Remember: The RIAA do not buy from Artists, do not pay artists, do not represent artists The RIAA do not sell to the music buying public, do not represent the music buying public The RIAA do not licence or collect radio play royalties The RIAA represent the majority of the Music Recording Industry... So they have no loyalty to the public, no loyalty to the artists, no loyalty to the radio stations....
So they do cost different amounts to make if only theoretically...?
If they only make the "good" chips they would be more expensive because they would not be subsidised by the sales of the "sub-standard" chips, selling the "seconds" makes the overall cost less so they can reduce the price of the full spec chips, the price of the second quality chips is fairly arbitary above the manufacturing cost?
The point still stands that it costs money to make all the chips, but SMS messages cost the mobile networks essentially nothing,the traffic to keep your mobile phone on the network is greater than most normal people can possibly send or receive, the price you are charged is completely arbitary and does not reflect the true costs at all...
How can Microsoft justify the high-cost of vista premium when all you get is a DVD that cost less than $0.25 to produce? - Because it actually cost Microsoft money to make the contents of that DVD
How can phone companies charge more for international telephone calls than they do for international data transmission, like Skype, which transmits the same audio? - Because it cost them money to use the international trunks/satellite links
How can Apple justify factory macbook upgrades which cost more than doing the same upgrades yourself? - Because they have to pay someone to do the updates + carriage
How can Intel make a bunch of Core 2 chips then justify charging a premium for the ones that remain stable at higher clock rates, when both fast and slow chips cost the same amount to make? - They don't cost the same to make?
How can carriers continue to justify the high cost of their apparent super-premium data transmission? - They can't since SMS traffic is essentially free....
This is not a "give it away, charge for extras" or Game as a service - It's a free trial
The game itself is only playable for 5 hours before you need to register (and pay) and it call this a Demo
This is more like Demoware than Game as a service...
But saying that it will work since the boxed copy you buy just sits on a shelf and the downloaded game is exactly the same, like the music industry they are selling something that can be downloaded easier than buying it, so the way of stopping freeloaders (pirates) is to sell something else, in this case an online gaming service....
What you do is you get the hardware manufacturers to write their device drivers to your specs so you can rely on devices going to sleep and waking up properly and reliably then you can write easily make the system consume very little power
The you write the system so that it uses more memory than you have and so swaps to disk constantly so that it uses huge amounts of power when working and only saves any power when the whole system goes to sleep....
1) Wikipedia is US based so these laws do not apply (they do not have the data protection act)
2) Wikipedia states on it's edit screen that everything you submit will be covered by the GNU Free Documentation Licence and so the people who IP address have been logged have voluntarily given up their rights by submitting...
This is simply because there are no roads anywhere in Europe where you can legally drive over 155mph so there is no point in making road cars that can travel at these speeds
Many of the these cars are therefore only tested up to 155mph and only designed to be safe up to this speed
It's like overclocking your CPU and then complaining when it overheats....
The "Autopilot" that landed in a forest was not an autopilot at all, it was the fly-by-wire computer system that overrulled the pilot by decending when he was trying to pull up....
The reason we have pilots in aircraft is for the emergencies most commercial flights the autopilot flies the plane for most of the journey and can usually take off and land as well if required, but the pilots are needed to cope with situations the autopilot was not designed for (but this does not mean they can't be designed for this?)
This is not a problem with CC licences but with copyright law (or Lawyers...)
1. If you licence a photo you do not own with *any* licence but the original the original owner might be able to sue anyone using it under your licence
2. If you licence a photo you do own with *any* licence you might still need permission from the subject
3. If you licence a photo you do own with *any* permissive licence you could then re-licence it under another licence, claim you never licenced it under the permissive licence and sue the users
A restrictive licence only does not help with any of these but you are less likely to be able to get away with the switcheroo game...
Most are toys, and the ones that aren't looked suspiciously familiar... they are small increments of existing products?
