I find this good news. The longer that Google's technology interests are held in private hands, rather than the public interest of their stock price, I think the world is a better place. I'll be crying when I see GUGL -1 3/4 running across the bottom of my TV screen.
If they appeal, and lose, do they also have to pay interest on their fine? They were found guilty of abusing this power now, so if they drag it out 3-5 years, do they have to pay back interest on that 3.2 billion? Wouldn't that be a deterent for the long, dragged out cases? If they have to pay a few years of coupounded interest, they might not be so lawyer happy.
But allwe have to base our decisions on is past performance. I would much prefer that IBM, who is currently selling and supporting open source software and initiatives, then another entity that does not have the same track record. The fact tht IBM has been advertising Linux and open source during commericals during the NFL playoffs this year has me believe they are making a big investment in open source and the community, and spending that kind of money would make pissing off the people that they are supporting a very foolish action.
They might want to patent this just to simply hold the patent. They could let anyone who wants to use it, to use it for free, or donate it to the FSF. Maybe they just wanted to get it before another company with more devious plans got it. Think what Microsoft would do with this. They would kill Open Source, or do their damndest to do it, with the new tool.
I just think there might be a chance IBM has some pure intentions here.
I wasn't responding to the fact that some MMO game companies make selling their virtual property outside of the game for cash against their terms of service. Some do, some don't, but that wasn't my issue. My original parent poster made the statement that selling this virtual property in any situation was insane. I agree on the fact that game that weren't designed to have the in game loot sold to the highest bidder should be allowed to make that against their policy, but when a game has already taken this into account and allows real world sales of virtual world property, there is nothing different between selling any kind of virtual property.
You say selling virtual property is insane, but isn't that exactly what content producers are doing? What's the difference between selling text, audio, and motion pictures and selling some virtual currency or some loot? In the end, it's all just bits, and what makes those bits valuable is who wants to get a hold of them. Most people don't see buying movies, cd's and books as insane, only because we're used to it. And in the end, isn't this what "Intellectual Property" is? Just some virtual creation that you say you've layed stake to? How can you differentiate between the bits that make up Lord of the Rings being a solid investment and the bits that make up Enchanted Sword Of Slaying +8 being just silly? It's your oppinion that matters, but it only matters to you. And the people selling it, I guess. If no one had the opinion that it was worth paying real money for fake money, no one would be selling it.
What you propose is actually kind of the opposite of the way I heard this situation described. It wasn't the case that since men were tuning out, they switched their programming lineups to more women oriented programming, but the constant portrayal of men as ignoramuses and mornons who couldn't function in society without their strong willed, intelligent wives wasn't copasetic with the idea of what men thought of themselves. More estrogen filled prime time tv, including shows about dating and marriage, only alienated the majority of the men that these major tv's execs were really going after. Somehow, somewhere, these television bosses decided to turn their attention towards women, probably because of some poll or research that showed tv was too male oriented. Now that the pendulum has swung the other way, they're panicing, and are trying to find where all the good ole boys went. Where we went wasn't away from tv, but away from shows that weren't even conceived for us to like or watch. If they simply made tv either for men or just not so feamle leaning, we would probably watch again. But changing the perception of guys who have already turned off the cable box and turned on the PS2 will be hard, no matter how much Spike TV (The FIRST network For Men) or the like get's shoved down our throats. I wonder how the vierwership of ESPN has gone over the same timespan they found us not watching Everyone Loves Raymond?
Even if you transfered those files over a Kazaa port, they would still be those same, legitimate files. The transport method doesn't make them illicit. Which means anyone who trasnfers files over kazaa could be doing it with nicey nice intent. Holy cow, a legitmate use for Peer to Peer!
The changes you make about the different panels aren't neccesarily due to the new version of the software. Winamp's new skinning system, introduced in 3.0, allows a skinner to put anything he wants on any screen they desire. The placement of the equalised on main windows is just due to the skin included with the default install.
Personally, I use the MMD3 skin. It's simply GUI perfection. And still works in Winamp 5.0. What a great idea to be backwards compatible.
Why hasn't anyone suggested wireless power transfer through microwave beams? I mean, come on, this is slashdot, we're always supposed to offer a wireless solution.
