As someone who works on Windows Media Center for Vista, I can certainly say that we're not rewriting a bunch of code. I'm using MCE for Vista on my living room PC right now.
I think you'll see more of this. There is a push in the company to do more in the community through employee blogs, channel 9, newsgroup participation, etc. I think it goes a long way to show that MS employees are real people.
Does anyone know if any of these systems take into account copyright expiration? Granted that it seems congress is extending thee term every time that Mickey Mouse comes close to expiring, but I wonder if we should ensure that content being produced today properly becomes public domain upon the expiration of the copyright.
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So, I thought the same way for a while after to dot com boom, but then I started seeing things like:
Google (you can't innovate on search, can you?)
Halo (aren't all FPSs the same?)
iPod (nuff said)
Here's a good example from my weekend at an outdoor music festival: Can you innovate on a honey bucket? I saw for the first time a giant 6 person urinal trough. No waiting in long lines, not being closed in a nasty smelling booth, and most of all it opend up the others for people who needed them.
I guess what I'm getting at is that just when you think something is as good as it's going to get - someone will find a way to make it better and profit from it. Even honey buckets.
Seems like they'd be limiting their paid audience if they only allowed AOL users to subscribe. This is, of course, assuming there is a big market for online subscriptions to People Magizine.
People liked HTML before XHTML because it was forgiving. One could forget a few close tags, one could overlap tag runs and the browser would muddle through.
Actually, I think that this is why most people hated html. The muddleing you speak of was different between implementaions (browsers) and thus you have a pseudo standard.
I only go a few paragraphs in and I'm already dissapointed. They still represent CSS in a non-XML form. Why in the world would they not move CSS or whatever style language they want to use into an XML format? Now people that want to parse these things are going to have to write or continue to support their own CSS parsers instead of just using existing XML parsers! I'm not asking them to re-invent CSS or its rules, but please, let's change the syntax so that XHTML and CSS both live in XML documents.
Your analogies in this essay are either incorrect or irrelevant.
The prehistoric example is simple. A refugee from a war loses most of his tribe to the invading barbarians, but manages to escape to the next village. If he tells those people of the invasion and moves on, they will help themselves by preparing for the fight or evacuating, and probably taking the refugee with them out of thanks or desire for his experience. If he were to stop at the village, get food and water, and then leave without telling everyone of the approaching ruin, the survivors of the resulting carnage would probably not be so kindly disposed towards him.
This makes no sense whatsoever. It means nothing to IP law. In the above scenario, with or without IP laws, the scenario could be the same.
A more recent example would be the various gold rushes, both with real or imagined minerals. While there was very little real gold in California, the uninhibited spread of information about all the new business opportunities in the area in the late nineteenth century turned an otherwise undesirable region into the one of the hottest business centers on the planet.
Again, you're trying to say that somehow a lack of IP laws was responsible for the west coast's success. Wrong. The idea that gold might be out there helped, but your assertion that flow of information such as news events would not have been possible due to IP Laws is bogus.
The concept of public libraries, which originated around a century ago, is also a clear demonstration of this fact. I don't think that there is anyone who doesn't consider the nation's public libraries to be noble institutions. When they first starting being constructed, however, the publishing industry was in an uproar. People cold go to libraries and read for free rather than pay the publishers for books. It is almost a direct mirror of the current uproar the record industry is making about MP3's and file-trading services such as Napster and Gnutella.
Again, this is a flawed analogie. A library provides access to a single copy of a book for a single person at a single time. They paid the publisher money for that book. Napster provided access to anyone, anwhere, anytime unlimited copies of that item without ever buying that item. In the library example, the library increased the efficiency of the book by letting any number of people use it over it's lifetime.
Also, the central part of your argument that infinite supply = 0 cost and that the only cost should be in delivery, is rediculous. Record companies spend money to crete music. Software companies spend money to create software. Authors and publishers spend money/time to create works. You're advocating a communal system that would make any career mentioned above worthless. Your delivery pipes would have NOTHING to deliver since there is no incentive to create.
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As someone who works on Windows Media Center for Vista, I can certainly say that we're not rewriting a bunch of code. I'm using MCE for Vista on my living room PC right now.
...then maybe we'd have some decent skiing out here. 2' of fresh ash anyone? :)
I think you'll see more of this. There is a push in the company to do more in the community through employee blogs, channel 9, newsgroup participation, etc. I think it goes a long way to show that MS employees are real people.
I want my 45 seconds back!
I think I'll drop by tonight to say hi.
Does anyone know if any of these systems take into account copyright expiration? Granted that it seems congress is extending thee term every time that Mickey Mouse comes close to expiring, but I wonder if we should ensure that content being produced today properly becomes public domain upon the expiration of the copyright.
Neither, as long as they have good estimation skills.