Optimus Maximus - Why? Nonobject camera - Why? Duofone - Nice idea, this is actually an innovation! Toast Messenger - Why! Dual Music Player - How do you hold it, and say hello to scratched CD's - bad design Vaio Zoom - holographic - no it's not, it's LCD? Pretty but pointless? Visual Desktop Charger - Nice idea, but will it charge everything? not unless there is a standard? Bluetooth Laser Virtual Keyboard - Been around for years (but not bluetooth) not exactly innovation? Omaura HTPC - It's bigger? Wow what an innovation? Eclipse Partitioning System - Why would anyone buy this? EmTrace's PS100 Photoskin Frames - Look at my photos - oh you can't It's broken? iRing - Pretty, fairly pointless, but at least an innovation Pock-It - An innovation... sQuba - Rich Man's toy, stupidly expensive and dangerous...
This is the problem with the "Extend DRM to the hardware" route in Vista it requires "Trusted channels" and if it's not trusted you can't play it , and because of the stupidity of trying to do this they even have to monitor the cables - or you could just splice these and record the output
The picture/sound output IS digital in HD and so if recorded is a faithful copy of the original (or at least good enough)
But it relies on DRM (which can be broken, and once broken is worthless) and Known hardware, which you also have in your hands and can break into the "Trusted Channel"... this is why Microsoft can remove the trusted channel status if any piece of hardware, again you/Your PC are/is both the trusted party (Bob) and the evesdropper (Eve), so this cannot hope to work because it is inherently flawed
IIS6 may be solid and so on but if the web sites it hosts get hacked then it is still insecure...?
"The web site has been hacked", "yes but IIE6 is still secure...."
Most of these are down to the insane security model of windows, note the Apache web sites that are most often hacked are the ones running on windows....
It should be Patent a process (not software!) but force them to licence it so anyone can do it the the originator of the idea benefits and is encouraged to come up with more ideas
Copywrite a "work" so the originator is rewarded and motivated to continue (how are retired or dead artists going to do more original works?)
Trademark a product so people cannot just copy it...
e.g. The Platinum editions of games are not just a repackage of the original, they give you extras as well? And would you buy "Legend of Helda, Platinum Edition - Honest it's not Zelda but looks exactly the same but with all the trademarks stripped out and we haven't broken it in the process really".....
If you read the article properly you will find that the evidence they destroyed was never collected, they did not destroy it they just didn't save it in the first place...
Oh and this is not a US company so the MPAA and the US courts cannot order them to save information that is not required by European law...?
America the land of the free... well freeish.... sort of
That is if you trust this figure....... Gartner is not the most relaible source, and how did they come up with this estimate, when the victims mostly will not tell people they were scammed, and the banks will not release their losses...
As with most of the altertnative explanations this is an answer looking for a question, an asteroid airburst is simple, likely, has happened before will happen again, and fits the known documented facts.... (not rumour, or hearsay collected years after the event)
The summary of the article is (as usual) misleading
"Tunguska Blast Was a Small Asteroid" - yes we know (it's just a bit smaller thank previously thought)...and note this was an air-burst not an impact (only the fireball from the airbust acually reached the ground) so no crater is required either...
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Remember: ... So they have no loyalty to the public, no loyalty to the artists, no loyalty to the radio stations ....
The RIAA do not buy from Artists, do not pay artists, do not represent artists
The RIAA do not sell to the music buying public, do not represent the music buying public
The RIAA do not licence or collect radio play royalties
The RIAA represent the majority of the Music Recording Industry
This will be the BitKeeper that was replaced by Git ...?
So no it won't be a problem ?
Apparently it's something like a sport played in America?
...
Allegedly it's quite popular but only in the USA?
I could have watched it this morning (at 4AM!) but couldn't be bothered since I hadn't heard of either of the teams?
Apparently big companies pay large amounts of money to advertise to Americans in the numerous breaks in play
The rest of the world however is not the target and does not care....
Next topic: most memorable adverts in the FA Cup Final
Every Copy of IE is prior art ... It shows a custom 404 page with redirects to pages to solve the problem rather than the server produced 404 page ...
