Viacom argues that YouTube should do what it can to eliminate known infringements - what's wrong with that?
Simple, how would YouTube know what's Viacom's (or any other parties) copyright? Why should YouTube be responsible for enforcing everybody's copyrights, its not a court or judicial system, it has no process for both parties (Viacom and the poster) to argue each others case either.
The media industry isn't exactly known for its fair play, it'll want everything removed that bares any vague resemblance to some of their content. So things that a court might deem aren't infringing would get removed if YouTube just listened to the media co's.
If a content producer doesn't want to protect and enforce its copyright then it doesn't have to release it as copyrighted.
In the UK cell tracking has been used for the last few years. Orange had a page on their mobile site that was a map centred on where you were at that moment. It had things like nearest pub etc.
It hasn't been a great success but that's mainly because until 'smart' phones appeared, running other apps on a phone wasn't easy.
of course that's the reason...trying to explain to the public that a set of 'text' messages is actually some mp3 file. plus its not p2p, so its not 'cool', so general media/news sites wont mention it either.
doesn't do the volume to alarm the big guys
I think that has only recently been true. Before BitTorrent most of copyrighted content started on IRC (even harder for them to explain), then moved to usenet, then appear on kazaa, limewire etc.
tbh if you want stuff that is outright illegal in every country, then IRC is your best bet on finding it.
How then are English visitors suppose to visit one of these sites? Purely by links?
Although I can kinda see the point, I can't see how this will work...all I can see is the internet fragmenting, which seems to be against the whole spirit of things!
For those that don't see why someone who can't read the language would want to visit the site...the reason is simple: Pictures tell a thousand words. Secondly technology and science is often language independent, so the specs on a Korean phone site are useful.
What we really need is an massive all out war:), and not of these poncy half wars, where we stop fighting before we've won and 'peacekeep' for the next century. At least then there would only be the conquering language to speak.
Have Viacom followed the process to have their items removed from YouTube? If they have and Google haven't done anything then I can see their point. If they've not then Google should just turn around an' tell 'em to stick it. Google (or anyone else) can't be expected to 'know' what is Viacom's copyright, so there is no way they could automatically remove infringing videos. If Viacom are too lazy to enforce their own copyrights then maybe they shouldn't produce so much, or get out of the media business. I don't see why a third party like Google should protect another's assets.
The only way the current tld could work if it was rigorously enforced, but we're far far to late for that, too many random domains registered with no structure or order behind them.
Maybe a single word domain would work, not sure tbh.
I see it as tag's are for public use, i.e. when you tag something its so others can see what you classify it as, and as the tags build you can see what the public think it is.
Labels are for private organisation, not shared, and possibly nonsensical to outsiders.
I'm sure any inconsistency within Google will be eradicated in time.
given that hdmi is going to be used to transmit data in a lightly regulated environment, and therefore suspect to EM, cheapo cables, cheapo devices etc. Why the fuck didn't they think of that when they designed the spec? Or do we have to wait for yet another version of this cable???
the whole HDMI issue is a complete clusterfuck of the biggest proportions. can even v1.3 do everything that they original said it could? consumers are going to be repeatedly screwed over while this is sorted out!
After the whole multiple format issue, its the 2nd biggest reason to stay clear of upgrading to HD.
Simple Celsius is basically the 'normal, everyday' version of the Kelvin scale. And the Kelvin scale is properly defined with the lowest you can get on the scale being 0. Fahrenheit however is just one guys attempt at defining something based on the knowledge at the time, it was OK, but should have been scrapped once the knowledge increased, and the definition could be made more accurately.
As for the imperial distances, you want to use the size of King James I feet? Which given he's dead is actually shrinking in length...
I know change is difficult, but actually fairly easy to do in this case...change your education system. Make sure all classes use the metric system (cept for the history lessons explaining the differences), make sure all your examples use it to. Given time, imperial will just die off.
All those blue boxes in the article are the reason Linux isn't ready for the general user.
What the hell is the point in having install packages if you then have to add lines like 'Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"' to a file, and more importantly how the hell are you supposed to know you need to do this? And in this case why didn't the OS do all this for him? it knew the PC had a nvidia card in there!?
