Somebody will surely come out with a little plastic holder that clips to the back of your shirt collar or belt so your license plate is clearly hanging where the police can get at it.
Also useful for those "Wide Load" signs for fat people, or maybe red flags for people who are carrying objects longer than the circumference of the divice.
As far as I understand it, the keys for these things are unique. They control the speed, for one, and also will only operate one of the HT devices.
So this isn't really a valid point. You steal one and what do you do with it? It sits there because you don't have the key to run it. So what do you do? You call Segway and say, "Hey. I have an HT with serial number 12345" and they say, "OK...give me your info...wait...you're not the owner of this HT."
You don't think the sellers of the thing will keep records of who owns them even if the government doesn't? They'll need to be able to track these things provided you ever need replacement parts.....and to send you the new Segway catalog every year;-)
You're overlooking one thing here. From the outset, this was being compared to Apple's 'Switch' campaign in which they use real people (as far as we know;-) )
So...in addition to this article being paid for, they didn't use the real person to whom the article was attributed, thus making it even *further* from Apple's campaign than was originally thought. That's why there's such an uproar about this being a 'stock' photo. It wouldn't be a big deal if it was, say, a webpage purely about product features or tech support.
Also...another point that I'd like to make, just because I sometimes enjoy kicking dead horses (it's therapeutic, you should try it), is that in All of Apple's 'Switch' campaign ads and their website ads, they never include instructions on how to switch. That's what makes the article even more fake. Yes, they have a page on how to do the switch, I know, but they don't say, "Hi, I'm some kewl dude who switched to the Mac, and here's exactly, click by click, how I did it" in any of the ads.
I've read stories on/. and otherwise that make the comment that the recording industry is scared of P2P because it's a technology that they really don't understand. So, my question would be, do they really have the technology saavy to implement something of this nature?
Is the RIAA really going to hire a whole bunch of goons to sit at a computer and poison the networks every day? On that same note, are they going to hire people to moderate/meta-moderate servers on the network? The obvious question then becomes, "can't they do that with a script?", to which the answer is yes, to an extent, but the P2P networks should be able to detect that and disable it to some extent.
I know there are a legion of companies springing up to service the RIAA, but this is really going to be a cottage industry. What if their legislation gets shot down (however likely/unlikely), will these companies still survive on business that's now illegal?
First off...BEFORE YOU POST EVERONE STOP AND READ THIS COMMENT!!!
From the Yahoo! article:
Sony said it would continue to offer repairs and manufacture tapes for the format, adding the move would not affect its Betacam products for the broadcasting industry.
GOT IT? Good. Don't post any more about how the broadcast industry is being hurt by this, or they're pulling the rug out from under them blah blah blah blah.
Now....on to the purpose of my post. We actually had a couple of Beta VCR's at my house for several years. My significant other enjoyed the format because...ready for this??....the tapes were smaller and took up less storage space (Groan..) But I liked the format because initially it did have better quality than VHS. And, with the evolution of the format, you could record nearly 2 hours of video on a tape, more than enough for a standard movie (Titanic fans, please don't flame me!!!)
On a little different note...Sony has a little present history doing this. Let me see by a show of hands (wait...no...that won't work)...uh...a show of posts, then, how many people own and operate a MiniDisk player on a regular basis? Anyone following the standards debate on Blu-ray?
Someone answer this question for me....what would be keeping a neighborhood of "low income" people from asking for volunteers to support a cause such as this?
There are many people that view the so-called "digital divide" as an issue central to educating and/or job-training poverty-stricken families, especially children.
I'm sure there are several people/groups that would provide monetary or other support to these groups of low-income people. I know there are groups like this in my area. Hell...I'd donate my own time if I thought it would do enough good.
So in my own opinion, his answer about having the people-resources to pull off this project stands as a good answer.
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Somebody will surely come out with a little plastic holder that clips to the back of your shirt collar or belt so your license plate is clearly hanging where the police can get at it.
Also useful for those "Wide Load" signs for fat people, or maybe red flags for people who are carrying objects longer than the circumference of the divice.
As far as I understand it, the keys for these things are unique. They control the speed, for one, and also will only operate one of the HT devices.
;-)
So this isn't really a valid point. You steal one and what do you do with it? It sits there because you don't have the key to run it. So what do you do? You call Segway and say, "Hey. I have an HT with serial number 12345" and they say, "OK...give me your info...wait...you're not the owner of this HT."
You don't think the sellers of the thing will keep records of who owns them even if the government doesn't? They'll need to be able to track these things provided you ever need replacement parts.....and to send you the new Segway catalog every year
You're overlooking one thing here. From the outset, this was being compared to Apple's 'Switch' campaign in which they use real people (as far as we know ;-) )
So...in addition to this article being paid for, they didn't use the real person to whom the article was attributed, thus making it even *further* from Apple's campaign than was originally thought. That's why there's such an uproar about this being a 'stock' photo. It wouldn't be a big deal if it was, say, a webpage purely about product features or tech support.
Also...another point that I'd like to make, just because I sometimes enjoy kicking dead horses (it's therapeutic, you should try it), is that in All of Apple's 'Switch' campaign ads and their website ads, they never include instructions on how to switch. That's what makes the article even more fake. Yes, they have a page on how to do the switch, I know, but they don't say, "Hi, I'm some kewl dude who switched to the Mac, and here's exactly, click by click, how I did it" in any of the ads.
I've read stories on /. and otherwise that make the comment that the recording industry is scared of P2P because it's a technology that they really don't understand. So, my question would be, do they really have the technology saavy to implement something of this nature?
Is the RIAA really going to hire a whole bunch of goons to sit at a computer and poison the networks every day? On that same note, are they going to hire people to moderate/meta-moderate servers on the network? The obvious question then becomes, "can't they do that with a script?", to which the answer is yes, to an extent, but the P2P networks should be able to detect that and disable it to some extent.
I know there are a legion of companies springing up to service the RIAA, but this is really going to be a cottage industry. What if their legislation gets shot down (however likely/unlikely), will these companies still survive on business that's now illegal?
First off...BEFORE YOU POST EVERONE STOP AND READ THIS COMMENT!!!
From the Yahoo! article:
Sony said it would continue to offer repairs and manufacture tapes for the format, adding the move would not affect its Betacam products for the broadcasting industry.
GOT IT? Good. Don't post any more about how the broadcast industry is being hurt by this, or they're pulling the rug out from under them blah blah blah blah.
Now....on to the purpose of my post. We actually had a couple of Beta VCR's at my house for several years. My significant other enjoyed the format because...ready for this??....the tapes were smaller and took up less storage space (Groan..) But I liked the format because initially it did have better quality than VHS. And, with the evolution of the format, you could record nearly 2 hours of video on a tape, more than enough for a standard movie (Titanic fans, please don't flame me!!!)
On a little different note...Sony has a little present history doing this. Let me see by a show of hands (wait...no...that won't work)...uh...a show of posts, then, how many people own and operate a MiniDisk player on a regular basis? Anyone following the standards debate on Blu-ray?
Someone answer this question for me....what would be keeping a neighborhood of "low income" people from asking for volunteers to support a cause such as this?
There are many people that view the so-called "digital divide" as an issue central to educating and/or job-training poverty-stricken families, especially children.
I'm sure there are several people/groups that would provide monetary or other support to these groups of low-income people. I know there are groups like this in my area. Hell...I'd donate my own time if I thought it would do enough good.
So in my own opinion, his answer about having the people-resources to pull off this project stands as a good answer.