Cycling's very cheap, and it turns an otherwise stressful time into a pleasant experience.
Around here, you'll find very few people bicycling. You're just asking for a darwin award, when the slowest roads are 45MPH, there are no bike lanes, people drive like lunatics, and the major routes are interstates, where bicycles aren't allowed (for good reason of course).
It's not just bicycles, either. Riding a motorcycle is fairly suicidal. A local motorcycle cop was killed a few weeks ago when some woman driving an SUV turned without looking and ran right over him.
Still, even if it was SAFE to cycle around here, I'd only be doing it 1% of the time. Everything is a 10 mile trip each direction, and about a 40 degree slope, going one way or the other. .
I have to say, I'm surprised it has taken so long. Seems a few years past-due, IMHO.
One of first signs that PCs needed an FPGA or similar was hardware MPEG capture cards... They could do the job so much faster, and so much cheaper than your primary CPU, that the alternative is disappearing.
High-end graphics cards have been the most telling development. It's not that OpenGL is something magical, it's just that an ASIC can do many things so much better than a CPU that transfering much, much more raw data over the bus was still cheaper than actually processing it (despite the fact that interrupts are rather costly themselves).
PS2 clusters, Crypto cards, Hardware-accelerated NICs, SLI, all are a symptom of almost excatly the same problem...
The rising popularity of GPU programming made it extremely clear that there is a vaccuum here. Using the videocard isn't a very good method to accomplish this, just a stop-gap necessity. I thought from the beginning that FPGAs would become like the old math-coprocessors, and have their own motherboard socket, but neither AMD nor Intel were stepping up to fill this clear need. Installing it into a normal CPU socket, to get around this appathy, is a very clever hack I hadn't thought of.
I expect, with popularity, it will be cheaper to put a custom FPGA socket on motherboards, rather than building a full-fledged SMP motherboard for the purpose. After that, who knows... Maybe FPGAs will go the way of the math-coprocessors and get itegrated into future CPUs.
I know if I was running ATI or NVidia (or Hauppauge, or Level5), I'd be very worried about this thing eating the most profitable segment of my market.
Why would you count Intel's mobile sockets (Pentium M) in your comparison? Very few people, even among Slashdot readers, upgrade their notebook CPUs.
Because a good number of people want to use "mobile" processors in their desktops. Either for overclocking, or for low-power computers. Both particularly popular among Slashdot readers.
It wasn't uncommon with Socket A, and is much more common now with Socket 754.
Besides, with Socket 939 CPUs starting at $300 or so, the motherboard is only 1/3rd the cost, so NOBODY is going to be upgrading their CPU... Everyone will be buying a new motherboard for a few bucks, and have two high-end systems, instead of one.
I really hope the AM2s push prices down across-the-board. I'd really love to see dual-channel, ECC systems becoming reasonably-priced for home PCs.
Aside from the labor, all of that stuff is part of the established infrastructure of my ordinary life.
Not true.
When you aren't downloading movies, you'll often find a lower-priced internet service perfectly acceptable.
When you're downloading and burning large movies, you'll find you need a larger hard drive, and your DVD burner will have a noticably shorter life-span. Besides the cost of disks.
Downloading movies takes much more time than people realize. Waiting for things to load, searching, going through the results, checking on the process periodically, slowing down other network access, etc.
When you leave the computer on longer, or have it doing more CPU-intensive operations, you're using more electricity than you would otherwise.
May as well factor the cost of the road into the cost of my commute.
You should... The wear-and-tear you're causing is actually an expense you'll pay for. It's just that it's on the order of fractions of pennies per-person, so people don't bother.
Either it has DRM which disallows resale completely, or it has no DRM in which case people just copy it for $0.
There's no reason for that to be the case. Music, for instance, is trivially easy to copy, and yet purchases continue.
I can see a similar future for eBooks... Sell them for $5 a copy, making it so cheap and convenient that it's not worth doing something illegal to avoid paying. However, that inherently makes the "second hand" market just short of completely dead.
It seems to me that the price of a DVD is not set by the intrinsic value of the product, but the economics of the markets.
No, it's far more complex than that. Price is dictated by the market only AFTER costs have been recouped, and it's pure profit for the studios. In other words, they can afford to sell DVDs so cheaply in China, only because they already made a profit through sales in the rest of the world. If demand goes down everywhere, and the prices have to be dropped through the floor, you'll see movies getting made on much, much, much smaller budgets to try and make-up for the smaller profits.
