In other words, the case seems completely in the German fellow's favour, both from a common-sense point of view (G-Mail versus GMail, started using it four years earlier), and from a legal point of view (see the court decision quoted above),
Yipes! When did common-sense have anything to do with it?!;P
Actually I have to side with Google. There are only so many letter-Mail iterations that one can create and it's GMail, not G-Mail. I don't know how much the German was really using the trademark, nor if that's really relevent. std IANAL, etc...
But Google has the trademark fully entrenched on a global scale. Who's ever heard of G-Mail?
Probably a money-play on his part more than anything. IMO.
as if modifying software were somehow inherently illegal, immoral, wrong, dangerous, something our legal system must take an especial interest in... and so on.
I mentioned in a separate posting about our little FM station here in town. The other day they said the word "poop". God. ya gotta love a radio station that can say the word POOP.
Our town recently became the beneficiary of a LPFM station and it carries interviews, rock, country, jazz, hiphop, news, talk... has over a dozen jocks. I can listen to it in the car and streamed online. It's, in a word, GREAT. I listen to a local AM station for about 1/10 the time I used to. No other FM around here appeals to me. I'm not associated with the station in any way.
yet.
Without reading the article I can conclusively state I'm behind every effort to expand private and low-power penetration of the airwaves.
In any case, we both seem to be in agreement that MythTV is rather neat:)
Absolutely!;)
Actually my favorite of all features is probably the least applicable to the general user but being able to use SQL against the data... I'm in twirley-hat heaven!
you marked one item only. if you meant more, pls advise
note I said "unlimited". Tivo storage on the network hardly qualifies. Besides which you need the ToGo bagware. Doesn't run on my platform so there's another limitation.
"1. unlimited storage (burn to DVD or copy across LAN to additional fixed drives)
It's so ridiculously focused on TV that you have to go up 5 levels of menus, then down 5 more, to look through the other videos you have available.
This is a gross exaggeration.
The GP has no clue about MythTV whatsoever. I mapped F6 to watch now, F5 to scheduled recordings, Shift-F5 to current recordings and something to the schedule Guide but I never use it, in favor of myth-web.
I NEVER navigate using the menu no matter what theme I'm using. Key mappings is part of setup menu; whiz bang, ur done.
You're forgetting the signup and service provisioning. I've never used Tivo but did you not have to subscribe? Give a credit card and other identifying information? Was the service then instantly on or did you wait till they got around to "installing" it? In any case, it wasn't just plug the box in and turn it on.
And really my MythTV, for me, is just about as easy.
And it cost me around $100USD just once. For the capture card (available over my home LAN from any computer using MythWeb or slave-Mythfrontend clients) so I routinely watch TV from one of our computers. The computer -all other hardware- comprising the Myth box was a discarded dual-P3 that would otherwise have no other use.
and MythTV can do much more than TiVo: 1. unlimited storage (burn to DVD or copy across LAN to additional fixed drives) 2. customize the scheduler - [where] program.title like '%4400%' and program.originalairdate > '2007-05-01' 3. upgradeable - to go from the 80hr tier to the 160hr tier, (120GB HD about $80) 4. extensible - to go from dual channel to quad channel recording add hauppage 150, about $70 5. portable - backup MySQL data, lift tv card, place new box underneath, restore data 5a. skip data operations if mysql runs on some other machine 6. phone-line free operation 7. ad-free operation 8. schedule online from your own webserver 9. watch online from your own webserver
Making Congress behave decently turns upon one key point: accountability. It is my belief that a proper reading of proposals and public review (the following has as a plank a 7-day internet publish provision) of bills prior to vote. Please take a look at the Read The Bills act.
"We hold this truth to be self-evident, that those in Congress who vote on legislation they have not read, have not represented their constituents. They have misrepresented them."
it isn't the 'saving for later' but the 'watching later' that's the need. I've found a lot of late-nite shows (food channel, travel, discovery, etc.) on in the early AM hours that I'd never watch live. I record them so I can watch when *I* am ready to watch, not when the broadcast is ready.
Then there's sports. Besides being able to review a certain play while watching live, MythTV, et. al. give you the ability to keep an especially great play for later to show to friends.
And maybe those spanish lessons could be reviewed sometime later. or maybe you'd like your kids to watch them.
You don't have to centralize a media server. I captured on my main linux box for a year before I finally moved it into an old discarded machine.
Oh, yeah, and it's *nice* to not have to sit through commercials...;)
"The EyeTV 250 is Elgato's follow-up to its successful EyeTV 200 (4 mice) product. Like the 200 model, it is an analog TV tuner with a built-in MPEG encoder (digital cable or satellite subscribers need to go through their converter box)."
