Education and money are very much alike in one aspect: if everyone has at least the same amount, then that amount becomes the baseline, below which it is worthless.
College degrees being required for plumbing jobs and the like are only the symptom of this problem.
Whereas before education was made mandatory in most countries of the world, the baseline was no education at all, now the United States have college as a baseline. And it's rather difficult to get out of this, because you ask someone in college why they're in college and they'll say, "I must, because I can't afford to not keep up with my peers." So people go to college because people go to college, and it's a recursive clusterfuck.
My comparison was between the "I'm a" ads, targetted at consumers, and this; it was implied that it was going to be a desktop Linux comparison, not server.
How does a patent license allow you to charge for transmitting data over the Internet?
Simple: it doesn't. However, it's a good measure of how much revenue MPEG LA expects you to be bringing in from your use of their standards, and as such is a nice way to scale up licensing fees according to your revenue.
Think of it as a way of implementing this rule: You give us X % of the revenue you bring in from your use of our standard, and in exchange, you can use our standard. If the main use of your company is to deliver solutions based on our standard, this will be X % of your revenue. If you only make incidental use of our standard, your license is going to cost you lower.
(And, of course, if you find something else that's good enough for your purposes and is free or costs less than our standard, you're free to use it.)
... is why human-made diamonds, made the same way as that carbon-rich rock was discovered, are not harder than natural diamonds - at least, the summary seems to imply this. If it's graphite in both cases, then shouldn't both be harder than diamonds?
It's a plan to make crappier movies and still make money from them.
Some people rent movies as they come out, before they buy them, to make sure that what they buy is good movies.
By delaying renting for a month (of February in a non-leap year), the studios are making the more impatient and impulse-buying people buy hyped movies, and you can't back out on that, unless of course you outsmart these guys and wait the month before renting the movie, deciding that it's crap and not buying it.
Companies prey on impulse buyers. Patience is a virtue.
And I wasn't really using the word 'precedent' in its legal sense, more as an informal way to reflect on what has happened with the RIAA and CRIA in the past. The RIAA has pushed for Canada to reform its copyright law, which sparked a consultation at http://copyright.econsultation.ca/ in July, with the consensus between most of the posters that this was what happened. But instead of the RIAA pushing on the CRIA to pass new legislation, with some Americans aware of what's happening in Canada with the CRIA right now, it may very well be that this will spark some lawsuits in the US over similar things, because there are compilation CDs in the US too.
To the grandparent (or great-grandparent... anyway, to the lawyer's post): I knew there was some treaty between the US and Canada that would make some things applicable to both countries if a company was in both; I figured that if it wasn't NAFTA, it would have been something else. Thanks for making me learn something!:)
I know your post was meant to be a joke, but a.zip file is not usually opened automatically by a Web browser like a.pdf is, and the guess might be that most people who open that document would want to save it. I don't know why; maybe it's because cryptome.org expects to get a takedown request soon from the Transportation Security Administration in a great display of Streisand effect...:)
... and as someone who doesn't really trust companies that much, let me just say that, if the CRIA gets fined for willful infringement, I hope that this is the precedent that ends up being applied to the United States, not the reverse.
Now the recording industry's argument is going to be less and less well-received by the general population, and this can only be a good thing.
* As I don't have an encrypted hard drive, the encrypted hard drive problems didn't affect me. * As I don't use full-screen applications, the flickering full-screen application problem doesn't affect me that much, though I couldn't use a full-screen Firefox for pseudo-kiosk mode when a family member wants to do some things with a web browser. * Linux 2.6.32 hasn't posed many problems.
However, the bugs I'm affected by are mostly PulseAudio, Totem (media player) and CD-ROM related. PulseAudio skips and freezes in Audacity; Totem has a 1/200 or so chance of freezing at the start of a song (but then going one track forward then back to the previous one fixes it); DVDs won't eject if played in xine; CD-ROMs won't unmount if they're ejected via the hardware button, leaving the next one you insert inaccessible if you don't unmount the previous one yourself.
There were many more bugs in the alphas, obviously, but those are alphas.
Person A's car crashed into Person B's car by accident, B's car being parked on the side of the road and neither A nor B being you. Since B's car is now on your lawn, you are liable.
Or even: Person A buys a DVD at your store, and you are the cashier. Person A, unbeknownst to you, copies the DVD to give a copy to Person B. Since you sold A's DVD, you are liable.
None of these make sense. What the fuck are these ACTA guys smoking? An ISP just sends packets to and fro, maintaining the infrastructure to do so in good shape so most packets can go through.
And how on Earth are ISPs going to police everything and still offer low prices to their customers? In addition, the small independent providers are going to have an even higher barrier of entry in the Internet due to this requirement, giving the major telcos even less competition.
If this happens and Canada is in on this, (disclaimer: I'm Canadian) Scientology ain't seen nothing yet.
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Education and money are very much alike in one aspect: if everyone has at least the same amount, then that amount becomes the baseline, below which it is worthless.
College degrees being required for plumbing jobs and the like are only the symptom of this problem.
Whereas before education was made mandatory in most countries of the world, the baseline was no education at all, now the United States have college as a baseline. And it's rather difficult to get out of this, because you ask someone in college why they're in college and they'll say, "I must, because I can't afford to not keep up with my peers." So people go to college because people go to college, and it's a recursive clusterfuck.
und ich bin erste!
(first post, thread is now godwinned)
This article is very clearly about a hardware patent.
