Before everyone had a cheap cell in their pocket we all bitched about Long Distance costs and how artificial they were. After all, it didn't really cost phone companies anything to send a call through a few extra relays.
Now you place a cell call anywhere in the US and it's only a question of whether you are using minutes. In order to soak us service providers have switched their punitive pricing to data. SMS costs are ridiculous for the tiny amounts of data involved. Data caps and throttling keep people from getting the full potential out of their smart devices.
The cell industry is setting itself up for someone like Google to come in as a new provider and undermine their business model.
Judge Harvey's ethical breach was in commenting on subject matter closely related to a pending case. How did he think giving an interview was even remotely proper?
At least Sprint has an unlimited plan. But they have pathetic 4G LTE coverage and their 3G painful at times, so good luck using that unlimited data to it's full potential.
By many accounts, including Woz himself, Siri is giving poorer quality answers as Apple dials back the processing time allowed on it's servers for individual queries.
Apple has invested a great deal of their clout in the Siri app. Siri could easily become the poster child for buggy portable apps if Apple lets this slide.
Waze is the best turn by turn GPS for either Andriod or iOS. Supports real time traffic conditions submitted by other waze users (police visible, traffic jams, construction and road hazzards, etc...)
I think that claim will be challenged in court if this case will ever goes to trial. If MU can demonstrate it did comply with many of the takedowns then the jury will need to decide how many infringements does it take before it becomes a criminal matter. This is grey area stuff.
Big words AC. No, I'm not trolling. Since I have not seen the internal correspondence (and neither have you) I will withhold opinion on that subject until later.
It will need to be proven that Mega had intent before it becomes criminal. Without malice it becomes a civil matter with penalties but no jail. The DOJ can't press a criminal case unless they allow Dotcom access to materials to defend himself.
>> 'I like playing devil's advocate -- A guy worth hundreds of millions is "a little guy".'
In the technology and internet business sector a company worth few hundred million is small. I don't know how much of megaupload's money went straight to Dotcom's pocket. That's not really the question. If he was absorbing most of MU's cash that just speaks to poor financial management.
The bottom line is MU is relatively small compared to a company like Google who have formed partnerships with media suppliers and have papered over their previous bumps with copyright.
I can watch many films in their entirety on Youtube without the specter of legal reprisal.
>> "In other fora, mwny of you leftists would be bitching about him as an evil rich."
Excuse me, my eyes rolled so hard they fell out of my head. "You leftists"? Do not presume to know my politics from a few lines of opinion regarding a non-partisan issue.
>> "Also, he got wealthy providing a trading house, like Napster..."
MU was a file hosting service. So is iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive and many other services. Some of them have better filtering technology. Friends can share access to each other's Dropbox folders and it would be no different that providing a link to a Megaupload folder. It's all just spliting hairs.
Is legitimacy achieved because of filtering? From response time to DMCA takedowns? What does Rapidshare need to do to prevent seizure of their servers?
Dotcom is a comparatively little guy who had his own service and when the sh-t hit the fan didn't have anybody else in his corner. His antics and courtroom theatrics aside, what separates him from Youtube? An 800 pound gorilla named Google. People upload copyrighted material to Youtube every day but Google somehow makes it all right.
Is Google more responsive to takedown notices than megaupload? Is there more infringing material on one service vs. the other?
My opinion is Megaupload's biggest problem in the end is they never made friends in high places.
You shouldn't speak in absolutes. For some people they are. There are widgets that make things simple for everyday people instead of power users. Eg - When you tell your grandma it's more secure to turn her WiFi off in certain situations, a desktop toggle widget makes this a lot easier.
When you think someone's machine is running a bit hot you might be inclined to put temperature monitors where the user can help you keep an eye on things.
Couldn't MS simply patch their Gadgets engine so it won't run in an account with admin privileges? Maybe present the user with a popup "unable to run, you're an admin, you shouldn't do that on your daily driver account, etc..."
This way users who like widgets will have an incentive to make their Windows profile safer.
>> ""American Ninja Warrior" — the strictly-domestic production — suffers badly from human interest bloat. The Japanese program (at least as it is presented on G4) frequently features mini-portraits of the competitors, but these segments are very short — typically under 20 seconds — and they help to put a human face on the often-superhuman efforts of the program's contenders. "
Oh, just wait until the Olympics. They will do lengthy segments that try to ferret out the most painful moments in every athlete's life (with soft piano music) so the audience can have a little Rocky moment when an athlete wins an event.