My the time it is released to home video it has been in the theater, pay TV, free TV, and god knows where else.
Definately NOT. The theater gets first-shot, but it's released on DVD at the same time as it is available on PPV/OnDemand. It doesn't get around to free/pay TV until a LOT later. Perhaps a year or more.
In addition, if one just wants a movie, it can't be had. The consumer is forced to pay for the extra content.
It's called economies of scale. If they produced a movie-only version, and a version with extras, BOTH would be more expensive. That's oversimplifying, of course, but you should get the idea.
Most of the extra content on DVDs is damn-near free for them, anyhow, and probably only adds a few cents to the price.
Now consider a product like a movie, where the cost of reproduction is absurdly low -- zero, in fact, if you just download the movie from the Internet.
Hmm. I guess internet access, computers, hard drives or DVD storage space, man-hours, and electricity are all completely free now...
Tivo is the perfect example of everything I hate about DRM, the "IP economy", etc.
Jim says, in no uncertain terms, that although you might have paid $500 for the hardware, they want to secure it enough that you can't use any 3rd-party software to update the listings. That's exactly like the RIAA, MPAA, Cable TV, etc.
You bought the product, yet you don't really own it... They don't quite want to make it a product, and don't quite want to make it a service. They want to get the best of both for themselves, and screw their customers every which-way they can.
Every day I'm more and more glad I spent ~$400 on a new system with a capture card, and invested a couple weeks to set everything up, about 4 years ago... My DVR is fast enough to playback HDTV, and already has a DVI output. For the cost of a cable, and perhaps an HDTV capture card, I'm ready for the next 100 years of broadcast television. Plus I can re-encode and edit out commercials, master and record to CD, DVD (Blu-ray?) etc. right on the same old DVR.
Meanwhile, Tivo owners have to go through extensive hacks to upgrade their hard drives, transfer their recordings to their PCs to re-encode, edit, burn to DVD, etc. Have to pay monthly fees for life, or put their old series 1 Tivos on life-support, to try and keep them going forever.
My DVR may not have an interface as pretty as a Tivo (mainly just a slightly modified file-manager, a few scripts, and MPlayer, operated through an IR remote), but it's stupid-simple to use, incredibly responsive, and it will work with anything you can throw at it.
They make it seem like this was an advanced and complex problem.
Every ounce of weight in the mailer added to postage costs
Weight (within reason) shouldn't be an issue. You can send letters up to 1 ounce, for base USPS postage. Since a DVD only weighs half that, and they only send one at a time, they could have very heavy envelopes before it would cost them any extra money. I think it would be a good idea for them to send 2 at a time (and in an envelope 2/3rds as large) which would make this more of an issue, but that's another story.
but if the mailer was too flimsy, DVDs broke in the mail.
DVDs will occasionally break in the mail, no matter what. An envelope would have to be incredibly strong to even slightly reduce the incidents of damage. So, it's the DVD's own strength and flexibility that keeps them from breaking, which has NOTHING to do with the mailer. The envelope is just scratch-protection...
The radiation isn't *that* bad. We'd consider it wildly unacceptable if 1 in 10,000 people died over the course of 5 years. Animals won't notice.
Radiation doesn't just leave you unaffected for 4 years and 364 days, then kill you off on the first day of the 5th year. Radiation is a very nasty thing, which does a lot more than JUST kill you.
Even if your numbers are right, and only 1 in 10,000 animals is dying, that might still mean 1 in 10 newborns has some very nasty birth-defect, and those screwed-up genes may be traveling on to the next generation... Or not.
HDD speeds can only be increased by adding more heads, increasing rpm, increasing density, reducing head seek times, or making a RAID.
Oh, is that all? Guess it's time to abandon hard drives then, because companies are never going to be able to increase the RPMs, add more heads, reduce seek time, or convince people to use RAIDs.
I'm sure it will be much easier to make flash leapfrog hard drives in a very short time, by doing UNKNOWN. </SARCASM>
It should be obvious that people mostly talk about lossy compression when discussing audio and video.
Lossless compression doesn't reduce quality, but it does take significantly more CPU time and memory, all for perhaps a 50% size reduction, if you're lucky.
There's no point providing much cache on a drive, when the OS has a much larger cache.
That would be true if the OS had instant, uninterruptible access to the hard drives. It does not.
Having a larger cache, the system can transfer the data over the bus at very high-speeds, and go do something else. If it was a smaller cache, it would have to spend much longer, slowly transfering the data to the drive, and waiting. Interuptions would be far more costly than they are now.
