Not ALL software has that on the pouch, however you are correct, a lot of software does. I've also seen ADDITIONAL agreements inside manuals before that simply by PURCHASING and/or installing the software you are held to the agreement... Of course without the software ACTUALLY installed parts of the agreement become irrelevant, if you were to purhase and not install it...
If I am correct that may constitute REVERSE ENGINEERING the software though, which may not be allowed under the DMCA, it's a neat idea, but might not hold up in court, and might actually cause aditional headaches...
Actually, this doesn't surprise me too much. Most of the cash registers that you see in larger chain stores are honestly just pc's. Sometimes they will have some non-standard periphial connections, for example some of the IBM registers (I think the 7390 series) use rj style connectors to connect 99% of the periphials. Some of the older registers are honestly just dumb terminals also. But when you go to walmart, or to Winn-Dixie, you'd be surprised to find out that those registers are commonly an older model pc. Something between a 486 and a Pentium 2. It is true that some of them use different hardware, I think I've seen some that use PC104 architecture. Essentially the companies manufacturing the cash registers simply want to get the job done cheaply on their end so that they can sell them and make a good profit. There's enough standard pc hardware already out there that it ends up being cheaper for them to use.
The grocery store I worked at in high school had Fujitsu POS's and they were simply 486 66mhz computers. They had all the standard connections and everything, they even ran DOS! We installed Doom on one of them just to say we had done it:)
I'm guessing that they haven't figred the fact that this could easily create some big security holes, as well as give businesses advantages. I'm also pretty sure that the businesses aren't going to be happy with having to bear the cost as the article states they will have to. Especially that it seems like this benefits the gov't better than it benefits private industry....
I don't know... something just doesn't smell right with this bill....
It's KIND of like the RIAA, but not completely. First off, few authors make that much money off their books to begin with. Secondly, it's not like they are 'banning' this (the sale/resale of used books or the sharing of books), they are just suggesting that the authors link to a different website so that the author can still make money. It's not like the publishers are saying to the public 'you can't sell used books or share books'... It's not like they are giving the books some 'weird license' about how you use the book either. As far as they care, you can use it to prop up your couch. Plus, in my opinion the Authors Guild represents the 'creative talent' of writing more, the authors, not the publishers, while (in my opinion) the RIAA seems to represent the business side of the music industry (the corporations such as BMG, virgin, sony, etc...) and not as much 'the artists'. Think of the Authors Guild as more of a 'union'. Compare The Authors Guild and The RIAA.
Still, I can't help but be reminded of This comic.
You mention that they are being tested in a car. Personally my car runs rather quietly, so it's not a problem. Sure, it would be nice to have it even quieter, but it occured to me that it might be quite a frequency range someone would want to block out (wind through cracks, outside noise, etc.) I would find it very odd for people who are screaming about the use of cellphones in cars to support something that can block noise and lower a drivers alertness to that enviroment around him. IT's a nice idea, perhaps it would be a good idea in a bus or something like that. I know that it's designed for 'just certain frequencies' but one has to wonder if it couldn't malfunction, or somehow something else could be in a close enough frequency range that it would get blocked too by accident? Still a nice idea though...
We have the security emphasis program in my school at Mississippi State Computer Science I don't know if they have information up about it or not, but your allowed to apply for it as a JUNIOR and it pays for two years of undergraduate if you want. Perhaps it's just different in other places though..
If this was true I'd happily sell them one of mine... www.iamweird.com... They can make me an offer on it, I might just accept:)
It is however April Fool's Day, and I don't even think AOL is a big enough fool to start buying up personal websites:) It wouldn't surprise me if they launch their own blogger-type interface for members some day (if they haven't already, I really wouldn't know...)
