This rumor is probably true even though Paramount denied it. And I don't think they lied either.
They would be fools not to sever their exclusivity deal at this point. They were already given the cash, and now they can remove the strings for free? No brainer. Their executives should be fired immediately if they didn't back out. Notice they didn't deny what the rumor said (that they pulled out of the agreement), they only denied that they were going to cease supporting the HD-DVD format. That's practically an admission that they severed exclusivity. And of course they're going to continue to support HD-DVD. At the very least they have all that existing product to sell and months before they can ramp up BluRay production.
BluRay winning is the cause of these rumors, not the result. I'm sorry you wasted a couple hundred bucks.
You're right it's subtle, and the true meaning is this:
"We currently have a large inventory of HD-DVD stock, and zero inventory of BluRay discs. We are unwilling to admit that we're pulling out of HD-DVD until much of it has sold, because the first rule of business is 'Don't trash-talk your own product.'"
Why on earth would Paramount admit something which would cut their HD revenues to essentially zero for the months it's going to take for them to ramp up BluRay stocks? They're not. Even if they've already served notice to Toshiba (which they probably did).
Remember that they have to divide the docsis speed up amongst all the customers on your segment. If they sold you 38Mbit, you could starve out your neighbors. As it is, the line is probably way oversold at 7Mbit. With 150Mbit available to them they *might* be able to cover what they already sold you.
It's important to point out that previous versions of DOCSIS also allowed much higher speeds than what is sold to individual customers by Comcast. Since cable is a shared medium, they are forced to sell a fraction of the line's capable speed to each customer in order to spread load. The most they can responsibly sell to an individual customer using this technology is likely in the 30MBps range.
To put that another way, the next generation of cable internet is going to be 70% slower than what is already available on the market using FTTP.
I didn't even realize Assassin's Creed was supposed to be considered a "sandbox" game.... What a crock. The "plot" pulls you out of where you are and drops you on a linear path all the time. It's practically a definition of a linear game. Having multiple ways of accomplishing an objective doesn't make the game a sandbox game if the plot is still linear and the places you can go at any given time are limited.
I highly doubt you could get a shoulder fired rocket in the vicinity of a US commercial airport for $150. Regardless, you've still got to consider the bang for your buck. $51 million to maybe save a plane in the unlikely event that somebody manages to obtain, transport and correctly deploy a weapon, or one of those other things I've listed. There are sensible amounts of money to divert to a problem, and then there is foolish.
Additionally, closing this "hole" for $51 billion will merely cause attackers to move to an easier target, or pick a technology that won't be blocked by this system. So really you spent $51B to change the threat, not to eliminate it. I'd rather have $51B in infrastructure.
It's all about cost vs. reward. Sure, prepare for things even if they've never happened before. But where do you draw the line? I'd draw the line way before $51billion. Think about what else that $51billion could be used for.
Things that could be done with $51 billion:
Buy a laptop, or several textbooks for every school age child in the US
Fund 100 biotech startups from founding through clinical trials
Give every adult in the US a $200 tax rebate
Replace every home destroyed by hurricane Katrina with 2000+ square foot luxury houses
Build a 3 line highway from the east coast to the west coast, including bridges
Replace half of our coal-burning power plants with non-carbon-emitting nuclear plants
Or, we could research a device that will probably never need to be used. Even if it was used, it's likely that saving a single plane wouldn't justify the cost...
With a PS3 and a 360 hooked up to the same 25Mbit internet connection, downloading HD content from the Playstation store maxes out the pipe, and downloading from XBox Live results in a 100-200KB/second trickle. Sure, Sony doesn't have full movies up there yet, but when you can download a 400MB game in a couple minutes it becomes clear that Sony is at least doing something right in that department... I'm not sure what you mean by "coherent". I don't think that Live is significantly better integrated with the console than PSN is. I think "slightly" is a better acronym.
Regardless of all that, I still use my Tivo to download HD content. The interface makes Sony and Microsoft look like amateurs.
Somebody needs to tell whoever made that to group the data. By spreading it out and interleaving you make it very difficult to get an accurate sense of the proportions.
What does it mean, Apple's become too powerful, so Sony needs another distribution channel? Is Apple driving the prices up? Is Apple restricting Sony to only sell DRM'd music? Is Apple incapable of supporting non-DRM formats?
None of your hypotheticals. It simply means that Apple wants too big a cut of the profit. Sony feels it can't make money selling downloads that don't work on iPod, and Apple has said that they need to either use no DRM, or give Apple a big check to use Apple's DRM. Otherwise no-iPods. Sony has chosen to ditch DRM rather than pay Apple. It has nothing to do with Apple restricting, or failing to be able to support anything.
Whether this is what Apple intended or not, we should be thanking them for things like this.
