Then maybe someone will make independant internet 'radio stations' that are nothing but RSS feeds of independent music.
Attention music people: I don't have the time or inclination to sift through independent music to find the gems. I also don't care to have you 'programming' my music any moreso than I care to have Clear Channel do it. So just create RSS feeds of new, good, independent music, attach some 192kbps-ish mp3 torrents and blog about the bands, where they play, where they tour, etc.
it's totally unfair that the guy who bought the house I built sold it for a profit a few years later. I mean, I should totally get a cut of absolutely any profit derived from my work at any point in the future!
Otherwise I'd have to plan for retirement or continue building houses. And that doesn't sound fair. Not while people are out there profitting off my work.
The big problem is that individual municipalities sold monopoly rights to those-who-would-sink millions into infrastructure back in the day. And they now have their hands tied by said agreements. It's going to take decades for these old agreements to lapse.
And in the meantime, most of the US is going to get further and further behind.
CPUs and motherboards were doing the same thing. But since volume customers actually buy CPUs and motherboards, there wasn't as much incentive to develop power-hungry chips just for the sake of having the 'fastest'.
GPUs are still going insane because volume customers don't buy them. And the people who do, frequently go for 'fastest' above all other considerations.
You'll start to see reasonable GPUs when the GPU/CPU combined cores start shipping, the installed base for GPUs starts to grow past enthusiasts, developers code to them, and volume customers demand better performance within the constraints of single-chip solutions.
You can. They just don't want you to play online against people who have OEM consoles. If they didn't want you to mod the box at all, they could just brick it.
When done for financial gain, infringement has always been a crime. And fortunately for people who can buy legislation, in 1997 'financial gain' was extended to include the simple act of copyright infringement personally saving you $15 for a single CD. (See: the No Electronic Theft Act of 1997)
What you want to argue, is: what does attempted copyright infringement look like? Because in every case I can think of, an 'attempt' to infringe copyright looks exactly like Fair Use.
Say I have an ISO image of Toy Story on my computer and a box of DVD+Rs on a shelf.
Am I attempting to infringe copyright, ready to churn out bootlegs for sale at the local flea market? Or am I exercising my right to a legal back-up, for when my kids inevitably mangle the original? I haven't actually infringed anything, so there's really no way to tell the two situations apart. (Which is where the 'attempted robbery' analogy completely breaks down. attempted robbery and attempted homicide are cleanly distinguishable from legal activity.)
This all sounds to me like an end-run around Fair Use.
But having a load screen every time you got into or out of a car killed it. It's a testament to how solid the rest of the game was, that anyone suffered through that.
(yeah, it wasn't a long load, but it was at least a 3 second pause every time)
When the bully gets sucker-punched, it's hardly surprising that the victims would delight in it. Particularly just after the bully went through a nauseating round of marketing himself as the strongest and the toughest.
Probably when they gain a practical monopoly on desktop computing, begin heavily abusing their users and illegally wielding their market control against the rest of the industry.
One student and 25 of their best friends join a pool...
by 'joins a pool' you mean 'shares out his itunes library' or 'mp3 directory', etc.
it's that simple. and it already happens far more than internet music downloading (within universities). Someone gets a new ipod or laptop or comes back from summer vacation, they meet a few people, and suddenly then they've got 20gig of new music.
why do you think the RIAA wants the universities to establish acceptable network use policies over and above any other ISP?
It's so the schools become obligated to police intra-university sharing.
College kids learned pretty quick. The vast majority don't blindly download anymore. A handful still do, and they share with everyone else, across a network the RIAA can't easily seed with noise or infiltrate and track.
If however this would easily back fire in a matter of weeks, as opponents grab at the documents and hack away.
riiiight... because that's never happened before.
No-one gains or loses under this license that wouldn't have gained or lost under the old rules. People might not have had access to rebroadcast clips of the debate before, but nothing could stop them from reporting on what happened.
This is just a painless appeal to the Connected Constituency.
After a few months with my n800 I agree completely. Give me some way to 'dock' the device to a bigger display, and moore's law will make its successor good enough for all my actual work in a few years. (kickstand and bluetooth keyboard only get us so far. the n800's screen is beautiful, but just not comfortable for too long.)
