As a guy in the 18-34 bracket, you should have enough disposable income to buy a Tivo and subscribe to the premium cable channels you enjoy programming from, instead of being a cheapass freeloader.
The television industry does not owe you commercial-free entertainment on a platter. You ought to pony up your fair share or find a new pastime.
How many laws will be purchased be the large companies so Cuecat-esque hardware EULAs will actually have teeth and be enforceable?
Answer? None.
Hewlett Packard and Dell don't WANT to give away computers for free. They want to charge you as much money for them as possible. It would be foolish for any hardware company to share Gates' vision of expensive software and trivially cheap hardware -- they'd be putting themselves out of business.
At DOS-times, computers cost about 5000$, while DOS itself was less than 100$ (full version) IIRC. Today computers typically cost less than 1000$ but Windows XP (full version, crippled) costs 200$ or (full version, uncrippled) 300$.
"Did you know disco record sales are up 400% for the year 1976? If these trends continue... AYYYYY!"
Yeah, sure all/. readers still use vi or emacs (I use vi, myself) but what percentage of web pages are written without graphical tools these days?
I'm sure most of the amateur web sites out there use Dreamweaver, et al. to generate their HTML, and under heavy load it shows.
I work for a professional web shop (about 30 million page views a day across all the sites we've made) and every line of HTML code here is written by hand. It's currently the only way to guarantee an efficient and responsive product.
As somone else stated, if these application were provided to the public for inspection, they'd have more than enough 'resources' to deal with the applications.
And I'm sure if you had submitted your patent application with a section reading "Prior Art? None!", they wouldn't have scoffed or told you to cram it. The patent office knows there's nothing new under the sun.
Poor example of semantic style markup. Your class "parcent" is little more than a slightly shorter and cleaner notation for "center aligned, font size 4".
Ask yourself: WHY is this paragraph centered and in large text. Is it a chapter title? A drop quote? Use class names like "chaptertitle" or "dropquote" instead.
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Particular semantic types (like author) could be added as styles for particular tags e.g. <h2 class='author'>
Or better yet, use the <address> tag which has existed from the early days of the web through to XHTML 1.0 Strict, specifically for the purpose of encapsulation information on a document's author.
To those who like to yap about how the freedom to speak your mind in the United States is being slowly but surely eroded by the government: shut the fuck up.
Actually, better yet, DON'T shut the fuck up. Keep yapping about how the government is "censoring" those who oppose the party line. The more people hear you, the more foolish you prove yourselves.
Sure, mom & dad my get the kids to watch a National Geographic Channel show once every month or two, but will they be willing to pay for the channel every month? I bet that most of them won't.
A problem that could be solved by making programs on the channels you're not subscribed to available on a "pay per view" basis.
Want to watch Discovery Channel all month long? It'll cost you 6 bucks. Don't want to subscribe, but still want to catch Shark Week? You can get a one-week subscription for 4 bucks. Just want to watch a couple of one-hour documentaries? 99 cents each.
I thought the theory was that unregulated markets drove down prices and were good for consumers...
For this theory to apply, there needs to be competition. Kind of hard to have competition when a single company already owns all the underground cables and no one else can get rights to lay more cable...
Mandating that an a la carte purchase option must be available does not preclude the cable companies ALSO continuing to offer package deals. If you want all 200 channels? Sure, you can get that, and instead of paying $3 per channel you'll pay $0.50 per channel. But me, I only watch 5 of those channels, so I'll gladly pay the higer per-channel rate. Different customers will rate value in different ways.
Bottom line, if I only want a chicken enchilada, I shouldn't HAVE to buy the cheese and beef enchiladas too in order to get it. If I DO want all three, the restaurant can bring them to me all on one plate and charge me less for it.
we pay a tax on every blank CD that's distributed to record labels, and in exchange we have the legal right to copy CDs.
1. It's not a tax, it's a levy, and 2. It only gives you the right to copy CD's you already own, for personal fair-use reasons like backup and format-shifting. It's still just as unlawful to procure copies of music you haven't paid for from friends or via P2P.
I mean, is there any useful use for this device at all?
I think you just provided one by example.
Installing a keylogger on a machine YOU OWN to monitor YOUR CHILD is about as legally and morally justifiable as it can get.