Why did he need to add that repository? if its that useful, why doesn't the OS come with it added?
The problem seems to be too much choice, I really think that the bigger distro's need to be a little more strict(or 'meaner') and pick an set of apps to support, if properly supporting means that similar apps are harder to install (and need all these command lines entered!) then I think that's a fair trade.
I got one of the duo mini's for use as a media playback on my 40" LCD. Now the hardware itself is brilliant, very quiet and fairly easy to use (cept having to write applescript to properly map network drives).
The frontrow feature would be cool...cept it can't playback anything cept quicktime (though at least its fullscreen unlike the standalone quicktime!)
As soon as Apple either update the quicktime engine to playback all mpg and avi variations, or better yet allow a codec system for third partys to add support, then the mini will be perfect for this type of use.
Until they do, your best bet is VLC, but it can have problems with divx/xvids and is confusing as hell once you get into the options.
I think that this question can't properly be answered as none of the OS comes with the tools required to make the most out of the larger panels or dual panels.
for example: windows should lock to edges of other windows, you can't easily maximize to a user defined area, you can't easily move windows between monitors, or stretch across them. some parts of the OS go fubar, the taskbar etc, or they position dialogs in the 'middle' of a dual screen so you can't read it. etc etc
at the moment to make the most out of either system you have to hunt down third party utilities, and hope they work and don't screw other things up.
basically a OS needs this support built in from the beginning, and none of the current ones do.
did anyone else notice the complete lack of standardisation or uniform feel to the dialogs?? How's a user supposed to learn (or be taught) the difference between the confirmation boxes and the warning boxes.
Surely the only real 'content' of this article, is that Windows/IE has far far too many dialogs with different designs, but mean similar things...
I can't imagine why there should be more than 2 dialogs max, one for confirmation (to prevent accidents) and one warning.
I'm not sure if this is as big of an issue in Europe because I believe SIM cards are portable across service providers by law.
Not quite, most providers in the UK release locked phones, however the law does say you can move to another provider (without charges if your outside your original contract) and keep your number. However this isn't really the best idea, as the calls/sms's will still go through your old provider, then from them to you. It won't cost more to do this, but your reliant on two sets of systems to be working.
Plus changing number is a good way to keep down on all the crappy marketing calls.
So what? Their argument basically says the new OS is too secure please make it less secure so our pissant business models can continue flogging yearly bloat-ware. Why can't they release products that patch other security holes...or are they saying Vista is perfectly secure?
It's not Microsoft's fault that these companies were too naive to know that given an ideal OS there would be 0 markets for antivirus or AntiSpyware products. Nor do they need to allow the security apps to be replaced by third party ones. And before some idiot brings up the Media Player argument...media playback is not an essential OS function, security is.
Just another random article in the pile tbh, most of which covered everything when the core 2 was launched and not a month later!
The only realy comparison worth waiting for is for the nVidia 590. But until some actual mobo's start appearing then doing a proper review on that weird solution, that Dell have mashed together in their XPS, would be nice
With respect, neither of you make a good points at all. The OS is useless without an interface, now that interface might be a GUI or a bunch of hard keys. Without an interface how can the OS do anything?
Similarly an interface is targeted to an OS...OSX would be useless when applied to Windows, as it depends on the OS handling things a certain way.
The type of environment that the article is talking about would need the interface to be integral to the OS. Any attempt to separate them and keep the functionality would lead to either one being an overly complicated, hideous mess.
in a semi related point. I think having to support multiple GUI/Shells is the Linux desktop(ie windows replacement wannabe's) biggest area of failing.
duh, simply because the Internet isn't just for the mega corps with the money to register every domain that contains their name or any thing vaguely like it. It's also for mom 'n' pops local hardware store down the road. They'd have no chance of registering a decent site name if every corp had automatic right to every variation of their chosen site.
The whole tld and domain registration needs tightening up.
Take your cnn example, CNN being a global corp but based (ie which country it says it is) is in the US, that should give it very strong case for cnn.com (but not the defualt right to), but no right at all for cnn.co.uk as it's not a UK company, or cnn.net as its not a network related company, or cnn.org as its not a non-commercial organisation. etc etc.
