I think the point was that they are competing with a 5th generation console (NES has had 5).
Microsoft has had 1.
They aren't countint all models of all consoles, just how many times a particular company has gotten to revise their own product. (which of course recieves the benefit of competitors products that came before them)
USA can mandate all govt agencies, federally funded schools, and telcommunications companies in the USA to include some special Private Key signature doohicky in their emails.
Companies will quickly sign on.
Now all legitimate mail from the US is signed and verifiable.
Many foreigners will jump on board.
Now any mail that isnt signed can be ranked hiegher by your filters as spam (there will be some legit unsigned email that isnt spam, but you can 2x the weight of any spam words in an unsigned email or something)
Foreign companies that want to get to US markets will comply with the signing.
Foreign users will demand that their companies get on board, so they dont have to have spam either.
All that is needed is critical mass, or a few critical users.
google has the search which is better than folders in most cases I think. If you really want pre-sorted stuff, they have "labels" that you can apply to emails, and then quickly get all the items with the label. This is pretty much exactly the functionality of folders. Except you can put multiple labels on an email, so it can in essence be in multiple folders!
Since they are controlling the content, they could introduce real commercials into the video, or do a bordered set of ads. I bet there would be big money in bordered ads that are displayed for the entire movie : The Matrix, brought to you by gatorade! at the bottom of the screen (Like NFL scores)
You really don't understand what copyright protections are for. A concept like this is not a creative effort, in a fixed medium, therefore it cannot be copyrighted. It is an idea or process. Therefore it can be patented.
You can claim that it is trivial and therefore should not be granted, or is derivitive and should not be granted, but if it is protected by anything it would be patents.
If you aquired it for free from an OEM, it isn't legal. He gets the software cheap with the requirement that it go "Only for use on a new computer"
If he gave you the software, without the computer, then he broke his license, and you are not legal (impossible to bust, but not legal)
Note, if you think that license restrictions (on the OEM) like this are not valid (note, Im not talking about nice, or fair, just legally valid) then you also don't think the GPL is legally valid.
THe biggest difference I see between digicams and DSLRs is control.
In addition to the plethora of lenses out there, the SLRs give you much more control over the actual photographic process. Shutter speed, Apeture, Whitebalance, ISO etc. Yes many of these options can be set on a higher end digicam (a cheaper one will not let you set apeture or shutter) However, the EASE of setting these options is much different.
With my D70, I can control almost all camera settings, while my eye is still in the viewfinder. I can totally reconfigure the camera in a matter of seconds.
In a digicam, you have to scroll through several menus to get the options shot.
I recently took photographs at a local community theatre, during a live performance. (I was hired to be the photographer, I wasn't sneaking)
They didn't want flash, so the lighting was VERY low.
In order to get good shots, I had to use a slow shutterspeed, at a wide apeture, at very high ISO. This totally wrecked any of the faster scenes (especially dancing) due to blur.
With the D70 masterwheel, I could VERY quickly switch my shutter speed to give me the right shot as the scene changed. Dialog, I would go slower, and get more detail and light. Dance, I would speed it up, and get the action. These shots would be impossible on digicam.
One other big difference is lenses. Not just the interchangability (which is huge, but if you get a superzoom (28-300 or something like that) you wont be changing very much (at the cost of some quality). But also the size. Remember, photography is recording light. The bigger your lens, the more light, which means more detail, more color etc.
A point and shoot has a tiny lens. A Tiny apeture, even wide open.
The D70 is a better camera than the D100 because the 100 is two years old. When the D200 comes out, the D70 will still be the entry level camera, and the gap between the D70 and D200 will be much wider.
Esentially think of the D70 as an updated D100 with a price discount for being old.
There is a big difference between the two styles. But new patents must be non-obvious and non-trivial.
If the "church" method is well established, then it goes a long way into invalidating the new patent as being a logical improvement based on newly available technology.
Yes apple has a % today. The problem is they had a HUGE % a decade or two ago. Remember when everyone have an Apple IIg? And every school, library, printing shop, newspaper, video editing place etc ran Apple or Mac?
Now the % is small, their core is fractured, etc.
The iBook and iMac single handedly saved apple from the trashbin. And its not the technology. Their technology is linux. Its that they are sexy.
Other people can copy sexy, and then you are down to sexy linux/windows box for $500 or sexy iMac for $2Gs
The things that you used to HAVE to do on macs (photoshop, layouts, etc) are now doable on any platform (and I think done better on windows/linux with the huge hardware people can throw at it)
unless that bank is issueing their own credit cards, and you have that credit card in your pocket, it doesnt do them a whole lot of good.
