While I don't agree very much with treating an entire group the same, there is a point to it. The trade shows are by professionals, for professionals. If you're working for a competitor, you risk getting fired because you exposed your employer to legal liability, because you represent a company when you're at the show. If you're a pro journalist, then you're NOT going to risk your career over a prank. In comparison, most bloggers have nothing at stake.
It looks to be a bunch of internal politics. There's a lot of information that is missing, like why the charter was revoked. Another question is why this guy thinks that he's going to get this power if he's going to replace the people that need to approve him.
The basic information is apparently on a mailing list, which I don't feel like reading.
I do have a problem with that kind of idea, for that reason. I would like a democracy that balances the interests of the few with the interests of the many, rather than any system that goes strongly one way or another. As it is, the noisiest are the people that have most strongly taken a side. The ??AAs clearly go too far one way, and in this case, I think Sweden is going to far the other way.
I really don't think this entitlement mentality is healty, if they don't like the price, oh well, they'll just take a copy anyway. At least the creators have made something, I don't think the consumers have done anything to deserve a free copy. The proposed economics of the situation makes it sound like the consumers want to make hobos out of artists and performers.
I see the arguments that go something like this "it's crap, I'm not paying for it". If it's crap, then why watch it?
For the reasons you state, I'd put the people demanding wireless power among the people demanding pony-sized unicorns, at least for the forseeable future. I think pony-sized unicorns is more likely given how genetic engineering is going, but then the people that say they want them are going to say they won't pay more than $1500 for those.
Most things that don't crush are stationary objects. Car vs. car is good enough since you can't control the person in the other car, on the other hand, if you hit a stationary object with a moving car, it's most likely your fault.
The number of non-computer devices supporting Firewire seems to be declining. There aren't that many TVs that use it that I've seen. miniDV and HDV is falling out of favor compared to USB-linked solid state or drive based cameras, in part because of the slow tape system, but many computers not having 1394 is a detriment to miniDV and HDV. Apple and Sony are the primary proponents of 1394, other most other computer brands did not standardize on it.
I'm pretty sure that's outdated information, I can't believe you'd remember it that way. That's as dumb as saying you'd have to kiss the CEO of AOLTW to use the DVD standard and pay WB royalties. It's not like that. WB is part of the DVD group, and the amount of money going to them isn't very much.
A Firewire device maker doesn't pay royalties directly to Apple, but to the Firewire organization, which distributes the royalties to Apple, Sony and others. The total per-port royalties are $0.25, Apple only gets a small portion of that.
SATA is a native connection for the drives, with all the benefits you get from that, no latency, and without a port multiplier, a dedicated link to the computer. With USB, you add another protocol and another control chip in the way.
Positions do matter, but I think the "Style" parts do matter too, because I have little faith that a typical politician, especially a Clinton, can hold a position on principle.
From what I've seen of the Clintons is that they'll change their position and put out doublespeak that they've always had this new position. I have no problems about people changing their positions, it can be healthy. However, but I do have problems with them lying about it or being weasely, I'd rather them say it out right. Romney's done similar, though not quite as often as I can tell.
I take it that not much excites you, as in you're impossible to please. It looks like you want to have it both ways, as if you'd want a unicorn but are not willing to actually pay for it.
There are LED projectors available and coming out, but it hasn't really come of age yet, they aren't that bright yet.
I think there are several great projectors available. I wouldn't be too turned off by bulb life, my first projector lasted about five years on a 2000 hour bulb. If you watch an average of two hours a night, a 5000 hour bulb would last nearly seven years. Projector noise doesn't have to be a problem, there are quite a few quiet projectors.
Consider this case. Say you're a company that needs to invest in 200 copies of a high-end piece of software that costs $5000 a seat. You're now looking down the mouth of a $1,000,000 bill that needs to be paid off in 30 days
Wouldn't a company of the size and type to need such expensive software be spending that much in a couple week's payroll? I am serious here.
People griped about the cost of Adobe's new software too, but I think the target market would call that as being paid by a long weekend's project and pay for itself in productivity increases within a month.
I think it's reasonable to say that, supposedly there are plenty of devices that aren't really HDMI compliant electrically, being a bit out of spec. Or if you get a bum cable, then maybe you're going to have problems. I am disappointed that they didn't make the connector more positive, most connector designs hold the cable in a bit better, and the VGA and DVI cable had screws. But it's done pretty well for me there too.
Personally, I don't think HDMI problems are as big of a deal as people make it out to be. Remember the "Internet Bullhorn Effect", which causes people to think problems are bigger than they really are. I have a 50ft HDMI cable between my HD player and my projector and have had zero problems. I also only paid $55 for the cable too.
And how does this fit in with the apparently overwhelming recent trend away from DRM in music? Is it really believable that movies will go the other way?
