There is a difference each movie is a unique item, I don't go and watch a movie I go and watch a particular movie, and if it really is good then I might buy it on DVD as well, and If it is a watchable movie then it will get sold to TV stations as well,and I can watch it again on TV
But once I have seen it enough then I will never buy it again and I will never need support or updates to it...so the initial cost price is all there is
With a band the product is (or should be) the band, if they come out with a new album people will buy it unheard so they are not really buying the record but the band
Use a radio (Walkie Talkie) since it is in the prison communicating to someone else in the prison the faraday cage is irrelevant - if you want to extend it outside the prison then a a simple relay can rebroadcast the only the specific radio signals in and out
Ditto if you are using active blocking since the blocking can be designed to only block mobile phone signals and not the warder radio signals
If someone today said that they could find a way of making money by giving away something broadcasting it across the planet on TV and on the net and still make people pay for it they would laughed at but this is exactly what the media companies do...
I can pay to watch a movie, buy it on DVD, watch it on free to view TV, and it is still illegal for me to download it and watch that? I've paid twice to watch it and a company has paid you to broadcast it... why do you still want money for it...?
Copyright is being used as a licence to print money forever by these companies...
Define a Soul in a way that allows a machine to have one and they will eventually, define it in a way that excludes machines from having one and they cannot...
Most definitions of a Soul are biased towards humans and implicitly exclude machines
Microsoft did sell an anti-virus product at one time, it was universally hated and all the testers panned it as worse than useless.... why exactly would anyone want it...?
99.9% or issues I have ever had with OpenSource software have already been solved/worked around by the time I find them, perhaps I am not close enough to the bleeding edge to get problems, but most of the issues I have with closed source software are still problems when I have moved on...
newtonian physics - is wrong it cannot accurately predict the orbit of the planet mercury relativity - is wrong it cannot predict the "orbit" of an electron quantum mechanics - is wrong it cannot predict the effects of gravity at all.. big bang - is wrong it predicts the universe other than we see it
But they all do predict many many things that are true and so are useful until we come up with something better....
The Multiple parallel universe theories (all of them) are currently useless since they only predict things we cannot test
Explaining the anthropic principal is a red herring since many people don't even consider it to be a real principal, it's a bit like saying look I fit so perfectly into my world it must have been created for me... and this is like saying but you have 101,000 clones who do not fit into their worlds but you can never communicate with them or find out anything about their worlds so you are not special after all.....
Custom Software does not equal proprietary software
I can customize Open source software for you and you can pay me, and it is still open source....but even though it should now be more useful for you, it is probably less useful, for anyone else, than the standard open source version
So Microsoft thought their code was exploitable and said so, and it was, and instead of doing something about it they just congratulated themselves on predicting it!
Now here's an odd idea rather than predicting if something is exploitable and then publishing it, why not just not write code that is easily exploitable....!
and note the 40% is only the exploits they know about....so even that is suspect....
The ARM series were not only appropriate for Desktops they were brilliant in desktops - I remember running a Quad Processor Pentium server with WinNT Workstation, and the same but with a single ARM and the ARM system was significantly quicker than the 4 pentiums....(But drivers were a nightmare)
ARM took the view of throw away the legacy and get some decent architecture and performance, Intel have kept compatible and so hamstrung the performance...this is why ARM cpu's are so much quicker at lower clock speeds
This will be more reliable than fingerprint scanners... those things that they tested on Mythbusters and easily fooled every one with the most basic techniques....
(and I see that independent testing has shown that it is *less* reliable)...... oh look another unreliable biometric test!
So they have a building, with no evidence of people living there so it must be a temple?
And they have radiocarbon dated the soil and "pedogenic carbonate" coatings on the pillars, these are a) assumed to be from the time it was in use/abandoned b) correct carbon dates....
They have, besides the buildings, and carbon in the soil, nothing else to date... and stone is notoriously hard to date accurately?
I would like better evidence of a build date than they have...
I want to play a game - I don't have a fast internet connection... so I am no longer a customer of the majority of the games companies because without an internet connection I am a pirate and cannot access the majority of the game (if any) even though I pay for it....This is even with games that do not use an internet connection for anything else....
This is how they "improved" boot speed - Get it to the desktop faster, it does not matter that the desktop is unusable because the networking is still coming up and the processor/hard disk is still thrashing so hard the system is unusable, it got to a desktop in x seconds....
It seems they have done the same trick again, click to reaction is faster, click to usable outcome is the same - result it looks faster.....
The give me the web page test will fail since the click to load IE7 will react faster but the time to load IE7 and the page will be the same.....
My experience is that Windows Mobile is not a stable platform - "just wait while I reboot my phone it's crashed again!" seems to be a common saying....
Give me a basic mobile any day, when they do less they do not crash....
The failure rates quoted (even the "good" ones) would cause most people to never buy any of these....
"Linux" supports it, one particular distribution may not....... same as some newer distributions will not even install on a 386SX, but you can run Linux on it...
MPEG-4 ASP needs a licence fee for every device - so the cost of my device just went up (possibly from nothing) to more than it need to be - this also means it will not be universally supported on any platform and certainly not on every platform
My cellphone cannot play MPEG-4 ASP - neither can the iPhone! (it can't play flash video either!) ASP is considered a obsolete format in the industry and is no longer supported on some newer devices......ah the joys of proprietary formats
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There is a difference each movie is a unique item, I don't go and watch a movie I go and watch a particular movie, and if it really is good then I might buy it on DVD as well, and If it is a watchable movie then it will get sold to TV stations as well,and I can watch it again on TV
But once I have seen it enough then I will never buy it again and I will never need support or updates to it ...so the initial cost price is all there is
With a band the product is (or should be) the band, if they come out with a new album people will buy it unheard so they are not really buying the record but the band
Use a radio (Walkie Talkie) since it is in the prison communicating to someone else in the prison the faraday cage is irrelevant - if you want to extend it outside the prison then a a simple relay can rebroadcast the only the specific radio signals in and out
Ditto if you are using active blocking since the blocking can be designed to only block mobile phone signals and not the warder radio signals
It was probably recorded onto flash memory anyway ...?
