This is like the path Microsoft will use to beat Google. Microsoft has no problem making deals with other companies, and locking their own content. So over time, big media may disappear from Google, but it will appear on Microsoft Search.
I don't understand what all the complaining is about. The US government has decided that media (music, movies) can be owned, and the owning companies simply want their property protected. Since the government gave the owners an exclusive right to copy the media, then all devices capable of copying the media are in de facto violation of the law.
Media has already been judged ownable; distributers have already been given non-terminating ownership, and copying media in any manner without the permission of the owner has already been ruled illegal. Whining about new mechanisms that protect these existing rights is silly. It's too late, it's already law.
Now if you want to argue the ownership laws themselves, then go ahead. But I suspect nothing short of a constitutional amendment is going to change things at this point. Meanwhile these new laws are a perfectly logical extension of current ownership law.
Not only did it formulate its own mission, it adapted the mission to changing conditions. Definitely HoF-worthy.
C-3P0 isn't a robot by any definition; he's an image. Although the bot was played by a human, the human was just reciting scripted lines, making him no better than a plain computer. So if a scripted character can get into a HoF, then certainly AWSOM-O is worthy.
The entire premise of today's movie and music business is that you can make a fortune by controlling a stranglehold on dissemination.
No, the business is premised on music being a valuable product all by itself. Artists shouldn't need to create a whole string of side businesses to pay for the music; artists should be able to focus on their talent and make money directly off it. Right now they can, and that's why American pop music is desired all round the world.
That's related to the 'loser pays' ideas floating around. The problem is that patents are intended to protect small individual inventors, as the big companies are already able to defend themselves. Loser pays systems tend to discourage small inventors.
The solution is really simple:
1. Make it easier to get patents. Right now, patents are reviewed and issued as if the US PTO was the final arbiter of all truth in the universe. This is of course absurd. A patent should be nothing more than a claim that an idea was developed at a certain date.
2. Make it easier to cancel patents. Patent office arbitration and the legal system are fine for determining the legitimacy of a claim.
If a patent is invalidated by an earlier claim, then the patent is stamped.. with whatever legal word means "an earlier claim takes precedence."
When a patent expires, it's stamped "public property."
All patents (current and expired) are held forever in an absurdly large database that helps inventors and investigators determine the value of future patents.
Patent officers would no longer be pressed for time; they'd simply comb through the database looking for bad patents, and through their favorite field of study looking for ideas that should not be patentable.
Why y'wanna bag Discover? They give you money back for each purchase. I'm not trolling, I actually use Discover for everything, and I double the cash back by getting GCs for one of those Flowers places, they make Mom happy. Now if I only had a girlfriend..
This is not prior art, because a watch is not a computer. Well, except a Casio DataBank, but that's not a general purpose computer. Except the Matsucom onHand, which is a 16-bit PDA, but it's not a PocketPC PDA. See, Microsoft's invention is new and innovative.
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Site's down, so I can't verify, but $1 per CPU hour means you'll get no money, as e-mail is all I/O. At best, you likely won't get more than a couple dollars a month.
Overall, this so-called "comparison" has zero external validity, in the strict experimental sense.
Not quite true, these tests have some due to that fact that all four codecs read from the same Indeo stream. It's easy to tell, for instance, that the QT-MPEG4 codec hoses the contrast. This has nothing to due with the transcoding process; MPEG4 is just a bad codec.
Nvidia and ATI cards are high-end cards, and people are willing to go out of their way to acquire one. This gives the companies some power to abuse the situation to make a little more money.
Specifially, if they keep the driver source closed, then EOL a product, you have no choice but to buy a new card. If the source is open, then you could keep your old card, and they wouldn't make any money.
but it would be better without all of the effects and features that does nothing more than slow down the entire program
Actually, WMP isn't slowed by the eye candy, it's slowed by being crap software. WMP has always had trouble playing videos, scanning back and forth, and staying in sync.
Compare to Quicktime -- QT's GUI is fairly sluggish, but it has no trouble playing video. Now if Apple can make a better media player for Windows, clearly something's wrong in WMP-land.
First you got annoyed when they sued the ISPs and programmers. You said, 'the users are the ones breaking the law, sue them.' So now they're suing the users, and you still thinks that's bad? Who are they supposed to sue? The people being sued now are actually guilty! Even worse, they're not just the 'drug users', they're the dealers - they're providing music for other people to download.
The RIAA is doing what they need to protect their copyright. Complain all you want, but it's already the law.
