Let's compare copyright to R&D/patents. I'm trying to justify why, say, IBM cannot benefit for more than 10-15 years from invention, on which it spent hundreds of millions, when a song writer can have his sort of "patent" last for 100 years?
I'm trying really hard, but the only explanation that comes to my mind is: there is a strong RIAA/MPAA lobby.
As far as I remember Microsoft simply bought a company that developed kinect (that Sony had considered and refused to buy). Soon we'll see whether Sony's decision was right.
"Not having to press" something is nice, but what if I actually want to fire an action by hardly noticeable movement of the finger? I guess I can't do it with Kinect as it's too subtle a movement to reliably detect.
Why is lack of buttons considered to be a step forward?
I don't understand why something like Recount isn't built into clients during development. How do they debug to ensure every client is getting the same combat messages? Yes you can do it server side, but you need to do it client side as well to ensure all clients are synced.
At least when in raid you are only guaranteed to get all messages relevant to you, but not necessarily to your party.
This is non-sense. When people complain that the kindle doesn't handle EPUB, they mean DRM'ed EPUB.
No, when they complain that kindle doesn't handle EPUB, they mean it supports neither DRM'ed nor non-DRM'ed EPUB.
Kindle only supports:
1) mobipocket (Mobipocket.com was bought by Amazon.com in 2005)
2) AZW - amazon's proprietary format
3) TPZ - actually variation of AZW with embedded fonts
4) PDF & plain text files (yay, these doesn't belong to amazon!)
The fact, that there are converters in the wild, that can convert between formats, doesn't make Kindle "support" mentioned formats.
I come from Georgia (republic of) and 18 years ago (during the civil wars) I've experienced:
Having to study with kerosene lamp, because there was no electricity. I got used to cold showers (actually I had a choice, to heat some, but for daily use, I didn't bother). Sometimes even cold water was gone, that was the worst part (my flat was on the 7th floor) Having to walk every day for a couple of hours to simply get somewhere (public transportation collapsed). There was no heating at the University, so in winter we were studying in a cold room (usually -3 to +5 Celsius). Soft bed, well, I still had it. Why would it disappear?
Was it hard in general? Well, actually it wasn't. It was much less comfortable, indeed, but that was pretty much it.
Don't forget, that all those comfy thingies didn't exist. People still had lives back then.
I think the problem here is, that fine should go into government pocket. As it is now it motivates certain persons to become "victims" and abuse the system.
Did Sony sell much less GAMES than Microsoft? (Nintendo isn't even in the same league, its customers normally do not buy any games, besides what's in initial package).
When comparing console sales, don't forget about PS3 being unhackable (up until August 2010) => not attracting "pirate" consumers.
It's simply hitting where it hurts, while saying truth. The "digitally clueless beauty queen" insult perfectly describes current iPhone4 problems.
While you could affect ANY antenna on any phone by covering it, Apple's device is the first one, that could be affected by touching, not covering. I guess it's the first phone, who's creators didn't bother isolating antenna.
Right, US is so much more civilized than Brasil and that's why Tommy Thompson had threatened Bayer AG to ignore its rights on "Cipro" if it doesn't drop the price: "He might disregard the company's patent, he said, if the company didn't drop its price. " http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/cl/cipro/americanlawyer012002.html
Can't copy your own non DRM stuff back from device. Can't upload stuff to device from more than one source.
This has nothing to do with being developer, is shockingly draconian and nobody bloody ever mentions it so I had to discover it myself, when buying iPod Touch as a present for my mom.
The code that would become WebKit began in 1998 as the KDE project's HTML layout engine KHTML and KDE's JavaScript engine (KJS). The name and project 'WebKit' were created in 2002 when Apple Inc. created a fork of KHTML and KJS.
Somebody used Google maps to find the shortest way. Google didn't warn about highway. Then the somebody, after spending quite some time walking, discovers, that there is no safe way actually.
Now, ignoring what happened after that (being struck by a car) is there anything to sue for, like "you provided me with incorrect info and I had to waste X minutes of my life"?
I don't know about other users, but not being able to read my own non DRM stuff from my own device and not being able to even put stuff from more than one PC on the device, without completely overwriting the content, is not "best in class user experience" for me.
I use Sony Walkman 828 which not only lacks draconian restrictions, but also, god forbid, supports folders.
All MMOs do it (as there is simply not enough content to keep people busy for 40 hours a week).
In WoW there is a lot of grinding at max level, you have to grind gold and/or chemistry if you want to raid.
There are many quests but again, most of them is "kill X things", "keep killing things until they drop X thingies".
The not only "still make money on hardware", they actually "make money mostly on hardware". According to Nintendo most of it's customers don't buy games at all (on top of what's shipped with initial purchase).
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Let's compare copyright to R&D/patents. I'm trying to justify why, say, IBM cannot benefit for more than 10-15 years from invention, on which it spent hundreds of millions, when a song writer can have his sort of "patent" last for 100 years?
I'm trying really hard, but the only explanation that comes to my mind is: there is a strong RIAA/MPAA lobby.
Nope, you copy my car and, heck, I don't mind if you do it. You can make a copy of my car, or hundreds of copies of my car, still not a problem.
As far as I remember Microsoft simply bought a company that developed kinect (that Sony had considered and refused to buy).
Soon we'll see whether Sony's decision was right.