Just imagine trying to burn a DVD-R with no on-drive cache!
Pictures will go upto 10 megapixels but it will stop there.
I see absolutely no reason to stop at 10 megapixels. That must be an arbitrary number you just picked out of the air.
Video might go upto 1024x768x32-bitx100FPS but will not exceed that.
Again, complete nonsense. HDTV is already 1920x1080, so you were proven wrong 5+ years ago already. Never mind about film, which has about a century on your theory.
Our humans senses will cease to notice any further difference.
Pictures need to be zoomed, and anyone with even the slightest bit of logic can see how very wrong you are about video.
It's not so much of how stupid your claims are that bothers me, it's that several moderators have absolutely no sense, and are unable to see through your nonsense claims.
Or DVD-audio, Video CD, or Super Video CD? Video CD was kind of cool for a while when blank DVD-Rs were much more expensive than CD-Rs but now who needs it?
I still use it. Nobody can see the different in a 90min movie between the SVCD and DVD version. CDs are still cheaper.
HDTV quality would be great, but not if we have to pay $1000s for an HDTV that might not be "compatible" (read, DRM capable), and another premium for a special player.
Bullshit. HDTVs are below $500, and every one made in the past few years has HDMI inputs. I suppose you've got stock in some TV/DVD company that isn't going to upgrade anytime soon... Or maybe Microsoft wants their WMVHD to be the only option.
Especially annoying when a $100 computer monitor is more than capable of displaying content at HDTV resolution.
I haven't seen a $100 computer monitor in the past 5 years or so. A small 4:3 17" CRT is $150, and can only do 1280x1024 if you're lucky. That's not nearly enough for 1080, even if it was a 16:9 monitor, and since it's not, you're SOL, because you need huge black bars covering 1/2 the screen to get the right aspect. You really need a 27" 16:9 CRT before you can really get HDTV resolution, and last I checked, HDTVs are much cheaper than 27" monitors.
LCDs need-not apply, since even the best won't manage the 60fps needed, without serious blur (they could handle film, for now, but nothing else).
Then we get to pay lots more money to "upgrade" our libraries from DVD
Who would be moronic enough to "upgrade", when your DVDs will continue to play fine on the new players?
I am really can't imagine why all these anti-HDTV trolls on/. are getting modded-up.
Whether it's the latest Linux distro of your choice or Ice Age 2, you can almost guarentee that at least one of the results is just a misnamed full length porn.
It's not going to be a Linux distro, since distros aren't videos, and most people would just count it as corrupt, and delete.
However, it's trivially easy to get around this problem. You click the little button to list all the altenative locations, and when you see that 95% of them have a different name, you know it's been misnamed. Simple as that. Move on to the next one.
Looking at the temperature graphs, I think the bigger message from the testing is that it isn't necessary to spend the extra cash on buying non-stock cooling.
The tempurature chart shows you how hot the CPU is, but it doesn't say anything about ear-piercing decible level, which is the real reason most people buy these products.
recently, the biggest producer of heat/noise in the computer is the video card, not the processor.
I guess only gamers buy computers, then...
No, for most people, the CPU is, by-far, the hottest component (we're not counting the PSU, I guess), with the northbridge second, and the videocard probably 4th, behind the hard drive.
DIY cases just don't have this kind of thing because it wouldn't be compatible with much, and DIYers of course love to mix-n-match their components.
Bah! I have a standard ATX single-fan system myself.
Start with a dual-fan PSU. Open it, block all other air-intakes, and remove the second fan. Attach ducting where the second fan is supposed-to go. Now attach the other end to your CPU heatsink, and you're done.
That won't work too well for your high-powered monster P4 systems, but it's fine otherwise.
Besides, having fewer fans isn't much of an advantage. In fact, it's quite a disadvantage, since more, slower fans means a much quieter system, with much more airflow. I also have a nice, cool and damn-near silent DVR system with 4 thermally-controlled 80mm fans.
Simply put, if big oil or anyone else has a useful patent, they could make more money by using it than hiding it.
You act like this is some inherent law of the universe. It's not.
There can be many situations in which the profits generated by a fuel-saving device would be miniscule next to the loss of profits for the oil companies.
In fact I recall a specific case where Honda simply refused to license a specific patent it had on battery technologies, opting to keep it locked-up instead. Due to the overwhelming numbers of search results being purely press-releases about their hybrids, I can't find any more info at the moment.
