The lack of commercials is a FEATURE that people are willing to pay for. As soon as they start putting ads where there were none before, they will lose some customers.
And the idea that "very few business would invest" in satellite radio advertising is false, the non-music channels do have advertising.
Law firms can be really picky about stupid shit like this. A few years back I worked down the hall from a law firm with a pretty hot receptionist. Rumor had it that she did bikini contests and one night a couple of us saw her at one. When my boss heard about it the next day, he insisted on details. We said she was the hottest girl in the competition but she (probably) didn't win because she didn't wear a thong. Fast-forward a week later when another coworker bumps into her at a pizza place across the street. She flips out on him because her boss gave her a hard time about the contest and assumes it was him that told her boss and therefore risked her job. (this guy wasn't even there) The thing is, her boss and ours are old cronies and go out for (drunken) golf all the time so I know the lawyer was pumping my boss for details that he could masturbate to and then threaten the girl with. (fucking hypocrite) So we were pretty suprised that she didn't lose her job since her boss was such an asshole, but i'm not suprised that these women did.
I think that meets the criteria of a company that was targeted by Apple, and that as a result of Apple's actions, eventually went out of business.
Well, a lot of what I found says that DRI's aquisition by Novell was a result of Microsoft trying to squash them, not Apple. Also, being bought out sure isn't a rough way to go out of business, even if your parent kills your products.
Anyway, so now Microsoft thinks it knows best what constitutes (irony) the best solution for a government. Certainly Microsoft knows better than any company about..., force a single, less functional document format....
Amazing how governments survived for centuries (even millenia) without Microsoft telling them that pen and ink are not sufficient tools for document creation.
"Many people perfer gameplay over graphics, but if the graphics are there and do not interfer with the gameplay, why not have both?"
He did say that creating the art is now what makes up a large part of the game's budget. So if you continue to increase the technological complexity you therefore continue to increase the art budget and it requires bigger and bigger companies to make these games. Even if you are just using the engine.
While people keep comparing the movie industry to the game industry, they forget that the movie industry expanded in 2 directions, the hollywood budgets keep getting bigger for high-profile films, but a low-budget expansion has taken place as well, And their output is more than just winning awards, they are making money, too.
If the small, independent game developers can only make money creating casual games (like another article in that issue) then there will never be another Doom or Myst or even Day of the Tentacle.
Sure, I get it. I should have added "incidentally" before the part about winning the lawsuit. The main point was that the GEM example didn't represent a company driven out of business by apple litigation.
The only thing creative did different is put the word "music" in the patent. Interfaces on hardware devices have been using this same type of gui for 20 years or more. Anyone who has used any type of midi instrument with a 2-line LCD has seen it. So creatve gets all "innovative" by coopting somthing this obvious for their music player. Please.
Although, I'd couldn't say apple wouldn't have done the same thing if they could.
Sucks, though how long it took to approve while allowing Apple to "infringe" therefore racking up the retroactive licensing fees.
There are a few products on the market that can do something like this. Here is one headset that plugs into your phone and audio player, allowing you to listen to music, make and take calls without reaching into your pocket:
I called verizon to double-check that my contract was satisfied and that I would have no fees if I cancelled. After telling me, they asked why I wanted to cancel my account. I told them I wanted to switch to a carrier that didn't disable features on their phones and would allow me to sync the basic functions of the phone (address book, calendar, ringtones, graphics) with my computer. The rep then argued with me that I needed a smartphone to do that. When I said I didn't need the extra functionality that a smartphone has and wasn't willing to pay that much she said that "advance features come at an increased cost". Well, thanxcyabuhbye, verizon. I'm not going to waste any more time when i know that other carriers have low-cost phones that work the Apple iSync. It's like they don't want to listen, just argue with you.
This is even more transparent with Dvorak. In fact, I think it's one of his signature styles, going even back to his Macworld days. At least Orlowski attempts to justify his position with (arguably) cogent logic, but Dvorak just throws his hands up, saying "I don't get it!" Shit, John, RTFM.
While I agree with you in spirit, the fact is that copyright extension beyond the life of the creator is based on a 1908 european policy and was not in US copyright law until 1976. Originally, copyright in the US was 14 years with an option to renew for another 14. Later the initial term was increased to 28, and then the extension was increased to 28 in 1909.
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I think i can get dthree_88971245 for myself. Cool.
The lack of commercials is a FEATURE that people are willing to pay for. As soon as they start putting ads where there were none before, they will lose some customers.
And the idea that "very few business would invest" in satellite radio advertising is false, the non-music channels do have advertising.
With the interactive book in The Diamond Age"
Until that technology reaches the mass market, will there ever be a popular ebook format?
Law firms can be really picky about stupid shit like this. A few years back I worked down the hall from a law firm with a pretty hot receptionist. Rumor had it that she did bikini contests and one night a couple of us saw her at one. When my boss heard about it the next day, he insisted on details. We said she was the hottest girl in the competition but she (probably) didn't win because she didn't wear a thong. Fast-forward a week later when another coworker bumps into her at a pizza place across the street. She flips out on him because her boss gave her a hard time about the contest and assumes it was him that told her boss and therefore risked her job. (this guy wasn't even there) The thing is, her boss and ours are old cronies and go out for (drunken) golf all the time so I know the lawyer was pumping my boss for details that he could masturbate to and then threaten the girl with. (fucking hypocrite) So we were pretty suprised that she didn't lose her job since her boss was such an asshole, but i'm not suprised that these women did.
