Still, in my opionion, the reason the DC failed was the the PS2 had apparently better specs and DVD playback. Blu-ray support is not such a big draw as DVD was then, and the specs don't look anywhere near as much better on the PS3 than Xbox360.
No. Xbox was a 2 billion dollar advertisment for XBox 360. It seems people ar eno longer willing to spend money on a console without a pedigree. If they can as much much money from the 360 as they lost on XBox then it will have been a success.
It could be her. Or it could just be a model in a "geek" shirt that the editor thought would be a nice illustration. Most publications do this sort of thing.
There are uses for smaller more expensive solar cells as well. Personally, I'd like a solar laptop . I suspect that we've nowhere near the power requirements for something like that but there are other portable devices that would be more convenient with solar power to extend battery life.
"shit, some exec nicked my office and I was put in a cubicle instead"
Which actualy, I see as a legitimate complaint. An office has a certain kudos, so being forced out does mean an effective (albeit small) demotion. Maybe not a major deal, but certainly something that would justify complaint.
That means each copy of a movie is worth $150,000./me checks the price of the last DVD I bought... nope, I'm not bankrupt yet.
I'm not sure how they come up with this figure. Statutory minimum damages only go up to $50 000 per work, and even then it would be hard to suggest that their losses were anything like the maximum amount offered. Or even the $750 minimum per work.
Quite honestly - if the penalty was reasonable (say about $200 for a case like this) I'd have very little sympathy for the guy. His grandson did infringe copyright, and could conceivably have cost the industry money. When he's likely to lose this much it just tells me that the law is totally out of touch with the realities of copyright infringement.
Yes it does neeed to be backed up, and I sympathise with this, but it's only a minority concern. A large number of people simply lack the technical capability to do this. It's also not a right people have come to expect in the last decade. Very few people copy video because it's too much effort. And a typical response wil be "Just go and buy another copy then!".
The best arguments are ones that appear show the way this works is clearly unfair, and any defence makes the defender look stupid.
Now, I'd quite like to be able to legally back up a DVD and various other things as well, but really quite a small number of people really care. People do, however, copy music and record TV shows, and it is perfectly legal to do this (according to the Audio Home Recording Act and the SCOTUS Betamax decision), except the DMCA makes it illegal.
We have always had a tradtion of freedom of speech. Now it's actually part of the law under the Human Rights act. The government could always, potentially, abridge this right, but any bill that is not extremely specific will not get through. Our government - even the unelected house of lords - tends to be very wary about violating freedom of speech.
Given that someone was killed by someone who played Manhunt,
Except this was tabloid hysteria. According to GamesIndustry.Biz The victim played manhunt, and police were quite certain games had nothing to do with the murder.
I don't think his complaint was the concept of code assistance, it was Microsoft's implementation.
Yup. I simply set VS up to only autocomplete when I press tab (I think this is a third party plug-in. Also corrects capitalisation and spell checks comments). But I think he has a point. The tools do assume you want to do things in a very specific way. It's not the editor utilities so much as visual editors. GUI toolkits, even APIs will insist on producing an application that is heavily geared around the UI, and impossible to port to any other toolkitm and hard to retrofit to an existing application.
Ms aren't totally opposed to open standards. For certain values of open. Open in the Microsoft owned and nothing to do with using non microsoft OS on a desktop PC or server, but published, and free to use
They're reluctant to allow any compatibility with their strongholds, but aside from those, are quite willing to assist anybody who wants to make their hardware or software compliant with Microsoft's interfaces.
They are neither assisting or hindering SCO's attack on Linux. They have made a business decision which will increase sales of their software, and may improve sales of SCO's software.
This has no bearing on SCO's lawsuit against IBM. Doesn't affect Linux. Just benefits SCO and users and increases sales of mySQL
Or is it really that most people believe that because they are unaware of any alternative?
Doesn't matter. If you want to convince people your way is better, then you are free to do that. Once you have convinced enough people, lobby for the law to be changed again.
I propose that the law should match public perception of what it should be. When public perception changes, the law should change to acommodate. Lawmakers have to have a certain flexibility here since the people often have incompatible requirements (e.g. high public spending and low taxes) but there shuld be a principle that people get more or less the laws they want.