It connects to a cellular telephone network to allow download of books and newspapers over the internet wirelessly. I don't think you can use it to make phone calls, but it's got all the chips in it you would need for it to be a phone too.
It is probably in the CDMA chipset anyway, since it's required by law to be included in phones. It probably would have cost them a lot more to build the device without the position sensing capability.
Flex builder is also not required in any way. All the required tools are included with the SDK. Additionally, the Linux beta version is currently a free download.
The flex2 sdk is 54MB uncompressed. You can make graphics with any tool you wish, you don't need to buy Flash. You can include most popular image formats (including SVG) as resources. You can also use the tools in the SDK to build traditional Flash programs without using any of the flex libraries.
There is no reason to put the SDK on your Windows partition, so if you didn't have 54MB free, you could still install it on, say, a USB stick from the trash outside a convention center or something.
I'm using 64-bit linux. (Speciffically Debian, but I've tried this with SuSE and Ubuntu as well)
With nspluginwrapper (configured automatically on OS install) Flash Player 9 works as expected in 64-bit firefox. If I didn't know how the system worked behind the scenes I wouldn't even realize there was a 32-bit plugin being used, or that there was a potential for issue.
Just wait until we have national healthcare. Once everybody pays for the care of everybody else, suddenly the government has good reason to legally require these vaccines to save taxpayer dollars. You don't have to worry about your employer requiring you to get a cocaine vaccine, because you will already be legally required to take it.
Don't think it will happen? Look around the world and see all the countries that require vaccination as part of their national healthcare system.
Except that basically everybody has a flash player running already, there are tons and tons more resources and libraries available to developers, and it works on every significant platform.... There are even open source players.
Flex/AS3 development is pretty damned easy. How much easier can Silverlight possibly be to justify deploying to a platform with significantly lower market penetration?
The protection is to allow for a creator to derive profit to recoup development costs / reap rewards etc... from his/her creation (similar to the period of patent protection).
That is actually untrue, which is why I disagree with the rest of your post. The protection is to provide incentive, but it does not specify in the law what way the creator should use the protection as incentive. Plenty of authors use their copyright in ways that derive no profit, but they would still potentially wish to renew after a shortened term. Many authors of software under the GPL, for example, would fall into this category.
I especially don't see any reason to provide a discount for profitable works. Aren't those likely to be the ones that the public domain would benefit the most from? The fee should be the same for all works, and then it should be up to the creator whether continued protection justifies the fee. We shouldn't be putting terms into the renewal that give preference to commercial uses of works over non-commercial uses.
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I can respect having an obsessive hobby. Especially when it produces such spectacular results.
However, if you're going to spend that much time, why not build a full size vehicle so you can actually drive it?
Wait, the PS2 isn't "next-gen" anymore? But it has a "2" right in the name!
This rumor is probably true even though Paramount denied it. And I don't think they lied either.
They would be fools not to sever their exclusivity deal at this point. They were already given the cash, and now they can remove the strings for free? No brainer. Their executives should be fired immediately if they didn't back out. Notice they didn't deny what the rumor said (that they pulled out of the agreement), they only denied that they were going to cease supporting the HD-DVD format. That's practically an admission that they severed exclusivity. And of course they're going to continue to support HD-DVD. At the very least they have all that existing product to sell and months before they can ramp up BluRay production.
BluRay winning is the cause of these rumors, not the result. I'm sorry you wasted a couple hundred bucks.
You're right it's subtle, and the true meaning is this:
"We currently have a large inventory of HD-DVD stock, and zero inventory of BluRay discs. We are unwilling to admit that we're pulling out of HD-DVD until much of it has sold, because the first rule of business is 'Don't trash-talk your own product.'"
Why on earth would Paramount admit something which would cut their HD revenues to essentially zero for the months it's going to take for them to ramp up BluRay stocks? They're not. Even if they've already served notice to Toshiba (which they probably did).
A whole 5MPH slower than cars with drivers? Big deal.
Remember that they have to divide the docsis speed up amongst all the customers on your segment. If they sold you 38Mbit, you could starve out your neighbors. As it is, the line is probably way oversold at 7Mbit. With 150Mbit available to them they *might* be able to cover what they already sold you.
It's important to point out that previous versions of DOCSIS also allowed much higher speeds than what is sold to individual customers by Comcast. Since cable is a shared medium, they are forced to sell a fraction of the line's capable speed to each customer in order to spread load. The most they can responsibly sell to an individual customer using this technology is likely in the 30MBps range.
To put that another way, the next generation of cable internet is going to be 70% slower than what is already available on the market using FTTP.
Most machines are sold to businesses. They've had the option to get XP instead all along.
