Those are valid points, but it is not as black and white as you make it sound.
First the two parties have not been stagnant "as long as anyone can remember". They have not even been stagnant over the last 1-2 decades. While one party will win and have need for only limited compromise with the losing party that does not mean no compromise or coalition has been formed. Rather the party platforms are fluid and coalitions are formed within the two parties with certain interests moving to the party that will best represent them.
For example, what do labor unions, gay men, women and environmentalists all have in common? They were not well represented by the Republicans when the Republicans where in power. They compromised and brought in other interests until the democratic party was strong enough to take power. Looking at the same party in different regions of the country will also show just how much compromise and coalition forming goes into the US parties.
Its not an ideal system certainly, but I would look at the electoral college and various senate problems as bigger problems than our current 2 party system.
That is not correct. http://www.mpegla.com/Lists/MPEG%20LA%20News%20List/Attachments/226/n-10-02-02.pdf
(DENVER, CO, US – 2 February 2010) – MPEG LA announced today that its AVC Patent Portfolio License will continue not to charge royalties for Internet Video that is free to end users (known as Internet Broadcast AVC Video) during the next License term from January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2015. Products and services other than Internet Broadcast AVC Video continue to be royalty-bearing, and royalties to apply during the next term will be announced before the end of 2010.
(DENVER, CO, US – 2 February 2010) – MPEG LA announced today that its AVC Patent Portfolio License will continue not to charge royalties for Internet Video that is free to end users (known as Internet Broadcast AVC Video) during the next License term from January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2015. Products and services other than Internet Broadcast AVC Video continue to be royalty-bearing, and royalties to apply during the next term will be announced before the end of 2010.
So how about instead of touting a codec thats already outdated use h.264 for now and use the next 5 years to develop a codec that is actually better in some way.
Because the number of people who can stand up and say 'I only used bittorrent for legal purposes' is almost 0. Without that the user is in violation of their terms of service and Comcast is just trying to limit the damage. While the few people (1 guy?) who did use bittorrent without ever violating his terms of service gets screwed the rest of the people (pirates, arrr) make this case pretty murky.
sunlight is certainly a limited resource. measuring over the life of the sun is meaningless if the people doing the measurement won't exist that long. Rather measure the amount of sunlight captured per square meter by say a solar panel or a tree and you will certainly find a limit. even measure all of the sunlight falling on earth during a day, huge for sure, but certainly finite in a reasonable sense.
Linux does not have painless upgrading. It has painless updating to whatever has been put in apt-get/whatever. This is often (always?) not the most recent version of the software. I guess its something but on Windows if you let the programs update themselves whenever you use them they are more up to date, though it is a pain in the ass.
I don't think anyone expects that they can transfer 5 TBs a month over a shared line. If you expect to transfer that much data I don't see why you expect to pay the same as the average user who is likely closer to 1 GB.
It sounded to me like Verizon plans to find the highest bandwidth using customers, find a way to exclude them from the cheap shared connections and put them in a pool that is priced with the expectation of them using the large amount of bandwidth.
The servers in question are not running the stock exchange. Rather they are owned by some bank to operate one of their trading strategies. That bank possibly could lose some money and if f it was a big enough amount of money it could effect the rest of the stock market, however its not like compromising the stock exchange as a whole.
2.78 $/Gallon * 300 gallons / hr * 8 hours per battery charge = $6672 per battery charge.
That gives over 3000 battery charges worth of diesel before you start approaching the cost of the battery. Thats about 1000 days, which is well over the two years its going to take them to put in the new power line.
I believe around 8 nm electron tunneling becomes a serious issue. At that point the electrons will "tunnel" between transistors even if there was infinite resistance in between the two transistors. This happens at larger distances as well, but not too often.
As copying becomes faster and cheaper an artist should be able to make more money (or at least as much) while prices drop. If this does not happen someone is taking the extra money. Who should get this extra money is up to debate, I would vote for either the consumer or the artist, but I guess there are arguments that the various distributors do actually add value proportionate to the money they take.
With a little bit of poking around you can find a way to send money to the author. Often they have a system setup for donations, purchasing t-shirts or somesuch or even just mailing them a check. When the distribution chain is too much more expensive or sucks too much compared to the pirates you can always get it the easier way and just send some money to the artist.
Well there lies the problem. Does kid mean 17? 15? Or perhaps whether you get shot or not should depend on what state (or country) you happen to be in when you do it?
Think back to when you were a teenage boy. Would you have been damaged forever if an older women had slept with you for some reason? *shrugs* seems like shooting the women might be a bit overkill.
In the US at least we already have access to Rapid Oral HIV Tests that give results in about 20 minutes, require no complicated equipment and are available for free in most cities.
Now if this device was cheap and easy enough to appear in nightclubs...
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Those are valid points, but it is not as black and white as you make it sound.
First the two parties have not been stagnant "as long as anyone can remember". They have not even been stagnant over the last 1-2 decades. While one party will win and have need for only limited compromise with the losing party that does not mean no compromise or coalition has been formed. Rather the party platforms are fluid and coalitions are formed within the two parties with certain interests moving to the party that will best represent them.
