And Now I learn that the Biggest RIAA company is 100% owned by a French Company. Figures.
Now I can understand what is happening. The RIAA is scared about the monopoly power that iPods wield. This is the only power standing against them. They want them down, and so are using the governments against them. Now I know not to rejoice if Apple is forced to loosen its DRM control on iPods. The RIAA will sooner or later come to the understanding that they don't own DRM, the company that writes it owns it. Only then we will get our MP3s and OGGs.
"I used to be a big fan of MOND (in a layperson sense) until Smolin introduced me to DSR (doubly special relativity) and DSR II."
I don't understand this assertion. These are two very different theories. They don't even solve the same problems. MOND works on Galaxies and their rotation curves. While DSR attempts to fix the boundary of Relativity and Quantum Theory. MOND is silent on Quantum Theory. And DSR is silent on Galaxy Rotation curves. I don't understand why they should be mutually exclusive. Unless you thought that somehow DSR will predict the Galaxy rotation curves, which isn't even probable.
MOND is adhoc but the a0 factor gives rise to speculation that it arises out of the curvature of the universe, as it is related to the Hubble's Constant, while Planck's Constant is a fundamental constant. I am a big fan of MOND, and like most MOND believers expect that some deeper theory will be found out eventually that will produce the MOND phenomenology. I do expect that eventually Gravity will be found to be conformal in nature like the other three forces.
"How do we know that modified gravity isn't the answer? See multiple independent lines of evidence above. There are no theories of modified gravity that come even close to explaining all of the above."
True. Nothing can really provide better answers than saying god does everything. Fact is that Dark Matter and Dark Energy are not falsifiable theories. They can only be proven true, by finding the so called dark matter, but cannot be proven false by any means.
The best Dark Matter theories require 2 parameters per galaxy to fit a galaxy and this does not include the M/L ratio. While MOND fits almost all galaxies and the remaining within limits, with a single universal parameter, in addition to the M/L ratio. Also compared to the Dark Matter fits MOND fits even the wiggles in the curves very well.
There is no dispute on the success of MOND to fit Galaxies. The fact that it is not widely accepted is because it is ad-hoc, and it is not an effective theory. But now with TeVeS it is now an effective theory. Now, it can also fit gravitational lensing and WMAP data.
It is good that you agree that MOND people accept their failings. I only wish that the scientific establishment did the same with their own theories and accepted the short comings of Dark Matter and Dark Energy.
It is a well established fact that Einsteins GR is not the ultimate theory. Einstein himself never believed that. It is a fact that it doesn't work well with Quantum theories. All the other 3 forces are defined by a type of Conformal field thoery, except for Gravity. It seems obvious to me that ultimately Gravity will also be defined by a type of Conformal Field theory. Which will not look like the Newtonian gravity of today, except at solar system scales. It will also resolve all the numerous problems of Cosmology, flatness problem Dark Matter Dark Energy etc. Unfortunately there is only one person working on a Conformal field of gravity.
I think MOND and TeVeS will be a better approximation at the Galactic level in the mean time. I am sure it will not work very well at Cluster level and larger structures.
Galactic dark matter has a problem called MOND. If we don't agree with MOND on the galactic scale then we need to obtain MOND from our theories of formation of dark matter, because MOND agrees very well with the observed galactic data, even predicting the very low dark matter and the very high dark matter ratios obtained for the different galaxies, which this report calls problematic. See http://www.astro.umd.edu/~ssm/mond/ for further information on MOND.
Sometimes contracts work in the opposite way. I am with Neuf (a telecom provider). They had once one year back announced that they will offer free calls to India. This was done in competition with another company Free (another telecom provider), since Free was coming up with free calls to 19 countries including US China and some European countries. So Neuf came up with an offer for 29 countries with most European countries and some other countries including India. Something happened later and their negotiations with Indian Telecom providers did not work out. So they are stuck with all subscribers that had opted for the service during those 3 months, when it was available. Also the Contract is without a time limit. So the Indians that have opted at the time for this service are getting it, although I believe it would be quite expensive for the providers. It is great almost 40Hours/month of calling India without any extra bills.
You are right. I expect that it will stop somewhere about one third of the equivalent US or European salary. But you know in India money is worth 10 times more than in US, if spent carefully. So in India you will actually be having 3 times more money than in US. Currently it is only about 2 times more;-). Do I make India look more interesting. Incidently this difference is only useful if you spend the money carefully. For saving US or Europe will still be much better:-(.
