I'm not quite sure how this could be considered insightful... The post completely ignores actual abuse. There's no way to completely secure a system short of making it entirely useless. While one can quite legitimately explore a network and report vulnerabilities to the proper authorities, there are also people who do it with the intent to cause damage. One should not be able to hack into someone's system using any means necessary and then get money from the government. That would be like getting people to break into stores and then paying them off at the expense of the people who got broken into.
Wait... how is having the name of a murder victim released damaging to the victim? He's already dead... I doubt the whole murder thing is very humiliating to him, either...
Yes, you've been stripped of the ability to copy and distribute those annotated versions.
The word stripped implies that you had the ability to do this before they were created... You didn't. I very much doubt that Random House would even bother to release an annotaded version of a book if all their competitors could just go and copy their version and release it as well.
There are PLENTY of US citizens who are 50x more skilled than many H1B visas. Companies dont want to pay...why pay $100,0000 when you can get "good enough" for $50,000?
Wow... that's a suprise! A position where you don't need the extra skill getting less money? Should you pay extra for a doctor to take a nursing position when you don't need the extra skill?
Of course, that story's pretty much bullshit... While there was a space pen and it did cost a fair bit of money to develop, NASA didn't put any money into its development.
The whole reason for retaining copyright is that she can gain money from the family. It isn't extortion if that's the way you've agreed to do buisness. Nobody was forced or pressured into this situation. If you don't like her system where you need to buy prints from her, then go to someone else or take your own pictures. This isn't a situation where you don't have alternatives.
Not if that isn't the agreement you have, though. You're taking an overly simplistic view of things. If the photographer was hired to take photos and hand them all over then fine, that's what should happen. As it stands, this photographer was hired under an agreement where she took photos and they were ordered from her. If that's not the way you want it, hire a different photographer. This is a case where someone didn't do appropriate checking beforehand and then whines because they didn't get something that wasn't offered as a service from this person.
That comparison isn't really valid. This doesn't even come into the same picture (hehe, picture) here. She isn't trying to sell pictures of this person's family to others...
This isn't a monopoly. If you have a problem with the way one person does buisness, don't use them. Don't make an agreement and then whine about it afterwards. If this photographer had agreed to provide high quality digital images and didn't then there's something wrong with this situation. As it stands, it appears that she was hired to take photographs and provide prints. You can't bitch about things when people do what they were hired to do...
If there were a videographer that said he'd provide things on DVD and then didn't, fine, that's wrong. If you hire a videographer and you just expect him to be able to DVD, that's your problem, not his. If VHS were a completely dead format, a person who only sold things on that medium wouldn't survive long and he'd have to adapt or fail.
I'd much rather get paid $100 every week than $1200 every 60 days, because I'll make $1257 every 60 days. That's enough for a another PS2 game every two months!
That's just... wrong... 60 days is just over eight and a half weeks... You'd be making $857 every 60 days...
Can someone please point out to me where freedoms are actually being lost here? There seems to be a large amount of whining about nothing. This document appears to be looking at, basically, extending legal means of search into new technologies. You still need a court order to go searching for records or taking personal information, this proposal is just looking at methods of effectively doing this. There seems to be a lot of effort made to keep these changes legitimate and even keep them in line with similar procedures for what are currently used for telephone networks...
I will point out that I don't believe they're truely redistributing the copy. Cleanflicks purchased the movies as a co-op. Each renter must be a member of the co-op to rent a movie. Each person is a part of cleanflicks.
That's bullshit... Do you seriously buy casette tapes now? If they managed to make this the standard, the mainstream would stop purchasing other formats. Of course, I doubt that the consumer would allow them to screw everyone out of their CD collections by not making all these players backwards compatible with standard audio CDs. Sony's players are all backwards compatible at this point and the 'Technology' section of the site linked in the article infers that they plan to continue this practice.
The easy way out is to start in few countries, collect money, recoup your advertising expenses, and reinvest into advertising in another country or group of countries. This way you only need N million dollars regardless of how many countries you sell the movie to. This, of course, takes time, and that's where the delay comes from.
The easier way would, of course, be to not put advertisements on my DVDs...
I must disagree. It is a virtual impossibility that the Royal Mail was able to deliver mail more efficiently than a private company could. The RM has no incentive to provide a good or efficient service so there is no reason to expect that it will.
I very much enjoy how you just went and denied what someone with experience and knowledge on the subject just said without doing any research on it...
