As (under British law at least) a contract has to be a 'meeting of minds', you are more likely to get away with this than the cat-luring. The vendor proposes a contract, you strike through the bits you don't agree to, and the vendor can choose to accept your amendments by letting you use the software or not. Of course it's easier just to turn the screen off. If there are no words in the contract when you agree to it, then you haven't really agreed to anything.
For small record labels, Apple takes 30% for music too. See tunecore.com - a site that gets music by unsigned artists and small labels onto the itunes (and other) stores for more details. The approx 10% figure is their profit after paying for bandwidth, software, advertising, etc.
If you want to compare Apple's R&D to Microsoft's R&D, take a look at what they both did in the games console arena. Both came up with a system that would lose a fortune. The difference is that Microsoft threw billions at the Xbox, which they tried to justify as a purchase of market-share, while Apple quietly ditched the Pippin and got on with their core business.
The problem here isn't that investors can't see the point in paying for R&D, it's that Microsoft's R&D spending isn't getting them good value for money. Investors would be happy if these billions actually were "paying off in radically unforseeable ways", but the fact is that practically none of this investment is paying off at all.
It's all about return on investment. Investors are quite rightly seeing past the cash mountain and realising that they have been funding a lot of dead ducks. It's not hard to see that they would be much better off if Microsoft hadn't got into gaming, hadn't made the Zune, and had paid zero to bundle Firefox instead of paying staff to write IE.
While Antares Auto-tune may have been the first to market, Celemony's Melodyne probably has a larger market share nowadays. While auto-tuning isn't news, Celemony's up coming Melodyne Editor software does actually do something new and (to musicians) amazing - it can separate chords into individual notes and allow them to be retuned individually. This makes it much more of a creative tool, not just 'fixing' out of tune notes but also moving in tune ones around - so you can turn a major chord into a minor. There's an amazing demo of taking a guitar recording and changing the scale it's played in near the end of this video: http://www.celemony.com/cms/index.php?id=dna&L=0
If security fixes dry up on OSS, the UK government can just get the source code and pay *anyone* to fix it. How is this better than relying on just one company, especially when that one company is a well-known scofflaw that has incurred the biggest fines in the history of EU law?
Does this make promissory estoppel a defence in these new cases? (I didn't know what it was either until it was mentioned on/. a while back, basically it's legalese for 'hey no fair, they said they wouldn't sue if I did it'.)
That's a good reason not to want a vastly (2x) bigger gamut, but nobody is suggesting that. A 105% bigger gamut will not have more noticeable granularity to the human eye unless you are using a really low number of bits per pixel. At 8 bits of red, green and blue they human eye can rarely tell the difference between adjacent colours, and then only if those colours are simultaniously presented next to each other. Spotting that one of those colours was 105% of an r,g or b change different not 100% is beyond the capability of the human eye - if it was something we could detect, then we would be demanding at least 13 bits per colour per pixel not 8.
I would be really disappointed if KW Jeter's "Bladrerunner 2: The Edge of Human" was made into a film, not because I think the original movie shouldn't be desecrated, but because PK Dick's protege Jeter has written some truly excellent books, and this isn't one of them.
"Dr Adder" would make an stunning movie. "The Glass Hammer" would make an great movie, and if Ridley Scott really wanted a challenge then there's the amazing "Farewell Horizontal".
It's not about protecting the consumer, and it never has been. It's about protecting other browser manufacturers. If you owned shares in Netscape back when Netscape Navigator was top dog, then you are due compensation for Microsoft's continual lawbreaking.
This one has already been test flown, and is about to set off on a publicity gathering expedition from London to Timbuktu.
More details courtesy of BBC News here. Basically it's a beachbuggy/powered paraglider combo. The guy behind it seems to know what he's doing with paragliders, he built and co-piloted the one that reached the top of mount everest.
While we are still waiting for the first decent iPhone MMPORG, which will quickly dominate the world, I suggest giving Runescape a go.
While it's traditionally been thought of as a kids browser game with shoddy graphics, it's starting to grow up a lot, especially the high level content - there are jokes in 1 recent quest that you wouldn't get unless you know Brecht's Threepenny Opera for example.