"Once the ATARI ST was launched, Jack left the reins to his idiot son Sam."
fixed.
Jack's final insult to the house Bushnell built was the Jaguar. Atari couldn't have enough units ready for Christmas and lost the race for gamer's pockets to Nintendo. Atari cried all the way to court accusing Nintendo of monopolistic practices. Jack's suit was dismissed, and Atari soon went into bankruptcy.
In my basement at home I have a 2600, a 400, a 1200xl and a 520st. I don't think much of Tramiel, but I loved Atari.
Jack Tramiell was the end of (real) Atari. He left C= just as the Amiga was arriving and purchased Atari, created the ST line and then did a poor job supporting them. I don't see RIM putting out anything as cool as the Amiga.
In all seriousness, maybe RIM's problem is pride. They can't let go of their own picture of themselves as a prestige product in the pocket of CEOs. They are so focused on the enterprise they ignore the much wider entry level phone market. They could sell fewer phones for more $ to businesses, or they could flood the low end market such as pay as you go and no contract plans. You don't need to be innovative in that market, you need to be cost effective.
We only just recently turned in our pagers at work ( ! ) Meanwhile I own a Samsung Galaxy 2S (Sprint Epic Touch) which is better than 90% of the phones I see during the day. One concern is proprietary info on personal devices - most phones will play friendly with exchange servers, but companies don't want you to have that stuff on your personal device if you are fired or quit.
I think part of the reason isn't enterprises being "stuck in the past", but they are more cautious when deploying new systems and approving software for use.
The economy is another factor. The machine at your desk is already paid for.
New machines vs. someone salary - it's better to keep your job.
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Before everyone had a cheap cell in their pocket we all bitched about Long Distance costs and how artificial they were. After all, it didn't really cost phone companies anything to send a call through a few extra relays.
Now you place a cell call anywhere in the US and it's only a question of whether you are using minutes. In order to soak us service providers have switched their punitive pricing to data. SMS costs are ridiculous for the tiny amounts of data involved. Data caps and throttling keep people from getting the full potential out of their smart devices.
The cell industry is setting itself up for someone like Google to come in as a new provider and undermine their business model.
Judge Harvey's ethical breach was in commenting on subject matter closely related to a pending case. How did he think giving an interview was even remotely proper?
At least Sprint has an unlimited plan. But they have pathetic 4G LTE coverage and their 3G painful at times, so good luck using that unlimited data to it's full potential.
Well, to be honest it's not like Britain has any big computer makers. They haven't figured out how to make a PC that leaks oil yet.
The author would be risking his reputation (he's a PhD) and a potential lawsuit from McDonald's if this is false.
By many accounts, including Woz himself, Siri is giving poorer quality answers as Apple dials back the processing time allowed on it's servers for individual queries.
Apple has invested a great deal of their clout in the Siri app. Siri could easily become the poster child for buggy portable apps if Apple lets this slide.
Waze is the best turn by turn GPS for either Andriod or iOS. Supports real time traffic conditions submitted by other waze users (police visible, traffic jams, construction and road hazzards, etc...)
Free app. It's worth installing.
I think that claim will be challenged in court if this case will ever goes to trial. If MU can demonstrate it did comply with many of the takedowns then the jury will need to decide how many infringements does it take before it becomes a criminal matter. This is grey area stuff.
>> "You, trolling, perhaps?"
Big words AC. No, I'm not trolling. Since I have not seen the internal correspondence (and neither have you) I will withhold opinion on that subject until later.
It will need to be proven that Mega had intent before it becomes criminal. Without malice it becomes a civil matter with penalties but no jail. The DOJ can't press a criminal case unless they allow Dotcom access to materials to defend himself.
>> 'I like playing devil's advocate -- A guy worth hundreds of millions is "a little guy".'
In the technology and internet business sector a company worth few hundred million is small. I don't know how much of megaupload's money went straight to Dotcom's pocket. That's not really the question. If he was absorbing most of MU's cash that just speaks to poor financial management.
The bottom line is MU is relatively small compared to a company like Google who have formed partnerships with media suppliers and have papered over their previous bumps with copyright.
I can watch many films in their entirety on Youtube without the specter of legal reprisal.
>> "In other fora, mwny of you leftists would be bitching about him as an evil rich."