There are plenty of applications for portables of all shapes and sizes. While I don't see a need for anything between a laptop or an n800, I can easily see a warehouse guy, physician, field engineer or floor manager who just needs something that can replace his clipboard. (PDA/smartphones too small, laptops and full-on tablets too large)
The problem with the UMPC is that the MS devices are far too bulky and bogged down. Too expensive. Too jammed full of crap. Too short on battery life.
do it on the exercise wheel. duh. artificial gravity brings the mechanical problems down to 'sex in a sauna'. (trust me, people aren't avoiding that just because it's hotter and sweatier)
As for the social dynamics... don't we have data from BIO2? And years of McMurdo and Amundsen/Scott winter-over crews? They're pretty darn isolated for good chunks of time.
I figure an intelligent machine would no more than 30 seconds wrestling with 'not human, can't be human' before it settled on: 'that's not such a bad thing after all'.
They're both fine, they're just too damn expensive. Most people don't buy consoles till they're near or under $200. That's why the PS2 still sells so strongly.
The Wii is crushing the PS3 and 360 because it's selling closer to the sweet-spot.
When the 360 and PS3 get closer to $250, they'll be moving units like Nintendo too. (future developments notwithstanding)
I can't understand people who think that to find life on other planets we have to look for conditions similar to Earth. All of the hubbub over liquid water seems so silly to me.
Makes perfect sense to me.
Liquid water makes a destination quite a bit more useful to us. As you note, intelligent alien life (likely even multicellular life in general) is likely to be very far away. So why shouldn't our early space colonization and exploration efforts be pursued with human needs in mind?
If alien life happens to exist in places humans can't, we don't have much chance at learning anything from it.
I never understood that complaint about touch-screens either.
I've got a bluetooth headset and a bluetooth enabled car. I hardly ever take my phone out of my pocket to make a call anymore.
Most times when I ask people why they care if they can dial without looking, it boils down to: "I won't be able to discretely send text messages during boring meetings."
As for the touch-pad, I just picked up an n800, and it has satisfied my concerns about touchpad thumbboards. IME they're vastly superior to tiny blackberry phone keyboards or num-pad typing. The only concern I have for the iphone's touchpad is the size. It might be a hint too small.
to be fair, I'm a huge fan of the XBox's original 'Duke' controller. So I realize my preferences and hand dimensions don't jive with the bulk of the market.
So... basically sealing Israel's land borders, denying flights to or from Israel any use of Arab airspace, and using the newly-nationalized Suez Canal to prevent shipment to/from Israel by water -- none of that was 'provoking' Israel?
C'mon. The tit-for-tat bullshit in that region goes back much, much further than 1956.
There's plenty of NiMH solutions that didn't and don't involve Chevron's tech. If Chevron's patents were the only stumbling block, someone would have worked around it. Companies design around each other's patents as a matter of course.
NiMH technology is simply fundamentally unsuited to BEVs and Chevron's patents didn't change that.
If Chevron had licensed, maybe their NiMH batteries would be a bit better. But that still wouldn't make them good enough to run BEVs and even without Chevron's licenses NiMH was already good enough for HEVs. Furthermore, 10 years ago the price of gas would increase the necessary efficiency of an HEV or BEV to levels where not even today's NiMH solutions could possibly compete.
$3/ga of gas has much more to do with HEVs and BEVs becoming viable than the last 10 years of advancement in battery technology.
Furthermore, attempts to 'suppress' technology via patents just don't work. They can't. Patents require full disclosure and they cover implementations, not ideas. Trying to keep people away from your implementation, without producing a product, simply ensures that someone else will make money off a variant implementation.
Because marketing gets very few words to convey information, and it's best absorbed when it registers an emotional response.
'iPod killer' tells someone precisely what your product is and that it's the 'best evar', in two words. Agree or disagree, that kind of claim about a market leader registers an emotional response in many readers. (particularly when passions run as high as they do around Apple products)
It's good copy.
and as we all know, hack blog writers and fanboys are predisposed to simply echoing marketing.
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Good.
Then maybe someone will make independant internet 'radio stations' that are nothing but RSS feeds of independent music.
