"I don't watch television. Notice that I didn't say 'TV', because 'TV' is a nickname and nicknames are for friends and believe me, television is no friend of mine."
Go listen to your Dickie Crickets wax cylinders, you smug elitist prick.
The problem is, there IS no solution equivalent to a PC that matches Tivo's functionality. (At least not yet).
I too use my PC as a complete TV/DVD/music/gaming system, but intelligent PVR is still not mature on that platform. If I want Tivo functionality today, I have to go out and buy a Tivo (or a ReplayTV, or...)
Nah. the SC just needs to decide what the absolute limit to "reasonable time" is, and state that as their interpretation.
The Constitution doesn't say that the amount of time has to be "reasonable". It only says it has to be "limited". Thus the Supreme Court has no authority to impose a "reasonable" restriction onto the law.
Besides which, the absolute limit of "reasonable" may not be so absolute... what's reasonable to us to day may be entirely unreasonable to our grandchildren's generation.
For example, I shoot subway pictures in Boston. You'd like to see this made illegal unless I get everyone'ss permission, presumably in writing?
Well, by using the Boston subway system you're agreeing to abide by the MBTA's terms, which may or may not allow photographs to be taken without permission.
A quick glance at http://www.mbta.com didn't turn up anything about their policy on this, but I know for the fact that on the PATH trains here in NY/NY, the Port Authority's Rules and Regulations explicitly forbid any photograpy within the system without prior consent of the PA.
Since you seem to think that everyone should have an unfettered right to duplicate data, so long as they don't make profit off it, or deprive the original owner of the data, I think you'll be happy to hear that I have your credit card number and expiration date, and I've made up copies of your card and am handing them out for free to anyone who wants one.
Why are you so upset? INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREEEEEEE!!!
Merriam-Webster's definition of "stealing" does not require that the original holder of something have it removed from their possession...
STEAL may apply to any surreptitious taking of something and differs from the other terms by commonly applying to intangibles as well as material things
Some might say we already have an OS that focuses primarily on ease of use, and not enough on security issues. Do you know which OS that is? I'll give you a hint. It rhymes with "Lindows."
Sure, ok, whatever.
Which of the two do you think can more easily be fixed so that it better addresses security issues?
Just because some morons are using an E10K to serve a web site doesn't mean that there's any good reason to do so.
I suppose if the big iron is running a website in addition to other services that actually need to run on that kind of hardware, or if the application layer of an n-tier web architecture resides there, with a gaggle of load-balanced cheap Apache machines in between it and the World, it might be okay.
So by learning from each Xbox hack someone comes up with, Microsoft will eventually be able to build an unhackable, completely secure, locked-down system...
If you have a sucky OS - like Windows, than this doesen't apply.
Have you benchmarked this with a Windows OS, or are you just taking an unfounded cheap shot at Microsoft?
I can't vouch for Windows' memory mapping model myself, but without supporting evidence your comment seems to be little more than "UNIX ROX, WINBLOWS SUX"
I think that's the intent... the Hit List is not going to end at some point where they could say "okay, if all of these devices were excluded from the bill, it would be a sensible piece of legislation".
The List demonstrates that the CBDTPA is so fundamentally flawed, so broad to the point of absurdity that NO AMOUNT of exception clauses could be added that would limit its enforcement to its intended purpose.
How can anyone stand up and say... that this patent system is fair or protects anyone?
The system works, every day. You don't hear about the cases where the system is proven to be fair, where it is proven to give the protections it was intended to, because those cases aren't controversial. They aren't scandalous. They aren't news.
In another comment, someone said that this guy has yet to win any of the patent infringement cases he has filed. Doesn't that suggest that perhaps, the system isn't so broken after all?
I can't imagine it would be all that hard - the hardware is AGP on both platforms, so it would just be someone at ATI writing some OS X drivers for this device.
HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Oh, that's rich, suggesting that ATI would make an effort to provide drivers for anyone beyond the greatest common denominator!
