soon we can buy discounted movies (prices are only raised to a fraction of the production costs) for the small annoyance of adverts at a few times. Just like on TV.
Yeay, go umphs' With some luck baseball will get too expensive and we won't see any disastrous consequences like futurama being pushed from its timeslot week after week. Not that it matters now anyhow...
It's unlikely that copyright infrinement will lead to prison here in Sweden. In general there is a balance between crime and punishment and damages are usually miniscule compared to the US. With this background it is unlikely that this law will lead to many police raids.
However, this law gives much more power to companies to bring up scapegoats similar to what has happened in the US. One or two convictions might be all that's needed for ISP to shut down ports in their firewalls and kick out users (that consumed more than average bandwidth anyway), which is worse than the law by itself.
I read a few good points that Don Lancaster Made on his website. I have to admit that his audience is people who really has mastered a technology and can do something better than anyone else, for them putting out a patent is an invitation to theft. But it is also a good read for anyone thinking of patenting their good idea, it might be more sound to be beaten down in your shoes and walking away feeling like a looser than being talked into protecting something that wouldn't really hold on closer scrutiny.
The bottom line is that patents is really for corporations that can afford to be ripped of because they know that their legal legions are still going to be there and win the case in ten years time.
Personally I feel that on a global scale we should learn from history and admit that patent ripoffs is what made first america, then japan prosper. It's not a pure good thing, sure R&D must pay off but the things that pay's off in a limited time isn't all there is so lets just make sure it's limited and find other ways to advance.
Apart from skins in winamp 2.0 you should know that AOL has put it's mark on that too.
Since winamp 2.61 there are some support for "content management" for microsoft.wma files. You should install winamp 2.60 copy the plugins/in_wm.dll file to replace the one shipped with winamp 2.91, otherwise you won't be able to convert your.wma files to wav using diskwriter.
A preceeding article mentions the 2.4 Gb Magicstor already in production with 3.6 Gb on target this year and 4.7 next year. The same article predicts that 0.7 inches will be the next big standard if some barriers are passed.
If Cornice or some other company bought Ritek's Microstor is unkown to me (it seems to have been related to dataplay developers too) but it's clear that there is a shortage of good brand names for this product. The Press release for Magicstor was hilarious, promptly stating that the company GS Microdrive released a harddrive called Magicstore, showing a picture of the HD with MICRODRIVE written all over it and stating that this is the company's name not the brand name since Microdrive is a trademark of IBM (Hitatchi Storage) ((Sorry lost the couldn't find the pressrelease again on nikkeibp.com))
Just shorting things down might make a worse novel, but what really makes a work good is the sections you have to cut out. Maybe it's still left as loose references throughout the book, but somehow its spice for the imagination radically different from the super-pedagogic standards of your typical hollywood movie.
Tolkien could have gone into much more detail and history about middle earth than he finally did - though maybe the books tells a lot more that just a plot.
Enders game started out as a short-story and it's got everything the final novel has so I sholdn't be soo fast saying it's better or worse just because it don't tell you about Enders parents suppressed religion.
Actually, matrix is bound to be playing in one of the big theaters and then you can actually enjoy the smaller screens playing double duty as sub-woofers for the big screens sound effects...
Checking it out doesn't have to involve piracy,
you can use TorrentSpy
to get info about how much piracy is really going on and consider if this story is hype or not
The Centropy version had about 1300 people trying to download while the Esoteric one had about 650. You could probably blame the slashdot effect for some part of these figures since I doubt that most people normally would download 2.4 Gb files...
Don't push 3G too much, its too expensive for both the customers and operators but to protect their investments the necessary upgrades from GPRS to EDGE has been stopped, it would have been to competitive to 3G.
HSDPA is a similar upgrade to 3G as EDGE is to GPRS, when it becomes a reality will probably depend on how successful the networks will be in the future...
If the company making them has any interest in money the unisex model will be out as soon as they can produce them.
Re:... (Obligatory Fight Club Comment)
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Now that there is only one week of TV left until summer hiatus I cannot think of any other purpose for bittorrent than the last unconclusive episode of "24". If it has a bold enough cliff-hanger you can expect the torrent business to start up again sometime in the late autumn.
Lets face it IE should pay licence or stop pop-ups
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Of course, as a non-commercial project Mozilla has to keep away from any patent infringement.
If you had your way it would probably result in increased funding for ethics professors to learn up to date technology, which wouldn't uncover any of the dilemmas that we might be confronted with in the future.
Ethics can only be thought by the books to a certain point from there it will always be discussionbased to decide how to apply it to real cases. And if we are facing some technology breakthrough that for example eradicates what is left of our private sphere and removes the relevance of talking about lying or truthtelling I'm certain that it won't be solved by even more new technology but rather backtracking to the origin of ethics.
Slashdot Mirror
Mirror, anyone? ;)
If you want a large keyboard but don't want to carry around bigger things than your PDA there are fabric keyboards that double as a wrapper case.
soon we can buy discounted movies
(prices are only raised to a fraction of the production costs) for the small annoyance
of adverts at a few times. Just like on TV.
Yeay, go umphs'
With some luck baseball will get too expensive and we won't see any disastrous consequences like futurama being pushed from its timeslot week after week. Not that it matters now anyhow...
