Sounds like an option for countersuit then - extortion. The value of each song is less than a dollar. The RIAA has set the stage for this price per song, as that's what they sell the right to download to iTunes and other Online music services for. If that's all they expect to receive from the downloading services, then they rightfully shouldn't expect anything more than that as penalties for non-pay downloading.
The only problem with this, is that the quality of the song you pay for is less than what you could find online. ie - the DRM BS that they attach to the songs which makes them incompatible with most media players.
Actually, it would only be the dollar amount that iTunes pays for record companies per song. They are obviously in business to make money, so I would assume they make a percentage of that $1 for the song.
I'm a parent, and I buy based on principal, as well as whether or not it's appropriate for a child.
Dropping $300 or more for a video game system that is obsolete before it's released is not only just a bad idea, it constitutes in my opinion, bad parenting. It just fuels the "I want" mentality. Until they can switch from "I want" to "I need, because of these logical reasons", it's not going to happen.
Parents who give their child everything they want, desensitize their children to the value of what they receive. Especially when they end up breaking the toy, because they don't care about it. It didn't cost them anything, not even effort, so why should they care. Chances are, they didn't even say thank you when they received it.
My children may get upset as they grow older, as they aren't going to get all the "latest" just because "everyone else has it", however they will appreciate what they do get, and take care of it - as it's the only one they'll get if they don't.
Whose the stupid fucker that thought the above was flamebait?
No, flamebait is what gets typed when I go after the stupid punk who is obviously another Sony fan-boy who got his rocks off moderating someone's opinion as flame-bait.
Grow up, learn a little and forget trying to moderate, whoever the hell you were. You obviously don't have a brain, nor a clue.
Where do you put the salt extracted from the Water? Or is global warming, that is causing the polar ice caps to melt, reducing the over-all salt content, to the point that seeding the ocean with the salt extracted from the sea-water, going to help restore the salination balance?
They provide their own listing service. They provide their own tuners - ie 3 of them in a single box. You can record 2 digital satellite streams, 1 digital or analog off air stream, and watch 2 different recorded shows SIMULTANEOUSLY.
Can you do that with any SINGLE model TiVO?
As to the EULA changes, that was an obvious exageration - did you not get that?
Did you also note that people who already had one tivo, when adding another to their service, had the contract applied to the original service agreement, without bothering to ask the customer if they wanted that?
With a cell plan, if you add an additional phone, the contract only applies to the new phone. It DOES NOT apply to the existing phone plan.
TiVO only recently added the ability to record digital content - years after EchoStar had it. The PATENTS are worded as analog recording.
EchoStar didn't copy TiVO. EchoStar developed their own in house. The fact that they ended up similiar only shows how OBVIOUS the product and patent lines are.
Actually, one could say that the new digital signal recorders from TiVO are copies of the EchoStar product, and could be open to lawsuit themselves if EchoStar chose to push it. Because it's obviously the only way you can record HD signal however, they have chosen not to.
ie - there are only so many ways you can develop a product that will intelligently record shows from a signal source.
They are being punished because of the jury's ignorance. The judge actually stated that EchoStar did NOT COPY Tivo's service. The judge just chose to not throw out the Jury's decision. EchoStar will rightfully appeal the case to the next level.
Here's the key issue. TiVOs patents are for ANALOG signals. EchoStar records the digital streams, in digital form, still encrypted. When played back, they have to be decrypted. It's akin to TiVO suing people with VCRs because they can record every episode of something, using an organic computer to determine the appropriate record dates and times and setting it up to do so.
TiVOs patents are obvious extensions, given the ability to read a program guide, and pick out the shows you want to record. Add to that, the ability that EchoStar has, that I don't believe TiVO has. The ability to only record NEW episodes of a program, vs all episodes (which it also has). TiVO also has a sucky self changing EULA, which has caused strife over the years. ie - "By watching something previously recorded, you agree to bind yourself in contract with us for an additional year from the point of watching" or some such.
I hope they appeal it to the next level, and that at that next level, they get a judge with a clue.
It is my opinion that you are nothing more than a grandstanding egotist, with delusions of grandeur trying to draw attention to yourself, in an attempt to compensate for a childhood filled with loneliness.
Here's the problem.
