ANyone know if it has access to program guides? Does it take it from the digital cable stream? Does it need a subscription? Or, is it just "dumb" like a VCR?
How about Tivo features like "record all Star Trek Enterprise" shows...?
Please tell me this is a "Friday FUnny" (ahead of schedule) or something like that...
However it could be a good thing: if the DMCA is used to protect this type of trash, people will see it for what it is and MAYBE the law will be shot down for being too broad by protecting dumb-ass business models.
If the DMCA prevents me from telling someone how to use A BASIC FEATURE OF WINDOWS to prevent malware from being run on my computer, then I'm moving to a different country. (Oh wait, I already did... my VISA ran out!):)
Yes, but remember that SCO's antics to pump their share price have DRAMATICALLY increased share volume as well as the price. So, the percentage of trades labelled as insider trades gets watered down in the process.
For a thinly traded stock, simple exercising of options shows up as a large percentage of trade volume.
>> outlaws sending most commercial e-mail to or from the state that the recipient did not explicitly request.
At least as stated... there's no limit on sending spam WITHIN California. Trying to support local business, are we? (i.e. spammers) I'd just send my spam through a California server if that were the case.
>> He does more damage to his company every time he opens his mouth
No, that's not exactly true either. He may be doing LONG-TERM damage to the company, but for the short term he's done a phenominal job for the shareholders (and parent company). Despite our objections to his methods and ethics, he's been successful if not narrow minded.
I swear under oath that in the last 12 months I have legally purchased at least 5 CD's of your artist's music. I further swear that I will permanently refrain from ever doing it again. I hope this meets with your satisfaction, as treating your customers as thieves can only have one intended result.
than just SCO... the GPL itself is likely to get tested if this ever goes to court too. I think that is something that we all WANT to happen to build some case law in support of the GPL.
So, although we all think that SCO is a joke and not worth paying attention to, the issues that are raised in the process are VITAL to the survival of open source software.
Yes, I think he was probably trying to cause trouble, but in such a case, that is what is called for!
Do you think licensing shenanigans like what Dell is pulling are acceptable? By the legal-letter-of-the-law, he would be held to licensing agreements that he cannot possibly read without first agreeing to them! For all he knows, the licensing agreement for one of the programs on his computer says that all information created with that computer belongs to Dell (or something equally stupid)...
Although you probably click through EULA's, at least you have the OPTION of reading them before you agree to them!
Agreed, the probability of him running into trouble with any of the licenses is remote, but that's not the point. Dell did something extremely stupid, and is not apparantly willing to rectify the situation. AND, his only recourse was to PAY for the return shipment due to a licensing agreement forced on him AFTER the purchase.
I doubt the agreement would stand up in court due to the many issues raised by other readers, but that again would cost him money to find out.
The EULA nonsense we're seeing these days will just keep getting worse unless more people intentionally be an Ass in this way.
The original intent of most communications taxes was to subsidize the government's cost for the publically provided communications infrastructure... if the gov't is going to be supplying me with a free GigaBit ethernet LAN, then sure, they can tax it's use.
Get with the program people... sounds as wacky as Seattle's proposed tax on espresso!
I wish we could charge the legal expenses for evaluating these types of things to SCO... their FUD costs us real money, especially when they're shown to be totally baseless.
Too bad that once that's proven, there won't be an SCO to recover damages from. Oh well...
>> Oh come on. This is their same claim that Federal Copyright only allows 1 copy for backup and the GPL allows multiple copies and is therefore invalid.
If this claim were true, then the RIAA/MPAA should be VERY scared! Without the ability to LICENSE additional copies of copyrighted work (as the GPL does), you can't legally sell CD's, DVD's, etc.
Wouldn't that be sweet? The RIAA/MPAA suing SCO to stop spreading FUD about copyright law, in support of the GPL?
Wouldn't GOOD films benefit from texting in the same way???
Saying that you didn't make enough money on a bad move because it's too easy for people to find out it's bad before they see it is just fucked up... you'll get NO sympathy from anyone for that!
It's been said 100 time already here... solution: make good movies, and texting will BENEFIT you even more!
There may be 8 million pixels in the camera, but that only equates to 2 million of each color!!! 3/4 of the data is interpolated in that 22.8mb picture!!!
So, when people say that Fuji Velvia (35mm) is equivalent to 10 megapixels, that's not equivalent to a 10 megapixel camera.