As a legal guardian, you bear a certain amount of responsibility for the actions of your dependents -- if they're doing something illicit, you have a duty to try and find out and prevent it. And that's not even addressing the safety issues of keeping your children away from possible abductors or rapists...
Okay, the US "made plans" to invade the Netherlands under a certain set of circumstances. So what? The US military draws up contingency plans for all kinds of scenarios, ranging from certain to probable to far-fetched and unlikely.
If you want to criticize the United States' foreign policy, there are plenty of examples of things the government has actually done for you to criticize. You do a disservice by focusing on ideas that were so bad they got shot down before ever making it off the drawing board.
People used to buy Computer Shopper for the content?
The only reason I ever bought a copy of that enormous phonebook of a periodical was when I needed to buy a 100 blank floppy disks or something like that. Back in the days before the commercialization of the internet, searching through the pages and pages of ads in Computer Shopper was the quickest and most convenient way to find out which vendor you could get the lowest price on something from.
Why exactly has it taken North America so long to change to a better format?
Basically? There's just no demand for it.
I'd imagine the HDTV change will happen almost overnight, much like the DVD revolution
We're what, 12 years into the change already now? And adoption has been infinitesmal.
Makes me wonder if DVDs would have taken off like they did without the director's commentaries and special features that most releases are expected to come with. If they had the same content as VHS releases, just with MPEG-2 video and one track of Dolby Digital stereo sound, would we have bothered to convert?
I didn't see anything in the parent post that suggested the submitter didn't own a television, or thought they were superior human beings in anyway as a result.
Nice strawman, though! Have fun wasting your time thrashing it to bits.
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"He must have known I was wearing an iPod because of the white headphones."
Or... because you responded in the affirmative when he asked you if you were listening to an iPod?
HOW ELSE COULD HE HAVE KNOWN?
As a guy in the 18-34 bracket, you should have enough disposable income to buy a Tivo and subscribe to the premium cable channels you enjoy programming from, instead of being a cheapass freeloader.
The television industry does not owe you commercial-free entertainment on a platter. You ought to pony up your fair share or find a new pastime.
How many laws will be purchased be the large companies so Cuecat-esque hardware EULAs will actually have teeth and be enforceable?
Answer? None.
Hewlett Packard and Dell don't WANT to give away computers for free. They want to charge you as much money for them as possible. It would be foolish for any hardware company to share Gates' vision of expensive software and trivially cheap hardware -- they'd be putting themselves out of business.
At DOS-times, computers cost about 5000$, while DOS itself was less than 100$ (full version) IIRC. Today computers typically cost less than 1000$ but Windows XP (full version, crippled) costs 200$ or (full version, uncrippled) 300$.
"Did you know disco record sales are up 400% for the year 1976? If these trends continue... AYYYYY!"
Yeah, sure all /. readers still use vi or emacs (I use vi, myself) but what percentage of web pages are written without graphical tools these days?
I'm sure most of the amateur web sites out there use Dreamweaver, et al. to generate their HTML, and under heavy load it shows.
I work for a professional web shop (about 30 million page views a day across all the sites we've made) and every line of HTML code here is written by hand. It's currently the only way to guarantee an efficient and responsive product.
As somone else stated, if these application were provided to the public for inspection, they'd have more than enough 'resources' to deal with the applications.
You mean they're not?
Given that rather basic misunderstanding, isn't it possible that the guy who examines patents all day is right, and the slashdot crowd is wrong?
Unlikely! I mean, those idiots at the USPTO probably don't even run Linux!
And I'm sure if you had submitted your patent application with a section reading "Prior Art? None!", they wouldn't have scoffed or told you to cram it. The patent office knows there's nothing new under the sun.
Poor example of semantic style markup. Your class "parcent" is little more than a slightly shorter and cleaner notation for "center aligned, font size 4".
Ask yourself: WHY is this paragraph centered and in large text. Is it a chapter title? A drop quote? Use class names like "chaptertitle" or "dropquote" instead.
Particular semantic types (like author) could be added as styles for particular tags e.g. <h2 class='author'>
Or better yet, use the <address> tag which has existed from the early days of the web through to XHTML 1.0 Strict, specifically for the purpose of encapsulation information on a document's author.