There are people who see or read something and decide "Hey, I'd like to try that." Those people are choosing to do something, not being forced to do it and they aren't really copy-cats. They are only people who do not know the difference between right and wrong, good and evil, nor have they been raised to have a sense of responsibility. If caught, they just say - "Uh, I played a video game, and it made me do it".... BULLSHIT. If you do something, you and ONLY you are responsible for that action.
Why is that? I believe it is because of people such as yourself, who preach on about how "No one is responsible for their own actions" - they must have seen it in a video game, or a movie, or read about it in a book. You give them an out. If nothing else, all you are doing is making the problem worse. You're giving them their excuse to use before the judge. "Your honor, Jack Thompson clearly states that I only acted this way because of a video game!" You're making the problem worse, not better.
Let me tell you something else... There are a hell of a lot worse things to emulate on television. It's called the NEWS - maybe you should sit down and watch it some time. You know - the parts about people being blown to bits by terrorists or the military fighting the terrorists. Or the random acts of nature killing thousands of people. Let's face it, what someone chooses to do is not the result of reading a book, or watching a movie, or playing a video game. None of these things *MAKE* anyone do anything. The people who do these things have not had a proper upbringing, where they are instilled with a sense of responsibility, and a clear deliniation between right and wrong, good and evil. Schools are not responsible for this instruction. Governments are not responsible for this instruction. Parents are ultimately responsible for this instruction.
Jack - please, just - go away somewhere, and leave the raising of our kids to us. I don't care about your opinion. I don't believe anything you say. You have to respect someone for anything they say to have an affect on you. Trust me, you haven't earned anyone's respect by, in my opinion, acting like a blithering, idiotic, blow-hard.
** This used to be worded a lot harsher - however, I figured no one would take it seriously if I filled it with nothing but knee-jerk commentary.
The people of the time may have had the capacity to learn all that we know today, yet they didn't have the reference points. And unless I miss my guess, giving the people of the time all that knowledge, without the firsthand experience of how that knowledge was (or would have been) attained, would have led to the obliteration of the human race.
Hmmm - war like race, lower populations, bent on total domination of the world. Given the tools of modern man (ie nuclear / quantum physics) - leads to total destruction of the planet merely because we didn't understand that setting off a 3000 megaton bomb would be a bad thing.
Being told that the stove is hot, doesn't prepare us for the reality of placing our fingers on the surface and being burned. Having our fingers burned teaches us not to touch the burner again.
Knowledge without the sacrifice of understanding is dangerous.
A caring and loving God would not do that to his people.
Trust me, there's no job, that if it fell within the working realm of my aptitude and experience, that I would not get - UNLESS they chose to use that incident as a reason for denial.
There has yet to be a position that I've applied for, that I haven't been offered the job. (20+ years in the tech world)
She had a slight problem, she liked money, she liked the things she could get with money, and with who she had as a husband, she thought she was protected.
Actually, that is incorrect also, because the older king james version did NOT use the term *water* - they used "firmament" whose meaning has been changed to indicate water. The firmament was not actually water as we see it in a pool or out of our faucet, it was water in the form of frozen ice particulates surrounding the earth, helping to isolate the earth from the rest of the universe. Light, could only come through at the poles, due to the magnetic poles and radiation belts helping to form natural holes in this firmament. This is where a lot of people have gone in thinking that the Garden of Eden was actually under the icecap of Antarctica.
The stories of the flood, however they came about could also indicate that God caused the *firmament* to be pulled from the heavens, melting as it came to the Earth, causing the rains and the floods, changing forever the face of the Earth and the peoples who had lived, sheltered from the Suns radiation, much longer lifespans than we do today.
When the information was shared with man on how the universe and world was created, who among us could understand genetics, quantum physics, superstring theory and a host of things we still don't know about?
We understood the concept of god. We understood creating something. We knew simple numbers. We understood simple concepts for measuring time, days, seasons, etc...
If the story of creation were handed down today, I'm positive it would read differently. For one thing, we'd get a lot more technical information on how it happened. We'd also understand terms like genetic mutation, manipulation, millenia for time periods, etc...
For the longest time, I've thought about that story, and what it would sound like if it was given to us for the first time today. It's amazing to think that instead of a *rib bone* being used to create woman, it was actually sort of a proto-y chromosome component that was removed from man, and added to the same component on woman. Thus instead of an original XY for man and XX for woman, we originally had an X and Y with a half leg extending out the lower right quadrant. When that piece was removed from the original man, and combined with another to form the first XX chromosome, we changed - not only was there now woman, but a different form of man.
