I thought Bender's Game was one of the better Futurama works. I can't think of any single Futurama TV episode or any combination of three Futurama TV episodes that I would say is better than Bender's Game.
Sounds strawman-ish. "work better" doesn't have to mean mean things didn't work at all before. Not only that, the landscapes were very different. There wasn't a mass market for prerecorded/preprinted media because it was too expensive. I don't think as big of a proportion of the society worked at creating works of art, books, music, movies either. Before a couple centuries ago, most people's employment was in food production, now, food production employs less than 5% of a modern developed society.
Plagiarism? Sure. But people buy term papers on the Internet all the time, so don't expect they will feel any shame about this sort of activity either.
That seems to be insidious and corrosive though. You better hope that any physician you get had better scruples than that. The same goes to your car mechanic or commercial airline pilot too. You don't want people that should have failed those tests to go on and get employment, which could have devastating consequences.
That's the thing. For example, it's easy to suggest that they find a new business model, it's harder to suggest a viable business model that works, I'm skeptical that there is one.
This is especially true in an age where people don't want to pay for media, and don't want to see ads that would pay for that media. So where does that leave the media that costs money to produce?
...and not one memo to a tech guy for a technological solution? I mean, if you don't like a site deep-linking into your own, isn't it a trivial one-line change to the server setup to block referrers?
It's not just that. The channels themselves are often the content partners, and ads on cable TV or regular TV easily fetch ten times the money that of online video ads do, if not much more. So with that nugget of information, it's easy to understand why they don't like a box that's going to be used a lot like a cable box, but only give them 5-10% of the revenue for the same content. I'm not saying that excuses the fact that they can't see that's how it is going to be that way.
In all fairness, I have to wonder why anyone would be using a 17" notebook on a transoceanic flight. As far as I remember, the 13" and 15" models do have easily swappable batteries, and those things are a lot more conducive to travel than the 17" model.
Probably not anymore. Some parents are only too happy to sue or threaten to sue the district for actually trying to educate or discipline the students.
Who cares if Facebook can technically now use whatever you post forever. So could anyone who archived the page, or even took a screenshot. Not to mention that Facebook really aren't going to have the slightest interest in the average user, nor in using their content if and when they leave the site.
If that's true, then I'd like to know why they added that into the TOS. Why claim the rights for something they supposedly don't even want?
I thought Via was more known for making crappy products that Linux users shouldn't be buying in the first place. Even if the drivers are good, the hardware was often marginal or bad.
The problem is that those satellites are very expensive. Another is that XM reinforces that signal using repeaters in big cities, so that is some expensive infrastructure as well. Not only that, XM was fined for using higher power repeaters than they were permitted, and not using them in the locations where they had permits to put them.
Radio (at least most of what is delivered over RF in the US) isn't free, you pay for it by being asked to listen to ads, most of the ads are pretty dumb too. Last I listened, it seemed like a third of the time is ads.
There isn't much by the way of "TiVo" for broadcast radio to at least pare them down a bit. There are a few devices out there, but the reviews I've seen are lackluster.
I've seen plenty of liberals defend him as saying that he wanted to "protect them", which is just as sensible as saying Hitler wanted to protect the Jews.
In all fairness, I don't recall FDR having Japanese Americans killed.
But yes, we tend to forget the negative or parts. It turns out that Lincon was pretty big on racism, told racist jokes about blacks, thought that interracial marriage was wrong, and that whites were the better race, all this despite believing that slavery was morally wrong. But here's the catch, if he wasn't still a racist, he wouldn't have been elected because the idea that the races really are equal would be considered far too radical.
People are looking for a common link and keep coming to a solution that is common to these nations and immunization stands out. It may not be true, but it isn't that irrational.
The way I've seen it carried out by anti-vaccine people, it is irrational. The very idea that mercury in the vaccines triggered or caused autism was because of a post hoc logical fallacy. I don't have a thing against people trying to find connections, but they take a series of anecdotes and somehow they decide that their anecdotes are more true than a systematic study.
I understand the questioning of the need for CPU speed, fine, but I wouldn't dismiss the potential for power consumption gains. Wouldn't smaller feature sizes also allow Intel to make lower power processors? I'd like to see more notebooks that work longer without having to be tied to a wall outlet.
I mean the economy in terms of releasing a product update. If the work is done & ready to go, it's too late to worry about the economy, just ship it. Not only that, product development cycles on these products are long enough that they need to continually invest in R&D regardless of the economy, by the time a just-started project is done, the economy will have rebounded and ready for new product.
If the world is switching to DDR3, that probably means having a new socket. As such, AMD needs to introduce the new socket when they are ready to.
One problem is probably regional sublicensing, so it's more contractual than copyright, but there is copyright involved. CBS might have sublicenced the distribution rights series to other companies based on country or region, and they can't just violate those licenses. These contracts predate the popularity of using the internet for video, and they can't just go back on them without consequences.
They might have some problems selling ads for non-US viewers too, there's no sense in selling ads for viewers in the UK for products that are as yet only sold in the US.
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I thought Bender's Game was one of the better Futurama works. I can't think of any single Futurama TV episode or any combination of three Futurama TV episodes that I would say is better than Bender's Game.
Sounds strawman-ish. "work better" doesn't have to mean mean things didn't work at all before. Not only that, the landscapes were very different. There wasn't a mass market for prerecorded/preprinted media because it was too expensive. I don't think as big of a proportion of the society worked at creating works of art, books, music, movies either. Before a couple centuries ago, most people's employment was in food production, now, food production employs less than 5% of a modern developed society.