Movies have been copy protected for a long time. VHS had Macrovision, DVD had CSS and HD formats have AACS. They've all been broken though.
HDMI's copy protection has been broken, it's actually the weak point in the chain, HDCP strippers are available. and the encryption is much simpler than what the HD movies have.
I thought that the inspection of the drive found that her claimed timeline, that it was found to have been replaced after a date that she received her notice.
I thought that was the point - that copyright infringement is really about distribution, your "between two people", or between two or more people. Copyright isn't really about the sole right to copy, it's a lot more of a right to control distribution. An individual something they legally bought for their own private use alone should be fair use. Sharing it with a hundred thousand "friends" isn't fair use by any stretch of the imagination. Even sharing it with a single digit number of friends is stretching it in my opinion.
There are government funded sky surveys that look for and track this kind of object.
The chances are low in the short term, but a 1000 year asteroid collision can cause serious devastation, which is likely centuries away. In terms of risk vs. reward, there are other problems where the money may be better spent.
I see little problem with requiring that computer forensics specialists prove that they understand what the law is before they can practice it for money.
I would bet that making it voluntary wouldn't make a difference at all. If there's any chance that a case would go to court, any information gleaned by an uncertified person wouldn't be admissible, weakening their case and negating any point in hiring them.
The regulation example on arranging flowers is a totally different beast. Of course that's stupid.
The 3007 might be a good monitor but with only a single input on a display that large, it really was overpriced, you'll see it absoloutely tumble on ebay in the coming months, if you own one, sell it now while you can.
I thought it was a fine price, wasn't it the cheapest display of the 30" monitor class?
Why one would hook up a DVD player to it is beyond me, one should be able to do it all in the computer itself. Maybe if you had an XBox 360 or PS3.
There aren't any 3007's on eBay right now, I certainly wouldn't mind picking one up, though LCDs aren't something I buy used if I can avoid it.
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If your reputation is on the line and it looks like your stuff just randomly broke, I really don't think you'd be laughing either.
While I don't agree very much with treating an entire group the same, there is a point to it. The trade shows are by professionals, for professionals. If you're working for a competitor, you risk getting fired because you exposed your employer to legal liability, because you represent a company when you're at the show. If you're a pro journalist, then you're NOT going to risk your career over a prank. In comparison, most bloggers have nothing at stake.
It looks to be a bunch of internal politics. There's a lot of information that is missing, like why the charter was revoked. Another question is why this guy thinks that he's going to get this power if he's going to replace the people that need to approve him.
The basic information is apparently on a mailing list, which I don't feel like reading.
I do have a problem with that kind of idea, for that reason. I would like a democracy that balances the interests of the few with the interests of the many, rather than any system that goes strongly one way or another. As it is, the noisiest are the people that have most strongly taken a side. The ??AAs clearly go too far one way, and in this case, I think Sweden is going to far the other way.
I really don't think this entitlement mentality is healty, if they don't like the price, oh well, they'll just take a copy anyway. At least the creators have made something, I don't think the consumers have done anything to deserve a free copy. The proposed economics of the situation makes it sound like the consumers want to make hobos out of artists and performers.
I see the arguments that go something like this "it's crap, I'm not paying for it". If it's crap, then why watch it?
For the reasons you state, I'd put the people demanding wireless power among the people demanding pony-sized unicorns, at least for the forseeable future. I think pony-sized unicorns is more likely given how genetic engineering is going, but then the people that say they want them are going to say they won't pay more than $1500 for those.
Most things that don't crush are stationary objects. Car vs. car is good enough since you can't control the person in the other car, on the other hand, if you hit a stationary object with a moving car, it's most likely your fault.
So please "steal this Wi-Fi" since I need a few more social security and credit card numbers.
Assuming the person stealing your Wi-Fi is using an unsecured site to do their transactions or that you can crack an SSL link.
The number of non-computer devices supporting Firewire seems to be declining. There aren't that many TVs that use it that I've seen. miniDV and HDV is falling out of favor compared to USB-linked solid state or drive based cameras, in part because of the slow tape system, but many computers not having 1394 is a detriment to miniDV and HDV. Apple and Sony are the primary proponents of 1394, other most other computer brands did not standardize on it.
I'm pretty sure that's outdated information, I can't believe you'd remember it that way. That's as dumb as saying you'd have to kiss the CEO of AOLTW to use the DVD standard and pay WB royalties. It's not like that. WB is part of the DVD group, and the amount of money going to them isn't very much.
A Firewire device maker doesn't pay royalties directly to Apple, but to the Firewire organization, which distributes the royalties to Apple, Sony and others. The total per-port royalties are $0.25, Apple only gets a small portion of that.
SATA is a native connection for the drives, with all the benefits you get from that, no latency, and without a port multiplier, a dedicated link to the computer. With USB, you add another protocol and another control chip in the way.