1) Cost to profuce cd's is probably less than $1/CD including case and linear notes, excluding production costs.
Certainly true, but you can't be so quick to exclude the costs of actually getting the music recorded. For a professional-quality recording and mastering, you're looking at AT LEAST five digits and higher-profile artists can easily get into six or even seven digits.
2)The cost of CD's, with everyone making substantial profit could be $3.50
Probably not true, unless the artists are selling the CD's out of the back of their cars after the show. Distribution, promotion, touring all cost money, even in an ideal world where all the unnecessary middlemen are eliminated.
3)The only way for the prices to be so artificially high was for price fixing.
Absolutely not true. Prices are still above $3.50 because people are willing to pay.
Personally, I think arcades are in decline because there are really only about 4 games out there these days, and DDR is the only one that's at all innovative -- the others are all retreads of "shoot an Uzi", "drive a car", and "twitch kung fu fighting game".
These two articles had nothing to do with each other, save for the fact that they both can be filed under the 'games' topic.
They should have been posted as separate stories. By trying to nail the two together as a single story, you're not doing anything except fragmenting the discussion.
Now every mickey mouse NT admin is calling himself an engineer.
Fortunately for the world, getting Professional Engineer certification is a lot more difficult than getting an MSCE. So while the NT boxes may crash, the bridges won't.
If you go back to the people who were trained even 10 years ago, their ability to make rough estimations in their head far exceeds what todays students can do
Hmm, maybe this could be because they veterans have 10 years' more experience than the students?
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"I don't watch television. Notice that I didn't say 'TV', because 'TV' is a nickname and nicknames are for friends and believe me, television is no friend of mine."
Go listen to your Dickie Crickets wax cylinders, you smug elitist prick.
The problem is, there IS no solution equivalent to a PC that matches Tivo's functionality. (At least not yet).
I too use my PC as a complete TV/DVD/music/gaming system, but intelligent PVR is still not mature on that platform. If I want Tivo functionality today, I have to go out and buy a Tivo (or a ReplayTV, or...)
Nah. the SC just needs to decide what the absolute limit to "reasonable time" is, and state that as their interpretation.
The Constitution doesn't say that the amount of time has to be "reasonable". It only says it has to be "limited". Thus the Supreme Court has no authority to impose a "reasonable" restriction onto the law.
Besides which, the absolute limit of "reasonable" may not be so absolute... what's reasonable to us to day may be entirely unreasonable to our grandchildren's generation.
He's right about 'prior art'.
Christopher Walken used the 'butt' method of encryption to securely transfer a watch once. It was a while ago.
SIMPSONS DID IT
For example, I shoot subway pictures in Boston. You'd like to see this made illegal unless I
get everyone'ss permission, presumably in writing?
Well, by using the Boston subway system you're agreeing to abide by the MBTA's terms, which may or may not allow photographs to be taken without permission.
A quick glance at http://www.mbta.com didn't turn up anything about their policy on this, but I know for the fact that on the PATH trains here in NY/NY, the Port Authority's Rules and Regulations explicitly forbid any photograpy within the system without prior consent of the PA.
Since you seem to think that everyone should have an unfettered right to duplicate data, so long as they don't make profit off it, or deprive the original owner of the data, I think you'll be happy to hear that I have your credit card number and expiration date, and I've made up copies of your card and am handing them out for free to anyone who wants one.
Why are you so upset? INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREEEEEEE!!!
Merriam-Webster's definition of "stealing" does not require that the original holder of something have it removed from their possession...
Oops, I just stole than sentence from m-w.com!
I'm going to download and try Lindows.
From where?
Some might say we already have an OS that focuses primarily on ease of use, and not enough on security issues. Do you know which OS that is? I'll give you a hint. It rhymes with "Lindows."
Sure, ok, whatever.
Which of the two do you think can more easily be fixed so that it better addresses security issues?