Everyone accepts Visa and Mastercard. Eventually the buck stops there.
That lets through people who send cash, checks and money orders, or pay via their phone bill. I bet there aren't enough of those people to keep the porn and spammers alive.
Best buy sells coasters. These coasters come with advertizing in the form of a game manual, and the coasters themselves are advertizing, in the form of a game name, and maybe a picture of the game on the front cover!
They also include a license agreement. If you agree to the license, you are additionally allowed to use a game, that is included on the coaster!
(Obviousaly a bit trollish, but the point is the "a license gives you something" standpoint that you are advocating is not directly in conflict with the way software companies want to act.
You cannot claim your time as a loss. However, you can "donate" your time at a standard hourly wage, and then use that amount as a decuction off of your personal taxes as charitable giving.
However. You better make sure that the place that you are giving it to has all the paperwork done for being a non-profit. And you better be able to show how many hours you gave, and at what rate and document it well.
The IRS will be more likely to believe you if you aren't the only employee of the non-profit.
You will probably have to go through amore rigorus requirements/bid/accept process, even if you are doing all of those steps, otherwise thr IRS will smack you down for being too open ended
The real purpose of RAW mode is not to get rid of artifacts. 99% of the time you are going to have to convert to JPEG anyway to get your prints, because wallmart etc wants a jpeg, not a RAW/NEF file.
If you have a printer yourself, you probably aren't printing an 8x10, and even if you are, the quality of paper and ink is going to mess you up more than any artifacts would. (unless you spend a few grand on your printer)
The real reason to use RAW, is that you only have to convert to JPEG once, instead of twice, and you can manipulate Whitebalance etc, off of the original sensor data.
Shareholders own the assets (or debt) they are not the debtors themselves. (The value of their ownership is whatever the value of the company is. If that value is 0, then they are owed nothing)
My point was that assets get assigned in order. Outstanding debt, bonds, preffered, and common. By the time you get down to common, there isnt much left to split up.
In reality, if a company goes belly up, the stock holders aren't going to get anything.
First, most companies have debt. Assets go to pay off debt.
Then any outstanding bonds the company has issued get redeemed.
Then preffered stock gets a their cut(and very few people own preffered stock)
Then common stock their cut.
Since you started out by saying "the company went belly up" That probably means they dont have a bunch of cash sitting around if they had cash, they wouldnt be belly up. And most companies assests are cannablizied long before actual "belly-up-ness" in order to have the dying gasp of air, or maybe recover.
The only way you would ever get assets really, is if the compnay voluntairly closes. (This only really happens in the case of a competative buy-out, when Comapny A buys B, and then just shuts down B because they didnt want the competition, or needed a patent or something)
Also assets could get distributed in the case of a "poison pill" but that is pretty rare too.
Well, I am primarily a web developer, which changes things for me somewhat (The lifetime of a program is only the lifetime of a page-view, so even if things stick around until the end, its not that long) Additionally, I am not instantiating brushes or anything like that.
However, even in the winforms world, in c# (and Java) you dont handle getting rid of brushes etc.
You can "early" dispose them using the dispose() methods we talked about before, but the GC is also smart. It takes into account relative costs of external resources (for GUI only, not for files etc) and will call GC pre-emptively when that cost gets too high.
An even if it is just a non-resource based class, I do new() on a class a few hundred times per program. Trying to find a delete() for each of those (especially if it is not located near the new() or if you have multiple execution paths etc.)
There is a reason people came up with GC. And that reason is that leaks are very very common:)
More like : I implement 10 linked lists/hashes/whatever, 50 arrays, and 10000 strings per program.
(regardless of the length of string/number of elements etc)
Therefore I have to get memory allocation right several thousand times.
On the other hand, I only open up a handfull of database connections, and usually only 2 files. Therefore it is much easier to isolate those and make sure they are working right. VS checking for Thousands of pure memory leaks.
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Microsoft does not allow patches for non xbox-live games. It has nothing to do with what type of content the update is.
Ninja Gaiden has an XBox Live portion already (head to head battles) even tho nobody uses it. That is the loophole that gets them their update.
If Thief had a "vs" mode, or a level download feature, then they could fix the difficulty bug, even if nothing about "live" was modified.
I think the point was that they are competing with a 5th generation console (NES has had 5).
Microsoft has had 1.
They aren't countint all models of all consoles, just how many times a particular company has gotten to revise their own product. (which of course recieves the benefit of competitors products that came before them)
This is not a problem.
