...what Intel and HP are doing to help education if that is the real boogey man. And I don't mean a piddling little $1M here and there. These guys probably make 100 times that personally.
No, I want to know what these guys are doing nationally to help the problem they've highlighted.
Or is it the *government's* responsbility?
Oh well. Perhaps we ought to take a bigger tax bite out of Carly and Craig to pay for the problem they've so kindly shown us.
Their hyprocrisy is astounding. I wonder how Craig can spout this nonsense without laughing out loud.
"What obligations do they have to their country? "
By your logic the country has no obligation to the corporation. And if the country has no obligation to the corporation then the *people* of the country have no obligation.
So if the corporation's headquarters is on fire, why should the citzenry answer the call to put out that fire? If people are stealing from the corporation, what obligation do the courts have for justice?
Really, its a bit disingenuous to say the corporations have no obligations, because they expect obligations from them.
Corporations are allowed to form (they are not natural) because they are viewed as a benefit to the people, the community, the country. Once they are no longer a benefit, the people and the people's government are correct in removing their legal right to exist. After all, none of us have an *obligation* towards the corporation, correct?
Type I - Standard tape, useless except for radio recordings and voice Type II - Better sound than Type II. Good for stuff you just wanted to listen to in the car. Type IV - Metal tapes. Good enough to tape an album and listen to in your home stereo. Expensive, so you had to wait for sales.
I seem to remember Type III - Chrome tapes. Good enough for most stuff, but tended to be noisier too.
This is all from 25 years ago, so its a bit tough to remember everything.
In the abstract, I agree with you. But in reality for most people, the choice is dial-up or cable. DSL isn't possible for most people, and until wireless high-speed internet works reliabily and cheaply, we really have no options.
I listen to pretty mainstream music, but BMG Music Club run so many specials that I find that CD's cost about $7-8 even with their outrageous $2.50 or so shipping.
Admittedly, they're a little short with Jazz, and its not really for classical music lovers.
But for most mainstream pop I get my CD's well under $10. For $7, I just pay for really good quality.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002U8 2/ qid=1081463479/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_2/103-4414021-79838 27 (the lameness filter will kill this, so I'll save you the trouble)
The NEW version of DSOTM is $14, you can buy it used from Amazon for $7.25
And you get the full version, not a compressed version.
So tell me again how $17 is a good price? Maybe for the record company, but certainly not for the consumer!
"Your problem is that you think NORMAL people [...] have the time, energy, and patience to learn which of their 8 text editors is the best."
How do people deal with cars, telephones (especially cell phones), televisions, radios, houses, apartments, cable TV or even a possible mate? Each has its own unique set of requirements and options, yet people manage to select what's best.
Ironic, isn't it, that congress is trying to make ordering cable television an order of magnitude more difficult. .
"If they can't directly copy the iPod interaction design then *GASP* they would instead have to innovate and come up with a new and perhaps better way of going about playing music on a portable device."
The problem is that Apple didn't invent this type of interface themselves; they copied somebody else's UI and polished it.
Sort of like the Macintosh.
Don't get me wrong, its a nice user interface, but it doesn't seem patentable the way apple describes it.
This machine is indeed massive overkill, but the economics are that a desktop PC is about the cheapest computer out there.
An 8080 computer set up in a config with USB ports, serial, parallel, video, etc etc will probably run you something close to $3,000 US, and spares will be difficult as they'll have to be single supplier.
Also, the drivers for things like printers and card readers are only going to be available for Windows (and increasingly Linux), so if you have an embedded device, the integration costs are going to be high.
On the other hand, you can get a robust PC from a major manufacturer for something under $1,000 US and it can be replaced by any manufacturer. There are drivers for everything, and software development will be cheaper because windows programmers are more available than embedded programmers.
But it seems to be that he would only be liable for the actual harm created. That is, if he bid $10M for a $100 item, he caused $100 worth of "damage" at worst, and probably much less because the person still owns the item.
One wonders if they're unemployed that they have the time and patience to police auctions for no real gain.
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I think the point of an "IP Tax" would be to encourage owners of IP to return ideas to the public domain when they are no longer profitable.
Its less about collecting taxes then it is about restricting the government enforced monopoly called "copyright".
"Barrett is precisely suggesting that we as a nation devote more tax money to research and education"
Yeah, just as long as the tax bite doesn't come from him or Intel. He's all for it.
What a great American.
...what Intel and HP are doing to help education if that is the real boogey man. And I don't mean a piddling little $1M here and there. These guys probably make 100 times that personally.
No, I want to know what these guys are doing nationally to help the problem they've highlighted.
Or is it the *government's* responsbility?
Oh well. Perhaps we ought to take a bigger tax bite out of Carly and Craig to pay for the problem they've so kindly shown us.
Their hyprocrisy is astounding. I wonder how Craig can spout this nonsense without laughing out loud.
"What obligations do they have to their country? "
By your logic the country has no obligation to the corporation. And if the country has no obligation to the corporation then the *people* of the country have no obligation.
So if the corporation's headquarters is on fire, why should the citzenry answer the call to put out that fire? If people are stealing from the corporation, what obligation do the courts have for justice?
Really, its a bit disingenuous to say the corporations have no obligations, because they expect obligations from them.