You don't understand the disparities between Indians and the Far Eastern cultures. Indians probably now more about the western cultures (due to the British Rule) than they know about the culture in far eastern countries. They may be in the same continent but India is a seperate sub-continent and wildly different. India may have exported Buddhism, but the brand of buddhism you will find in India is totally different from these other countries. In India Buddhism means non-violence and that means strict vegetarians, but these other buddhist countries have the highest variety of meat eaters on the face of the earth. Another big difference is that India has been influenced very deeply by Islam, while these countries have not been.
I didn't know that there was a single person responsible for making America a great Country. Thank you. I have no doubt that it was those 2800 libraries that caused America to become the super power that it became in the mid-19th century.
There is another way to look at it. May be the DOJ is thinking why is there no single monopoly in this market. And ofcourse that monopoly must be Intel's. So they have sued the other two. So that Intel can become the Monopoly.
For any business the only criteria should be how much net profit did they make. And that should include any auxiliary way of making profit. MS has the billions to throw away on XBox without really making any profit. They are just hoping that the rest would die out. But that will not happen, till Nintendo keeps on making profit. So the money that XBox is losing is not really a gain for Microsoft. Regarding PS2, it may have done better than DS or other Nintendo games regarding over all profit including games/movies and the console (which possibly did not make much profit). But the same cannot be said about PS3. Only time will tell. XBox360 again will lose money as usual. So we may not be certain of Wii or PS3 but we do know that XBox360 will be a loser.
Actually Nintendo does not exclude the 18-35 hardcore gamer group too. As there is a great innovation here, which these people will also want to experience even if it is not the typical adult content. And this group is the one which can and will have multiple gaming consoles. And Wii is cheap enough to get in by default.
1) Work is owned by the author alone, and is non transferable, ie you cannot sell all rights to it. You can only license it. 2) Performance of a work can be owned by a company, but is limited to 10 years only, after that it goes into PD. 3) The Copywrite is automatic for the first 5 years, after that it must be registered and payed for 5 year periods. 4) Works can be licensed exclusively for the first 10 years only, after that licenses must be non-exclusive and compulsary. The author can not deny licensing a work to anybody after this period. He can only fix the price. 5) The exclusive license duration of 10 years is from the time of publication, but the automatic licensing term of 5 years is from the time of creation. So you may have to renew it twice before the expiry of exclusive licenses. 6) The first 10 years after publication are special as during this period the work can be considered exclusive property, and can be passed down to the heirs.
Basically to continue using a work you must pay a fee every 5 years. And corporations cannot buyout a work.
The thing is that you have to create the entangled beam and leave it in an entangled state for some years. Then when you do change it you can get the information in your time. But you cannot be getting the signals from the future without elaborate preparations.
Or at least they have to prove that he was the originator of all the copies available on the network. Anybody should not be given this high penalty. Actually the high penality is the reason why RIAA is able to conduct this racket.
Please learn some mathematics, it is useful. ^ (carat) is the sign for exponentiation, in Pascal or maybe some other languages as well. It does look more intuitive than ** of Fortran. And anyway it should have been obvious that it is exponentiation he is talking of 4*4*4*4 is 4^4. And you must add people at each level so you get what the GP was saying 4^4+4^3+4^2+4^1+4^0. BTW anything finite to the power of 0 is 1.
People who are saying that Broadband is difficult in USA because population density is too small are ignoring the fact that inspite of the low population density Telephone lines exist. In Paris phone lines carry 24Mbps, ofcourse this requires that you are near the exchange. In other parts of France 512Kbps is available, inspite of the fact that France is a socialistic and protectionist country. I would expect USA being a Capitalist country to do much better. But the fact is USA no longer has real capitalism. Large Corporations have too much power. The only solution is for communities to develop their own WiMax networks, they cannot depend on the corporations or the government to help them. They might actually make this illegal. I think this has already happened in a few states;-).
If the software that Novell distributes is patent encumbered and the users need the license from Microsoft. Then by definition Novell is knowingly distributing Patent Encumbered software for which they don't provide any license to their customers that will allow them to forward it to other people. This is by definition disallowed, it doesn't matter that the patents are owned by a third party. They are not allowed to distribute the software simple. Ofcourse nobody else is allowed either.