For example, what do labor unions, gay men, women and environmentalists all have in common? They were not well represented by the Republicans when the Republicans where in power. They compromised and brought in other interests until the democratic party was strong enough to take power. Looking at the same party in different regions of the country will also show just how much compromise and coalition forming goes into the US parties.
Its not an ideal system certainly, but I would look at the electoral college and various senate problems as bigger problems than our current 2 party system.
shortening the term would not require compensation any more then prohibition required the compensation of alcohol manufacturer's.
it made your mom have sex with me.
HD home movies and photographs are copies, even if only one digital copy exists.
The article says the jail time was because it cost the city over 200k in damages.
3 hookers and blow
cocks
That is not correct.
http://www.mpegla.com/Lists/MPEG%20LA%20News%20List/Attachments/226/n-10-02-02.pdf
(DENVER, CO, US – 2 February 2010) – MPEG LA announced today that its AVC Patent Portfolio License will continue not to charge royalties for Internet Video that is free to end users (known as Internet Broadcast AVC Video) during the next License term from January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2015. Products and services other than Internet Broadcast AVC Video continue to be royalty-bearing, and royalties to apply during the next term will be announced before the end of 2010.
(DENVER, CO, US – 2 February 2010) – MPEG LA announced today that its AVC Patent Portfolio License will continue not to charge royalties for Internet Video that is free to end users (known as Internet Broadcast AVC Video) during the next License term from January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2015. Products and services other than Internet Broadcast AVC Video continue to be royalty-bearing, and royalties to apply during the next term will be announced before the end of 2010.
So how about instead of touting a codec thats already outdated use h.264 for now and use the next 5 years to develop a codec that is actually better in some way.
Because the number of people who can stand up and say 'I only used bittorrent for legal purposes' is almost 0. Without that the user is in violation of their terms of service and Comcast is just trying to limit the damage. While the few people (1 guy?) who did use bittorrent without ever violating his terms of service gets screwed the rest of the people (pirates, arrr) make this case pretty murky.
sunlight is certainly a limited resource. measuring over the life of the sun is meaningless if the people doing the measurement won't exist that long. Rather measure the amount of sunlight captured per square meter by say a solar panel or a tree and you will certainly find a limit. even measure all of the sunlight falling on earth during a day, huge for sure, but certainly finite in a reasonable sense.
Linux does not have painless upgrading. It has painless updating to whatever has been put in apt-get/whatever. This is often (always?) not the most recent version of the software. I guess its something but on Windows if you let the programs update themselves whenever you use them they are more up to date, though it is a pain in the ass.
In the expert opinion of a random guy on the internet Europe has more fiber than the Boston-Washington corridor.
I don't think anyone expects that they can transfer 5 TBs a month over a shared line. If you expect to transfer that much data I don't see why you expect to pay the same as the average user who is likely closer to 1 GB.
It sounded to me like Verizon plans to find the highest bandwidth using customers, find a way to exclude them from the cheap shared connections and put them in a pool that is priced with the expectation of them using the large amount of bandwidth.
The servers in question are not running the stock exchange. Rather they are owned by some bank to operate one of their trading strategies. That bank possibly could lose some money and if f it was a big enough amount of money it could effect the rest of the stock market, however its not like compromising the stock exchange as a whole.
2.78 $/Gallon * 300 gallons / hr * 8 hours per battery charge = $6672 per battery charge.
That gives over 3000 battery charges worth of diesel before you start approaching the cost of the battery. Thats about 1000 days, which is well over the two years its going to take them to put in the new power line.
I believe around 8 nm electron tunneling becomes a serious issue. At that point the electrons will "tunnel" between transistors even if there was infinite resistance in between the two transistors. This happens at larger distances as well, but not too often.
If your kid can't jailbreak/mod a device you buy for them then they are not cut out to be geeks.
As copying becomes faster and cheaper an artist should be able to make more money (or at least as much) while prices drop. If this does not happen someone is taking the extra money. Who should get this extra money is up to debate, I would vote for either the consumer or the artist, but I guess there are arguments that the various distributors do actually add value proportionate to the money they take.
With a little bit of poking around you can find a way to send money to the author. Often they have a system setup for donations, purchasing t-shirts or somesuch or even just mailing them a check. When the distribution chain is too much more expensive or sucks too much compared to the pirates you can always get it the easier way and just send some money to the artist.
The 20 minute ones do not have to send anything out to a lab.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Rapid+Oral+HIV+Tests
kids
Well there lies the problem.
Does kid mean 17? 15? Or perhaps whether you get shot or not should depend on what state (or country) you happen to be in when you do it?
Think back to when you were a teenage boy. Would you have been damaged forever if an older women had slept with you for some reason? *shrugs* seems like shooting the women might be a bit overkill.
Most US states do already do this.
In the US at least we already have access to Rapid Oral HIV Tests that give results in about 20 minutes, require no complicated equipment and are available for free in most cities.
Now if this device was cheap and easy enough to appear in nightclubs...
When the porn industry starts making movies like "The opening of misty beethoven" again i will start buying new porn.