The reason is that there's a filter grid over a monochromatic sensor... only every third (or fourth with this camera) pixel is of each color, and the camera internally "guesses" at what the values in between would be.
The only current exception to this are cameras based on the Foveon chip (either the X3 chip, or their older prism-based 3-CCD camera), like the Sigma SLR. See www.foveon.com
So... until cameras get to ~30 MP, they won't be "equivalent" to the resolution of 35mm film. (that's not THAT far off). 10MP is tons for most uses, but it's not equivalent.
>> However it can be sort of viewed in the way vaccines are
Sure... but when was the last time a nurse jabbed you in the ass with a vaccine while you were walking down the street stuffing your mouth with dounuts?
Even vaccines are voluntary things that have risks...
Don't you know that the whole reason the Hubble's mirror was messed up to begin with is that it was "accidentally" switched with a duplicate mirror intended for a miltary version of the Hubble?
The military one was focused for Earth-Orbit distances. After the mess up, they had to fix the military version before launching it on a later military Shuttle lanuch.
Slashdot Mirror
You keep using that word... I do not think it means what you think it means.
q:]
MadCow.
ANyone know if it has access to program guides? Does it take it from the digital cable stream? Does it need a subscription? Or, is it just "dumb" like a VCR?
How about Tivo features like "record all Star Trek Enterprise" shows...?
I'd love one... if it has these features!
MadCow
For gross incompetence... !
:)
Please tell me this is a "Friday FUnny" (ahead of schedule) or something like that...
However it could be a good thing: if the DMCA is used to protect this type of trash, people will see it for what it is and MAYBE the law will be shot down for being too broad by protecting dumb-ass business models.
If the DMCA prevents me from telling someone how to use A BASIC FEATURE OF WINDOWS to prevent malware from being run on my computer, then I'm moving to a different country. (Oh wait, I already did... my VISA ran out!)
MadCow.
I'm sure that 98% of the populace won't care, but I for one wouldn't accept that... even swiping the data from the card is unacceptable.
If all Vancouver bars do this, I would still either go elsewhere or not go to the bar at all. Sorry... bars don't have a monopoly on entertainment.
It's starting to sound like we're moving towards where you need "papers" to travel beyond city boundaries... I thought that era was over already!
MadCow.
Yes, but remember that SCO's antics to pump their share price have DRAMATICALLY increased share volume as well as the price. So, the percentage of trades labelled as insider trades gets watered down in the process.
For a thinly traded stock, simple exercising of options shows up as a large percentage of trade volume.
MadCow.
DMCA.
'nuf said.
MadCow.
They've been taunting RedHat, IBM, et al. to offer indemnity to their users if they think there's nothing to the SCO claim.
Now, and as soon as somebody does it they claim that doing so supports SCO's case "that Linux is not free".
Man, I didn't know you could still talk out of your ass when you were so full of shit... ! q:]
MadCow.
>> outlaws sending most commercial e-mail to or from the state that the recipient did not explicitly request.
At least as stated... there's no limit on sending spam WITHIN California. Trying to support local business, are we? (i.e. spammers) I'd just send my spam through a California server if that were the case.
q:]
MadCow.
Actually, your sig should read:
Incest: it's all relative.
>> He does more damage to his company every time he opens his mouth
No, that's not exactly true either. He may be doing LONG-TERM damage to the company, but for the short term he's done a phenominal job for the shareholders (and parent company). Despite our objections to his methods and ethics, he's been successful if not narrow minded.
MadCow.
If they can state exactly what it is that I'm licensing, and prove to me they have the rights to charge license fees for it, then I'd love to see it.
Failing that, they're racketeering vaporware.
MadCow.
Dear RIAA:
I swear under oath that in the last 12 months I have legally purchased at least 5 CD's of your artist's music. I further swear that I will permanently refrain from ever doing it again. I hope this meets with your satisfaction, as treating your customers as thieves can only have one intended result.
MadCow.
than just SCO... the GPL itself is likely to get tested if this ever goes to court too. I think that is something that we all WANT to happen to build some case law in support of the GPL.
So, although we all think that SCO is a joke and not worth paying attention to, the issues that are raised in the process are VITAL to the survival of open source software.
MadCow.
>>and intoxicated persons are usually not held to the contracts they enter
Easy... just get drunk before you click "I agree", and you're golden!
q:]
MadCow.