We had the security emphasis full paid scholarship last spring BEFORE 9/11 happened. It's been available for about a year now, however after 9/11 happened the emphasis to get people interested in it increased. It's a brand new program nationwide and at Mississippi State, so I know that it's not entirely the 9/11 'experience' that started the program, since we began school in August and they announced the program in the spring... However 9/11 has definitely fueled the program, funneled more money into it, and increased interest. They give you a ton of money to be in the program, thousands of dollars, however you are required to do so much internship time with the gov't and then you have to go into a gov't security position WHEREVER THEY WANT TO PUT YOU when you graduate. I considered it at first, but I'm not sure it would have been the best route for me personally to take. At least the gov't is trying to get some better sysadmins into there workforce. Not to insult any gov't sysadmins out there, but it's obvious that they want more people checking each others work so that there are fewer holes, hopefully/theoretically.
I like the whole idea, but doubt it would be very useable as a long term keyboard given the egronomics of it. I can see a lot of people getting carpal tunnel syndrome from something like this. It's not MEANT for long-term use though, it's just meant to write stuff down real quick like you would with sometihng like JOT or Graffiti. Definitely a cool looking idea though. I wonder if they can make it any smaller so it could fit ON BOARD a cellphone or pda... although I am sure that this is possible.
Personally, I think this device won't end up doing that well either... Why? the price is to high. People will wonder 'why should i get this instead of a pc or an imac?' For an internet appliance to be successful is for it to be low cost AND robust... What I think would be interesting to see someone do is market a combination of superthin clients designed for the enviroment they are in, and a server to serve applications... Perhaps do it over 802.11... Applications could be distributed to a terminal that was liquid spill-resistant, or perhaps push button in the kitchen. Special terminals for the kids would be available, and in the family room another terminal could be used to control a dvd or cd changer, and surf the internet. Essentially, design a good system that lets multiple devices connect to it... I know it's doable, it would just be interesting to see someone do..
i found out about that security hole a few weeks ago... I don't know how long others have known about it, but it sure would be reason enough for me not to use morpheus. I can't think of anything that is on my hard drive I wouldn't want people to have, but who knows what I might not remember having downloaded? If anything else files for work could cause a problem... I mean, news could get out that your company is going under, or is about to create a new product...
I hope this makes people think about what software they install on their computer... Whenever you install a piece of software you are putting yourself at risk, and you can't be sure without looking at the source code (or looking at log files) what sort, if any security holes or talkback information is being sent out. For all you know that cool new screensaver running from your taskbar that you found on john doe's website could be stealing your passwords...
Wouldn't a constant blending and mixing create new genetic mutations which would eventually due to dominant and common alleles lead to new species and sub-species? I think that claiming that we have reached our 'evolutional pinacle' is also kind of an elitist thing to say... It's almost like your saying your better than everybody else, and that you are the creation of millions of years of evolution and that nothing is above you... Odd, in the end you'll still end up being worm food...
The author also says that if you want to see a utopia, look around, this is it... The idea of a utopian society is one that's perfect. Saying that we have reached a utopia based on species isn't that great an idea. A utopida is multi-faceted. My idea of a utopia is different than yours. Personally I would feel very very scared in a utopia, a place where everyone shared the same ideas as me. It might be nice for a while, but it would get old REAL fast... Humans thrive on conflict... We need it... The article also states that humans should have logically constantly become larger and stronger, however this is not logical. Think about it, if you go from being a hunter-gather to being a farmer and start and agri-society where you grow your food and raise your meat then you don't need the same muscles you used to. Eventually those muscles begin to deteriorate over generations and they become useless.... They become non-existent, or non-functional... This author seems to factor that evolution is only created through 'selective breeding'. I guess he has not accepted the fact that even though humans don't ALL mate for life, that many do, and that people do look for certain TRAITS or should I say SELECTIVE traits that they find important in their 'mates'. These traits that someone looks for tend to be instilled in ones offspring, hence that offspring looks for similar traits in their spouse... A selective breeding process... I think that we are not at all at a standstill in evolution, no, as long as the physical enviroment that we live in continues to evolve, and as well as the social enviroment continues to change, the human race will continue to evolve... Perhaps not at an incredibly fast rate, and surely not enough that a single person would notice in their lifetime, but certainly, we will continue to evolve, even if it is eventually into something that is more vulnerable to one form of death then another...