If you do want a site with a separate domain then I think you should use whateverthehellyouwant.cnn.com for example...ie you have (and can only have) one tld set after your company name.
domain squatting, and redirects to other sites with similar domains should be banned...ie cnn shouldn't be able to buy cnn.co.uk and just put a redirect to cnn.com...its an abuse of their size, and a waste of an internet address.
there is NO issue with trademarks or copyrights, as that is already covered by the relevant laws in almost every country. If a site is sitting on cnn.co.uk purely to misdirect the public or to slander cnn, then there a laws already in place to get them shut down/jailed/fined etc and the domain can be put back on the market.
its probly all too late, as the domain system is utterly abused and has no controlling body or logical structure to it, but oh well!
easy its comparison of the whole package has it would be experienced by the consumer! The fact that both camps have f***ed up the players is their own fault, it looks like blu-ray has a worse issue with the ratio.
It never said it was a comparison of the disks on there own, but even then the reviewer still goes into enough detail to show that until bluray moves to vc1 and higher density disks then its the inferior format.
I think that some of the reasons that sci-fi mmo's/rpg's are harder is the leveling.
In fantasy based ones you can start the character with a quarterstaff or a short sword etc, and has they get better they can progress to decent stuff (larger, two-handed etc)
With sci-fi, you've start with some kinda of gun weapon, but realistically there is no reason why your weedy level 1 character can't fire the super weapons straight off...its not like pulling the trigger is harder to do. So to get the progression the devs have to unrealistically hamper the character.
Also in a similar vein, who cares if your stronger in a scifi enviro, the guns aren't going to do more damage are they?
and without this levelling, there is no real progression apart from the story...so you need a utterly excellent (planescape torment level excellent) story arcs.
It seems pretty obvious that the problem is not the spelling, but the fact that nobody is bothering to pronounce their words properly!
If the Americans do decide to create their own bastardized version of English, then it will just prove to the rest of the world that they really are stupid arrogant fools, with no comprehension of history or the world outside their borders.
I cannot believe that things are so fucked up over there that this hasn been taken as a viable solution to the problems.
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The media industry isn't exactly known for its fair play, it'll want everything removed that bares any vague resemblance to some of their content. So things that a court might deem aren't infringing would get removed if YouTube just listened to the media co's.
If a content producer doesn't want to protect and enforce its copyright then it doesn't have to release it as copyrighted.
In the UK cell tracking has been used for the last few years. Orange had a page on their mobile site that was a map centred on where you were at that moment. It had things like nearest pub etc.
It hasn't been a great success but that's mainly because until 'smart' phones appeared, running other apps on a phone wasn't easy.
plus its not p2p, so its not 'cool', so general media/news sites wont mention it either.I think that has only recently been true. Before BitTorrent most of copyrighted content started on IRC (even harder for them to explain), then moved to usenet, then appear on kazaa, limewire etc.
tbh if you want stuff that is outright illegal in every country, then IRC is your best bet on finding it.
How then are English visitors suppose to visit one of these sites? Purely by links?
:), and not of these poncy half wars, where we stop fighting before we've won and 'peacekeep' for the next century. At least then there would only be the conquering language to speak.
Although I can kinda see the point, I can't see how this will work...all I can see is the internet fragmenting, which seems to be against the whole spirit of things!
For those that don't see why someone who can't read the language would want to visit the site...the reason is simple: Pictures tell a thousand words. Secondly technology and science is often language independent, so the specs on a Korean phone site are useful.
What we really need is an massive all out war
Have Viacom followed the process to have their items removed from YouTube? If they have and Google haven't done anything then I can see their point. If they've not then Google should just turn around an' tell 'em to stick it. Google (or anyone else) can't be expected to 'know' what is Viacom's copyright, so there is no way they could automatically remove infringing videos. If Viacom are too lazy to enforce their own copyrights then maybe they shouldn't produce so much, or get out of the media business. I don't see why a third party like Google should protect another's assets.
exactly right!
The only way the current tld could work if it was rigorously enforced, but we're far far to late for that, too many random domains registered with no structure or order behind them.
