agreed. Some people here have played too much sim city. They think towns and industry just happen to show up when there are no roads or transportation to it. Its actually really embaressing to read so many people rant on someone they obviously know little about.
And I'm siding with ted here from my understanding of it. I'm not an expert on how this process has worked in the past (and niether do most of you), but it looks to me like giving out 12 MHz to the highest bidder will just have too many issues with it- and as Ted says, it looks like they're just trying to give the person with the deepest pockets the highest stake- and then give them a discount for it on top of that. How is that fair and competitive?
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The defendant in a Tampa, Florida, case, UMG v. Del Cid, has filed counterclaims accusing the RIAA record labels of conspiracy and extortion. The counterclaims (pdf) are for Trespass, Computer Fraud and Abuse (18 USC 1030), Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices (Fla. Stat. 501.201), Civil Extortion (CA Penal Code 519 & 523), and Civil Conspiracy involving (a) use of private investigators without license in violation of Fla. Stat. Chapter 493; (b) unauthorized access to a protected computer system, in interstate commerce, for the purpose of obtaining information in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1030 (a)(2)(C); (c) extortion in violation of Ca. Penal Code 519 and 523; and (d) knowingly collecting an unlawful consumer debt, and using abus[ive] means to do so, in violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. 1692a et seq. and Fla. Stat. 559.72 et seq."
NewYorkCountyLawyer wrote this update like a lawyer too.
This has been happening for years no with other tab sites, but its a shame one of my tab sites that still carried tabs has finally buckled. The MPAA is just picking on individuals and trying to extort them for doing what they should of taken the initiative to do themselves (sound familiar?). The sad part is, a tab site with thousands of tabs cannot take the time to verify that every tab posted is wrong in some way, so they have to give in. I guess the question is, if someone read a poem that was recorded and sold only in audio form, and then someone was hired to listen to the poem and write down the lyrics and the way things are emphesized and then sell it for more than the cost of the audio version, and then someone also took the same audio form and wrote down the lyrics without the emphesis and gave it out for free (with errors), would that third individual be violating copyright?
Just for the record, I bought a book of Korn tabs for "take a look in the mirror" for $2. Its MSRP is $21.95, $5 more than the album's cost at release.
yes but 160/192 variable bitrate is optimal (I prefer 160 since it is smaller, even 128 is usually very good on most songs). 256 might as well be uncompressed. Somehow I managed to get encoding for all bitrates for mp3s available in winamp for free after installing and uninstalling a demo of an mp3 encoder program. It was verry niiicee.
The digital watermarks are very unlikely to survive decompression/recompression. Point to prove? Open up paint, make a simple picture, save it as jpg. Then close paint and reopen that jpg and save it as a 24-bit bitmap. Now close that bitmap and reopen it and save it as a jpg again. Are the file sizes the same? (when I tried it, they were off by 0.01kb on a small black and white picture)
I suppose 2 Mbps isnt even physically possible in 95%+ of the US. I know the top DSL speed is 1.5 Mbps where I live now. Where I previously lived any internet rated above 1 Mbps would be a flat out lie. I wouldn't be surprised if a pricey 700 Kbps package cost 90 bucks where I lived before that, and anything fast like that would only be available to the 8000 people who lived in town and not in the sub-burbs.
Yeah its NOT outrageous that two simple 100% HTML webpages that take up 500 bytes on disk take up 160 MBytes of RAM with firefox.
Where is this option that reduces this amount of RAM used? I dont see it.
its called steam. Its a system of copy protection that not only is a convenience and not a problem, but it helps stop hackers too on online multiplayer games by blocking them from all games on their account if they cheat. And "subsequent" does indeed mean that yes, you ARE asserting that you needed a connection every time.
Honestly I think your just a big liar though; nobody buys something and complains about connecting to the internet as some issue and thus wastes their money. Nobody is that much of a wheeny.
Thanks to good 'ol taxes that bump the price up to 25 bucks a month, then the fact cell phones have that "when your car breaks down" or "I have an emergency" convience that almost makes them a requirement, it makes no sense to not have a cell phone. And if you have a cell phone, why pay extra for the landline? The only reason not to have a cell phone really is if you absolutely cannot afford them (which is nobody in the US except for the homeless) or if your scared of them (which is surprisingly more than you might think).
To be more specific, its a way of debugging an embedded system. This appears to be only part of the debugging system since this would never work without using some specialized hardware. Essentially the patent says this:
I put dummy functions on a piece of hardware. A second processor that is somehow monitoring what this processor's doing (there are several ways to do this) reads the executed code, recognizes when a dummy function occurs, then somehow alters code execution on the first processor based on the dummy function's name (or maybe it steals processor control and freezes the first processor somehow). These aren't necessarily breakpoints, but breakpoints can be part of it. The advantage is that the code will function normally if the seperate debugging piece isn't attached.
Sounds to me like the software aint that creative, but how they're getting that second processor to modify code execution (and if its even efficient or not) is something that probably deserves a patent. Although, I'm a software guy, not a hardware guy, so maybe thats why the hardware aspect is what sounds special.
They really should be patenting the hardware, not this software method, since the hardware is the non-obvious part, and the hardware would imply this kind of usage with the software that uses it.
But this is just a patent application, and it has errors in it. It seems to claim more usability than it really should support.
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What is that in US Megabits?
But seriously can you even get wireless that fast and have any range?