Corporations are allowed to form (they are not natural) because they are viewed as a benefit to the people, the community, the country. Once they are no longer a benefit, the people and the people's government are correct in removing their legal right to exist. After all, none of us have an *obligation* towards the corporation, correct?
Type I - Standard tape, useless except for radio recordings and voice
Type II - Better sound than Type II. Good for stuff you just wanted to listen to in the car.
Type IV - Metal tapes. Good enough to tape an album and listen to in your home stereo. Expensive, so you had to wait for sales.
I seem to remember
Type III - Chrome tapes. Good enough for most stuff, but tended to be noisier too.
This is all from 25 years ago, so its a bit tough to remember everything.
Only email.
The "core" of AOL is the content that is inside of AOL. In that regard, AOL is not fundamentally different than it was 15 years ago (or so).
Now, allowing email via IMAP is pretty significant, but the community of AOL will still remain.
In the abstract, I agree with you. But in reality for most people, the choice is dial-up or cable. DSL isn't possible for most people, and until wireless high-speed internet works reliabily and cheaply, we really have no options.
I listen to pretty mainstream music, but BMG Music Club run so many specials that I find that CD's cost about $7-8 even with their outrageous $2.50 or so shipping.
Admittedly, they're a little short with Jazz, and its not really for classical music lovers.
But for most mainstream pop I get my CD's well under $10. For $7, I just pay for really good quality.
"People have yet to offer a valid legal or moral justification for ripping artists off."
I'm waiting for the RIAA members to offer their justification for ripping artists off.
Or can only fans do that?
"considering they have to pay for advertising, marketing, distribution, renting the studios, etc."
How much marketing do the record companies do for Elvis, The Eagles, Frank Sinatra, The Rolling Stones, and The Beatles these days?
"While that's still a fair price,"
8 2/ qid=1081463479/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_2/103-4414021-79838 27
No, not really. Look here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002U
(the lameness filter will kill this, so I'll save you the trouble)
The NEW version of DSOTM is $14, you can buy it used from Amazon for $7.25
And you get the full version, not a compressed version.
So tell me again how $17 is a good price? Maybe for the record company, but certainly not for the consumer!
The record companies are so desperate for a one quarter increase in revenue that they're willing to screw up long term growth.
And next time, people won't come back.
They might as well fold now, because they certain appear to have *no concept* of how to run a sucessful business.
I'll bet they think those lawsuits against consumers are actually working.
"They can't be experts in everything."
Given the importance of their function, maybe they could hire one or two experts in the computer area.
Maybe even outsource that function to a foreign country if we can't find anybody in the United States with any expertise in software and the internet.
"Your problem is that you think NORMAL people [...] have the time, energy, and patience to learn which of their 8 text editors is the best."
How do people deal with cars, telephones (especially cell phones), televisions, radios, houses, apartments, cable TV or even a possible mate? Each has its own unique set of requirements and options, yet people manage to select what's best.
Ironic, isn't it, that congress is trying to make ordering cable television an order of magnitude more difficult. .
I find it very interesting that a dot-com is selling for over half a billion dollars years after the dot-com bust.
The must have a helluva cash flow to justify that kind of pricetag.
"If they can't directly copy the iPod interaction design then *GASP* they would instead have to innovate and come up with a new and perhaps better way of going about playing music on a portable device."
The problem is that Apple didn't invent this type of interface themselves; they copied somebody else's UI and polished it.
Sort of like the Macintosh.
Don't get me wrong, its a nice user interface, but it doesn't seem patentable the way apple describes it.
Here's the place to look:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=MSFT&annual
You can see their revenue is about $32B/year, and their net profits is close to $10B/year.
So, the other numbers are off, but the effect is 2 weeks of profit for microsoft. Peanuts.
Its one of the last of the "old-time" computer magazines. Its excellent material and actually covers easy-to-understand *computer science*.
This machine is indeed massive overkill, but the economics are that a desktop PC is about the cheapest computer out there.
An 8080 computer set up in a config with USB ports, serial, parallel, video, etc etc will probably run you something close to $3,000 US, and spares will be difficult as they'll have to be single supplier.
Also, the drivers for things like printers and card readers are only going to be available for Windows (and increasingly Linux), so if you have an embedded device, the integration costs are going to be high.
On the other hand, you can get a robust PC from a major manufacturer for something under $1,000 US and it can be replaced by any manufacturer. There are drivers for everything, and software development will be cheaper because windows programmers are more available than embedded programmers.
I know nothin' about lawyer-in'
But it seems to be that he would only be liable for the actual harm created. That is, if he bid $10M for a $100 item, he caused $100 worth of "damage" at worst, and probably much less because the person still owns the item.
One wonders if they're unemployed that they have the time and patience to police auctions for no real gain.
...but to a generation who gets their music from earbuds, quality would seem to be a non-factor in most listenign today.
Its almost like a reality show were they've tweaked things up a bit for TV.
... maybe by a bit a of acting? Because nobody is really that naive.
This is an average joe and his wife that are suddenly famous
You can't be a patent examiner until you have 15 years of experience in your field and you're at least 40 years old.
That will cut the patents down by about 2 orders of magnitude.
...but isn't this guy talking in complete gobbledegook?
Its like we just talked with a turing machine, and I'm trying to figure out if its real or not.
"I've always found this attitute about English words slipping into French galling."
I'm assuming this pun was an accident?