And how, pray tell do they get that experience if they are forbidden by the law, and parents don't want to talk to them about it, are afraid to talk to them about it (in the case of a single male parent, talking to his preteen/teen daughter about sex, taken the wrong way to a jury of his "peers", could be jailed.) or don't care to talk about it? Our solution? Force them to wait til their parents are no longer "legally" responsible for them, and them abandon them to the world.
Admittedly, not every parent abandons their child at 18, but how may of your friends tell their children "at 18 you are out?" This is the main reason for our unstable relationships, as when the brain has been designed to learn about dealing with the opposite sex, at puberty to full brain maturity, we try to force our children to not have sex, and then we wonder why they end up pregnant before they ever leave home.
Since the law says we don't need to deal with it til 18, we let it go.
Now, I am not agreeing with non-consensual sex, with rape, with child abuse, or any such thing. I am advocating EDUCATION!
But we can look at the tags in use, as the.ibooks file is just a zip file, and create a converter that repackages that output to standard epub3. I would expect calibre to do some form of this, except now the author cant export the fruit of their hard labor. Saying that a company has the ownership of what I can use files that I create is just wrong, no matter if that is legal or not.
Don't know if you have looked at the book publishing industry lately, but it sucks, frankly. Not only are there no cheap, i.e. less than 5 bucks, programs that handle the export to different formats, it takes lots of programs to get onto the top ebook marketplaces, two of which are supposed to convert the formats for you. (Here's lookin' at you Amazon and SmashWords.)
To put it mildly, if I am reading a book about quilting, I want the let the quilting expert write the book, not the guy that can compile the information and has the technical proficiency to write the HTML code.
I am relatively certain that the iAuthor program produces an epub3 like file format. This is not a BINARY format. A binary format is an executable. The iAuthor format is zipped html5 files. In fact, you can manually edit the files in a text area. The only binary like files that it may contain would be YOUR video files, audio files, and pictures.
Corporations ARE NOT PEOPLE! In no scientific definition of the word can they be termed people. They do not think for them selves, they do act with volition. People within them do. The taxes paid by companies are a tribute to the government for allowing them to operate in the US, as well as giving them the protections against unlawful acts(such as destruction of property) to protect the taxpayer whom owns the business.
Yes, businesses are intended to be a second class, to provide service to the populace. The governments job is to protect the rights of EVERY individual in the country. By treating a business as if it were person, you give that business the authority of a person, the autonomy of a person, and the rights of a person. There then comes no real reason for a business not to run for office.
THIS MUST NOT BE ALLOWED!
Humans must represent themselves. If businesses want representation, they can create there own government, something that regulates them, and then deal with the government on an equal footing. This way, we are more justified for wiping all businesses off the planet.
Warning: if this post seems to represent reality to yo...ackkk.
This clip was in no way owned by UMG. Megaupload solicited and paid the artist for the comercial, has releases from the artist to prove it. Megaupload holds the copyright to the video. UMG filed the takedown notice on the clip without holding the copyright, which was the story covered by TNT. TNT showed a video of the clip, without audio, and spoke over the clip. At the end, to show how bad the song was, they played less than 3 seconds of the end of the clip. UMG is being taken to court by Megaupload over the takedown notice for the original video. I was the original broadcast of TNT. UMG is censoring the news, and acting anti-competitively.
Please stop being a shill and think. Spread FUD elsewhere.
One problem is that GPS bleeds into the spectrum that LightSqured is supposed to use, due to poor design decisions. The GPS satellites would need to be fixed to prevent usage outside of the range they were supposed to operate in. LightSqured's solution to this is to use half of the bandwidth they were allotted, in order to not interfere with the GPS satellites. They even offered to pay to fix the satellites themselves, in order to solve the problem.
The simple answer to this is, surprisingly simple. When iPad was the only tablet on the market, they were the only ones that that counted. Simply by selling the Android Tablets, they had to lose market share.
Or live in a house that contains college students taking online classes, high school students using Pandora, iTunes, and Facebook, or a house with 10 people in it. This is my current situation, and looking at my router statistics, May 2011 (Incoming: 586440 MB / Outgoing: 48713 MB), convinces me that it is unrealistic to assume anything about a particular household or usage pattern. It might possibly be fair to charge based on the number of people living in a household, but I don't like that idea either, to many people would simply claim that only one person lived in a ten person house. P.S. the highest days' usage last month? 50GB down on the 25th.