I was looking at them for forcing web pages to wrap to a small display. Unfortunately, the "force wrap" code only helps if a long URL is the cause... Wide colums, images, etc., still screw you over, browsing on smaller screens. I'm still amazed, to this day, only Opera has this incredibly useful feature.
Now that I'm done ranting, I much prefer to use Privoxy to filter webpages of all ads and annoyances. No need to go click on that stuff.
Also, "Disable or Replace Context Menu" is already an option in Firefox's Javascript preferences.
It's not legal, it's just not a felony anymore. A little bit less ridiculous, anyhow.
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So why do you think that the government would side with a short-lived powerless real human being like you against the gods of capitalism ? Especialyl now, when said entities are growing beyond any government by becoming international ?
An individual may be short-lived and have very little money in comparison, but the PUBLIC as a whole far outstripes any corporation. In fact, far outstripes ALL corporations, combined.
The media industry is unlike most others, in that it really can't be an off-shore entity. If they don't play nice in your county, the government can remove copyright protections, and instantly kill off the business-model. So, no matter how big the music industry gets, they are still wholly, and quite easily, controlled by the government.
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Around here, you'll find very few people bicycling. You're just asking for a darwin award, when the slowest roads are 45MPH, there are no bike lanes, people drive like lunatics, and the major routes are interstates, where bicycles aren't allowed (for good reason of course).
It's not just bicycles, either. Riding a motorcycle is fairly suicidal. A local motorcycle cop was killed a few weeks ago when some woman driving an SUV turned without looking and ran right over him.
Still, even if it was SAFE to cycle around here, I'd only be doing it 1% of the time. Everything is a 10 mile trip each direction, and about a 40 degree slope, going one way or the other.
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I have to say, I'm surprised it has taken so long. Seems a few years past-due, IMHO.
One of first signs that PCs needed an FPGA or similar was hardware MPEG capture cards... They could do the job so much faster, and so much cheaper than your primary CPU, that the alternative is disappearing.
High-end graphics cards have been the most telling development. It's not that OpenGL is something magical, it's just that an ASIC can do many things so much better than a CPU that transfering much, much more raw data over the bus was still cheaper than actually processing it (despite the fact that interrupts are rather costly themselves).
PS2 clusters, Crypto cards, Hardware-accelerated NICs, SLI, all are a symptom of almost excatly the same problem...
The rising popularity of GPU programming made it extremely clear that there is a vaccuum here. Using the videocard isn't a very good method to accomplish this, just a stop-gap necessity. I thought from the beginning that FPGAs would become like the old math-coprocessors, and have their own motherboard socket, but neither AMD nor Intel were stepping up to fill this clear need. Installing it into a normal CPU socket, to get around this appathy, is a very clever hack I hadn't thought of.
I expect, with popularity, it will be cheaper to put a custom FPGA socket on motherboards, rather than building a full-fledged SMP motherboard for the purpose. After that, who knows... Maybe FPGAs will go the way of the math-coprocessors and get itegrated into future CPUs.
I know if I was running ATI or NVidia (or Hauppauge, or Level5), I'd be very worried about this thing eating the most profitable segment of my market.
Because a good number of people want to use "mobile" processors in their desktops. Either for overclocking, or for low-power computers. Both particularly popular among Slashdot readers.
It wasn't uncommon with Socket A, and is much more common now with Socket 754.
Complete, 100% Bullshit. "Insert Forkazoo's post here"
Unequivocally WRONG. Entirely ignorant Intel fanboyism.
There are socket 754 Sempron 64s, Athlon 64s, Mobile Athlon 64s, and Turion 64s.
Besides, with Socket 939 CPUs starting at $300 or so, the motherboard is only 1/3rd the cost, so NOBODY is going to be upgrading their CPU... Everyone will be buying a new motherboard for a few bucks, and have two high-end systems, instead of one.
I really hope the AM2s push prices down across-the-board. I'd really love to see dual-channel, ECC systems becoming reasonably-priced for home PCs.
Yes you were, and I pointed out that you were simply looking at it the wrong way.
Digital goods can be sold cheaply enough that there doesn't need to be a second-hand market, unlike equivalent physical goods.
Not true.
When you aren't downloading movies, you'll often find a lower-priced internet service perfectly acceptable.
When you're downloading and burning large movies, you'll find you need a larger hard drive, and your DVD burner will have a noticably shorter life-span. Besides the cost of disks.
Downloading movies takes much more time than people realize. Waiting for things to load, searching, going through the results, checking on the process periodically, slowing down other network access, etc.
