There is technology now, that the worldwide industry could adopt, which enables content owners to track every legitimate digital download transaction, wholesale and retail.
This system is already in use here in Cannes by the MIDEM organisation and is called SIMRAN. Throughout this conference you will see contact details and information. I recommend you look at it. I should disclose that I'm one of their investors.
This rant is some hideously dishonest marketing for a product that will generate profit for him, personally.
1) Yes, you need permission from the casino to sell a postcard of that casino.
2) No, because the sports apparel is not the reason the postcard has value.
You clearly know less than nothing about trade law, so please, for christ's sake, STFU. You're out of your depths and you're too fucking stupid to realize it.
99% of all these copyright "outrages" are because of idiot assholes like you who don't know how the law is written, but feel free to blame the companies for stupid laws anyway.
I already knew that most people on slashdot are too fucking stupid and lazy to read. I didn't need you to re-prove the point.
This isn't about "any picture" as claimed in the summary. It's about people who sell those images based in part on Ford's name.
As such your "counter-examples" prove only that you don't understand the problem, and that the discussion would be more intelligent and informed if you would STFU.
If the group had approached Ford in advance, that would have been an option. At this point, the law simply doesn't have a provision for being nice to people who clearly meant no harm.
Fact is they committed a pretty clear infraction, and Ford found out about it, so Ford has to send them a little letter.
The real problem here is the law. If Ford fails to go after this sort of violation, they lose the rights to go after other violations in the future.
As such, American law is written such that they must either attack people who mean no harm, or lose the right to defend themselves in the future against actual harms.
This isn't Fords fault, it's the broken-ass laws of the United States.
There are actually a few small, crappy libraries each about 20 minutes away from me, but the closest *good* library is a hellish drive that is a pure nightmare in traffic.
Actually, everything near me is hell in traffic, which is another reason I greatly prefer a UPS guy dropping books at my door to a library visit.
I'd rather pay $10/book than spend $4 in gas, and 2 hours of my time going back and forth to the library. I re-read books occasionally, but not often.
The library just strikes me as a massive waste of time, compared to buying books online, at airport bookstores (where I'm captive anyway), and in cities that aren't my home (again, where I'm basically captive to the local entertainment options.)
Claims can be independant (in which case they are OR'd) or dependent (in which case they are AND'd). It all depends on the exact language in the claim itself.
If I made up a Chuck Norris joke, I know for a fact that I will never monetize it. I won't publish it as a cute Christmas gift, or turn it into a fun holiday card. So why should I care that somebody else is willing to do so?
If my joke's funny, I can have the satisfaction of knowing that I amused a lot of people, and I made the same exact amount of money I was planning to make. No loss. No harm.
I didn't try to come up with some absurd setup. I used my actual setup, minus the classic controllers, wii points and zapper.
Don't get me wrong, I love the Wii. I just think that people who claim it's selling because it's cheap are misguided.
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Well, you've almost proved my point for me.
By the time you add everything up, you're looking at $600+ versus $700+. I just have a hard time believing that there is a significant contingent of people who are happy to pay $600 to play games, but think that $700 is too much.
I know the Wii is a little cheaper, but I still don't buy the idea that it's popular because of price. I think it's popular because it's really fucking fun; especially for people who want to play casually against friends.
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It's not like Wiis are that cheap to begin with, at least not the way most people set them up.
Wii - $250 Wii Play w/Wiimote - $50 Two more Wiimotes - $80 An extra Nunchuk - $20 Component Video Cable - $20
And you're at $420 without buying any meaningful games, at regular retail price. Toss in sales tax and a handful of games, you've already broke $600.
Beyond that, I just don't buy the argument that a 360 or a PS3 is a true competitor to the Wii. People who buy the Wii want it for the innovative game play, and nothing else satisfies that demand.
I was against the Iraq War from the initial drumbeats following 9/11 through today. But I didn't like Fahrenheit 9/11 at all.
I still don't get what conclusion we're supposed to draw about a person's weight based on their opinion of super-size me. Are fat people supposed to love it or hate it? Beats the hell out of me. All I know is that Spurlock is a hack, and I hate seeing him on screen.