The deal works out this way. If Novell distributes some code in Linux under GPL that uses patents from MS, and MS sues a third party. Then GPL says that particular software is not distributable by anybody, including Novell no matter what agreement Novell has with MS. The Covenent doesn't matter. I guess nothing can be done before a lawsuit, but after the lawsuit if Novell is found distributing the particular code then they can be sued by the owners of the code from which the patented code was derived. So all in all I believe Novell is safe now, but there is no point to the agreement unless there is something else that is in dark, like perhaps the SCO case (but I can't believe anybody would pay any money for flogging that dead horse).
It is not Free. It is not cheap either. I am in France and one telecom provider gives unlimited calls to landlines in 100 countries, including about 30Mbps internet + 50 channels (with HD) for 35Euros. I am also getting unlimited calls to landlines in my native place in India, for 30Euros/month including 24Mbps internet connection. Also when I have to call India I can get calls to Mobiles (in India) via calling cards at the low low rate of 9cents, which is much much cheaper than the 16cents this service is calling.
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The Price of 1999$ is for Premier unlimited support for 1 year. The Lifetime warranty is for 5 years and beyond. Basically if you buy support for 5 years, then they will support you indefinitely except a doing certification with a third party. I believe that it is fail safe, as in Oracle will probably not be the leader in DB after 5 years anyway. And I wouldn't see anybody committing for 5 years to any software even if it is Oracle.
Actually the Enron Execs should not go to jail either. They should lose everything they have earned in their own lifetime. Also they should be made unhirable, and then left on the street, to live the rest of their lives as beggars.
I believe the sentence should be that they must pay for the amount of losses they had caused and this should be taken from all of their available assets. And anybody who wants to help them (even to provide them food or shelter) must first settle the balance payment. They should also have to report to their nearest police station everyday, to prevent them from running away from this sentence. If they do run away then they can jailed;-).
Well Easiest way is to not close the door completely. You can see that the light goes off before the door gets into contact with the rest of the body. But hell why bring logic into this discourse;-).
No it just means that the rest of the unawashed masses is thinking that it is U when they read about the acquisition, and going to check what this brouhaha is all about. But probably utube.com is just faking it to get some cheap publicity.
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And Now I learn that the Biggest RIAA company is 100% owned by a French Company. Figures.
Now I can understand what is happening. The RIAA is scared about the monopoly power that iPods wield. This is the only power standing against them. They want them down, and so are using the governments against them. Now I know not to rejoice if Apple is forced to loosen its DRM control on iPods. The RIAA will sooner or later come to the understanding that they don't own DRM, the company that writes it owns it. Only then we will get our MP3s and OGGs.
"I used to be a big fan of MOND (in a layperson sense) until Smolin introduced me to DSR (doubly special relativity) and DSR II."
I don't understand this assertion. These are two very different theories. They don't even solve the same problems. MOND works on Galaxies and their rotation curves. While DSR attempts to fix the boundary of Relativity and Quantum Theory. MOND is silent on Quantum Theory. And DSR is silent on Galaxy Rotation curves. I don't understand why they should be mutually exclusive. Unless you thought that somehow DSR will predict the Galaxy rotation curves, which isn't even probable.
MOND is adhoc but the a0 factor gives rise to speculation that it arises out of the curvature of the universe, as it is related to the Hubble's Constant, while Planck's Constant is a fundamental constant. I am a big fan of MOND, and like most MOND believers expect that some deeper theory will be found out eventually that will produce the MOND phenomenology. I do expect that eventually Gravity will be found to be conformal in nature like the other three forces.
"How do we know that modified gravity isn't the answer? See multiple independent lines of evidence above. There are no theories of modified gravity that come even close to explaining all of the above."
True. Nothing can really provide better answers than saying god does everything. Fact is that Dark Matter and Dark Energy are not falsifiable theories. They can only be proven true, by finding the so called dark matter, but cannot be proven false by any means.
The best Dark Matter theories require 2 parameters per galaxy to fit a galaxy and this does not include the M/L ratio. While MOND fits almost all galaxies and the remaining within limits, with a single universal parameter, in addition to the M/L ratio. Also compared to the Dark Matter fits MOND fits even the wiggles in the curves very well.
There is no dispute on the success of MOND to fit Galaxies. The fact that it is not widely accepted is because it is ad-hoc, and it is not an effective theory. But now with TeVeS it is now an effective theory. Now, it can also fit gravitational lensing and WMAP data.
