Actually it can work. A few years ago some british researchers created a quasi artificial AI software that can predict what people will buy. I think I saw it on discovery channel, but forgot the name of the software. They tested it on a mail order catalog company and the customer reps tried to recommend what the software recommended. Orders and revenue jumped. Before the software only a small percentage of customers bought the products pitched by the customer reps. After they installed the software it jumped to almost 60% of customers buying the products pitched. And a lot of those who didn't buy just recently bought the pitched products from somewhere else.
That's because IBM, Bell Labs, Microsoft, Xerox, Intel and a few other companies spend billions of their own dollars to research new products and technologies. Now if someone could just steal their ideas and make money off them where would the incentive be to invent something new? They wouldn't have new money to invest in research and there would be no more R&D.
A Tivo is nothing more than a dumbed down PC that's programmed for a single task. I wonder how this patent affects PC's with video capture hardware and software included?
That's where you are wrong. Kids should have uncontrolled freedom to do whatever they want. And if they don't get enough allowance to do it then the parents are taking away their rights. How could anyone actually think of taking away a child's right to surf porn anywhere they want including the library and stay out as late as he/she wants? This is a democracy we live in.
Or Ebay payments, or whatever they call it now? It takes credit cards and echecks and puts the money into your account in a few days. And your customers don't have to be billpoint members to use it. All you do is send them an invoice or they pay through the auction page.
Since you have a right not to exist, I guess Dr. Kevorkian will have a field day in France.
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This was my favorite. You can read about it here . Apparently in France you now have a right not to exist and can sue for damages. What are those crazy Europeans going to make up next?
Chained to a stove? When I get married I plan to keep mine locked in a box like the gimp from pulp fiction. I'll just let her out for sex and a bath once in a while.
They protect the creator in profiting from the art , literature or music they create. If there wasn't any copyright protection there wouldn't be any incentive to create anything. Sure some people will do it, but not on a scale like we have today.
Some people will say that's good because 90% is pop culture and not real art. But companies that deal in intellectual property employ tens of thousands of people and create a huge amount of wealth. If there wasn't any IP protection then thousands of jobs would be lost. The idea of a starving artist or musician who creates for the love of art or music is a lie. Everyone dreams of being famous and profiting from their works.
It seems the only people who advocate getting rid of intellectual property protections are those who have never created anything and only want to use someone else's work for their own profit. Intellectual property protections are actually good because they force people to create something better than what exists today. Patents are a perfect example. There are thousands of companies researching new technology to create products that are better and cheaper than what we have today. Without patent protection we would have to rely on the government and universities for research. And since they aren't for profit we would only get things some geek thought up in a lab and would probably have no practical use in the real world.
The shipping drivers left out many pronised features. The first driver update supported them, but from what I read not very well. What is the current state of ATI drivers?
CNBC did a report on the X-Box on monday during Business Center and brought up a good point. Historically consoles have been highly proprietary and had long lifespans. But with the introduction of the X-Box Microsoft is changing the industry. A typical console has a development time of 18-24 months and a lifespan of 5 years. The long lifespan is to recoup the losses incurred in the first few years of producing the hardware.
The X-Box on the otherhand is off the shelf parts. The original development cycle took 18 months, but it can be upgraded every year. There aren't much technical hurdles from keeping microsoft from putting P4's into next year's version of the XBox. They can upgrade is every year and it will still run all the games.
It introduces problems like minimum requirements for consoles, but Microsoft is still ahead because they shortened the development cycle. From now on Nintendo and Sony will have to rethink their business model and will have to play catch up to microsoft in the near term.
I registered a domain name a month ago with no problems. I have no idea what you're talking about. Are you mad because you can't register a trademark or someone elses name and then make money off it?
Do you seriously think he is going to recommend NT and an easy future migration to SQL Server? Some people in the government already don't know anything except for microsoft and why make it worse?
