you receive an exclusive right to distribute what you publish, protected under copyright law. obviously I mean an exclusive right for a fixed period, after which it becomes public domain. sorry badly worded
I assume that by EVIL copyright infringers you mean media companies who release content in trade secret packages, willfully and knowingly refusing to meet their end of the copyright agreement. The copyright system as I understand it is that, in exchange for publishing media into the public domain, you receive an exclusive right to distribute what you publish, protected under copyright law.
Interesting. If I understand you correctly, then - streaming would be suited to your latest Sony or Warner mega-super-duper blockbuster, where it's only really worth watching once anyway - whereas for good movies, that are more like an onion and less like a ping-pong ball, then a file download would be more appropriate.
You might even look at backing up the re-watchable movie on physical media. I suppose putting the other on an actual disk would be a bit of a waste, unless it could be rented out to multiple viewers or something... mehhhh...like that'd catch on! Can you imagine how scratched the disks would get?
The website didn't work for me. It just popped up a box asking me to install some program.........all sounds pretty shifty really. (^-^) anyway, maybe next time.
Obviously Microsoft can't rewrite every page of every website overnight. If they launch new content using flash instead of silverlight though, then that would be about as amusing as the time they were caught running their websites on Apache/BSD. (^-^)
If they fail to make at least a token effort to use their own technology, how could even the most dyed in the wool MS fanboy VBscripting MCSE type seriously consider using their technology?...on second thoughts, never mind. forget I spoke. These aren't the droids...
p.s. If Novell (moonlight) or some such believable entity made something that fully supported silverlight on non-x86 architectures though......then stinky flash could go to hell in a handbasket for all I care. Call me fickle if you will, but I'm not. flash ~= silverlight in my books.
I'd rather have a Microsoft with a choice between interoperability and total devastation. At that point they could pick whichever worked for them. I wouldn't be that bothered either way.
If you're all selling power for 7x what it's worth, then where's the problem? It's called an incentive. It's to encourage you to 'do the right thing' by helping -y-o-u- (cough, I mean) early adopters with their payback period.
Here in.au we do that with most things now. Fine make tankless systems a 'deemed to comply' solution, but provide a performance based spec, to enable 'performance based solutions'. Otherwise you'll preclude sensible innovation towards your own ends.
If you're designing a building for somewhere without a gas main, a tankless system isn't the way. You'd be looking at a reverse cycle hot water tank, or that's what the hydraulic ginger beers tell me... These systems are BIGGER because they're a tank with a reverse cycle A/C strapped to the top. (heat exchanger) Apparently they get used as A/C for small apartments in much of Asia, but this is NOT deemed to comply in Australia. Seems to me to make a lot of sense. Why put two heat pumps next to each other, performing opposing tasks? Maybe to make you feel a bit more 'first world', I don't know. I don't get it. If A/Cs are OK (another discussion entirely), why does strapping a water tank to the bottom change anything?
Indeed there was that case where Sony tried to prevent chipping to circumvent 'copy protection' of games. My understanding is that it was ruled to be first and foremost illegal regional price fixing, not copy protection, & dismissed. That was before the free trade agreement though, so......maybe we have adopted some of America's retarded distortions and inversions of IP law.
I want to see a law (case law would do) that means effective technical measures to prevent content producers from meeting their obligations under copyright law, mean they get no protection under copyright law.
Don't get me wrong I think it sounds like a great tool for abstracting complex systems into neat boxes for human consumption.
I'm just imagining we'll have researchers wanting venture capital to create networks that can re-organise themselves simply by changing the hierarchy model used (perspective) The danger I see in this is people confusing the network in reality with a model of how we might perceive it, or perhaps of people being confused long enough to cough up the dough.
or perhaps people thinking that their network topology can be rationalised by making a more rational looking model of an irrational system, without real changes being made......it sounds like a powerful tool that could be very dangerous in stupid hands.
I thought it was because they couldn't be 'bothered' doing the translation, & didn't really value anyone else's opinion anyway. Perhaps that sums up the (USof) American problem too.
I want to know how this relates to android. Live WiFi to GSM handoff anyone? cough from da good ol US of A?
Windows has about 92% of the desktop MARKET to linux's 0.6%. I don't know how they allow for the windows tax on new computers & downloaded linux installs though. Linux owns server space. Linux owns super computers. Linux owns them because their decision makers are edumacatered. There are perfectly usable Linux desktops ready to go off the shelf.
If you CAN feed them cake for free, why pay the price for bread. The point of the quote that you're using is that cake was completely unobtainable at the time.
The problem with OLPC is that some fool decided to make muffins from scratch, while standing next to a patisserie with a sign up saying FREE CAKE, TAKE IT ALL, PLEASE. Then the muffin king said that the recipe is free, but people who want to help me bake them can't have access to my oven. Only child customers that I need to train from scratch can use the oven......and the muffins went stale & hard on the counter even though there weren't enough people to make them. The patisserie is still next door though. It's still offering cake for free. There's a bakery down the road too, in case you're worried about kids in developing countries getting fat heads, but they charge more, & use second rate materials.