So they do cost different amounts to make if only theoretically ...?
,the traffic to keep your mobile phone on the network is greater than most normal people can possibly send or receive, the price you are charged is completely arbitary and does not reflect the true costs at all...
If they only make the "good" chips they would be more expensive because they would not be subsidised by the sales of the "sub-standard" chips, selling the "seconds" makes the overall cost less so they can reduce the price of the full spec chips, the price of the second quality chips is fairly arbitary above the manufacturing cost?
The point still stands that it costs money to make all the chips, but SMS messages cost the mobile networks essentially nothing
How can Microsoft justify the high-cost of vista premium when all you get is a DVD that cost less than $0.25 to produce?
- Because it actually cost Microsoft money to make the contents of that DVD
How can phone companies charge more for international telephone calls than they do for international data transmission, like Skype, which transmits the same audio?
- Because it cost them money to use the international trunks/satellite links
How can Apple justify factory macbook upgrades which cost more than doing the same upgrades yourself?
- Because they have to pay someone to do the updates + carriage
How can Intel make a bunch of Core 2 chips then justify charging a premium for the ones that remain stable at higher clock rates, when both fast and slow chips cost the same amount to make?
- They don't cost the same to make?
How can carriers continue to justify the high cost of their apparent super-premium data transmission?
- They can't since SMS traffic is essentially free....
This is not a "give it away, charge for extras" or Game as a service - It's a free trial
...
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The game itself is only playable for 5 hours before you need to register (and pay) and it call this a Demo
This is more like Demoware than Game as a service
But saying that it will work since the boxed copy you buy just sits on a shelf and the downloaded game is exactly the same, like the music industry they are selling something that can be downloaded easier than buying it, so the way of stopping freeloaders (pirates) is to sell something else, in this case an online gaming service
What you do is you get the hardware manufacturers to write their device drivers to your specs so you can rely on devices going to sleep and waking up properly and reliably then you can write easily make the system consume very little power
....
The you write the system so that it uses more memory than you have and so swaps to disk constantly so that it uses huge amounts of power when working and only saves any power when the whole system goes to sleep
Yes but...
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1) Wikipedia is US based so these laws do not apply (they do not have the data protection act)
2) Wikipedia states on it's edit screen that everything you submit will be covered by the GNU Free Documentation Licence and so the people who IP address have been logged have voluntarily given up their rights by submitting
The design flaws are security flaws...
This allow/deny dialog is annoying how do turn it off
I Can't run this program but I can as an admin how do I run as an admin all the time
"reliability, scalability" Well wikipedia runs on it .... and that seems to scale quite well and be fairly reliable ?
This is irrelevant to the UK they are using US Laws to stop a US based site ... ?
...and the Wikileaks site is hosted in the US so is outside UK juristriction?
The DMCA has no relevance to UK or European laws
I see your Theism and Atheism and raise you Agnostic ....
Sorry, like most urban myths, it gets more publicity than the real events, and so I was unaware of what really happened
It's the usual
Day after crash : "Front Page: Plane Crashes - Pilot blames systems failure"
Three weeks later : "Page 23 small article - it was really pilot error"
This is simply because there are no roads anywhere in Europe where you can legally drive over 155mph so there is no point in making road cars that can travel at these speeds
Many of the these cars are therefore only tested up to 155mph and only designed to be safe up to this speed
It's like overclocking your CPU and then complaining when it overheats....
The "Autopilot" that landed in a forest was not an autopilot at all, it was the fly-by-wire computer system that overrulled the pilot by decending when he was trying to pull up....
The reason we have pilots in aircraft is for the emergencies most commercial flights the autopilot flies the plane for most of the journey and can usually take off and land as well if required, but the pilots are needed to cope with situations the autopilot was not designed for (but this does not mean they can't be designed for this?)
This is not a problem with CC licences but with copyright law (or Lawyers...)
...