You think the republicans are bad, the democrats are even worse. They want to federalize everything and everyone. With them the federal government should be doing everything. And if you make more than minimum wage then you should be paying 70% of your income in taxes.
It was the democrats who made the IRS so feared, and in the 90's the Republican congress put a muzzle on the IRS.
There is still a lot of work work for the CIA. It's charter is to collect intel information from all foreign governemnts, including allies. And bin laden isn't exactly an American citizen and falls out of the FBI's jurisdiction.
But you're excatly right about the life of it's own. I used to work for the DoD and they will think up of anything to keep their jobs alive. It could be the most useless army unit or agency, but they will find ways to say how indispensible they are to national security.
Somehow I don't see myself buying into this service. This music thing is like the next.com thing. Except this time they are selling real products. In 2 years time 95% of these businesses won't be around thanks to their wacky business models. Who in their mind would pay for something that you have to keep paying for to use?
The successful music over the internet companies will sell you songs that you keep for life, or at least until the next time your PC crashes.
Just imagine the possiblities for live phone sex shows. The porn industry will love this. And why have phone sex with your wife with only words? Soon she will be able to strip for you whereever you are in the world.
Take a look at names Microsoft gives it's technology vs Linux. Active Directory, Intellimirror and other catchy names is what sell it. Who want to surf the Internet with Konqueror? Sounds like a death metal band.
were it's own fault. The Wall Street Journal had an article last year about it. It said that in years past Apple used to sell to schools through resellers and other middlemen. But then they got greedy and tried to get it to themselves. Of course the middlemen had the relationships built with their customers and started selling them PC's with Windows. And now Apple is playing catch up.
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Actually it can work. A few years ago some british researchers created a quasi artificial AI software that can predict what people will buy. I think I saw it on discovery channel, but forgot the name of the software. They tested it on a mail order catalog company and the customer reps tried to recommend what the software recommended. Orders and revenue jumped. Before the software only a small percentage of customers bought the products pitched by the customer reps. After they installed the software it jumped to almost 60% of customers buying the products pitched. And a lot of those who didn't buy just recently bought the pitched products from somewhere else.
ZDNet had the story yesterday. The next version of MS windows media player is scodenamed Corona. It's double the DVD quality and 5.1 sound.
Borrow a copy of Veritas Netbackup Datacenter from work. Get a tape drive and some tapes on ebay for cheap.
There was a special version that was made for Direct TV.
That's because IBM, Bell Labs, Microsoft, Xerox, Intel and a few other companies spend billions of their own dollars to research new products and technologies. Now if someone could just steal their ideas and make money off them where would the incentive be to invent something new? They wouldn't have new money to invest in research and there would be no more R&D.
What have you invented lately on your own time?
I'm only a lowly sys admin, but I wonder if Windows Media Player, Real Player or Quicktime count as prior art?
A Tivo is nothing more than a dumbed down PC that's programmed for a single task. I wonder how this patent affects PC's with video capture hardware and software included?
That's where you are wrong. Kids should have uncontrolled freedom to do whatever they want. And if they don't get enough allowance to do it then the parents are taking away their rights. How could anyone actually think of taking away a child's right to surf porn anywhere they want including the library and stay out as late as he/she wants? This is a democracy we live in.
Dan Akroyd was awesome in that one. How about the black suit to ride your bike at night or the real rifle with live ammo?
Ebay has a partnership with Wells Fargo Bank called Billpoint. Although now they changed the name to Ebay online payments or something like that.
Or Ebay payments, or whatever they call it now? It takes credit cards and echecks and puts the money into your account in a few days. And your customers don't have to be billpoint members to use it. All you do is send them an invoice or they pay through the auction page.
Since you have a right not to exist, I guess Dr. Kevorkian will have a field day in France.
This was my favorite. You can read about it here . Apparently in France you now have a right not to exist and can sue for damages. What are those crazy Europeans going to make up next?