You mean you can patent an XML schema? Has that been tested in court?
I think that meets the criteria of a company that was targeted by Apple, and that as a result of Apple's actions, eventually went out of business.
Well, a lot of what I found says that DRI's aquisition by Novell was a result of Microsoft trying to squash them, not Apple. Also, being bought out sure isn't a rough way to go out of business, even if your parent kills your products.
Anyway, so now Microsoft thinks it knows best what constitutes (irony) the best solution for a government. Certainly Microsoft knows better than any company about ..., force a single, less functional document format... .
Amazing how governments survived for centuries (even millenia) without Microsoft telling them that pen and ink are not sufficient tools for document creation.
Yeah, the guy is an idiot. He should really talk to the development team since it does support user-developed schemas.
There's some info by a microsoft developer on it here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/
Funny, they have no trouble calling it theft on their website
The law they are using is even call the "No Electronic Theft Act" or NET Act (does every goddamn law have to be a stupid acronym?)
Seems like she broke 3 laws right there.
1. Reading your mail
2. Evicting you for no reason
3. Breach of contract with the deposit.
That is if you had a lease, if not then just #1.
Its like this:
(Scene - police investigate a fatal domestic shooting)
detective: no sign of the murder weapon
cheif: where have you looked?
detective: in the bedside table where everyone puts their gun, we are out of ideas
cheif: hmm...we are dealing with a criminal mastermind
"Many people perfer gameplay over graphics, but if the graphics are there and do not interfer with the gameplay, why not have both?"
He did say that creating the art is now what makes up a large part of the game's budget. So if you continue to increase the technological complexity you therefore continue to increase the art budget and it requires bigger and bigger companies to make these games. Even if you are just using the engine.
While people keep comparing the movie industry to the game industry, they forget that the movie industry expanded in 2 directions, the hollywood budgets keep getting bigger for high-profile films, but a low-budget expansion has taken place as well, And their output is more than just winning awards, they are making money, too.
If the small, independent game developers can only make money creating casual games (like another article in that issue) then there will never be another Doom or Myst or even Day of the Tentacle.
Sure, I get it. I should have added "incidentally" before the part about winning the lawsuit. The main point was that the GEM example didn't represent a company driven out of business by apple litigation.
According to wikipedia, this didn't drive DRI out of business and it was the only lawsuit of it's kind that apple won.
The only thing creative did different is put the word "music" in the patent. Interfaces on hardware devices have been using this same type of gui for 20 years or more. Anyone who has used any type of midi instrument with a 2-line LCD has seen it. So creatve gets all "innovative" by coopting somthing this obvious for their music player. Please.
Although, I'd couldn't say apple wouldn't have done the same thing if they could.
Sucks, though how long it took to approve while allowing Apple to "infringe" therefore racking up the retroactive licensing fees.
"Apple targeted a lot of smaller companies for the same thing, many of whom where unable to pay for the litigation and went out of business."
I can't think of one, got any sources?
"Open-source DRM" is a fallacy. The first "contribution" to the codebase would be to disable the DRM.
There are a few products on the market that can do something like this. Here is one headset that plugs into your phone and audio player, allowing you to listen to music, make and take calls without reaching into your pocket:
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http://skullcandy.com/linkDetail.php?urlLocation=
To make it as usefull as a dial phone, it woud need to have the hook at the end to stop your finger at the right place.
Are these the same idiots that predicted apple's change to Intel processors...IN 1998?
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I called verizon to double-check that my contract was satisfied and that I would have no fees if I cancelled. After telling me, they asked why I wanted to cancel my account. I told them I wanted to switch to a carrier that didn't disable features on their phones and would allow me to sync the basic functions of the phone (address book, calendar, ringtones, graphics) with my computer. The rep then argued with me that I needed a smartphone to do that. When I said I didn't need the extra functionality that a smartphone has and wasn't willing to pay that much she said that "advance features come at an increased cost". Well, thanxcyabuhbye, verizon. I'm not going to waste any more time when i know that other carriers have low-cost phones that work the Apple iSync. It's like they don't want to listen, just argue with you.
This is even more transparent with Dvorak. In fact, I think it's one of his signature styles, going even back to his Macworld days. At least Orlowski attempts to justify his position with (arguably) cogent logic, but Dvorak just throws his hands up, saying "I don't get it!" Shit, John, RTFM.
While I agree with you in spirit, the fact is that copyright extension beyond the life of the creator is based on a 1908 european policy and was not in US copyright law until 1976. Originally, copyright in the US was 14 years with an option to renew for another 14. Later the initial term was increased to 28, and then the extension was increased to 28 in 1909.
Apparently, that didn't make it suck any less. I could give a shit who hosts it.
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http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/12/05/012047
"The SpikeTV videogame awards show is better than GPhoria"
I never saw GPhoria, but if it was worse than the pointlessly stupid Spike TV awards, holy crap I'm glad I missed it.
I want the the 20 minutes I spent FF through it. I felt stupider every second I watched it.