Since when is this high? I bought 100 bottom of the barrel, green ink cd-rs on clearannce from compusa for 30 bucks (thats thirty cents a pop for the math challanged) and I thought that was a great deal. If cd-r's are gonna skyrocket to 35 cents, show me where you're getting yours!
Actually, and I did a video project on this in ninth grade so I should know, it's a lysosome that bursts, not the mitochondria. Just a further clarification.
And besides, how would they be able to verify that the opt-in was valid? Would only the RIAA be able to say what can be served? The way the RIAA is pushing this and trying to control Napster from every angle, they might as well buy the bloody company.
Here is a shortened list of people who will not like this, with legitimate reasons:
1) Car drivers: Car cd players use cd-rom error correction technology to prevent skipping, and this error-correction technology is based off inserting nonsense data, so these cds will be unplayable in car stereo systems.
2) People who legitimately listen to music through their computer. For reasons mentioned above, these cds will be unplayable in computers.
3) Apple computer. "It's your music, burn it on a Mac, dig?" With what I imagine to be a multimillion dollar adverising campaign aimed at home audiophiles, Apple has a lot to lose if these become widespread.
4) Consumer electronics makers. People like Creative, Sony, Phillips are only just beginning to get involved in the high-capacity/small size mp3 music player industry. With no way for consumers to make mp3s, and no plans from the record companies to commercialize mp3 distribution, this could be disatrous.
5) Me! I happen to like listening to my music on my computer, with a random playlist. It's so much better than buying a 300-disc changer, and I can also carry around my entire cd collection on 7 cd-rs. If I won't be able to do that, I'll be very unhappy, and the record companies do not want to make me unhappy. That could be really dangerous.
What do they mean by organic displays? Are there going to be microscopic fish living inside of my monitor? Am I going to have to take my laptop to the vet every four months for checkups? Will the fish evolve into futuristic supermonsters and destroy everything I hold dear? And what about the ethical issues of trapping little fish in a panel to serve our bidding? The risks seem too great.
What's the point of collecting user data? TiVO just lets you record stuff right? So where do they put ads? As a non-TiVOer, help me out. Do they shrink the screen or something to put more ads on?
He complained that his TiVO unit was automatically choosing shows for him based on what he'd watched before. It had him watching Animal Planet and *shudder* ER.
Their goal is to have everything except the operating system of a computer located on remote servers. With bandwidth like 100Mbps, this could actually be possible. I've run complicated programs, like Word and Solidworks 2000 over even a 10Mbps network without problems. As a side note, what do you think is the maximum bandwidth any individual could ever need, and when do you think it will be achievable?
And what I remember is the absolute lamest television program I have ever seen. SG used a ProtectoSheild, the bad guys used KilloBots... I wasn't entirely awake at the time. Was that supposed to be ironic? Help me out here.
Even if these only cost 200 bucks to make, that's still a 50 million dollar investment. For a product genre with a very shaky history, and an unproven market, that's not the kind of investment you make unless you're sure you're getting it back. Maybe they've struck up a deal with local ISPs, or maybe AOL will be required.
And it failed horribly. But then, she's a nitwit, and had to read her lecture out of the textbook. Just don't go down the same road she did; make it interesting!
Now, if they could figure out some way to quickly solve the "what the hell, you're at a lan party and you don't have a nic?!?!" and the "No, we cannot play multiplayer solitaire, get some real games!" issues, LAN parties could actually be fun!
Get this: a four kilobyte program, that checks every internet transaction, and then DOES NOTHING ABOUT IT. The law does not stipulate what comprises censorware. Make it free, and be done with the whole thing.
At least in my setup, there is a ton of whitespace between the article and the comments. If that needed to be used for advertising, I'd have no problem with that.
They are anti-corp firewalls. IP.com gives programmers a way to keep big nasty corporations from exploiting their inventions for free, and keeps the software available to end-user consumers. This is possibly the ultimate combination for innovation: corporations can use open source software, but they'll have to pay for it, and we, the consumers, won't have to pay a cent for access to the ideas.
Movie producers voluntarily submit their productions to the MPAA for ratings in order to assure people that they won't be overly offensive. Sure, they are unfounded and generally pointless, but they aren't some sort of government enforced censoring.
The New York times probably got hold of the letter because Georgie misspelt (or as he would say it, nonspeldifyed) orinhatch@senate.gov as editor@nytimes.com. Hey, it could happen.
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Since when is this high? I bought 100 bottom of the barrel, green ink cd-rs on clearannce from compusa for 30 bucks (thats thirty cents a pop for the math challanged) and I thought that was a great deal. If cd-r's are gonna skyrocket to 35 cents, show me where you're getting yours!
And additionally, it would put an extra 2-5 billion bucks into the economy per university, thus perhaps pulling us out of our economic slump.
PBS has shown 2 episodes already here in good old Madison, Wisconsin. It's a WHOLE lot better than BattleBots. I present as comparison:
A moronic skinny Californian with bleached hair, compared to Craig Charles, whom we all know and love from Red Dwarf, in the role of Lister. SMEG!