Yes, but if you want to start a private mail company there is nothing stopping you. The secret is that you can't deliver to a USPS mail box. Technically, the mailbox at your house doesn't even belong to you, it's US Gov't property, consider your ownership of it to be a non-time-limited lease... Now, if a company was able to get people to put a seperate box at their house, or was willing to hand deliver mail, and came up with a way to do it effectively and cheaply than you could conceivably start a private mail service.
Well, yes. Honestly advertising does work. You give the viewer of the ad something to associate with. Advertising works on a subconcious level. Some classifications of ads are kinds that try to get you on the bandwagon (everybody is doing it), the kind that try to make something glamorous, or make something appeal to a certain group of people, those are some of the most common. I remembe there are something like 6 or 7 major categories of the ways that ads are supposed to affect a person. Honestly, pop-up ads and most ads on the internet don't seem to do much of this in my experience. Honestly, most internet advertisements seem to just simply tell you a product exists. Television ads and magazine ads in my experience are more effective.
Well, you most likely would not have to replace a device that you already owned. Most often devices that already existed are grandfathered in. Usually laws aren't allowed to be retroactive. For example, if they drop the speed limit down to 45 on the interstate tommorow, they can't write a ticket for you going 70 yesterday, if the speedlimit was 70 yesterday....
This isn't to say odd laws, some that were retroactive, haven't been put in effect. I think one of my favorite reccently was where radio stations that broadcast online had to retroactively pay royalties for online broadcasts up to 5 or 6 years ago....
In addition, I wouldn't be surprised if there is SOME way to upgrade the OS in the palm M105. Either by chip or by a rom update. Most pda's have SOME way of upgrading the operating system...
Microsoft is trying to become the keyholders of the computer industry. They used to just be the gatekeepers, you had to write software for their operating system if you wanted to get to joe average. Now they want to be the keyholders too. Everything will have to be authorized by them. I'm not sure I trust them as keyholders to my system and to my data. If every operating system had to have some sort of DRM then LINUX and other operating systems would support it, the need would be met. So that's not really a problem...
Most likely his parents will do it for him of course! However, if it just cuts scenes out of the movies, won't it really mess up the plot line sometimes? In addition, if someone, like his parents, are trying to use this technology, isn't it possible that he will find a way to bypass it, or perhaps that his parents won't be able to use it very well, and end up making things even worse?
If you really want to keep your kids from watching those kinds of movies, then try to give them values. Even if they watch those movies then, they at least won't share them with you, and you'll feel better... Who knows, they actually might even listen! Don't play censorship cop, be a parent...
It's an interesting idea, and I support self censorship over mandated censorship any day. Let ME control what I want. The player seems to be priced reasonably too, for the current market and everything. I wouldn't be to surprised if some people have issues with this in Hollywood though, having their content and ip messed with by some company... There could be a DMCA case looming for them on the horizon;)
All in all, it's a nice idea, but with some movies, one has to wonder what would be left? It makes me think about the video/DVD for the movie 'Freddy Got Fingered' and how they had that little 3 minute movie at the end that was the 'pg-rated' version. I guess it's a good idea for some people, but I wonder if it'll actually be able to change the movie enough, without changing the movie to much... If you don't want your kids to watch a movie, just tell them. If it's an R-rated movie, and they're only 8, they probably don't need to see a PG rated version anyway... If your an adult, and have problems, just fast forward, or ask other people who have seen the movie what it was like before you see it, so you know whether to expect content that you don't like... Remember, no one is MAKING you watch the movie...
I don't think I could allow myself to be charged 'per page'. Browsing the internet, and all the information there, that doesn't require information, should be free. I definitely don't want my ISP to start charging me a penny per page. Why not charge people who link to us too while we are at it? I saw an interesting thing about somehow that people might only 'liscense' links once, so not just anybody could link, and in todays day and age of the DMCA, that would seem likely Although my page, traicovn.com, isn't very interesting, I don't think that I could charge a penny for a view, even if it was the best page on the net The other issue that comes to mind is it isn't really page views that kill your bandwidth and bandwidth bills, it's the number of kilobytes downloaded... So this leads me to think that perhaps it should be charged by the amount of bandwidth each person uses when they access your site? Surely/. would like this because of first posters who constantly refresh slashdot.org, right?