The authors of this study can claim that they can find things out with an incredible mathematical certainty, but what do they really know? Not much. They're good at math, not so good at people.
There are plenty of problems with OS X, but there is no way that Ziff-Davis would have published this idiocy if it was about any Windows release. I mean, it's just one douche ranting about a bad experience. It belongs on a whiny little blog, not on a major media website.
Pretty much every computer I've ever owned has pissed me off at some point, be it Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, QNX, VxWorks or FreeBSD. And pretty much always, a system that crashes constantly turns out to be something *other* than a problem that's endemic to the system.
If he could provide some solid bug reports, or evidence that it's not just him screwing up, that'd be great, but he hasn't. And some of his claims (wired networking drops link at random?) are really out there.
It's a shame that slashdot is such a predictably awful site that this troll of an article got links. It made Z-D a lot of money, and I'm sure MSFT and the Z-D masters are happy about that. But it was a waste of everyone's time.
Facebook Executives wrote: Facebook executives say the people who are complaining are a marginal minority. With time, Facebook says, users will accept Beacon, which Facebook views as an extension of the type of book and movie recommendations that members routinely volunteer on their profile pages.
What they meant: "We're turning it off for now, but we're going to slowly and deliberately swing it back to an on by default system."
As far as the claim that the complainants are a "marginal minority", I think that it's only a "marginal minority" of Facebook users that even knew the system existed, and probably a smaller minority that had any personal experience with it.
In my experience nearly everybody who complains about Leopard being unstable is running some sort of unsanity app (or the logitech drivers). Nobody else really has a problem.
As for the rest of his article, it seems pretty bullshit to me.
Vista Similarity #1: He claims that it's unstable. Most people disagree, a small but extremely vocal group agrees.
Vista Similarity #2: He whines about graphics overload, but then references things that work on even ancient low-end Macs with shitty graphic cards, and claims that everybody is showing them off. I don't think they are.
Vista Similarity #3: He tries to draw equivalence between putting basic network settings three menus deep and Apple deciding that if the dock is on the bottom, that it should have a subtle reflection. Then he complains Apple's new "Cover Flow" is good enough for him, and thus Quick Look was unnecessary. Perhaps he could try not using it, then. To each their own, y'know.
Vista Similarity #4: He claims that Leopard drops packets and loses connections. I have a bunch of Leopard machines on both wired and wireless networks and have seen absolutely no evidence that this is true. He also claims that SMB shares come and go. Again, I'm on networks with SMB shares and have seen absolutely no evidence that this is true.
Vista Similarity #5: He tries to claim that time machine is awful, because it does file-level, not block-level incrementals, it doesn't work on network shares by default, and it defaults to backing up the whole system. Time Machine could use improvement, but it's useful and it will get a *lot* of people backing up their machines for the first time in forever.
Honestly, #5 is the only complaint that has any air of authenticity to me (I've had similar complaints), but it's not like it's a horrific detriment.
There are two options here: Option 1) This is Ziff-Davis MSFT flamebait. Option 2) The author of the piece is an idiotic fuck who screwed up his install.
You sound exactly like the British generals from 1775 until about 1783. They too thought of themselves as the most powerful military in the world, and actually referred to the Americans as insurgents.
Funny how that goes.
Even funnier how your post implies that the United States would have left Iraq if they had just chosen not to fight back, when the plan was always to set up large numbers "enduring" bases, to stay in Iraq for decades to come and to control it's government.
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This rant is some hideously dishonest marketing for a product that will generate profit for him, personally.
And now the club has updated their calendar to trade only on photos of the cars, not on the Ford logo as well, and Ford has dropped their complaint.
Furthermore, they clarified that they never told cafepress to halt sales of the whole calendar, just to stop trading on the Ford logo.
To address your points in order:
1) Yes, you need permission from the casino to sell a postcard of that casino.
2) No, because the sports apparel is not the reason the postcard has value.
You clearly know less than nothing about trade law, so please, for christ's sake, STFU. You're out of your depths and you're too fucking stupid to realize it.
