And a GPS receiver and FM transmitter. Then you'd have to knock 5kg off the weight and shrink it to 1% of the original size so it fits nicely in a jacket pocket. These just aren't in the same market as a $300 laptop from Walmart, but if you want something cheap, look at what the Nokia 770 is going for these days (without the GPS and keyboard of the 810, or the camera of the 800, but still a good little portable Linux platform if you're looking for something to mess around with).
If the article had been comparing a low-cost feature phone where the manufacturer cut corners in this way, it would be relevant, but both the iPhone and the Nokia E61i have separate baseband processors, so it doesn't really come into it. What is important is how quickly the browser renders, or appears to render, the received data to the screen. In this respect, the iPhone clearly wins, due to I suspect a combination of raw app processor power, and the fact that the iPhone was designed around the mobile browsing experience, rather than a phone with the rest tacked on as an afterthought but only if it meets the cost profile that the network specifies.
I don't doubt that the iPhone has set new standards when it comes to mobile web browsing experience, but it certainly isn't due to the EDGE network.
Maybe if here is the US, where conversion to 3G has lagged. In Europe and Japan the networks are still upgrading their old UMTS equipment, and a lot of 3G handsets were sold that are not HSDPA capable, or have that capability disabled due to inability of the network to test it properly at time of release.
Why would a Chinese guy be using a Japanese keyboard?
To type a Ukranian URL with of course. Hopefully the webpage behind the URL will be in Gujarati so his friend in California can get one of his co-workers translate it for him.
IIRC, Nokia was the main developer behind the GTK port of WebKit, which was still a work in progress a couple of months ago when I looked at it. Maybe they've abandoned it now that MicroB has come along.
Do you not find it strange then that someone found guilty of civil copyright infringement for sharing 24 songs over the internet and making no money from them gets a larger fine than someone convicted of large scale production of counterfeit DVDs and CDs, who is convicted of 2 counts related to the copyright violations, and a further 8 counts related to counterfeiting federal seals and other charges some of which actually carry higher penalties than the copyright charges themselves? Yes they got prison time as well, but the scale of their operation was vastly greater than the subject of TFA.
1) The jury had to realize probably any award close to $100k, and certainly anything over $200k, would effectively be the same. Assuming she can't file for bankruptcy, the court can only take so much of her income per month. A judgment for $3.6 million wouldn't be any different than a judgment for $250k, but it does send a message. Perhaps a dumb message, but a message nonetheless.
Actually if I was on the jury, I'd have pushed for a $750 award first (the minimum since there was no unjust enrichment on her part, and not buying the RIAA's position that each song counts as a separate work), and if the rest of the jury had not agreed to something close (maybe something like $9000 per work since she had fought it knowing she was guilty, and counting the 24 songs as 2 works would be acceptable), then I'd switch to pushing for the maximum, purely to demonstrate how ridiculous it is. It would almost certainly be overturned on appeal, and might lead to enough public outcry that the politicians take notice and do something to bring the penalties more into line with the severity of file sharing.
So, what's the basis to affirm that she should pay $222,000 for 24 songs? This is where the RIAA's case is illogical.
Precisely, and if her lawyer is any good, this will be reduced to $9250 on appeal. Here is what the law actually states:
(1) Except as provided by clause (2) of this subsection, the copyright owner may elect, at any time before final judgment is rendered, to recover, instead of actual damages and profits, an award of statutory damages for all infringements involved in the action, with respect to any one work, for which any one infringer is liable individually, or for which any two or more infringers are liable jointly and severally, in a sum of not less than $750 or more than $30,000 as the court considers just. For the purposes of this subsection, all the parts of a compilation or derivative work constitute one work.
So it appears that the RIAA should be seeking damages per album, not per song. To do otherwise treats downloading substantially differently than distributing counterfeit CDs, tapes or other media.
Here's an example from August this year of why this fine is out of proportion. Copyright infringement was only a small part of the charges these guys were up against, the largest potential fines were for the charges of counterfeiting federal seals (they put the FBI anti-piracy seals on the CDs and DVDs they were producing) and dealing in counterfeit products, but I can't find the breakdown of their actual sentences.
Two men were sentenced Monday in what the government is calling the largest CD and DVD pirating scheme to be prosecuted in the United States.
Ye Teng Wen, also known as Michael Wen, 31, and Hao He, who is sometimes called Kevin He, 32, both of Union City, Calif., were each sentenced to 37 months in federal prison, three years of supervised release, a US$125,000 fine, and a US$500 mandatory special assessment.
Another point against this conviction. Had this been brought as a criminal copyright infringement case, as opposed to a civil one, the maximum fine would be $250,000, so she actually got very close to the penalty that the biggest commercial "pirates" end up with. Is that just, when she made no money herself from her distribution?
