The article says that it's a video projector, the company's web page for suggests this too. I don't know where you get the idea that it's a container for videos.
I don't see where Apple is claiming they own the word "pod", except when it involves electronic media, which the Video Pod projector could conceivably be infringing that category. Apple doesn't seem to be chasing non-electronic, non-tech uses of pod. For example, PODS storage has been around for a long time and Apple hasn't tried suing them.
I see your point, but I don't think such a ridiculously unsupportable conclusion is being drawn from the image comparison. As it is though, I see it as interesting, but probably needs more investigation. Weren't some moons initially discovered because of disruptions in Saturn's rings? At the very least, it sounds like interesting parallels.
It would seem to me that you need an interdisciplinary approach. Doesn't a platoon have a variety of people with different specializations? Not everyone necessarily has the same gun, there may be over half with the same rifle, but there are people that operate other equipment, maybe you have maybe two people that operate the mortar, someone on the radio and so on. You want people trained to use the equipment in question, and that training should be on what to look for. The examples given don't seem like a problem, it's easy to communicate why you want them to watch coordinates among other tasks.
I bet part of the iBiquity is because the broadcasters want it, or at least the ones with considerable clout. I don't think broadcasters want anyone recording or time-shifting their media. They certainly don't want to risk anyone trying to skip the ads. Music companies probably don't want people recording their songs and saving them. It looks like broadcasting & media companies are part owners of iBiquity.
I think there are different groups with different aims here. The anti-IBOC page given seemed to want to keep it analog-only, they say IBOC causes interference with the analog part. They aren't promoting Digital Radio Mondiale that I can tell. IBOC will at least retain analog compatibility, Digital Radio Mondiale will eliminate any analog compatibility completely, so their antique radio from 1930 won't work anymore. Or for that matter, the radio in my car from just a few years ago, not that I use its radio.
I'm ambivalent about it. I don't listen to AM/FM radio anymore, it's podcasts and playlists for me. I don't think it makes sense to keep a century-old format alive just to keep antiques (literal and figurative) alive. For that, I'd suggest hooking up an AM modulator to the line out of a music device, and they'll get their mushy distorted sound the way they like it.
Yes and no. This looks like a new report, of the same kind, for a different time period. Five months ago, the report covered the second half of 2009, this report covers the first half of 2010.
It seems to me to be a means to unlock potential that was previously locked because of marketing demands. Chips aren't made for specific speeds, they make a batch and "bin" them based on testing.
Before, when you bought a 2.2 GHz chip, it was in a batch of chips that also happens to include chips that made the 3GHz bin, but they clock locked them to multipliers specific to 2.2 GHz. Sometimes those 2.2 chips were marked such because really weren't reliable at 3 GHz, but sometimes people found they ran perfectly fine at 3.0GHz, it's the luck of the draw.
I find this system preferable to having to replace the chip or computer in order to get a faster one.
I don't think we really know the whole truth of this. I wouldn't be surprised, but I'm not willing to be bothered by it until I have more confidence in the information. Legal filings often seem to overstate their case as much as they can.
The supposed problem wasn't rough roads. People were claiming problems in parking lots too. One major problem in a lot of the cases was that the computer crash log showed the gas pedal being pressed when people said they hit the brakes. A firmware update can't fix user error, but it could be a good placebo in the case of mass hysteria.
OK, maybe it's real, but maybe not necessarily in the way the Indian government claims, unless they bought/stole the design. It also looks like the Indian government is also subsidizing 25% of the manufacturing cost:
Someone else pointed out that it's a resistive touch screen, which is a technology that's at least a couple decades old. I wouldn't be surprised if they used the cheapest TN display they could find.
Assuming there was any problem at all, it could have been a mistake compounded by mass psychology and media attention. It sounds like it might be another 60 Minutes-Audi type hysteria, the Audi case was where people can swear they pressed the brakes but it turns out they really pressed the gas pedal.
Making a profit explains part of it. I don't think your anti-US conspiracy theory works well enough to explain the $35 price. The thing is, even the cost of the pile of parts for any other tablet on the market is a lot higher than $35. Also, almost none of the parts for a lot of the consumer tablets are made in the US or by US owned companies.
Another thing is that while Skype calls can be better, they're often among the worst that I've received too. If you're doing it with the $1 mic that came with the computer, then you're probably doing your recipient a disfavor. It isn't about Skype per se, it's a matter of where the weakest link is, even a crappy phone seems to have a more tolerable mic pickup than standard computer mics.
In all fairness, speaking to dictators and hiring some of the dictator's subjects as a labor force are somewhat different things.
However, fox News pundits seem to be willing to bite the hand that feeds them, given that one of the major News Corp owners is also a big financial backer of the "Ground Zero Mosque".
You can't punctuate properly and you're calling someone else an idiot? Also, it sounds like the person you responded to you might agree politically too.
Too far to the left or to the right assumes there is an absolute right and absolute left in terms of politics. Besides, in many ways, the US government and policies is considerably farther to the right now than it was in the 70's, we had a lot of price controls and similar regulations even as recently as the 70's that people forget about.