If someone today said that they could find a way of making money by giving away something broadcasting it across the planet on TV and on the net and still make people pay for it they would laughed at but this is exactly what the media companies do ...
I can pay to watch a movie, buy it on DVD, watch it on free to view TV, and it is still illegal for me to download it and watch that? I've paid twice to watch it and a company has paid you to broadcast it ... why do you still want money for it...?
Copyright is being used as a licence to print money forever by these companies...
This would be the Microsoft who have a Browser that has an MS search bar embedded ... but that's OK because it's the same company?
Perhaps they should look at the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, it gets all it's money from one source ....?
Define a Soul in a way that allows a machine to have one and they will eventually, define it in a way that excludes machines from having one and they cannot ...
Most definitions of a Soul are biased towards humans and implicitly exclude machines
Love is built in to get parents stay together long enough to have children and to look after them and to ensure they survive
Microsoft did sell an anti-virus product at one time, it was universally hated and all the testers panned it as worse than useless .... why exactly would anyone want it ...?
...or send a bill to the RIAA for implementing their protection system
99.9% or issues I have ever had with OpenSource software have already been solved/worked around by the time I find them, perhaps I am not close enough to the bleeding edge to get problems, but most of the issues I have with closed source software are still problems when I have moved on ...
newtonian physics - is wrong it cannot accurately predict the orbit of the planet mercury
relativity - is wrong it cannot predict the "orbit" of an electron
quantum mechanics - is wrong it cannot predict the effects of gravity at all..
big bang - is wrong it predicts the universe other than we see it
But they all do predict many many things that are true and so are useful until we come up with something better....
The Multiple parallel universe theories (all of them) are currently useless since they only predict things we cannot test
Explaining the anthropic principal is a red herring since many people don't even consider it to be a real principal, it's a bit like saying look I fit so perfectly into my world it must have been created for me ... and this is like saying but you have 101,000 clones who do not fit into their worlds but you can never communicate with them or find out anything about their worlds so you are not special after all .....
Custom Software does not equal proprietary software
I can customize Open source software for you and you can pay me, and it is still open source ....but even though it should now be more useful for you, it is probably less useful, for anyone else, than the standard open source version
So Microsoft thought their code was exploitable and said so, and it was, and instead of doing something about it they just congratulated themselves on predicting it!
Now here's an odd idea rather than predicting if something is exploitable and then publishing it, why not just not write code that is easily exploitable....!
and note the 40% is only the exploits they know about ....so even that is suspect....
The ARM series were not only appropriate for Desktops they were brilliant in desktops - I remember running a Quad Processor Pentium server with WinNT Workstation, and the same but with a single ARM and the ARM system was significantly quicker than the 4 pentiums....(But drivers were a nightmare)
ARM took the view of throw away the legacy and get some decent architecture and performance, Intel have kept compatible and so hamstrung the performance ...this is why ARM cpu's are so much quicker at lower clock speeds
This will be more reliable than fingerprint scanners... those things that they tested on Mythbusters and easily fooled every one with the most basic techniques ....
(and I see that independent testing has shown that it is *less* reliable) ... ... oh look another unreliable biometric test!
So they have a building, with no evidence of people living there so it must be a temple?
And they have radiocarbon dated the soil and "pedogenic carbonate" coatings on the pillars, these are a) assumed to be from the time it was in use/abandoned b) correct carbon dates ....
They have, besides the buildings, and carbon in the soil, nothing else to date... and stone is notoriously hard to date accurately?
I would like better evidence of a build date than they have ...
I want to play a game - I don't have a fast internet connection ... so I am no longer a customer of the majority of the games companies because without an internet connection I am a pirate and cannot access the majority of the game (if any) even though I pay for it ....This is even with games that do not use an internet connection for anything else ....
This is how they "improved" boot speed - Get it to the desktop faster, it does not matter that the desktop is unusable because the networking is still coming up and the processor/hard disk is still thrashing so hard the system is unusable, it got to a desktop in x seconds ....
It seems they have done the same trick again, click to reaction is faster, click to usable outcome is the same - result it looks faster .....
The give me the web page test will fail since the click to load IE7 will react faster but the time to load IE7 and the page will be the same .....
People who do not know Lisp are doomed to reimplement it - badly
Whitespace as an operator .... you mean like Python ....? (It's the one thing I hate about Python)
My experience is that Windows Mobile is not a stable platform - "just wait while I reboot my phone it's crashed again!" seems to be a common saying ....
Give me a basic mobile any day, when they do less they do not crash ....
The failure rates quoted (even the "good" ones) would cause most people to never buy any of these....
The difference being that going on past experience the billions dumped into banking will pay a healthy profit (eventually...)
But museums represent our past *and* our future once they are gone they are gone forever ....
"Linux" supports it, one particular distribution may not ..... .. same as some newer distributions will not even install on a 386SX, but you can run Linux on it ...
Thora is to replace flash video and the other small web video formats
Dirac is to replace the fullscreen/HD formats
MPEG-4 ASP needs a licence fee for every device - so the cost of my device just went up (possibly from nothing) to more than it need to be - this also means it will not be universally supported on any platform and certainly not on every platform
My cellphone cannot play MPEG-4 ASP - neither can the iPhone! (it can't play flash video either!) ASP is considered a obsolete format in the industry and is no longer supported on some newer devices .... ..ah the joys of proprietary formats