How would that have been explained to the people of that time? As far as I'm concerned, it couldn't have. Thus we have the stories of the bible written in the simplistic terms of the day, instead of the meticulous scientific detail we'd like today.
Most places don't ask "Ever been arrested?" - they ask "Ever been convicted?"
I was arrested once, because I said no, when the clerk asked if I wanted my receipt. Once I said no, she pocketed the cash, called the cops and said I stole the items I'd just paid for.
Unfortunately for her, I had exact change from the purchase, from the money I'd just gotten from the ATM machine.
Unfortunately for me, she was the chief of police's wife.
Unfortunately for her, she had a record of doing this from before she was married.
Fortunately for me, I had friends (business owners) who knew me and stood up for me.
She ended up in jail. The officer got slammed with a false arrest charge (as he didn't read me the miranda to me), and proceeded to inform me that I was lying and that I'd better stop - all without offering to have a lawyer present. I kept repeating that I wasn't lying.
That I think used up all my luck for quite a few years to come.
So when asked - have I ever been arrested - I have to answer yes.. Was I convicted - never. Innocent until proven guilty.
I'd sue the company that didn't hire based on an "Ever been arrested" question.
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Sounds like an option for countersuit then - extortion.
The value of each song is less than a dollar.
The RIAA has set the stage for this price per song, as that's what they sell the right to download to iTunes and other Online music services for.
If that's all they expect to receive from the downloading services, then they rightfully shouldn't expect anything more than that as penalties for non-pay downloading.
The only problem with this, is that the quality of the song you pay for is less than what you could find online. ie - the DRM BS that they attach to the songs which makes them incompatible with most media players.
Actually, it would only be the dollar amount that iTunes pays for record companies per song.
They are obviously in business to make money, so I would assume they make a percentage of that $1 for the song.
I'm a parent, and I buy based on principal, as well as whether or not it's appropriate for a child.
Dropping $300 or more for a video game system that is obsolete before it's released is not only just a bad idea, it constitutes in my opinion, bad parenting.
It just fuels the "I want" mentality.
Until they can switch from "I want" to "I need, because of these logical reasons", it's not going to happen.
Parents who give their child everything they want, desensitize their children to the value of what they receive. Especially when they end up breaking the toy, because they don't care about it. It didn't cost them anything, not even effort, so why should they care. Chances are, they didn't even say thank you when they received it.
My children may get upset as they grow older, as they aren't going to get all the "latest" just because "everyone else has it", however they will appreciate what they do get, and take care of it - as it's the only one they'll get if they don't.
LOL - and yes, whose, should have been who's......
LOL - Flamebait?
Whose the stupid fucker that thought the above was flamebait?
No, flamebait is what gets typed when I go after the stupid punk who is obviously another Sony fan-boy who got his rocks off moderating someone's opinion as flame-bait.
Grow up, learn a little and forget trying to moderate, whoever the hell you were. You obviously don't have a brain, nor a clue.
Really?
Where do you put the salt extracted from the Water? Or is global warming, that is causing the polar ice caps to melt, reducing the over-all salt content, to the point that seeding the ocean with the salt extracted from the sea-water, going to help restore the salination balance?
Yep - Poor Sony - getting what they deserve.
Spending to much to deliver a product that is priced OUT OF 98% of the gamers in world's price range.
XBOX 360 didn't do well because it was too expensive for what it offered.
PS3 is WORSE.
I wouldn't buy this piece of shit if it was only $10.00 USD - just because of the offensive nature of BluRay.
NOTHING new?
Really...
They provide their own listing service.
They provide their own tuners - ie 3 of them in a single box.
You can record 2 digital satellite streams, 1 digital or analog off air stream, and watch 2 different recorded shows SIMULTANEOUSLY.
Can you do that with any SINGLE model TiVO?
As to the EULA changes, that was an obvious exageration - did you not get that?
Did you also note that people who already had one tivo, when adding another to their service, had the contract applied to the original service agreement, without bothering to ask the customer if they wanted that?
With a cell plan, if you add an additional phone, the contract only applies to the new phone. It DOES NOT apply to the existing phone plan.
TiVO only recently added the ability to record digital content - years after EchoStar had it.
The PATENTS are worded as analog recording.
EchoStar didn't copy TiVO. EchoStar developed their own in house. The fact that they ended up similiar only shows how OBVIOUS the product and patent lines are.
