In theory is is almost impossible to win a case based around breach of conceptual copyright (although IANAL) because you ahev to prove intent to copy, which is difficult.
I think apple would have won due to expressed desires by the companies to copy the apple design rather than on purely design grounds.
Although I'd be dubious about the judge in this case...
I'm suprised at this, most copyright cases in this country when based around asthetic fall through, dunno if the states are different.
The classic example is the case against Guiness who were sued by an artist who showed them a dance piece he had created for one of their advert campaigns.
Guiness rejected this and went on to make the advert anyway with subtle differences, although with the concept and execution almost the same.
The artist lost the claim.
Although this is the company who's ex director recovered from parkinsons after being let out of gaol early on grounds of ill health...
On a late model PSX I never shut it off and only reset for games
I think my record is about 4 months. In the 1.5 years I have been using it it has only crased 3 times and these seemed to relate to it eventually losing the audio track.
The good news isn't the speed, but the price, intel are undercutting AMD by a couple of hundred dollars a chip, and with the onboard cache things are comparable. Problems with supply will dog them as they are only doing a limited run in the first instance.
Although what it should mean is the drastic lowering of Athlon 700 chips, which I'm thinking would make a good system for me. All hail competition. Price wars are good, price wars are our friend.
When the PSX first shipped in Japan and the States it was buggy until the delayed european release. THe CD didn't play half the time on the first release models and people discovered eventually they had to turn the box upside down or prop it at an angle to get it to work.
This was quickly glossed over by the Sony marketing spinners.
I was execting bugs with the PSX II for the same reason, they have rushed it out and will release an updated version for the European market as we are more likely to complain about the quality.
Also at the price, even with them losing approx. 150 dollars per machine they will have to have had very tight development and production costs which is an indication of probably quality issues, ie. you pretty much get what you pay for. Especially with the unit coming in below cost compared to a lot of DVD players.......
Looks impressive, but is probably just done with mirrors.
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Just a small point but I would say that Dawkins is 'Socio-Genetics'. Although I would add Lyall Watson to the list of Psycho-Geneticists if only for Dark Nature, which was a facinating study for evolutionary reasons for what we interpret as 'evil' in humand and animals.
I'd be interested to see how it works in relation to the wirtings of Lyall Watson, Richard Dawkins, et al. And what perspective he takes on the whole use and puropose of genetics.
Nice to see a book on genetics looking into Eugenics as well, especially as they are bringing it in through the back door, trying to iron out the imperfections of humanity through genetic tweaking.
Anyone who's read my posts will have seen my cynicism over the mhz. race.
There are a few areas where this will help (high end calculations, etc. But I feel it is aiming at winning over pen pushers.
In my previous support role out Finance controller was running pretty big calculations on desktops. THey had been informed that memory would allow them to do better and bigger calculations. They got me to order 3x256 MB dimms for each machine. He would not listen when I said that win 95 would never use it and in fact he would probably end up with more resource allocation failures...
Moral of this, well, competition is knocking down the prices of smaller processors, which is good, but I think the 1000, etc. marketing ploys are aimed at people like that controller.
I personally have a P166 MMX for my home use whihc does everything I need it to do. I can't play unreal tournament, but, hell, that's what work pc's are for.
How difficult would it be for the record companies to use Napster itself to trace people who are downloading illegal mp3's.
They could even do it without using entrapment as they could browse somebodies hard drive and take a listing of the files they had (or even download them for evidence)
Then it would be up to the individuals to prove that they have purchaced legitimate copies of all the music otherwise they face prosecution.
This would solve the problem of Napster being used for Piracy. Some people would say it is big brother, but it can be seen as legitimate policing to free up the resources of Napster for use by up and coming bands and those that embrace the free music distribution network (which many artists have used successfully in the past with tape copying drives, like Phish and Ani DiFranco)
I can't see anyone but the guilty objecting to this, because as we have heard from the arguements, Napster is only a tool and it is bad individuals that pirate. *grin*
*proto-consumerist aside* Hmm, I wonder how much I could make from consultancy fees to the record companies...
