I too have seen this happen several times. When I started my current job, Intel was a major contributor to a software project that we were working on> When I transitioned from contract to full-time employee, one of my questions at my interview was "If Intel decides to leave the space, what happens to us?" Fortunately my managers and the company were well prepared to pivot while still accomplishing our targets.
Intel likes to jump into a space and throw resources at a problem hoping to out-compete the industry leader(s). I can't remember a successful effort with that strategy though.
So, this the text of the bill. Namely the text which would be added
‘(A) the offense consists of 10 or more public performances by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copyrighted works; and
‘(B)(i) the total retail value of the performances, or the total economic value of such public performances to the infringer or to the copyright owner, would exceed $2,500; or
‘(ii) the total fair market value of licenses to offer performances of those works would exceed $5,000;’; and"
It looks to me like this bill simply provides a punishment for profitable public performances of a copyrighted work. Lip-synching only qualifies here because presumably you're playing the song while you mime the lyrics. It's distribution of a copyrighted work. It has nothing to do with Lip-syncing. That's merely an example of one possible infringement. IMO, this is pretty poor journalism.
Also, (again as near as I can tell) this applies to work where there is actual retail profit. B and C lay it out: "Total retail value", "Total economic value" or "Total Fair Market Value" greater than a few thousand dollars. This keeps people from riding their way up the fame wave on someone else's song without some sort of compensation.
All that said, I don't think we need to further enable IP abuse. I hope this one gets thrown out in committee.
Socially responsible. There's a term that makes me shiver. Let's just write it into a law so I don't even have a choice anymore. I appreciate open wireless networks when I'm away from my home. A business expects that I'll use their services and that's an incentive to bring me to them. If I open up my network to ever joe who walks past my house (or lives next to it) then I'm deincentivizing them getting their own service. Depending on how good my wifi is I might be encouraging 3 or 4 neighbors to simply hitch a ride on my dime.
Usually I'll get behind the EFF on a lot of things, this is not one of them.
If you do want to provide some open wireless, setup a separate network and apply some strong access rules to it.
I have a little bit of flash functionality on my Galaxy S. For the most part, it's just obnoxious. The flash stuff that I've wanted to use isn't properly developed to function well on a phone. It doesn't resize well, it's interaction with tapping is mixed. Missing flash on my phone is a non-issue. I'm comfortable leaving flash to my desktop thanks.
Previous printer designs put a lot of stress on the head moving around because it had the full extruder on it. Cupcake (and subsequently the Thingomatic) had stationary z-axis-only head. Like it was said below, they aren't jiggly. The plastic firms up quite quickly.
The answer wasn't clear though. The Nexus One was "discontinued" the same week the Vibrant came out. All reports seemed to suggest that Google was getting out of the phone business altogether. The Nexus One had served it's purpose in encouraging better hardware for Android. That same month Eric Schmidt said Google would not be releasing a followup phone to the Nexus One.
So yes, it sounds like a good idea to buy Google, but at the time this particular phone was being sold that was totally impractical. The Nexus One was a generation behind in hardware and looking like it wasn't going to be around for more than another couple of weeks. Would you have bought a Nexus One knowing that? Especially if you were told Froyo was coming for this brand new phone in a matter of months?
I was concerned about something like this. The Behold II stopped at 1.6, despite only being on the market for a mere 9 months. I bought the Vibrant with the expectation the 2.2 was coming within a few months. That's what I was told. Then it was October, then it was December.
According to Cnet Samsung has said that they're still doing testing to make sure it works well. This is absurd. Is it going to take another year for us to move onto Gingerbread?
I bought this phone thinking that I was going to get a great phone with all of the features advertised. The GPS is still garbage *when* it works. "Media Hub" does nothing, even after being activated it doesn't work. These problems should have been solved before the phone was released.
I initially liked SG:U. I thought it was a good, clever mix of BSG and ST:VOY. I liked the characters, I liked the issues they were facing.
Then season 2 came along. It seemed all of the good-will and constructive storyline was thrown out the window. The show just got weirded, and I stopped watching. I'm not sad SGU was cancelled, I'm sad that they took it the direction they did...