How about these concepts as a starting point; These are simply ideas that in my opinion are not too controversial.
We want to ensure its's possible to make a profit from creative works.
People will copy data.
Sharing between friends is not going to bring down the music/movie/software industry.
Online file sharing should probably be discouraged, or at least not strongly encouraged.
Awarding disproportionately huge damages against file sharers is not a just solution.
A distinction should be made between small scale copying for free, and large scale copying for financial gain.
When we have the government siding strongly with the media cartels, and disproportionate penalties for file sharers, as well as the invasion of privacy by a private organisation means that people loserespect for the law. This is generally speaking a bad thing. m'kay.
Most people agree that copyright is largely a good thing. Most people also have no qualms about using pirated software. I'm sure we can find a compromise.
Don't know about people at Microsoft, but I trained myself to become quite proficcient with computers. A lot of the best computer experts I've met are largely self taught
Sklyarov being found inocent means it isn't going to happen again. What would be the point of prosecuting someone who, based on precedent, has demonstrably not broken US law!?
Jon is a kid hacker, wasn't even the author of DeCSS for crying out loud.
Maybe he's got a job in UI design. Or PR. He seems to have been pretty good at self promotion.
RMS needs a shower and job.
He has a job. Professional Yak. Yaks don't shower.
Kevin Mitnick *IS* a criminal.
Okay - serious answer this time - Yes he is. But the penatly was totalyl disproportionate to the crime. It's like charging tresspassers with grand theft.
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10 reasons why the Xbox 360 will succeed where the Dreamcast failed. Really this is just a light hearted look at what MS might and might not be doing right.
Still, in my opionion, the reason the DC failed was the the PS2 had apparently better specs and DVD playback. Blu-ray support is not such a big draw as DVD was then, and the specs don't look anywhere near as much better on the PS3 than Xbox360.
No. Xbox was a 2 billion dollar advertisment for XBox 360. It seems people ar eno longer willing to spend money on a console without a pedigree. If they can as much much money from the 360 as they lost on XBox then it will have been a success.
Don't believe everything you see...
It could be her. Or it could just be a model in a "geek" shirt that the editor thought would be a nice illustration. Most publications do this sort of thing.
There are uses for smaller more expensive solar cells as well. Personally, I'd like a solar laptop . I suspect that we've nowhere near the power requirements for something like that but there are other portable devices that would be more convenient with solar power to extend battery life.
"shit, some exec nicked my office and I was put in a cubicle instead"
Which actualy, I see as a legitimate complaint. An office has a certain kudos, so being forced out does mean an effective (albeit small) demotion. Maybe not a major deal, but certainly something that would justify complaint.
That means each copy of a movie is worth $150,000. /me checks the price of the last DVD I bought... nope, I'm not bankrupt yet.
I'm not sure how they come up with this figure. Statutory minimum damages only go up to $50 000 per work, and even then it would be hard to suggest that their losses were anything like the maximum amount offered. Or even the $750 minimum per work.
Quite honestly - if the penalty was reasonable (say about $200 for a case like this) I'd have very little sympathy for the guy. His grandson did infringe copyright, and could conceivably have cost the industry money. When he's likely to lose this much it just tells me that the law is totally out of touch with the realities of copyright infringement.
Yes it does neeed to be backed up, and I sympathise with this, but it's only a minority concern. A large number of people simply lack the technical capability to do this. It's also not a right people have come to expect in the last decade. Very few people copy video because it's too much effort. And a typical response wil be "Just go and buy another copy then!".
The best arguments are ones that appear show the way this works is clearly unfair, and any defence makes the defender look stupid.
They do listen to what the majority of ordinary people want. They don't listen to what a minority of informed people want.
Slashdot is not the majority.
Slashdot users are not ordinary.
Determining whether they are informend or not is an excercise for the reader.
Now, I'd quite like to be able to legally back up a DVD and various other things as well, but really quite a small number of people really care. People do, however, copy music and record TV shows, and it is perfectly legal to do this (according to the Audio Home Recording Act and the SCOTUS Betamax decision), except the DMCA makes it illegal.
I wouldn't have heard about this game were it not for the negative publicity from people who want it banned.
