The Copyright exception is for excerpts -- for critique and review only. If you show an entire movie, you would still be in violation, IF you show a movie you brought from home. All of the movies in a school library (not in a public library though) have been purchased under a public performance license, so they can be shown to as many people as you want. That license comes at a VERY steep price though -- a DVD of a disney movie, for example, would be $75-100.
I think they planned to annouce this at the MacWorld Keynote, but sometihng kept them from doing it. Why else would they have gotten the CEO of Sony to be there? They could have gotten anybody from Sony to demo their HDV camera, CEO appearances are saved for special occasions. As far as the HDV camera goes, Sony isn't the only manufacturer with an HDV prosumer camera.
I think it might be a good idea BUT only if they certified the config for all of the clones. Sort of like the licensing deals the console manufacturers have with game developers, only in reverse. i.e. You only get to build machines that use our OS as long as we approve your designs and test your machines for compatibility. Apple has worked very hard for their place as one of the top industrial design companies in the world, they don't want some crappy clone machines ruining their image.
Sun still makes such a beastie: here. I've used an older model. It looks very similar to running VMware, you see the whole POST and boot screens in a window. Performance was pretty good, the only problem is that the HD is shared, which brought the machine down somewhat.
Look at the picture . It has Ethernet, along with:
Modem USB VGA
I really doubt that they would go through the trouble of designing this thing and making it one-way only. There has go to be a way to copy mp3s to it. since it has VGA and USB, maybe you can even login to console and set up SSH, etc.
My complaint with it was, if all they needed was body heat and electrical impulses from our nervous system, why use humans? Why not use a large, stupid animal like cows?
The matrix would have been easy as hell to code: a big field, lots of grass -- that's it. I don't think you'd have any bovine Keanu Reeves breaking out (although a cow that knows Kung-Fu would be pretty damn funny).
There is already a replacement to the embryonic stem cells: stem cells from the blood in Umbilical (Sp?) cords. If the goverment or a group of hospitals came together and saved the blood from the umbilical cords of all babies born, there wouldn't be a need form embryonic stem cell research. There are a couple of companies already storing cord blood, one of them is cryo-cell
Wal-Mart considers anyone who works 28 hours per week a full time employee
There are over 250,000 uninsured workers employed by Wal-Mart, one of the largest groups without health care in the United States.
Acording to this, there are 1.28 million Walmart employees.
Anyone who is full-time at WalMart can signup for health coverage, so those 250,000 must be part-time workers. Hmm, a retailer with only 20% of their workforce made up of part-time workers? That certainly doesn't sound too bad to me.
It's already being used -- it's the messaging pop-ups in Windows. No way to stop it except shutting down the messaging service (which may or may not break other stuff) on the local machine. Univerisities have all ready been hit pretty hard with it. I know it affects Win2k & XP, don't know about anything older.
Actually, the power cord on an iMac (at least the LCD ones) is NOT compatible with a PC. It's got a rather funky three cylinder shape that would not fit in a PC and vise versa:)
The.Net components are installed with SP1. They were also available as a stand-alone update for XP, but SP1 supercedes all other upgrade packages.
What Sun, et. al are complaining about is that MS's Java VM can be "turned off" and replaced with another one(Sun's) or can be disabled totally. However, their.Net framework can not be disabled or replaced.
Since the agreement stated that users should be able to replace/disable ALL middleware systems included with Windows, I think their claim is valid.
Do you really think it's that failsafe? What if the master DNS servers were destroyed? Yes, the connections to the rest of the world would still function, but do you know the IP address of every site you go to on a daily basis? How about if a backbone link died? Or an oceanic cable snapped? The Internet's health is still beholden to a relitivly small group of corporations/governments.
The research that he is talking about would eliminate these weaknesses, by making the Internet server-less (or more precisly server-ful); every client would share its information with all other clients, making information truly ubiquitous.
At the root, that is why the RIAA fears P2P clients: they make information (music, etc) freely available and available to everyone.
Why would Intel get involved in this? Since the majority of Linux & Windows machines run on Intel CPU's, it seems that they should stay out of the Linux/Windows battle.
It looks like AMD has taken Intel's spot as the favorite son of Redmond lately. Do you think this could be part of a plan to get back in Microsoft's good graces?
I think we're going to see MS "embrace" Linux and make it the kernel of its next OS...wait,wait, don't run away yet -- here's the idea:
--OS X is doing very well, so building a propietary GUI over an open kernel isn't unheardof. Plus MS has always followed in the footsteps of MacOS. I think it has something to do with Gates wishing he were as cool as Jobs.:)
--Microsoft's security woes would be largly taken care of. All services are handled below the GUI, so they could just get rid of most of their buggy *cough* IIS *cough* software. And, since user accounts wouldn't own the entire system, viruses would have a harder time propagating.
--Why would MS encourage the porting of the.NET framework (MONO) to Linux? There can't be any other reason, they know that if software runs on both platforms business will move to a the more stable of the two, so it could only hurt their OS sales. Unless they are planning to transistion to Linux and are going to use MONO as a migration path.
