Did you even read the rest of it? The "influencing" they describe is by clients paying for their pages to rank higher in the regular search results, an automated system to bribe for better results, which Google explicitly does not do. Google's ads, which are kept seperate from regular search results, sorta work like this, but this patent really seems to be more relevant to messing with messing with links mixed in with actual search results.
Peter tries to have at least a cameo in each of his movies. He had a cameo in Brain Dead, as the coroner's assistant, and was one of the people in the Prancing Pony in FotR.
Yes, Bad Taste was pretty awesome (sheep + rocket launcher should have won an Oscar) but by sheer body count I think Brain dead has it beat IMHO. Been a while since I've seen both of them so I could be mistaken.
Unfortunately here in the states its hard to find a completely uncut version. The DVD they released is closer than previous versions, but is still shorter by 3 minutes than the complete version.
Its for that reason that I don't consider Andy Warhol an artist. Maybe a scam artist, but not someone with actual expressive talent. Gluing my used toenail clippings to a canvas is no closer to art than anything else he's done.
This guy fails to grasp that most of the stuff he suggests for alternative revenue can be just as free as the music itself. The instant any of these extra materials are sold they'll be passed on for free also. "Convenience" is rarely sufficient for a determined user, especially when the only slightly more difficult alternatives are free.
I don't know, visiting my grandparents' grave and seeing some garish advertisement hyping exciting undead combat is hard not to associate with my loved ones' corpses being dug up and slugging it out. Lets have some respect for the dead.
It's quite simple. Economic opportunity is the only "public interest" that matters. The value of free public resources that corporations can't exploit don't always come into the equation. Huge monolithic companies pay employees and sell stocks and give retailers something to sell, contributing to the "economy". It also happens that they paid the FCC a good chunk of money for the frequencies they use. Nobody paid the FCC anything to use 802.11's frequencies, and most of the serious buzz about it is from a bunch of hippies eagerly offering free internet access. No massive opportunities here. (Potential) profit beats parasitic stuff any day.
My dad (a non-geek person with no knowledge of the FCC's workings) who recently just got an 802.11b card for his laptop to connecto to my own access point, had one of the most violent episodse of incomprehension I have seen since he attempted to argue that giving people access to source code was irresponsibly bad since someone could change something and break it upon hearing this, and the implications you mention. He doesn't quite grasp the FCC's authority to screw over an entire industry in favor of another (considered more important) industry.
This may be harder than it sounds since the kernel's not directly accessing the hardware, but a "runtime environment" that's designed explicitly to hide the hardware and do only what they'll allow it to. The drive is probably one of those dvd readers that couldn't read cdrs if it tried, and no ammount of tweaking will fix.
They probably crippled it long before they decided to release this linux kit. Also, dvd players have a history of not reading cd-rs without some effort to ensure compatibility, and sony has a history of not going out of its way to fix this, even in their high end dvd players (which sucks for vcd playback). Normally I'd say "that's what remote file systems are for" and use nfs or smb to mount the drive in my desktop (my ultrathin laptop doesn't have an internal cd drive), but in this case its not worth the trouble, with all the other limitations.
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It's not their copyrighted work to begin with so they'd be in violation of the original authors' copyright in attempting to "protect" it.
Re:Dirty Pool! But also confusing.
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Does thier obfuscation remove the GPL notices and author names? From the sounds of it this guy's company plans on stripping out all comments, although I suppose it would be trivial for them to leave only that part intact.
Mp3 was "targeted" as an audio codec for video files, and wasn't intended as a stand alone audio format. That didn't stop it from becoming the de facto standard music format, did it?
You've got a point, but I think the difference (as I think Miguel sees it) is that unlike previous Microsoft crap where its tacked on to the old stuff which drags down anything new no matter how good it is,.Net is relatively self contained. At the least the part that Mono is implementing seems to be free of old cruft.
Its statements like that which betray the studios' and networks' view of copyright law as that of a bunch of spoiled brats that assume the universe should conform to their will without question due to their almighty importance. While it often seems like they wield such power due to their pervasiveness, compare their revenues to other industries, many of which are held in check by far stricter consumer protection rules, and you quickly realize just how hollow their cries for blood of anything that threatens their business should actually be. Unfortunately, lawmakers can be jsut as starstruck as the rest of us.