Increasing clock speeds is all well and good, but without the extra gubbins in new chipsets to take advantage it's pretty much pissing in the wind.
Athlons have moved the goalposts for processors slightly, but what we need is reliable fast memory, Fast interfaces and more development in storage devices (like the next stage of HDD's as they've pretty much not changed for longer than x86 chipsets... apart from more plates, higher density and faster spinning, where's decent optical storage as replacement, etc.)
Most of this seems to be intercompany bravado and marketing without much in the way of gestalt system development.
I for one would look more favourable on the company that doesn't push clock speeds but goes for partnerships with other technologies for holistic solutions.
I think the issue is, as Jerry Sanders says below, that Intel have never had competition in recent years, and although there R&D is good they have not been forced to innovate quickly and push production schedules forward
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/8/ns-13795.html
Now that they have AMD competing with them well their shortcomings are appearing. They became complacent and are losing market share due to this. I think they will come back, but the current range is lower quality than before and as we have seen shipping is a problem.
Also they are pushing a low spec all in one chipset with high end processors (although developing higer spec multimedia) shows distinct lack of understanding of the marketplace.
I like Intel and I like their previous products, and I think this shakeup and game of catchup will make their R&D work harder and they will become better and more efficient because of it.
The patent system has basically been created for technology production at which it is very good.
If I invent an object I patent that object and therefore I own intellectual rights over it's creation.
This can also be applied well to the physical process of production, ie how I made it
The problem now is that patent law is being applied to areas where it doesn't apply
Take for example software patents. Amazon wrote code for the single click process and that code is theirs. However they patented the process of application rather than the process of production. Basically like if macdonalds patented the idea of taking money and putting it in the till rather than patenting a specific till design.
I've been thinking about this a lot at the moment. In Pharmacuticals there is a very specific patent system whereby after a certain number of years people are allowed to release the same product freely. Maybe a derivation of this law would be better applied to the software industry, whereby people own the rights to their product for 5 years after which time it becomes freely available. IANAL and I'm not entirely au fait with the process of drug patenting, but I think this could be worked.
ALthough also with the distinction between production and use. 'Cos Otherwise I'm off to patent the hamburger.
Actualy I did read it and used what I felt was the level of arguement used to counter with information.
Also, I have never seen tried and true used, tried and tested maybe, but then again I unfortunatley don't live in the US....
As for listening, I read and could only see a half formed badly argued thought process along the lines of 'taxes can't be fair because... Um, well I don't know why, they just can't'
If anything it was a reaction to the wilful misinterpretation of what I had said, the lack of argument to back up the statements and the jumbled nature of the grammar. Although this is/. so I really should have expected it:-)
Trust me, that was not knee jerk, I thought for at elast 2 minuted before typing;-)
Actually I work in the real world now and I regulary check the network drives. In my last company we were having space issues and I took 100's of MB worth of porn off the network and informed the people who had put it there that if they continued to use company facilities we would inform their relevant managers and directors and the MD.
I've only been out of Uni a couple of years but we had a very clear internet policy.
Games were banned, pornography banned, materials in breach of out equal opportunities and dignity policies were banned, cracking banned, all illegal activity banned.
Sounds draconian? We also had the right to throw people off terminals if they were not working and we needed to work, as often they were taken up by people e-mailing or surfing when there were no terminals free (although I just used the x-terminals that we had as no body touched them.)
I think the policy was right. I was there for an education and the pc's had been brought to educate me. If I want to do that stuff I should pay for it, buy a pc and get on line.
People who are whinging that they can't use Napster at uni. Well, I would allow it, but charge you for the bandwith used on an account basis, and anyone abusing the system would be banned. Sound tough, well universities are there for education, not for you to get a free ride. And to those wo pay fees, well the fees are paying for your education, not for you to have free access to p0rn.
Also badwidth is an issue, the majority of bandwith that universities use isn't legitimate edcational use (unless you are playing guess the cup size....) and this has to be paid for by the university and therefore by the taxpayer (in the UK) and the fee payer in other systems.