BT (who own almost all of the ADSL infrastructure in the UK, including the last mile)
I wouldn't be surprised if BT own less than half the ADSL infrastructure in the UK now. Sky/Easynet, AOL, Tiscali/Pipex, Carphone Warehouse, Be, C&W/Bulldog and Orange all have their own LLU infrastructure in a significant number of exchanges, starting with the busiest ones of course.
Error correction algorithms could produce fuzziness or poor colours or something of that ilk once they get beyond the limits of the redundant data in the stream. Depends on the protocol of course, but especially for timing sensitive data like audio, it is common to use error correction rather than resending, and interpolating rather than simply dropping missing data.
Nonsense. The elected government prefers Burma, which is why the US, UK and others continue to use that name. Both names are derived from a particular ethnic group's language, Burma from the colloquial name (Bama), Myanmar from the formal written name (Myanma), which is less understood by the largely illiterate general population.
That would imply they did the wrong thing last year, when they released patches for the U.S. timezone rule changes in stable for both etch and sarge. And a quote from a Debian developer in March this year:
Third, Something like a change in daylight savings time is of sufficient
importance that the stable release is updated in order to prevent
breakages. Sarge got the updated late last year.
"volatile" is not enabled in a default install of Debian
Among the dictionary meanings of volatile, I find things like tending to erupt into violence: EXPLOSIVE, characterized by or subject to rapid or unexpected change, in fact none of the commonly used definitions would make me comfortable enabling this on a production server.
Your question, if nothing else, highlights a grievous flaw in our system of taxation: it implies that one's use of government services and public resources has a strong positive correlation with one's income.
More a grievous flaw in your understanding of taxation. There is no such implication. If the government wanted all services to be user-pays, they could make them that way and abolish taxes. But in civilised democracies, it is considered better for society as a whole to provide some services universally, regardless of ability to pay, and that is what taxes accomplish.
MySQL has a rather extreme view on the distribution of their software, so I wouldn't consider distributing it with a commercial product myself unless my company was willing to pay for commercial licenses. But under the GPL (but not MySQL's interpretation of it according to their licensing FAQ), it should be possible to distribute MySQL server aggregated on the same media as a commercial application that uses the JDBC/ODBC or other standard APIs. To play it safe, you could have the end user perform the final linking step of copying the JDBC/ODBC/etc library into the appropriate directory, or modifying a config file to specify the MySQL driver.
We have it already. Vodafone's proxy will send certain mime types through to the phone unmodified. The problem is that without the original User-Agent, content providers don't know when to generate the mobile optimised version of the page, and when to send the desktop version.
Its not the HTTP headers of the request where the copyright problems are (they would not have sufficient creative content to be copyrightable), it is the derivative work that Vodafone's proxy creates before it sends it back to the mobile phone.
In the general case, they are performing a valuable service for their customers by making webpages that were designed for desktop look reasonable on mobile phones, and I wouldn't expect designers of desktop pages to be upset, provided they are not blocking or replacing ads. But where content providers are providing their own mobile versions of their pages, then Vodafone is living dangerously by going on record on their forums to say that they are deliberately replacing the User-Agent to ensure that their customers get the Vodafone mangled version of the desktop webpage, not the content providers' mobile version.
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And a GPS receiver and FM transmitter. Then you'd have to knock 5kg off the weight and shrink it to 1% of the original size so it fits nicely in a jacket pocket. These just aren't in the same market as a $300 laptop from Walmart, but if you want something cheap, look at what the Nokia 770 is going for these days (without the GPS and keyboard of the 810, or the camera of the 800, but still a good little portable Linux platform if you're looking for something to mess around with).
I don't doubt that the iPhone has set new standards when it comes to mobile web browsing experience, but it certainly isn't due to the EDGE network.
Are you saying that an ARM9 is equivalent to a Core2Duo, while an ARM11 with 2D graphics accelerator is equivalent to a P4?
- iPhone: 667MHz Samsung S3C6400
- Nokia E61i: 220MHz TI OMAP1710
Yep, must be the network causing all that slowdown.Maybe if here is the US, where conversion to 3G has lagged. In Europe and Japan the networks are still upgrading their old UMTS equipment, and a lot of 3G handsets were sold that are not HSDPA capable, or have that capability disabled due to inability of the network to test it properly at time of release.
Oh, they're known for their sense of humour alright. Its just not the sort of sense of humour you want to be on the butt end of.
To type a Ukranian URL with of course. Hopefully the webpage behind the URL will be in Gujarati so his friend in California can get one of his co-workers translate it for him.
IIRC, Nokia was the main developer behind the GTK port of WebKit, which was still a work in progress a couple of months ago when I looked at it. Maybe they've abandoned it now that MicroB has come along.