Attention music people: I don't have the time or inclination to sift through independent music to find the gems. I also don't care to have you 'programming' my music any moreso than I care to have Clear Channel do it. So just create RSS feeds of new, good, independent music, attach some 192kbps-ish mp3 torrents and blog about the bands, where they play, where they tour, etc.
it's totally unfair that the guy who bought the house I built sold it for a profit a few years later.
I mean, I should totally get a cut of absolutely any profit derived from my work at any point in the future!
Otherwise I'd have to plan for retirement or continue building houses.
And that doesn't sound fair. Not while people are out there profitting off my work.
The big problem is that individual municipalities sold monopoly rights to those-who-would-sink millions into infrastructure back in the day. And they now have their hands tied by said agreements.
It's going to take decades for these old agreements to lapse.
And in the meantime, most of the US is going to get further and further behind.
CPUs and motherboards were doing the same thing. But since volume customers actually buy CPUs and motherboards, there wasn't as much incentive to develop power-hungry chips just for the sake of having the 'fastest'.
GPUs are still going insane because volume customers don't buy them. And the people who do, frequently go for 'fastest' above all other considerations.
You'll start to see reasonable GPUs when the GPU/CPU combined cores start shipping, the installed base for GPUs starts to grow past enthusiasts, developers code to them, and volume customers demand better performance within the constraints of single-chip solutions.
You can. They just don't want you to play online against people who have OEM consoles.
If they didn't want you to mod the box at all, they could just brick it.
When done for financial gain, infringement has always been a crime.
And fortunately for people who can buy legislation, in 1997 'financial gain' was extended to include the simple act of copyright infringement personally saving you $15 for a single CD. (See: the No Electronic Theft Act of 1997)
What you want to argue, is: what does attempted copyright infringement look like?
Because in every case I can think of, an 'attempt' to infringe copyright looks exactly like Fair Use.
Say I have an ISO image of Toy Story on my computer and a box of DVD+Rs on a shelf.
Am I attempting to infringe copyright, ready to churn out bootlegs for sale at the local flea market?
Or am I exercising my right to a legal back-up, for when my kids inevitably mangle the original?
I haven't actually infringed anything, so there's really no way to tell the two situations apart.
(Which is where the 'attempted robbery' analogy completely breaks down. attempted robbery and attempted homicide are cleanly distinguishable from legal activity.)
This all sounds to me like an end-run around Fair Use.
on the xbox.
it's possible my mind is merging hit & run and road rage.
Hit & Run was pretty fun.
But having a load screen every time you got into or out of a car killed it.
It's a testament to how solid the rest of the game was, that anyone suffered through that.
(yeah, it wasn't a long load, but it was at least a 3 second pause every time)
Absolutely.
When the bully gets sucker-punched, it's hardly surprising that the victims would delight in it. Particularly just after the bully went through a nauseating round of marketing himself as the strongest and the toughest.
Probably when they gain a practical monopoly on desktop computing, begin heavily abusing their users and illegally wielding their market control against the rest of the industry.
Somewhere between career politicians and the two-party system.
Probably because anyone who had to present to billg during that time was making boatloads of cash.
by 'joins a pool' you mean 'shares out his itunes library' or 'mp3 directory', etc.
it's that simple. and it already happens far more than internet music downloading (within universities).
Someone gets a new ipod or laptop or comes back from summer vacation, they meet a few people, and suddenly then they've got 20gig of new music.
why do you think the RIAA wants the universities to establish acceptable network use policies over and above any other ISP?
It's so the schools become obligated to police intra-university sharing.
College kids learned pretty quick. The vast majority don't blindly download anymore. A handful still do, and they share with everyone else, across a network the RIAA can't easily seed with noise or infiltrate and track.
riiiight... because that's never happened before.
No-one gains or loses under this license that wouldn't have gained or lost under the old rules. People might not have had access to rebroadcast clips of the debate before, but nothing could stop them from reporting on what happened.
This is just a painless appeal to the Connected Constituency.
After a few months with my n800 I agree completely. Give me some way to 'dock' the device to a bigger display, and moore's law will make its successor good enough for all my actual work in a few years. (kickstand and bluetooth keyboard only get us so far. the n800's screen is beautiful, but just not comfortable for too long.)