As for the UK, JANET is a joke as firms con a link by funding university projects...... But that is another matter.
Firstly you make little or no sense. I think I know what you are trying to say, but I will try to answer.
Firstly Utopian Libertariansm is a political philosophy based around the utopia of a perfect market structure whereby market forces regulate properly and there are no market failures.
No market failure = no need for tax = utopian ideal.
You state that there can not be such a thing as fair taxation. I would counter that by saying that taxation is needed due to a myriad of market failures and that a fair system is an equal system where no one area of the same market (ie purchaces, Income, Labour, etc) is treated differently. Ie one good is treated with the same taxation system whether it is sold in a shop or over the internet. Of course the circumstance of the sale can be written into the taxing legislature, again the examples of import and export tax.
So the US Supreame court says that we should only pay what is required. Well, heres news for you buddy, this meand paying taxes until the amount needed for the government to overcome the market failures (which alas the US of A is not succeeding in at the moment, therefore you need to pay more tax.)
+ I find it f*cking patronising that you think that the supreme court is the be all and end all. And the fact that you use an example of a body saying we must pay the correct level of taxes to illustrate an example of the Nozick quote just shows your ignorance and lack on analytical skills. Read what I said again. Utopian Libertarianism says that no taxes should be paid under any circumstances.
Although Ironically this is exactly the same as Marx's view of the utopian state of communist society in the Communist Mannifesto... Go figure.
As for the quote
Taxing Internet sales is using approach that is tried & untrue
I'm assuming that english isn't your first language, but even then this makes absolutely no sense. Nick
If you ignore the stance of Nozick 'All taxes are theft' and other utopian libertarians you need to look at a fair tax method
Personally I'm in favour of internet taxes if they are equivilent (and based upon) non internet taxes.
A good example is the use of import and export taxes on goods bought from abroad.
Use of internet specific VAT isn't really an answer as internet goods in the marketplace should not be differentiated against as this skews the balance of purchaces away from a stable equilibrium.
Charging for bandwith can be brought into this system, but only if it is paid fo directly and only under a structure that taxes purchace of similar services such as VAT on phone costs, etc.
Creating specific internet taxes is anti competitive and anti market forces.
If they're not careful they'll get a slap from the invisible hand
Up and coming in what way. In as much as she has decided to do a commercial fims, or in the fact that she was up and coming 5 years ago, but has had the integrity and artistic vision only to do good films and intereting films.
I for one hope she doesn't get sucked into the badly acter mainstream, if this is what you mean by up and coming.
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Be man enough to let me know what your problem with me is.
I have not done anything to offend you and if I have give me the chance to explain.
Sometimes, you know, JonKatz is right.
I do hope you don't object to anything on my homepage because I have a pathological dislike of Nazis.
I think apple would have won due to expressed desires by the companies to copy the apple design rather than on purely design grounds.
Although I'd be dubious about the judge in this case...
The classic example is the case against Guiness who were sued by an artist who showed them a dance piece he had created for one of their advert campaigns.
Guiness rejected this and went on to make the advert anyway with subtle differences, although with the concept and execution almost the same.
The artist lost the claim.
Although this is the company who's ex director recovered from parkinsons after being let out of gaol early on grounds of ill health...
I didn't realise that The uptime was for a game of GT which I couldn't be bothered to save due to having no money for new memory cards.
On a late model PSX I never shut it off and only reset for games
I think my record is about 4 months. In the 1.5 years I have been using it it has only crased 3 times and these seemed to relate to it eventually losing the audio track.
Anyone got better uptime?
Although what it should mean is the drastic lowering of Athlon 700 chips, which I'm thinking would make a good system for me. All hail competition. Price wars are good, price wars are our friend.
This was quickly glossed over by the Sony marketing spinners.
I was execting bugs with the PSX II for the same reason, they have rushed it out and will release an updated version for the European market as we are more likely to complain about the quality.
Also at the price, even with them losing approx. 150 dollars per machine they will have to have had very tight development and production costs which is an indication of probably quality issues, ie. you pretty much get what you pay for. Especially with the unit coming in below cost compared to a lot of DVD players.......