I was around before Comcast@home in NJ had capped anything at all, and it was a nightmare of dropped packets. the first thing they capped was upload speeds, and dropped packets disappeared. Maintaning usable upload speeds is just as serious if ot moreso a problem, and their asymetric scheme is woefully imbalanced, . But yes, you're right that "webhogs" are also an issue, and that's another fundamnetal shift in behavior due to the always on nature, where constant usage is possible and practical. Those same people are also very likely to be sending nearly as muh stuff as they recieve, though, so upload speeds are related to that.
Miguel's response to this controversy appeased a lot of my concerns about what they actually want do do with Mono, and especially his apparent admiration for Microsoft's stuff (he likes.Net, but still thinks everything that came before it is garbage). While I still disagree with his fetish for next-gen APIs over designing an actual desktop (which KDE seems much farther along with), at least he doesn't appear to be selling out to M$ as readily as it first seemed.
All of these consume broadband services are built around the premise that it's "just like a modem, only faster!". All of them, especially the cable companies, see it as a content delivery system and not the 2 way medium that the Internet was supposed to be. They never anticipated that users' behavior would fundamentaly change with more bandwidth, and hence built their systems around technologies with anemic upload speeds.
That may be good enough for shows that have a stable time slot, but would be useless for anything less regular (movies, sports, etc.). There are a few programs out there though (XMLTV for example) that can parse some tv listings sites, although I don't know how kindly they'd take to having listings downloaded without the ads on a mass scale. You probably won't see anything with unrestricted access and usage als long though, that's where the tvguides of the world make the bucks (of the US anyway, I think there may be services in Europe where it is less restrictive)
Imagine for a moment that someone walks into the middle of your living room, throws up, and claims that you do not have the right to clean it up because it was his bag of nachos and that the vomit is his property. Or better yet he claims it is his artistic creation and is therefore his intellectual property, even though it is now embedded in your carpet. Are you really going to respect his property rights?
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Did you even read the rest of it? The "influencing" they describe is by clients paying for their pages to rank higher in the regular search results, an automated system to bribe for better results, which Google explicitly does not do. Google's ads, which are kept seperate from regular search results, sorta work like this, but this patent really seems to be more relevant to messing with messing with links mixed in with actual search results.
Peter tries to have at least a cameo in each of his movies. He had a cameo in Brain Dead, as the coroner's assistant, and was one of the people in the Prancing Pony in FotR.
Yes, Bad Taste was pretty awesome (sheep + rocket launcher should have won an Oscar) but by sheer body count I think Brain dead has it beat IMHO. Been a while since I've seen both of them so I could be mistaken.
Unfortunately here in the states its hard to find a completely uncut version. The DVD they released is closer than previous versions, but is still shorter by 3 minutes than the complete version.
Its for that reason that I don't consider Andy Warhol an artist. Maybe a scam artist, but not someone with actual expressive talent. Gluing my used toenail clippings to a canvas is no closer to art than anything else he's done.
Sorry, but most violent (or gory at least) goes to Brain Dead, aka Dead Alive here in the US.
This guy fails to grasp that most of the stuff he suggests for alternative revenue can be just as free as the music itself. The instant any of these extra materials are sold they'll be passed on for free also. "Convenience" is rarely sufficient for a determined user, especially when the only slightly more difficult alternatives are free.
I don't know, visiting my grandparents' grave and seeing some garish advertisement hyping exciting undead combat is hard not to associate with my loved ones' corpses being dug up and slugging it out. Lets have some respect for the dead.
It's quite simple. Economic opportunity is the only "public interest" that matters. The value of free public resources that corporations can't exploit don't always come into the equation. Huge monolithic companies pay employees and sell stocks and give retailers something to sell, contributing to the "economy". It also happens that they paid the FCC a good chunk of money for the frequencies they use. Nobody paid the FCC anything to use 802.11's frequencies, and most of the serious buzz about it is from a bunch of hippies eagerly offering free internet access. No massive opportunities here. (Potential) profit beats parasitic stuff any day.
My dad (a non-geek person with no knowledge of the FCC's workings) who recently just got an 802.11b card for his laptop to connecto to my own access point, had one of the most violent episodse of incomprehension I have seen since he attempted to argue that giving people access to source code was irresponsibly bad since someone could change something and break it upon hearing this, and the implications you mention. He doesn't quite grasp the FCC's authority to screw over an entire industry in favor of another (considered more important) industry.