"Not having to press" something is nice, but what if I actually want to fire an action by hardly noticeable movement of the finger? I guess I can't do it with Kinect as it's too subtle a movement to reliably detect.
Why is lack of buttons considered to be a step forward?
I don't understand why something like Recount isn't built into clients during development. How do they debug to ensure every client is getting the same combat messages? Yes you can do it server side, but you need to do it client side as well to ensure all clients are synced.
At least when in raid you are only guaranteed to get all messages relevant to you, but not necessarily to your party.
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With eBooks your books can be altered behind your back and even deleted without your knowledge or authorization.
No, not with e-books, but with amazon. Fortunately it's not the same.
This is non-sense. When people complain that the kindle doesn't handle EPUB, they mean DRM'ed EPUB.
No, when they complain that kindle doesn't handle EPUB, they mean it supports neither DRM'ed nor non-DRM'ed EPUB.
Kindle only supports:
1) mobipocket (Mobipocket.com was bought by Amazon.com in 2005)
2) AZW - amazon's proprietary format
3) TPZ - actually variation of AZW with embedded fonts
4) PDF & plain text files (yay, these doesn't belong to amazon!)
The fact, that there are converters in the wild, that can convert between formats, doesn't make Kindle "support" mentioned formats.
Where do you get your facts from? Afaik JBed PS3-s run in "debug mode".
All PS3 comm is encryped/signed, including the drive.
Not a single word on Intel killing overclocking, eh? According to anand's article majority of new CPU's won't allow ANY kind of overclocking.
I come from Georgia (republic of) and 18 years ago (during the civil wars) I've experienced:
Having to study with kerosene lamp, because there was no electricity.
I got used to cold showers (actually I had a choice, to heat some, but for daily use, I didn't bother). Sometimes even cold water was gone, that was the worst part (my flat was on the 7th floor)
Having to walk every day for a couple of hours to simply get somewhere (public transportation collapsed).
There was no heating at the University, so in winter we were studying in a cold room (usually -3 to +5 Celsius).
Soft bed, well, I still had it. Why would it disappear?
Was it hard in general? Well, actually it wasn't. It was much less comfortable, indeed, but that was pretty much it.
Don't forget, that all those comfy thingies didn't exist. People still had lives back then.
I think the problem here is, that fine should go into government pocket. As it is now it motivates certain persons to become "victims" and abuse the system.
FFS, how could it be "lawyers" and not "laws" that is the problem?
Did Sony sell much less GAMES than Microsoft? (Nintendo isn't even in the same league, its customers normally do not buy any games, besides what's in initial package).
When comparing console sales, don't forget about PS3 being unhackable (up until August 2010) => not attracting "pirate" consumers.
It's simply hitting where it hurts, while saying truth. The "digitally clueless beauty queen" insult perfectly describes current iPhone4 problems.
While you could affect ANY antenna on any phone by covering it, Apple's device is the first one, that could be affected by touching, not covering. I guess it's the first phone, who's creators didn't bother isolating antenna.
Right, US is so much more civilized than Brasil and that's why Tommy Thompson had threatened Bayer AG to ignore its rights on "Cipro" if it doesn't drop the price: "He might disregard the company's patent, he said, if the company didn't drop its price. "
http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/cl/cipro/americanlawyer012002.html
Steve Jobs: Just Don't Hold the iPhone 4 That Way http://www.tomsguide.com/us/iphone-4-reception-bumpers-iphone4-iphone,news-7218.html
Can't copy your own non DRM stuff back from device. Can't upload stuff to device from more than one source. This has nothing to do with being developer, is shockingly draconian and nobody bloody ever mentions it so I had to discover it myself, when buying iPod Touch as a present for my mom.
The code that would become WebKit began in 1998 as the KDE project's HTML layout engine KHTML and KDE's JavaScript engine (KJS). The name and project 'WebKit' were created in 2002 when Apple Inc. created a fork of KHTML and KJS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webkit#Origins
Somebody used Google maps to find the shortest way. Google didn't warn about highway. Then the somebody, after spending quite some time walking, discovers, that there is no safe way actually.
Now, ignoring what happened after that (being struck by a car) is there anything to sue for, like "you provided me with incorrect info and I had to waste X minutes of my life"?
I don't know about other users, but not being able to read my own non DRM stuff from my own device and not being able to even put stuff from more than one PC on the device, without completely overwriting the content, is not "best in class user experience" for me. I use Sony Walkman 828 which not only lacks draconian restrictions, but also, god forbid, supports folders.
Google discovered its error after auditing its Street View Wi-Fi data at the request of the Hamburg, Germany, data protection authority.
Any idea, why data protection authority of the Hamburg would request such audit? http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/196372/google_stops_sniffing_wifi_data_after_privacy_gaffe.html
All MMOs do it (as there is simply not enough content to keep people busy for 40 hours a week).
In WoW there is a lot of grinding at max level, you have to grind gold and/or chemistry if you want to raid.
There are many quests but again, most of them is "kill X things", "keep killing things until they drop X thingies".
"Try YouTube in a new web browser Download Google Chrome" also has something to do with "chrome"'s increased popularity?
The not only "still make money on hardware", they actually "make money mostly on hardware". According to Nintendo most of it's customers don't buy games at all (on top of what's shipped with initial purchase).