Actually, one could say that the new digital signal recorders from TiVO are copies of the EchoStar product, and could be open to lawsuit themselves if EchoStar chose to push it.
Because it's obviously the only way you can record HD signal however, they have chosen not to.
ie - there are only so many ways you can develop a product that will intelligently record shows from a signal source.
They are being punished because of the jury's ignorance.
The judge actually stated that EchoStar did NOT COPY Tivo's service. The judge just chose to not throw out the Jury's decision.
EchoStar will rightfully appeal the case to the next level.
All right, so they've added this feature then.
A little over a year ago when I looked into it, they didn't.
If you can't beat - litigate them.
Here's the key issue. TiVOs patents are for ANALOG signals.
EchoStar records the digital streams, in digital form, still encrypted. When played back, they have to be decrypted.
It's akin to TiVO suing people with VCRs because they can record every episode of something, using an organic computer to determine the appropriate record dates and times and setting it up to do so.
TiVOs patents are obvious extensions, given the ability to read a program guide, and pick out the shows you want to record.
Add to that, the ability that EchoStar has, that I don't believe TiVO has. The ability to only record NEW episodes of a program, vs all episodes (which it also has).
TiVO also has a sucky self changing EULA, which has caused strife over the years.
ie - "By watching something previously recorded, you agree to bind yourself in contract with us for an additional year from the point of watching" or some such.
I hope they appeal it to the next level, and that at that next level, they get a judge with a clue.
It is my opinion that you are nothing more than a grandstanding egotist, with delusions of grandeur trying to draw attention to yourself, in an attempt to compensate for a childhood filled with loneliness.
Here's the problem.
There are people who see or read something and decide "Hey, I'd like to try that." Those people are choosing to do something, not being forced to do it and they aren't really copy-cats. They are only people who do not know the difference between right and wrong, good and evil, nor have they been raised to have a sense of responsibility. If caught, they just say - "Uh, I played a video game, and it made me do it".... BULLSHIT.
If you do something, you and ONLY you are responsible for that action.
Why is that? I believe it is because of people such as yourself, who preach on about how "No one is responsible for their own actions" - they must have seen it in a video game, or a movie, or read about it in a book. You give them an out. If nothing else, all you are doing is making the problem worse. You're giving them their excuse to use before the judge. "Your honor, Jack Thompson clearly states that I only acted this way because of a video game!" You're making the problem worse, not better.
Let me tell you something else... There are a hell of a lot worse things to emulate on television. It's called the NEWS - maybe you should sit down and watch it some time. You know - the parts about people being blown to bits by terrorists or the military fighting the terrorists. Or the random acts of nature killing thousands of people.
Let's face it, what someone chooses to do is not the result of reading a book, or watching a movie, or playing a video game. None of these things *MAKE* anyone do anything. The people who do these things have not had a proper upbringing, where they are instilled with a sense of responsibility, and a clear deliniation between right and wrong, good and evil.
Schools are not responsible for this instruction.
Governments are not responsible for this instruction.
Parents are ultimately responsible for this instruction.
Jack - please, just - go away somewhere, and leave the raising of our kids to us. I don't care about your opinion. I don't believe anything you say. You have to respect someone for anything they say to have an affect on you. Trust me, you haven't earned anyone's respect by, in my opinion, acting like a blithering, idiotic, blow-hard.
** This used to be worded a lot harsher - however, I figured no one would take it seriously if I filled it with nothing but knee-jerk commentary.
The people of the time may have had the capacity to learn all that we know today, yet they didn't have the reference points. And unless I miss my guess, giving the people of the time all that knowledge, without the firsthand experience of how that knowledge was (or would have been) attained, would have led to the obliteration of the human race.
Hmmm - war like race, lower populations, bent on total domination of the world. Given the tools of modern man (ie nuclear / quantum physics) - leads to total destruction of the planet merely because we didn't understand that setting off a 3000 megaton bomb would be a bad thing.
Being told that the stove is hot, doesn't prepare us for the reality of placing our fingers on the surface and being burned. Having our fingers burned teaches us not to touch the burner again.
Knowledge without the sacrifice of understanding is dangerous.
A caring and loving God would not do that to his people.
Actually he did leave us a time capsule. Ourselves. We are just now learning enough to understand things the way an infant would.
Eventually we will learn enough, evolve enough that we will fully understand the message left to us within our genetic code.
