Thomas Jefferson actually wrote that it would be wrong if people treated ideas as property. So the "original intention of intellectual property laws" seems sort of an oxymoron, but then terms like piracy and theft don't really make much sence either. I think pirates used to kill people.
So if you are calculating based on carrying capacity you are incorrect, the Honda isn't the most fuel efficient.
If you want to do it based on capacity, a standard diesel bus gets 3.5 MPG and seats over 45. That beats the Insight in PMPG (people miles per gallon).
My Civic Si does gets fewer PMPG than all three, but it's a lot more fun to drive and 124 PMPG isn't bad.
I'm sorry I guess I didn't explain my point. If Seagate makes almost no money selling drives with 60GB platters (see parent article), how can they afford to disable 1/3 of the disk space and sell the drive for less. They should be losing money on every destroked drive.
I normally only see behavior like destroking on high margin items. For example, Intel CPUs (before AMD got good again).
Yup. The Explorer gets EPA ratings: 15 mpg city/
20 mpg highway, so they managed to increase the miles per gallon to 29. No wonder they only give the percentage in the story.
Actually, the talk is normally about ending copyright protection for Steamboat Willy (the cartoon).
Why is this good for society? Video may well be the "killer ap" for broadband. If the Sonny Bono Copyright Extention Act is invalidated by the courts or congress, many old videos would become public domain.
And each year, a years worth of old video would be available. There could be dozens of companies providing this content. A whole industry that should exist, doesn't.
Of course Disney calls this theft, but I think it's the public domain that's been robbed.
These are called trademarks. Try to sell a Micky Mouse T-shirt or write a story that takes place in Pern (ala Dragonriders of Pern) and you will face lawyers.
I guess it just depends on how you define good data, but we have ice cores from Greenland showing temps going back 110,000 years.
The earth working as it always has could be quite a disaster for mankind. There are some pretty large swings in the ice core data. It looks as if right now is an unusually stable time for the Earth's climate. I'd hate for us to hurry that stability to an end.
I was quite angry after reading this article on CNN. What's so wrong with journalism that they have to put a fake spin on articles. Some of this comes from the editors who titled the article "Killer Bees Make Killer Coffee". WTF?
The article is about how natural environment make better coffee than monoculture farming. Among many interesting things, they said that killer bees are better than no bees.
I sadly suspect that Slashdot would not have covered this without the killer bee hoopla.
For over a decade I've been hearing that Moore's Law will only last for five to seven more years. 40 nm may well be the end for CMOS, but I'm sure someone will think of something. If I knew which technology will be used, I could be filthy rich in five years.
The same is true with hard drives and ethernet over copper. Both have exceeded "theoretical maximums". I had to laugh when the story said the standard was for fiber only. I've heard that one before too.
Unlike patents and copyrights, trademarks are there to protect consumers. If I go to the store and want to buy Kraft mac and cheese, I don't want to have someone labeling some other brand as Kraft. If it says RedHat, it should be from RedHat.
The idea behind open source and trademarks are to help the end user. I don't see how they are incompatable.
I've quit watching Buffy because it gets boring watching characters die and cry all the time. I really hope Farscape doesn't over do the die/cry thing too.
This type of security is more usefull than it sounds. If you combine it with a physical lock down, you have a machine that can be safely setup in a public lab.
But technology doesn't mix well with government regulations that dictate how to build and distribute technology products.
He clearly missed the whole point of Nader's argument. Nader didn't ask the government to regulate anything, except it's own purchases. Nader himself said it was better than government regulations.
On my newest printer, a 970Cxi, when I printer black and white bitmaps (not gray scale, only black and white), my printer use color ink with the black. You have to look at the print out with a loop to tell.
You might think I'm anal to notice, but my wife uses printouts as photomasks and color ink doesn't work well.
I wrote HP and there is no way to get it to print at full resolution and not use color ink. You can use an old 520 driver and get 300dpi in true black.
Seems to me they want me to spend more money on color ink. Of course, they claim it improves resolution.
The printer came with an "economy" cartridge. They had an excuse, they didn't make a full one! It took them over a year to start selling 78's full. And now they cost twice as much as the half empty ones.
As for MS witholding interfaces, please, show me where they did that.. which interfaces were these? what did they control? You have the win32 API, you got WINE that implements it, most things run fine in WINE... where is the problem?
There are many entry points not supported by WINE. Feel free to look at any WINE developers website for the specifics.
For an example, some of these entry points deal with multimedia. Recently the developer working in this area
pulled his code.
This article (at the very end) mentions the digital rights management has serious flaws that would be exposed if the API was known. This make reverse engineering a violation of the DMCA and will kill WINE in this area, until the courts or the congress fixes the DMCA.
It doesn't matter if they are dead or not, they're not real. It's fiction.
Seriously, the series could take place before they died or just say polymorphic transexual hyperbolic aliens impersonated the Lone Gunman during their deaths.
Just to let people know, the Direct Marketing Association telephone preference list really does work. Each time I've signed up, I've seen about a 95% reduction in telemarketing calls. You have to sign up again every five years and each time you change numbers.
