The whole idea is that you cannot pick up 10,000 cheap copies of Microsoft software when a company goes bankrupt, and then charge the full proce for it if you were reselling the MS products individually.
It's standard procedure in the software licensing business, and K-Mart was well aware of this when purchasing the license.
You obvisouly don't know what you are talking about.
Well-used Javascript and DHTML is harder to recognize than the obvious stuff you come across as popups and various ad-schemes. Apparently, you pull stats ("99.9999%") out of your ass and try to pass your opinions as facts. Are you in the industry, or is your main experience that as a surfer ?
There is tremendous power to DHTML and Javascript, and it is widely used in commercial sites. It allows the user to interact with the otherwise dead html in ways that help the user and the site.
For a great example, look at International Herald Tribune. You can select articles from the frontpage and put them in a "clippings" folder - no you don't have to login - and then you can read them all later on. No more "open in a new window". For individual articles you can select how it will presented; font size, colums per page etc. This is an example of a site that is usable and intuitive thanks to Javascript, in this case.
Porsche is in the business of design, i.e. they design things. Check out their web site.
They also manufacture cars, but the basis was always design, since that is what Ferdinand A. Porsche was good at.
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"those were the days when you actually had to have a brain to get online, versus now,"
No, you are wrong. I am still waiting for people to actually use their brain and creativity when online, instead of trying to run a webserver on a carport remote control. It is a shame that the internet has turned into an anarchistic kindergarten because only juveniles can get connected. The reason those awful personal pages exist is that NOONE has anything to say. I wish my grandparents could get on the internet and publish their ideas, experiences and memories instead of kids with fake Britney pr0n and 1337-speak.
There have been lots of articles regarding this subject. One of many by John Dvorak who said Well it's not exactly the quantity of articles that are important, and certainly not by "journalists" like John Dvorak. Evidence on the effects of RF or even electronics is anectdotal on both sides, since interference is rare and conditions hard to duplicate.
On a tangent - since a majority of posts mentions American media - I'm wondering if there is a trend towards commercial-free television in the US.
Already, soccer in the US is broadcast without commercial breaks, but that's not really a good example since noone watches it.
But supposedly, next years US Masters (golf) will be broadcast entirely witouth commercial breaks and in-game endorsments ("leaderboard presented by Dodge - Dodge, where do you want to pollute today?"). This is a side effect of the arranging club not wanting to admit women and therefore losing sponsors etc, but that's not the point. This commercial-free block of programming is actually presented as a really positive thing for the viewers.
And this fall FOX will be broadcasting their hit series 24 - which is a one-hour (i.e. 50 minutes) show - entirely without commercials. Presented by blablabla but anyway.
I wondering if this will catch on, I sure hope so.
Well, Clarion is not exactly selling the cars
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"The Japanese company Clarion plans to sell a car with (...)"
Clarion is not a car manufacturer but instead a car music system manufacturer. I suppose they will sell this as an aftermarket upgrade or (car) manufacturer pre-installed in high end models.
Is this really true ? Afaik, they weren't circumventing copy protection, they were circumventing copyright.
One team had actual source code of IBM BIOS, going though it to document everything it did. Then another team would use this as a blueprint for writing a new - compatible - BIOS from scratch.
Yeah, but the ad compares Windows and Mac Os remember ? I doubt that the silly (fake?) person in the silly (fake?) story was considering installing a Unix on her desktop.
The clear answers to this blind persons problem is that instead of suing a company for not supporting their method of access, use your power as a member of a capitalistic society, and send a message with your money.
Find another company that supports you better, and spend your money with them.
So it's OK for companies to screw people over - even breaking the law - if they are willing to lose you as a customer ?
Philip Morris has been in the business of killing it customers for quite some time, and they're doing good (up until now at least...) . It's a myth that individual customers have an effect on large corporations. They just don't have to care.
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Damn you!;)
How it works - good picture
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While the article has some valid points, I think it's missing quite a lot.
First, a very large fraction of games people play on PC aren't paid for. This includes illegal copying, freeware, free mod's to existing games etc etc. The "Warez" market for PC games is huge, for the consoles it's negligible. If you want a new game for your Gamecube/Xbox/PS2, you have to go out and open your wallet. There are no demo versions to download, no illegal copying to do or free mods to a game you already own.