I know it sounds pretty far-fetched, but I think that within two years, we're going to see a version of Windows built on Linux (or possibly BSD).
(This doesn't have anything to do with the article, but it's the closest thing to my idea that I've seen on/.)
Whenever you are on a dig and find an artifact or shards of one(lamp, pot, bowl, etc), you start looking them up in catalogs from other digs. This helps you determine the time period the pieces are from and the area that they were probably made in. The books are HUGE and the work is extremely tedious.
My idea was to automate the search. If you used a 3D scanner on all shards that you have found, they could be compared to a database of shapes. It would only return a probability that the shard was from the indicated object, but it would drastically cut down the number of objects a archeaolgist would have to sift through. Another benefit would be that the model could be sent to collegues, giving them a chance to get a more detailed look at an artifact as soon as it is unearthed.
If anybody out there wants to take this idea and run with it, you would be dong archeaology a huge favor.
How exactly is this scary? It's a robot that can deliver medication from a pharmacy to a nurse's station. The only remotely dangerous thing it does is drive down the halls. Its been programmed to avoid everything/one in the hallway, if that is not possible, it stops and announces that it can not make any futher progress without assistance.
I've read about a possible mission to Mars that would speed up the Green House effect. Basically, it was a lander whose only purpose was to emit as many green house gases as possible into the Martian atmosphere. The thinking was that if we could get the polar ice caps to melt,we could begin terraforming within 20 years, and then areas would be ready for humans in another 50-60 years.
But more and more video cards are coming with RCA and/or Svideo out. I know, this does require that your computer be near your TV, but it is one solution.
Also, as DVD-RAM becomes available to the general public, you'll probably see people converting movies back to a DVD-player accessible format (like the mp3->CD conversion)
Well, actually the only thing the Sim* games teach is how to think like the programmers who wrote it. You can't make your town into a fascist state or even purely socialist affair, as you mention. This is because the only way to "win" is to build what the game designers consider to be the perfect city. You can set loose disasters, but the only thing you can do after that is repair the damage.
On the other hand, games like Alpha Centauri allow you to pick the political and social ideals of your state. Giving you much more freedom to interact with your people and the other players the way your want, not the way a game designer forces you too.
So if it is so terrible, why were you even watching it this weekend? Have you been watching it for the last 7 years just in case the show would magically return to what it formerly was?
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The Copyright exception is for excerpts -- for critique and review only. If you show an entire movie, you would still be in violation, IF you show a movie you brought from home. All of the movies in a school library (not in a public library though) have been purchased under a public performance license, so they can be shown to as many people as you want. That license comes at a VERY steep price though -- a DVD of a disney movie, for example, would be $75-100.
I think they planned to annouce this at the MacWorld Keynote, but sometihng kept them from doing it. Why else would they have gotten the CEO of Sony to be there? They could have gotten anybody from Sony to demo their HDV camera, CEO appearances are saved for special occasions. As far as the HDV camera goes, Sony isn't the only manufacturer with an HDV prosumer camera.
I think it might be a good idea BUT only if they certified the config for all of the clones. Sort of like the licensing deals the console manufacturers have with game developers, only in reverse. i.e. You only get to build machines that use our OS as long as we approve your designs and test your machines for compatibility. Apple has worked very hard for their place as one of the top industrial design companies in the world, they don't want some crappy clone machines ruining their image.
> Have you seen an extended director's cut of Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
Yeah, and in the extra footage we get to see the basement in the Alamo!
Sun still makes such a beastie: here. I've used an older model. It looks very similar to running VMware, you see the whole POST and boot screens in a window. Performance was pretty good, the only problem is that the HD is shared, which brought the machine down somewhat.
Look at the picture . It has Ethernet, along with:
Modem
USB
VGA
I really doubt that they would go through the trouble of designing this thing and making it one-way only. There has go to be a way to copy mp3s to it. since it has VGA and USB, maybe you can even login to console and set up SSH, etc.
My complaint with it was, if all they needed was body heat and electrical impulses from our nervous system, why use humans? Why not use a large, stupid animal like cows?
The matrix would have been easy as hell to code: a big field, lots of grass -- that's it. I don't think you'd have any bovine Keanu Reeves breaking out (although a cow that knows Kung-Fu would be pretty damn funny).
Of course, IANAA (I am not an Australian), so would any of our more leaned, koala-loving friends care to give their perspective?
:)
Personally, I don't think I want to know the perspective of a Koala-lover. Let's leave that for an episode of Jerry Springer, mmm-kay
There is already a replacement to the embryonic stem cells: stem cells from the blood in Umbilical (Sp?) cords. If the goverment or a group of hospitals came together and saved the blood from the umbilical cords of all babies born, there wouldn't be a need form embryonic stem cell research. There are a couple of companies already storing cord blood, one of them is cryo-cell
Wal-Mart considers anyone who works 28 hours per week a full time employee
There are over 250,000 uninsured workers employed by Wal-Mart, one of the largest groups without health care in the United States.