This is another hardware solution. not something you install to your computer. AFAICT.
the top 5 responses were actually al AUDIO-CD. I get your hyperbole, but it detracts when it's so obviously mistaken.
I installed iTunes once just to find a song my son was interested in. I allowed us to buy that one song. I was unable to play it anyplace but that one machine. I will NEVER use that kind of channel ever again. He has a Creative Zen not an iPod. We use linux primarily and windows only in a VM. THAT's the kind of market Apple is increasingly facing.
You apparantly cannot buy MP3 (or anything else) without the iTunes application installed. I cannot do that on my workplace machine (well I could, but I won't). I cannot do that on my home machines because they're linux. Well, if I could, I would not. But if I can access a huge library of MP3 for a reasonable price and use just my web browser...well pretty much a given, isn't it?!
>> on the one hand you are so exceptionally uptight when it comes to nudity, tolerance of other peoples >> sexuality etc - and on the other hand you are the worlds largest producer & market for pornography.
the correlation is obvious. Puristic rightiousness and anglo-saxon arrogance is the fundamental. Black-market resolution is the harmonic. Add the obeisance to The Child (apparantly our new God) where AllThingsArePossible and you have a ready-made recipe for political hacktivism.
>>Glue you say? For bills that stack, you say? In automated machines, you say? What could go wrong?
I was thinking of a spot of compound that would penetrate into the substrate and provide a slightly raised surface. Your idea of nylon embedding is similar but requires releasing new bills. Likely much less cost than redesign of sizes and such. If remediation of existing bills can't be made to work then I'd be happy with your solution.
Of course, in the grand scheme of things, one wonders about postage stamps, tax forms, etc. etc. etc. The legislation should have probably exempted certain class of things like this.
an adhesive maybe? something that would put some 'grit' into the feel of the area on the bill. And braille would probably be the wrong encoding. I see the 1, 2, and 5 differ mostly in orientation so the rotation of the bill in the hand would be pertinent. I guess in the best world each place where a number is printed would have a tactile imprinting that the non-sighted could 'read' and the serial number of the bill would probably be encoded as well. Adhesive would allow using a side of the bill for each purpose.
I dislike the idea of $1 coins replacing paper bills and also having the bills different sizes. I'm hoping that some other solution is found. It would be great if the solution were so simple as some spots of glue, eh?!
No, they're not. Microsoft Office is ubiquitous and the file format it uses is carried with it. The format of its files is entirely irrelevant since anywhere along the time-line of various Office releases the file itself could have been modified by Microsoft, even unto discarding backwards compatibility. Meanwhile, until only recently, no other source for modification of one of those files was available.
I don't know enough about the use of braille but would a simple machine that pushed raised dots into existing banknotes be considered? What if they had to be holes instead of raised bumps; would braille users still be able to identify them? How large would the bumps need to be to be identifiable, and would this affect auto-sorting machines?
Seems that the Treasury Dept could easily require that Banks (of a certain size) be responsible for retrofitting the bills by simply passing them through this little device. Et Voila, the bills are now satisfactorily identifiable by the non-sighted.
>>changing policy this late in the development cycle is not unlikely to turn into a real problem.
That makes a stronger case, to me, that it's not an architectural change but rather a choice on their part as to whether or not to publish the API's that they, themselves, use.
>>should be allowed to exclude their competition? In this, I'd say yes. The fact that these other vendors subsist as profiteers on a broken platform (in other words, as parasites) should in no way influence. This isn't like browser vs. browser, or media player vs., or word processor vs. It's a case of endemnity. One shouldn't need to purchase insurance from a third party (or from Microsoft for that matter).
>>Please don't jump to conclusions.. I sit corrected;)
>>Being able to use different tools from different vendors to analyse the current state of a machine
Then you need to chose an open architecture. Windows does not provide this. Third parties *where and when they can* do provide this. You cannot make the claim that they are *ever* on the same footing as Microsoft in creating these solutions.
Remedially-Exempt actually would require a third party to the mix to verify that status. Catch-22. My thinking was that even if it were possible that an OS were totally secure (agreed that's of diminuative probablility) then the current crop of combatants would still find some way to argue, including the EU.
I've felt the effect of failures in too many degree-removed apps (McAfee, Norton, etc.) to blindly trust them as it seems do you. I'm in the camp that should Microsoft choose to take this onto themselves in-toto then -this time- they should be given the chance. But, since they have made that decision to the contrary, I see benefits overall. Open is better than Closed in any case.