You assume that every valuable project will be invested in, which is not strictly true. Many ideas are passed over not because the idea is worthless, but because the large company cannot make a large enough percentage from the investment. Many scripts are passed over thanks to this, yet the script may win many rewards at Sundance Festivals; big investors think in terms of quick recoup on investment, and not everything qualifies.
The publishing industry abounds with tales of authors submitting their book to twenty publishing houses, and then the twenty first picks it up and it sells 600,000 copies. Tyler Perry started out on the streets before he was able to do his first play, yet those Matilda plays have made his career.
It is easy to dismiss things because it must not be good if our corporate overlords don't buy them; the harder path is to think for ourselves.
Diaspora is a DISTRIBUTED social network. The project sets up micro Facebook sites and federates with other Diaspora sites. So in theory, You have a Diaspora server, and your friend has one as well. Yours will connect ot his, and his to yours, only giving out the info each of you set up. You can have it set up to get all your post from Facebook and whatever.
The source code and install instructions are on the Diaspora site, and gitHub for you to use. However, it is no trivial to install. I have not been able to get it ot work in the virtual machines I have created for that purpose. So in reality, what you will end up with may be small sites that focus on a small number of people, then federate to other Diaspora sites, versus everyone and their mother having their own.
Still, it is available, and has been available to those that donated since the summer, as the Diaspora team is using them as guinna pigs.
How about really rethinking the default UI. I currently have my start menu on the right, and the tabs of my browser on the left, because that is where I have more space thanks to the new 16:9 screen ratios that the industry has standardized on. Why not have the Title bar on the left or right, or at least customizable to be.
They finally have Windows Update usable, after 15years of working with it, so why not let other companies, such as Adobe, use that technology for their updates, for a price, of course.
Why not have a screen when you first start the computer that will walk you through choices of antivirus, and anti-malware.
Oh yeah, when are we going to get a Mac OS like, as in the functionality, quick bar, with out having to rely on these things that can't work with windows explorer.
Technically Windows 2000 and Windows ME happened at basically the same time. And Windows 98 was much less buggy than 95, its just more people were using 98, so we received more complaints. They were over the same issues again and again.
I LIKE the fact they targeted the netbook market, this is one reason that Windows 7 runs so well on older hardware. Of course, preparing it to run on more than 64 cores might have helped, as well.
The only issue that Sony might be able to capitalize on is the fact that Amazon is PLAYING the music for you on the web in the form of the Amazon Cloud Player. Another issue is that you were already able to do this in the form of their cloud service, they are specifically targeting music with this pricing and advertising effort. If they were just streaming the files, and providing a means to integrate into an existing player, they could say that they were just offering a home targeted version of their existing services, but as it is, we must wait and see.
P.S. I actually want Amazon to succeed.
I'm a regular listener to Windows Weekly, with Paul Thurott and Leo Laporte. He mentioned Microsoft Signature at the Microsoft store. Here is a link to the article. It is apparently a very Apple store like experience, and they clean the computers of all the crud that is on the laptops originally. They sell several different brands. Hope this helps.
This is so true, they are supervised by backward thinking district supervisors, that deal directly with their parents that didn't finish high school. We need to allow the teachers to actually teach, not just memorization.
Isn't OpenCL supposed to allow a a lot of this offloading? Aren't you supposed to be able to give the gpu a kernel, then just send it data. Then aren't you able to send it to OpenGL to render on screen? I don't have access to a OpenCL capable gpu, yet, but asa soon as I do, that seems the best solution?
Let me know if I am wrong, as I hate being right to much.
There is original content all over the net, just not directly on Netflix. RiffTracks comes to mind, there was a public sponsored series that started last year about the Russians having someone live on Mars, and podcasts galore. Entertaining shows such as Leo Laporte's TWIT Network,Brian Brushwoods Scam School, and R3vision's network with howtos and others. Not to mention all the post hours of stories on Youtube, and animated shorts on the Internet.
Oh, you meant stuff spoon fed to us by some major corporate entity, as anything that is created by a person can't be as good, and we wouldn't want to stray to much out of the comfort zone, would we? Goochi-goochi-goooooooo!