1. If you licence a photo you do not own with *any* licence but the original the original owner might be able to sue anyone using it under your licence
2. If you licence a photo you do own with *any* licence you might still need permission from the subject
3. If you licence a photo you do own with *any* permissive licence you could then re-licence it under another licence, claim you never licenced it under the permissive licence and sue the users
A restrictive licence only does not help with any of these but you are less likely to be able to get away with the switcheroo game
I've seen ones with three buttons ... these make sense
Play (also acts as Fast forward and next)
Delete
Back (also acts as Fast backward and previous)
It's easy simple and there no non-obvious problems with the one button design
Most are toys, and the ones that aren't looked suspiciously familiar... they are small increments of existing products?
...
Optimus Maximus - Why?
Nonobject camera - Why?
Duofone - Nice idea, this is actually an innovation!
Toast Messenger - Why!
Dual Music Player - How do you hold it, and say hello to scratched CD's - bad design
Vaio Zoom - holographic - no it's not, it's LCD? Pretty but pointless?
Visual Desktop Charger - Nice idea, but will it charge everything? not unless there is a standard?
Bluetooth Laser Virtual Keyboard - Been around for years (but not bluetooth) not exactly innovation?
Omaura HTPC - It's bigger? Wow what an innovation?
Eclipse Partitioning System - Why would anyone buy this?
EmTrace's PS100 Photoskin Frames - Look at my photos - oh you can't It's broken?
iRing - Pretty, fairly pointless, but at least an innovation
Pock-It - An innovation...
sQuba - Rich Man's toy, stupidly expensive and dangerous
This is the problem with the "Extend DRM to the hardware" route in Vista it requires "Trusted channels" and if it's not trusted you can't play it , and because of the stupidity of trying to do this they even have to monitor the cables - or you could just splice these and record the output
... this is why Microsoft can remove the trusted channel status if any piece of hardware, again you/Your PC are/is both the trusted party (Bob) and the evesdropper (Eve), so this cannot hope to work because it is inherently flawed
The picture/sound output IS digital in HD and so if recorded is a faithful copy of the original (or at least good enough)
But it relies on DRM (which can be broken, and once broken is worthless) and Known hardware, which you also have in your hands and can break into the "Trusted Channel"
Sorry which planet are you from?
....
IIS6 may be solid and so on but if the web sites it hosts get hacked then it is still insecure...?
"The web site has been hacked", "yes but IIE6 is still secure...."
Most of these are down to the insane security model of windows, note the Apache web sites that are most often hacked are the ones running on windows
This is what Trademarks are for ....
...
It should be Patent a process (not software!) but force them to licence it so anyone can do it the the originator of the idea benefits and is encouraged to come up with more ideas
Copywrite a "work" so the originator is rewarded and motivated to continue (how are retired or dead artists going to do more original works?)
Trademark a product so people cannot just copy it
e.g. The Platinum editions of games are not just a repackage of the original, they give you extras as well? And would you buy "Legend of Helda, Platinum Edition - Honest it's not Zelda but looks exactly the same but with all the trademarks stripped out and we haven't broken it in the process really".....
If you read the article properly you will find that the evidence they destroyed was never collected, they did not destroy it they just didn't save it in the first place ...
...?
... well freeish.... sort of
Oh and this is not a US company so the MPAA and the US courts cannot order them to save information that is not required by European law
America the land of the free
That is if you trust this figure.... ... Gartner is not the most relaible source, and how did they come up with this estimate, when the victims mostly will not tell people they were scammed, and the banks will not release their losses ...
As with most of the altertnative explanations this is an answer looking for a question, an asteroid airburst is simple, likely, has happened before will happen again, and fits the known documented facts.... (not rumour, or hearsay collected years after the event)
...and note this was an air-burst not an impact (only the fireball from the airbust acually reached the ground) so no crater is required either ...
The summary of the article is (as usual) misleading
"Tunguska Blast Was a Small Asteroid" - yes we know (it's just a bit smaller thank previously thought)