Yeah, this story left me wanting.
Thank god for instant espresso which allows you to put that extra spoonful in your normal cup...
It's unlikely that copyright infrinement will lead to prison here in Sweden. In general there is a balance between crime and punishment and damages are usually miniscule compared to the US. With this background it is unlikely that this law will lead to many police raids.
However, this law gives much more power to companies to bring up scapegoats similar to what has happened in the US. One or two convictions might be all that's needed for ISP to shut down ports in their firewalls and kick out users (that consumed more than average bandwidth anyway), which is worse than the law by itself.
If you don't want to slashdot yourself with 60 MB of mp3 there's a transcript available here.
Improvement?
Bigger, uglier and even more gas guzzling.
I read a few good points that Don Lancaster Made on his website. I have to admit that his audience is people who really has mastered a technology and can do something better than anyone else, for them putting out a patent is an invitation to theft. But it is also a good read for anyone thinking of patenting their good idea, it might be more sound to be beaten down in your shoes and walking away feeling like a looser than being talked into protecting something that wouldn't really hold on closer scrutiny.
The bottom line is that patents is really for corporations that can afford to be ripped of because they know that their legal legions are still going to be there and win the case in ten years time.
Personally I feel that on a global scale we should learn from history and admit that patent ripoffs is what made first america, then japan prosper. It's not a pure good thing, sure R&D must pay off but the things that pay's off in a limited time isn't all there is so lets just make sure it's limited and find other ways to advance.
Apart from skins in winamp 2.0 you should know that AOL has put it's mark on that too.
.wma files. .wma files to wav using diskwriter.
Since winamp 2.61 there are some support for "content management" for microsoft
You should install winamp 2.60 copy the plugins/in_wm.dll file to replace the one shipped with winamp 2.91, otherwise you won't be able to convert your
Tip courtesy of apachez
A preceeding article mentions the 2.4 Gb Magicstor already in production with 3.6 Gb on target this year and 4.7 next year. The same article predicts that 0.7 inches will be the next big standard if some barriers are passed.
If Cornice or some other company bought Ritek's Microstor is unkown to me (it seems to have been related to dataplay developers too) but it's clear that there is a shortage of good brand names for this product. The Press release for Magicstor was hilarious, promptly stating that the company GS Microdrive released a harddrive called Magicstore, showing a picture of the HD with MICRODRIVE written all over it and stating that this is the company's name not the brand name since Microdrive is a trademark of IBM (Hitatchi Storage) ((Sorry lost the couldn't find the pressrelease again on nikkeibp.com))
Just shorting things down might make a worse novel,
but what really makes a work good is the sections you have to cut out. Maybe it's still left as loose references throughout the book, but somehow its spice for the imagination radically different from the super-pedagogic standards of your typical hollywood movie.
Tolkien could have gone into much more detail and history about middle earth than he finally did - though maybe the books tells a lot more that just a plot.
Enders game started out as a short-story
and it's got everything the final novel has so I sholdn't be soo fast saying it's better or worse just because it don't tell you about Enders parents suppressed religion.
Actually, matrix is bound to be playing in one of the big theaters and then you can actually enjoy the smaller screens playing double duty as sub-woofers for the big screens sound effects...
Checking it out doesn't have to involve piracy, you can use TorrentSpy to get info about how much piracy is really going on and consider if this story is hype or not
The Centropy version had about 1300 people trying to download while the Esoteric one had about 650. You could probably blame the slashdot effect for some part of these figures since I doubt that most people normally would download 2.4 Gb files...
Well, if you approximates the lattice structure of silicon with a sphere you are bound to get into problems.
"environmentally benign materials"
:)
For the sake of the environment burn tires instead
Don't push 3G too much, its too expensive for both the customers and operators but to protect their investments the necessary upgrades from GPRS to EDGE has been stopped, it would have been to competitive to 3G.
HSDPA is a similar upgrade to 3G as EDGE is to GPRS, when it becomes a reality will probably depend on how successful the networks will be in the future...
If the company making them has any interest in money the unisex model will be out as soon as they can produce them.
Now that there is only one week of TV left until summer hiatus I cannot think of any other purpose for bittorrent than the last unconclusive episode of "24". If it has a bold enough cliff-hanger you can expect the torrent business to start up again sometime in the late autumn.
Of course, as a non-commercial project Mozilla has to keep away from any patent infringement.
Java was created for use in set-top boxes
Soo, like if Slashdot lives on original content...
The Sugar industry ought to beg for funding to develop laser-guided sugarcubes instead of lobbying for withdrawn funds for WHO
Come on now, I can't memorize any of these keys unless they start with FCK or something else that can be related to well known four-letter words.
If you had your way it would probably result in increased funding for ethics professors to learn up to date technology, which wouldn't uncover any of the dilemmas that we might be confronted with in the future.
Ethics can only be thought by the books to a certain point from there it will always be discussionbased to decide how to apply it to real cases. And if we are facing some technology breakthrough that for example eradicates what is left of our private sphere and removes the relevance of talking about lying or truthtelling I'm certain that it won't be solved by even more new technology but rather backtracking to the origin of ethics.