99% of all these copyright "outrages" are because of idiot assholes like you who don't know how the law is written, but feel free to blame the companies for stupid laws anyway.
I already knew that most people on slashdot are too fucking stupid and lazy to read. I didn't need you to re-prove the point.
This isn't about "any picture" as claimed in the summary. It's about people who sell those images based in part on Ford's name.
As such your "counter-examples" prove only that you don't understand the problem, and that the discussion would be more intelligent and informed if you would STFU.
If the group had approached Ford in advance, that would have been an option. At this point, the law simply doesn't have a provision for being nice to people who clearly meant no harm.
Fact is they committed a pretty clear infraction, and Ford found out about it, so Ford has to send them a little letter.
The real problem here is the law. If Ford fails to go after this sort of violation, they lose the rights to go after other violations in the future.
As such, American law is written such that they must either attack people who mean no harm, or lose the right to defend themselves in the future against actual harms.
This isn't Fords fault, it's the broken-ass laws of the United States.
There are actually a few small, crappy libraries each about 20 minutes away from me, but the closest *good* library is a hellish drive that is a pure nightmare in traffic.
Actually, everything near me is hell in traffic, which is another reason I greatly prefer a UPS guy dropping books at my door to a library visit.
I only buy books, never borrow.
I'd rather pay $10/book than spend $4 in gas, and 2 hours of my time going back and forth to the library. I re-read books occasionally, but not often.
The library just strikes me as a massive waste of time, compared to buying books online, at airport bookstores (where I'm captive anyway), and in cities that aren't my home (again, where I'm basically captive to the local entertainment options.)
Read The Fucking Manual !
You really should not have to read the manual on a fridge. Plug it in, food gets cold, water and ice come through the door. Game over.
If the fridge is more complicated than that, nearly nobody will do it.
It cuts out a lot of people.
No pressing discs. No printing boxes. No shopping finished product to distributors.
There's still a retailer involved, but a bunch of other middle-men are removed.
Claims can be independant (in which case they are OR'd) or dependent (in which case they are AND'd). It all depends on the exact language in the claim itself.
If you want to read the actual 64 claims, check out the Patent.
I'm all for patent outrage, but this one isn't a good example, unless you're against all IP protection, everywhere.
What does it matter?
If I made up a Chuck Norris joke, I know for a fact that I will never monetize it. I won't publish it as a cute Christmas gift, or turn it into a fun holiday card. So why should I care that somebody else is willing to do so?
If my joke's funny, I can have the satisfaction of knowing that I amused a lot of people, and I made the same exact amount of money I was planning to make. No loss. No harm.
I didn't try to come up with some absurd setup. I used my actual setup, minus the classic controllers, wii points and zapper.
Don't get me wrong, I love the Wii. I just think that people who claim it's selling because it's cheap are misguided.
Well, you've almost proved my point for me.
By the time you add everything up, you're looking at $600+ versus $700+. I just have a hard time believing that there is a significant contingent of people who are happy to pay $600 to play games, but think that $700 is too much.
I know the Wii is a little cheaper, but I still don't buy the idea that it's popular because of price. I think it's popular because it's really fucking fun; especially for people who want to play casually against friends.
It's not like Wiis are that cheap to begin with, at least not the way most people set them up.
Wii - $250
Wii Play w/Wiimote - $50
Two more Wiimotes - $80
An extra Nunchuk - $20
Component Video Cable - $20
And you're at $420 without buying any meaningful games, at regular retail price. Toss in sales tax and a handful of games, you've already broke $600.
Beyond that, I just don't buy the argument that a 360 or a PS3 is a true competitor to the Wii. People who buy the Wii want it for the innovative game play, and nothing else satisfies that demand.
you made a bad decision because you didn't do enough research, and you should be the one paying the price.
But in this case they aren't the ones paying the price. Their children are.
I think that hypocritical religious leaders deserve to be exposed because of their chosen place in society, so this sounds fan-fucking-tastic to me.
If you have a hypocritical pastor, I'll buy the domain and host the site.
This is a nearly absurd point.