It runs in any Java equipped browser, and the recent addition of a full-screen mode with graphics accelleration means that on a fast machine with a decent graphics card and all the options turned on, it looks great these days - not quite up to WoW quality, but then again it's about 1/3 the price to subscribe, with no initial outlay and no paid expansions.
The best thing about it is that updates are very frequent, there is new content at least twice a month, often in the form of large and complex quests, full of detail and humour. There is a lot of milage in the free (ad-sponsored) version before you get to the point where you really have to make the decision to pay for the full game or not. Just turn chat off when you start to filter out the 8-year-olds and beggars, and you might have a lot of fun. Search out the more adult-oriented forums for advice and guides (I recommend truthscape for grown-up game discussion and sal's realm of runescape for guides).
The sample of players used for this article (only GamerDNA members with profiles) is so skewed that the second biggest MMO of all (Runescape) doesn't feature in the article at all.
This is probably an excellent article if you are interested in what GamerDNA members are up to, but it's not very relevant outside that.
If the RIAA side objects, then the fact that they lied about wanting to educate the public will be obvious to the jury (and as this discussion is before the trial proper, the lie will be the jury's first impression of the RIAA side) and of course if they don't object then out of context soundbites making them look even more evil/incompetent/devious than they actually are will be all over the net in minutes. Sounds like a win/win situation for the defence to me.
The first thing that strikes me about this phone is that the spec is noticeably different from the other shipping Android phone, the screen is 320x240 not 480x320, and the camera is 2 megapixel not 3.2.
It will be very interesting to see how well the software on the AppStore^H^H^H^H Android MarketTM works on different hardware, and how many developers will be willing and/or able to patch their software to work on it.
I think Microsoft would be willing to pay quite a lot of money for a legal precedent in favor of shrinkwrap EULAs on operating systems, especially if they can make Apple look like the bad guys each time they call on the precedent.
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As (under British law at least) a contract has to be a 'meeting of minds', you are more likely to get away with this than the cat-luring. The vendor proposes a contract, you strike through the bits you don't agree to, and the vendor can choose to accept your amendments by letting you use the software or not. Of course it's easier just to turn the screen off. If there are no words in the contract when you agree to it, then you haven't really agreed to anything.
For small record labels, Apple takes 30% for music too. See tunecore.com - a site that gets music by unsigned artists and small labels onto the itunes (and other) stores for more details. The approx 10% figure is their profit after paying for bandwidth, software, advertising, etc.
...in 1985. Next question!
If you want to compare Apple's R&D to Microsoft's R&D, take a look at what they both did in the games console arena. Both came up with a system that would lose a fortune. The difference is that Microsoft threw billions at the Xbox, which they tried to justify as a purchase of market-share, while Apple quietly ditched the Pippin and got on with their core business.
The problem here isn't that investors can't see the point in paying for R&D, it's that Microsoft's R&D spending isn't getting them good value for money. Investors would be happy if these billions actually were "paying off in radically unforseeable ways", but the fact is that practically none of this investment is paying off at all.
It's all about return on investment. Investors are quite rightly seeing past the cash mountain and realising that they have been funding a lot of dead ducks. It's not hard to see that they would be much better off if Microsoft hadn't got into gaming, hadn't made the Zune, and had paid zero to bundle Firefox instead of paying staff to write IE.
While Antares Auto-tune may have been the first to market, Celemony's Melodyne probably has a larger market share nowadays. While auto-tuning isn't news, Celemony's up coming Melodyne Editor software does actually do something new and (to musicians) amazing - it can separate chords into individual notes and allow them to be retuned individually. This makes it much more of a creative tool, not just 'fixing' out of tune notes but also moving in tune ones around - so you can turn a major chord into a minor. There's an amazing demo of taking a guitar recording and changing the scale it's played in near the end of this video: http://www.celemony.com/cms/index.php?id=dna&L=0
If security fixes dry up on OSS, the UK government can just get the source code and pay *anyone* to fix it. How is this better than relying on just one company, especially when that one company is a well-known scofflaw that has incurred the biggest fines in the history of EU law?
Does this make promissory estoppel a defence in these new cases? (I didn't know what it was either until it was mentioned on /. a while back, basically it's legalese for 'hey no fair, they said they wouldn't sue if I did it'.)