USA can mandate all govt agencies, federally funded schools, and telcommunications companies in the USA to include some special Private Key signature doohicky in their emails.
Companies will quickly sign on.
Now all legitimate mail from the US is signed and verifiable.
Many foreigners will jump on board.
Now any mail that isnt signed can be ranked hiegher by your filters as spam (there will be some legit unsigned email that isnt spam, but you can 2x the weight of any spam words in an unsigned email or something)
Foreign companies that want to get to US markets will comply with the signing.
Foreign users will demand that their companies get on board, so they dont have to have spam either.
All that is needed is critical mass, or a few critical users.
We are now out of stock of invites for the time being. The first 3 posts below have their invites sent to them!
I have three invites. first come first served. (replies to this post)
google has the search which is better than folders in most cases I think. If you really want pre-sorted stuff, they have "labels" that you can apply to emails, and then quickly get all the items with the label. This is pretty much exactly the functionality of folders. Except you can put multiple labels on an email, so it can in essence be in multiple folders!
specific examples please?
Since they are controlling the content, they could introduce real commercials into the video, or do a bordered set of ads. I bet there would be big money in bordered ads that are displayed for the entire movie : The Matrix, brought to you by gatorade! at the bottom of the screen (Like NFL scores)
You really don't understand what copyright protections are for. A concept like this is not a creative effort, in a fixed medium, therefore it cannot be copyrighted. It is an idea or process. Therefore it can be patented.
You can claim that it is trivial and therefore should not be granted, or is derivitive and should not be granted, but if it is protected by anything it would be patents.
I was not refering to your right to use the software. I was refering to the OEMs right to GIVE you the software.
And GPL is identical. Here is content. You do not own this content. Use and distribute this content, but only if you follow our rules.
If you aquired it for free from an OEM, it isn't legal. He gets the software cheap with the requirement that it go "Only for use on a new computer"
If he gave you the software, without the computer, then he broke his license, and you are not legal (impossible to bust, but not legal)
Note, if you think that license restrictions (on the OEM) like this are not valid (note, Im not talking about nice, or fair, just legally valid) then you also don't think the GPL is legally valid.
The muvo drive is very slow as others have pointed out.
The Rebel feels like a toy. It is very cheap plastic, and the lens wobbles.
The D70 and 10D are a good comparison to eachother. But the D70 is almost as cheap as the Rebel.
THe biggest difference I see between digicams and DSLRs is control.
In addition to the plethora of lenses out there, the SLRs give you much more control over the actual photographic process. Shutter speed, Apeture, Whitebalance, ISO etc. Yes many of these options can be set on a higher end digicam (a cheaper one will not let you set apeture or shutter) However, the EASE of setting these options is much different.
With my D70, I can control almost all camera settings, while my eye is still in the viewfinder. I can totally reconfigure the camera in a matter of seconds.
In a digicam, you have to scroll through several menus to get the options shot.
I recently took photographs at a local community theatre, during a live performance. (I was hired to be the photographer, I wasn't sneaking)
They didn't want flash, so the lighting was VERY low.
In order to get good shots, I had to use a slow shutterspeed, at a wide apeture, at very high ISO. This totally wrecked any of the faster scenes (especially dancing) due to blur.
With the D70 masterwheel, I could VERY quickly switch my shutter speed to give me the right shot as the scene changed. Dialog, I would go slower, and get more detail and light. Dance, I would speed it up, and get the action. These shots would be impossible on digicam.
One other big difference is lenses. Not just the interchangability (which is huge, but if you get a superzoom (28-300 or something like that) you wont be changing very much (at the cost of some quality). But also the size. Remember, photography is recording light. The bigger your lens, the more light, which means more detail, more color etc.
A point and shoot has a tiny lens. A Tiny apeture, even wide open.
The D70 is a better camera than the D100 because the 100 is two years old. When the D200 comes out, the D70 will still be the entry level camera, and the gap between the D70 and D200 will be much wider.
Esentially think of the D70 as an updated D100 with a price discount for being old.
BTW, I have the D70 and it ROCKS.
Tapping is a good selection GUI.
If you are in a music store, they have 70 posters, and thousands of CDs. Which samples do you want? How are you going to scroll through them all?
You browse as normal. Tap, and then continue to walk around the store while you listen to the samples or songs you just bought.
There is a big difference between the two styles. But new patents must be non-obvious and non-trivial.
If the "church" method is well established, then it goes a long way into invalidating the new patent as being a logical improvement based on newly available technology.
