Look in the dictionary under contradiction and you'll find a picture of Hillary.
"Getting the right business models and the right security and matching it with the right technology and the right customer experience is important. Believe me, no one wants to get this done faster than the recording industry."
"Some have argued for government intervention. I think that would be ill advised. The pace of the marketplace is too fast to accommodate such regulation."
"Many have asked me why the record companies have given up on peer to peer. In fact the opposite is true, they haven't even gotten started."
To summarize:
Nobody wants to get it done faster than them... and the government shouldn't get involved because everything's moving too fast for them to keep up... but despite the fact that everything moves at this break-neck speed they haven't started.
"The truth is, since all record companies do with their profits is keep people employed to invest in new music, this is about artists as much as anyone."
So let me make sure I understand this. All the profits that a record label makes goes into the pockets of their employees so that they can dump the money directly back into the music industry? I'm sure Hillary's got the mother of all CD collections considering how much she's got to be making.
I wrote a program a while back that solved this problem. It was fairly successful in removing, or at least making-less apparent, the logos that broadcast companies are using. My solution was only implemented in software on pre-recorded MPG clips, but given the advances in digital video, and set-top boxes, I don't see why it couldn't be implemented as a hardware solution.
I accomplished the task by isolation the logo (scanned which pixels were relatively stationary, giving priority to the corners.
I then tracked the edges of the logos, and picked up the color values just beyond the borders of these pixels.
In repainting a pixel, I'd average out the pixels on the left, right, up, and down, and weight each one based on how close to that particular edge the replacement pixel was being drawn.
You'd be surprised how well it works. Transparent logos are a bit more difficult to detect, but they're less obtrusive. In addition, if this were implemented as a full-blown product, it could easily build a library of company logos and associate those logos with the channel that is being watched, so the logo detection wouldn't be necessary.
Yet in packaging the install script with their product, they are equally responsible... at least from the moral standpoint. Companies usually cover their asses enough to make sure that 10-page disclaimer you must agree to before installing software includes a clause about them not being legally responsible for any incidental dammage caused by the use of their software.
In an industry where things can change dramatically mere months, five years seems like one of the first realistic settlements related to a technology case. Microsoft is already making broad changes to how they intend to obtain revenue with their Hailstorm services, and five years from now, the company is likely to look very little like the entity they are today.
Wouldn't this backfire? They're suggesting that they intend to kill these servers by downloading content very slowly... in effect clogging the available ports. So serves will simply be configured to dump these slow transfers, and users with slow connections will be more inclined to spend money on broadband connections so that they can access this content, in effect making it easier for them to retrieve larger quantities of content faster. I say go for it RIAA!
Only a certain segment of the population knows him as Welsey Crusher. A lot of people don't watch Star Trek... I'd think he'd be marketable to that group, though I've never seen him act on Star Trek, so maybe not.
I find it strange that this phone boasts that it's the world's first GPS-enabled phone, yet the GPS features only take up two pages of text in the manual, and one of those is the title page.
Also, the manual mentions that if you've got GPS features turned off... it turns them back on for the duration of any emergency calls. Aside from 911, how would the phone know what constitutes an emergency phone call?
TV Guide already lets you download the guide in a machine-readable format. It's being used for a few PDA-based TV Guide listers such as PTVL (Pocket TV Listing)
Much of the concourse underneath the WTC is intact. I saw view footage of all of the stores down there, which have been looted. It's scary when you consider that the basement hasn't moved much, and the above-ground sections seem to have pancacked into virtually nothing... it makes you wonder where 6000 bodies are.
The new kind of war will be one fought overseas and in our own nation. What airline passenger won't jump a hijacker the next time something like this happens? This attrocity has led us to believe that any future hijacking will lead to the demise of the jet's occupants, but I contend that a plane full of pissed off passengers will be able to stop a hijacking now that we know what we know. So what has this done? It's probably put an end to plane hijackings as we know them.
Instead, we should be looking forward to what the next terrible thing may be. Chemical? Biological? If we're to believe what the news tells us, other countries have the ability to produce weapons of these nature and as terrorist organizations rise to power and associate themselves with these nations, these types of silent attacks should be what we're worrying about and this is where our intelligence should be focused.
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Frankly, I'm just hoping some of today's musicians age quickly...
Look in the dictionary under contradiction and you'll find a picture of Hillary.
... and the government shouldn't get involved because everything's moving too fast for them to keep up ... but despite the fact that everything moves at this break-neck speed they haven't started.
"Getting the right business models and the right security and matching it with the right technology and the right customer experience is important. Believe me, no one wants to get this done faster than the recording industry."