Or is that too obvious.
Just a small point but I would say that Dawkins is 'Socio-Genetics'. Although I would add Lyall Watson to the list of Psycho-Geneticists if only for Dark Nature, which was a facinating study for evolutionary reasons for what we interpret as 'evil' in humand and animals.
I'd be interested to see how it works in relation to the wirtings of Lyall Watson, Richard Dawkins, et al. And what perspective he takes on the whole use and puropose of genetics.
Nice to see a book on genetics looking into Eugenics as well, especially as they are bringing it in through the back door, trying to iron out the imperfections of humanity through genetic tweaking.
Hmm, more books, less time...
There are a few areas where this will help (high end calculations, etc. But I feel it is aiming at winning over pen pushers.
In my previous support role out Finance controller was running pretty big calculations on desktops. THey had been informed that memory would allow them to do better and bigger calculations. They got me to order 3x256 MB dimms for each machine. He would not listen when I said that win 95 would never use it and in fact he would probably end up with more resource allocation failures...
Moral of this, well, competition is knocking down the prices of smaller processors, which is good, but I think the 1000, etc. marketing ploys are aimed at people like that controller.
I personally have a P166 MMX for my home use whihc does everything I need it to do. I can't play unreal tournament, but, hell, that's what work pc's are for.
They could even do it without using entrapment as they could browse somebodies hard drive and take a listing of the files they had (or even download them for evidence)
Then it would be up to the individuals to prove that they have purchaced legitimate copies of all the music otherwise they face prosecution.
This would solve the problem of Napster being used for Piracy. Some people would say it is big brother, but it can be seen as legitimate policing to free up the resources of Napster for use by up and coming bands and those that embrace the free music distribution network (which many artists have used successfully in the past with tape copying drives, like Phish and Ani DiFranco)
I can't see anyone but the guilty objecting to this, because as we have heard from the arguements, Napster is only a tool and it is bad individuals that pirate. *grin*
*proto-consumerist aside* Hmm, I wonder how much I could make from consultancy fees to the record companies...
From what I remember the winner was a Mandlebrot generator which stunned me totally.
No program could ever suppass the elegance of that line.
Athlons have moved the goalposts for processors slightly, but what we need is reliable fast memory, Fast interfaces and more development in storage devices (like the next stage of HDD's as they've pretty much not changed for longer than x86 chipsets... apart from more plates, higher density and faster spinning, where's decent optical storage as replacement, etc.)
Most of this seems to be intercompany bravado and marketing without much in the way of gestalt system development.
I for one would look more favourable on the company that doesn't push clock speeds but goes for partnerships with other technologies for holistic solutions.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/8/ns-13795.html
Now that they have AMD competing with them well their shortcomings are appearing. They became complacent and are losing market share due to this. I think they will come back, but the current range is lower quality than before and as we have seen shipping is a problem.
Also they are pushing a low spec all in one chipset with high end processors (although developing higer spec multimedia) shows distinct lack of understanding of the marketplace.
I like Intel and I like their previous products, and I think this shakeup and game of catchup will make their R&D work harder and they will become better and more efficient because of it.
I'm impressed. At this rate I reckon they must come up with one innovation roughhly every 50000 man hours of coding.
Makes you wonder how any of these small companies do it. ;-)
If I invent an object I patent that object and therefore I own intellectual rights over it's creation.
This can also be applied well to the physical process of production, ie how I made it
The problem now is that patent law is being applied to areas where it doesn't apply
Take for example software patents. Amazon wrote code for the single click process and that code is theirs. However they patented the process of application rather than the process of production. Basically like if macdonalds patented the idea of taking money and putting it in the till rather than patenting a specific till design.
I've been thinking about this a lot at the moment. In Pharmacuticals there is a very specific patent system whereby after a certain number of years people are allowed to release the same product freely. Maybe a derivation of this law would be better applied to the software industry, whereby people own the rights to their product for 5 years after which time it becomes freely available. IANAL and I'm not entirely au fait with the process of drug patenting, but I think this could be worked.
