How much is marketing to blame? Now days with the big hype around new releases (be it hardware or software), the cost of missing a delivery date can be immense. In the Philips case, I know there were both print and TV ads around the launch of the Ambilight technology; ads which were in development months in advance, and specific media buys that had to tie in...
One solution, obviously more easily accomplished in software, is release it broken then have a patch that can live update. In a non-software sense, this was done with the film "The New World" last year. It was released in some theaters to get some of the Christmas movie income, as well as to make it eligible for Oscar nominations, but then the film was pulled and re-released a couple weeks later with 19 minutes cut out by the director. (And someone is bound to bring up the idea of Han shooting first being a "bug" fixed by Lucas in later releases.;)
Has early adoption gotten out of control? (Was it ever more controlled / less risky?) I don't know. I realize the article is particular to hardware, but I'm seeing the early adopter phenomenon taking on even larger scale in the form of companies like Google who release software and services in a public beta that may last for years. The eagerness of the consumer to latch on to the new and shiny is allowing the manufacturer to become lax in its R&D and internal testing. We're so ready to try out anything they can give us, there's the incentive for them to get it out the door to us as soon as they can. Both sides could be faulted equally, and there's not a clear solution to the problem.
You really don't know anything about copyright law, do you? You're trying to give too much freedom on one hand, while mistakenly taking away a liberty with the other. As someone else pointed out, read up on derivative works. Also, you can't copyright titles, so there goes that part of your argument...
Luckily the RIAA neither writes the laws, nor is responsible for their interpretation and enforcement. True, their lobbying power puts them in a position where they can do some damage, but with the EFF and others making valient efforts to oppose them, the rest of us may still have a chance at sanity.
I've got to disagree. The point about copyright is controlling distribution of a copy. Monks in a monestary could transcribe and illuminate Harry Potter to their hearts' content, but the minute they try to sell or give away that which they've copied, the axe will fall.
Not like this is particularly new for Yahoo... when they first started out as just a web directory, most of the source of their portal was from user submissions, not crawling & indexing. In many ways, del.icio.us is a throwback to the early days for Yahoo, replacing hierarchal categories with tags.
I was always amused that the marketing lines were "Enjoy Coca-Cola!" but only "Taste Diet Coke!" proving my theory that diet colas cannot be enjoyed...
Heh. What sheetmusic books have you been reading? Most of the ones I own have a fair number of errors in the notes, chords and tablature, not to mention the lyrics. The whole thing is point of reference and not particularly good as a transcription most of the time.
For that matter, what's to stop the original post from dropping in a sized image as a placeholder, then copying and pasting in an embed or object tag in its place? I mean, if the app is generating the layout for an object (image in this case), it really doesn't take rocket science to do a search and replace...
(or the second, or the third...) 2004-06-02 (posted by Timothy) 2004-12-03 (posted by Michael) 2005-01-19 (posted by Timothy...again) 2005-03-08 (Timothy, I'm shocked!) and now this one.
Am I incorrect? I don't see anywhere in your link that states that the US Government can hold a trademark (which is the only thing that my post conjectured), and I've already stated that trademark law is not being used against the Onion. Granted, the law being used is effectively similar to trademark protection, but clearly a specialized case.
Evereone else from IBM to the Red Cross protects their trademarks. What's less clear is if the US government can hold trademarks itself. I believe there are some forms of IP that the government can't hold. (I know, in the original post they're using something other than trademark law against the Onion. I'm just exploring jbeaupre's line of thought...)
Have we reached the point where Creative Labs is now "a lot of audio card makers?" Because I thought they were only one. And not necessarily one that is the first that comes to mind when adding audio cards to a Mac...
On the other hand, one of the articles lists the Fuji FinePix S2, which is a $1500 dSLR. Not exactly a cheap snapshot camera. (Not sure I buy the S2 being on that list, because the CCD is supposed to be a radically different design than the others listed, but the news article does include it...)
Indeed. One body for 35mm chrome (Velvia 50 or EPP), one for 35mm black & white (Tri-X), maybe another for infrared, Hasselblad backs loaded with 120 chrome and B&W (and Polaroid back with Type 665P/N), digital SLR at the minimum. Add to that the Holga, maybe a pinhole or two depending on format, lighting conditions, and the durability of the model. Then maybe I can leave the house for a shoot.
Well, actually, good chunks of it are. I was driving around with the altimeter on my GPS this afternoon and most of the areas I was in were in the range of ~-20 to +75 feet. At the moment I'm planning on riding it out. We're not as close to large, standing bodies of water. Yeah, we can flood (see Tropical Storm Allison a few years back), but I expect the windspeeds to drop as it crosses inland.
Well, I've heard about a guy who was pretty severely colorblind who could color-correct photos in Photoshop by the numbers and come up with better results than those who didn't share his impairment. It's interesting to me when meta content becomes content in its own right... if the lights of the EQ become just as valid a form of expression as the sounds driving them.
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We'll have to wait for Adobe to code a Universal Binary build of Photoshop before any real comparisons can be made.
How much is marketing to blame? Now days with the big hype around new releases (be it hardware or software), the cost of missing a delivery date can be immense. In the Philips case, I know there were both print and TV ads around the launch of the Ambilight technology; ads which were in development months in advance, and specific media buys that had to tie in...