People from the U.S. compared to those crazy brits. Don't get me wrong, us Americans are okay, but these people have such cool accents!
The judges on Robotwars are old and have really long white beards! Cool!
Instead of just beating the crap out of each other, the robots have to actually manuever and perform tasks too.
No ads! That's right, as it's on PBS, there are not interuptions. That means more time for beating each other into oily pulps!
And the winner is... Robotwars! Especially cause Lister hosts. Vindaloo!
Actually, and I did a video project on this in ninth grade so I should know, it's a lysosome that bursts, not the mitochondria. Just a further clarification.
Well, at least it's not HAL 95. Or HAL XP. Then we'd know who's really controlling the government.
Daft says: "Teenagers do like to sit down and chat about intelligent things and they need to have somewhere to do that, so it came from that idea.
Right, teenagers talking about intelligent things. Those brits sure are funny.
And besides, how would they be able to verify that the opt-in was valid? Would only the RIAA be able to say what can be served? The way the RIAA is pushing this and trying to control Napster from every angle, they might as well buy the bloody company.
Here is a shortened list of people who will not like this, with legitimate reasons:
1) Car drivers: Car cd players use cd-rom error correction technology to prevent skipping, and this error-correction technology is based off inserting nonsense data, so these cds will be unplayable in car stereo systems.
2) People who legitimately listen to music through their computer. For reasons mentioned above, these cds will be unplayable in computers.
3) Apple computer. "It's your music, burn it on a Mac, dig?" With what I imagine to be a multimillion dollar adverising campaign aimed at home audiophiles, Apple has a lot to lose if these become widespread.
4) Consumer electronics makers. People like Creative, Sony, Phillips are only just beginning to get involved in the high-capacity/small size mp3 music player industry. With no way for consumers to make mp3s, and no plans from the record companies to commercialize mp3 distribution, this could be disatrous.
5) Me! I happen to like listening to my music on my computer, with a random playlist. It's so much better than buying a 300-disc changer, and I can also carry around my entire cd collection on 7 cd-rs. If I won't be able to do that, I'll be very unhappy, and the record companies do not want to make me unhappy. That could be really dangerous.
Because, as Bart Simpson elucidated for us all, Major League Baseball is spying on us all, and they will track the pirates down and kill them!
What do they mean by organic displays? Are there going to be microscopic fish living inside of my monitor? Am I going to have to take my laptop to the vet every four months for checkups? Will the fish evolve into futuristic supermonsters and destroy everything I hold dear? And what about the ethical issues of trapping little fish in a panel to serve our bidding? The risks seem too great.
Or are they allowing copying for free, just not download?
What's the point of collecting user data? TiVO just lets you record stuff right? So where do they put ads? As a non-TiVOer, help me out. Do they shrink the screen or something to put more ads on?
He complained that his TiVO unit was automatically choosing shows for him based on what he'd watched before. It had him watching Animal Planet and *shudder* ER.
Their goal is to have everything except the operating system of a computer located on remote servers. With bandwidth like 100Mbps, this could actually be possible. I've run complicated programs, like Word and Solidworks 2000 over even a 10Mbps network without problems. As a side note, what do you think is the maximum bandwidth any individual could ever need, and when do you think it will be achievable?
And what I remember is the absolute lamest television program I have ever seen. SG used a ProtectoSheild, the bad guys used KilloBots... I wasn't entirely awake at the time. Was that supposed to be ironic? Help me out here.
Even if these only cost 200 bucks to make, that's still a 50 million dollar investment. For a product genre with a very shaky history, and an unproven market, that's not the kind of investment you make unless you're sure you're getting it back. Maybe they've struck up a deal with local ISPs, or maybe AOL will be required.
And it failed horribly. But then, she's a nitwit, and had to read her lecture out of the textbook. Just don't go down the same road she did; make it interesting!
Microsoft announced that their newest version of Windows will be renamed to Windows NP, for Windows Very Hard.
Now, if they could figure out some way to quickly solve the "what the hell, you're at a lan party and you don't have a nic?!?!" and the "No, we cannot play multiplayer solitaire, get some real games!" issues, LAN parties could actually be fun!
Get this: a four kilobyte program, that checks every internet transaction, and then DOES NOTHING ABOUT IT. The law does not stipulate what comprises censorware. Make it free, and be done with the whole thing.
Except for about four articles in the last 2 days. It's a great site
At least in my setup, there is a ton of whitespace between the article and the comments. If that needed to be used for advertising, I'd have no problem with that.
They are anti-corp firewalls. IP.com gives programmers a way to keep big nasty corporations from exploiting their inventions for free, and keeps the software available to end-user consumers. This is possibly the ultimate combination for innovation: corporations can use open source software, but they'll have to pay for it, and we, the consumers, won't have to pay a cent for access to the ideas.
Movie producers voluntarily submit their productions to the MPAA for ratings in order to assure people that they won't be overly offensive. Sure, they are unfounded and generally pointless, but they aren't some sort of government enforced censoring.
The New York times probably got hold of the letter because Georgie misspelt (or as he would say it, nonspeldifyed) orinhatch@senate.gov as editor@nytimes.com. Hey, it could happen.