Slashdot Mirror
Perfect. The only thing you can really do on that site is... yep, B U Y something.
we're doomed.
oh dear god I sure hope so.
no.
no.
Yipes! When did common-sense have anything to do with it?!
Actually I have to side with Google. There are only so many letter-Mail iterations that one can create and it's GMail, not G-Mail. I don't know how much the German was really using the trademark, nor if that's really relevent. std IANAL, etc...
But Google has the trademark fully entrenched on a global scale. Who's ever heard of G-Mail?
Probably a money-play on his part more than anything. IMO.
as if modifying software were somehow inherently illegal, immoral, wrong, dangerous, something our legal system must take an especial interest in... and so on.
I mentioned in a separate posting about our little FM station here in town. The other day they said the word "poop". God. ya gotta love a radio station that can say the word POOP.
Our town recently became the beneficiary of a LPFM station and it carries interviews, rock, country, jazz, hiphop, news, talk... has over a dozen jocks. I can listen to it in the car and streamed online. It's, in a word, GREAT. I listen to a local AM station for about 1/10 the time I used to. No other FM around here appeals to me. I'm not associated with the station in any way.
yet.
Without reading the article I can conclusively state I'm behind every effort to expand private and low-power penetration of the airwaves.
Absolutely!
Actually my favorite of all features is probably the least applicable to the general user but being able to use SQL against the data... I'm in twirley-hat heaven!
note I said "unlimited". Tivo storage on the network hardly qualifies. Besides which you need the ToGo bagware. Doesn't run on my platform so there's another limitation.
The GP has no clue about MythTV whatsoever. I mapped F6 to watch now, F5 to scheduled recordings, Shift-F5 to current recordings and something to the schedule Guide but I never use it, in favor of myth-web.
I NEVER navigate using the menu no matter what theme I'm using. Key mappings is part of setup menu; whiz bang, ur done.
You're forgetting the signup and service provisioning. I've never used Tivo but did you not have to subscribe? Give a credit card and other identifying information? Was the service then instantly on or did you wait till they got around to "installing" it? In any case, it wasn't just plug the box in and turn it on.
And really my MythTV, for me, is just about as easy.
And it cost me around $100USD just once. For the capture card (available over my home LAN from any computer using MythWeb or slave-Mythfrontend clients) so I routinely watch TV from one of our computers. The computer -all other hardware- comprising the Myth box was a discarded dual-P3 that would otherwise have no other use.
and MythTV can do much more than TiVo:
1. unlimited storage (burn to DVD or copy across LAN to additional fixed drives)
2. customize the scheduler - [where] program.title like '%4400%' and program.originalairdate > '2007-05-01'
3. upgradeable - to go from the 80hr tier to the 160hr tier, (120GB HD about $80)
4. extensible - to go from dual channel to quad channel recording add hauppage 150, about $70
5. portable - backup MySQL data, lift tv card, place new box underneath, restore data
5a. skip data operations if mysql runs on some other machine
6. phone-line free operation
7. ad-free operation
8. schedule online from your own webserver
9. watch online from your own webserver
well... and really, a lot more.
http://www.downsizedc.org/read_the_laws.shtml
there was....
;)
but they folded.
it isn't the 'saving for later' but the 'watching later' that's the need. I've found a lot of late-nite shows (food channel, travel, discovery, etc.) on in the early AM hours that I'd never watch live. I record them so I can watch when *I* am ready to watch, not when the broadcast is ready.
;)
Then there's sports. Besides being able to review a certain play while watching live, MythTV, et. al. give you the ability to keep an especially great play for later to show to friends.
And maybe those spanish lessons could be reviewed sometime later. or maybe you'd like your kids to watch them.
You don't have to centralize a media server. I captured on my main linux box for a year before I finally moved it into an old discarded machine.
Oh, yeah, and it's *nice* to not have to sit through commercials...
yep. those are some pretty good examples too.
mod GP up!
if you're employed by elgato, say so
i ndex.php
"The EyeTV 250 is Elgato's follow-up to its successful EyeTV 200 (4 mice) product. Like the 200 model, it is an analog TV tuner with a built-in MPEG encoder (digital cable or satellite subscribers need to go through their converter box)."
This is another hardware solution. not something you install to your computer. AFAICT.
http://www.macworld.com/2006/12/reviews/eyetv250/
the top 5 responses were actually al AUDIO-CD. I get your hyperbole, but it detracts when it's so obviously mistaken.