Yup: Paywall bad idea. They will reap the consequences, blah blah blah.
The hardest thing they're going to have to learn to grasp in new media economics is that it's not just their business model that's changing. It's not just that they're going to have to stop expecting people to pay for their services like they did before. Their entire industry is going through a massive shift. Personally, the only way I see newspapers surviving is that they become tremendously small outfits. 10-man operations that produce solely for the web and offer a print-on-demand version for those who are interested. Your staff of a dozen reporters and the hundred people who support them aren't going to last here. Print journalism as an industry just can't support those people the way it used to.
Is journalism dead? No. But I think massive news companies are. Journalists and the "Ace Reporter" are going to become free agents. Newspapers are going to become aggregators of the information they collect, and they'll likely have to secure a story with a fee or a retainer. I have sympathy for the people whose jobs are disappearing, but I think every time a job disappears, a new industry grows and more jobs are created.
In a semi-related note, I think that DC should do a Superman storyline where Clark gets laid-off because the Planet can't support his job anymore.
... If I were the school's network admin, or even the district tech person. Granted that this may be a matter of simply finding a password/watching a password. I remember when I was in 6th grade, we had a teacher who would hunt and peck his way through is password. It was easy enough to catch it.
In some cases, it's the challenge. In other cases, it's a need - you want to have a mac, but don't have the money to spend on one. Some cases it's a way of sticking it to Apple for not selling hardware that we want to buy (a mid-range tower.) There are a lot of reasons. I wanted to give my wife a unique gift, so I put an intel miniITX into a G4 Cube case... I still wanted her to have a mac so I went that direction.
In any case, the point is to have and be able to use OS X. It's almost never about choosing "the best" OS. If that really were the case, we all (Hackintoshers) would have sucked it up and gone out and bought Apple hardware and saved ourselves the trouble.
Not an open one... not really anyway. Smart phone fill this need already. If someone would design an open-platform for Android, I think that would be a winner. Unfortunately, I don't think that's going to happen. There's little incentive for someone to create a handset that is open-hardware
Thanks, but we don't need any more socialism.
Don't get me wrong, I love Doctor Who as much as the next guy, but compulsory payment for a service/product you may or may not use is absurd.
I guess I expected it to look a little less like a High-school textbook drawing of the bonds. The only thing that would make it moreso is if little Cs were set next to each atom.
I feel like I must be in the minority here. I've never had to wait to use one, I've never had problems with one reading my card, or getting what I wanted. FWIW, I don't park a lot in Portland. The meter systems we have seem to work just fine for me. I don't live downtown, or work downtown, so I'm not there real often, but the few times I've had to use the system has been pretty simple. I think the most inconvenient thing was waiting for the printout.
While whatever you've read may focus on Sports, common roles, etc, I recommend you take the advice to heart. Recognize that basically, you are still the male, and your wife is still the female. Regardless of how much you try to downplay those roles, I have no doubt that at some point you will see them. My wife is very independent, but occasionally she falls into the stereotypical roles that we eschew so much. Likewise, I sometimes fall into the stereotypical male roles that I generally try to avoid. That's because we're human beings and we have natural instincts.
At any rate, while you may not be interested in sports, it doesn't mean that you're immune to neglecting your companion, and that's the important part. Likewise, there are some ways she might neglect you. Make efforts to talk to each other, understand the needs of each other, and make sure you're doing what you can to care for her.
I wish you the best of luck and success in your marriage. Congratulations!
Owners of Alternative fuel vehicles usually have to pay a fee to the state when they register their vehicles. This is because they don't pay gasoline tax when they fill up. At first I was outraged by this because it felt like AF users were being singled out, generally though, these kinds of fees are a balance.
I recognize and accept that technologies change and become obsolete. There are millions of 8-track cassettes floating around doing nothing. Eventually the same thing with happen to tapes, CDs, and DVDs. That's natural. What I don't find acceptable, is that this sort of argument (if passed into rule or law) would give the RIAA precendent to essentially flip the switch when they found a situation to be not in their favor. If the music won't work forever, how long will it work? Do we get any kind of assurance that if we buy a song we'll be able to listen to it once it's finished transferring?
