It is a very big difference. If Best Buy put the price of their loss leader at $5 and publishes it at 10 pm on thursday, Walmart can jump in and publish theirs at $4, taking in even more of a loss but drawing the customers away from Best Buy. So yes, there is a difference.
If the prices were lifted off something already printed, you are right... it is not legally actionable. BUT THE PRICES HAVE NOT YET BEEN PRINTED! They were still in raw digital media form and the prices were lifted from the raw digital media form. This IS legally actionable. I am betting the guy who posted the prices worked for a newspaper in the ad department - and if the subpoena worked, the name of the poster will be revealed and we all will know where he got the digital media from.
I have a relative who works for the Washington Post in the ad department. He says that 99.9% of all ad submissions are in digital media form. And nothing gets printed except as proofs internally before the day of the actual press production. So most likely someone working in the ad department saw the prices and copied them and posted them on fatwallet.
This is why walmart subpoenaed fatwallet for the name of the poster. This is their proof that it was stolen. If I am guessing right, this poster is someone who works for a newspaper/magazine/whatever company which has been given the price information in digital media form.
I am in no way advocating the use of the DMCA for anything (it sucks)... but I think most of us here are missing some big points.
1) The sale prices are used by the retail stores to give people a reason to walk into the store. They lose money on these sales, but they do this because they know that once they get you into the store, you will more likely than not buy something else too. This is called baiting the hook. Having prices posted everywhere in advance defeats this entire scheme. Now customers will just already know what is on sale before entering the store and just get what they want and get out. No profit to be made there. This is why they are mad.
2) Prices are NOT protected under the DMCA. This is not what they are mad about. What they are mad about is the DIGITAL MEDIA that the prices were listed using were stolen and posted. To make this clear - Best Buy sends the sale prices on digital media to, say, the Washington Post for advertisement on Friday (the same day of the sale). At the Washington Post an employee takes a look at this digital media and says, hmm... that is nice, and copies it to be posted. The problem with that is this digital media has been copyrighted by Best Buy... so the person posting the prices is guilty of theft of copyrighted data. It doesn't matter what the copyrighted data is (happens to be prices in this case), it is still digital media theft, and that is what the DMCA is for.
3) The web site has been subpoenaed to reveal the name of the poster. Most likely this poster is someone who works for a publishing company such as the Washington Post or whoever. This person will most likely be fired if his name is revealed. I am sure publishing companies like the Washington Post have an NDA agreement with its various advertisers. Posting prices is a blatant violation of those NDA's. And the person who stole the digital media knew this, and did it anyway - I am not sure why but he was thinking Best Buy would not care. How wrong he was.
4) I hate the DMCA - I don't like how it controls me and the stuff that I own. I am not advocating the DMCA in any way. I am just showing you all WHY the DMCA applies in this case. It is not the prices itself - it is the digital media the prices were on.
that is fine but unless this guy's encoder takes the captioning data from the video blank interval and converts them to the appropriate subtitle format for SVCD (which I doubt it does) i would say my point still stand. plus i question whether or not converting from one format (VBI closed captioning) to another (SVCD subtitles) is acceptable in the eyes of the FCC... something to look into if you're developing this kind of thing.
Unless your device supports capturing of original closed captioning information onto the CD-RW's - meaning you preserve the information present including the stuff in the vertical blank interval and replay it on playback - you will never be allowed to bring this device to market as a consumer VCR replacement. As far as I know the SVCD format does not have any built in mechanism for this. There are certain things you need to do to meet FCC requirements before this device will be allowed to be sold in the USA market. Same rules applies to closed captioning decoders being required in all TV's 13" or larger.
Did anyone actually read the court documents that this guy filed against google and other search engines? It has nothing to do with slander. It has everything to do with him complaining that when people enter "pets warehouse" the ranking system puts links to competitor's stores before his. This guy claimed he contacted google to remove his trademarked stuff (the name petswarehouse and so on). I say lets listen to that guy. Everybody (especially search engines) remove all links to petswarehouse.com. Make that site disappear off the face of the earth. See how much business he gets after that.
