Architect Santiago Calatrava designed some nice bridges too. See here for some samples or here for an interview or here for some pictures of one of his latest projects.
This is really an old stale argument. According to this you should be able to purchase region-free DVD's for movies released before, lets say, 1990. These movies were certainly shown in all regions of this planet. But you can't buy those region-free (code 0), except may be Robocop (1987). Take a look at the list of Region 1 movies at IMDB and notice how few of them are available in Region 2.
Some people seem to forget that Albert Einstein was a patent officer while he developed special relativity theory.
If Einstein had paid his full attention to boring patents we wouldn't have a great new physics theory.
Therefore we should celebrate stupid patents as a sign of our talented patent officers spending increasingly more time on some really significant research. This might hurt us short-term a little bit, but long-term it will be more beneficial for humankind.
The Microsoft Reader for eBooks has also a Digital Rights Management (DRM) system built in. Accoding to the FAQ:
I'm concerned about copy protection. How will Microsoft Reader protect copyrights?
Microsoft recognizes the critical importance of protecting intellectual property. The Microsoft Reader file format prevents unauthorized modification of eBook content. For publishers, Microsoft offers a powerful and flexible digital rights management solution to enable the publication and distribution of eBook titles. Click here for more information about the Microsoft strategy for digital rights management.
You can preorder the good looking Corbin Merlin now. Scheduled for production in late 2001, Merlin will be available as a year 2002 model with an estimated price tag of $17,900.
1. Set the price of a CD to $5.
2. Set the price of a DVD to $10.
3. Watch sales go through the roof, easily making up lost profits by increased volume.
4. Most consumers wouldn't go through the hassles to do unauthorized copying.
5. Everybody is happy, except the lawyers.
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Call it 'Home Theater PC', which describes better what the device actually is.
May be the announced Archos Jukebox Multimedia Player will be the first such device.
See also the corresponding Dr Fun cartoon from March 6th, 2001...
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http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200103/df200
Just take a look at Larry's proposed National ID card.
Architect Santiago Calatrava designed some nice bridges too. See here for some samples or here for an interview or here for some pictures of one of his latest projects.
A 64-bit floating number (double) representation of Pi by division of two 32bit integers is:
245850922 / 78256779 = 3.141592653589793e+000
Real Programmers don't use Pascal.
A list of innovations Microsoft bought is here
A recent receipt of mine shows:
22.015Gal DSL @$1.499 Total: $33.00
My car runs just fine with it and I think it is safe!
if somebody could sell one of these chairs to Hillary Rosen (RIAA) or Jack Valenti (MPAA).
The book also mentiones they bought the Titanium from Russia through a specially setup company.
This is really an old stale argument. According to this you should be able to purchase region-free DVD's for movies released before, lets say, 1990. These movies were certainly shown in all regions of this planet. But you can't buy those region-free (code 0), except may be Robocop (1987). Take a look at the list of Region 1 movies at IMDB and notice how few of them are available in Region 2.
...And don't forget to do the same thing when shopping for a new Sony Playstation 2 capable of playing DVD's.
After about a month, stories get archived and can no longer be viewed nested and a lot of posts are missing.
More annoyingly, all my saved URL's to interesting posts get killed!
How about just stopping accepting posts to stories after a while and not archiving at all? Doesn't your database scale up to the task?
Some people seem to forget that Albert Einstein was a patent officer while he developed special relativity theory.
If Einstein had paid his full attention to boring patents we wouldn't have a great new physics theory.
Therefore we should celebrate stupid patents as a sign of our talented patent officers spending increasingly more time on some really significant research. This might hurt us short-term a little bit, but long-term it will be more beneficial for humankind.
Humans: You are the one!
Neo: Wow!
Welcome to the brave new world!
You can preorder the good looking Corbin Merlin now. Scheduled for production in late 2001, Merlin will be available as a year 2002 model with an estimated price tag of $17,900.
1. Set the price of a CD to $5.
2. Set the price of a DVD to $10.
3. Watch sales go through the roof, easily making up lost profits by increased volume.
4. Most consumers wouldn't go through the hassles to do unauthorized copying.
5. Everybody is happy, except the lawyers.
Oops, it's just a dream. Time to wake up.
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A bank vault protects material goods from theft. Once stolen, the bank and its customers are deprived of using the goods.
Movies on DVD are information which can be copied at no cost and the owner is not deprived of its use.
You can simply give them false names or start swapping cards with your friends. See this article.
Real Player/Jukebox comes with spyware that reports back all downloaded files. See here for more details.
Because the PC platform will never be a trusted client. Bruce Schneier has written about this here.