Excuse me, my eyes rolled so hard they fell out of my head. "You leftists"? Do not presume to know my politics from a few lines of opinion regarding a non-partisan issue.
>> "Also, he got wealthy providing a trading house, like Napster..."
MU was a file hosting service. So is iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive and many other services. Some of them have better filtering technology. Friends can share access to each other's Dropbox folders and it would be no different that providing a link to a Megaupload folder. It's all just spliting hairs.
Is legitimacy achieved because of filtering? From response time to DMCA takedowns? What does Rapidshare need to do to prevent seizure of their servers?
Dotcom is a comparatively little guy who had his own service and when the sh-t hit the fan didn't have anybody else in his corner. His antics and courtroom theatrics aside, what separates him from Youtube? An 800 pound gorilla named Google. People upload copyrighted material to Youtube every day but Google somehow makes it all right.
Is Google more responsive to takedown notices than megaupload? Is there more infringing material on one service vs. the other?
My opinion is Megaupload's biggest problem in the end is they never made friends in high places.
Binary runs on my Samsung Galaxy S2. Everything works great but no audio.
Great start. Nice GUI. I'll be keeping an eye on this.
I didn't think he was pretentious.
... and to some extent he is as the CEO and the figurehead for Virgin. But he does ambitious stuff nobody else is doing.
I hope he makes mad profits in the space business and other companies see the potential.
It's not a federal agency. OP said it was a "mid-sized state agency".
>> "They're never useful"
You shouldn't speak in absolutes. For some people they are. There are widgets that make things simple for everyday people instead of power users. Eg - When you tell your grandma it's more secure to turn her WiFi off in certain situations, a desktop toggle widget makes this a lot easier.
When you think someone's machine is running a bit hot you might be inclined to put temperature monitors where the user can help you keep an eye on things.
Couldn't MS simply patch their Gadgets engine so it won't run in an account with admin privileges? Maybe present the user with a popup "unable to run, you're an admin, you shouldn't do that on your daily driver account, etc..."
This way users who like widgets will have an incentive to make their Windows profile safer.
Carrot vs Stick. Sometimes the carrot is better.
>> ""American Ninja Warrior" — the strictly-domestic production — suffers badly from human interest bloat. The Japanese program (at least as it is presented on G4) frequently features mini-portraits of the competitors, but these segments are very short — typically under 20 seconds — and they help to put a human face on the often-superhuman efforts of the program's contenders. "
Oh, just wait until the Olympics. They will do lengthy segments that try to ferret out the most painful moments in every athlete's life (with soft piano music) so the audience can have a little Rocky moment when an athlete wins an event.
FYI
You will wake up remembering nothing and feeling refreshed.
"Once the ATARI ST was launched, Jack left the reins to his idiot son Sam."
fixed.
Jack's final insult to the house Bushnell built was the Jaguar. Atari couldn't have enough units ready for Christmas and lost the race for gamer's pockets to Nintendo. Atari cried all the way to court accusing Nintendo of monopolistic practices. Jack's suit was dismissed, and Atari soon went into bankruptcy.
In my basement at home I have a 2600, a 400, a 1200xl and a 520st. I don't think much of Tramiel, but I loved Atari.
Jack Tramiell was the end of (real) Atari. He left C= just as the Amiga was arriving and purchased Atari, created the ST line and then did a poor job supporting them. I don't see RIM putting out anything as cool as the Amiga.
In all seriousness, maybe RIM's problem is pride. They can't let go of their own picture of themselves as a prestige product in the pocket of CEOs. They are so focused on the enterprise they ignore the much wider entry level phone market. They could sell fewer phones for more $ to businesses, or they could flood the low end market such as pay as you go and no contract plans. You don't need to be innovative in that market, you need to be cost effective.
He's proof that ANYBODY can find a job, no skill required, even in this economy.
We only just recently turned in our pagers at work ( ! ) Meanwhile I own a Samsung Galaxy 2S (Sprint Epic Touch) which is better than 90% of the phones I see during the day. One concern is proprietary info on personal devices - most phones will play friendly with exchange servers, but companies don't want you to have that stuff on your personal device if you are fired or quit.
I think part of the reason isn't enterprises being "stuck in the past", but they are more cautious when deploying new systems and approving software for use.
The economy is another factor. The machine at your desk is already paid for.
New machines vs. someone salary - it's better to keep your job.