So is it just the 2.4ghz frequency or the 5ghz frequency... or both? Do cell phones bother this kid too? I mean... all day long all of us are exposed to radio waves on all kinds of frequencies. Satellites point down on us. Cell phone, radio and television broadcast at much higher powers than rinky dink wi-fi access points. Even if you crank the power up all the way. I've worked with radios for years. You can get a headache by being too close to unshielded radios. Wi-fi is a stretch.... it's not like he's standing in front of a high powered point to point or HDTV antennas that will cook you from the inside out. This family doesn't seem to know how this stuff actually works.
The Wordpress hate here is hilarious. So much obvious anger. Get over yourselves. All of the hate for Wordpress can be compared to ruling in favor of same sex marriages. All of the right wing nut jobs are screaming about how it affects them and how it's so bad, as if someone were going to force them in to a same sex marriage. No one is forcing anyone to use Wordpress either - it's easy and opens operating a web site to a very large number of people. That is a wonderful thing, not a bad thing. If you don't like it, fine, no one cares. If you believe your site is some how more secure for not using it, or using some alternative, good for you, pat yourself on the back. The truth is, every piece of software ever written has potential for security holes, which may need to be patched. And even using "the most secure" software on the planet is only as secure as the people using it. Wordpress is no different. It definitely has its uses. Arguing about it is like arguing about religion.
This isn't an Android vs Apple post... but seriously? Again? HBO did it like a fool. This shows how out of touch the executives are. The people a streaming services most benefits are the cord-cutters. They seem to get that much at least. But do the math of how many cord-cutters are Apple device users. People cut the cord because they don't want to pay for overpriced garbage - they are probably not users of Apple devices, because they know they can get the same or better for less by using Android. The simple fact is, most of the mobile devices on the planet run Android. So by partnering with Apple (at least at first) you are limiting your audience by a very large margin. I haven't done any research, but I would also wager that there are more non-Apple devices in home living rooms than there are Apple devices (Roku, Chromecast, Xbox, PS3/PS4 etc combined must be more than Apple TV). If you are going to "copy" the Netflix model, then do it right - release apps to access your streaming service on every platform. Netflix still supports the Wii app, and Hulu and Amazon do too. This idea of releasing to Apple devices only (at first) is just falling flat right out the gate. HBO could have made a lot of bank if they released HBO Now for Android prior to this season of Game of Thrones and Silicon Valley. They won't see a spike in subscriptions for another ~42 weeks.
I guess another way of putting it is..... there are hordes of people just ready to put money directly in to the pockets of HBO and Showtime, and they are like.... nope, nope.. we ain't gonna take your money because Apple.
AT&T is not the only provider to pull this shady mob tactic of offering "unlimited" Internet while throttling users after certain thresholds. They should all be sued for this, and every "unlimited" plan subscriber should be compensated. I personally have expressed my frustration with this to T-Mobile, so I ask - why is AT&T the only carrier being sued about this? Surely if they lose this battle, it should open up cases against the rest, right?
that anyone on this planet is actually using Facebook to begin with. I have never been, and never will be, a use of Facebook. All of the people around me who have Facebook accounts wish they did not. Most of what I hear about Facebook from people who use the service are negative. Zuckerberg is not a brilliant guy, he just ripped off an idea. Sort of like what this article is describing. "Social media" is such an oxymoron, because the people who use it usually have no real social life to speak of.
Dying site? I found my last two jobs on Dice, both which turned out to be really great. I have always found Dice to be an excellent job resource site for IT professionals. Maybe the jobs you applied for through Dice didn't hire you:P
The title of this post should changed from "Gritty 'Power Rangers' Short Is Not Fair Use" because there is no ruling to qualify the parody/re-imagining/whatever as not being fair use. For those who dont real the entire article or are just skimming headlines, this is very misleading. It seems there is more support/evidence of it actually being fair use than not. The title should read something more like "Gritty 'Power Rangers' Short May Not Be Fair Use".
If the creators of the parody/re-imagined video can be sued or have legal force used against them, then shows like SNL are also a target. Laws protect this sort of thing. It sounds like the "creator" is pretty butt hurt because they made is so much cooler than it's 90s counterpart. The author of this post seems pretty biased. The show's "creator" (if you can even call it that, because Power Rangers was ripped off from multiple foreign sources before it ever hit the states) should embrace this sort of thing. They just gave Power Rangers a whole lot of love where it had none. Use this free press and popularity to your own benefit. Instead, you look like an ass for trying to force take downs and no one will want to see whatever crap Power Rangers series or movie you come out with next.
