An ingenious way to scrape the bottom of the financial barrel. I can see it now, the fraud artists goes to a bank to get a credit card and... "Well Mr. Troy, we can give you a card with a credit limit of $1,000, or a secured card with a limit of $2,000".
You say that like you think it is a terrible thing. Democracy isn't an ideal, it is a compromise (it compromises things like freedom, which is an ideal (too bad it isn't workable as a principle)).
If some system other than a pure direct democracy results in people having more freedom, it's better than a direct democracy. (Quibble away, but measuring 'freedom' probably includes things like not getting murdered, so try to make it interesting)
Hence the 'people who want to use the standard'. I don't think it will improve things much tomorrow, but 5 years from now, it will probably be easier to serve video.
This attitude was a debacle for video plug-ins using the object tag.
The idea is that if a small time content creator uses the universally supported codec, they don't get ranty email complaining that the television on their computer thingy be broke.
It matters very little. If Microsoft and Apple fail to implement Theora, the fact that the standard calls for it will not matter (because it will not be practical as a universal fallback).
Mozilla can't license H.264 in a way that lets downstream packagers use it, so they don't want to put it in the standard either.
The previous/. story discussing the email Hickson sent out covered this stuff pretty well.
It isn't particularly hard to do things like put a flash fallback inside of a video tag, so people that want to use the standard but still have wide reach have lots of options (flash is the de facto way to play 'web' video today, so I don't think it is unreasonable to assume that this may continue).
For instance, you can provide more value for free (say, faster, more accurate results). Not quite undercutting free, because free is free, but you are giving more away, which is similar enough in concept.
As someone with almost no assets, I'm not sure preserving the status quo was worth it. I mean, it is obvious to me that it was worth it for much of the population, but I'm not sure it did me any good.
My biggest concern would be whether there were any supply disruptions, but I'm not sure there would have been any.
Hopefully home prices stagnate for a couple of decades (I won't be in the market for at least 1 of those decades, so hey, why not). There is at least a chance they will, it all depends on how shocked people were by this bubble popping, and how big the next few bubbles are.
(And I don't think Paulson acted to protect narrow interests, I think he acted to protect the entire establishment (a group which I think includes every single baby boomer with a 401k or pension plan (and anyone else with significant assets or interests in the current economy)))
This simply presents a different value proposition; there are plenty of people who pay $15 because it is a convenient way to read a paper book, the idea of collecting the thing never occurs to them, they give it away, leave it somewhere or throw it in the trash.
For those people, the availability and portability of the books on a Kindle are the primary consideration, not the different rights.
This is a ridiculous answer. Less than 1% of the population has an autistic spectrum disorder, and even inside that tiny population there is likely quite a correlation between 'present on Mechanical turk' and 'high functioning'. Going from there, people with Asperger syndrome have a fair shot of understanding the norm, they just seem to lack the cognitive machinery to properly read other people in social situations.
Given that distribution has more or less become free (no really, it has, for example, Apple would be happy to bear the cost of distribution for a huge swath of popular music, just to support hardware sales; they might limit it to people that paid them for hardware though), it may make sense to rethink copyright in terms of rights to commercial exploitation, rather than rights to distribution.
elrous0 is bitching about something else. AIG is 'unwinding' the insane contracts that drove them out of business; rather than declaring bankruptcy and paying pennies on the dollar, they got 80-some billion dollars from the government and payed it to the people they had these contracts with. elrous0 is saying that Goldman Sachs got $13 billion of that money.
Of course, between Goldman manipulating and controlling the government in order to receive that money (Secretary Paulson, who did much of the bailing out of AIG was a former Goldman CEO) and the government deciding to bail out AIG in order to preserve millions of annuities and whole life insurance policies, I choose to wear the blinders that let me believe in the latter.
I'm not real sure someone with the code would be able to do much at all. I guess someone with the code, billions of dollars (or at least tens of millions), a high volume trading interconnect, and quite a lot of time to analyze the code for self re-enforcing behaviors might be able to make a little bit of money.
The whole point of the programmed trades is to take advantage of market conditions, staging the market so that one system goes AWOL is going to be a hell of a trick.
So if you provide frames instantaneously and have a fantastic network connection, the lag is only going to be 3 or 4 times what it is running at 60 fps locally?
It will work well for lots of styles of games, but anything fast paced is going to take a hurting.
Yes, the millions of dollars of tax that Warren Buffet has paid consists of 'little' or 'nothing'.
You are being at least as disingenuous as you are accusing the mainstream media of being.
And I realize that Buffett has paid very little tax compared to the amount of wealth he has, but you are using phrases like 'do not pay' to describe the fact that he has paid more in taxes (most years!) than most people will generate in income in their entire lives.
You have to have the infrastructure sitting there to do it, but even today's batteries can be recharged in less than an hour (the infrastructure consists of something able to push that required watts, for example, a big battery or industrial connect).
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Using it for identity isn't that big a deal. Using it for authentication of identity is the problem.
An ingenious way to scrape the bottom of the financial barrel. I can see it now, the fraud artists goes to a bank to get a credit card and... "Well Mr. Troy, we can give you a card with a credit limit of $1,000, or a secured card with a limit of $2,000".
You say that like you think it is a terrible thing. Democracy isn't an ideal, it is a compromise (it compromises things like freedom, which is an ideal (too bad it isn't workable as a principle)).