I was expecting EA Rushed, EA Buggy, EA Recycled, and EA Boring.
agreed. Some people here have played too much sim city. They think towns and industry just happen to show up when there are no roads or transportation to it. Its actually really embaressing to read so many people rant on someone they obviously know little about. And I'm siding with ted here from my understanding of it. I'm not an expert on how this process has worked in the past (and niether do most of you), but it looks to me like giving out 12 MHz to the highest bidder will just have too many issues with it- and as Ted says, it looks like they're just trying to give the person with the deepest pockets the highest stake- and then give them a discount for it on top of that. How is that fair and competitive?
but tastes like a Heineken
If its not on Space.com then its not real space news. This false color photograph is showing something but its not water.
Whoever keeps marking people as troll is indeed a troll themself.
716 Mbits would be larger actually.
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes
"The defendant in a Tampa, Florida, case, UMG v. Del Cid, has filed counterclaims accusing the RIAA record labels of conspiracy and extortion. The counterclaims (pdf) are for Trespass, Computer Fraud and Abuse (18 USC 1030), Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices (Fla. Stat. 501.201), Civil Extortion (CA Penal Code 519 & 523), and Civil Conspiracy involving (a) use of private investigators without license in violation of Fla. Stat. Chapter 493; (b) unauthorized access to a protected computer system, in interstate commerce, for the purpose of obtaining information in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1030 (a)(2)(C); (c) extortion in violation of Ca. Penal Code 519 and 523; and (d) knowingly collecting an unlawful consumer debt, and using abus[ive] means to do so, in violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. 1692a et seq. and Fla. Stat. 559.72 et seq."
NewYorkCountyLawyer wrote this update like a lawyer too.
This has been happening for years no with other tab sites, but its a shame one of my tab sites that still carried tabs has finally buckled. The MPAA is just picking on individuals and trying to extort them for doing what they should of taken the initiative to do themselves (sound familiar?). The sad part is, a tab site with thousands of tabs cannot take the time to verify that every tab posted is wrong in some way, so they have to give in. I guess the question is, if someone read a poem that was recorded and sold only in audio form, and then someone was hired to listen to the poem and write down the lyrics and the way things are emphesized and then sell it for more than the cost of the audio version, and then someone also took the same audio form and wrote down the lyrics without the emphesis and gave it out for free (with errors), would that third individual be violating copyright?
Just for the record, I bought a book of Korn tabs for "take a look in the mirror" for $2. Its MSRP is $21.95, $5 more than the album's cost at release.
yes but 160/192 variable bitrate is optimal (I prefer 160 since it is smaller, even 128 is usually very good on most songs). 256 might as well be uncompressed. Somehow I managed to get encoding for all bitrates for mp3s available in winamp for free after installing and uninstalling a demo of an mp3 encoder program. It was verry niiicee. The digital watermarks are very unlikely to survive decompression/recompression. Point to prove? Open up paint, make a simple picture, save it as jpg. Then close paint and reopen that jpg and save it as a 24-bit bitmap. Now close that bitmap and reopen it and save it as a jpg again. Are the file sizes the same? (when I tried it, they were off by 0.01kb on a small black and white picture)
I suppose 2 Mbps isnt even physically possible in 95%+ of the US. I know the top DSL speed is 1.5 Mbps where I live now. Where I previously lived any internet rated above 1 Mbps would be a flat out lie. I wouldn't be surprised if a pricey 700 Kbps package cost 90 bucks where I lived before that, and anything fast like that would only be available to the 8000 people who lived in town and not in the sub-burbs.
Yeah its NOT outrageous that two simple 100% HTML webpages that take up 500 bytes on disk take up 160 MBytes of RAM with firefox. Where is this option that reduces this amount of RAM used? I dont see it.
its called steam. Its a system of copy protection that not only is a convenience and not a problem, but it helps stop hackers too on online multiplayer games by blocking them from all games on their account if they cheat. And "subsequent" does indeed mean that yes, you ARE asserting that you needed a connection every time. Honestly I think your just a big liar though; nobody buys something and complains about connecting to the internet as some issue and thus wastes their money. Nobody is that much of a wheeny.
nice to see news on something that deserves patenting
Thanks to good 'ol taxes that bump the price up to 25 bucks a month, then the fact cell phones have that "when your car breaks down" or "I have an emergency" convience that almost makes them a requirement, it makes no sense to not have a cell phone. And if you have a cell phone, why pay extra for the landline? The only reason not to have a cell phone really is if you absolutely cannot afford them (which is nobody in the US except for the homeless) or if your scared of them (which is surprisingly more than you might think).
To be more specific, its a way of debugging an embedded system. This appears to be only part of the debugging system since this would never work without using some specialized hardware. Essentially the patent says this: I put dummy functions on a piece of hardware. A second processor that is somehow monitoring what this processor's doing (there are several ways to do this) reads the executed code, recognizes when a dummy function occurs, then somehow alters code execution on the first processor based on the dummy function's name (or maybe it steals processor control and freezes the first processor somehow). These aren't necessarily breakpoints, but breakpoints can be part of it. The advantage is that the code will function normally if the seperate debugging piece isn't attached. Sounds to me like the software aint that creative, but how they're getting that second processor to modify code execution (and if its even efficient or not) is something that probably deserves a patent. Although, I'm a software guy, not a hardware guy, so maybe thats why the hardware aspect is what sounds special. They really should be patenting the hardware, not this software method, since the hardware is the non-obvious part, and the hardware would imply this kind of usage with the software that uses it. But this is just a patent application, and it has errors in it. It seems to claim more usability than it really should support.