It specifically states that you cannot travel back into a time before the wormhole was constructed. No wormhole has been constructed, so nobody can get to this time from the future.
10 times, not 8. its easy to forget that with communications traffic there are 10 bits to a character, not 8. the two extra bits are control bits that signals the start and end of the data sequence. so, with a 3 megabit/sec data connection you can get a download speed of 300 kbyte/sec, not 375 kbyte/sec.
if you wanted to sue somebody for defamation or libel or whatever - you would have to prove damages - if you had no clue that somebody posted a web site defaming you then you certainly cannot prove any damages.
the "128 bit" refers to the width of the graphics bus, not the cpu. the nintendo 64 wasn't "64 bits" either, but its graphics bus was 64 bits wide - at least, that was their marketing spin on it.
as for losing money - all three manufacturers are indeed losing money on the hardware - not just microsoft although they are definitely losing the most money - none of the three companies are profiting from the sales of their hardware at this time.
the number of bits that a cpu can crunch in a register has no relevance to having more or less address lines.
There is no way that this sub can go a mile deep - it would implode from all the water pressure way before it reaches that depth. In fact, with those huge bubble windows it wouldn't be able to go very deep at all.
It is said that the airplanes caused an impact of equal or lesser force than what it would experience from day-to-day wind.
Keep in mind that when calculations are done to measure the force of wind on a building, it is measured as the wind force distributed against the ENTIRE surface of the building.
The airplanes caused an equivalent force to a much smaller area on the side of the building. Thus, this smaller area experienced an impulse far greater than it would normally feel from wind. Compare apples to apples, people. Please.
Common sense: If in fact you really think that wind force did equal plane force on the WTC's over the same area, then tell me this: how come those windows aren't caving in and a huge hole ripped due to wind? They did cave in under force of the plane.
This would only compound the problem - don't forget the victims here are birds. Cats and birds don't mix. Rats eats the eggs, cats eats the birds themselves.
The only reason I can think of why developers would ask for a 1000 times faster system is if their programming abilities are getting so bad.
I remember a time when we had 4k competitions where you had to write code that was 4096 bytes or less (usually in the form of com files). Coders back then came up with full blown 3D eye candy with phong shading and whatnot. This was in the very early 90's when 486'es were the cream of the crop.
Now, game code is all bloated and getting slower and slower all the time. Why? Either game coders just aren't as good as they used to be, or they've just gotten lazy. Sony's solution? Make the CPUs faster to make up for the difference.
To compound the situation: Game design has just been sucking lately. The very best games I've ever played were all in the early 90's. Games like King's Quest (early ones), Ultima III, and so on, were chock full of content and you actually felt totally immersed into the story. Now? It's all quadruple textured environment bumped alpha blended shadow mapped pixel shaded eye candy. Junk.
My message to Sony: I don't care if you can produce a system that's 1000 times faster. What I want to play are good solid games. Make your affiliated game designers 1000 times innovative. That's where I'd put my money.
The problem is not whether or not YOU find the material offensive or what. Who cares! Think of the children. If child pornography is suddenly inaccessible to those sick perverts then there is no market for it. And if there is no market for child pornograhy, then hopefully it will stop. Would you like to be one of those poor kids molested and whatnot just for the sake of some sick fat pervert hiding behind a computer screen?
My point again is this: Simply not looking at offensive matter when you find it distasteful is not going to make the problem go away. The problem is child pornography and the children involved, which are abused.
For example, try searching for the band 'The Who'. Google automatically filters out both words. Ack! At least with Altavista I can do this search and actually find something. Perhaps you can search for "The Who" on Google but I haven't found out how.
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It is a very big difference. If Best Buy put the price of their loss leader at $5 and publishes it at 10 pm on thursday, Walmart can jump in and publish theirs at $4, taking in even more of a loss but drawing the customers away from Best Buy. So yes, there is a difference.
