and so - PDF is not the ideal standard. The goal is to get an eBook standard that always flows nicely and produce nice readable books. PDF can do it in some cicumstances but thats not the same as it being one of the platforms strengths.
The problem that we have here is that this network is NOT for piracy and therefore a lot of slashdot readers cannot see the use for it. Think instead of people working together - a workgroup as it where. For example why pay rental fees on an office when you can have a virtual one using tools such as this? Now I am not sure how great this tool is for that right not (I'm guessing - first release - not very) but I am sure it will come if people start using it.
However - any filmmaker worth his salt will feel that given better tech they could make a better movie. If they then make another related movie years later they will take advantage of new stuff.
And perhaps go back and fiddle with their old movies - look at lucas and starwars
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Amazons terms and conditions state that until they ship the goods to you NO contract exists. Therefore they do not have to do anything. Plus they won a case about this in the states plus they say clearly on the site that the won't honor this kind of mistake.
SO - why should they honor any mistake like this again?
indeed - music has always existed music industry or not. Piracy may (or may not) end up making the current model of selling recorded music unviable but the question is not "how will the music industry survive" but instead "How will musicians continue to be paid for making music" (a question the "music" industry has very little interest in).
I suspect that the answer to this will see a return to live music and musicians building closer relationships with their fans. There are plenty of bands already doing this. The Grateful Dead being the most famous.
Either that or you just don't understand what he is on about. Admitedly its not explained as clearly as it might be and he is being, I think, a little optimistic but his basic principles are sound.
"Posting pirated software on the Internet so that it can be run on an emulator is commonplace nowadays -- and also costly. The Interactive Digital Software Association (IDSA) alleges that the $6.3 billion interactive entertainment industry loses $3.2 billion a year to software piracy, including this kind of Internet software piracy. Moreover, the IDSA alleges that this kind of piracy would not exist were it not for emulators."
ALthough they don't actually say it the implication is that emulators are costing the industry a lot of money. In whose world? its not like any of this stuff is making anyone any money. I can understand copyright owener wanting to protect franchises etc. but even then they surely would be hard pushed to show how they where losing money from it.
Interestingly translation is often done by *people* - who can filter out this kind of thing. If it was published in a german magazine its highly likely that somePERSON might have translated it into english for a wider audience
A friend of mine was over the other night and mentioned that he brother has a house. I went round and the door was open. I went in and look around a bit.
I could have done anything - eaten his food, stolen his hifi or burnt the place down.
Read some of the later non-sci fi stuff. Like a lot of young british authors at the time (Ian Macewan and Martin Amis are two other) he wrote a couple of "shocking" early novels to get noticed. The later ones are a lot more accessible and enjoyable - in particular The Bridge which is quite SciFi, Espidir Street, Whit, Complicity and Dead Air - all of which are very readable and very enjoyable too.
Not quite sure what you are on about here. The point of the story was that his IT manager didn't know nuch about technology (a far to regular occurence in my experince) - tha fact she is a woman is nothing to do with anything (except for informing his choice of pronoun)
The computers in F1 cars are powerful beasts - when I worked for one of them they where using an intel i960 as the main processor. The computer unit ran at 60 degrees C and needed fan cooling on the desktop otherwise it would crash.
that this patent system is fair or protects anyone?
The person who holds the patents - even if they are valid - did not do the difficult thing which is set up a successful company around the idea. If he had been trying to run an auction company and had been driven out of business or was being threatened by ebay then maybe he would have a gripe. But ALL this guy has done is have a fairly obvious idea (lets face it - letting people sell stuff to one another is not that new - car boot sale patents anyone?).
The patent office should take a long hard look at what it is trying to achieve.
Hurray - this is the best news. The music industry will return to being about making music - just like the major part of the book industry is about making books that are interesting and diverse.
Who gives a fuck if there isn't shed loads of money in it - who cares if there aren't evil media barons trying to turn your computer into.
Bring back music and let them make money screwing up some other industry.
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and so - PDF is not the ideal standard. The goal is to get an eBook standard that always flows nicely and produce nice readable books. PDF can do it in some cicumstances but thats not the same as it being one of the platforms strengths.
You obviously didn't read the article.
PDF (while a great standard) doesn't do reflow very well. So on a handheld - page size becomes a total pain in the arse.
The problem that we have here is that this network is NOT for piracy and therefore a lot of slashdot readers cannot see the use for it. Think instead of people working together - a workgroup as it where. For example why pay rental fees on an office when you can have a virtual one using tools such as this? Now I am not sure how great this tool is for that right not (I'm guessing - first release - not very) but I am sure it will come if people start using it.