It's not a typo, a weather cock is just another name for a weather vane, it refers to the traditional shape of weather vanes
That's a good reason not to want a vastly (2x) bigger gamut, but nobody is suggesting that. A 105% bigger gamut will not have more noticeable granularity to the human eye unless you are using a really low number of bits per pixel. At 8 bits of red, green and blue they human eye can rarely tell the difference between adjacent colours, and then only if those colours are simultaniously presented next to each other. Spotting that one of those colours was 105% of an r,g or b change different not 100% is beyond the capability of the human eye - if it was something we could detect, then we would be demanding at least 13 bits per colour per pixel not 8.
I would be really disappointed if KW Jeter's "Bladrerunner 2: The Edge of Human" was made into a film, not because I think the original movie shouldn't be desecrated, but because PK Dick's protege Jeter has written some truly excellent books, and this isn't one of them.
"Dr Adder" would make an stunning movie. "The Glass Hammer" would make an great movie, and if Ridley Scott really wanted a challenge then there's the amazing "Farewell Horizontal".
It's not about protecting the consumer, and it never has been. It's about protecting other browser manufacturers. If you owned shares in Netscape back when Netscape Navigator was top dog, then you are due compensation for Microsoft's continual lawbreaking.
Your ISP would send you browser software on a disk when you signed up, just like they did before IE was bundled with Windows.
I think the original phrase may have been "teach the public a lesson"?
This one has already been test flown, and is about to set off on a publicity gathering expedition from London to Timbuktu.
More details courtesy of BBC News here. Basically it's a beachbuggy/powered paraglider combo. The guy behind it seems to know what he's doing with paragliders, he built and co-piloted the one that reached the top of mount everest.
Queen Elizabeth II, and (unless we fix the copyright laws in the next few years) J K Rowling.
While we are still waiting for the first decent iPhone MMPORG, which will quickly dominate the world, I suggest giving Runescape a go.
While it's traditionally been thought of as a kids browser game with shoddy graphics, it's starting to grow up a lot, especially the high level content - there are jokes in 1 recent quest that you wouldn't get unless you know Brecht's Threepenny Opera for example.
It runs in any Java equipped browser, and the recent addition of a full-screen mode with graphics accelleration means that on a fast machine with a decent graphics card and all the options turned on, it looks great these days - not quite up to WoW quality, but then again it's about 1/3 the price to subscribe, with no initial outlay and no paid expansions.
The best thing about it is that updates are very frequent, there is new content at least twice a month, often in the form of large and complex quests, full of detail and humour. There is a lot of milage in the free (ad-sponsored) version before you get to the point where you really have to make the decision to pay for the full game or not. Just turn chat off when you start to filter out the 8-year-olds and beggars, and you might have a lot of fun. Search out the more adult-oriented forums for advice and guides (I recommend truthscape for grown-up game discussion and sal's realm of runescape for guides).
The sample of players used for this article (only GamerDNA members with profiles) is so skewed that the second biggest MMO of all (Runescape) doesn't feature in the article at all.
This is probably an excellent article if you are interested in what GamerDNA members are up to, but it's not very relevant outside that.
If the RIAA side objects, then the fact that they lied about wanting to educate the public will be obvious to the jury (and as this discussion is before the trial proper, the lie will be the jury's first impression of the RIAA side) and of course if they don't object then out of context soundbites making them look even more evil/incompetent/devious than they actually are will be all over the net in minutes. Sounds like a win/win situation for the defence to me.
The patent was filed May 24, 2005. Googling for 'computer slow spyware 2004' gives 127,000 hits.
The first thing that strikes me about this phone is that the spec is noticeably different from the other shipping Android phone, the screen is 320x240 not 480x320, and the camera is 2 megapixel not 3.2.
It will be very interesting to see how well the software on the AppStore^H^H^H^H Android MarketTM works on different hardware, and how many developers will be willing and/or able to patch their software to work on it.
The T-Mobile G1 is not just US only, it's also on sale under the same name here in the United Kingdom.
I think Microsoft would be willing to pay quite a lot of money for a legal precedent in favor of shrinkwrap EULAs on operating systems, especially if they can make Apple look like the bad guys each time they call on the precedent.