>> And after that, did you consider chilling out by heading down to the local bar to having a cold one & find someone to have sexual intercourse with?
He's a Slashdot reader... he may have fantisized about doing that, but actually doing it (and being successful) is out of the question.
q:]
MadCow.
Yes, I think he was probably trying to cause trouble, but in such a case, that is what is called for!
Do you think licensing shenanigans like what Dell is pulling are acceptable? By the legal-letter-of-the-law, he would be held to licensing agreements that he cannot possibly read without first agreeing to them! For all he knows, the licensing agreement for one of the programs on his computer says that all information created with that computer belongs to Dell (or something equally stupid)...
Although you probably click through EULA's, at least you have the OPTION of reading them before you agree to them!
Agreed, the probability of him running into trouble with any of the licenses is remote, but that's not the point. Dell did something extremely stupid, and is not apparantly willing to rectify the situation. AND, his only recourse was to PAY for the return shipment due to a licensing agreement forced on him AFTER the purchase.
I doubt the agreement would stand up in court due to the many issues raised by other readers, but that again would cost him money to find out.
The EULA nonsense we're seeing these days will just keep getting worse unless more people intentionally be an Ass in this way.
Bravo for him...
MadCow.
it should be either:
(Repeate until BUGS == 0)
('=' is an assignment operator, '==' is a comparison operator)
or:
while (BUGS > 0): sing(...)
The original intent of most communications taxes was to subsidize the government's cost for the publically provided communications infrastructure... if the gov't is going to be supplying me with a free GigaBit ethernet LAN, then sure, they can tax it's use.
Get with the program people... sounds as wacky as Seattle's proposed tax on espresso!
MadCow.
I wish we could charge the legal expenses for evaluating these types of things to SCO... their FUD costs us real money, especially when they're shown to be totally baseless.
Too bad that once that's proven, there won't be an SCO to recover damages from. Oh well...
MadCow.
>> Oh come on. This is their same claim that Federal Copyright only allows 1 copy for backup and the GPL allows multiple copies and is therefore invalid.
If this claim were true, then the RIAA/MPAA should be VERY scared! Without the ability to LICENSE additional copies of copyrighted work (as the GPL does), you can't legally sell CD's, DVD's, etc.
Wouldn't that be sweet? The RIAA/MPAA suing SCO to stop spreading FUD about copyright law, in support of the GPL?
q:]
MadCow.
Wouldn't GOOD films benefit from texting in the same way???
Saying that you didn't make enough money on a bad move because it's too easy for people to find out it's bad before they see it is just fucked up... you'll get NO sympathy from anyone for that!
It's been said 100 time already here... solution: make good movies, and texting will BENEFIT you even more!
MadCow.
on the liabilities of your business if you get killed doing this...
Why not ask the Slashdot crowd, I'm sure they're fully quailfied to help here too!
q:]
MadCow.
(for God's sake man, hire an electrician!)
There may be 8 million pixels in the camera, but that only equates to 2 million of each color!!! 3/4 of the data is interpolated in that 22.8mb picture!!!
So, when people say that Fuji Velvia (35mm) is equivalent to 10 megapixels, that's not equivalent to a 10 megapixel camera.
The reason is that there's a filter grid over a monochromatic sensor... only every third (or fourth with this camera) pixel is of each color, and the camera internally "guesses" at what the values in between would be.
The only current exception to this are cameras based on the Foveon chip (either the X3 chip, or their older prism-based 3-CCD camera), like the Sigma SLR. See www.foveon.com
So... until cameras get to ~30 MP, they won't be "equivalent" to the resolution of 35mm film. (that's not THAT far off). 10MP is tons for most uses, but it's not equivalent.
MadCow.
>> However it can be sort of viewed in the way vaccines are
Sure... but when was the last time a nurse jabbed you in the ass with a vaccine while you were walking down the street stuffing your mouth with dounuts?
Even vaccines are voluntary things that have risks...
MadCow.
Man, get with the conspiracy-theory program!
Don't you know that the whole reason the Hubble's mirror was messed up to begin with is that it was "accidentally" switched with a duplicate mirror intended for a miltary version of the Hubble?
The military one was focused for Earth-Orbit distances. After the mess up, they had to fix the military version before launching it on a later military Shuttle lanuch.
That's my theory, and I'm sticking to it. q:]
MadCow.