not less.
I don't see your distiction.
I can spend the time now and make something hoping to sell it in the future or I can wait until I get someone to pay me to make it before I start. There is no valid difference between the two.
If I make an apple pie and then sell it why is that worth less than waiting until someome orders the apple pie to make it? It's not. Why is software any different? Only because you can easily copy the software? Both took time/labor to make. Whether the labor comes before the customer specifically requests the work or not makes no difference.
When you steal an apple pie are you stealing anything more than when you steal software? The apple pie was made from apples which are free from nature. They are watered with water which is free from nature. They were brought to a store near you with oil which is free from nature in a truck made by products which down the chain of processing were all free. The only thing that made any of them cost anything was the labor required to turn them from base materials to products. So, in essence, when you steal anything tangible the only thing that is really being stolen is all the labor that went into it. It's the same with software. The only difference is that it's easier to steal software since there is no physical manifestation of the labor required to make it.
Your analogy seems to break down to stealing an a single apple from a barrel of apples is lesser crime than stealing the entire barrel.
You missed the point entirely. The guy that copied took someone's time. Whether I do the work before the customer asks for it or after doesn't matter. All that matters is I spent time doing something that I get to choose what compenstation I will ask for for that time. You're choice is to provide that compenstation or not. You're choice is not to take the results of my time for free just because you can.
There are hundreds of thousands of bread makers in the world. Do you really think that if one of them had a bread EULA that people would still by bread from them?
The slippery slope is advocating the government make choices for you instead of chosing yourself. If you don't agree with the EULA or you don't like the fact some companies don't put their EULAs on the outside of their packages then exercize your power and don't buy their product.
I don't see it that way
The GPL basically says "You can use this software under these terms. (1) You can't hold us liable for problems it causes (2) if you modify it you have to distribute those mods under the same license" If you don't agree to those terms you are not allowed to use the software.
EULAs might be more restrictive but they are basically the a form of the same thing.
It seems to me that if the GPL can be enforced then so can EULAs and if EULAs can't than neither can the GPL.
In both cases they are agreements between the creator of some software (or the creator's representatives) and some consumer (someone who wants to use the software). Both list restrictions on what you can do. You either agree with them or you are not allowed to use the software.
The only technicallity would be that EULAs are sometimes inside the package meaning you can't read them before you open the package but that's just a technicallity. If it was outside the package I doubt any of the people in question would have acted any differently whatsoever.
So quit buying software that doesn't put there terms on the outside of the package.
So don't buy CDs that don't put their conditions in plain wording on the outside of the package.
Nobody put a gun to your head and made you buy the CD.
No, more like this
Hilton
Hilton
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This is old news except that Japan already did it and it's not 10 to 15 years away. more like 3 years away
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http://www.optware.co.jp/english/what_040823.ht