In other words, I wouldn't get excited at all yet.
I'm not sure what to get excited about anyway. It's interesting, but the article didn't go into detail about how much this varies and how much this really changes the current understanding of the history of the universe. So far, it's just given imaginary legs to at least one denier of some kind in a response on the Science News web site.
I think the Feds might come calling. Congress sets the rules for speed limit setting and enforcement of many laws on interstate highways, and the Federal government threatens to take away highway funding from any state that deviates from those rules. I can't imagine this little scheme of deliberate selective enforcement would go unnoticed.
If it's such a great system, why is it that you need the EU to enforce it? If buyers felt strongly enough about those distinctions, then the market would be the guide, and you wouldn't need to run to some bureaucrats in Brussels to regulate language.
It's way too late to regard them as trademarks, they aren't. I don't think it's a good idea to start making another kind of intellectual property, which is what this really is.
To me, it looks like wineries in certain parts of Europe can't take competition so they use their scheme to nose out competitors from other regions. They can't stand on their own legs with their own brands and own reputation, so they have to make this sort of odd geo-brand with the force of government. It's really another form of protectionism. I also think it's a bad idea for governments to get involved in defining language for society, especially when it is a tool for the tactics in this post.
Ouch, the sensor size is a limitation, you can get a new Canon camcorder with a sensor about that size for about $700 from a reputable shop. Sure, it won't have all the same features but that puts the whole thing into a bit of a perspective. The kit in question is above the base price of a 5D Mk. II, the saving grace of the Apertus is maybe access to less expensive lenses. I see some features that make it more useful in a production environment, but the sensor size is a major limitation.
While the interface looks intriguing, I think an off-the-shelf SLR with modified firmware m be a better bet for indie filmmaker needs. There are firmwares for Panasonic's micro four thirds cameras that nearly double the standard bit rate. With cheap lens mount adapters, a micro four thirds camera can accept just about any lens mount system.
They do have a lot of the early digital photo patents. They're still filing more too.
They also built one of the first, if not the first, commercial 35mm sensor digital SLRs, for the professional market. They also made one of the earliest production consumer digital cameras too. They've since ceeded these markets though, I think the problem was that they were too far ahead of the game and gave up too soon, had they stuck with it for only a few more years then the popular perception might have been different.
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The article says that it's a video projector, the company's web page for suggests this too. I don't know where you get the idea that it's a container for videos.
I don't see where Apple is claiming they own the word "pod", except when it involves electronic media, which the Video Pod projector could conceivably be infringing that category. Apple doesn't seem to be chasing non-electronic, non-tech uses of pod. For example, PODS storage has been around for a long time and Apple hasn't tried suing them.
I see your point, but I don't think such a ridiculously unsupportable conclusion is being drawn from the image comparison. As it is though, I see it as interesting, but probably needs more investigation. Weren't some moons initially discovered because of disruptions in Saturn's rings? At the very least, it sounds like interesting parallels.
It would seem to me that you need an interdisciplinary approach. Doesn't a platoon have a variety of people with different specializations? Not everyone necessarily has the same gun, there may be over half with the same rifle, but there are people that operate other equipment, maybe you have maybe two people that operate the mortar, someone on the radio and so on. You want people trained to use the equipment in question, and that training should be on what to look for. The examples given don't seem like a problem, it's easy to communicate why you want them to watch coordinates among other tasks.
I bet part of the iBiquity is because the broadcasters want it, or at least the ones with considerable clout. I don't think broadcasters want anyone recording or time-shifting their media. They certainly don't want to risk anyone trying to skip the ads. Music companies probably don't want people recording their songs and saving them. It looks like broadcasting & media companies are part owners of iBiquity.
I think there are different groups with different aims here. The anti-IBOC page given seemed to want to keep it analog-only, they say IBOC causes interference with the analog part. They aren't promoting Digital Radio Mondiale that I can tell. IBOC will at least retain analog compatibility, Digital Radio Mondiale will eliminate any analog compatibility completely, so their antique radio from 1930 won't work anymore. Or for that matter, the radio in my car from just a few years ago, not that I use its radio.
I'm ambivalent about it. I don't listen to AM/FM radio anymore, it's podcasts and playlists for me. I don't think it makes sense to keep a century-old format alive just to keep antiques (literal and figurative) alive. For that, I'd suggest hooking up an AM modulator to the line out of a music device, and they'll get their mushy distorted sound the way they like it.
Still, it's a text that goes to space and comes back! Of course, I'd buy one text like that and not send any more.
Yes and no. This looks like a new report, of the same kind, for a different time period. Five months ago, the report covered the second half of 2009, this report covers the first half of 2010.
It seems to me to be a means to unlock potential that was previously locked because of marketing demands. Chips aren't made for specific speeds, they make a batch and "bin" them based on testing.
