Yeah, I don't get it either. Yes, having a sample is important. Draw up and execute a mission that retrieves a sample prior to sending a group of astronauts up to something we don't know enough about.
If this is true, and it seems pretty likely it is, it's a pretty serious matter in my opinion.
From the article: The administration, Dr. Carmona said, would not allow him to speak or issue reports about stem cells, emergency contraception, sex education, or prison, mental and global health issues.
That's quite a list of important issues he wasn't allowed to speak about. Things like this shouldn't be allowed to happen. It's the guy's job to discuss these things.
The article is pretty in-depth and probably worth a read if you're into that sort of thing, but I'd have to agree. There's no date on the article itself that I can see, but ACPI has been around for years. Why dive into detail now?
That and the page reloads itself what looks like 3-4 times in rapid succession every 30 seconds. Quite annoying.
I didn't get the disdain for the ads, either. The site is not charging its users, so something has to pay the bills. If there's no membership fee, it's got to come from advertising. I don't see the big deal there.
Enforcement is a particularly interesting issue in the current political climate. MS basically got a pass on their anti-trust case, and that was a government case. Finding a company with the will and resources to battle MS on a GPL violation would be extremely difficult. While the FSF would certainly get as much help as the community could provide, I'm not sure it'd be enough.
At least Europe has done a better job of sticking to their guns than we have.
It certainly wasn't the best move. This is just going to further encourage someone to take the time to break the format. When will these companies learn to not make silly statements like this?
Yea, I don't get it and the article was light on details. If it is similar to the one already in use on the space station, why did they just pay $19m for it. Couldn't they have just improved upon the design they already had in use if it even needed improving? Why buy a whole new system? You wouldn't be designing from scratch, you already have one in service!
I was set on buying a PS3 and a Wii for the longest time. The BluRay player is a nice addition. The only real barrier was price, but Sony's arrogance on the whole matter has made me reconsider the XBox 360 as my second machine. Sony really botched their launch, and I think it'll probably take a bigger price break than what they're offering to recover from their current slide.
It's too bad, too, because technologically it looks like a great machine.
That's a great transfer rate. Do you happen to know what they're charging for that speed in Philadelphia? Nothing affordable even comes close around here.
Those are some pretty damn good speeds. I was lucky to get 4Mbps at Time Warner when their max was 6Mbps. I switched to a 5Mbps DSL connection which ended up being faster. I wonder if there's much of a difference now that they bumped it up to 8Mbps. And it seems with Comcast apparently bumping up to 16Mbps according to another poster, a connection speed race could be on. Maybe it's time to look into switching back?
I see your point, but there are plenty of cases where the two are more similar. Passengers in taxis, limos, buses, etc. are businesses with customers just like in the bar who might be listening to the business's radio. I suppose it's probably safe to assume the music industry won't make that leap, but to me it seems pretty darn similar to what's mentioned.
Exactly. You just confirmed my analogy. Televised sports events have commercials. If they want additional royalties for songs played to everyone within earshot during TV broadcasts, there's not a big difference between that and radio broadcasts.
This is really getting out of hand. Pretty soon you're going to have to pay royalties if you have the radio on with passengers in your car, which isn't that far a stretch from paying royalties for songs played on a TV in a bar. It's not going to be much longer before either someone sane intervenes or the recording industry collapses under the weight of thousands of lawsuits against its primary customers.
It's probably bad that I wouldn't put it past Verizon to pull a stunt like that. That sounds like the kind of excuses you get every day on Verizon's support lines.
I'm no fan of the current iMacs, but this sounds pretty interesting. The move away from the white case and the shrinking of the enclosure should be good for sales. They're putting a decent chipset in it this time at least.
I doubt it. I'm sure that royalties were worked out for all the songs in Guitar Hero. A commercial product would likely not receive an exception under fair use, but this guy's lessons probably should.
It does look like a pretty decent start. The fact that it's only a week since introduction is pretty impressive. It looks like there could be some good things to come.
It is practically nothing, but it's probably a good move on AMD's part. Intel's been basically running the show recently, and power consumption is becoming increasingly important. AMD will pick up some power-saving techniques that will help them compete with Intel down the road and will have paid very little for them.