RTFA.. It IS a SMPTE standard.
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So, I thought the same way for a while after to dot com boom, but then I started seeing things like:
Google (you can't innovate on search, can you?)
Halo (aren't all FPSs the same?)
iPod (nuff said)
Here's a good example from my weekend at an outdoor music festival: Can you innovate on a honey bucket? I saw for the first time a giant 6 person urinal trough. No waiting in long lines, not being closed in a nasty smelling booth, and most of all it opend up the others for people who needed them.
I guess what I'm getting at is that just when you think something is as good as it's going to get - someone will find a way to make it better and profit from it. Even honey buckets.
DDR for XBox is online. I've played it over XBox live. The also have downloadable song packs ($5 for 5 songs.)
Actually, according to this, Windows Server 2003 isn't vulnerable.
It's cool to have a game this small, but I think I'd give up another 500-1000 bytes to have an inverted mouse. :)
it will have excessive DRM lockdowns and won't handle Ogg. Oh and it costs more.
Just like the ipod?
40GB iPod = $500
DRM
No Ogg support
Glat to hear it! Maybe Pizza will be the next! Crust from Pizza hut, sauce from Marios, cheese from Papa Johns, and pepperoni from Dominos...
My new car came with a media player. It was a Honda car with a Honda media player. I don't think I had the option to unbundle them.
Yeah.. I am.. I just looked it up. 1 Peso = 9 Pennies. My bad.
MS buys UNIX patents for pennies on the peso
I belive they'd lose money on that exchange. Penny > Peso.
Seems like they'd be limiting their paid audience if they only allowed AOL users to subscribe. This is, of course, assuming there is a big market for online subscriptions to People Magizine.
People liked HTML before XHTML because it was forgiving. One could forget a few close tags, one could overlap tag runs and the browser would muddle through.
Actually, I think that this is why most people hated html. The muddleing you speak of was different between implementaions (browsers) and thus you have a pseudo standard.
I only go a few paragraphs in and I'm already dissapointed. They still represent CSS in a non-XML form. Why in the world would they not move CSS or whatever style language they want to use into an XML format? Now people that want to parse these things are going to have to write or continue to support their own CSS parsers instead of just using existing XML parsers! I'm not asking them to re-invent CSS or its rules, but please, let's change the syntax so that XHTML and CSS both live in XML documents.
A router shouldn't require drivers.
We have one - HTML. That's why no one used Java as a UI.
It's a shame that there are no 1080i games out for XBox yet. This would be a good place to demo some of the Hi-res games tht XBox can do.
I wrote an essay for my website about this subject some time back. You can find it here:
http://www.furinkan.net/display.php?pageid=75 [furinkan.net]
Your analogies in this essay are either incorrect or irrelevant.
The prehistoric example is simple. A refugee from a war loses most of his tribe to the invading barbarians, but manages to escape to the next village. If he tells those people of the invasion and moves on, they will help themselves by preparing for the fight or evacuating, and probably taking the refugee with them out of thanks or desire for his experience. If he were to stop at the village, get food and water, and then leave without telling everyone of the approaching ruin, the survivors of the resulting carnage would probably not be so kindly disposed towards him.
This makes no sense whatsoever. It means nothing to IP law. In the above scenario, with or without IP laws, the scenario could be the same.
A more recent example would be the various gold rushes, both with real or imagined minerals. While there was very little real gold in California, the uninhibited spread of information about all the new business opportunities in the area in the late nineteenth century turned an otherwise undesirable region into the one of the hottest business centers on the planet.
Again, you're trying to say that somehow a lack of IP laws was responsible for the west coast's success. Wrong. The idea that gold might be out there helped, but your assertion that flow of information such as news events would not have been possible due to IP Laws is bogus.
The concept of public libraries, which originated around a century ago, is also a clear demonstration of this fact. I don't think that there is anyone who doesn't consider the nation's public libraries to be noble institutions. When they first starting being constructed, however, the publishing industry was in an uproar. People cold go to libraries and read for free rather than pay the publishers for books. It is almost a direct mirror of the current uproar the record industry is making about MP3's and file-trading services such as Napster and Gnutella.
Again, this is a flawed analogie. A library provides access to a single copy of a book for a single person at a single time. They paid the publisher money for that book. Napster provided access to anyone, anwhere, anytime unlimited copies of that item without ever buying that item.
In the library example, the library increased the efficiency of the book by letting any number of people use it over it's lifetime.
Also, the central part of your argument that infinite supply = 0 cost and that the only cost should be in delivery, is rediculous. Record companies spend money to crete music. Software companies spend money to create software. Authors and publishers spend money/time to create works.
You're advocating a communal system that would make any career mentioned above worthless. Your delivery pipes would have NOTHING to deliver since there is no incentive to create.