"Some have argued for government intervention. I think that would be ill advised. The pace of the marketplace is too fast to accommodate such regulation."
"Many have asked me why the record companies have given up on peer to peer. In fact the opposite is true, they haven't even gotten started."
To summarize:
Nobody wants to get it done faster than them
"The truth is, since all record companies do with their profits is keep people employed to invest in new music, this is about artists as much as anyone."
So let me make sure I understand this. All the profits that a record label makes goes into the pockets of their employees so that they can dump the money directly back into the music industry? I'm sure Hillary's got the mother of all CD collections considering how much she's got to be making.
Umm ... No. It was a project when I was in college.
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I accomplished the task by isolation the logo (scanned which pixels were relatively stationary, giving priority to the corners.
- I then tracked the edges of the logos, and picked up the color values just beyond the borders of these pixels.
- In repainting a pixel, I'd average out the pixels on the left, right, up, and down, and weight each one based on how close to that particular edge the replacement pixel was being drawn.
You'd be surprised how well it works.Transparent logos are a bit more difficult to detect, but they're less obtrusive. In addition, if this were implemented as a full-blown product, it could easily build a library of company logos and associate those logos with the channel that is being watched, so the logo detection wouldn't be necessary.
If it continues to have the impact on pricing that it's had so far, why fight it?
Yet in packaging the install script with their product, they are equally responsible ... at least from the moral standpoint. Companies usually cover their asses enough to make sure that 10-page disclaimer you must agree to before installing software includes a clause about them not being legally responsible for any incidental dammage caused by the use of their software.
So essentially, you want a PocketPC.
In an industry where things can change dramatically mere months, five years seems like one of the first realistic settlements related to a technology case. Microsoft is already making broad changes to how they intend to obtain revenue with their Hailstorm services, and five years from now, the company is likely to look very little like the entity they are today.
You're supposed to turn back the clock ... not turn back the articles....
Wouldn't this backfire? They're suggesting that they intend to kill these servers by downloading content very slowly ... in effect clogging the available ports. So serves will simply be configured to dump these slow transfers, and users with slow connections will be more inclined to spend money on broadband connections so that they can access this content, in effect making it easier for them to retrieve larger quantities of content faster. I say go for it RIAA!
Only a certain segment of the population knows him as Welsey Crusher. A lot of people don't watch Star Trek ... I'd think he'd be marketable to that group, though I've never seen him act on Star Trek, so maybe not.
Yeah, who needs to pay those silly bills anyway?
They just send you another one next month!
Prehaps congress should institute legislation which requires all cell phones to have GPS technology built in.
... that's why you're starting to see them. Actually I think it was the FCC that is requiring it, but same result.
They already have
You carry around bags full of quarters?
Actually, Garmin has one as well: Garmin.
I find it strange that this phone boasts that it's the world's first GPS-enabled phone, yet the GPS features only take up two pages of text in the manual, and one of those is the title page.
... it turns them back on for the duration of any emergency calls. Aside from 911, how would the phone know what constitutes an emergency phone call?
Also, the manual mentions that if you've got GPS features turned off
It's good to see that while others are thinking up ways to kill us, we're doing a pretty good job of coming up with ways to kill ourselves.
TV Guide already lets you download the guide in a machine-readable format.
It's being used for a few PDA-based TV Guide listers such as PTVL (Pocket TV Listing)
"Panasonic will be using Microsoft's Windows CE 3.0, not Pocket PC."
They're bringing out a new device with an old OS. Not too bright.
That's why you hire the shipping company and bill that to your company as well! Obviously!
Much of the concourse underneath the WTC is intact. I saw view footage of all of the stores down there, which have been looted. It's scary when you consider that the basement hasn't moved much, and the above-ground sections seem to have pancacked into virtually nothing ... it makes you wonder where 6000 bodies are.
Theo? I always wondered what he did after the Cosby show.
So you're saying we should use Basic?
The new kind of war will be one fought overseas and in our own nation. What airline passenger won't jump a hijacker the next time something like this happens? This attrocity has led us to believe that any future hijacking will lead to the demise of the jet's occupants, but I contend that a plane full of pissed off passengers will be able to stop a hijacking now that we know what we know. So what has this done? It's probably put an end to plane hijackings as we know them.
Instead, we should be looking forward to what the next terrible thing may be. Chemical? Biological? If we're to believe what the news tells us, other countries have the ability to produce weapons of these nature and as terrorist organizations rise to power and associate themselves with these nations, these types of silent attacks should be what we're worrying about and this is where our intelligence should be focused.