I guess what I'm trying to say is that a pay system to view the pages on the internet WOULD be a possibility, but it's not probable, and regardless, it's not a good idea. Keep the internet free.... I see where people want to make more profit, especially in times where it's hard to make a buck in the.com business, however this is not the way. This will make people more afraid of the net, make them afraid of racking up a huge bill, and discourage casual browsers on the internet... In addition, if I get three pop up ads, that's three cents, because each of those is it's own page. Now is that really fair? For me to be paying to view an advertisement from your site? I didn't think so...
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Even thought there are heavy restrictions, and built in encryption, etc. on this disc, people will still find a way to circumvent it somehow.
The difference between this and mini-disc is that mini-disc was never meant to take on cd's, but instead was supposed to replace the cassette tape market. Personally, I kinda thought that mini-disc was a pretty good technology. Small form factor, high compression, etc. You could fit four cd's worth of music on one mini-disc with some recorders. It's just a technology that didn't make it. I have to wonder how many songs they will put on these little '500 mb' discs though. I don't know how many minutes of audio 500 transfers too (although it could be anything I know with new technology and everything)... One thing about a smaller form factor though... Even though it's easier to carry, it's easier to misplace and lose too...
Well.... The AOLSERER is it's own version of http, however it can issue both the mal-adjusted AOL-HTML and standard HTML pages. Content within AOL is programmed primarily in a butchered version of AOL with a combination of standard html tags and proprietary HTML tags. It's got a little bit more XML in it now, but it's still got a strong backing in plain HTML. The AOL Client relies on MSIE being installed to help it display content, but is not 100% reliable on it. AOL cannot function 100% alone without IE if I remember properly, but it can do quite a bit.
So you are correct about it's own version of http, but they do display content in a 'modified' version of HTML too. If I remember properly they use a little bit of Java Script, and some of the code that distributes content is PERL.... :)
Actually, it doesn't surprise me that they don't make it available. If they release that information, they lose an edge they have on joe average as an entry level computer user. How many times have you talked to someone who wanted to show you something that was on the 'internet' and in reality, it was something that was on a section of AOL? AOL has done a really good job of making a 'controlled' section of the internet we're they control the information. By having only one style of software they have more control also. Would YOU just want anything to connect to YOUR server and have authorization privleges? Of course AOL is very much based on server side scripting, and a butchered version of html. All aol sections are addressed with an aol://xxxx:xxxx:asdgfsadgas type link... a mix of alphanumeric strings, etc. Essentially it's THERE style of html distributed through a browser.
But in the end the bottom line is profit. You don't want to allow people to get onto the internet where you can't 100% control what the first thing they see is. AOL gives the illusion to first time joe averages that it IS the internet. My mom spent months on AOL without even using the actual internet and she thought she was on the internet. It's marketing genius. You control their access, you control the way content is shown, you give them places to spend their money and control the ways they communicate. Everyone does it the same way, so everyone is having a similar version of their own experience... The AOL designers aren't dumb IMHO, sure it's not the service that I want as my ISP, but when it comes to marketing, they know what their doing...
For awhile they were going to make it so you could use them as a 'traditional' isp using Dial-up, but I don't think that anything really ever came of it.... I guess AOL users just like hearing 'WELCOME, YOU'VE GOT SPAM, (I MEAN MAIL)...'
Yah, but AOL/TW already has major stakes in RoadRunner and I know that awhile back AOL was cutting a deal with DIRECPC Satellite internet services, so they are gaining more and more of the control over the broadband market. IF they control even a sizable portion of AT&T global, even if their own services don't work out, they can have part of ATT's keep them afloat. It's all kind of an evil twisted way where one way or another they win and so they can't really be stopped.