This supreme being was always there, always will be.
If you take the hard scientific route, then nothing ever should have been.
You can't create something out of nothing, where'd the something come from?
Sounds to me like another stupid "science has all the answers and there is no god" ploy.
Yes adhering to only what you can see and comprehend is stupidity in the extreme.
It's in the way of an experiment.
If he gives us too much information, he spoils the outcome.
Silly rabbit, that's not Streetfighter 2, that's Streetfigher 11 =D
Trust me, there's no job, that if it fell within the working realm of my aptitude and experience, that I would not get - UNLESS they chose to use that incident as a reason for denial.
There has yet to be a position that I've applied for, that I haven't been offered the job. (20+ years in the tech world)
She had a slight problem, she liked money, she liked the things she could get with money, and with who she had as a husband, she thought she was protected.
I did NOT make this up.
Actually, that is incorrect also, because the older king james version did NOT use the term *water* - they used "firmament" whose meaning has been changed to indicate water. The firmament was not actually water as we see it in a pool or out of our faucet, it was water in the form of frozen ice particulates surrounding the earth, helping to isolate the earth from the rest of the universe. Light, could only come through at the poles, due to the magnetic poles and radiation belts helping to form natural holes in this firmament. This is where a lot of people have gone in thinking that the Garden of Eden was actually under the icecap of Antarctica.
The stories of the flood, however they came about could also indicate that God caused the *firmament* to be pulled from the heavens, melting as it came to the Earth, causing the rains and the floods, changing forever the face of the Earth and the peoples who had lived, sheltered from the Suns radiation, much longer lifespans than we do today.
Now stop and think a moment...
When the information was shared with man on how the universe and world was created, who among us could understand genetics, quantum physics, superstring theory and a host of things we still don't know about?
We understood the concept of god. We understood creating something. We knew simple numbers. We understood simple concepts for measuring time, days, seasons, etc...
If the story of creation were handed down today, I'm positive it would read differently. For one thing, we'd get a lot more technical information on how it happened. We'd also understand terms like genetic mutation, manipulation, millenia for time periods, etc...
For the longest time, I've thought about that story, and what it would sound like if it was given to us for the first time today. It's amazing to think that instead of a *rib bone* being used to create woman, it was actually sort of a proto-y chromosome component that was removed from man, and added to the same component on woman. Thus instead of an original XY for man and XX for woman, we originally had an X and Y with a half leg extending out the lower right quadrant. When that piece was removed from the original man, and combined with another to form the first XX chromosome, we changed - not only was there now woman, but a different form of man.
How would that have been explained to the people of that time? As far as I'm concerned, it couldn't have. Thus we have the stories of the bible written in the simplistic terms of the day, instead of the meticulous scientific detail we'd like today.
Most places don't ask "Ever been arrested?" - they ask "Ever been convicted?"
I was arrested once, because I said no, when the clerk asked if I wanted my receipt. Once I said no, she pocketed the cash, called the cops and said I stole the items I'd just paid for.
Unfortunately for her, I had exact change from the purchase, from the money I'd just gotten from the ATM machine.
Unfortunately for me, she was the chief of police's wife.
Unfortunately for her, she had a record of doing this from before she was married.
Fortunately for me, I had friends (business owners) who knew me and stood up for me.
She ended up in jail. The officer got slammed with a false arrest charge (as he didn't read me the miranda to me), and proceeded to inform me that I was lying and that I'd better stop - all without offering to have a lawyer present. I kept repeating that I wasn't lying.
That I think used up all my luck for quite a few years to come.
So when asked - have I ever been arrested - I have to answer yes.. Was I convicted - never. Innocent until proven guilty.
I'd sue the company that didn't hire based on an "Ever been arrested" question.
"Technically, the artists now owe the RIAA money."
There's probably more truth to this statement than you know...
Opera is MUCH faster to load than firefox, even with 4GB of RAM.
I've actually removed firefox from my system, and will probably wait for the full release of 2.0 before re-evaluating.
Take a look at your local gas pump next time you fill up.
They record both video AND AUDIO.
The signs clearly state this fact, and that you should not expect any right to privacy on their property.
If signs were posted around the property to this effect, then no - no laws, rules were broken by the property owner.
Solaris x86 is at least as mature as Linux.
OpenSolaris with Ubuntu distribution on it - called NextentaOS is in alpha state and works quite well.