Government organisations have been responsible for PAL, NTSC, mains electrical power and frequency, shipping container sizes, weights and measures and hundreds of other technical standards.
A lot of them were developed by private industry first and then adopted by the standards organisations, but many would have been one of many competing standards without government backing as the standard.
Both formats have their benefits. HD DVD has more technical features (Although PiP seems to be the main one). Bluray has higher capacity per layer and higher bitrate.
Yup. HD DVD players are cheap. It's not like spending $1500 (adjusted for inflation) on a Betamax player in 1980. I know a couple of people with working Laserdisc players. They still use them from time to time even though they haven't bought a new disc for years.
The only real way to solve this problem is to amend the constitution. Possible but needs to be done carefully to avoid infringing on genuine freedom of speech.
There are plenty of small non-profit conventions that aren't.
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Julius Baer, or their lawyers are used to dealing with large, for-profit organisations You deal with them by making it too expensive for them to operate. If WikiLeaks relied on advertising, or even subscription fees they'd be severely struggling at this stage.
These typically reliable tactics tend not to work against a non-profit organisation that exists for the purpose of disseminating embarrassing information. They're not the first group to rely on unsuitable tactics. Certainly won't be the last.
Okay. It's like being the organiser of a group of people who manufacture parts of a car from a blueprint derived from a car, and send them to each other:)
I wonder whether they will continue to do this though. It makes sense to do this with a new format to help promote it over DVD, and because that's a selling point of the rival format.
I'm sure Region free Blu-Ray players will be available at some point. I'm certainly never going to buy a region locked one even if all the studios start releasing region free.
If Bluray is a Sony format, so is DVD and CD. Sony backed it strongly and presumably did a lot ofthe original development but it's not a Sony format in the same way that minidisc and Betamax were. Sony got other companies on board as part of the standards consortium.
This might explain why it didn't fail. Companies prefer it when the standards body isn't the same organisation as their rival. There's always a risk that the standard might change specifically to favour one manufacturer.
I'm going to continue to not buy anything from Village people or Prince. Unless I happen to hear a song from either of them that I think is good enough that I decide to buy a CD.
Somehow I can't quite get to the level of rage that some people manage about one commercial organisation suing another over a dispute about a legal matter.
I believe they're designed with the idea of disabling a core afterwards, using fusable tracks. Apply a high voltage to the right pins and part of the chip breaks.
At that point, kids who, at the moment, can't even read will be working on it. A large proportion of the people working on it now will be retired. A lot can happen in 20 years. Guesses about what will happen in 10 years are usually just a guess. Even 5 year projections tend to be more hope than plan.
And that's why trucks are a bad analogy. When you're looking at thousands of packets, a pipe is a much better analogy. Hell, when you're looking at thousands of trucks, a pipe is often a better analogy.
Before that law was passed, not many people cared too much about copyright. Not even geeks. But the law was so badly designed, and so biassed in favour of the media cartels that suddenly everyone took an interest. Copyright is a major matter to quite a few people. Every time any change in copyright is suggested that is in any way similar to DMCA, there's huge opposition.
Kind of an unintended consequence of the law the media cartels wanted.
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Government organisations have been responsible for PAL, NTSC, mains electrical power and frequency, shipping container sizes, weights and measures and hundreds of other technical standards.
A lot of them were developed by private industry first and then adopted by the standards organisations, but many would have been one of many competing standards without government backing as the standard.
True. The bigger problem for the bank is "lack of discretion". But maybe there is no such thing as bad publicity.
Both formats have their benefits. HD DVD has more technical features (Although PiP seems to be the main one). Bluray has higher capacity per layer and higher bitrate.
Yup. HD DVD players are cheap. It's not like spending $1500 (adjusted for inflation) on a Betamax player in 1980. I know a couple of people with working Laserdisc players. They still use them from time to time even though they haven't bought a new disc for years.
You may have a point.:)
Besides, given the "first", "second" pattern, it should be "troisième" i.e. "third". Not "trois", i.e. "three".
The only real way to solve this problem is to amend the constitution. Possible but needs to be done carefully to avoid infringing on genuine freedom of speech.
But there aren't a lot of French people living in Florida or any other swing states.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaggy_God_story
Dungeons and dragons? Wasn't that the game that pirated the idea from the movie "Monsters and Mazes"?
There are plenty of small non-profit conventions that aren't.
Julius Baer, or their lawyers are used to dealing with large, for-profit organisations You deal with them by making it too expensive for them to operate. If WikiLeaks relied on advertising, or even subscription fees they'd be severely struggling at this stage.
These typically reliable tactics tend not to work against a non-profit organisation that exists for the purpose of disseminating embarrassing information. They're not the first group to rely on unsuitable tactics. Certainly won't be the last.
Okay. It's like being the organiser of a group of people who manufacture parts of a car from a blueprint derived from a car, and send them to each other:)
I wonder whether they will continue to do this though. It makes sense to do this with a new format to help promote it over DVD, and because that's a selling point of the rival format.
I'm sure Region free Blu-Ray players will be available at some point. I'm certainly never going to buy a region locked one even if all the studios start releasing region free.
England drives on the correct side of the rode. Ask any Indian, Australian, Japanese person, Australian, or Irishman.
Rich? How much do you think these players cost!?
If Bluray is a Sony format, so is DVD and CD. Sony backed it strongly and presumably did a lot ofthe original development but it's not a Sony format in the same way that minidisc and Betamax were. Sony got other companies on board as part of the standards consortium.
This might explain why it didn't fail. Companies prefer it when the standards body isn't the same organisation as their rival. There's always a risk that the standard might change specifically to favour one manufacturer.
No, it's more like a website hosting torrents of songs and movies, and being sued by the copyright holders.
I'm really not quite sure what the point is of your analogy.
I'm going to continue to not buy anything from Village people or Prince. Unless I happen to hear a song from either of them that I think is good enough that I decide to buy a CD.
Somehow I can't quite get to the level of rage that some people manage about one commercial organisation suing another over a dispute about a legal matter.
Neither do the Pirate Bay.
It is, of course, possible that both you and they are wrong.
I believe they're designed with the idea of disabling a core afterwards, using fusable tracks. Apply a high voltage to the right pins and part of the chip breaks.
At that point, kids who, at the moment, can't even read will be working on it. A large proportion of the people working on it now will be retired. A lot can happen in 20 years. Guesses about what will happen in 10 years are usually just a guess. Even 5 year projections tend to be more hope than plan.
And that's why trucks are a bad analogy. When you're looking at thousands of packets, a pipe is a much better analogy. Hell, when you're looking at thousands of trucks, a pipe is often a better analogy.
Before that law was passed, not many people cared too much about copyright. Not even geeks. But the law was so badly designed, and so biassed in favour of the media cartels that suddenly everyone took an interest. Copyright is a major matter to quite a few people. Every time any change in copyright is suggested that is in any way similar to DMCA, there's huge opposition.
Kind of an unintended consequence of the law the media cartels wanted.
It's a bit too cynical to assume that no politician goes into politics because they want to make the world a better place.