Perhaps it should read: the bill would bar US companies from providing information about users or blocking websites for any OTHER government... ...for a second there I thought someone in the US Government had taken their hypocrisy hat off. Maybe next time.
Because myopic decision makers in developing countries who are going to be paying their very hard earned taxpayer's money for these things think that Microsoft makes the good software that the developed world uses. They should have made it look like the decision makers vision of a normal desktop. Completely aping XP would not have been inappropriate. Ends, Means, Default themes & a big fat icon on the DESKTOP that says TAKE OWNERSHIP OF ME in their language.
Make it normal enough that the decision makers are using one.
Making it special & unique, while intellectually stimulating, can easily be mis-interpreted as something that might become stigmatised.
They already have aping apple covered. They OWN star office & run X windows so aping Xerox PARC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_PARC is well & truly covered. And they're buying innovation left right & centre.
So it seems as though (beneath it all) they're REALLY aping Microsoft. (^-^) All they have to do is ape Microsoft some more & enter into a cross-licensing deal with Novell.
Perhaps they are secretly destined to rule the desktop of the 64bit age.
Suddenly a little window into the MS-Novell cross-licensing deal opens just a crack. Something has always scratched a little in the back of my mind about how it came to pass that MS agreed to endorse & distribute Novell's Suse......& send Novell regular fat cheques for the privilege.
oops! did someone back the wrong horsie? Bill's Hollywood buds really should have said something don't you think? Always root for the ones with the white hats. They get to ride off into the sunset with the girl.
Blueware for porn. The circle is complete. cyanware: hippy porn!! yelloware: the colour of an Exon shareholder's trowsers on the day the hippies get a superpower Now I'm wondering what magentaware is. (>_) I'm going to stop now.
The article is interesting, informative and valid to the best of my knowledge. It is also part of a bigger picture The truth can be propaganda if all you hear are true tales of woe about one side.
Are you saying that if China reports only the bad news about Taiwan, but the reports happen to be true, that it isn't propaganda? It still pushes an agenda, a particular framing of reality. It's propaganda.
His determination that this is somehow bad is a value judgement that is perhaps a little irrelevant on a discussion board for intelligent people......I can hear it now:
you're new here, aren't you?
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I assume that by EVIL copyright infringers you mean media companies who release content in trade secret packages, willfully and knowingly refusing to meet their end of the copyright agreement.
The copyright system as I understand it is that, in exchange for publishing media into the public domain, you receive an exclusive right to distribute what you publish, protected under copyright law.
Interesting. If I understand you correctly, then
...like that'd catch on! Can you imagine how scratched the disks would get?
- streaming would be suited to your latest Sony or Warner mega-super-duper blockbuster, where it's only really worth watching once anyway
- whereas for good movies, that are more like an onion and less like a ping-pong ball, then a file download would be more appropriate.
You might even look at backing up the re-watchable movie on physical media. I suppose putting the other on an actual disk would be a bit of a waste,
unless it could be rented out to multiple viewers or something... mehhhh
Sorry Mate
....all sounds pretty shifty really. (^-^) anyway, maybe next time.
The website didn't work for me. It just popped up a box asking me to install some program.....
60,000,000 * 93% = 55,800,000 Windows boxes each groaning under the strain of hundreds of spam bots, virus & spywear.
They're building a bot-net!
Obviously Microsoft can't rewrite every page of every website overnight. If they launch new content using flash instead of silverlight though, then that would be about as amusing as the time they were caught running their websites on Apache/BSD. (^-^)
...on second thoughts, never mind. forget I spoke. These aren't the droids...
...then stinky flash could go to hell in a handbasket for all I care. Call me fickle if you will, but I'm not. flash ~= silverlight in my books.
If they fail to make at least a token effort to use their own technology, how could even the most dyed in the wool MS fanboy VBscripting MCSE type seriously consider using their technology?
p.s. If Novell (moonlight) or some such believable entity made something that fully supported silverlight on non-x86 architectures though...
I'd rather have a Microsoft with a choice between interoperability and total devastation. At that point they could pick whichever worked for them. I wouldn't be that bothered either way.
Seriously? (^_^) You think Balmer did THAT? To the NASDAQ?
Dude "WE?"
If you're all selling power for 7x what it's worth, then where's the problem?
It's called an incentive. It's to encourage you to 'do the right thing' by helping -y-o-u- (cough, I mean) early adopters with their payback period.
Indeed. Good point
.au we do that with most things now. Fine make tankless systems a 'deemed to comply' solution, but provide a performance based spec, to enable 'performance based solutions'. Otherwise you'll preclude sensible innovation towards your own ends.
Here in
If you're designing a building for somewhere without a gas main, a tankless system isn't the way. You'd be looking at a reverse cycle hot water tank, or that's what the hydraulic ginger beers tell me...
These systems are BIGGER because they're a tank with a reverse cycle A/C strapped to the top. (heat exchanger) Apparently they get used as A/C for small apartments in much of Asia, but this is NOT deemed to comply in Australia.