;)
One solution, obviously more easily accomplished in software, is release it broken then have a patch that can live update. In a non-software sense, this was done with the film "The New World" last year. It was released in some theaters to get some of the Christmas movie income, as well as to make it eligible for Oscar nominations, but then the film was pulled and re-released a couple weeks later with 19 minutes cut out by the director. (And someone is bound to bring up the idea of Han shooting first being a "bug" fixed by Lucas in later releases.
Has early adoption gotten out of control? (Was it ever more controlled / less risky?) I don't know. I realize the article is particular to hardware, but I'm seeing the early adopter phenomenon taking on even larger scale in the form of companies like Google who release software and services in a public beta that may last for years. The eagerness of the consumer to latch on to the new and shiny is allowing the manufacturer to become lax in its R&D and internal testing. We're so ready to try out anything they can give us, there's the incentive for them to get it out the door to us as soon as they can. Both sides could be faulted equally, and there's not a clear solution to the problem.
You really don't know anything about copyright law, do you? You're trying to give too much freedom on one hand, while mistakenly taking away a liberty with the other. As someone else pointed out, read up on derivative works. Also, you can't copyright titles, so there goes that part of your argument...
Luckily the RIAA neither writes the laws, nor is responsible for their interpretation and enforcement. True, their lobbying power puts them in a position where they can do some damage, but with the EFF and others making valient efforts to oppose them, the rest of us may still have a chance at sanity.
I've got to disagree. The point about copyright is controlling distribution of a copy. Monks in a monestary could transcribe and illuminate Harry Potter to their hearts' content, but the minute they try to sell or give away that which they've copied, the axe will fall.
The article is on British copyright law regarding audio recordings specifically.
Makes me wonder if we'll ever see a new version of Dark Castle
Maybe...
Not like this is particularly new for Yahoo... when they first started out as just a web directory, most of the source of their portal was from user submissions, not crawling & indexing. In many ways, del.icio.us is a throwback to the early days for Yahoo, replacing hierarchal categories with tags.
I was always amused that the marketing lines were "Enjoy Coca-Cola!" but only "Taste Diet Coke!" proving my theory that diet colas cannot be enjoyed...
Heh. What sheetmusic books have you been reading? Most of the ones I own have a fair number of errors in the notes, chords and tablature, not to mention the lyrics. The whole thing is point of reference and not particularly good as a transcription most of the time.
There are plenty who think a degree in science doesn't prevent science fiction writing
There are also plenty of IT workers with degrees in English...
For that matter, what's to stop the original post from dropping in a sized image as a placeholder, then copying and pasting in an embed or object tag in its place? I mean, if the app is generating the layout for an object (image in this case), it really doesn't take rocket science to do a search and replace...
(or the second, or the third...)
2004-06-02 (posted by Timothy)
2004-12-03 (posted by Michael)
2005-01-19 (posted by Timothy...again)
2005-03-08 (Timothy, I'm shocked!)
and now this one.
Am I incorrect? I don't see anywhere in your link that states that the US Government can hold a trademark (which is the only thing that my post conjectured), and I've already stated that trademark law is not being used against the Onion. Granted, the law being used is effectively similar to trademark protection, but clearly a specialized case.
Evereone else from IBM to the Red Cross protects their trademarks . What's less clear is if the US government can hold trademarks itself. I believe there are some forms of IP that the government can't hold. (I know, in the original post they're using something other than trademark law against the Onion. I'm just exploring jbeaupre's line of thought...)
Yes, but it has also been argued that many reptiles taste like, you guessed it, chicken.
Have we reached the point where Creative Labs is now "a lot of audio card makers?" Because I thought they were only one. And not necessarily one that is the first that comes to mind when adding audio cards to a Mac...
And here I thought stars had a good union...
Preaching to the choir. I'm an S3 shooter myself. My only complaint is the slow write time.
On the other hand, one of the articles lists the Fuji FinePix S2, which is a $1500 dSLR. Not exactly a cheap snapshot camera. (Not sure I buy the S2 being on that list, because the CCD is supposed to be a radically different design than the others listed, but the news article does include it...)
Indeed. One body for 35mm chrome (Velvia 50 or EPP), one for 35mm black & white (Tri-X), maybe another for infrared, Hasselblad backs loaded with 120 chrome and B&W (and Polaroid back with Type 665P/N), digital SLR at the minimum. Add to that the Holga, maybe a pinhole or two depending on format, lighting conditions, and the durability of the model. Then maybe I can leave the house for a shoot.
Well, your NPZ 800 will display more heat-related issues than your 100 ISO films, in theory, but that's another matter entirely.
Well, actually, good chunks of it are. I was driving around with the altimeter on my GPS this afternoon and most of the areas I was in were in the range of ~-20 to +75 feet. At the moment I'm planning on riding it out. We're not as close to large, standing bodies of water. Yeah, we can flood (see Tropical Storm Allison a few years back), but I expect the windspeeds to drop as it crosses inland.
Well, I've heard about a guy who was pretty severely colorblind who could color-correct photos in Photoshop by the numbers and come up with better results than those who didn't share his impairment. It's interesting to me when meta content becomes content in its own right... if the lights of the EQ become just as valid a form of expression as the sounds driving them.