>>>Patents on playing video have to be declared null and void
Why? If you are using VHS or CD, the respective companies (JVC, Sony, Philips) get a piece of the royalties on each sale, to offset the high initial costs of the invention. It seems logical the same would be true if you are using MPEG2 or MP3. Without that guarantee of return, these companies would have never bothered to invent VHS, CD, MPEG in the first place.
The clone-makers copied the IBM PC and the Intel 486/ Pentiums, and they did not face any legal consequences, because they implemented the technology using a different method (different wiring). Couldn't the folks behind VP8 make the same claim? "Yeah sure it uses similar MPEG4 techniques, but the code is completely different and with differing end results."
I honestly don't care if advertisers learn that I like collecting old computers and other hobbies. I'm more concerned about the info leaking to people with REAL power over me. Like a prospective employer (hmmm, he is pro-gun - don't wanna hire him), or the US government (this guy sold Final Fantasy 7 for $150 and didn't pay taxes).
Why do people keep called the National Socialist German Workers Party (Natzis) conservatives? They were best buds with the 1920s Communists, who were leftists. The Nazis did eventually have a "family squabble" with the communists, but they were still leftists (supported strong central government) (and centralized markets).
Ye have only had those articulated "bendy" buses 8 years. Seems like a huge waste of money to just dump them. According to wikipedia: "Research by London TravelWatch has indicated that such a withdrawal could prove costly to TfL. A study conducted in September 2008 found that replacing articulated vehicles on routes 38, 507, and 521, whilst maintaining overall route capacity, would cost an additional £12.6 million per annum."
>>>Give the new ones a chance - they'll have their faults for sure, but they won't be quite as control freak as the last lot.
That's what we said over here in the American Union, and yet the "new lot" happily renewed the Patriot Act rather than let it expire, and they just passed legislation to start collecting DNA
I'm not changing my opinion. To me Seven might as well be called "Mohave" - in other words, vista with a new paint job and not worth spending *another* $200 to get. I already bought Vista once - don't feel like buying the same thing twice, but with a fake name.
I wonder what they'll call the TRUE 7.0 when they finally release it.
It's NT 6.0 to NT 6.1 - it's pisspoor to call it "seven" when it's actually six-point-one. IMHO it won't be a truly new OS until we make the jump to NT 7..... as happened when we jumped from 4 to 5 (xp) or 5 to 6 (vista).
This bias on this forum is interesting. Kozar says "Tom Corbett is an asshat" and oh yeah he's Republican. He gets modded up. I say that Corbett's acts are typical of the Governor's last several years of corrupt administration..... I get modded down.
+1 for noting a Republican is corrupt -1 for noting a Democrat is corrupt
Obvious anti-R and pro-D bias on the part of Slashdot moderators.
>>>That was reference to his speeding on I-83 (twice),
Turns out I was wrong. Rendell has been caught speeding *multiple* times. For some reason he thinks he's above the law?:-| QUOTE: "In 2004, state troopers clocked Rendell's trooper-driven car exceeding 100 mph on the turnpike. That made him the butt of David Letterman's list of the "Top Ten Signs Your Governor is Nuts."
"Rendell hasn't hit the brakes" (March 22, 2009)
"His trip speeds between the Harrisburg East and Valley Forge exits, the stretch of the toll road he uses most often, have estimated speeds ranging between 48 and 93 mph...... It found one instance on a Sunday morning when his car averaged an estimated 99 mph traveling between the New Stanton and Warrendale interchanges of the Pennsylvania Turnpike." CONTINUED - http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1237675211322200.xml&coll=1
Whose boss is "Speedy Gonzalez" Rendell. He is responsible for the actions of his underlings in the Executive Branch. Plus even without this AG story, Rendell's administration has still been corrupt.
* *That was reference to his speeding on I-83 (twice), and then telling the cops he can't be ticketed because he's the governor. Yeah. Corrupt.
Oooo.... two Republican candidates (Corbett, Paul) have shot themselves in the foot in just the last day. Maybe they're trying to lose on purpose?
"Corbett, who won the Republican nomination for governor Tuesday night, told the television station that he doesn't have any problem with people criticizing him on Twitter. He refused to discuss the nature of the subpoena, however, stating that the investigation prevents him from discussing the matter."
Maybe they'll provide the IP address..... not that it really matters. The PA General Attorney is abusing his power by trying to silence bloggers he does not like, in violation of the State Constitution (see below). It's pretty typical of the Rendell administration. His has been the most corrupt of the last twenty years.