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And how, pray tell do they get that experience if they are forbidden by the law, and parents don't want to talk to them about it, are afraid to talk to them about it (in the case of a single male parent, talking to his preteen/teen daughter about sex, taken the wrong way to a jury of his "peers", could be jailed.) or don't care to talk about it? Our solution? Force them to wait til their parents are no longer "legally" responsible for them, and them abandon them to the world.
Admittedly, not every parent abandons their child at 18, but how may of your friends tell their children "at 18 you are out?" This is the main reason for our unstable relationships, as when the brain has been designed to learn about dealing with the opposite sex, at puberty to full brain maturity, we try to force our children to not have sex, and then we wonder why they end up pregnant before they ever leave home.
Since the law says we don't need to deal with it til 18, we let it go.
Now, I am not agreeing with non-consensual sex, with rape, with child abuse, or any such thing. I am advocating EDUCATION!
But we can look at the tags in use, as the .ibooks file is just a zip file, and create a converter that repackages that output to standard epub3. I would expect calibre to do some form of this, except now the author cant export the fruit of their hard labor. Saying that a company has the ownership of what I can use files that I create is just wrong, no matter if that is legal or not.
Don't know if you have looked at the book publishing industry lately, but it sucks, frankly. Not only are there no cheap, i.e. less than 5 bucks, programs that handle the export to different formats, it takes lots of programs to get onto the top ebook marketplaces, two of which are supposed to convert the formats for you. (Here's lookin' at you Amazon and SmashWords.)
To put it mildly, if I am reading a book about quilting, I want the let the quilting expert write the book, not the guy that can compile the information and has the technical proficiency to write the HTML code.
I say that as a writer, who is a geek.
I am relatively certain that the iAuthor program produces an epub3 like file format. This is not a BINARY format. A binary format is an executable. The iAuthor format is zipped html5 files. In fact, you can manually edit the files in a text area. The only binary like files that it may contain would be YOUR video files, audio files, and pictures.
Corporations ARE NOT PEOPLE! In no scientific definition of the word can they be termed people. They do not think for them selves, they do act with volition. People within them do. The taxes paid by companies are a tribute to the government for allowing them to operate in the US, as well as giving them the protections against unlawful acts(such as destruction of property) to protect the taxpayer whom owns the business.
Yes, businesses are intended to be a second class, to provide service to the populace. The governments job is to protect the rights of EVERY individual in the country. By treating a business as if it were person, you give that business the authority of a person, the autonomy of a person, and the rights of a person. There then comes no real reason for a business not to run for office.
THIS MUST NOT BE ALLOWED!
Humans must represent themselves. If businesses want representation, they can create there own government, something that regulates them, and then deal with the government on an equal footing. This way, we are more justified for wiping all businesses off the planet.
Warning: if this post seems to represent reality to yo...ackkk.
This clip was in no way owned by UMG. Megaupload solicited and paid the artist for the comercial, has releases from the artist to prove it. Megaupload holds the copyright to the video. UMG filed the takedown notice on the clip without holding the copyright, which was the story covered by TNT. TNT showed a video of the clip, without audio, and spoke over the clip. At the end, to show how bad the song was, they played less than 3 seconds of the end of the clip. UMG is being taken to court by Megaupload over the takedown notice for the original video. I was the original broadcast of TNT. UMG is censoring the news, and acting anti-competitively.
Please stop being a shill and think. Spread FUD elsewhere.
Amazon can and does set prices for the Apps on its app store. It is in their agreement.
100 million cavemen can't be wrong!
One problem is that GPS bleeds into the spectrum that LightSqured is supposed to use, due to poor design decisions. The GPS satellites would need to be fixed to prevent usage outside of the range they were supposed to operate in. LightSqured's solution to this is to use half of the bandwidth they were allotted, in order to not interfere with the GPS satellites. They even offered to pay to fix the satellites themselves, in order to solve the problem.
The simple answer to this is, surprisingly simple. When iPad was the only tablet on the market, they were the only ones that that counted. Simply by selling the Android Tablets, they had to lose market share.
Call me when they have numbers again next year.
Or live in a house that contains college students taking online classes, high school students using Pandora, iTunes, and Facebook, or a house with 10 people in it. This is my current situation, and looking at my router statistics, May 2011 (Incoming: 586440 MB / Outgoing: 48713 MB), convinces me that it is unrealistic to assume anything about a particular household or usage pattern. It might possibly be fair to charge based on the number of people living in a household, but I don't like that idea either, to many people would simply claim that only one person lived in a ten person house. P.S. the highest days' usage last month? 50GB down on the 25th.