I disagree. It's not the practice of a free market that leads towards a monopoly. Market forces tend to push the other direction. If something is offered from one person, it's more likely that another person will attempt to compete with the first. Open and honest market produces a better product. If at the end of that there's only one person standing, they're still providing the better product or service, and will continue to do so until someone else takes their place (And that's built-in, if a product is unacceptable, it's inevitable someone will produce a better one to replace it.) We see this everywhere.
Bad monopolies (or simply bad economics) occur when force or deception is used to the advantage of one over the other. The Mortgage troubles, bank failings, and credit difficulties are fueled by poor decisions, ignorance, and in some cases outright lies. The market only fails when the exchange is dishonest or coerced.
Apple holds a significant portion of market of online music sales. They hold this position because they offered the product in a way that the market found acceptable. If the market didn't like it, Apple would have failed or done just as poorly as any of the previous companies that attempted to do the same thing. EA stuck unacceptable DRM on Spore, making it significantly less attractive to a group of buyers. So the game doesn't do as well. That's how markets function. The market chooses to accept or reject a product or service to the consequence of the provider.
The Microsoft doom scenario is misleading. Yes, Microsoft could do something like that, but we also have to keep in mind that MS wants publishers to make games for it's platform. The publisher wants to make games for Xbox. Because there's a mutual point of interest, MS has an incentive to provide a better situation for the game companies, not a more restricted one. If MS was the only console in town, the Monopoly would sooner or later start to be broken down by a competitor because it's a natural consequence of unacceptable market conditions. The original Playstation is a good example. Nintendo ruled the game industry for a long time, but the difficulties in Nintendo approval and frustration among publishers led to companies (such as Square) to abandon Nintendo for the greener pastures of the Playstation.
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I too have seen this happen several times. When I started my current job, Intel was a major contributor to a software project that we were working on> When I transitioned from contract to full-time employee, one of my questions at my interview was "If Intel decides to leave the space, what happens to us?" Fortunately my managers and the company were well prepared to pivot while still accomplishing our targets. Intel likes to jump into a space and throw resources at a problem hoping to out-compete the industry leader(s). I can't remember a successful effort with that strategy though.
‘(A) the offense consists of 10 or more public performances by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copyrighted works; and
‘(B)(i) the total retail value of the performances, or the total economic value of such public performances to the infringer or to the copyright owner, would exceed $2,500; or
‘(ii) the total fair market value of licenses to offer performances of those works would exceed $5,000;’; and"
It looks to me like this bill simply provides a punishment for profitable public performances of a copyrighted work. Lip-synching only qualifies here because presumably you're playing the song while you mime the lyrics. It's distribution of a copyrighted work. It has nothing to do with Lip-syncing. That's merely an example of one possible infringement. IMO, this is pretty poor journalism. Also, (again as near as I can tell) this applies to work where there is actual retail profit. B and C lay it out: "Total retail value", "Total economic value" or "Total Fair Market Value" greater than a few thousand dollars. This keeps people from riding their way up the fame wave on someone else's song without some sort of compensation.
All that said, I don't think we need to further enable IP abuse. I hope this one gets thrown out in committee.
This is a tremendous show of character and pragmatism. I don't think that I'd have the courage to offer myself. I'm very impressed.
Socially responsible. There's a term that makes me shiver. Let's just write it into a law so I don't even have a choice anymore. I appreciate open wireless networks when I'm away from my home. A business expects that I'll use their services and that's an incentive to bring me to them. If I open up my network to ever joe who walks past my house (or lives next to it) then I'm deincentivizing them getting their own service. Depending on how good my wifi is I might be encouraging 3 or 4 neighbors to simply hitch a ride on my dime. Usually I'll get behind the EFF on a lot of things, this is not one of them. If you do want to provide some open wireless, setup a separate network and apply some strong access rules to it.
I have a little bit of flash functionality on my Galaxy S. For the most part, it's just obnoxious. The flash stuff that I've wanted to use isn't properly developed to function well on a phone. It doesn't resize well, it's interaction with tapping is mixed. Missing flash on my phone is a non-issue. I'm comfortable leaving flash to my desktop thanks.
but we don't always get what we want...