I installed iTunes once just to find a song my son was interested in. I allowed us to buy that one song. I was unable to play it anyplace but that one machine. I will NEVER use that kind of channel ever again. He has a Creative Zen not an iPod. We use linux primarily and windows only in a VM. THAT's the kind of market Apple is increasingly facing.
He's wrong. The big difference?
"One Moment Please.
Connecting to the iTunes Store.
Loading
We are unable to find iTunes on your computer. "
You apparantly cannot buy MP3 (or anything else) without the iTunes application installed. I cannot do that on my workplace machine (well I could, but I won't). I cannot do that on my home machines because they're linux. Well, if I could, I would not. But if I can access a huge library of MP3 for a reasonable price and use just my web browser...well pretty much a given, isn't it?!
>> on the one hand you are so exceptionally uptight when it comes to nudity, tolerance of other peoples
>> sexuality etc - and on the other hand you are the worlds largest producer & market for pornography.
the correlation is obvious. Puristic rightiousness and anglo-saxon arrogance is the fundamental. Black-market resolution is the harmonic. Add the obeisance to The Child (apparantly our new God) where AllThingsArePossible and you have a ready-made recipe for political hacktivism.
>>Glue you say? For bills that stack, you say? In automated machines, you say? What could go wrong?
I was thinking of a spot of compound that would penetrate into the substrate and provide a slightly raised surface. Your idea of nylon embedding is similar but requires releasing new bills. Likely much less cost than redesign of sizes and such. If remediation of existing bills can't be made to work then I'd be happy with your solution.
Of course, in the grand scheme of things, one wonders about postage stamps, tax forms, etc. etc. etc. The legislation should have probably exempted certain class of things like this.
---
Read The Bills Act - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read_the_Bills_Act
an adhesive maybe? something that would put some 'grit' into the feel of the area on the bill. And braille would probably be the wrong encoding. I see the 1, 2, and 5 differ mostly in orientation so the rotation of the bill in the hand would be pertinent. I guess in the best world each place where a number is printed would have a tactile imprinting that the non-sighted could 'read' and the serial number of the bill would probably be encoded as well. Adhesive would allow using a side of the bill for each purpose.
I dislike the idea of $1 coins replacing paper bills and also having the bills different sizes. I'm hoping that some other solution is found. It would be great if the solution were so simple as some spots of glue, eh?!
You're missing the entire point.
>>Win XP or MS Word document files are a standard
No, they're not. Microsoft Office is ubiquitous and the file format it uses is carried with it. The format of its files is entirely irrelevant since anywhere along the time-line of various Office releases the file itself could have been modified by Microsoft, even unto discarding backwards compatibility. Meanwhile, until only recently, no other source for modification of one of those files was available.
bouilloire noire, indeed...
Just an idea, but....
I don't know enough about the use of braille but would a simple machine that pushed raised dots into existing banknotes be considered? What if they had to be holes instead of raised bumps; would braille users still be able to identify them? How large would the bumps need to be to be identifiable, and would this affect auto-sorting machines?
Seems that the Treasury Dept could easily require that Banks (of a certain size) be responsible for retrofitting the bills by simply passing them through this little device. Et Voila, the bills are now satisfactorily identifiable by the non-sighted.
>>changing policy this late in the development cycle is not unlikely to turn into a real problem.
;)
That makes a stronger case, to me, that it's not an architectural change but rather a choice on their part as to whether or not to publish the API's that they, themselves, use.
>>should be allowed to exclude their competition?
In this, I'd say yes. The fact that these other vendors subsist as profiteers on a broken platform (in other words, as parasites) should in no way influence. This isn't like browser vs. browser, or media player vs., or word processor vs. It's a case of endemnity. One shouldn't need to purchase insurance from a third party (or from Microsoft for that matter).
>>Please don't jump to conclusions..
I sit corrected
>>Being able to use different tools from different vendors to analyse the current state of a machine
Then you need to chose an open architecture. Windows does not provide this. Third parties *where and when they can* do provide this. You cannot make the claim that they are *ever* on the same footing as Microsoft in creating these solutions.
Remedially-Exempt actually would require a third party to the mix to verify that status. Catch-22. My thinking was that even if it were possible that an OS were totally secure (agreed that's of diminuative probablility) then the current crop of combatants would still find some way to argue, including the EU.
I've felt the effect of failures in too many degree-removed apps (McAfee, Norton, etc.) to blindly trust them as it seems do you. I'm in the camp that should Microsoft choose to take this onto themselves in-toto then -this time- they should be given the chance. But, since they have made that decision to the contrary, I see benefits overall. Open is better than Closed in any case.