Do you not find it strange then that someone found guilty of civil copyright infringement for sharing 24 songs over the internet and making no money from them gets a larger fine than someone convicted of large scale production of counterfeit DVDs and CDs, who is convicted of 2 counts related to the copyright violations, and a further 8 counts related to counterfeiting federal seals and other charges some of which actually carry higher penalties than the copyright charges themselves? Yes they got prison time as well, but the scale of their operation was vastly greater than the subject of TFA.
Actually if I was on the jury, I'd have pushed for a $750 award first (the minimum since there was no unjust enrichment on her part, and not buying the RIAA's position that each song counts as a separate work), and if the rest of the jury had not agreed to something close (maybe something like $9000 per work since she had fought it knowing she was guilty, and counting the 24 songs as 2 works would be acceptable), then I'd switch to pushing for the maximum, purely to demonstrate how ridiculous it is. It would almost certainly be overturned on appeal, and might lead to enough public outcry that the politicians take notice and do something to bring the penalties more into line with the severity of file sharing.
Precisely, and if her lawyer is any good, this will be reduced to $9250 on appeal. Here is what the law actually states:
So it appears that the RIAA should be seeking damages per album, not per song. To do otherwise treats downloading substantially differently than distributing counterfeit CDs, tapes or other media.
Here's an example from August this year of why this fine is out of proportion. Copyright infringement was only a small part of the charges these guys were up against, the largest potential fines were for the charges of counterfeiting federal seals (they put the FBI anti-piracy seals on the CDs and DVDs they were producing) and dealing in counterfeit products, but I can't find the breakdown of their actual sentences.
Another point against this conviction. Had this been brought as a criminal copyright infringement case, as opposed to a civil one, the maximum fine would be $250,000, so she actually got very close to the penalty that the biggest commercial "pirates" end up with. Is that just, when she made no money herself from her distribution?
Genetically modified bland shit, with added high fructose corn syrup and olestra.
I wouldn't be surprised if BT own less than half the ADSL infrastructure in the UK now. Sky/Easynet, AOL, Tiscali/Pipex, Carphone Warehouse, Be, C&W/Bulldog and Orange all have their own LLU infrastructure in a significant number of exchanges, starting with the busiest ones of course.
Error correction algorithms could produce fuzziness or poor colours or something of that ilk once they get beyond the limits of the redundant data in the stream. Depends on the protocol of course, but especially for timing sensitive data like audio, it is common to use error correction rather than resending, and interpolating rather than simply dropping missing data.
Copper is a better conductor than gold. You've been brainwashed by those audiophile magazines.
Nonsense. The elected government prefers Burma, which is why the US, UK and others continue to use that name. Both names are derived from a particular ethnic group's language, Burma from the colloquial name (Bama), Myanmar from the formal written name (Myanma), which is less understood by the largely illiterate general population.
That would imply they did the wrong thing last year, when they released patches for the U.S. timezone rule changes in stable for both etch and sarge. And a quote from a Debian developer in March this year:
More a grievous flaw in your understanding of taxation. There is no such implication. If the government wanted all services to be user-pays, they could make them that way and abolish taxes. But in civilised democracies, it is considered better for society as a whole to provide some services universally, regardless of ability to pay, and that is what taxes accomplish.
You need to go back and read the GP's post again.
MySQL has a rather extreme view on the distribution of their software, so I wouldn't consider distributing it with a commercial product myself unless my company was willing to pay for commercial licenses. But under the GPL (but not MySQL's interpretation of it according to their licensing FAQ), it should be possible to distribute MySQL server aggregated on the same media as a commercial application that uses the JDBC/ODBC or other standard APIs. To play it safe, you could have the end user perform the final linking step of copying the JDBC/ODBC/etc library into the appropriate directory, or modifying a config file to specify the MySQL driver.
We have it already. Vodafone's proxy will send certain mime types through to the phone unmodified. The problem is that without the original User-Agent, content providers don't know when to generate the mobile optimised version of the page, and when to send the desktop version.
Its not the HTTP headers of the request where the copyright problems are (they would not have sufficient creative content to be copyrightable), it is the derivative work that Vodafone's proxy creates before it sends it back to the mobile phone.
In the general case, they are performing a valuable service for their customers by making webpages that were designed for desktop look reasonable on mobile phones, and I wouldn't expect designers of desktop pages to be upset, provided they are not blocking or replacing ads. But where content providers are providing their own mobile versions of their pages, then Vodafone is living dangerously by going on record on their forums to say that they are deliberately replacing the User-Agent to ensure that their customers get the Vodafone mangled version of the desktop webpage, not the content providers' mobile version.