(though i have not done any research into this, I'm basing my conclusion on eveyr single other government service)
Eh, you obviously just don't have very well managed governmental services... The first example of, for me, a local governmental service that makes money is BC Hydro, British Columbia's (Canada) government owned power company.
While Consignia may be losing money now I guantee it was less than the Rm mail did when it was in oporation.
Once again, you say this without doing any research at all. Here's a link to a BBC article that places the 1999 profits of Royal Mail at £608m before taxes. This article, from March of this year, places Consignia's losses at £1.5m a day.
If some small cutbacks need to be made to the service to make it profitable then so be it.
Except it was profitable before, when it was a publicly owned company...
Write letters to your congressman. Using "mob rule" strategies will just make it worse
This entertained me slightly. First you suggest that a group of people write to their congressmen to change the situation. Then you go and say that mob rule is a bad strategy to use. Since the whole idea behind the democratic system is basically mob rule, and the act of getting a large group of people to write letters could be considered mob rule, this statement seemed a little... um... odd...
I was really disapointed that there were no photo galleries for the Atari and NES cases. I mean for all we know those are just mockups and there are no pc parts inside.
Well, I would assume they only have mockups of the NES at this point. That would explain why they don't have a real picture of the product. Note that it says, "(sample image - not actual product)" under the NES picture. As some one else has already mentioned, there are actually internal images of the Atari, they just aren't linked to the image button.
I figure that they began by building the Amiga, hence the more detailed information. Following that, they built the Atari, which has some pictures and a bit of information. More recently, I assume, they've been working on the NES but are either still working on it, or just aren't too quick at updating their information.
I would definately say that they've been around longer than DVDs. I remember, years ago, discovering VCDs of some stupid thing in an EB store. I would suspect that places in asia would have been using them long before that.
There is also, of course, the fact that one would assume the VCD is a direct ancestor of the DVD. It's, practically, the same concept using a lower density storage medium (and hence lower quality video)
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Wow, if I had a rocket-sled, I'd use it to go down faster, not to slow down. Screw safety, death would be worth a ride on a rocket-sled!
I'm not quite sure how this could be considered insightful... The post completely ignores actual abuse. There's no way to completely secure a system short of making it entirely useless. While one can quite legitimately explore a network and report vulnerabilities to the proper authorities, there are also people who do it with the intent to cause damage. One should not be able to hack into someone's system using any means necessary and then get money from the government. That would be like getting people to break into stores and then paying them off at the expense of the people who got broken into.
Wait... how is having the name of a murder victim released damaging to the victim? He's already dead... I doubt the whole murder thing is very humiliating to him, either...
Yes, you've been stripped of the ability to copy and distribute those annotated versions.
The word stripped implies that you had the ability to do this before they were created... You didn't. I very much doubt that Random House would even bother to release an annotaded version of a book if all their competitors could just go and copy their version and release it as well.
There are PLENTY of US citizens who are 50x more skilled than many H1B visas. Companies dont want to pay...why pay $100,0000 when you can get "good enough" for $50,000?
Wow... that's a suprise! A position where you don't need the extra skill getting less money? Should you pay extra for a doctor to take a nursing position when you don't need the extra skill?
Of course, that story's pretty much bullshit... While there was a space pen and it did cost a fair bit of money to develop, NASA didn't put any money into its development.
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DVD isn't the most obvious technology, though. VHS is still in more homes than DVD...
Wow, weddings are different than other situations now? You shouldn't actually check what your agreeing to before you pay someone to do a job?
The whole reason for retaining copyright is that she can gain money from the family. It isn't extortion if that's the way you've agreed to do buisness. Nobody was forced or pressured into this situation. If you don't like her system where you need to buy prints from her, then go to someone else or take your own pictures. This isn't a situation where you don't have alternatives.
And you seriously think that all wedding photographers are coordinating their activities?
Not if that isn't the agreement you have, though. You're taking an overly simplistic view of things. If the photographer was hired to take photos and hand them all over then fine, that's what should happen. As it stands, this photographer was hired under an agreement where she took photos and they were ordered from her. If that's not the way you want it, hire a different photographer. This is a case where someone didn't do appropriate checking beforehand and then whines because they didn't get something that wasn't offered as a service from this person.
That comparison isn't really valid. This doesn't even come into the same picture (hehe, picture) here. She isn't trying to sell pictures of this person's family to others...