I agree. Once you tell the bidder what the flaw is in, and give a good enough description of it to garner bids, someone is going to be able to track it down for themselves for free. Not the best business model.
A tiny minority is actually concerned about who is paid. The rest want to have convenient (illegal or not) access to songs, and ripping your own CDs is not convenient enough to many people.
This is exactly what's at issue. Buying CDs and ripping them is more difficult than simply downloading them, or paying a site a few pennies to download them. AllofMP3 was so popular because for a couple cents getting music was even more convenient. You didn't even have to search through pirate sites to find them, they were all there in one place. They paid for the music because it was convenient, not because they wanted to make sure money went to the artists.
Yea, and not only was the deadline April Fool's Day, but even if this somehow managed to not be a joke the course dates were June 3 - 9 and June 17 - 23. There'd be Explosives Camp alumni by now!
I remember my father bought one of the original Sony audio CD players. It was a CDP-102, the second version released in 1984. It looked quite a bit like the one in the article, but it was shorter and longer... the typical stereo component profile. That thing weighs a ton, and when you inserted the CD it had a clear window so you could watch the tray lower itself and the CD onto the motor. I thought that was the coolest thing.
Built like a tank, too. It was still in regular use until just recently, and still worked flawlessly without so much as a cleaning over 20 years later. They don't make them like that, anymore. Maybe it was better components, or simply nostalgia, but I thought it had a better sound quality that most CD players these days.
Sounds like the guy had a legitimate case. I'm sure that it cost him a fortune to defend a suit against Google. I'm surprised Google thought they could win this one. Isn't case law in this area pretty strong? Nissan.com I think is the traditional example.
Not to defend the RIAA's actions, but I don't know if you can call it entrapment or not. Entrapment, by definition, involves the police persuading you to commit a crime you wouldn't otherwise commit. This is a private entity catching people committing a crime they would otherwise commit. I don't condone their methods, but I doubt you could successfully adopt an entrapment defense.
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Yeah, I don't get it either. Yes, having a sample is important. Draw up and execute a mission that retrieves a sample prior to sending a group of astronauts up to something we don't know enough about.
If this is true, and it seems pretty likely it is, it's a pretty serious matter in my opinion.
From the article:
The administration, Dr. Carmona said, would not allow him to speak or issue reports about stem cells, emergency contraception, sex education, or prison, mental and global health issues.
That's quite a list of important issues he wasn't allowed to speak about. Things like this shouldn't be allowed to happen. It's the guy's job to discuss these things.
The article is pretty in-depth and probably worth a read if you're into that sort of thing, but I'd have to agree. There's no date on the article itself that I can see, but ACPI has been around for years. Why dive into detail now?
That and the page reloads itself what looks like 3-4 times in rapid succession every 30 seconds. Quite annoying.
I didn't get the disdain for the ads, either. The site is not charging its users, so something has to pay the bills. If there's no membership fee, it's got to come from advertising. I don't see the big deal there.
Enforcement is a particularly interesting issue in the current political climate. MS basically got a pass on their anti-trust case, and that was a government case. Finding a company with the will and resources to battle MS on a GPL violation would be extremely difficult. While the FSF would certainly get as much help as the community could provide, I'm not sure it'd be enough.
At least Europe has done a better job of sticking to their guns than we have.
It certainly wasn't the best move. This is just going to further encourage someone to take the time to break the format. When will these companies learn to not make silly statements like this?
Yea, I don't get it and the article was light on details. If it is similar to the one already in use on the space station, why did they just pay $19m for it. Couldn't they have just improved upon the design they already had in use if it even needed improving? Why buy a whole new system? You wouldn't be designing from scratch, you already have one in service!
I was set on buying a PS3 and a Wii for the longest time. The BluRay player is a nice addition. The only real barrier was price, but Sony's arrogance on the whole matter has made me reconsider the XBox 360 as my second machine. Sony really botched their launch, and I think it'll probably take a bigger price break than what they're offering to recover from their current slide.
It's too bad, too, because technologically it looks like a great machine.
