no more than to ignore a clear decision point in the middle of the chain. Specifically, the decision to show up at the offices of a company you have no relationship with and the further decision to refuse to leave when asked to.
That ruling applies to sales that cross the border. Once it's been legally sold within the US, first sale does apply. The Omega watch case was asserting that the sale in the US was not legal. Purchase an iPad at your local (US) Apple store and you can do whatever you want with it.
The oversight period for the big antitrust case of 10 years ago just ended. The EU still makes noises about antitrust suits whenever MS blinks too often.
52 makes me wonder if they're going to do something dumb like relaunch one per week, which means a whole year of mixed continuity, which will turn off those new fans they're hoping to pull in...
I always figured they decided "It's Star Trek, it _has_ to have time travel in it somewhere, and since this is going to wipe out the timeline with all the established time travel, we have to get some into the new timeline right up front.":)
nah. He's saying 700/mo rent + 150/mo savings is better than 850/mo mortgage.
Which I would extend to saying 700/mo rent + 250/mo savings is better than 850/mo mortgage + 100/mo property taxes + 50/mo repair bills that the landlord would handle for a renter - 50/mo for the tax deduction for mortgage interest.
I agree completely. Now we should go figure out how to jail the RIAA member companies, who take artist output for near-zero compensation and then resell it for mass profits.
The minimization of tech support is a good point. In my personal situation, using the PS3 as the netflix client and display unit for the videos on the fileserver worked better, but you're doing a bunch of stuff I'm not yet (games et al that the PS3 won't do). And switching inputs isn't a big deal for me because the Harmony handles it well enough to keep my wife from killing me:)
I think it's less about the DRM and more about Netflix's level of convenience pretty much surpassing the convenience of torrenting, because they're on enough platforms, on demand, and you don't have to go to your computer and crank up a download and wait for it to finish. Most complaints about DRM are really about the inconvenience; there are folks who dislike it on philosophical grounds, but the majority don't really care that much as long as it works.
But at this point you can let the random gaming console handle netflix and use an htpc for everything else. Assuming you have a random gaming console, of course.
Agreed. Unless I'm in a hotel, I don't watch anything live, specifically so I can screen out the ads. My wife's the same way unless she's really just looking for background noise, and even then she usually uses our cable provider's onDemand stuff, which has at least much fewer ads...
You could use a windowing system so that everyone who requested stream X in, oh, let's say a 5 second period gets on the same multicast. But without Netflix's records of how many people started what at what times, I can't really say whether that would be a worthwhile change.
Actually, the judge isn't throwing out anything. He's telling Oracle "You will throw out most of these. Pick three you like." And he's telling Google "Most of this is going away. Pick 8 that you like once you know the three Oracle is going to be using."
Oracle will of course pick the three that they think are the strongest, but Google can pick their 8 strongest defenses against those three.
The essence of invention is "solve a problem in a creative way". "Find a problem that needs solving" is the essence of entrepreneurship; to most folks (I'm particularly thinking of engineers and coders here), problems present themselves quite handily in the course of implementation without needing to actively search them out.
wouldn't having municipally owned fiber with free access to anyone be a way to enable competition, and thereby lower total costs to consumers/society? Regulation would remove freedom from Comcast, but it would increase my freedom to do whatever I want with the datapipe I'm paying for, no?
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I always figured it was just some blaster-bolt-related energy encased in an energy-only shield (like they had on the Death Star reactor vent).
no more than to ignore a clear decision point in the middle of the chain. Specifically, the decision to show up at the offices of a company you have no relationship with and the further decision to refuse to leave when asked to.
Unfortunately "having object resembling bomb" is probably prosecutable. Especially if you fly into Boston.
and, iirc, where Hollywood ignored Edison's patents.
actually, the submitter may have. The editor who approved it apparently didn't.
That ruling applies to sales that cross the border. Once it's been legally sold within the US, first sale does apply. The Omega watch case was asserting that the sale in the US was not legal. Purchase an iPad at your local (US) Apple store and you can do whatever you want with it.
The oversight period for the big antitrust case of 10 years ago just ended. The EU still makes noises about antitrust suits whenever MS blinks too often.
52 makes me wonder if they're going to do something dumb like relaunch one per week, which means a whole year of mixed continuity, which will turn off those new fans they're hoping to pull in...
I always figured they decided "It's Star Trek, it _has_ to have time travel in it somewhere, and since this is going to wipe out the timeline with all the established time travel, we have to get some into the new timeline right up front." :)
Perhaps "replacing the entire ruleset" is what he meant by "reloading the entire firewall".
nah. He's saying 700/mo rent + 150/mo savings is better than 850/mo mortgage. Which I would extend to saying 700/mo rent + 250/mo savings is better than 850/mo mortgage + 100/mo property taxes + 50/mo repair bills that the landlord would handle for a renter - 50/mo for the tax deduction for mortgage interest.
the interest portion can; as I understand it, the principal cannot. But I rent, so I could be mistaken.
It's always new to someone who hasn't seen it before. Or are you assuming nobody who reads slashdot started today?
I agree completely. Now we should go figure out how to jail the RIAA member companies, who take artist output for near-zero compensation and then resell it for mass profits.
The minimization of tech support is a good point. In my personal situation, using the PS3 as the netflix client and display unit for the videos on the fileserver worked better, but you're doing a bunch of stuff I'm not yet (games et al that the PS3 won't do). And switching inputs isn't a big deal for me because the Harmony handles it well enough to keep my wife from killing me :)
I think it's less about the DRM and more about Netflix's level of convenience pretty much surpassing the convenience of torrenting, because they're on enough platforms, on demand, and you don't have to go to your computer and crank up a download and wait for it to finish. Most complaints about DRM are really about the inconvenience; there are folks who dislike it on philosophical grounds, but the majority don't really care that much as long as it works.
But at this point you can let the random gaming console handle netflix and use an htpc for everything else. Assuming you have a random gaming console, of course.
Agreed. Unless I'm in a hotel, I don't watch anything live, specifically so I can screen out the ads. My wife's the same way unless she's really just looking for background noise, and even then she usually uses our cable provider's onDemand stuff, which has at least much fewer ads...
You could use a windowing system so that everyone who requested stream X in, oh, let's say a 5 second period gets on the same multicast. But without Netflix's records of how many people started what at what times, I can't really say whether that would be a worthwhile change.
Spaf said he didn't actually know anything. If folks take his ruminations as gospel even when he disclaims them, what can he do about it?
yeah, but the USSC has since gutted that precedent by bringing 'inducing' into it.
For Europe : see this link. http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2011/05/06/update-on-identity-protection-scheme/ (cut and pasted from someone else's reply to someone else's question)
Actually, the judge isn't throwing out anything. He's telling Oracle "You will throw out most of these. Pick three you like." And he's telling Google "Most of this is going away. Pick 8 that you like once you know the three Oracle is going to be using." Oracle will of course pick the three that they think are the strongest, but Google can pick their 8 strongest defenses against those three.
The essence of invention is "solve a problem in a creative way". "Find a problem that needs solving" is the essence of entrepreneurship; to most folks (I'm particularly thinking of engineers and coders here), problems present themselves quite handily in the course of implementation without needing to actively search them out.
wouldn't having municipally owned fiber with free access to anyone be a way to enable competition, and thereby lower total costs to consumers/society? Regulation would remove freedom from Comcast, but it would increase my freedom to do whatever I want with the datapipe I'm paying for, no?