I didn't even realize Assassin's Creed was supposed to be considered a "sandbox" game.... What a crock. The "plot" pulls you out of where you are and drops you on a linear path all the time. It's practically a definition of a linear game. Having multiple ways of accomplishing an objective doesn't make the game a sandbox game if the plot is still linear and the places you can go at any given time are limited.
I highly doubt you could get a shoulder fired rocket in the vicinity of a US commercial airport for $150. Regardless, you've still got to consider the bang for your buck. $51 million to maybe save a plane in the unlikely event that somebody manages to obtain, transport and correctly deploy a weapon, or one of those other things I've listed. There are sensible amounts of money to divert to a problem, and then there is foolish.
Additionally, closing this "hole" for $51 billion will merely cause attackers to move to an easier target, or pick a technology that won't be blocked by this system. So really you spent $51B to change the threat, not to eliminate it. I'd rather have $51B in infrastructure.
Things that could be done with $51 billion:
Or, we could research a device that will probably never need to be used. Even if it was used, it's likely that saving a single plane wouldn't justify the cost...
With a PS3 and a 360 hooked up to the same 25Mbit internet connection, downloading HD content from the Playstation store maxes out the pipe, and downloading from XBox Live results in a 100-200KB/second trickle. Sure, Sony doesn't have full movies up there yet, but when you can download a 400MB game in a couple minutes it becomes clear that Sony is at least doing something right in that department... I'm not sure what you mean by "coherent". I don't think that Live is significantly better integrated with the console than PSN is. I think "slightly" is a better acronym.
Regardless of all that, I still use my Tivo to download HD content. The interface makes Sony and Microsoft look like amateurs.
That's a horrible pie chart.
Somebody needs to tell whoever made that to group the data. By spreading it out and interleaving you make it very difficult to get an accurate sense of the proportions.
None of your hypotheticals. It simply means that Apple wants too big a cut of the profit. Sony feels it can't make money selling downloads that don't work on iPod, and Apple has said that they need to either use no DRM, or give Apple a big check to use Apple's DRM. Otherwise no-iPods. Sony has chosen to ditch DRM rather than pay Apple. It has nothing to do with Apple restricting, or failing to be able to support anything.
Whether this is what Apple intended or not, we should be thanking them for things like this.
It connects to a cellular telephone network to allow download of books and newspapers over the internet wirelessly. I don't think you can use it to make phone calls, but it's got all the chips in it you would need for it to be a phone too.
It is probably in the CDMA chipset anyway, since it's required by law to be included in phones. It probably would have cost them a lot more to build the device without the position sensing capability.
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Flex builder is also not required in any way. All the required tools are included with the SDK. Additionally, the Linux beta version is currently a free download.
The flex2 sdk is 54MB uncompressed. You can make graphics with any tool you wish, you don't need to buy Flash. You can include most popular image formats (including SVG) as resources. You can also use the tools in the SDK to build traditional Flash programs without using any of the flex libraries.
There is no reason to put the SDK on your Windows partition, so if you didn't have 54MB free, you could still install it on, say, a USB stick from the trash outside a convention center or something.
I'm using 64-bit linux. (Speciffically Debian, but I've tried this with SuSE and Ubuntu as well)
With nspluginwrapper (configured automatically on OS install) Flash Player 9 works as expected in 64-bit firefox. If I didn't know how the system worked behind the scenes I wouldn't even realize there was a 32-bit plugin being used, or that there was a potential for issue.
Just wait until we have national healthcare. Once everybody pays for the care of everybody else, suddenly the government has good reason to legally require these vaccines to save taxpayer dollars. You don't have to worry about your employer requiring you to get a cocaine vaccine, because you will already be legally required to take it.
Don't think it will happen? Look around the world and see all the countries that require vaccination as part of their national healthcare system.
s/Silverlight/Flex 2.0/g
Except that basically everybody has a flash player running already, there are tons and tons more resources and libraries available to developers, and it works on every significant platform.... There are even open source players.
Flex/AS3 development is pretty damned easy. How much easier can Silverlight possibly be to justify deploying to a platform with significantly lower market penetration?
Consuming maltodextrin will give many people explosive diarrhea.
That would work... ...if votes were a binding commitment to purchase.
That is actually untrue, which is why I disagree with the rest of your post. The protection is to provide incentive, but it does not specify in the law what way the creator should use the protection as incentive. Plenty of authors use their copyright in ways that derive no profit, but they would still potentially wish to renew after a shortened term. Many authors of software under the GPL, for example, would fall into this category.
I especially don't see any reason to provide a discount for profitable works. Aren't those likely to be the ones that the public domain would benefit the most from? The fee should be the same for all works, and then it should be up to the creator whether continued protection justifies the fee. We shouldn't be putting terms into the renewal that give preference to commercial uses of works over non-commercial uses.