That's a great transfer rate. Do you happen to know what they're charging for that speed in Philadelphia? Nothing affordable even comes close around here.
Those are some pretty damn good speeds. I was lucky to get 4Mbps at Time Warner when their max was 6Mbps. I switched to a 5Mbps DSL connection which ended up being faster. I wonder if there's much of a difference now that they bumped it up to 8Mbps. And it seems with Comcast apparently bumping up to 16Mbps according to another poster, a connection speed race could be on. Maybe it's time to look into switching back?
I see your point, but there are plenty of cases where the two are more similar. Passengers in taxis, limos, buses, etc. are businesses with customers just like in the bar who might be listening to the business's radio. I suppose it's probably safe to assume the music industry won't make that leap, but to me it seems pretty darn similar to what's mentioned.
Exactly. You just confirmed my analogy. Televised sports events have commercials. If they want additional royalties for songs played to everyone within earshot during TV broadcasts, there's not a big difference between that and radio broadcasts.
This is really getting out of hand. Pretty soon you're going to have to pay royalties if you have the radio on with passengers in your car, which isn't that far a stretch from paying royalties for songs played on a TV in a bar. It's not going to be much longer before either someone sane intervenes or the recording industry collapses under the weight of thousands of lawsuits against its primary customers.
We can hope for the latter.
It's probably bad that I wouldn't put it past Verizon to pull a stunt like that. That sounds like the kind of excuses you get every day on Verizon's support lines.
Well, I'd imagine the reason they used 12 ounces is because that's how much is in the typical can of soda.
I'm no fan of the current iMacs, but this sounds pretty interesting. The move away from the white case and the shrinking of the enclosure should be good for sales. They're putting a decent chipset in it this time at least.
I doubt it. I'm sure that royalties were worked out for all the songs in Guitar Hero. A commercial product would likely not receive an exception under fair use, but this guy's lessons probably should.
It does look like a pretty decent start. The fact that it's only a week since introduction is pretty impressive. It looks like there could be some good things to come.
It is practically nothing, but it's probably a good move on AMD's part. Intel's been basically running the show recently, and power consumption is becoming increasingly important. AMD will pick up some power-saving techniques that will help them compete with Intel down the road and will have paid very little for them.
I agree. Once you tell the bidder what the flaw is in, and give a good enough description of it to garner bids, someone is going to be able to track it down for themselves for free. Not the best business model.
A tiny minority is actually concerned about who is paid. The rest want to have convenient (illegal or not) access to songs, and ripping your own CDs is not convenient enough to many people.
This is exactly what's at issue. Buying CDs and ripping them is more difficult than simply downloading them, or paying a site a few pennies to download them. AllofMP3 was so popular because for a couple cents getting music was even more convenient. You didn't even have to search through pirate sites to find them, they were all there in one place. They paid for the music because it was convenient, not because they wanted to make sure money went to the artists.
Yea, and not only was the deadline April Fool's Day, but even if this somehow managed to not be a joke the course dates were June 3 - 9 and June 17 - 23. There'd be Explosives Camp alumni by now!
I remember my father bought one of the original Sony audio CD players. It was a CDP-102, the second version released in 1984. It looked quite a bit like the one in the article, but it was shorter and longer... the typical stereo component profile. That thing weighs a ton, and when you inserted the CD it had a clear window so you could watch the tray lower itself and the CD onto the motor. I thought that was the coolest thing.
Built like a tank, too. It was still in regular use until just recently, and still worked flawlessly without so much as a cleaning over 20 years later. They don't make them like that, anymore. Maybe it was better components, or simply nostalgia, but I thought it had a better sound quality that most CD players these days.
Sounds like the guy had a legitimate case. I'm sure that it cost him a fortune to defend a suit against Google. I'm surprised Google thought they could win this one. Isn't case law in this area pretty strong? Nissan.com I think is the traditional example.
Not to defend the RIAA's actions, but I don't know if you can call it entrapment or not. Entrapment, by definition, involves the police persuading you to commit a crime you wouldn't otherwise commit. This is a private entity catching people committing a crime they would otherwise commit. I don't condone their methods, but I doubt you could successfully adopt an entrapment defense.