Seems to me to make a lot of sense. Why put two heat pumps next to each other, performing opposing tasks? Maybe to make you feel a bit more 'first world', I don't know. I don't get it. If A/Cs are OK (another discussion entirely), why does strapping a water tank to the bottom change anything?
Indeed there was that case where Sony tried to prevent chipping to circumvent 'copy protection' of games. My understanding is that it was ruled to be first and foremost illegal regional price fixing, not copy protection, & dismissed. ...maybe we have adopted some of America's retarded distortions and inversions of IP law.
That was before the free trade agreement though, so...
I want to see a law (case law would do) that means effective technical measures to prevent content producers from meeting their obligations under copyright law, mean they get no protection under copyright law.
That's a very good point. Still better than when they were caught using BSD to run their website though.
Don't get me wrong I think it sounds like a great tool for abstracting complex systems into neat boxes for human consumption.
...it sounds like a powerful tool that could be very dangerous in stupid hands.
I'm just imagining we'll have researchers wanting venture capital to create networks that can re-organise themselves simply by changing the hierarchy model used (perspective)
The danger I see in this is people confusing the network in reality with a model of how we might perceive it, or perhaps of people being confused long enough to cough up the dough.
or perhaps people thinking that their network topology can be rationalised by making a more rational looking model of an irrational system, without real changes being made...
Really?
I thought it was because they couldn't be 'bothered' doing the translation, & didn't really value anyone else's opinion anyway.
Perhaps that sums up the (USof) American problem too.
I want to know how this relates to android. Live WiFi to GSM handoff anyone? cough from da good ol US of A?
Windows has about 92% of the desktop MARKET to linux's 0.6%. I don't know how they allow for the windows tax on new computers & downloaded linux installs though. Linux owns server space. Linux owns super computers. Linux owns them because their decision makers are edumacatered. There are perfectly usable Linux desktops ready to go off the shelf.
...and the muffins went stale & hard on the counter even though there weren't enough people to make them. The patisserie is still next door though. It's still offering cake for free. There's a bakery down the road too, in case you're worried about kids in developing countries getting fat heads, but they charge more, & use second rate materials.
If you CAN feed them cake for free, why pay the price for bread. The point of the quote that you're using is that cake was completely unobtainable at the time.
The problem with OLPC is that some fool decided to make muffins from scratch, while standing next to a patisserie with a sign up saying FREE CAKE, TAKE IT ALL, PLEASE. Then the muffin king said that the recipe is free, but people who want to help me bake them can't have access to my oven. Only child customers that I need to train from scratch can use the oven...
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh His Steveness will hear you and be displeased.
It's not open source software with a different face. It's Mac innovation.
Perhaps it should read: the bill would bar US companies from providing information about users or blocking websites for any OTHER government...
...for a second there I thought someone in the US Government had taken their hypocrisy hat off. Maybe next time.
Not only that. $2000 for the shiny pre-certified one.
cost of certification from in independent lab, what? $20,000+ ?
Because myopic decision makers in developing countries who are going to be paying their very hard earned taxpayer's money for these things think that Microsoft makes the good software that the developed world uses.
They should have made it look like the decision makers vision of a normal desktop. Completely aping XP would not have been inappropriate. Ends, Means, Default themes & a big fat icon on the DESKTOP that says TAKE OWNERSHIP OF ME in their language.
Make it normal enough that the decision makers are using one.
Making it special & unique, while intellectually stimulating, can easily be mis-interpreted as something that might become stigmatised.
They already have aping apple covered.
They OWN star office & run X windows so aping Xerox PARC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_PARC is well & truly covered.
And they're buying innovation left right & centre.
So it seems as though (beneath it all) they're REALLY aping Microsoft. (^-^)
All they have to do is ape Microsoft some more & enter into a cross-licensing deal with Novell.
Perhaps they are secretly destined to rule the desktop of the 64bit age.
drive a truck down an alley way full of stairs and corners, then say that again. Motor vehicles have some pretty basic limitations.
Suddenly a little window into the MS-Novell cross-licensing deal opens just a crack. Something has always scratched a little in the back of my mind about how it came to pass that MS agreed to endorse & distribute Novell's Suse... ...& send Novell regular fat cheques for the privilege.
oops! did someone back the wrong horsie? Bill's Hollywood buds really should have said something don't you think?
Always root for the ones with the white hats. They get to ride off into the sunset with the girl.
Blueware for porn. The circle is complete.
cyanware: hippy porn!!
yelloware: the colour of an Exon shareholder's trowsers on the day the hippies get a superpower
Now I'm wondering what magentaware is. (>_) I'm going to stop now.
Are you saying that if China reports only the bad news about Taiwan, but the reports happen to be true, that it isn't propaganda? It still pushes an agenda, a particular framing of reality. It's propaganda.
His determination that this is somehow bad is a value judgement that is perhaps a little irrelevant on a discussion board for intelligent people...
I mean people who live behind glass curtains shouldn't throw stones 'or else...'
People lucky enough to not live behind glass curtains are perhaps morally obliged to throw a stone or two occasionally.
that's what I think.