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Freedom of Press and Speech; Libels - "The printing press shall be free to every person who may undertake to examine the proceedings of the Legislature or any branch of government, and no law shall ever by made to restrain the right thereof. The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man, and every citizen may freely speak, write and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.
"No conviction shall be had in any prosecution for the publication of papers relating to the official conduct of officers or men in public capacity, or to any other matter proper for public investigation or information, where the fact that such publication was not maliciously or negligently made shall be established to the satisfaction of the jury; and in all indictments for libels the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases."
Reservation of Powers in People - "To guard against the transgressions of the high powers which we have delegated, we declare that everything in this article is excepted out of the general powers of government and shall forever remain inviolate."
Organize patriots and pass this amendment to the Constitution in order to give Member States of the Union power to nullify Congresses' stupid laws. It may take 40 years but I think it will pass eventually, because it is the only way to provide "checks and balances" between the Union government and the State governments:
The "Protect the 9th and 10th Amendments" Act. ----- Proposed Amendment XXVIII.
Section 1. After a Bill has become Law, if one-half of the State legislatures declare the Law to be "unconstitutional" it shall be null and void. It shall be as if the Law never existed. ----- SECTION 2. The Supreme Court will have the authority to review cases, and as part of the ruling declare these cases constitutional or unconstitutional, however the decision by the States (section 1) shall be superior.
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With our current system, you first have to wait until some government arrests you for a crime (for example: owning a gun in Washington DC). Then you have to file in court to defend yourself against this unconstitutional law. In most cases you'll lose, but if you're lucky it can rise to the level of the United States' government court who may or may not declare it unconstitutional. ----- That process took ~30 years to overturn D.C.'s unconstitutional banning of guns. With my proposed amendment, there'd be no need to wait. You (and your neighbors) could collectively instruct the State Legislature to declare the law "unconstitutional". Once 25 other legislatures have done the same, then the U.S. law would be voided.
My proposed amendment would simplify the process, shorten the time that an unconstitutional law sits on the books (2-3 years, not 30), and most-importantly, not require citizens to sit in jail or waste time in the courtroom.
>>>People sell stuff in online venues for real money all the time. Those transactions should be taxed
The problem is determining who does the taxing. Normally if I walk into a store, I pay tax to whichever locale I'm standing in, but if I order from a long distance state like Poland and ship it the UK, I don't have to pay tax to Poland because I'm not a Polish citizen. So the item ends-up being taxfree (unless UK taxes it directly, but that's usually not the case).
So I'll use multiple credit cards then. I've got 6 or 7 of them, so I could get 12 or 14 iPads. Again their reasoning makes little sense when closely examined.
BUT their reasoning makes zero sense. Forcing me to use a credit card instead of cash won't stop me from buying multiple iPads and then selling them to other people. I've got a $20,000 credit limit and could buy tons of them.
>>>Four channels mixed into stereo at 8-bit 28 kHz each, so not really 16-bit 44.1 kHz
Neither are the downloadable AACs from iStore "CD quality" either but that doesn't stop them from using the description. So I agree with the other guy - we can use the description "near CD" for Amiga. Or maybe just a really good cassette tape.;-) .
>>>Normally there was a lowpass filter on the sound to
My Amiga automagically turns that off upon booting (the LED light disappears). The sound is much richer without the filter. The same is true with the C=64's SID chip, which is why most prefer the 65xx variant (no filter), over the 85xx version (filtered).
The Amiga was no longer being supported, and I was frustrated with my Quadra Mac's inability to use a lot of software (like internet explorer), so I bought the PC for compatibility. Windows 98 had reached the point where it felt like using a Mac (trashcan, shutdown, and all), so it wasn't a hard transition. Even today my main computer is a PC because it's easier to find the programs I want (like ISP's backup program).
The point is, like a modern PS3 or Wii, you just popped the disk in the drive and played. You didn't have to install a card, and then wonder why it's not working, and then open the case and REinstall the card, and then again wonder why it's not working, and fiddle with installing drivers, and then REinstall the drivers because they didn't work, and......
I remember buying the Star Trek TNG Technical Manual for IBM PC in 1995. What a headache! I wasted two days with it. Then my roommate tried, and he literally started crying because he was so frustrated.
About a year later I got the Amiga version, and it was running instantly. Plug-and-play.
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>>>Patents on playing video have to be declared null and void
Why? If you are using VHS or CD, the respective companies (JVC, Sony, Philips) get a piece of the royalties on each sale, to offset the high initial costs of the invention. It seems logical the same would be true if you are using MPEG2 or MP3. Without that guarantee of return, these companies would have never bothered to invent VHS, CD, MPEG in the first place.