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Not ALL software has that on the pouch, however you are correct, a lot of software does. I've also seen ADDITIONAL agreements inside manuals before that simply by PURCHASING and/or installing the software you are held to the agreement... Of course without the software ACTUALLY installed parts of the agreement become irrelevant, if you were to purhase and not install it...
If I am correct that may constitute REVERSE ENGINEERING the software though, which may not be allowed under the DMCA, it's a neat idea, but might not hold up in court, and might actually cause aditional headaches...
Actually, this doesn't surprise me too much. Most of the cash registers that you see in larger chain stores are honestly just pc's. Sometimes they will have some non-standard periphial connections, for example some of the IBM registers (I think the 7390 series) use rj style connectors to connect 99% of the periphials. Some of the older registers are honestly just dumb terminals also. But when you go to walmart, or to Winn-Dixie, you'd be surprised to find out that those registers are commonly an older model pc. Something between a 486 and a Pentium 2.
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It is true that some of them use different hardware, I think I've seen some that use PC104 architecture. Essentially the companies manufacturing the cash registers simply want to get the job done cheaply on their end so that they can sell them and make a good profit. There's enough standard pc hardware already out there that it ends up being cheaper for them to use.
The grocery store I worked at in high school had Fujitsu POS's and they were simply 486 66mhz computers. They had all the standard connections and everything, they even ran DOS! We installed Doom on one of them just to say we had done it
I'm guessing that they haven't figred the fact that this could easily create some big security holes, as well as give businesses advantages.
I'm also pretty sure that the businesses aren't going to be happy with having to bear the cost as the article states they will have to. Especially that it seems like this benefits the gov't better than it benefits private industry....
I don't know... something just doesn't smell right with this bill....
It's KIND of like the RIAA, but not completely. First off, few authors make that much money off their books to begin with. Secondly, it's not like they are 'banning' this (the sale/resale of used books or the sharing of books), they are just suggesting that the authors link to a different website so that the author can still make money. It's not like the publishers are saying to the public 'you can't sell used books or share books'... It's not like they are giving the books some 'weird license' about how you use the book either. As far as they care, you can use it to prop up your couch.
Plus, in my opinion the Authors Guild represents the 'creative talent' of writing more, the authors, not the publishers, while (in my opinion) the RIAA seems to represent the business side of the music industry (the corporations such as BMG, virgin, sony, etc...) and not as much 'the artists'. Think of the Authors Guild as more of a 'union'. Compare The Authors Guild and The RIAA.
Still, I can't help but be reminded of This comic.
You mention that they are being tested in a car. Personally my car runs rather quietly, so it's not a problem. Sure, it would be nice to have it even quieter, but it occured to me that it might be quite a frequency range someone would want to block out (wind through cracks, outside noise, etc.) I would find it very odd for people who are screaming about the use of cellphones in cars to support something that can block noise and lower a drivers alertness to that enviroment around him. IT's a nice idea, perhaps it would be a good idea in a bus or something like that. I know that it's designed for 'just certain frequencies' but one has to wonder if it couldn't malfunction, or somehow something else could be in a close enough frequency range that it would get blocked too by accident? Still a nice idea though...
We have the security emphasis program in my school at Mississippi State Computer Science I don't know if they have information up about it or not, but your allowed to apply for it as a JUNIOR and it pays for two years of undergraduate if you want. Perhaps it's just different in other places though..
If this was true I'd happily sell them one of mine... www.iamweird.com... They can make me an offer on it, I might just accept :)
:) It wouldn't surprise me if they launch their own blogger-type interface for members some day (if they haven't already, I really wouldn't know...)
It is however April Fool's Day, and I don't even think AOL is a big enough fool to start buying up personal websites
We had the security emphasis full paid scholarship last spring BEFORE 9/11 happened. It's been available for about a year now, however after 9/11 happened the emphasis to get people interested in it increased. It's a brand new program nationwide and at Mississippi State, so I know that it's not entirely the 9/11 'experience' that started the program, since we began school in August and they announced the program in the spring... However 9/11 has definitely fueled the program, funneled more money into it, and increased interest. They give you a ton of money to be in the program, thousands of dollars, however you are required to do so much internship time with the gov't and then you have to go into a gov't security position WHEREVER THEY WANT TO PUT YOU when you graduate. I considered it at first, but I'm not sure it would have been the best route for me personally to take.