Previous printer designs put a lot of stress on the head moving around because it had the full extruder on it. Cupcake (and subsequently the Thingomatic) had stationary z-axis-only head. Like it was said below, they aren't jiggly. The plastic firms up quite quickly.
The answer wasn't clear though. The Nexus One was "discontinued" the same week the Vibrant came out. All reports seemed to suggest that Google was getting out of the phone business altogether. The Nexus One had served it's purpose in encouraging better hardware for Android. That same month Eric Schmidt said Google would not be releasing a followup phone to the Nexus One.
So yes, it sounds like a good idea to buy Google, but at the time this particular phone was being sold that was totally impractical. The Nexus One was a generation behind in hardware and looking like it wasn't going to be around for more than another couple of weeks. Would you have bought a Nexus One knowing that? Especially if you were told Froyo was coming for this brand new phone in a matter of months?
I was concerned about something like this. The Behold II stopped at 1.6, despite only being on the market for a mere 9 months. I bought the Vibrant with the expectation the 2.2 was coming within a few months. That's what I was told. Then it was October, then it was December.
According to Cnet Samsung has said that they're still doing testing to make sure it works well. This is absurd. Is it going to take another year for us to move onto Gingerbread?
I bought this phone thinking that I was going to get a great phone with all of the features advertised. The GPS is still garbage *when* it works. "Media Hub" does nothing, even after being activated it doesn't work. These problems should have been solved before the phone was released.
I initially liked SG:U. I thought it was a good, clever mix of BSG and ST:VOY. I liked the characters, I liked the issues they were facing.
Then season 2 came along. It seemed all of the good-will and constructive storyline was thrown out the window. The show just got weirded, and I stopped watching. I'm not sad SGU was cancelled, I'm sad that they took it the direction they did...
Yup: Paywall bad idea. They will reap the consequences, blah blah blah.
The hardest thing they're going to have to learn to grasp in new media economics is that it's not just their business model that's changing. It's not just that they're going to have to stop expecting people to pay for their services like they did before. Their entire industry is going through a massive shift. Personally, the only way I see newspapers surviving is that they become tremendously small outfits. 10-man operations that produce solely for the web and offer a print-on-demand version for those who are interested. Your staff of a dozen reporters and the hundred people who support them aren't going to last here. Print journalism as an industry just can't support those people the way it used to.
Is journalism dead? No. But I think massive news companies are. Journalists and the "Ace Reporter" are going to become free agents. Newspapers are going to become aggregators of the information they collect, and they'll likely have to secure a story with a fee or a retainer. I have sympathy for the people whose jobs are disappearing, but I think every time a job disappears, a new industry grows and more jobs are created.
In a semi-related note, I think that DC should do a Superman storyline where Clark gets laid-off because the Planet can't support his job anymore.
... If I were the school's network admin, or even the district tech person. Granted that this may be a matter of simply finding a password/watching a password. I remember when I was in 6th grade, we had a teacher who would hunt and peck his way through is password. It was easy enough to catch it.
Anyone else read that as:
Appeals Court Rules On Internet Obesity Standards?
In some cases, it's the challenge. In other cases, it's a need - you want to have a mac, but don't have the money to spend on one. Some cases it's a way of sticking it to Apple for not selling hardware that we want to buy (a mid-range tower.) There are a lot of reasons. I wanted to give my wife a unique gift, so I put an intel miniITX into a G4 Cube case... I still wanted her to have a mac so I went that direction. In any case, the point is to have and be able to use OS X. It's almost never about choosing "the best" OS. If that really were the case, we all (Hackintoshers) would have sucked it up and gone out and bought Apple hardware and saved ourselves the trouble.
Not an open one... not really anyway. Smart phone fill this need already. If someone would design an open-platform for Android, I think that would be a winner. Unfortunately, I don't think that's going to happen. There's little incentive for someone to create a handset that is open-hardware
I was going to make the same suggestion. Arduino is an excellent electronics tool to dive in with Students will eat it up.