When you leave the computer on longer, or have it doing more CPU-intensive operations, you're using more electricity than you would otherwise.
You should... The wear-and-tear you're causing is actually an expense you'll pay for. It's just that it's on the order of fractions of pennies per-person, so people don't bother.
Pollution should probably be factored-in as well.
There's no reason for that to be the case. Music, for instance, is trivially easy to copy, and yet purchases continue.
I can see a similar future for eBooks... Sell them for $5 a copy, making it so cheap and convenient that it's not worth doing something illegal to avoid paying. However, that inherently makes the "second hand" market just short of completely dead.
No, it's far more complex than that. Price is dictated by the market only AFTER costs have been recouped, and it's pure profit for the studios. In other words, they can afford to sell DVDs so cheaply in China, only because they already made a profit through sales in the rest of the world. If demand goes down everywhere, and the prices have to be dropped through the floor, you'll see movies getting made on much, much, much smaller budgets to try and make-up for the smaller profits.
Definately NOT. The theater gets first-shot, but it's released on DVD at the same time as it is available on PPV/OnDemand. It doesn't get around to free/pay TV until a LOT later. Perhaps a year or more.
It's called economies of scale. If they produced a movie-only version, and a version with extras, BOTH would be more expensive. That's oversimplifying, of course, but you should get the idea.
Most of the extra content on DVDs is damn-near free for them, anyhow, and probably only adds a few cents to the price.
Hmm. I guess internet access, computers, hard drives or DVD storage space, man-hours, and electricity are all completely free now...
Tivo is the perfect example of everything I hate about DRM, the "IP economy", etc.
Jim says, in no uncertain terms, that although you might have paid $500 for the hardware, they want to secure it enough that you can't use any 3rd-party software to update the listings. That's exactly like the RIAA, MPAA, Cable TV, etc.
You bought the product, yet you don't really own it... They don't quite want to make it a product, and don't quite want to make it a service. They want to get the best of both for themselves, and screw their customers every which-way they can.
Every day I'm more and more glad I spent ~$400 on a new system with a capture card, and invested a couple weeks to set everything up, about 4 years ago... My DVR is fast enough to playback HDTV, and already has a DVI output. For the cost of a cable, and perhaps an HDTV capture card, I'm ready for the next 100 years of broadcast television. Plus I can re-encode and edit out commercials, master and record to CD, DVD (Blu-ray?) etc. right on the same old DVR.
Meanwhile, Tivo owners have to go through extensive hacks to upgrade their hard drives, transfer their recordings to their PCs to re-encode, edit, burn to DVD, etc. Have to pay monthly fees for life, or put their old series 1 Tivos on life-support, to try and keep them going forever.
My DVR may not have an interface as pretty as a Tivo (mainly just a slightly modified file-manager, a few scripts, and MPlayer, operated through an IR remote), but it's stupid-simple to use, incredibly responsive, and it will work with anything you can throw at it.
Weight (within reason) shouldn't be an issue. You can send letters up to 1 ounce, for base USPS postage. Since a DVD only weighs half that, and they only send one at a time, they could have very heavy envelopes before it would cost them any extra money. I think it would be a good idea for them to send 2 at a time (and in an envelope 2/3rds as large) which would make this more of an issue, but that's another story.
DVDs will occasionally break in the mail, no matter what. An envelope would have to be incredibly strong to even slightly reduce the incidents of damage. So, it's the DVD's own strength and flexibility that keeps them from breaking, which has NOTHING to do with the mailer. The envelope is just scratch-protection...
Radiation doesn't just leave you unaffected for 4 years and 364 days, then kill you off on the first day of the 5th year. Radiation is a very nasty thing, which does a lot more than JUST kill you.
Even if your numbers are right, and only 1 in 10,000 animals is dying, that might still mean 1 in 10 newborns has some very nasty birth-defect, and those screwed-up genes may be traveling on to the next generation... Or not.
Oh, is that all? Guess it's time to abandon hard drives then, because companies are never going to be able to increase the RPMs, add more heads, reduce seek time, or convince people to use RAIDs.
I'm sure it will be much easier to make flash leapfrog hard drives in a very short time, by doing UNKNOWN. </SARCASM>
It should be obvious that people mostly talk about lossy compression when discussing audio and video.
Lossless compression doesn't reduce quality, but it does take significantly more CPU time and memory, all for perhaps a 50% size reduction, if you're lucky.
That would be true if the OS had instant, uninterruptible access to the hard drives. It does not.