Positions do matter, but I think the "Style" parts do matter too, because I have little faith that a typical politician, especially a Clinton, can hold a position on principle.
From what I've seen of the Clintons is that they'll change their position and put out doublespeak that they've always had this new position. I have no problems about people changing their positions, it can be healthy. However, but I do have problems with them lying about it or being weasely, I'd rather them say it out right. Romney's done similar, though not quite as often as I can tell.
Now *thats* a product I would get excited by.
I take it that not much excites you, as in you're impossible to please. It looks like you want to have it both ways, as if you'd want a unicorn but are not willing to actually pay for it.
There are LED projectors available and coming out, but it hasn't really come of age yet, they aren't that bright yet.
I think there are several great projectors available. I wouldn't be too turned off by bulb life, my first projector lasted about five years on a 2000 hour bulb. If you watch an average of two hours a night, a 5000 hour bulb would last nearly seven years. Projector noise doesn't have to be a problem, there are quite a few quiet projectors.
That, and CableCard v.2 was supposed to handle 2-way communications. I think v.1 was just one way.
Consider this case. Say you're a company that needs to invest in 200 copies of a high-end piece of software that costs $5000 a seat. You're now looking down the mouth of a $1,000,000 bill that needs to be paid off in 30 days
Wouldn't a company of the size and type to need such expensive software be spending that much in a couple week's payroll? I am serious here.
People griped about the cost of Adobe's new software too, but I think the target market would call that as being paid by a long weekend's project and pay for itself in productivity increases within a month.
Come on, the "boiling" thing was just an early problem, if it really was a problem. Even as a Blu-Ray fan, it's a silly statement to bring up.
The initial cost of the player IS a concern, a lot of people didn't think that the additional $200 to buy a player meant anything.
Sony seems to just call it the PSP. I don't see any "slim and light", it's looks like an ad-hoc name for it.
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The wires are thicker, the bundle is 1cm in diameter, the wires in the cable are a larger gauge than that of shorter cable. It's not wimpy stuff.
The way to stop people shooting down planes is to hand out a slotting to anyone who does: an accountability approach.
What is a slotting?
I think it's reasonable to say that, supposedly there are plenty of devices that aren't really HDMI compliant electrically, being a bit out of spec. Or if you get a bum cable, then maybe you're going to have problems. I am disappointed that they didn't make the connector more positive, most connector designs hold the cable in a bit better, and the VGA and DVI cable had screws. But it's done pretty well for me there too.
Personally, I don't think HDMI problems are as big of a deal as people make it out to be. Remember the "Internet Bullhorn Effect", which causes people to think problems are bigger than they really are. I have a 50ft HDMI cable between my HD player and my projector and have had zero problems. I also only paid $55 for the cable too.
And how does this fit in with the apparently overwhelming recent trend away from DRM in music? Is it really believable that movies will go the other way?
Movies have been copy protected for a long time. VHS had Macrovision, DVD had CSS and HD formats have AACS. They've all been broken though.
HDMI's copy protection has been broken, it's actually the weak point in the chain, HDCP strippers are available. and the encryption is much simpler than what the HD movies have.
I thought that the inspection of the drive found that her claimed timeline, that it was found to have been replaced after a date that she received her notice.
I thought that was the point - that copyright infringement is really about distribution, your "between two people", or between two or more people. Copyright isn't really about the sole right to copy, it's a lot more of a right to control distribution. An individual something they legally bought for their own private use alone should be fair use. Sharing it with a hundred thousand "friends" isn't fair use by any stretch of the imagination. Even sharing it with a single digit number of friends is stretching it in my opinion.
There are government funded sky surveys that look for and track this kind of object.
The chances are low in the short term, but a 1000 year asteroid collision can cause serious devastation, which is likely centuries away. In terms of risk vs. reward, there are other problems where the money may be better spent.
It's a balancing act, in my opinion.
I see little problem with requiring that computer forensics specialists prove that they understand what the law is before they can practice it for money.
I would bet that making it voluntary wouldn't make a difference at all. If there's any chance that a case would go to court, any information gleaned by an uncertified person wouldn't be admissible, weakening their case and negating any point in hiring them.
The regulation example on arranging flowers is a totally different beast. Of course that's stupid.
The 3007 might be a good monitor but with only a single input on a display that large, it really was overpriced, you'll see it absoloutely tumble on ebay in the coming months, if you own one, sell it now while you can.
I thought it was a fine price, wasn't it the cheapest display of the 30" monitor class?
Why one would hook up a DVD player to it is beyond me, one should be able to do it all in the computer itself. Maybe if you had an XBox 360 or PS3.
There aren't any 3007's on eBay right now, I certainly wouldn't mind picking one up, though LCDs aren't something I buy used if I can avoid it.