Thanks, but we don't need any more socialism. Don't get me wrong, I love Doctor Who as much as the next guy, but compulsory payment for a service/product you may or may not use is absurd.
I guess I expected it to look a little less like a High-school textbook drawing of the bonds. The only thing that would make it moreso is if little Cs were set next to each atom.
I feel like I must be in the minority here. I've never had to wait to use one, I've never had problems with one reading my card, or getting what I wanted. FWIW, I don't park a lot in Portland. The meter systems we have seem to work just fine for me. I don't live downtown, or work downtown, so I'm not there real often, but the few times I've had to use the system has been pretty simple. I think the most inconvenient thing was waiting for the printout.
We're re-writing a lot of our comments from last week, aren't we... http://idle.slashdot.org/story/09/07/30/0341206/iPhone-App-Tracks-Sex-Offenders
While whatever you've read may focus on Sports, common roles, etc, I recommend you take the advice to heart. Recognize that basically, you are still the male, and your wife is still the female. Regardless of how much you try to downplay those roles, I have no doubt that at some point you will see them. My wife is very independent, but occasionally she falls into the stereotypical roles that we eschew so much. Likewise, I sometimes fall into the stereotypical male roles that I generally try to avoid. That's because we're human beings and we have natural instincts.
At any rate, while you may not be interested in sports, it doesn't mean that you're immune to neglecting your companion, and that's the important part. Likewise, there are some ways she might neglect you. Make efforts to talk to each other, understand the needs of each other, and make sure you're doing what you can to care for her.
I wish you the best of luck and success in your marriage. Congratulations!
I've been waiting for a serious announcement from a major automaker for a long long time. Where do I sign up?
Owners of Alternative fuel vehicles usually have to pay a fee to the state when they register their vehicles. This is because they don't pay gasoline tax when they fill up. At first I was outraged by this because it felt like AF users were being singled out, generally though, these kinds of fees are a balance.
I recognize and accept that technologies change and become obsolete. There are millions of 8-track cassettes floating around doing nothing. Eventually the same thing with happen to tapes, CDs, and DVDs. That's natural. What I don't find acceptable, is that this sort of argument (if passed into rule or law) would give the RIAA precendent to essentially flip the switch when they found a situation to be not in their favor. If the music won't work forever, how long will it work? Do we get any kind of assurance that if we buy a song we'll be able to listen to it once it's finished transferring?
I disagree. It's not the practice of a free market that leads towards a monopoly. Market forces tend to push the other direction. If something is offered from one person, it's more likely that another person will attempt to compete with the first. Open and honest market produces a better product. If at the end of that there's only one person standing, they're still providing the better product or service, and will continue to do so until someone else takes their place (And that's built-in, if a product is unacceptable, it's inevitable someone will produce a better one to replace it.) We see this everywhere.
Bad monopolies (or simply bad economics) occur when force or deception is used to the advantage of one over the other. The Mortgage troubles, bank failings, and credit difficulties are fueled by poor decisions, ignorance, and in some cases outright lies. The market only fails when the exchange is dishonest or coerced.
Apple holds a significant portion of market of online music sales. They hold this position because they offered the product in a way that the market found acceptable. If the market didn't like it, Apple would have failed or done just as poorly as any of the previous companies that attempted to do the same thing. EA stuck unacceptable DRM on Spore, making it significantly less attractive to a group of buyers. So the game doesn't do as well. That's how markets function. The market chooses to accept or reject a product or service to the consequence of the provider.
The Microsoft doom scenario is misleading. Yes, Microsoft could do something like that, but we also have to keep in mind that MS wants publishers to make games for it's platform. The publisher wants to make games for Xbox. Because there's a mutual point of interest, MS has an incentive to provide a better situation for the game companies, not a more restricted one. If MS was the only console in town, the Monopoly would sooner or later start to be broken down by a competitor because it's a natural consequence of unacceptable market conditions. The original Playstation is a good example. Nintendo ruled the game industry for a long time, but the difficulties in Nintendo approval and frustration among publishers led to companies (such as Square) to abandon Nintendo for the greener pastures of the Playstation.