Before, when you bought a 2.2 GHz chip, it was in a batch of chips that also happens to include chips that made the 3GHz bin, but they clock locked them to multipliers specific to 2.2 GHz. Sometimes those 2.2 chips were marked such because really weren't reliable at 3 GHz, but sometimes people found they ran perfectly fine at 3.0GHz, it's the luck of the draw.
I find this system preferable to having to replace the chip or computer in order to get a faster one.
I don't think we really know the whole truth of this. I wouldn't be surprised, but I'm not willing to be bothered by it until I have more confidence in the information. Legal filings often seem to overstate their case as much as they can.
It looks to me from the page describing IE9 that they GPU accelerate all HTML content, not just special Microsoft-only tags.
The supposed problem wasn't rough roads. People were claiming problems in parking lots too. One major problem in a lot of the cases was that the computer crash log showed the gas pedal being pressed when people said they hit the brakes. A firmware update can't fix user error, but it could be a good placebo in the case of mass hysteria.
OK, maybe it's real, but maybe not necessarily in the way the Indian government claims, unless they bought/stole the design. It also looks like the Indian government is also subsidizing 25% of the manufacturing cost:
http://androidos.in/2010/09/the-truth-about-35-android-tablet-from-indian-government/
Someone else pointed out that it's a resistive touch screen, which is a technology that's at least a couple decades old. I wouldn't be surprised if they used the cheapest TN display they could find.
Assuming there was any problem at all, it could have been a mistake compounded by mass psychology and media attention. It sounds like it might be another 60 Minutes-Audi type hysteria, the Audi case was where people can swear they pressed the brakes but it turns out they really pressed the gas pedal.
Making a profit explains part of it. I don't think your anti-US conspiracy theory works well enough to explain the $35 price. The thing is, even the cost of the pile of parts for any other tablet on the market is a lot higher than $35. Also, almost none of the parts for a lot of the consumer tablets are made in the US or by US owned companies.
My guess is that it's legal if you have enough lawyers and lobbyists to whitewash it.
Another thing is that while Skype calls can be better, they're often among the worst that I've received too. If you're doing it with the $1 mic that came with the computer, then you're probably doing your recipient a disfavor. It isn't about Skype per se, it's a matter of where the weakest link is, even a crappy phone seems to have a more tolerable mic pickup than standard computer mics.
In all fairness, speaking to dictators and hiring some of the dictator's subjects as a labor force are somewhat different things.
However, fox News pundits seem to be willing to bite the hand that feeds them, given that one of the major News Corp owners is also a big financial backer of the "Ground Zero Mosque".
You can't punctuate properly and you're calling someone else an idiot? Also, it sounds like the person you responded to you might agree politically too.
Too far to the left or to the right assumes there is an absolute right and absolute left in terms of politics. Besides, in many ways, the US government and policies is considerably farther to the right now than it was in the 70's, we had a lot of price controls and similar regulations even as recently as the 70's that people forget about.
In other words, I wouldn't get excited at all yet.
I'm not sure what to get excited about anyway. It's interesting, but the article didn't go into detail about how much this varies and how much this really changes the current understanding of the history of the universe. So far, it's just given imaginary legs to at least one denier of some kind in a response on the Science News web site.
I think the Feds might come calling. Congress sets the rules for speed limit setting and enforcement of many laws on interstate highways, and the Federal government threatens to take away highway funding from any state that deviates from those rules. I can't imagine this little scheme of deliberate selective enforcement would go unnoticed.
If it's such a great system, why is it that you need the EU to enforce it? If buyers felt strongly enough about those distinctions, then the market would be the guide, and you wouldn't need to run to some bureaucrats in Brussels to regulate language.
It's way too late to regard them as trademarks, they aren't. I don't think it's a good idea to start making another kind of intellectual property, which is what this really is.
To me, it looks like wineries in certain parts of Europe can't take competition so they use their scheme to nose out competitors from other regions. They can't stand on their own legs with their own brands and own reputation, so they have to make this sort of odd geo-brand with the force of government. It's really another form of protectionism. I also think it's a bad idea for governments to get involved in defining language for society, especially when it is a tool for the tactics in this post.
Ouch, the sensor size is a limitation, you can get a new Canon camcorder with a sensor about that size for about $700 from a reputable shop. Sure, it won't have all the same features but that puts the whole thing into a bit of a perspective. The kit in question is above the base price of a 5D Mk. II, the saving grace of the Apertus is maybe access to less expensive lenses. I see some features that make it more useful in a production environment, but the sensor size is a major limitation.
While the interface looks intriguing, I think an off-the-shelf SLR with modified firmware m be a better bet for indie filmmaker needs. There are firmwares for Panasonic's micro four thirds cameras that nearly double the standard bit rate. With cheap lens mount adapters, a micro four thirds camera can accept just about any lens mount system.
They do have a lot of the early digital photo patents. They're still filing more too.
They also built one of the first, if not the first, commercial 35mm sensor digital SLRs, for the professional market. They also made one of the earliest production consumer digital cameras too. They've since ceeded these markets though, I think the problem was that they were too far ahead of the game and gave up too soon, had they stuck with it for only a few more years then the popular perception might have been different.