The clone-makers copied the IBM PC and the Intel 486/ Pentiums, and they did not face any legal consequences, because they implemented the technology using a different method (different wiring). Couldn't the folks behind VP8 make the same claim? "Yeah sure it uses similar MPEG4 techniques, but the code is completely different and with differing end results."
When do the patents expire and the invention fall into the public domain?
- "Sometime after both you and your grandchildren are dead."
Well that's a bad plan.
Nothing. I used to my Physics book and other texts while driving to college. It was a great way to prepare for an exam, rather than waste time.
That was in the primitive 90s, but now students can use the iPad instead! Perfectly safe.
Ha! Funnny.
I honestly don't care if advertisers learn that I like collecting old computers and other hobbies. I'm more concerned about the info leaking to people with REAL power over me. Like a prospective employer (hmmm, he is pro-gun - don't wanna hire him), or the US government (this guy sold Final Fantasy 7 for $150 and didn't pay taxes).
Why do people keep called the National Socialist German Workers Party (Natzis) conservatives? They were best buds with the 1920s Communists, who were leftists. The Nazis did eventually have a "family squabble" with the communists, but they were still leftists (supported strong central government) (and centralized markets).
Ye have only had those articulated "bendy" buses 8 years. Seems like a huge waste of money to just dump them. According to wikipedia: "Research by London TravelWatch has indicated that such a withdrawal could prove costly to TfL. A study conducted in September 2008 found that replacing articulated vehicles on routes 38, 507, and 521, whilst maintaining overall route capacity, would cost an additional £12.6 million per annum."
>>>Give the new ones a chance - they'll have their faults for sure, but they won't be quite as control freak as the last lot.
That's what we said over here in the American Union, and yet the "new lot" happily renewed the Patriot Act rather than let it expire, and they just passed legislation to start collecting DNA
Laws don't apply to government. "No open access hotspots" unless of course a politician does it.
Most of their ideas come from the Writings of Thomas Jefferson. Do you consider him to be a "malformed" person as well?
I'm not changing my opinion. To me Seven might as well be called "Mohave" - in other words, vista with a new paint job and not worth spending *another* $200 to get. I already bought Vista once - don't feel like buying the same thing twice, but with a fake name.
I wonder what they'll call the TRUE 7.0 when they finally release it.
It's NT 6.0 to NT 6.1 - it's pisspoor to call it "seven" when it's actually six-point-one. IMHO it won't be a truly new OS until we make the jump to NT 7..... as happened when we jumped from 4 to 5 (xp) or 5 to 6 (vista).
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This bias on this forum is interesting. Kozar says "Tom Corbett is an asshat" and oh yeah he's Republican. He gets modded up. I say that Corbett's acts are typical of the Governor's last several years of corrupt administration..... I get modded down.
+1 for noting a Republican is corrupt
-1 for noting a Democrat is corrupt
Obvious anti-R and pro-D bias on the part of Slashdot moderators.
>>>That was reference to his speeding on I-83 (twice),
Turns out I was wrong. Rendell has been caught speeding *multiple* times. For some reason he thinks he's above the law? :-| QUOTE: "In 2004, state troopers clocked Rendell's trooper-driven car exceeding 100 mph on the turnpike. That made him the butt of David Letterman's list of the "Top Ten Signs Your Governor is Nuts."
"Rendell hasn't hit the brakes" (March 22, 2009)
"His trip speeds between the Harrisburg East and Valley Forge exits, the stretch of the toll road he uses most often, have estimated speeds ranging between 48 and 93 mph...... It found one instance on a Sunday morning when his car averaged an estimated 99 mph traveling between the New Stanton and Warrendale interchanges of the Pennsylvania Turnpike." CONTINUED - http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1237675211322200.xml&coll=1
>>>the attorney general
Whose boss is "Speedy Gonzalez" Rendell. He is responsible for the actions of his underlings in the Executive Branch. Plus even without this AG story, Rendell's administration has still been corrupt.
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*That was reference to his speeding on I-83 (twice), and then telling the cops he can't be ticketed because he's the governor. Yeah. Corrupt.
Oooo.... two Republican candidates (Corbett, Paul) have shot themselves in the foot in just the last day. Maybe they're trying to lose on purpose?
"Corbett, who won the Republican nomination for governor Tuesday night, told the television station that he doesn't have any problem with people criticizing him on Twitter. He refused to discuss the nature of the subpoena, however, stating that the investigation prevents him from discussing the matter."
Maybe they'll provide the IP address..... not that it really matters. The PA General Attorney is abusing his power by trying to silence bloggers he does not like, in violation of the State Constitution (see below). It's pretty typical of the Rendell administration. His has been the most corrupt of the last twenty years.