Right. The pure science geeks, especially physics and math, will never be cool. Alos, he fact that some geek movies have been mainstream hits, such as LOTR, is more of an aberation, then the new rule. It just happened that when Hollywood decided to crank out another million dollar blockbuster, instead of writing their own story, they stole someone else's.
Didn't these developers understand how bad of an idea this would be? No one should be giving anyone any reason to be buying these horrible chunks of plastic. Now there's gonna be at least 50 people who love mame so much they'd buy an NGage just to port it. The people at Nokia should burn in hell for even creating such a hellish product, and shouldn't be rewarded in the slightest for it.
As much as I hate spam, it shouldn't be a criminal offense, and especially should not have a prison sentence. Prisons are for those who are dangerous to society, and spam is just annoying, not dangerous. The unlimited damages part is scary enough, but I don't want my tax money paying for some spammer to get raped bi-weekly.
Because 200 years is like FOREVER! When I heard nearly immortal, I thought theyw ould say soemthing like 500, 1000, even 5000 years old. Not 200. Don't some sea turtles live that long? Do we call them "nearly" immortal?
Does anyone know how these compare to the standard TI calculators? i.e. which is the most similar to the TI82, 83, 86, 89? Us math majors need to know!
I can go down to my local Sports Authority, walk to the camping section, and buy a product called Fire Paste. It's actual the opposite of this. It's like consumer grade napalm. My friends and I used it for fireworks and such. Odd how this fire paste won't heat up. Why not call it cool paste, or something similar?
I imagine like a lot of other big schools, there is a huge market for off campus housing. And by off campus, I mean on campus or just off campus, not far away, usually just houses rented out by the room to students. Does UF have this? If so, students can just give the school the finger and live somewhere else.
It's seems to me that the onus would be on Apple to allow selling "used" songs like this if the actual selling of this becomes legal. They'd need to probably have something that turns off the seller's access to the song, and then provides access to that song to the buyer. They could charge some fee to do this, like charge the buy 20 cents or something. But the RIAA will never let this happen.
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I find this good news. The longer that Google's technology interests are held in private hands, rather than the public interest of their stock price, I think the world is a better place. I'll be crying when I see GUGL -1 3/4 running across the bottom of my TV screen.
If they appeal, and lose, do they also have to pay interest on their fine? They were found guilty of abusing this power now, so if they drag it out 3-5 years, do they have to pay back interest on that 3.2 billion? Wouldn't that be a deterent for the long, dragged out cases? If they have to pay a few years of coupounded interest, they might not be so lawyer happy.
But allwe have to base our decisions on is past performance. I would much prefer that IBM, who is currently selling and supporting open source software and initiatives, then another entity that does not have the same track record. The fact tht IBM has been advertising Linux and open source during commericals during the NFL playoffs this year has me believe they are making a big investment in open source and the community, and spending that kind of money would make pissing off the people that they are supporting a very foolish action.
They might want to patent this just to simply hold the patent. They could let anyone who wants to use it, to use it for free, or donate it to the FSF. Maybe they just wanted to get it before another company with more devious plans got it. Think what Microsoft would do with this. They would kill Open Source, or do their damndest to do it, with the new tool.
I just think there might be a chance IBM has some pure intentions here.
I wasn't responding to the fact that some MMO game companies make selling their virtual property outside of the game for cash against their terms of service. Some do, some don't, but that wasn't my issue. My original parent poster made the statement that selling this virtual property in any situation was insane. I agree on the fact that game that weren't designed to have the in game loot sold to the highest bidder should be allowed to make that against their policy, but when a game has already taken this into account and allows real world sales of virtual world property, there is nothing different between selling any kind of virtual property.
You say selling virtual property is insane, but isn't that exactly what content producers are doing? What's the difference between selling text, audio, and motion pictures and selling some virtual currency or some loot? In the end, it's all just bits, and what makes those bits valuable is who wants to get a hold of them. Most people don't see buying movies, cd's and books as insane, only because we're used to it. And in the end, isn't this what "Intellectual Property" is? Just some virtual creation that you say you've layed stake to? How can you differentiate between the bits that make up Lord of the Rings being a solid investment and the bits that make up Enchanted Sword Of Slaying +8 being just silly? It's your oppinion that matters, but it only matters to you. And the people selling it, I guess. If no one had the opinion that it was worth paying real money for fake money, no one would be selling it.