Or even 36D. But personally I'd rather have 36DD. Mmm...
and reuse or recycle the parts.
AT&T rebrands as Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net, hoping to shed its previous reputation as a bad wireless carrier.
My comparison was between the "I'm a" ads, targetted at consumers, and this; it was implied that it was going to be a desktop Linux comparison, not server.
However, you are right.
Windows' insecurity is technical. :)
... with the damned "I'm a" bullshit? It's getting really old.
I'm a PC! Well I'm a Mac!
And back there you have Linux who is insecure and just has to jump onto the bandwagon.
How does a patent license allow you to charge for transmitting data over the Internet?
Simple: it doesn't. However, it's a good measure of how much revenue MPEG LA expects you to be bringing in from your use of their standards, and as such is a nice way to scale up licensing fees according to your revenue.
Think of it as a way of implementing this rule: You give us X % of the revenue you bring in from your use of our standard, and in exchange, you can use our standard. If the main use of your company is to deliver solutions based on our standard, this will be X % of your revenue. If you only make incidental use of our standard, your license is going to cost you lower.
(And, of course, if you find something else that's good enough for your purposes and is free or costs less than our standard, you're free to use it.)
... is why human-made diamonds, made the same way as that carbon-rich rock was discovered, are not harder than natural diamonds - at least, the summary seems to imply this. If it's graphite in both cases, then shouldn't both be harder than diamonds?
It's a plan to make crappier movies and still make money from them.
Some people rent movies as they come out, before they buy them, to make sure that what they buy is good movies.
By delaying renting for a month (of February in a non-leap year), the studios are making the more impatient and impulse-buying people buy hyped movies, and you can't back out on that, unless of course you outsmart these guys and wait the month before renting the movie, deciding that it's crap and not buying it.
Companies prey on impulse buyers. Patience is a virtue.
That thing has no A or B keys! Learn to read!
(intended to be ironic, not to insult)
Bullshit. You won't have the face and palm to do that... anymore.
If the day is longer, the night is also longer. You get warmer days, but then you get colder nights.
A thin hand drawn glass needle.
You're right. I'm definitely not a lawyer. :)
And I wasn't really using the word 'precedent' in its legal sense, more as an informal way to reflect on what has happened with the RIAA and CRIA in the past. The RIAA has pushed for Canada to reform its copyright law, which sparked a consultation at http://copyright.econsultation.ca/ in July, with the consensus between most of the posters that this was what happened. But instead of the RIAA pushing on the CRIA to pass new legislation, with some Americans aware of what's happening in Canada with the CRIA right now, it may very well be that this will spark some lawsuits in the US over similar things, because there are compilation CDs in the US too.
To the grandparent (or great-grandparent... anyway, to the lawyer's post): I knew there was some treaty between the US and Canada that would make some things applicable to both countries if a company was in both; I figured that if it wasn't NAFTA, it would have been something else. Thanks for making me learn something! :)
I know your post was meant to be a joke, but a .zip file is not usually opened automatically by a Web browser like a .pdf is, and the guess might be that most people who open that document would want to save it. I don't know why; maybe it's because cryptome.org expects to get a takedown request soon from the Transportation Security Administration in a great display of Streisand effect... :)
... and as someone who doesn't really trust companies that much, let me just say that, if the CRIA gets fined for willful infringement, I hope that this is the precedent that ends up being applied to the United States, not the reverse.
Now the recording industry's argument is going to be less and less well-received by the general population, and this can only be a good thing.
Thunder bolts of lightning very very frightening me!
Something this heavy... must be slow, right? Slow like this slow news day maybe? ... What do you mean, it's constantly getting faster? Are you nuts?
* As I don't have an encrypted hard drive, the encrypted hard drive problems didn't affect me.
* As I don't use full-screen applications, the flickering full-screen application problem doesn't affect me that much, though I couldn't use a full-screen Firefox for pseudo-kiosk mode when a family member wants to do some things with a web browser.
* Linux 2.6.32 hasn't posed many problems.
However, the bugs I'm affected by are mostly PulseAudio, Totem (media player) and CD-ROM related. PulseAudio skips and freezes in Audacity; Totem has a 1/200 or so chance of freezing at the start of a song (but then going one track forward then back to the previous one fixes it); DVDs won't eject if played in xine; CD-ROMs won't unmount if they're ejected via the hardware button, leaving the next one you insert inaccessible if you don't unmount the previous one yourself.
There were many more bugs in the alphas, obviously, but those are alphas.
Person A's car crashed into Person B's car by accident, B's car being parked on the side of the road and neither A nor B being you. Since B's car is now on your lawn, you are liable.
Or even: Person A buys a DVD at your store, and you are the cashier. Person A, unbeknownst to you, copies the DVD to give a copy to Person B. Since you sold A's DVD, you are liable.
None of these make sense. What the fuck are these ACTA guys smoking? An ISP just sends packets to and fro, maintaining the infrastructure to do so in good shape so most packets can go through.
And how on Earth are ISPs going to police everything and still offer low prices to their customers? In addition, the small independent providers are going to have an even higher barrier of entry in the Internet due to this requirement, giving the major telcos even less competition.
If this happens and Canada is in on this, (disclaimer: I'm Canadian) Scientology ain't seen nothing yet.
But the post also has a 150; which unit is that in? (Rhetorical question, I know it's Farenheit, because in Celsius the user would have boiled away.)
At least we know the unit can't be Kelvin.