Acording to this, there are 1.28 million Walmart employees.
Anyone who is full-time at WalMart can signup for health coverage, so those 250,000 must be part-time workers. Hmm, a retailer with only 20% of their workforce made up of part-time workers? That certainly doesn't sound too bad to me.
QVC is one of the vendors selling them online.
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Come on, It's at the top of the fricking page. The editors really need to do a better job picking these Ask
It even gets through firewalls...I don't know how, but it gets through even though 137-139 and 445 are blocked at the border routers.
It's already being used -- it's the messaging pop-ups in Windows. No way to stop it except shutting down the messaging service (which may or may not break other stuff) on the local machine. Univerisities have all ready been hit pretty hard with it. I know it affects Win2k & XP, don't know about anything older.
Actually, the power cord on an iMac (at least the LCD ones) is NOT compatible with a PC. It's got a rather funky three cylinder shape that would not fit in a PC and vise versa :)
What Sun, et. al are complaining about is that MS's Java VM can be "turned off" and replaced with another one(Sun's) or can be disabled totally. However, their
Since the agreement stated that users should be able to replace/disable ALL middleware systems included with Windows, I think their claim is valid.
Do you really think it's that failsafe? What if the master DNS servers were destroyed? Yes, the connections to the rest of the world would still function, but do you know the IP address of every site you go to on a daily basis? How about if a backbone link died? Or an oceanic cable snapped? The Internet's health is still beholden to a relitivly small group of corporations/governments.
The research that he is talking about would eliminate these weaknesses, by making the Internet server-less (or more precisly server-ful); every client would share its information with all other clients, making information truly ubiquitous.
At the root, that is why the RIAA fears P2P clients: they make information (music, etc) freely available and available to everyone.
It looks like AMD has taken Intel's spot as the favorite son of Redmond lately. Do you think this could be part of a plan to get back in Microsoft's good graces?
I think we're going to see MS "embrace" Linux and make it the kernel of its next OS...wait,wait, don't run away yet -- here's the idea:
:)
.NET framework (MONO) to Linux? There can't be any other reason, they know that if software runs on both platforms business will move to a the more stable of the two, so it could only hurt their OS sales. Unless they are planning to transistion to Linux and are going to use MONO as a migration path.
--OS X is doing very well, so building a propietary GUI over an open kernel isn't unheardof. Plus MS has always followed in the footsteps of MacOS. I think it has something to do with Gates wishing he were as cool as Jobs.
--Microsoft's security woes would be largly taken care of. All services are handled below the GUI, so they could just get rid of most of their buggy *cough* IIS *cough* software. And, since user accounts wouldn't own the entire system, viruses would have a harder time propagating.
--Why would MS encourage the porting of the
I know it sounds pretty far-fetched, but I think that within two years, we're going to see a version of Windows built on Linux (or possibly BSD).
(This doesn't have anything to do with the article, but it's the closest thing to my idea that I've seen on /.)
Whenever you are on a dig and find an artifact or shards of one(lamp, pot, bowl, etc), you start looking them up in catalogs from other digs. This helps you determine the time period the pieces are from and the area that they were probably made in.
The books are HUGE and the work is extremely tedious.
My idea was to automate the search. If you used a 3D scanner on all shards that you have found, they could be compared to a database of shapes. It would only return a probability that the shard was from the indicated object, but it would drastically cut down the number of objects a archeaolgist would have to sift through.
Another benefit would be that the model could be sent to collegues, giving them a chance to get a more detailed look at an artifact as soon as it is unearthed.
If anybody out there wants to take this idea and run with it, you would be dong archeaology a huge favor.
-Eric
How exactly is this scary? It's a robot that can deliver medication from a pharmacy to a nurse's station. The only remotely dangerous thing it does is drive down the halls. Its been programmed to avoid everything/one in the hallway, if that is not possible, it stops and announces that it can not make any futher progress without assistance.
Sounds pretty safe to me.
I can tell you're not a history major. Florida was given to the US by Spain in 1821 -- 40 years before the start of the Civil War.
It became a state in 1845, and seceeded in 1861 -- the third state to leave the Union.
You might want to learn some history before you start shooting off your mouth
I've read about a possible mission to Mars that would speed up the Green House effect. Basically, it was a lander whose only purpose was to emit as many green house gases as possible into the Martian atmosphere. The thinking was that if we could get the polar ice caps to melt,we could begin terraforming within 20 years, and then areas would be ready for humans in another 50-60 years.
Also, as DVD-RAM becomes available to the general public, you'll probably see people converting movies back to a DVD-player accessible format (like the mp3->CD conversion)
On the other hand, games like Alpha Centauri allow you to pick the political and social ideals of your state. Giving you much more freedom to interact with your people and the other players the way your want, not the way a game designer forces you too.
So if it is so terrible, why were you even watching it this weekend? Have you been watching it for the last 7 years just in case the show would magically return to what it formerly was?