Until Store A declares bankruptcy and a judge declares that all of your information valuable property and can be autctioned off to pay the creditors.
Face it. This gives the user no on going protection. The protection is only available to the terms of the transaction. Most of those have a clause that allows the store to change the conditions of the transaction at any time. And in the case of bankruptcy the contract is considered null and void.
Re:Extrodinary claims require extrodinary proof...
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The Magic Box Hoax
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Gee. I thought that was what patents were suppose to do. Protect the inventors of truely new ideas from being copied while the inventor was able to re-coup profits.
Even if someone did peek inside and say "Gee whiz I can build this easily enough," a real product would have no problem getting investors to fight any ensuing court battle.
The original poster was right. Somebody makes claims like this, cover your wallet.
Also I wouldn't be surprised if this guy gets a Soprano type investor and then gets a demonstration of another type of black box.
More to the point, the DOJ did this once before and MS did not change its ways. As a result the DOJ had to haul them in again. Interestingly enough, in that first suit the Judge ruled against the bogus settlement and was overruled on appeal. Guess he was right after all.
Re:Bad Math
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Lunar Power
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Actually it wouldn't be a bright shiny ring, it would be a dark ring. Shiny would indicate that the energy is being reflected out into space, when in reality is is being absorbed.
The affect would be to make the moon look like it had been cut in two.
I some how doubt they can get both of these functions to co-exist at the same time on the inexpensive hardware required.
The typical use would be for it to be able to record new shows while I'm playing a game. But I don't get the impression that the hardware they are putting into this in order to keep prices down could keep up.
I still wonder about M$ ability to really produce hardware.
I'm sorry. I just don't understand how anyone who has read Dune can give credit to this mini-series. Malraux did a good job of summing up a few of the major problems with this production.
One thing the mini-series misses big time is the total reverance for water on Dune. They pay lip service to it in a couple places. But they neglect to imbue the sets and the characters with it. There are no seals on the doors and the stillsuits are comical. Keynes is seen casually swirling a glass of water. He shows none of the respect for it that a true Fremen would.
The scene with the assasin running around makes the Atreides look like keystone cops. There is nothing to show the training, discipline and loyalty of the Atriedes or any of the forces for that matter. Remember, the Duke and his senior staff can issue orders with a hand gesture.
What I can't see is how anyone who has read the book can say this is good. It has mangled the plot and the characters. It has stripped away all the culture that Herbert created in Dune. It completely misses or ignores central themes to the book. I mean what is suppose to be good about this?
I am horribly disappointed in this mini-series. To someone who has never read Dune, it will leave them with the impression that this is just so much cheap Sci-Fi and hence why bother reading the book. The movie does a much better job over-all, with the exception of the sonic rays or whatever they were suppose to be.
If all of these are just minor things like "move window to 2 pixels to the left" then Marc Lucovsky, the guy writing the memo, must be an idiot for bothering the programmers with this unnecessary work.
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Until Store A declares bankruptcy and a judge declares that all of your information valuable property and can be autctioned off to pay the creditors.
Face it. This gives the user no on going protection. The protection is only available to the terms of the transaction. Most of those have a clause that allows the store to change the conditions of the transaction at any time. And in the case of bankruptcy the contract is considered null and void.
Gee. I thought that was what patents were suppose to do. Protect the inventors of truely new ideas from being copied while the inventor was able to re-coup profits.
Even if someone did peek inside and say "Gee whiz I can build this easily enough," a real product would have no problem getting investors to fight any ensuing court battle.
The original poster was right. Somebody makes claims like this, cover your wallet.
Also I wouldn't be surprised if this guy gets a Soprano type investor and then gets a demonstration of another type of black box.
More to the point, the DOJ did this once before and MS did not change its ways. As a result the DOJ had to haul them in again. Interestingly enough, in that first suit the Judge ruled against the bogus settlement and was overruled on appeal. Guess he was right after all.
Actually it wouldn't be a bright shiny ring, it would be a dark ring. Shiny would indicate that the energy is being reflected out into space, when in reality is is being absorbed.
The affect would be to make the moon look like it had been cut in two.
We think we have the right to own everything.
If this is so beneficial, is there something like this from the Open Source community? Could something like this be developed for Linux, et al?
I some how doubt they can get both of these functions to co-exist at the same time on the inexpensive hardware required.
The typical use would be for it to be able to record new shows while I'm playing a game. But I don't get the impression that the hardware they are putting into this in order to keep prices down could keep up.
I still wonder about M$ ability to really produce hardware.
One thing the mini-series misses big time is the total reverance for water on Dune. They pay lip service to it in a couple places. But they neglect to imbue the sets and the characters with it. There are no seals on the doors and the stillsuits are comical. Keynes is seen casually swirling a glass of water. He shows none of the respect for it that a true Fremen would.
The scene with the assasin running around makes the Atreides look like keystone cops. There is nothing to show the training, discipline and loyalty of the Atriedes or any of the forces for that matter. Remember, the Duke and his senior staff can issue orders with a hand gesture.
What I can't see is how anyone who has read the book can say this is good. It has mangled the plot and the characters. It has stripped away all the culture that Herbert created in Dune. It completely misses or ignores central themes to the book. I mean what is suppose to be good about this?
I am horribly disappointed in this mini-series. To someone who has never read Dune, it will leave them with the impression that this is just so much cheap Sci-Fi and hence why bother reading the book. The movie does a much better job over-all, with the exception of the sonic rays or whatever they were suppose to be.
If all of these are just minor things like "move window to 2 pixels to the left" then Marc Lucovsky, the guy writing the memo, must be an idiot for bothering the programmers with this unnecessary work.