You can still modify the hardware (paint the case, glue on decorations), which you own, vs the software, which you license.
1) As others have pointed out, you do not license the software on the Xbox. That software is copyrighted, so you cannot legally duplicate it, but there is no agreement between the owner and Microsoft prohibiting the user from running any damn software they please, if they can figure out how to get it to run.
2) I contend there is no software in an Xbox. There are logic chips which do certain things to the data on the disk, but that's it. Those logic chips are hardware, and I'm free to change the electrical connections internal to those chips (those connections make the so-called "ones" and "zeros" you software types talk about). If doing so causes the Xbox to play disks it otherwise would not play, that's none of Microsoft's business (pun intended).
3) Even if #2 were true, the DMCA says that in the USA you're free to do #2, but you're not allowed to tell anyone how you did it, and nobody else can help you do it. So no Mod chips. And no releasing the information this group claims to have. If they follow through with their threat, they're criminals.
4) Microsoft won't so much as acknowledge this group's existance, let alone comply with their demands. They know that a) few of their customers will bother using this information should it get out, and b) this information will get out even if they do release a signed Linux bootloader.
Ron Popeiland others make "infomercials" of very high broadcast quality. I'm sure one of them wouldn't mind your customers seen demonstrations of their products.
Yes, but not in the cellphone field. Nextel is still the only cellphone player with a "walkie-talkie" feature, although all the others are working on it.
I'm amazed they didn't trademark "walkie-talkie" since that's how they advertise it.
Their boss, John Ashcroft, is a Republican, and he's the one who decided that petty theft (less than $20,000) is not worthy of their time. They're too busy catching Osama. Or trying to. Or something -- I dunno, but it involves reading all our email and listening to all our phonecalls, so it must be important.
The only thing that has happened is that the EU now regards an online sale as exactly identical to an offline sale.
Sorry, but you got it backwards. If this were an offline sale the european customer would pay local and state tax, depending on the State where the sale took place, and then would have to pay any EU import duties/VAT/whatever when they took the item home.
"The only thing that has happened," is that european customers now pay sales tax for all online shopping, and non-european online merchants must collect that tax the same as any european online merchant.
Oh, that and now the EU must find us individually and track our online sales to the EU and then get their lazy butts over here and business-by-business convince a U.S. court to force us to collect their tax, because we ain't doing it under any other circumstances -- same as U.S. sales tax. We'll tax Mississippi residents the Mississippi sales tax just as soon as the State of Mississippi finds us, tracks our online sales, and gets a court in our state to force us to collect their tax, because we ain't doing it under any other circumstances. And our government knows this and has thus far wisely avoided trying to tell us otherwise. Sure, Amazon and others with an existing corporate presence in the EU are rolling over, but I guarantee Mom and Pop America aren't.
Bullshit. The Airbus claim that the US government subsidizes Boeing counts all of Boeing Aerospace and Boeing Millitary's government contracts as a subsidy for Boeing Commercial Airplane Group. But it's not like the US government gets nothing for that money -- they get F15s and Delta rockets and such. Airbus is simply the commercial arm of a group of european aerospace firms that happen to sell european governments a lot of stuff like jet fighters and satellites. But technically they're not Airbus, so their government contracts don't count as a subsidy to Airbus.
Talk about "identify with it". At the lecture Dr. Hallowell said something that really resonated with me (I dunno if it's in the book -- I'm still reading it):
To someone with ADHD there are two times:
Now, and Not Now.
'There will be a test on this next Wednesday.' -- 'That's Not Now!'
I was trying to be sarcastic with the exclamation point. Dr. Hallowell has a lot to say about ADHD's genetic connection. There's apparantly some support for the idea that ADHD is a lack of gene(s) for something (protein? enzyme?) needed for normal neuron firing. Ritalin acts like that missing chemical, turning the brains from ADHD to normal, whereas it turns a normal brain hyper.
If Ritalin improves the quality of your life, does it matter if ADHD is the correct diagnosis? And if Ritalin doesn't help you, why would you keep taking it, even if you do have ADHD? It doesn't work for everyone, and you still may have ADHD if it doesn't work for you.
"Driven to Distraction" by Dr. Edward Hallowell, M.D. I went to one of his lectures to learn how to help my son, who has ADHD, and learned that -- surprise! -- I have it, too. This book is a big help! Highly recommended.
As an Xbox owner and a father (Happy Father's Day!), I'd like to see Microsoft port the Magic Schoolbus series to the Xbox. But more than just a straight port, take advantage of the Xbox graphics and make it fully 3D. The lack of good kids titles for consoles in general and the Xbox in particular is disappointing.
OK, so you can't name a third-party authority that recognizes Pearse's claim.
Edison was a claim-taking, patent-grabbing asshole. The only thing he truly invented all by himself was the phonograph -- and he was a pig-headed jerk who tried to use patents to force everyone to use his cylinder design over the vastly improved disk.
While the "whoosh-whoosh" comes with the wind farm (and is way cool, IMHO -- I wouldn't mind living near one and personally, I'm hoping the cost comes down to where I can have one of my own and get off the grid), the high-pitched whine does not. The whine can be blocked out at nominal cost, yet it does cost something so the corporate executives who don't have to live next to it are reluctant to pay for sound insulation.