It will never happen. No lawmaker wants to take on this task in the United States. It isn't even a topic of discussion around elections. It needs to happen, but never will. I have lost all hope for the lawmakers in the USA. We have overwhelming evidence for climate change (whether humans are one of the causes or not), but lawmakers with no background in science what so ever can trump the geniuses at NASA and say it's a lie. Patent reform is so low on the list of things to fix in this country that people will be patenting things like rounded corners or gestures for many years to come.
Is there a patent on breathing? I should file that one... and then sue every last one of you.
Apple in itself is a patent troll, but perhaps in a somewhat different way. They file patents for bullshit like rounded corners and call that innovation, as if I wasn't drawing things with rounded corners when I was a kid, or as if the web wasn't already trying to round every corner of every div or table before Apple ever filed for the patent. No one should feel bad for Apple over this, they love to shove patents every which way they possibly can as long as it is in their favor. They abuse the current patent system just as bad or worse than any other company. I have no doubts that this will not change anything about our broken patent system either.
Where does the revenue from the sales go? It'd be nice to see it go to schools/education in some way, but I am sure it'll go to waste at the Pentagon some how.
We could save a lot of space an consolidate the stories on sites like Slashdot if we just wrote something like "People with big money stop people with good ideas." It happens every day, and for no good reason other than because money.
Linux has had this approach forever. It's "modular". I can put in what pieces of the OS I want and remove what I don't like relatively easily. This is Microsoft borrowing another idea, rebranding it, calling it their own, and trying to turn a profit.
The slashdot community has been saying how much Vista sucks for how long now? There was even a topic today about how some nvidia cards were benchmarked better under Ubuntu (and Solaris for that matter) than they do under Vista - and these are "Vista Capable" cards. Anyone buying a Vista machine should already know what they are getting themselves into. The Microsoft employees who were bitching in their emails about how they now have a "$2100 email machine" are even more retarded. These guys were in the loop on the whole crappy driver thing and they STILL fell for their own trick. Fools.
The sad thing is, Microsoft's OS market share won't even feel this law suit. When all is said and done, they will still have 90%+ of the OS market (or whatever they have). Something like this should wake up the consumer and corporate worlds to see they have been paying out the ass for trashy software - but it won't. This isn't their first lawsuit that should wake the world up to their shady practices and shoddy coding and it won't be the last. When Windows 2016 comes out, and it forces you to pay 3 years salary for new hardware because it won't run on your "old" machine, people will do it all over again. Microsoft isn't wrong by thinking their customers are mindless sheep.
How do you feel about breaking the EULA of some of these games and having possible law suits for providing a medium in which people are allowed to sell things that they (the player) legally do not own? I think you will find in almost any EULA for an MMORPG, that the company owns all of the data and not the player. Last time I checked, selling something that didn't belong to you was against the law.
Yay! Let's make everyone pay a tax because a few people break copyright laws! Everyone should suffer! Excellent idea! Blast fax kudos all around./end sarchasm
Please make an episode where the moonenites plant light-brites on Carl's house and convince him they are bombs.
The moonenites are pretty good and pulling stuff like this. They convinved Shake and Meatwad that some old tires was marijuana, they can convince Carl that some light-brites are bombs. Would be hilarious if they spoofed on this.
RMT is against the terms of service for just about any MMORPG out there. It's wrong, plain and simple. And if you're the one buying into this, why do you even play? It ruins the economies of the MMORPGs involved and creates drama.
I would think, if this ever went to court, that companies like IGE would lose. As it has been proven before, the virtual items/currency/characters/etc do not belong to the player, they belong to the company running the MMORPG. IGE and companies like it are selling something that does not belong to them in the first place. Isn't that fraud?
Yeah, that'd explain why Square-Enix has halted all active development of FFXI, has no plans to release any more expansion packs, and is expected to phase it out over the next several years.
The fact that the newer PS2s can't play the game also effects this decision, of course. The speculation is that Square-Enix is working on a new MMORPG that with XBox360/PS3/PC versions (sorta like FFXI).
Of course, we all know how well EverQuest II turned out for Sony, so I expect that FFXI-2 will be almost as spectacular a failure.
But, hey, if you enjoy playing an MMORPG that's in its death-throes, more power to you.
Umm... you're an idiot. FFXI has already mentioned their next expansion pack. I don't know what more to say than you are a complete idiot.
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So is it just the 2.4ghz frequency or the 5ghz frequency... or both? Do cell phones bother this kid too? I mean... all day long all of us are exposed to radio waves on all kinds of frequencies. Satellites point down on us. Cell phone, radio and television broadcast at much higher powers than rinky dink wi-fi access points. Even if you crank the power up all the way. I've worked with radios for years. You can get a headache by being too close to unshielded radios. Wi-fi is a stretch.... it's not like he's standing in front of a high powered point to point or HDTV antennas that will cook you from the inside out. This family doesn't seem to know how this stuff actually works.