ALthough also with the distinction between production and use. 'Cos Otherwise I'm off to patent the hamburger.
Also, I have never seen tried and true used, tried and tested maybe, but then again I unfortunatley don't live in the US....
As for listening, I read and could only see a half formed badly argued thought process along the lines of 'taxes can't be fair because... Um, well I don't know why, they just can't'
If anything it was a reaction to the wilful misinterpretation of what I had said, the lack of argument to back up the statements and the jumbled nature of the grammar. Although this is /. so I really should have expected it :-)
Trust me, that was not knee jerk, I thought for at elast 2 minuted before typing ;-)
Actually I work in the real world now and I regulary check the network drives. In my last company we were having space issues and I took 100's of MB worth of porn off the network and informed the people who had put it there that if they continued to use company facilities we would inform their relevant managers and directors and the MD.
Any illegal activity done using University property should lead to banning of usage or expulsion.
Games were banned, pornography banned, materials in breach of out equal opportunities and dignity policies were banned, cracking banned, all illegal activity banned.
Sounds draconian? We also had the right to throw people off terminals if they were not working and we needed to work, as often they were taken up by people e-mailing or surfing when there were no terminals free (although I just used the x-terminals that we had as no body touched them.)
I think the policy was right. I was there for an education and the pc's had been brought to educate me. If I want to do that stuff I should pay for it, buy a pc and get on line.
People who are whinging that they can't use Napster at uni. Well, I would allow it, but charge you for the bandwith used on an account basis, and anyone abusing the system would be banned. Sound tough, well universities are there for education, not for you to get a free ride. And to those wo pay fees, well the fees are paying for your education, not for you to have free access to p0rn.
Also badwidth is an issue, the majority of bandwith that universities use isn't legitimate edcational use (unless you are playing guess the cup size....) and this has to be paid for by the university and therefore by the taxpayer (in the UK) and the fee payer in other systems.
As for the UK, JANET is a joke as firms con a link by funding university projects...... But that is another matter.
Firstly Utopian Libertariansm is a political philosophy based around the utopia of a perfect market structure whereby market forces regulate properly and there are no market failures.
No market failure = no need for tax = utopian ideal.
You state that there can not be such a thing as fair taxation. I would counter that by saying that taxation is needed due to a myriad of market failures and that a fair system is an equal system where no one area of the same market (ie purchaces, Income, Labour, etc) is treated differently. Ie one good is treated with the same taxation system whether it is sold in a shop or over the internet. Of course the circumstance of the sale can be written into the taxing legislature, again the examples of import and export tax.
So the US Supreame court says that we should only pay what is required. Well, heres news for you buddy, this meand paying taxes until the amount needed for the government to overcome the market failures (which alas the US of A is not succeeding in at the moment, therefore you need to pay more tax.)
+ I find it f*cking patronising that you think that the supreme court is the be all and end all. And the fact that you use an example of a body saying we must pay the correct level of taxes to illustrate an example of the Nozick quote just shows your ignorance and lack on analytical skills. Read what I said again. Utopian Libertarianism says that no taxes should be paid under any circumstances.
Although Ironically this is exactly the same as Marx's view of the utopian state of communist society in the Communist Mannifesto... Go figure.
As for the quote
I'm assuming that english isn't your first language, but even then this makes absolutely no sense. NickIf you ignore the stance of Nozick 'All taxes are theft' and other utopian libertarians you need to look at a fair tax method
Personally I'm in favour of internet taxes if they are equivilent (and based upon) non internet taxes.
A good example is the use of import and export taxes on goods bought from abroad.
Use of internet specific VAT isn't really an answer as internet goods in the marketplace should not be differentiated against as this skews the balance of purchaces away from a stable equilibrium.
Charging for bandwith can be brought into this system, but only if it is paid fo directly and only under a structure that taxes purchace of similar services such as VAT on phone costs, etc.
Creating specific internet taxes is anti competitive and anti market forces.
If they're not careful they'll get a slap from the invisible hand
I for one hope she doesn't get sucked into the badly acter mainstream, if this is what you mean by up and coming.