If the prices were lifted off something already printed, you are right... it is not legally actionable. BUT THE PRICES HAVE NOT YET BEEN PRINTED! They were still in raw digital media form and the prices were lifted from the raw digital media form. This IS legally actionable. I am betting the guy who posted the prices worked for a newspaper in the ad department - and if the subpoena worked, the name of the poster will be revealed and we all will know where he got the digital media from.
I have a relative who works for the Washington Post in the ad department. He says that 99.9% of all ad submissions are in digital media form. And nothing gets printed except as proofs internally before the day of the actual press production. So most likely someone working in the ad department saw the prices and copied them and posted them on fatwallet.
This is why walmart subpoenaed fatwallet for the name of the poster. This is their proof that it was stolen. If I am guessing right, this poster is someone who works for a newspaper/magazine/whatever company which has been given the price information in digital media form.
I am in no way advocating the use of the DMCA for anything (it sucks)... but I think most of us here are missing some big points.
1) The sale prices are used by the retail stores to give people a reason to walk into the store. They lose money on these sales, but they do this because they know that once they get you into the store, you will more likely than not buy something else too. This is called baiting the hook. Having prices posted everywhere in advance defeats this entire scheme. Now customers will just already know what is on sale before entering the store and just get what they want and get out. No profit to be made there. This is why they are mad.
2) Prices are NOT protected under the DMCA. This is not what they are mad about. What they are mad about is the DIGITAL MEDIA that the prices were listed using were stolen and posted. To make this clear - Best Buy sends the sale prices on digital media to, say, the Washington Post for advertisement on Friday (the same day of the sale). At the Washington Post an employee takes a look at this digital media and says, hmm... that is nice, and copies it to be posted. The problem with that is this digital media has been copyrighted by Best Buy... so the person posting the prices is guilty of theft of copyrighted data. It doesn't matter what the copyrighted data is (happens to be prices in this case), it is still digital media theft, and that is what the DMCA is for.
3) The web site has been subpoenaed to reveal the name of the poster. Most likely this poster is someone who works for a publishing company such as the Washington Post or whoever. This person will most likely be fired if his name is revealed. I am sure publishing companies like the Washington Post have an NDA agreement with its various advertisers. Posting prices is a blatant violation of those NDA's. And the person who stole the digital media knew this, and did it anyway - I am not sure why but he was thinking Best Buy would not care. How wrong he was.
4) I hate the DMCA - I don't like how it controls me and the stuff that I own. I am not advocating the DMCA in any way. I am just showing you all WHY the DMCA applies in this case. It is not the prices itself - it is the digital media the prices were on.
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that is fine but unless this guy's encoder takes the captioning data from the video blank interval and converts them to the appropriate subtitle format for SVCD (which I doubt it does) i would say my point still stand. plus i question whether or not converting from one format (VBI closed captioning) to another (SVCD subtitles) is acceptable in the eyes of the FCC... something to look into if you're developing this kind of thing.
Unless your device supports capturing of original closed captioning information onto the CD-RW's - meaning you preserve the information present including the stuff in the vertical blank interval and replay it on playback - you will never be allowed to bring this device to market as a consumer VCR replacement. As far as I know the SVCD format does not have any built in mechanism for this. There are certain things you need to do to meet FCC requirements before this device will be allowed to be sold in the USA market. Same rules applies to closed captioning decoders being required in all TV's 13" or larger.
Did anyone actually read the court documents that this guy filed against google and other search engines? It has nothing to do with slander. It has everything to do with him complaining that when people enter "pets warehouse" the ranking system puts links to competitor's stores before his. This guy claimed he contacted google to remove his trademarked stuff (the name petswarehouse and so on). I say lets listen to that guy. Everybody (especially search engines) remove all links to petswarehouse.com. Make that site disappear off the face of the earth. See how much business he gets after that.
Did you even at least read the article?
It specifically states that you cannot travel back into a time before the wormhole was constructed. No wormhole has been constructed, so nobody can get to this time from the future.