.
Freedom of Press and Speech; Libels - "The printing press shall be free to every person who may undertake to examine the proceedings of the Legislature or any branch of government, and no law shall ever by made to restrain the right thereof. The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man, and every citizen may freely speak, write and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.
"No conviction shall be had in any prosecution for the publication of papers relating to the official conduct of officers or men in public capacity, or to any other matter proper for public investigation or information, where the fact that such publication was not maliciously or negligently made shall be established to the satisfaction of the jury; and in all indictments for libels the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases."
Reservation of Powers in People - "To guard against the transgressions of the high powers which we have delegated, we declare that everything in this article is excepted out of the general powers of government and shall forever remain inviolate."
>>>So, what are you going to do about it?
Organize patriots and pass this amendment to the Constitution in order to give Member States of the Union power to nullify Congresses' stupid laws. It may take 40 years but I think it will pass eventually, because it is the only way to provide "checks and balances" between the Union government and the State governments:
The "Protect the 9th and 10th Amendments" Act.
----- Proposed Amendment XXVIII.
Section 1. After a Bill has become Law, if one-half of the State legislatures declare the Law to be "unconstitutional" it shall be null and void. It shall be as if the Law never existed. ----- SECTION 2. The Supreme Court will have the authority to review cases, and as part of the ruling declare these cases constitutional or unconstitutional, however the decision by the States (section 1) shall be superior.
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With our current system, you first have to wait until some government arrests you for a crime (for example: owning a gun in Washington DC). Then you have to file in court to defend yourself against this unconstitutional law. In most cases you'll lose, but if you're lucky it can rise to the level of the United States' government court who may or may not declare it unconstitutional. ----- That process took ~30 years to overturn D.C.'s unconstitutional banning of guns. With my proposed amendment, there'd be no need to wait. You (and your neighbors) could collectively instruct the State Legislature to declare the law "unconstitutional". Once 25 other legislatures have done the same, then the U.S. law would be voided.
My proposed amendment would simplify the process, shorten the time that an unconstitutional law sits on the books (2-3 years, not 30), and most-importantly, not require citizens to sit in jail or waste time in the courtroom.
I really hate Congress. Is that wrong?
>>>People sell stuff in online venues for real money all the time. Those transactions should be taxed
The problem is determining who does the taxing. Normally if I walk into a store, I pay tax to whichever locale I'm standing in, but if I order from a long distance state like Poland and ship it the UK, I don't have to pay tax to Poland because I'm not a Polish citizen. So the item ends-up being taxfree (unless UK taxes it directly, but that's usually not the case).
>>>They limit sales to two per customer,
So I'll use multiple credit cards then. I've got 6 or 7 of them, so I could get 12 or 14 iPads. Again their reasoning makes little sense when closely examined.
BUT their reasoning makes zero sense. Forcing me to use a credit card instead of cash won't stop me from buying multiple iPads and then selling them to other people. I've got a $20,000 credit limit and could buy tons of them.
>>>Four channels mixed into stereo at 8-bit 28 kHz each, so not really 16-bit 44.1 kHz
Neither are the downloadable AACs from iStore "CD quality" either but that doesn't stop them from using the description. So I agree with the other guy - we can use the description "near CD" for Amiga. Or maybe just a really good cassette tape. ;-)
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>>>Normally there was a lowpass filter on the sound to
My Amiga automagically turns that off upon booting (the LED light disappears). The sound is much richer without the filter. The same is true with the C=64's SID chip, which is why most prefer the 65xx variant (no filter), over the 85xx version (filtered).
That's why I bought my first PC in 1998.
The Amiga was no longer being supported, and I was frustrated with my Quadra Mac's inability to use a lot of software (like internet explorer), so I bought the PC for compatibility. Windows 98 had reached the point where it felt like using a Mac (trashcan, shutdown, and all), so it wasn't a hard transition. Even today my main computer is a PC because it's easier to find the programs I want (like ISP's backup program).
The point is, like a modern PS3 or Wii, you just popped the disk in the drive and played. You didn't have to install a card, and then wonder why it's not working, and then open the case and REinstall the card, and then again wonder why it's not working, and fiddle with installing drivers, and then REinstall the drivers because they didn't work, and......
I remember buying the Star Trek TNG Technical Manual for IBM PC in 1995. What a headache! I wasted two days with it. Then my roommate tried, and he literally started crying because he was so frustrated.
About a year later I got the Amiga version, and it was running instantly. Plug-and-play.