This isn't a monopoly. If you have a problem with the way one person does buisness, don't use them. Don't make an agreement and then whine about it afterwards. If this photographer had agreed to provide high quality digital images and didn't then there's something wrong with this situation. As it stands, it appears that she was hired to take photographs and provide prints. You can't bitch about things when people do what they were hired to do...
If there were a videographer that said he'd provide things on DVD and then didn't, fine, that's wrong. If you hire a videographer and you just expect him to be able to DVD, that's your problem, not his. If VHS were a completely dead format, a person who only sold things on that medium wouldn't survive long and he'd have to adapt or fail.
I'd much rather get paid $100 every week than $1200 every 60 days, because I'll make $1257 every 60 days. That's enough for a another PS2 game every two months!
That's just... wrong... 60 days is just over eight and a half weeks... You'd be making $857 every 60 days...
Can someone please point out to me where freedoms are actually being lost here? There seems to be a large amount of whining about nothing. This document appears to be looking at, basically, extending legal means of search into new technologies. You still need a court order to go searching for records or taking personal information, this proposal is just looking at methods of effectively doing this. There seems to be a lot of effort made to keep these changes legitimate and even keep them in line with similar procedures for what are currently used for telephone networks...
Hehe... taken from the standard google cache disclaimer:
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I will point out that I don't believe they're truely redistributing the copy. Cleanflicks purchased the movies as a co-op. Each renter must be a member of the co-op to rent a movie. Each person is a part of cleanflicks.
Burning the US flag might be wrong, but only because it's the one country in the world where you are guaranteed the right to do it.
You must be mistaken... You see, I can burn the American flag in my country as much as I'd like!
That's bullshit... Do you seriously buy casette tapes now? If they managed to make this the standard, the mainstream would stop purchasing other formats. Of course, I doubt that the consumer would allow them to screw everyone out of their CD collections by not making all these players backwards compatible with standard audio CDs. Sony's players are all backwards compatible at this point and the 'Technology' section of the site linked in the article infers that they plan to continue this practice.
The easy way out is to start in few countries, collect money, recoup your advertising expenses, and reinvest into advertising in another country or group of countries. This way you only need N million dollars regardless of how many countries you sell the movie to. This, of course, takes time, and that's where the delay comes from.
The easier way would, of course, be to not put advertisements on my DVDs...
I must disagree. It is a virtual impossibility that the Royal Mail was able to deliver mail more efficiently than a private company could. The RM has no incentive to provide a good or efficient service so there is no reason to expect that it will.
I very much enjoy how you just went and denied what someone with experience and knowledge on the subject just said without doing any research on it...
(though i have not done any research into this, I'm basing my conclusion on eveyr single other government service)
Eh, you obviously just don't have very well managed governmental services... The first example of, for me, a local governmental service that makes money is BC Hydro, British Columbia's (Canada) government owned power company.
While Consignia may be losing money now I guantee it was less than the Rm mail did when it was in oporation.
Once again, you say this without doing any research at all. Here's a link to a BBC article that places the 1999 profits of Royal Mail at £608m before taxes. This article, from March of this year, places Consignia's losses at £1.5m a day.
If some small cutbacks need to be made to the service to make it profitable then so be it.
Except it was profitable before, when it was a publicly owned company...
Write letters to your congressman. Using "mob rule" strategies will just make it worse
This entertained me slightly. First you suggest that a group of people write to their congressmen to change the situation. Then you go and say that mob rule is a bad strategy to use. Since the whole idea behind the democratic system is basically mob rule, and the act of getting a large group of people to write letters could be considered mob rule, this statement seemed a little... um... odd...
Well, I would assume they only have mockups of the NES at this point. That would explain why they don't have a real picture of the product. Note that it says, "(sample image - not actual product)" under the NES picture. As some one else has already mentioned, there are actually internal images of the Atari, they just aren't linked to the image button.
I figure that they began by building the Amiga, hence the more detailed information. Following that, they built the Atari, which has some pictures and a bit of information. More recently, I assume, they've been working on the NES but are either still working on it, or just aren't too quick at updating their information.
I would definately say that they've been around longer than DVDs. I remember, years ago, discovering VCDs of some stupid thing in an EB store. I would suspect that places in asia would have been using them long before that.
There is also, of course, the fact that one would assume the VCD is a direct ancestor of the DVD. It's, practically, the same concept using a lower density storage medium (and hence lower quality video)
They make both VCD and DVD players that are capable of playing VCDs without a computer.