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This is like the path Microsoft will use to beat Google. Microsoft has no problem making deals with other companies, and locking their own content. So over time, big media may disappear from Google, but it will appear on Microsoft Search.
I don't understand what all the complaining is about. The US government has decided that media (music, movies) can be owned, and the owning companies simply want their property protected. Since the government gave the owners an exclusive right to copy the media, then all devices capable of copying the media are in de facto violation of the law.
Media has already been judged ownable; distributers have already been given non-terminating ownership, and copying media in any manner without the permission of the owner has already been ruled illegal. Whining about new mechanisms that protect these existing rights is silly. It's too late, it's already law.
Now if you want to argue the ownership laws themselves, then go ahead. But I suspect nothing short of a constitutional amendment is going to change things at this point. Meanwhile these new laws are a perfectly logical extension of current ownership law.
Order a TAB, it'll help pass the time.
Not only did it formulate its own mission, it adapted the mission to changing conditions. Definitely HoF-worthy.
C-3P0 isn't a robot by any definition; he's an image. Although the bot was played by a human, the human was just reciting scripted lines, making him no better than a plain computer. So if a scripted character can get into a HoF, then certainly AWSOM-O is worthy.
No, the business is premised on music being a valuable product all by itself. Artists shouldn't need to create a whole string of side businesses to pay for the music; artists should be able to focus on their talent and make money directly off it. Right now they can, and that's why American pop music is desired all round the world.
That's related to the 'loser pays' ideas floating around. The problem is that patents are intended to protect small individual inventors, as the big companies are already able to defend themselves. Loser pays systems tend to discourage small inventors.
.. with whatever legal word means "an earlier claim takes precedence."
The solution is really simple:
1. Make it easier to get patents. Right now, patents are reviewed and issued as if the US PTO was the final arbiter of all truth in the universe. This is of course absurd. A patent should be nothing more than a claim that an idea was developed at a certain date.
2. Make it easier to cancel patents. Patent office arbitration and the legal system are fine for determining the legitimacy of a claim.
If a patent is invalidated by an earlier claim, then the patent is stamped
When a patent expires, it's stamped "public property."
All patents (current and expired) are held forever in an absurdly large database that helps inventors and investigators determine the value of future patents.
Patent officers would no longer be pressed for time; they'd simply comb through the database looking for bad patents, and through their favorite field of study looking for ideas that should not be patentable.
Slashdot points to BoingBoing points to ChannelNewsAsia points to a webcam pointing at New Zealand?
I think I'm getting dizzy..
They're running a contest to find more contests? Will there be another contest to determine the prize for this contest?
Why y'wanna bag Discover? They give you money back for each purchase. I'm not trolling, I actually use Discover for everything, and I double the cash back by getting GCs for one of those Flowers places, they make Mom happy. Now if I only had a girlfriend ..
This is not prior art, because a watch is not a computer. Well, except a Casio DataBank, but that's not a general purpose computer. Except the Matsucom onHand, which is a 16-bit PDA, but it's not a PocketPC PDA. See, Microsoft's invention is new and innovative.
Site's down, so I can't verify, but $1 per CPU hour means you'll get no money, as e-mail is all I/O. At best, you likely won't get more than a couple dollars a month.
Current ad is "Copy all your Xbox games". Most definitly applicable to an emulator..
That was great! However, he actually appears with four eyes and a squiggly hair. This looks much better:
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Nvidia and ATI cards are high-end cards, and people are willing to go out of their way to acquire one. This gives the companies some power to abuse the situation to make a little more money.
Specifially, if they keep the driver source closed, then EOL a product, you have no choice but to buy a new card. If the source is open, then you could keep your old card, and they wouldn't make any money.
Compare to Quicktime -- QT's GUI is fairly sluggish, but it has no trouble playing video. Now if Apple can make a better media player for Windows, clearly something's wrong in WMP-land.
Hmm .. I think it had a big impact. It just didn't change anything.
Shoot, I guess I have other problems.
First you got annoyed when they sued the ISPs and programmers. You said, 'the users are the ones breaking the law, sue them.' So now they're suing the users, and you still thinks that's bad? Who are they supposed to sue? The people being sued now are actually guilty! Even worse, they're not just the 'drug users', they're the dealers - they're providing music for other people to download.
The RIAA is doing what they need to protect their copyright. Complain all you want, but it's already the law.
What's so scary about 102MB? That's like 3 Windows updates, or half a Debian update.
"red" and "blue" are defined in rgb.txt, so the first poster was correct.