What you propose is actually kind of the opposite of the way I heard this situation described. It wasn't the case that since men were tuning out, they switched their programming lineups to more women oriented programming, but the constant portrayal of men as ignoramuses and mornons who couldn't function in society without their strong willed, intelligent wives wasn't copasetic with the idea of what men thought of themselves. More estrogen filled prime time tv, including shows about dating and marriage, only alienated the majority of the men that these major tv's execs were really going after. Somehow, somewhere, these television bosses decided to turn their attention towards women, probably because of some poll or research that showed tv was too male oriented. Now that the pendulum has swung the other way, they're panicing, and are trying to find where all the good ole boys went. Where we went wasn't away from tv, but away from shows that weren't even conceived for us to like or watch. If they simply made tv either for men or just not so feamle leaning, we would probably watch again. But changing the perception of guys who have already turned off the cable box and turned on the PS2 will be hard, no matter how much Spike TV (The FIRST network For Men) or the like get's shoved down our throats. I wonder how the vierwership of ESPN has gone over the same timespan they found us not watching Everyone Loves Raymond?
7, 8 and 9? I must be one uninformed geek. I thought I only had 1 more disapointing movie left to watch.
I thought that was just a myth?
Even if you transfered those files over a Kazaa port, they would still be those same, legitimate files. The transport method doesn't make them illicit. Which means anyone who trasnfers files over kazaa could be doing it with nicey nice intent. Holy cow, a legitmate use for Peer to Peer!
The changes you make about the different panels aren't neccesarily due to the new version of the software. Winamp's new skinning system, introduced in 3.0, allows a skinner to put anything he wants on any screen they desire. The placement of the equalised on main windows is just due to the skin included with the default install.
Personally, I use the MMD3 skin. It's simply GUI perfection. And still works in Winamp 5.0. What a great idea to be backwards compatible.
Why hasn't anyone suggested wireless power transfer through microwave beams? I mean, come on, this is slashdot, we're always supposed to offer a wireless solution.
Fair Voting System?!?! Fair and Accurate Elections!?!? How unamerican of them. I can already hear the bombs on the way!
Right. The pure science geeks, especially physics and math, will never be cool. Alos, he fact that some geek movies have been mainstream hits, such as LOTR, is more of an aberation, then the new rule. It just happened that when Hollywood decided to crank out another million dollar blockbuster, instead of writing their own story, they stole someone else's.
Didn't these developers understand how bad of an idea this would be? No one should be giving anyone any reason to be buying these horrible chunks of plastic. Now there's gonna be at least 50 people who love mame so much they'd buy an NGage just to port it. The people at Nokia should burn in hell for even creating such a hellish product, and shouldn't be rewarded in the slightest for it.
As much as I hate spam, it shouldn't be a criminal offense, and especially should not have a prison sentence. Prisons are for those who are dangerous to society, and spam is just annoying, not dangerous. The unlimited damages part is scary enough, but I don't want my tax money paying for some spammer to get raped bi-weekly.
Because 200 years is like FOREVER! When I heard nearly immortal, I thought theyw ould say soemthing like 500, 1000, even 5000 years old. Not 200. Don't some sea turtles live that long? Do we call them "nearly" immortal?
I for one welcome everyone who will be welcoming our new meson masters.
For the lesser informed of us, who is this Brill character?
So this is a self admitted repost, huh?! You doubly lazy slashdot editors.
Does anyone know how these compare to the standard TI calculators? i.e. which is the most similar to the TI82, 83, 86, 89? Us math majors need to know!
I can go down to my local Sports Authority, walk to the camping section, and buy a product called Fire Paste. It's actual the opposite of this. It's like consumer grade napalm. My friends and I used it for fireworks and such. Odd how this fire paste won't heat up. Why not call it cool paste, or something similar?
I imagine like a lot of other big schools, there is a huge market for off campus housing. And by off campus, I mean on campus or just off campus, not far away, usually just houses rented out by the room to students. Does UF have this? If so, students can just give the school the finger and live somewhere else.
Looks like you broke the copyright, buddy. I'd copy and paste your infringement, but then I'd also be in trouble with TNZE.
It's seems to me that the onus would be on Apple to allow selling "used" songs like this if the actual selling of this becomes legal. They'd need to probably have something that turns off the seller's access to the song, and then provides access to that song to the buyer. They could charge some fee to do this, like charge the buy 20 cents or something. But the RIAA will never let this happen.