There are plenty of applications for portables of all shapes and sizes. While I don't see a need for anything between a laptop or an n800, I can easily see a warehouse guy, physician, field engineer or floor manager who just needs something that can replace his clipboard. (PDA/smartphones too small, laptops and full-on tablets too large)
The problem with the UMPC is that the MS devices are far too bulky and bogged down. Too expensive. Too jammed full of crap. Too short on battery life.
It's failing as a product, not a form factor.
do it on the exercise wheel. duh.
artificial gravity brings the mechanical problems down to 'sex in a sauna'.
(trust me, people aren't avoiding that just because it's hotter and sweatier)
As for the social dynamics... don't we have data from BIO2?
And years of McMurdo and Amundsen/Scott winter-over crews?
They're pretty darn isolated for good chunks of time.
Why on earth would it care?
I figure an intelligent machine would no more than 30 seconds wrestling with 'not human, can't be human' before it settled on: 'that's not such a bad thing after all'.
They're both fine, they're just too damn expensive.
Most people don't buy consoles till they're near or under $200. That's why the PS2 still sells so strongly.
The Wii is crushing the PS3 and 360 because it's selling closer to the sweet-spot.
When the 360 and PS3 get closer to $250, they'll be moving units like Nintendo too.
(future developments notwithstanding)
Makes perfect sense to me.
Liquid water makes a destination quite a bit more useful to us. As you note, intelligent alien life (likely even multicellular life in general) is likely to be very far away. So why shouldn't our early space colonization and exploration efforts be pursued with human needs in mind?
If alien life happens to exist in places humans can't, we don't have much chance at learning anything from it.
I never understood that complaint about touch-screens either.
I've got a bluetooth headset and a bluetooth enabled car.
I hardly ever take my phone out of my pocket to make a call anymore.
Most times when I ask people why they care if they can dial without looking, it boils down to: "I won't be able to discretely send text messages during boring meetings."
As for the touch-pad, I just picked up an n800, and it has satisfied my concerns about touchpad thumbboards. IME they're vastly superior to tiny blackberry phone keyboards or num-pad typing. The only concern I have for the iphone's touchpad is the size. It might be a hint too small.
to be fair, I'm a huge fan of the XBox's original 'Duke' controller. So I realize my preferences and hand dimensions don't jive with the bulk of the market.
So... basically sealing Israel's land borders, denying flights to or from Israel any use of Arab airspace, and using the newly-nationalized Suez Canal to prevent shipment to/from Israel by water -- none of that was 'provoking' Israel?
C'mon. The tit-for-tat bullshit in that region goes back much, much further than 1956.
In the same sense that they were 'right' to price games at $60... sure.
But I'm not about to celebrate the fact that they're successfully pushing the upper-limit of what the gaming public is willing to pay.
No, mostly, it was Ken Kutaragi.
Having an extensive history of reporting on Sony, I'm sure you remember he did the exact same thing when hyping the PS2's emotion engine.
There's plenty of NiMH solutions that didn't and don't involve Chevron's tech.
If Chevron's patents were the only stumbling block, someone would have worked around it. Companies design around each other's patents as a matter of course.
NiMH technology is simply fundamentally unsuited to BEVs and Chevron's patents didn't change that.
If Chevron had licensed, maybe their NiMH batteries would be a bit better. But that still wouldn't make them good enough to run BEVs and even without Chevron's licenses NiMH was already good enough for HEVs. Furthermore, 10 years ago the price of gas would increase the necessary efficiency of an HEV or BEV to levels where not even today's NiMH solutions could possibly compete.
$3/ga of gas has much more to do with HEVs and BEVs becoming viable than the last 10 years of advancement in battery technology.
Furthermore, attempts to 'suppress' technology via patents just don't work. They can't.
Patents require full disclosure and they cover implementations, not ideas.
Trying to keep people away from your implementation, without producing a product, simply ensures that someone else will make money off a variant implementation.
Because marketing gets very few words to convey information, and it's best absorbed when it registers an emotional response.
'iPod killer' tells someone precisely what your product is and that it's the 'best evar', in two words. Agree or disagree, that kind of claim about a market leader registers an emotional response in many readers. (particularly when passions run as high as they do around Apple products)
It's good copy.
and as we all know, hack blog writers and fanboys are predisposed to simply echoing marketing.