Chained to a stove? When I get married I plan to keep mine locked in a box like the gimp from pulp fiction. I'll just let her out for sex and a bath once in a while.
They protect the creator in profiting from the art , literature or music they create. If there wasn't any copyright protection there wouldn't be any incentive to create anything. Sure some people will do it, but not on a scale like we have today.
Some people will say that's good because 90% is pop culture and not real art. But companies that deal in intellectual property employ tens of thousands of people and create a huge amount of wealth. If there wasn't any IP protection then thousands of jobs would be lost. The idea of a starving artist or musician who creates for the love of art or music is a lie. Everyone dreams of being famous and profiting from their works.
It seems the only people who advocate getting rid of intellectual property protections are those who have never created anything and only want to use someone else's work for their own profit. Intellectual property protections are actually good because they force people to create something better than what exists today. Patents are a perfect example. There are thousands of companies researching new technology to create products that are better and cheaper than what we have today. Without patent protection we would have to rely on the government and universities for research. And since they aren't for profit we would only get things some geek thought up in a lab and would probably have no practical use in the real world.
The shipping drivers left out many pronised features. The first driver update supported them, but from what I read not very well. What is the current state of ATI drivers?
CNBC did a report on the X-Box on monday during Business Center and brought up a good point. Historically consoles have been highly proprietary and had long lifespans. But with the introduction of the X-Box Microsoft is changing the industry. A typical console has a development time of 18-24 months and a lifespan of 5 years. The long lifespan is to recoup the losses incurred in the first few years of producing the hardware.
The X-Box on the otherhand is off the shelf parts. The original development cycle took 18 months, but it can be upgraded every year. There aren't much technical hurdles from keeping microsoft from putting P4's into next year's version of the XBox. They can upgrade is every year and it will still run all the games.
It introduces problems like minimum requirements for consoles, but Microsoft is still ahead because they shortened the development cycle. From now on Nintendo and Sony will have to rethink their business model and will have to play catch up to microsoft in the near term.
I registered a domain name a month ago with no problems. I have no idea what you're talking about. Are you mad because you can't register a trademark or someone elses name and then make money off it?
Do you seriously think he is going to recommend NT and an easy future migration to SQL Server? Some people in the government already don't know anything except for microsoft and why make it worse?
You think the republicans are bad, the democrats are even worse. They want to federalize everything and everyone. With them the federal government should be doing everything. And if you make more than minimum wage then you should be paying 70% of your income in taxes.
It was the democrats who made the IRS so feared, and in the 90's the Republican congress put a muzzle on the IRS.
There is still a lot of work work for the CIA. It's charter is to collect intel information from all foreign governemnts, including allies. And bin laden isn't exactly an American citizen and falls out of the FBI's jurisdiction.
But you're excatly right about the life of it's own. I used to work for the DoD and they will think up of anything to keep their jobs alive. It could be the most useless army unit or agency, but they will find ways to say how indispensible they are to national security.
Somehow I don't see myself buying into this service. This music thing is like the next .com thing. Except this time they are selling real products. In 2 years time 95% of these businesses won't be around thanks to their wacky business models. Who in their mind would pay for something that you have to keep paying for to use?
The successful music over the internet companies will sell you songs that you keep for life, or at least until the next time your PC crashes.
Just imagine the possiblities for live phone sex shows. The porn industry will love this. And why have phone sex with your wife with only words? Soon she will be able to strip for you whereever you are in the world.
Take a look at names Microsoft gives it's technology vs Linux. Active Directory, Intellimirror and other catchy names is what sell it. Who want to surf the Internet with Konqueror? Sounds like a death metal band.
were it's own fault. The Wall Street Journal had an article last year about it. It said that in years past Apple used to sell to schools through resellers and other middlemen. But then they got greedy and tried to get it to themselves. Of course the middlemen had the relationships built with their customers and started selling them PC's with Windows. And now Apple is playing catch up.