Begging the question a bit, aren't we? You assume that everything you laid out is the entire situation. However, just because you are satisfied with an apology and a mere statement of good intentions doesn't mean you're the arbiter of good sense. Maybe your standards are too low. "Mistakes were made" is a joke, you know...a satire on passive voice.
You give Amazon entirely too much credit and benefit of the doubt here. Some "legal department grunt?" You can't be serious.
Amazon could certainly have worked this out differently, also without breaking the law: they pay the rightsholders and leave existing copies in place. For a book like 1984, I think it's just as likely that a check for $30 for each copy sold, written to the rightsholders, would be as effective as all of this was. Maybe $50, but Amazon multiplied the number of people screwed by orders of magnintude here anyway.
As for your weak-ass "Welp, that's just the way it is. Best we get used to it, guys!" blather, consumers are allowed to have standards and I have no idea why you would want to dissuade them from expecting better than they got. It's almost like you're arguing that people just plain shouldn't have higher standards of behavior and quality than corporations. I don't think you know what you're talking about when you assert that Amazon has been "sufficiently" humbled, because where I'm sitting it's just the same old same ol'.
As another real-world counterexample, anybody who uses commodity storage architectures such as the one illustrated here can put the money they save into a backup solution. This would even allow an entire hot-failover array *and* tape/offline to fill in when the main one goes down, all for well under EMC/Sun prices.
If you are patenting an applied method, applied algorithm (read: implementation), applied design (blueprints or machines) etc. then sure, you should be able to patent it.
"Novartis (08-964tsacNovartisCorporation.pdf) A process of diagnosis should be patentable."
These stores will start to get the message when they find that enough people are willing to waste their time as they try to waste our time. Their vulnerability is they pay their staff usually by the hour and they pay rent.
The key is two-fold: speak slowly when you ask them about blank laptops. This will waste a lot of time, and consequently money, dealing with people who are asking for this feature, as well as letting them know that stupid people want it as well.
A [name insitution here] study has determined that using electric cars does not get you from point A to point B any faster than combustion engine powered cars..
Hmm, I forget what this is called. Is it a category error?
It'll just instantly lose all its government contacts, but not gain any new readership.
Well that's quite a bold prediction without any backup. There are several critical American reporters that disprove your prediction. Seymour Hersh, James Risen and Eric Lichtblau, and more. There will always be political actors anxious to talk, just as there will always be journalistic suckups like David Gregory.
Suffice it to say that the government needs the press more than the press needs it.
Yes, the photograph is copyright, but the content - Obama looking up in a button down shirt and a tie - is so generic as to be reduced to almost "factual" information when translated into the poster.
If we go this route with video what options are left? Stick with flash? Encode everything in two different codecs and *hope* that the browsers all support one of the two? I don't know about you but I think those options suck.
Isn't that the way browser quirks have been dealt with so far? I don't think it's the role of the HTML5 spec to solve that problem, of differences between browser implementations. I don't say this very often, but let the market decide.
I think this is the first time I've seen a Truther Outbreak on Slashdot. Interesting topic for it to spawn from, but these things can't be predicted. The internet is too popular!
Then why, multiple times a day, do I have to hit ESC when there's a delay in loading whatever whoozit from "clients1.google.com." Don't tell me you've never seen that hostname in your status bar.
But they are issues, and the GPL does appear to provide a good protection against theft from the public domain
Oh, but RMS is such a weirdo and I don't agree with Perens sometimes and ESR hasn't done anything substantial in years and Redhat charges for support and well, it's just so hard to like the GPL when there are all of these seriously mitigating circumstances. It's so hard to choose between my antipathy toward celebrity and copyright.
But those that do hate Hulu for that are directing their hate at the wrong organization.
Not they are not, they are directing it at the agent closest to them. This is natural, it happens all the time. It's Hulu's job to provide the content and to deal with the licensing and it's mere buck-passing to say that consumers should deal directly with the industry. This wouldn't work at the car-rental counter and it doesn't work with Hulu.
Your comments about advertising and such are a red herring. You think Hulu is not ready, willing and able to go global?
At the end of the day, though, these things are based on priciples. No one is suggesting that Hulu should just pack it in if they can't get global licensing. That would be perfectionist suicide the same as nobody saying anything to Hulu because the real problem is higher up. Hulu is the face of the industry in a certain segment, so that's where the complaints will be directed.
You do elide the real reasons though: "Their objective is to make money, but they can't do that so well with the rights deals that have been in place." Passive voice aside, it's them and the studios who are responsible for the rights deals and it takes two to tango. The studios have no reason to listen to Hulu viewers' complaints, and in fact there is no mechanism by which to do so. Therefore, Hulu gets the brunt.
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Really, what is there to still be mad about?
Begging the question a bit, aren't we? You assume that everything you laid out is the entire situation. However, just because you are satisfied with an apology and a mere statement of good intentions doesn't mean you're the arbiter of good sense. Maybe your standards are too low. "Mistakes were made" is a joke, you know...a satire on passive voice.
You give Amazon entirely too much credit and benefit of the doubt here. Some "legal department grunt?" You can't be serious.
Amazon could certainly have worked this out differently, also without breaking the law: they pay the rightsholders and leave existing copies in place. For a book like 1984, I think it's just as likely that a check for $30 for each copy sold, written to the rightsholders, would be as effective as all of this was. Maybe $50, but Amazon multiplied the number of people screwed by orders of magnintude here anyway.