Somewhere, there's an iron in that post....
Slavery is not limited to the US, it has existed in ALL cultures and countries. It also still exists in many countries today.
You assume that every valuable project will be invested in, which is not strictly true. Many ideas are passed over not because the idea is worthless, but because the large company cannot make a large enough percentage from the investment. Many scripts are passed over thanks to this, yet the script may win many rewards at Sundance Festivals; big investors think in terms of quick recoup on investment, and not everything qualifies.
The publishing industry abounds with tales of authors submitting their book to twenty publishing houses, and then the twenty first picks it up and it sells 600,000 copies. Tyler Perry started out on the streets before he was able to do his first play, yet those Matilda plays have made his career.
It is easy to dismiss things because it must not be good if our corporate overlords don't buy them; the harder path is to think for ourselves.
Diaspora is a DISTRIBUTED social network. The project sets up micro Facebook sites and federates with other Diaspora sites. So in theory, You have a Diaspora server, and your friend has one as well. Yours will connect ot his, and his to yours, only giving out the info each of you set up. You can have it set up to get all your post from Facebook and whatever.
The source code and install instructions are on the Diaspora site, and gitHub for you to use. However, it is no trivial to install. I have not been able to get it ot work in the virtual machines I have created for that purpose. So in reality, what you will end up with may be small sites that focus on a small number of people, then federate to other Diaspora sites, versus everyone and their mother having their own.
Still, it is available, and has been available to those that donated since the summer, as the Diaspora team is using them as guinna pigs.
How about really rethinking the default UI. I currently have my start menu on the right, and the tabs of my browser on the left, because that is where I have more space thanks to the new 16:9 screen ratios that the industry has standardized on. Why not have the Title bar on the left or right, or at least customizable to be. They finally have Windows Update usable, after 15years of working with it, so why not let other companies, such as Adobe, use that technology for their updates, for a price, of course. Why not have a screen when you first start the computer that will walk you through choices of antivirus, and anti-malware. Oh yeah, when are we going to get a Mac OS like, as in the functionality, quick bar, with out having to rely on these things that can't work with windows explorer.
Technically Windows 2000 and Windows ME happened at basically the same time. And Windows 98 was much less buggy than 95, its just more people were using 98, so we received more complaints. They were over the same issues again and again.
I LIKE the fact they targeted the netbook market, this is one reason that Windows 7 runs so well on older hardware. Of course, preparing it to run on more than 64 cores might have helped, as well.
The only issue that Sony might be able to capitalize on is the fact that Amazon is PLAYING the music for you on the web in the form of the Amazon Cloud Player. Another issue is that you were already able to do this in the form of their cloud service, they are specifically targeting music with this pricing and advertising effort. If they were just streaming the files, and providing a means to integrate into an existing player, they could say that they were just offering a home targeted version of their existing services, but as it is, we must wait and see.
P.S. I actually want Amazon to succeed.
I'm a regular listener to Windows Weekly, with Paul Thurott and Leo Laporte. He mentioned Microsoft Signature at the Microsoft store. Here is a link to the article. It is apparently a very Apple store like experience, and they clean the computers of all the crud that is on the laptops originally. They sell several different brands. Hope this helps.
This is so true, they are supervised by backward thinking district supervisors, that deal directly with their parents that didn't finish high school. We need to allow the teachers to actually teach, not just memorization.
Isn't OpenCL supposed to allow a a lot of this offloading? Aren't you supposed to be able to give the gpu a kernel, then just send it data. Then aren't you able to send it to OpenGL to render on screen? I don't have access to a OpenCL capable gpu, yet, but asa soon as I do, that seems the best solution? Let me know if I am wrong, as I hate being right to much.
There is original content all over the net, just not directly on Netflix. RiffTracks comes to mind, there was a public sponsored series that started last year about the Russians having someone live on Mars, and podcasts galore. Entertaining shows such as Leo Laporte's TWIT Network,Brian Brushwoods Scam School, and R3vision's network with howtos and others. Not to mention all the post hours of stories on Youtube, and animated shorts on the Internet. Oh, you meant stuff spoon fed to us by some major corporate entity, as anything that is created by a person can't be as good, and we wouldn't want to stray to much out of the comfort zone, would we? Goochi-goochi-goooooooo!
Ever hear tell of that newfangled thing called utf 8?
Playbook only.