To those who like to yap about how the freedom to speak your mind in the United States is being slowly but surely eroded by the government: shut the fuck up.
Actually, better yet, DON'T shut the fuck up. Keep yapping about how the government is "censoring" those who oppose the party line. The more people hear you, the more foolish you prove yourselves.
Sure, mom & dad my get the kids to watch a National Geographic Channel show once every month or two, but will they be willing to pay for the channel every month? I bet that most of them won't.
A problem that could be solved by making programs on the channels you're not subscribed to available on a "pay per view" basis.
Want to watch Discovery Channel all month long? It'll cost you 6 bucks. Don't want to subscribe, but still want to catch Shark Week? You can get a one-week subscription for 4 bucks. Just want to watch a couple of one-hour documentaries? 99 cents each.
I thought the theory was that unregulated markets drove down prices and were good for consumers...
For this theory to apply, there needs to be competition. Kind of hard to have competition when a single company already owns all the underground cables and no one else can get rights to lay more cable...
Mandating that an a la carte purchase option must be available does not preclude the cable companies ALSO continuing to offer package deals. If you want all 200 channels? Sure, you can get that, and instead of paying $3 per channel you'll pay $0.50 per channel. But me, I only watch 5 of those channels, so I'll gladly pay the higer per-channel rate. Different customers will rate value in different ways.
Bottom line, if I only want a chicken enchilada, I shouldn't HAVE to buy the cheese and beef enchiladas too in order to get it. If I DO want all three, the restaurant can bring them to me all on one plate and charge me less for it.
no matter what the cablecos do to split up channel selections, THEY [the non-discriminating American public] will still pay out the ass.
Great. I have no objection to letting them subsidize the select few programs and events I find worthwhile.
Maybe Google is using 33-bit integers? Ever think of that, huh?
we pay a tax on every blank CD that's distributed to record labels, and in exchange we have the legal right to copy CDs.
1. It's not a tax, it's a levy, and
2. It only gives you the right to copy CD's you already own, for personal fair-use reasons like backup and format-shifting. It's still just as unlawful to procure copies of music you haven't paid for from friends or via P2P.
So which is it? Do you think parents should supervise their kids' internet usage, or not supervise their kids' internet usage?
I mean, is there any useful use for this device at all?
I think you just provided one by example.
Installing a keylogger on a machine YOU OWN to monitor YOUR CHILD is about as legally and morally justifiable as it can get.
As a legal guardian, you bear a certain amount of responsibility for the actions of your dependents -- if they're doing something illicit, you have a duty to try and find out and prevent it. And that's not even addressing the safety issues of keeping your children away from possible abductors or rapists...
Wait, so this guy was making fraudulent alterations to guests' U.S. passports?
What SHOULD the American response to this behavior have been?
Okay, the US "made plans" to invade the Netherlands under a certain set of circumstances. So what? The US military draws up contingency plans for all kinds of scenarios, ranging from certain to probable to far-fetched and unlikely.
If you want to criticize the United States' foreign policy, there are plenty of examples of things the government has actually done for you to criticize. You do a disservice by focusing on ideas that were so bad they got shot down before ever making it off the drawing board.
People used to buy Computer Shopper for the content?
The only reason I ever bought a copy of that enormous phonebook of a periodical was when I needed to buy a 100 blank floppy disks or something like that. Back in the days before the commercialization of the internet, searching through the pages and pages of ads in Computer Shopper was the quickest and most convenient way to find out which vendor you could get the lowest price on something from.
Why exactly has it taken North America so long to change to a better format?
Basically? There's just no demand for it.
I'd imagine the HDTV change will happen almost overnight, much like the DVD revolution
We're what, 12 years into the change already now? And adoption has been infinitesmal.
Makes me wonder if DVDs would have taken off like they did without the director's commentaries and special features that most releases are expected to come with. If they had the same content as VHS releases, just with MPEG-2 video and one track of Dolby Digital stereo sound, would we have bothered to convert?
If NTSC is such an elegant specification, why do our PAL-using European friends have so little good to say about it?
I didn't see anything in the parent post that suggested the submitter didn't own a television, or thought they were superior human beings in anyway as a result.
Nice strawman, though! Have fun wasting your time thrashing it to bits.