The Wordpress hate here is hilarious. So much obvious anger. Get over yourselves. All of the hate for Wordpress can be compared to ruling in favor of same sex marriages. All of the right wing nut jobs are screaming about how it affects them and how it's so bad, as if someone were going to force them in to a same sex marriage. No one is forcing anyone to use Wordpress either - it's easy and opens operating a web site to a very large number of people. That is a wonderful thing, not a bad thing. If you don't like it, fine, no one cares. If you believe your site is some how more secure for not using it, or using some alternative, good for you, pat yourself on the back. The truth is, every piece of software ever written has potential for security holes, which may need to be patched. And even using "the most secure" software on the planet is only as secure as the people using it. Wordpress is no different. It definitely has its uses. Arguing about it is like arguing about religion.
Wow, I didn't realize government could move so quickly! 9pm is a very ambitious goal.
This isn't an Android vs Apple post... but seriously? Again? HBO did it like a fool. This shows how out of touch the executives are. The people a streaming services most benefits are the cord-cutters. They seem to get that much at least. But do the math of how many cord-cutters are Apple device users. People cut the cord because they don't want to pay for overpriced garbage - they are probably not users of Apple devices, because they know they can get the same or better for less by using Android. The simple fact is, most of the mobile devices on the planet run Android. So by partnering with Apple (at least at first) you are limiting your audience by a very large margin. I haven't done any research, but I would also wager that there are more non-Apple devices in home living rooms than there are Apple devices (Roku, Chromecast, Xbox, PS3/PS4 etc combined must be more than Apple TV). If you are going to "copy" the Netflix model, then do it right - release apps to access your streaming service on every platform. Netflix still supports the Wii app, and Hulu and Amazon do too. This idea of releasing to Apple devices only (at first) is just falling flat right out the gate. HBO could have made a lot of bank if they released HBO Now for Android prior to this season of Game of Thrones and Silicon Valley. They won't see a spike in subscriptions for another ~42 weeks.
I guess another way of putting it is..... there are hordes of people just ready to put money directly in to the pockets of HBO and Showtime, and they are like.... nope, nope.. we ain't gonna take your money because Apple.
AT&T is not the only provider to pull this shady mob tactic of offering "unlimited" Internet while throttling users after certain thresholds. They should all be sued for this, and every "unlimited" plan subscriber should be compensated. I personally have expressed my frustration with this to T-Mobile, so I ask - why is AT&T the only carrier being sued about this? Surely if they lose this battle, it should open up cases against the rest, right?
that anyone on this planet is actually using Facebook to begin with. I have never been, and never will be, a use of Facebook. All of the people around me who have Facebook accounts wish they did not. Most of what I hear about Facebook from people who use the service are negative. Zuckerberg is not a brilliant guy, he just ripped off an idea. Sort of like what this article is describing. "Social media" is such an oxymoron, because the people who use it usually have no real social life to speak of.
Dying site? I found my last two jobs on Dice, both which turned out to be really great. I have always found Dice to be an excellent job resource site for IT professionals. Maybe the jobs you applied for through Dice didn't hire you :P
The title of this post should changed from "Gritty 'Power Rangers' Short Is Not Fair Use" because there is no ruling to qualify the parody/re-imagining/whatever as not being fair use. For those who dont real the entire article or are just skimming headlines, this is very misleading. It seems there is more support/evidence of it actually being fair use than not. The title should read something more like "Gritty 'Power Rangers' Short May Not Be Fair Use".
If the creators of the parody/re-imagined video can be sued or have legal force used against them, then shows like SNL are also a target. Laws protect this sort of thing. It sounds like the "creator" is pretty butt hurt because they made is so much cooler than it's 90s counterpart. The author of this post seems pretty biased. The show's "creator" (if you can even call it that, because Power Rangers was ripped off from multiple foreign sources before it ever hit the states) should embrace this sort of thing. They just gave Power Rangers a whole lot of love where it had none. Use this free press and popularity to your own benefit. Instead, you look like an ass for trying to force take downs and no one will want to see whatever crap Power Rangers series or movie you come out with next.
It will never happen. No lawmaker wants to take on this task in the United States. It isn't even a topic of discussion around elections. It needs to happen, but never will. I have lost all hope for the lawmakers in the USA. We have overwhelming evidence for climate change (whether humans are one of the causes or not), but lawmakers with no background in science what so ever can trump the geniuses at NASA and say it's a lie. Patent reform is so low on the list of things to fix in this country that people will be patenting things like rounded corners or gestures for many years to come.