Maybe a single word domain would work, not sure tbh.
I see it as tag's are for public use, i.e. when you tag something its so others can see what you classify it as, and as the tags build you can see what the public think it is.
Labels are for private organisation, not shared, and possibly nonsensical to outsiders.
I'm sure any inconsistency within Google will be eradicated in time.
given that hdmi is going to be used to transmit data in a lightly regulated environment, and therefore suspect to EM, cheapo cables, cheapo devices etc. Why the fuck didn't they think of that when they designed the spec? Or do we have to wait for yet another version of this cable???
the whole HDMI issue is a complete clusterfuck of the biggest proportions. can even v1.3 do everything that they original said it could?
consumers are going to be repeatedly screwed over while this is sorted out!
After the whole multiple format issue, its the 2nd biggest reason to stay clear of upgrading to HD.
Simple Celsius is basically the 'normal, everyday' version of the Kelvin scale. And the Kelvin scale is properly defined with the lowest you can get on the scale being 0. Fahrenheit however is just one guys attempt at defining something based on the knowledge at the time, it was OK, but should have been scrapped once the knowledge increased, and the definition could be made more accurately.
As for the imperial distances, you want to use the size of King James I feet? Which given he's dead is actually shrinking in length...
I know change is difficult, but actually fairly easy to do in this case...change your education system. Make sure all classes use the metric system (cept for the history lessons explaining the differences), make sure all your examples use it to. Given time, imperial will just die off.
Slashdot need's polls for questions like this...
reading through the replies, and most of them are bashing each other, not really useful!
All those blue boxes in the article are the reason Linux isn't ready for the general user.
What the hell is the point in having install packages if you then have to add lines like 'Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"' to a file, and more importantly how the hell are you supposed to know you need to do this? And in this case why didn't the OS do all this for him? it knew the PC had a nvidia card in there!?
Why did he need to add that repository? if its that useful, why doesn't the OS come with it added?
The problem seems to be too much choice, I really think that the bigger distro's need to be a little more strict(or 'meaner') and pick an set of apps to support, if properly supporting means that similar apps are harder to install (and need all these command lines entered!) then I think that's a fair trade.
I got one of the duo mini's for use as a media playback on my 40" LCD.
Now the hardware itself is brilliant, very quiet and fairly easy to use (cept having to write applescript to properly map network drives).
The frontrow feature would be cool...cept it can't playback anything cept quicktime (though at least its fullscreen unlike the standalone quicktime!)
As soon as Apple either update the quicktime engine to playback all mpg and avi variations, or better yet allow a codec system for third partys to add support, then the mini will be perfect for this type of use.
Until they do, your best bet is VLC, but it can have problems with divx/xvids and is confusing as hell once you get into the options.
Try getting TCPView and ProcessExplorer from http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities.html
Should give you the name of the process at least.
I think that this question can't properly be answered as none of the OS comes with the tools required to make the most out of the larger panels or dual panels.
for example: windows should lock to edges of other windows, you can't easily maximize to a user defined area, you can't easily move windows between monitors, or stretch across them. some parts of the OS go fubar, the taskbar etc, or they position dialogs in the 'middle' of a dual screen so you can't read it. etc etc
at the moment to make the most out of either system you have to hunt down third party utilities, and hope they work and don't screw other things up.
basically a OS needs this support built in from the beginning, and none of the current ones do.
did anyone else notice the complete lack of standardisation or uniform feel to the dialogs?? How's a user supposed to learn (or be taught) the difference between the confirmation boxes and the warning boxes.
Surely the only real 'content' of this article, is that Windows/IE has far far too many dialogs with different designs, but mean similar things...
I can't imagine why there should be more than 2 dialogs max, one for confirmation (to prevent accidents) and one warning.
Not quite, most providers in the UK release locked phones, however the law does say you can move to another provider (without charges if your outside your original contract) and keep your number. However this isn't really the best idea, as the calls/sms's will still go through your old provider, then from them to you. It won't cost more to do this, but your reliant on two sets of systems to be working.
Plus changing number is a good way to keep down on all the crappy marketing calls.