As for your weak-ass "Welp, that's just the way it is. Best we get used to it, guys!" blather, consumers are allowed to have standards and I have no idea why you would want to dissuade them from expecting better than they got. It's almost like you're arguing that people just plain shouldn't have higher standards of behavior and quality than corporations. I don't think you know what you're talking about when you assert that Amazon has been "sufficiently" humbled, because where I'm sitting it's just the same old same ol'.
As another real-world counterexample, anybody who uses commodity storage architectures such as the one illustrated here can put the money they save into a backup solution. This would even allow an entire hot-failover array *and* tape/offline to fill in when the main one goes down, all for well under EMC/Sun prices.
If you are patenting an applied method, applied algorithm (read: implementation), applied design (blueprints or machines) etc. then sure, you should be able to patent it.
"Novartis (08-964tsacNovartisCorporation.pdf) A process of diagnosis should be patentable."
You sure you want to go down that road?
These stores will start to get the message when they find that enough people are willing to waste their time as they try to waste our time. Their vulnerability is they pay their staff usually by the hour and they pay rent.
The key is two-fold: speak slowly when you ask them about blank laptops. This will waste a lot of time, and consequently money, dealing with people who are asking for this feature, as well as letting them know that stupid people want it as well.
A [name insitution here] study has determined that using electric cars does not get you from point A to point B any faster than combustion engine powered cars..
Hmm, I forget what this is called. Is it a category error?
couldn't any ol' bar simply offer 'guest membership'
Well sure, but then they'd lose impulse business brought in by foot traffic.
It'll just instantly lose all its government contacts, but not gain any new readership.
Well that's quite a bold prediction without any backup. There are several critical American reporters that disprove your prediction. Seymour Hersh, James Risen and Eric Lichtblau, and more. There will always be political actors anxious to talk, just as there will always be journalistic suckups like David Gregory.
Suffice it to say that the government needs the press more than the press needs it.
A leopard can't change its spots?
Bill Gates has a monopoly on these lectures, and he leverages that monopoly for the benefit of Silverlight. Always a self-serving monopolist, I guess.
One wonders if the rest of the world has to sign a EULA to get access to his malaria treatments.
Looks like Bill couldn't give something to the world without including a self-serving requirement.
Yes, the photograph is copyright, but the content - Obama looking up in a button down shirt and a tie - is so generic as to be reduced to almost "factual" information when translated into the poster.
All photographs are "factual" information.
If we go this route with video what options are left? Stick with flash? Encode everything in two different codecs and *hope* that the browsers all support one of the two? I don't know about you but I think those options suck.
Isn't that the way browser quirks have been dealt with so far? I don't think it's the role of the HTML5 spec to solve that problem, of differences between browser implementations. I don't say this very often, but let the market decide.
I think this is the first time I've seen a Truther Outbreak on Slashdot. Interesting topic for it to spawn from, but these things can't be predicted. The internet is too popular!
Google and Slashdot handle it well
Then why, multiple times a day, do I have to hit ESC when there's a delay in loading whatever whoozit from "clients1.google.com." Don't tell me you've never seen that hostname in your status bar.
But they are issues, and the GPL does appear to provide a good protection against theft from the public domain
Oh, but RMS is such a weirdo and I don't agree with Perens sometimes and ESR hasn't done anything substantial in years and Redhat charges for support and well, it's just so hard to like the GPL when there are all of these seriously mitigating circumstances. It's so hard to choose between my antipathy toward celebrity and copyright.
Not that I blame her; the legal battling hasn't exactly worked out for Thomas.
Bit of a generalization don't you think, based on one piece of data?
Here are some things to consider:
Sounds to me like a large chunk is consumed by "too many chiefs."
You're probably thinking of Kibo's .sig.
Or they could just be an innocent citizen arrested by the secret police of a totalitarian state that denies freedom to its own people?
I love it when ideologues generalize on "freedom," especially in the morning. It smells like bloggery.
Take it from me, kid: you remember all those stories about how bad the Soviet Union was, like in the 70s? They were exaggerated.
or just use foxit
same bug
Since the first line of the summary is "Fox News reports," we can be sure Hugh Pickens is simply writing a hit-piece on Biden.
The current world record for time without sleep is 11 days.
Tied with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, I'm guessing.
I believe Martin Luther posted his Ninety-Five Theses on the doors of the Castle Church in Wittenburg, not on the wall.
Huge difference, dude. Thanks for putting the universe straight again.
Why should they provide customer service to someone who they don't have on record as a customer?
Because they have a Dell product. What other industry behaves the way you allow for Dell?
But those that do hate Hulu for that are directing their hate at the wrong organization.
Not they are not, they are directing it at the agent closest to them. This is natural, it happens all the time. It's Hulu's job to provide the content and to deal with the licensing and it's mere buck-passing to say that consumers should deal directly with the industry. This wouldn't work at the car-rental counter and it doesn't work with Hulu.
Your comments about advertising and such are a red herring. You think Hulu is not ready, willing and able to go global?
At the end of the day, though, these things are based on priciples. No one is suggesting that Hulu should just pack it in if they can't get global licensing. That would be perfectionist suicide the same as nobody saying anything to Hulu because the real problem is higher up. Hulu is the face of the industry in a certain segment, so that's where the complaints will be directed.
You do elide the real reasons though: "Their objective is to make money, but they can't do that so well with the rights deals that have been in place." Passive voice aside, it's them and the studios who are responsible for the rights deals and it takes two to tango. The studios have no reason to listen to Hulu viewers' complaints, and in fact there is no mechanism by which to do so. Therefore, Hulu gets the brunt.
which brings up an apparent curious slashdot bug: i removed kdawson from the authors in my profile, yet the stories still show up in RSS.