"Generally accepted" by whom? Name a third-party (non-USA, non-kiwi) authority (like, say, the Encyclopedia Brittanica) that recognizes Pearse's claim.
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2) I contend there is no software in an Xbox. There are logic chips which do certain things to the data on the disk, but that's it. Those logic chips are hardware, and I'm free to change the electrical connections internal to those chips (those connections make the so-called "ones" and "zeros" you software types talk about). If doing so causes the Xbox to play disks it otherwise would not play, that's none of Microsoft's business (pun intended).
3) Even if #2 were true, the DMCA says that in the USA you're free to do #2, but you're not allowed to tell anyone how you did it, and nobody else can help you do it. So no Mod chips. And no releasing the information this group claims to have. If they follow through with their threat, they're criminals.
4) Microsoft won't so much as acknowledge this group's existance, let alone comply with their demands. They know that a) few of their customers will bother using this information should it get out, and b) this information will get out even if they do release a signed Linux bootloader.
I don't get it.
Ron Popeil and others make "infomercials" of very high broadcast quality. I'm sure one of them wouldn't mind your customers seen demonstrations of their products.
Blacklist them all!
I'm amazed they didn't trademark "walkie-talkie" since that's how they advertise it.
Stupid moderators.
Perhaps the "editors" who are aren't reading the front page before posting a story also aren't reading their email from subscribers.
2) Let me know when you find a warthog dealership; I'd like one, too.
3) The only sniping lessons I've ever got from paintball is when I was sniped. Who's your teacher?
Their boss, John Ashcroft, is a Republican, and he's the one who decided that petty theft (less than $20,000) is not worthy of their time. They're too busy catching Osama. Or trying to. Or something -- I dunno, but it involves reading all our email and listening to all our phonecalls, so it must be important.
"The only thing that has happened," is that european customers now pay sales tax for all online shopping, and non-european online merchants must collect that tax the same as any european online merchant.
Oh, that and now the EU must find us individually and track our online sales to the EU and then get their lazy butts over here and business-by-business convince a U.S. court to force us to collect their tax, because we ain't doing it under any other circumstances -- same as U.S. sales tax. We'll tax Mississippi residents the Mississippi sales tax just as soon as the State of Mississippi finds us, tracks our online sales, and gets a court in our state to force us to collect their tax, because we ain't doing it under any other circumstances. And our government knows this and has thus far wisely avoided trying to tell us otherwise. Sure, Amazon and others with an existing corporate presence in the EU are rolling over, but I guarantee Mom and Pop America aren't.
Bullshit. The Airbus claim that the US government subsidizes Boeing counts all of Boeing Aerospace and Boeing Millitary's government contracts as a subsidy for Boeing Commercial Airplane Group. But it's not like the US government gets nothing for that money -- they get F15s and Delta rockets and such. Airbus is simply the commercial arm of a group of european aerospace firms that happen to sell european governments a lot of stuff like jet fighters and satellites. But technically they're not Airbus, so their government contracts don't count as a subsidy to Airbus.
If GCT actually does it, will the X-Prize folks accept their appliation after the fact?
Really? Medical Doctors observe you, certify that Heroin improves your quality of life, and then prescribe it for you?
I must not be getting enough sleep.Either I'm brain-dead, or I have dead on the brain. I thought it said "The New York Times on Necroeconomics."
I was trying to be sarcastic with the exclamation point. Dr. Hallowell has a lot to say about ADHD's genetic connection. There's apparantly some support for the idea that ADHD is a lack of gene(s) for something (protein? enzyme?) needed for normal neuron firing. Ritalin acts like that missing chemical, turning the brains from ADHD to normal, whereas it turns a normal brain hyper.
If Ritalin improves the quality of your life, does it matter if ADHD is the correct diagnosis? And if Ritalin doesn't help you, why would you keep taking it, even if you do have ADHD? It doesn't work for everyone, and you still may have ADHD if it doesn't work for you.
"Driven to Distraction" by Dr. Edward Hallowell, M.D. I went to one of his lectures to learn how to help my son, who has ADHD, and learned that -- surprise! -- I have it, too. This book is a big help! Highly recommended.
As an Xbox owner and a father (Happy Father's Day!), I'd like to see Microsoft port the Magic Schoolbus series to the Xbox. But more than just a straight port, take advantage of the Xbox graphics and make it fully 3D. The lack of good kids titles for consoles in general and the Xbox in particular is disappointing.
Edison was a claim-taking, patent-grabbing asshole. The only thing he truly invented all by himself was the phonograph -- and he was a pig-headed jerk who tried to use patents to force everyone to use his cylinder design over the vastly improved disk.
Bullshit. A lot of the USA's oil comes from Canada, but not 70%. More like 19% of the USA's imports.
While the "whoosh-whoosh" comes with the wind farm (and is way cool, IMHO -- I wouldn't mind living near one and personally, I'm hoping the cost comes down to where I can have one of my own and get off the grid), the high-pitched whine does not. The whine can be blocked out at nominal cost, yet it does cost something so the corporate executives who don't have to live next to it are reluctant to pay for sound insulation.
What, the real flight decks don't have [Alt][F4]?
"Generally accepted" by whom? Name a third-party (non-USA, non-kiwi) authority (like, say, the Encyclopedia Brittanica) that recognizes Pearse's claim.
I didn't know it got cold enough on the California coast to justify seven fireplaces. Or is the bitch that cold?