So what? Their argument basically says the new OS is too secure please make it less secure so our pissant business models can continue flogging yearly bloat-ware. Why can't they release products that patch other security holes...or are they saying Vista is perfectly secure?
It's not Microsoft's fault that these companies were too naive to know that given an ideal OS there would be 0 markets for antivirus or AntiSpyware products. Nor do they need to allow the security apps to be replaced by third party ones. And before some idiot brings up the Media Player argument...media playback is not an essential OS function, security is.
Just another random article in the pile tbh, most of which covered everything when the core 2 was launched and not a month later!
The only realy comparison worth waiting for is for the nVidia 590.
But until some actual mobo's start appearing then doing a proper review on that weird solution, that Dell have mashed together in their XPS, would be nice
congratulations, at least you've RTFFP, now go back and read the other pages, before clogging the tubes with more crap.
With respect, neither of you make a good points at all.
The OS is useless without an interface, now that interface might be a GUI or a bunch of hard keys. Without an interface how can the OS do anything?
Similarly an interface is targeted to an OS...OSX would be useless when applied to Windows, as it depends on the OS handling things a certain way.
The type of environment that the article is talking about would need the interface to be integral to the OS.
Any attempt to separate them and keep the functionality would lead to either one being an overly complicated, hideous mess.
in a semi related point. I think having to support multiple GUI/Shells is the Linux desktop(ie windows replacement wannabe's) biggest area of failing.
What the hell is the point of publishing an article about a *Graphical*UI with no pictures?
muppets!
duh, simply because the Internet isn't just for the mega corps with the money to register every domain that contains their name or any thing vaguely like it. It's also for mom 'n' pops local hardware store down the road. They'd have no chance of registering a decent site name if every corp had automatic right to every variation of their chosen site.
The whole tld and domain registration needs tightening up.
Take your cnn example, CNN being a global corp but based (ie which country it says it is) is in the US, that should give it very strong case for cnn.com (but not the defualt right to), but no right at all for cnn.co.uk as it's not a UK company, or cnn.net as its not a network related company, or cnn.org as its not a non-commercial organisation. etc etc.
If you do want a site with a separate domain then I think you should use whateverthehellyouwant.cnn.com for example...ie you have (and can only have) one tld set after your company name.
domain squatting, and redirects to other sites with similar domains should be banned...ie cnn shouldn't be able to buy cnn.co.uk and just put a redirect to cnn.com...its an abuse of their size, and a waste of an internet address.
there is NO issue with trademarks or copyrights, as that is already covered by the relevant laws in almost every country. If a site is sitting on cnn.co.uk purely to misdirect the public or to slander cnn, then there a laws already in place to get them shut down/jailed/fined etc and the domain can be put back on the market.
its probly all too late, as the domain system is utterly abused and has no controlling body or logical structure to it, but oh well!
easy its comparison of the whole package has it would be experienced by the consumer! The fact that both camps have f***ed up the players is their own fault, it looks like blu-ray has a worse issue with the ratio.
It never said it was a comparison of the disks on there own, but even then the reviewer still goes into enough detail to show that until bluray moves to vc1 and higher density disks then its the inferior format.
I think that some of the reasons that sci-fi mmo's/rpg's are harder is the leveling.
In fantasy based ones you can start the character with a quarterstaff or a short sword etc, and has they get better they can progress to decent stuff (larger, two-handed etc)
With sci-fi, you've start with some kinda of gun weapon, but realistically there is no reason why your weedy level 1 character can't fire the super weapons straight off...its not like pulling the trigger is harder to do. So to get the progression the devs have to unrealistically hamper the character.
Also in a similar vein, who cares if your stronger in a scifi enviro, the guns aren't going to do more damage are they?
and without this levelling, there is no real progression apart from the story...so you need a utterly excellent (planescape torment level excellent) story arcs.
just my pov...
It seems pretty obvious that the problem is not the spelling, but the fact that nobody is bothering to pronounce their words properly!
If the Americans do decide to create their own bastardized version of English, then it will just prove to the rest of the world that they really are stupid arrogant fools, with no comprehension of history or the world outside their borders.
I cannot believe that things are so fucked up over there that this hasn been taken as a viable solution to the problems.
Teach your children properly!