It is good that you agree that MOND people accept their failings. I only wish that the scientific establishment did the same with their own theories and accepted the short comings of Dark Matter and Dark Energy.
It is a well established fact that Einsteins GR is not the ultimate theory. Einstein himself never believed that. It is a fact that it doesn't work well with Quantum theories. All the other 3 forces are defined by a type of Conformal field thoery, except for Gravity. It seems obvious to me that ultimately Gravity will also be defined by a type of Conformal Field theory. Which will not look like the Newtonian gravity of today, except at solar system scales. It will also resolve all the numerous problems of Cosmology, flatness problem Dark Matter Dark Energy etc. Unfortunately there is only one person working on a Conformal field of gravity.
I think MOND and TeVeS will be a better approximation at the Galactic level in the mean time. I am sure it will not work very well at Cluster level and larger structures.
Galactic dark matter has a problem called MOND. If we don't agree with MOND on the galactic scale then we need to obtain MOND from our theories of formation of dark matter, because MOND agrees very well with the observed galactic data, even predicting the very low dark matter and the very high dark matter ratios obtained for the different galaxies, which this report calls problematic.
See http://www.astro.umd.edu/~ssm/mond/ for further information on MOND.
Well this is the first time I have said this.
Sometimes contracts work in the opposite way. I am with Neuf (a telecom provider). They had once one year back announced that they will offer free calls to India. This was done in competition with another company Free (another telecom provider), since Free was coming up with free calls to 19 countries including US China and some European countries. So Neuf came up with an offer for 29 countries with most European countries and some other countries including India. Something happened later and their negotiations with Indian Telecom providers did not work out. So they are stuck with all subscribers that had opted for the service during those 3 months, when it was available. Also the Contract is without a time limit. So the Indians that have opted at the time for this service are getting it, although I believe it would be quite expensive for the providers. It is great almost 40Hours/month of calling India without any extra bills.
You are right. I expect that it will stop somewhere about one third of the equivalent US or European salary. But you know in India money is worth 10 times more than in US, if spent carefully. So in India you will actually be having 3 times more money than in US. Currently it is only about 2 times more ;-). Do I make India look more interesting. Incidently this difference is only useful if you spend the money carefully. For saving US or Europe will still be much better :-(.
You don't understand the disparities between Indians and the Far Eastern cultures. Indians probably now more about the western cultures (due to the British Rule) than they know about the culture in far eastern countries. They may be in the same continent but India is a seperate sub-continent and wildly different. India may have exported Buddhism, but the brand of buddhism you will find in India is totally different from these other countries. In India Buddhism means non-violence and that means strict vegetarians, but these other buddhist countries have the highest variety of meat eaters on the face of the earth. Another big difference is that India has been influenced very deeply by Islam, while these countries have not been.
I didn't know that there was a single person responsible for making America a great Country. Thank you.
I have no doubt that it was those 2800 libraries that caused America to become the super power that it became in the mid-19th century.
There is another way to look at it. May be the DOJ is thinking why is there no single monopoly in this market. And ofcourse that monopoly must be Intel's. So they have sued the other two. So that Intel can become the Monopoly.
For any business the only criteria should be how much net profit did they make. And that should include any auxiliary way of making profit. MS has the billions to throw away on XBox without really making any profit. They are just hoping that the rest would die out. But that will not happen, till Nintendo keeps on making profit. So the money that XBox is losing is not really a gain for Microsoft. Regarding PS2, it may have done better than DS or other Nintendo games regarding over all profit including games/movies and the console (which possibly did not make much profit). But the same cannot be said about PS3. Only time will tell. XBox360 again will lose money as usual. So we may not be certain of Wii or PS3 but we do know that XBox360 will be a loser.
Actually Nintendo does not exclude the 18-35 hardcore gamer group too. As there is a great innovation here, which these people will also want to experience even if it is not the typical adult content. And this group is the one which can and will have multiple gaming consoles. And Wii is cheap enough to get in by default.
How about this?
1) Work is owned by the author alone, and is non transferable, ie you cannot sell all rights to it. You can only license it.
2) Performance of a work can be owned by a company, but is limited to 10 years only, after that it goes into PD.
3) The Copywrite is automatic for the first 5 years, after that it must be registered and payed for 5 year periods.
4) Works can be licensed exclusively for the first 10 years only, after that licenses must be non-exclusive and compulsary.