I was against the Iraq War from the initial drumbeats following 9/11 through today. But I didn't like Fahrenheit 9/11 at all.
I still don't get what conclusion we're supposed to draw about a person's weight based on their opinion of super-size me. Are fat people supposed to love it or hate it? Beats the hell out of me. All I know is that Spurlock is a hack, and I hate seeing him on screen.
The authors of this study can claim that they can find things out with an incredible mathematical certainty, but what do they really know? Not much. They're good at math, not so good at people.
There are plenty of problems with OS X, but there is no way that Ziff-Davis would have published this idiocy if it was about any Windows release. I mean, it's just one douche ranting about a bad experience. It belongs on a whiny little blog, not on a major media website.
Pretty much every computer I've ever owned has pissed me off at some point, be it Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, QNX, VxWorks or FreeBSD. And pretty much always, a system that crashes constantly turns out to be something *other* than a problem that's endemic to the system.
If he could provide some solid bug reports, or evidence that it's not just him screwing up, that'd be great, but he hasn't. And some of his claims (wired networking drops link at random?) are really out there.
It's a shame that slashdot is such a predictably awful site that this troll of an article got links. It made Z-D a lot of money, and I'm sure MSFT and the Z-D masters are happy about that. But it was a waste of everyone's time.
Facebook Executives wrote: Facebook executives say the people who are complaining are a marginal minority. With time, Facebook says, users will accept Beacon, which Facebook views as an extension of the type of book and movie recommendations that members routinely volunteer on their profile pages.
What they meant: "We're turning it off for now, but we're going to slowly and deliberately swing it back to an on by default system."
As far as the claim that the complainants are a "marginal minority", I think that it's only a "marginal minority" of Facebook users that even knew the system existed, and probably a smaller minority that had any personal experience with it.
I'm backing up to a FreeBSD Network share as well. That's why I was careful to say 'by default' when I was mentioning his criticism.
In my experience nearly everybody who complains about Leopard being unstable is running some sort of unsanity app (or the logitech drivers). Nobody else really has a problem.
As for the rest of his article, it seems pretty bullshit to me.
Vista Similarity #1: He claims that it's unstable. Most people disagree, a small but extremely vocal group agrees.
Vista Similarity #2: He whines about graphics overload, but then references things that work on even ancient low-end Macs with shitty graphic cards, and claims that everybody is showing them off. I don't think they are.
Vista Similarity #3: He tries to draw equivalence between putting basic network settings three menus deep and Apple deciding that if the dock is on the bottom, that it should have a subtle reflection. Then he complains Apple's new "Cover Flow" is good enough for him, and thus Quick Look was unnecessary. Perhaps he could try not using it, then. To each their own, y'know.
Vista Similarity #4: He claims that Leopard drops packets and loses connections. I have a bunch of Leopard machines on both wired and wireless networks and have seen absolutely no evidence that this is true. He also claims that SMB shares come and go. Again, I'm on networks with SMB shares and have seen absolutely no evidence that this is true.
Vista Similarity #5: He tries to claim that time machine is awful, because it does file-level, not block-level incrementals, it doesn't work on network shares by default, and it defaults to backing up the whole system. Time Machine could use improvement, but it's useful and it will get a *lot* of people backing up their machines for the first time in forever.
Honestly, #5 is the only complaint that has any air of authenticity to me (I've had similar complaints), but it's not like it's a horrific detriment.
There are two options here:
Option 1) This is Ziff-Davis MSFT flamebait.
Option 2) The author of the piece is an idiotic fuck who screwed up his install.
My money is on Both.
You sound exactly like the British generals from 1775 until about 1783. They too thought of themselves as the most powerful military in the world, and actually referred to the Americans as insurgents.
Funny how that goes.
Even funnier how your post implies that the United States would have left Iraq if they had just chosen not to fight back, when the plan was always to set up large numbers "enduring" bases, to stay in Iraq for decades to come and to control it's government.
there is obviously the speed issue too, but that's always the case with a new os.
OS X 10.5 is faster than 10.4.
10.4 was faster than 10.3.
There is absolutely *no* reason for a newer OS to be slower.