At least the gov't is trying to get some better sysadmins into there workforce. Not to insult any gov't sysadmins out there, but it's obvious that they want more people checking each others work so that there are fewer holes, hopefully/theoretically.
I like the whole idea, but doubt it would be very useable as a long term keyboard given the egronomics of it. I can see a lot of people getting carpal tunnel syndrome from something like this. It's not MEANT for long-term use though, it's just meant to write stuff down real quick like you would with sometihng like JOT or Graffiti.
Definitely a cool looking idea though. I wonder if they can make it any smaller so it could fit ON BOARD a cellphone or pda... although I am sure that this is possible.
Alright... time for a class action suite against nintendo's game cube then. That thing comes with controllers that have built-in rumble packs...
Personally, I think this device won't end up doing that well either... Why? the price is to high. People will wonder 'why should i get this instead of a pc or an imac?' For an internet appliance to be successful is for it to be low cost AND robust...
What I think would be interesting to see someone do is market a combination of superthin clients designed for the enviroment they are in, and a server to serve applications... Perhaps do it over 802.11... Applications could be distributed to a terminal that was liquid spill-resistant, or perhaps push button in the kitchen. Special terminals for the kids would be available, and in the family room another terminal could be used to control a dvd or cd changer, and surf the internet. Essentially, design a good system that lets multiple devices connect to it... I know it's doable, it would just be interesting to see someone do..
i found out about that security hole a few weeks ago... I don't know how long others have known about it, but it sure would be reason enough for me not to use morpheus. I can't think of anything that is on my hard drive I wouldn't want people to have, but who knows what I might not remember having downloaded? If anything else files for work could cause a problem... I mean, news could get out that your company is going under, or is about to create a new product...
I hope this makes people think about what software they install on their computer... Whenever you install a piece of software you are putting yourself at risk, and you can't be sure without looking at the source code (or looking at log files) what sort, if any security holes or talkback information is being sent out. For all you know that cool new screensaver running from your taskbar that you found on john doe's website could be stealing your passwords...
Wouldn't a constant blending and mixing create new genetic mutations which would eventually due to dominant and common alleles lead to new species and sub-species? I think that claiming that we have reached our 'evolutional pinacle' is also kind of an elitist thing to say... It's almost like your saying your better than everybody else, and that you are the creation of millions of years of evolution and that nothing is above you...
Odd, in the end you'll still end up being worm food...
The author also says that if you want to see a utopia, look around, this is it... The idea of a utopian society is one that's perfect. Saying that we have reached a utopia based on species isn't that great an idea. A utopida is multi-faceted. My idea of a utopia is different than yours. Personally I would feel very very scared in a utopia, a place where everyone shared the same ideas as me. It might be nice for a while, but it would get old REAL fast... Humans thrive on conflict... We need it...
The article also states that humans should have logically constantly become larger and stronger, however this is not logical. Think about it, if you go from being a hunter-gather to being a farmer and start and agri-society where you grow your food and raise your meat then you don't need the same muscles you used to. Eventually those muscles begin to deteriorate over generations and they become useless.... They become non-existent, or non-functional...
This author seems to factor that evolution is only created through 'selective breeding'. I guess he has not accepted the fact that even though humans don't ALL mate for life, that many do, and that people do look for certain TRAITS or should I say SELECTIVE traits that they find important in their 'mates'. These traits that someone looks for tend to be instilled in ones offspring, hence that offspring looks for similar traits in their spouse... A selective breeding process...
I think that we are not at all at a standstill in evolution, no, as long as the physical enviroment that we live in continues to evolve, and as well as the social enviroment continues to change, the human race will continue to evolve... Perhaps not at an incredibly fast rate, and surely not enough that a single person would notice in their lifetime, but certainly, we will continue to evolve, even if it is eventually into something that is more vulnerable to one form of death then another...