Having a larger cache, the system can transfer the data over the bus at very high-speeds, and go do something else. If it was a smaller cache, it would have to spend much longer, slowly transfering the data to the drive, and waiting. Interuptions would be far more costly than they are now.
Just imagine trying to burn a DVD-R with no on-drive cache!
I see absolutely no reason to stop at 10 megapixels. That must be an arbitrary number you just picked out of the air.
Again, complete nonsense. HDTV is already 1920x1080, so you were proven wrong 5+ years ago already. Never mind about film, which has about a century on your theory.
Pictures need to be zoomed, and anyone with even the slightest bit of logic can see how very wrong you are about video.
It's not so much of how stupid your claims are that bothers me, it's that several moderators have absolutely no sense, and are unable to see through your nonsense claims.
I still use it. Nobody can see the different in a 90min movie between the SVCD and DVD version. CDs are still cheaper.
Bullshit. HDTVs are below $500, and every one made in the past few years has HDMI inputs. I suppose you've got stock in some TV/DVD company that isn't going to upgrade anytime soon... Or maybe Microsoft wants their WMVHD to be the only option.
I haven't seen a $100 computer monitor in the past 5 years or so. A small 4:3 17" CRT is $150, and can only do 1280x1024 if you're lucky. That's not nearly enough for 1080, even if it was a 16:9 monitor, and since it's not, you're SOL, because you need huge black bars covering 1/2 the screen to get the right aspect. You really need a 27" 16:9 CRT before you can really get HDTV resolution, and last I checked, HDTVs are much cheaper than 27" monitors.
LCDs need-not apply, since even the best won't manage the 60fps needed, without serious blur (they could handle film, for now, but nothing else).
Who would be moronic enough to "upgrade", when your DVDs will continue to play fine on the new players?
I am really can't imagine why all these anti-HDTV trolls on
It's not going to be a Linux distro, since distros aren't videos, and most people would just count it as corrupt, and delete.
However, it's trivially easy to get around this problem. You click the little button to list all the altenative locations, and when you see that 95% of them have a different name, you know it's been misnamed. Simple as that. Move on to the next one.
The tempurature chart shows you how hot the CPU is, but it doesn't say anything about ear-piercing decible level, which is the real reason most people buy these products.
I guess only gamers buy computers, then...
No, for most people, the CPU is, by-far, the hottest component (we're not counting the PSU, I guess), with the northbridge second, and the videocard probably 4th, behind the hard drive.
Bah! I have a standard ATX single-fan system myself.
Start with a dual-fan PSU. Open it, block all other air-intakes, and remove the second fan. Attach ducting where the second fan is supposed-to go. Now attach the other end to your CPU heatsink, and you're done.
That won't work too well for your high-powered monster P4 systems, but it's fine otherwise.
Besides, having fewer fans isn't much of an advantage. In fact, it's quite a disadvantage, since more, slower fans means a much quieter system, with much more airflow. I also have a nice, cool and damn-near silent DVR system with 4 thermally-controlled 80mm fans.
You act like this is some inherent law of the universe. It's not.
There can be many situations in which the profits generated by a fuel-saving device would be miniscule next to the loss of profits for the oil companies.
In fact I recall a specific case where Honda simply refused to license a specific patent it had on battery technologies, opting to keep it locked-up instead. Due to the overwhelming numbers of search results being purely press-releases about their hybrids, I can't find any more info at the moment.
I was looking at them for forcing web pages to wrap to a small display. Unfortunately, the "force wrap" code only helps if a long URL is the cause... Wide colums, images, etc., still screw you over, browsing on smaller screens. I'm still amazed, to this day, only Opera has this incredibly useful feature.
Now that I'm done ranting, I much prefer to use Privoxy to filter webpages of all ads and annoyances. No need to go click on that stuff.
Also, "Disable or Replace Context Menu" is already an option in Firefox's Javascript preferences.
It's not legal, it's just not a felony anymore. A little bit less ridiculous, anyhow.
An individual may be short-lived and have very little money in comparison, but the PUBLIC as a whole far outstripes any corporation. In fact, far outstripes ALL corporations, combined.
The media industry is unlike most others, in that it really can't be an off-shore entity. If they don't play nice in your county, the government can remove copyright protections, and instantly kill off the business-model. So, no matter how big the music industry gets, they are still wholly, and quite easily, controlled by the government.
Yes, the law is completely moronic.
They might as well make it legal to buy and own guns, but still illegal for anyone to SELL them, EVER.
Same paradox.