So there goes your theory. Poof.
you could count up to 31, not 32. with all five fingers up, the number is 31. to get the number 32 you would need a 6th bit, err... finger.
10 times, not 8. its easy to forget that with communications traffic there are 10 bits to a character, not 8. the two extra bits are control bits that signals the start and end of the data sequence. so, with a 3 megabit/sec data connection you can get a download speed of 300 kbyte/sec, not 375 kbyte/sec.
if you wanted to sue somebody for defamation or libel or whatever - you would have to prove damages - if you had no clue that somebody posted a web site defaming you then you certainly cannot prove any damages.
the "128 bit" refers to the width of the graphics bus, not the cpu. the nintendo 64 wasn't "64 bits" either, but its graphics bus was 64 bits wide - at least, that was their marketing spin on it.
as for losing money - all three manufacturers are indeed losing money on the hardware - not just microsoft although they are definitely losing the most money - none of the three companies are profiting from the sales of their hardware at this time.
the number of bits that a cpu can crunch in a register has no relevance to having more or less address lines.
Sure it will. What is stopping you from installing your own Bose CD changer? Nothing.
$78 million and no GPS? Forget it then. It's not like you can pull over and ask for directions down there. Gotta have my GPS.
Second: It's the mile deep club.
There is no way that this sub can go a mile deep - it would implode from all the water pressure way before it reaches that depth. In fact, with those huge bubble windows it wouldn't be able to go very deep at all.
Does GPS work on board when it is submerged?
It is said that the airplanes caused an impact of equal or lesser force than what it would experience from day-to-day wind.
Keep in mind that when calculations are done to measure the force of wind on a building, it is measured as the wind force distributed against the ENTIRE surface of the building.
The airplanes caused an equivalent force to a much smaller area on the side of the building. Thus, this smaller area experienced an impulse far greater than it would normally feel from wind. Compare apples to apples, people. Please.
Common sense: If in fact you really think that wind force did equal plane force on the WTC's over the same area, then tell me this: how come those windows aren't caving in and a huge hole ripped due to wind? They did cave in under force of the plane.
This would only compound the problem - don't forget the victims here are birds. Cats and birds don't mix. Rats eats the eggs, cats eats the birds themselves.
The only reason I can think of why developers would ask for a 1000 times faster system is if their programming abilities are getting so bad.
I remember a time when we had 4k competitions where you had to write code that was 4096 bytes or less (usually in the form of com files). Coders back then came up with full blown 3D eye candy with phong shading and whatnot. This was in the very early 90's when 486'es were the cream of the crop.
Now, game code is all bloated and getting slower and slower all the time. Why? Either game coders just aren't as good as they used to be, or they've just gotten lazy. Sony's solution? Make the CPUs faster to make up for the difference.
To compound the situation: Game design has just been sucking lately. The very best games I've ever played were all in the early 90's. Games like King's Quest (early ones), Ultima III, and so on, were chock full of content and you actually felt totally immersed into the story. Now? It's all quadruple textured environment bumped alpha blended shadow mapped pixel shaded eye candy. Junk.
My message to Sony: I don't care if you can produce a system that's 1000 times faster. What I want to play are good solid games. Make your affiliated game designers 1000 times innovative. That's where I'd put my money.
The problem is not whether or not YOU find the material offensive or what. Who cares! Think of the children. If child pornography is suddenly inaccessible to those sick perverts then there is no market for it. And if there is no market for child pornograhy, then hopefully it will stop. Would you like to be one of those poor kids molested and whatnot just for the sake of some sick fat pervert hiding behind a computer screen?
My point again is this: Simply not looking at offensive matter when you find it distasteful is not going to make the problem go away. The problem is child pornography and the children involved, which are abused.
...on google is impossible to do.
For example, try searching for the band 'The Who'. Google automatically filters out both words. Ack! At least with Altavista I can do this search and actually find something. Perhaps you can search for "The Who" on Google but I haven't found out how.