A-ha!
Just because some morons are using an E10K to serve a web site doesn't mean that there's any good reason to do so.
I suppose if the big iron is running a website in addition to other services that actually need to run on that kind of hardware, or if the application layer of an n-tier web architecture resides there, with a gaggle of load-balanced cheap Apache machines in between it and the World, it might be okay.
So by learning from each Xbox hack someone comes up with, Microsoft will eventually be able to build an unhackable, completely secure, locked-down system...
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
If you have a sucky OS - like Windows, than this doesen't apply.
Have you benchmarked this with a Windows OS, or are you just taking an unfounded cheap shot at Microsoft?
I can't vouch for Windows' memory mapping model myself, but without supporting evidence your comment seems to be little more than "UNIX ROX, WINBLOWS SUX"
"Incredible" as in "I can't believe how shitty this song sounds coming out of a rubber fish..."
And no, it wouldn't help if the Billy Bass was modded to include Ogg Vorbis support.
I think that's the intent... the Hit List is not going to end at some point where they could say "okay, if all of these devices were excluded from the bill, it would be a sensible piece of legislation".
The List demonstrates that the CBDTPA is so fundamentally flawed, so broad to the point of absurdity that NO AMOUNT of exception clauses could be added that would limit its enforcement to its intended purpose.
Nope, they make the minimum wage for tip-assisted income jobs.
Plus, if the tips don't bring hourly compensation up to the mandated $5.25, the employer is supposed to compensate the employee for the difference.
a bright person who can't read or write is unlikely to be a good TA
And yet, I've had several TA's like that, and I'm sure I'm not alone here...
How can anyone stand up and say... that this patent system is fair or protects anyone?
The system works, every day. You don't hear about the cases where the system is proven to be fair, where it is proven to give the protections it was intended to, because those cases aren't controversial. They aren't scandalous. They aren't news.
In another comment, someone said that this guy has yet to win any of the patent infringement cases he has filed. Doesn't that suggest that perhaps, the system isn't so broken after all?
I can't imagine it would be all that hard - the hardware is AGP on both platforms, so it would just be someone at ATI writing some OS X drivers for this device.
HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Oh, that's rich, suggesting that ATI would make an effort to provide drivers for anyone beyond the greatest common denominator!
1) Cost to profuce cd's is probably less than $1/CD including case and linear notes, excluding production costs.
Certainly true, but you can't be so quick to exclude the costs of actually getting the music recorded. For a professional-quality recording and mastering, you're looking at AT LEAST five digits and higher-profile artists can easily get into six or even seven digits.
2)The cost of CD's, with everyone making substantial profit could be $3.50
Probably not true, unless the artists are selling the CD's out of the back of their cars after the show. Distribution, promotion, touring all cost money, even in an ideal world where all the unnecessary middlemen are eliminated.
3)The only way for the prices to be so artificially high was for price fixing.
Absolutely not true. Prices are still above $3.50 because people are willing to pay.
Personally, I think arcades are in decline because there are really only about 4 games out there these days, and DDR is the only one that's at all innovative -- the others are all retreads of "shoot an Uzi", "drive a car", and "twitch kung fu fighting game".
These two articles had nothing to do with each other, save for the fact that they both can be filed under the 'games' topic.
They should have been posted as separate stories. By trying to nail the two together as a single story, you're not doing anything except fragmenting the discussion.
The problem is not the programmers. Its the **** software we were given to work with.
Oh come on, four-star software sounds pretty good to me. You're scoring it on a five-star scale, right?
Now every mickey mouse NT admin is calling himself an engineer.
Fortunately for the world, getting Professional Engineer certification is a lot more difficult than getting an MSCE. So while the NT boxes may crash, the bridges won't.
If you go back to the people who were trained even 10 years ago, their ability to make rough estimations in their head far exceeds what todays students can do
Hmm, maybe this could be because they veterans have 10 years' more experience than the students?