Plagiarism? Sure. But people buy term papers on the Internet all the time, so don't expect they will feel any shame about this sort of activity either.
That seems to be insidious and corrosive though. You better hope that any physician you get had better scruples than that. The same goes to your car mechanic or commercial airline pilot too. You don't want people that should have failed those tests to go on and get employment, which could have devastating consequences.
THAT is the internet. It isn't a series of tubes, it is an amazingly cheap distribution method for media.
A cheap distribution method doesn't do that much to lower the costs of gathering the news.
That's the thing. For example, it's easy to suggest that they find a new business model, it's harder to suggest a viable business model that works, I'm skeptical that there is one.
This is especially true in an age where people don't want to pay for media, and don't want to see ads that would pay for that media. So where does that leave the media that costs money to produce?
Not just bias, the way Ars described the case, it sounded like the judge had a bit of a hero worship syndrome.
...and not one memo to a tech guy for a technological solution? I mean, if you don't like a site deep-linking into your own, isn't it a trivial one-line change to the server setup to block referrers?
The problem is that this should be an opt-in system, not opt-out later by going in.
You talk about convenience, but they certainly don't offer as convenient of an opt-out as they should have.
It's not just that. The channels themselves are often the content partners, and ads on cable TV or regular TV easily fetch ten times the money that of online video ads do, if not much more. So with that nugget of information, it's easy to understand why they don't like a box that's going to be used a lot like a cable box, but only give them 5-10% of the revenue for the same content. I'm not saying that excuses the fact that they can't see that's how it is going to be that way.
In all fairness, I have to wonder why anyone would be using a 17" notebook on a transoceanic flight. As far as I remember, the 13" and 15" models do have easily swappable batteries, and those things are a lot more conducive to travel than the 17" model.
Probably not anymore. Some parents are only too happy to sue or threaten to sue the district for actually trying to educate or discipline the students.
But still, if it sticks, the judges go to prison, lose their job, their legal and judicial career, and their pensions.
In other news, Battlestar Galactica fans want to build a Cylon base star in Norfolk, Virginia.
Who cares if Facebook can technically now use whatever you post forever. So could anyone who archived the page, or even took a screenshot. Not to mention that Facebook really aren't going to have the slightest interest in the average user, nor in using their content if and when they leave the site.
If that's true, then I'd like to know why they added that into the TOS. Why claim the rights for something they supposedly don't even want?
I thought Via was more known for making crappy products that Linux users shouldn't be buying in the first place. Even if the drivers are good, the hardware was often marginal or bad.
It's free in the sense that you don't lose anything from listening to it, which is the conventional definition of free.
If you think money is the only possible cost, then you're not paying attention.
You don't consider the time listening to an ad to be lost?
I remember the same argument with cable ' since you are paying its commercial free'
Was that ever really true? Or is it just something that people misremember?
The problem is that those satellites are very expensive. Another is that XM reinforces that signal using repeaters in big cities, so that is some expensive infrastructure as well. Not only that, XM was fined for using higher power repeaters than they were permitted, and not using them in the locations where they had permits to put them.
Not to me. Radio should continue to be free.
Radio (at least most of what is delivered over RF in the US) isn't free, you pay for it by being asked to listen to ads, most of the ads are pretty dumb too. Last I listened, it seemed like a third of the time is ads.
There isn't much by the way of "TiVo" for broadcast radio to at least pare them down a bit. There are a few devices out there, but the reviews I've seen are lackluster.
I've seen plenty of liberals defend him as saying that he wanted to "protect them", which is just as sensible as saying Hitler wanted to protect the Jews.
In all fairness, I don't recall FDR having Japanese Americans killed.
But yes, we tend to forget the negative or parts. It turns out that Lincon was pretty big on racism, told racist jokes about blacks, thought that interracial marriage was wrong, and that whites were the better race, all this despite believing that slavery was morally wrong. But here's the catch, if he wasn't still a racist, he wouldn't have been elected because the idea that the races really are equal would be considered far too radical.
People are looking for a common link and keep coming to a solution that is common to these nations and immunization stands out. It may not be true, but it isn't that irrational.
The way I've seen it carried out by anti-vaccine people, it is irrational. The very idea that mercury in the vaccines triggered or caused autism was because of a post hoc logical fallacy. I don't have a thing against people trying to find connections, but they take a series of anecdotes and somehow they decide that their anecdotes are more true than a systematic study.
That's not really the issue, and you've missed the point.
There is a wide gulf between having no expectation of privacy and accepting a surveillance culture.
I understand the questioning of the need for CPU speed, fine, but I wouldn't dismiss the potential for power consumption gains. Wouldn't smaller feature sizes also allow Intel to make lower power processors? I'd like to see more notebooks that work longer without having to be tied to a wall outlet.
I mean the economy in terms of releasing a product update. If the work is done & ready to go, it's too late to worry about the economy, just ship it. Not only that, product development cycles on these products are long enough that they need to continually invest in R&D regardless of the economy, by the time a just-started project is done, the economy will have rebounded and ready for new product.
If the world is switching to DDR3, that probably means having a new socket. As such, AMD needs to introduce the new socket when they are ready to.
One problem is probably regional sublicensing, so it's more contractual than copyright, but there is copyright involved. CBS might have sublicenced the distribution rights series to other companies based on country or region, and they can't just violate those licenses. These contracts predate the popularity of using the internet for video, and they can't just go back on them without consequences.
They might have some problems selling ads for non-US viewers too, there's no sense in selling ads for viewers in the UK for products that are as yet only sold in the US.