Yes, but if you want to start a private mail company there is nothing stopping you. The secret is that you can't deliver to a USPS mail box. Technically, the mailbox at your house doesn't even belong to you, it's US Gov't property, consider your ownership of it to be a non-time-limited lease... Now, if a company was able to get people to put a seperate box at their house, or was willing to hand deliver mail, and came up with a way to do it effectively and cheaply than you could conceivably start a private mail service.
Well, yes. Honestly advertising does work. You give the viewer of the ad something to associate with. Advertising works on a subconcious level. Some classifications of ads are kinds that try to get you on the bandwagon (everybody is doing it), the kind that try to make something glamorous, or make something appeal to a certain group of people, those are some of the most common. I remembe there are something like 6 or 7 major categories of the ways that ads are supposed to affect a person. Honestly, pop-up ads and most ads on the internet don't seem to do much of this in my experience. Honestly, most internet advertisements seem to just simply tell you a product exists. Television ads and magazine ads in my experience are more effective.
Well, you most likely would not have to replace a device that you already owned. Most often devices that already existed are grandfathered in. Usually laws aren't allowed to be retroactive.
For example, if they drop the speed limit down to 45 on the interstate tommorow, they can't write a ticket for you going 70 yesterday, if the speedlimit was 70 yesterday....
This isn't to say odd laws, some that were retroactive, haven't been put in effect. I think one of my favorite reccently was where radio stations that broadcast online had to retroactively pay royalties for online broadcasts up to 5 or 6 years ago....
In addition, I wouldn't be surprised if there is SOME way to upgrade the OS in the palm M105. Either by chip or by a rom update. Most pda's have SOME way of upgrading the operating system...
Microsoft is trying to become the keyholders of the computer industry. They used to just be the gatekeepers, you had to write software for their operating system if you wanted to get to joe average. Now they want to be the keyholders too. Everything will have to be authorized by them. I'm not sure I trust them as keyholders to my system and to my data. If every operating system had to have some sort of DRM then LINUX and other operating systems would support it, the need would be met. So that's not really a problem...
Most likely his parents will do it for him of course! However, if it just cuts scenes out of the movies, won't it really mess up the plot line sometimes? In addition, if someone, like his parents, are trying to use this technology, isn't it possible that he will find a way to bypass it, or perhaps that his parents won't be able to use it very well, and end up making things even worse?
If you really want to keep your kids from watching those kinds of movies, then try to give them values. Even if they watch those movies then, they at least won't share them with you, and you'll feel better... Who knows, they actually might even listen! Don't play censorship cop, be a parent...
It's an interesting idea, and I support self censorship over mandated censorship any day. Let ME control what I want. The player seems to be priced reasonably too, for the current market and everything. ;)
I wouldn't be to surprised if some people have issues with this in Hollywood though, having their content and ip messed with by some company... There could be a DMCA case looming for them on the horizon
All in all, it's a nice idea, but with some movies, one has to wonder what would be left? It makes me think about the video/DVD for the movie 'Freddy Got Fingered' and how they had that little 3 minute movie at the end that was the 'pg-rated' version.
I guess it's a good idea for some people, but I wonder if it'll actually be able to change the movie enough, without changing the movie to much... If you don't want your kids to watch a movie, just tell them. If it's an R-rated movie, and they're only 8, they probably don't need to see a PG rated version anyway... If your an adult, and have problems, just fast forward, or ask other people who have seen the movie what it was like before you see it, so you know whether to expect content that you don't like... Remember, no one is MAKING you watch the movie...
I don't think I could allow myself to be charged 'per page'. Browsing the internet, and all the information there, that doesn't require information, should be free. I definitely don't want my ISP to start charging me a penny per page. Why not charge people who link to us too while we are at it? I saw an interesting thing about somehow that people might only 'liscense' links once, so not just anybody could link, and in todays day and age of the DMCA, that would seem likely /. would like this because of first posters who constantly refresh slashdot.org, right?