Second, online multiplayer gaming prolongs the expected lifetime for a game. For instance Quake and Half-Life (and their mods) are games that people have played actively more than 4 years after the initial release. The experience of online gaming makes up for what it lacks in technology. For consoles, the game gets boring a lot quicker and there's nothing to help it so you have to go out and buy another game. Yes, online gaming will come for the consoles, but will the Xbox players be able to play with the PS2 players ? I doubt it.
Third, the MMORPGs available on PC offer something not even remotely available on console; community building for the players and a steady, predictable, stream of revenue for the publishers. Until we see DAOC-like revenues for consoles, the PC games will keep coming, and coming. People are paying $12.95/month for some games, which means they in effect spend the cost for a new game every four months. This is NOT petty cash for the publishers.
Also, keep in mind that the console market is sub-divided in different markets for each console system. That means a similar cost of porting to different consoles as compared to keeping up with all different video- and soundcards and OS's for the PC market.
Does MySQL suck? For many particular jobs, sure, but that's the fault of the person who attempted to use it for those jobs. Conversely, there are situations and jobs for which it is everything *but* MySQL that sucks.
Ehhh, so you mean that when MySQL doesn't fit the needs, it doesn't suck - only the people who try to use it do. On the other hand when real RDBMS don't fit the needs, they suck ?
Sun has a history of pulling stunts like this against Microsoft. Their reasoning is that every dollar that doesn't end up in Microsoft's pocket, is a dollar they can't spend in developing software competing with Sun's own. It's as simple as that.
Star Office was an attempt to undermine the very profitable Office suite. By pushing Linux machines, they do the same thing with the OS. They don't gain anything on this themselves - it's not their technology, it's just that they want to take away free money from MS.
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This guy's just whining because Google doesn't rank pages according to his crackheaded counterculture views? And this is news?
No, but since it was in Salon it had to be reposted on/. Sorry, we don't make the rules.
A PC that looks for but cannot find the keys on an illegally-copied disk returns an error message.i>
If they tested this on CD-ROM drives already on the market, how would those know where to look for the keys in the first place ? Doesn't that imply that some sort of software needs to be installed to
a) tell my CD drive to look for encryption keys b) tell my CD drive where to look for them
It is also interesting how they mention that they will fake Gnotella clients sharing popular songs, in an attempt to trick RIAA to try and hack them.
It is encouraging to see that the grassroots are being helped by the ISPs, which means that the ISPs have realized who their customers are. Everyone should call their ISP, demanding to be protected from RIAA!
Unfortunately, seeing how the broadband ISP market is consolidating into a few players with local monopolies, it is unlikely that this will spread to the major ISPs. Like someone mentioned in an earlier comment, I doubt that AOL/Time-Warner have the guts or even interest to pull something like this off.
Service provider - The Pinpoint Company - insists there'll be no breach of privacy if it is used properly.
Duh! I hate to be the one suggesting it but what if - and believe me this is entirely hypocri^H^H^Hthetical - someone isn't using it "properly" ?
Serisouly, the concern would ofcourse be that it might allow tracking of people who are now aware of it. Although it doesn't mention much of the technical side in the article, I doubt that the technology requires more than software in the phone system. This means that in the wrong hands, any phone could be tracked.
Still, it'd be cool to install it in your car so you could track that when it's stolen.
...with the notion that there's something inherently wrong with making money selling licenses or similar.
Authors, entertainors, software producers, musicians, etc. have been raking in the dough by dealing in information. They have a create once, sell many times scam going. All other industries are create once, sell once. An automobile manufacturer cannot build a car and sell it many times.
It is not a scam to write once, charge many times. Just like any product, the buyer and seller have to agree upon a reasonable prifce for the product. It is up to the buyer to estimate the value. The actual cost of developing said product is irrelevant. When selling goods, you charge so that you not only make up for the production of the goods, but also for the development thereof.
If you are a doctor, you charge your patients not only for the costs associated with having a clinic, but also for the costs of acquiring a M.D. degree. No different if you manufacture cars, music, software or knowledge.