If some system other than a pure direct democracy results in people having more freedom, it's better than a direct democracy. (Quibble away, but measuring 'freedom' probably includes things like not getting murdered, so try to make it interesting)
Hence the 'people who want to use the standard'. I don't think it will improve things much tomorrow, but 5 years from now, it will probably be easier to serve video.
Or they could allow uploading of any format but only serve bandwidth friendly formats.
Then people who felt okay about buying an expensive encoder could do the mindless chore of downloading, compressing and uploading.
Inefficient, but not that inefficient, and plenty workable.
You called the longest (by quite a bit) paragraph in your post a short paragraph.
This attitude was a debacle for video plug-ins using the object tag.
The idea is that if a small time content creator uses the universally supported codec, they don't get ranty email complaining that the television on their computer thingy be broke.
It matters very little. If Microsoft and Apple fail to implement Theora, the fact that the standard calls for it will not matter (because it will not be practical as a universal fallback).
Mozilla can't license H.264 in a way that lets downstream packagers use it, so they don't want to put it in the standard either.
The previous /. story discussing the email Hickson sent out covered this stuff pretty well.
It isn't particularly hard to do things like put a flash fallback inside of a video tag, so people that want to use the standard but still have wide reach have lots of options (flash is the de facto way to play 'web' video today, so I don't think it is unreasonable to assume that this may continue).
I don't feel like typing, so you have to do extra reading:
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Only if you insist on pedantic sematics.
For instance, you can provide more value for free (say, faster, more accurate results). Not quite undercutting free, because free is free, but you are giving more away, which is similar enough in concept.
As someone with almost no assets, I'm not sure preserving the status quo was worth it. I mean, it is obvious to me that it was worth it for much of the population, but I'm not sure it did me any good.
My biggest concern would be whether there were any supply disruptions, but I'm not sure there would have been any.
Hopefully home prices stagnate for a couple of decades (I won't be in the market for at least 1 of those decades, so hey, why not). There is at least a chance they will, it all depends on how shocked people were by this bubble popping, and how big the next few bubbles are.
(And I don't think Paulson acted to protect narrow interests, I think he acted to protect the entire establishment (a group which I think includes every single baby boomer with a 401k or pension plan (and anyone else with significant assets or interests in the current economy)))
This simply presents a different value proposition; there are plenty of people who pay $15 because it is a convenient way to read a paper book, the idea of collecting the thing never occurs to them, they give it away, leave it somewhere or throw it in the trash.
For those people, the availability and portability of the books on a Kindle are the primary consideration, not the different rights.
I don't know the details, but Robert Rodriguez seems to run a pretty light ship (Spy Kids, Sin City, the Mariachi films).
Not megabudget effects films by any means, but plenty of action and, at least reliable quality.
This is a ridiculous answer. Less than 1% of the population has an autistic spectrum disorder, and even inside that tiny population there is likely quite a correlation between 'present on Mechanical turk' and 'high functioning'. Going from there, people with Asperger syndrome have a fair shot of understanding the norm, they just seem to lack the cognitive machinery to properly read other people in social situations.
Copyright exists to promote distribution.
Given that distribution has more or less become free (no really, it has, for example, Apple would be happy to bear the cost of distribution for a huge swath of popular music, just to support hardware sales; they might limit it to people that paid them for hardware though), it may make sense to rethink copyright in terms of rights to commercial exploitation, rather than rights to distribution.
It wasn't his computer.
elrous0 is bitching about something else. AIG is 'unwinding' the insane contracts that drove them out of business; rather than declaring bankruptcy and paying pennies on the dollar, they got 80-some billion dollars from the government and payed it to the people they had these contracts with. elrous0 is saying that Goldman Sachs got $13 billion of that money.
Of course, between Goldman manipulating and controlling the government in order to receive that money (Secretary Paulson, who did much of the bailing out of AIG was a former Goldman CEO) and the government deciding to bail out AIG in order to preserve millions of annuities and whole life insurance policies, I choose to wear the blinders that let me believe in the latter.
I blame the people for electing politicians that are essentially open for sale.
I'm not real sure someone with the code would be able to do much at all. I guess someone with the code, billions of dollars (or at least tens of millions), a high volume trading interconnect, and quite a lot of time to analyze the code for self re-enforcing behaviors might be able to make a little bit of money.
The whole point of the programmed trades is to take advantage of market conditions, staging the market so that one system goes AWOL is going to be a hell of a trick.
So if you provide frames instantaneously and have a fantastic network connection, the lag is only going to be 3 or 4 times what it is running at 60 fps locally?
It will work well for lots of styles of games, but anything fast paced is going to take a hurting.
So will some small amount of currency.
Since you are deciding for everyone, can you make a list of guilt free alcohol brands for me?
Yes, the millions of dollars of tax that Warren Buffet has paid consists of 'little' or 'nothing'.
You are being at least as disingenuous as you are accusing the mainstream media of being.
And I realize that Buffett has paid very little tax compared to the amount of wealth he has, but you are using phrases like 'do not pay' to describe the fact that he has paid more in taxes (most years!) than most people will generate in income in their entire lives.
You have to have the infrastructure sitting there to do it, but even today's batteries can be recharged in less than an hour (the infrastructure consists of something able to push that required watts, for example, a big battery or industrial connect).
So you need to encrypt the first leg but not the others?