They try to make it hard for you to sign up. For years, you could only sign up by mail. You couldn't do it online line for "security reasons". Yeaaaa, riiight. Now it cost $5 online, but it's still free by snail mail.
Now I'm also on the Texas list, and I haven't had a call since I signed up.
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Thomas Jefferson actually wrote that it would be wrong if people treated ideas as property. So the "original intention of intellectual property laws" seems sort of an oxymoron, but then terms like piracy and theft don't really make much sence either. I think pirates used to kill people.
If you want to do it based on capacity, a standard diesel bus gets 3.5 MPG and seats over 45. That beats the Insight in PMPG (people miles per gallon).
My Civic Si does gets fewer PMPG than all three, but it's a lot more fun to drive and 124 PMPG isn't bad.
I normally only see behavior like destroking on high margin items. For example, Intel CPUs (before AMD got good again).
Seagate will drop the capacity of a 60GB platter to 40GB through a technical process it calls destroking.
If margins are so tight, I can't figure out how destroking could be happening. I associate intentional crippling of products with monopolies.
It seems to me, that you comment is really extra lame.
A. Tell me that it only effects a small portion of installed systems.
Geesh, why make it sound like everyone had this problem?
Yup. The Explorer gets EPA ratings: 15 mpg city/ 20 mpg highway, so they managed to increase the miles per gallon to 29. No wonder they only give the percentage in the story.
Why is this good for society? Video may well be the "killer ap" for broadband. If the Sonny Bono Copyright Extention Act is invalidated by the courts or congress, many old videos would become public domain.
And each year, a years worth of old video would be available. There could be dozens of companies providing this content. A whole industry that should exist, doesn't.
Of course Disney calls this theft, but I think it's the public domain that's been robbed.
These are called trademarks. Try to sell a Micky Mouse T-shirt or write a story that takes place in Pern (ala Dragonriders of Pern) and you will face lawyers.
Completely bogus.
Tell your congressman.
The earth working as it always has could be quite a disaster for mankind. There are some pretty large swings in the ice core data. It looks as if right now is an unusually stable time for the Earth's climate. I'd hate for us to hurry that stability to an end.
The article is about how natural environment make better coffee than monoculture farming. Among many interesting things, they said that killer bees are better than no bees.
I sadly suspect that Slashdot would not have covered this without the killer bee hoopla.
The same is true with hard drives and ethernet over copper. Both have exceeded "theoretical maximums". I had to laugh when the story said the standard was for fiber only. I've heard that one before too.
I have a hard time taking anyone seriously who could write that.
Trademarks protect product labeling. Patents protect ideas.
Unlike patents and copyrights, trademarks are there to protect consumers. If I go to the store and want to buy Kraft mac and cheese, I don't want to have someone labeling some other brand as Kraft. If it says RedHat, it should be from RedHat.
The idea behind open source and trademarks are to help the end user. I don't see how they are incompatable.
You can watch or record it before or after Farscape. I guess that's the best way for SCIFI to make sure Farscape's viewer rub off on SG-1.
I've quit watching Buffy because it gets boring watching characters die and cry all the time. I really hope Farscape doesn't over do the die/cry thing too.
This type of security is more usefull than it sounds. If you combine it with a physical lock down, you have a machine that can be safely setup in a public lab.
He clearly missed the whole point of Nader's argument. Nader didn't ask the government to regulate anything, except it's own purchases. Nader himself said it was better than government regulations.
Searched the web for "link gopher". Results 1 - 10 of about 424. Search took 0.06 seconds.
I could not figure out how to do the search you thought you wanted.
There was a recent Slashdot article about this.
And I didn't "pay" for the engine in my car. Get real. See this article.
It says, "Microsoft Windows operating system [is] the second most expensive component after the hard disk."
Of course some people illegally copy windows, but not most.
You might think I'm anal to notice, but my wife uses printouts as photomasks and color ink doesn't work well. I wrote HP and there is no way to get it to print at full resolution and not use color ink. You can use an old 520 driver and get 300dpi in true black.
Seems to me they want me to spend more money on color ink. Of course, they claim it improves resolution.
The printer came with an "economy" cartridge. They had an excuse, they didn't make a full one! It took them over a year to start selling 78's full. And now they cost twice as much as the half empty ones.
(Civil Action No. 01-CV-4854)
You can't be jailed for failing to pay a civil penalty.
Of course it's not to late to charge this guy with a crime. There has to be some law against intentionally showing pOrn to childern.
There are many entry points not supported by WINE. Feel free to look at any WINE developers website for the specifics.
For an example, some of these entry points deal with multimedia. Recently the developer working in this area pulled his code.
This article (at the very end) mentions the digital rights management has serious flaws that would be exposed if the API was known. This make reverse engineering a violation of the DMCA and will kill WINE in this area, until the courts or the congress fixes the DMCA.
Seriously, the series could take place before they died or just say polymorphic transexual hyperbolic aliens impersonated the Lone Gunman during their deaths.
They try to make it hard for you to sign up. For years, you could only sign up by mail. You couldn't do it online line for "security reasons". Yeaaaa, riiight. Now it cost $5 online, but it's still free by snail mail.
Now I'm also on the Texas list, and I haven't had a call since I signed up.