The author can not deny licensing a work to anybody after this period. He can only fix the price.
5) The exclusive license duration of 10 years is from the time of publication, but the automatic licensing term of 5 years
is from the time of creation. So you may have to renew it twice before the expiry of exclusive licenses.
6) The first 10 years after publication are special as during this period the work can be considered exclusive property, and
can be passed down to the heirs.
Basically to continue using a work you must pay a fee every 5 years. And corporations cannot buyout a work.
-anandsr
The thing is that you have to create the entangled beam and leave it in an entangled state for some years. Then when you do change it you can get the information in your time. But you cannot be getting the signals from the future without elaborate preparations.
Or at least they have to prove that he was the originator of all the copies available on the network. Anybody should not be given this high penalty. Actually the high penality is the reason why RIAA is able to conduct this racket.
Please learn some mathematics, it is useful. ^ (carat) is the sign for exponentiation, in Pascal or maybe some other languages as well. It does look more intuitive than ** of Fortran. And anyway it should have been obvious that it is exponentiation he is talking of 4*4*4*4 is 4^4. And you must add people at each level so you get what the GP was saying 4^4+4^3+4^2+4^1+4^0. BTW anything finite to the power of 0 is 1.
People who are saying that Broadband is difficult in USA because population density is too small are ignoring the fact that inspite of the low population density Telephone lines exist. In Paris phone lines carry 24Mbps, ofcourse this requires that you are near the exchange. In other parts of France 512Kbps is available, inspite of the fact that France is a socialistic and protectionist country. I would expect USA being a Capitalist country to do much better. But the fact is USA no longer has real capitalism. Large Corporations have too much power. The only solution is for communities to develop their own WiMax networks, they cannot depend on the corporations or the government to help them. They might actually make this illegal. I think this has already happened in a few states ;-).
If the software that Novell distributes is patent encumbered and the users need the license from Microsoft. Then by definition Novell is knowingly distributing Patent Encumbered software for which they don't provide any license to their customers that will allow them to forward it to other people. This is by definition disallowed, it doesn't matter that the patents are owned by a third party. They are not allowed to distribute the software simple. Ofcourse nobody else is allowed either.
That is the next step.
After that profit.
The deal works out this way. If Novell distributes some code in Linux under GPL that uses patents from MS, and MS sues a third party. Then GPL says that particular software is not distributable by anybody, including Novell no matter what agreement Novell has with MS. The Covenent doesn't matter. I guess nothing can be done before a lawsuit, but after the lawsuit if Novell is found distributing the particular code then they can be sued by the owners of the code from which the patented code was derived. So all in all I believe Novell is safe now, but there is no point to the agreement unless there is something else that is in dark, like perhaps the SCO case (but I can't believe anybody would pay any money for flogging that dead horse).
It is not Free. It is not cheap either. I am in France and one telecom provider gives unlimited calls to landlines in 100 countries, including about 30Mbps internet + 50 channels (with HD) for 35Euros. I am also getting unlimited calls to landlines in my native place in India, for 30Euros/month including 24Mbps internet connection. Also when I have to call India I can get calls to Mobiles (in India) via calling cards at the low low rate of 9cents, which is much much cheaper than the 16cents this service is calling.
The Price of 1999$ is for Premier unlimited support for 1 year. The Lifetime warranty is for 5 years and beyond. Basically if you buy support for 5 years, then they will support you indefinitely except a doing certification with a third party. I believe that it is fail safe, as in Oracle will probably not be the leader in DB after 5 years anyway. And I wouldn't see anybody committing for 5 years to any software even if it is Oracle.
Actually the Enron Execs should not go to jail either. They should lose everything they have earned in their own lifetime. Also they should be made unhirable, and then left on the street, to live the rest of their lives as beggars.
;-).
I believe the sentence should be that they must pay for the amount of losses they had caused and this should be taken from all of their available assets. And anybody who wants to help them (even to provide them food or shelter) must first settle the balance payment. They should also have to report to their nearest police station everyday, to prevent them from running away from this sentence. If they do run away then they can jailed
Well Easiest way is to not close the door completely. You can see that the light goes off before the door gets into contact with the rest of the body. But hell why bring logic into this discourse ;-).
No it just means that the rest of the unawashed masses is thinking that it is U when they read about the acquisition, and going to check what this brouhaha is all about. But probably utube.com is just faking it to get some cheap publicity.