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It's about licensing, nothing else.
The whole idea is that you cannot pick up 10,000 cheap copies of Microsoft software when a company goes bankrupt, and then charge the full proce for it if you were reselling the MS products individually.
It's standard procedure in the software licensing business, and K-Mart was well aware of this when purchasing the license.
So how would clicking that link benefit Amazon ? If we don't like them, isn't it good we use their bandwidth and servers ?
You obvisouly don't know what you are talking about.
Well-used Javascript and DHTML is harder to recognize than the obvious stuff you come across as popups and various ad-schemes. Apparently, you pull stats ("99.9999%") out of your ass and try to pass your opinions as facts. Are you in the industry, or is your main experience that as a surfer ?
There is tremendous power to DHTML and Javascript, and it is widely used in commercial sites. It allows the user to interact with the otherwise dead html in ways that help the user and the site.
For a great example, look at International Herald Tribune. You can select articles from the frontpage and put them in a "clippings" folder - no you don't have to login - and then you can read them all later on. No more "open in a new window". For individual articles you can select how it will presented; font size, colums per page etc. This is an example of a site that is usable and intuitive thanks to Javascript, in this case.
So, get a clue to what you are talking about.
"What business is Porche in, anyhow?"
Porsche is in the business of design, i.e. they design things. Check out their web site.
They also manufacture cars, but the basis was always design, since that is what Ferdinand A. Porsche was good at.
"those were the days when you actually had to have a brain to get online, versus now,"
No, you are wrong. I am still waiting for people to actually use their brain and creativity when online, instead of trying to run a webserver on a carport remote control. It is a shame that the internet has turned into an anarchistic kindergarten because only juveniles can get connected. The reason those awful personal pages exist is that NOONE has anything to say. I wish my grandparents could get on the internet and publish their ideas, experiences and memories instead of kids with fake Britney pr0n and 1337-speak.
There have been lots of articles regarding this subject. One of many by John Dvorak who said
Well it's not exactly the quantity of articles that are important, and certainly not by "journalists" like John Dvorak. Evidence on the effects of RF or even electronics is anectdotal on both sides, since interference is rare and conditions hard to duplicate.
On a tangent - since a majority of posts mentions American media - I'm wondering if there is a trend towards commercial-free television in the US.
Already, soccer in the US is broadcast without commercial breaks, but that's not really a good example since noone watches it.
But supposedly, next years US Masters (golf) will be broadcast entirely witouth commercial breaks and in-game endorsments ("leaderboard presented by Dodge - Dodge, where do you want to pollute today?"). This is a side effect of the arranging club not wanting to admit women and therefore losing sponsors etc, but that's not the point. This commercial-free block of programming is actually presented as a really positive thing for the viewers.
And this fall FOX will be broadcasting their hit series 24 - which is a one-hour (i.e. 50 minutes) show - entirely without commercials. Presented by blablabla but anyway.
I wondering if this will catch on, I sure hope so.
"The Japanese company Clarion plans to sell a car with (...)"
Clarion is not a car manufacturer but instead a car music system manufacturer. I suppose they will sell this as an aftermarket upgrade or (car) manufacturer pre-installed in high end models.
Is this really true ? Afaik, they weren't circumventing copy protection, they were circumventing copyright.
One team had actual source code of IBM BIOS, going though it to document everything it did. Then another team would use this as a blueprint for writing a new - compatible - BIOS from scratch.
What part is illegal under the DMCA ?
Yeah, but the ad compares Windows and Mac Os remember ? I doubt that the silly (fake?) person in the silly (fake?) story was considering installing a Unix on her desktop.
So you don't think telemarketers are wasting your time ? Let me guess... you run some sort of Linux, correct ? ;)
The clear answers to this blind persons problem is that instead of suing a company for not supporting their method of access, use your power as a member of a capitalistic society, and send a message with your money.
Find another company that supports you better, and spend your money with them.
So it's OK for companies to screw people over - even breaking the law - if they are willing to lose you as a customer ?
Philip Morris has been in the business of killing it customers for quite some time, and they're doing good (up until now at least...) . It's a myth that individual customers have an effect on large corporations. They just don't have to care.