.com business, however this is not the way. This will make people more afraid of the net, make them afraid of racking up a huge bill, and discourage casual browsers on the internet... In addition, if I get three pop up ads, that's three cents, because each of those is it's own page. Now is that really fair? For me to be paying to view an advertisement from your site? I didn't think so...
Although my page, traicovn.com, isn't very interesting, I don't think that I could charge a penny for a view, even if it was the best page on the net
The other issue that comes to mind is it isn't really page views that kill your bandwidth and bandwidth bills, it's the number of kilobytes downloaded... So this leads me to think that perhaps it should be charged by the amount of bandwidth each person uses when they access your site? Surely
I guess what I'm trying to say is that a pay system to view the pages on the internet WOULD be a possibility, but it's not probable, and regardless, it's not a good idea. Keep the internet free.... I see where people want to make more profit, especially in times where it's hard to make a buck in the
Build a better mousetrap, and someone will build a better mouse
Even thought there are heavy restrictions, and built in encryption, etc. on this disc, people will still find a way to circumvent it somehow.
The difference between this and mini-disc is that mini-disc was never meant to take on cd's, but instead was supposed to replace the cassette tape market. Personally, I kinda thought that mini-disc was a pretty good technology. Small form factor, high compression, etc. You could fit four cd's worth of music on one mini-disc with some recorders. It's just a technology that didn't make it.
I have to wonder how many songs they will put on these little '500 mb' discs though. I don't know how many minutes of audio 500 transfers too (although it could be anything I know with new technology and everything)...
One thing about a smaller form factor though... Even though it's easier to carry, it's easier to misplace and lose too...
true.... i did make a mistake..... (hides in corner), but I think it should be spelled their :)
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Well.... The AOLSERER is it's own version of http, however it can issue both the mal-adjusted AOL-HTML and standard HTML pages. Content within AOL is programmed primarily in a butchered version of AOL with a combination of standard html tags and proprietary HTML tags. It's got a little bit more XML in it now, but it's still got a strong backing in plain HTML. The AOL Client relies on MSIE being installed to help it display content, but is not 100% reliable on it. AOL cannot function 100% alone without IE if I remember properly, but it can do quite a bit.
So you are correct about it's own version of http, but they do display content in a 'modified' version of HTML too. If I remember properly they use a little bit of Java Script, and some of the code that distributes content is PERL....
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Actually, it doesn't surprise me that they don't make it available. If they release that information, they lose an edge they have on joe average as an entry level computer user. How many times have you talked to someone who wanted to show you something that was on the 'internet' and in reality, it was something that was on a section of AOL? AOL has done a really good job of making a 'controlled' section of the internet we're they control the information. By having only one style of software they have more control also. Would YOU just want anything to connect to YOUR server and have authorization privleges? Of course AOL is very much based on server side scripting, and a butchered version of html. All aol sections are addressed with an aol://xxxx:xxxx:asdgfsadgas type link... a mix of alphanumeric strings, etc. Essentially it's THERE style of html distributed through a browser.
But in the end the bottom line is profit. You don't want to allow people to get onto the internet where you can't 100% control what the first thing they see is. AOL gives the illusion to first time joe averages that it IS the internet. My mom spent months on AOL without even using the actual internet and she thought she was on the internet. It's marketing genius. You control their access, you control the way content is shown, you give them places to spend their money and control the ways they communicate. Everyone does it the same way, so everyone is having a similar version of their own experience...
The AOL designers aren't dumb IMHO, sure it's not the service that I want as my ISP, but when it comes to marketing, they know what their doing...
For awhile they were going to make it so you could use them as a 'traditional' isp using Dial-up, but I don't think that anything really ever came of it.... I guess AOL users just like hearing 'WELCOME, YOU'VE GOT SPAM, (I MEAN MAIL)...'
Yah, but AOL/TW already has major stakes in RoadRunner and I know that awhile back AOL was cutting a deal with DIRECPC Satellite internet services, so they are gaining more and more of the control over the broadband market. IF they control even a sizable portion of AT&T global, even if their own services don't work out, they can have part of ATT's keep them afloat. It's all kind of an evil twisted way where one way or another they win and so they can't really be stopped.