This may be harder than it sounds since the kernel's not directly accessing the hardware, but a "runtime environment" that's designed explicitly to hide the hardware and do only what they'll allow it to. The drive is probably one of those dvd readers that couldn't read cdrs if it tried, and no ammount of tweaking will fix.
They probably crippled it long before they decided to release this linux kit. Also, dvd players have a history of not reading cd-rs without some effort to ensure compatibility, and sony has a history of not going out of its way to fix this, even in their high end dvd players (which sucks for vcd playback). Normally I'd say "that's what remote file systems are for" and use nfs or smb to mount the drive in my desktop (my ultrathin laptop doesn't have an internal cd drive), but in this case its not worth the trouble, with all the other limitations.
It's not their copyrighted work to begin with so they'd be in violation of the original authors' copyright in attempting to "protect" it.
Does thier obfuscation remove the GPL notices and author names? From the sounds of it this guy's company plans on stripping out all comments, although I suppose it would be trivial for them to leave only that part intact.
No, that's like your tax dollars going to pay the license fees for copyrighted road signs and yellow lines.
Mp3 was "targeted" as an audio codec for video files, and wasn't intended as a stand alone audio format. That didn't stop it from becoming the de facto standard music format, did it?
Is this Scott McNealy's revenge for having to wear some stupid penguin get-up?
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-832463.html
Last time I checked it was their profits that were declining. They're still more than breaking even.
You've got a point, but I think the difference (as I think Miguel sees it) is that unlike previous Microsoft crap where its tacked on to the old stuff which drags down anything new no matter how good it is, .Net is relatively self contained. At the least the part that Mono is implementing seems to be free of old cruft.
Its statements like that which betray the studios' and networks' view of copyright law as that of a bunch of spoiled brats that assume the universe should conform to their will without question due to their almighty importance. While it often seems like they wield such power due to their pervasiveness, compare their revenues to other industries, many of which are held in check by far stricter consumer protection rules, and you quickly realize just how hollow their cries for blood of anything that threatens their business should actually be. Unfortunately, lawmakers can be jsut as starstruck as the rest of us.
I was around before Comcast@home in NJ had capped anything at all, and it was a nightmare of dropped packets. the first thing they capped was upload speeds, and dropped packets disappeared. Maintaning usable upload speeds is just as serious if ot moreso a problem, and their asymetric scheme is woefully imbalanced, . But yes, you're right that "webhogs" are also an issue, and that's another fundamnetal shift in behavior due to the always on nature, where constant usage is possible and practical. Those same people are also very likely to be sending nearly as muh stuff as they recieve, though, so upload speeds are related to that.
Miguel's response to this controversy appeased a lot of my concerns about what they actually want do do with Mono, and especially his apparent admiration for Microsoft's stuff (he likes .Net, but still thinks everything that came before it is garbage). While I still disagree with his fetish for next-gen APIs over designing an actual desktop (which KDE seems much farther along with), at least he doesn't appear to be selling out to M$ as readily as it first seemed.
All of these consume broadband services are built around the premise that it's "just like a modem, only faster!". All of them, especially the cable companies, see it as a content delivery system and not the 2 way medium that the Internet was supposed to be. They never anticipated that users' behavior would fundamentaly change with more bandwidth, and hence built their systems around technologies with anemic upload speeds.
That may be good enough for shows that have a stable time slot, but would be useless for anything less regular (movies, sports, etc.). There are a few programs out there though (XMLTV for example) that can parse some tv listings sites, although I don't know how kindly they'd take to having listings downloaded without the ads on a mass scale. You probably won't see anything with unrestricted access and usage als long though, that's where the tvguides of the world make the bucks (of the US anyway, I think there may be services in Europe where it is less restrictive)
I believe the later All-in-wonder cards have hardware MPEG2 encoder chips, which make it a lot more practical to record in real time at decent quality
Don't you mean hypocritical?
Imagine for a moment that someone walks into the middle of your living room, throws up, and claims that you do not have the right to clean it up because it was his bag of nachos and that the vomit is his property. Or better yet he claims it is his artistic creation and is therefore his intellectual property, even though it is now embedded in your carpet. Are you really going to respect his property rights?