Is there a patent on breathing? I should file that one... and then sue every last one of you.
Apple in itself is a patent troll, but perhaps in a somewhat different way. They file patents for bullshit like rounded corners and call that innovation, as if I wasn't drawing things with rounded corners when I was a kid, or as if the web wasn't already trying to round every corner of every div or table before Apple ever filed for the patent. No one should feel bad for Apple over this, they love to shove patents every which way they possibly can as long as it is in their favor. They abuse the current patent system just as bad or worse than any other company. I have no doubts that this will not change anything about our broken patent system either.
Where does the revenue from the sales go? It'd be nice to see it go to schools/education in some way, but I am sure it'll go to waste at the Pentagon some how.
We could save a lot of space an consolidate the stories on sites like Slashdot if we just wrote something like "People with big money stop people with good ideas." It happens every day, and for no good reason other than because money.
If you don't like it, you can always use Bing. I hear it has superior search results for porn.
Don't waste your time with that old piece of junk. Get a new piece of junk instead, with a community behind it.
I am sure Linus is thrilled that his OS is installed on weapons.
Linux has had this approach forever. It's "modular". I can put in what pieces of the OS I want and remove what I don't like relatively easily. This is Microsoft borrowing another idea, rebranding it, calling it their own, and trying to turn a profit.
The slashdot community has been saying how much Vista sucks for how long now? There was even a topic today about how some nvidia cards were benchmarked better under Ubuntu (and Solaris for that matter) than they do under Vista - and these are "Vista Capable" cards. Anyone buying a Vista machine should already know what they are getting themselves into. The Microsoft employees who were bitching in their emails about how they now have a "$2100 email machine" are even more retarded. These guys were in the loop on the whole crappy driver thing and they STILL fell for their own trick. Fools.
The sad thing is, Microsoft's OS market share won't even feel this law suit. When all is said and done, they will still have 90%+ of the OS market (or whatever they have). Something like this should wake up the consumer and corporate worlds to see they have been paying out the ass for trashy software - but it won't. This isn't their first lawsuit that should wake the world up to their shady practices and shoddy coding and it won't be the last. When Windows 2016 comes out, and it forces you to pay 3 years salary for new hardware because it won't run on your "old" machine, people will do it all over again. Microsoft isn't wrong by thinking their customers are mindless sheep.
And people laugh at me for wearing a tin foil hat! YOU AREN'T GETTING MY BRAIN WAVES BILL!!
How do you feel about breaking the EULA of some of these games and having possible law suits for providing a medium in which people are allowed to sell things that they (the player) legally do not own? I think you will find in almost any EULA for an MMORPG, that the company owns all of the data and not the player. Last time I checked, selling something that didn't belong to you was against the law.
Does this mean that there will be spam on Mars too? Or maybe we'll get spam from the martians! Damn, time to write some better spam filters...
Yay! Let's make everyone pay a tax because a few people break copyright laws! Everyone should suffer! Excellent idea! Blast fax kudos all around. /end sarchasm
To the writers of ATHF:
Please make an episode where the moonenites plant light-brites on Carl's house and convince him they are bombs.
The moonenites are pretty good and pulling stuff like this. They convinved Shake and Meatwad that some old tires was marijuana, they can convince Carl that some light-brites are bombs. Would be hilarious if they spoofed on this.
RMT is against the terms of service for just about any MMORPG out there. It's wrong, plain and simple. And if you're the one buying into this, why do you even play? It ruins the economies of the MMORPGs involved and creates drama.
I would think, if this ever went to court, that companies like IGE would lose. As it has been proven before, the virtual items/currency/characters/etc do not belong to the player, they belong to the company running the MMORPG. IGE and companies like it are selling something that does not belong to them in the first place. Isn't that fraud?
Yeah, that'd explain why Square-Enix has halted all active development of FFXI, has no plans to release any more expansion packs, and is expected to phase it out over the next several years.
The fact that the newer PS2s can't play the game also effects this decision, of course. The speculation is that Square-Enix is working on a new MMORPG that with XBox360/PS3/PC versions (sorta like FFXI).
Of course, we all know how well EverQuest II turned out for Sony, so I expect that FFXI-2 will be almost as spectacular a failure.
But, hey, if you enjoy playing an MMORPG that's in its death-throes, more power to you.
Umm... you're an idiot. FFXI has already mentioned their next expansion pack. I don't know what more to say than you are a complete idiot.