We have always had a tradtion of freedom of speech. Now it's actually part of the law under the Human Rights act. The government could always, potentially, abridge this right, but any bill that is not extremely specific will not get through. Our government - even the unelected house of lords - tends to be very wary about violating freedom of speech.
Given that someone was killed by someone who played Manhunt,
Except this was tabloid hysteria. According to GamesIndustry.Biz The victim played manhunt, and police were quite certain games had nothing to do with the murder.
I don't think his complaint was the concept of code assistance, it was Microsoft's implementation.
Yup. I simply set VS up to only autocomplete when I press tab (I think this is a third party plug-in. Also corrects capitalisation and spell checks comments). But I think he has a point. The tools do assume you want to do things in a very specific way. It's not the editor utilities so much as visual editors. GUI toolkits, even APIs will insist on producing an application that is heavily geared around the UI, and impossible to port to any other toolkitm and hard to retrofit to an existing application.
Ms aren't totally opposed to open standards. For certain values of open. Open in the Microsoft owned and nothing to do with using non microsoft OS on a desktop PC or server, but published, and free to use They're reluctant to allow any compatibility with their strongholds, but aside from those, are quite willing to assist anybody who wants to make their hardware or software compliant with Microsoft's interfaces.
They are neither assisting or hindering SCO's attack on Linux. They have made a business decision which will increase sales of their software, and may improve sales of SCO's software.
This has no bearing on SCO's lawsuit against IBM. Doesn't affect Linux. Just benefits SCO and users and increases sales of mySQL
Or is it really that most people believe that because they are unaware of any alternative?
Doesn't matter. If you want to convince people your way is better, then you are free to do that. Once you have convinced enough people, lobby for the law to be changed again.
I propose that the law should match public perception of what it should be. When public perception changes, the law should change to acommodate. Lawmakers have to have a certain flexibility here since the people often have incompatible requirements (e.g. high public spending and low taxes) but there shuld be a principle that people get more or less the laws they want.
How about these concepts as a starting point; These are simply ideas that in my opinion are not too controversial.
We want to ensure its's possible to make a profit from creative works.
People will copy data.
Sharing between friends is not going to bring down the music/movie/software industry.
Online file sharing should probably be discouraged, or at least not strongly encouraged.
Awarding disproportionately huge damages against file sharers is not a just solution.
A distinction should be made between small scale copying for free, and large scale copying for financial gain.
When we have the government siding strongly with the media cartels, and disproportionate penalties for file sharers, as well as the invasion of privacy by a private organisation means that people loserespect for the law. This is generally speaking a bad thing. m'kay.
Most people agree that copyright is largely a good thing. Most people also have no qualms about using pirated software. I'm sure we can find a compromise.
Don't know about people at Microsoft, but I trained myself to become quite proficcient with computers. A lot of the best computer experts I've met are largely self taught
Yes? I mean No. I mean... erm..
I don't know. It's too hard. Can I phone a friend?
So if the US government decided to make arbtirary changes like that - Do you think any ISP would still use ICANN?
That controlling the root DNS actually allows any control over the internet at all. DNS is no tthe internet. It's a naming mechanism. That's all.
But that doesn't mean it's going to happen again.
Sklyarov being found inocent means it isn't going to happen again. What would be the point of prosecuting someone who, based on precedent, has demonstrably not broken US law!?
Jon is a kid hacker, wasn't even the author of DeCSS for crying out loud.
Maybe he's got a job in UI design. Or PR. He seems to have been pretty good at self promotion.
RMS needs a shower and job.
He has a job. Professional Yak. Yaks don't shower.
Kevin Mitnick *IS* a criminal.
Okay - serious answer this time - Yes he is. But the penatly was totalyl disproportionate to the crime. It's like charging tresspassers with grand theft.
Linus is not our lord saviour.
No. he's the finnish god of open source.
Sklyarov was found Not Guilty IIRC.
Is the DOJ really going to waste time prosecuting someone who will immediately be found innocent based on precendent?
and publicized some violent games I probably wouldn't have looked at anyway
That's certainly true. Rockstar haven't begun promoting Bully yet, but I already know it's apparently "a Columbine simulator". Sounds like fun.