However - any filmmaker worth his salt will feel that given better tech they could make a better movie. If they then make another related movie years later they will take advantage of new stuff.
And perhaps go back and fiddle with their old movies - look at lucas and starwars
RMS has a grudge against *everybody*
and indeed managing to spread it widely to give it more credability. Everyone is looking for the one source joke - this is a whole new dimension.
While I agree with you this is just crying out to be modded as funny. Its a good job I haven't got any mod points today
Amazons terms and conditions state that until they ship the goods to you NO contract exists. Therefore they do not have to do anything. Plus they won a case about this in the states plus they say clearly on the site that the won't honor this kind of mistake.
SO - why should they honor any mistake like this again?
indeed - music has always existed music industry or not. Piracy may (or may not) end up making the current model of selling recorded music unviable but the question is not "how will the music industry survive" but instead "How will musicians continue to be paid for making music" (a question the "music" industry has very little interest in).
I suspect that the answer to this will see a return to live music and musicians building closer relationships with their fans. There are plenty of bands already doing this. The Grateful Dead being the most famous.
Either that or you just don't understand what he is on about. Admitedly its not explained as clearly as it might be and he is being, I think, a little optimistic but his basic principles are sound.
"Posting pirated software on the Internet so that it can be run on an emulator is commonplace nowadays -- and also costly. The Interactive Digital Software Association (IDSA) alleges that the $6.3 billion interactive entertainment industry loses $3.2 billion a year to software piracy, including this kind of Internet software piracy. Moreover, the IDSA alleges that this kind of piracy would not exist were it not for emulators."
ALthough they don't actually say it the implication is that emulators are costing the industry a lot of money. In whose world? its not like any of this stuff is making anyone any money. I can understand copyright owener wanting to protect franchises etc. but even then they surely would be hard pushed to show how they where losing money from it.
Interestingly translation is often done by *people* - who can filter out this kind of thing. If it was published in a german magazine its highly likely that somePERSON might have translated it into english for a wider audience
A friend of mine was over the other night and mentioned that he brother has a house. I went round and the door was open. I went in and look around a bit.
I could have done anything - eaten his food, stolen his hifi or burnt the place down.
I guess houses aren't very safe.
Read some of the later non-sci fi stuff. Like a lot of young british authors at the time (Ian Macewan and Martin Amis are two other) he wrote a couple of "shocking" early novels to get noticed. The later ones are a lot more accessible and enjoyable - in particular The Bridge which is quite SciFi, Espidir Street, Whit, Complicity and Dead Air - all of which are very readable and very enjoyable too.
Not quite sure what you are on about here. The point of the story was that his IT manager didn't know nuch about technology (a far to regular occurence in my experince) - tha fact she is a woman is nothing to do with anything (except for informing his choice of pronoun)
The computers in F1 cars are powerful beasts - when I worked for one of them they where using an intel i960 as the main processor. The computer unit ran at 60 degrees C and needed fan cooling on the desktop otherwise it would crash.
mental tech.
its already suffering
especially if Douglas Adams had written it - the amount of baths it would have required would have been astromical
However preventing us from buying working legitimate media is going to speed up that decline.
If I can't buy working CD's I will HAVE to use illigitamte copies as my sole source of music.
In what world is this "joke" +5 funny.
Oh - on slashdot
*groan*
that this patent system is fair or protects anyone?
The person who holds the patents - even if they are valid - did not do the difficult thing which is set up a successful company around the idea. If he had been trying to run an auction company and had been driven out of business or was being threatened by ebay then maybe he would have a gripe. But ALL this guy has done is have a fairly obvious idea (lets face it - letting people sell stuff to one another is not that new - car boot sale patents anyone?).
The patent office should take a long hard look at what it is trying to achieve.
"What's the market for ASCI-White (http://www.top500.org/top5/2/) class machines? 8 thousand processors, 6 *TERA*bytes of *RAM*, 12.3 teraflops?"
Quake X - yay!
Erm - but how many users does it have now?
Antique - last years news - dead and buried. Deceased. You do the rest...
Also it might have been a good business model for a few months but it didn't have the staying power. A good business model needs to *succeed*.
You can't have it both ways.
Sadly I think you will find they can. Nice idea though
Hurray - this is the best news. The music industry will return to being about making music - just like the major part of the book industry is about making books that are interesting and diverse.
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Who gives a fuck if there isn't shed loads of money in it - who cares if there aren't evil media barons trying to turn your computer into
Bring back music and let them make money screwing up some other industry.