Damn you! ;)
A nice explanation.
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http://sharp-world.com/corporate/news/020927-1.gi
The answer has not been to stomp out the P2P networks.
Just the thought of RIAA and Steve Ballmer stomping side by side makes me shiver. But it's in the interest of the consumers, I would assume...
While the article has some valid points, I think it's missing quite a lot.
First, a very large fraction of games people play on PC aren't paid for. This includes illegal copying, freeware, free mod's to existing games etc etc. The "Warez" market for PC games is huge, for the consoles it's negligible. If you want a new game for your Gamecube/Xbox/PS2, you have to go out and open your wallet. There are no demo versions to download, no illegal copying to do or free mods to a game you already own.
Second, online multiplayer gaming prolongs the expected lifetime for a game. For instance Quake and Half-Life (and their mods) are games that people have played actively more than 4 years after the initial release. The experience of online gaming makes up for what it lacks in technology. For consoles, the game gets boring a lot quicker and there's nothing to help it so you have to go out and buy another game. Yes, online gaming will come for the consoles, but will the Xbox players be able to play with the PS2 players ? I doubt it.
Third, the MMORPGs available on PC offer something not even remotely available on console; community building for the players and a steady, predictable, stream of revenue for the publishers. Until we see DAOC-like revenues for consoles, the PC games will keep coming, and coming. People are paying $12.95/month for some games, which means they in effect spend the cost for a new game every four months. This is NOT petty cash for the publishers.
Also, keep in mind that the console market is sub-divided in different markets for each console system. That means a similar cost of porting to different consoles as compared to keeping up with all different video- and soundcards and OS's for the PC market.
Does MySQL suck? For many particular jobs, sure, but that's the fault of the person who attempted to use it for those jobs. Conversely, there are situations and jobs for which it is everything *but* MySQL that sucks.
Ehhh, so you mean that when MySQL doesn't fit the needs, it doesn't suck - only the people who try to use it do. On the other hand when real RDBMS don't fit the needs, they suck ?
Sun has a history of pulling stunts like this against Microsoft. Their reasoning is that every dollar that doesn't end up in Microsoft's pocket, is a dollar they can't spend in developing software competing with Sun's own. It's as simple as that.
Star Office was an attempt to undermine the very profitable Office suite. By pushing Linux machines, they do the same thing with the OS. They don't gain anything on this themselves - it's not their technology, it's just that they want to take away free money from MS.
If they tested this on CD-ROM drives already on the market, how would those know where to look for the keys in the first place ? Doesn't that imply that some sort of software needs to be installed to
a) tell my CD drive to look for encryption keys
b) tell my CD drive where to look for them
Huh ?
Someone bullying the bully, at last.
It is also interesting how they mention that they will fake Gnotella clients sharing popular songs, in an attempt to trick RIAA to try and hack them.
It is encouraging to see that the grassroots are being helped by the ISPs, which means that the ISPs have realized who their customers are. Everyone should call their ISP, demanding to be protected from RIAA!
Unfortunately, seeing how the broadband ISP market is consolidating into a few players with local monopolies, it is unlikely that this will spread to the major ISPs. Like someone mentioned in an earlier comment, I doubt that AOL/Time-Warner have the guts or even interest to pull something like this off.
...they need them yesterday.
Duh! I hate to be the one suggesting it but what if - and believe me this is entirely hypocri^H^H^Hthetical - someone isn't using it "properly" ?
Serisouly, the concern would ofcourse be that it might allow tracking of people who are now aware of it. Although it doesn't mention much of the technical side in the article, I doubt that the technology requires more than software in the phone system. This means that in the wrong hands, any phone could be tracked.
Still, it'd be cool to install it in your car so you could track that when it's stolen.
It is not a scam to write once, charge many times. Just like any product, the buyer and seller have to agree upon a reasonable prifce for the product. It is up to the buyer to estimate the value. The actual cost of developing said product is irrelevant. When selling goods, you charge so that you not only make up for the production of the goods, but also for the development thereof.
If you are a doctor, you charge your patients not only for the costs associated with having a clinic, but also for the costs of acquiring a M.D. degree. No different if you manufacture cars, music, software or knowledge.