The problem in your analasys :
Yes apple has a % today. The problem is they had a HUGE % a decade or two ago. Remember when everyone have an Apple IIg? And every school, library, printing shop, newspaper, video editing place etc ran Apple or Mac?
Now the % is small, their core is fractured, etc.
The iBook and iMac single handedly saved apple from the trashbin. And its not the technology. Their technology is linux. Its that they are sexy.
Other people can copy sexy, and then you are down to sexy linux/windows box for $500 or sexy iMac for $2Gs
The things that you used to HAVE to do on macs (photoshop, layouts, etc) are now doable on any platform (and I think done better on windows/linux with the huge hardware people can throw at it)
unless that bank is issueing their own credit cards, and you have that credit card in your pocket, it doesnt do them a whole lot of good.
Everyone accepts Visa and Mastercard. Eventually the buck stops there.
That lets through people who send cash, checks and money orders, or pay via their phone bill. I bet there aren't enough of those people to keep the porn and spammers alive.
Best buy sells coasters. These coasters come with advertizing in the form of a game manual, and the coasters themselves are advertizing, in the form of a game name, and maybe a picture of the game on the front cover!
They also include a license agreement. If you agree to the license, you are additionally allowed to use a game, that is included on the coaster!
(Obviousaly a bit trollish, but the point is the "a license gives you something" standpoint that you are advocating is not directly in conflict with the way software companies want to act.
You cannot claim your time as a loss. However, you can "donate" your time at a standard hourly wage, and then use that amount as a decuction off of your personal taxes as charitable giving.
However. You better make sure that the place that you are giving it to has all the paperwork done for being a non-profit. And you better be able to show how many hours you gave, and at what rate and document it well.
The IRS will be more likely to believe you if you aren't the only employee of the non-profit.
You will probably have to go through amore rigorus requirements/bid/accept process, even if you are doing all of those steps, otherwise thr IRS will smack you down for being too open ended
The real purpose of RAW mode is not to get rid of artifacts. 99% of the time you are going to have to convert to JPEG anyway to get your prints, because wallmart etc wants a jpeg, not a RAW/NEF file.
If you have a printer yourself, you probably aren't printing an 8x10, and even if you are, the quality of paper and ink is going to mess you up more than any artifacts would. (unless you spend a few grand on your printer)
The real reason to use RAW, is that you only have to convert to JPEG once, instead of twice, and you can manipulate Whitebalance etc, off of the original sensor data.
Shareholders own the assets (or debt) they are not the debtors themselves. (The value of their ownership is whatever the value of the company is. If that value is 0, then they are owed nothing)
My point was that assets get assigned in order. Outstanding debt, bonds, preffered, and common. By the time you get down to common, there isnt much left to split up.
In reality, if a company goes belly up, the stock holders aren't going to get anything.
First, most companies have debt. Assets go to pay off debt.
Then any outstanding bonds the company has issued get redeemed.
Then preffered stock gets a their cut(and very few people own preffered stock)
Then common stock their cut.
Since you started out by saying "the company went belly up" That probably means they dont have a bunch of cash sitting around if they had cash, they wouldnt be belly up. And most companies assests are cannablizied long before actual "belly-up-ness" in order to have the dying gasp of air, or maybe recover.
The only way you would ever get assets really, is if the compnay voluntairly closes. (This only really happens in the case of a competative buy-out, when Comapny A buys B, and then just shuts down B because they didnt want the competition, or needed a patent or something)
Also assets could get distributed in the case of a "poison pill" but that is pretty rare too.
Well, I am primarily a web developer, which changes things for me somewhat (The lifetime of a program is only the lifetime of a page-view, so even if things stick around until the end, its not that long) Additionally, I am not instantiating brushes or anything like that.
:)
However, even in the winforms world, in c# (and Java) you dont handle getting rid of brushes etc.
You can "early" dispose them using the dispose() methods we talked about before, but the GC is also smart. It takes into account relative costs of external resources (for GUI only, not for files etc) and will call GC pre-emptively when that cost gets too high.
An even if it is just a non-resource based class, I do new() on a class a few hundred times per program. Trying to find a delete() for each of those (especially if it is not located near the new() or if you have multiple execution paths etc.)
There is a reason people came up with GC. And that reason is that leaks are very very common
Not quite what I meant.
More like : I implement 10 linked lists/hashes/whatever, 50 arrays, and 10000 strings per program.
(regardless of the length of string/number of elements etc)
Therefore I have to get memory allocation right several thousand times.
On the other hand, I only open up a handfull of database connections, and usually only 2 files. Therefore it is much easier to isolate those and make sure they are working right. VS checking for Thousands of pure memory leaks.